WILL: Job  Robbins;  Wallkill, Orange co., NY 
surname: Robbins

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Orange County NY Will Book Vol. E page 257
Written: September 17 1813
Recorded: December 10 1814

The People of the State of New York by the Grace of God Free and Independent
to All to whom these presents shall come or may concern send Greeting Know Ye
that at Goshen in the County of Orange on the tenth day of December instant
before James Everett Esq Surrogate of our said County the last will and
Testament of Job Robbins (deceased) a copy whereof is hereunto annexed was
proved and is now approved and allowed by us and the said deceased having
whilst he lived and at the time of his death goods chattels or credits with
this State  by means whereof the proving and registering the said will and the
granting administration of all and singular  the said goods chattels and
credits of the said deceased and also the auditing allowing and final
discharging the account thereof doth belong unto us the administration of all
and singular the goods chattels and credits of the said deceased and anyway
concerning his will is granted unto Jacob Dunning Benjamin Crane and John
Robbins the Executors of the said will named they being first duly sworn well
and faithfully to administer the same and to make and exhibit a true and
perfect inventory of all and singular the goods chattels and credits of the
said deceased and also to render a just and true account thereof when
thereunto required In Testimony whereof WE have caused the seal of Office of 
our said Surrogate to be hereunto affixed Witness James Everett Esquire
Surrogate of the said County at Goshen the twelfth day of December in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fourteen and of our Independence
the thirty ninth

In the name of GOD amen I Job Robbins of the Town of Wallkill County of Orange
& State of New York Farmer being frail in body but sound in memory thanks be
given unto God for the same and calling to mind the mortality of my body and
knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do this seventeenth day
of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirteen
make and ordain this my last will and Testament in manner following that is to
say punctually and first of all I give and recommend my soul into the hands of
God that gave it and for my body I recommend it to the earth to be buried in a
Christian like & decent manner at the discretion of my wife and Executors
nothing doubting but at the general resurrection I shall receive  the same
again by the mighty power of God and as touching such Worldly estate wherewith
it has pleased God to bless me in this life I give devise and dispose of the
same in manner and form following That is to say in the first I give and
bequeath to Mariam my wife one third of my Land estate during the time she
remains my widow to be divided to her on the line of John McCarty running from
Tilton E. Hills Land to the Land of William McLaughry also one feather Bed and
bedding and one Cow as her own property 

Secondly I give to my oldest son John one equal half of the other two thirds
of my Land to be divided to him in such a manner as to lay joining the Land he
now  owns and run in such a way as to  include the Buildings it being my will
that he have the Buildings on his part as a Compensation for the incumbrance
of bringing up Schooling and fitting for trades   trades my sons Cornelius
Jonathan Gilbert Archabold & Robert Sterret and also to School my daughter
Polly as much as shall be thought necessary and to put her out to a good place
to be brought up it is my desire that my sons above mentioned be put out to
such trades as they shall chuse when they come to be of suitable age and
concerning the remaining third of my Land it is my will that it be sold at the
discretion of my Executors and also that my movable property be sold (except
one feather Bed and bedding which I reserve for my daughter Jane) and that the
money arising from the sale of the Land and the movables be divided in manner
following, to my son Charles Four hundred & Fifty dollars to my son Matthias
one hundred and fifty dollars to my daughter Millicent one hundred & Fifty
dollars to my daughter Sarah one hundred and Fifty dollars to my son Peter one
hundred dollars to my daughter Jane one hundred dollars to my son Cornelius
one hundred Dollars to my son Jonathan one hundred dollars to my daughter
Christian one hundred and fifteen dollars to my daughter Polly one hundred and
fifteen dollars to my son Gilbert fifty dollars to my son Archabald fifty
dollars to my son Robert Sterrett fifty dollars and if there should be any
money remaining after paying out the above Legacies and defraying all debts
and expenses the money remaining to be equally divided among all my heirs
except John who I think is otherwise amply provided for and if there should
not be money enough to defray all debts & charges charges must first be paid
and each one of my heirs bear their proportion of the loss the above legacies
to be paid all my heirs mentioned that is of age in one year after my death
and to the younger ones as they shall come of age provided nevertheless that
if any of my heirs should die underage that their Legacy or Legacies be
equally divided among all the remaining living heirs John excepted and as it 
respects the third of my Land bequeathed to my wife Mariam it is my will that
the Land after her decease be sold and that my son John have the one half of
the money and that the remaining half be divided among the remainder of my
heirs in the same proportion as first  above mentioned And Lastly I do ordain
and appoint Jacob Dunning Benjamin Crane & my son John Robbins Executors of
this my last will & Testament In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand &
seal the day and year first above written Signed Sealed published pronounced
and declared by the Testator as his last will and Testament in the presence of
us 
Hiram Horton James 
Boak Josiah Crawford Jr.

                                        Job Robbins  L.S.