WILL: Jonathan Archer; Monroe, Orange co., NY surname: Archer, Sued submitted by Ken Smith (ksmith22 at mn.rr.com) ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.org/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.org/ny/nyfiles.htm Submitted Date: September 13, 2005 This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/nyfiles/ File size: 5.5 Kb ************************************************ Source: sampubco.com Orange County Will Book F, Page 398 Written: April 29, 1815 Recorded: May 4, 1821 WILL OF JONATHAN ARCHER 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 May in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty-one before Edward Ely Esq. Surrogate of the said county the Last Will and Testament of Jonathan Archer, deceased (a copy whereof is hereunto annexed) was proved and is now approved and allowed of by in. And the said deceased having whilst he lived and at the time of his death, goods chattels or credits within this state by means whereof the proving and registering of the said will and the granting administration of all and singular the goods chattels and credits of the said deceased, and any way concerning his will is granted unto John Archer and John McGarrah the executors in 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 said goods chattels and credits, and also to render a just and true account thereof when thereunto required. In testimony whereof, we have caused the seal of Office of the said Surrogate to be hereunto affixed. Witness Edward Ely Esq., Surrogate of the said county at Goshen the Tenth Day of May in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty-one, and of our independence the Forty-fifth. Be it remembered that on the Twenty-ninth day of April One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifteen, I Jonathan Archer of the Town of Monroe in the County of Orange and State of New York do make this instrument of writing my Last Will and Testament in the following manner, Viz: I do hereby will and bequeath all my estate, real and personal to my son John Archer upon the following conditions, Viz: That he is to pay all my just debts and to pay my son Jonathan Archer Fifty Dollars, and to pay my son Caleb Archer Forty Dollars, and to pay my son James Archer Two Hundred Dollars, and to pay to the heirs of my daughter Elizabeth Sued (Sp?) One Dollar, and to pay to my daughter Abigel(*) Fifty Dollars, and to pay to my daughter Mariam Thirty Dollars, and to pay to the heirs of my son William Archer deceased One Dollar, and to pay to my grandson Jefferson Archer One Hundred Dollars, to be paid to him when he arrives to the age of twenty-one years and if he should not live to the age of twenty-one years, the One Hundred Dollars to be equally divided amongst his brothers and sisters then living when they shall arrive to the age of Eighteen if sisters and if brothers Twenty-one years, and my wife Mary Ann is to have the use of the best room in the house and all the furniture and the use of two cows and my son John to winter and summer them as long as she lives, if she lives longer than I do. I hereby constitute and appoint John Archer and John McGarrah, executors to this, my Last Will and Testament and I hereby order my executors to pay all the legacies I have bequeathed at the expiration of One Year after my decease, given under my hand and seal the day and year above written, witnesses present. Samuel V. Dwyer (Sp?) Jonathan Archer John Brooks Alexander McElroy Orange County: Be it remembered that on the Fourth day of May in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty-one, personally appeared before me, Edward Ely, Surrogate of the County of Orange, Samuel Van Dwyer and being duly sworn, he did declare and say that he did see Jonathan Archer, deceased, sign and seal the paper writing then shown unto him, purporting to be the Last Will and Testament of the said deceased of which the preceding is a copy, and heard him publish and declare the same as and for his Last Will and Testament, that at the time thereof he, the said deceased, was of sound and disposing mind and memory to the best of his knowledge and belief, and that he, together with John Brooks and Alexander McElroy subscribed their names thereto as witnesses in the presence of the Testator and in the presence of each other. The preceding is a true copy of the original will of Jonathan Archer deceased, of the certificate of proof thereof and the letters testamentary thereon. By Edward Ely Surrogate Copied from the Will Book F, page 398 & 399, of Orange County Surrogate Court. Additional Comments: * The name of the daughter named here is difficult to make out in the original. It has been said to be Migel, but if Jonathan had sons John, Jonathan, Caleb & James, and daughters Elizabeth and Mariam (obviously a misspelling of Miriam) with pretty conventional names, it is difficult to believe that he would have a daughter with a name so strange as Migel. If the first letter of the name, which does look like an M, were actually the letters Ab, which they could easily be, then her name might be Abigel (a misspelling of Abigail).