Orange County ,Goshen, Orange County, NY NyArchives Wills.....Wisner, John April 5, 1811
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Source: Orange County, Ny, Surrogate Court Records, Liber D, P.399+
Written: April 5, 1811
Recorded: April 18, 1811

Orange County, NY, Surrogate Court Records, Liber D, p.399+

The People of the State of New York by the Grace of
God Free and Independent To All to who these presents shall
come or may concern find Greeting Know Ye That at Goshen
in the County of Orange on the Eighteenth day of April Instant
before James Everett Esq Surrogate of our said County the last will
and Testament of John Wisner deceased (a copy whereof is hereunto
annexed) was proved and is now approved and allowed by
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by w and the said deceased having whilst he lived and at the time
of his death goods chattels or credits within this state by means where
of the proving and registering the said will and the granting
administration of all and singular the said goods chattels and
credits 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 Robert 
Armstrong & William Carr Junior the Executors in the said 
will named they being first duly sworn well and faithfully to ad=
minister the same and to make and exhibit a true and perfect In=
ventory of all and singular the said Goods chattels and credits and
also to render a just and true account thereof when thereunto re=
=quired 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 Twenty second
day of April in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and Eleven and of our Independence the Thirty fifth ---------

In the Name of God Amen I John Wisner of the
Town of Warwick in the County of Orange and State of New York be=
=ing weak in body but of sound disposing mind and memory
blessed be God calling to mind the mortality of my body and know=
=ing that it is appointed for all men once to die do make and
publish this my last will and testament in manner and form
following that is to say I will and assign my soul into the hands
of God who gave it and my body to the earth to be buried in
decent christian burial as the discretion of my Executors and
as to such Worldly Estate as it hath pleased God to bestow upon
me I will and dispose of in the following manner First
will and order that my Executors shall pay all my past debts
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and funeral expenses Secondly I will and order that all the lands
and real estate of which I shall died lawfully seized shall be sold
by my Executors at their discretion as to the time and manner of
sale and for that purpose do fully authorize and empower my said
Executors to sell all of my real estate and execute Deeds of Conveyance
for the same and thirdly I will and bequeath unto my two daugh=
=ters Clarissa and Eliza five hundred Dollars each; and fourthly
I will and bequeath unto my four sons Asa John Mumford Henry 
and Robert five thousand Dollars All the legacies before mentioned
to be paid to my said children when they shall respectively arrive
at Lawful age if either of my said daughters Clarissa or Eliza
should die before the arrive at Lawful age or have Lawful issue
then the survivor to receive the share of the deceased and so in
like manner with respect to my four sons before mentioned
and further I will and bequeath to my well beloved wife
Sarah all my household furniture and also I will and order
that my Executors shall retain in their hands as much shall
enable them to pay yearly and every year to my said well 
beloved wife Sarah a sum equal to what would be her right
of Dower of all the estate I now possess and at the decease
of my said wife I will and order that the surplus remain=
=ing of my estate be divided among my six chil=
=dren named in this will or the survivor or survivors of
them or their legal representative I also will unto my said
wife three cows to be chosen by her this Legacy to my wife
is in consideration of her releasing her right of Dower and Lastly
I do constitute and appoint my trusty friends Robert Armstrong
Esquire and William Carr Junior Executors of this my last will
and Testament whereof I have herewith set my
hand and seal this fifth day of April one thousand and eight
hundred and Eleven Published pronounced and declared
to be the last will and Testament of the said John
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Wisner in presence of us the words (five thousand) being interlined
and a blank rasure under it before signing Jesse Jayne Wil=
=liam Rayner Lewis Hall
					John Wisner

Orange County S Be it remembered that on the Eighteenth
day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and Eleven personally appeared before me James Everett Surrogate
of the County of Orange Jesse Jayne and Lewis Hall and being
duly sworn upon their oath declared that they did see John Wis=
ner deceased sign and seal the written instrument then
sworn unto them of which the preceeding is a true copy pur=
porting to be the last will and testament of the said deceased
bearing date the fifth day of April instant 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
a sound disposing mind and memory to the best of the know=
=ledge and belief of them the deponents and that they together
with William Rayner subscribed their names thereunto as Witness
=es in the testators presence and in the presence of each other
    The preceeding is a true copy of the original will of
John Wisner deceased of the certificate of the proof thereof
and the letters Testamentary thereon
				by James Everett Surrogate

Additional Comments:
Will of John WISNER, son of John WISNER and Anne JAYNE; born 1747; died 1811,
Orange County, NY 

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