WILL: Betsey Coon; Shelby, Orleans co., NY surname: Coon, Snell, Signor submitted by Donald G. Labaj (44017genealogy at ameritech.net) ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.org/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.org/ny/nyfiles.htm Submitted Date: January 5, 2006 This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/nyfiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb ************************************************ Source: Orleans County Surrogate Clerk, Will Book 19, Pages 177-178 Written: March 1, 1884 Recorded: April 19, 1886 Page 177 Proof of Will, 19 Apr 1886; Mary E. Coon, executrix; Isaac S. Signor, Surrogate I, Betsey Coon Shelby, Orleans County, New York, Considering the uncertainty of this frail and transitory life, do Therefore make ordain publish and declare this to be my last Will and Testament First. After all my lawful debts are paid and discharged, I give and bequeath to my son Thomas J. Coon Nine hundred Dollars. Second. I give to my son James A. Coon the sum of five hundred Dollars. Third. I give devise and bequeath to my daughter Mary E. Coon all the rest residue and remainder of my estate real and personal of every character and description, for her own, and disposed forever. Likewise I make constitute and appoint my daughter Mary E. Coon to be my executor of this of this my last Will and Testament, hereby revoking all former Wills by me made. In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal the first of March in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty four. Betsey Coon L.S. The above instrument was subscribed by Betsey Coon in our presence and acknowledged by her to each of us: and she at the same time declared the above instrument so subscribed to be her last Will and Testament: and we at her request have signed our names as witnesses hereto in her presence, and in the presence of each other, and written [and written-lined through] opposite our names our respective places of residence. S. A. Snell Residing in Shelby Orleans County [Seal-lined through] Mary Snell Residing in Shelby Orleans County Additional Comments: Items in brackets [] are the notes of the transcriber