Otsego County ,Plainfield NyArchives Wills.....Brown, Caleb September 22, 1815 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ny/nyfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Teresa Culver tbc8@cornell.edu July 26, 2008, 5:14 pm Source: Surrogate Records Book Of Wills Vol E Pg 315-319 Written: September 22, 1815 Recorded: October 3, 1815 Transcribed by Teresa Culver (tbc8@cornell.edu) Surrogate Court Records of Otsego County, Vol E. Electronic copies of original obtained from www.sampubco.com. Pg 315 Probate of the Last will and Testament of Caleb Brown Deceased 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 Knowing that at Otsego in the County of Otsego on the third day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifteen before Ambrose L Jordon Esquire Surrogate of our said County the Last will and testament of Caleb Brown deceased (a copy whereof hereunto annexed) as proved and is now approved and allowed of by us and the said Deceased Having whilst he lived and at the time of of his death Goods chattels or credits within this State by means whereof the proving and registering the said Will and the granting Administration of all and singular the said good 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 concerning this will is granted unto Oliver Brown Henry Clark Junior and Levi Carpenter Junior Executors in the said will named they having first duly sworn will 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 secure a just and true account thereof when there unto required. Witness Ambrose L. Jordan Esquire Surrogate of the said County at Otsego aforesaid the third day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifteen and of our Independence the fortieth The Last Will and Testament of Caleb Brown of the Town of Plainfield in the County of Otsego and State of New York. I Caleb Brown considering the uncertainty of this mortal life and being of sound memory (Blessed be Almighty God for the same) Do make and publish Pg 316 this my last will and testament in the manner following that is to say I give and bequeath unto Anna my wife one third part of all my real estate during her natural life and after her decease I give and bequeath her right of dower to thirteen acres & half of land bounded as follows (viz) beginning at the blacksmiths shop now occupied by Isaiah Robinson thence easterly along the highway to Solomon Perry’s land, thence westerly on the line of Solomon Perry’s land to the Unadilla river, thence on the line between lot number twenty two and twenty from the East to the West Branch of the Unadilla River thence down said west Brach to the Intersection of the East and West Branches of said River. Thence up the East Branch of said River opposite to the North East Corner of Lands owned by the said Isaiah Robinson thence to the place of beginning to my two sons Lodowick and Samuel the lands aforesaid Including the dwelling house in which I now reside together with the grist mill oil mill saw mill & I give and bequeath unto my two sons Lodwich and Samuel all the land heretofore described of which they are to have one third part after the decease of my widow I order the residue sum? Of my real Estate to be sold for the purpose of paying my Just credits after the appropriation of my personal Estate for that purpose I having heretofore given to my son Caleb Brown Junior a farm & therefore no provision is made for him in this my last will and testament. I give and bequeath unto my Daughter Deborah Spicer the wife of Edward Spicer Esquire a certain note executed by the said Edward Spicer to me on the first day of August 181? For the sum of four Pg 317 hundred and four dollars payable two years after date I give and bequeath unto my Daughter Anna Crumb the wife of John W [or N] Crumb a certain Bond Executed by the said John W [or N] Crumb to me on the Sixth day of January A 1804 concentower? For the persmine? Of four hundred twenty six dollars and sixty five cents I give and bequeath unto my four daughters Dolly Nancy Betsy and Polly Each three hundred Dollars to be paid by my two sons Lodwick and Samuel and I hereby make the real Estate given the said Lowick and Samuel in this my Last Will and testament a bin? For the payment of the Legacies aforesaid the Legacies to be paid as follows viz. To Dolly being the wife of Jos. [or Jess] Gardner within six years of after my decease which sum? To be for the Sole use and benefit of her heirs the residue of the Legacies to be paid to my daughters Nancy Betsy and Polly when the arrive to the age of twenty six years respectively I give and bequeath unto the heirs of Nathan W. Brown lots of the Town of Plainfield deserid? Eighty acres of Land now occupied by the heirs of the deceased. I give and bequeath unto Anna [or Anne or Amee] Baily the wife of Thomas Baily and to her heirs forty acres of land situated in the Town of Plainfield aforesaid being land now occupied by the above named Thomas Bailey And I do hereby constitute ordain and appoint Oliver Brown and Henry Clark Junior of the Town of Brookfield in the county of Madison and Levi Carpenter Junior of the Bridgewater in the County of Oneida the only Executors of this my last will and Testament Pg 318 And I hereby disallow revoke and disannul all and any other former Wills Legacies testaments and Executions by me in any wise? before named willed and bequeathed ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament In Witness whereof I the said Caleb Brown have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty second day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and fifteen Signed Sealed Published and acclaimed by the above named Caleb Brown to be his last Will and testament in the presence of us who have hereunto Subscribed our names as witnesses in the presence of the testator NB the word “Second in the date Substinces? Caleb Brown LS Ambrose Coats Erastus Eaton John Williams Otsego County Fs. Be it remembered that on the third day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and fifteen personally appeared before me Ambrose L. Jordan Esquire Surrogate of the said County of Otsego Ambrose Coats one of the subscribing Witnesses to the Will of Caleb Brown deceased late of the town of Plainfield in the said County being duly sworn declared that he did see the late Caleb Brown seal and Execute this written Instrument (of which the annexed is a copy) purporting to be the last will and testament of the said Caleb Brown having date the twenty second day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifteen and heard him publish and acclaim the same as and For his last will and testament that at thirteen? Thereof he the said Caleb Brown was of sound disposing mind and memory Pg 319 To the best of the knowledge and belief of the said Ambrose Coats legho? Together with Erastus Eaton and John Williams the other witnesses to the said Will Sincerely Subscribed their hands and names to the said will as witnesses thereunto in the presence of the testator and of each other Otsego County fs. Be it also remembered there on the third day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred fifteen Oliver Brown Henry Clark Junior and Levi Carpenter Junior Executors named in the Last Will by a testament of the said Caleb Brown late of the town of Plainfield in said County deceased likewise appeared before me the said Surrogate and were duly sworn to the true Execution and performance of the said will by their taking the oath of an Executor as by law appointed AL Jordan Surrogate Recorded this third day of October 1815 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ny/otsego/wills/brown828gwl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/nyfiles/ File size: 8.3 Kb