WILL: Aurie Smith;  Clarkstown, Rockland co., NY 
surname: Smith, Blauvelt, Ryder, Westervelt, Tenureblarcom, Demarest, Bogert

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Source: Sampubco.com
Rockland County, NY, Clarkstown: Vol. B page 19
Written: March 23, 1812
Recorded: August 17, 1819

Last Will and Testament
Of
Aurie Smith

Transcribed from SAMPUBCO copy by Bruce Roubaud 

The Will of Aurie Smith

In the Name of God Amen, I Aurie Smith of the Town of Clarkstown in the County 
of Rockland and State of New York Considering the uncertainty of this mortal 
life and being of a sound and disposing mind and memory Blessed be the Almighty 
God for the same, I do make ordain and publish this my Last Will and Testament 
in Manner Following.  Imprimis it is my Will and I Do Order that all my just and 
lawfull Debts and funeral charges  be paid out of my personal Estate within a 
convenient time after my decease by my Executors here after named. Then I give 
and Devise unto my son Andries Smith all of my real Estate Lands Tenements and 
Hereditaments where I now live with the improvements thereon laying in Said town 
of Clarkstown in the County and State aforesaid or Elsewhere.  To my said son 
Andries and to his heirs  and assigns forever In lieu thereof, he shall pay a 
sum of fifteen Hundred Dollars to my three Daughters Each one fourth and one 
fourth thereof to my four grand children the children of my Daughter Altje 
Deceased formly wife of Henry Westervelt that is to say to my Daughter Anne wife 
of Dowa Tenure the sum of three Hundred and Seventy five Dollars on or within 
two years after my Decease to her and her heirs and assigns forever.  To my 
Daughter Sarah wife of James G. Demarest and to her heirs and assigns  the sum 
of three Hundred and Seventy five Dollars on or within two years after my 
Decease.  To my Daughter Margaret wife of Hercules Ryder and to her heirs and 
assigns the sum of three Hundred and Seventy five Dollars on or within two years 
after my Decease and to my four Grand Children the children the children of 
Daughter Altje Deceased and to their heirs and assigns the sum of three Hundred 
and Seventy five Dollars in Equal Shares on or within two years after my Decease 
and if not paid when Due by my said son Andries or his heirs, then and is such 
case, I authorize and give my Executors hereinafter named full power and 
Authority to sell and dispose of so much of my land that lays on the North side 
of the Publick road to the amount of the said legacies and sum of fifteen 
Hundred Dollars or the Remainder that is unpaid when Due and therewith Discharge 
the legacies aforesaid.  Then I give and Bequeath unto my wife Nelly the Beurow 
and cubbard Hic has bought and had made after our marriage to her heirs and 
assigns forever.  Then I give and bequeath all the Residue and Remainder of my 
personal Estate of what kind it may be to be Equally Divided among my said three 
Daughters Anne, Sarah, and Margaret Each one fourth share and the Remainder one 
fourth part to my said four Grand Children equally all to them their heirs and 
assigns forever.  Then it is my will that my Negro man bill shall be kept and 
maintained by all my said Children and Grand Children equally to have the 
Liberty to live by any of them he desires and lastly I constitute and appoint my 
friend James Demarest and Peter Taulman to be my Executors of this my Last Will 
and Testament hereby Revoking, Disanul and make Void all former wills and 
testament by me made Ratifying and Confirming this and no other to be my Last 
Will and Testament.  

I  Witness sohereof I the Said Aurie Smith have hereunto set my Hand and Seal 
this twenty third Day of March in the year of Our Lord one Thousand Eight 
Hundred and twelve.  

                                                                                 
                             Aury Smith    

Signed Sealed published and Declared by the said Aury Smith 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 and each other Cornelius Bogert, Peter 
Van Blarcom, James I. Demarest Rockland County Js.  Be it Remembered that on the 
Seventeenth Day of August In the year of our Lord one Thousand Eight Hundred and 
Nineteen before me Richard Blauvelt Surrogate in and for the County of Rockland 
came Cornelius Bogert of the town of Orange in said county and being Duly sworn 
and on his oath Declared that he did see Aury Smith Deceased sign and seal the 
written Instrument..  Then shared unto him of which the proceeding is a true 
copy purporting to the Last Will and Testament of the said Aury Smith bearing 
Date the Twenty third Day of March in the year of our Lord one Thousand Eight 
Hundred and twelve and heard him Publish and heard him publish and Declare the 
same as and for his Last Will and Testament that at the time thereof he Hic. 
Said Aury Smith was of a sound Disposing mind and memory to the best of the 
knowledge and belief of him the Deponent and that he together with Peter Van 
Blarcom and James I. Demarest severly subscribed their Names thereto as 
Witnesses in the Testators presence and in the presence of each other.
                                                                                 
          Rich.(d) Blauvelt