WILL: Joseph Bettys; Saratoga Co., NY submitted 2002 by Sarah Gates Sully. ************************************************************************ USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submittor has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. ************************************************************************ Surnames of heirs include BETTYS, BENJAMIN, WAIT, GATES, VAN VLEET, SMITH, LOTHROP, ROSEBUSH, WADE, HOLLISTER The Will of Joseph Bettys dec'd In the Name of God, Amen. I Joseph Bettys of sound mind and memory blessed be God for the same do make this my last will and testament. I give to my beloved wife the south room of the house wherein I now live and the furniture of the same Room and also a Cow and a horse and hay and pasturing of the said cow and horse and the priviledge of my barn for stabling my said cow and horse. And also twenty pounds a year during her natural life in Satisfaction of her right of Dower out of my estate. Secondly I also give to my grandson Joseph Bettys son of Joseph Bettys deceased twenty pounds. Thirdly I give to my son Benjamin two hundred pounds. Fourthly I give the whole of my estate both real and personal to the following persons equally to be divided between them as follows. To Molly Benjamin her portion of my Estate during her natural life time remainder to her children Lucy Wait and Polly Gates and to their heirs and assigns for ever. To the heirs of William Bettys to be considered as one to Jeremiah Bettys to Abigail Van Vleet to Julietta Smith to Ruth Lothrop to Huldah Rosebush to Susannah Wade to Sally Hollister to Benjamin Bettys and to their heirs and assigns for ever. Fifthly I do give to Henry Bettys his tuition during the time he shall remain in College and request my Executors to pay the same as it shall become Due. Lastly I do make constitute and appoint Hermanus Van Vleet Ebenezer Lothrop and Durastus Hollister Executors of this my last will and Testament. Signed sealed published and declared as my last will and testament and I do hereby revoke all former wills by me heretofore made, this fourth day of November in the year of Our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and four. Joseph Bettys Signed sealed and declared as the last will and testament of Joseph Bettys in the presence of us who have subscribed our names in the presence of each other at the request of the testator as (undecipherable) to the execution hereof Jesse Smith Thomas Smith John Rathbun. _ Saratoga County: Be it remembered that on the seventh day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and four before me Henry Watrous Surrogate of the County of Saratoga personally appeared Hermanus Van Vleet Ebenezer Lothrop and Durastus Hollister the Executors in the above will named and were duly sworn to the faithful performance and execution of the said will and be it further remembered that on the same day and year above mentioned likewise appeared before me the said Surrogate Jessee Smith Thomas Smith and John Rathbun the subscribing witnesses to the above written will who being duly sworn on their oaths declared that they saw Joseph Bettys sign and seal the above instrument in writing purporting to be his last will and testament that they heard im publish and declare the same as and for his last will and testament and that at the time thereof he the said Joseph Bettys was of sound mind & memory and understanding to the best of their knowledge and belief that the names of the said Jesse Smith Thomas Smith and John Rathbun subscribed to the said will of their own proper hand writing respectively and that they subscribed their respective names thereto as witnesses in the presence of the Testator --- Henry Watrous 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 Ballstown in the County of Saratoga on the seventh day of November instant before Henry Watrous Esquire Surrogate of the County of Saratoga the last will and Testament of Joseph Bettys deceased (a Copy whereof is hereunto annexed) was proved and is now approved and allowed of by us and the said deceased leaving whilst he lived and at the time of his death goods chattels or Credits and also the auditing allowing and first discharging the account thereof doth appertain unto us the administration of all and singular the goods and chattels and Credits of the said deceased and any way concerning his will is granted unto Harmanus VanVleet Ebenezer Lothrop and Durastus Hollister 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 a true account thereof when required. In Testmony whereof we have caused the seal of office of our said Surrogate to be hereunto affixed Witness Henry Watrous Esquire Surrogae of our said County at Ballstown aforesaid the seventh day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and four and of our Independence the twenty ninth. Henry Watrous