WILL: William Barrett;  Charlton, Saratoga co., NY 
surname: Barrett, Weeks

submitted by Charles Bub (cbubjr at nycap.rr.com) 
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.org/copyright.htm

http://www.usgwarchives.org/ny/nyfiles.htm

Submitted Date: May 21, 2006
This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/nyfiles/
File size: 6.7 Kb
************************************************
Source: sampubco.com
Saratoga County, New York Will Book Vol. 22 page 100
Written: June 6, 1864
Recorded: September 13, 1869

Transcribed from SAMPUBCO copy by Charles W. Bub, Jr.

The last Will and Testament of William Barrett late of the town of Charlton 
deceased, relating to both real and personal estate together with the proof 
thereof recorded in the 13th day of September 1896.
At a Surrogates Court held at the Village of Ballston Spa in and for the County 
of Saratoga on the 13th day of September 1869.
Present Cornelius A. Waldron, Surrogate

Be it remembered that at a Surrogates held on the 10th day of May 1869, Thomas 
Weeks the person named as Executor in a certain instrument in writing dated the 
6th day of June 1864 purporting to be the last Will and Testament of William 
Barrett appeared and presented said Will for probate and at the same time made 
satisfactory proof that said William Barrett died on the 29th day of January 1869 
being at the time an inhabitant of the County of Saratoga and that he left him 
surviving the following persons to wit; William Barrett, Charles R. Barrett, 
Richard R. Barrett, Howard Barrett, Henrietta Barrett, Julia Ann Barrett, John 
Barrett and Elizabeth Barrett, Sarah Barrett and Thomas Barrett all of full age 
and who are all and the only heirs at law and next of kin of said deceased and 
thereupon a citation was issued to said heirs at law and next of kin citing them 
and each of them to appear before the Surrogate at his office in the Village of 
Ballston Spa in said County of Saratoga on the 12th day of July 1869 at 10 
o’clock A.M. to attend the proof and probate of said Will. And on said return day 
the said Thomas Weeks again appeared and returned said citation with proof of the 
due and legal service of the same on all to whom directed and the subscribing 
witnesses not being present the proof and probate of said Will was adjourned 
until the 13th day of September 1869 at the same hour and place and room at this 
day the same Thomas Weeks again appeared and made application to have said Will 
admitted to probate and no one opposing and said Will being produced and shown to 
one of the attesting witnesses thereto the proof thereof was taken as follows
County of Saratoga }

Surrogates Court     }  In the matter of proving the last Will and Testament of 
William Barrett deceased Saratoga County SS: Charles T. Wicks of the town of 
Charlton in the County of Saratoga being first duly sworn in open court on his 
oath does depose and say: that he and one John Low formerly of Charlton aforesaid 
are subscribing witness to the last Will and Testament of William Barrett late of 
the town of Charlton in the County of Saratoga aforesaid deceased. And this 
deponent and the said John Low subscribe his name at the end of the instrument 
which is now shown to this deponent, and which purports to be the last Will and 
Testament of the said deceased, and which bears date on the sixth day of June in 
the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty four that the said deceased did at 
the time of subscribing his name to said instrument as aforesaid declare the same 
to be his last Will and Testament that this deponent and the said John Low, did 
thereupon subscribe their own names at the end of said instrument as attesting 
witnesses to the execution thereof at the request of the said deceased and in his 
presence and in the presence of each other, that the said deceased at the time of 
subscribing his name to said instrument as aforesaid was upwards of twenty one 
years of age that he appeared to be of sound mind and memory and was not under 
restraint to the knowledge and belief of this  deponent and this deponent further 
says that the said John Low is dead.  Charles T. Wicks Subscribed and Sworn this 
13th day of September 1869 before me.
								C. A. Waldron 
Surrogate
And it appearing from the proof so taken that said instrument was duly executed 
and that said testator was at the time of executing the same in all respects 
competent to devise real estate and not under restraint , And the said Surrogate 
having inquired into the facts and circumstances and being satisfied of the 
genuineness and validity of said instrument and no objections being made thereto, 
it is ordered adjudged and decreed that said instrument be admitted to probate as 
and for the last Will and Testament of said William Barrett deceased.  And it is 
further ordered that said Will be recorded with the proof thereof which proof is 
herein before recorded and said Will is in the words and figures following to wit:

In the name of God, Amen.  I, William Barrett of the town of Charlton, County of 
Saratoga and State of New York do make and publish this my last will and 
testament in manner following viz: I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Ellen 
the use of all my real estate consisting of my dwelling house and ten acres of 
land where I now live and whatever cows I may have at the time of my death during 
her natural life.  I give and bequeath the above mentioned property at the 
decease of my wife Ellen to her children viz: William, Charles R., Richard R., 
Howard, Henrietta and Julia Ann to be divided equally among them. Lastly, I 
appoint Thomas Weeks of the town of Charlton, Executor of this my last will and 
testament hereby revoking all former wills by me made; In testimony whereof I 
have hereunto set my hand and seal this 6th day of June in the year of our Lord 
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four
						
							William Barrett (L. S.)

Signed, sealed, published and declared by the above named William Barrett 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 in the presence of 
each other.
John Low Residing in the town of Charlton
Charles T. Wicks residing in the town of Charlton the words eight hundred 
interlined before signing

Saratoga County S. S:
I, Cornelius A. Waldron Surrogate of said County do hereby certify the foregoing 
to be a true record of the last will and testament of William Barrett deceased 
relating to both real and personal estate and of the proof thereof taken before 
me September 13th 1869.

							C. A. Waldron
								Surrogate