WILL: Betsey Crandall; Milton, Saratoga co., NY
surname: Crandall, Pier

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Transcribed from SAMPUBCO photocopy by Joyce Hodgkins

Saratoga co NY Will Book Vol. 28 page 86

CRANDALL, Betsey   Milton

     The last Will and Testament of Betsey Crandall, late of the town of
Milton, deceased, relating to both real and personal estate; recorded on the
7th day of January 1884.

At a Surrogate Court, held in and for the County of Saratoga at the
Surrogate's office in the village of Ballston Spa on the 7th day of January
1885.

Present   Elias H. Peters, Surrogate.

     Be it remembered that at a Surrogate's Court held in and for the county
of Saratoga at Ballston Spa on the 3rd day of December 1884, Squire Crandall
of the town of Milton in Saratoga County aforesaid, the person named as
executor in a certain instrument in writing purporting to be the last Will and
Testament of Betsey Crandall, appeared and presented said Will for probate,
and at the same time made satisfactory proof that the said Betsey Crandall
died on the 10th day of October 1883, being at the time an inhabitant of said
county of Saratoga, and that she left her surviving, the petitioner her
husband Squire Crandall, and William Pier who is all and the only heir at law
and next of kin of the said deceased; and thereupon a citation was issued to
the said heir at law and next of kin, citing him to appear before said
Surrogate at his office in the village of Ballston Spa aforesaid, on the 7th
day of January 1884, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon to attend the proof and
probate of said Will; at which time and place the said petitioner again
appeared and returned said citation with proof of the due and legal service of
the same upon him to whom directed, and the said petitioner produced said Will
and made application to have the same admitted to probate and, no one
opposing, the said Will was shown to the attesting witnesses (unreadable) and
the proof was taken as follows:

Merritt J. Esmond and Ira R. Tucker of the village of Ballston Spa in the
county of Saratoga being first duly sworn in open court on their oaths, do
depose and say that they are subscribing witness as to the last Will and
Testament of Betsey Crandall, late of the town of  Milton in the county of
Saratoga aforesaid, deceased.  And these deponents further say that the said
deceased did, in the presence of these deponents, subscribe her name at the
end of the instrument which is now shown to these deponents, and which
purports to be the last Will and Testament of the said deceased, and which
bears date on the ninth day of February in the year one thousand eight hundred
and eighty-one; that the said deceased did at the time of subscribing her name
to said instrument as aforesaid, declare the same to be her last Will and
Testament; that these deponents did thereupon subscribe their own names at the
end of said instrument as attesting witnesses to the (unreadable) thereof, at
the request of the said deceased, and in her presence, and in the presence of
each other; that the said deceased, at the time of subscribing her name to
said instrument as aforesaid, was upwards of twenty-on years of age; that she
appeared to be of sound mind and memory, and was not under restraint to the
knowledge of belief of these deponents.

Subscribed and sworn this 7th day of January 1884, before me:  Merritt T.
Esmond       Ira R. Tucker

                     E. H. Peters, Surrogate.

     And it appearing from the proof so taken that said instrument was duly
executed, and that the said testatrix was, at the time of executing the same,
in all respects competent to devise real estate, and was not under restraint,
and our said Surrogate having inquired into the facts and circumstances, and
being satisfied of the genuineness and validity of said instrument, and no
objection 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 the said Betsey Crandall,
deceased.  And it is further ordered that said Will be recorded with the proof
thereof, which proof is hereinbefore recorded, and said Will is in the words
and figures following, to wit:

    "In the Name of God, Amen

I, Betsey Crandall of the town of Milton, Saratoga County and state of New
York being of sound mind and memory and considering the uncertainty of this
frail and transitory life, do therefore make, ordain, publish and declare this
to be my last Will and Testament, that is to say:

First After all my lawful debts are paid and discharged, I give and bequeath
to my husband Squire G. Crandall all of my property both real and personal of
whatever kind or nature.  And I hereby further will and direct that my
executor herein after designated shall have full power and authority to sell
and convey any and all real estate that may be in my name at the time of my
death as he may elect.

Likewise, I make, constitute and appoint Squire G. Crandall to be executor of
this my last Will and Testament, hereby revoking all former Wills by me made.

     For Witness Whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affirmed my
seal, the Ninth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight-hundred and eighty-one.

Betsey Crandall

     The above written instrument was subscribed by the said Betsey Crandall
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 opposite our names
our respective places of residence.

M. J. Esmond   Ballston Spa, NY

Ira R. Tucker   Ballston Spa

Saratoga County: I, Charles H. Sturges, Clerk of the Surrogates Court of said
county of Saratoga do hereby certify the foregoing to be a true record of the
last Will and Testament of Betsey Crandall, late of the town of Milton in
Saratoga County, deceased, relating to real and personal estate, together with
the proof thereof.  Recorded on the 7th day of January 1884.

C. H. Sturges,

Clerk Surrogate's Court