WILL: Lewis Salisbury;  Stillwater, Saratoga co., NY 
surname: Salisbury, Buck, Ingersol, Lohnes, Wilbur

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Saratoga co NY Will Book Vo. 40 page 75
Written: March 10, 1896
Recorded: September 3, 1904

Will of LEWIS SALISBURY of STILLWATER, SARATOGA, N.Y.
Pages 75-77,

SEE WILLS OF THOMAS SALISBURY, PRESERVED SALISBURY, HIRAM SALISBURY (LEWIS
SALISBURY IS THE GRANDSON OF THOMAS SALISBURY, SON OF PRESERVED SALISBURY AND
BROTHER OF HIRAM SALISBURY)
Surnames:
BUCK, INGERSOL, LESTER, LOHNES, SALISBURY, TUCK, WILBUR
Signed: 10 MARCH 1896
Probate: 19 AUGUST 1904
Proved: 3 SEPTEMBER 1904
1st Codicil: 2 SEPTEMBER 1897
Re: Daughter MARIA LOHNES; Death of GRAND DAUGHTER, JOSIE M. LOHNES
Witness: MADISON B. WILBUR of SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.
Witness: FRANK WILBUR of QUAKER SPRINGS, SARATOGA, NY
2nd Codicil: 23 JULY 1902
Re: GRAND DAUGHTER, NELLIE M. SALISBURY, WIFE of MR. INGERSOL
Witness: JOSEPH E. BUCK of QUAKER SPRINGS, NY, he died 12 May 1904
Witness: MADISON B. WILBUR
Surrogate: HONORABLE CHARLES C. LESTER of SARATOGA SPRINGS
Executor of Will: MADISON B. WILBUR
County Court Clerk: GEORGE O. TUCK of SARATOGA SPRINGS
Witness of Will: MADISON B. WILBUR of BEMIS HEIGHTS, SARATOGA, NY
Witness of Will: FRANK WILBUR of BEMIS HEIGHTS, SARATOGA, NY
Daughter: MARIAH or MARIA LOHNES
Grandson: GEORGE H. LOHNES
Grandson: LEWIS S. LOHNES
Grand Daughter: ELIZABETH M. "LIBBIE" WILBUR
Grand Daughter: JOSIE M. LOHNES, died before 2 SEP 1897
Grand Daughter: NELLIE M. SALISBURY, married MR. INGERSOL by 23 JUL 1902

LAST WILL
AT A SURROGATE'S COURT held in and for the COUNTY OF SARATOGA, at the Chambers
of the Surrogate's Court, in the Village of Saratoga Springs, on the third day
of September 1904. Present: HON. CHARLES C. LESTER, Surrogate.
BE IT REMEMBERED, that at a Surrogate's Court held in and for the County of
Saratoga, at the Village of Saratoga Springs, on the 19th day of August 1904,
MADISON B. WILBUR of SARATOGA SPRINGS, in the County of Saratoga, the person
named as Executor in a certain instrument in writing purporting to be the last
will and testament of LEWIS SALISBURY dated MARCH 10, 1896, duly appeared and
presented to the Court a written petition, duly verified, describing the will,
setting forth the facts upon which the jurisdiction of said Court, to grant
Probate thereof depends and praying that the will might be proved and that the
persons required by law might be cited to attend the Probate thereof:

AND THEREUPON, a citation was issued to MARIA LOHNES, LIBBIE M. WILBUR, NELLIE
INGERSOL, LEWIS LOHNES and GEORGE LOHNES, the persons required by law to be
cited, requiring them to appear before our said Surrogate, at his office in
the Village of Saratoga Springs in the County aforesaid on the third day of
September 1904 to attend the probate of said will; at which time and place the
petitioner again appeared and returned said citation with proof of the due
service thereof upon all the persons to whom the same was directed

AND, THEREUPON, no one opposing, the Surrogate caused the witnesses to said
will to be examined before him and the proofs to be REDUCED to writing, which
proofs were as follows:

SARATOGA COUNTY SS
MADISON B. WILBUR and FRANK WILBUR of the Town of Saratoga Springs in the
County of Saratoga being duly sworn on their oaths do depose and say that they
are Subscribing witnesses to the last will and testament of LEWIS SALISBURY
late of the Town of Stillwater in the County of Saratoga, aforesaid, deceased,
And these deponents further say that the said deceased, did, in the presence
of these deponents subscribe his 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 tenth day of March
in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, 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 deponents did
thereupon subscribe their own names at the end of said instrument as attesting
witnesses to the execution thereof at the request of 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 or
belief of these deponents.
MADISON B. WILBUR
FRANK WILBUR
Subscribed and sworn this 3rd day of September 1904 before me
GEORGE O. TUCK
CLERK SURROGATE'S COURT

AND, IT NOW APPEARING from the proof so taken that said instrument was duly
executed and that the testator, at the time of executing the same, was in all
respects competent to make a will and was not under restraint; and our said
Surrogate having inquired particularly into the all the facts and
circumstances, and being satisfied of the genuineness of the will and the
validity of its execution, and no objection being made thereto,

IT IS ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED, That said instrument be and it is hereby
admitted to probate as and for the last will and testament of the said
deceased, valid to pass both real and personal property and that Letters
Testamentary be issued to the Execut______ named in said will upon _____
qualifying as provided by law.

And it is further ORDERED, that said will be recorded with the foregoing proof
thereof, which said will is as follows, to wit:

SARATOGA COUNTY:SS
MADISON B. WILBUR and FRANK WILBUR of the TOWN of SARATOGA SPRINGS in the
COUNTY of SARATOGA being duly sworn in open court, on their oaths, do depose
and say, that they are subscribing witnesses to a CODICIL to the last will and
testament of LEWIS SALISBURY late of the town of Stillwater, in the county of
Saratoga, aforesaid, deceased. And these deponents further say, that the said
deceased did, in the presence of these deponents, subscribe his name at the
end of the instrument which is now shown to the deponents, and which purports
to be a Codicil to the last will and testament of the said deceased and which
bears date on the 2d day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred
and ninety seven, that the said deceased did, at the time of subscribing his
name to said instrument as aforesaid, declare the same to be a Codicil to his
last will and testament; that deponents did thereupon subscribe their own
names at the end of the said instrument as attesting witnesses to the
execution thereof, at the request of 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 or belief of these deponents.
MADISON B. WILBUR
FRANK WILBUR
Subscribed and sworn this third day of September, 1904, before me,
GEORGE O. TUCK,
CLERK SURROGATE'S COURT.

SARATOGA COUNTY: SS
MADISON B. WILBUR of the town of SARATOGA SPRINGS in the county of SARATOGA
being duly sworn in open court on his oath, doth depose and say, that he is
one of the subscribing witnesses to a CODICIL to the last will and testament
of LEWIS SALISBURY late of the town of Stillwater, in the county of Saratoga,
aforesaid, deceased. And this deponent further says that the said deceased
did, in the presence of this deponent and JOSEPH E. BUCK of the town of
Stillwater, in said county, subscribe his name at the end of the instrument
which is now shown to this deponent, and which purports to be a Codicil to the
last will and testament of the said deceased and which bears date on the 23d
day of July in the year one thousand nine hundred and two; that the said
deceased did, at the time of subscribing his name to said instrument as
aforesaid, declare the same to be a Codicil to his last will and testament;
that deponent and the said JOSEPH E. BUCK did thereupon subscribe their own
names at the end of the said instrument as attesting witnesses to the
execution thereof, at the request of 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 or belief of this deponent, and the
said JOSEPH E. BUCK DIED MAY 12TH, 1904.
MADISON B. WILBUR
Subscribed and sworn this 3rd day of September, 1904 before me
GEORGE O. TUCK,
CLERK SURROGATE'S COURT.

And it now appearing from the proof so taken that said instrument was duly
executed and that the testator, at the time of executing the same, was in all
respects competent to make a will and was not under restraint; ; and our said
Surrogate having inquired particularly into all the facts and circumstances,
and being satisfied of the genuineness of the will and the validity of it's
execution, and no objection being made thereto,

IT IS ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED, That said instrument be and it is hereby
admitted to probate as and for the last will and testament of the said
deceased, valid to pass both real and personal property.
And it is further ORDERED, that said will be recorded with the foregoing proof
thereof, said will is as follows, to wit:

WILL
I, LEWIS SALISBURY of the town of Stillwater county of Saratoga state of New
York, being eighty two years of age of sound mind and memory do make, publish
and declare this my last will and testament in the manner following to wit
after paying debts and funeral expenses

FIRST, I give to my GRAND DAUGHTER NELLIE M. SALISBURY eighteen hundred
dollars, absolute, with this provision that if she should die without children
then it shall revert back and become the property of MARIAH LOHNES' CHILDREN.

SECOND, I give and bequeath to my GRAND CHILDREN, ELIZABETH M. WILBUR. LEWIS
S. LOHNES, GEORGE H. LOHNES and JOSIE M. LOHNES the sum of four hundred
dollars, each to be theirs absolute.

THIRD, I give and bequeath to my DAUGHTER MARIAH LOHNES, all the real estate
of which I am possessed and also all the personal property, furniture and
house hold goods contained in the house, and all the balance residue and
remainder of my personal property of every name and nature to be hers forever.

FOURTH, I hereby appoint MADISON B. WILBUR SOLE EXECUTOR of this my last will
and testament hereby revoking all former wills by me made.

In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name this 10th day of March
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six.
LEWIS SALISBURY, SEAL 

The following instrument was at the date thereof subscribed by the said LEWIS
SALISBURY in our presence and in the presence of each other, and He at the
same time declared the same to be his last will and testament and requested us
to sign our names as witnesses which we do in his presence.
MADISON B. WILBUR, BEMIS HEIGHTS, N. Y.
FRANK WILBUR, BEMIS HEIGHTS, N. Y.

CODICIL
Whereas, I LEWIS SALISBURY of the Town of STILLWATER County of SARATOGA, N.Y.
have made my last will and testament bearing date MARCH 10TH 1896 in and by
which I have given and bequeathed my DAUGHTER MARIA LOHNES all my real estate
and personal property, not otherwise given, and also I gave to my GRAND
DAUGHTER JOSIE LOHNES deceased, the sum of four hundred dollars. Now therefore
I do by this instrument, which I hereby declare to be a CODICIL to my last
will and testament and to be taken as a part thereof, order and direct that
the Legacy of four hundred dollars given to JOSIE LOHNES, deceased, shall not
be paid, but remain as a part of my estate. I also direct that the Legacy, or
property, not otherwise given which I gave and bequeathed to my DAUGHTER MARIA
LOHNES in said last will and testament shall be hers, to do with, use, and
enjoy as best pleases her, and after her decease what is then remaining shall
go to HER CHILDREN and it is my desire that this CODICIL be annexed to and
made a part of my last will and testament. 

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this second day of
September 1897.
LEWIS SALISBURY (SEAL)

The foregoing instrument was, at the date thereof, subscribed by LEWIS
SALISBURY in our presence, and he at the same time declared said instrument to
be a codicil to his last will and testament, and requested us to sign our
names as witnesses, which we do in his presence, and in the presence of each
other.
M. B. WILBUR, SARATOGA SPRINGS
FRANK WILBUR, QUAKER SPRINGS

CODICIL
Whereas, I LEWIS SALISBURY of the Town of STILLWATER County of SARATOGA, State
of NEW YORK have made my last will and testament bearing date of MARCH 10TH
1896 in and by which I gave my GRAND DAUGHTER NELLIE M. INGERSOL eighteen
hundred dollars, Now therefore I do by this instrument which I hereby declare
to be a CODICIL to my last will and testament and to be taken as a part
thereof I order and direct that my Executor shall pay to NELLIE M. INGERSOL
eighteen hundred dollars which was given her in my will as above referred to.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty-third day
of July 1902.
LEWIS SALISBURY (SEAL)

The foregoing instrument was at the date thereof subscribed by LEWIS SALISBURY
in our presence and he at the same time declared said instrument to be a
codicil to his last will and testament and requested us to sign our names as
witnesses which we do in his presence and in the presence of each other.
JOSEPH E. BUCK, QUAKER SP., N. Y.
MADISON B. WILBUR, SARATOGA SPGS., N. Y.
CHARLES C. LESTER
SURROGATE

SARATOGA COUNTY: SS
I, GEORGE O. TUCK, CLERK of the SURROGATE'S COURT in and for said COUNTY, do
hereby certify the foregoing to be a true and correct record of the last will
and testament of LEWIS SALISBURY, aforesaid, deceased, relating to both real
and personal estate; together with the truths thereof.
Recorded September 3, 1904.
GEORGE O. TUCK
CLERK SURROGATE'S COURT.