WILL: John Murphy; Northumberland, Saratoga co., NY
surname: Murphy

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John Murphy
Town of Northumberland, Saratoga County
Will book vol. 45 page 232

Transcribed from SAMPUBCO copy

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
8th day of October, 1914. Present: Hon. Wm. S. Ostrander, 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 Eighth day of October,
1914, John W. Murphy of the town of Northumberland, 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 John Murphy dated July 4, 1910, 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, it appearing there were no parties entitled to the issue and
service of any citation, the issue and service of any citation herein was
dispensed with. 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
Daniel Washburn and Flora Maud Washburn of the Town of Northumberland, in the
County of Saratoga being duly sworn on their oath, do depose and say that they
are subscribing witnesses to the Last Will and Testament of John Murphy late
of the town of Northumberland 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 4th day of July in
the year One Thousand Nine Hundred and Ten; 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 the 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 or belief of these deponents.
Subscribed and sworn this 8th day of October, 1914, before me Wm. S Ostrander,
Surrogate

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 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 qualifying as provided by law. It is further ordered
that said Will be recorded with the foregoing proof thereof which said Will as
follows, to-wit:

I, John Murphy of the Town of Northumberland, County of Saratoga, State of New
York, do hereby make and publish this my last Will and Testament in the manner
following, to wit:

First, I direct that all my just debts by paid and my funeral expense and
charges of administrating of my estate.

Second. After paying said debts and charges and expenses, I devise and
bequeathe all my estate both real and personal of every name and nature to my
beloved wife Sarah Murphy during the term of her natural life to use the same
the income rents and profits thereof and so much of the principle as she may
require for her comfort and support during said term, and at her death I do
will and direct that what remains of my said estate unexpended at the death of
my said wife Sarah be given to my son John W. Murphy.

Third. I do hereby appoint my beloved wife Sarah Murphy as administratrix and
my son John W. Murphy as administrator of my said estate heretofore devised
and willed by me. Signed this day 4 of July, 1910.

John Murphy, L.S.

Signed, published, and declared by the said testator John Murphy as written on
the foregoing page to be his last will and testament in the presence of us who
have signed our names at his request as witnesses in his presence and in the
presence of each other.

Daniel Washburn, witness
Flora Maud Washburn, witness, residing at Gansevoort, NY

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 John Murphy, aforesaid, deceased, relating to both real and
personal estate; together with the proofs thereof. Recorded on the 8th day of
October, 1914.

George O. Tuck
Clerk Surrogate's Court