WILL: Jasper Mead;  Galway, Saratoga co., NY 
surname: Mead, McCoun, Hall, Dickinson

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Source: sampubco.com
Saratoga County, New York Will Book Vol. 8 page 320
Written: December 11, 1824
Recorded: November 9, 1830

Transcribed from SAMPUBCO copy by Charles W. Bub, Jr.
Saratoga County, (Troy, Rensselaer) New York

										
Be it remembered that on the ninth day of November, in the year of our Lord, one 
thousand, eight hundred and thirty, at the inn of William Clark, in the village 
of Ballston Spa, in the county of Saratoga came before George Palmer Surrogate 
Jesse H. Mead of said county and showed to him that due notice had been given by 
citation from said Surrogate to all persons and more especially to Thomas R. 
Benedict, and Sally his wife, Enos D. Hopping and Harriett his wife, and to the 
said Enos as guardian for Mary E. Mead, Martha W. Mead and Thaddeus W. Mead 
minors and next of kin to Jasper Mead, late of the town of Galway in said county 
deceased that on the day and at the place aforesaid, the said Jesse H. Mead as 
Executor of the last Will and Testament of the said Jasper, would present said 
Will to said Surrogate, for probate as one of personal property.  In which day 
and at which place it being expedient and no cause to the contrary appearing the 
hearing of the proof in relation to the execution of said Will was adjourned to 
the nineteenth day of November instant at two o’clock in the afternoon, at the 
office of said Surrogate in the village of Stillwater.  On which last day leave 
was given to the said Jesse, appearing by George N. Palmer thereto specially 
appointed to proceed to the proof of said Will, and Daniel Hall one of the 
subscribing witnesses to said Will being duly sworn did say that he saw the said 
Jasper sign and acknowledge an instrument in writing purporting to be his last 
Will and Testament bearing date the eleventh day of December, in the year of our 
Lord, one thousand eight hundred twenty four, and that he together with Townsend 
McCoun and John D. Dickinson also subscribed their names as witnesses to said 
Will.  That this deponent and the said other witnesses subscribed their names to 
said Will in the presence of the said testator was of sound mind and 
understanding and from all restraints.  At hereupon appearing to said Surrogate 
do admit the same in the words following to a probate.

I, Jasper Mead of the city of Troy in the county of Rensselaer of sound mind and 
memory and mindful of the uncertainty of life do make and publish this my last 
Will and Testament in manner following to wit:

I do hereby give, devise and bequeath to my beloved wife Elizabeth for her own 
use, all and singular my real and personal estate, chooses in action, goods and 
chattels to my said wife absolutely and to hold as her own forever and as to such 
real estate, lands and tenements of which I may (unreadable) or possessed or 
entitled to.  I give, devise and bequeath the same to my said wife Elizabeth to 
hold the same for her own use for and during her natural life.  And I do hereby 
appoint my beloved wife Executrix and my son Jesse H. Mead Executor of this my 
last Will and Testament and I do hereby revoke all former Wills and devises by me 
made.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this eleventh day of 
December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty four.
							Jasper Mead (L.S.)
Sealed, published and declared by the above named Jasper Mead 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 each other.
Townsend McCoun
Daniel Hall
John D. Dickinson

I certify that the preceding record is a copy of the last Will and Testament of 
Jasper Mead, late of the town of Galway, deceased, proved in manner aforesaid.
							George Palmer