WILL: Henry Pawling; Marbletown, Ulster co., NY surname: Pawling submitted by Candace Burke (candyb11 @ msn.com) ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.org/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.org/ny/nyfiles.htm Submitted Date: March 19, 2004 This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/nyfiles/ File size: 3.1 Kb ************************************************ Source: Sampubco photocopy New York Co. NY Group AP Folder 1 (Original Will) Written: January 17 1691 Recorded: March 25 1695 Will of Henry Pawling of Marbletown, Ulster Co., NY In the name of God Amen thr_ one And seventeent day of January in the year of our Lord 1691 ___ ___ of Henry Pauling of Marbletown in the county of Ulster being sick And weake in body but of found And ___ memory praise be Given to God for the fame And knowing that uncertainty of this transitory life And being desirous to ___ things in order Do make this my last will And Testament in manner And forme following That is to say first And principally I commend my foul to Allmighty God my creator af hereby believing that I shall ___ full pardon And will ___ of all my sinns And be sauld by this ___ ___ And ___ of my blessed Saviour And ___ ___ Christ ___ And my body to the Earth from whencest it was taken to be buried in ___ ___ And christian manner As to my Executour hereafter named Shall __ thought ___ And convenient And ___ ___ ___ __ __ the ___ in ___ Hath but __ my will And meaning is the same shall be to my loyal And ___ hereafter by this my last will And testament is ____ ___ And ___ I do revoke _ ___ ___ And make void all wills formerly by me made And I ___ And appoint this my Last will And testament ___ ___ I will that All my ___ And lawful debts shall be fully satisfied out of my Goods and Chattels ___ I will that All my Estate of lands are tenement Goods or chattels what ___ ___ belongint to me shall continue And I wish in that breaft off my beloved wife And for her and our ___ during her life but in cas‚ fhe should change to marry ___ the inventory to be taken by her brothers Arien Rosa And Gysbert Rosa or Any faithfulle ____ man which God in his mercy ___ shall them order And while my said wife shall come to die the whole Estate of land, Lands, Goods And Chattels to be Equally divided among six children namely ___ Wyntue John Albert Ann And Henry pauling but iff my wife should be now with child it fhall have Equall fhares with the other fix of my children. Afore named in witness whereoff I have hereunto putt my hand. And I stated this day And ___ ___ Aboue written Henry pauling Signed And Sealed in the presence of ___ ___" Additional Comments: This will was very difficult to read. There were many ink blots and it was a dark copy. I copied it as written as best that I could decipher it. Wife was Neeltje Roosa. Children were Anne, Wyntie, Jane, Mary, John (Jan), Henry (Hendrick). Henry was not a Dutch but a Englishman.