WILL: Robert Graham; Shawangunk, Ulster co., NY
surname: Graham, Bruyn

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WILL OF ROBERT GRAHAM   Shawangunk

Ulster County NY Will Book vol.  A page 137
Dated 29 September 1766
Transcribed by Linda Helaudais from Sampubco copy

In the name of God Amen, I Robert Graham of the precinct of Shawangunk in the
County of Ulster and Province of New York Yeoman, Being in health of Body
and of sound and perfect mind and memory and understanding thanks be to
almighty God but considering my great age beyond the common course of nature,
the uncertainty of this transitory life, and that I must soon yield unto Death
when it shall please God to call Do make this my last Will and Testament in
manner and form following: that is to say First and principally I Recommend my
Soul unto almighty God and my Body to the Earth to be decently buried at the
discretion of my Executors hereafter named.  As Touching such Worldly Estate
as it hath pleased God to bestow upon me, my Debts and funeral charges being
first paid and discharged, I Give Devise and bequeath the same as followeth:

Item.  I give and Devise unto my son John Graham All that a certain Lott piece
or parcel of Land being now in the occupation of my said son John Beginning
upon the bounds of the Land of Abraham Decker at the Northernmost corner of
Robert Cane's Land and Runs from thence along the division line between my
land and the land of the said Robert Cane as it runs South Sixty-six degrees
East thirty-seven chain and Seventy-two links to a Black Oak Tree standing on
the East side of a Ridge marked with a Cross and two Notches on the North side
thereof being an Old line Tree marked in the line between me and the said Cane
and Runs from thence crossing my land North twenty-four degrees East fourteen
chain to the North East bounds of the patent of William Peartree and Company
thence along said Bounds as it runs North Sixty Six Degrees West twenty-four
chains and forty links to a lott of land by me conveyed to Isaac Hasbrouck
then along the same South Twenty-four degrees West five chain and ninety links
and north sixty-six degrees West Eleven Chain to the land late of Jacob Decker
now of Jacobus Vanderline and thence along the same and the land of Abraham
Decker South forty degrees West eight chains and forty links to the place
where it began, containing about forty-three Acres To Hold the said lott piece
or parcel of Land with the appurtenances unto my said son John Graham
for the term of his natural life and after his decease I give and devise the
same to my Grandson Robert Graham, one of the younger sons of my said son John
and to his heirs and assigns forever But if in case my said grandson Robert
shall happen to decease without issue of his Body begotten during the lifetime
of my said son John then to my grandson Andrew, one of the other of the sons
of my said son John and to his heirs and assigns forever, And as for the
Residue of my Real and personal Estate (not herein before by me disposed
of) I Give and dispose thereof in manner and form following (Viz) my just
debts and funeral charges being first paid and deducted out of the same, my
will is that my said Real and personal estate be equally divided into six
parts or shares, and one-sixth thereof  I give devise, and bequeath unto my
son Andrew Graham his heirs, Executors administrators or Assigns; one other
sixth part thereof unto my son Robert Graham, his heirs Executors
administrators or assigns; one other sixth part thereof unto my grandson
John Graham, Junr. (the son of my said son John) and to his heirs, executors,
administrators, or assigns; one other sixth part thereof unto my daughter
Mary, the Wife of Robert Cane and to her heirs, executors, administrators, or
assigns; one other sixth part thereof unto my daughter Elizabeth, the wife of
James Dayly and to her heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns; and the
other sixth part thereof unto my Grand Children, the Children of my daughter
Jane, deceased (the late wife of Jacobus Bruyn) to be equally divided between
my said last-mentioned grand Children, each of them an equal proportion
thereof.  

Also I do Give unto my Wife Antie the use of one cow and such part of my
Beding and Household goods as my Executors hereinafter named shall judge
needful for her, and also a maintenance to be allowed her out of
my said estate at the discretion of my Executors as I shall hereinafter
direct.  And I do make ordain and appoint my said son Andrew Graham and my
son-in-law Jacobus Bruyn to be Executors of this my last Will and Testament
and my Will and meaning is that my said Executors shall within a convenient
time after my decease make a Sale of all my Estate Real and personal (Except
what I have herein before given to my son John and a Cow and such beding and
household goods as they shall Judge needfull to keep for the use of my wife
during her lifetime) For the Doing Executing, and perfect finating [?] whereof
I do by these presents Give Grant Will and Transfer to my said Executors and
their respective Executors and Administrators full power and Authority to
Grant Alien Bargain Sell Convey and Assure all my Lands or other Real Estate
(Except what I have herein before given to my said son John) to any Person or
Persons and their heirs forever, in fee simple by all and every such lawfull
ways and means in the Law as to my said Executors or their respective
Executors or Administrators or their Council learned in the Law shall seem
fitt or necessary.  And In order to Enable my Executors to allow unto my said
Wife Antie her maintenance so given her as aforesaid, it is further my Will
that my said Executors shall retain in their hands during the lifetime of the
said Antie part of the money to arise by the sale of my said estate a sum of
two hundred pounds, and that they shall put the same out at use and out of the
interest thereby arising shall give her the maintenance to be allowed her as
aforesaid, and the remainder of the money arising by such sale as aforesaid I
order and appoint my said executors to pay unto my said Children and Grand
Children their Executors Administrators or Assigns According to their
Respective Rights or Interests in my said Estate And The money so to be
retained together with the interest thereby arising, if any remains, shall be
divided as soon as my Executors shall be discharged from the maintenance of my
said wife.  And Lastly I do hereby Revoke and make void all former and other
Wills by me heretofore made, declaring this only to be my last will and
testament In Witness whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and seal this
twenty-ninth day of September in the year of our Lord Christ one thousand
seven hundred and sixty-six.
                                [signed] Robert P. Graham
Signed Sealed Published and Declared by the within named Robert Graham as his
last Will and Testament in the presence of us who subscribed ours names hereto
as witnesses in his presence.
[signed] 
Jacobus Sammon      Charles Lomex              Peter Decker

Ulster County: Be it Remembered that on the twenty-sixth day of August in the
year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty nine personally came
and appeared before me Joseph Gasherie Surrogate of the said County, Peter
Decker of the Town of Shawangunk in the said County Farmer, and being duly
sworn on his Oath declared that he did see Robert Graham Sign and Seal the
preceding written instrument purporting to be the Will of the said Robert
Graham bearing date the twenty ninth day of September in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and sixty-six and heard him publish and declare the
same as and for his last Will and Testament that at the time thereof the said
Robert Graham was of sound disposing mind and memory to the best of the
knowledge and belief of him the deponent and that Jacobus Sammon and Charles
Lomex together with the deponent Subscribed the said Will as Witnesses thereto
in the Testators presence.
                [signed] Joseph Gasherie Surrogate
The preceeding is a true Copy of the Original Will of Robert Graham, deceased,
and also of the certificate of the proof thereof Recorded at the Request of
Johannis Bruyn and James Kain, the 9th September One thousand seven hundred
and eighty-nine.
                [signed] Joseph Gasherie Surrogate