WILL: Thomas Vail, Jr; North Salem, Westchester co., NY 
surname: Vail, Ferris, Haviland, Carpenter, Clapp, Brush, Crane

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Source: Copy Of Original Will
Written: 1795
Recorded: May 15, 1798

The Will of Thomas Vail, Jr. of North Salem, NY 

I Thomas Vail of the Town of North Salem in the County of Westchester and
State of New York, Yeoman Do make and publish this my last Will and
Testament, in manner and form following that is to say. 

I do order my Executors in a convenient time after my decease to pay my
just debts and funeral charges out of my personal estate. 

Then, I do give and bequeath unto my loving wife Sarah Vail the use and
improvement of the whole of my estate both real and personal until my
children come of age to bring them ____upon. 

Then I give and bequeath unto my wife Sarah Vail the improvement of one
third part of my real estate during her natural life, and two hundred
pounds York money, to be paid to her by my executors in a convenient time
after my decease. 

Then I give unto my three sons namely William Vail, Thomas Vail and John
Vail, the whole of my real estate to be equally divided between them in
quantity and quality by my Executors. 

Then I give unto my daughter, Martha Ferris two hundred and fifty pounds
York money.

Then I give unto my daughter Phebe Vail three hundred and fifty pounds.
Then I 
give unto my two grand Daughters Phebe Haviland and  Hannah Haviland, one 
hundred and twenty five pounds each. It is my will that my son William Vail 
shall pay four hundred and fifty pounds to the daughters and grand
daughters 
above mentioned. 

And it is my will that my son Thomas Vail pay two hundred pounds to be
distributed as above mentioned, and it is my will that my son John Vail pay
two hundred pounds to be distributed as above mentioned. 

Then I give all the remainder of my moveable estate to my wife and children
to be equally divided between them, except my two grand daughters to have
half as much each of them as one of the others. 

Finally I hereby constitute Joseph Carpenter (my brother in law) and Thomas
Clapp of Greenwich to be my Executors to this last Will and Testament in in
____ whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this sixteenth day of
June in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety five.  

N.B. the words and fifty between the thirteenth and fourteenth lines was
before sealing and signing signed, sealed, published, and pronounced to be
my last Will and Testament in the presence of Robert Brush, George Brush,
Thaddeus Crane

/s/ Thomas Vail 

The above will was recorded with the Westchester County Clerk on
05/15/1798.