WILL: Mason Hatfield; Wethersfield, Wyoming co., New York
surname: Hatfield, Chaffee, Bartlett, Wheeler

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Wyoming co NY Will book Vol 9 page 505
Written: 14 Dec 1876
Probated: 6 Jan 1877

HATFIELD, Mason---Last Will and Testament

Surrogate's Court---Wyoming County, New York

Last Will and Testament of
Mason Hatfield

Be it remembered, That heretofore, to wit: On the 6th day of January in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven Harriet
Hatfield, the widow, and Albert H. Hatfield legatee and Leander L. Chaffee and
said Albert H. Hatfield Executors named in the Last Will and Testament of
Mason Hatfield late of the town of Wethersfield in the County of Wyoming and
the State of New York, deceased, appeared in open court, before the Surrogate
of the County of Wyoming and State of New York, and made application to have
the said Last Will and Testament which relates to both Real and Personal
Estate, proved; and on such application the said Surrogate did ascertain, by
satisfactory evidence, who were the widow, heirs at law and next of kin of the
said testator, and the irrespective residences.

Appearing by the petition duly verified and filed in this matter that the said
Harriet Hatfield is the widow and the said Albert H. Hatfield is the only heir
at law and next of kin and said Mason Hatfield deceased testator and the said
Harriet Hatfield and Albert H. Hatfield having petitioned to this court for
the immediate proof and probate of said will without issuing of any citation
and in that day, no one appearing to oppose the Probate of such Will such
proceedings were thereupon had in said Court afterwards that the Surrogate
took the proofs of said Will hereinafter set forth, upon this 6th day of
January A.D. 1877, and he thereupon adjudged the said Will to be a valid Will
of Real and Personal Estate, and the proofs to be sufficient, which said Last
Will and Testament and proofs are as follows, that is to say:

WILL

In the name of God, Amen
I, Mason Hatfield, of Wethersfield, Wyoming County, New York being of sound
mind and memory, and considering the uncertainty of this frail and transitory
life do therefore make, ordain, publish, and declare this to be my last Will
and Testament, that is to say:

First__After all my lawful debts are paid and discharged, I give and bequeath
to my beloved wife Harriet Hatfield all my Real estate lying and being on the
east side of the highway running North and South by my present residence to
have and to hold the same in her own right forever.

Second__I give and bequeath to my son Albert H. Hatfield all my real estate on
the west side of said highway to have and to hold the same in his own right
forever.

Third__All my personal property of whatever kind is to be used and applied
first in the payment of my debts, funeral expenses and the expense of settling
up my estate and the balance of such personal estate is to be equally divided
between my wife and son Albert H. Hatfield, if for any cause my personal
estate should not be sufficient to pay my debts and the expenses above
mentioned, then the payment of any deficiency I have upon the real estate
hereby devised to my son.

Likewise, I make, constitute and appoint my said son Albert H. Hatfield and my
friend Leander L. Chaffee of Warsaw, New York to be executors of this my last
Will and Testament thereby revoking all former Wills by me made.

In Witness Where of I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal the
fourteenth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy six.

Mason Hatfield L.S.

The above written instrument was subscribed by the said Mason Hatfield in our
presence, and acknowledged by him to each of us; and he at the same time
declared the above instrument so subscribed to be his last Will & Testament;
and we at his request have signed our names as witness hereto in his presence
and in the presence of each other and written opposite our names our
respective places of residence.
C. T. Bartlett Warsaw
A. J. Wheeler Wethersfield

SURROGATE'S COURT---Wyoming County.

In the matter of proving the Last Will and Testament of
Mason Hatfield
Deceased.

Wyoming County---ss Cosam T. Bartlett and Andrew J. Wheeler being first duly
sworn in open Court, upon their several corporeal oaths, each for himself doth
depose and say, that they are subscribing witnesses to the Last Will and
Testament of Mason Hatfield late of the town of Wethersfield in the County of
Wyoming and State of New York deceased. And these deponents do further say,
that the said Mason Hatfield deceased, did, in the presence of each of these
deponents, subscribe his name at the end of the instrument in writing which is
now here shown to these deponents, and which purports to be the Last Will and
Testament of the said deceased, and which bears date on the 14th of December
one thousand eight hundred seventy six. That the said deceased did, at the
time of subscribing his name to the said instruments as aforesaid, declare the
same to be his Last Will and Testament; and these deponents did thereupon
subscribe their own respective names at the end of said instrument, as
attesting witnesses to the execution thereof, each 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 so subscribing his name to said instrument as
aforesaid, and publishing said instrument as aforesaid, was upward of
twenty-one years of age, and a citizen of the United States; that he appeared
to be, and deponent believes he was, of sound mind and memory and
understanding, and not under any restraint, and as deponents verily believe,
in all respects competent to devise real estate; that each of these deponents
saw the other sign his name to said instrument in the presence of the said
deceased.
Cosam T. Bartlett
A.J. Wheeler
Subscribed and sworn this 6th day of January A.D. 1877, before me,
B. Healey Surrogate

Wyoming County---ss,
It appearing upon the proofs duly taken in respect to the Last Will and
Testament of Mas
`n Hatfield late of the town of Wethersfield in the County of Wyoming and
State of New York, deceased, that the said Will was duly executed, and the
said Mason Hatfield at the time he executed the same was in all respects
competent to devise Real Estate, and not under restraint, the said Last Will
and Testament and the proofs and examinations are hereby recorded, signed, and
certified by me, pursuant to the provisions of the Revised Statutes, this 6th
day of January A.D. 1877.
Byron Healy, Surrogate