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Probate of William Bull's will July 1st 1756Entry/Object ID
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William Bull, Sarah WellsScope and Content
This document is a formal colonial probate record from the Province of New York, dated July 1, 1756. It authorizes the administration of the estate of William Bull.
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Sir Charles Hardy Knight, Captain General and Governor in chief in and over the Province of New York, and the Territories Depending thereon in America and Vice Admiral of the same.
To all whom these presents shall come or may concern Greeting. Know Ye that at Orange County on the nineteenth day of June last, before William Finn Esqr. being thereunto delegated and appointed, the Last Will and Testament of William Bull deceased, (a copy whereof is hereunto annexed) was proved and now approved, and allowed of by me; the said deceased having whilst he lived, and at the time of his death, Goods Chattels and Credits within this Province, by means whereof the proving and registering the said Will, and the granting administration of all and singular the said Goods Chattels and Credits, and also the auditing allowing and final discharging the account thereof doth belong unto me.
And that Administration of all and singular the Goods Chattels and Credits of the said deceased, and any way concerning his Will, was Granted unto Sarah Bull one of the Executors in the said Will named, being first sworn well and faithfully to administer the same, and to make and exhibit a true and perfect Inventory of all and singular the said Goods Chattels and Credits, and also to render a Just and true Account thereof when thereunto required.
In Testimony whereof I have caused the Prerogative Seal of the Province of New York to be hereunto affixed, the first day of July One thousand Seven hundred and fifty six.
[Signature] Gw. Banyar D Sec'ry
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The Last Will and Testament of William Bull
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In the Name of God Amen
I William Bull of Goshen In the County of Orange in the Province of New York Meason being of sound and perfect memory (blessed be God) do this Twentieth Day of February In the Year of Our Lord One thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty five make and Publish this my Last Will and Testament In Manner Following First I give and Bequeath to my Dear Wife Sarah Bull my Dwelling house and Farm whereon I now Live During her Natural Life If she so Long Continues my Widdow And I Leave her all my Negroes and Movable Estate In trust for the uses and purposes herein after mentioned (that is to say) That my Daughters Mary, Margaret, Catharine, Anne, and Elinor and my Youngest Son Richard Shall Live with my said Wife In my Dwelling house and be maintained Cloathed and Supported by her Out of the Benefit of my said farm Negroes and Stock and such Industry and Benefit as my said Wife and said Children shall make upon the said farm untill they are married or Come of Age and that my Wife shall pay to Each of my said five Daughters at the time of their marriage or when they Come of age the Sum of Seventy Pounds New York Currency to be paid out of my Movable Estate and the money which my sons are to pay Out of the Lands herein after Devised to them And It is my Will that If any of my said five Daughters shall Happen to die before they are married or of Age the Portion hereby Bequeathed to the Daughter
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Daughter or Daughters so Happening to Die shall be Equally Divided among the Survivors of my Said five Daughters & their heirs And I give and Bequeath to Each of my Daughters Sarah Booth and Hester Miller the sum of forty Shillings to buey Mourning to be paid out of my Movable Estate after my Decease and the Decease of my Wife In Lieu of all Dower they having Received their portions when married And I Give and Devise to my Eldest Son John his heirs and Assigns for ever after the Decease of my Wife my Dwelling house and all that part of the Hundred Acres whereon I Live which Lies to the Southwestward of a Chesnut tree Standing on the Hill at the Grave Yard being the most Southwesterly of the two Chesnut trees which Grow there and to Run thence South Sixty Seven Degrees East to the line of the South East side of the said One Hundred Acres and From the said chestnut Tree to Run North Sixty Seven Degrees West to the Road that Leads from my house to Goshen Road then North Easterly along Goshen Road to the North Easterly Corner of my Said Son's Orchard then along his Orchard Fence North Westerly to the Line of the Lotts Including the house my said Son now Lives in, my Son John his heirs and Assigns paying after the Decease of my Wife out of the Said Lands Twenty Pounds New York Currency to pay such of my Debts or of my Daughters Portions as may then Happen to be unpaid and If it happen that there be none of Either behind or Unpaid then the said twenty pounds shall be Equally Divided between my Said five
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five Youngest Daughters and my Son Richard and their heirs Share and Share Alike and I Give and Devise to my Son William his heirs and Assigns for ever all my Land that Lies on the Northwest Side of the Wallkill or Paltz River being the Farm whereon he now Dwells he his heirs or Assigns paying Out of the Said Lands the sum of Fifty Pounds Current Money of New York to my Executors herein after Nominated and Appointed to be by them Applyed towards the paying my Debts and my Daughters Portions as within Mentioned And I Give and Devise to my Son Thomas his heirs and Assigns for ever all the Remaining part of the Tract of Land whereon my son William Lives which Lies on the South East side of the said Wallhill being the Farm whereon my Said Son Thomas now Lives he his heirs and Assigns paying Out of the said Lands to my Executors aforesaid the sum of Ten pounds New York Currency for the purposes aforesaid, And I Give and Devise to my Son Isaac Two Hundred Acres of Land where he now Lives Bounded South Easterly by the Line of my Lands, south westerly by the Line Called the New Northwest Line of Cap. John Evans Patent, North Easterly by the Lands of Stephen Harlow and Thomas Sayers and to Extend so far North westerly as to Contain two Hundred Acres he his heirs or Assigns paying to my said Executors for the Purposes aforesaid the sum of five Pounds Current money aforesaid And to my son Richard his heirs and assigns I Give and Devise forever all the Residue and Remainder of my Land Adjoining to the two Hundred
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Hundred Acres I Devised to my Son Isaac being some more than One Hundred Acres and I also Give and Devise to my said son Richard his heirs and Assigns forever all that Piece of Land Bounded Southwesterly and Northwesterly by the Lands Devised aforesaid to my Son John, Northerly by the East and West Line that Divides the Counties of Orange and Ulster and South Easterly by the Land of Thomas Sayers And I Nominate and Appoint my said Wife Executrix and my Son Willm. Bull Executor of this my Will to see my Just debts well and truly Paid and the same perform'd according to my true Intent in Every Respect In Witness whereof I the said William Bull have to this my Last Will and Testament set my hand and seal the Day and Year within written.
William Bull (LS)
Signed Sealed Published and Declared by the said William Bull the Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who were present at the Signing and Sealing thereof
[Notes on interlined words: "to Dev," "his heirs and Assigns for Ever," "portions," "Paying," "Assigns," "Debts," "Will"]
Thomas Stewart, Phillip DePina, Derrick Scot
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Orange County ss Be it Remembred that on the Nineteenth Day of June One thousand Seven hundred and Fifty six Parsonally came and appeared before me William Finn Surrogate of ye said County Derrick Scot of the county aforesaid House Joyner and being Duly Sworn on his Oath Declared that he did see William Bull sign and seal the within Written Instrument and Declare the same to be and Contain his Last Will and Testament that at the time thereof he the Said William Bull was of sound Disposing mind and memory... [Derrick Scot also identifies Thomas Stewart and Phillip DePina as the other witnesses].
William Finn Surrogate
Orange County ss Be it Remembred that on the Nineteenth day of June One thousand Seven hundred and Fifty six Sarah Bull Executrix of the within Written Will of William Bull likewise appeared before me the said William Finn and was Duly sworn to the true Execution and performance of the said Will...
William Finn Surrogate
