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Last Will and Testament of Sarah PiersonEntry/Object ID
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Sarah PiersonScope and Content
The People of the State of New-York, by the Grace of God, Free and Independent:—
To all to whom these Presents shall come, or may concern, send Greeting:—
KNOW YE, That at Goshen, in the county of Orange, on the Twenty first day of June instant before Wheeler Case Esq. Surrogate, of our said county, the last WILL AND TESTAMENT OF Sarah Pierson late of the said County of Orange deceased, (a copy whereof is hereunto annexed,) was proved, and is now approved and allowed of by us, and the said deceased having, whilst she lived, and at the time of her death, goods, chattels or credits, within this state, 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 to us; the Administration of all and singular the goods, chattels and credits, of the said deceased, and any way concerning her WILL, is granted unto
Richard W Pierson & Henry Pierson
The Execut ors in the said WILL named, they being first duly 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, we have caused the Seal of Office of our said Surrogate, to be hereunto affixed.
WITNESS, Wheeler Case Esq. Surrogate of the said county, at Goshen, the twenty first day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty six and of our Independence the fiftieth.
Wheeler Case, Surrogate
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Hand written Last Will and Testament
In the name of God amen I Sarah Pierson of
Orange County & state of New York being weak in body,
but of sound mind and of disposing memory, praise be given
to Almighty God, do make publish & declare this to be
my last will and testament in manner & form following
That is to say first I commit my soul into the hands of my
Creator trusting through the merits of my Saviour Jesus Christ
for the remission of all my sins, and my body I commit
to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my
executors herein after named, And as to what temporal
estate it hath pleased God to bless me with, I give, devise &
bequeath as follows, First I will that all my just debts be
justly paid, Item I give, devise & bequeath unto my two
sisters Mary Youngs & Rachal Pierson all my property and
estate to be equally divided between them for their use and
benefit during their lives and at their decease to be equally
divided amongst my brother Josiah Pierson's children, And
it is my will & I order and direct that the property thus be
=queathed to Mary Seybolt daughter of my said brother Josiah
Pierson shall be retained in the hands of my executors and
paid to her as she may have need of it; and at her death
to be equally divided amongst her brothers & sisters. But in case
of the death of her husband David Seybolt it is my will and
I order & direct that the property thus bequeathed to her,
be given to her, or so much of it as there may be at the
death of her said husband, And lastly I do hereby make
ordain, constitute & appoint Richard W Pierson & Henry
Pierson executors of this my last will and testament in
trust for the purposes in this my will contained. In tes
=timony whereof I the said Sarah Pierson have hereunto
set my hand & seal this eleventh day of March in the year of our Lord one thous-
=and eight hundred and twenty two. Signed, sealed
and declared by the said Sarah Pierson as and for
her last will & testament in the presence of us who
were present at the signing & sealing thereof and at
her request subscribe our names as witnesses thereto
in her presence & in the presence of each other. The word
will, interlined in 5 line page first—John Knapp Jo-
=seph Cromwell, Samuel C. Van Vliet.
Sarah (her + mark) Pierson
Orange County ss. Be it remembered that on the twenty first
day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
& twenty six personally appeared before me Wheeler Case
Surrogate of the county of Orange John Knapp who being
duly sworn upon his oath did depose & say that he was present
& did see Sarah Pierson deceased sign by making her mark
to & seal the written instrument then shewn unto him of which
the preceding is a true copy purporting to be the last will and
testament of the said deceased & did hear her publish & declare
the same as & for her last will & testament & that at the time
of the execution thereof she the said deceased was of a sound dis
=posing mind & memory to the best of his the deponents knowledge
& belief & that he the deponent together with Joseph Cromwell
& Samuel C Van Vliet subscribed their names thereto as wit
=nesses in the presence of the testatrix & in the presence of each
other.
This preceding is a true copy of the original will of Sarah
Pierson deceased & of the certificate of the proof thereof & the
letters testamentary thereon. —
Wheeler Case, Surrogate
