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April 18, 1760 Caleb Gilbert James De Lancey Esq - Lt Governor of NYEntry/Object ID
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Caleb Gilbert, James De LanceyScope and Content
James De Lancey Esq-r
his Majesty's Lieutenant Governor and
Commander in Chief in and over the Province
of New York and the Territories depending
thereon in America.
To all to whom these Presents shall Come or may
Concern Greeting.
Know Ye that at Orange County on the Eighteenth Day of
April last before John Gale Esquire thereunto delegated and appointed,
the last will and Testament of Caleb Gilbert 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
Chattells and Credits within this Province, by means whereof the Proving and
Registring the said Will, and the Granting Administration of all and singular
the said Goods Chattells 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 Chattells and Credits of the said deceased, and
any ways Concerning his Will is Granted unto Silas Person and Samuel
Birdseye the Executors in the said Will Named: 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 Chattells 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 at the City of New York the Twenty Eighth
Day of June One Thousand seven Hundred and Sixty.
[Signature]
In the Name of God Amen I Caleb Gilbert of the County of Orange in the Province of New York Yeoman being of sound and Perfect mind
Memory and Understanding (Praise be Given to Almighty
God Do make and Declare this my last Will & Testament
First I Commend my Soul into the Hands of my Creator
trusting through the Merrits 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
and bequeath the same as followeth. First I Will that all
my Debts shall be justly Paid and Satisfied Item I Give
devise and bequeath unto my Two Sons Ebenezer Gilbert
and Stephen Gilbert the Farm or Plantation whereon I now
live that is to say the one full and equal undivided half Part
of my said Farm or Plantation to my said Son Ebenezer
Gilbert & to his Heirs & Assigns for Ever and the other equal
undevided half Part of my Said Farm or Plantation to my
Said Son Stephen Gilbert and to his Heirs and Assigns for
Ever and I do hereby Order and direct that my said Two sons
Ebenezer Gilbert and Stephen Gilbert shall so soon as they
shall arrive to be of the Age of Twenty One Years that they Pay
or Cause to be Paid to my Two Sons John Gilbert and Josiah
Gilbert
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Gilbert the sum of Ten Pound Each New York Currency
and I do hereby Give and bequeath unto my
Daughter Phebe Goldsmith the sum of Twenty
Shillings New York Currency and I do hereby Give
and bequeath unto my Said Two Sons John Gilbert
and Josiah Gilbert and to my Daughter Hannah
Gilbert all the Rest and Residue of my Estate
Real and Personal to be Equally divided among
my Said Two Sons John and Josiah and my said
Daughter Hannah Share and Share alike -
And Lastly I do hereby Nominate Constitute
and Appoint Silas Person & Samuel BirdsEye
Executors of this my Last Will and Testament
Heartby Revoking all former and other Will or
wills by me heretofore made Declaring this to be
my only last Will and Testament In Testimony
whereof I the said Caleb Gilbert Have hereunto
set my Hand & Put my Seal this Nineteenth Day
of Aprill Annoq Domini One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Fifty Five
Caleb Gilbert (LS)
Signed Sealed Published and Declared by
the said Caleb Gilbert as his last Will and
Testament in Presents of us who subscribed our
Names
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Names in the Presents of the Testator Luke Clarke
her Mary M Mosure Fletch-r Mathews
Mark
Orange County ss Be it Remembred that on the
Eighteenth Day of April One Thousand Seven hundred
and Sixty Personally Came and appeared before me
John Gale Surrogate of the said County Fletcher Mathews
Attorney at Law in Ulster County and being duly Sworn
on his Oath declared that he did see Caleb Gilbert sign
and Seal the within written Instrument Purporting to be the
will of the said Caleb Gilbert bearing date the
Nineteenth Day of April AD 1755 and heard him
Publish and Declare the same to be and Contain his
last Will and Testament that at the time thereof he the
Said Caleb Gilbert was of Sound disposing mind and
Memory to the best of the knowledge and belief of him
the deponent and that his name Subscribed to the said Will
is of his own respective Proper hand writing which he Subscribed as
Witness to the said will in the Testators Presence and that
he the Deponent saw Luke Clarke and Mary Mosure
the other Witnesses to the said Will subscribe their Names
as Witnesses thereto in the Testators Presence
John Gale Surrogate
The preceding are true Copies of the Will of
Caleb Gilbert and of the Certificate of the Proof
thereof Examined By me
[Signature]
28th June 1760
Probate Caleb Gilberts will
