Name/Title
July 7, 1846 Goshen, NY Will of Susannah Shaw & Henry Pierson & Samuel BeyeaEntry/Object ID
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Susannah Shaw, Henry Pierson, Samuel BeyeaScope 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 Seventh
day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and forty-Six before CHARLES BORLAND, Esquire, Surrogate of our said county, the last Will and Testament of Susannah Shaw
deceased, (a copy whereof is hereunto annexed,) was duly proved, and is now approved and allowed of by us; and it appearing unto us, that the said deceased was, at the time of her death, an inhabitant of the town of Goshen in the said county of Orange; by reason whereof, the proving and registering the said Will, and the granting administration of all and singular, the goods, chattels, and credits of the said Testatrix, and also, the auditing, allowing, and final discharging the account thereof, doth belong unto the Surrogate of the county of Orange: The administration of all and singular, the goods, chattels, and credits of the said deceased, and any way concerning h er Will, is granted unto Henry Pierson and Samuel Deyer Executors
in the said Will named, they being first duly sworn faithfully and honestly
to discharge the duties of such Executors.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, we have caused the Seal of Office of our said
Surrogate to be hereunto affixed. Witness CHARLES BORLAND,
Esquire, Surrogate of the said County, at Goshen, the 7th
day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and forty six, and of our Independence the
Seventy first.
Charles Borland
SURROGATE.
In the name of God amen. I Susannah Shaw
of the town of Wallkill, County of Orange and State
of New York, being weak in body but of sound mind
do make and publish this my Last Will and Testament in
manner and form following (that is to say).
First. I give and bequeath unto my eldest Dauter
Sarah Beyea the bed and bedding that I possess at
my decease with all of household furniture likewise the
two thirds of all the money whither in Bonds, Notes, or
book accounts or otherwise to hers or assigns forever.
I likewise give and bequeath unto my younggest dauter
Mary Pearson the remaining one third of all the money
I do possess of to her and her heirs forever. I hereby
apopoint my two sons in law, Henry Pearson and Samuel Beyea
Executors of this my Last Will and Testament hereby revoking all
former Wills by me made.
In Witness Whereof I have Hereunto set my hand seal
this second day of June Eighteen hundred and forty.
Susannah Shaw [L. S.]
Signed sealed published and declared by the above named
Susannah Shaw to be her last Will and Testament in
prescuts of us who have Hereunto subscribed our names
as witnesses in prescuts of the Testatrix.
Amanda Will
George C. Wilson
Jno R. Wilson
Orange Surrogate Court: In the Matter of proving
the last Will & Testament of Susannah Shaw decd.
State of New York}
Orange County }ss. Amanda Will of the town of
Mamakating in Sullivan County, John R. Wilson
and Henry Pierson of the town of Warwick and
Hamptonburgh in said county of Orange, being by
the Surrogate of the county of Orange duly sworn and
examined depose and say and each for himself and
herself says that he and she was well acquainted with
Susannah Shaw late of the town of Goshen in said
county deceased; And the deponents Amanda Will
and John R. Wilson further say and each for himself
and herself says that he and she was present as a wit-
ness and did see the said Susannah Shaw deceased
subscribe at the end thereof the instrument now produced
and shown to the deponents purporting to be the last Will and
Testament of the said Susannah Shaw deceased, bearing
date the second day of June in the year one thousand eight
hundred and forty. That such subscription was made
by the said Testatrix in the presence of these deponents &
Amanda Will, John R. Wilson and George C.
Wilson subscribing witnesses to said Will; That the
said Testatrix at the same time declared the instrument so
subscribed by her to be her last Will and Testament
whereupon these deponents Amanda Will & John R.
Wilson signed their names at the end of the Will at the
request of the said Testatrix: And that the said Testa-
trix at the time of executing and publishing the said last
Will and Testament was of full age, sound mind and
memory and not under any restraint. And the said
John R. Wilson for himself further says that he is
well acquainted with George C. Wilson who signed
said Will as a witness with this deponent, that the
said George C. Wilson now resides in the state of Conn-
eclicut and has resided there since May last: And the
said Henry Pierson for himself says that he received
said Will in the life time of the said deceased for safe keeping
that he kept said Will until after the death of the said
Testatrix when he delivered said Will to the Surrogate of
Orange County for probate. That the Will now produced
is the same left by this deponent for probate and remains
without alteration.
Examined and sworn }
before me this 7th day }
of July 1846 }
Charles Borland }
Surrogate }
Amanda Will
Jno R. Wilson
Henry Pierson
Orange County }
Surrogate Office }ss: I Hereby certify the preceding
to be a true copy of the last Will and Testament of
Susannah Shaw deceased, of the Letters Testam-
entary thereon, and of the Examinations had in relation
thereto.
Charles Borland
Surrogate.
[The following is written vertically on the outside cover portion of the folded document at the bottom of the page:]
Orange Surrogate Court
In the Matter of proving
the last Will and Testa-
ment
of
Susannah Shaw decd.
Probate
Recorded
