Will of Caleb Brown


 
Probate of the Last will and Testament of Caleb Brown Deceased

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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

	Knowing that at Otsego in the County of Otsego on the 
third day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand 
eight hundred and fifteen before Ambrose L Jordon Esquire 
Surrogate of our said County the Last will and testament of 
Caleb Brown deceased (a copy whereof hereunto annexed) as 
proved and is now approved and allowed of by us and the said 
Deceased Having whilst he lived and at the time of of his 
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 good 
chattels and credits and also the auditing allowing and final 
discharging the account thereof doth belong unto us, the 
administration of all and singular the goods chattels and 
credits of the said deceased and concerning this will is 
granted unto Oliver Brown Henry Clark Junior and Levi 
Carpenter Junior Executors in the said will named they having 
first duly sworn will 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 
secure a just and true account thereof when there unto 
required.  Witness Ambrose L. Jordan Esquire Surrogate of the 
said County at Otsego aforesaid the third day of October in 
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifteen 
and of our Independence the fortieth

The Last Will and Testament of Caleb Brown of the Town of 
Plainfield in the County of Otsego and State of New York.  I 
Caleb Brown considering the uncertainty of this mortal life 
and being of sound memory (Blessed be Almighty God for the 
same) Do make and publish 

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this my last will and testament in the manner following that is 
to say I give and bequeath unto Anna my wife one third part 
of all my real estate during her natural life and after her 
decease I give and bequeath her right of dower to thirteen 
acres & half of land bounded as follows (viz) beginning at 
the blacksmiths shop now occupied by Isaiah Robinson thence 
easterly along the highway to Solomon Perry’s land, thence 
westerly on the line of Solomon Perry’s land to the Unadilla 
river, thence on the line between lot number twenty two and 
twenty from the East to the West Branch of the Unadilla River 
thence down said west Brach to the Intersection of the East 
and West Branches of said River.  Thence up the East Branch 
of said River opposite to the North East Corner of Lands 
owned by the said Isaiah Robinson thence to the place of 
beginning to my two sons Lodowick and Samuel the lands 
aforesaid Including the dwelling house in which I now reside 
together with the grist mill oil mill saw mill &

I give and bequeath unto my two sons Lodwich and Samuel all 
the land heretofore described of which they are to have one 
third part after the decease of my widow I order the residue 
sum? Of my real Estate to be sold for the purpose of paying 
my Just credits after the appropriation of my personal Estate 
for that purpose I having heretofore given to my son Caleb 
Brown Junior a farm & therefore no provision is made for him 
in this my last will and testament.  I give and bequeath unto 
my Daughter Deborah Spicer the wife of Edward Spicer Esquire 
a certain note executed by the said Edward Spicer to me on 
the first day of August 181? For the sum of four 

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hundred and four dollars payable two years after date I give and 
bequeath unto my Daughter Anna Crumb the wife of John W [or 
N] Crumb a certain Bond Executed by the said John W [or N] 
Crumb to me on the Sixth day of January A 1804 concentower? 
For the persmine? Of four hundred twenty six dollars and 
sixty five cents

I give and bequeath unto my four daughters Dolly Nancy Betsy 
and Polly Each three hundred Dollars to be paid by my two 
sons Lodwick and Samuel and I hereby make the real Estate 
given the said Lodwick and Samuel in this my Last Will and 
testament a bin? For the payment of the Legacies aforesaid 
the Legacies to be paid as follows viz. To Dolly being the 
wife of Jos. [or Jess] Gardner within six years of after my 
decease which sum? To be for the Sole use and benefit of her 
heirs the residue of the Legacies to be paid to my daughters 
Nancy Betsy and Polly when the arrive to the age of twenty 
six years respectively

I give and bequeath unto the heirs of Nathan W. Brown lots of 
the Town of Plainfield deserid? Eighty acres of Land now 
occupied by the heirs of the deceased.

I give and bequeath unto Anna [or Anne or Amee] Baily the 
wife of Thomas Baily and to her heirs forty acres of land 
situated in the Town of Plainfield aforesaid being land now 
occupied by the above named Thomas Bailey

And I do hereby constitute ordain and appoint Oliver Brown 
and Henry Clark Junior of the Town of Brookfield in the 
county of Madison and Levi Carpenter Junior of the 
Bridgewater in the County of Oneida the only Executors of 
this my last will and Testament

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And I hereby disallow revoke and disannul all and any other 
former Wills Legacies testaments and Executions by me in any 
wise? before named willed and bequeathed ratifying and 
confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament

In Witness whereof I the said Caleb Brown have hereunto set 
my hand and seal this twenty second day of September in the 
year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and fifteen

Signed Sealed Published and acclaimed by the above named 
Caleb Brown to be his last Will and testament in the presence 
of us who have hereunto Subscribed our names as witnesses in 
the presence of the testator

NB the word “Second in the date Substinces?		Caleb 
Brown LS

Ambrose Coats

Erastus Eaton

John Williams

Otsego County Fs.  Be it remembered that on the third day of 
October in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred 
and fifteen personally appeared before me Ambrose L. Jordan 
Esquire Surrogate of the said County of Otsego Ambrose Coats 
one of the subscribing Witnesses to the Will of Caleb Brown 
deceased late of the town of Plainfield in the said County 
being duly sworn declared that he did see the late Caleb 
Brown seal and Execute this written Instrument (of which the 
annexed is a copy) purporting to be the last will and 
testament of the said Caleb Brown having date the twenty 
second day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand 
eight hundred and fifteen and heard him publish and acclaim 
the same as and For his last will and testament that at 
thirteen? Thereof he the said Caleb Brown was of sound 
disposing mind and memory

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To the best of the knowledge and belief of the said Ambrose Coats 
legho? Together with Erastus Eaton and John Williams the 
other witnesses to the said Will Sincerely Subscribed their 
hands and names to the said will as witnesses thereunto in 
the presence of the testator and of each other

Otsego County fs. Be it also remembered there on the third 
day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight 
hundred fifteen Oliver Brown Henry Clark Junior and Levi 
Carpenter Junior Executors named in the Last Will by a 
testament of the said Caleb Brown late of the town of 
Plainfield in said County deceased likewise appeared before 
me the said Surrogate and were duly sworn to the true 
Execution and performance of the said will by their taking 
the oath of an Executor as by law appointed
   						AL Jordan    Surrogate

Recorded this third day of October 1815

Transcribed by Teresa Culver (tbc8@cornell.edu) Surrogate Court 
Records of Otsego County, Vol E.  Electronic copies of 
original obtained from www.sampubco.com.