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- New York County Wills, Volume 42, Years 1796 - 1798, pp. 377-379
In the name of God, Amen. I, Samuel Brailsford, now living at number seven Murray Street in the City of New York, Merchant, do make and publish this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following that is to say: First, it is my will that my Funeral expenses and all my just debts be fully paid and discharged. Secondly, I give and bequeath unto my much loved natural daughter, Frances, the wife of James Plant, the leasehold houses and lot with the appurtenances thereunto belonging where I now reside, and likewise all my real and personal estate in the United States of America which I may be entitled to at the time of my death. I also give and bequeath unto my said daughter, Frances, the reversion of a copyhold estate lying at or near Mansfield Woodhouse in the County of Nottingham in England which was surrendered to me by my Father and Mother in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two in the copyhold court at Mansfield at their death. And I do hereby appoint the said James Plant Executor and my said daughter, Frances, Executrix of this, my last Will and Testament, hereby revoking all former wills by me at any time heretofore made in witness. Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty-eighth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight.
Saml Brailsford L.B.
Signed, sealed, published, and declared by the testator as and for his last Will and Testament, and the presence of us, who, at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other, have subscribed our names as witnesses thereto: William Chevers, James Byrne, Thomas Waring.
City and County of New York. Be it remembered that on the twenty-seventh day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, personally came and appeared before David Gelston, surrogate of said county. William Chevers, James Byrne, and Thomas Wearing all of the said City and being duly sworn on their oaths, declared that they saw Samuel Brailsford sign and seal and instrument in writing purporting to be the Will of the said Samuel Brailsford bearing date the twenty eighth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight (the preceding whereof is a true copy) and heard him publish and declare the same as and for his last Will and Testament, that at the time thereof he, the said Samuel Brailsford, was of sound disposing mind and the memory, to the best of the knowledge and belief of them, the deponents, and that their names subscribed as witnesses to the said will are of their own proper hands writing which they respectively subscribed as witnesses thereto in the Testator's presence. David Gelston
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 the City and County of New York, on the day of the date hereof, before David Gelston, Esq., surrogate of our said County, the Last Will and Testament of Samuel Brailsford, deceased (a copy whereof is hereunto annexed) was proved, and is now approved and allowed by us, and the said deceased having whilst he lived and at the time of his death, goods, chattels, or credits, within this State by means whereof the proving and registering of 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 us, the administration of all and singular, the goods, chattels, and credits of the said deceased, and any way concerning his Will is granted unto James Plant, the Executor in the said Will named, he 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 tender 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 David Gelston, Esq., Surrogate of the said County at the City of New York the twenty seventh day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight and of our Independence, the twenty third. David Gelston
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