William Brown

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Copy of the Will of WILLIAM BROWN
admitted to probate May 25, 1854
I, WILLIAM BROWN of the Town of Seneca, County of Ontario and State of
New York do make publish and declare this my last will and testament
as follows, viz;
FIRST, I direct that the expenses of my last sickness and of my
funeral shall be paid in preference to any devise or bequest herein
contained.
SECOND, I do give and bequest to my wife, JANE BROWN, the sum of
fifteen hundred dollars to be paid to her by my executor herein after
named within one year after my decease with interest. And I do also
give and devise to my said wife fifty-five acres in the Town of
Seneca, Ontario County being the farm on which I now reside being in
the northeast corner of Lot Number Eighty in that part of said town of
Seneca known as Number Nine. And I so declare that the bequest of the
money and devise of the land in this second clause of my will are made
to and are to be received and accepted by my said wife in lieu of
Dower.
THIRD, I give and bequeath to my daughter, ELIZABETH BROWN REYNOLDS,
wife of Isaac Reynolds of the Town of Seneca, Ontario County, as her
own property in addition to two certain bonds and mortgages amounting
to eleven hundred dollars which I have heretofore assigned and given
to her by my executor within one year after my decease with interest.
FOURTH, I do herby direct my executor hereinafter named to cancel
without payment all notes I now or may hereinafter hold against my
daughter, HANNAH MARTIN, wife of Morgan Martin of Niagara County, or
against the said MORGAN MARTIN and I do also direct my said executor
to satisfy and discharge without payment a bond and mortgage for about
six hundred dollars which I hold against the farm in the Town of
Clarence, Erie County, which was formerly owned by said Morgan Martin.
FIFTH, I give and bequeath to my executor hereinafter named the sum of
five hundred dollars upon the following trust, viz; to invest the same
upon bond and mortgage to be taken in his name as a trustee, bearing
interest annually or semi-annually in his direction upon unencumbered
real estate and pay the interest or income of said sum of five hundred
dollars to my said daughter, HANNAH MARTIN, wife of Morgan Martin, for
and during her natural life upon her sole and separate order or
receipt and upon her decease leaving her surviving child or children
or descendants of them, then I direct my said executor to pay the said
principal of five hundred dollars to the children of the said HANNAH
then living and to the descendants of such of then as shall have died,
share and share alike, that is, such descendants to take the share to
which their ancestor would have been entitled if living, but in case
such HANNAH shall die without leaving children or their descendants
then the said executor shall pay such sum of five hundred dollars to
my said two residuary legatees hereinafter named to take the same
manner as they are entitled to take the residue of my estate.
SIXTH, And in the case it shall happen that my said daughter, HANNAH,
shall have lawful issue, than I do give and bequeath to my said
executor in trust the further sum of eight hundred dollars to be
invested in the same manner and to be help upon the same trusts and
the income and the principal to be paid and disposed of in same manner
and upon the happenings of the same contingencies as mentioned and
directed in the last preceding article of the my will.
SEVENTH, I do give and bequeath unto my daughter, JANE FISH, wife of
John Fish of the Town of Seneca, Ontario County as her own property
the two motes I now hold against him, amounting to one thousand
dollars.
EIGHTH, I do give and bequeath to my executor hereinafter named the
sum of seven hundred dollars upon the following trusts, viz; to invest
the same upon bond and mortgage to be taken in has name as trustee
bearing interest annually or semi-annually at his discretion upon
unencumbered real estate and pay the interest or income of said sum of
seven hundred dollars towards the education and support of my
grand-daughter, MARY S. A. SMITH, daughter of NATHANIEL AND MARY S. A.
SMITH until she shall attain the age of twenty-one years, and when she
shall attain that age to pay to her the said sum of seven hundred
dollars or assign to her the securities in which the same shall be
invested. But in case the said MARY S. A. SMITH shall die after my
decease and before attaining the age of twenty-one years, then I give
and bequeath the said sum of seven hundred dollars to my residuary
legatees hereinafter named to be taken in the same manner as they are
to take the residue of my estate.
NINTH, I do give and bequeath to my son, WILLIAM BROWN, who is now
among the Mormons at or near Great Salt Lake in the territory of Utah,
four hundred dollars to be paid to him in one year after my decease
with interest.
TENTH, I do give and devise to my son, JOHN BROWN, of Hartland in the
County of Hartland in the County of Niagara the seventy acres of land
joining his on the east which was conveyed to me by Martin Gage, and I
do also give and bequeath to said JOHN BRWN, one thousand dollars to
be paid him by said executor one year after my decease with interest.
ELEVENTH, I do give and bequeath to my son, FRANKLIN BROWN, of
Royalton in the County of Niagara his bond and mortgage executed to me
about the fourth day of January 1849 for eight hundred and fifty
dollars, and I do herby direct my executor hereinafter named to
satisfy the same.
TWELFTH, I do hereby give, devise and bequeath all the rest and
residue of my estate both real and personal of every kind and
description where-soever situated as follows, viz; one half part
therefore to my son, THOMAS BROWN, of Hartland, Niagara County, his
heirs and assigns forever, and the other half to my son, ROBERT BROWN,
of Erie County, his heirs and assigns forever.
LASTLY, I do herby make, constitute and appoint my son, THOMAS BROWN,
the executor of this, my last will and testament, hereby resolving all
other wills by me heretofore made and declaring this to be my sole and
only last will and testament.
IN WITNESS WHERE OF I have hereunto subscribed my name this TWENTY
FIFTH DAY OF FEBRAUARY IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT
HUNDRED AND FIFTY ONE.
DWilliam Brown (SEAL

Family/Spouse: Jane Straughan. Jane was born in ca 1785; died on 22 Sep 1873 in Seneca, Ontario County, New York; was buried in Little Church Cemetery, Seneca, Ontario County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Living with her mother in Seneca in 1860

Family/Spouse: Isaac Reynolds. Isaac (son of Isaac Reynolds and Mary Haines) was born in ca 1807 in Seneca, Ontario County, New York; died on 23 Jul 1853 in Seneca, Ontario County, New York; was buried in Little Church Cemetery, Seneca, Ontario County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Died:
Smallpox