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Joyce, a copy of this will was filed in Chemung County nearly 60 years after the decease of Andrew. I can only supposed there was some sort of dispute regarding the land he was to inherit from his mother. I've not been in Elmira long enough at one time to check court records.
THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF
ANDREW S. BALDWIN
Know all men by these presents that I Andrew S. Baldwin of the town of Mundy in the county of Genesee and State of Michigan considering the uncertainty of this life and being of sound mind and memory to make declare and publish this my last will and testament.
First. I give and bequeath unto my beloved brother John S. Baldwin sixty acres of land on the east part of the Northeast quarter of Section thirty three Town six North of Rand Six East and one half of the barn & on half of the barnyard on said described piece or parcel of land. Provided that my said brother John S. Baldwin shall pay to my beloved sister Hellen M. Baldwin the following described sums of money that is to say. Four Hundred Dollars in five years after my decease and the further sum of One Hundred and fifty Dollars in July 1865.
Second. I give and bequeath to my beloved brother Henry C. Baldwin twenty acres of land on the West part of the East half of the Northeast quarter of Section thirty-three Town Six North of Range Six East and twenty acres of land off from the East part of the West half of the Northeast quarter of section thirty three Town Six North of Range Six East not willed to my brother John S. Baldwin and I do further will to my brother Henry C. Baldwin the one half of the Barn & one half of the barnyard and the dwelling house now situated on the part that I have herein willed to my brother John S. Baldwin and the privilege of the land in from of said dwelling house and the cellar built at the West end of said dwelling house so long as siad dwelling house and cellar shall stand.
Provided that my brother Henry C. Baldwin shall pay the following sums of money that is to say the sum of One hundred dollars in the month of July A.D. 1865 to my sister Hellen M. Baldwin and the further sum of forty dollars to John Beckwith in the month of August A.D. 1863: and I do further will and bequeath to my brother Henry C. Baldwin one sow and four pigs and one cutter or one horse sleigh.
Third. And I give and bequeath to my beloved sister Abby Ann Beckwith four hundred dollars out of real estate in the town of Southport, Chemung County, State of New York which will come to m at the decease of my mother Anna Baldwin and I hereby direct that the sum of four hundred dollars shall be paid to my sister Abby Anna Beckwith when said estate shall come into the possession of the heirs of my mother Anna Baldwin and the remainder of said estate if there should be any after paying to my sister Abby Ann Beckwith four hundred dollars to be equally divided between my two brothers John S. Baldwin and Henry C. Baldwin.
Fourth. I do nominate and appoint my brother Henry C. Baldwin to be the executor and administrator of my last will and testament in the presence of the witnesses named below this 25th day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty three.
Andrew S. Baldwin (L.S.)
Signed sealed declared and published by the said Andrew S. Baldwin as and for his last will and testament in the presence of us who at his request and in his presence and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnesses hereto.
Nathan W. Selden
William H. Selden
State of Michigan)
County of Genessee)
Probate Court for said County
In the matter of the estate of Andrew S. Baldwin
By Samuel B. Wickes, Judge of Probate for said County.
To Henry C. Baldwin of said County GREETING:
Whereas Andrew S. Baldwin lately departed this life testate being at the or immediately previous to his death an inhabitant of the County of Genesee and having while he lived and at the time of his decease estate within said County of Genesee to be administered and
Whereas at a session of said Probate Court holden at Flint in said county on the 3rd day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty three the last will and testament of said deceased a copy whereof is hereto annexed was duly proved approved and allowed and wherein you are appointed executor thereof, whereby the power of committing administration and full disposition of all and singular the goods, chattels, rights, credits and estate whereof the said deceased died possessed in the state of Michigan and also hearing examining and allowing hte account of such administrator doth appertain unto me that you have given a bond in the premises which as been duly approved and filed as required by law in that behalf.
Now, Therefore, Trusting in your care and fidelity I do by these presence commit unto you the said Henry C. Baldwin full power and authority to administer and faithfully dispose of according to law all and singular the good, chattels, rights, credits and estate of said deceased within the State of Michigan which shall at any time come to your possession or to the possession of any other person for you and to ask, gather, levy, recover and receive all the goods, chattels, rights, credits and estate whatsoever of said deceased which to him while he lived and at the time of his death did belong and to pay and discharge al debts, legacies and charges chargeable on the same of such dividends thereon as shall be ordered and decreed by said court, hereby requiring you to make and return to said court within three months a true and perfect inventory of all the goods, chattels, rights, credits and real estate of said deceased which shall come to your possession or knowledge or to the possession of any other person for you and also to render a just and true account of your administration to said court within one year and at any other time when required by said court and to perform all orders and decrees of said court by you to be performed in the premises.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Probate Court at the City of Flint, the 3rd day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty three.
Samuel S. Wickes
Judge of Probate
STATE OF MICHIGAN
County of Genessee
June 3, 1863
In the matter of the proving of the last will and testament of Andrew S. Baldwin, deceased.
Nathaniel W. Selden on being sworn says that he resides in the Town of Mundy Genesee County and he was acquainted with the deceased and he also lived in said town and county and there died. On being shown the writing purporting to be the last Will and I saw deceased sign his name and that he signed it at the same time and in the presence of deceased and at his request and the deceased published it to be his last will and testament and that deceased was of sound and sane mind.
STATE OF MICHIGAN
County of Genessee
Office of the Probate Court)
I, Fred A. Wertman Register of Probate for said County, do hereby certify that I have compared the foregoing copy fo Will and Letters Testamentary and Proof on admission of will In the Matter of the Estate of Andrew S. Baldwin, deceased with the original record thereof, now in said Probate Office, and have found the same to be a correct transcript therefrom, and of the whole of such original record.
In testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my had and affixed the seal of said Probate Court at the City of Flint, this 2nd day of April A.D. 1919.
Fred A. Wertman
Register of Probate Court
State of Michigan
County of Genesee
Office of Probate Court
I, John C. Graves, Presiding Judge of the Probate Court for said County, do hereby certify that Fred A. Wertman, who signed the foregoing Certificate, is Register of the said Probate Court, and that the foregoing exemplification of record is authenticated in due form.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my had and affixed the seal of the said Probate Court at the City of Flint, in said county, this 2nd day of April, A.D. 1919
John C Graves
Judge of Probate
STATE OF MICHIGAN
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
I, Coleman C. Vaughan, Secretary of State of the State of Michigan, and custodian of the Great Seal of the State, hereby certify that the Probate Court of the County of Genesee is a court of record, duly constituted such by the laws of this state; that as such it is required to keep a seal and a record of its proceedings; that is has jurisdiction in the settlement of estates of deceased persons, in the proving of wills, and in the issuing of letters testamentary and of guardianship; that Jon C. Graves is Judge of said Court, and is authorized by the laws of this state to appoint a Register of Probate; that the seal attached to the certificate of exemplification of record of the annexed papers is the genuine seal of said Probate Court; and that the exemplification is in due form and by the proper officers, whose signatures thereto I verily believe to be genuine.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereto affixed my signature and the Great Seal of the State, at Lansing, this 3rd day of April in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred nineteen.
Coleman C. Vaughan
Secretary of State
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