Transcript:New York, United States. Calendar of Wills

Calendar of Wills

on file and recorded in the offices
of the Clerk of the Court of Appeals,
of the County Clerk at Albany,
and of the Secretary of State,
1626–1836.

Compiled and edited by Berthold Fernow late state archivist of New York

Under the auspices of the Colonial Dames of the State of New York, and published by the Society

Preface.

The manner in which the intentions of deceased persons, expressed in their last wills, are carried out, or rather in which these intentions are legalized, is sui generis in the State of New York, which as a Colony was first governed under Roman-Dutch law, and it seems appropriate that a volume which gives abstracts of wills, made in Colonial days, as well as after the organization of the State, should have a history of the legal proceedings to which last wills were and are subjected as.

Introduction.

Calendar of Wills.

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