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In the Name of God Amen.
I Shubael Willson of West Stockbridge in the County of Berkshire in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do make this my last Will and Testament, hereby repealing all former Wills by me in any manner made of executed.
After my just debts and funeral charges are paid I give and bequeath as follows,
1st To my well beloved wife Betsy, I give and devise the use and improvement of the while of my estate both real & personal, 'Till my children shall all arrive to lawful age, upon condition she remain my wife till that time; but if she should enter into a matrimonial state, before or after [?] time, she is to be entitled to the improvement of only one third part of the whole of my estate.
2nd I give and bequeath to my son Harry [supposed to be Henry?] Fifty Dollars to be paid when he shall be of lawful age.
3rd I give and bequeath to my son Sylvester Fifty Dollars to be paid when he shall be of lawful age.
4th I give and bequeath to my son Syllic one half of a lot of land, the whole lot containing one hundred acres, in the Town of Bloomfield County of Ontario & State of New York. I likewise give him the dwelling house standing on [?] half part, - and upon condition of his paying the [?] bequeathed to all my other children, he shall be entitled to the remaining half of the hundred acres.
5th I give and bequeath to my daughter Betsy Twenty Dollars including what she has already received, as will appear in my book of accounts.
6th I give and bequeath to my other five daughters, viz, Dilly, Sabrina, Samantha, Philanda, and Altha, Twenty Dollars each to be paid when they shall be of lawful age.
And I do constitute and appoint Doctor Reuben Hart of Bloomfield in the State of New York, administrator, and Betsy Willson my wife administratix of this my last Will & Testament.
In witness whereof I have hereunto jot my hand and seal this twenty fourth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and five.
Shubael Wilson
Signed, sealed, delivered, published & pronounced by the Testator as his Last Will & Testament, in the presence of us the subscribors who signed the same in his presence.
Oliver Ayer
Nathaniel Willson
John Easlyn
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DIED, at West Stockbridge, on Tuesday, the 21st ult. of a long and painful illness, which he bore with great patience and christian fortitude, SHUBAEL WILLSON, Esq. aged 42.--He has left a wife and nine children to lament his irreparable loss.--In the death of this gentleman, society has been deprived of a very valuable member.--He was, from principle, attached to a republican government, and of course a warm friend to the administration of his country.--He evinced to the world through his life, the reality and importance of the christian religion, and entered the gloomy vale of the shadow of death with the full assurance of a blessed immortality beyond the grave.
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