Pell

Abstracts of Wills on File in the City of New York Surrogate’s Office 1660-1680

Sample Last Will and Testament

Abstracts of wills on file in the surrogate’s office city of New York 1660-1680. From May 1787 to the present, county surrogate’s courts have recorded probates. However, the court of probates and court of chancery handled estates of deceased persons who died in one county but who owned property in another. An 1823 law mandated that all probates come under the jurisdiction of the county surrogate’s courts. Each surrogate’s court has a comprehensive index to all probate records, including the unrecorded probate packets. Interestingly enough, there are wills existing and on record at the Surrogate’s Office in New York City for the time-span of 1660-1680. Genealogical extracts of these wills have been provided below.

Pell, Signe A. Planting – Obituary

Pendleton East Oregonian, June 30, 1976 Funeral for Signe A. Pell, 415 NW 7th, Pendleton, will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at Folsom-Bishop Funeral Chapel. Mrs. Pell, 79 died Monday [June 28, 1976] at Delamarter Care Center. She was born near Adams, August 3, 1896, and lived in the Pendleton area all her life. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gustav Planting, pioneers of the Adams area. They retired in 1952 and moved to Pendleton. She was a life-long member of the Apostolic Lutheran Church. Survivors are the widower; sister, Elma Enbysk, Granum, Alberta, Canada; and several nieces … Read more

Will of Thomas Pell, – 1669

THOMAS PELL, Westchester. “It hath pleased ye all wise God many years to exercise me with much weakness of body, and having lately taken to Himself my beloved wife Lucy,” “I give my body to a comely burial, that it may be decently buried in such a comely manner, that God may not be dishonored.” Leaves all real estate to “my nephew John Pell, living in ould England, the only son of my only brother John Pell, Doctor of Divinity, he had by his first wife.” Legacies to Abigail, wife of Daniel Burr, Nathaniel French, Elizabeth White, Mary White, and … Read more

The Hazard family of Rhode Island 1635-1894

The Hazard family of Rhode Island 1635-1894

The Hazard family of Rhode Island 1635-1894 – Being a genealogy and history of the descendants of Thomas Hazard, with sketches of the worthies of this family, and anecdotes illustrative of their traits and also of the times in which they lived.