Will
                            County or Surrogate Court
                                 Crout, Mahala
                                     1884 
                   Transcribed from SAMPUBCO copy by Lynn Gilbert
                            Schuyler County, New York
                           Will Book Vol. 9, page 271:
 
                  In the Name of God Amen
                  I Mahala Crout of the township of Troy, County of Bradford we
                  the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, widow, being of sound mind
                  memory and understanding, do make my last Will and Testament
                  in manner and form following
                  I direct that my body be decently interred in the cemetery of
                  Beaver Dams in the County of Schuyler State of New York
                  according to the rits and ceremonies of the Protestant Church.
 
                  Item. I give devise and bequeath unto Norman Rennells and
                  Mahala Jane Rennells their heis and assigns forever.  All my
                  property real and personal and mixed of what nature or kind
                  soever and where soever the same shall be at the time of my
                  death.  Share and share alike.
 
                  And I do nominate and appoint said Norman Rennells Executor
                  of this my last Will and Testament.
 
                  In Witness whereof I Mahala Crout the Testatrix have to this
                  my Will Written on one sheet of paper set my hand and seal
                  this twenty first day of November A. D. One thousand Eight
                  hundred and Eighty four.
 
                  Signed by:   Mahala Crout x her mark         {Seal}
                  Allen Knight      }                      
                  Sarah L. Knight}
                  Signed Sealed published and Declared by the above named
                  Mahala Crout as and for her last Will and Testament in the
                  presence of we who have hereunto subscribed our names at her
                  request as witness is thereto in the presence of the said
                  testatrix and of each other."
 
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