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FAIRBANKS,
JOSHUA
Transcribed by Sandra
Trapp, 2008
Chautauqua County, Letter
of Administration, Book 4, Page 582
Surnames:
Fairbank, Fairbanks, Cody, Russell, Sherman,
Wade, Hoag, Luce, Parker
Estate of Joshua
Fairbank, deceased
Order Granting
Administration dated January 16, 1883
At a Surrogate's Court,
held at the Village of Mayville in and for the County of Chautauqua
before Hon.
Daniel Sherman, Surrogate of said county.
On the day and at the
place aforesaid Norton F. Marsh of the town of Ellington in said county
appeared,
and presented a petition that Letters of Administration of the goods,
chattels
and credits of Joshua Fairbank late of the town of Ellington in said
County,
deceased, be granted to the Arthur C. Wade.
Whereupon, it was proved,
to the satisfaction of the said SURROGATE, that the said deceased, at
the time
of his death, was a resident of Ellington in the county of Chautauqua,
That he
died at the town of Ellington in the county of Chautauqua on the First
day of
January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty
two and
that he left no LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT, according to the knowledge and
belief
of the said petitioner, and that the said petitioner has no doubt that
the said
deceased died intestate, and that the probable value of the personal
estate of
the said deceased is about Five Hundred Dollars, and that the said
petitioner
is a creditor of the said deceased, and that he left the following
kindred
entitled to his estate, to wit:
Lucy A. Cody, Mandania E.
Fairbank Conneautville, Pa, Amon H. Fairbank Janesville Wis. Elmira
Russell,
Ross Mills, Juliana E. Fairbanks Ellington, S. D. Fairbank Falconer
(Children)
Harvey S. Fairbank and Mary E. Fairbank (Grand children) Jamestown
Chaut Co. N.
Y. all of full age.
That a citation was
heretofor issued directed to all of said persons requiring them to
appear and
show cause why Arthur C. Wade should not be appointed such
administrator, and
all of said parties having consented to such appointment.
Whereupon, it is ordered
that LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION of the goods, chattels and credits of
the said
deceased be granted to Arthur C. Wade on his entering into a bond to
the people
of the State of New York, with at least two sufficient sureties, to be
approved
by the said SURROGATE to the penal sum of One Thousand Dollars,
conditioned for
the faithful execution of the trust reposed in him as such
administrator and
obeying all orders of the SURROGATE of said county, and taking and
subscribing
the oath of office prescribed in law.
Whereupon, on the Sixteenth
day of January 1883, the said Arthur C. Wade having produced the bond
required,
duly executed and approved, and having taken and subscribed the oath of
office
prescribed by law, which bond and oath are duly filed by the SURROGATE,
It is
further ordered that Letters of Administration be granted to the said
Arthur C.
Wade of the goods, chattels and credits of the said DECEASED.
It is further ordered, on
application of the said administrator that Warren Hoag of Ellington and
Timothy
J. Luce of Ellington two disinterested persons of said county of
Chautauqua be
and are hereby appointed appraisers of the personal estate of the said
deceased.
IN TESTIMONEY WHERE OF, I, Daniel Sherman, SURROGATE of
the said county
of Chautauqua, have hereunto set my hand and seal of
office this
Sixteenth day of
January 1883
Will
D. Parker, SURROGATE
Clerk
of the Surrogate Court
Recorded and Examined
this Sixteenth day of January 1883
Will
D. Parker, SURROGATE
Clerk
of the Surrogate Court
FAIRBANK,
JULANA
Transcribed by Sandra
Trapp, 2008
Chautauqua County, New
York, Will Book 16, Page 121
Surnames: Fairbanks,
Fairbank, Parsons, Dexter,
Parker, Crosby, McKinney, Penfield, Alexander, Cody, Riker, Lakin,
Russell,
Frazer, Daniels
In the name of God,
Amen: I Julana E. Fairbanks being sixty
nine years old of the town of Cherry Creek in the County of Chautauqua
and
State of New York, being of sound mind and memory, do make, publish and
declare
this my last Will and Testament, in manner following, that is to say:
First, I direct that all
my just debts and funeral expenses be paid.
Second: I
give and bequeath to my husband, James F.
Fairbanks, the use of all the property both real and personal of which
I may
die possessed during his natural life.
Third: I
give, bequeath and devise all of my
property of every kind and nature to my brother, Stilman D. Fairbank,
of
Stockton, N. Y. at the death of my said husband aforesaid to the said
Stilman
Fairbank to him and his heirs forever.
Lastly, I hereby appoint
James F. Fairbanks and Stilman D. Fairbank of Stockton, N. Y. executors
of this
my last Will and Testament, hereby revoking all former wills by me made.
In Witness Whereof, I
have hereunto subscribed my name the 26th day of December in the pear
of our
Lord one thousand nine hundred.
Julana
E. Fairbanks, L.S.
We, whose names are
hereto subscribed, do Certify that Julana E. Fairbanks, the testator,
subscribed her name to this instrument in our presence and in the
presence of
each of us, and at the same time, in our presence and hearing, declared
the
same to be her last Will and Testament, and requested us, and each of
us, to
give our names hereto as witnesses in the execution thereof, which we
hereby do
in the presence of the testator, and of each other, on the day of the
date of
the said will and write opposite our names and our respective places of
residence.
Reuben W. Parsons
residing at Cherry Creek, Chautauqua County, N. Y.
Mrs. Abigail Dexter
residing at Cherry Creek, Chautauqua County, N. Y.
Recorded the foregoing
last Will and Testament of Julana E. Fairbanks, deceased, and compared
the same
with the original Will this 16th day of March 1908.
Will D. Parker, Clerk of
the Surrogate’s court
In the case of proving
the last Will and Testament of Julana E. Fairbank, deceased.
At a Surrogate’s Court,
held at Mayville, in and for the County of Chautauqua, N. Y. on the 4th
day of
December 1907 before Hon. Harley N. Crosby, Surrogate of said County.
On the day and year, and
at the place aforesaid Stilman D. Fairbank, one of the executors named
in the
instrument purporting to be the last Will and Testament of Julana E.
Fairbanks,
late of the Village of Cherry Creek in said County appeared and offered
the
said instrument for probate as the last Will of said deceased and made
satisfactory proof before the said Surrogate, that the said deceased
died on
the ______ day of March 1906. That at
the time of her death she was an inhabitant and resident of Chautuauqua
County,
N. Y.
That she died leaving
said instrument purporting to be a last Will and Testament, which is
now
exhibited in the said Surrogate’s Court, which bears date of the 26th
day of
December 1900, and which relates to Real and Personal Estate.
That the following named
persons are all the heirs and next of kin of the said deceased, with
their
places of residence and ages, as nearly as can be ascertained, viz.
Said deceased left her
husband, James Fairbank (husband) Cherry Creek, N. Y., Emma McKinney,
Conneaut,
Ohio, Myra Penfield, Julana Alexander, Meadville, Pa. Frank Cody,
Conneautville, Pa, Ophelia Riker, Myra Lakin, Henrietta Fairbank,
Jamestown, N.
Y., Matthew Russell, Mayville, N. Y. Henry Fairbank, Philetus Fairbank
and Mary
Frazer, Residence unknown, Mabel Daniels, Meadville, Pa., Harvey C.
Fairbank,
Schenectady, N. Y., and Emily N. Fairbank, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
FAIRBANK, MANDANA
Transcribed by Sandra
Trapp, 2008
Chautauqua
County Will Book 7, Page 611
Surnames:
Fairbank,
Aldrich, Sherman
In the name of
God, Amen;
I Mandana
E. Fairbank of the Town of Ellicott County of Chautauqua State of New
York
being of sound mind and memory therefore make ordain publish and
declare this
to be my last Will and Testament, that is to say:
After all
my lawful debts are paid and discharged I give and bequeath to my
beloved
brother Stilman Duane Fairbank of the Town of Ellicott Chautauqua
County State
of New York all of my real estate being the undivided one half of a
certain
piece of land in the Town of Ellington New York conveyed to me and my
sister
Julana E.
Fairbank by my father Joshua Fairbank late of the
Town of Ellington deceased to have and to hold during his natural life
and at
his death the avails of said land to be divided equally share and share
alike
between the children of my said brother Stilman Duane Fairbank Viz:
Forst W.
Fairbank and Clarence D. Fairbank.
Likewise, I make
constitute and appoint Stilman Duane
Fairbank my brother as aforesaid to be executor of this my last Will
and
Testament hereby revoking all former Wills by me made.
In Witness
Whereof I have hereunto subscribe my name and affixed my seal the
Twelfth day
of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty
two.
Mandana E. Fairbank, L.S.
The above
written instrument was subscribed by the said Mandana E. Fairbank in
our
presence, and acknowledged by her to each of us; and she at the same
time
declared the above instrument, so subscribed to be her last Will and
Testament
and we at her request have signed our names as witnesses hereto in her
presence
and in the presence of each other and written opposite our names our
respective
places of residence.
George H.
Aldrich, Residence Kennedy Chautauqua Co., N.Y.
I ?cai Aldrich
Residence Kennedy
Chautauqua Co., N.Y.
Recorded the
foregoing last Will and Testament of Mandana E.
Fairbank deceased and compared the same with the original Will this 9th
day of July 1883.
Daniel Sherman Surrogate