WILL: Edward Mc Kinstry Teall; Albany, Albany co., NY surname: Teall, Perry, Dwight submitted by Madelyn Gould (unixcorn at bellsouth.net) ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ny/nyfiles.htm Submitted Date: February 9, 2006 This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/nyfiles/ File size: 4.7 Kb ************************************************ Source: sampubco.com Albany County, NY Will Book Vol. 13 Page 517 Written: April 3, 1849 Recorded: October 13, 1849 The Last Will and Testament of Edward M. Teall. Proved and recorded October 13, 1849 as a will relating to both real and personal estate. I Edward M. Teall, of Albany make this my last will and testament as follows. First, I direct all my just debts and funeral expenses be paid, Second I give all the rest and residue of my property to my beloved wife Eliza I hereby appoint Otis Allen of Albany executor of this my last will and testament with full power to execute all contracts I may leave unexecuted, both as to real and personal property, to collect compromise and compound debts, to sell and convey real estate wheresoever situated and do all acts in relation to my property. In Testimony whereof, I publish and declare the above as my last will and have hereto set my hand and seal this third day of April AD 1849. Edw. M. Teall Signed, sealed, published and declared by the above named Edward M. Teall to be his Last will and testament in presence of us whose names are hereto subscribed and who have at his request and in his presence and in the presence of each other subscribed our names this third day of April AD. 1849. John S. Perry of Albany Henry W. Dwight Sara E. Perry of Burlington, Vt. County of Albany John S. Perry and Henry W. Dwight of the city of Albany in the said county being first duly sworn in open court doth depose and say and each for himself saith that he is a subscribing witness to the instrument now shown to him purporting to be the Last will and testament of Edward M. Teall and which bears the date on the 3rd day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty nine, and this deponent further saith that the said Edward M Teall the said time estates did at the said time of subscribing his name as aforesaid at the end of the said will declare the said instrument so subscribed and now exhibited to be his Last will and testament and this deponent did thereupon subscribe his name at the end of said will as an attesting witness thereto and at the request of the said testator and this deponent further saith that at the said time when the said testator subscribed his name to the said last will as aforesaid and at the time of the deponents subscribing his name as an attesting witness thereto as aforesaid the said Edward M Teall was of sound mind and memory, of full age to execute a will and was not under any restraint to the knowledge, information or belief of this deponent, and further this deponent saith not. Sworn and duly subscribed this 13th day of October A. D. 1849 before me Lew. Benedict Jr. Surrogate John S. Perry Henry W. Dwight County Of Albany Surrogate Court I Lewis Bendict Jr. surrogate of the county of Albany do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true record and copy of the Last will and testament of Edward M Teall late of the city of Albany deceased propounded for probate and proved before me as a will relating to both real and personal estate with the proofs and examinations taken in relation thereto. Lew. Benedict Jr. Additional Comments: Edward McKinstry Teall was the youngest child of Revolutionary War veteran Oliver Teall and his wife Susan Paine. He was born January 07, 1808 in Hillsdale, New York and married Eliza Sherrill Perry on June 24, 1834 in Stockbridge, Mass. She was the daughter of Frederick Perry and Zerujah Sherrill and was born on June 05, 1812 in Lenox, Mass. Edward McKinstry Teall died April 10, 1849 (7 days after writing this will). He left his wife, Eliza Sherrill Perry Teall all of his estate. His children at the time were: Susan Paine Teall born April 27, 1835 Edward McKinstry Teall Jr. born July 27, 1839 Henry Dwight Teall born March 26, 1849 Five other children died in childhood. Eliza remarried a man named <unknown> Morgan and died December 04, 1884. She is buried in Stockbridge Cemetery, Old Section.