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In the Name of God Amen I Goold Hoyt of the City of New York make this my last will and Testament as follows[.]  First I give and bequeath absolutely to my wife Sabina whom I tenderly love all my house hold goods furniture and utensils[,] Plate printed books engravings and pictures ad all my wines liquors and other articles for family use and also all my horses and carriages has my horsefeed and other articles pertaining to the stable[.] Item  I give and bequeath to my said wife an annuity of four thousand dollars a year during her life a fourth part thereof to be paid every quarter of a year the first quarterly payment thereof to be made to her at the expiration of three months after my decease.  Item I give and devise to my said wife for and during her life the house and lot of land now occupied by me in the City of New York fronting on Park place and excluding through to Murray shut[?] with the stables therein them the foregoing bequests and devise to my wife are to be in lieu of dower and of all other claims which she may have to any part of my estate real or personal.  Item I appoint my said wife Guardian of such of my children as may be under lawful age at the time of my decease during their respective minorities and I direct my executors to pay for the maintenance and education of each of them while under lawful age and the expense of doing so is to be a charge against my residuary estate Item.  If my aunt Nancy Raymond wife

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of George Raymond should survive me I direct my Executors to pay to her an annuity of three hundred dollars a year during her life after her death [.] I give to each of her two daughters Nancy and Harriett who now reside with her the sum of five hundred dollars-Item I give and devise to my Executors my house at Norwalk in the State of Connecticut now occupied by my nephew Edwin Hoyt with the lands and outhouses attached thereto in trust to suffer the said Edwin Hoyt and his wife and the survivor of them to reside in and occupy the same during their joint lives and the life of such survivor and if they or the survivor of them shall remove from the said House then I direct my Executors to pay to them or the survivor of them the interest of two thousand dollars so long as either of them shall lie and after the death of the survivor of them I give the sum of two thousand dollars to such of their children as shall be then living to be equally divided between them-and after the death of such survivor or in case of such removal then upon such removal I authorize and direct my Executors to sell and convey in fee the said house and land and the proceeds are to be considered and disposed of as part of my residuary personal estate[.] Item I give and release to my nephew Monsen Hoyt brother of the said Edwin his two notes each for five hundred dollars which I hold against

 
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him and whatever money may be due therein at my decease. Item I give and bequeath to my niece Harriet Hoyt, daughter of my deceased brother Eben D Hoyt the sum of one thousand dollars to be paid in two years after my decease[.] Item. I give and bequeath to my nephew William Hoyt son of my said deceased brother Eben D Hoyt the sum of five hundred dollars to be paid in two years after my decease[.] Item I give and bequeath to the Rector Wardens and vestry of the Protestant Episcopal church at Norwalk in the State of Connecticut whereof the Reverend Mr. Mead is now Rector by whatsoever name the said church or the Society worshipping therein is incorporated or called the sum of five thousand dollars to be by them put at interest and the income or interest thereof applied as follows.  That is to say two hundred dollars thereof annually to the Rector of the said church for the time being in addition to his salary and over and above the salary for which a fund is now provided and the residue is to be distributed as they may think best for the relief of the poor of said society. Item I direct my Executors to pay the sum of five thousand dollars to the treasurer for the time being of the Protestant Episcopal City missionary Society for the benefit of that institution and his receipt shall be a sufficient voucher and discharge for that sum to

 
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my Executors[.] Item I direct that all the residue of my estate seal and personal shall be divided onto five shares as hereinafter divided[.] Item I give devise and bequeath one share or fifth part of my said residuary seal and personal estate to my son Henry S. Hoyt his heirs executors and administrators[.] Item I give devise and bequeath one other share in fifth part of my said residuary real and personal estate to my son Goold Hoyt his heirs executors and administrators[.] Item I give devise and bequeath one other share of fifth part of my said residuary real and personal estate to my son Sydig M Hoyt his heirs executors and administrators[.] Item I give devise and bequeath one other share or fifth part of my said residuary real and personal estate to my executor in trust to receive the rents issues and profits thereof and apply the same to the separate use of my daughter Sabrina wife of William Redmond during her life free from the control debts and engagements of her present or any future husbands.  Item I give devise and bequeath one other share or fifth part of my said residuary real and personal estate to my executors in trust to receive the rents issues and profits thereof and apply the same to the separate use of my daughter Emily E Hoyt during her life free from the control debts and engagements of any

 
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husband she may marry. Item as to each of the last mentioned two shares or fifth parts after the death of the daughter during whose life it is devised in trust as aforesaid I give devise and bequeath the same as follows that is to say. I give the same in fee after the death of such daughter of mine to such one or more of her children and descendants and in such shares of proportions as such daughter of mine by her last will and testament or instrument in the nature thereof (which each of my daughters whether married or unmarried is hereby authorized to make ) shall devise direct or appoint and for want of such direction and appointment and so far as the same shall not extend.  I give the same in fee after the death of such daughter of min to his  child or children then living and to the child or children then living of every child of hers who shall then be dead as tenants in common the child or children of a deceased child of such daughter of mine to take the same share which his her or their parent if living would be entitled to and if such daughter of mine shall leave no child or descendant his surviving then I give the same share in fee after his death to her heirs at law [.] Item I authorize the trustees to whom any one of the aid shares of my residuary estate is bequeathed and devised in trust as aforesaid out of the rents profits and income thereof to keep the real estate included in the said[.] I have in good

 
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repair and to pay all taxes and assessments therein and to insure buildings against damage by fire and to rebuild such as may be destroyed and to make leases for terms not excluding the number of years permitted by law and to take effect during the continuance of the trust and for such rents and on such terms as they shall think advisable and also to sell and convey in fee the Real estate included in such share and to invest the money arising form such sale in other Real estate in the State of New York to be held by them on the same trusts and to go and be disposed of in like manner as the property sold would have gone and been disposed of if it had not been sold.  I also authorize such trustees to invest the personal estate included in such share and the proceeds thereof in Bonds secured by Mortgages on real estate in the state of New York or in such stocks and they shall think best or in real estate producing an income in the state of New York and also to sell and convey the real estate so purchased and to change from time to time the investments and securities for the said money [.] Item it is my advice to my children that after payment of all charges debts and legacies the income of my estate be divided among all the persons entitled thereto but that a final settlement and partition of the estate be made on or before the expiration of ten years from my decease and I direct that in making

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any settlement or partition the sums that have been or may be advanced by me for any one of my children shall be taken as part of my personal estate and as part of the share of the child from whom they shall have been advanced but no interest shall be charged on them except from the time of my decease and in order that the amount of such advances may be definitely ascertained it is my intention to add a codicil hereto stating the same and to allow if necessary from time to time and nothing is to be charged for any advances which is not specified in the said Codicil but should I not leave such Codicil then such advances are to be ascertained from my Book of accounts which are to be deemed evidence thereof Item Whenever my residuary estate shall be divided into five shares as aforesaid each of the said shares shall be held in severalty and as to such of the said shares as are divided and bequeathed in trust as aforesaid.  I direct that the accounts inspecting then be kept separate[.] Item I authorized my executors to make partition of any real estate which at the time of my death I shall be seized[?] of or entitled to as tenant in common with any other person or persons and to execute proper deeds and conveyances to carry such partition onto effect and to pay or receive money for equality

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of partition[.] Item I authorize my executors at any time before partition thereof shall have been made as before directed to sell change or invest any part of my personal estate and also to sell all or any part of the real estate whereof I may die seized[?] except that which is situate in the City of New York at public auction or at private sale for cash and partly on credit and on such terms as they may think expedient and to execute conveyances in fee to the purchasers and also to execute conveyances for lands contracted to be sold by me or by my authority and the money and proceeds arising from such sales shall go and be disposed of in the same manner as the real estate sold would have gone and been disposed of if no such sale had been made Item. I authorize my Executors to submit to arbitration or ampirage[?] any differences which may arise between them as executors and any other person or persons and to perform the awards which may be made therein and also to compromise and compound all claims and demands which may be made against my estate and all debts dues and damages which are or shall become due and payable to my estate or to them as executors and to accept less than the whole for the whole and property or securities in lieu of money and I give to the Trustees of each of the said shares

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devised in Trust as aforesaid the like powers in relation to such share. Item. all the powers authorities estates and trusts hereby given to my Executors I do hereby give to such one or more of them as take on himself or themselves the executor of this will and to the survivors and last survivor of them [.] Item I direct that no one of my Executors or trustees shall be accountable for any loss unless it shall happen through his willful neglect or default and that one shall not be accountable for any other or others of them but each for his own acts deeds receipts neglects and defaults only [.] Item I appoint sons Henry S Hoyt Goold Hoyt and Lydig Minson Hoyt and my son in law William Redmond Executors of this my will.  item my son Goold Hoyt has now the charge of keeping my Books by double Entry and I wish him to continue to keep them in like manner and also to attend to the collection of rents and monies and all the other business of the estate under the advice ad directions of the other executors until the Estate shall be divided and settled and I direct that for so doing he be allowed the sum of two thousand dollars a year but such allowance shall cease at the farthest on the expiration of ten years after my decease[.] Lastly I revoke all other wills and Testaments by me heretofore made and declare this to be my last will and testament[.] In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal 

 
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this nineteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty one[.] G Hoyt [Seal] Subscribed sealed published and declared by the said Goold Hoyt as and for his last will and Testament in presence of us who at his request in his presence and that of each other have subscribed our names as witnesses thereto been entrusted in the last page Lewis M Rutherford attorney at law N [north?] 81 Nassau Street City of New York John R Tracy Sta. at law No 18 Beach St New York Manuel T Bolmer No381 Broadway New York.
      I Goold Hoyt of the City of New York make this codicil to my last will and Testament.  Having by my aid will directed that in making partition of my residuary estate the sums advanced by me for any of my children shall be taken as part of my estate and of the share of such child now I hereby declare and direct that the sums so advanced shall be taken to be as follows [vis..?] To my son Henry I Hoyt the sum of twenty thousand dollars to my son Goold Hoyt the sum of Ten thousand dollars to my daughter Sabina Redmond the sum of twenty thousand dollars[.] In witness whereof I have hereunto sit  my hand and seal this nineteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty one G Hoyt [seal] Subscribed sealed and declared as

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