Newspaper Tidbit: Legal Notice: Brill

Albany Evening Journal (Albany, NY)
21 April 1856

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK by the grace of God free and independent, to Solomon Brill and Hannah Brill, of Independence Hill, Prince William county, state of Virginia; and to Arminia Green, of Great Bend, Susquehanna county, state of Pennsylvania, greeting:

Whereas, Mary Rogers, late of the town of Beckham in the county of Dutchess, deceased, as is alleged, has lately died, leaving a last will and testament relating to real and personal estate, and Dents Wortman and Robert M. Van Kleeck, executors therein named, have applied to the surrogate of said county for the proof thereof; you are hereby cited to appear at a surrogate's court to be held before our surrogate, in said county, at his office in the city of Poughkeepsie, on the 2d day of June next, at 10 o'clock in the aforenoon of that day, then there to attend to the probate of the last will and testament of said deceased.

In testimony whereof, we have caused the seal of office of our said surrogate to be hereunto affixed,  Witness, Edgar Thorn, esquire, surrogate of our said county [L.S.] of Dutchess, at Poughkeepsie, this 14th day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.  ap15 6w

EDGAR THORN, Surrogate

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The Will of Mary Rogers "of the town of Fishkill" was probated in Dutchess county, New York on 2 June 1856.  

The Will does not give her relationship to the Brill family but bequeaths one fourth of one fifth of "all the rest, residue, and reminder" of her estate to "... Garrit Brill, Solomon Brill, Arminia Green, and Hannah Brill."