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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT

PHILIP SYNDECKER.

Dated Aug. 15, 1872.
Proved before the sur: rogate of New York
County, Sept. 16, 1872.
Recorded in Liber 436

t of Wills, p. 76. TTTTTTii

EXTRACT : " I, Philip Syndecker, being of sound disposing mind and memory, but being possessed of an undivided interest in a certain mule of some asperity of temper, and being mindful of the uncertainties of this life, do make, publish and declare this my Last Will and Testament.

RICHARD JONES TO HENRIETTA SYNDECKER.

fc Quit-Claim Deed, t Dated Oct. 23, 1873. P Recorded Oct. 29, 1873. F Liber 868 of Cons., p. 27. f Consideration — Desire to Get Rid of the Mule.

Conveys that portion of the mule under examination colored black on the following diagram : —

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"I give and bequeath to my beloved wife, Henrietta, my undivided one-third interest in a certain mule, secured by mortgage recorded in the office of the Register of the City and County of New York in Liber 94 1 of Mortgages, page 9 : this bequest being intended as and to be accepted by my said wife in lieu of all dower or other interest in or claim upon my real and personal estate." Richard Jones subsequently made the following conveyance : —

By the conveyance last above recited, Henrietta Syndecker became seized of the whole of the mule in question. A break in the chain of title follows, the last deed of record being the following conveyance of Henrietta Syndecker by the mule in question : —

Letram Werd.