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Sampubco: LEWIS, POLLY MORRIS NY-39-15-43
State: New York
County: Otsego
Town: Morris
Name: Polly Lewis
Page Nos.: 043, 044, 045
Surrogate Court }
Last Will and Testament }
of }
Polly Lewis, deceased }
Be it remembered that heretofore
to wit on the third day of November in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and sixty seven, Henry Lewis
the Executor named in the Last Will and Testament of Polly
Lewis late of the county of Otsego deceased appeared in

It all started with wanting to look at my mom’s original genealogy database. But PAF 2.31 is only on 5.25 inch disks… and disk 2/2 has a corrupted sector… so it’s a no-go on copying to a 3.5 and then onto my laptop.

Daniel Sackett died in Troy, Rensselaer County, NY in 1845. After ordering images of his probate record from sampubco in the beginning of November (2009), I’m finally finished with the transcription.

Because I’ve worked for an attorney in a legal assistant/paralegal capacity for the past two years, I easily recognized many words, which in years past have been undecipherable:

Names from DARING AND SUFFERING: A HISTORY OF THE GREAT RAILROAD ADVENTURE BY LIEUT. WILLIAM PITTENGER, ONE OF THE ADVENTURERS (see the bibliographic record at Project Gutenberg and download if you wish). This book describes the adventurers’ roles in the Union’s run to destroy the Georgia State Railroad during the Civil War. It is easiest to copy the names here as they are listed in the book:

I was finally able to scan in the Civil War pension records that I bought for Lewis Winnie and his son James Newton Winnie:

Three cheers, or more, to HP and the Pavilion dv4000. Back when I bought the laptop in 2005, I was obsessed with Linux, but not to the point of installing it. Three years later, I have finally gotten rid of Windows as a host system, and am running Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04) on my Pavilion laptop with the GNOME desktop environment. I have not yet missed anything from Windows. Well, since I found VirtualBox that is.