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J0043-85: Records are indexed in the following: 1) Berthold Fernow, Calendar of Wills on File and Recorded in the Offices of the Clerk of the Court of Appeals (New York: 1896; repr. Baltimore: 1967, 1991) (cited as "Vol. I" and "II"); 2) index to testators in front of each volume; 3) William A. D. Eardeley, "Index to Wills of New York State from 1653 to 1815" (typescript, 1941, available at New York Genealogical and Biographical Society library), pp. 72-83.

J0043-92: All but two volumes contain contemporary and/or later indexes to testators. (Some of the contemporary indexes also list executors, who are termed "administrators.")In addition, the records are indexed in the following: 1) series J2043-92 Index to Record of Wills and Probates; 2) Ray C. Sawyer, "Index of New York State Wills, 1662-1850, on File at the Office of the Surrogate for New York County," 2 vols. (typescript, 1931-32); 3) William H. Pelletreau, comp., "Abstracts of Wills on File in the Surrogate's Office, City [i.e. County] of New York, 1665-1800," Collections of The New-York Historical Society, 25-34 (1892-1901), 36 (1903), 40-41 (1907-08) (includes abstracts and indexes of both probate and non-probate documents);

J0043-92(con.):4) marriage licenses are abstracted and indexed by Kenneth Scott in New York Marriages Previous to 1784; A Reprint of the Original Edition of 1860 with Additions and Corrections (Baltimore: 1984), pp. 573-618; 5) estate inventories are indexed by name of decedent in Kenneth Scott, "Early New York Inventories of Estates," National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 53 (1965), 133-38.

Accretion J0043-92 is indexed by Series A4699, Testator index to wills recorded in New York City, 1665-1875.

Series A4700, Testator index to probated wills, 1671-1815, indexes this series.