thumbnail images

English translation:

It happened in Kossuty on the twenty second of January/third of February, eighteen hundred forty three at nine o’clock in the morning.  The Jews Gimpel Jankielowicz Tandeta, age fifty three, and Herszko Leybowicz Donicki, age forty five, both of whom are synagogue sextons residing in Zareby Koscielne, appeared and testified, that on the twenty first of January/first of February of the current year at twelve o’clock noon died in Zareby Koscielne the Jew Abram [Avraham] Leybowicz Tachna, age fifty three, leaving his wife Dwore [Devorah] residing in Zareby Koscielne.  After having convinced ourselves with our own eyes of the death of the Jew Abram Leybowicz Tachna, this document was read to those who appeared, who are not related to the deceased, and signed by us, the Holder of the Vital Records, whereas the witnesses testified that they cannot write.