The first will listed in "Early Orange County Wills" as being in Goshen was dated June 27, 1787. (I did not find administrations in Goshen until about 1820 in my searches there ?). Before 1787 wills had to be filed with NY State Courts. Most of those were filed in Albany and later moved to the Surrogate Court in New York City. Abstracts of those wills for the whole state were published by the New-York Historical Society. 15 volumes and 2 volumes of corrections. 1891-1908. I went to the Surrogate Court in NYC years ago looking for administration papers and was told that there were few or none before about 1830. There is a book by Dr. Kenneth Scott "Genealogical Data from Administration Papers from the Court of Appeals in Albany" -1972. The administration papers from Albany (covering the whole state) were deposited in the Historical Documents Collection of Queens College. They were abstracted and then published. Ralph Weller