Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Vol. I. 1670-1730; Essex County, NJ Contributed to the USGenWeb Archives by Cyndie Enfinger http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ********************************************************* NOTE: I do NOT have copies of the full Wills. To order a copy, please write to New Jersey State Archives 225 West State Street-Level 2 P.O. Box 307 Trenton, NJ 08625-0307 Send $5 for each Will requested (make check out to New Jersey State Archives). Be sure to include the name and Liber no. or Will book reference for each Will requested. Please consider transcribing the full Will once received and contributing it to the NJGenWeb Archives. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Source: Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Vol. I. 1670-1730 (1901) 1717 Aug. 8. Allen, Charles, of Elizabeth Town, Essex Co., weaver; will of. Wife Elizabeth and son Jonathan, of the same place, cordwainer, executors; daughters Sarah and Mary. Personal estate. Witnesses-Benjamin Bonnel, John Thompson, Samuel Norris, Proved August 15, 1717. Lib. A, p. 80 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1695 Dec. 25. Allin, George, of Elizabeth Town (died Dec. 23 in the morning), inventory of the estate of (£41.8.1 ½), made by Andrew Hamton and Richard Takere. Essex Wills 1695 Dec. 27. Allin, George, of Roway, administration on the estate of, granted to John Barclay, of Perth Amboy. N.J. Archives, XXI., p. 227 1695 ____. Debts due to the estate by Sam. Olliver and John Bordman, by the estate to John Melvin, Richard Powell, Wm. Bingley, Thomas Gordon, James Murray, Ben. Griffith, Miles Forster, widow Delavall, David Mudie, Wm. Browne, Wm. Oliver, Tho. Jonston, widow Lyon, Abr. Hatfield, Henry Walwood, Rodger Lambert, George Ross, Samuel Dennis, John Bishop, John Moore, John Crook, of N. Y., and John Baker, of Elizabeth Town. Essex Wills -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1723 May 10. Andries, Conzin, of Raway, Essex Co. Administration on the estate of, granted to Tunis Somerrendike, of the island of New York, in the County of New York. Lib. A, p. 243 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1722-23 Feb. 11. Baker, Derrick, of Elizabethtown. Administration on the estate granted to James Hampton and John Spining. Lib. A, p. 236 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1702 Sept. 11. Baker, John, of Elizabeth Town; will of. N. J. Archives, XXI., p. 151 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1695-6 March 17. Baker, Richard of Elizabeth Town, Essex Co., yeaoman; will Wife Lydiah, sole heiress and executrix of real and personal estate, with legacies to brothers Derrick and Thomas Baker, and sister Frances Baker, both of Elizabeth Town. Witnesses--John Harriman, John Ersken (?), Samuel Proved August 8, 1726. Lib. B, p. 13 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1726 May 17. Baldwin, Bauldwin, Benjamin, of Newark, Essex Co., weaver; will of. children--Susanah, widow of Son Jonathan, who had Bethya, Hannah, Susanah and Sarah; Sarah Young, Joseph, Benjamin. Real and personal estate. Executors- -son-in-law Robert Young and son Benjamin Bauldwin. Witneses--John Cooper, Thomas Huntington, Eliphelet Johnson. Proved June 19, 1729. Lib. B, p. 143 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1702 Sept. 23. Baldwin, John, of Newark, shoemaker, will of. Wife (second) Ruth; children--John, by former wife; samuel, by present wife; Timothy, Daniel, Joseph, Nathaniel, Jonathan, Sarah, Hanna, Elizabeth (all three by former wife), Ruth, Elnathan. Land between two branches of Second River, as per patent of January 23, 1695-6, homestead bought of Thomas Staples, land in the Little Neck, do. near Wheeler's Point, do. at Boef Point, do. on the side of the mountain betw. Jasper Crane and Nathaniel Wheeler, personal property. Executors--the wife and son Elnathan, with John Curtis and John Prudden, senior, as supervisors. Witnesses--John Prudden, senior; John Curtis and Hannah Curtis. Proved and Elnathan sworn in as executor August 31, 1706. Lib. 1, p. 158, and Essex Wills -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1726 Aug. 8. Baldwin, Jonathan, of Newark, Essex Co., joiner; will of. Wife Phebe. Children--Mathias and Joanna, both under age. Real and personal estate. The wife sole executrix, with brothers Samuel and Nathanael Baldwin as overseers. Witnesses--John Baldwin, Samuel Baldwin, Nathaniel Baldwin. Proved May 12, 1727. Lib. B, p. 48 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1723-4 March 12. Baldwin, Baldwin, Joseph, of Newark, Essex Co., cordwainer; will of. Wife Elisabeth; children--Joseph, Sarah, Hannah, Abigail, Elisabeth. Homestead with a tan yard adjacent on the highway between Mr. Sayer, Nathaniel Dalglish and Nathaniel Wheeler, 10 acres on the hill, called Potters Waterhole, meadows on Maple Island Creek, lots bought of Dr. Arent and Jonathan Lindsley, resp.; 8 a. in the Little Neck, meadow in the Great Swamp, adjoining brother Daniel Bauldwin, personal property. Executors--the wife and brother Nathaniel Baldwin. Witnesses--Jno cooper, James Wheler, Jonathan Baldwin. Proved December 12, 1724. Lib. A, p. 315 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Last Updated: 12/25/2007 This file is located at http://files.usgwarchives.net/nj/essex/wills/wills01.txt