Hunterdon County NJ Archives Wills.....Baldwin, Elnathan  December 6, 1738
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Source: Will Packet #125j For Hunterdon Co., Located At The Nj State Archives In Trenton, Nj
Written: December 6, 1738
Recorded: May 9, 1739

In the Name of God Amen This Sixth Day of December . . . 1738 I Elnathan 
Balding of Hopewell in the County of Hunterdon and Province of West Jersey 
being very Sick & Weak of body but of perfect Mind & Memory thank God for it. 
And calling to mind the mortality of my body & knowing it is appointed to Each 
men once to die Do make & ordain this my last Will and Testament. And . . . of 
all I give and commend my Soul into the Hands of Almighty God that gave it. My 
body I commend to the Earth to be buried in a Christian like and decent manner 
at the Discretion of my Executors [?] hereafter named Nothing doubting but at 
the general . . .  I shall receive the Same by the mighty grace of God. And 
as . . . my worldly Estate wherewith it Hath pleased God to bless me in this 
Life I give Devise [?] & Dispose of the Same in the following manner

. . . I will that all those Debts that I owe to any person or persons be 
faithfully & honestly paid.

Item I give and bequeath to my loving wife Kezia Balding the best Room in my 
Dwelling House during the time of her widowhood with all my moveable Estate and 
whom I likewise make and ordain my only & Sole Executrix of this my last Will & 
Testament. Except . . . and of my moveable Estate for my Daughter Ruth Burt. 

I give and bequeath unto my Son Stephen Balding all my Plantation containing 
One Hundred . . . of Land to be Possessed & Enjoyed by him his Heirs & Assigns 
after that . . .  & Debts shall be paid and following Legacies out of the Same. 
Viz. 

To Moses Balding Sixty pounds to be paid one year & half after my Decease. 

To Thomas Balding thirty pounds to be paid at 12 months after my Decease.

To Joseph Balding Thirty pounds and To Elnathan Balding Twenty to be paid each 
at 21 years age.

Item I will & Ordain my Plantation bot of Caleb Kerman be Sold and the Money 
equally divided among my Five Youngest Sons and that if either of my three Sons 
Viz. Thomas Joseph and Elnathan shd die before they are age of Twenty one or 
Thomas’s portion becomes payable . . . shall be equally divided amongst my 
Surviving Sons. 

Item I will & Ordain that upon the Decease of my Wife Kezia my moveable Estate 
be equally divided among my surviving children 

And I do hereby utterly disavow [?] revoke & . . . all and every other former 
Testament, Will, Legacies & . . . by me in any Way before this time named, 
willed & Bequeathed, Ratifying and Confirming this and no other to be my last 
Will & Testament. In Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my Hand and Seal the 
day & year above written.


Signed Sealed published & pronounced
and Declared by ye sd Elnathan Balding              Elnathan Baldwin
as his Last Will & testament in the presence of

Nathaniel Moore
Enoch Armitage
Edward Hart


Will was Proved 9 May 1739


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