Hannah Godown, Guardianship Bond, Hunterdon Co, NJ 1790

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Thomas Godown Guardian of Hannah Godown - Bond & Petition
1307J
Filed 8th May 1790
Hunterdon 1790
Letter Granted
Recorded in Book
No. 30 of Wills
Page 319 
Examined

Know all Men by these Presents, that We Thomas Godown and Daniel Thatcher of Amwell in 
the County of Hunterdon in the State of New Jersey are holden and do stand indebted unto 
William Livingston, Esquire, Governor of the said State in the Sum of Five Hundred Pounds of 
current lawful Money of New-Jersey; to be paid to the said William Livingston Esquire his 
Successors or Assigns; For the which payment well and truly be donem we do bind ourselves, 
our Heirs, Executors and Administrators and every of them, Jointly and severally, firmly by these 
Presents.  Sealed with our Seals; Dated this 6th Day of May, Anno Domini, One thousand Seven 
Hundred and ninety

Whereas Hannah Godown ( scratched out - Daughter of Evans Godown late of Amwell 
Deceased) an infant of Age Fourteen Years and upwards, Daughter of Evans Godown, late of the 
County of Hunterdon deceased, hath by her Petition to the Governor, filed in the Prerogative 
Office of New Jersey prayed that the above bound Thomas Godown may be appointed Guardian 
of her person and Estate, thill she attains the Age of twenty-one Years, the said Guardianship not 
having been disposed of by the Will of the said Infant’s father.  NOW the Condition of the above 
Obligation is such, That if the above-bound Thomas Godown do and shall take Care of the 
Person or Persons as by law are or may be entitled to receive the same, and render a just and true 
Account of the Rents, Issues, and Profits of the Real and Personal Estate of the said Infant; and 
in the mean time, Improve the same for her Use and best Advantage and make no Sale, nor 
committ any waste or Destruction thereof or therein; then this Obligation to be void or else to 
stand and remain in full Force and Virtue.
								Thomas Godown
sealed and delivered in the Presence of
R.  Throckmorton
Daniel Thatcher

To his Excellency William Livingston Esquire Governor, Captain-General and Commander in 
Chief in and over the State of New Jersey, and territories thereunto belonging, & C.

The PETITION of Hannah Godown Daughter of Evans Godown, late of Amwell in the County 
of Hunterdon in the State Aforesaid Humbly Sheweth,

That your Petitioner’s Father hath not, by any Deed in his Life Time, nor otherwise, disposed of 
the Guardianship of your Petitioner, pursuant to the Statutes made in the Twelfth Year of the 
Reign of Charles the Second, late King of England &c. enabling the Father to dispose of the 
Guardianship of his Child or Children, until their Age of twenty-one Years.

That your Petitioner being out of the Wardship of her Guardian in Succaoge: And having an 
Estate Real and Personal, which stands in Need of due Care being taken thereof, Hath made 
Choice of Thomas Godown to be her Guardian, until your Petitioner shall attain her full age.  
Your Petitioner therefore prays, That your Excellency will be pleased to grant unto the said 
Thomas Godown the Guardianship of your Petitioner’s Estate, until your Petitioner shall attain 
her ful Age aforesaid.
								Hannah Godown
Signed by the Petitioner this sixth Day of May Anno Domini 1790 in the Presence of R. 
Throckmorton, Surrogate