WILL OF STEPHEN PITCOCK, HUNTERDON, NEW JERSEY

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Hunterdon County Wills
1742

In the Name of God Amen the twenty fifth Day of November Anno Dominiy one thousand Seven hundred and forty
							two I Stephen Pitcock of Amwell in the County of Hunterdon and Western Division
							of New Jersey plantation man Being Sickly and weak in Body but in Good and
							perfect Memory thanks be to God for the Same Do make this My Last will and
							testament in manner and form following that is to Say first I bequeath My soul
							and Spirit Into the hands Almighty God my heavenly father by whom of his M--r and
							only Grace I trust to be Saved and Received In to the Eternal Bliss through the
							Death of my Lourd and Redeemer Jesus Christ In whose precious Blood I put the
							whole and any hope of my Salvation My Body In hope of a joyfull resurrection I
							commit to the Earth to be Buryed With Such --- and by Such --- as My Dear friends
							shall think good and as to touching --- --- my goods I Depose of the Same as
							followeth first I will that all my Just Debts shall be truly payed as My Funerall
							Charges and as to the rest and Residue of my Estate My will and op--- is that It
							Shall be Equily Divided between My two Sons John Pitcock and Thomas Pitcock Each
							having a Share a Like of my Estate both Real and personal and Last of all I do
							apoint my Loving friends Thomas Kitchen and William Barnes to be My Executor In
							this My last will and testament Ratifying avowing and Confirming this and No
							other to be My Last will and testament --- proclaiming and Declaring the Same ---
							--- of the persons whose Names are here and so Written Stephen Pitcock
Sealed and Delivered in the presence of the Same
Edward Rockhill
Andrew pettit
Jacob Knowles
Thomas Thatcher

Thomas Thacher one of the witnesses to the above will being duly sworn did depose that he saw Stephen Pitcock
the Testator in the above Will named sign and seal the same and heard him publish pronounce & declare the
above written Instrument to be his last Will & Testament & that at the Doing thereof the said Testator was of
sound and disposing mind Memory & understanding so far as he knows & verily believes & that at the same time
Edward Rockhill Andrew Pettit Jacob Knowles  --- the other Witnesses were present & sign'd their names as
witnesses to the same together with this Deponent in the presence of the Deponent
								Thomas Thatcher
Sworn at Burlington this 20th Day of December ---
before me
Joseph Ross Surrogate