Wills: Colonial Wills 1670 - 1699: Monmouth Co, NJ Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives primarily by Pat Mount and Wayne. Others contributors are indicated with the will. USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: Printing this file within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ ____________________________________________________ NOTE: The wills are in chronological order (Old Style). That is, New Year's is Lady's Day, the 25th of March. All contributions welcomed. email to jpatter@epix.net ____________________________________________________ INDEX YEAR - PROVED or WRITTEN. ALLEN, Ephrim 1691 ALLEN, Judah 1689 APELL, Thomas [Apellgate] 1699 CHAMBERLIN, Ann 1692 CHAMBERS, John 1687 COAL, Jacob 1688 COOKE, Thomas 1699 DENNIS, Charles 1698 GROVER, James 1685 HEAVENS/HEAUENS(?), John 1687 LAFETRA, Edmond 1687 LEEDS, Thomas 1686 LIPPINCOTT, Abigall 1697 LIPPINCOTT, Richard 1683 MATTIX, Lewis 1695 MORFORD, Thomas 1695 SILVERWOOD, Mary 1698 SWINEY, Therlagh 1684 TARTT, Edward 1688 VICCARS, Thomas 1696 WHITE, Peter 1697 WHITE, Samuel 1698 WOOLLCUTT, Samuell 1687 ____________________________________________________ LIPPINCOTT, RICHARD of Shrowesbery, "being in his right and parfict Senses." Dated 23rd of 9th mo., 1683. [No date of proof.] Gives: "to my sonn Jacob Lippincott all and singlar My upland and meddow .... adjoining to a place Comamlly Caaled Long point to him his haires ..."; "to my sonn freedom Lippincott after the deses of myfelf and "my wife all ... my now dwelling houfing out housing orchards and my farme thereunto adioining deuering his "neateuerall Life and noe longer and after his desese then ... to my fecond sonn Richard Lippincott to him his "haires ..."; "to my fonn rememberance fiue fhilings ..."; "to my fonn John fiue fhilings"; "to my sonn "restore fiue fhilings ..."; "to my daughter Increase [?] fiue shilings and all the rest ... of my outward Efteat "I Leaue to my Loueing wife abegall Lippincott and after my defef to be to her desposing with the aduice [of] ffriends ..." RICHARD LIPPINCOTT Wits.: hugh dickman Judah Allen Acknowledgment of Richard lypincott, "aboue named," ... "this to be his act and dede," before Joseph Parker, Justice of Peace, 23rd of 9th mo., 1683. Administratrix bond signed by Abigall Lippincott, Relict of Richard Lippincott, late of Shrowfbury, Co. of Mon., deceased, as Administratrix of Richard Lippincott, deceased, william Shattock, and ffrancis Bourden, (frances borden), Jan. 2nd, 1683. Wits.: Joseph parker and Eliakim wardell. Paper addressed: "To our Trusty and well beloved Joseph Parker, John Hans and Eliakim Wardell, of Shrewsbury, "in the County of Monmouth," in which Richard Lippincott, late of Shrewsbury, "in his life, ... made his last will"... hereunto annexed ... & ...made his wife Abigall Lippincott refiduary Legatee and therein "omitted to nominate an Executor ... And whereas Admistracon of the goods ... of the faid Testator doth "proply belong to the faid Abigall Lippincott as the Relict of the said deceafed Thefe are ... to ... appoint "... the faid Joseph Parker John Hans and Eiakim Wardell ... to examine ... the faid Abigall Lippincott on her solem averment ... if there bee not any other will ... and ... to take her folem Averment ... that fhe will . faithfully Admister upon the .. Estate & pay and satisfie his debts "farr as his Estate is Capable .... pay the Legacies ... and ... within the fpace of Six months next enfueing Exhibitt a true ... Inventory .... And shall fee ... Bond Anexed by the faid Abigall and "Two Suretyes ..."Dated Jan. 2, 1683. Tho. Rudyard [On back of paper the following:] Averment of Abigall Lippincott "that shee knoweth not of any o(???) [other?] Last will & Testament of the wthin "menconed Testator," and that she will truly administer the estate and "Exhibit an Inventory"; before Joseph Parker and Eliakim Wardel, "twenty one day of ye 3d month, 1683." "Admist. granted 18 July, 1685." Entered upon the publick Records, Pro. of East New Jersey, in lib. A., folio 320. Ja. Emott. ACCOUNT of MR. MARTINEX. Paper endorsed: "Mr Martinex account" £ s d "The waring aperill 7--00--00 "hors bridle and Sadlell 5--00--00 "one mare 3--00--00 "one cow and Callf 2--10--00 "one old chist and fring pann 0--04--00 "working tools 0--16--00 Richard Laene [his mark] William Story(???)[sic] ____________________________________________________ SWINEY, THERLAGH of Middletowne, "Being uery Sicke and Weake of Body." Dated Mch. 1st, 1683. Proved by Richard Gardiner and William Lawrence, before John Hance, fustis, Shrewsbury, 12th Mch., 1683/4, and also by dec. of Peter Tilton and John ffish, "in open Court of Sefsions," Middletowne, Mch. 28, 1684. Richd Gardiner, Clk. And also by dec. of Joseph Grouer, 31 Mch., 1684, before Tho. Rudyard. Gives: "unto my Son John my house and all my lands & Meadows with all ... the appurtenances ... "lying ... in the Towneship of Middletowne ... allso my plow Irons, Chaynes, Axes, hoes and all other tooles "& Iron worke belonging to husbandry allso my ffeather Bed & Boulster with two pillows and one Coverlid, and my Chest "... and to his Heires ... but to Remaine in the hands of my Executor ... untill my son John shall "attaine to the Age of Twenty one yeares and then he to haue it in his owne pofsesion ... and ... my son "shall not haue power to Morgage nor Sell any the ... house lands or appurtenances untill he attaine to the Age of "one and thirty years without the Consent ... of my said Executors But ... that my Wif- haue the use "of my Bedding dureing her life"; "unto my Wife Mary One Cow & Calfe such as she shall choose out of those I haue "and one Sow and piggs and all my household stuffe not allready bequeathed ..."; "to my Son John all the Rest "of my Cattle Horses and Swine ... and his Heires ... to be improved by my Executrs to defray the charge "of bringing him up and Schooling &c Allso ... in case my Son John should dye before ... the Age of One and Twenty yeares or not haueing Issue of his body lawfully begotten ... then .... my house and land "shall goe to James Grover the Son of Joseph Grover and to his Heires." Ordains "Joseph Grover & Hannah his Wife to be the whole and absolute Executors ... and to haue the Charge "... & bringing up of my Son John untill he shall Attaine .... One and Twenty yeares and ... that "my Son liue with my said Executor until he shall be of Age ... and that he learne the Carpenters trade and to "Read & write if Capeable ..." Wits.:                                       THERLAGH fwijny      Peter Tilton      William Lawrence junor      Thomas Waimeright [his mark]      John ffish [his mark]      Richd Gardiner  Entered upon the Records of Pro. of East New Jersey, "this XXXIst of March, 1684," in lib. A., fol. 65, "Ja. Emott, Dept Secrety." ____________________________________________________ GROVER, JAMES SENR, of Middletowne, Mon. Co., "being Sencible of my Mortallity." Dated Dec. 1st, 1685. Proved by testimony of Richard Hartshorne and Tho. Webley, before John Throckmorton, Jan. 28, 1685. Gives: "my Mansion house my Mill with all that belongs thereto and all my land lying on the N. E. Side of the Mill "Creeke, togather with all my Meadow land adjoyning or elsewhere shall be devided --to three Equall parts (???) I "give to my Son James Grover, One third to my Son in Law Benjamin Borden for the sake of his Wife my Daughter "Abigall, and the other third part ... to my Son in Law Richard Gardiner for the sake of my Daughter Hannah "his Wife with all the privelidges ... thereunto belonging to them and to theire Heires ...." "All the rest "of my Estate Moueable and immoueable both household stuffe tooles Implements Cattle, horses, Swine and euery thing "else that is mine ... after the decease of me and my Wife it shall be Equally devided between my fiue Children "James, Joseph, Safety, Abigall and Hannah ..."; "after my Decease all my Estate both Reall & personall shall "be & Remaine in the pofsefsion of my Deare Wife Rebecca for her support & Maintenance so long as she shall liue or "remaine a Widdow ...." Appoints "my Son James Grover and my Son in Law Richard Gardiner to be my Executrs and none other ...." JAMES GROUER fen Wits.: Richard Hartshorne Tho. Webley Intd on fol. 235, lib. 1. [On the endorsement of the will appears the following: "... dated ffirst December, 1685, proved [?] ffeb.ffollowing."] ____________________________________________________ LAFETRA, EDMOND "of ye town of Shrousbury," Co. of Mon., "being fick of body." Dated Sept. 4, 1687. Proved 22nd of 9 mo., 1687, by acknowledgment of nicolas Browne, wit., to signature of Eadmond Leafeatra, before John Hance, Afeafteant, and Peter Tilton. Gives: "to my deare & loving Wife the Settlement & houfe I Now live upon dureing her life and after her deceafe "to fall into ye hands of my Son Edmond." "Also .. unto my Son Edmond Liberty & property to fetle & build "on aney part of ye affore faid tract of land, at ye age of twenty one years provided his fettlement may be no detrement "or damage to his Mother ... "; "unto my fon in law John West All ye feverall tracts of land at Manafquan that "doth properly belong unto me ye Said Lafetra unto him ye faid John West dureing his life & to his heirs ... and "for want of fuch heires to fall to my daughter farah Lafetra, to her & her heires ... "; "unto my daughters Elizabeth West & Sarah Lafetra to each one yeare ould & advantage heiffer to be delivered unto ym at my deceace"; "unto my "son Joseph West twenty Shillings to be paid unto him by my wife ... "; "unto my wife all my goods & Chattels "dureing her life and at her death to be at her disposeing, only Carts & plough tacling ... to be Excepted and yn that "to fall unto my fon Edmond Lafetra ... "; "unto my Children Robert West ffrances Stout Mary Cammock & "Ann Chamberlin Each of them five fhillings to be paid at my deceafe unto ym out of my Estate by my Wife ... " Appoints "my affectionate wife to be my fole & absolute Executer." Wits.: EDMOND LAFETRA [his mark] Nicholas Brown [his mark] Judah Allen Tho. Webley Entered upon the Publick Records, of Province of East New Jersey, in Lib. B., fol. 215, Dec. 8, 1687. Jas. Emott. ____________________________________________________ [Samuel Wolcott] WOOLLCUTT, SAMUELL of Shrowsbury, Mon. Co., "being Sick & Weake of body." Dated May 7, 3rd of James 2nd, 1687. Proved by testimony of John Marten and Audrey Webley, before Peter Tilton, Justice, Oct. 10, 1687. Gives: "unto my Sons Edward Williams & Nathaniell Woollcutt all my land that I have, also what goods ... I "have to be Equally devided between them, one halfe to my sone Williams & ye other to my Sone Nathaniell prouided "the affore Said Nathaniell Woollcutt doe Allow & pay to ye affore said Edward Williams the one halfe of all his disbursments Charges & Sums of Money that he hath laid outt for me & for ye land I have as my be evedently Made apeare." "I desire .. my freinds --dah [Judah?] Allen & (?)s [Thomas?] Webley to be my Executors (???) (???) (???) ... "& to take Care that my son Nathaniell be no wise wronged by his master Joseph Grover ..."; "I Leave my ... "Executors ... one Enlingsh shilling to Each for their remembrance of me to be paid by my Sons afforesaid." SAMUELL WOOLLCUTT [mark] Wits.:John Marten Edmond Lafetra [his mark] Avdrey webley Entered upon publick Records of Pro. of East New Jerfey, in lib. B., folio 214. Jas Emott, 8th decembr, 1687. ____________________________________________________ HEAVENS/HEAUENS(?), JOHN JOHN heauens, "In the County of moummuth, in fhrosbury." Dated Mch. 14, 1686/7. Proved by dec. of Nicolas Browne, before John Hance and Peter Tilton, 4th [?] "of the 9th," 1687. Gives: "unto my Eldest soone William heauens fifty acers of land lying ... att the place Commonly Knowen "and Called by the Indian name Sessoeonocca to him and his hires ... and allfo one orchard had lying at the place caled "little filluer ... and also one frough and one ads"; "to my fonn John heauens one quarter part of my upland and meadow "now this quarter part of land to be taken from the East side of my land to him ... and his hires he is to in Joy "the land when he comes to age"; "to my fonn nicolas heauens one quarter part of land and meadow ... to him "and his hires .. (???)en he Comes to age"; "to my fonn in Law gorg axtone one peace of land begining att a stake "betwixt me and Edmond Lefetro and foe following the Line to a fwampe Called the round fwampe with one quarter part "of frech meadow within the Line to him and his maile hires but when the maile hires is defefed then to fall unto the next "[of] kein of the hauens and thire to remaine"; "to my wife anna heauens one quarter part of upland and one quarter part "of meadow the fayd land adJoyning to the houes and with the houes and all houes hold goods there within with all my "ftocke Cattill and horfes the fayd hoose and Land i giue to my wife dureing hir life and att hir death to returne to my "fonn daniell heauens to him and his hires"; "if any of these my fonnes ... fhould die before they come to age or "fhould die without hires that (???) (???) fayd land of the dead to be eqaly diuided amoungft the Liueing"; "to my fonnes "John heauens and nicolas hauens and daniell heauens Ether of them and each of them a gun"; "the Land ... that "I giue to my sonn in Law gorg axtone I giue to the Longest Liuer him or his wife and att theare death to returne to his "Eldest fonn John axtone and if he dies without hires then to returne to the next hires of the heauens and foe to "remaine that name"; "unto my fonnes in generall one grinstone for there use but the fayd grindstone not to be remoued "from the fayd houes where it now ftandeth but there to remane for their ufe in genera(???)"; "unto my fonnes John "heauens and nicolas heauens and daniell heauens all my edge touels to be diuided Equaly amonght .. my fonnes "aboue named." Appoints "my fonn William heauens and my sonninlaw thomas wainewright to be my Exfexetores ... and to be a "guide to there younger bruthern". JOHN heauens [his mark] Wits.: nicolas Browne [his mark] Edmond Lefetro [his mark] Entered upon the publick Records, of East New Jerfey, in lib. B., in folio 229, "Ja. Emott, fecy.," Jan. 7th,[?] 1687/8. ____________________________________________________ LEEDS, THOMAS of Shrosbery, "being in hiss Rite fenfes." Dated 13th 9 mo., "called nouember," 1686. Proved by wits., jedediah Allin, Thomas Eaton and Thomas Vickers, before John Hance, 28th of 9 mo., 1687. Gives: "to my Louing wife Margret Leeds all my upLands dwelling hous out houseng housall goods & all my moufebel "estate goods & Chattels, orcherds yard fensings ... within ye towne of Shrosbery or Elswheare duering the naterell "life of her ye said margrett leeds to dispose of as shee ... think mett (Exseping ye houfing & lands) And after ye "said margret leeds deseas I giue ... all the afore ...hosing & lands unto my Louing fonn Danell leeds to "him his Eares ..."; "to my fonn william leeds one shilling to bee pade withen too months after my dessease by "my Executer ... if laffully damanded by him ..." "I Due mak my Dere wife Margret Leeds my lafull Executricks ..." THOMAS leeds Wits.: Jedidiah Allen Thomas Eaton Thomas Vicars Entered on publick Records, of East New Jerfey, in lib. B., fol. 217. ____________________________________________________ CHAMBERS, JOHN of the towne of Shrowfbury, Co. of Mon., "Being fick of Body." Dated 13th of 6 mo., 1687. Proved by wits., "petter whit and fameueall deannis," before John Hance and Lewis Morris, 27th of 10 mo., 1687. Gives: "unto my oldeft fon John Chambers all my ... Land lying at ye hills Between peter white and Robert "Lacock [?] together with all my meadow Lying on portepeck neck on a place Commonly Called longe neck to him and his "heirs ... paying unto his Brother Thomas Chambers ten pounds Currant money ... when he the faid Thomas "fhall attaine to the age of twenty-one years alfo my will ... is that my Louing wife mary Chambers fhall & may at "any time ... after my decefe Cut Cart & Carry away firewood for her owne use during her naturall life upon the "faid ... land ..."; "unto my fon Richard Chambers all my ... land lying at fhirk River to him and "his heirs ... paying unto his Brother Thomas Chambers ten pounds Currant money ... when he ye faid "Thomas Chambers fhall attaine to ye age of tweenty one years." "But if my fon John or Richard Chambers dye in "their minority the faid land of ye deceafed to fall to my fon Thomas Chambers his heirs .... and the other to be "difcharged of the faid ten pounds ..."; "unto my two daughters mary and hanah Chambers each of them one two "year old heifer to be Delivered to them ... by my Executrix hereafter named at ye age of Eighteen years"; "unto "my louing wife mary Chambers all my houfeings & orchards together with all my Land & meadow on ye fouth fid of ye "alewife Brook during her naturall Life and after her deceafe to Returne to my eldeft fon John Chambers, his heirs ... "and all the Reft of my goods and Chattles ...unto mary Chambers my Dear & louing wife whom I make whole & "fole Executrix." JOHN CHAMBERS Wits.: John Lippincott Peter White Saml Dennis Entered upon the publick Records, Pro. of Eaft New Jerfey, in lib. B., fol. 356. ____________________________________________________ TARTT, EDWARD "Beeing then weak of boddy." Dated 2nd of 7th mo., 1688. Proved by dec. of John Throckmorton and John Stout, Sept. 25, 1688, before John Hance and Lewis Morris. Directs "my body to bee beried at the descrestion of my Nieghbowrs in a Conuenient place within my own orchard." Ordains "Jaemes Grouer and John Willson Juenier my True and Lawfull Administratores ... or Either of them." Gives: "unto Margery Joebes As much blew Cloth as will maek her oen petticot and twenty yardes of Ausinbriges"; "unto John Rutmon Junier my Red hiefer"; "unto Thomas Rutmon my brown Coow and Calfe"; "unto Thomas Ren-"shall my great Ieron pot and the bigest --raeff [brass] Cettell tow fauling Axesses oen Spaide And tow hoess oen yearlin "hieuer and All the Corn And Meal wich Lyeth in my howss And the wheat Lying in h--[his?] own howess"; "unto John "Rutmon Junier my Litell Ieron pot and my littell(???)ttell"; "I giue ... of (???)des of what f-- fo Ever and monny "To Thomas Renshall And Sara Rutmon to bee Equally deuided betwixt them"; "unto John Willson Junier my young "Cow & Calfe And all the fruite in my orchard And oen Chest wich is at his fatheres The ba--Chest oenly"; "I giue "... my fifter Elisabeth And her daughteres twe-- pence Apeece"; "unto Thomas Renshall oen halfe of my Indian "Corn wich is now growing upon my Land And garding stuef thier vppon And John Rutmon Juenier The other halfe "of my corn." EDWARD TARTTE Wits.: John Throckmorton John Stout ____________________________________________________ COAL, JACOB "being in parfict since and memory." Dated "Shrewsbery, 23rd of 9mo, 1688." [No date of proof, except "Entered upon the publick Records of Eaft new "Jerfey in lib. d: in fol. (17). Ja:Emott, Regr Depty. 1688."] Gives: "vnto my daughter Exersis my dweling hous and fixty ode akers of land being the third part of my land the "which parsell of land leyes next to my hous with a third part of the medow & also my great Kittle & my best bede "& beding belonging to it and also to my daughter Elizabeth sixty ode akers of land being a third part of my land with "the fame proportion of medow ... the which parsell is to Joyn to her fister aforesayd & vnto my daughter Elefan [?] "the Remaning third part with a third part of medow and also to my daughter Elizabeth my other best bede with the "furnitur ... and vnto thoas my thre daughters ... to Each ...a cow and when my debts are payd "what Remains of my mouables are to be deuided amongst my four younger daughters ..."; "my Exsecutors ... "whom I haue mad choys of ... are my father in law william Shattock and my brother Georg curlis ..." JACOB COALE [his mark] Wits.: Thomas Cooke hannah lippincut ____________________________________________________ ALLEN, JUDAH "of Shrouf(???)," Co. of Mon., "being fick of body." Dated 24th of 8th mo., Called October, 1689, "Shroufbery." Proved by dec. of Peter Tilton, Remembrance Lippingcott and John Woolly, before John Hance and Lewis Morris, "Justises," Nov. 4th, 1689, and also by attest. of Remembrance Lypincote, who saw Peter Tilton and John Wooley sign; before Tho. Revell, Surrogate, Burlington, Jan. 6, 1706/7. Gives: "vnto my fon Jofiph Allen to him & his heires ... one hundred Acres of vpland at the South end of--"Land with the houfing & orchard adioyning ... with foure Acres of Salt & frefh Meadow & vpland adJoyning vnto "Jofiph parkers meadow on the Weft fide; (After his moth-- deceafe) but when he comes to the Age of twenty one yeares "then he to haue one halfe of the land at his Difpofing to plant & mannure or build on if he fee Caufe"; "vnto my "Daughter Mary Allen, all the Remaining part of my vpland adioyning vnto the North Riuer with foure Acres of Meadow "& vpland Lying & Joyning vnto the Meadow of George Allens ... when fhee Comes to the Age of Eighteen yeare "old or Marryed"; "vnto my Daughters hannah Allen & Elizabeth Allen to them & theire heires ... All my Right "to an hundred & fifty Acres of vpland & Meadow ... Lying on both fides of Manafquan Riuer Equally to be diuided "betwixt them ... when they Come to be of the age of Eighteen yeares old; or Marryed." Appoints "that my Brother George Allen fhall haue his thirty Acres of vpland & Meadow land on the north fide of "Manafquan Riuer; next Adioyning vnto Robart Wefts Land; And Twenty Acres of vpland & Meadow ... Lying " ... on the South fide of Manafquan Riuer next Adioyning vnto Tobias Hanfsons la--"; "vnto my Louing wife "Mary Allen all my Moueables ...; And I make her my Executerix ..." "I Judah Allen owned this to be my Laft will before vs; Peter Tilton, Remembrance Lippincott John woolley." [No signature or mark.] ____________________________________________________ CHAMBERLIN, ANN "of ye Town of Shrowefbury," Mon. Co., "Widdow-- Relicque of Henerys Chamberlin, deceased, being Sick & Weake in body." Dated Jan. 15, 1691. Proved by oath of Edward Willeams and Thomas Webley, before John Johnstone, Justice of Peace, Jan. 25, 1691. Gives: "to my Deare and Tender Son John Chamberlin all My Land that doth Lye at or Neare Long branch ... his heires ..."; "to the said Son John Chamberlin ffiffthty acres of Land that doth Lye in Shrowefbury "New purchafe Neare ye Land off William havens ... & to his heires ... And for Want of Such heires then "the said Land to ffall And ... be Equally Devided betwixt my Brother Robert & brother Jofeph to them & their "heires ..."; "to my son alfo my wearing Cloaths (???)d the which I defire may Equally be devided among "my Sifters; but (???)god that my Son Should dye before he Comes of age; then my Will is (???) "(???) is Left may be Equally devided among my Sifters that are by my Mothers (???)"--nanate & appoint my Loving brothers Jofeph Weft & Nathaniell Cammock (???) tutors ... & "that they fattisfie themfelves for what trouble (???) my Defire is that my Deare fon may Live "with my Mother as Long as pleafe (???) ive And in her abfence I Committ him to ye protection of god & "my Executors ..." ANN CHAMBERLIN [her mark] Wits.:Sarah Reape Mary Williams Edward Williams [his mark] Tho. Webley "Entered upon ye publick records," of East New Jersey, in Lib. E., fol. 9 & ex. by Thomas Gordon, Dept Secry. & Regr. 29 Dec., 1692. [Some of this will is missing]. ____________________________________________________ ALLEN, EPHRIM of Shrowfbery, Mon. Co. Dated 30th of 11th mo., 1691. Proved by evidence of John hans and faith huit, Gorg allin and elifabeth hans, of last will of "effram allin," before Peter Tilton, justis, 1st 12th mo., 1691. Gives: "vnto my two fons all my Land Equally to be diuided betwixt them; onely they are to pay vnto theire fifter "twenty fiue pound . " "Rest of my Moueables fhould be ordered [sold?] According to the defcretion of my wife & her ffather, George Allen & "John Williams." (???) [The top of the word "Allen" appears, the paper having been cut off; possibly this was the signature.] Wits.: John Hance Jusftis fait huitt George Allen lidya wardell Elizabeth hance [her mark] Entered upon publick Records, Pro. of East New Jersey, Lib. E., fol. 198, Perth Amboy, 8th february, 1694, Thomas Gordon, D. Secry. & Regr. ____________________________________________________ MATTIX, LEWIS of the town of Shrowfbery, Co. of Mon., "being fick & week of body." Dated 18th of 8th mo., "called October," 1694. Acknowledged by dec. of wits., Remembrance Lippincott and John Hauens, both of Towne of Shrowsbury, before John Hance and Lewis Morris, Shrowsbury, Mon. Co., July 15, 1695, and proved July 23, 1695, before John Hance, Justice, and Tho. Webley. Gives: "vnto my Louing friend Mary Chambers, senier all my vpland & Meadow Land Lying ... in the town "of Shrowfbery ... neer A Cartaine place Commonly Called ... by the name of Goofe neck & Elfe where to "her ... Mary Chambers Senier & her heires ... The ... vpland is bounded vpon Sarah Reeps farme "vpon the Eaft fide, & on the fouth .. vpon the highway; & My Meadow Land is bounded South on Sarah Reap & "Eaft on Abiah Edwards Meadow"; "vnto my Louing ffriend Mary Chambers, se., [senior], three Cows & three Calues and "two steers & fiue Swine & three shootes ..." Residue "of my perfonall Eftate goods ... with the houfing & fencing vpon the Land ... vnto my Louing "ffriend Mary Chambers, Senier, whome I make full & Sole Executrix ... & ... Reuoke ... all former "wills ... or deeds Efpefially that of daniell Appellgates ..." LEWIS MATTOX [his mark] Wits.: John Hauens [his mark] Joseph parker Remembrance Lippincott Entered upon Records of East New Jersey, Lib. E., fol. 222. Thomas Gordon, D. Secry. & Regr, Perth Amboy, July 17, 1695. ____________________________________________________ MORFORD, THOMAS of Midelltowne, "being Sick of bodey." Dated Dec. 5, 1695. Proved by oath of John Wilfon, fenier, and William Chefman, two of the wits. to testator's signature, before Thomas Gordon, "Midlton," Co. of Mon., 24 Mch., 1695. Gives: "to my beloued wife Sufeana my dweling houfe and one hundred and two acers of land I hould by patten "Aioying to new fanks [Nevasink] riuer and nine acers of Medow lying at wakcake till my fonn Thomas comes to the "age of twenty-one yeares ... then one halfe of the land lying next to Elifha laruence ...my fonn Thomas "fhall haue with halfe the nine acres of medow deuering my wife naturall life but at my wife deceafe then and not before "... all the ... houfeing and land and nine acers of Medow unto my fonn Thomas his heires ..."; "unto "my fonn John his heires all that ... land I bought of John Reid and eight acers of medow lying on the eaft fide "of Shoull harber and three acers of Medow to fay frefh medow ..."; "my wife shall haue the vfe of all the tract "of land and medow giuen to my fonn John till he come of the age of twenty-one yeares." To "my fonn John one mare "when he come ... of twenty-one yeares ... and ... to my fonn John my gunn"; "to my daughters "Katherne and fary each of them A Cowe when they Marry or come to the age of Eighteen yeares ..."; "to my daugh"ter Johana twenty fhillings in money to be paide when she is Eighteen yeare of age or marry"; "to my daughtr Sufeana "twenty fhillings money to be paide when fhee come to the age of Eighteen yeare or marry"; "to my daughtr Katherne "a grate Iron pot at her mother deceafe and to my daughter farah an Iron Kettell after her mother deceafe." Appoints "my wife Sufeana Sole executrix." [No signature.] Wits.: Richard Hartshorne William chefeman [his mark] John Willfon finour [his mark] ____________________________________________________ VICCARS, THOMAS of the town of fhrewsbury, Mon. Co., "Blacksmith, Being very fick of body." Dated 21st day of 11th mo., 1695. Proved by dec. of wits., Nicolas Brown and John West, before James Dundas, Shrewsbury, Sept. 23, 1696. Gives: "unto my Eldest fonn John Viccars the one half and fouthermoft End of all my land fictuate in ye fd fhrews"bury together with all ye houfeing & Improvements ... (that is to fay) ye one half part thereof to ye faid John "Viccars his heirs ... that is to be un[der]ftood ye one half part of ye whole tract paying to my fonn Abraham viccars "ten pounds in filver money when he ... fhall ataine ... to ye one & twenty year of his age"; "unto my fonn "Thomas viccars his heirs ... ye other half of my land & meadow ... ye last mentioned half of land is ye "northermoft End ... the fd Thomas viccars paying to my fon Isaac viccars ten pounds in filver money when he "... ataines to the one and twenty years of his age; but in Cafe ... Either of my fons ... Abraham "viccars & Isaac viccars fhall hapen to dye in their Noon age that then ye money given to ym ... to be Equally "Deuided amongst my furviveing Children." Appoints "my Louing Brother francis Borden & my Louing friends John worthly & Thomas Hillborn to be my Exe"cutors ... & truftees our [sic] of my Children ..." THO. VICKARS [his mark] Wits.: Nicholas brown [his mark] John West Saml Dennis "acknowledged by us this Ninteen Day of the firft [mo.] Called march in ye year one thoufand fix hundred Ninty fiue, "before us "John Hance" "Peter Tilton." Entered In Lib. F., In follio 46. ____________________________________________________ WHITE, PETER of the town of fhrewsbury, Mon. Co., yeoman, "Being fick of body." Dated Mch. 20, 1697. Proved June 10, 1697. Gives: "unto my Louing wife Mary White During her Natural Life all my Land & meadow fcituate and being in the "faid fhrewsbury together with all the houfengs, orchards, fenceings and all Improvements ... And after her the "faid Mary White's Deceafe ... to my Eldeft fon peter White to him and to his heirs ... he the faid peter "White paying to Each of his Brothers, my fons Robert White and Thomas White, five pounds Currant filver money "... But not untill one whole year after he the faid peter white has poffeffed the faid Land and premifes (nor then "Neither Except) them the faid Robert & Thomas White fhall have ... and Come to their Lawfull Ages of two & "twenty years ..."; "unto my feuen Daughter and to Each of them fiue fhillings a peice in Currant filver money "... to be paid by my Executrix hereafter Named in Convenant time after my Deceafe." Residue of estate "unto my Louing wife unto her proper ufe bringing up and Education of my Children, whom I "Nominate ... to be whole and fole Executrix .... and my very loving friends and Coufens Samuel white "and Thomas White, I defire and Requeft my fuperuifors to be helpfull to their aunt in this affair after my Deceafe." Wits.: PETER WHITE John Lippincott, Seanyer poncet stelle Joseph Parker Saml Dennis Will proved by acknowledgment of fam Dennes and John Lippencoat, wits., perth Amboy, June 10th, 1697, before James Dundas, Comffr. Entered in Lib. F., fol. 591-592. ____________________________________________________ LIPPINCOTT, ABIGALL of Shrewsbery, Mon. Co., "Relick of Richard Lippincott, deceased, [dated] 28th of 4th, 1697." Proved by wits., "gorg Corless, william Shattok, ann Lipincot and margret Lipincot, 7th of 6 mo., Called Agst.," 1697, before John Hance, also by protest. of wits., William fhattock and George Corleis, before And. Hamilton, Perth Amboy, Aug. 24, 1697. Gives: "vnto my granson Jo(???) Lippincott, ye son of my son John Lippincott & to his heairs ... one hundred "akers of vpland & medow being part of ye new purchis caled pesequenokwe in Shrewsbery ... wch I bought of "francs Jacson & his wife as by thair deed to yt purpos barin date Sixteenth day of ye third mo 1687 ... "; "vnto "my son freedon[m] desesed vnto his wife, ye fume of fiue pounds & vnto ye children of my aforsd, Exfeptin his Eldest "son samuell, son freedom deseased ... ye sume of fiufty pounds all curant mony ye which fiufty fiue pounds is "to be payd out of ye produse of my Land ye I haue in ye new purchas caled freehoold containing one hun--& fiufty "akers as by a pattin doth fully appear & also my negro woman caled bess being put to sale & soald ye ouer plush thairof is "to Return to ye stock ... "; "vnto my three gradaughters Euen ye off spring of my daug-ter increas dennes "vnto Abigall dennes ... ten pound & to my grandaughter Sibiah dennes ... fiue pound & vnto my gran-daughter Rachel dennes ... fiue pound more which som of mony is to be payd out of my goods ... & vnto "my son in Law Samuell dennes ... fiue sh & by this same do freely aquite & forgiue all debts dews belong vnto "me by book or other wise from him & also after my deseas the aforsd Samall dennes shal haue ye vse & bennefit of ye "aforsd sums of mony yt I haue giuen vnto his three daughters vntill they suruiue to ye a (???) eigteen years or vntill "thir day of maridg ... "; "vnto my son Restor Lippincott ye sume of twenty pounds which is to [be] payd out--my "goods ... "; "vnto my son Remembrance Lippincott my negro boy gilbe [?] ... "; "vnto my son John "Lippincott yt prsell of medow which I bought of my son Restor Leying on ye southsid of Shrewsbery Reuer as by "deed may ...apeare also ... vnto him my young negro boy caled oleuer, allso I ... giue & forgiue "vnto all my chilldren viz.: Remenbanc Lippincott, John Lippincott Restor Lippincott all such debts .... yt "shall be dew vnto me from any ... of them ... "; "also ... to ye meeting of freinds in Shrewsbery "ye sum of thirty Shillins for freinds to dispos of as they see fitt ..." Residue of estate "... Shal be Equally deuided betwen my three sons & ye children of freedom my deare son "deseased parted by Lott." Appoints "my beloued frends John hanc, william worth & william shattock to see my ... will ... be "faithfuly perfomed." "freedoms son Samuell was Enterlind before being Exspted against for som Reasons his fatther diing without a will ..." "that my to negros oleuer cosen & his wife Cittah haue thair freedom after my deseace." "If any of my granchildren ... vnto hom I haue giuen Legeses should dey before thay Reseue it then theair Legesy "shal Return to ye Rest of thair Relations." "I did promis thomas hewit yt he should [have] ye Refusal of my negro bess after my deseace." ABIGALL LIPPINCOTT [her mark] Wits.: George Corleis William Shattock Ann Lippincott Meargeat Lippincott Entered In Lb. F., In follio 401. ____________________________________________________ WHITE, SAMUEL famuell WHITE, of Co. of Mon. [Endorsement on back of will:" ... Perth Amboy, 20th Augst., 1698." ... No other date of will appears.] Proved by dec. of "Alice Hodgfon, of Road Island, One of ye subscribing wits.," before Jere. Bafse, 5th July, 1698; also by oath of Benjamin Rogers, one of the subscribing wits., before Jere. Bafse, Perth Amboy, "vigefimo die July, 1698." Gives: "the onhalf of my house & Land to my Son Joal White and the other healf to my wife Elezabeth White as "Long as she Leueth and after her desace to my fon Joal White and I also geue my wife four Cowes and on hors and "fiue pounds in Cash and to my sester hester wardel fiue pounds in cash to be payd in 6 months time and on horse." "I Commite all the care and custed[y] of this my last will ... to my wall Bloued brother thomas white, and "my unkel John worthly and cuzen John Chesear." SAMUELL WHITE Wits.: Alce Hodgson Joseph Wardell Beniamin Roigers [his mark] Entered on ye publick Records, of Pro. of East New Jersey, In Lib. F., fol. 654. Thomas Gordon, D. Secry. & Regr (*)[In the will the name "John Weekham" appears like "John uauhan." In the proof it is spelled "Weekham," or "Meekham."] Declination of executorship, by "John Worthley, of ye town of fhrewsbury," Co. of Mon., as executor of the estate of Samuel White, late of Shrewsbury, Deceafed. Dated July 26, 1698. Signed JOHN WORTHLEY [his mark] Wit.: John Hance Deposition of Mercy Woolley, in which she states that: "Sam'l White of ye town of fhrewsbury & County of monmouth "... Deceafed yt he ... Sam'l White deceafed at ye time of his figning ... of a Certaine Inftruement, "that he Declard to be his last will ... was in his Right fences & found memorie ... and further faith fhee "...was fetting by ye fd Deceafed when he fignd ... ye faid laft will ... alfo fhee faith he Called to "her to be ye first witnefs to his last will ... and accordingly fhee proffered to fign it, but by Reafon fhee Could "not writ, fhee Defired Jofeph wardell to writ her name & fhee would make her marke, but he put her off yt it was not "Done and ... yt after ye figning ... of ye fd Sam'l whites Deceafed his last will ... he Called to him "his fonn Joell white & faluted him many times together with giving him very many very good and fatherly admonitions "and Exhortations ..." [No signature.] Taken before John Hance, July 19, 1698. This 25th of July, 1698. "Att ye House of Isaac Marriott, in Burlington," Alice Hodgson, of Road Island, attests that she was present when Samuel White, late of ye County of Monmouth, yeoman, signed his will and at the time was of sound mind and memory. Signed by Alce Hodgson, before J. Basse. ____________________________________________________ SILVERWOOD, MARY of the Town of Freehold, Mon. Co., "being Sick & weak of body." Dated Apr. 11, 1698. Proved by dep. of Patrick Imlay and Patrick Cannaan, two of the wits., before J. Baffe, Perth Amboy, 23 Aug., 1698. Directs: "my body .. to be interred & decently buried by my Executor ... in my one Land at Topanemos "meeting houfe, in ye faid Town of Freehold ... "; and bequeaths "my houfe & Land in the said Town of Freehold "& alfo my houfe & Land in Middletown unto my Son Samuel Hophmire ... alfo I give unto him two Cows, and "all the reft of my Cattle & Sheep Together with my houfhold furniture I will that they be equally divided betwixt my "Son Samuel & all my daughters & alfo that all the Debts due unto me Should be paid unto my Children & equally "fhared amongft them ... "; "that my Negroe Man Sambo Should ferve with my Son Samuel Hophmire for & "during the Space of five years after my deceafe & after that time is expired, to ferve with my Son in Law John Vaughan "for & during the fpace of two years & immediately after that to be free ..." Appoints "My Son Samuel Hophmire to be my Sole Executor ..." Wits.:                                 MARY SILVERWOOD [her mark]      Patrick Imlay      James mefreu      Patrick Canone  "perth amboy, 30th Septr., 1698, Entred upon by [the] publick Records, of ye province of Eaft new Jersey, In Liber "F., fol. 655, & Examined p. me Thomas Gordon, D. Secry. & Regr." ____________________________________________________ DENNIS, CHARLES of Shrowfbery, Co. of Mon. Dated 14th 2nd mo., 1698. Proved by "afidavit" of Remembrance Lippincott and George Curlice, before John Hance, Jan. 9, 1698. Gives: "vnto my fon phillip dennis All my Land when he Comes of Age to him his heires ... Onely his Mother "is to haue the youfe of the houfe & orchard & Cleare ground fo long as fhee Remaine A widdow"; "vnto my two fons "John Dennis & Joseph Dennis my two guns & my Eldeft fon John dennis to take his Choyce of the guns"; "all my "goods & Chattells vnto my Loueing wife Mary dennis & After my defeafe to be at her difpofeing to my deare Chilldren, "which fhee fhall think is moft deferueing of them"; "that my Loueing wife Mary dennis fhall be my Executrix ... "And alfo ... Appoint my Loueing ffriends George Curli--[s] & Nathaniell Slocom with my Loueing wife Mary "dennis To Take Care & fee the ffatherles & Motherles Children difpofed off wch I have taken Charge off namely ffranfes "& Elizabeth Jackfons Children ..." CHARLES DENNIS Wits. thomas Huitt George Corleis Remembrance Lippincott Recorded in Lib. A., fol. 2d, Thomas Gordon. ____________________________________________________ APELL, THOMAS [Apellgate], SINOUR, of Middeltone, "being fick of bodey." Dated Feb. 1st, 169 8/9, "in Middtowne." Proved by dec. of Richard Hartshorne, Esqr, and John Vauhon, [Vaughn], before "ye Covrt Andrew Bowne, John Hance, Peter Tilton," Mch. 29, 1699. Gives: "to my fonn Thoma Apellgate one fhilling"; "to my fonn John one fhillng"; "to my fonn danell one "fhilling"; "to my fonn Jofeph one fhillng"; "to my Daughter Elizebeth one fhilling To be paid by my executrix "... "; "unto my fonn Beniamin fifty Acers of land to him and his heires"; "to my fonn Richard and his "heires fifty acers of land which afore mentioned hundred acers I had of my faither in law Richard gibbons as well "Apeare by A deed on Record and lyes at the nutt Swampe ... to pofef and inJoy the faid land at the age of "twenty one yeares and if Either of my two Sonns ... Beniami or Richard fhould die before the[y] Attane the age "of twenty one yeares ... the Suruiour of them fhall Haue the Aboue mentioned Hundred acers ... there "heires"; "to my louing wife Johanah All the land and reall Eftate I haue in the world (excepting hundred Acers "... before giuen) to her and her heires"; "my howes and hundred Acers of land before giuen to my fonns beniamin "and Richard unto my louing wife Johanah till my fonns beniamin and Richard Attanes the Age of twenty one "yeares"; "unto my louing wife Johanah all my perfonall Eftate in the world [after debts are paid] and I make my "louing wife Sole and whole Executrix ..." THOMAS APELLGATE SINOUR [his mark] Wits.: Richard Hartshone John uauhan [Vaughn] cornelis compton [his mark] Marey grouer [her mark] Recorded In Lib. A., fol. 1, Thomas Gordon, D. Secry. & regr. ____________________________________________________ COOKE, THOMAS of the town of Shrewsbury, Mon. Co., yeoman, "in very good health." Dated Dec. 12, 1698. Proved by dec. of Thomas Potter, wit., before Richard Hartshorne and John Hance, Shrewfberry, 26th Sept., 1699, and also by dec. of Abraham Bickley, wit., before Thomas Bibb, "Burgess or Cheife Magistrate of ye Towne of Burlington," Burlington, 3rd Oct., 1699. Gives: "unto my Louing wif Elizabeth Cooke all my houfes and Lands fcituate ... in ye faid fhrewsbury (Doing "no waft) During her widowhood but if fhee ... marriy againe then but one third (and from thence forth During "her Naturall Life) of the profitts of all ye fd tracts of lands ... in leive and ftead of her thirds"; "unto my youngeft "fon Thomas Cooke and ... his heirs ... the one ... half part of my land and meadow Begining at the "north wefft End of ye fd tract of land and at ye Neverfincks Riuer (alias) ye north River from thence to Run as ye "lines Rune feventy three Chaines to Rune a Crofe line from fide to fide for the pertition line And alfo three acres and a "half of meadow lying at ye fouth End of ye fd tract of land, bounded on ye East by farah Reepe and a fmall Creek "west by peter white, fouth by a branch of fhrewsbury River and north by my owne meadow"; "to my Eldeft fon william "Cooke the other ... half part of my faid tract of land and meadow ... his heirs"; "unto my Daughter "Elizabeth Cooke forty pounds in Currant filver money of ... prouince of East New Jarsey to be paid to her ... "by my Executrix ... when fhee .. Elizabeth fhall accomplifh and Come to her Lawfull age of one and twenty "years or Elfe fix moneths after the Day of marriage." "Rest of my moneys bonds bills fervants and perfonall Eftate goods and Chattels ... unto Louing wife .... "Elizabeth Cooke whom I Nominate ... to be whole and fole Executrix." THOMAS COOKE Wits.: Thomas Potter [his mark] Abra: Bickley Saml Dennis Entered upon ye publick Record of Pro. of East New Jersey, Lib. A., foll. 20 & 21, Thomas Gordon, D. Secry. & Regr. ____________________________________________________