Will of Richard Stout, Monmouth Co, NJ 1703
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THE WILL OF RICHARD STOUT OF NEW JERSEY

Know all men by these presents that I, Richard Stout of Middleton, in the
county of Monmouth, in East Jersey, being of Sound Mind and disposing memory,
do make and ordain this to be my last testament which is as followeth:

I will that all my just debts be paid:  I give and devise unto my loving
wife, during her natural life, all my orchard and that part of rooms of the
home she now lives in, with the cellar, and all the land I now posses.  I
give and bequeath unto my loving wife, all my horse kind, excepting one mare
and colt my son Benjamin is to have for keeping my cattle last year.

I give unto my sons, John, Richard, James, Johnathan, David and Benjamin, one
shilling each of them.

I give unto my daughters, Mary, Alice and Sarah, each of them one shilling.

I give to my daughter-in-law, Mary Stout, and her son John one shilling each
of them.

I give and bequeath unto my kinswoman Mary Stout, the daughter of formerly
Peter Stout, one cow to be paid within six days after my wife’s death.

All the remainder of my personal estate whatsoever, I give and bequeath unto
my loving wife, and to this, my last will and testament, I make my son John
and my son Johanathan my executors to.

For this my will performed, in witness hereof I have hereunto put my hand and
seal, june the ninth day, in the year one thousand seven hundred and three.

								           His
								Richard X Stout
								          Mark

Signed, sealed and published in the presence of us:

				Richard Hartshorne
				John Weekham
				Peter Vandervere

Proved before Lord Cornsbury, Governor, Captain General & Ect., 23 October
1705 at Perth Amboy.

(Recorded in Liber 1, p 120, of Wills at Trenton, New Jersey.)