Wills:  Thomas Viccars, 1696;  Shrewsbury, Monmouth County, New Jersey

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The last will and testament of Thomas Viccars of the town of Shrewsbury
and County of Monmouth in ye Province of East New Jersey, Blacksmith,
being very sick of body but of good and perfect memory thanks be to
Almighty God and calling to remembrance ye uncertainty of this life yet
is so transitory and that all flesh must yield unto death when it shall
please God to call.  Do make constitute ordain declare this my last will
and testament in manner and form following, revoking and annulling by
these presents all and every testament and testaments and will and wills
heretofore by me made and declared either by word of writing  And Now
for ye settling of my temporal estate and such goods chattels and debts
which it hath pleased God to bestow upon me I do order give and dispose
the same in manner and form following (that is to say) first I will
----- all those debts as I owe in right or conscience to any person or
persons shall be well and truly paid within convenient time after my
decease by my Executor or Executors hereafter named.
    Item-I give and bequeath unto my eldest sonn John Viccars the one
half and Southernmost end of all my land situated in ye Shrewsbury
together with all ye housings and improvements thereupon (that is to
say) ye one half part thereof to ye said John Viccars his heirs and
assigns forever that is to count, stood ye one half part of ye whole
tract paying to my son Abraham Viccars ten pounds in silver money when
ye said Abraham Viccars shall attain to ye one and twenty years of his age.
    Item-I give and bequeath unto my sonn Thomas Viccars his heirs and
assigns forever ye other half of my land and meadow there unto belonging
ye last mentioned half of land is ye Northernmost end part.  Ye said
Thomas Viccars paying unto my son Isaac Viccars ten pounds in silver
money when he ye said Isaac Viccars shall attain to ye one and twenty
years of his age.  But in case either of my sons ye aforementioned
Abraham Viccars and Isaac Viccars shall happen to die in their noon age
that then ye money given to them or either of them to be equally divided
amongst my surviving children.
    I nominate and appoint my loving brother Francis Borden and my
loving friends John Worthly and Thomas Hillborn to be my executors to
this my last will and testament and trustees over my loving children. In
witness whereof I ye said Thomas Viccars to this my last will and
testament have hereunto set my hand and seal ye one and twenty day of ye
Eleventh month 1695.
Signed, sealed and delivered by ye said
Thomas Viccars as his last will and testament     Thomas  Viccars,   (seal)
in ye presence of us.
    Nicholas Brown, his mark X
    John West
    Samuel Downing

Shrewsbury, September 23, 1696
    Personally came before me Commissionated for taking the probate of
last wills and testaments the above named Nicholas Brown and John West,
two of the subscribing witnesses to the last will and testament of
Thomas Viccars and did solemnly declare as in the Presence of Almighty
God that they did see the within Thomas Viccars publish and declare the
within deed to be his last will and testament and that at the same time
he was of perfect memory and sound judgment.   Jurat omam md.           
            James Dundas