Will of Stoffel Longstreet, Monmouth Co, NJ 1779
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IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN 
I Stoffill Longstreet of upper freehold in the County of monmouth and
Province of New Jersey being of Sound mind and memory do make
and ordain this my Last Will and Testament in manner and form following
First and Principally I recommend my Soul into the hands
of Almighty God and my body I commit to the Earth to be decently Buried
at the discretion of my Executor & Executrix hereafter
Named and for such worldly Estate as it hath pleased God to bless me
with I Give and dispose of the same in the following manner
IMPRIMIS I will and order that all my Lawful Debts and funeral Charges
be paid and Satisfyed by my Executor and Executrix as
soon after my deease as Conveniently may be ITEM I Give to my Eldest Son
John Longstreet Five Pounds Lawful Money of New
Jersey and no more I Give to my wife Abigail Longsstreet all the
remainder of my Estate real and Personal during her Life with
Privilege to dispose of any Part of the above Real and Personal Estate
to my Daughter Lydia Longstreet William Longstreet and Mary
Longstreet equal each and after the decease of Abigail my wife I Give
the whole of my Estate that then may be to the above named
Lydia William and Mary Longstreet to be Divided Equally between them by
my Executor & Hereafter mentioned and two Person
Chosen by the Legatees Jointly and in Case that either of the Legatees
should die without issue that then their part of my Real and
Personal Estate shall be Equally divided between the two then Living and
further in Case that either of the Two then Living should die
without Issue also then the whole to fall to the one then Living, and it
is my will that in case the above mentioned Legatees should all
three die without Issue that then the whole of my Estate be equally
Divided among the Rest of my Children then Living. Lastly I do
hereby Constitute and Appoint my Wife Abigail Longstreet my Executrix
and my Son Gilbert Longstreet my Executor of this my Last
Will and Testament and I hereby utterly Revoke and Disallow all Former
and other Wills by me heretofore made Ratifying and
Confirming this and no other to be my Last Will and Testament in
Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this
Nineteenth day of November in the year of our Lord one Thousand Seven
Hundred and Seventy Nine 1779 N.B. Note that the word
Executrix between the eighth and ninth lines counting from the Top, and
also the word Executrix between the Fourteenth and
Fifteenth Lines were Interlined before the Executing Stoffil Longstreet
(L.S.) these Presents Signed Sealed and published Pronounced
and declared by the said Stoffil Longstreet to be his Last Will and
Testament in the presence of us William Lloyd Esek Cox 1009.W
William Lloyd & Esek Cox the witneses to the within will being duly
Sworn did depose and Say that they Saw Stoffil Longstreet the
Testator therein named Sign and Seal the Same and heard him Publish
pronounce and declare the within writing to be his Last will and
Testament and that at the doing thereof the said Testator was of Sound
and Disposing mind and memory as far as these Deponents
know and as they verily believe Sworn at Monmouth the 24th day of May
1784 Before me Tho. Henderson, Surrogate. THE
FOREGOING will being proved probate was Granted by his Excellency
William Livingston Esq'r unto Gilbert Longstreet Executor in
the Within will Named he being first duly sworn well and truly to
perform the Same Exhibit a true and Perfect Inventory and render a
Just and true Account when thereunto Lawfully Required GIVEN under the
Prerogative Seal the day and year above said Rowes Reed
Reg'r. NEW JERSEY PREROGATIVE COURT I, HENRY C. KELSEY, Register of the
Prerogative Court of the State of New Jersey,
do hereby certify, that the foregoing is a true copy of last Will and
Testament of Stoffil Longstreet, late of the County of Monmouth,
deceased, as the same is taken from and compared with the original
Record, recorded in Liber N-26 of Wills, pages 355, etc., and
now remaining on file in my office. Witness my hand and the Seal of the
Prerogative Court, this twenty- sixth day of April A.D. 1893.
HENRY C. KELSEY, Register