ZEBULAN STATHEM WILL, SALEM, NEW JERSEY

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Zebulan Stathem
Salem County Wills, 156 Q
Will:  27 September, 1716
Probate:  5 April 1721

In the name of God Amen ye twenty seventh day of September in the year of Our Lord One Thousand
Seven Hundred & Sixteen, I Zebulan Stathem in ye county of Salem of ye precinct, ________, &
Province of West New Jersey _________ being very sick & weak in body but of perfect mind and
memory thanks be to God therefor calling to mind the mortality of my body & knowing that it is
appointed for all men to die, do make & ordain this my last Will and Testament; that is to say,
principally & first of all I give and commend my soul into the hands of God that gave _______
my body I recommend it to the Earth, to be ______________ in like manner at the discretion
_______________ ____________ nothing doubting but at ye generall resurrection, I shall receive
ye same again by the mighty power of God, and as touching such worldly estate wherewith it hath
pleased God to bless me in this life, I give, Devise, and dispose of the same in the following
manner and form:

_____________ I give and bequeath unto Racholl Watson, Daughter of William Watson of Greenwitch
the sum of six pounds and ten shillings New? currantcy to be paid at her marriage day or _____
months after she comes to the age of eighteen.

Item:  I give and bequeath unto my two brothers Phillip Stathem Senor & Thomas Stathem each of
them five shillings new money. #########

Item:  I give to my welbeloved wife, Marcy Stathem, whom I likewise constitute make and ordain
my only and sole executor of this my Last Will and Testament all and singular, my lands,
messuages and tenements by her freely to be _________ and enjoyed together with all my
household goods and moveables, with all my moneys, goods & debts _________ it can or may be
found freely to be enjoyed by her during her life and her issue after her for ever that is to
say if she should chance to marry after my decease and should chance to have children of her
own body begotten __________ then one that is to say a son, that then the said son to have and
enjoy the said land that I now live on for ever after his mother’s decease but if in case that
there is no surviving issue after the death of my wife I give and bequeath the said land unto
Thomas Stathem, Senor and his heirs if any there be and if he should have no issue that then
the said land to remain to the said Thomas Stathem, Senor but for my moveables __________ to
remain to the discretion of my well _________ __________ I do hereby utterly _____________ all
and every other ___________, Testaments, Wills and Legacies, bequests and and executors, by me
in any way before this time named, willed and bequeathed, Ratifying and confirming this, and no
other, to be my last will and testament.  In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and
seal the day and year above written.

                            Zebulon Stathem

Signed, Sealed, Published, pronounced and
declared by the said Zebulon Stathem as 
his last will and testament, in the presence 
of the subscriber, Viz. ######
    The Mark of
    Peter P. Craven
    _________ Smith
    John Brice