WILL: Stephen Loines; Hempstead, Queens co., NY
surname: Loines, Lines, Young, Titus

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New York County Will Book 28, p. 476-479

Will of Stephen Loines, Hempstead, Queens Co., NY

I Stephen Loines of Westbury in the Township of Hempstead in Queens County on 
Nassau Island in the Province of New York Yeoman being this fifteenth day of 
the ninth month in the year of our Lord Christ one thousand seven hundred and 
seventy two very much indisposed and weak of Body but my understanding sound 
and Memory quick and good and not Knowing how it may please the Lord to deal 
with me in this weak condition am will to set my House in horder before my 
final change doth come do therefore make and ordain this present writing to 
contain my last Will and Testament in manner & form following 

First   I order my Executors or any of them to pay and satisfie all my just 
debts and funeral charges and other incidental charges that may accrue in the 
Execution of this my last Will before any division be made thereof and I now 
have a Parcel of Skins now in hand to be dressed and made into Lether which 
said Lether when dressed I order my Executors or any of them to sell and 
dispose of said Lether or Skins and the Money arising therefrom I desire my 
Executors to put out at Interest for the use of my Daughter Phebe Lines and 
paed unto her at her age of eighteen years or at the day of her marriage or 
at the first of these two Evins.

Item    I will unto my son John Lines one of my young Horses and two Cowes 
the Cowes to be delivered to him when he is of age and the Horse at my 
decease.

Item    I will and bequeath unto my loving Wife Phebe Loines all the 
remainder of my personal or moveable Estate unto her and to her disposal.  

Item    I will the Issues rents and profits of all my Lands and Meadow unto 
my Wife until my son is of lawful age to the intent that my Children and my 
Wife shall have a support and maintainance in my Childrens nonage if my Wife 
remains my Widow, but if my Wife should marry before my son is of age then my 
Will is that my Son and Daughter shall have the use and Benefit of all my 
Houses Buildings Lands and Meadows and that my Executors do take the care of 
my Children and of the Profits of my Lands for their use in their nonage and 
my Will is further in Case my Wife should continue my Widow after my Son is 
of age then she shall have the Profits of one third Part of the Land 
Buildings and Meadow so long as she remains my Widow and I also give and 
grant unto my said Daughter a right and Privelage to live and dwell in my 
House and be supported out of my said Estate as long as she continues single 
and unmarried.

Item    I will and bequeath unto my son John Lines and to his heirs and 
assigns for ever all my Houses Lands, Meadows (except my plain Land lying in 
Osterbay Township) on condition my son John pay my Daughter Phebe the sum of 
one hundred and fifty pounds current money the one half to be paid unto her 
when she is eighteen Years old and the other half the next year after or at 
the Time or Day of her Marriage the one half and the other half the next year 
after her Marriage or at the first of these two terms.  But my Will is 
further in case my son John should neglect or refuse to pay the said one 
hundred and fifty pounds to my Daughter aforesaid then impower my Executors 
hereafter named and each and every of them or the Survivors or Survivor of 
them to sell so much of my Land & c. as will fully pay the said Legacy to my 
said Daughter and all the charges of the Sale of said Lands and in that case 
impower my Executors and each of them either jointly or severally to give a 
good Deed or Deeds to the Purchaser or Purchasers such as the Law requires in 
such Cases And my Will is further that Whereas I have purchased twenty Acres 
of plain Land of David Seaman lying in his plain Lott and have paid half the 
Money and have no Deed or title for the Land and I desire my Executors to 
take a Deed for the same in their names and then sell the said plain Land and 
the Money deriving therefrom pay towards discharging my Debts that I owe and 
my Will is further in case my Wife should die before my children are of age 
then I desire my Executors or the Survivor of them to take care of my 
Children and of each of them in their nonage and to have the Guardianship of 
their Persons and Estates and I do hereby constitute ordain and appoint my 
Brother William Loines and my Brother in Law John Titus and my Uncle George 
Youngs all to be my Executors of this my last Will and Testament and that 
they or the Survivors or Survivor of them to act and have full power to 
perform my said Will and every part thereof.

    In Witness hereunto I have set to my hand and fixed my seal the day and 
year above written.
    Signed sealed published pronounced and declared by the said Stephen 
Loines as and for his last Will and Testament in the pressence of the 
subscribers which signed as Witnesses in the pressence of the Testator and of 
each other and notwithstanding what is before written it is my Will that in 
Case the Sale of the Lether Skins should amount to more than one hundred 
Pound for my Daughter the overplus I desire my Executors to pay toward 
discharging my Debts but if the Skins overpays my Debts and what is otherwise 
provided to pay said Debts than the overplus to be for my Daughter.
Stephen Loines (L.S.)
William Loines, Charles Clement, Samuel Willis
The 20th day of the ninth Month 1772 I the abovesaid Stephen Loines not 
remembering that in my abovesaid Will that I have given unto my Wife Phebe 
those effects above in lieu of her Right of Dower I do hereby declare that 
all those Goods and Chattels above given unto her is in Right of her Dower 
and not otherwise and this Codicil I publish and declare to be part of my 
last Will and Testament, in Witness here I have set to my Hand and Seal
Stephen Loines (L.S.)
Signed and sealed and declared by me the said Stephen Loines in the Presence 
of the Subscribers William Loines, Charles Clement, Samuel Willis.

Queens County, S.S.
Be it Remembered that on the nineteenth day of November one thousand seven 
hundred and seventy two personally came and appeared before me Henry Dawson 
Surrogate of the said County William Loines and Charles Clement of said 
County Yeomen and being duly affirmed on their Affirmation declared that they 
and each of them did see Stephen Loins sign and seal the within written 
Instrument purporting to be the Will & Codicil of the said Stephen Loines the 
Will bearing Date the fifteenth and the Codicil the Twentieth day of 
September one thousand seven hundred and seventy two and heard him publish 
and declare the same Instruments as and for his last Will and Codicil that at 
the time thereof he the said Stephen Loines was of sound disposing mind and 
memory to the best of the Knowledge and belief of them the Affirmants and 
that their names subscribed to the said Will and Codicil are of their 
respective proper handwriting which they subscribed as Witnesses to the said 
Will and Codicil in the Testators presence And that they the affirmants saw 
Samuel Willis the other Witness to the said Will and Codicil subscribe his 
name as a Witness thereto in the Testators presence
Henry Dawson Surrogate

His Excellency William Toyon Esquire Captian General and Governor in Chief in 
and over the Province of New York and the territories depending thereon in 
America, Chancellor and Vice Admiral of the same To all to whom these 
presents shall come or may concern sendeth Greeting, Know ye that at Queens 
County on the nineteenth day of November last before Henry Dawson Esquire 
thereunto delegated and appointed the last Will and Testament of Stephen 
Loines deceased (a copy whereof is hereunto annexed) was proved and is now 
approved and allowed of by me And the said deceased having whilst he lived 
and at the time of his Death Goods Chattles and Credits within this Province 
by means whereof the proving and registring the said Will and the granting 
administration of all and singular the said Goods Chattles and Credits and a
lso the auditing allowing and final discharging the account thereof doth 
belong unto me, The administration of all and singular the Goods Chattels and 
Credits of the said deceased and any way concerning his Will is granted unto 
William Loines, John Titus and George Youngs the Executors in the said Will 
named the two former having duly affirmed and the latter being duly sworn 
well and faithfully to administer the same and to make and exhibit a true and 
perfect Inventory of all and singular the said Goods Chattels and Credits and 
also to render a just and true account thereof when thereunto required.
In Testimony whereof I have caused the prerogative Seal of the Province of 
New York to be hereunto affixed at Fort George in the City of New York the 
fourth day of January one thousand seven hundred and seventy two.
By his Excellency's Command
Edwd. Fanning Surr.