WILL: Phebee Higbie;  Jamaica, Queens co., NY 
surname: Higbie, Fredrick, Higbie, Carpenter

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New York co NY, Will Book Vol 26 page 333
Written: April 29, 1768
Probated: 25 May 1768

In the Name of God Amen I Phebee Higbie of Jamaica in Queens County in the 
Province of New York Spinster Single Woman being sick and weake in body but 
through divine goodness of sound and disposing mind and memory being mindfull
of Death and the uncertainty of the Hour thereof do make this my last Will and 
Testament in manner and form following that is to say principaly and first of
all 

I bequeath my Soul immortal unto God my Creator who gave it trusting and
relying on his [?] mercy through Christ his only Son my Redeemer for Salvation
my Body I recommend to the Earth to be interred in a decent and Christian like
manner by my Executors hereinafter mentioned and as concerning my worldly
Estate I give will and bequeath as followeth earnestly desiring that all those
that are any ways herein concerned to be therewith satisfied and contented. 

Imprimis I will and order that in the first place that all my just Debts and
funeral Charges be duly paid and satisfied by my Executors in some convenient
time after my Decease. 

Item I give and bequeath unto Capt. Increas Carpenter Samil. Baylis Joseph
Skidmore Elias Baylis Nicholas Smith and Samuel Danton the present Deacons and
Elders of the English Presbyterian Congregation of Jamaica in Queens County in
the Province of New York and to their Successors Deacons and Elders which
shall forever hereafter be chosen in and for the said Congegation the sum of
five pounds New York money the use whereof shall remain abide and be unto the
said Deacons and Elders and their Successors for the time being to the only
use benefit and behoof of the present Minister of the said Congregation and
his Successors in all succeeding Ages in order for the upholding and
maintaining a standing ministry in the said Congregation. 

Item I give and bequeath unto my loveing (sic) sister Deborah the now Wife of
Peter Fredrick all my [wooling?] Cloaths of what Kind Soever and also my dark
purple and white long Gown to her disposall immediately after my disceas and
all the residue & remaining part of my Estate I give and bequeath unto my
loving Cousins Phebee Higbie the daughter of my loving brother Samuel Higbie
and to Phebie Fredrick the Daughter of Peter and Deborah Fredrick to be
equally divided between them shear and shear alike which is to be put into the 
hands of my Executors hereafter named and kept and the money put out for their 
use, but if either of the above named Phebies die before they come of age or
marry then in that Case the Survivor shall receive the whole and if the both
Die before that time then in that Case their shear shall be equally divided
between their Suviving Brothers and Sisters. 

Lastly I do nominate and appoint my uncle Nehemiah Carpenter Blacksmith whole
and sole executor of this my last Will and Testament and I do own this and no
other to be my last. 

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal this nineteeth day of
April one thousand seven hundred and sixty six. Phebee (her X mark)Higbie
signed sealed declared & delivered [the word unto in the fourteenth Line & my
loving cousin in the twenty seventh Line being first interlined] in the
presence of Nicholas Smith, Elizabeth Everit, Saml. Smith, 

Queens County SS. Be it Remembered that on the twenty ninth day of April one
thousand seven hundred and Sixty Eight personally came and appeared fefore me
Henry Dawson Surrogate of the said County Nicholas Smith and Samuel Smith of
said County Yeomaen and being duly Sworn on their Oaths declared that they and
each of them did see Phebee Higbie sign and Seal the within written Instrument
purporting to be the Will of the said Phebee Higbie bearing date the
Nineteenth day of April on thousand seven hundred and Sixty six And heard her
publish and declare thsae a and for her last Will and Testament: That at the
time thereof she the said Phebe Highbie was of sound disposing mind and memory
to the best of the Knowledge and belief of them the Deponent, And that their
Names be subscribed to the said Will are of their respective proper Hands
writing which they subscribed as Witness to the Said Will in the Testators
presence, And that they  the Deponents saw Elizabeth Everitt the other Witness
to the said Will, subscribe her Name as Witness thereto in the Testators
presence.     Henry Dawson Surrogate.

Sir Henry Moore Baronet Captain 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 Greeting Know Ye, that at Queens County on the twenty
ninth day of April last before Henry Dawson Esquire thereunto delegated and
appointed the last Will and Testament of Phebie Higbie deceased (a Copy
whereof is hereunto [?] was proved and is now approved and allowed of by me,
the said deceased having whilst She lived and at the time of her Death Goods
Chattels 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 also the Auditing allowing and final
discharging the Account thereof doth belong unto me And that Administration of
all and singular of the Goods Chattels and Credits of the said Deceased and
any way concerning her Will is granted unto Nehemiah Carpenter one of the
Executors in the said Will named being first 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 the City of New York the twenty fifth day of
May one thousand seven hundred and Sixty eight.                John French