WILL: Thomas Bunce; Huntington, Suffolk Co., NY (1760)

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New York Historical Society Collections:  
The John Watts De Peyster publication fund series, 1868. 
Vol. 29 Abstracts of Wills on File in the 
Suffolk County, New York Surrogate's Office

p. 422-23 -- Liber 22, pg. 200
    In the Name of God Amen May 30, 1760.
    I, Thomas Bunce, of Hunttington, Suffolk County, being now sick.  I leave
to my wife Ruth a riding horse and two cows and the use of one third of all my
lands and meadows lying in Crab Meadow Neck.  Also her choice of rooms in my
house, and an equal share of my moveables with my daughters.  I leave to my
grandson Selah Bunce, my house and homestead at Cow Harbor, and all my land at
Long Hill which was improved by my son Thomas, with a certain piece of Salt
meadow on the east side of Crab Meadow Point and L100 right in the Eastern
Purchase, and one half of a L100 in the Old Purchase, And he shall pay to my
two grandsons, Joseph and Edmund Bunce, and to my grand-daughters, Hannah and
Ann Bunce, L27 among them when of age. I leave to my son Jesse Bunce L100.  I
leave to my son John, the house and homestead where I now live at Crab Meadow
Neck, and a piece of Plain land, which I bought of John Smith, and one and a
half L100 right in the Eastern Purchase, and three quarters of a L100 right in
the Old Purchase with seven acres due on the same, also a horse and a pair of
steers and all farming utensils. I leave to my daughters Sarah and Mary all
the rest of my moveable estate.  I make my son Jesse executor. Witnesses,
Augustus Bryan, Sarah Bryan, Samuel Allen, physician. Proved Sept. 12, 1760.