Chester County PA Archives Wills.....Evan LEWIS, 1735 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sandra Ferguson [ferg@ntelos.net] LEWIS, EVAN. Newtown, yeoman. April 13, 1735. Codicil: May 10, 1735. August 26, 1735. A. 432. Provides for wife Mary. Gives £10 for support of the poor of Newtown meeting. To kinswoman Ellen Lewis £6. to daughter Hannah Pennell £70 and to each of my grandchildren 20 shillings. To daughter Ann Lewis £400. To eldest son Mordecai my plantation whereon I live containing about 700 acres. To son Jonathan my plantation containing 200 acres in Ridley also 259 acres in Whiteland purchased of Daniel Worthington. Mordecai to release to Jonathan all that tract of land in Hatfield Township, which descended to me and my wife from my brother in law Jonathan Hayes. To step father David Powell £5 yearly during life. Jonathan was a minor. Executors: wife Mary, son Mordecai and brother Lewis Lewis. Letters to Mordecai and Lewis, Mary being then in Great Britain. Witnesses: Howell Howell, Wm. Lewis, Richard Jones. Mentions brother in law Simon Maris. This file is located at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/chester/wills/l/lewis-e1.txt