WILLS
George Stover
Contributed by: K. S. Richards at: ksrich@mindspring.com
Probate Office,8, 224.
In the Name of God Amen. The twenty third Day of March in the 21st year
of His Majts Reign Annoq: Domini 1747, I George Stover of York in the
County of York & Province of the Massa. Bay Yeoman, being of a sound &
perfect Mind and Memory, thanks be to God, and calling unto Mind the
Mortality of my Body, and knowing that it is appointed for all men Once
to die, to prevent Trouble & Disputes among such of my Children as may
Survive me, concerning Such worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God
to bless me in this Life I make & ordain this my last Will & Testament,
that is to Say, principally & first of all. I recommend my Soul into Ye
Hands of God that gave it, and my Body to the Earth to be buried in
decent Christian Burial at the Discretion of my Executor hereafter named
in hopes of a glorious Resurrection. And as touching my worldly Estate
aforesd after my just Debts & funeral Charges are paid I give demise &
dispose of the Same in Manner & Form following,
Impr. My Will is that my loving Wife Elizabeth, (besides her Dowry in
my Estate as the Law allows) Shall have the Use and Improvemt of all my
Household Gods, [his spelling no mine]during her Life, and after her
Decease to be equally divided to & among my Children.
Item. I give and bequeath to my two youngest Sons Iosiah[his spelling]
and Abraham all my Nubble Pasture so called Situate on Cape Neck in York
aforesd as the Same is how within Fence to be equally divide between my
Said Son Josiah and Abram both for quantity & quality, and to their
Heirs and Assigns forever.
Item. My Will is and I do hereby order & direct that all the rest &
residue of my Upland, in York aforesd Shall be equally divided both for
quantity & quality into two parts by line from the Sea Ward up thro my
Land lengthways to the Head & extent thereof leaving my dwelling House
and Barn in the Southwesterly part of Division thereof And the Said
Southwesterly part or Division together with my Dwelling House & Barn, I
will & bequeath to my two aforesd Son Iosiah & Abraham equally to be
divided between them and to their Heirs & Assigns forever, and the
Northeasterly part or Division I will & bequeath to my two elder Sons
Isaac & Joseph to be equally divided between them and their Heirs &
Assigns forever.
Item. I give & bequeathe to my Sons Isaac, Ioseph, Iosiah, & Abram all
my Marsh or Meadow lying in the Cranbury Marsh so called equally to be
divided between them both for Quantity & Quality and to their Heirs &
Assigns forever.
Item. My will is that my Son Ioseph's part & Share of the Land herein
before given & bequeathed to him Shall be taken up & laid out to him so
as to include and take in where his dwelling House now Stands.
Item. My Will is that my two aforesd Youngest Sons Josiah and Abraham
Shall pay to my Daughter Abigail the Wife of George Rodick twenty five
pounds new Tenor Bills of Credit so called equal to One Hundred pounds
of the old Tenor out of what I have bequeathed before to them, and I do
hereby Will to my Said Daughter Abigail the aforesd twenty five pounds
which together with what I have before given her & not herein
particularized Shall be in full of her Portion. And Finally, I appoint
my Son Iosiah Sole Executor of this my last Will & Testament, and I do
hereby utterly disannul all & every other Wills Testaments Legacys &
Bequests & Execrs by me in any Ways before named willed & bequeathed
ratifyg and confirming this & no other to be my Will & Testament.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my Hand & Seal the Day & Year
first herein before written.
Sighed Sealed published pronounced George Stover (Seal)
& declared by the Said George
Stover as his last Will & Testamt
in presence of us, after the Words
[after my just Debts & funeral
Charges are paid] and ye Words,
[Iosiah & Abram] were interlined
Iohn Milbery Dan. Moulton
Nathaniel Freeman
Probated 2 April 1753. Inventory returned 22 March 1753, at pounds
Sterling 689: 19:8 by James Berry, John Milbery and Norton Woodbridge,
appraisers.
