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I Jane Brinton of the Township of Birmingham County of Chester and Province of Pennsylvania Widdow being weak in Body but of Sound Disposing mind and Memory Praised be the Lord therefore Calling to mind the unsertainty of my Time in this Trancitory World do make and Ordain this my Last will and Testament in Manner and form following that is to Say first and Chiefly I Desire aid to Resine my Soul into the hands of my heavenly Father that Gavie it and my body I comit to the Earth to be Decently Buried at the Discretion of my Executor hereafter named and as for my Worldly Estate it hath pleased God to bless me with I Give and Disbose of the same as followeth first I Order my Just Debts and funeral Expenses to be paid and Discharged by my Executor here after Named.

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I Give and Bequeath to my son William Brinton the Sum of five pounds Lawfull Money of the above Said Province to be paid in One Yar after my decease.

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I Give and Bequeath to my two Daughters Mary Corbet and Ann Bettle all my houselhold goods and Stuf of all Storts to be Equally Devided between them part and share alike to gether with all the Rest and Resadue of my Personal Estate not before Disposed of To be Equally Devided between them in One Yar after my Deceas

I Do also Nominate and Appoint my son Edward Brinton to be my Whole and Sole Executor to this my last will and Testament by me made and do Declare this only to be my Last Will and Testament in Witness Whereof I have hereunto Set my hand & Seal this Tenth Day of the Tenth month in the Yar of Our Lord One Thousand Seven hundred and fifty two -- 1752

Jane Brinton (Seal)


Signd Seald Publishd & Deliverd by the
Above Named Jane Brinton as and for her
Last Will and Testament in the
Presence of us

James Dilworth

Proved, February 26, 1756, by the affirmations of James Dilworth and Daniel Gest.

From pp. 130, 131 of:

The Brinton Genealogy
A History of William Brinton
Who Came from England
to Chester County, Pennsylvania
in 1684
And of His Descendants
with Some Records
of the English Brintons

Data Collected
by
Gilbert Cope
Media, Pennsylvania

Compiled and Edited
by
Janetta Wright Schoonover
Trenton, New Jersey

Gateway Press, Inc.
Baltimore, 1992.