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Last Will & Testament
of Ann Simpson
City of Salem
County of Salem
State of New Jersey
January 12, 1865 A. D.
In the Name of God Amen - I Ann Simpson (wife of John Simpson) of the City of Salem County of Salem & State of New Jersey, being of legal age above Twenty one years of age. And being also of sound mind memory & understanding (for which blessings I thank God) do make and publish this my last will & testament in manner following that is to say. ~ ~
First ~ It is my will & I do order that all my just debts and funeral expenses be duly paid and satisfied as soon as conveniently can be after my decease. ~ ~
Second ~ I do order all my household goods & furniture to be sold at public or private sale within one year from my decease. ~ ~ And I do order all my real estate to be sold at public sale within one year from my decease. The real estate that I am now seized of is as follows. ~
To wit: ~ ~
1st ~ The farm in the Township of Lower Penns Neck, Salem County, now in the occupation of Isaac Fowler - as Tenant -
2nd ~ The farm in the Township of
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Penns Neck now in the occupation of Thomas (?) Callahan, as Tenant. ~
3rd ~ The farm in the Township of Upper alloways Creek, near Quinton's Bridge now in occupation of Daniel Powell - as Tenant -
4th ~ The Frame tenement now occupied by me on the North side of Fenwick Street in the City of Salem.
5th ~ Two lots of land on Griffith Street in the City of Salem, being nearly opposite each other.
I do order my said Executor to sell all of my estate both real & personal aforesaid and in the manner aforesaid and to collect all accounts, claims & demands that may be due and owing to me, and distribute the same within one year after my decease as follows ~ ~ To wit:
Item ~ The one fourth part of said proceeds, I order to be paid to my daughter Jane Acton, wife of Benjamin Acton her separate receipt to be sufficient.
Item ~ The one fourth part of said proceeds, I order to be paid to my son Joseph S. Blackwood.
Item ~ The one fourth part of said proceeds, I order to be paid to be daughter Margaret C. Clark, wife of Charles C. Clark.
Item ~ The remaining one fourth part of said proceeds, I order to be equally distributed amongst the three children of my daughter Eliza Bradway dec'd share and share alike the names of said grandchildren being Charles Bradway - Thomas Bradway Jr and Isabelle Petit wife of Charles Petit they being the children of Thomas Bradway. The separate receipts of any or either of them to my Executor to be sufficient.
Item ~ I do order that the legal representative or representatives of any of my children or grandchildren who may have deceased to be entitled to the same share as his or her parent would have been if then living.
Item ~ In case any of or either of my said Grandchildren should not survive me, or should die before he or she should receive his or her distribution share of my said
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estate, I order my Executor to pay his or her share to his or her child or children, if any he or she has, and if either of my said grandchildren should die childless before said distribution, I order his or her said distribution share to be divided equally among his brothers or sisters surviving him.
Item ~ In authorising my Executors to sell my real estate as aforesaid, I give him discretion to sell the same for cash, or for part cash the balance to be secured by Bond & Mortgage on the land, and in making said distribution I authorize him to make such transfers of said obligations & securities as may be convenient, for said distribution, to any of my said grandchildren.
Item ~ The obligations, promissory notes or demands that I have or may have against any or either of my said children or grandchildren, I order my Executor to collect the same, or make arrangement to secure the same to my estate --
Lastly ~ I hereby appoint Maskell Ware of the City of Salem, the Executor of this my Last Will & Testament.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal
this Twelfth day of January A.D. Eighteen hundred sixty five.
/s/ Ann Simpson (seal)
Signed Sealed published & declared as }
her last will & testament by the }
testatrix in our presence at the }
same time; and us at her }
request & in her presence have }
hereto set our hands as witnesses }
/s/ John McDonnol
/s/ Benjamin Lippincott
/s/ Andw Sinnickson
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Salem County, ss.
Andrew Sinnickson one of the witnesses to the within will, being duly sworn did depose and say, that he saw Ann Simpson the Testatrix therein named, sign and seal the same, and heard her publish, pronounce and declare the within writing to be her Last Will and Testament, and that at the doing thereof the said Testatrix was of sound and disposing mind and memory, as far as said deponent knows and as he verily believes; and that John McDonnol and Benjamin Lippincott the other Subscribing witnesses were present at the time, and signed their names as witnesses to the said Will, together with this deponent in the presence of the Testatrix.
Sworn and subscribed before me, at }
Salem, this 13th day of April }
A.D. 1872 }
/s/ Andw Sinnickson
/s/ Samuel P. Carpenter, Sgt
Salem County, ss.
Maskell Ware, Executor in the within Testament named, being duly sworn did depose and say, that the within instrument contains the true Last Will and Testament of Ann Simpson the Testatrix therein named, so far as he knows and as he verily believes and that he will well and truly perform the same by paying first the debts of the said deceased, and then the legacies in the said Testament specified, so far as the goods, chattles and credits of the said deceased can thereunto extend; and that he will make and exhibit into the Surrogate's Office at Salem a true and perfect inventory of all and singular the goods, chattels and credits of the said decased that have or shall come to his knowledge or possession of any other person or persons for his use, and render a just and true account when thereunto lawfully required.
Sworn and subscribed before me, this }
13th day of April A.D. 1872 }
/s/ Maskell Ware
/s/ Samuel P. Carpenter, Sgt
Codicil
to
Last Will and Testament
(said Will bearing date 12 January A.D. 1865)
of
Ann Simpson
September 27, 1870 A.D.
In the name of God I Ann Simpson of the City of Salem and State of New Jersey do this Twenty Seventh day of September A. D. Eighteen hundred and Seventy - make and publish this my Codicil to my last will and testament hereunto annexed (said will bearing date the Twelfth day of January A.D. 1865) in manner following that is to say ~ ~ Whereas since the making of my said last will and testament my son Joseph S. Blackwood and my Grandson Charles Bradway have departed this life. It is my will that the bequest & devise that I made to my son Joseph S. Blackwood aforesaid shall go to and be paid to his children living at the time of my decease to be divided between them share and share alike or to the representative of any of such deceased grandchildren (if any I should survive as set forth in said will) ~ ~
It is my will and I do order that my executor after the sale of my real estate as set forth in my said last will do pay over to the widow of my deceased grandson Charles Bradway (whose maiden name was Biddle) the net & full sum of Three Thousand Dollars (provided she relinquish any claim of Dower that she might have as said widow out of any estate of said Charles Bradway her husband) the said sum of Three Thousand Dollars to be taken out of the share that would
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have been paid to my said grandson Charles Bradway under my said will in case he had survived me, and the balance of said share that would have been paid to my said Grandson Charles Bradway decd I order to be divided equally between my grandchildren Isabella Petit and Thomas Bradway Jr after first having paid out of said balance the net sum of Five Hundred Dollars to each of my grandchildren Ann Blackwood, Felinda Blackwood and Jenetta Blackwood ~ making the aggregate sum of Fifteen hundred Dollars out of said balance to be paid to said Blackwoods ~ and in case either of said grandchildren should not survive one or should die before he or she should received his or her distribution share of said balance I order my executor to pay over his or her share to his or her child or children, if any he or she has, or if either of said last mentioned grandchild should die childless before said distribution I order that his or her brother & sisters surviving take his share of said balance ~
The obligations, promissory notes, claims or demands that I have or may have against any or either of my said children or grandchildren living or deceased I order my executor to collect the same or make arrangements to secure the same to my estate; the amount owing to one by me said deceased son Joseph S. Blackwood altho the debt may be ancient I order to be taken from the sum to be distributed amongst his children, I do however order that my said claim against him said Joseph shall not exceed the aggregate sum of Ten Thousand Dollars, beyond that sum or amount my said Executor shall not demand or [recun ?]
Lastly, I give & bequeath to my faithful domestic Margaret Cuff the sum of Five Hundred Dollars provided she lives & remains with me up to the time of my decease.
In witness whereof to the present writing which I hereby claim to be a codicil to my last will & testament and which I direct to be added thereto and to be taken as part thereof I have set my hand & seal this Twenty Seventh day of September A. D. Eighteeen hundred & Seventy ~ ~
Signed Sealed published & declared by the said Ann } /s/ Ann Simpson (seal)
Simpson as of for a codicil to her last will & testament }
and to be taken as part thereof in the presence of her }
[ ] presence whose names are hereunder signed }
& subscribed as witnesses to signing & pulishing the same }
said persons did so subscribe their names at the request & }
in the presence of said Ann Simpson & in the presence of}
each other. }
/s/ George Hires
/s/ Andw. Sinnickson
I John Simpson of the City of Salem N. J. husband of the above testatrix, do hereby approve in all things to the above will and codicil, and give my assent to the same & relinquish & release all my right title and interest to estate therein devised & as [ ].
Witness my hand & seal thes 27th day of Septmeber A.D. 1870.
Sealed to in the presence thereof
/s/ Andw. Sinnickson
/s/ John Simpson (seal)
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Salem County, ss.
Andrew Sinnickson one of the witnesses of the Codicil to the within will, being duly sworn did depose and say, that he saw Ann Simpson the Testatrix therein named, sign and seal the same, and heard her publish, pronounce and declare the within writing to be a Codicil to her Last Will and Testament, (to be added thereto and taken as a part thereof) and that at the doing thereof the said Testatrix was of sound and disposing mind and memory, as far as said deponent knows and as he verily believes; and that George Hires the other Subscribing witness was present at the time, and signed his name as witness to the said Codicil, together with this deponent in the presence of the Testatrix.
Sworn and subscribed before me, at }
Salem, this 13th day of April }
A.D. 1872 }
/s/ Andw Sinnickson
/s/ Samuel P. Carpenter, Sgt
Salem County, ss.
Maskell Ware, Executor in the within Testament named, being duly sworn did depose and say, that the within instrument contains a Codicil to the true Last Will and Testament of Ann Simpson the Testatrix therein named, so far as he knows and as he verily believes and that he will well and truly perform the same together with the said will.
Sworn and subscribed before me, this }
13th day of April A.D. 1872 }
/s/ Maskell Ware
/s/ Samuel P. Carpenter, Sgt
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Inventory and Appraisement
Of the Estate of
Ann Simpson, Decd.
Received . . June 3rd 1872
Recorded in Salem County
Surrogates Office in Book G
of Inventories Folio 571. ~ ~
Saml P. Carpenter Sgt
A true and perfect Inventory and Appraisement of the personal property of Ann Simpson, late of the County of Salem deceased, made by Maskell Ware Executor, and Henry M. Rumsey and Benjamin F. Wood, two disinterested Freeholders, this First day of June A.D. 1872
The Equal one half of wheat growing on Farm occupied by
Isaac Fowler in L. P. Neck - 15 acres @ $27.00 per acres $405.00 one half $202.50
The Equal one half of wheat growing on Farm occupied by
Isaac Fogg in L. P. Neck - 23 acres @ $21.00 per acre $483.00 one half $241.50
The Equal one half of wheat growing on Farm occupied by
Mr. Powell near Quintons Bridge - 12 acres @ $12.00 per
acre $144.00 one half $ 72.00
Obligations
Bond of Clement Hall bearing date May 18th 1865 $950.00
Interest from May 18, 1872 to June 1, 1872 2.70
Bond of Charles H. Bradway bearing date 1868 200.00
Interest from June 1, 1868 to June 1, 1872 56.00
Note of Benjamin Acton and Jane C. Acton bearing date Nov 17, 1865 1700.00
Bond of Joseph S. Blackwood bearing date Jany 17, 1865 $ 8.870.00
Interest from Jany 17, 1865 to June 1, 1872
(7 yrs 4 mos. 15 days at 6 per cent) 3.925.37
$12.795.37
Appraised by order of the will of said Ann Simpson Decd at 10.000.00
Whole amount of Appraisement $13.424.70
Maskell Ware Executor
Henry M. Rumsey Appraisers
Benjamin F. Wood
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Salem County, ss.
Maskell Ware, Executor of Ann Simpson deceased, being sworn according to Law on his Solemn Oath saith, that the above writing contains a true and perfect inventory of all and singular the goods, chattels and credits of the said Ann Simpson deceased, as far as have come to his knowledge or possession, or to the possession of any other person or persons for his use.
Sworn and subscribed before me, at }
Salem, this 3rd day of June A. D. 1872 }
/s/ Maskell Ware
/s/ Samuel P. Carpenter Sgt
Salem County, ss.
Benjamin F. Wood, one of the Appraisers of the above inventory, being sworn according to Law on his Solemn Oath saith, that the goods, chattels and credits in the said inventory set down and specified were by them appraised, according to their just and true respective rate and values, after the best of their judgment and understanding; and that Henry M. Rumsey the other Appraiser whose name is thereunto subscribed, was present at the same time, and consented in all things to the doing thereof; and that they appraised all things that were brought to their view for appraisement.
Sworn and subscribed before me, this }
3rd day of June a. D. 1872 }
/s/ Benjamin F. Wood
/s/ Saml P. Carpenter Sgt
NOTE:
Ann Simpson (wife of above stated John Simpson) was the widow of Sheppard Blackwood; and the daughter of Andrew Sinnickson (son of Andrew Sinnickson & Sarah GillJohnson) & Sarah Copner.
Antoinette
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