Woolverton-NJ-1761-76-Will--re: Jacob 

This is all the information I have on Jacob (a slave).

                The Will of Charles Woolverton (2).
                        Date May 7, 1761.
                 Trenton Wills. Liber 12. Page 250.

May 7, 1761

I Charles Woolverton of the Township of Amwell, being sick and weak in body, but of perfect mind and memory ... do make and ordain this my last will and testment.  Principally I give and commend my soul into the hand of Almighty God that gave it ... And trusting such worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me ...
... First I give and bequeath to Margaret my dearly beloved wife the privilege of the house and furniture therein during her natural life. And I place ten pounds to my wife to be paid by my son John yearly, and every year during her natural life.
... And I give to my well-beloved son Morris the plantation whereon he now lives containing two hundred and sixty-eight acres situate in the Township of Amwell, adjoining Joel Woolverton ... Peter Dils ... and Isaac Woolverton.
... And I give unto my well-beloved son John land on the south side of Watchechecoke, that the Grist Mill stands on, and containing seventy acres, and joyning on the River Delaware ...
... And it is my will the negro boy Jacob shall by free in the year 1775.
I constitute and ordain my well-beloved son Morris to be one of my executors and my well-beloved son John to be the other of this my last will and testment ...

                                     (Signed) Charles Woolverton.

Sworn October 30, 1776. Under Wm. Franklin Capt. Gen. & Gov. in Chief of the Colony.

Source: Woolverton Family Records, Copyright 1932 by Emma Ten Broeck RUNK, page 14

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