Woolverton-NJ-1795-Will

WOOLVERTON FAMILY RECORDS
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                       Will of Joel Woolverton (9)
               Trenton, N. J. Wills Book 36, page 151.
                         Date June 29, 1790.

I Joel Woolverton of Amwell, Hunterdon County N. J., being advanced in years and somewhat indisposed in body, but ... of sound mind and ... memory ...
... I give and bequeath unto Elizabeth my dearly beloved wife f100 ... and either room in my house during her widowhood ... in lieu of her Dower.
... I give to my beloved son Job Woolverton one hundred acres of land on the southernmost part of my homestead and ... to provide for his Mother, my wife, a comfortable maintenance.
... I give and devise unto my beloved son Gabriel Woolverton, the  northernmost part of my Plantation, to go by the ancient line, containing 80 acres more or less.
... I will that all my lands lying between my son Job's line and my son Gabriel's line shall be divided into three equal parts, two parts of which I give unto my son Joel Woolverton Jr., ...
... I give to my beloved son John Woolverton and to his heirs ... all the lot of land on which he now lives in Alexandria Township, according to my deed.
... I give and bequeath unto my Grandson, Joel Woolverton, 10 shillings.
... I give unto my beloved son Andrew Woolverton f50 in gold or silver.
... I give unto my beloved son Charles Woolverton f20.
... I give unto my beloved son John Woolverton f30.
... I give to my beloved daughter Jane Duckworth f50.
... I give to my beloved daughter Mary Duckworth f50.
... I give to my beloved daughter Amy Severns f50, and one negro Dinah.
... I constitute my sons Gabriel Woolverton and Joel Woolverton, both of Amwell Township Hunterdon County, Yoeman, my Executors.

                                         (Signed) Joel Woolverton.

Proven at Trenton, N. J., February 25, 1795.

Source: Woolverton Family Records, Copyright 1932 by Emma Ten Broeck RUNK, page 22

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