Posted by Cynthia (Katzman) Bowlby on February 22, 19101 at 08:17:36:
Will of Thomas Bowlby. Nottinghamshire Record Office PRMR 68/5. (Full Text)
I Thomas Bowlby of the Town and County of Burlington in the West
(Division) of New Jersey yeoman being at this time exercised with
great weakness of body but thanks be to God sound and perfect
disposing Mind and Memory do make Ordain and put in Writing this my
Last will and Testament in manner and form ass followeth first and
principally I Give and Recommend my soul into the hands or almighty
God (who) gave it and my Body to the Earth to be buried in a Christian
Like and Decent Manner at the Discretion of my executors hereafter
named and as touching the Disposing of all such Worldly Estate as it
hath pleased God to bestow on me in this life 1 give Devise and
Dispose thereof as followeth Whereas In October l727 there was Laid
out and Surveyed unto me in the county of Hunterdon One thousand five
hundred and fifty Acres of Land five hundred thereof I lately sold and
Conveyed.unto Abraham Hewlings of the Town of Burlington Esq ye
remainder of which said tract of land I Order to be sold by my
Executors in order to pay my Debts and funeral Charges Item I give and
bequenth unto my son Thomas Bowlby now in old England all my tract of
Land lying on one of the Branches of Rarrington River in the County of
Hunterdon in West Jersey containing about two thousand acres be
the.same more or less to hold to his heirs and assigns for ever Item I
give and bequeath unto my Son George Bowlby all that piece of Land
Lying between Wipeny Town & Mary Bullisus Land Supposed to be three
Hundred Acres be the same More or Less in Said County of Hunterdon to
hould to him his heirs and assigns for ever Whereas my father in law
Saml Barker gave to my children Viz Elizabeth Bowlby Martha Bowlby
Jane Bowlby and Richard Bowlby two hundred acres of land in said West
Jersey:by his last will and testament each of them two hundred apiece
and I do by virtue of. these presents give unto each of my said
children out of my said lands in West Jersey Three Hundred. a peice
more to make up to Each of my said Children five hundred acres a peice
to hould to each or my said Children and to their heirs and assigns
for ever and all my Estate both Real and personal to me belonging or
in any Wise Appertaining lying and being (in) my Native Country in old
England ! give and bequeath unto my dear and Well Beloved Wife Martha
Bowiby for her to sell give and dispose of as She shall See meet for
her Conveniences and Best advantage All the Rest of the Lands and
Plantations ln.the Said province of West Jersey to me belonging and
not willed and Bequeathed by me and no ways Conveyed and my Right and
Shares of Land to be taken up in Said Province of West Jersey I Order
and Appoint my Executors to Dispose of for the Advantage of my
children as they Shall see meet My son John Bowlby first to have his
full Quantity of Land Equal with the rest of my children out of the
same and I do Nominate and Appoint my beloved Son John Bowlby and my
trusty and well Beloved friend Abraham Hewlings Esq to be my only and
sole Executors of this my Last Will and Testament giving and granting
my Said executors or the survivor of them as full power and ample
authority to sell and Dispose of the Lands first above mentioned to Be
Sold and as Much other of my Lands not particularly bequeathed in
order to pay my just Debts and funeral Charges as full to all Intents
and purposes as if I was personelly present to do it myself Revoking
and Making Null and Void all former Wills by me Made and Do make this
and only this to Be my Last Will and testament In witness whereof I
have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this twenty third day of
the twelth month Called ffeby and in this fourth year of the Reign of
King George the Second over England and Anno Domine one Thousand seven
hundred and thirty one---------
Signed Sealed published pronounced and Declared by the testator
Signed as his last Will and Testament in the presence of us ye
Subscribers Viz signed John Allen Sam Bickley