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Chancery Court, Chancery Record, 1671-1712
Volume 748, Page 826   View pdf image
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       Possessed of a Considerable real and personall Estate did for
       the more equall distribution thereof amongst his Children Viz.t
       the said Minor and four Daughters and for the Enlargement
       of his personall Estate that the said Minor & his sisters might
       have a greater shore thereof make his last Will & Testament
       in writeing and thereby ordered a part of his reall Estate to
       be sold for the payment of his Debts (to the End his psonall
       Estate might not be Imposed thereby) and Constituted his the
       aforementioned Eliz.a his Ex.rx thereby Intending as your orat.r
       hopes to make it sufficiently appear by the Drawer of the said
       will and diverse Circumstances & Wittness Viva Voce that
       she should only have the administration of the said Testators
       personall Estate with the usuall pquisites & sallarys due to
       adm.rs and that she should have her third part thereof after
       his Debts paid and that the residue should be equally divided
       amongst his said Children according to the Directions of a
       paragraph in an Act of Assembly of this province directing the
       manner of distributeing the an Intestates Estate psonal Estate
       that as well the said Testator as the Drawer of the said will
       did both (as they plainly Expressed themselves to the then by
       standers and others) verily beleive & were of opinion that such of
       the said Testators goods and Chattells as were not Expressedy otherwase
       given by will according to the Direction of the Act afd  That therefore
       thô the Testator was allways knowne to be a most affectionate
       tender father of his Children and never guilty of so much fondness
       towards his said wife as to suffer his love to her to withdraw his
       affections in the least from his Children  Yet through his Misunderstanding
       of the Law in the premises he made no Express bequest of
       any of his personall Estate to his Children in the said Will but
       only gave some few Inconsiderable Legacys of Remembrance
       to some perticular relations and so perfected the said will by
       the Usuall requisites thereto that the said Testator as well before
       and afterward as at the time of makeing said will always [illegible]
                                                                                        (his


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