Will of Edward Jessup – 1666

EDWARD JESSUP, Westchester. “Being sicke and weake,” leaves to daughter Elizabeth Hunt 20 shillings, “besides what I have already given her.” To daughter Hannah Jessup £35, to be paid when at age of 18. Legacies to son Edward, to grand-child Mary Hunt, to cousin, Johana Burroughs, and to Derrick Garrison. Makes wife, Elizabeth, sole executrix, and leaves her all lands, houses, and goods, and “she is to bring up my two children in the fear of God.” “I appoint my well beloved friends, Richard Cornhnl, Justice of the Peace, Mrs. Sarah Bridges, my brother-in-law John Burrows, and Ralph Hunt over-seers of my will, and to be assistants to my executrix.”

Dated, August 6, 1666. Witnesses, William Gould-stone, John Richardson, Richard Horton. Proved at Flushing, November 14, 1666. “This will was proved at Sessions, by the Governor’s special order.” Witness to Inventory, Thomas Hunt.

LIBER 1-2, page 14


Surnames:
Jessup,

Topics:
Will,

Collection:
Abstracts Of Wills On File In The Surrogate’s Office City Of New York

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