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- Will of Jeremiah Fowler, dated September 26, 1723, proved December 23, 1723. "I, Jeremiah Fowler, of East Chester, being very sick. I leave to my wife, Elizabeth the use of my now dwelling house, lands and meadows within the Patent of East Chester, during her widowhood, and also one half of my movables. I leave to my well-beloved daughter, Abigail Taylor, 23 pounds. I leave to my daughter Mary, one half of my movables, to be kept in the hands of my wife until she comes of age. If my wife marries, the other half of the movables are to be sold and the money put at interest for the benefit of my daughter Mary, till she is of age. I leave to my son Joseph, all the lands and meadows I bought of Roger Barton, except a slip of land which lies at the north end of said lands, which I give to my son Jonothan, together with 10 acres of land joining thereto, called and known by the name of "Virginia." The slip of land is bounded as follows: Beginning at the black stump near the land which is ye bounds of the land I bought of Jacob Lawrence, and running westerly from thense to a great Buttonwood tree, (which?) said strip of land and the ten acres I give to my son Jonothan. I also give him the half of the piece of land which I bought of Walter Thong of New York lying in the bounds of Westchester. Also a said lot of salt meadow lying at a place called by the name of the Hammocks, which I bought of John Pinckney; also a 45 pound privilege in the Patent of East Chester. I leave to my son Joseph, the other half of said land I bought of Walter Thong. I leave to my son Jeremiah one acre of salt meadow which I bought of Jacob Lawrence lying at a place called the Pieres' I leave to my son Samuel my now dwelling house and home lot with all lands adjoining to it, with the buildings and orchards; Also a three-acre lot of salt meadow lying at Hutchinsons; Also a 45 pound privilege within the Patent of East Chester, and he is to have these at the time of the death or marriage of his mother. I leave to my son Abraham all my lands and privileges and divisions of land as shall hereafter be laid out in the Patent of Colonel Peartree and others called by the name of the Long Reach; Also a lot of salt meadow which I bought of Richard Osborne, lying at a place called the Hammocks. I make my wife Elizabeth and my son Joseph, executors. Witnessed by Nathaniel Frost, Tobias Remo, John Cuer. "Abstracts of Wills" Vol. II, published by the New York Historical Society.
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Abt 1673 - 1723 (50 years)