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- Will of Gabriel Leggett, West Farms, Westchester County, New York dated April 16, 1697. Proven but no date given. "Being very sicke," leaves to wife Elizabeth all household goods. To son John Leggett "my house, outhouses, orchards, lands and meadows in the Planting neck, and is that messuage that Thomas Williams dwells upon, and was formerly my father-in-law John Richardson's." Also 50 acres of woodland. To Thomas Leggett "my dwelling house and orchard and outhouses, with the upland and meadow I bought of John Fergeson, Sr., and Robert Manning, and 50 acres of woodland lying within the bounds of our Patent, and is 1/2 of 100 acres with his brother John. To son Wm. Leggett 100 acres of woodland and 50 acres of meadow lying behind the field within the bounds of our Patent with all the undivided meadow that shall fall to my share and also my house and home lot, with the orchard thereon in the town of Westchester. Makes his wife executor. Legacies to daughters Martha, Mary, Sarah, Alice and Elizabeth. Estate to be under the care of his wife during life, "due care being taken that nothing is wasted." Makes his friends Samuel Haight of Flushing and Samuel Palmer executors in Trust. Leaves to son John 30 acres of pasture adjoining the orchard I have left him Wit. Wm. Barnes, Joseph Haviland Edward Collier. "Abstracts of Wills", Vol. I., p 93, published by the New York Historical Society.
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