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- Will of John Richardson, Westchester, Westchester County, New York, dated November 16, 1679.
Leaves to wife Martha, "all my housing and orchard and all movables, without and within, and all my land and meadow in the Planting neck and all the Long Neck that runs southward from Thomas Hunt's new dwelling house to the sound. During her life." Leaves to son-in-law Joseph Hadley, a pasture of 8 acres at or about the first spring. "To my 3 daughters, Bethia, wife of Joseph Ketchum of Newtown, Mary, wife of Joseph Hadley, and Elizabeth, wife of Gabriel Leggett, all the meadow that is already divided, on this side of the river above the Planting Neck. Leaves to "Joseph Richardson, my brother's son," in England 100 acres of land, if he come within the space of one whole year. If he does not come, then it is to go to his wife Martha. Leaves rest of estate to his three daughters. Makes Wm. Richardson and Richard Panton of Westchester and Jonothan Hazzard of Newtown, executors. Witnesses, Walter Webly, John Laurence, Thomas Hunt, Jr., Edward Walters. "Abstracts of Wills," Vol. I, published by The New York Historical Society.
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