Will of Charles Tucker of Essex County, New Jersey
In the name of God Amen--I Charles Tooker of Elizabeth Town in the County of
Essex within the provience of East new Jersey, Yoeman Being through Divine
Goodness of sound and perfect mind and memory do make and ordain This my Last
Will and Testament in manner and form following That is to say First I commit
my soul and spirit unto almighty God that gave it and my Body to the dust
whence it was Taken to receive a Decent Christian like Burial and as for that
temporal and worldly goods which it hath pleased almighty God to bestow upon
me I give grant devise bequeath and dispose of the same in manner and form
following First I will and ordain that all my funeral Charges and all just
Debts as I shall Justly owe at the time of my decease shall be well and truly
paid out of my moveable Estate by my Executors herein after named Item I
Give and bequeath unto my Eldest son Charles jur and to his heirs and assigns
forever the one half part of Equal moiety (money??) of all my Rights of
Commonage of lands and meadows yet to be taken up in the bounds of Elizabeth
town aforesaid Item I Give grant Devise and bequeath Unto my youngest son
John Tooker and to his heirs and assigns for Ever all that farm or Plantation
Containing by Estimation one hundred acres of land be the same more or less
lying on the southwest side of the Road leading to the grist mill of Samuel
Oliver late of Elizabeth town Deceased which sd plantation of lands I purchased
of several persons at several times and by several parcels as by their
several Deeds of Conveyance to me for the same may appear And also I give
and bequeath unto my sd son John Tooker and to his heirs and assigns forever
All my meadow ground to me belonging or appertaining within the bounds of
Elizabeth Town aforesaid Also I give and grant and bequeath unto my sd son
John Tooker and to his heirs and assigns forever all the one half or Equal
moiety of all my Rights of Commonage in lands and meadows in the bounds of
Elizabeth Town aforesaid Item I give and bequeath Unto my grandson Warner
Tucker one heifer of two years old to be delivered to him when he comes to
the age of twenty three years and one heifer of one year to be delivered at
my Decease Item after my funeral Expenses my just Debts and above bequeathed
legacy or legacyes paid I give and bequeath unto my sd son John Tooker all
the remaining part of all my moveable or personal Estate (if any remain) by
him the sd son John Tucker and his heirs to be possessed and Enjoyed Item
I do make ordain and apoint my beloved brother Joseph Tooker and my Trusty
friend John Spinning and the sd John Tooker my son to be joint executors of
this (several words illegible from worn fold of the paper) and I do hereby
Revoke and make void all other Testaments by me hereto fore made or Declared
Ratifying and Confirming This to be my Last Will and Testament In Witness
whereof I have hereunto put my mark Instead of my Name and affixes my seal
This twenty first Day of april in the Eighth year of the Reign of our
soverign Lord George the second by the grace of God of great Britain King
etc ANNO DOMINI one Thousand seven hundred and Thirty five Sealed published
and declared by the sd Charles Tooker Testator to be his Last Will and
Charles Tucker (his mark X)
Testament in presence of
Robert Morss (could be Marsh or Morse)
John Terrill
Be it Rem: that on this present Sixth day of May One thousand seven
hundred and forty James Wood and John Terrill two of the witnesses to
the within Will personally came before me Thomas Bartow duly deposes
and appointed to prove wills, etc and being duly sworn on the holy
evangelsts of Almighty God Deposed that they were present and saw Charles
Tooker the Testator within named Sign and seal the within written Instrument
and heard him publish pronounce and declare the same to be his last Will
and Testament and that at the doing thereof the said testator was of
sound mind and memory to the best of their knowledge and as they believed
and at the same time Robert Morss (or Marsh) the other witness was present
and signed his name as also did they the Deponents in the Testator's
presence. Thos. Bartow--