New York Historical Society   Volume 29,  pp 350

 

LDS Family History Center call number  974.7  B4N,   Vol 29, pp 350

 

         ABSTRACTS OF WILLS  -  LIBER 21.

 

 

Page 465 -   Isaac Howell

       In the name of God,  Amen.   I,   Isaac Howell,  of  Southold, in Suffolk county,

yeoman, being  sick.    I leave to my wife  Phebe all my now dwelling house where I now

live,  “from top to bottom,”  and all my household stuff,  except my Desk and one bed,

Also my riding horse,  2 cows, 2 hogs,  6 sheep,  and ˝ of all grain and provisions,  ˝  of

the fruit in my orchard,  with the privilege of keeping a horse and some fowl.    I leave to

my son Daniel  ˝  in width of that lot where I now live,  from the South road down to the

Bay,  on the east side of the lot,  Also 3  acres on the  north  side of the South road, where

he now lives,  bounded south by the Kings road,  east by the land of widow Brown,   Also

˝ of all my meadow  lying on the north side of a deep Creek,   and ˝  of my husbandry

tools,   And he is to furnish his mother  4  bushels of wheat and 1/3  of her firewood

yearly.      I leave to my grand son,  Nathan  Howell,  the other half of my lot on the south

side of the South road,   and 2  lots of meadow on the south side of Peconic river.   I

leave to my son,   Micah Howell,  all my lands and meadow and buildings not disposed

of,  and also my  now  dwelling house,  which I gave to my wife,  after her interest in the

same  shall expire,  also all my farming tackling,  and he is to provide for his mother a

good garden,   and 6 bushels of wheat,  6  bushels of corn,  30 pounds of flax,   a  cow,

and  2/3 of her firewood.   I leave my wearing apparel to my two sons.   To my daughter

Hannah,  1  bed,  1 cow,  and 6  sheep.    All the rest of my children,  Micah,  Daniel,

Phebe Corwin, Rachel  Corwin,  and  Hannah  Howell.   I make my sons  Micah  and

Daniel executors.

 

            September 30, 1757.

            Witnesses,  Peter Osman,  Stephen Corwin,  Daniel Wells.

            Proved,   November  28,  1759

 

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