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Jacob Willets
b.6 Jun 1697 Jericho, Nassau, New York, United States
d.20 Apr 1722 Jericho, Nassau, New York, United States
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m. 15 May 1690
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m. 26 Dec 1717
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Jacob's Will dated 17 Apr 1722, proved 4 May 1722. Jacob appointed his wife Mary and father-in-law James Jackson as executors. Nathaniel Townsend, Mary's future 2nd husband, was withness to Jacob's Will. Wonder if he may have promised to take care of Mary and her two small children? (Nathaniel was an active Quaker.) Will copied from: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nynassau/wills1.html Page 327.--"In the name of God, Amen, the seventeenth day of the second month, called April," 1722. I, JACOB WILLETT, of the Township of Oyster Bay, in Queens County, on Nassau Island, yeoman, being very sick. I leave to my wife the free use of all houses, lands, and meadows, and movable estate, for her comfortable support, and for the bringing up of the children, till of age; And she is to have one-half of the movables to dispose of as she shall think best. I leave to my only son, Richard Willett, all my lands, houses, meadows, and privileges, and when he is of age he is to pay to my wife €100. If my son should die under age, then the lands are to go to my daughter Mary, and if she die without issue, then one half of the estate is to go to my mother, Abigail Willett, and to my five sisters, Abigail, Mary, Martha, Phebe, and Elizabeth, and the other half to my wife, Mary. My executors have power to sell the following pieces of land, viz., two lots of land in the East woods, and all my right of meadow in Great neck, and New Bridge neck, in Hempstead bounds; Also another right of meadow in a neck called Little neck, in Oyster Bay, South, so called, near unto Soloman Coles. I make my wife and my father in law, James Jackson, executors. References
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