Person:John Tredwell (2)

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John Tredwell
b.Bef 25 Dec 1740
d.Bet 12 Feb 1772 and 7 Jun 1773 Hempstead, Queens Co., New York
m. 12 Mar 1739
  1. John TredwellBef 1740 - Bet 1772 & 1773
  2. Charity Smith TredwellAbt 1740 - Bef 1765
  3. Benjamin TredwellEst 1745 - 1803
  • HJohn TredwellBef 1740 - Bet 1772 & 1773
  • WMary JacksonEst 1742 - Aft 1777
m. 8 Jan 1769
  1. Charity TredwellAbt 1769 - 1846
Facts and Events
Name John Tredwell
Gender Male
Birth? Bef 25 Dec 1740
Marriage 8 Jan 1769 St. George's Church, Hempstead, Queens (now Nassau), New Yorkto Mary Jackson
Death[3] Bet 12 Feb 1772 and 7 Jun 1773 Hempstead, Queens Co., New York

"The Record" Vol. 43, July 1912, page 211:
31 John Tredwell (Thomas, John, Thomas, John, Edward) born, probably, before 25th December, 1740, died between 23rd Jun, 1772 and 7th June 1773; married in Hempstead, New York, by Leo Cutting, Rector, 8th (bond dated 5th) January, 1769, Mary Jackson of Hempstead, living 12 February, 1722, daughter of Richard and Jane (Seaman) Jackson of Southold, Suffolk county, New York.
Mary (Jackson) Tredwell married (2) in Jamaica, Queens county, New York, 17th March, 1777, Benjamin Creed, Residence, Hicks' Neck (1772), town of Hempstead, New York."
He [John Tredwell] left a will dated 12th February, 1772, and probated 7th June, 1773; recorded New York county in Liber 28 of Wills, page 467. Original is on file. See deeds recorded in Liber F, Hempstead Town Records."

The following will was copied from New York City Wills, 1771-1776 available at ancestry.com. But see the comments below that raise some doubts.
Page 467.--In the name of God, Amen, February 12, 1772.
I, JOHN TREDWELL, of Hempsted, in Queens County, being sick. I leave to my beloved wife Mary "all my out doors and in doors movables that she hath brought to me, all in lieu of her thirds or dowery, and not otherwise." All the rest of my estate, real and personal (except my wearing apparell, Pistols, holsters, and gun), are to be sold by my executors, and all debts paid, and the rest to my daughter, Charity Tredwell, when she is 18. If she dies, then to my father, Benjamin Tredwell, and my cousins, John, Thomas, Tredwell, and Samuel Jackson, sons of John Jackson, Esq. My father, Benjamin Tredwell, to have 1/2 and my pistols, holsters, and gun. I make my father, and my friend, Isaac Denton, executors.
Witnesses, Philip Doxee, Isaac Smith, Thomas Tredwell. Proved, May 26, 1773. THERE IS A PROBLEM with this will: the cousins are the children of his sister, Charity Smith Tredwell Jackson and are named correctly, but John's father was not Benjamin! Benjamin was John's grand-father! According to the genealogy records published in NYB&GS "The Record" John's father's name is Thomas. I thought perhaps the abstract was copied wrong, but 'my father, Benjamin' is named twice. On the other hand, his brother Benjamin did have a son named John who would have been a cousin to Charity's children. But Benjamin's son John didn't die until August 1853; so this will could not have been his.

NYG&BS "The Record" July, 1912, pg 211 states that John, s/o Thomas, left a will, but doesn't quote it - though he quotes or abstracts most of the other Tredwell wills. "He left a will dated 12th February, 1772, and probated 7th June, 1773; recorded New York county in Liber 28 of Wills, page 467. Original is on file." It would be interesting to see if anyone had an actual image of the original.

References
  1.   Bunker, Mary Powell. Long Island Genealogies. (Albany, New York, United States: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1895)
    222.
  2.   Will.
  3. The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. (New York, New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society)
    Jul 1912, pg 211.