Person:Joseph Thorne (4)

Joseph Thorne

Joseph Thorne was born about 1642 in Flushing, Long Island, New Amsterdam [now NY]. He was buried in 1727 in Friends Cemetery, Flushing [now NY]. Original Friend's Cemetery, later moved to another site on Long Island. He died in May 1727 in Flushing, Long Island.

Will of Joseph Thorne

A book^S1gives the following transcription of his will:

I, Joseph Thorne, of Flushing, in Queens County, being aged and indisposed. Being well advised with ye weighty concern I am now about. I leave to my son Benjamin, all my Plantation and homestead where I now live in Flushing, with all housing, orchards, and lands, and all my meadow and woodland. I leave to my wife Mary, the use of 1/2 of all lands and meadows, and 1/2 of all housing and orchards during her life. After he death I leave 1/2 to my son Benjamin and he is to pay legacies, viz.: To his brother Jacob, 100s, and to his brothers, Isaac, Thomas, and Abraham, 20s each. To my son Isaac I leave 5 shillings. I leave to my sons, Thomas, Abraham, and Isaac, all that tract of land lying at a place called (???), in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. I leave to my wife Mary, a negro man, and an Indian woman. To my daughter Sarah, a negro girl. I leave to my son Joseph, 5 shillings over and above what I have formerly given him by deed of gift. I leave to my son William, 5 shillings besides what I gave him in West New Jersey. To my son John, 5 shillings and a negro boy. To my wife Mary, 1/2/ of the rest of my movables. To my daughter, Mary Shadwell, a negro girl. I leave to my daughters, Hanna Field, Mary Shadwell, Susanah Hedger, and Sara Thorn, 1/2/ of my movables. I make my wife and my son Benjamin, executors.

Dated July 27, 1724.

Witnesses, Thomas Farrington, Richard Laurence, John Haight. Proved, November 27, 1727.

Note?

NOTE: ?? Line 4290: (New PAF RIN=1546) 1 BURI 2 PLAC Lee Burial Grounds, Middlesex This individual has the following other parents in the Ancestral File: William /THORNE/ (AFN:2T2K-2N) and Sarah Or S /HALLETT/ (AFN:2T2K-3T)

1.   Abstracts of Unrecorded Wills Prior to 1790, in New York Historical Society (New York City). Collections of the New York Historical Society. (New York, New York: New-York Historical Society, 1869-1927), Vol XI/ p.60-1, Secondary quality.

   Transcription of will elsewhere on this page.

2.   O'Callaghan, E. B. (Edmund Bailey), and Rosanne (compiled index) Conway. Lists of inhabitants of Colonial New York: Excerpted from The Documentary History of the State of New York by Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan. (Baltimore [Maryland]: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1979).

   "Lists of Inhabitants of Colonial New York, excerpted from the Documentary
   History of the State of New York," by Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, Indexed
   by Rosanne Conway. Published by Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc.,
   Baltimore. {REF BK-147}
   
   p40 Thorne, John Sr and John Jr.
   p.41 Bowne, Samuel
   p.41 Hedger,Thomas
   p.41 Thorne,Joseph
   p.42 Hedger, Joseph, wife Hannah.
   
   Short

3. ↑ Deaths, in Society of Friends. Flushing Monthly Meeting (Flushing, New York). Monthly meeting records, 1640-. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1950), 16.

   Joseph Thorn of flushing dyed the [--] day of ye 3'mo [May] 1727.