Person:George Mount (7)

Will of George Mount

• WILL of GORGE MOUNT, of Middletown, "being Sick and weak of body." Dated February 16, 1702. Proved by oath of Richard Hartshorne and Jeremiah Stilwell, Esqrs., "two of the evidences," before J. Bafs, Shrewsbury, 31 August, 1705, and by Jeremiah Stilwell, one of the wits., who saw the testator and wits., Richard Hartshorne and Joseph Cox, sign; before Edward, Viscount Corn bury, Shrewsbury, January 25, [?] 1708.

Gives: "unto my loving wife Katherine Mount all my land Housing and salt Meadow During her natural Life"; "unto "my loving wife all my Money and personal estate where so ever excepting Six Sheep which I give to my Daughter Katherine "and all so one Cow ... to my Daughter Katherine ... "; "unto my grandson Mathias Mount & his heirs if "he shall live with his grandmother Katherine Mount and be helpful to manage her Affairs during her natural life, and "not otherwise, one hundred Acers land, Housing and orchards beginning at the newfound [?] or North River and so running "into the woods the whole breadth of my land whereon I now live that will Make one hundred Acers ... to have it "when he attains the Age of twenty-one years and if My Grandson should Dye before he attunes ... twenty one "years ... to my grandson Thomas Mount when he shall Attain the Age of twenty one years for him ... "and his heirs"; "to my Grandson Thomas Mount and his heirs Sixty five Acers of land when he shall Attain ... "twenty one years which land Joins to the Hundred Acers ... which I have given to his brother Mathias Mount "And if my grandson Thomas Mount should Dye before ... twenty one years ... I Devise the ... Sixty "five Acers to my grandson Mathias Mount when ... twenty-one ..." Constitutes "my loving wife Sole Executrix ..." Wits.: GORGE MOUNT [his mark] Richard Hartshorne Jeremiah Stilwell Joseph Cox

Records of George Mount

• George & Katherine Mount, Purchases and Sales, Salem County and Monmouth County Deed Book 1672-1702

• 20 June 1672 : Middletown Deed Book 1, page 17: (Patent): 284 acres from the Proprietors of New Jersey, in Middletown . George Mount and Benjamin Borden again purchased joint tracks of land next to each other at Cohancey, West Jersey .

• 27 Feb 1677 : Salem County . Deed Book B, page 14 (Surveyed 23 Oct 1677 ) 500 acres from John Fenwick in "Cohansick" The yearly rent was one peppercorn.

1680 Middlesex , New Jersey

• 8 November 1684 : Salem County , Deed Book 2, page 150: George and Katherine Mount sold the 500 acres at Cohansey, to John Throckmorton, their Middletown neighbor. This land was referred to as marshey and swampy, lying between Mounts Creek and the Cohancey River .

• 30 July 1686 : Monmouth County Deed Book A, page 350: 100 acres in Middletown , from Proprietors of East New Jersey. This deed is again recorded in Book B, page 30 on 15 December 1686 . The land is described as 100 acres, lying near the Naversink River and adjoining that of Safety Grove

• 13 April 1698 : George Mount conveyed 185 acres of land in Middletown to his son, Richard Mount. Since his son, Richard, is not mentioned to receive anything in the will of George Mount, his father, in 1702, it is believed that this gift cut him off as an heir-at-law.

Source: http://themountfamily.com/Land/Mount/Mount%20A-L/George&Katherine.htm

1. ↑ Tyler Index to Parish Registers, 1538-1874. (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Find A Grave.