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Facts and Events
Perhaps all the Warren County Baylors in the Oxford and Mansfield Woodhouse areas descend from JOHANN MICHALE BEHLER who arrived in 1741 at Philadelphia on the ship SAINT ANDREW, Charles Stedman, Master, from Rotterdam on October 2, 1741. His mark was a distinctive .
The earliest Michael Baylor deed at the New Jersey State Archives is dated 1765 conveying land from John Bowlby of Mansfield Woodhouse (now Washington) Sussex County, 102 acres to Michael Baylor, potter, also of Mansfield Woodhouse for 61.10.0 (Liber W:3346, West Jersey Conveyances). Beginning corner Daniel Cox land . . . Witnessed by Joseph Cowell, Charles Parks and Ebenezer Cowell. Acknowledged October 24, 1760 and Recorded October 29, 1765.
This was land on the Muscontcong River, bordering Hunterdon County, close to Imlaydale, the home of the Bowlbys, who owned extensive holdings on both sides of the River and had mills at Imlaydale. This same land was willed to Michael's son George in December of 1779.
His name has been found as Johann Michale Behler and also Michael Bochler (Bailor) in German script for will of Mathins Scharffenstein, 16 Oct. 1750.
DOC. RELATING TO COL. HIST. OF NJ, VOL 32, PG 280
WILL OF JOHANN MICHAEL BAYLOR
In the name of God amen.
I Michal Bayler of the County of Sussex and Township of Mansfield Woodhouse being very sick and weak in body but of perfect sound mind and memory Thanks be given to God - calling into mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed once for all men to die, I make & ordain this my last Will and Testament. So that is to say Principally and first of all I give and recommend my soul into the hand of Almighty God that gave it and my body I recommend to the earth to be buried in a decent Christian burial as the directions of my executors nothing doubting but at the general resurrection I should receive the same again by the mighty poser of God, and as touching such worldly estate wherewith it has pleased God to bless me in this life I give demise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form.
First I give to my oldest son George Bayler three horses the bay horse and the young bay mare and the black stallion and one wagon one plow one harrow and gears for the same likewise the green wheat & rye in the ground One bed & bed sted with good bed cloths for the same likewise the clock for his birthright & fifteen bushel of rye ten bushel or corn & fifty bushel of buckwheat & one milch cow - Likewise the wheat mill I likewise give unto him the place I now live on supposed to be two hundred & forty acres of land be it less or more with all the premises there unto belonging to him or his heirs and assigns for ever. Like wise I give unto my son Michal Bayler the place he now lives on supposed to be one hundred & sixty acres be it less or more with all the premises there unto belonging to him or his heirs and assigns for ever also one wagon. Likewise all my wearing apparel to equally divided betwixt my two sons George & Michal. The remainder of my personal estate to be equally divided that is to say unto my beloved wife Mary Bayler one third part of all my movable estate that remains behind & to my daughter Cathrine on third & to my son George one third & to my son Michal one third part of the remaining two thirds. They are to pay equally out of my personal estate unto my three grand children. that is to say unto Andrew Young forty pound & to Cathrine Shuffer twenty pound & to Elizabeth Shuffer twenty pounds lawfull money and to be paid as they come of age. I likewise desire that neither my wife nor children should vanelue any of my goods but part them equally (if not to chuse to some free holders and let them make an equal division) My beloved sons George & Michal Bayler whom I likewise constitute make and ordain my sole executors of this my last Will and Testment. And I hereby utterly disallow revoke & disanul all and every other former Wills Testments legacies bequest and executors by me in any wise before named willed and bequeathed ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last Will and Testment in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty second day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & seventy nine 1779 -
Signed sealed pronounced and delivered by the said Michal Bayler as his last will & testment in the presence of each other hereunto subscribed our names
- Johan Michal Bohlar
Christian Cummins
George Alber (his mark -M-) Sussex Co.
Jacob Lunger Jr. 292 S B22 p 172
Will 1780, Inv. 1780
Sources: N.J. Colonial Documents - Calendar of Walls 1771-1780; Florence Smith papers (file)
References
- ↑ Harold Weller. Harold Weller.
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