Person:John Haines (1)

John Haines came with the Bortons to NJ in 1679 on the GRIFFIN.

Came to America two years previously to his father's family and lived in a cave in Haines Bank, below Lumberton, New Jersey, on the south branch of Rancocas Creek. In 1683, John located a tract of land on the south side of the south branch of the Northampton River, Rancocas, 100 acres. Married Ann Kinton at Thomas Gardiner's house in Burlington, NJ.

The Will of John Haines

The fourth day of the ninth month called November A.D. 1728, I, John Haines of Evesham, in the county of Burlington, in New Jersey, husbandman being sick and weak in body but of sound and perfect mind and memory praised be God Almighty for the same and all other His mercies, I calling to mind the mortality of my body, and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament.

That is to say, principally and first of all I give and recommend my sould into the hands of God, who gave it, and for my body, I recommend it to the earth to be buried in a Christian-like and decent manner at the discretion of my executors herinafter named, and as touching suching worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me with in this life, I give, devise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form.

Imprimis, I give and bequeth unto my dearly beloved wife Hannah Haines, the use and benefit of that part of my plantation whereon I now dwell, with the use of my lower meadows during the time of her widowhood and do pay unto my said wife forty shillings a year during her natural life. I also give my said wife one equal third parft of all my personal and movable estate, goods and chattels.

Item- I give and devise unto my said son Josiah Haines, his heirs and assigns forever, all my above said farm and plantation, containing about four hundred acres of land, the above devised and only excepted. I also give my said son, Josiah Haiens, his heirs and assigns forever, the one full equal half part of my saw mill and my land thereto belonging or taken up and surveyed to accomodate and supply the same with logs or otherwise.

Item - I give and devise unto my son, Jonathan Haines, his heirs and assigns forever, all that farm and plantation whereon he now dwells, containing two hundred forty and five acres of land, with two acres of meadow ground, to be laid off at the upper end of my upper meadows, next to my brother Richard Haines' meadow. Item - I give unto my grandson, John Haines, son of said Jonathan Haines, his heirs and assigns forever, seventy acres of land, which lieth at a place called the hay landing.

Item - I give and devise unto my said son Caleb Haines, his heirs and assigns forever, all the remaining full equal half part of my said saw mill and land thereto belonging.

Item - I give unto my said son, Jonathan Haines, his heirs and assigns forever, all my part of the above mill pond, or the land that said pond of water covers, that is to say, after the owners of said mill will let it go down and the water out of the said mill pond. I also give my said son, Jonathan Haines, his heirs and assigns forever, my share of land adjoining on the north side of said mill pond.

Item - I give unto my son, Caleb Haines, his heirs and assigns forever, twenty five acres adjoining to the plantation whereon he now dwells.

Item - I give unto my above said sons, Jonathan, Caleb and Josiah Haines, their heirs and assigns, severally and respectively forever, all my lots, pieces and parcels or tracts of Cedar Swamp, with the reversion of my proprietary rights to land in West Jersey, to be equally divided among them share and share alike.

Item - I give to my daughter Rebecca, the wife of Joseph Matlack, gtheir heirs and assigns forever, and my daughter Phebe, the wife of John Burrough, their heirs and assigns forever, two hundred acres of land in Goshen, in Pennsylvania, being part of that land which I purchased of Isaac Morris and David Lloyd, where said two hundred acfres of land shall be laid off from my said land at the north end thereof and be equally divided between my above said daughters.

Item - I give and devise unto my daughter Esther, the wife of Thomas Evans, one hundrfed acres of land adjoining to the land devised to Rebecca and Phebe, to be possessed and enjoyed by the said Esther Evans, her heirs and assigns forever.

I give and devise unto my sons, John Haines and Isaac Haines, and my daughter Mary, the wife of Thomas Lioppincott, and to their heirs and assigns severally and respectively forever, all the remaining part of my said land purchased of Morris and Lloyd, and containing three hundred acres, to be divided among them as follows. That is to say, my son John shall have fifty acres of said land, to be laid out all the length of and adjoining top to the land whereon he, the said John Haines, now liveth, and my said son Isaac shall have one hundred and fifty acfres of the above said land all the length thereof adjoining to my sons John's fifty acres, and all the remaining part of said gthree hundred acres of land, being one hundred acres, shall remain and be for my said daughter Mary.

I give all the rest and residue of my estate to be equally divided among my four daughters above named. I also appoint, nominate and ordain my son, Jonathan Haines and my son-in-law, Thomas Lippincott, only and and sole executors of this my last will and testament, whom I likewise order to pay my just debts and funeral charges, hereby revoking, disallowing and disannuling all former wills and testaments by me before this time.

Signed sealed published pronounced and declared by the within named John Haines to be his last will and testament, in the presence of us the subscribers. William W. Haines (His mark X) Mary M. Whitehill (Her mark X) John Burr

1. ↑ Bonnie Ladd Hamilton / tibart@worldnet.att.net. Engle, Marion Fenimore: Ancestors of.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Honeyman, A. Van Doren, and William Nelson. Calendar of New Jersey wills. (New Jersey, 1900-1931)
   p. 199-200.