Person:William Fenimore (3)

Notes: William FENIMORE (1765-1721) 6th Great Grand Father

William was a mason and a farmer. William did not sign the 1704 document in which the Burlington Quakers expressed their opposition to the bearing of arms. Most of Williams children were married by license and were not Quakers.

William's will is dated 14 May 1721 and was probated on 24 May in 1721. Executors of his estate were his wife Elizabeth, brother, Joseph with witnesses named as John Ward, Hugh Sharp and Jacob Perkins. The inventory of his estate is as follows : a 20 Pound Sterling note, a clock, bonds, bills, book of debts due to the estate and a male Negro 15 pounds, all totaling 354 pounds Sterling, 9 shillings, and 2 1/2 pence.

The heirs were his wife and children. It was also noted that there was a request that his son John was to be bound out to a Richard Red man in Philadelphia to learn the bricklayer trade.

William was a witness at the second marriage of his father Richard to Mary Crosby. William helped take an inventory on the estate of an Samuel Budding who lived in Chester, in Burlington County in NJ with a Abraham Heulings, Junior. Burlington Cout Book of West NJ 1680-1709 pp