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In the name of God, Amen. I, James Jackson of Flushing, in Queens County in the Province of New York, Yeoman, being sick
and weak, but of sound and perfect mind and memory, praise being therefore given to Almighty God, do make and ordain this my present last Will and Testament, in manner and form following, (that is to say) first and principally I commend my soul unto the hand of Almighty God, hoping through merits of my Saviour, Jesus Christ, to have full pardon and foregiveness of all my sins, and to inherit everlasting life, and my body I commend to the Earth, to be decently buried at the discretion of my Executors hereinafter named, and as touching the disposition of all such temporal estate as it hath pleased God to bestow upon me, I give and dispose thereof as
followeth. First,-I will and order that all the debts which I owe unto any person or persons and my funeral charges shall be well and truly
satisfied and paid.
Item.
I give and bequeath unto my well beloved wife, Abigail, the sum of two hundred and fifty pounds lawful money of New York, to be paid by my Executors hereinafter named at some reasonable time after my decease, the same being for her subsistance and support during her life, and also a negro slave called Sylvia, and after the decease of my said wife I will and bequeath one hundred pounds of the aforesaid money unto my sons William, Joseph, Richard, Robert, Samuel, Stephen, Benjamin, Thomas, James and John, to be equally divided
amongst them share and share alike, and to their heirs and assigns forever and the aforesaid negro girl slave called Sylvia, I give unto my daughters, Rebecca Seaman, Charity Denzey*, Elizabeth Fields, Hannah Hicks, Martha Jackson, Phebe Randall, and Jemimah Hicks, to be equally
divided after being sold, between them share and share alike, and to their heirs and assigns forever.
Item.
My will is, and I do order that all and singular my lands, messuages and tenements
wheresoever the same may be found, shall be sold to the best advantage after my decease by my Executors
hereafter named at their discration, and the monies arising from such sale shall be applied and paid in manner and form following, that is to say, the before mentioned
bequeathed two hundred and fifty pounds unto my said wife, Abigail, for the uses aforesaid.
Item.
I give and bequeath unto Jacob, Steven, and John Townsend, the sons of Nathaniel Townsend, to each of them the sum of fifteen pounds, New York money, and to their heirs and assigns forever.
And the sum of one hundred and fifty five pounds, I give and bequeath unto my daughters Sarah, Rebecca, Charity, Elizabeth,
Hannah, Martha, Phebe and Jemimah, aforesaid to be equally divided between them and to their heirs and assigns forever.
I also give and bequeath unto my said daughters and to their heirs and assigns forever,
all and singular my movables, of what kind or nature soever they be, or wheresoever to be found to be equally divided and
shared between them, but it is true and meaning hereof, that before such division thereof be made, my daughter, Sarah Clements to whom I have formerly given a negro woman, shall have the sum of sixty pounds short what the rest of my said daughters have, and that before such division my daughter Martha shall have my negro girl called Nanney to her and her heirs and assigns
forever.
Item.
I do will and ordain that the residue and remaining part of the moneys which shall arise from the sale of my messuages, lands and tenements aforesaid shall be applied as follows, that is to say, I
give and bequeath unto my sons Joseph, Richard, Robert and Samuel and to their heirs and assigns forever each the sum of fifty pounds New York money, and unto
Stephen and Benjamin and their heirs and assigns, each the sum of seventy
pounds, and what moneys there shall be then remaining shall be equally divided
share and share alike un to my male children, that is to say, William, Joseph,
Richard, Robert, Stephen, Benjamin, Thomas, James and John, and to their heirs and assigns forever, and for my son James, for whom I
am counter security to James Burling for one hundred pound bond, and having paid the interest theron several years, which said bond and the money therein due with
the interest if paid at any time and discharged by my Executors, and thereby acquitting my said son James from paying the same.
The said James shall have then so much short of his share in the division, with the rest of my said sons.
And I do hereby revoke, disannull and make void all former Wills and Testaments by me at anytime made, and do also here nominate and appoint Richard Jackson and Henry Hicks to be the Executors of this my last Will and Testament.
In witness whereof I the said James Jackson have hereunto set my hand and seal the twenty seventh day of September in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred
and thirty five - 1735.
(Signed) James Jackson L. S.
Record of Will Given to Oscar Burton Robbins by
V. D. Allen 12/16/1940
*Denzey I believe to be a typographical error on the part of the person who typed this will for publishing in "History of the Jackson Family of Hempstead, Long Island,
N.Y., Ohio and Indiana - Descendants of Robert and Agnes Washburn Jackson" Author Oscar Burton Robbins.
It is stated in the family group page as Dengey? Dingee?.
Being that the name is still under question, I can not say for sure that it is not Denzey.
Transcribed for The Jackson Family Website from my Copy of "History of the Jackson Family of Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y.,
Ohio and Indiana - Descendants of Robert and Agnes Washburn Jackson" Author Oscar Burton
Robbins, 1951, pg 13;
by Julia K. Hogston 3rd great grand daughter of Samuel Craig and Jamima Jackson McCartney and wife to the 5th and 6th great grandson of James and Elizabeth Jackson Tompkins.
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This will was proved, October 21,1735