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- In the name of God, Amen, November 5, 1746. I, WILLIAM PINCKNEY, JR., of Eastchester, being sick and weak. I direct that an inventory be made of all my personal estate. I leave to my wife Sarah my negro man and 1/3 of all the rest of my movable estate. I leave to my honored father, William Pinckney, Sr., “ye choice of ten sheep out of my flocks.” I leave to William Weedon, son of Thomas Weedon, the ten sheep that I lent to Benjamin Brundage. I leave to my brother Israel all my wearing apparel, and also £3. I leave to his daughter Rachel 5 shillings, to be in full of all pretensions as heirs at law. I leave to my wife the use of my dwelling house and garden, and ½ the rest of my lands during her widowhood. If my said wife, Sarah, should prove to be with child, and be delivered of a living child in nine months after my decease, and such child should live to come to age, and marry and have issue, then it is my will and pleasure that such child should have all my lands.” But if not, then I leave to my father, William Pinckney, the sole use of the other 1/2 of my lands and tenements, and after his decease my executors are “to fairly sell” all my lands, and my wife is to have £100. And of the remainder, I leave to Mary, daughter of Philip Pinckney, £20. To William, son of Thomas Pinckney, £10. To William Weeden. son of Thomas Weeden. £30. To my eldest sister, Ithamar, wife of Joseph Conklin, £10; and the rest to my sisters, viz: Ithamar, Jane Weeden and (her three children), Mary, wife of John Hunt, Sarah Purdy, and Jemima, wife of Israel Honeywell. And I make my trusty friends, John Burling and Thomas Pinkney, executors.
Witnesses, James Morgan, Caleb Morgan, John Ward, Sr. Proved, January 24, 1746/7
source: Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1895; Abstracts of Wills on File in the Surrogate's Office, City of New York, Volume 4, 1744-1753. New York, NY: The New York Historical Society, 1896.
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1720 - 1747 (~ 27 years)
