Transcript of Last Will and Testament of William Miller

Transcribed from a photo copy of original will by Dennis Miller 5 June 2008. I kept the original spelling and (lack of) punctuation.

In the Name of God amen the fourteenth day of September one thousand seven hundred and sixty eight I William Miller of Morris town yeoman Being sick and weak of body but of perfect mind and memory thanks be given to god therefore 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 recomend my soul into the hands of god that gave it and my body I recomend to the earth to be burried in decent and Christian burial at the discretion of my executors-

Nothing doubting but at the general resurection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of god and as touching such worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased god to bless me in this life I give devise and dispose of in the following manner and form and first that my lawful debts be payed-

______ I give and bequeth to my dearly beloved wife Magra seventeen acres of land lying and being in Somerset County adjoining land of Abraham Suthards and lands of Elisha Ayers and so down the brook alongst the plantation I now live on as long as her natural life and next I give and bequeth to my son William the plantation he now lives on to him and his heirs forever it lying and being in a place commonly known by the name of the Clove in York government it containing one hundred and fifty three acres and next I give and bequeth to my son Henry Miller the plantation he now lives on containing one hundred and fifty acres to him and his heirs forever it also lying and being in that place called the Clove in York government and next I give and bequeth to my son John Miller that plantation he now liveth on containing one hundred and fifty acres it also lying and being in a place called the Clove in York government to him and his heirs forever and next I give and bequeth to my son Garret Miller that plantation he now lives on containing one hundred and fifty acres it also lying and being in the Clove in York government to him and his heirs forever and next I give and bequeth to my daughter Sarah fifty acres of land lying and being also in the Clove in York government to her and her heirs for ever all of the above lands purchased of William Earle of Stirling as by a deed will appear refference thereunto being had and next I give and bequeth to my daughter Lisha Ferver the sume of one hundred pounds current and lawful money of New Jersey at eight shills the ounce to be levied out of my estate to be paid one year after my decese by my executor and next I give and bequeth to my daughters Elizabeth and Kattrien the plantation I now live on to be equally divided between them together with the seventy acres that is adjoining this place to them and their heirs for ever It is also my will that my loving wife live on this place as long as she lives and take care of the place and not to wast or destroy the place I also give to my loving wife all the movables on the plantation whom I likewise constitute make and ordain my sole executriux of this my last will and testament one I hearby utterly disallow revoke and disanull all and every other former testaments wills legacys and bequeths and [unable to decipher last line]

Signed sealed published pronounced his

And declared by the said William William X Miller

Miller as his last will and testament mark

In the presence of us the subscribers

Amariah Sutton

Blackert Whitneck

Paultus Miller