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Ephraim's glory is like the firstling of his bullocks and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth.
~ Deuteronomy 33:17

Stephen's Smith Family - Ancestors, Descendants and Cousins

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Thomas Stillwell I

1.  Page 162-163.  WILL - THOMAS STILLWELL.  In the name of God, Amen.  I, THOMAS STILLWELL, of Staten Island, Esq., begin sick and weak.  I leave to NICHOLAS STILLWELL, son of my son THOMAS, deceased, all that Plantation of farm, commonly called Wallbours farm, lying on the east side of the Old Town, and also one half of the meadow belonging to it; that it to say, that part of the meadow that lies next to the ditch.  And the said NICHOLAS is to pay to his two sisters, MARY and ANNE STILLWELL, Ð50 each, when they come to the age of eighteen.  And he is to pay to MARTHA BRITTAN, daughter of BENJAMIN BRITTAN, Ð-.  If he die under age, then the land is to go to his siters Mary and Anne, and they are to pay to Martha Brittan Ð100.  I leave to my daughter FRANCES, wife of NICHOLAS BRITTAN, 60 acres of land joining to the land I now live on, as it is now in his possession, during her life, and then to her son NICHOLAS BRITTAN, and he is to pay to his sister, MARY BRITTAN, Ð25.  I leave to my daugghers, ANNE and RACHEL STILLWELL, the messuage and tenement with all the housing and buildings and all the lot, and three quarters of a lot of land, with a lot of salt meadow at the Great Kill, marked No. 2, which is the land I now live upon, after my wifes decease, and they are to pay to my dauther, FRANCES BRITTAN, Ð50.  I leave to my wife MARTHA, the use of all the estate I now live upon, for life, or during her widowhood, and make her sole executor, and my loving friends, John Stillwell and Abraham Taylor, Esq., and Richard Merril, Sr., overseers.  Dated May 21, 1704.  Witnesses, Nathaniel Whitman, Ellis Duxbury, Alex Stuart.  Proved before Thomas Wenham, Esq., being duly authorized by Lord Cornbury, May 9, 1705. Liber 7:240   WNYHS  I:404


Martha Billiou

Thomas and Martha Stillwell acquired land on Staten Island on 29 June 1677 from Pierre Billiou.


Thomas Stillwell II

1.  Page 69.  A true and perfect inventory of all and singular the goods, etc., of THOMAS STILLWELL, Jr., of Staten Island.
Taken by Nathan Whitman and Lambert Johnson.  February 3, 1703/4.  6 cows, 2 heifers, Ð15; 17 head other cattes, Ð22.
Seems to have been the owner of a small farm.  Exhibited by MARY STILLWELL, administrator.  October 3, 1708.  Liber 5-6:479 WNYHS  I:330.


Isaac Billiou

DEATH: Page 11-12. ISAAC BILJOU. In the name of God, Amen, the 7th of September, 1696. I, ISAAC BILJOU of Richmond County, planter, being of sound health. I give to my eldest son JACOB, Ð20, in preference to all others, when he is of age. I leave to my wife IDA, one third of all lands and personal estate for life, and the use of all until the children are of age. After my wifes decease, all my estate is to go to my children, JACOB, JOHN and PETER, and they are to pay legacies to my daughters FRANCINA and ARIANTIE. I make my wife IDA and my father PETER BILJOU, and Peter le Comte, and Cornelius Barens Van Der Wyck and David Polhemus, tutors to my children. Witnesses: N. Bayard, Peter Lakeman, Samuel Bayard. Proved before Richard Ingoldsby, Esq., December 22, 1709. Liber 7:562 WNYHS II:34.


Christense Chret Billiou

BIRTH: 1633


Martha Billiou

Thomas and Martha Stillwell acquired land on Staten Island on 29 June 1677 from Pierre Billiou.


John Charles Morgan I

Page 125-6. In the name of God, Amen, July 14, 1770. I, JOHN MORGAN, of Richmond County, being very low in body. I leave to my wife DEBORAH the use of the lot of land I bouught of NICHOLAS LARZELERE, JR., commonly called the Douglass Lot, until my son CHARLES is of age. She making no waste of timber, nor cut any, only for the necessary use of the Plantation. Also the use of that portion of my farm I dwell on, with the houses, lands, and improbements adjoing to NICHOLAS LARZELERE, and adjoining the land before mentioned, until my son JESSe is of age. She making no waste. I also give her, in consideration of her bringing up my children and giving them schooling, until they are fit to be put to trades, the following articles: one bed and furniture, one bed which the children lyeth on, 2 cows, 2 horses, farming utensils, waggon, horse and chair, tea kettle, and tea ware, linnen wheel, and a negro boy, and all my library books.  My large Bible I leave in the house for the use of my family, so long as my wife continues in it, and then to my son CHARLES. I also leave her all kitchen utensils. I leave to my daughter ANN a bed, 2 cows, a negro girl, and Ð20, when she is 18. I leave to my son CHARLES the lot I bought of NICHOLAS LARZZELERE, called Douglass Lot, after the eath of my wife. With the meadow ground thereto belonging, And 6 acres of meadow, which was Sweems, lying between Larzeleres land and the upland, except a parcel bounded as follows: West by RICHARD HARIS, south by JOHN JOURNEY, east by a deep gully, and extends down said gully to a white oak tree stump, broken off by the wind, pretty well up, and standing near the place where we cross the gully with the waggons, nd then north a straight line to a white wood tree standing near the Harris fence, at the brow of the hill. And he is to pay to my son JOSEPH Ð100, when of age. I leave to my son JESSE the lot of land and meadow I now live on, with the house and barn; and lies between the land of NICHOLAS LARZELERE and the land given to my son CHARLES. Also the piece of wood land reserved. And he is to pay to my son JOSEPH Ð100. I ordered that the wood lot of land where my son JOHN now lives, with the salt meadow thereto belonging, be sold by my executors, and 1/3 of the money to be put at interest for my son JOHN, and the other 2/3 to my two sons, JAMES and PETER BILLIEW, to be put at the interest for them till they are of age. I leave to my grandason, JOHN CORNELL, 10. To my grandson, JOHN MORGAN, Ð10. All the rest of movable estate to my daughters, first giving to my daughter FRANCES, with of AUTER SIMESON, a negro girl Sarah, provided the said Auter Simeson pay a bond of Ð40 to John Watts, for which I am bound.
I leave to my dauther CATHARINE, widow of Barent Christopher, a negro girl, now in her possession. I leave to my daughter ELIZABETH, wife of DAVID LA TOURETTE, a negro girl. [Mentions daughters MARTHA, RACHEL AND LEAH, with of MOSES DEPUE.] My wife is to have the use of a room in my house, and two cows and her fire wood and garden, and fruit, and two barrels of cider a year. I leave to my son CHARLES a loom and tackling. I leave to my sons, JAMES and PETER BILLIEW, each a gun and a sword. I make my son-in-law, David LaTourette, and my firend and kinsman, David LaFarge, and my firend Joshua Wright, executors.
Witnesses, Cornelius Cole, blacksmith, Benjamin Seaman, Benjamin Drake. My wife it to have all the grain and cloth for the use of the family. Proved, August 28, 1770. {Note-James and Peter Billiew were probably stepson. W.S. P.} Liber 27:462. WNYHS VII:383.


Barbe de Bauffremont

BIRTH: or Herlies, France