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- [S221] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R) (Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998. Imported GEDCOM file 10 Dec 2002.).
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From Long Island Wills and Death Notes, 1766-1771
In the name of God, Amen. I, EBENEZER HULSE, of the town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, yeoman, being sick. I leave to my son, Jesse Hulse, all my homestead on which I now live, bounded by the lands of Joseph Denton and Selah Hulse, and by the upper road leading to the Old Mans, with all the appurtenances. I also leave him my three Sheep Pasture Lots, lying between the road that leads to the Old Mans and the road that leads to Coram, Being Lots 39, 40, 41, as now in fence; Also a piece of land adjoining to the south part of the Sheep Pasture Lots, called the Ten Acres, which I bought of Zachary Hawkins; Also a Sheep Pasture Lot, No. 35, and 3/4 of Lot 36, and 1/2 of Lot 37; Also a 20 acre Lot lying southward of the Hills, which I bought of John Wood, with all the additions belonging to the same; Also 2 1/2 lots of the Long Lots adjoining to it, and lying south from it, being Nos. 47-48 and 1/2 of No. 49, That is to say, so much of said Long Lots as lies between the Old Division and the road that leads from Brookhaven to Coram; Also all my lands and meadows on the South side of the Island in the Fire Place Neck, lying between the lands and meadows of Selah Hulse and the lands and meadows of Nathaniel Roe. I leave to my son Peter the south half of my land lying between John Hulse and Mr. Charles Jeffrey Smith, with the new house upon it, and all the materials which I have got to finnish it; Also another lot on the west side of the road leading unto the Town, which I bought of Isaac Liscomb, adjoining to the Church Parsonage and Gershom Jaynes land; Also a lot lying southward of the Town, on the west side of the road to Nasekeage, and bounded north by Helme's land, south by Benjamin Brewster, containing 12 acres; Also another piece of woodland lying on the west side of the Nasekeage road, bounded north by Benjamin Brewster's 20 acre lot, which he bought of John Homan, and west and south by Nathaniel Bayley's; Also all my Sheep Pasture Lots that lie between Nasakeage road and the road that leads from Town to Coram; Also 50 acres of my Long Lots on the north end of what lies southward of the road that leads from Town to Coram. I also leave him a horse. My executors are to sell the north half of my lot lying between Mr. Charles Jeffrey Smith and John Hulse, and the money to be paid on a bond given by me and Stephen Hulse to the widow Woolsey. All the rest of my lands and all my movable estate to be sold to best advantage, "except my great Iron Kettle, which I give to my daughter, Ruth Tooker." And after paying debts, I leave the rest to my daughter Elizabeth and my younger children [not named]. "My other lands, now in the Law, are to be sold if recovered." I leave to my son Stephen œ25. I leave 1/2 of the remainder to my sons, Isaac and Samuel, and the rest to my daughter Elizabeth and her younger sisters. I make my sons, Stephen and Peter, executors.
- [S122] Ancestry.com. Colonial families of Long Island, New York and Connecticut : being the ancestry & kindred of Herbert Furman Seversmith ... [database on-line]. Provo, UT: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005. Original data: Seversmith, Herbert Furman,., p. 1539 [http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/BookView.aspx?dbid=14260&pageno=1539 ].
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1694 - 1769 (75 years)
