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From: "Agnes E. Cloninger" <>
Subject: Re: Dutch-Colonies-D Digest V00 #73
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 19:27:43 -0700


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>Subject: Will of Elisha Powell

>Abstracts of Wills Vol III 1730-1744, pages 261 & 262:
>Page 232.--"Know all men by these Presents, that I, ELISHA POWELL, of
>Bethpage, in the town of Oyster Bay, on the 22 day of the 3d month called
>May, 1739," being very sick. My executors are to sell my negro boy "Ben," and
>my oxen, and pay all debts. I leave to my wife, Rebecca Powell.........

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What follows is the will of Thomas Powell the father of ELISHA POWELL, who
was born to Thomas and his first wife Abigale Wood.

I believe Elisha was married to Rebecca Seaman - can anyone verify this?

Can anyone provide the parents of Thomas Powell?

Agnes Cloninger

Lengthy will from Long Island Genealogies. 1688 compiled by Mary Powell Bunker.
THOMAS POWELL of Bethpage, LI, NY
Last will and testament of Thomas Powell Snr late of Bethpage now of
Westbury in the limits of Hempstead in Queens County on Nassau Island in
the Colony of New Yorkshire
Whereas the certainty of mortality is before me and the uncertainty when
the time of my dissolution shall come, now being indifferent in health and
of perfect memory do hereby make and ordain and appoint this my last will
and testament for the disposing of what is disposable by me and in order
thereunto I do in the first place give and bequeath my soul to God my Maker
.............

Secondly I give my Body to the Earth from whence it was taken to be buried
in a decent manner at the discretion of my executors herein after named.
And as to my outward Estate, after all my just debts are paid I do dispose
of it as followeth,
Imprimis I will and Bequeath unto my son Thomas Powell and to his heirs and
assigs forever, Twenty acres of Plain Land that I bought of John Westcoat,
and all other Land and Right of Land that I have given him Deeds of Gift
for.
I will and bequeath unto my daughter Abigale Willits one wainscot chest,
and a Box of Small Drawers that was her mothers, together with what other
things she had already had.
I will and Bequeath unto my Sons John Powell and Jonas Powell and Caleb
Powell and Wait Powell and Elisha Powell, to them and their Heirs and
Assigns forever all the land and Rights of land and Meadows as is
prticularly mentioned in their Several Deeds of Gifts for the same.
I will and Bequeath unto my Son Caleb Powell and unto my son Elisha Powell
and to their Heirs and assigns forever the Equal two thirds of said lot of
Meadows lying on the Great Neck at Huntington South lying on the west side
of the third part of said lot of meadow that I sold to my son Thomas Powell
to be equally divided between them or their Heirs and assigns forever, and
I bequeath unto my youngest son Solomon Powell the sum of Two Hundred
Pounds of Current lawful money of New York to be paid unto him when he
shall arrive to the age of one and twenty years or shall have some lawful
issue begotten by his own body or which of them shall first happen, - but
if my Son Solomon Powell happen to die before he arrive at one and twenty
years of age and have no Lawful issue begotten of his own Body Then the
above said Two hundred Pounds shall be, the equal two thirds parts thereof
Divided between all my Daughters that I have now living and the children of
my Daughter Elizabeth Titus to have one equal share divided amongst them,
and all my daughters to have an equal share and share alike, and if my
daughter Abigale Willets shall die before my son Solomon Powell, and my son
Solomon Powell before he arrive at the age of one and twenty years, or have
any lawful issue her part and share of said money shall be equally divided
amongst all her children.
And whereas the said Two Hundred pounds Bequeathed unto my son Solomon, and
in case of his decease before he arriveth at the age of one and twenty
years or have any lawful Issue the equal two thirds parts thereof
Bequeathed to all my daughters and is now due in the hands of my son Thomas
Powell, my will is that all the mean profits and rents thereof shall also
be equally divided as the said two thirds part of the said two hundred
pounds. Allowing to my Executors all their just charges about the executing
of this will, and in case my son live to the age to recieve his portion
above said he shall also have all the mean profits and Rents thereof,
allowing the charges of the executors above said. I will and Bequeath if my
son Solomon die without lawful issue or before he be one and twenty years
old the equal one third part of the Two hundred pounds Bequeathed to him be
equally divided between all my sons viz My son Thomas Powell and my son
John Powell and my son Jonas Powell and my son Caleb Powell and my son Wait
Powell and my son Elisha Powell and in case of any of their decease to
their Heirs and also the mean profits and Rents thereof as above said I
will unto them. And I will unto Samuel Titus the sum of one pound and ten
shillings current money of New York in full of the remaining part of his
wife's portion.
I will and Bequeath unto my two youngest daughters Sarah Powell and Amey
Powell my Bed and Bedding and furniture belonging unto it. I will and
bequeath unto my son Elisha Powell all my apparel and wearing clothes, and
all the remaining part of my estate in money goods and chattels after my
just debts are paid shall be equally divided amongst my six youngest
daughters viz my daughter Mercy Powell and my daughter Sarah Powell and my
daughter Amey Powell and my daughter Hannah Willis and my daughter Phebe
Willis and my daughter Rachel Willets.
I do hereby constitute, authorize, and appoint and ordain my Loving Brother
Thomas Townsend and my trusty and loving Friend Benjamin Seaman and my two
sons in law William and Henry Willis to be my Executors of this my last
Will and Testament and I do hereby Disallow Revoke and Disannul all and
every other former Testaments, Wills, Legacies, Bequests, and Executors by
me in any wise named and bequeathed or Willed and Bequeathed. Ratifying and
confirming this and no other, to be my last will and Testament.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this third day of
the first month one Thousand and seven hundred and nineteen, twenty
The words to whom, and the words the equal two thirds part thereof
Bequeathed, interlined before signing and sealing thereof.
THOMAS POWELL
Signed sealed published pronounced and delivered by the said Thomas Powell
as his last Will and Testament in the presence of us the Subscribers
NATANIIEL SEAMAN, SILAS TITUS, JOHN WILLIS, JACOB WILLIS, WILLIAM WILLIS.

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