Lydia Ivins

Aaron married Ann Ivins in 1799 in Crosswicks, Burlington County, New Jersey, United States. Ann (daughter of Moses Ivins and Keziah Shreve) was born on 12 Jan 1768; died on 1 Nov 1851 in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Birth: 12 Jan 1768, Crosswicks, Burlington County, New Jersey, United States

Notes:

The Ivins family were later settlers in Bucks county coming in through New Jersey, but we do not know at what time. Isaac Ivins, the immigrant, was married three times, his first wife being Sarah Johnson, their marriage certificate bearing date 4 mo., 26, 1711. The name of his second wife was Lydia, and the third, Ann. He died, 1768. He mentions all the wives in his will. He lived and died in Mansfield township, Burlington county, and was a storekeeper by occupation. His children were Ann, Diadema, Moses, Aaron, Born 8, 30, 1736, and died 6, 2, 1799. Isaac, Joseph and Levi. In 1792, Aaron Ivins, son of Isaac, Burlington county, but we are not informed whether the junior or senior, but as he married Ann Cheshire, 1764, he was probably son of Isaac the second, brought his wife, Ann, and children, Samuel, Ann, Mary and Barclay, and settled in Fall, to which meeting he brought a certificate. In 1796 he purchased 389 acres of Langhorne Biles on the Delaware for £5,835 or $155,560 equivalent to $40 per acre. The earlier descendants of Aaron Ivins intermarried with the families of Middleton, Cook, Comfort, Buckman, Smith, Taylor, Green and others well known in the lower end of the county. The late Dr. Horace Fremont Ivins, born in Penn's manor, October 30, 1856, and died at Easton, Pennsylvania, January 8, 1898, was a descendant. he was graduated from the Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, 1879, then spent a year in Europe, the greater part of his time in the hospitals of London and Vienna. upon his return he settled down in practice and became prominent in special branches. William H. Ivins, Camden, N. J., is a descendant of the Burlington county's immigrant. (Source: William W. H. Davis, Warren S. Ely and John W. Jordan, LL.D., History of Bucks County Pennsylvania - From the Discovery of the Delaware to the Present Time: With a Genealogical and Personal History of Bucks County, Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged, Volume I - Illustrated (New York - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1905).), pg. 79)

Aaron Ivins, wife Ann, with their minor children Samuel, Ann, Mary, and Barclay, were received by Falls Mo. Mtg. of 5-12mo-1792 on certificate from Upper Springfield, Burlington County, N. J., Mo. Mtg. -Hinshaw, American Quaker Genealogy, II, 1005. Their elder sons Aaron and Isaac Ivins also removed to within the verge of Falls Mo. Mtg. (Source: Lewis D. Cook, F.A.S.G., F.G.S.P., "Ivins of Burlington and Gloucester Counties New Jersey". The Vineland Historical Magazine, Vol XXXVi, 1962, pg. 152)

Birth:
20da 6mo 1736

Aaron married Ann Cheshire on 7 May 1764 in Crosswicks, Burlington County, New Jersey, British Colonial America. Ann was born on 10 Sep 1739 in Falls Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America; died on 6 Jan 1826 in Falls Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Birth: 18 Sep 1739, Falls Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America

Moses married Keziah Shreve about 1753 in Mansfield, Burlington County, New Jersey, Brithsh Colonial America. Keziah (daughter of Benjamin Shreve and Rebecca French) was born on 8 Mar 1730 in Burlington, New Jersey, British Colonial America; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Isaac Ivens
• Religion: member of the Society of Friends (Quaker)

Notes:

Married 3-times, father of 21 children.

...Isaac Ivins was a citizen of New Jersey at an early date. He located in or near Mansfield Township, Burlington County, N.J.
...He married in 1711 to Sarah Johnson, daughter of Thomas Johnson of Salem County.
...Isaac Ivins bought land in Mansfield Township in 1715. He was a "yeoman", which means an owner of the land that he cultivates.
...Oct. 25, 1732 Isaac Ivins of Mansfield, Burlington County, N.J. yeoman, grants to Robert Clendenon of same place, weaver, land in Mansfield Twp. of 16 acres and I/2, which land Ivins bought of Abraham Brown June 4, 1715, and by him of Thomas Douglass Feb. 9, 1696. (Vol. L of Deeds pg. 356, Dept. of State of N.J.)

Isaac Ivins of Mansfield yeoman, Samuel Goldy of same place and George Wellhouse of said place, inn holder, go on bond April 26, 1711 where-in Isaac Ivins hath License to marry Sarah Johnson, Witnesses- Daniel Leeds, Thomas Johnson. (Vol. I of Marriage Bonds page 66, Dept. of State). (Source: "Ivins Family")

...Isaac showed great promise, learning farming, husbandry and marketing. Most of the people, including the Ivins, were Quakers or Friends. Isaac joined the Quaker group in 1711 and it's written '...he was often the inspiration of the Society of Friends in the New World". Daniel, having married in the religion, taught Isaac the Quaker way of working, helping other, and asking the Lord for guidance. Nothing seemed to keep this philosophy from reaching an abundance in their life style.
...In 1707 Isaac was attracted to Sarah Johnson, an attractive girl also sought after by Thomas Story It later developed that Thomas Story threatened a suit for breach of promise. Daniel advised his son to leave town until the situation settled down. During his absence from Salem Isaac went to GeorgeTown and opened a trading post with the Mohut and Shacanum Indians I 1709. Axes, cloth, and guns were popular items. With success in this venture he added a tavern or inn. He made considerable money and felt the time had come to once again offer his love to Sarah Johnson. He retumed to Salem; Sarah had now married Thomas Story, and Isaac purchased for a decision. Thomas said Sarah had give him her favors and should marry him. Sarah's mother was shocked at such a statement and allowed Sarah to choose between the two men in love with her. She chose Isaac Ivins even though the Quaker church would not marry them. They were married by New Jersey license in 1711 at Salem with only their families in attendance.
...The young couple moved to George Town where their Trading Post and Tavern was located. They stayed there until 1715, where upon they sold to Mordecai Lincoln (ancestor of Abraham Lincoln). In 1715 they purchased one thousand acres and moved to Mansfield and Chesterfield Township, Burlington County, New Jersey. Isaac also helped build the Friend's meeting house at Crosswicks, Sarah bore Isaac eight children: Isaac, Moses. Thomas, Joseph, Solomon, William, Samuel and Sarah.
...In 1718 more land was needed to support the family and its expansion. A neighbor, Abraham Brown, sold to Isaac Sr. one hundred acres. During this land transfer Isaac became acquainted with Lydia Brown. In 1728 Sarah Ivins died during the hard cold winter of consumption. Isaac, not a man to be left alone, married his neighbor, Lydia Brown in 1730. He was 50 years old while Lydia was only 25. His new wife took over raising the family and added four more children from this union making the total eleven.
...Preserve Brown (Lydia's father) died in 1731, leaving four hundred acres to Lydia. After a short eight years of marriage, Lydia died in 1738. Since there were children still at home whose ages were 3,5,7, and 9, Isaac married a widow, Ann Kryby in 1740. Ann became the new mother of the children still at home. Some adjustment was only natural since Ann, having no children of her own, took a bit of time to get the family in hand.
...Isaac continued to purchase land and in 1751 he purchased more land from the same man. At the time of this last land purchase Isaac was eighty-five years old.
...On July 19,1767 Isaac Ivins died. His estate was valued at $4,706 GBP. In his will he divided his land between his sons, demanding that all the girls be taken care of by an annual income until married. The executors of Isaac's estate were his son Joseph and his son-in-law John Thom. Ann Kryby (Isaac's third wife) was awarded $15GBP a year and all the household goods she had when married to Isaac Sr. The sons, Thomas, Isaac, Joseph, Solomon, William, Moses and Aaron had been settled on land as they married. At Isaac's passing they gained title to the land. (Source: Compiled by Adam Brockie, Maureen Brockie, Ivins Family History 1610-1920: (November 2005).)

...Isaac Ivins became a Quaker in 1711 and he was often the inspiration of the Society of Friends in the New World. The colony's constitution was based on Quaker principles of equality and toleration.
...Isaac Ivins acquired a 100 acres tract in Mansfield Township, Burlington County N. J., from Abraham Brown by Deed of 13 June 1715. He died testate in that Township between 19 July 1767 and 11 July 1768, the dates of signing and of proving his Will, in which he describes himself as "shopkeeper." He married first, by N. J. license bond of 26 April 1711, Sarah Johnson. She was evidently the daughter Sarah named in the Will of Thomas Johnson of Mannington Creek, Salem County, N. J., dated 30th of 7th month (Sept.) 1696, and the "cousin" (niece) Sarah Ivins named in the Will of his brother Richard Johnson, Esq., of Salem, dated 18 January 1819/20. Isaac Ivins married secondly, about 1730, Lydia Brown, daughter of Preserve Brown Sr. of Hanover Township, Burlington County, N. J. Isaac Ivins married thirdly one Ann_____, who is named in his Will of 19 July 1767.
...By deed of 21 Feb. 1720, Isaac Ivins of Mansfield Township, Burlington County, N. J. yeoman, conveyed to Preserve Brown of same place, for 12 Pounds, a 16 acres tract partly in said Mansfield and partly in Chesterfield Twps., (reciting that it was part of the 100 acres tract which said Ivins had purchased from Abraham Brown by Deed of 13 June 1715, and which was part of a 300 acres tract which said Brown had purchased from Thomas Duglis by Deed of 9 Feb. 1696), expecting a small part which said Abraham Brown held by virtue of a devise in the Will of his father. Acknowledged by said Isaac Ivins on 26 Feb. 1749 and recorded in West N. J. Deed Book HH, page 73.

"Isaac Ivins was for half a century one of the noted residents of his section. He kept a general store and trading post at Georgetown, Burlington County, which was the resort of the trapper Indians as well as white hunters." --H. B. French, supradicta.

...The Will of Isaac Ivins of Mansfield Township, Burlington County, N. J., "shopkeeper", dated 19 July 1767 and proved 11 July 1768, devises to wife Ann all the household goods that was hers when I married her, and 15 Pounds yearly; the residue of estate to "my well beloved children that be living at the time of my decease: (not by names); and appoints son Joseph Ivins and my son-in-law John Thorn execrs. Witnesses: William Walton, Aaron Taylor, John Robinson.
...The Inventory of the personal estate of Isaac Ivines decd., taken 11 July 1768, was appraised at 4,706 Pounds 7 pence. The Account by the Executors, dated 31 Dec. 1773, itemizes Cash paid to the legatees vis. Ann Nutt, Isaac Ivins, Solomon Ivins, Lydia Folwell, William Shreeve, William Ivins, Samuel Ivins, Moses Ivins, Joseph Ivins, and John Thorne. (Abstracts published in N. J. Archives, XXXIII, 215.) (Source: Lewis D. Cook, F.A.S.G., F.G.S.P., "Ivins of Burlington and Gloucester Counties New Jersey". The Vineland Historical Magazine, Vol XXXVi, 1962, vol. 36, 1952)

Isaac married Lydia Brown in 1730 in Mansfield, Burlington County, New Jersey, Brithsh Colonial America. Lydia (daughter of Preserve Brown, Sr. and Mary _____) was born in 1704 in Burlington County, New Jersey, British Colonial America; died on 23 Sep 1737 in Mansfield, Burlington County, New Jersey, Brithsh Colonial America. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Isaac Ivens
• Religion: member of the Society of Friends (Quaker)

Notes:

Married 3-times, father of 21 children.

...Isaac Ivins was a citizen of New Jersey at an early date. He located in or near Mansfield Township, Burlington County, N.J.
...He married in 1711 to Sarah Johnson, daughter of Thomas Johnson of Salem County.
...Isaac Ivins bought land in Mansfield Township in 1715. He was a "yeoman", which means an owner of the land that he cultivates.
...Oct. 25, 1732 Isaac Ivins of Mansfield, Burlington County, N.J. yeoman, grants to Robert Clendenon of same place, weaver, land in Mansfield Twp. of 16 acres and I/2, which land Ivins bought of Abraham Brown June 4, 1715, and by him of Thomas Douglass Feb. 9, 1696. (Vol. L of Deeds pg. 356, Dept. of State of N.J.)

Isaac Ivins of Mansfield yeoman, Samuel Goldy of same place and George Wellhouse of said place, inn holder, go on bond April 26, 1711 where-in Isaac Ivins hath License to marry Sarah Johnson, Witnesses- Daniel Leeds, Thomas Johnson. (Vol. I of Marriage Bonds page 66, Dept. of State). (Source: "Ivins Family")

...Isaac showed great promise, learning farming, husbandry and marketing. Most of the people, including the Ivins, were Quakers or Friends. Isaac joined the Quaker group in 1711 and it's written '...he was often the inspiration of the Society of Friends in the New World". Daniel, having married in the religion, taught Isaac the Quaker way of working, helping other, and asking the Lord for guidance. Nothing seemed to keep this philosophy from reaching an abundance in their life style.
...In 1707 Isaac was attracted to Sarah Johnson, an attractive girl also sought after by Thomas Story It later developed that Thomas Story threatened a suit for breach of promise. Daniel advised his son to leave town until the situation settled down. During his absence from Salem Isaac went to GeorgeTown and opened a trading post with the Mohut and Shacanum Indians I 1709. Axes, cloth, and guns were popular items. With success in this venture he added a tavern or inn. He made considerable money and felt the time had come to once again offer his love to Sarah Johnson. He retumed to Salem; Sarah had now married Thomas Story, and Isaac purchased for a decision. Thomas said Sarah had give him her favors and should marry him. Sarah's mother was shocked at such a statement and allowed Sarah to choose between the two men in love with her. She chose Isaac Ivins even though the Quaker church would not marry them. They were married by New Jersey license in 1711 at Salem with only their families in attendance.
...The young couple moved to George Town where their Trading Post and Tavern was located. They stayed there until 1715, where upon they sold to Mordecai Lincoln (ancestor of Abraham Lincoln). In 1715 they purchased one thousand acres and moved to Mansfield and Chesterfield Township, Burlington County, New Jersey. Isaac also helped build the Friend's meeting house at Crosswicks, Sarah bore Isaac eight children: Isaac, Moses. Thomas, Joseph, Solomon, William, Samuel and Sarah.
...In 1718 more land was needed to support the family and its expansion. A neighbor, Abraham Brown, sold to Isaac Sr. one hundred acres. During this land transfer Isaac became acquainted with Lydia Brown. In 1728 Sarah Ivins died during the hard cold winter of consumption. Isaac, not a man to be left alone, married his neighbor, Lydia Brown in 1730. He was 50 years old while Lydia was only 25. His new wife took over raising the family and added four more children from this union making the total eleven.
...Preserve Brown (Lydia's father) died in 1731, leaving four hundred acres to Lydia. After a short eight years of marriage, Lydia died in 1738. Since there were children still at home whose ages were 3,5,7, and 9, Isaac married a widow, Ann Kryby in 1740. Ann became the new mother of the children still at home. Some adjustment was only natural since Ann, having no children of her own, took a bit of time to get the family in hand.
...Isaac continued to purchase land and in 1751 he purchased more land from the same man. At the time of this last land purchase Isaac was eighty-five years old.
...On July 19,1767 Isaac Ivins died. His estate was valued at $4,706 GBP. In his will he divided his land between his sons, demanding that all the girls be taken care of by an annual income until married. The executors of Isaac's estate were his son Joseph and his son-in-law John Thom. Ann Kryby (Isaac's third wife) was awarded $15GBP a year and all the household goods she had when married to Isaac Sr. The sons, Thomas, Isaac, Joseph, Solomon, William, Moses and Aaron had been settled on land as they married. At Isaac's passing they gained title to the land. (Source: Compiled by Adam Brockie, Maureen Brockie, Ivins Family History 1610-1920: (November 2005).)

...Isaac Ivins became a Quaker in 1711 and he was often the inspiration of the Society of Friends in the New World. The colony's constitution was based on Quaker principles of equality and toleration.
...Isaac Ivins acquired a 100 acres tract in Mansfield Township, Burlington County N. J., from Abraham Brown by Deed of 13 June 1715. He died testate in that Township between 19 July 1767 and 11 July 1768, the dates of signing and of proving his Will, in which he describes himself as "shopkeeper." He married first, by N. J. license bond of 26 April 1711, Sarah Johnson. She was evidently the daughter Sarah named in the Will of Thomas Johnson of Mannington Creek, Salem County, N. J., dated 30th of 7th month (Sept.) 1696, and the "cousin" (niece) Sarah Ivins named in the Will of his brother Richard Johnson, Esq., of Salem, dated 18 January 1819/20. Isaac Ivins married secondly, about 1730, Lydia Brown, daughter of Preserve Brown Sr. of Hanover Township, Burlington County, N. J. Isaac Ivins married thirdly one Ann_____, who is named in his Will of 19 July 1767.
...By deed of 21 Feb. 1720, Isaac Ivins of Mansfield Township, Burlington County, N. J. yeoman, conveyed to Preserve Brown of same place, for 12 Pounds, a 16 acres tract partly in said Mansfield and partly in Chesterfield Twps., (reciting that it was part of the 100 acres tract which said Ivins had purchased from Abraham Brown by Deed of 13 June 1715, and which was part of a 300 acres tract which said Brown had purchased from Thomas Duglis by Deed of 9 Feb. 1696), expecting a small part which said Abraham Brown held by virtue of a devise in the Will of his father. Acknowledged by said Isaac Ivins on 26 Feb. 1749 and recorded in West N. J. Deed Book HH, page 73.

"Isaac Ivins was for half a century one of the noted residents of his section. He kept a general store and trading post at Georgetown, Burlington County, which was the resort of the trapper Indians as well as white hunters." --H. B. French, supradicta.

...The Will of Isaac Ivins of Mansfield Township, Burlington County, N. J., "shopkeeper", dated 19 July 1767 and proved 11 July 1768, devises to wife Ann all the household goods that was hers when I married her, and 15 Pounds yearly; the residue of estate to "my well beloved children that be living at the time of my decease: (not by names); and appoints son Joseph Ivins and my son-in-law John Thorn execrs. Witnesses: William Walton, Aaron Taylor, John Robinson.
...The Inventory of the personal estate of Isaac Ivines decd., taken 11 July 1768, was appraised at 4,706 Pounds 7 pence. The Account by the Executors, dated 31 Dec. 1773, itemizes Cash paid to the legatees vis. Ann Nutt, Isaac Ivins, Solomon Ivins, Lydia Folwell, William Shreeve, William Ivins, Samuel Ivins, Moses Ivins, Joseph Ivins, and John Thorne. (Abstracts published in N. J. Archives, XXXIII, 215.) (Source: Lewis D. Cook, F.A.S.G., F.G.S.P., "Ivins of Burlington and Gloucester Counties New Jersey". The Vineland Historical Magazine, Vol XXXVi, 1962, vol. 36, 1952)

Isaac married Sarah Johnson on 26 Apr 1711 in Monmouth County, New Jersey, British Colonial America. Sarah was born about 1680 in Mansfield, Burlington County, New Jersey, Brithsh Colonial America; died in 1728 in Mansfield, Burlington County, New Jersey, Brithsh Colonial America. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

...The Shreve family were among the earliest settlers of New England, Caleb, the progenitor, being recorded as a resident of Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1641. Two of his sons, Caleb and John, located in Rhode Island, the former, in 1680, marring Sarah, daughter of Dirick Areson, of Flushing, L. I.. Soon after he removed to Shrewsbury, East Jersey, in the vicinity of which he remained from 1685 until 1699, when he purchased a large tract of over 300 acres from Richard French, Mt. Pleasant, Mansfield Township, Burlington County, West Jersey. This notable homestead has remained in the possession of successive generations of the family until this day.
...Caleb Shreve had seven sons and three daughters. At his death in 1740, sixty years after his marriage, his wife was still living. His will bequeathed to her one third of his personal property and a life interest in his real estate. In a note "inferted before signing of ye same,' he requested that his wife, at her death, leave her personal property to Benjamin, the youngest son to whom was left the entire estate, after his mother's death, except certain small legacies to his brothers, Thomas, Joshua, Joseph, Caleb, Jonathan and David five shillings each; the same to his daughters, Mary (Shreve) Gibbs and Sarah (Shreve) Ogburn; five shillings to his son-in-law, Benj. Scattergood and some personal property to Sarah Shreve, daughter of his son Joshua. It is supposed that the older sons were provided for in his life time. The daughter who was the wife of Benj. Scattergood evidently was deceased.
...Benjamin Shreve added to his valuable patrimony by various land purchases some 450 acres. Tradition says he died prematurely in consequence of a fall from his horse. He was not yet fifty years of age. His will shows his solicitude for his minor children and their careful bringing up. Several of his sons and one grandson distinguished themselves in the war for national independence. Although the Shreve family were honored and esteemed Friends, meeting and government records show that the various branches of the family were possessed of a martial spirit to an eminent degree. A portion of the old house was built by Caleb Shreve in 1725, and another part by Benjamin in 1742, these figures being conspicuous on the eastern end. it stands upon high ground commanding a fine view, and within has many colonial features, in old Dutch tiling, fireplaces, cupboards, etc. From Caleb the property passed to his son, Benjamin, who died in 1844. In 1902 it descended to the present owner, B. F. Haywood Shreve, of Philadelphia. (Source: Compiled and Published by Howard Barclay French, Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas French - Volume I: With some account of Colonial Manners and Doings(Philadelphia: Privately Printed, 1909), pg. 223)

WILL
Benjamin Shreve
...In the Name of God Amen The Fourteenth Day of March in the Year of our Lord 1750.51 One Thousand Seven Hundred & Fifty, Fifty One, I Benjamin Shreve of Mansfield in the County of Burlington in the Province of West new jersey Yeoman being weak and Sick in bodey but in perfect Mind and Memory thanks be given to God for the Same, 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. And as touching Such Worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this Life, I give devise and dispose of the Same in the following manner and Form. Imprimis it is my Will and I do order, That in the first place, all my just Debts and Funeral Charges be paid and Satisfied by my Executors hereafter mentioned.
...ITEM I give to my well beloved Wife Rebecca Shreve One Third part of all my personal Estate, to her Heirs and Assigns forever, And also the Benefit of my Real Estate if She continue my Widow till my Children come of Age each in their Order it being to enable her to bring them up, but if she happen to Marry again She Shall have no power any longer in my Real Estate or the bringing up of my Children, Saving at the Discression of my Exrs. as they Shall Appoint or order. ITEM I give to my Two Daughters (Viz) Kezia Shreve and Sarah Shreve Share and Share alike of the remainder of my Personal Estate to be paid them as they attain to the Age of Eighteen Years. Now it is my Will tat Kezia she Shall have her Portion within a Year after my Decease Seeing She is of Age and Sarah as above said now if either of my Daughters Die within a Year after my decease She that Surviveth Shall have the Portion of the Deceased. ITEM I give to my Son Caleb Shreve all and Singular the Estate of Lands and Tenements I now live on to him his Heirs and Assigns forever. ITEM I give to my Son William Shreve all and Singular the Lands Farm or Plantation I lately purchased of Preserve Brown lying and being in Mansfield and part in Chesterfield in ye Said County of Burlington to be enjoyed by him when he Attaineth to the Age of Twenty One Years, his Heirs and Assigns forever. ITEM I give to my Son Israel Shreve all that Farm or Plantation I lately Purchased of Jacob Ong of Hanover and also the One Hundred Acres of Land I had by Virtue of my Fathers last Will & Testament which Land my Father Purchased of Daniel Smith, to him his Heirs and Assigns forever. And also a right for One Hundred Acres of Land which I Purchased of Preserve Brown all which to be enjoyed by him when he attaineth to the Age of Twenty One Years his Heirs and Assigns for ever. ITEM I give to my Three Sons (Viz) Caleb, William and Israel all & Singular my Cedar Swamp to be equally Divided amongst them by North and South Lines, Caleb to have the West Side, William the middle part and Israel the residue to be enjoyed by them their Heirs and Assigns forever. Further it is my Will that if my Son Caleb Should Die before he come of Age that William Shall have the Portion that was given to Caleb, and Israels Portion shall be that is given to William and if either of ye younger Ones die before they come of Age the Survivor to enjoy both their Portions his Heirs and Assigns forever. ITEM I give to my Two Youngest Sons Benjamin and Samuel each of them Five Hundred Pounds to be paid them as they attain to the Age of Twenty One Years, and if either of them die before they come of Age the Survivor to have the whole and to be paid as followeth Caleb to pay to Benjamin Four Pounds and William to pay to Benjamin One Hundred Pounds lawful Money of the Same Place. And William to pay unto Samuel Four Hundred Pounds & Caleb One hundred Pounds to compleat their Portions to be paid them out of their Estates given them as abovesaid. Also it is my Will that my Nigro Man Jack be immediately Set free he paying to them that enjoyeth the Homestead forty Shillings per Year for Five Years after my Decease and the Money to be kept in order to keep him in his Old Age, and the rest they that enjoyeth the Homestead Shall make up in Maintaining him. I likewise order that no Timber be cut to waste or destroyed Saving for the necessary use of ye places, nor no more upland to be cleared neither any of ye Meadows & Swamp land to be plowed. Lastly I Constitute and appoint Daniel Doughty and Michael Newbold my trusty and well beloved Friends, my only & Executors of this my last Will and Testament. And I do hereby utterly disallow, revoke & disanul all and every other former Testaments, Wills, Legacies, & Executors, by me in any ways before this Time Named, Willed and Bequeathed, Ratifying & Confirming this and no other to be my last Will and Testament In Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my Hand and Seal the Day and Year above written.
Benjaman Shreve (seal)

Signed, Sealed, Published and Declared by the Said Benjamin Shreve as his last Will & Testament in ye Presence of us ye Subscribers
Barzillai Newbold
Levi Nutt
Robt. Bland
Daniel Doughty & Michael Newbold Executors in the within Testament named being duly affirmed according to Law did declare that the within Instrument contains the true last Will and Testament of Benjamin Shreve. (Source: Compiled and Published by Howard Barclay French, Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas French - Volume I: With some account of Colonial Manners and Doings(Philadelphia: Privately Printed, 1909) pg. 227, 228)

Benjamin married Rebecca French on 23 Apr 1729 in Springfield Township, Burlington County, New Jersey, British Colonial Ameirca. Rebecca (daughter of Richard French and Mary King) was born in 1709 in Burlington, New Jersey, British Colonial America; died after 1750 in Burlington, New Jersey, British Colonial America. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
23da 2mo 1729