Mary Polly Brown

Mary married Michael Swope on 27 Oct 1797 in Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland, United States. Michael was born in 1774 in Maryland, British Colonial America; died on 13 Jun 1864 in Foxville, Frederick County, Maryland, United States; was buried in Jun 1864 in Foxville, Frederick County, Maryland, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. John W. Swope was born in 1802; died on 21 May 1891 in Chewsville, Washington County, Maryland, United States; was buried in May 1891 in Chewsville, Washington County, Maryland, United States.

Other Events:

• Name: Thomas Brown

Thomas married Hannah Pittenger about 1766 in Frederick County, Maryland, British Colonial America. Hannah (daughter of Daniel Pittenger and Elizabeth Amy Biggs) was born about 1736 in Somerset County, New Jersey, British Colonial America; died in Oct 1794 in Foxville, Frederick County, Maryland, United States; was buried in Oct 1794 in Frederick County, Maryland, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:

Mentioned in the will of Daniel Pittenger as daughter Hannah Brown.

Other Events:

• Baptism: 8 Jan 1709, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British Colonial America; Address:
  Dutch Reformed Church
• Property: 1745; purchased Royenton Plains from Henry Munday
• Property: 30 Mar 1745; leased Lot # 3 of Monocacy Manor
• Will: 24 May 1794, Frederick County, Maryland, United States
• Probate: 3 Feb 1796, Frederick County, Maryland, United States

Notes:

Property:

—Lot # 3 was next to his father-in-law John Biggs. The Monocacy Manor consisted of 8,983 acres, a large land grant issued to Daniel Dulaney. In March of 1732 the proprietor of the Provence of Maryland desired to attract settlers to the Northern and the Western areas of his territory. Any person having a family to come to the land within three years of the proclamation and actually settle on the land could have two hundred acres without payment for 3 years. After 3 years the settler had to pay to the proprietor four shillings sterling for every hundred acres.
—The colonies induced the French and Indian War which began in 1755. All settlements of the western parts of Frederick County eventually came under attack. They were killed, tortured and buried out by the French and Iroquois Indians.

Will:

LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF DANIEL PITTINGER
(Edited for easier reading)

—In the Name of God Amen I Daniel Pittenger of Frederick County and State of Maryland being week in Body but in perfect memory and understanding considering the certainty of death and the uncertainty of the time thereof and being desirous to settle my worldly affairs and thereby to be the better prepared to leave this world when it shall please God to call me hence. Do therefore make and publish this my last Will and Testament in manner and from following. That is to say first and Principally I commit my soul into the hands of Almighty God and my body to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my executors herein after named and after my debts and funeral charges are paid.
— I Devise and bequeath as follows--- Inprimis all the Land I died possessed of I give and bequeath to my four sons John, Daniel, William and Benjamin to be laid off into four Equal Shares or parts in the following manner--- One fourth part to be laid off for my son John so as to Include the Plantation or farm together with the buildings and improvements thereon which my son John now lives which I give and bequeath to my said son John during his natural life, and at his decease to my grandson William, son of John in fee simple hereby directing that when my grandson William shall or may receive or obtain the said Land he shall pay unto his Sister Elizabeth my granddaughter the Sum of Fifty Pounds current money.
— Item - I give and bequeath to my son Daniel one of the fourth part of the Land I died possessed of in fee simple to laid off so as to include the farm together with the buildings and improvements on which my said son Daniel now lives.
— Item - I give and bequeath to my two Sons William and Benjamin the remaining two fourths of the lands I die possessed of in fee simple to be laid off so as to Include the farm together with the buildings and improvements on which they the said William and Benjamin now lives hereby positively directing and enjoying that they neither he one nor the other shall assign transfer sell or in any manner dispose of his share or part without the consent and approbation of the other.
—Item - I will desire and direct that my executors shall out of my estate pay or cause to be paid to my daughter Elizabeth Devose as soon as possible after my decease the sum of twenty pounds but if she dies before me or before the payment is made to her then, in that case the sum of twenty pounds to be equally Divided among my four sons John, Daniel, William and Benjamin their representatives.
—Item - I give and bequeath to my grandsons John Brown and Joseph Brown and to my granddaughter Catharine Brown the sum of twenty pounds current money to be equally divided among the three and my granddaughter Elizabeth Olar the sum of twenty pounds current money and my granddaughter Mary Albaugh the sum of fifteen pounds each to be paid them by my executors each as they may arrive of age.
—Item - I give and bequeath to my daughter Hannah Brown the Sum of twenty pounds current money to paid to her or her representatives as soon as may be after my Decease.
—Item - I will and direct in order to raise the money hereby devised and bequeathed to my two daughters Elizabeth and Hannah to my Grandsons John Brown & Joseph Brown to my granddaughters Catherine Brown, Elisabeth Olar and Mary Albaugh that each of my sons John, Daniel, William & Benjamin shall each of them pay an equal part or proportion of the money required to discharge the said legacies and thereby Burthen the lands I die possessed of for the payment thereof.
—Item - All the residue of my estate real and personal I desire and bequeath to be equally divided among my four sons John, Daniel, William and Benjamin. And Lastly I do hereby constitute & appoint my sons Daniel, William and Benjamin to be my Joint executors of this my last Will and Testament revoking and annulling all former wills by me heretofore made ratifying and confirming this and none other to be my last Will and Testament. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this twenty fourth day of May one thousand seven hundred and ninety four.
Daniel (his x Mark) Pittinger

Signed sealed published and
declared by the said Daniel Pittinger the above named testator as and for his Last Will and Testament in presence of us who at his request & in his presence have subscribed our names as witness hereto.
Jno. Carmack, Henry Crise
John Plumer

Daniel married Elizabeth Amy Biggs in 1732/3 in Somerset County, Colony of New Jersey, British Colonial America. Elizabeth (daughter of John Biggs and Eva Lambertse) was born before 6 Dec 1713 in Kingston, Ulster County, New York Colony, British Colonial America; died in Mar 1794 in Detour, Frederick County, Maryland, United States; was buried in Mar 1794 in Rocky Ridge, Federick County, Maryland, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Baptism: 6 Dec 1713, Kingston, Ulster County, New York Colony, British Colonial America
• Beneficiary: 24 Feb 1760; in the will of her father, John Biggs, as Elizabeth Pitinger

Notes:

Mentioned in the will of John Biggs as daughter Elizabeth Pitinger.

Detour is currently in Carroll County which was created in 1837 from parts of Baltimore and Frederick Counties.

Elisabeth, the elder of John Biggs Sr., married Daniel Pittinger in New Jersey, and they also came to Maryland. Pittinger purchased "Royenton Plains" from Henry Munday in 1745 and also leased Lot No. 3 on "Monocacy Manor" directly north of John Biggs' lot. Another daughter, Henrietta Biggs, married John Beatty, Jr., a son of Susanna Beatty, and after his death Jacob Barton.

Notes:

...On 29 November 1708, Richard Putinger of Middletown, Monmouth County gave his ear mark to be recorded thus, "The earmark that was formerly Adrian Lowes, that is a crop of the near ear and a hole in the right. Entered per me Elisha Lawrence".
...On 20 June 1710, "John Morford of Middletown of late, now of Middlesex, yeoman and his wife Margaret", conveyed to "Richard Putinger of Middletown, Monmouth County, weaver", for 240 Pounds a tract of 130 acres boundedon the west by Romenesin Brook. A few months later on 5 January 1711, Richard Putinger of Middletown, weaver, and his wife Sytche conveyed this same property to John Tyssen of Freehold, Monmouth County, yeoman, for 255 pounds.
...At the end of the deed is the standard phrase, "In witness whereof he the said "Richard Putinger and Sytche his wife have hereunto set their hands and seals the day and year first above written 1711." This if followed by the words "Richard Putinger" and a seal symbol followed by "signed sealed and delivered in the presence of John Cox, Elizabeth Lawrence, William Lawrence Junr." There is no signature for either Richard or Sytche and no seal for Sytche.
...On 23 August 1712, Richard Putinger of Freehold gave the note payable to Anthony Pintar of Shrewsbury, a merchant, referred to above, for which Pintar sued John as adminstrator of Richard's estate.
...On 16 October 1715, John Pittenger was appointed administrator of the estate of Richard Pittenger. At p 114, Liber A, Middlesex Wills, is the notation, "Letters of administration was granted by his excellency Brigadeere Hunter to John Pittenger on ye estate of Richard Peitinger Deceased dated October ye sixteenth, 1715. At page 193 is the following entry, "John Pittenger administrator on ye goods, chatties and credits of Richard Pittenger late of Piscataway deed, having rendered acct of the estate which is file in ye Secretaries office according to law, and having made application to his Honor the foresaid writ of Huis Quietus Est which he was pleased to grant be ordered the Purogative Seal to be affixed to ye same it (illegible) August ye 26 1720 (illegible) Registrar."
...In between those entries John and Sycha filed a petition with the General Assembly for
permission to sell Richard's land to pay his debts, one of which was a note to Anthony Pinter and another was probably the money owing to the estate of Peter Watson a merchant of Freehold in Monmouth County.
...Although the file in the New Jersey State Archives does not provide any year in which it was filed, but obviously after October 1715, Anthony Pinter filed an action in the Supreme Court of New Jersey in Middlesex County against John Pettinger as administrator of the estate of Richard Putinger to collect on a note executed by Richard on 2 August 1712, for 21 pounds 8 shillings and 9 pence with the provision that if it was not paid when due on 2 November the amount owing would be 42 pounds 17 shillings and 6 pence. Unfortunately the only papers in the Archives files were the note, or copy of it, and the complaint. The note gives the residence of Richard as Freehold. It is clear that Pinter was a merchant in Shrewsbury (which is in Monmouth County and not far from Freehold) and supports the fact that Richard II and Syche were living in Monmouth County at least as late as 1712.
...The following entry was made by the Council held at Chesterfield 11 January 1716: "A Bill to Enable John Pittenger & Sycha Pittenger of Piscataqua In the County of Middlesex & Province of New Jersey to sell & Dispose of the Real Estate of Richard Pittenger Late of Piscataqua Aforesaid Deceased for the payment of Debts sent up by the House of Representatives for the Concurrence of this Board was Read the first time, and ordered A Second Reading."
...This was followed at the Council held at Chesterfield five days later on the 16th at which the following entry was made: "John Reading Esq. Reported from the Committee to whom the Bill to Enable John Pittenger & Syche Pittenger of Piscataqua In the County of Middlesex & Province of New Jersey to sell & dispose of the Reall Estate of Richard Pittenger Late of Piscataqua Aforesd Deceased, for the payment of Debts was Referr'd, that they had Agreed to severall Amendments which he was directed to Report to this Board when they were ready to receive the same. Ordered that ye sd Report be made Immediately. Then the said John Reading reported the Amendments In his place and laid them Afterwards on the Table. And the said Amendments being severally read were Agreed to by this Board, ordered that the sd Bill as Amended be Read the third time, which being Read was Agreed to and past by this Board: Ordered that John Reading, Esq. do carry the said Bill with Amendments to the House of Representatives for their Concurrence."
...The House of Representatives took little time to act as on 26 January 1716/17, the following was adopted:
...An Act to Enable John Pittinger & Sycha Pittinger of piscataway in the County of Middlesex & Province of New Jersey To Sill and Dispose of the Reall Estate of Richard Pittinger late of piscataway aforesaid, Deceased, for the payment of Debts.

...Whereas Richard Pittenger, Late of Piscataway In the County of Middlesex, and Province of New Jersey, Dyed Intestate, having at the time of his Decease divers Goods, Chattels and Credits within the said county and Province of New Jersey; Whereupon the said John Pittenger obtained Administration upon the Personal Estate of said Richard Pittenger Deceased, and not finding sufficient Assets of said Estate to answer the debts and demands Due from same, he the said John Pittenger, together with Sycha Pittenger, Widow of said Richard Pittenger, Deceased, have set forth by their Petition to the General Assembly, That the Assets of the Estate of said Richard Pittenger Deceased, will not pay the Debts Due from the same, And Also that the said Richard In his Lifetime purchased A Tract of Land, and took up money at interest to pay for the same, which Interest will Exceed the Value of the Land before the Heir of the said Richard (who is A Minor) will come of Age, and the Principall remain yet unpaid, and therefore they pray. That An Act may pass to Enable them the said John Pittenger and Sycha Pittenger to sell and dispose of the Real Estate of said Richard Pittenger Deceased, for the payment of his Just Debts, And it Appearing That the Allegations In said Petition are True.
...Be It Therefore Enacted by the Goveraour, Councill and General Assembly, and it is hereby Enacted by Authority of the same. That the said John Pittenger and Sycha Pittenger shall be Enabled to sell and dispose of the Real Estate of the said Richard Pittenger Deceased, and the said John and Sycha Pittenger, or the Survivor of Either of them, are hereby Empowered and Authorized to sell and dispose of the said Real Estate of Richard Pittenger Deceased, and to Signe, Seal and execute good and sufficient Deed or Deeds. Conveyance or Conveyances by them the said John and Sycha Pittenger, or the Survivor of Either of them so signed. Sealed and Executed by them, as Aforesaid, shall be Deemed and Esteemed, and are herby declared to be as good and sufficient Conveyances in the Law, to the purchaser or Purchasers thereof, their Heirs and Assigns, As If lawfully Executed by the said Richard Pittenaer In his Lifetime.
...And Be It Further Enacted by the Authority Aforesaid, That All the Sum or Sums of money that the said Real Estate shall be sold for, shall be Accounted Assets In the hands of the said John Pittenger, and for which he the said John Pittenger, shall be Accountable, and account for the same Accordingly, any Law, Custom or Usage to the contrary In any wise Notwithstanding.
...And Be It Further Enacted by the Authority Aforesaid, That A True Copy of this Act, signed by the Secretary of the Province, for the time being, shall and may be given In Evidence by the Purchaser or Purchasers of the said Estate, In any Court of Record in this Province, and any Deed or Conveyance made and Executed In pursuance of this Act, shall be Deemed, Esteemed and taken to be A perpetual Bar in Law against any claim hereafter to be made by the Heirs of the said Richard Pittenger, Deceased, any Law, Custom or usage to the Contrary In any wise notwithstanding.

...Richard II was probably born in that part of Middlesex County which is now Essex County, about 1675, where his father had land and was probably living. He moved to Monmouth County about 1700, where he married Syche and registered his ear mark in 1708. He then bought land there in 1711, which he sold the next year, and probably moved back to Middlesex County shorly thereafter. He was living in Middlesex County in 1714,45 when daughter Sietje was baptized, but had her christened in the Freehold Dutch Reformed Church. From the administrator's petition to sell Richard's property, we know that before he died in 1715, he had bought land in Middlesex County on which there was a mortgage and was probably living there when he died. I believe that after John sold the land to pay the debts of Richard's estate, he and his sister-in-law, Syche and her children, may have moved to land in Somerset County which John had previously purchased. They later moved back to Middlesex County where John also had land and where he was living in 1733. (Reference: Tress E. Pittenger, Jr., "The Pittenger Families of New Jersey - 1665 to 1800", http://www.lib.byu.edu/fhc/, pg.22-23, 27-28, Richard Pittenger c. 1675-1715)

Richard married Sycha Psyche Hendricksen. Sycha (daughter of Hendrick Willemsz Hendricksen) was born in 1652 in Holland, Netherlands; died after 1732 in New York Colony, British Colonial America. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

...Syche Hendricksen was the wife of Richard Pittenger. it is not known when or where they married, but the evidence goes to show that they married in Holland.
...Syche Pittenger married Isaac Selover, Jr. a son of Isaac Selover, Sr. a schoolmaster at Flatlands, N.Y. in 1695 and Judith Waldron. They had a daughter baptized Aug. 15, 1732 at the Harlingen D.R. Church with John Pittenger, son of Richard Pittenger and Syche Hendricksen, the child's grandmother and widow of Richard Pittenger, sponsors.

Other Events:

• Name: Jan Biks
• Will: 24 Feb 1760, Frederick County, Maryland, British Colonial America
• Probate: 10 Mar 1761, Frederick County, Maryland, British Colonial America

Notes:

...John Biggs (1787-1761) was the first leaseholder on "Monocacy Manor." He was of English descent, born in Ulster County in New York Colony. There he married Eva Lambertse Brink, and at Kingston eight of his ten children were baptized. About 1726 the family moved to New Jersey, settling in Somerset County in the Raritan River area. Also in this locale were William Dern, his future next door neighbor on "Dulany's Lot," as well as Cornelius Low, Susanna Beatty, the Middaghs and others with whom he would later associate in Maryland. A ninth child was born in New Jersey, and there his wife Eva died. Then, no doubt encouraged by Susanna Beatty, he moved to Maryland sometime after June 1737, when we have the last record of him in New Jersey. In Maryland he married the widow Mary Stilley and on August 23, 1741 leased Lot No. 2 on "Monocacy Manor." His lot, which he called "Biggs Delight," was leased for the natural lives of his sons Benjamin and William Biggs. It was situated near the southwestern corner of the whole tract, just north of the mouth of Glade Creek, two miles west of today's Walkersville. his land fronted along the Monocacy River opposite "Hedge Hog" on the west bank. Between these parcels the River could be crossed by a ford which today has been replaced by Biggs Ford Bridge.
...In addition to his leased land, John Biggs purchased 50 acres on "Dulany's Lot" which in 1758 he sold to Stephen Ramsburg. Ramsburg combined these acres with the former Farquahar parcel on "Dulany's................continued, pages missing. There is a note: pp. 109, 114, 309: John Bigg's second wife Mary Stilly or Stell was not the widow of Jacob Stilley, who died after John Biggs. (Source: Historical Society of Carroll County (Maryland), "Pioneers of Old Monocacy: the early settlement of Frederick County, Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing County, Inc., 1987, pg. 309)

...In 1726, John and Eva moved to New Jersey and lived near the Rariton river in Somerset County. On December 30, 1728, John Biggs witnessed the will of Thomas Hall's wife "Gheerty". A ninth child, Catherine, was born in New Jersey. Eva (Brink) Biggs died there in about 1735. Sometime after June 1737, John Biggs moved his family to Maryland, where he married Mary Stille and had another daughter: Sarah, born 1750, married Joseph Hedges. In 1845, Lyman Draper interviewed Joseph Hedges, then 78 years old, in Ohio Co., Virginia (now West Virginia)
...In 1741, John Biggs II and his family were living on an estate called Monocacy Manor, located on the Monocacy River near today's city of Frederick, Maryland. He also owned some town lots in Frederick.
...As early as the 1660's, Cecilius Calvert, Second Lord Baltimore and the first Proprietor of Maryland, began setting aside for himself and his heirs prime land intended for leasing but not for patenting (private Ownership). These lands were called "manors". In 1741, most land was owned by the English crown or favored friends of the crown. Monocacy Manor was owned by the fifth or sixth Lord Baltimore. Actual leasing was carried out by his agent, one Daniel Dulany, an English lawyer who made the mistake of remaining loyal to the crown during the Revolution. Rent was set at 10 shillings per 100 acres. A typical lease of the day could require, for example, that the leaseholder build "one good substantial dwelling house, thirty feet long and twenty feet wide, with a brick chimney thereto. The leaseholder might also be required to plant 100 apple trees within five years. Leases often prohibited excessive cutting of timber, which was considered an asset owned by the proprietor. When the lease expired, the land and all improvements reverted back to the Lord Proprietar.
...John Biggs II was the first tenant on Monocacy Manor. Parcels of land were usually leased for a period equal to the natural lifetimes of three individuals selected by the leaseholder. These frequently were for his own life and the lives of two sons, with the hope that one of them would live a long time. John Biggs' lot, which he called B"Biggs Delight", was leased for the natural lives of himself and two of his sons, Benjamin and William. His land fronted the Monocacy River on the east bank directly across from "Hedge Hogg". The river could be crossed between these two parcels of land by Biggs Ford which was later replaced by Biggs Ford Bridge.
...Twice after 1743, leaseholders in Monocacy, despite the fact that their leases had not expired, and not taking
into account die work they had put into developing their parcels of land, were threatened with wholesale eviction. Before the Revolution, the Sixth lord Baltimore decided to sell all "his" manor lands. Lucky for the tenants, the sales were not a success in Monocacy Manor. While some manors were sold in their entirety or nearly so, not a single lot in Monocacy Manor was sold. This was due to the high asking price and the scarcity of money and die fact that sales could not eliminate the unexpired leases of existing tenants.
..."Monocacy" is an American pronunciation of the Shawnee name "Monnockkesey". The land of Monocacy Manor is located along the Monocacy River in the shadow of the Catoctin Mountains in Maryland. The river and mountains stretch southward until they meet the Potomac River. The Monocacy lands end there.
...After the Revolution, in 1781, the new United States government confiscated this manor and sold it in small parcels. A thorough survey of eight Maryland manors, including Monocacy, made after confiscation shows that Monocacy had excellent soil, "none of it as yet exhausted through excessive cultivation." Most all of the lots were heavily wooded and over two-thirds of them had water.
...By the end of the American Revolution, the leases on most manor lots had expired. The lots were sold at auction to the highest bidder rather than by an established asking price. In the case of Monocacy Manor, payment could even be made by soldiers' pay certificates which were accepted at full face value. A traffic in these pay certificates by army officers and person of wealth had resulted in most land ending up in their hands. The poor tenants, who had invested what little capital they had in improving the land, could not successfully bid against these indibiduals and, therefore, lost their land, improvements and all.
...John Biggs II and his sons eventually owned large areas of farm land in Maryland some of it in Monocacy. In addition to his Monocacy land, which he managed to hold on to, he purchased 50 acres on "Dulany's Lot", which he sold in 1758. He also purchased "Good Luck" in 1751, 100 acres on Fishing Creek. It was Biggs only land survey. Some of this land remained in the Biggs family until 1883, when the house built by John Biggs II in Monocacy manor and the cemetery in which he was buried were destroyed and another family took possession of the land. A large stone barn which he built was still standing about 1840. Bernice F. Hathaway in her book Biggs-McGrew and Allied Lines, states: "This land remained in the Biggs family until 1883, at which time the family graveyard stones were buried and the cemetery plowed over and made into a field. John Biggs lies there."
...John Biggs II still had ties to his former home, New Jersey, as evidenced on July 30, 1754, when he received a chattel mortgage from George Sexton for underwriting Sexton's loan of £7/5/0 to Malachi Bonham, a Baptist pastor at Kingwood, New Jersey. Also in 1754, he held a chattel mortgage with Charles Hedges from Robert McPherson to guarantee McPherson's appearance in court the following March. In 1754, he witnessed Susanna Beatty's will (his neighbor in both New Jersey and Maryland).
...In 1760, John Biggs II wrote his own Will, naming two sons and five daughters and appointing his friend and neighbor, Stephen Ramsburg, as executor. In 1761, John Biggs II died on "Biggs Delight" in Monocacy Manor. After his death, neighbor Caspar Devilbiss tenanted his Monocacy parcel. Sons Benjamin and William had earlier moved to the area of present day Carroll County, Maryland. The Will, probated in Frederick County, Maryland, February 21, 1761, is quite long. I include part of it:

"...I give and bequeath to my sons, Benjamin Biggs, William Biggs and to my daughters Elizabeth Pitinger, Hendricka Barton, Mary Doddridge and Catherine Julian the tract of land and plantation whereon I now live being a part of Monocacy Manor, allowing my wife the house and plantation one year after my decease.
"...I give and bequeath to my sons Benjamin Biggs and William Biggs all my wearing apparel and my three guns and three pistols and three swords.
"...I give and bequeath to my wife, Mary Biggs, two lots lying in Frederick town and one tract of land called Good Luck until my daughter Sarah Biggs arive at sixteen years of age, and then only half of the foresaid lots and tract of land during her life.
"...I give and bequeath unto my daughter Sarah and her heirs and assigns forever when she shall arrive at sixteen years of age the aforesaid lots in Fredericktown and the aforesaid tract of land, allowing my wife Mary one half during her life but if my daughter should die before she arrives at sixteen years of age or leaves lawful issue, that then the aforesaid two lots and the aforesaid tract land after my wife's decease be sold and the arising thereon be equally divided among my children, namely, Benjamin Biggs, William Biggs, Elizabeth Pitinger, Hendricka Barton, Mary Doddridge and Catharine Julian.
"...I give and bequeath to my wife Mary, one peuter tankard, and large peuter dish and three small ditto. One peuter basin, seven peuter plates, two horses, three mares, three milch cows, and all other cow kind excepting one, and also all the winter grain threshed and unthreshed and also all the grain in the ground and also all the Indian corn and oats and also one of my pots and two iron pots, one potrack, one plow, all my swine young and old and all my sheep and also one feather and two chaff beds, bedclothes belonging to beds, bedsteads and also flax both dressed, and also part of the hemp, and one side saddle and bridle and six year old cask and one cider mill in consideration of my wife's paying all the debts I have, that have been contracted within nine years past as also my burial charges and paying my daughter when she arrives at the age of sixteen years the sum of 20 pounds current money.
"...I give to James Stille, my wife's son before I married her, one bay mare, three years old this summer.
"...I give all the remainder of my personal estate to be equally divided among my children namely, Benjamin Biggs, Williams Biggs, Elizabeth Pitinger, Hendricka Barton, Mary Doddridge and Catherine Julian, and lastly do I constitute and appoint my well beloved wife Mary Biggs and my truly friend Stephen Ramsburg to be my executors of this my last will and testament revoking all other and former wills by me before this time made, ratifying this and no other to be my last will and testament." (Source: "The Biggs Family", Janet M. Flynn, p2-6 - The American Connection; PDF, Family History Books (http://books.familysearch.org/))

John married Eva Lambertse in 1709 in Kingston, Ulster County, New York, British Colonial America. Eva (daughter of Huybert Lambertse and Hendrickje Swartwout) was born before 25 May 1690 in Hurley, New York Colony, British Colonial America; died in 1735 in Rariton, Somerset County, Somerset, New Jersey, British Colonial America; was buried in 1735. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Eva Lambertse Brink
• Baptism: 25 May 1690, Kingston, Ulster County, New York, British Colonial America; Address:
  Old Dutch Church