"A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another."
The subject today is the 1702 will of Thomas Bloomfield (1653-1703) of Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey:
[image 155]
The transcription of this will is (transcribed line by line):
I
Ezekiel Bloomfeld of Woodbridge in the County of Mid'x in the
Province
of
East Jersey in America being very weak in body but of competent
Judge=
ment &
perfect memory doe leave this as my Last Will & Testament con=
cerning
the disposal of my worldly Estate which God hath give me, &
from
Man is due.
Impr's
My Will is that my Salt Marish lying beyond the Red brook be sold
for the paying
my
Debts so far as it will reach, & that the rest of my Debts &
my funeral
expenses
be discharged out of the moveable part of my Estate.
Item:
My will is that my Son Timothy have, & I doe hereby give &
bequeath unto him
my Son
Timothy Bloomfield his Heirs & Assigns for ever my house in which
I
now
live together with the Out houses, Land, meadow & freehold
thereunto belong=
ing: &
Eighty acres of Upland lying at Langster's plain; with Twenty Acres
of Salt-
Marish
w'ch I purchased of John Lovebury.
Item:
I doe in like manner give unto my son Ezekiel Bloomfield Sixty Acres
of
Upland
which was my Brother Thomas Bloomfield's farm, & Fifteen Acres
of
Salt Marish lying in Raraton meadow between the great pond & the
River;
together
with one halfe of the Freehold Land belonging to my father.
Item:
I doe in like manner give unto my Son Jeremiah Bloomfield Eleven
Acres & a
halfe
of Upland which was my Brother Thomas Bloomfield's house lot; &
Five
acres
of Salt Marish which was my father's lying at the great Meadow at
Rarington.
It'm:
I doe in like manner give unto my Son Joseph Bloomfield about Nine
Acres of
Upland
be it more or less lying at the west end of my Father's Lott.
It'm:
I doe in like manner give unto my Son Benjamin Bloomfield Forty Acres
of
Upland
in Langster's farm after my Son Timothy hath taken his Eightie Acres
out of
sd farm; and also Five of those Twentie-five Acres of Salt Marish,
w'ch
I
purchased of John Lovebury, after Timothy has taken his Twentie.
It'm:
I give all my Stock of Cattle & the moveable part of my Estate to
my wife Hope Bloom=
field
& my two eldest sons Timothy & Ezekiel Bloomfield to be
equally divided a=
mong
them.
It'm:
My Will is that when my daughter Mary Bloomfield comes to the age of
Eighteen
years,
my son Timothy Bloomfield doe pay unto her Fifteen pounds & my
son Ezekiel
Bloomfield
Ten pounds current money of this Province.
It'm:
My Will is that my well-beloved wife Hope Bloomfield
have the use & Improvement of
the
House in w'ch I now live, w'th the Land & meadow thereunto
belonging, & all the Ac=
comodations
& Priviledges thereof so long as she shall remain my widow, &
when
her
condition shall alter, either by marriage or death, then to fall into
the Possession
of
my Son Timothy Bloomfield as is above-mentioned.
It'm:
I doe nominate & appoint my faithfull & well-beloved wife
Hope Bloomfield & my
Son
Timothy Bloomfield to be my Executors to see the Execution of this my
Last Will
&
Testament. And this I declare & publish to be my Last Will &
Testament
hereby
revoking all or any former Will or Wills. In witness whereof I have
hereunto
set my hand & seal, this Twelfth day of January An'o Domi'i One
thou=
sand
Seven hundred & Two: Annoqe RR Anne nunc Anglice &'a Primo.
Sealed
& published
in
Presence of
Sam'l
Hale Ezekiel Bloomfield
William
Ellison
Joseph
Fitz Randolph
The source citation for this document is:
New
Jersey Surrogate's Court, All Counties, Wills Vol. 9-10 (image 155 of
472), Ezekiel Bloomfield will, 1702; "New Jersey, Wills and
Probate Records, 1656-1999," digital images, Ancestry.com
(http://www.ancestry.com: accessed 7 September 2015, no longer
available); citing original data from New Jersey County, District and
Probate Courts.
In this will, Ezekiel Bloomfield bequeathed his real and personal property to his wife Hope, his sons Timothy, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, Joseph and Benjamin, and his daughter Mary. The children were born between 1681 and 1701, so the settlement of this estate may have taken some time. I don't have a death date for Hope (Fitz Randolph) Bloomfield other than "1703" on her Find A Grave memorial.
My line from Ezekiel Bloomfield is through his son Timothy Bloomfield (1681-1748) who married Rose Higgins (1686-1715) in 1707.
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