Amanuensis Monday -- 1702 Will of Ezekiel Bloomfield (1653-1703) of Woodbridge, New Jersey

  This week's document for transcription is the 1702 will of Ezekiel Bloomfield (1653-1703) of in the Middlesex County, Connecticut probate records.

*  Middlesex County, New Jersey Probate Records, page 262 (stamped), image 155:

The transcription of this document is:

I Ezekiel Bloomfield of Woodbridge in y'e County of Mid'x in y'e 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 y'e Disposal of my worldley Estate which God hath given me &

from Man is due.

Imp's  My Will is that my Salt Marish lying beyond y'e Red brook be sold for y'e paying

my Debts  In so far as it with reach & y't y'e rest of my Debts & my funeral

expences be discharged out of y'e moveable part of my Estate.

Item.  My will is y't 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 y'e Out houses, Land, meadow & freehold therewith  belong-

ing; & Eighty Acres of Upland lying at Langston's plain with Twenty Acres of Salt

Marish w'ch I purchased of John Lovebury.

It'm:  I doe in like manner give nto my son Ezekiel Bloomfield Sixty Acres of

Upland which was my Brother Thomas Bloomfields farm & Fifteen Acres

of Salt Marish lying in Raraton meadow between y'e great pond & y'e River;

together with one halfe of y'e Freehold Land belonging to my father.

It'm:  I doe in like manner give ynto my Son Jeremiah Bloomfield Eleven Acres & a

halfe of Upland which was my Brother Thomas Bloomfields House lot, & Five

Acres of Salt Marish which was my father's lying at y'e great Meadow at

Rarinton.

It'm:  I doe in like measure give unto my Son Joseph Bloomfield about Nine Acres of

Upland be it more or less lying at y'e West end of my Father's Lott.

It'm:  I doe in like manner give unto my Son Benjamin Bloomfield Forty Acres of

Upland at Langston's farm, after my Son Timothy hath taken his Eightie Acres

out of y'e 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 & y'e 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 y'e age of Eighteen

years, my son Timothy Bloomfield doe pay unto her Fifteen pounds & my Son Ezekiel

Bloomfield Ten pounds currant money of this Province.

It'm:  My Will is that my well-beloved wife Hope Bloomfield have y'e use & Improvement of

y'e House in w'ch I now love w'th y'e Land & meadow thereunto belonging, & all y'e 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 y'e Possessian

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 y'e Execution of this my Last will

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 Dom'i One thou-

sand Seven hundred & Two:  Annoq? RR'a Anne nunc Anglice &'a Primo.

Signed Sealed & published

In Presence of

Sam'l Hale                                                               Ezekiel Bloomfield   {seal}

William Ellison

Joseph Fits Randolph

The source citation for this deed is:

New Jersey Surrogate's Court, will of Ezekiel Bloomfield, dated 12 January 1702; imaged, "New Jersey, Wills and Probate Records, 1656-1999," Ancestry.com   (https://www.ancestry.com : accessed 7 September 2015, no longer available), Middlesex County, "Wills, Vol. 9-10," page 262 (stamped), image 155 of 472; original rccords in Middlesex County, New Jersey court records, microfilmed by FamilySearch, and indexed by Ancestry.com before being withdrawn in September 2015.

This will is an Original Source with Primary Information and Direct Evidence of the disposal of the real and personal property of Ezekiel Bloomfield to his widow and six living children.  

Ezekiel Bloomfield (1653-1703) was born 1 November 1653 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, the son of Thomas and Mary (Withers) Bloomfield.  Ezekiel died 15 February 1703 in Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey Colony.  He married Hope Fitz Randolph (1661-1706) on 22 December 1680 in Piscataway, Middlessex County, New Jersey Colony.  She was the daughter of Edward and Elizabeth (Blossom) Fitz Randolph.  They had 8 children:

* Timothy Bloomfield (1681-1748), married (1) 1707 Rose Higgins (1686-1715); (2) 1727 Sarah Bloomfield (1701-????)

*  Ezekiel Bloomfield (1683-1848), married (1) 1706 Esther Rolfe (1675-1742); (2) 1744 Margaret Van Galen (1706-1767).

*  Rebecca Bloomfield (1686-1688).

*  Nathaniel Bloomfield (1688-1688).

*  Jeremiah Bloomfield (1693-1746), married 1723 Catherine Weeks (1693-????).

*  Joseph Bloomfield (1695-1782), married 1721 Eunice Dunham (17021760).

*  Mary Bloomfield (1698-1750), married 1726 Obadiah Ayres (1703-1760).

*  Benjamin Bloomfield (1701-1772), married 1721 Susannah French (1703-1747).

Ezekiel and Hope (Fitz Randolph) Bloomfield are my 9th great-grandparents, through their son Timothy Bloomfield (1681-1748) who married Rose Higgins (1686-1715) in 1707.

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NOTE: Genea-blogger John Newmark (who writes the excellent TransylvanianDutch blog) started a Monday blog theme years ago called "Amanuensis Monday." John offers this definition for "amanuensis:"

"A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another."

Read other transcriptions of records of my ancestors at Amanuensis Monday Posts.

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