2 2S HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



gave it. ; my Bod}- to the earth, from whence it came to be Decently interred at 

 the discretion of my Executors hereinafter named in certain hopes of the Remis- 

 sion of all my sins through the sole Merits of my Blessed Saviour Jesus Christ 

 and of a Joyful Ressurreclion and Reunion of my Body and Soul at his second 

 coming to Judgement — and as for what worldly Estate it hath pleased God to 

 Bestow upon me, and which shall any ways belong to me at the time of my de- 

 1 Give, Devise and Dispose of and Bequeath the same in manner follow- 

 ing — Imprimis my will and Desire and I do hereby order that my Dear and well 

 beloved wife Martha Heathcote, shall have the sole care and keeping and manage- 

 ment of all my children during their Minority and her widdowhood, and for the 

 Handsome Maintenance of herself and the Handsome Maintenance and good and 

 liberal education of my children I do hereby order, that she my said well beloved 

 wife, shall have and Receive all such Annuities and Interests of money due pay- 

 able or to beo ime due and payable and belonging to me in England and also that 

 she shall have the sole possession, use and Management of all my Estate, both 

 real and p< rsonall ia America, and have and receive for the uses aforesaid all the 

 Rents, Interests and Profits thereof during the Minority of my children and her 

 widowhood as aforesaid, but no longer, and if there happens to be any overplus 

 of the said proceeds in her hands after her having made use of the same as afore- 

 said, I hereby Impower my said wife to Dispose of and Distribute the same 

 amongst my children either by her Last will and Testament or otherwise and in 

 such proportion as she in her Discretion shall see fit, and I do hereby further Give, 

 Devise and Bequeath unto my said well beloved wife Martha Heathcote, and her 

 executors and assigns the sum of one hundred Pounds annually to be paid unto 

 her yearly and every year during the term of her natural life, in New York mon- 

 ey ; fifty pounds thereof to be paid yearly out of that part of my estate which 1 

 shall hereby give unto my son Gilbert Heathcote, and fifty pounds yearly out of 

 that part of my estate which I shall hereby give unto the rest of my children re- 

 spectively in a due proportion all which Bequests so as aforesaid ordered to my 

 wife shall be in Lieu of her Dower and all other her Pretentions to my estate 

 whatsoever. Item, I Give, Devise and Bequeath unto my Eldest son, Gilbert 

 Heathcote, my Dwelling House at Mamaroneck within the County of West-Ches- 

 ter, within the Colony of New York, Together with the Home Lott of laud 

 there : my Barns and other edifices with the Neck of Land called Mamaroneck, 

 East Neck, and my Mills, Mill Dams, Streams and Rights of Streams, and allmy 

 lands within the Limits of Mamaroneck Township, known by the name of the 

 Two Mile Bounds, and also all my Lands lying on the East of Mamaroneck 

 Rivei, Contiguous thereto which I bought of David Jamison. And whereas, 

 the lands which I bought from Anne Richbell, within the County of West 

 Chester aforesaid, Runs eighteen miles in Length into the woods, I hereby 

 give and Bequeath unto my said son Gilbert Heathcote, one thousand acres 

 thereof to be taken up and laid out unto him conveniently by my wife, by such 

 persons as she shall appoint (if it shall so happen that I do not settle and ascer- 

 tain it myself in my life time) in this manner to witt, Two Hundred acres 

 of the said Lands to lye next adjacent to the Township of Mamaroneck to the 

 Northward thereof one hundred acres more to lye Two Miles from the place 

 where the said Two Hundred acres shall end, and in like manner the Quantity of 

 one hundred acres at the end of every two miles till the said one Thousand acres 



