230 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



Samuel Hcathcote deceased and John Ileathcote the sou of my brother Sir Gilbert 

 Heathcote do demand and take into their possession all such Moneys or other estate 

 which shall belong to me in England, and Improve and Distribute the same accord- 

 ing to the Direction of this my last will and Testament. And as to my estate Real 

 and Personal in America I hereby will and order iu case of my wife marrying 

 again or Death as aforesaid that the same, Excepting such part thereof as before 

 that time shall be in the possession of any of my children already come of age 

 shall be taken into possession by my Two Beloved Brothers-in-Law Coll. Henry 

 Smith and Major William Smith, and my two beloved friends Coll. William Wil- 

 let and Mr. Samuel Clowes or the major part of them who shall then be alive and 

 Residing in the Colony of New York to secure and improve the same according 

 to their discretion for the bringing up, Education, Benefit and advantage of my 

 children and be Delivered by them to my said children when they shall come to 

 age or Marry Respectively according to their respective shares and proportions 

 pursuant to this my last will and testament ; and I will that my said children shall 

 be content and satified with such Distribution of my said estate amongst them as 

 by the said persons or major part of them as aforesaid shall be made, which per- 

 sons as aforesaid shall be the sole judges and arbitrators of all differences arising 

 amongst my said children concerning the division of my said estate. Lastly, I 

 do hereby nominate Constitute and appoint my said well beloved wife, Martha 

 Heathcote, to be my sole and whole executrix of this my last will and testament to 

 be execuUd by her so long as she shall remain my Aviddow, but no longer. And I 

 hereby Revoke Disannull and utterly make void all other wills Testaments and 

 codicills by me at any time heretofore made by mee, and I do declare this only to 

 be my last will and Testament. In witness whereoff I have hereunto put my 

 hand and seal at Jamaica, in the Colony of New York, this twenty-ninth Day of 

 February, in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and nineteen. 



CALEB HEATHCOTE, [l.s.] 

 Signed, sealed, declared and published by the 

 within named Caleb Heathcote as his last will 

 and Testament iu presence of us. 

 David Jones, 

 S. Clowes, Jun., 

 Joun Clowes.* 



The last will of his wife, Martha Heathcote, bears date 13th of 

 August, 1736, by which she bequeaths " to her daughter Anne, the wife 

 of James De Lancey, the sum of ;£ 1,000, also a pair of silver candle- 

 sticks, silver snuffers and snuff dish, together with my silver teapot, silver 

 tankard and my large coffer. To her daughter Martha, wife of Lewis 

 Johnston, she bequeaths the like sum of ^1,000, and to her daughters 

 Anne and Martha all her wearing apparel, &c." 



All the children of Col. Caleb Heathcote died in their minority, ex- 

 cept his daughters Anne and Martha, upon which the manor of Scars- 



a The above will was proved 19th of April, 1721, Rec. of Wills, Surrogate's office, No. is, 

 1718 10 1725, pp. 234,235, 236. 237. 



