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The Will of Samuel Dodge

"The last Will and Testament of SAMUEL DODGE, of New York, this 25 March, 1761." I leave to my wife Elizabeth all her wearing apparell and my best bed and suitable furniture for it, "with other conveniences to keep house, such as a pot, Tea kettle, shovel, tongs, dishes, etc." And the privilege to dwell in my now dwelling house in which room or two rooms she pleases, during the time she remains my widow, with the privilege of the well and the kitchen, And all the rent of my house at the east end of my ground, also my negro wench. I leave to my son Jeremiah all that house and lot of ground in New York fronting Queen Street, in Montgomery Ward, lying between a lot of Dr. Lawrence on the north and another lot of my own on the south. Also the house at the east end of my lot after my wife's decease. I leave to my son Samuel all that house and lot on which we both dwell, adjoining on the north side to the above lot; and on the south to a lot now in possession of Philip Pelton. My two sons shall pay all debts. I leave all household goods to my two sons and my daughter, Deborah Mott, "and she is to have a feather bed with a single tow ticking," and two sheets, etc. I leave to my granddaughter, Deborah Dodge, ae10 when of age. I leave to my grandson, Samuel Dodge, son of my son, Wilkie Dodge, deceased, all that ground lying on Cow Neck on Long Island near the house of Joseph Dodge, on the south side of the road that leads from said house up the Neck between said road and the fence of Oliver Baxter, be it more or less. I make my two sons executors.

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