In the name of God Amen.
I, Samuel Peer, of the Township of Pequanack, in the County of
Morris and State of New Jersey, being of sound mind and memory this fourteenth
day of September in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and eighteen. Thanks
be to God for all his mercies, calling to mind the mortality of my body; and as
touching the things wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this life, I
give and bequeath in manner following (to wit):
1st, after my debts and funeral charges be paid, which is to be
done by making sale of so much of my personal estate as shall be necessary by
my executors herein after named, I give and bequeath the residue of my personal
estate together with all my real estate to the use of my daughter, Susannah
Peer, for and during her natural life, provided she continue to live
unmarried, but if she should marry, this bequest to be null and void.
2d, after the decease or marriage of my daughter, Susan Peer, it
is my will that my real estate descend to my two grandsons, Samuel Peer and Jacob Peer, and to be divided between them, that Jacob Peer shall
have the house and barn where I now live with twenty acres of land to begin at
the river below my house and to run westerly parallel with the road in front of
my house untill it strike the back line of my farm and the residence of my
homestead farm. I wish to be so divided that each of the two have an equal
quantity, that is each an equal quantity of acres in the whole homestead farm.
Also that each have alike quantities of wood and meadow land. And if my said grandsons
cannot agree on a division of the said lands abovesaid then I appoint that Thomas Vanwinkle herein after named as
one of my executors shall divide the same between them agreeably to the
directions herein laid down, which division shall be conclusive between
the said Samuel and Jacob. It is my intention that the bequest of my real
estate herein made to my grandsons, Samuel Peer and Jacob Peer, be to them,
their heirs and assigns forever. Also the lot of woodland which I brought of William Miller containing about twenty
acres I also give to my two said grandsons and to their heirs and assigns
forever and to be equally divided between them.
3d, it is my will that my daughter, Susannah Peer, shall
have no liberty to sell any of my personal estate of which I have given her the
use of, nor to cut any timber, only for her own firewood and for fencing and
repairing the farm and buildings.
And 4th it is my will that my two grandsons aforesaid pay the
following legacies five years after they get possession of the lands herein
bequeathed to them.
Unto the heirs of my daughter, Elizabeth decd [deceased], the sum of fifty dollars;
unto my daughter Catharine
or her lawful heirs, the sum of fifty dollars;
unto the heirs of my daughter, Jane decd [deceased], the sum of fifty dollars;
unto the heirs of my son, Jacob
Peer decd [deceased], the sum of fifty dollars;
unto the heirs of my daughter, Rachel Peer decd [deceased], the sum of fifty
dollars.
5th, after the decease or marriage of my daughter, Susannah, all
the personal estate which she hath had the use of and is in being then it is my
will shall be equally divided amongst my children or their lawful
representatives so that the representatives of each have the share divided
equally amongst them that their parent would have.
6th, I appoint Samuel
Peer, my grandson, and Thomas
Vanwinkle to be executors to this, my last will and teswtament.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal dated as
above.
Samuel Peer, his mark
Signed, sealed, published, and declared by the said Samuel Peer to
be his testament and last will in the presence of us:
Samuel Peer Jun
Thomas Vanwinkle
Isaac Drake
Thomas Vanwinkle, one of the witnesses to the foregoing will,
being duly sworn according to law, did depose and say that he saw Samuel Peer,
the testator therein making his signature to said will and heard him publish
and declare the foregoing writing to be his last will and testament, and that
at the doing thereof the said testator was of sound and disposing mind and
memory as far as this deponent knows and as he verily believes and that Samuel
Peer Jun and Isaac Drake the other subscribing evidences were present at the
same time and signed their names as witnesses to the said will together with
this deponent in the presence of the said testator.
Thomas Vanwinkle
Sworn before me March 16th, 1819
David Thompson Jun, Surrogate
Samuel Peer, one of the executors named in the foregoing will,
being duly sworn according to law, did depose and say that the foregoing
writing contains the true last will and testament of Samuel Peer, the testator
therein named, so far as he knows and as he verily believes and that he will
and truly perform the same by paying first the debts of the said decd and then
the legacies in the testament specified so far as the goods and chattels and
credits of the said decd can thereto extend and that he will make and exhibit
into the Surrogate’s office of the County of Morris a true and perfect
inventory of all and singular the goods, chattels, and credits of the said
decd, and render a just and true account when thereto lawfully required.
Samuel Peer
Sworn before me March 16th, 1819
David Thompson Jun, Surrogate
Renunciation of Thomas Vanwinkle
I, Thomas Vanwinkle, being named as one of the executors in the
foregoing last will and testament of Samuel Peer, late of Morris County, decd
[deceased], do hereby renounce my right to act as executor of the last will and
testament of the said Samuel Peer decd, and do decline taking upon myself the
burden or duties of an executor to said will.
March 16th, 1819
Thomas Vanwinkle
Signed before me at Morristown
March 16th, 1819
David Thomspon Jr
Note: Samuel Peer was my 7th great grandfather.
I descend from his daughter, Jane, who was deceased when Samuel wrote his will in 1818.
Jane married John Cook (1745-1821).
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