Will of Judge John Mulford

Abstracts of Unrecorded Wills, Vol XI, Prior to 1790

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In the name of God, Amen. I, JOHN MULFORD, SR., of East Hampton, Suffolk County. I leave to my wife, 4 acres of land out of the additions to the Home lots, at the end next to town, and 2 acres of my home lot, and 2 acres out of the lot I bought of Thomas Thompson. If she leaves the town, then the same is left to my sons, Samuel and John. They are to pay for it. I leave to my son Samuel the Home lot I bought of Thomas Thompson, with buildings. Also 8 acres lying west of Little Pond, and 2 acres by Hook Pond, and my land on the Eastern Plain running south to the

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Beach, and 1/4 of my division of land in the woods north of the Indian Well, and 3/4 of the Division that belongs to Thomas Thompson's lot, lying in the woods eastward, and 6 acres east of the Little Pond, bounded west by Stephen Hedges, and 1/2 of my land east of the Indian Well, on the Plain, and 1/2 of my meadow at Napeake, and salt marsh meadow at Ackabonack neck, "by the sea side," and meadow at North West. To my son John my home lot with additions and housing, and my close west of the town, called the Girdled Trees, and my wood land lot I bought of Thomas Thompson, bounded east by the lot that was Mr. James, and 1/4 of my lot in the woods north of the Indian Well, and 1/2 my land in the Eastern Plain, beyond the Indian Well, and my meadow at Accabonack, and my meadow at the harbor at North West. I leave to my daughter Hester 10 shillings, and to her three children 5 s. each. To each of the children of my daughter Hannah, wife of Benjamin Conkling, 4 shillings. I leave to my daughter Mary, wife of Jeremiah Miller, 20 acres of land north of the Indian Well. I make my son John, and Mr. Thomas James and my brother, William Mulford, executors.

December 4, 1683. Witnesses, Thomas James, Richard Brooks, Katharine James. Proved, October 19, 1686