Notes for Benjamin WADE

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Notes for Benjamin WADE

Will proved 4 Aug 1760. N.J. Cal. Wills 1771-1780, page 561.
1760, Apr. 24. Wade, Benjamin, of the "Borrough" of Elizabeth,
Essex Co., yeoman; will of. Wife, Deborah. Children — Jothan,
Sarah, Hannah and Rachel. Real and personal estate. Executors —
Timothy Whitehead, Esq., and brother, Daniel Wade. Witnesses —
James Colie, Samuel Thompson, Jotham Clark, Jr., John Wade, Jr.
Proved August 4, 1760. Lib. G. p. 275.
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Much on this family from "The Wade genealogy: being some account of the origin of the name, and ..." by Stuart Charles Wade]. Needs verification.
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In the name cf God Amen The twenty fourth day of April in the three and thirtieth year of the reign of our sovereign Lord George the Second by the grace of God King etc and in the year of our Lord Christ one thousand seven hundred and sixty I Benjamin
Wade of the Borough of Elizabeth in the County of Essex and Province of New Jersey yeoman being under indisposition of body but of sound and perfect mind and memory thanks be to Almighty God therefore and calling to mind the uncertainty of this
transitory life do made this my last will and testament in manner and form following that is to say First and principally I give bequeath and recommend my soul into the hands of God who gave me my being and my body I commit to the earth to receive a
decent Christian burial and as touching the distribution of such temporal estate as it hath pleased God to bestow upon me I dispose of the same as followeth videlicet Imprimis my will is and I do hereby ordain that all such debts as I shall justly owe
at the time of my death shall be well and truly paid in convenient time after my death Item I do hereby authorize and impower my executors hereinafter named and appointed to sell all my buildings lands tenements and hereditaments as also all my
moveable estate and the moneys arising by such sale I dispose of as followeth Item I give and bequeath unto my loving wife Deb orah the one equal third part of all my whole estate my just debts being first paid out of the same to be at her sole dispose
forever Item I give and bequeath unto my son Jotham Wade the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds to be paid to him when he arrives at the age of twenty one years Item All the remainder of my estate which is not above disposed of I give to be equally
divided to and among my three daughters namely Sarah Hannah and Rachel to be patd to them as they shall severally arrive at the age of eighteen years or if they or any of them shall happen to be married before they arrive to that age then to be paid on
their marriage day Item The use or interest of the money above given to all my children I leave to be laid out at the directions of my executors herein named and appointed in order to educate and bring them up in a decent and Christianlike manner Item
I make ordain and appoint my trusty and well beloved friend Timothy Whitehead Esquire and my beloved brother Daniel Wade No 1008 the joint executors of this my last will and testament and I do revoke nullify and make void all former and other wills and
testaments by me in a ny manner of ways heretofore made and declared hereby ratifying and confirming this to be my last will and testament and none other Signed BENJAMIN WADE Witnesses James Colie Samuel Thompson Jotham Clark Jr John Wade fr No 1012 On
May 20 1773 James Carpenter of Elizabeth was appointed guardian of Jotham Wade No 1030 during his minority Trenton Records Book K p 451
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