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Former Coordinators
Sue Loder 1999-2006
Janice Brown 2007-2008
Last Updated
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December 29, 2014

Current Coordinator
Laverne Tornow

Welcome to Cape May County

Cape May County Will Extracts

SOURCE:

Calendar of New Jersey Wills and Administrations 1730-1750

Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey

Archives of the State of New Jersey First Series Volume XXX; Vol II of Calendar of Wills, Administrations, Etc. 1730 - 1750

Published 1918 Somerville, NJ

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Will of Andrew Godfrey

1736, April 30 Page 200   Will of Andrew Godfrey of Cape May County.

Wife: Elizabeth, the plantation to live on during her widowhood after which son James and his heirs to have the same.

Sons: Phillip and Andrew to have equally a tract lying up Great Egg Harbor river.

Legacies: to daughters Anne (eldest, Tibitha, Rebecca, Rachel

Executors: wife Elizabeth and son James

Witnesses: Jacob Garretson, Peter Corson, John Leonard

Proved: 15 July 1736

Libre 4 Page 63

1736, May 24 Inventory of Personal estate of Andrew Goldin (ƒ357.6.9) includes negro man, Dag (ƒ14); negro man(ƒ25); 37 cattle (ƒ53.16.0); 40sheep, 3 horses and 23 swine.

Appraisers: Henry Young, John Willets