Thomas
BRUSH
wager1268
ca1651/2
- 1698
Father: Thomas BRUSH
Mother: Rebecca CONCKLYNE
Family 1 : Sarah WICKES
1. Rebecca BRUSH
2.+Thomas
BRUSH
3. Sarah BRUSH
4. Susannah BRUSH
5. Jacob BRUSH
6. Elizabeth BRUSH
7. Mary BRUSH
8. Timothy BRUSH
9. Martha BRUSH
10. Eliphalet BRUSH
___John BRUSH_____
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___Thomas BRUSH_________|
| (ca1630 - 1670) m ca1650 |
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- Thomas BRUSH
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| ___William CONKLIN___
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| (ca1567 - ....) m ca1591
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____John CONCKLYNE_____|
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(1598 - 1683/4) m 1624/5 |
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| |____Ruth HEDGES_____
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| (ca1570 - ....) m ca1591
|_Rebecca CONCKLYNE__|
(ca1630 - 1670) m ca1650 |
| __Edward
ALSAEBROOK___
| | (ca1582 - ....) m 1602
|__Elizabeth ALSAEBROOK___|
(1608 - 1671) m 1624/5 |
|__Hannah WALKER____
(1586 - ....) m 1602
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wager1268
"In ye name of God Amen ye Eighth day of April in ye
year of our Lord God 1698 I Thomas Brush of Huntington in ye County of Suffolk
on Nassau Island in ye province of New York in America yeoman being very sick
& weak in body but of perfect mind & memory thanks be given unto God
therefore calling unto mind ye mortality of my body and knowing it is appointed
for all men once to die do make and ordain this my last Will & testmt. that
is to say principally & first of all I give & recommend my soul into ye
hands of God that gave it and for my body I commend to ye earth to be buried in
a Christian like & decent manner at ye discretion of my executors nothing
doubting but at ye general resurrection I shall receive ye same again by ye
mighty power of God and as touching such worldly estate wherewith it hath
pleased God to bless me in this life I give devise & dispose of ye same in
ye following manner & form -- Item -- I give & bequeath unto my son
Thomas Brush my house & home lot with this provision that my dear wife
shall have possess & Enjoy ye said house with a third part of my orchard
& ye third part of ye benefit of my home lot during her widowhood and if my
son shall see cause to marry then ye said Thomas Brush shall allow his mother
room to live in this sd house or set her up another convenient room where she
shall see most convenient. I also give & bequeath unto my son Thomas Brush
all my right of meadow in ye old Mill Pond & my lot of land in ye old field
and half my meadow at Naguntague and half my right of land there with a hundred
pound right of commange all those forementioned parcels of land & meadow I
give & bequeath unto my son Thomas Brush to him and his heirs & assigns
forever -- Item -- I give & bequeath unto my son Jacob Brush my two lots of
land in ye west necke joining together -- Also I give & bequeath unto my
son Jacob ye other half of my meadow at Naguntague with ye remaining part of my
land there and half a hundred pound right of commage all these aforementioned
lands and meadows I give and bequeath unto my son Jacob Brush to him and his
heirs and assigns forever--Item -- I give & bequeath to my son Timothy
Brush my lot in ye South hollow & my hollow of land lying on ye East side
of Tredwells plain and half my meadow lying on ye east Neck at South with half
a hundred pound right of commonage all these forementioned lands & meadows
I give & bequeath unto my son Timothy Brush to him his heirs & assigns
forever -- Also twenty three acres of land lying southward joining to my
brother John Brush's land & ye other of my right of meadow on ye east neck
at South and half a hundred pound right of commonage this I reserve as yet not
knowing whether my wife be with child with a son or with a daughter, if a son I
give & bequeath these forementioned sons - Imprimis - I give & bequeath
unto my dearly beloved wife a third of my moveables with ye bed I now lye on to
be part of it to be raised & to be levied out of my estate --Item -- I give
& bequeath unto my six or seven daughters Rebecca, Sarah, Susannah,
Elizabeth, Mary, Martha all of them to have equally alike Except my daughter
Rebecca being eldest to have an iron pot & a sermon book which was her
grandmothers-- Item -- I give & bequeath to my son Thomas Brush my gun
& sword & great bible -- Item -- My coopers tools I give & bequeath
unto my son Jacob he returing thirty shillings to his sisters -- Item -- I give
and bequeath all my carpenters tools yt I have to my son Thomas Brush
disallowing revoke & disannul all and other former testaments wills legacys
bequests executors by me in any ways before this time named willed &
bequeathed ratifying & confirming this & no other to be my last will
and testamt. in witness whereof I the aboves Thomas Brush have hereunto set to
my hand & seal ye day & year above written -- I the abovesaid Thomas
Brush do by these presents make constitute and appoint my well beloved wife
Sarah Brush my whole & sole Executrix of this my last will & testamt,
this was written before ye ensealing & delivery herrof, Also my bother John
Brush & John Wickes I do appoint to be Executors with my loving wife in
this my last will and testamt.
Thomas Brush (Seal)
Signed and sealed & delivered in sight & presence of us
John Wickes
John Brush
John Ketchum"
Thomas Brush's wife was obviously pregnant at the time of his death (he mentions "six or seven daughters"). Eliphalet, his final son, was born therefore after his death.
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