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Pat Stafford, Gittens Wills, 1729-1860 (, Dec 2008).
Page 1, John Gittens
John Gittens 1729 RB6/16/452, St Philip, joyner, agd about 31.
Item. …just debts to be paid by loving mother, Elizabeth Butler.
Item. …unto my loving mother Elizabeth Butler all my estate both real and personal during her life.
Item. ..unto Jonathon Franklin and wife Rebecca Franklin five pounds to eash person.
Item. ..unto Ann Franklin daughter of Jonathon and Rebecca Franklin one Negro wench Margaret and the child she is now with…
Item ..unto Elizabeth Franklin the daughterof Jonathon and Rebecca Franklin, fifty pounds current money to be paid at twenty one years…
Item. ..unto Isaac Franklin son of Jonathon and Rebecca Franklin, fifty pounds current money to be paid to him at twenty one years…
Item. .. unto Jonathon Franklin son of Jonathon and Rebecca Franklin two Negro boys by name Tongoro and boy..
Item. ..unto Rebecca Franklin daughter of Jonathon and Rebecca Franklin fifty pounds of current money to be paid her at the age of twenty one… …
if Elizabeth, Isaac and Rebecca shall die before the money's become due,it shall return to my heir…
Item. ..unto Sarah Gittens daughter of Ann Gittens Widow, ten pounds current money…
Item. ..unto Benjamin Gittens son of Joseph Gittens, decd all the rest of my estate…
Ann Gittens, widow Guardian over his estate in case he shall posses it before he comes to the age of twenty one years…if she inter marrys before he comes to the age I then appoint Joseph Chapman joyner Guardian… Lastly I leave my loving mother Elizabeth Butler, soleexecutrix. 7 March 1728.
Witnesses: Philip Harmon, Joseph Chapman.
Disposition of Edward Thomas of St. Michael…he was intimately acquainted with one John Gittens late of this island and that the said Gittens went for Philadelphia where he departed this life on or about the 27 May last… Proved before Hen Worsley 12 August 1729 |
