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1738 The will of Samuel Cornell, recorded: "In tbe name of God, Amen, July 12, 1738. I, Samuel Cornell, of Flushing, in Queens County, yeoman, being weak in body. I leave to my daughter Miriam, £100 when she is 18 years of age, and to my daughters Sarah and Deborah, each £100 when 18. "If it shall please God that my wife Anne shall be with child, it shall have £100." I leave to my wife Anne, all household goods, and my negro "Jack," and she is to have the sole use of all my lands, houses, and meadows and orchards, until my son Joseph is of age, and after that, she is to have the use of ¾ of the estate until my son George is of age. When my son Samuel is of age he shall have tbe use of ¼ the estate, and when my son Charles is of age he shall have the use of ¼. My executors to have full power to sell lands and divide the proceeds to my sons when of age. Witnesses, Samuel Thome, Richard Cornell, Jr., James Cornell. Proved, July 29, 1739." [1]


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[1] William S. Pelletreau, Abstracts of Wills on file in the Surrogate's office: city of New York, Vol. 3, 1730-1744 (New York: The New York Historical Society, 1895), 271, citing liber 13, p 277, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].