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Page 220.—
BENJAMIN HILDRETH, New York, distiller,
to my wife Mary, the use, income, profit of my house and lot of ground in Water Street, Montgomery Ward, known as No. 95, now in possession of Abraham Betts;
Also all my household furniture; the residue of my estate in New York, Connecticut, or elsewhere shall be sold by my executors; the moneys arising from such sale, together with what money shall remain from my personal estate after my debts and funeral charges, except £50 hereinafter bequeathed to my grandson John Hawkins,
shall be divided into four equal parts;
One equal fourth part to my executors to put out at interest on good landed security, and pay the interest thereof annually to my wife Mary during her natural life;
whereas, my son Benjamin, deceased, hath received from time to time from me large sums of money and other articles more than my daughter Priscilla, wife of Doctor Thomas Bayeux, therefore in order to make her portion equal with that of her brother I give from one other equal fourth part intended to be devised to the children of my son Benjamin, shall first be deducted £500 which I have advanced for the support, maintenance, and education of the children of my said son,
and that the sum £500 be paid to my daughter Priscilla;
the residue of the said fourth I give to the said children to be equally divided among them, and as soon as the said children shall respectively arrive at lawful age the equal portion shall be paid him or her by my executors; if any of the said children shall die before attaining twenty-one years and without lawful issue, the share of the one so dying shall be equally divided among the survivors;
one other fourth part, together with the £500 aforesaid, to my daughter Priscilla, wife of Thomas Bayeux;
out of the remaining fourth part, I give £100 to my daughter Martha, wife of John Hawkins;
the residue of the said fourth equal part I give to my executors in trust, to be put out on landed security during the joint lives of my said daughter, Martha, and her present husband, paying her the interest annually; in case my daughter Martha should survive her said husband, then upon his death my executors shall transfer the securities to my daughter, and if she shall not survive her husband, then my executors shall pay the said moneys to her children in equal proportion when they shall respectively attain the age of twenty-one years;
upon the death of my wife, the house and lot, the rents and profits of which have herein been given to her, shall
be sold at public auction for the most money that can be gotten for the same by my executors, and the moneys arising from such sale shall be divided into three equal parts;
one equal third part I give to my executors in trust, to be put out at interest upon landed security, and disposed of for the separate use of my daughter Martha and her children;
one other third part thereof I give to my daughter Priscilla,
and the remaining third part thereof to the children of my son Benjamin, to be equally divided between them;
to my grandson, John Hawkins, £50 (above mentioned), to be paid to him when he attains the age of twenty-one years; in case of the death of my grandson before legal age,
then the £50 shall be divided between my daughters, Martha and Priscilla, and the children of my son Benjamin, to each an equal third part thereof;
the devises and bequests hereinbefore given to my wife shall be in full bar of her dower and right of thirds.
I appoint my wife, my son-in-law, Thomas Bayeux, and Abraham Mortier Walton, son of Abraham Walton, and William Laight, executors.
Dated April 18, 1790.
Witnesses, Abraham Walton, gentleman; John Rankin, James Easson.
Proved, November 29, 1793.
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