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- Will of Joseph Fowler, dated June 16, 1725, proved June 16, 1725, Rye, Westchester County, New York. I, Joseph Fowler of Rye, in the County of Westchester, being sick and weak. My tract of land in the Town of Rye, commonly called Brown's Point, and which I purchased of John Haywood, and 50 acres of land out of my farm or land in Harrisons' Purchase, adjoining to Bloomnunel and Thomas Merritt's land, are to be sold by my executors for the payment of debts. The rest of my estate is to be divided between my two sons, Benjamin and James Fowler. My wife Phebe Fowler, is to have the use of the farms till sold, or till my sons are of age. I leave to my son Josiah 80 pounds, and to my son Charles, when of age, 80 pounds, and to my daughter Martha, 20 pounds. I make my wife Phebe and my brother Benjamin Fowler of Flushing, and my father-in-law Thomas Hunt my executors. Witnessed by John Fowler, William Punderson, John Carhart. "Abstracts of Wills," Vp;l. II, p 293-4, published by The New York Historical Society.
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