General Notes

Moved to Shrewsbury Twp., New Jersey prior to 1679 in which year he received a
grat of 240 acres of land. He purchased lands at Portipeck in Neck from Peter
Tilton of Middletown, NJ on 27 SEP 1680. Several other grants and purchases
resulted in a large landed estate.

WILL of NATHANIL flocum, of ye town of fhrewsbury, Mon. Co., yeoman, "being
fick and weak of body." Dated 23th day of Ju-y, 1702. Proved by dep. of
Samuell Dennis and Robert parker, "two of ye within fubfcribing wittneffes,"
before Thomas Gordon, 29 die martij, 1703.

Gives: "unto my louing wife hannah flocum During her Natural life this fhare
of land where on I now live fcituate "... in ye fd fhrewsbury together with
all ye houfeings and Improvements ... Except a certaine peice ... "of land
being parte of ye fhare aforefaid begining at the brook yt parts ye fd fhare
of land and George huletts land "Runing as ye pafture fence Runs fo Runing as
the fence Runs to ye utter moft Exftent of ye fd fhare of land"; "unto "my fon
Samvel flocum one fhare of land Joyneing to ye fhare aboue faid on ye fouth
weft of ye brooke ... and "his heirs ... together alfo with all that fhare of
land before mentioned & bequeathed Excepte before Excepted "after his louing
mothers the faid hannah flocums Deceafe ... '; "unto my fecond fon John Slocum
"yt certaine peice ... of land aboue mentioned and Excepted being part ... of
ye fhare bequeath to my "louing wife hannah Slocum to him ... and his heirs;"
"one hundred acre of land and meadow fcituate ... in "ye towne of freehold ...
to my Daughter farah Slocum and to her heirs .... lying at ye weft end of a
"certaine tract of land Containing two hundred acres ... and bounded as in and
by ye patten ... bearing "Date ye thirteen day of January 1692"; "unto my
Daughter meribah Slocum to her ... her heirs ... one "hundred acres of land &
medow being part ... of the aboue mentioned tract ... being ye Eaft end of ye
"fd tract together with ye one ... halfe part of a certaine peice of medow
containing feven acres mentioned in ye "faid patten, the other halfe part is
farah Slocum before mentioned"; "unto my Daughter Elizabeth Slocum twenty
"pounds in Currant filver money to [be] paid unto her ... by my fon Samvel
Slocum two years after my Deceafe"; "unto my Daughter neomie Slocum ten pounds
in Currant filver money to be paid to her ... when fhe fhall come "to ye agee
of Eighteen years by my Executrix ... "; "unto my Daughter mary Slocum ten
pounds in Currant "filver money when fhe fhall attaine and come to the full
agee of Eighteen years to be paid by my Executrix"; "unto my "fd eldeft fon
Samll Slocum one Cow, one two year old horfe and one gunn ..."; "if any of my
Daughters fhall Dy "before they are Come to agee to Receive their legacy ...
that it fhall be Equally Deuided between her fifters that "furvive or are
living."

Residue of estate "unto my loving wife ye fd hannah Slocum whom I nominate ...
to be Executrix together "with my fon Samvel Slocum Executor."

Wits.: NATHANEL SLOCUM
Roberrt parker [his mark]
Meribah Slocum
Saml Dennis
Recorded in Lib. H., fol. 134-135.