Will: 1740 Brittain, Nicholas, Richmond County, Staten Island,NY --
In the name of God, Amen, January 5, 1740.
I, NICHOLAS BRITTAIN, of Richmond County, Gent., being very sick.
My wife Francke is to have a good and sufficient maintainance, and tobe furnished with good clothes, and a good horse and saddle when shewants to go abroad, also a negro man, with the proviso that shesurrender and relinquish the 60 acres of land that she claims to beher own.
I leave to my two daughters, Martha Moore and Rachel Brittain, all mylands, messuages, and tenements, and other estate, and they are to payto my son Nathaniel's 3 daughters, Mary, Francke, and NatalieBrittain, £50 each when of age.
They are also to give to Randal Slive, my apprentice, a good horse,saddle, and bridle.
I make Samuel Moore and Samuel Holmes, and my two daughters,executors.
Witnesses, Richard Stillwell, Vincent Fountain, Salem Comes.
Proved before Walter Dongan, Esq., February 27, 1739.)
