Wills: Will of James Gibbons (1744): Chester County, PA

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GIBBONS, JAMES. 
Westtown Township
Occupation: yeoman.
Written: November 20, 1744. 
Proved: May 2, 1745. 
Will Book B, Page 180.

Provides for wife Jane, including plantation where I now live until
eldest son James is 21. To son James the said plantation which my
grandfather John Gibbons by deed, October 4, 1708 conveyed to my father
James Gibbons and which he devised to me containing 500 acres, also to
said son my part of Goshen Society Mill. To younger sons, William and
Thomas my tract of land in Nantmell containing 1200 acres, patented
March 4, 1733. To only daughter Jane Gibbons 400 at 18 unless she
marries by other means than the rules of the people called Quakers,
then she shall have only 10 shillings. 

Executors: wife Jane and friends Caleb Peirce, Jos. Brinton, Edwd. Brinton and 
Richard Jones, overseers. 
Witnesses: David Davis, Jane Davis, John Cheyney.