WILL OF SAMUEL HALLETT: (source: genealogy.com database Abstracts of Unrecorded Wills, Vol XI, Prior to 1790, pg 40. )

In the name of God, Amen. I, SAMUEL HALLETT, of Newtown, in Queens County, being sickly and weak. I leave to my daughters, Elizabeth Jackson, Grace Hewlett, Mercy Cornell, and Martha Hazzard, 2 horses, 2 cows, six yearlings, and œ210 which is due to me by the bond of John French, of New York, and œ24 due me from said John French and his son-in-law, Edward Earle, and also the produce of a certain horse now in the hands of Edmond Haynes, and all my household goods except a cedar chest and œ4 in the hands of my son, Samuel Hallett. All to be divided equally between them. I leave to my son Samuel, all the rest of my estate, real and personal, and he is to pay all debts. And he is to pay œ6 to my granddaughters, Mary Cornell, Hannah Washburn, and Sarah Hazzard. I make my son Samuel, and my son-in-law, James Hazzard, executors.

Dated October 7, 1716. Witnesses, Joseph Hallett, Thomas Jones, Peter Berrian. Proved, May 16, 1727.