Estate of Emanuel Coryell of Amwell Twp., Hunterdon Co., N.J. — will of 2 January 1748/9, proved 23 January 1748/9, with the £854.12.8 inventory, the 1757 executors' account and the 1758 guardianship. Daniel Cooper named Overseer.

Transcription and notes

Provenance across the five renderings, the fact that no Daniel Cooper autograph exists here, the "Trustee, for his Service" finding, the falsified Camp Hill hypothesis and the [L.31] file-ID error are all in the source: and coverage: headers and are not repeated here. The Cooper–Coryell relationship is argued on [p.1] and [p.26].

Verbatim transcription — will body (3 pages = images 33, 34, 35)

Page 1 (image 33 of 2140): header annotations "Capt Sec State NJ — Emanuel Coryell's will — Page 89 Book 6 Wills — 1748"

In the name of God Amen the second day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & forty eight I Emanuel Coryell of the township of Amwell in the County of Hunterdon in the Province of West Jersey, Farmer, being very sick and weak in body but of perfect memory thanks be given unto God therefore Calling to mind the Mortality of my Body & knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do make & ordain this my last Will and Testament that is to say —

[Religious preamble] and first of all I give and Recommend my soul to the hands of God that gave it and for my body I recommend it to the Earth to be buryed in a Christian like and Decent manner at the Discretion of my Executors nothing Doubting but at the General Resurection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God —

and as touching such worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this life I Give Devise and Dispose of the same in the following manner & form

It is my will and I do order that in the first place all my Just Debts and funeral charges be paid and satisfyed.

It is my will that after my Just Debts are paid that the Remainder of my Estate I leave to be Equally Divided between my Dearly beloved wife and Six Children and it is my will further that if any of my children should die before they come to the age of twenty one years that the Rest of the children should enjoy it Equally among them —

Page 2 (image 34 of 2140) — page number "2" top right

It is my Will that Sarah my beloved wife should possess the House which I now dwell in and Ferry Meadows, Barns and Stables their belonging During her Widowhood — Likewise it is my will that my Eldest Son John shall have for his Birth Right five Shillings Sterling above his Equal proportion to the Rest — I likewise constitute & make & ordain my beloved wife and Son John Executors with the assistance of Daniel Cooper and Job Warford if occasion requires — I do hereby utterly Disallow revoke and Disannul all and Every other former Testaments Wills Legacies & Executors by me in any ways before this time named willed & Bequeathed Ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my Last Will and Testament In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal the Day and Year above Written —

Emanuel Coryell [with a seal]

Signed Sealed Published pronounced and Declared by the said Emanuel Coryell as his last Will and Testament in the presence of us the Subscribers John Johnson, Esther Dryall, Robt Evans

John Johnson and Robert Evans two of the Witnesses to the within will being Sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God did Severally Depose that they saw Emanuel Coryell the Testator within named Sign & Seal the same and heard him publish and pronounce and declare the within Instrument to be his last will and Testament and that at the doing [continues to page 3]

Page 3 (image 35 of 2140) — page number "3" top right

[continued from page 2] thereof the said Testator was of Sound & Disposing mind and Memory as far as the said Deponents Know and as they Verily believe and that Esther Dryal the other subscribing witness was present and signed his [her] name as a witness to the said Will together with the said Deponents in the presence of the said Testator

Robt Evans, John Johnson

Sworn at Trenton the 23rd Jany 1748/9

Thos Severns Surro[gate]

Be it remembered that the Last Will and Testament of Emanuel Coryel being duly proved as above said Probate and Letters Testamentary were Granted by His Excellency Johnathan Belcher Esq, Govenor of the Province of New Jersey & unto Sarah Coryell and John Coryell the Executors in the said will named they being duly sworn well and Truly to perform the said Will and exhibit a true and perfect Inventory and tender a just account when thereunto Lawfully Required.

Given under the Prerogate Seal of the said Province at Burlington the twenty ninth day of May anno Dom 1749

Chas Read, Reg[ister]

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Verbatim — Vol. XXX p. 114 (the will + inventory + account)

OCR garbles bracketed; corrected readings in [italics].

1745, Jan. 2. Coryell, Emnnoel [Emanuel], of Amwell Township, Hunterdon Co., farmer; will of. Estate to wife and six children. Wife, Sarah, to have house testator lived in and "ferry, meadows, barns and stables," during widowhood. Oldest son, John. Executors—wife and son John. Overseers—Daniel Cooper and Job Warford. Witnesses—John Johnson, Esther Dryall and Robert Evans. Proved Jan. 23, 1748-9. Lib. 6, p. 89.

1748, Feb. 3. Inventory (£854.12.8) includes bonds of Henry Smith, John Hurst, Hugh Smith; 8 negroes; 3 guns; speaking trumpet; sheep at States Jewells. Made by Derrick Hoagland and Peter Prall.

1757, Nov. 1. Account of John Coryell, executor of will of Emanuel Coryell, mentions cash received from John Miles; money for part of house and lot at Bound Brook sold by sheriff; and money paid to Randall Hutchinson, George Hughes, Richard Hainds, John Deling, William Pearson, Jacob Ketcham, Joseph Yard, John Watson, Esther Dryall, Elizabeth Phillips, John Baumont, Abraham Vendome, Thomas Kennedy, Job Warfield [Warford], John Schoolfield, Nathaniel Foster, William Osborne, Gershom Lambert, Mary Heston, Joseph Yard, Garrard Williamson, Richard Stephens, John Hamilton, Cornelius Dawett, John Reading, Moses Vancourt, Philip Kearny, Preserve Brown, Robert Evans, Sarah Canby, Benjamin Taylor, Derick Hogeland, Aaron Mattison, William Shatterthwaite, John Neglee, Thomas Gilbert, Johannes Wallace, Job Warford, Joseph Warrell, John Waggett, Robert Thompson, John Ingham, William Lowther, Christopher Lashere, William Morris, Samuel Helcome, executors of Henry Birkir, Valentine Ent, Dennis Woolverton, Joseph De Cow, Jacob Heston, George Ely, John Cox, Benjamin Smith, a schoolmaster, Mayor, clerks, etc., at Philadelphia, Jonathan Gray, Timothy Smith, surveyor; Joseph De Cou, George Reading, Daniel Cooper, Thomas Kennedy.

Verbatim — Vol. XXXII p. 72 (parallel 1757 account + 1758 guardianship)

1757, Nov. 1. Coryell, Emannel [Emanuel], of Amwell, Hunterdon Co. Account of the estate of, £854.12.8, by the executors Sarah Coryell and John Coryell, who have added to it as not in the inventory £6, receive from John Miles, and part payment for the house and lot in Bound Brook sold by the Sheriff, £42.17.1, reporting as on hand a balance of £7.9.1. [See N. J. Archives. Vol. XII [XXX], p. 114.] Hunt. Wills, 210 J.

1758, Sept. 28. Coryell, Abraham and Sarah; wards. Children of Emanuel Corriell, of Amwell, Hunterdon Co. Guardian—their brother Cornelius Coryell, of said Co.; Joseph Higbee, of Trenton, fellowbondsman. Witnesses—John Coryell and Theodore Severns. Hunt. Wills, 437 J.