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Joseph Thorne was born about 1642 in Flushing, Long Island, NY. He
was buried in 1727 in Friends Cemetery, Flushing, NY. Original Friend's
Cemetery, later moved to another site on LI. He died in May 1727
in Flushing, Long Island, NY. Abstracts of Unrecorded Wills, Vol
XI, Prior to 1790, pages 60 & 61: I, Joseph Thorne, of Flushing, in Queens County, being aged and indisposed.
Being well advised with ye weighty concern I am now about. I leave
to my son Benjamin, all my Plantation and homestead where I now live
in Flushing, with all housing, orchards, and lands, and all my meadow
and woodland. I leave to my wife Mary, the use of 1/2 of all lands
and meadows, and 1/2 of all housing and orchards during her life.
After he death I leave 1/2 to my son Benjamin and he is to pay legacies,
viz.: To his brother Jacob, 100s, and to his brothers, Isaac, Thomas,
and Abraham, 20s each. To my son Isaac I leave 5 shillings. I leave
to my sons, Thomas, Abraham, and Isaac, all that tract of land lying
at a place called (???), in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. I leave to
my wife Mary, a negro man, and an Indian woman. To my daughter Sarah,
a negro girl. I leave to my son Joseph, 5 shillings over and above
what I have formerly given him by deed of gift. I leave to my son
William, 5 shillings besides what I gave him in West New Jersey.
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