Extracted from "Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State 
of New Jersey, Volume XXIII, Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Volume 1 - 1670-
1730"; Edited by William Nelson; Paterson New Jersey, 1901.

[beginning first will page 284]

     [page 284]

     1719 April 4.   Lawrance, Lawrence, John, of Freehold, Mon-
mouth Co., yeoman; will of.  Wife Rachell.  Children--Elizabeth,
John, Constance, Rachel, Hanna, Mary, Dorcas, Gibens (Gibbons),
Benamine (Benjamin), granddaughter Rachel Oakson (Okeson).  Real and
personal estate.  Executors--the wife and sons-in-law William Clark and
Thomas King.  Witnesses--Zebulon Clayton, Wm. Lawrance, John van Mater,
Wm. Lawrance junior.  Proved February 23, 1719-20.
                                                  Lib.  A, p. 153 1719-20
     Jan. 15.   Inventory of the personal estate (£773.10.9, incl.
debts due by Nicholas Hellons, Francis King, Francis Davenport, John
Gisberson, Thomas King, Nathaniel Stevenson, three bonds of 150 each,
a large Bible and other books £3.10, a negro man, woman and child £90,
money in the hands of William Lawrence, James Dudin, Robert Lawrence
and Nicholas Lake £5.19.1); made by James Ashton, Anthony Woodward,
Francis Davenport and John Stevenson.