- Born: 1762, Sussex Co (Now Warren) NJ
- Marriage: (1): Mary* Shackleton
- Marriage: (2): Mary* Shackleton
- Died: 1838 at age 76
- Buried: Union Brick Cemetery
General Notes:
WILL OF ISAAC READ, Sr. This is a direct transcript which uses the nineteenth-century spelling. Note the spelling of Read, it switches back and forth from R-E-A-D to R-E-E-D, throughout the document. Isaac Read, Sr. was born 30 December 1762, the eldest child of Joseph and Sarah (Sutton) Read. He married Mary Shackleton (circa 1762-19 May 1835), the daughter of Richard and Mary Shckleton. Isaac Read died 1 March 1838. He and his wife are buried in Union Brick Cemetery in Blairstown Township.
The children mentioned in the will are: Richard Read (1783-1867), husband of Rebecca Howell Sarah Read (1788-1859), wife of John Middlesworth Joseph Read (1790-1849), husband of Lydia Hart Elizabeth Read (1792-1879), wife of Aaron Luse Isaac Read, Jr. (1794-1876), husband of 1) Mary Durling and 2) Abigail W. Buckley Mary Read (1796-1863), wife of Michael Raub Phebe Read (1798-1863), wife of Ira Kerr Hannah Read (1800-1875), wife of Isaac Fresse Azuba Read (1803-1823), wife of John Allen (spelled Allon in the will).
Warren County, New Jersey Surrogate Court Records, Wills Liber 1, folio 367
In the name of God Amen, I Isaac Read Esquire deaken of the Township of Knowlton in the County of Warren and State of New Jersey being weak in Body, but of Perfict Sound Mind and Memory and Cauling to mind the mortality of my Body and knowing that it is appointed unto all men once to dye do make & Conftitute this my Last Will and Testament in way & manner as now follows - First I Bequeath my Soul to that God Who Gave it & my Body to the Earth to be decently buried at the Discretion of my Executors who I shall here after appoint & as Touching my worldly Estate in which God hath pleased to Blefs [sic] me with I give devis & bequeath in way and manor as now follows, To wit 2 it is my will & order that all my Just debts and funeral Expenses be paid as Soon as may be Conveniant after my decease 3 it is my Will & I order my Executors to Sell my farm I now live on as Soon as they Convenentlly Can after my Desese as they my Said Executors Shall think to the Best Advantage forthly and I now order & my will is that my executors pay to my Grand Daughter Lanor Marye Allon Daughter of John & Asuby Alon alis Azuba Read the Sume of five Hundred Dollars at the time she arrives at the age of twentyone years & not before (fifth) I further order and my will is that my Executors Sell my personalle property at publick Sale and divide the money arising there fore from together with the mony they Sell my s[ai]d farm for equally amongst my three sons & five daughters Share & Share alike (viz) Richard Joseph & Isaac Reed Sarah Midleworth Elizabeth Luse Mary Raub Phebe Kerr & Hannah Freese/ Lastly my will is & I order all my Estate real & personal after paying Lanor Mary Allon as above directed & all other resonable Expenses & Charges to be equally divided amongst my three Sons & five daughters Share & Share Alike as above directed/And Lastly I nomynate & appoint my Son Richard Reed & my Sonnelaw John Midleworth Executors of this my Last will and testament & Say to them do with the Eastate that I intrusted you with as you wold others Should dou with yours & Say to others Go & do likewise and further I revoke and disanull all my former Wills I have here to four made. In Whitnefs whereof I have here unto Set My hand & Seal this Twenty first day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and thirty Eight.
Isaac Read {Seal}
Signed Sealed published and declared by the herein Mentioned Isaac Reed Esqr to be his Testament & Last Will in the presence of us who have in the presents of Each other here unto Set our hand the day & year here in before writen
Henry Mingle Aron Read Isaac R. Manning
WILL CODICIL
Warren County, New Jersey Surrogate Court Records, Wills Liber 1, folio 368
In further consideration of the within Will & Testement, I now order and my will is that the money that is found in my Pofession Belonging to me at my desese Shall be Equaly divided Between my Eight Children as soon as posable Share & Share alike as whitnefs my hand this twenty Second day of February Eighteen Hundred and thirty Eight.
Isaac Read {Seal}
Witnefs present
Henry Mingle Aaron Read Isaac R. Manning
PROOF TO WILL
Warren County, New Jersey Surrogate Court Records, Wills Liber 1, folio 368
Warren Cy State of New Jersey to Wit} Richard Read and John Midlesworth Executors of the within named Will and Testament it Being duly Sworn did despose and say that the within Instrument Contains the true and last will and Testament of Isaac Read the Testator there in named as far as they know and is they Verly beleve and that they will well and truly perform the Same by first paying the debts of the Said decesed and then the Legacies in the said Instrument Specified so far as the Goods Chattles and Credits of the said decesed Cane thereunto Extend and that they will make and exhibit onto the Surrogate office at Belvidere a true and perfict Inventory of all and Singuler the Goods, Chattles & Credits of the Said decesed that have or shall Come to their hands or to their Knowledge or to the posession of any other person for their use, and render a Just and True account when there unto Lawfully Required
Sworn at Belvidere this 2 day of March 1838
Before me Geo W. Ribble Surrogate
Richard Read John Midlesworth
Warren Cy State of New Jersey to Wit} Henry Mingle one of the witnefs to the within and above named will being duly Sworn did despose and Say that he Saw Isaac Read the Testator within named and sine and Seal the Same and heard him publish and declare & prounounce the above & within writing to be his Last Will and Testement and that at the doing thereof the Said Testatant was of Sound & Disposing mind & memory as far as the deponant nows and or he verily beleves and that Aron Read & Henry Mingle, sined their names as witnefs in the presence of the Testator and Each other
Sworn at Belvidere this 7th day of March 1838
Before me Geo W. Ribble Surrogate
Henry Mingle [line drawn through this name, Isaac R. Manning entered over the top of Mingle's name]
Warren Cy State of New Jersey to Wit} I George W Ribble Surrogate of the County of Warren do certify the above to be a true Copy of the last will and Testament of Isaac Read late of the County of Warren decesed and that Richard Read & John Midlesworth the Executors therein named proved the Same before me and is duly aurthised to take upon them the administration of the Eastate of the Testator agreably to the said will
Witness my hand and Seal of office the 23rd day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight & thirty Eight
Geo W. Ribble Surrogate 142
Isaac* married Mary* Shackleton, daughter of Richard Shackleton and Mary. (Mary* Shackleton was born in Jan 1762 in Sussex (Warren) Co., NJ, died on 19 May 1835 in Warren Co, NJ and was buried in Union Brick Cemetery 143.)
Isaac* next married Mary* Shackleton, daughter of Richard Shackleton and Mary. (Mary* Shackleton was born in Jan 1762 in Sussex (Warren) Co., NJ, died on 19 May 1835 in Warren Co, NJ and was buried in Union Brick Cemetery 143.)
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