From Abstracts of Wills Vol VII 1766-1771, pp. 391-93:
Page 491.--In the name of God, Amen, April 8, 1770. I, GIDEON SANDS, of Cow Neck, in Queens County, yeoman, being sick. "My executors are to sell at auction my maid "Mass," with her youngest child," and 1/3 of all farm stock, and 4 acres of salt marsh and meadow, to be taken off the east end of my meadow joining the meadow of Benjamin Sands. And 6 acres of wood land off the east side of my north piece of woods. And as much Pasture land from the south part of my farm as may be necessary to pay all debts. And the purchasers are to have a right of way to and from the same. I leave to my wife Mary a negro wench and her child, "and my riding chair and bald horse," and 6 large table spoons. I leave to my son Edward a negro boy "a nd my Pudden Horse and my desk," when he is of age. I leave to my son John a negro boy and my wench. To my daughter Sibell a negro girl and 1/3 of my plate and 1/4 of the rest of my movables. I leave to my daughter Catharine a negro boy and 1/3 of my plate and 1/4 of all movables. To my daughter Mary a negro girl and the rest of my plate and 1/4 of the movables, when of age. I leave to my wife 1/4 of all movables, "and the use of my watch till my executors see fit to deliver it to my son John." I also leave her the use of all the farm stock, and a negro man, "to bring up all of my children in a decent Christian like manner, with School Eddication as customary, and a home for them all till my son Edward is of age." I also leave her 1/15 of all farm stock, and to my daughters, Mary, Sibell, and Catharine, each 1/15 "but each to have an equal amount when of age." I leave to my sons, Edward and John, each 4/15. To my daughter Mary a negro girl. Whereas my father, John Sands, by his will, left to his son George 1/2 of the farm he then lived on, which in default of issue, was to go to his brothers, Simon, Gideon, and Benjamin, I leave my share to my executors to sell and the money to be paid to my sons, Edward and John, and to my wife and my daughters, Sibell, Catharine, and Mary. I make my father-in-law, Richard Sands, and my brother Benjamin and my wife Mary, executors.
Witnesses, Joshua Smith, Pelleham Smith, Catharine Brooks. Proved, May 5, 1770.
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