Jonathan Moores
Jonathan Moores was a carpenter of Woodbridge, in Middlesex County, New Jersey. He made his will on 20 February 1800, and the abstract of it notes that he was "advanced in age." He was dead by 3 March, when Ichabod Potter and John Manning took his inventory. It came to £30.13.6. The will was proved on 19 March 1800.
The will names no wife, so he was a widower by then. It names five daughters and no sons. His "Eldest daughter, Experience (wife of William Inslee)" was to have a fifth of the clear estate, counting £12 she had already received "as the amount of her outfit." An outfit was the household goods a daughter was given when she married. His "Daughter, Sarah (wife of Isaac Tappen)" had already had £15 for hers. She was left £5 more, and the rest of her fifth was to be divided among her children. The last bequest reads "Daughters, Rebecca, Delivrence and Isabel, each 1/5 part." Those three had no husbands to name and no outfits to deduct.
He named as executors "friend, Richard Wright, and son-in-law, William Inslee." The witnesses were Ichabod Potter, William Gilman and John Aiken.
His house stood on the road from Woodbridge to Amboy. The executors called it "that certain house and lot of land late belonging to the said deceased." It was four acres, bounded by the lot "late belonging to Phineas Moores Decd" and by land of William Stone and Ezekiel Bloomfield. On 1 April 1802 they sold it for $752.85 to Morris Read, the husband of his daughter Deliverance. The next day Isaac Tappen and "Sally his wife" mortgaged a one acre house lot on the same road back to the executors. In March 1802 Richard Wright swore to his account before the surrogate, Anthony W. White. A surrogate was the county officer who oversaw the settling of estates. The balance was $1,086.32, "to be distributed according to the will."
Other deeds show him as a man of some property along the Amboy road. Land "of Jonathan Moores" bounded a 38 acre tract in a deed of 1801. In 1784 he held a mortgage from John Carman on 16 acres of the Stephen Carman plantation.
His daughter Rebecca was probably the Rebecca who married Peter Latourette and died in Wayne County, Pennsylvania, in 1858. That Rebecca was born at Woodbridge in 1773. Two months after the executors' sale, Morris Read and "Deliverence his wife" sold Peter Latourette a different house and lot in Woodbridge. Two years after that, Peter and Rebecca named a daughter Delia, the name Deliverance signed with. No document states in so many words that Rebecca Latourette was his daughter. The distribution of his estate would, since her fifth would be paid to her husband.
His own parents are not known. None of the Woodbridge Moore and Moores wills between 1712 and 1775 names a son Jonathan.
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Cite: Heirology, "Jonathan Moores (1740-1800)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/jonathan-moores-1740-1800-a2df8c.