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Last Will and Testament of William Hallett, Jr.

In the name of God, Amen. I, WILLIAM HALLETT, of Hellgate Neck, in Newtown, Queens County, being very infirm and weak. I leave to my son Joseph , all my houses, lands, tenements, and meadows, with all improvements, situate at Hellgate Neck.

Beginning at a great Rock in the valley of the southwest of the Ridge, and ranging from the rock south easterly 40 Degrees, to a certain marked tree in the woods, 300 rods. Ranging from the marked tree North easterly along the Purchase line, 47 Degrees to a stone set in the ground and marked W. H. on the one side, and S. H. on the other side, 178 rods. Ranging thence along the fence as it now stands to a stone set in the ground on the east side of my gate, at the end of the lane by my orchard. Ranging thence along the orchard 36 rods, thence along the Garden 16 rods. From thence down to the Purchase line, that comes through Hellgate. From thence to the mouth of the Great Creek, thence to the little creek, from thence to the Great Rock, the first station. And he is to have the equal privilege of the lane with Samuel Hallett; as it is now fenced, from the stone, by my gate to the water side, so down west to the Purchase line. Except a certain tract of land and buildings, given to my son, Moses Hallett, by a deed, June 7, 1708. To him, my son, Joseph Hallett, and his heirs male, and in default of such, then to my son, George Hallett, and his heirs male. And in default to my son Richard and his heirs male, and in default of such to my female heirs, forever.

I also leave to my son Joseph, a negro man, and a negro wench, and a waggon, plough, and my great riding horse, and a cupboard, and the Great Table and great chest, and my silver Tankard.

I leave to my sons, George and Richard, and to my grandson, Joseph Hallett, and to my daughters, Sarah Phillips,Rebecca Jackson, Sarah Blackwell, and Charity Moore, certain negroes.

I leave to my true and loving wife, one third of the remainder of all my movable estate, and the privilege of the chamber in the stone house, during widowhood. And my son Joseph is to furnish her sufficient support and firewood.

I leave two thirds of my movables to my five daughters, Sarah Phillips, Rebecca Jackson, Charity Moore, Mary Blackwell, and Elizabeth Fish. And my son Joseph is to keep for his mother, four head of cattle, winter and summer.

I leave to my sons, Joseph and George, all my apparell.

I make my wife Mary, and my sons, and James Jackson, and Samuel Moore, executors.

Dated September 16, 1727. Witnesses, Samuel Hallett, Samuel Hallett, Jr., Samuel Richards.

William Hallett, a son of Richard Hallett, was born about 1616 in
Bridgeport, Dorchester, England and died August 17, 1729 in Newtown,
Queen County, NY.

He married Rebecca Bailey. She was born about 1629 in
England. He married Elizabeth "Bess" [Winthrop] in August 1649.
Elizabeth, a daughter of Thomas and Anne Fones, was born
January 21, 1609/10 in Groton Manor, Suffolk, England.

She married to
Henry Winthrop April 25, 1629 in England, and one year later Henry set
out for America aboard the "Talbot". The pregnant Elizabeth was to
follow later with her step-mother-in-law, the governor's third wife . On July 2, 1630, the very day of his
arrival in the New World at Salem, MS, Henry went for a swim at a nearby
Indian village. While making for a boat across the bay he suffered a
severe cramp and drowned in full sight of his friends.

Elizabeth gave birth on May 9, 1630 to a daughter named Martha Johanna.
On November 2, 1631, she arrived in Massachusetts aboard the Lyon with
her daughter and without a husband.

The situation did not last for long. Within three months of her
landfall she had met and married Robert Feake , a
landowner of some means who had arrived with the Winthrop fleet the
prior year. Their union produced five children, including Hannah Feake,
who married John Bowne.

Robert Feake subsequently went insane as a result of personal,
domestic, and financial troubles. Elizabeth left him for his business
manager, William Hallett. They were eventually recognized as husband and
wife and settled in the New Netherlands colony in what became Halletts
Cove, Long Island.

Elizabeth [Winthrop] {Feake} Hallett died
about 1656 and William Hallett married Susannah Thorne in April 1674.
She was born in New Town, Long Island, NY.

William arrived in Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1631 aboard the
"Lyon." He was a business manager for Robert Feake.