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Note: ry Mapes Notes" in which personal property is bequeathed, apparantly after death. One note is written in somone else's hand, and is dated and the devisor is identified, the other note is written in the devisor's own hand [less legibly], is undated and the devisor is not identified. Similarities between the notes, however, indicate that the second note was written by Mary Mapes. The text of the notes is as follows: Note #1 "Memorandum on ye 15 day of ye 1st month 1789 Sister Mary Mapes Requested me to write down how she would have her Cloths & what else she has Divided which was as follows Viz What money she hath which was not appraised she desires her daughter Hanah should have, & her cloths to be Equally Divided between Hanah A and her grandaughters and the case of drawers & a looking glass that stood on them to Hannah Andrew, and the tea table and warming pan to Mary Steelman Isaac's wife She gives Thos. Chalkey's jurnal to her daughter Hannah Andrews N.B. Nathan Bartlet's daughters are not to have any share in her cloths." Note #2: "amarandom of my cloes that I have to leve to my children my long cloke I leve to my grandagter Marey Willes and a brown worsted gowend to Judith Bartlet and a skirt to hur sister Hannah and a pear of [... ] Another to Sarey Bartlet and a hankef. "and I leve to my grandgter Hannah Falkinburg a gown and quilted cote and hankerchef and the rest of my cloes I give to Hannah Andres and hur sister Marey [*] to divide between them and thear is a patern of worsted for a long gowend that Hannah may and case of drawrs too wich was hur fathers and two blankets which I have made since I was late wido and tee tabel and waren pan for Marey Steelman and half dozen of blue and white creahton plates ... and the glasses upon the drawers loken glass and a trunk some bookes that was hur fathers this from your grandrmother" * It is unclear which Hannah Andrews and her sister Mary this refers to. It may refer to Mary Mapes' daughters Hannah (Somers) Andrews and Mary (Somers) Falkinburg.
Note: The Atlantic County Historical Society has possession of two notes that are identified as "Ma
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