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Marriage: Children:
  1. Millicent SOMERS: Birth: 7 10mo 1685.

  2. John SOMERS: Birth: 5 7mo 1687.

  3. Hannah SOMERS: Birth: 21 1MO 1691 in Abington,Pennsylvania. Death: 24 Apr 1737 in Egg Harbor (Pleasantville area)

  4. Richard SOMERS: Birth: 1 3mo 1693. Death: 27 11mo 1760 in Egg Harbor Twp (Somers Point area)

  5. James SOMERS: Birth: 15 1mo 1695.

  6. Edmund SOMERS: Birth: 1706 in Egg Harbor Township,New Jersey. Death: 7mo 1743 in Egg Harbor Township,New Jersey

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a. Note:   o. 1684, at Abington (Pa.) Friends Meeting, as his second wife, Hannah Hodgkins. John Somers and Hannah Hodgkins were both members of Abington Friends Meeting. His will was dated January 8, 1720/21, and was affirmed January 14, 1739, at Great Egg Harbour Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey. Executor was his son, Richard Somers and the witnesses were Peter White, Jonathan Addoms and Thomas Green. The will of Hannah (Hodgkins) Somers was dated October 12, 1737, and affirmed February 24, 1737/38, at Great Egg Harbour Township. (N. J. Archives, vol. 30, pp 447, 448). John Somers was in Great Egg Harbour Township by the year 1693, as at that time he was granted a license to "keep a Ferry over Great Egg Harbour for men, hors and Kattle". The birth dates of three of the children of John and Hannah Somers appear in the records of Abington Monthly Meeting. Quoted from "The Somers Family", by Olive Conover Rundstrom, ACHSYB, vol 3, p. 14 (1956) At a 1758 Monthly Meeting, a testimonial was read about John Somers, and five other deceased Ministers and Elders of the Egg Harbor Meeting. 4 ACHSYB 34. Abstract of will from 30 NJA 1st 447-448: 1720-21, Jan. 8. Somers, John, of Great Egg Harbor, Gloucester Co., yeoman; will of. Wife, Hannah. Sons-Richard, executor, and to have the home land, excepting 400 acres on the east side of the same, upon condition that he pays £10 per annum to his mother dur­ing her life; James, 350 acres on the north-east side of Mulberry Point, where he now lives; Samuel and Job, equally, 800 acres on the northwest side of Patcons Creek; Isaac, 400 acres at Gilbort's Pon, over to the head of the mill creek; Edmond, 350 acres on the south­west side of his brother James, Sons Samuel, Job, Isaac and Edmond to pay 10 shillings per annum to their sister, Bridget, after the decease of their mother. What remains to be divided equally among my three daughters. Witnesses-Peter White, Jonathan Addomas, Thomas Green. Affirmed 14 Jan., 1739. Lib. 4, p. 216. In the name of God, Amen the 8th day of January in the year of our Lord 1720/21- I JOHN SOMERS of Great Egg Harbor in the County of Gloucester in the Province of West New Jersey, Yeoman being very sick and weak in Body but of perfect Mind and Memory-thanks be given unto god, Therefore Calling to Mind the Mortality of my Body and Knowing that it is appointed for all Men once to die do make and ordain this my last will and Testament, that is to say, principally and first of all I give and Reccommend my Soul into the Hands of God that gave it, and for my Body I reccommend it to the Earth to be burried in a Christian like and decent manner at the discretion of My Executors, nothing doubting but at the general Resurection I shall receive the same again by the Mighty Power of God And as touching such worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this life. I give devise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form. Imprimis. I give and bequeath to my well beloved Son RICHARD SOMERS and his Heirs and Assigns All my Land and Plantation where I do now live on excepting four Hundred Acres of land on the East side of my Plantation with the provisq that my Son RICHARD SOMERS pay to his Mother the sum Ten Pounds Current Money of America per annum during her life time, and also to let his Mother have sufficient Room to dwell in and to provide her firewood and Fodder and Pasturing for Six Cows and Six Sheep during her widowhoo d. Item, I give to my well beloved wife HANNAH all my Household goods, to her dispossing. Item, I give and bequeath to my well beloved Son JAMES SOMERS three hundred and fifty Acres of land and Meadow on the North East side of Mulberry Point where he now lives on, to him and his Heirs and Assigns. Item, I give unto my well beloved Son SAMUEL SOMERS and my Son JOB SOMERS Eight Hundred Acres of Land and Meadow lying on the North West side of Patconk Creek equally to be divided between them, to them and their Heirs and Assigns, but my Son SAMUEL to have his choice when divided of this Eight Hundred Acres. Item, I give to ISAAC SOMERS my Son four Hundred acres of Land and Meado w Beginning at Pon called Gilberts Pon and so over to the head of the Mill Creek, to him and his Heirs and Assigns forever. Item, I give to my Son EDMOND SOMERS three hundred and fifty Acres of land and Meadow joining on the South West Side of his Brother JAMES SOMER'S Land to him and his Heirs and Assigns. Item, I ordain my four Sons, viz, SAMUEL SOMERS, JOB SOMERS,ISAAC SOMERS and EDMOND SOMERS each to pay to their Sister BRIDGET SOMERS , after the decease of their Mother the Sum of ten Shillings per annum for her life time. Item, I leave my Stock in the Hands of my Son RICHARD SOMERS to Make use of the farm and to pay all my Debts and after the decease of my whife and my debts paid what remains to be equally divided among my three Daughters. Item, and Lastly I ordain my well beloved Son RICHARD SOMERS whom I likewise Constitute make and Ordain my only and Sole Executer of this my last will and Testament and I do hereby disallow, revoke and disanul all any other former Testaments, Wills, Legacies, Bequests and Executers by me in any ways before this time named willed and Beguested, ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last Will and Testament. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal the day and Year abo ve written. JOHN SOMERS (Seal) Signed Sealed published, pro nounced and declared by the said JOHN SOMERS as his last will and Testament in the presence of us the Scribers viz. PETER WHITE, JONATHAN ADDOMAS, THOMAS GREEN. A true copy from the Record No 4 of Wills Follio 216 Robert Burchan....Pro. Reg.
Note:   1. John Somers. He was born in Worcestershire, England, about 1640. He married, 2nd day 1st m


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