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Note: Abstract of Will of Samuel Andrews 23 NJA 1st 14: 1693 Sept. 12. Andrews, Samuel; will of. Wife Mary; children - Edward, Mary, Mordica, Peeter, Hester. Real and personal estate. Executors-the wife and Edward Rockhill, with John Woolston and Samuel Buntin, as assistants. Witnesses-Edward Rockhill and Daniel Bacon. Codicill gives 20 acres of land to negro boy when 24 years old. Proved Nov. 10, 1693. Burlington Wills 1693 Nov. 10. Bond of Mary Andrews, the widow, of Mansfield Township and Edward Rockhill, of Chesterfield, as executors, John Woolston, senior, and James Croft, both of Burlington Co., fellow bondsmen. Burlington Records, p. 20 1693 Nov. 10. Inventory of the estate (£298.18.8), made by Win. Biddle, Francis Davenport, John Wilston, sen., and Isaac H. Horner. What follows is quoted from the outstanding ANDREWS Genealogy by John P. Dornan, which appeared in the Genealogical Dictionary of New Jersey, beginning at Vol 24, p. 51, (1949). 1. SAMUEL ANDREWS, the progenitor of the largest family of the name in West New Jersey, b. abt. 163-; bur. on 19 Sept. 1693 in Mansfield Twp., Burl. Co., N.J., md. 30 Oct. 1663 at the house of her uncle Anthony Wright in Oyster Bay, Long Island, N.Y., to .Mary Wright, b. abt. 164- at Saugus (now Lynn) or Sandwich, Mass.; d. abt. 1699-1704 at Mansfield; dau. of Peter and Alice Wright. (NYGBR 6:99; CfdQR.) Samuel Andrews was an early settler in Jamaica, L.I, the town granting him a houselot in the Southern Quarter, next to Daniel Denton, on 18 Feb. 1655/6, and he was one of the Third Squadron appointed to cut hay there on Nov. 25 following. A carpenter and shipwright, he agreed on 24 Feb. 1675/6 to build for Reineer Williams and John Shackerly, both of the city of New York, a sloop or vessel, for the sum of L60. (N.Y. Col. Mss., 25:74.) He evidently had built a house on his lot, for on 18 Mar. 1661/2 he sold all his "right, title and interest of house and lot in Jamaica" to Luke Watson, having purchased on 27 January previous from Richard and Josias Latting of Huntington, L.I, a house and homelot on the main street in Oyster Bay. (JaTR 1:2, 4, 6, 15; OyTR 1:149.) He was an early member of the Society of Friends at O.B. (NYGBR 2:10) and occupied positions of civic and religious trust there; appointed surveyor to lay out his own land in 1668-70, and the West Neck in 1671; selected constable in 1669 and 1676, and made an original purchase from the Indians on 1 June 1682. (OyTR 1:53, 136, 218, 226.) He and John Feke built the first Friends mtg. house at O.B., on land his wife's uncle Anthony Wright had given to the Mtg. on 15 Oct. 1672 and both he and his wife were grantees in the deed in trust for the Meeting. He was one of the wealthiest men of the community in Sep., 1683, only one other man being assessed equally with him and only one higher. (OyTR 1:691; NYCD 2:306.) He took up land in Burl. Co., N.J., bef. S Nov. 1683, had it surveyed in June, 1684, and was taxed as the owner of 500 acres the same year ( W JD-Revel:43, 46; PMHB 15:346) but the deed from William Biddle was not signed until 10 July 1688, (WJD B:222; NJA 21:426.) He seems to have gone back and forth between Long Island and New Jersey from 1683 to 1685/6, probably building his new house in the summer months and spending the winter seasons at Oyster Bay. He witnessed a deed signed in his presence at O.B. on 5 Dec. 1684 but served on the grand jury at the Burlington Court on 8 May 1685 and was back in O.B, again on June 1st, when he gave his wife an unlimited power of attorney to sell, in his absence, any of his lands there. He evidently contemplated a permanent removal to N.J. in the fall, for on October 8th a Friends committee at O.B. was directed to secure a deed for the meeting house grounds from him and Isaac Horner "before they goe from here." He was still in O.B. on the 20th and 24th when he sold some lands and again on 24 May 1686, but had finally settled in N.J. before 6 Oct. 1686, when he served as a petit juror at the Burl. Court (OyTR 1:317, 320, 338; BuCt), and his dau. Hannah was bur. at Mansfield on 7 Nov. 1686. He was a grand juror again 12 Feb. 1687/8, a petit juror 8 May 1692 and again a grand juror 8 Aug. 1692, which is the last time that his name appears in the public records of New Jersey. (BuCtBk.) He transferred his Quaker membership from the O.B. Mtg. to the Chesterfield Mtg. in Burl. Co., and on 6 Jan. 1686/7 a mtg. committee was appointed "to lay out a Burying place upon Samuel Andrews land, by his consent, for ye Conviencye of ffriends thereabouts" and on 3rd Feb. following, the committee reported that they "had pitched upon a place in Samuel Andrews land containing two acres." As of Spring Hill, West New Jersey, he sold to Joseph Ludlum on 15 Nov. 1687 all his Oyster Bay land including the dwelling house, and on 4 June 1688 his remaining shares of the Oak Meadows. (OyTR 1:448, 499.) Spring Hill was situated on the north side of the southernmost of two little brooks that form by their confluence the main north branch of Craft's Creek in the present Mansfield Twp., Burl. Co., abt. 2 miles north from Columbus and included within its bounds the site of the present Mansfield mtg. house and the original burying ground. The Chesterfield records state that "Samuel Andrews was buried ye 19th Day of ye 7th Mo. 1693 at the Burying place near his own home" and that his son Jacob was buried there the lst of "ye 10th Mo. 1687." (Cfd QR.) By his will, dated 12 Sep. and probated 10 Nov. 1693 (NJWUnrec. 1:337; BuCt 1:20), Samuel Andrews gave his wife Mary one-half of his personal estate, the use of one-half of his dwelling house and of one-half of 300 acres of land during her life; to son Edward the other half of the personal estate, the dwelling house and 300 acres, together with all of his mother's share at her death, he being ordered to pay L 20 to his sister Mary, who also received 100 acres of woodland; to son Peter, 130 acres of land, "`but Peter is not to sell it"; to dau. Hester, 40 acres of meadow land; and to son Mordecai only 36 acres of land, as he had already had 140 acres by deed of gift dated 15 Mar. 1689/90. All nine of his children were born at Oyster Bay. (NYGBR 3:186.) Children of Samuel' Andrews and Mary Wright:
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