Person Sheet


Name Mary Ann Allen
Birth 1727, North Brunswick, NJ
Death 9 Apr 1814, North Brunswick, NJ Age: 87
Spouses:
1 John Buckelew
Birth 1717, North Brunswick, NJ
Death 15 Feb 1796, North Brunswick, NJ Age: 79
Father Peter Buckelew (1697-1783)
Mother Abigail ?
Marriage 12 Jun 1745
Children: Peter (1752-)
John (1756-1837)
Abraham (1757-)
Frederick (1764-1825)
Obadiah (1767-1847)
Zachariah (1772-1837)
Mary
Elizabeth
Anne
Jane
Lydia
Margaret
Abigail
David
Hannah (-1832)
Notes for Mary Ann Allen
1795, 3 Apr; Middlesex Co., NJ Will of John "Burkerlew": "Beloved" wife Mary was to receive the annual interest from all of her husband's money in the Bank of the US. Sons Frederick & Obadiah were to "decently and comfortably maintain" their mother on the farm which they would possess after their father's death, and she was to have the "best bed, bedding and furniture." ... her husbands "negro man," Pompey, was to become the property of wife Mary Buckerlew. If Pompey lived to become unfit for service, he was to live with any of John's sons, and all of the sons were to contribute equally toward maintaining Pompey while he lived.
Notes for John (Spouse 1)
3 Apr 1795, Middlesex Co., NJ, Will: (see provisions of the will in the separate notes pertaining to individual children.) Peter and Frederick, and W. James Schureman/Schuremanthe of New Brunswick, merchant, to be Exec. Wit.: ?Roclof Cornell, John Van ?Abran & David Gano. Ref #8785-92. From a recorded copy of orig, available through Gerry Green. The original document was too faint to reproduce, so the Archives sent John's signature only. The rest of the will is from their recorded copy, and the year the will was written is definitely 1795.<../rr_src.htm>, p. 233.

1795, 3 Apr; Middlesex Co., NJ Will of John "Burkerlew": "Beloved" wife Mary was to receive the annual interest from all of her husband's money in the Bank of the US. Sons Frederick & Obadiah were to "decently and comfortably maintain" their mother on the farm which they would possess after their father's death, and she was to have the "best bed, bedding and furniture." ... her husbands "negro man," Pompey, was to become the property of wife Mary Buckerlew. If Pompey lived to become unfit for service, he was to live with any of John's sons, and all of the sons were to contribute equally toward maintaining Pompey while he lived.
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