I ran across the following will while searching the Ancestry On-Line Databases: Database: Full Context of New York City Wills, 1766-1771 Page 416.--In the name of God, Amen. I, DAVID FULTON, of the Precinct of New Windsor, in Ulster County, yeoman, being sick. I leave to my wife Ann ¦8 every year during her life, and her bed and a cow, and a linnen wheel and 1/2 of the pewter for life, and then to my heirs. I leave to my daughter, Jene Harris, ¦40 and a table. To my grandson Alexander ¦40. To my grandson, Thomas Fulton, son of my son David, ¦5. To my son John ¦10, and all wearing apparell. To my son Hugh ¦4, "which I give him as his wright of heireship." To my grandson, David Fulton, son of my son Hugh, ¦10. To my brother, James Fulton, ¦30. To my sister, Hannah Fulton, ¦10, "to be put in the care of Samuel Lawson and Alexander Wilson, of New York, to be sent in Hogsed staves or flaxseed, or cash, to be directed to Robert Gurig, in Coldrain, Ireland." I leave to my daughter, Ann Totten, ¦6. "If I should not myself sign a deed of sale to John Deen for my land, while I live, my executors shall give him a deed when he fulfilleth his contract with me. Otherwise to sell the same." I make Matthew McDonnell, of New Windsor, and Jonathan Brooks, of Orange County, Cornwall Precinct, executors. Dated June 13, 1770. Witnesses, John Dean, Beriah Palmer, Jacob de Vo. Proved, in New York, November 9, 1770. ======= Celia