10. STONE HOUSE PLAINS - located in Brookdale section of Bloomfield, Essex County. Maureen On 5/16/07, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > THE PLACE GAME > > Match the locations from the following list to a "county." I'll > publish the answers and the wills in which they are found in a few > days, amd then, if you folks like the idea, we'll do some more. My > thinking is that, while we'll all learn about places, we'll get some > insight of the people from those places. [[DISCLAIMER - Every effort > was made to try to isolate place names specific to a single county, > but sometimes they can appear in others; cannot be avoided.]]dwt >

CORRECT! 10. STONE HOUSE PLAINS - NJ Archives, Vol 41, Calendar of Wills #12 (1810-1813), p. 144: 1810, June 15. GARRITSON, Peter H., of Newark Twsp, Essex Co.; will of. Wife (unnamed), bed and bedding, dresser, forks and knives, 6 spoons, 1 high cupboard, chairs, spinning wheel and reel, cow, and 1 hog. Household goods to remain in family during her widowhood, and she is to have home with my son, Hassel. Son, Hassel, house and buildings on homestead lot, adjoining the main road at Stone House Plains, and the new lot containing 50 acres; also a tract at the Notch Mountain and my right in the Saw Mill, which is called the Peterson Tract; also a hog, pig and grain. Son, Cornelius, 1/2 the tract back of the New Road. Son, John, the other 1/2 of same, adjoining Peter GARRABRANDT and Nickolas GARRABRANDT, and Ayres EGBERTSON; also a cow, colt, ewe and lamb. Daughter, Caty, $40. Daughter, Elizabeth, $50. Daughters, Anney and Mary, each $50. Daughter, Gitty, $50, bed and bedding, 1 cow, ewe and lamb and money to purchase as many things as my eldest daughter received. Mary to have the same. The tract of land in the Pracknes Mountains near Saddle River on the high mountain in Bergen Co., to be sold. Proceeds of sale, and moveable property to pay debts. Sons to pay legacies. Executors - wife, Eave, son, Hassel. Witnesses - Joseph SIGLAR, Garrabrant A. GARRABRANT, Ephraim COCKEFAIR. Proved Oct. 18, 1811. 1810, Oct 10. Inventory, L143.0.0; made by Garrabrant A. GARRABRANT, Abraham N. GARRABRANT. File 10674 G. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.