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    1. Re: [PaOldC] Transcribing question
    2. Sandra Ferguson
    3. Here is the abstract, which includes it where they always put occupations JOHNSON, ROBERT. New Garden. Glaizer. January 26, 1732. November 28, 1732. A. 386.Provides for wife not named. To sons James, Joshua and Robert £20 each. To daughters Abigail and Ann £15 each. To son Benjamin, my plantation whereon I now dwell containing 300 acres, he paying above legacies.Executors: son Joshua and friend Benjamin Fred.Witnesses: Saml. Miller, John Willson, Benj. Fredd. (Caleb's will abstract also makes it pretty clear that his father was a glazier) JOHNSON, CALEB. New Garden.April 26, 1728. October 1, 1728. A. 283.To brother James Johnson, £15. To brothers Joshua, Robert and Benjamin £15 each. To sister Abigail wife of Isaac Baily of Marlborough £15. To sister Ann wife of Saml. Jackson late of Eegmont £15. Executors: father Robert Johnson [of New Garden, Glazier] and with mother Margaret Johnson, residuary legatees. Witnesses: Samuel Jackson, James Cooper. from Futhey and Cope, in case you don't have it; Robert Johnson, b 7, 29, 1696 in Coleboy, co Wicklow, married Sarah, dau of Gayen and Margaret Miller, b 9, 1, 1704 in Kennet, and they had children......Benjamin,, James, Joshua, Robert Abigail and Ann. Abigail became the wife of Thomas Wickersham...then Isaac Baily, and finally Mordecai Cloud. A son, Caleb Johnson, died in 1728, and a daughter, Sarah, in 1718. Robert Johnson, Jr, married Katharine, dau of Simon and Ru\th Hadly, and had children.......Hannah, Simon, Caleb, Lydia, Stehen, Jonathan and Isaac. I'm pleased to see that the abstracts, in this case, seem to be pretty good in including pertinent info. Sandra Robert Johnson - 1732 His son Caleb Johnson - 1728

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