Some info I found. Nita Pearce New-Jersey Monmouth, BY Order of the Hon. John Anderson, and James Lawrence, Esq; two of the judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for said County: Whereas Ezekiel Ellison, Andrew Pearce, and Gersham Bullman, Prisoners for Debt, in the Gaol of said County, did on the 28th Day of June, 1768, make Application to said Judges, for the Benefit of the late Insolvent Act, entitled, "An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors, made in the eighth Year of his present Majesty's Reign, for said Purpose," having qualified and filed their Schedules. Now these are to give Notice to the Creditors of the said Debtors, that they be together at said Gaol aforesaid, on the 26th Day of July next, at ten of the Clock, to shew cause (if any they have) why the said Prisoners Estates, should not be assigned, and their Bodies discharged from their Confinement, pursuant to said Act.--The New York Journal or General Advertiser, No. 1331, July 7, 1768. Abstracts of Wills Vol V 1754_1760 Page 237 Page 27.__"The last will and Testament of SAMUEL PEARCE, of Cow Neck, in the town of Hempstead, in Queens County," December 16, 1757. "I will that all my personal estate, that is, all my out of door movables and shop tools (household goods excepted), to be sold at publick vendue." I leave to my wife Abigail, in lieu of dower, all my household goods. I leave to my daughter Elizabeth o50. "For the enabling of my wife to bring up my children in a decent manner, as well as in lieu of her dower," I give her the sole use and profit of all my farm I now live upon and all the money that I have at interest, until my son William is of age, and then my said farm is to be sold at public vendue, and the money paid to my wife Abigail and my children, Elizabeth, William, Anne, Phebe, Hannah, George, Richard, Sarah, and Freelove. My daughter Elizabeth is to have as much given her as, with what has before been given, will make her equal to the rest. I make my friends, Daniel Kissam and Adam Mo! tt, both of Cow Neck, executors. Witnesses, Richbell Mott, Joseph Baker, Joseph Dodge. Proved, May 8, 1758.