From "Calendar of New Jersey Wills Volume II 1730-1750" by A Van Doren Honeyman in 1918: 1741, April 1, Robins, Isaac, of Hunterdon Co.; will of. Wife, Asubia. Sons-Vincent and Joseph. Six children mentioned. Executors-wife, and friends Job Robins and Amos Thatcher. Witnesses-Jacob Knowles, Lydia Thatcher, John lewis. Proved Oct. 22, 1741. Lib. 4, p. 322. 1741, Oct. 13. Inventory ([pounds]46.15.2) includes books. Made by W. Montgomerie, Charles Woolverton, Peter Johnson. Full transcription of will ... of Isaac Robins deced Hunterdon County D 1741 153J Job Robins & Asubia Robins, two of the executors of the last will & testament of the within named Isaac Robins deced being duly appointed did declare & Amos Thatcher the other executor being duly sworn did depose that the within instrument contains a true & perfect inventory of all & singular the goods chattels & credits of the said deceased so far as has come to their knowledge or possession or the possession of any other person or persons forth ? --- Sworn & affirmed at Burl'n the twenty second day of October AD 1741 before me [signed] Joseph Ross Surrogate An inventory of all & perticular [sic] such goods chattels and moveable estate of Isaac Robins of Hunterdon County deceased as were brought to our view inventoried & appeared by us whose names are hereunto subscribed thise thitenth day of October 1741 -- Viz s h i p l o l p u i e n n n d g c s s e _______________ apparel and cash | 6 | 0 | 0 bonds & bills | 67 | 1 | 2 two beds & furniture | 10 | 0 | 0 to sundry in the kitchen | 3 | 0 | 0 books & furniture in the parlour | 2 | 0 | 0 a mans saddle | 0 | 10 | 0 cart & utensils for husbandry | 3 | 0 | 0 two horses two mares & six colts | ? | 0 | 0 nine cattle | 18 | 0 | 0 twenty one sheep | 4 | 4 | 0 In the name of God Amen. I Isaac Robins being through the abundant mercy of God tho weak in body, yet of sound and perfect understanding & memory do constitute this my Last Will & Testament & desire it may be received as such. I most humbly bequeath my soul to God my maker beseeching his most gracious acceptance of it; through the all sufficient merits and mediation of my most compassionate Redeemer Jesus Christ Who gave himself to be an attonoment {sic] for my sins, & is able to save to the uttermost all that come to God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them who I trust will not reject me a returning pentitent sinnor [sic] when I come to him for mercy; in this hope and confidence I render up my soul with comfort, humbly beseeching the most blessed and glorious Trinity, one God most holy most mercifull and gracious to prepare me to himself into that peace and rest and incomperable felicity which he has prepared for all that love his holy name Amon [sic] blessed be God --- ? I give my body to the Earth from when it was taken in full assurance from thence at the last day. Then I give and bequeath unto Asubia my my [sic] well beloved wife one half of my plantation during her life; (paying the loan office yearly) whom I appoint executor of this my Last Will & Testament. Then I give & bequeath to my son Vincent Robins the other half of my plantation to him his heirs executors administrators & assigned for ever. Then I give & bequeath to my son Joseph Robins the half of my plantation after the death of his mother to him his heirs executors administrators and assigns for ever. Then all & singular my goods & chattels whatsoever to be equally divided between my wife & six (?) children, after all my lawfull & just debts paid. Then I constitute & appoint my trusty and well beloved friends Job Robins and Amos Thatcher to be my executors jointly with my wife Asubia Robins -- And I do hereby disannull & revoke all other will & wills & testaments whatsoever by me aforetime made. Whereby I do acknowledge publish pronounce & declare this to be my last will & testament in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this first day of April Anno Dom one thousand seven hundred & forty one. signed sealed published pronounced } and } [signed] Isaac Robins declared in the presence of } [signed] Jacob Knowles signum [signed] Lydia + Thatcher [signed] John Lewis Jacob Knowles & John Lewis two of the witnesses to the above written will being duly sworn did despose that they saw Isaac Robins the testator therein named sign & seal the same & heard him publish pronounce & declare the within & above written instrument to be his last Will & Testament & that at the doing thereof the said testator was pf sound disposing mind memory & understanding so far as they know & as they verily believe & that at the same time Lydia Thatcher the other witness was present & signed her name thereto together with these desponents in presence of the said testator & at his request. --- Sworn at Burlington the Twenty second } Day of October AD 1741 before me } [signed] Joseph Ross Surrogate Job Robins & Asubia Robins two of the executors in the annexed will named being duly affirmed did declare & Amos Thatcher the other executor being duly sworn did despose that the annexed instrument contains the true last Will and Testament if Isaac Robins the testator therein named so far as they know & as they verily believe & that they will well & truly perform the same by paying first the debts of the deced & then the legacies in the same will specifyed [sic] so far as the goods chattels & credits of the deced can thereunto extend & that they will make & exhibit a true & perfect inventory ? and render a just acct when thereunto lawfully required. --- Sworn & affirmed at Burl'n the twenty second day of October AD 1741 before me [signed] Joseph Ross Surrogate The Last Will and Testament of Isaac Robins