- Name: Jeremiah Baker
Residence: Northern Liberties, Philadelphia, PA
Description: Deceased husband
Date: 1805
Prove Date: 3 May 1806
Title: Innholder
BookPage: 1:483
Remarks: Ruth Baker. Northern Liberties, City of Philadelphia. Widow of Jeremah Baker, late of sd. Liberties, innholder. Bequests to Bowyer Brooke, Junr.; to his bro. Reese Brooke; to their father Bowyer Brooke, Senr.; to eldest son of late husband's cousin John Baker; to Priscilla Wilson dau. of sd. Bowyer's bro. Roger; to John, Cornelius and Lydia Dellap, children of my late husband's step-sister Catharine Philpot; to Ely Armstrong; to Robert, Mary and Edward Sutton, three grandchildren of late husband's half-sister Mary Sutton, decd.; to mulatto girl Elizabeth Jackson and to her mother. To Jane Nixon, widow of Capt. Andrew Nixon. Annuity to Niece Sarah Welsh; to Martha Douglass, granddau. of Sarah Welsh. Remainder of estate to said Bowyer Brooke, Junr., Reese Brooke, Thomas Eyre (son of Benjamin), Martha Douglass, Hannan and Sarah Austin, two daus. of Wm. Austin, decd., two grandchildren of sd. niece Sarah Welsh. Exec: Bowyer Brooke, Senr., Anthony James Morris. Letters granted to Bowyer Brooke.
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To Bowyer Brooke, Jr. silver tankard
to his brother Reese Brooke, silver watch and spice ball
to their father Bowyer Brooke Sr, sleeve buttons.
Priscilla Wilson, daughter of the latter's brother Roger Brooke - $100
AFter, residuary estate divided equally among her own relatives:Bowher Brooke, Jr., and his brother Reese, Thomas Eyre, son of Benjamin, and unnamed two grandchildren of her niece Sarah Welsh. Martha Douglas and Hannah and Sarah Austin, the two daughters of William Austin, deceased, included among the residuary heirs, were possibly also her relatives. Executors of the will, proved 3 May 1806, were Boyers Brooke, Sr., and Anthony James Morris. She appears to have had no issue by her 2nd husband.
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