H.G. "Bud" Skadow, loving husband and best friend of Barbara J., nee Gordon; beloved dad of Michael J. (Judy), Kenneth D. (Tracy) and Richard J. (Karen); brother of Don (Grace) Skadow; son-in-law of Sarah A. Gordon; brother-in-law of Robert (Patricia) Lojewski, John (Kathleen) Gordon, David (Mary Beth) Bihler, Mark (Jennifer) Gordon, Scott (Scheilah) Norris, William Gordon, Jim (Lisa) Gordon; uncle to many nieces and nephews. Funeral Tuedsay, July 11, 9:30 a.m., from Ryan-Parke FuneralHome, 120 S. Northwest Hwy. (2 blks S. of Touhy), Park Ridge, to St. Paul of the Cross Church, Mass 10 a.m. Interment private. Visitation Monday, 3 to 9 p.m. In lieu of flowers, memorials to the Center For Concern or The American Cancer Society appreciated.

WILL of JAMES LAWRENCE, of Freehold, Mon. Co., Yeoman, “Being Sick and Weak of Body.” Dated Mch. 6, 1729. Proved by dep. of John Stillwell and Joseph Myers, and affirm. of Abbert Swam, “being one of the People Called Quakers,” wits; before Samuel Bustill, D. Regr, Apr. 7, 1730.

Gives: “Unto my son Jacob his heirs .... All that Lands and Meadow Which I purchafed of Edward Worth “On Condition .... that he pay to my Two Grandaughters the Daughters of my Deceafed Daughter Elisabeth “Vanhorne Cathrine and Elisabeth the Sum of Twenty-five pounds Apeice money at Eight fhillings p ounce As they shall “Each of them Refpectively Come to Eighteen years of Age or Marriage And if Either of them Dye the Surviving Sifter to “have ye Whole fifty pounds And if they both Dye then their Brother Mathias to have ye fifty pound, and alfo the sd “Devise to my sd son Jacob is further on Condition that if the Land that I hereby Devife to my son John be Recovered “from him by Law or any part of it that then my son Jacob be at one Equall third part of ye Cofts of ye “sd suit and also pay to sd John his heirs .... for one Equall third part of all Such Land so loft thirty “five fhillings p Acre money at Eight fhillings p ounce, And if my son John fhould Carry the Cafe then my son “Jacob to pay one Equall third part of all Such Cofts, that my sd son Cannot Recover of ye plantif .... that “my Plantation Whereon I Now Dwell be divided by Line Begining at a small white Oak .... standing “by Crofsweeks Creek againft a small Ifland In the Creek, And Runing along ye Ditch and Bottom of the Bank “.... to ye Mouth of a Small Run .... to the place where the Path Juft below the forks of sd Run “Crofses the Same .... to the South weft Corner of ye Orchard .... to an old Bridge Where ye “path Crofses sd Run .... Thence Upon a Paralel Line With Burlington Path Untill it Comes to Matthew “Warwicks Deceafed Line And I Give .... to my son John his heirs .... all my Lands and Improvements “to the Southward of sd Divifsion Line, being part of that Purchafed of David Stout, and Ten Acres of Salt Meadow at “Kittle Creek ....”; “to my Grandson Mathias Vanhorne his heirs .... a Right of Propriety to take up “one hundred and Twenty Acres of Land in right of Turners Share of Propriety ....” “Unto my Loving Wife “Mehetabell the Sum of one hundred pounds money at Eight shillings p ounce And ye Ufe of the Remaining part of my “Personall Eftate (after debts funerall Charges and Legacys .... are paid out) Dureing her Widowhood and at “the Expiration .... the same be Equally Divided amongft all my Children, And .... that she have the “Ufe of one half of my Lands, buildings and Improvements Where I now live that lyes to the Northward of ye Line of “Divifsion .... During the Term of her Widdowhood ....” “Unto my son James If he attain to .... “Twenty-one years, Or Leave Ifsue of his body (after ye Expiration of my Wifes Widdowhood) all ye Lands, buildings and “Improvements yt lyes to ye Northward of sd line of Divifsion Both that part purchafed of David Stout And that purchafed “of John Johnftons and George Willocks, And Ten Acres of Salt Meadow at Kettle Creek Unto ye sd Son James his “heirs .... Upon Condition that if his brother John should loofe at Law any part of his Land above to him Devifed “that he pay to sd John his heirs .... for one Equall third part In like manner as his brother Jacob is hereby “ordered to pay, and also ye one third of ye Coft if sd John Carrys ye Cafe as Jacob is abovesd Ordered ....”; “to “my Daughter Hannah When she shall attain to .... Twenty one years or Leave Ifsue of her body the one half of “my five hundred and Seventy Acres of Land lying in Middlesex to be Equally Divided In quantity and Quality to her heirs “....” “Unto my Daughter Mary when she shall attain to .... Twenty-one years Or Leave Ifsue of her body “the other half of sd Land in Middlesex to be Equally Divided as Abovesd to her my sd Daughter Mary heirs ....”; “to my Daughter Rebeckah The one half of my Lands and Meadow at Kettle Creek after ye Twenty Acres of Meadow is “taken out as Abovementioned When she shall attain to .... Twenty-one years or leave Ifsue of her Body to be “Equally Divided to her her heirs ....”; “to my Daughter Deborah when she shall attain to .... Twenty-one “years, or leave Isue of her body, the remaining part of my Land and Meadow at Kettle Creek to be Equally Divided “to her my sd Daughter Deborah her heirs ...” “That if Either of my sons Depart this life, before they attain to “.. Twenty-one years or leave Ifsue of their Body that then such Land as Such Deceafed son should Inherit be Equally “Divided between the Surviving sons and their heirs and if Either of my four Daughters Namely Hannah, Mary Rebeckah “and Deborah, Depart this life before they attain to .... Twenty-one years or Leave Ifue of their Body that then “that Land that such Deceafed Daughter or Daughters should Inherit be Equally Divided amongft thofe of said Daughters “that shall Survive and their heirs ....”

Appoints “my Loveing Wife Mehetabell and my son Jacob Lawrence and my Cousin Robert Lawrence Executors ....”

Wits.: JAMES LAWRENCE
John Stilwill [his mark]
Joseph Myers
Abbert Swam [his mark]

Oath of Executors, Mehatabel Lawrence, Jacob Lawrence and Robert Lawrence; before Samuel Bustill, D. Regr., “on the day and year .... Supra.” [Apr. 7, 1730.]

[On the back of the will: “Sworn ye 7th April, 1730, all ye Ers & all ye Witnefses. Jos. Myers, affd.”]