The three daughters and co-heh-esses of John Richardson were : Bertha, wife of Joseph Ketcham, of Newtown, Long Island ; Mary, wife of Joseph Hadley, of Yonkers; and Elizabeth, wife of Gabriel Leggett, from whom descend the Leggetts of West Farms. His last will bears date i6th November, 1679 ; in it he bequeaths --

"To his beloved wife, Martha, all his housing and orchard, and all movebles without aud within, and all live stock, also all his laud and meadov,- on the planting neck, and all the Long Neck that runs southward from Thomiis Hunt's new dwelling house to the Sound, and this during her life to act and dispose as she shall see cause."

"To'his son-in-law, Joseph Hadley, a pasture of three acres already laid out, &c.,at or about the first spring, aud all the meadow that is already divided, that is ou this side the river above ya planting neck." "To his three daughters, two hundred acres of laud each ; " " and to his brother's son, in England, Joseph Richardson, one hundred acres, if he come within the space of one whole year to receive it ; and if he come not within the time prefixed, it shall remain in Martha my wife's hands." "In conclu.sion, he constitutes aud appoints his wellbeloved friends, William Richardson and Richard Ponton, both of Wcstciiester, and Jonathan Hay ward, of Newtown, Long L^'land, overseers of his last will and testament, and that it is his whole will and testament after his decease, he witnesses it vmder his own hand the IHth day of November, 1679-1680."