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- Birth name stated as ‘Mathews or Mathias, daughter of a Dublin merchant.’ The website [http://www.neilelvick.com/Book/chap_10.htm] states that a different James and Jean are this couple.
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Married William Nelson as her 2nd? husband after May 27th 1761 (date she appeared in court as Jean McMullen contesting her lack of dower property from her husband James when he died.) William is selling property in 1788 and Jean is not mentioned in the deeds, so possibly died by 1788.
“Came into court Jean McMullen Relict of James McMullen late of the County of York deceased and by her petition set forth that her late husband James McMullen died owner and possessed of an improvement messuage and tract of land with the appurtenances situate in Shrewsbury Township in the said County of York containing about three hundred acres having first made his last will and testament in writing and thereby bequeathed to your petitioner the sum of thirty pounds and some other small specific legacies and that she was dissatisfied with the said bequest and prayed the court might please to allow her the one third part of the personal estate of the deceased, and the one third part of the plantation and tract of land of which the said James McMullen died seized and owner of as aforesaid during her natural life.
It is thereupon considered by the court and it is ordered and decreed that the said Jean hold and enjoy the one third of the tract of land and plantation aforesaid whereof her husband died seized during her natural life and the one third of the personal estate agreeable to her prayer in her petition in full satisfaction of her part and share of her deceased husbands personal estate and of the plantation and tract of land aforesaid if the same will admit of devision without prejudice to the whole otherwise the one third of the full value of the yearly rents and profits of said tract of land and plantain or the interest of the third part fo the money arising from the sale in case the same shall be sold, during her natural life.”
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When her brother-in-law was paying out the bequests to her children in 1774 there is mention of her widows portion, which appears to indicate that she was still alive in 1774. (p195 has an accounting of money with widow’s portion on it.) [2, 3, 4]
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