Thomas Noxon will and administrative account

This last will and administrative account of Delaware planter, mill owner, and surveyor Thomas Noxon reveals Noxon's trading connections with Jamaica and New York, the extent of his property ownership and business interests, names of some of the people he enslaved, and the expenses paid from his estate by his executors from the time of his death in 1743 until 1753.

This will is likely a copy of the original given its uniform hand and lack of original signatures. Noxon's executors are named in the document, and include Noxon's wife, Mary, brother-in-law Abram Gooding, Esq., and friends John Mops, Esq. of Philadelphia and John Vance of St. George's Hundred. He also requested that his brother, Peter Noxon, and friend, Rick McWilliam of the Town of New Castle, assist his executors in managing his estate. The document was signed in the presence of witnesses George Stevenson, Ezekiel Bogg, John Janvier, and Jason Phillips.

Throughout the 5-page document, Noxon notes his desire to have a Christian burial, and makes arrangements for the disposition of his property, settlement of his business debts, management of his trading partnerships, and ongoing care of his wife, Mary, his son, Benjamin, his daughter, Sarah, and father, Thomas Noxon of New York. Noxon bequeathed five enslaved people to his family members: a woman, possibly named Hagar, to his wife; a girl named Phillis to his daughter; and three boys, Harry and brothers Tony and Joe, to his son.

The final page of the item enumerates the "Expen[ditures] of Thos. Noxon, Esq., Dec[eased] to his Representars."