Tabitha McNeal was born on May 28 or 30, 1724 to John and Mary McNeal in Orange or Ulster County, New York (the county boundary has changed since that time).
Tabitha married about 1749 to Capt. William Borland who had previously been married to Tabitha's older sister Rebecca (who died April 28, 1749). Upon her marriage, Tabitha became step-mother to her nephew John and nieces Mary and Jean. William and Tabitha had 8 children. In December 1779 Tabitha became a widow.
In the year 1800 Tabitha was enumerated in Wallkill, Orange Co., New York as the head of her household consisting of 3 individuals: 2 free females over 45 years of age (presumably Tabitha and her daughter Rebecca) and one slave that must have been less than 25 years old. Sometime following the 1800 census Tabitha Borland was the first Wallkill resident to free her slave, in accordance with a legislative act in 1799. Filed with the town's officials was a doument reading:
"I do hereby certify that I have manumitted and set free my Negro slave, Otis, as fully and amply as I am authorized by the Act of Legislature entitled ‘An Act for the gradual abolition of slavery,' passed the 29th day of March, 1799, Tabetha Borland."
October 8, 1809 Tabitha wrote her Last Will & Testament asking that her property be sold and the money from that sale along with the money from her savings bonds be used to support her daughter Rebecca for the remainder of Rebecca's life. It mentioned her other living daugthers "Tabathy, Isabella and Pheby" and appointed her son Thomas Borland executor.
In 1810 Tabitha was enumerated in Wallkill, Orange Co., NY and her household consisted of 3 females (presumable Tabitha, daughter Rebecca and another older woman, perhaps another daughter?)
Widow Tabitha (McNeal) Borland died on 28 June 1815, at the age of 91 years, 'of old age' as her death record was recorded in the Records of the First Presbyterian Church at Goshen.
Tabitha's Will was probated and filed in the Orange County Records at Goshen as follows:
"In the name of God Amen I Tabatha Borland Widow of the Town of Walkill In the County of Orange and State of New York do this twenty Eighth day of October In the year of our Lord one thousand Eight Hundred and Nine Make this my Last Will and Testament in manner following (Vis) First it is my Will and i do direct my Executors to dispose of all my property as soon as conveniet after my deceas at publick Venture Excepting those articles herein after excepted and the money arising from Said Sale together with my Notes and bonds to be put to Usery for the Suport of my daughter Rebekah During her Natural life. and it is my Will further that the Feather Bed that I now Ockipy and bedstead with all my Bed Cloathes and Curtains likewise all my Whearing Cloaths and one Little wheel and Two Chests be Reserved By my Executors for use of my Said Daughter Rebeckah. I do likewise require my Said Executors to make use of the afforesaid property for the purposes as aforsaid as her Necessaty Shall Require and their wisdome dictate. and should any of said Estate be left after the Deceas of my Daughter Rebeckah I do order the same Eaqually Diveded among my Daughters that are now living (Vis) Tabathy, Isabella and Pheby and if my Daughter Rebeckah Outlives them I order it if any left Eaqually divided among their heirs I do make ordain and appoint Adam Milspaugh and my Son Thomas Borland Executors to this my Last Will and Testament I do revoke all other or former Wills and declare this to be my Last Will and Testament In Testimony whereof I have hearunto Set my hand and Seal the day and year first above written. Signed Sealed published and Declared by the Testatro as and for her Last Will and Testament in Presence of ----
Peter Millspaugh Tabethe Borland
John Milspaugh
William Millspaug …."
Tabitha was step-mother (and Aunt) to 3 children from her husband's first marriage:
John Borland
Mary Borland Bradner
Jean Borland Armstrong
Eight children born to Tabitha and William Borland:
Patience Borland McLaughin
Rebecca Borland
Charles Borland
Tabitha Borland Wright Smith Moore
Phebe Borland Dean
Thomas Borland
Isabel/Isabella Borland
William Borland, Jr
Tabitha married about 1749 to Capt. William Borland who had previously been married to Tabitha's older sister Rebecca (who died April 28, 1749). Upon her marriage, Tabitha became step-mother to her nephew John and nieces Mary and Jean. William and Tabitha had 8 children. In December 1779 Tabitha became a widow.
In the year 1800 Tabitha was enumerated in Wallkill, Orange Co., New York as the head of her household consisting of 3 individuals: 2 free females over 45 years of age (presumably Tabitha and her daughter Rebecca) and one slave that must have been less than 25 years old. Sometime following the 1800 census Tabitha Borland was the first Wallkill resident to free her slave, in accordance with a legislative act in 1799. Filed with the town's officials was a doument reading:
"I do hereby certify that I have manumitted and set free my Negro slave, Otis, as fully and amply as I am authorized by the Act of Legislature entitled ‘An Act for the gradual abolition of slavery,' passed the 29th day of March, 1799, Tabetha Borland."
October 8, 1809 Tabitha wrote her Last Will & Testament asking that her property be sold and the money from that sale along with the money from her savings bonds be used to support her daughter Rebecca for the remainder of Rebecca's life. It mentioned her other living daugthers "Tabathy, Isabella and Pheby" and appointed her son Thomas Borland executor.
In 1810 Tabitha was enumerated in Wallkill, Orange Co., NY and her household consisted of 3 females (presumable Tabitha, daughter Rebecca and another older woman, perhaps another daughter?)
Widow Tabitha (McNeal) Borland died on 28 June 1815, at the age of 91 years, 'of old age' as her death record was recorded in the Records of the First Presbyterian Church at Goshen.
Tabitha's Will was probated and filed in the Orange County Records at Goshen as follows:
"In the name of God Amen I Tabatha Borland Widow of the Town of Walkill In the County of Orange and State of New York do this twenty Eighth day of October In the year of our Lord one thousand Eight Hundred and Nine Make this my Last Will and Testament in manner following (Vis) First it is my Will and i do direct my Executors to dispose of all my property as soon as conveniet after my deceas at publick Venture Excepting those articles herein after excepted and the money arising from Said Sale together with my Notes and bonds to be put to Usery for the Suport of my daughter Rebekah During her Natural life. and it is my Will further that the Feather Bed that I now Ockipy and bedstead with all my Bed Cloathes and Curtains likewise all my Whearing Cloaths and one Little wheel and Two Chests be Reserved By my Executors for use of my Said Daughter Rebeckah. I do likewise require my Said Executors to make use of the afforesaid property for the purposes as aforsaid as her Necessaty Shall Require and their wisdome dictate. and should any of said Estate be left after the Deceas of my Daughter Rebeckah I do order the same Eaqually Diveded among my Daughters that are now living (Vis) Tabathy, Isabella and Pheby and if my Daughter Rebeckah Outlives them I order it if any left Eaqually divided among their heirs I do make ordain and appoint Adam Milspaugh and my Son Thomas Borland Executors to this my Last Will and Testament I do revoke all other or former Wills and declare this to be my Last Will and Testament In Testimony whereof I have hearunto Set my hand and Seal the day and year first above written. Signed Sealed published and Declared by the Testatro as and for her Last Will and Testament in Presence of ----
Peter Millspaugh Tabethe Borland
John Milspaugh
William Millspaug …."
Tabitha was step-mother (and Aunt) to 3 children from her husband's first marriage:
John Borland
Mary Borland Bradner
Jean Borland Armstrong
Eight children born to Tabitha and William Borland:
Patience Borland McLaughin
Rebecca Borland
Charles Borland
Tabitha Borland Wright Smith Moore
Phebe Borland Dean
Thomas Borland
Isabel/Isabella Borland
William Borland, Jr
Tabitha McNeal was born on May 28 or 30, 1724 to John and Mary McNeal in Orange or Ulster County, New York (the county boundary has changed since that time).
Tabitha married about 1749 to Capt. William Borland who had previously been married to Tabitha's older sister Rebecca (who died April 28, 1749). Upon her marriage, Tabitha became step-mother to her nephew John and nieces Mary and Jean. William and Tabitha had 8 children. In December 1779 Tabitha became a widow.
In the year 1800 Tabitha was enumerated in Wallkill, Orange Co., New York as the head of her household consisting of 3 individuals: 2 free females over 45 years of age (presumably Tabitha and her daughter Rebecca) and one slave that must have been less than 25 years old. Sometime following the 1800 census Tabitha Borland was the first Wallkill resident to free her slave, in accordance with a legislative act in 1799. Filed with the town's officials was a doument reading:
"I do hereby certify that I have manumitted and set free my Negro slave, Otis, as fully and amply as I am authorized by the Act of Legislature entitled ‘An Act for the gradual abolition of slavery,' passed the 29th day of March, 1799, Tabetha Borland."
October 8, 1809 Tabitha wrote her Last Will & Testament asking that her property be sold and the money from that sale along with the money from her savings bonds be used to support her daughter Rebecca for the remainder of Rebecca's life. It mentioned her other living daugthers "Tabathy, Isabella and Pheby" and appointed her son Thomas Borland executor.
In 1810 Tabitha was enumerated in Wallkill, Orange Co., NY and her household consisted of 3 females (presumable Tabitha, daughter Rebecca and another older woman, perhaps another daughter?)
Widow Tabitha (McNeal) Borland died on 28 June 1815, at the age of 91 years, 'of old age' as her death record was recorded in the Records of the First Presbyterian Church at Goshen.
Tabitha's Will was probated and filed in the Orange County Records at Goshen as follows:
"In the name of God Amen I Tabatha Borland Widow of the Town of Walkill In the County of Orange and State of New York do this twenty Eighth day of October In the year of our Lord one thousand Eight Hundred and Nine Make this my Last Will and Testament in manner following (Vis) First it is my Will and i do direct my Executors to dispose of all my property as soon as conveniet after my deceas at publick Venture Excepting those articles herein after excepted and the money arising from Said Sale together with my Notes and bonds to be put to Usery for the Suport of my daughter Rebekah During her Natural life. and it is my Will further that the Feather Bed that I now Ockipy and bedstead with all my Bed Cloathes and Curtains likewise all my Whearing Cloaths and one Little wheel and Two Chests be Reserved By my Executors for use of my Said Daughter Rebeckah. I do likewise require my Said Executors to make use of the afforesaid property for the purposes as aforsaid as her Necessaty Shall Require and their wisdome dictate. and should any of said Estate be left after the Deceas of my Daughter Rebeckah I do order the same Eaqually Diveded among my Daughters that are now living (Vis) Tabathy, Isabella and Pheby and if my Daughter Rebeckah Outlives them I order it if any left Eaqually divided among their heirs I do make ordain and appoint Adam Milspaugh and my Son Thomas Borland Executors to this my Last Will and Testament I do revoke all other or former Wills and declare this to be my Last Will and Testament In Testimony whereof I have hearunto Set my hand and Seal the day and year first above written. Signed Sealed published and Declared by the Testatro as and for her Last Will and Testament in Presence of ----
Peter Millspaugh Tabethe Borland
John Milspaugh
William Millspaug …."
Tabitha was step-mother (and Aunt) to 3 children from her husband's first marriage:
John Borland
Mary Borland Bradner
Jean Borland Armstrong
Eight children born to Tabitha and William Borland:
Patience Borland McLaughin
Rebecca Borland
Charles Borland
Tabitha Borland Wright Smith Moore
Phebe Borland Dean
Thomas Borland
Isabel/Isabella Borland
William Borland, Jr
Tabitha married about 1749 to Capt. William Borland who had previously been married to Tabitha's older sister Rebecca (who died April 28, 1749). Upon her marriage, Tabitha became step-mother to her nephew John and nieces Mary and Jean. William and Tabitha had 8 children. In December 1779 Tabitha became a widow.
In the year 1800 Tabitha was enumerated in Wallkill, Orange Co., New York as the head of her household consisting of 3 individuals: 2 free females over 45 years of age (presumably Tabitha and her daughter Rebecca) and one slave that must have been less than 25 years old. Sometime following the 1800 census Tabitha Borland was the first Wallkill resident to free her slave, in accordance with a legislative act in 1799. Filed with the town's officials was a doument reading:
"I do hereby certify that I have manumitted and set free my Negro slave, Otis, as fully and amply as I am authorized by the Act of Legislature entitled ‘An Act for the gradual abolition of slavery,' passed the 29th day of March, 1799, Tabetha Borland."
October 8, 1809 Tabitha wrote her Last Will & Testament asking that her property be sold and the money from that sale along with the money from her savings bonds be used to support her daughter Rebecca for the remainder of Rebecca's life. It mentioned her other living daugthers "Tabathy, Isabella and Pheby" and appointed her son Thomas Borland executor.
In 1810 Tabitha was enumerated in Wallkill, Orange Co., NY and her household consisted of 3 females (presumable Tabitha, daughter Rebecca and another older woman, perhaps another daughter?)
Widow Tabitha (McNeal) Borland died on 28 June 1815, at the age of 91 years, 'of old age' as her death record was recorded in the Records of the First Presbyterian Church at Goshen.
Tabitha's Will was probated and filed in the Orange County Records at Goshen as follows:
"In the name of God Amen I Tabatha Borland Widow of the Town of Walkill In the County of Orange and State of New York do this twenty Eighth day of October In the year of our Lord one thousand Eight Hundred and Nine Make this my Last Will and Testament in manner following (Vis) First it is my Will and i do direct my Executors to dispose of all my property as soon as conveniet after my deceas at publick Venture Excepting those articles herein after excepted and the money arising from Said Sale together with my Notes and bonds to be put to Usery for the Suport of my daughter Rebekah During her Natural life. and it is my Will further that the Feather Bed that I now Ockipy and bedstead with all my Bed Cloathes and Curtains likewise all my Whearing Cloaths and one Little wheel and Two Chests be Reserved By my Executors for use of my Said Daughter Rebeckah. I do likewise require my Said Executors to make use of the afforesaid property for the purposes as aforsaid as her Necessaty Shall Require and their wisdome dictate. and should any of said Estate be left after the Deceas of my Daughter Rebeckah I do order the same Eaqually Diveded among my Daughters that are now living (Vis) Tabathy, Isabella and Pheby and if my Daughter Rebeckah Outlives them I order it if any left Eaqually divided among their heirs I do make ordain and appoint Adam Milspaugh and my Son Thomas Borland Executors to this my Last Will and Testament I do revoke all other or former Wills and declare this to be my Last Will and Testament In Testimony whereof I have hearunto Set my hand and Seal the day and year first above written. Signed Sealed published and Declared by the Testatro as and for her Last Will and Testament in Presence of ----
Peter Millspaugh Tabethe Borland
John Milspaugh
William Millspaug …."
Tabitha was step-mother (and Aunt) to 3 children from her husband's first marriage:
John Borland
Mary Borland Bradner
Jean Borland Armstrong
Eight children born to Tabitha and William Borland:
Patience Borland McLaughin
Rebecca Borland
Charles Borland
Tabitha Borland Wright Smith Moore
Phebe Borland Dean
Thomas Borland
Isabel/Isabella Borland
William Borland, Jr
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Memory of
TABITHA
wife of
William Borland
who departed this life
June 28th 1815
aged 91 years and
30 days
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