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1 Annals of Newtown, in Queens County, New-York, etc., hy James Riker, Jr., New York, 1852, 290.
2 History of New Netherland ; or, New York under the Dutch, hy E. B. O'Callaghan, M. D., New York, 1855, II., 502.
3 N. Y. Col. Docs., II., 480.
4 N. Y. Civil List, 1869, 26, 32.
5 Th., 577.
6 Bergen's Kings County Settlers, 49.
7 N. Y. Doc. Hist., IV., 99. '
8 E. J. Deeds, Liher No. 1 ; History of the Land Titles of Hudson County, N. J., 1609-1871, by Charles H. Winfield, New York, 1872, 50.
81
HENDRICK JORISSE-HANS DIEDERICKS.
for in 1683 he was appointed by the Legislature of East Jer- sey to be one of six tax commissioners for Bergen county, his name being curiously transformed in the records to Ivo- riss.1 He bought a tract of land on the eastern bank of the Hackensack river, at English Neighborhood, June 17, 1685, where he took up his final residence. 2 He and his wife head the list of members of the Hackensack Dutch church, com- ". piled in 1686 by Dominie Taschemaker, and in the same year he was elected and installed elder of that church, "for the east side," probably of the Hackensack river. He was re- elected to the same office in 1694, at Acquackanonk, when the united congregation of the two places met at the latter settlement.3 The Legislature in 1692 named him as- one of the two treasurers to receive Bergen county's quota of public taxes, which were to be paid at his house, indicating his prominence in the community.4 The last mention that has been found of him is in a deed dated February 24, 1708, whereby he conveyed his Communipaw property to his son Cornelius. 5
His children were: I. Geertje, b. Feb. 20, 1670 ; II. Margrietje, b. June 13, 1671 ; III. Cornelius, b. -; m. Margrita Sibese (dau. of Siba or Sibes) Banta, Oct. 31, 1702; VI. Jacobus, b .-; m. Angenitje Hendrickse Banta, April 17, 1708;6 VII. Dirck, b .- -. In uniting with the Hackensack church in 1699, Cornelis and Dirck were both enrolled under the name Blinkerhof. Margrietje and Jacobus joined the church under the same name, the former in 1701, and the latter eight years later.7 The word Blinkert means a sand-hill, and is applied to the numerous downs along the Holland coast. Near Haarlem is a con- spicuous hill of this sort, called distinctively de Blinkert, and famous for a great victory won by the Hollanders in 1304.8 The termination hof means a court or garden ; hence the word Blinkerhoff means a garden on a sandhill. The name is usually written Brinkerhoff in this vicinity.
I. HANS DIEDERICKS
is the first of the grantees named in the Acquackanonk patent. The notices we have of him are but few, the earli- est being on the occasion of his marriage with Grietje Warnaerts, the widow of Adriaen Hendr. Zips. Diederick is there spoken of as from Isleven.9 Of this union there was born Hester, bap. Nov. 22, 1665,9 who m. Dirck Epke
1 The Grants and Concessions, and original constitutions of the Pro- vince of New Jersey, the Acts passed during the Proprietary Govern- ments, etc., collected by Aaron Leaming and Jacob Spicer, Philadelphia (1758), 275.
2 Riker's Annals of Newtown, 291.
3 Records of the Reformed Dutch Churches of Hackensack and Schraalenburgh, New Jersey (Collections of the Holland Society of New York, Vol. I. Part I.), I., 289, 290.
4 Leaming and Spicer, 324.
5 Winfield's Hudson County Land Titles, 50.
6 Winfield's History of Hudson County, 527.
7 Hackensack Church Records, 3, 4, 5.
8 Terwen, 75.
9 Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Amsterdam and New York (Collections of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, Vol. I.), edited by Samuel S. Purple, M. D., New York, 1890.
Banta, and was received with him into the Hackensack church May I, 1689.1 On the day his daughter was baptized Diedericks took the oath of allegiance to the English, at Bergen, where he held the office of constable at the time. 2 On March 12, 1668, he received from Gov. Philip Carteret a confirmatory patent for five tracts of land at Bergen and vicinity.3 He was licensed, February 13, 1670-71, to keep a "house of entertainment at Bergen."4 On the temporary resumption of the Dutch sway in New Netherland Died- erick was appointed, September 4, 1673, lieutenant of the Bergen militia, he being selected by the authorities at New Amsterdam from the number proposed by the community. 5 He was given his old office of constable again on March 9, 1675-6.6 His military efficiency was recognized under the English rule, as he was commissioned lieutenant March 4, 1679, of "a foot company under Capt. Berry within the cor- poration of Bergen and the out plantations adjacent ;"7 and again on January 10, 1683-4, he was appointed captain of a "foot company of the trained band, of Bergen."8 He was a deputy to the Legislature from Bergen at the session of November 5, 1675,9 being re-elected May 22, 1680, and in April, 1686.10 In the will of Engelbert Steenhuis, dated December 13, 1677, Hans Diedrick is named as one of the executors.11 He was one of the purchasers of Acquackanonk from the Indians, March 28, 1679, and was likewise one of those who petitioned the Governor and Council, May 30, 1684, for the granting of the patent. . Nevertheless, he does not appear to have removed from Bergen to the new settle- ment, for in November, 1683, the Legislature appointed him one of the commissioners for Bergen, to "set, lay out and appoint all necessary highways, bridges, passages, landings and ferries" in that country.12 He was already in the commission of the peace for Bergen, having been ap- pointed by the Governor and Council, March 24, 1682-3, and four days later selected as one of the three persons to hear and determine small causes in the town of Bergen, being reap- pointed to the latter office December 5, 1683, 13 on which day he was designated by the Legislature as one of six persons to as-
The citations hereinafter made from the Records of this church will be from this sumptuous volume, or from the current volumes of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, published by said Society, and which has been printing the records of the New York church for the past twenty years, preliminary to issuing them in three separate volumes of Collections, of which only the first has been furnished at this writing.
1 Hackensack Church Records, 2.
2 N. J. Archives, I., 49.
3 Winfield's Hudson County Land Titles, 117.
4 E. J. Deeds, Liber No. 3, f. 39.
5 N. Y. Col. Docs., II., 597.
6 N. J. Archives, I., 177.
7 E. J. Deeds, Liber No. 3, f. 165.
8 Book Cof Patents, Secretary of State's office, Trenton, f. 71.
9 Leaming and Spicer, 93.
10 N. J. Archives, I., 306; XIII., 143.
11 E. J. Deeds, Liber No. 3, f. 142.
12 Leaming and Spicer, 257.
13 N. J. Archives, XIII., 41, 48, 119 ; Book C of Patents, 9, 15, 21.
II
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HISTORY OF PATERSON.
sess the munificent total of eleven pounds on Bergen county, to defray the public charges of the Colony, and to be payable in wheat, Indian corn and merchantable pork at specified prices.1 He was elevated to a Judgeship in the Bergen court, November 28, 1684.2 These numerous references all show that up to 1686 he was still of Bergen. By deed dated April 4, 1696, Diedericks, being then of the town of Bergen, conveyed to ffrancis Post, of the township of Aqueckenonge, consideration £31 5s. current money of the Province, a "certaine parcell of Land Lyeing and being in the township of Aqueckenong, betwixt Adrian Post, and Urian Thomas being of the Hundred [acre] Lotts, and is Number two, to- gether with the full and Absolute Right and privilege to tlie halfe of the fourteenth part of the Comonage according to the whole purchase of Aqueckenonge," etc. He signs his name Hans Dedrik. The witnesses were Claes Aarent Toers, Hessell Pieterse and Edward Earle, jun. It was acknowledged March 2, 1696-7, before Enoch Macheilse. 3 By deed dated November 6, 1696, Diedericks conveyed to his son-in-law, John Adrianse Sip, of the town of Bergen, consideration £5, New York money, Lot Number Eleven in Achquickenunk, together with his remaining half interest in the fourteenth part of the whole patent.4 Diedericks died September 30, 1698, and was buried at Bergen.5 He left a son, Wander, whose son Johannis Dideriks was re- ceived into the Acquackanonk church March 31, 1726.6
The name Didericks means "son of Theodore."
The last recited deed explains the introduction of the numerous Sip family into this neighborhood. John Adri- aense Sip was not the husband of a daughter of Diedericks, but was his step-son. He was baptized May 24, 1662, being the son of Adriaen Hendrickszen Sip, of Breda, in North Bra- bant, and Grietje Warnarts of Schonevelt, who were mar- ried February 4, 1656. John m. April 23, 1684, Johanna Idens Van de Voorst? (bap. April 16, 1666, dau. of Ide Van Vorst, of Ahasimus, who is said to have been the first white male child born and married in New Netherland). 8 He was appointed ensign of the Bergen militia, Nov. 10, 1692, on the nomination of the people of the town. 9 He had child- ren : I. Arie, b. Oct. 25, 1684; m. Gerritje Helmigse, April 19, 17II ; removed to Acquackanonk; II. Hilligond, bap. Aug. 28, 1687; m. Johannis Walingse Van Win- kle, Sept. 30, 1710 ; III. Ide, bap. Aug. 28, 1687; d. in in- fancy ; IV. Margaret, bap. Aug. 17, 1690 ; m. John Ger- ritse Van Wagenen, May 22, 1713; V. Annetje, bap. Feb. 22, 1693 ; m. Gerrit Hermanus Van Wagenen, Oct. 3, 1713 ; VI. Ide, b. Sept. 3, 1695 ; m. Ist, Ariantje Cornelissen Cadmus ; 2d, Antje Van Wagenen, May 23, 1725 ; VII. Jo-
annis, b. May 10, 1698; VIII. Cornelius, b. Sept. 27, 1700, d. unm .; IX. Abraham, b. April II, 1704 ; X. Hendrick, b. Sept. 30, 1706; XI. Lena, bap. Dec. I, 1708 ; m. John Van Horn ; d. May 19, 1750.1
II. GERRIT GERRITSE (GARRISON-VAN WAGONER).
An interesting document relating to this patentee is a cer- tificate of character, still preserved in the family of one of his descendants, in Jersey City, and of which this is a trans- lation :
We, burgomasters, schepens and councillors of the city of Wagen- ing, declare by these presents, that tbere appeared before us Hendrick Elissen and Jordiz Spiers, citizens of this city, at the request of Gerrit Gerritsen and Annetje Hermansse, bis wife. They bave testified and cer- tified, as they do hy these presents, that they have good knowledge of the above named Gerrit Gerritsen and Annetje Hermansse, his wife, as to their life and conversation, and that they have always been considered and esteemed as pious and honest people, and that no complaint of any evil or disorderly conduct bas ever reached their ears ; on the contrary, they have always led quiet, pious and honest lives, as it hecomes pious and bonest persons. They especially testify, that they govern their family well, and bring up their children in the fear of God, and in all mod- esty and respectability.
As the above named persons have resolved to remove and proceed to New Netherland, in order to find greater convenience, they give this attestation, grounded on their knowledge of them, baving known them intimately, and having been in continual intercourse with them for many years, living in the same neighborhood.
In testimony of the truth, we the burgomasters of the city, bave caused the private seal of the city to be bereto affixed.
Done at Wagening, 27th November, 1660. By the ordinance of the same.
J. Aquelin.2
Wageningen is an ancient town in Gelderland, about three hours (ten miles) from Arnhem. Situated on the banks of the Rhine, in a picturesque country, fertile and thoroughly cultivated, it has been a centre of trade and population, and hence the seat of many a fierce contest, since the ninth cen- tury. In 1240 it was fortified by Count Otto II. van Geld- er, who provided it with walls and stout gates. Neverthe- less, in 1421 it was captured, plundered and burnt. After various vicissitudes it was in 1572 reunited to the States of Holland, and is to this day one of the pleasantest and quaintest towns in Holland. The population is about 5, 000, and the growth of the place has necessitated the removal, for the most part, of the ancient fortifications.3 It was from this town that Gerrit Gerritsen and Annetje Hermansse his wife, with one child, Gerrit, two years old, and armed with the above certificate, set sail, in the ship Faith, Jan Beste- vaer captain, the fare for the three being ninety florins- about thirty-six dollars. They arrived at New Amsterdam December 23, 1660-a remarkably quick passage for those days.4 In the same ship were Hendrick Jansen Spiers, wife and two children, and Lubbert Gerritsen, also destined to
1 Leaming and Spicer, 275.
2 Book C of Patents, 90.
3 E. J. Deeds, Book F, f. 222.
4 Ih., 303.
5 Winfield's Hudson County Land Titles, 118.
6 Acquackanonk Church Records, in MS.
7 N. Y. Dutch Church Records, passim.
8 Valentine's N. Y. Manual, 1862, 768.
9 Liber C of Patents, 381.
1 Winfield's Hist. Hudson County, 525.
2 Annals of the Classis of Bergen, etc., by Benjamin C. Taylor, D. D., New York [1857], 70-71 ; Valentine's N. Y. Cor. Manual, for 1861, p. 699, gives the same, but spells the name of the witnesses "Speiers," and the name of the city "Wagennin." Tbe paper was then in the possession of Hartman Van Wagenen, of South Bergen, N. J.
3 Terwen, 568-9.
4 Winfield's Hist. Hudson County, 482.
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GARRISONS-VAN WAGONERS.
have an interest in Acquackanonk, besides four other men and two small families. 1
Gerritse appears to have settled in Bergen immediately after his arrival, for on October 16, 1662, Director-General Petrus Stuyvesant in council appointed him one of the three schepens (magistrate, or alderinan with magisterial and judicial powers) for Bergen.2 In the same year Gerritse was one of the petitioners for the settlement of a clergyman at ·. Bergen, and pledged himself to contribute six florins yearly toward his support.3 On June 18, 1663, he was named by the council as one of the three commissioners empowered to enclose the settlement at Gemoenepa with long palisades, for the safety of the houses and barns of the settlers against Indian incursions, and to assess the cost thereof upon the inhabitants.4 Twelve days later he received a commission as ensign of the militia at Gemoenepa5 -not a very impos- ing array of warriors, we may be sure. We find him re- corded as one of the witnesses at the baptism, November 22, 1665, of Hester, the child of Hans Diedericks.6 On the same day, he with other inhabitants of Bergen took the oath of allegiance to King Charles II. of England.7 Gov- ernor Philip Carteret gave him a patent, May 12, 1668, for four parcels of land in and about Bergen, about one hun- dred acres in all, one of them being at Marion. 8 On the re- capture of New Netherland by the Dutch, Gerritse was again (Aug. 18, 1673) constituted one of the schepens of Bergen, on the nomination of the people.9 When Engelbert Steenhuis was making his will, December 13, 1677, he se- lected his trusty neighbor, Gerrit Gerritse, as one of his executors. 10 As we have seen, he was one of the purchasers of Acquackanonk from the Indians, March 28, 1679. Gov- ernor Andros, of New York, having usurped the do- minion over New Jersey, in 1680, Gerritse was elect- ed one of the officers of Bergen, and was confirmed by Gov. Andros and his council.11 The patentee never settled at Acquackanonk, but always remained at Com- munipaw. By deed dated January 30, 1698-9, "Geret Ger- etse van Wageninge senior of the town of Bergen," for the con- sideration of ££45 New York money, conveyed to Cristoffle Stynmets, of the county of Essex, "a Certaine lott lying in the township of Aquechonenque it being of ye old Lotts & marked number 6 together with ye Just half of all ye right title & privileges belonging or in any wayes pertaining to ye fourteenth part of ye Commonage of ye abovesaid town of Aquoechononque according to ye patent thereof granted & ye several agreements by ye patentees & their as-
I N. Y. Doc. Hist., III., 35.
2 N. Y. Col. Docs., XIII., 231.
3 Ib., 233.
4 Ib., 252.
5 Ib., 268.
6 N. Y. Dutch Church Records.
7 N. J. Archives, I., 49.
8 Winfield's Hudson Co. Land Titles, 120-121.
9 N. Y. Col. Docs., II., 578.
10 E. J. Deeds, Liber No. 3, f. 142.
11 N. J. Archives, I., 320.
sociates as also ye house or home Lot belonging to ye above- said lott of Land belonging," etc. This deed was witnessed by Johannes Stymets, Gerrit Gerritse "de Jongh" (the younger, or junior), and Edward Earle, jun.1 According to the Bergen Church Records, the patentee died April 6, 1703 ; his wife died before him, September 7, 1696.2
Second Generation.
Their children were :
I. Gerrit, b. in 1658; m. Neesje Picterse, of Best, in Gelderland, May II, 1681. He settled at Pembrepock ; was appointed one of the judges of the Bergen court, Aug. 31, 1681,3 and lieutenant in the militia company, Nov. 10, 1692, "having been chosen by the freeholders of Bergen accord- ing to their charter as a person fit and capable to serve and bear the office of lieutenant of the foot company consisting of the inhabitants of said corporation."4 He was one of the numerous signers to the petition in 1700, to the King, asking to have the Colony of New Jersey taken under the Royal protection, and complaining of the ill treatment of the Proprietors.5 By deed dated June 10, 1720, he and his wife conveyed to their son Abraham "a certain small lot of land on Haghquagenonck being lot number 6, as it is de- lineated on a map made for that purpose."6 This was prob- ably one of the small lots laid out in the rear of the Hun- dred Acre lots. The date of his death is uncertain.
II. Jannetje, bap. March 19, 1662.
III. Fytje, bap. Dec. 30, 1663 ; m. Cornelius van Vorst, Nov. 27, 1693 ; d. May 19, 1734.
IV. Hermanus, bap. March Io, 1667, named after his mother's father, which is the origin of this name in this vi- cinity ; m. Annetje, dau. of Waling Jacobs (Van Winkle), Oct. 6, 1690. Through this marriage he came into the pos- session of a large interest in Acquackanonk. There is in ex- istence7 a curious document in the peculiar but distinct handwriting of Dominie Guilaem Bertholf, dated April Io, 1693, in which the Dominie sets out that Walling Jacobs has leased to his son-in-law, Hermanes Gerretse, a lot of land at Acquackanonk, containing four morgens, "beginning on the river east of the King's highway, the full breadth of the lot and so upwards excepting the church yard," and being the lot then occupied by Gerretse. This was the homestead where still stands the old Van Wagoner house, opposite the draw-bridge at Passaic. The rental was to be the tenth schepel (bushel) of all the corn raised, and in case Gerretse or his wife survived the father-in-law, the property was to go to the survivor, at a valuation to be fixed by two of the neighbors. However, by deed dated October 14, 1702, Walling Jacobs
1 E. J. Deeds, Book G. f. 46.
2 The Bergen Dutch Church Records, printed in Winfield's Hudson County Land Titles, 401, 402. The references hereinafter to these re- cords will be as printed in that work, in which eighty-eight pages of births, marriages and deaths are given, arranged alphabetically.
3 Winfield's Hist. Hudson Co., 483.
4 E. J. Dceds, Liber C, f. 380.
· N. J. Archives, II., 326.
6 Recital in deed in E. J. Deeds, K 2, f. 373.
7 Nelson MSS.
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conveyed to Harmanus Gerretse a lot lying between the lot of Adrian Post on the southwest and the church lot on the north- west, together with a half interest, or one-twenty-eighth part, of the undivided lands.1 By deed dated November 27, 17II, he and eight others of the owners of Acquackanonk bought of Peter Sonmans a tract of 2,800 acres of land on the southeast side of the Passaic river, extending from the Falls to Peckamin river,2 as we shall see hereafter. Hermanus Gerretse was elected a Deacon in the Acquackanonk church in 1698 and in 1702, and an Elder in 1708, 1715, 1727 and 1732.3 He devised his interest in Acquackanonk to his son Gerrit.
V. Aeltje, bap. April 14, 1672; m. Wander Diedricks, (son of Hans Diedricks), Nov. 27, 1693 ; d. Dec. 22, 1754.
VI. Hendrick, bap. Oct. 25, 1675 ; m. Margrietje Straat- maker, April 3, 170I. He was elected Deacon in the Acquackanonk church in 1708, and Elder in 1726 and 1739. His name appears among those who signed the petition to the King for redress against the oppressions of the Pro- prietors, in 1700. By deed dated June 23, 1718, John Corta and Marietje his wife, of Essex county, conveyed to Henry Gerritse, of the same county, for £100, a tract on the Passaic river on the north side of Gerrit Post, 9.31 chains wide and running back 107 to 109 chains, bounded on the north by Gerrit Juriance' lot ; also fifty acres immediately in the rear of the first lot, making 150 acres in all.4 He probably lived at Wesel. He had Lot No. 14, East, and Lot 13, West, in the Bogt, assigned to him in the subdivision of 1714. He is doubtless the same Hendrick Garrison who is referred to" in 1761 as the owner of the grist mill and saw mill then standing at the foot of the present Mulberry street, Pater- son. He had been dead three years at that time, but the mill still belonged to his heirs. He wrote his name Hendrick Gerritse, which, modified into Garrison, has been retained by his descendants. His will, dated Sept. 9, 1743, proved Nov. 20, 1758,6 gives a very good idea of the form of those instruments in his day :
In the Name of God Amen the ninth day of September in the year of Our Lord one thousand Seven hundred & fourty three I Hendrick Ger- retse of the Precinct of Acquacknong in the County of Essex and Prov- ince of New Jersey Yoman being Sick & weak in bothy but of perfict mind & memory thanks be given unto God therefor calling unto mind the mortality of my Body & knowing that it is appointed for all men once to dye do make & ordain this my last Will & Testament that is to Say First of all I give & recommend my Soul into the hands of God that gave it and for my Body I recommend it to the Earth to be buried in a Christian like and decent manner according to the discretion of my Ex- ecutors and as touching Such Worldly Estate wherewith it hatb pleased God to bless me in this life I give devise & dispose of the Same in man- ner and form following. Item I give and bequeath the use and im- provement of all my Real & Personal Estate unto my well beloved Wife
1 This deed was recorded (in 1802) in Essex County Deeds, Book F, P. 330.
2 E. J. Deeds, Book K small, f. 25.
3 Acquackanonk Church Records.
4 E. J. Deeds, Liber B2, f. 22.
5 Essex County Roads, A, f. 142 ; History of Passaic County Roads and Bridges, 15.
6 Recorded in Book G of Wills, Secretary of State's office, Trenton, f. 19.
Margeriet during the time She remains my Widow and after ber discease I give my Real Estate as followeth. First I give to my Son Garret fifty Shillings current money of New Jersey as a barr for ever to his being Heir at Law Item I give to my Son Garret and to his Heirs & Assigns for ever all that Tract of Land whereon he now lives with the house out bouses barn & all appurtenance thereunto belonging he paying a Lega- cie of one hundred pounds current money of New Jersey to be equally Devided among my five Daughters hereafter in named. Item I give to my Son John and to his Heirs & assigns forever the one moiety or half of all that Tract or parcill of Land whereon he now lives called & known by the name of the boght with the House outhouses barn and all appurtenances thereunto belonging, The other half or moiety of Said Land I give to my Son Cornelius and to his Heirs & assigns forever with the House outhouses barn and all appurtenances thereunto belonging, the Said John & Cornelius each of them paying a Legacie of fourty & five pounds of the like money aforesaid to be Devided among my five Daughter aforesd. Item I give to my Son Henry & my Son Abrabam all that Farm or Tract of Land whereon I now live being two hundred acres more or less with all the Houses outhouses & barn with all appur- tenances to the Same belonging also I give to my Sons Henry & Abra- ham that Lot or piece of Land lying over the Mill brook containing about fourty & four Acres more or less also that piece or Tract of Land or Woodland lying in the mountains to be equally Devided between them they paying a Legacie of fifty pounds piece or one hund pounds between them money aforesd. to be Devided among my Said Daughters aforesd. Item all tbe undivided Land within the Precinct of Acquack- nong if any should be or fall to my Share I give to my five Sons Garret, John, Cornelius, Henry & Abraham toe them & their Heirs & assigns for ever to be equally Devided among tbem. Item all the Legacies aforesaid to be payd by my Sons aforesaid in Six years after the discease of my well beloved Wife my Son Garret one hundred pounds current money aforsd. my Sons John & Cornelius each fourty and five pounds of the like money aforsd. and my Sons Henry & Abrabam One hundred pounds between them money aforesd. I give to my five Daughters to be Devided in five equal parts, one fiftb part thereof to my Daugbtrs Gesie the Wife of Marinus Vanwinkell, one fifth part to my Daugter Antie the wife of Jurie Pieterse, one fifth part to my Daughter Janetie the Wife of Adrian Post one fifth part to my Daughter Margriet and the other fifth part to my Daughter Lena the Wife of Thomas Jurianse or Thomas VnRipe. Item all my Personall Estate after the disceasc of my well beloved Wife I give to my five Sons and my five Daughters to be equally devided amongst them in ten equal parts, one tenth part thereof to my son Garrett one tenth part toe my Son John, one tenth part to my Son Cornelius one tenth to my Son Henry one tenth part to my Son Abraham, one tenth part to my Daughter Gesie one tenth part to my Daughter Antie one tenth to my Daughter Janetie one tenth part to my Daughter Margreit and the other tenth part to my Daughter Lena. And if any Mines should be discovered in any part of any of the aforesd. Tracts or parcils of Land tben it is my Will that Such Mine or Mines shall be & remain for the use of my five Sons and my five Daughters to them their Heirs & assigns for ever. And Whereas my Son Garret owns tbe one half of the brew Kittle it is my Will that he have free liberty to brew & make use of all the utensils thereunto belonging with the privi- edge of the House where said Kittle now stands in. And I do hereby nominate & appoint my sd. dear Wife & my Sons Garret John Cornelius Henry and Abraham Executors of this my last Will & Testament and do bereby revoke all former and other Wills by me heretofore made In Witness whereof I have hereunto put my hand and Seal the day and year above written.
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