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"March! March!
Stoffel Van Riper's men!
Up to the sidewalk, and right away back again."
Or thus:
"Stoffel Van Riper! Stoffel Van Riper! Turn out your toes when you go 'round a corner. Stoffel Van Riper! Stoffel Van Riper!"
When drilling the men in "marking time," his order would be, "Hay foot, straw foot." Once when parading on Main street, between Ward and Oliver, he was somewhat puzzled, but finally gave the command, "With your backs to the Sandy Hill,3 and your fronts to the Brick Church, 4 for- ward, march !" At another time his company were advanc- ing across a field; they approached a fence; "Stoffel" for- got how to stop them, and the men, in a spirit of mischief, began climbing the fence into a cultivated field. In de- spair, their commander appealed to Capt. Garrabrant: "Cap- tain, Captain, stops my men!" "Halt!" rang out the order.
"Gracious! why couldn't I think of that," ejaculated "Stoffel." One day he was drilling his company in Market street, opposite his residence, and was particularly zealous to impress his wife and neighbors with his dignity and his abilities. As he put the company through one manœuvre after another, he gradually backed nearer and nearer to his house-and suddenly disappeared through the open cellar door! In great alarm his wife ran to his relief. But the military instinct was uppermost in his breast; he waved her imperiously away, even as he lay tumbled in a heap at the foot of the cellar steps, and majestically exclaimed: "Go away, woman! what do you know about WAR?" The day at last came, however, when the doughty warrior had to lay aside his sword and succumb to a greater conqueror. His will, dated Aug. 26, 1854, was proved April 16, 1856.1 His executors-Peter F. Ryerson and John Michael Van Blarcom-sold what was left of his homestead, May 15, 1858, to Anthony Van Riper.2
II. Jurrie, b. Dec. 21, 1796; removed to Western New York, and afterwards to Michigan.
III. Jacemine, b. Dec. 27, 1796; m. Hendrick-Adrian Van Riper, of the Wesel road, Dec. 5, 1813.3
IV. Annaatje, b. March 25, 1799; m. - Bush, from the Ponds neighborhood (now Oakland, Bergen county).
V. Lenau, b. March 13, 1803.
VI. Andrew, b. Jan. 9, 1807; went west with his father.
VII. Hassel, b. Jan. 7, 1810; went West with his father. VIII. Elizabeth, b. Sept. 28, 1812.
One of these daughters m. Edo Van Saun (sister of Stof- fel's first wife) as his second wife.
John-Cornelius-Johannes-Juriaen-Thomas-Juriaen Thom- asse and Sophronia Van Blarcom had children:
I. Cornelius, b. Aug. 21, 18II.
II. Hannah, b. May 15, 1814.
III. Henry, b. Feb. 25, ISI8.
IV. James, b: Nov. 18, 1821.
V. Catharine V. B., b. June 6, 1825.
Peter Van Houten-Thomas-Jacob-Harmen-Juriaen Thom- asse and Ann Brown had children:
I. George Percival, b. June 24, 1845; m. June 12, 1867, Charlotte C., dau. of James Beardsley and Phœbe Paxton; the bride was the youngest ever married in the Sec- ond Presbyterian church, having passed her fifteenth birth- day by only four months. Issue : I. Loretta, b. Nov. 5, 1869; m. William A. Lawrence, of Newark, N. J., Sept. 12, 1893; 2. George, d. May 4, 1871, aged one month, 14 days; 3. Emma, d. Dec. 24, 1875, aged 3 yrs., 5 mos., 25 days; 4. Wilbur D., b. May 31, 1874, d. in inf .; 5. Lottie, b. Aug. 5, 1879; 6. Ethel; 7. Walter, b. May 24, 1881 ; d. June 5, 1881; 8. Percival, b. Sept. 16, 1882; d. Oct. II, 1886.
II. Emma Frances, b. July 13, 1848; m. Isaac Scull, jun., of Paterson; d. Nov. 7, 1876.
III. Ellen, b. April 26, 1851; d. in inf.
IV. Lauretta, b. Aug. II, 1857; d. Sept. 23, 1878.
1 Essex County Transcribed Deeds, E, 112.
2 Ib., H, 580.
3 Afterwards known as Colt's Hill; removed in 1891-92.
4 The First Presbyterian church.
1 Passaic County Wills, B, 97.
2 Essex County Transcribed Deeds, D 2, 189.
3 See p. 174.
181
THE VAN RIPERS.
The following data are gleaned from various sources, principally from the Acquackanonk and Totowa church records:
Abraham Van Riper m. Catrina Van Winkel, both living at Acquackanonk, Nov. 16, 1763. Ch., Helena, b. April 20, 1766.
Abraham Van Riper m. Catrina Winne. Ch. Lea, b. Oct. 3, 1755.
Abraham Van Riper, widower, m. Neesje Gerritse, widow of Gerrit Gerrebrantse, March 4, 178I.
Abraham Van Riper m. Tryntje Van Winkle, March 29, 1812. Ch., Joseph, b. July I, 1815; m. Aletta - ; he was a very large man, and a cripple; he kept tavern at Pas- saic for some years: Issue: I. Pryne; 2. Joseph; 3. Daniel; 4. Sally; 5. Halmagh; 6. Lena.
Abraham C. Van Riper m. Bridget Post. Ch., Anna, b. Jan. 31, 1819.
Abraham A. Van Rypen m. Theodosie (Dorotie) Wester- velt, Aug. 8, 1789. He d. in 1810, and his widow and ad- ministratrix conveyed to David Kough, of Saddle River, Sept. 17, 1810, for $600, by virtue of an order of the orphans' court, all the real estate of said Abraham Van Riper, "bounded north by land of Cornelius H. Doremus, east on Passaic river, south on the drift way,1 west on the main road,2 one and a half acres."3 He lived on these premises in 1796.4 Issue:
i. Teunis, b. July 22, 1791.
ii. Johannes, b. Sept. 9, 1794.
iii. Elizabeth, b. June 4, 1799; m. Henry Whitely; he was b. in County Caven, Ireland, about 1794; left Belfast May I, 1819, arrived June 19 at Whitehall, N. Y., and was naturalized June 24, 1824, at Paterson; d. in 1867 or 1868; she d. about the same time; for many years he kept a grocery store on the south side of Broadway, about where Wash- ington street now enters that thoroughfare; he also owned considerable land at South Paterson. Issue : I. Robert John, b. Jan. 16, 1825; m. Mary Caroline Jackson (b. Dec. 6, 1849, dau. of James Jackson, for many years Pres- ident of the Passaic County National Bank, now the Second National Bank of Paterson, and Caroline Burnett), April 20, 1870 ; began studying medicine with Dr. William Magee, of Paterson, April Io, 1843; graduated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, 1847 ; he was a very popular physician in Paterson up to the time of his sudden death, April 10, 1879; he left two children: I. Elizabeth; 2. Arthur Laurence. 2. Thomas, b. July 25, 1826; d. in infancy; 3. Susanna Dorinda, b. Jan. 25, 1828; 4. Elizabeth, b. Oct. 24, 1829; d. April 24, 1891; 5. Henry George, b. Feb. 8, 1832; d. in infancy; 6. Thomas, b. April 24, 1834; m. Ellen - -; removed to San Francisco, Cal., where he d. June, 1893, leaving two children: I. Caroline W. Baker; 2. Henry M. 7. Henry George, b. Sept. 2I, 1836.
iv. William.
An Abraham Van Riper lived near Franklin, probably on the Goffle road, in 1795. In 1829 his dwelling house was on the Goffle Road, 65 chains from John S. Van Winkle's. 1
Adriaan Van Rypen, of Belleville, m. Rachel Koejeman, dau. of Hendrick Koejeman, Jan. 19, 1764; her will, dated Jan. 18, 1816, was proved March 31, 1817. Issue: I. Cor- nelius, b. Oct. 27, 1765; m. Helena Marlin ; ch., Rachel, b. May 15, 1796. 2. Marretje, b. Feb. 18, 1768; m. John P. Sandford; 3. John; 4. Rachel, b. Aug. 15, 1773; m. John Williams; 5. Hendrick, bap. Feb. 15, 1778.
Adrian Van Riper m. Sarah Kelliham, Aug. 1, 1784. Adriaan Van Riper m. Sarah Ackerman. Ch., Abraham, b. Sept. 14, 1787.
Aaltje Van Riper m. Rynier Van Giesen. Issue: I. Cath- arina, b. May 4, 1788; 2. Rachel, b. Sept. 21, 1791; 3. Aaltje, b. May 3, 1793; 4. Maria, b. June 28, 1795.
Christina Van Ryper m. James Lindford (Jacobus Linck- foot), July 27, 1761 (N. Y.). Issue: I. Mareitje, b. May 23, 1774, bap. at Second River; 2. Johannes, b. at Acquack- nonk, April 18, 1780.
Cornelius Van Rype m. Elizabeth Davenport, of N. Y., Aug. 14, 1783.
Corneljous Van Riper m. Elysebeth Van Riper. Ch., Catrenau, b. March 28, 1794.
Cornelius Van Rypen m. Margrietje Post, Dec. 27, 1801. Ch., Margrietje, b. Aug. 23, 1802.
Elizabeth Jurrianse m. Abraham S. Van Imburgh. Ch., Simeon, b. May 24, 1796.
Ellen Van Riper m. John Van Giesen. Ch., Merselis, b. Aug. 1, 182I.
Frederick Jurrianse m. Catharina Van Eydestyn, July IO, I808.
Gerret Jurrianse m. Jannetje Post, April 2, 1809.
Gerrit Van Riper m. Catryntje Van Rypen. Ch., Jan- netje, b. Oct. - , 179I.
Garret Van Riper, of Saddle River, m. Jane Cadmus, m. bond dated Sept. 25, 1790.
Gerret Van Riper m. Jenny Treuter. Issue: I. Jane, b. July 25, 1801; 2. Polly, b. Sept. 23, 1803.
Gerret Van Rypen m. Jane Hennion, Aug. 9, 1805.
Garret Van Rypen m. Elizabeth Simonson, Jan. 14, 1815. Ch., Eleanor V. H., b. March 10, 1819.
Geesje Van Rypen m. Jacob Stur, Nov. 16, 1793.
Gerret Van Riper, Nicholas Mandeville and Albert Ter- hune, trustees appointed by act of the Legislature, passed Nov. II, 1807, to sell lands of Gerrit Van Riper, of Bergen County, deceased, conveyed to Roelof Jacobus, April 6, 1808, several tracts in Saddle River township, on Pequan- nock river, near Beaver Dam Brook, 175 acres;2 and to Gerrit G. Van Riper, tract at Preakness, on the west side of Singac Brook, next to land formerly of Cornelius Doremus, 33.40 acres.3 This Garret Van Riper d. Nov. 27, 1804, aged 73 yrs., 3 mos., II days. Sophia, his wife, d. Oct. 31, 1806,
I Crooks avenue.
2 The Wesel road.
3 Essex Transcribed Deeds, B, 450.
+ Hist. Passaic County Roads, 26.
I Hist. Passaic Co. Roads, 55.
2 Bergen County Transcribed Deeds, E, 545.
3 Bergen County Transcribed Deeds, E, 548.
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HISTORY OF PATERSON.
aged 70 yrs., II mos., 13 days. They are buried at Pequa- nac, Wayne township.
Gerret Van Riper m. Fytje Van Winkel [doubtless the couple just mentioned]. Ch., Rachel, bap. Oct. 8, 1775.
Harman Van Riper m. Maria Van Riper, both of N. Y., July I, 1780.
Hendrickye Van Rypen m. John J. Zabriskie, of Bergen, m. bond dated Dec. 7, 1788.
Isaac Van Rypen m. Maria Stagg, Sept. 11, 1803. Issue: I. Isaac, b. April 28, 1804; 2. Marian, b. Aug. 6, 1805; 3. Cornelius, b. June 21, 1807.
Isaac Van Rypen m. Rachel Boss, Feb. 24, 1810.
Isaac (Van?) Rype m. Annathie Ekbertse. Ch., Petrus, bap. Nov. 19, 1752.
Jacob Van Rypen m. Lea Post. Issue: I. Antje, bap. May 30, 1773; 2. Johannes, bap. June 8, 1778.
Jacob Van Rypen m. Rachel Boss, Jan. 16, 1809.
Jacob Van Rypen m. Annaatje Van Rypen. Issue: I.
Thomas, b. July I, 1795; 2. Cornelius Spier, b. Jan. 14, 1798; d. in inf .; 3. Cornelius, b. Nov. 6, 1799.
James Van Ryper-Garret G. Van Ryper appointed his guardian, May 6, 179I.
Jan Jurrianse m. Fytje -. Ch., Jurien, b. Oct. 3, I773.
Jan Jurrianse m. Franscyntje Mourusse. Issue. I. Eliz- abeth, b. Nov. 14, 1778; 2. Jannetje, b. Oct. 3, 1770; 3. -, bap. Feb. 9, 1783; 4. Jan, b. Nov. 5, 1785; 5. Hendrick, b. Aug. 3, 1789.
Jurrie Jurrianse (Jeremiah Yearance) m. Catharina Van Hoorn, March 3, 1799; d. June 8, 1845, aged 71 yrs., 8 mos., 5 days; she d. Dec. 30, 1853, aged 74 yrs., IO mos., 2 days. Ch., Margrietje, b. June 12, 1799.
Johannes G. Van Ryper m. Leya Kip, March 18, 1792. Issue: I. Gerrit, b. Oct. 6, 1793; 2. Nickase, b. Feb. 9, I796.
John J. Van Rypen m. Hendrica Van Ess, May 15, 1796.
John J. Jurrianse m. Selly Van Noorstrand, Dec. II, 1808.
John J. Vereance d. Nov. 15, 1842, in his 58th year.
John Jurrianse m. Eva Vreeland, Sept. 7, ISII.
John Van Rypen m. Sarah Romeyn. Issue: I. John, b. Feb. 15, 1792; 2. Nicholas, b. March 14, 1794.
John A. Van Rypen m. Elizabeth Post, Aug. 9,11812. Issue: I. Aaron, b. Feb. 13, 1813; 2. Jane, b. July-26, 1815; 3. John, b. Sept. 12, 1830.
Lena Van Rypen m. Joris Van Eydestyn, Aug. 3, 1783. Ch., Catharina, b. March 4, 1785.
Margaret Yereance m. Daniel Christie, Oct. 12, 1816.
Maragrietje Jurrianse m. Gerrit Gerritse, July 12, 1794.
Marritje Jurrianse, wife of Jacob Vreeland, joined the church at Second River, in 1737.
Marytje Van Rype m. Abraham Powelse. Issue: I. Dirrick, b. Nov. 5, 1752; 2. Fytje, b. Feb. 2, 1754.
Marytje Van Riper m. Hendrick Steger, widr., Oct. 25, 1789.
Marritje Van Riper, wid., m. Samuel Louwis, widr., Sept.
I, 18II. Ch., Anna Eliza, b. Nov. 8, 1812.
Maria Van Riper m. Abraham Linckford. Ch., Grietje,
b. Oct. 18, 1797.
Metje Jurjaense m. Johannes Vreeland. Ch., Johannes, b. Nov. 16, 1730.
Marretje Juriaense (Van Rype), from New Barbadoes Neck, m. Gerret Stymets May 30, 1767, at Second River. Ch., Catharina, b. July 22, 1776.
Margaret Van Riper, wife of Philip Van Riper, d. Jan. 13, 1834.
Neeltje Van Riper m. Cornelius Jeraalman, Sept. 27, 1795. Issue [in addition to those mentioned on p. 17I]: 3. John, b. Oct. 9, 1803; 4. Rachel, b. March 5, 1806; 5. Ellen, b. Aug. 6, 1808; 6. Cornelius, b. March I, 18II; 7. Lea Eliza, b. July 18, 1816.
Hendrick Van Riper and Jacemine Van Riper (see p. 174) had issue: I. Catharina, b. May 9, 1814; m. Jacob Miller, at Waterloo, N. Y., removed to Michigan; 2. Eliza, b. Feb. 29, 1815; m. John McKnight; 3. Henry, m. Lydia Ann Root, in Michigan; 4. Adrian; 5. Jeremiah.
Rachel Van Rypen m. Martin Berry, June II, 1794.
Sarah Jurriyanse Van Rype m. George (Joris) Wynant, Dec. 21, 1760. Ch., Elizabeth, b. Feb. 21, 1779.
Sally Van Riper m. Wm. Anderson, Dec. 24, 1800.
Simeon Van Ripen, late of Bergen county-his widow, Yanica, having renounced, Merselis Post, of Essex county, was appointed administrator, April 14, 1749.
XII. JOHN HENDRICK SPEARE.
According to records preserved in the State Capitol at Albany, among the passengers who arrived at New Amster- dam in December, 1659, in the good ship Faith, were "Hendrick Jansen Spiers and Wife and two children."1 He seems to have brought money with him as well as a family, for only a few weeks later, on Feb. 14, 1660, he bought from Pieter Pieterse Menist a lot in New Amsterdam, "west of the Heere Graght, bounded south by the house and lot of Oloff Stevensen (van Cortlandt); west by the lot of Abraham de la Noy; north, by the house and lot of Gerrit Jansen Roos; east, by the graght aforesaid; on the east side, 23 ft. 3 inches; west side, 23 ft. 6 inches; north side, 52 ft. 6 inches; south side, four rods." This lot had been conveyed to Menist the same day, by Frerick Lubber- sen. Spiers did not hold the property long, for in April, 1663, it seems to have been owned by Stoffel Van Saar, and there was a house on it then.2 This lot was on the west side of Broad street, about three hundred feet north of Stone street. In July, 1661, Spiers had a controversy over a bill for repairs made by him on a house in New Amster- dam, the matter being referred to arbitrators.3 From this circumstance it may be inferred that he was a carpenter or a mason. Probably about this time he took up his resi- dence on the west side of the Hudson river, buying from Jan Lubbertsen a tract of twenty-five morgen (fifty acres) of land at Mingackqua, at or near Gamoenepa or Communi- paw. This tract had been granted to Lubbertsen in 1654;4 after New Jersey passed under the English domin-
1 N. Y. Col. Docs., III., 35.
2 Valentine's N. Y. Manual, 1865, 666-68, 699.
3 Calendar N. Y. Hist. MSS., I., 226, 228.
4 Ib., 381.
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THE SPEERS.
ion, Gov. Carteret confirmed the possession of this land in Spiers, by his patent of May 12, 1668.1 It was 54.50 chains in length, by 12.25 chains in breadth, fronting on the New York bay. The property remained in his family un- til May I, 1768. Spier also bought of Severyn Laurensen an adjoining tract, extending from the Hudson to the Kil van Kol, about seventy acres in area; but this was sold, April 10, 1694, by his widow and children, in order to pay his debts.2 In 1662 Hendrick Jansen Spyer was one of the two inhabitants of Bergen who enjoyed the melancholy dis- tinction of being alone in their refusal to contribute toward the support of a clergyman at Bergen. 3 Perhaps he thought it a needless luxury, as lie had only to row or sail across the bay to the church in the Fort on the Battery. On June II, 1674, he petitioned the authorities (the Dutch rule having been reasserted) for a piece of ground on Staten Island, at the mouth of the Kil van Kol. His request was favorably considered, and on July 7 he was allowed "a piece of land for a bouwerie, 25 morgens, beginning opposite Schutter's Island, further easterly near the Kil van Kol."4 It would seem, however, that he did not live to see his hopes in this matter realized, for on Sept. 4, 1674, we find that a patent was granted to Hans and Jan Spiering for a tract of land "on the northwest hoek of Staten Island," and three weeks later a survey of the tract was filed.5 Hans and Jan were children of the Mingackqua settler, and it would seem that on his death the patent was granted to them instead of to their father. We have no record of the decease of Hen- drick Jansen Spiers. His wife was Madeline, Magdalene or Helena Hans, or Maddaleentje Janse-the records give the name in these and other forms. She married 2d, Jan Aertsen van der Bilt, Dec. 10, 1681, and died June 12, 1697.
While the name of the immigrant is variously written in the records as Spier, Spiers and Spiering, the correct form was doubtless Spier, which was the manner in which it was written by most of his immediate descendants. The Dutch lexicographers define the word spier as "the brawn of any part of the body, muscle;" or "muscle, spinal marrow." The word spiering is the name of that favorite denizen of the Passaic and Hackensack rivers, the smelt. In order to conform the spelling of the word in English to its Dutch pronunciation, most members of the family now write the name Speer, or Spear. The Dutch word speer means "'spear" or "lance" in English, but is pronounced "spare" or "spayer." "Spear" is a not unusual English surname, and there are many American families of that name who trace their origin to England, and are not at all allied to the descendants of Hendrick Jansen Spier.
Second Generation.
Hendrick Jansen Spier and Magdalena Hanse had children :
I. Jan (or Johannes), b. -, in Europe, and
1 Hudson Co. Land Titles, 64.
2 Ib., 64-65.
3 N. Y. Col. Docs., XIII., 233.
4 Ib., II., 721; N. J. Archives, I., 151.
.5 N. Y. Hist. MSS., I., 26, 30.
came over with his parents in the Faith. He m. Maria Franse, the banns being proclaimed July 27, at Bergen, and the marriage taking place Aug. 12, 1679. The record says: "Johannes Spier and Maria Franse from Best in Gelder- land"-apparently indicating that both bride and groom came from Best-perhaps some modest little "dorp" near Wageningen, in the same province, from which town came a number of colonists in the Faith. His wife joined the church at Bergen, Oct. 3, 1682. He was probably of age when he and his brother Hans received the patent, Sept. 4, 1674, for land on Staten Island. The next mention of him in the records is in the patent for Acquackanonk, March 16, 1685. In the receipts given by Peter Sonmans for quit- rents, John Spier, doubtless the patentee, is mentioned in 1707, 1709, 17II, 1713 and 1719.1 In 1712-13, John Hen- drick Spier, of Achquechenoung, is one of the five surviving patentees joining in the release to Simon Jacobsen Van Winkle.2 In 1714 he was one of the committee appointed to partition the common lands of Acquackanonk.3 By deed dated January 31, 1708-9, for £150, he and his wife Mary, being of Hack quackanong, convey to their son Hendrick Johnson (Jansen) Speir, of the same place:
One equall eight and twentyth part of the land and meadow in and belonging to the bounds and limits of Hackquackanong aforesaid as well that part thereof which lyeth undivided as that which is already allotted and improved a certain tract whereof is situate Laying and Being at a place called and known by the name of Wisell Containing 100 acres of upland English measure. Bounded South with Simon van- winkle4 East upon a highway North with an out Lett5 between Cor- nelius Deremus and said land West upon unsurveyed land Together with the aforesaid equal 28th part of all land as yet undivided by the first purchasers of said Hackquackanong belonging of Right to me as may more at large appear by a certain Patent referrence thereunto being had.6
This farm lay next south of Crooks avenue, and extended from the river westerly to a line somewhat west of Main street. John Hendrick Spier also owned Lot No. 3, in the Goutum subdivision, and in 1713, as appears by the release to Simon Jacobsen Van Winkle, he was seized of Lot No. 12, in the first apportionment, being the farm next south of the Post farm, at Passaic Bridge. This farm was still in the family in 1771. He also owned one of the Hundred Acre Lots in the rear of the former, but in 1728 the latter had passed into the possession of John Sip. Spier doubt- less established his homestead on the former farm, and thère he died. The date of his death has not been ascer- tained, but his will, dated Oct. 22, 1722, was proved Sept. 18, 1724, so that in all probability he was the last survivor but one of the fourteen patentees of Acquackanonk. The following is his will:
In the name of God Amen The Twenty Second day of October in the year of Our Lord 1722 I John Spear of Aquecknuck in the County of Essex and province of East New Jersey Yeoman being in Good health
1 See pp. 78-79, ante.
2 See p. 76, ante.
3 See p. 69, ante.
4 Lot No. 4 in the Wesel subdivision. See Van Winkle's deed, p. 76, ante.
5 Crooks avenue.
6 Essex County Transcribed Deeds, A, I.
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HISTORY OF PATERSON.
and perfect mind and memory thanks be to god therefore Calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to dye do make and Ordain this my last will and Testament That is to Say principally and first of all I Give and recomend my Soul into the hands of God that gave it and for my body I recomend it to the earth to be buryed in a Christian Like and decent manner att the dis- creation of my Executors nothing douhting but att the Generall resur- rection I Shall Receive the Same Again by the Mighty power of God and as for Such worldly Estate wherewith it bath pleased god to bless me in this life I Give Devise and dispose of the Same in the following manner and form Imprimis I Give and bequeath to mary my beloved wife wbom I Likewise constitute and appoint my Holy and Soly Execu- trix of all and Singular my Lands and Tenements by her freely to be possessed and Enjoyed by ber after my decease During ber natural Life and after her decease I Give and hequeath to my children as followeth Item I give and bequeatb to my two Sons frans and Jacob the two Loats of Land the one lying by pasaick rever whereon I now live tbe other Lying att the rear of that Loat containing containing Each one hundred Acres but my Son Jacob Shall have his coyce of the aforesaid Loats And as for my wright in the commonage they Shall de- vide the Same between them two that is to Say the one half of the com- monadge the other half being Sold by me to my Son Hendrick and after tbe decease of my Said wife the aforesd France & Jacob sball pay or cause to be paid the Sum of two bundred pounds currant money of this province which money Shall not be paid till ten years after the decease of my aforesd wife and Executrix and then the money Shall be Equally Devided Among my children hereafter named: Hendrick france ger- try, mardelena Janetea Racbal mary Garretea Lea and Jacob each of them their Equall proportion of Said money and as for the money Goods and cbatails wch there Sball be remaining after tbe decease of my Said wife Sball Likewise bedevided Among my children as aforesd only to my Eldest Sun Hendrick I do give and bequeath one Cow or tbe value of three pounds of money out of the moveable Estate more than his Equall proportion and as for the Brew cettle & other yousfull neces- sarys belonging to Bruing it shall and remain wbere it is for the afore- said france and Jacoh hut If any of the aforesaid children bave a mind to brue in the Said Cettle they Sball have the use thereof any thing con- trary to the true intent and meaning hereof Notwith Standing and I do hereby utterly disallow revoak and Disanull all and every other former Testaments wills Legacies and Executors by me in anywise before this time named willed and bequeathed Ratefying & confirming this and no other to be my last will and Testament.In Witness wbereof I have here- unto Set my band and Seal tbe day and year first abovewritten1
Signed Sealed published pronounced Tbe mark of
and Declared by him the Said John Spear to be his last will & Testa- ment in the presence of us the Sub-
scribers Adrieen Post Abraham X his marke
Jahn X Spare L. S.
X vanwankele John Berry
It is satisfactory to know that his venerable widow did not shrink from the responsibility devolved upon her, but qualified Sept. 18, 1724, as the "Holy and Soly Executrix" of her husband's will. We have no account of her death.
II. Barent, b. -, doubtless also in Holland; m. Catalyntje Jacobs Hendricks, Aug. 26, 1698, both living at the time at Pemmerpogh; the banns had been proclaimed in the Acquackanonk church, probably as the nearest point at which religious services were held; his wife d. at Bergen, Dec. 16, 1767, aged 91 years. Barent lived on his father's farm at Pemmerpough, for which he received a quit-claim deed, Sept. 7, 1731, from his nephew, Hendrick Spier, of Wesel, yeoman, as "eldest son and heir at law of John Spier of Acquackanong, lately deceased,"2 which deed was signed with his own proper mark. Barent never took kind- ly to writing, and the English language presented insuper-
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