Abstracts of unrecorded wills prior to 1790 on file in the Surrogate's Office, City of New York, Volume XI, Part 1

Author: Pelletreau, William S. (William Smith), 1840-1918
Publication date: 1903
Publisher: New York, [N.Y.]: Printed for the Society
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ABSTRACTS OF UNRECORDED WILLS


PRIOR TO 1790.


ON FILE IN THE SURROGATE'S OFFICE, CITY OF NEW YORK.


VOLUME XI.


INTRODUCTION.


This volume, the eleventh of the series, consists of unrecorded wills prior to 1800 which were found in the Surrogate's Office by Mr. William 8. Pelletreau, and are published with his Notes. The reasons of their not being recorded are due to the inefficiency of those in authority who failed to collect the fees. All the volumes of this series have been published by the Society, under the direction of the Librarian. The expense of preparing and publishing this volume has been provided for by the President of the Society. Additional interest is given to the work by the in sertion of facsimiles of rare autographs, concerning which a few words may be added.


Rev. Henricus Selyns was one of the earliest minis- ters of the Dutch Church; very few of his autographs erist. Of the witnesses to his will, Peter Jacob Marius was a wealthy merchant, and the curious account of his funeral expenses will be found in Fol. 1, page 324, of this series. Jan Harberdinck was the man who left his fortune to the Dutch Church, which they still enjoy, in the shape of very valuable real estate on John Street and Fulton Street. The third witness is Jacobus Van Cortlandt, one of the most prominent citizens of his time. The autographs of these three witnesses are extremely rare.


Nicholas Roosevelt, merchant and alderman, is men-


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tioned in 1769 as living " at the foot of Thames Street on the Dock fronting the North River."


The career of Jacob Leisler is too well known to require mention.


No document written by Frederick Philipse, the richest man in New Amsterdam, is known to exist. There are not more than five or six autographs, all attached to deeds. The best, of which a facsimile is given, is attached to a document in the Comptroller's Office.


The facsimile of the handwriting of William Smith, afterwards Justice of the Supreme Court, and father of Judge William Smith, the historian.


William Burnet was one of the best of our Colonial governors. He was afterwards Governor of Massa- chusetts, and his portrait is in the State House in Boston.


Mary Alexander, widow of James Alexander, was the daughter of John Sprat and Maria De Peyster. Her first husband was Samuel Provoost, and her grandson, Samuel Provoost, was the first Episcopal Bishop of New York. The autographs of her daugh- ters (the children of James Alexander) are added. Mary married Peter Van Brugh Livingston. Eliza- beth married John Stevens, of a noted New Jersey family. Catharine married, first, Elisha Parker; sec- ond, Walter Rutherford. Susannah married John Reid. They were the sisters of William Alexander, Earl of Stirling, a brave general in the Revolution.


Abraham Gouverneur was the ancestor of one of the branches of a famous family, now extinct. He married Mary Milborne, widow of Jacob Milborne and daughter of the famous Jacob Leisler. Portraits


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of him and his wife are now in possession of the Phi- lipse family.


Jacob Goelet was a prominent merchant, and for many years official translator of the Dutch language. He had one daughter, Jane, who married John Dies, and has many descendants among the Du Bois and Van Loan families, in Greene County.


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UNRECORDED WILLS


ON FILE IN NEW YORK SURROGATE'S OFFICE


CONTENTS.


OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY


INTRODUCTION .


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FACSIMILES OF AUTOGRAPHS .


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FACSIMILE LETTER OF JUSTICE WILLIAM SMITH


UNASCORDED WILLA.


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In the name of God, Amen. I, ELIZABETH COLE, of New York, widow, being weak and sick in body. All dehts and funeral expenses to be paid, and my body to be buried at the discretion of my executors. All the rest of my estate, " whatsomever and wheresoever," I leave to my good friend, Rip Van Dam, Esq., of New York, and I make him executor.


Dated September 18, 1709, in the 8th year of our Sovereign Lady, Queen Anne. Witnesses, Jacob Rey- nier, Henry Wileman. Proved, April 26, 1710.


In the name of God, Amen. I, IsAAo PINHEIRO, of the Nation of the Jews, merchant, being sick and weak. My Body I commit to the Earth to be interred in the Burial Place belonging to the :Jewish Nation of the Island of Nevis, and after their rites and ceremonies. I leave to my son Jacoh, £250 when of age, and a negro boy, and a horse which he commonly rides, with a pair of pistols, holsters, saddle, and other forniture. To my son Moses, £100 when 18 years of age, and a negro


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boy. To my daughter Sarah, £500 Sterling at the day of her marriage. To my daughters, Rebekah and Judith, £500 each when married. I leave to my dear honored father, Abraham Pinheiro, of the city of Am- sterdam, £30 annually during his life, and then to my dear mother-in-law [step mother 1] for life. I leave to my sister Sarah, wife of [ Isaac] Dagama, of Corasoe [Curacoa], 100 Pieces of 8. To my sister, Rachel Pinheiro, of Amsterdam, £30. I leave to my sons, Jacoh and Moses, a certain Plantation by me lately purchased of George Brown and Frances, his wife, and Sarah Madrin, being part of the Plantation formerly of Thomas Madrin. Also a Cafe [coffee] mill now standing on the Plantation hy me leased from William and Richard Bowry, with 14 negroes. It is my ex- press will that Jacob Sattur and Mary Sattur, his wife, now living in South Carolina, do sell her Plantation in this Island of Nevis, and that my executors purchase the same for my sous. And whereas hy a deed of gift some years past, I gave to my son Jacoh and my sou Abraham, 7 negroes, 3 of whom are dead and loat hy the late Freuch invasion, and the other 4 are now in my possession, my son Jacob is not to disturb my ex- ecutors in the peaceful possession of them. I leave to my wife Elizabeth (sic) the use of all the above named Plantation and negroes and mill, notil my son Moren is of age. I also leave her the honse and land I now own in Charlestown in this Island, and all the rest of my estate. If she dies withont disposing of the same. then to my children. If my danghters are not married at the time of my wife's decease, they are immediately to be sent to Curasoe [Curacoa] to my sister, Sarah Dagama, to live with her, and my brother-in-law, Isaac Dagama, is to be their guardian. I make my wife sole executor, and I request my friends, Captain Samuel Clarke and Solomon Israel, to be overseers.


Dated November 12, 1708. Witnesses, Evan Davis, John Hilton, John Carpenter, Gideon Dovrede. Proved in Nevis, April 12, 1710.


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To all to whom these Presents may come, I, ESTHER PINHEIRO, of the Island of Nevis. Whereas my late husband, Isaac Pinheiro, in his will made me executor, which will was proved before Walter Hamilton, Esq., Governor of Nevis, and whereas my husband died in New York, on February 17, last past, leaving divers merchandizes, etc. I appoint my friends, Rip Van Dam and Louis Gomez, of New York, my speciall at- tornies.


UNRECORDED WILLS. In the name of God, Amen. September 6, 1711. I, CORNELIUS DYRMAN, of New York, being sick. My executors are to pay all debts and funeral charges. I leave to my eldest son, Johanes Dykman, £3 for his Birthright. To my son George I leave } of my land and Plantation, to be divided by a right line from Hudsons River to the eastermost of my bounds. And he is to take the first choice of the land when divided, and he is to pay to the rest of my children £200 after my April 19, 1710. Witnesses, John Woodly, John Thatcher. wife's decease. I leave to my son Cornelius, the other half of my said land, and he is to pay to my children £20 each. My wife Janittie is to remain In the name of God, Amen. March 1, 1798. I, JOHN READER, JR., of Newtown, Queens County. in full possession of all my estate during her life. I | If my wife and my son George agree to a division leave to my wife Hannah, all my movable estate, except | of the land, he is to have possession of his part, a negro boy, Abram, whom I leave to my daughter -- Mary. I leave to my sons, John and Jeremiah, all my lands and buildings, when of age. To my daughter Hannah, £50, when of age. To my danghter Mary, £50. I make my wife and my brother, Isaac Reader, executors, to see this will performed, and my children well brought up in Learning if it be possible.


and he is to pay to my wife £200. I make Ed- ward Blagge, Johanes Jansen, and David Mandeville, executors.


Witnesses, Thnnis Cornellisen, Johanes Peterse Boss, Nicholas Somerdick. (Names of other children not given.) Proved, March 3, 1712.


Endorsed, " Executors not sworn, and no adminis-


Witnesses, Samuel Reed, John Smith, John Ganell. tration granted."


Proved at Court of Common Pleas, in Jamaica, Thurs- day, May 18, 1710.


In the name of God, Amen. PETER JACOBS BOBBOOM doth declare, who, being an Inhabitant here and at Present lying sick in Bedd, but having and nsing his Sences. And coming to the disposition of goods which he is to leave behind him, he makes his universall heirs to be his 5 children, Anna, Marytie, Catharina, Fytie, and Cornelis, of all goods, movables and immovables, gold and silver, and nothing in the world excepted. He makes Adam Vrooman and Joris Aertse Van der Boest, tutors of his children, according to the tenor of a will dated April 18, 1684.


Witnesses, Johanes Postman, Reynier Shoett, Lu- dovicus Cobes. (Not proved.)


Whereas HENDRICK WILLIAMSEN, baker, living at Boswyck, in Kings County, upon Long Island, Con- sidering the Certainty of Death, and not willing to depart ont of this World before he shall have disposed of his temporal estate. He appoints for his lawful heirs his 3 daughters, procured hy Sametie Joostern, his wife, deceased, viz .: Geesie, Lemertie, and Grietie. And hy death of one of them, their third to succeed to the others. He gives to his daughter Geesie, widow of Dirck Van Clyf, the third part of all his ground lying and heing at New York, next to the house of Otto Gerritse, the corner side to hooke (corner) of the Heere Graft, with all the buildings. He leaves to his daughter Lemertie, last widow of Claas Kock, $ of said land next to the ground above, with the build-


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ings. To his daughter Grietie, wife of John Robber- son, } of said gronud next the ground of Peter Janse Messier, with buildings. To each a like breadth and length. And his daughter Geesie shall pay to his daugh- ter Grietie £20. All the rest of estate to his 3 daughters.


Dated April 5, 1692. Witnesses, S. Vanderwater. (Names of other witnesses illegible.)


[NOTE .- The daughter Geesie inherited from her hos- band, Dirk Van der Cliff, the farm so well known as the Van Cliff farm, which ran from Maiden Lane to John Street, and Cliff Street, named from him, was laid ont through it. The lot on Broad Street was 66 feet wide on Broad Street, and was bounded sonth by Beaver Street .- W. S. P.]


In the name of God, Amen. Know all men whom this publique Instrument shall see, that on the 12 day of October, 1683, before me, WILLIAM BOGARDE'S, public Notary, of New York, admitted hy the noble and Right Hon. Thomas Dongan, Governor General, MR. GERRIT SLICHTENHORST, being sick in bed. He leaves to his wife Aeltie, all the fast and real estate lying at Kings. ton, in Esopus, and all his movable estate. And she shall hring up his children with Dyett and Clothes, and put them to learn Reading and writing as they are capahle, and put them to a trade, and when they are married or of age to set them forth according to her ability. And concerning the land lying at Claverack, at present in Company with Jan Rosthaer, he leave it to his children begotten on his said wife, viz. : to Alida. wife of Peter Davidts Schuyler, 60 morgen; to Eliza- beth, wife of Nicholas William Stuyvesant, 60 morgen; and the same to his danghter Bata, wife of Jan Cloot, and to his daughter Hellegont. All the rest of his land to his 3 other children, Gerritt, Rachel, and Gowde [or Gonde] to be divided in 2 years after his death. The land left to his daughter Elizabeth, wife of Nicholas William Stuyvesant, is not to be estranged or alienated by her husband or any one else with-


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In the name of God, Amen. January 3, 1706. I, CHABLES RANDOLF, of Foster's meadows, in the town of Hempstead, in Queens County, yeoman, being in health. I leave to my wife Elizabeth, all my estate, real and personal, and make her sole executor.


Witnesses, Beverly Latham, Joseph Hnddlestone, Joris Elsewart. Proved, Angust 10, 1709.


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out her free will. He makes Mr. Stephen Van Cort- landt and Mr. Brant Schuyler overseers of his young children.


Witnesses, Hans Kirstede, Thys Servoes. Sigued at the farm of the Heer Stuyvesant, deceased. Proved, my consin, Armont Wehbers, Sr., 200 gilders. To my September 29, 1685, before Gabriel Minveille, mayor. -See Volume I, page 470, of this series.


In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, Amen. Know all men hy these presents, that in the year 1700, the 13th of November, I, the under written, HENRICUS SELYNS, Minister of the Dutch Congregation, in New York, being sick in body, hut hy the Grace of God of perfect memory, I do reccomend my Soul when sepa- rated hy death in the merciful hands of God, my Creator and Savionr, and my body to a Christian Burial in the Dutch Church of this city in the grave where my first wife is bnried. And further disposing of my temporal estate, I here in the first place give the sum of 5,000 gilders, Holland money, to be divided in form following: To the next relations of my first wife, Mra. Margareta Spraght, deceased, the sum of 1,000 gilders, that is to say, to Mrs. Cornelia Spraght, at Utrecht, or her heirs, 200 gilders. To Anna Spraght, wife of Jan Van Hauton, or to her hushand and chil- dren, 200 gilders. To Mr. Jaspar Spraght or his heirs, 200 gilders. To Maria Spraght, or her heirs, 200 gilders. To Do. Harmanus Spraght, Philip's son, min- ister of the Gospel, at Browersham, or his children, 200 gilders. Also to Mr. Wolferdus Singurreis, Professor at Leyden, or his heirs, 400 gilders, and to his nieces, Annether and Barbara Wehbers Hendricks, at Meer- sen, or their next relations on their father's side, 600 gilders. To my niece, Lysbet Vanderspiegel, wife of Mr. Isaac De Forrest, or his heirs, 800 gilders. To my niece, Agnetie Vanderspiegel, whom I presented at Baptism, 400 gilders; but if she dies before coming of age, then to Peter Abramsen Van Dorry, and to Hester Wehbers, and their children. To my niece, Sara Van


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I leave a heifer, one year old. The rest of my estate, dehts to be paid. I leave to the Poor of the French after debts are paid, I leave to my wife. This being my will and pleasure, and I have set my hand the 25th day of the 1st month, called March, 1684.


Postscriptum. I, OBADIAH WILLIAMS, for the better direction of my wife, I appoint my friends in whom I have confidence, viz .: Samuel Spicer, William William- sen, William Coleng (1), and John Tilton, Jr., exec- utors.


March 26, 1684. Proved, October 3, 1698.


In the name of Jesus Christ, in the year which we write 1688, the 28 day of January. JAN MARTENSEN, present sickly abed. His wife, Janitie Stevense [Van Voorhees], shall remain in full possession of all estate, movahle and immovable, until the youngest child is of age or married, and then his son, Marten Jansen, shall take in his possession the old land with the small Island and mill, and he shall pay every year to his mother, the sum of 600 gilders yearly for life. The youngest son, viz., Steven Jansen, shall have the lot of land in the neck, with the meadow to Hoggs neck, with the apnr- tenances. The other children shall have as follows, viz .: Steven Jansen shall have 100 pieces of 8. Jan- netje Jansen shall have 100 Pieces of 8, and 2 cows, and a bed and a due ontfitting, and Willamentie and Neeltje Jansen shall have the same. My wife being at present with child, in case she shall have a son, he shall have the money standing out at New York, being 1,600 gilders. But if a daughter, she shall have no more than the other daughters. Done in Amesfoort, in Kings County, January 28, 1684.


Signed, JAN MARTENSEN SCHENCK. Witnesses, John Van Duyckinhnys, William Ger- ritsen Van Cowenhoven. Taken out of the Records of Kings County Liber A. fol. 140-142 by Henry Filkin, Clerk.


In the name of God, Amen. The 26 of September, 1704. I, PETER THAUVETT, being sick in body. All


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der Spiegel, wife of Mr. Rip Van Dam, or her heira, 200 gilders. To my cousin, Wolfert Wehbers, Br., or his heirs, 200 gilders, together with the two pictures of his grandfather and grandmother at my house. To


niece, Hester Webbers, wife of Peter Ahramsen, or her heirs, 200 gilders, with all the apparell of made clothes belonging to my body, of Silk, Linnen, and Woolen. To Agnitie De Kay, wife of William Jamiay, or her heirs, Dated April 22, 1703. Witnesses, Francis Defenne, Dirck Adolph, Thomas Adams. Proved, April 1, 1706. 200 gilders. To Rudolphus Varick, son of Do. Rudol- phus Varick, deceased, late minister on Long Island, or his hrothers and sisters, the sum of 200 gilders. To Nicholas, sou of Rip Van Dam, whom I have also In the name of God, Amen. I, THOMAS COKER, of New York, Gent., being sick. I leave to my wife Kath- arine } of two honses in Cow Lane, near Holborne Condnit, London, commonly known hy the signe of the Red Cow, and I make her executor. presented at Baptism, or his brothers and sisters, 200 gilders. To my niece, Elizabeth De Reimer, who has lived in my house the space of 14 years, or, in case of her decease, to her brother Isaac, 200 gilders. To April 18, 1698. Witnesses, Thomas Ives, Philip Schuyler, Hugh Farquarhar. (Not proved.) Henricus Vanderspiegel, or, in case of his decease, to In the name of God, Amen. I, ANTHONY FARMER, of . New York, vintner, being in good health, and being bound on an intended voyage to England, and well knowing the certainty of Death and the uncertain time thereof. All dehts to be paid. I leave to my wife Elizabeth, all my houses, lands, and goods, and make her executor. his sister Agnitie, 100 gilders. To Henricus, son of my cousin, Isaac De Forrest, whom I have presented at Baptism, or to his brothers and sisters, 100 gilders. The whole amount of the aforesaid legacies being 5,000 gilders. All the legacies that are bequeathed at Ley- den, Utrecht, and Maarsen, are to be paid in Holland money. And the legacies left in this city are to be paid in Pieces of 8, at the rate of 15 Penny weights for eight May 23, 1702. Witnesses, John Sheppard, Daniel Butts, William Sharpass. (Not proved.) and forty Stivers Hollands. Lastly I, HENRICUS SELYNS, out of my great love and affection to my dear and loving wife, Margaretta Selyns, I appoint her my end, npou Long Island, in the West Riding of York- sole heiress of all the remainder of my estate, real and shire, do hy this will appoint my wife, Martha Will- personal, in this country or elsewhere, and I make her sole executor. I have set my hand and seal, in New York, in America.


Witnesses, Peter Jacobs Marins, N. Bayard, Jan formerly my father's, William Williams, when he comes Harperdingh, J. Van Cortlandt.


[NOTE .- Rev. Henricus Selyns was minister of the Dutch Church from 1682 to 1701. His second wife was the widow of Cornelius Steenwyck. Her maiden name was Reimer or De Reimer .- W. S. P.]


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Congregation of New York, £25. All the rest of my estate to my beloved wife, Mary Susanna, and I make her executor.


Witnesses, Peter Morin, Giles Gaudinean, S. Son- main. (One name illegible.) Proved before Sampson Shelton Broughton, November 21, 1704 .- See Volume 1, page 399, of this series.


In the name of God, Amen. I, JOHN WATTSON, of New York, butcher, being in health, being about to take a voyage into parts beyond the Sea. I leave to my wife Catharine all my estate during her life, and make her executor. After her death all the estate is to be divided between Elizabeth Forhush and Thomas Sut- ton, both children of my beloved wife.


Dated August 19, 1696. Witnesses, John Geddes, Elizabeth Ellis, Joseph Wilson. (Not proved.)


In the name of God, Amen. Be it known and mani- fest unto all People, that I, HENDRICK BOSCH, of New York, sword cutler, considering my great age and other bodily infirmities. I leave to the coheirs of my son, Albert Bosch, deceased, procreated by my first wife, Anna Maria Remhach, viz .: Jurian, Justns, Casparus, Albertus, and Anna Maria, wife of Mr. Marshall, of this city, taylor, the sum of 6 shillings to be equally divided among them, in full of any pretense to my estate, I declaring that I have heretofore, during the life of the said Albert, their father, sufficiently pro- vided for him. I leave to my daughter Dorothea, pro- created hy my second wife, Maria Eshuysen, and now the wife of Isaac Kasperse, of Albany, 1 shilling, in full of her part, and that for and by reason of her stubborn and disobedient carrage towards me these many years. I leave to my danghter Hillegant, pro- created hy my second wife, and now the wife of Lodo- wyk Ackerman, 1 shilling, and this hy reason of her stuhborn and disobedient carrage towards me, these many years, and her scandalous and unclean way of


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Know all men hy these Presents that I, ANDRIES DE VANDELAER, of New York, mariner, do make my loving wife Faghie my true and lawful attorney. And know- ing the uncertainty of this transitory life, I declare this to be my last will and Testament, and I leave to my said wife all my goods and estate and make her executor.


This witnesseth that I, OBADIAH WILLIAMS, of Graves- iams, my sole executor, and do grant her all my estate except as follows : I leave to my son William, the Plan- tation or Lot No. 13, here in Gravesend, which was of age or doth marry. And if another son shall be born to me I give him one of the lots where I live, and which I bought of Thomas Deleval. The other Plantation which I now live npon I leave to my three danghters, Ellinor, Rebecca, and Ann. To each of my children


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living. I leave to my dear and entirely beloved wife Egbertie, all my estate, real and personal, with full power to sell or mortgage, without giving account to my children or any one else. After her death, what is left is to be divided hy my sons, Hendrick, Samuel, and Joshua, and my daughter Cornelia, wife of Peter Cav- alier, all procreated by my wife Egbertie, in four equal parts among them. But my son Hendrick is to have besides, the sum of £7, 108., as a gift for the par- ticular service he has done for me some years past. I make my wife executor.


Dated April 23, 1701. Witnesses, Gerardus Ketel- tas, Ahraham Gonverneur. (Not proved.) .


[NOTE .- The house of Hendrick Bosch was on the north side of Pearl Street, the second lot east from the corner of Broad Street. The lot next east of Fraunces Tavern was a water lot opposite the above, and was granted to the son, Albert Bosch, November 19, 1686. The descendants of Hendrick Bosch, or some of them, took the name of Bush .- W. S. P.]




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