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First, to wit that Hugo Frere his eldest son shall have ten pieces of eight as his birthright; also to wit that three of the younger children, Jacob, John and Sara after his death they will have all the lands and his house and all the garden plat, in a word all the fixed property, until the said daughter Sara shall reach the age of sixteen years, without paying any rent whatever to their other brothers and sisters, and after the said daughter Sara shall be sixteen years old they may divide equally among themselves all the household stock and the fixed property, after they have paid all the debts ; with the reservation that the daughter Sara shall have one feather bed, one bolster, and two covers (blankets) and one cow, and she shall have these over and above the others; and his son Jacob shall choose from his stable a horse and he shall have the said horse, over and above the others; and his son Jean shall also choose a horse which shall be over and above the others, similarly to their other brothers and sisters who have taken each a horse, and Marie Frere a cow.
The aforesaid Hugo Frere, testator, appoints and entreats his son Hugo Frere to maintain the good rights and interests of his brothers and sisters until they are of age. The said children Jacob, Jean and Sarah will have the household things and the fixed property until the time specified above.
The said testator commends all his children to the divine protection of the good God and asks for the blessing of his benificence, temporal and spiritual.
Made at the Paltz the fourth day of January, one thousand six hundred ninety-seven. 1693.
MARK X HUGO FRERE.
JEAN COTTIN, witness ; ABRAHAM HASBROUCQ, witness ; LOUYS BAYVYR, witness.
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WILL OF JEAN HASBROUCK.
In the name of the Lord, Amen. Be it hereby known to everybody that to-day, the twenty-sixth day of August in the . year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and twelve, I the undersigned Jean Hasbrouck of the New Paltz, County of Ulster, Province of New York in America, being sound in body, as I walk and stand, and in full possession of my mind and memory, praised be the Lord for his mercy, considering the shortness and frailty of human life, the certainty of death and the uncertain hour thereof, and desiring to put every- thing in order, make this my last will and testament, hereby revoking, annulling, declaring null and void all such testament or testaments, will or wills, heretofore made or executed, either verbally or in writing, and this alone to be taken for my last will and testament and no other. Imprimus, I com- mend my soul to God Almighty, my Creator, and to Jesus Christ, my Redeemer, and to the Holy Ghost, my Sanctifier, and my body to the earth whence it came, to be buried in a Christian manner, and there to rest until my soul and body shall be reunited on the Day of Judgment and enjoy the eternal gladness of immortality, which God by his grace has, by the sole merits of our Saviour, promised and prepared for all who sincerely believe in him in their hearts. Second, and concern- ing such worldly estate of lands, houses, negroes, goods, houses, cattle, accounts, gold, silver, coined or uncoined, etc., as the Lord has been pleased to grant far above my merits, I order, give and dispose as follows :
3rd. It is my wish and will that all my honest debts shall in due time be paid.
4th. I give to my son Jacob Hasbrouck and to his order or heirs all my land, lying within the boundaries of the patent of New Paltz, nothing excepted, with house, barn, and all
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my other buildings thereon being and standing, also my wagons, ploughs, harrows and everything thereto belonging and also my two negroes named Gerrit and James; further, the gun and what belongs to it and the clothing of my de- ceased son Isaac Hasbrouck, and all my books excepting three hereafter bequeathed to my daughter Elizabeth; also one just half of the balance of my whole personal or movable estate, excepting what hereafter is bequeathed to my daughters Mary and Elizabeth, for which he shall turn over and pay as by these presents is hereafter directed, on condition that his oldest son shall first have for himself, his order or heirs, the piece of land lying between the land of Abraham Dubois and my daughter Mary along the Paltz on the South of it and at the north of the Paltz village.
5th. It is my will and wish that if my son Abraham Has- brouck, who removed from this Province, should be alive and return here, then my said son Jacob shall deliver to him a good horse for his privilege of first-born and shall also give to him for himself, his order or heirs, one just half of my whole real estate as it has above been devised to my said son Jacob and my said son Abraham shall have nor make any further claim on my estate.
6th. I give to my daughter Mary and to her order or heirs the sum of fifty-seven pounds current money of New York due me from Abraham Rutan according to bond forty-two pounds and from Pieter Dubois according to bond fifteen pounds. I also give to her all that she has heretofore had from me, and she shall make no further claims on my estate.
7th. I give to Pieter Guimard, only son of my deceased daughter Hester, the sum of fifteen pounds current money of New York, which my said son Jacob is to pay to said Pieter Guimard, when he marries or comes to be twenty-one
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years old, but if he should die before marrying or reaching the age of twenty-one, my son Jacob shall be relieved from paying said sum of fifteen pounds.
8th. I give to my daughter Elizabeth, her order or heirs, the sum of sixty pounds current money of New York, which I have now by me in cash and also my negro woman named Molly; also three books, one Testament, the Practice of De- votion and a book of sermons written by Pieter DuMollin and printed in the French language; also the just half of my whole personal or movable estate, excepting what hereabove has been bequeathed, on condition that when the negro woman Molly bears children, Jacob shall have the first daughter, but he must leave her with her mother until she is one year old.
9th. It is my wish and will that if my son Jacob should die without a child or children lawfully begotten by him, all that is hereby given to him shall go to my said two daughters Mary and Elizabeth, their order or heirs, to be divided be- tween the two as follows: Elizabeth shall first have my house, barn, lot and the orchard behind the barn and the pasture- land, lying between the pasture of Abraham Dubois and my said daughter Mary and all the rest they, Mary and Elizabeth, shall share equally.
roth. It is my wish and will that if my said daughter Eliza- beth should die without child or children, the share herewith devised and bequeathed to her shall go 'to my son Jacob and daughter Mary, their order or heirs, to be equally divided between them.
IIth. It is my wish and will that, should my son Jacob and my daughter Elizabeth both die without child or children, the shares hereabove devised and bequeathed to them shall go to the two sons of my said daughter Mary, named Daniel and Phillip, and to their order or heirs, to be equally divided between them.
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12th. I appoint as Executors of this my last will and testament my said son Jacob Hasbrouck and my cousins Andre Lefevre and Louys Dubois, demanding that this my last will and testament may be obeyed and carried out in every part. Thus done at my house on the day and year as above.
The mark of
JEAN IHB HASBROUCK (L. S.)
Signed, sealed and declared by Jean
Hasbrouck to be his last will & testament in our presence,
ABRAHAM HASBROUCK,
ROELOFF ELTINGE,
ABRAHAM DOYO, W. NOTTINGHAM. [THIS WILL WAS PROVED 14TH AUG. 1714.]
LAST WILL OF LOUIS DUBOIS THE PATENTEE.
The last will of Louis DuBois as recorded in the Surro- gate's office at New York is in Dutch dated March 26, 1694, and was proved July 13, 1697, with a codicil dated Feb. 22, 169%. The following is a translation :
In the Name of the Lord, Amen
Be it hereby known that on this seven and twentieth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and ninety-four Lowis duboys of Kingston, in the County of Ulster, being sound in body going and standing and in pos- session of his intelligence, reason and memory and having the full use thereof and considering the brevity and frailty of man's life, the certainty of death and the uncertain hour thereof ; and being desirous to put all things in order, makes this his last will and testament in manner and form herein described revoking and hereby absolutely annulling every
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present will and testament and the wills made and declared heretofore, whether spoken or written, notwithstanding any promise or clause to the contrary and that this shall be re- ceived as my last will and testament and none other.
First I commend my soul to Almighty God my Creator and to Jesus Christ my Redeemer and to the Holy Spirit my sanctifier and my body to the earth whence it came to be buried after the Christian manner and at the last day to enjoy the sole bliss of immortality, which God in grace has prom- ised and prepared only through the merits of Jesus Christ for all those who truly unfeignedly repent and believe in Him. And concerning such temporal estate of land, houses, goods and debts as it has pleased the Lord far beyond my deserts to grant me I ordain and dispose of the same in the form herein described.
Imprimis (firstly) it is my will and desire that all my valid debts shall at the proper time be paid.
Secondly, I give to my wife Catrina deboys all my Estate of lands, houses, goods, debts, money, gold, silver, coined or not coined, or what further to my Estate belongs, to be used by her during her life and after my aforesaid wife's decease the aforesaid Estate shall then be available for the benefit of my Heirs hereinafter described, with this understanding never- theless, that in case the aforesaid wife should marry again she would then be obliged to turn over half of the entire Estate to my heirs herein named.
Thirdly, I give to my eldest son Abram Duboys Six pounds in money as the right of seniority by birth without pretending beyond this on that ground. Fourthly, I give to my aforesaid son Abram DuBois or Heirs the lawful Eighth part of my entire Estate as being then, when a separation or division of the same should be made according to my order described above. Fifthly, I give to my son Jacob the lawful Eighth
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part of my entire estate, as afore conditioned. Sixthly, I give to my son David or his heirs the lawful Eighth part of my entire estate, as above. Seventhly, I give to my son Solomon the lawful Eighth part of my entire estate, as before. Eighthly, I give to my son Lowies the lawful eighth part of my entire estate, as before. Ninthly, I give to my son Matthew the lawful Eighth part of my entire estate, as before. Tenthly, I give to the children that are left of the late Isaac duboys the lawful eighth part of my entire estate with this condition that in case the aforesaid children should come to die during their minority then said part shall be equally divided among my other heirs designated without any one else having any pretension on the same. Eleventhly, I give to the children of my daughter Sarah, having married Joost Janse, whether present or future, the lawful eighth part of my whole estate with this stipulation that my aforesaid daughter Sarah shall have and enjoy the usufruct or temporary enjoyment and profit thereof during her lifetime. Twelfthly, I appoint as Executrix of this my last will and testament my aforesaid wife Catrina duboyes ordaining and desiring that all that has been mentioned be deemed valid and held in value and caused to be so held. In attestation of the truth I have signed this at my home and sealed in the presence of witnesses in Kings- ton on the day and year as aforesaid. LOUYS DUBOIS.
Signed and sealed in presence of John Ward Steven, Wal- loon, W. DeMeyer.
CODICIL.
Be it hereby known to every one, that I undersigned Lowis duboys of Kingston in the County of Ulster, being sick in body, but in the full possession of my faculties and mind, praised be the Lord, on the 27th day of March, 1694, in the presence of Jan Ward Steven, Walloon, and Wm. de Meyer
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as witnesses of the same made what shall appear to be my last Will and Testament, I hereby approving and confirming the same and desire that the same shall in all respects be followed up, with this change however as is here according to my desire expressed and described, to wit: Firstly, it is my will and desire, that my son Jacob Duboys shall have in right and in true possession the lawful half of my Farm that lies on the Hurley Piece between the land of Hyman and Jan Rosa and the land of Lammert Huyberse leaving him to dispose of the same according to his pleasure with this stipulation that my aforesaid son Jacob duboys shall be in duty bound to pay for the aforesaid land the quantity of one thousand and five hundred bushels of wheat. So also shall the aforesaid Jacob duboys use the other half of aforesaid land, hired, until my youngest son Matthew duBois shall have attained his majority and for the use of the same to pay sixty bushels of wheat per annum and I hereby declare that on this day I have transferred to my youngest son Matthew DuBois a house and ground in Kingston, a parcel of pasture- ground and the lawful half of my land that lies on the Hurley Piece according to the tenure of the aforesaid transfer and that my aforesaid son Matthew DuBois shall have to furnish and pay the quantity or amount of fifteen hundred bushels of wheat notwithstanding the aforesaid transfer mentions how that payment thereof shall be made. In third place, It is also my will and desire that the land bought by my son David of Jan Wood shall be paid out of my Estate whereas I have so promised my son David. 4th, It is my will and desire, That my sons Solomon Duboys and Loues Deboys shall have for themselves, in true and rightful ownership and to their order or for their heirs my land that lies in the vicinity of the Paltz, to wit the ground obtained of Coll Thomas Dongan
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the 2nd day of June 1688 and to pay for the same the quan- tity of eight hundred bushels of wheat. 5, It is also my will and desire that my daughter Sarah, wife of Joost Janse, shall have in true and rightful ownership for herself and to her order or for her heirs a piece of land in the jurisdiction of Hurley adjoining the ground of Cornelis Cool and for the same to pay the quantity of seven hundred bushels of wheat, to understand that the woodland adjoining the aforesaid land is included with the same. Sixth, I declare that all has herein been specified agreeing with several papers written by my own hand and signed in presence of witnesses, desiring that the whole shall be perfectly followed up and carried out, only that in place of a thousand bushels of wheat touching Solomon and Lowies, this now shall be put at but eight hun- dred bushels, having thus done at Kingston at my house the 22nd of February 1695. LOUIS DUE BOIS.
Signed, sealed and declared by Lowies duboys to Be His Last Will and Testament in presence of William De Meyer, Jacob Rutsen, Jan Burhans, Mattij Slecht.
WILL OF DANIEL DUBOIS. Son of Isaac the Patentee.
Nostre Commancement Soit au Nom de Dieu.
Soit Notoire a tous Ceux qu'il appartiendra qu'aujourd'hu le Siexieme Jour du mois D'aoust de L'an Mille sept Cent et vingt Neuf moy soubsine Daniel Dubois habitant du Nieu Paltz en la Conte de Ulster en la Province de Nieu .York dans L'Amerique Estant en sante de Corps et d'Esprit Dieu en soit Loue; Feu que le Jour et L'heure de la Mort nous est Incertaine Dieu nous ayant Cache le Temps et le Moment qu'il s'est reserve a son Adorable Providence ; C'est pourquoy aussy
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J'ay voulu jcy declarer par les presentes ma derniere volonte et Testament en la forme et en la Maniere Comme L'ensuit. Je Casse je Reucque J'annule et met a neant tout autre Testa- ment que j'ay fait ou passe Soit de parolle ou par Escrit : il seront nul et de nulle valleur. Mais Celluy cy est et sera ma derniere volonte et Testament et non autre. Et Ainsy je Recommande mon Ame a Dieu mon Createur a Jesus Christ mon Sauueur Et au Sainct Espt. mon Consolateur & Santi- ficateur. Et mon Corps a la Terre d'ou il a Este pris Jusques a ce qu'il plaise a Dieu au Jour qu'il a destermine en son Con- seil Esternel de Ressusciter nos Corps pour les reunir a nos Ames, afin que tous ensemble de jouir a jamais de la vie Eternelle et bien heureuse que Jesus Christ son fils nostre Seigneur nous a acquis par son sang qu'il a promis de donner a tous Ceux quy luy seront fidelle jusqu'a la Mort. Pour ce quy est de mes biens temporels qu'il a pleu a Dieu de me donner beaucoup plus que je n'ay merritte : Comme Terres, Maisons, Granges, frutiers, pastures et heritage; Cheueaus Bestes a Corne at autres Bestail; Or, Argent, monnoye ou autrement, Estains Cuyores, fers & ferrement, et tout autres Utencilles quy appartient a mon bien je donne et ordonne Comme il Lenssuit
Premierement, S'est mon Vouloir et volonte que toutes mes Ligitmes Debts Soit Payee en temps Conunable par mes Executeurs ycy apres nommes.
2e. Cest aussy mon vouloir et volonte Expresse que ma femme Marie demeurera en la pleine possession et Jonissance de tous mes biens mouuable et jmmouvables apres mon desces pour en jouir paisiblement durant son veufage sans quelle soit obligee den rendre Conte a mes Enfars ny a personne quy que ce soit, Mais sy en cas quelle VinSent a se remarier, elle aura un tiers dans les revenus de toutes mes terres aussy
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elle aura une negresse trois ou quatre vaches trois Cheueaus et tous les meubles de ma maison pour sa vie durant et apres son desces ils reuiendront Et Seront a tous mes Enfants en general pour estre esgallement divise et partage parmy Eux et entre eux; Ses pourquoy il faudra faire une juventaire.
3e. Item Je donne & Cest mon vouloir que mon fils aine Benjamin aura pour son droit d'ainesse toute ma monture de Cauallerie Excepte le Cheual sans pretandre pour Cette raison rien autres Choses.
4e. Item Jordonne Et cest ma volonte de donner tous mes biens meubles et jnmeubles mouvables et jnmouuables a mes six Enfants Elizabeth, Benjamin, Marie, Simon, Rachel, et Isaac a Eux et a leurs heritiers (Excepte Se quy est cy dessus donne) pour Estre Egallement partage entre eux Six Chacun d'eux une juste part ou portion.
5e. Item mais Sy en cas ma famme procree ou ait d'autres Enfants durant mon viuant ils divesront et partageront dans l'heritage auecq les Susdits heritiers jcy nommes Chacun d'eux et entre eux Egallement une juste part et portion.
6e. Item S'il arriuoit que ma famme fut Enceinte a mon Desces et tccouchat de fils on fille legitimement procree de moy alors ce fruit la doit partage dans tout l'heritage Jutement et egallement.
7e. Item Je veux et je desire que Sy quelques un de mes heritiers veulent vendre ou Change quelques parts ou portions d leurs heritage ils en donneront la preference tout premier a leurs freres et soeurs, mais Sy quelqu'un de mes heritiers vien- nent a mourir sans heritiers alors leurs part d'heritage sera partage Esgallement entre tous mes autres heritiers les Sur- viuant.
8e. Jappointe Et Estably pour Executeurs de ce mien Testament et derniere volonte non frere Phillippe Dubois mon
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Oncle Jacob Hasbrocq et mon fere Pierre Cantin, Et ainssy je souhaitte & desire que le dit Testament Soit Suivi Entiere- ment et de point en points et de touts points afin quin le tout S'accomplisse en bonne Ordre pour la paix et l'union de ma fammille Comme Estant ma derniere volonte et Testament. fait au Nieu Paltz le Jour et l'an Sy dedans, Escrit et men- tionne.
Signe, scelle et prononce Estre ma derniere volonte & Testament.
DANIEL DUBOIS (Seal).
En presence des tesmoins Soubsignes
JEAN THEUENIN, SAMUEL BEUIER, STEPHUS. GASHERIE.
TRANSLATION.
Let our beginning be in the name of God.
Be it known to all those whom it shall concern, that to-day, the sixteenth day of the month of August of the year one thousand seven hundred and twenty-nine, I the undersigned Daniel DuBois, a resident of New Paltz in the county of Ulster in the province of New York in America, being well in body and mind, for which God be praised, seeing that the day and the hour of death is uncertain to us, God having hidden from us the time and the moment which he has re- served in his adorable providence,-Therefore, I have wished here to declare by these presents my last will and testament in form and manner as follows. I dissolve, I revoke, I annul and make void every other testament which I have made or passed, either by word or by writing: it shall be null and of no effect .- But this is and shall be my last will and testa- ment, and none other. And thus I recommend my soul to
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God my creator, to Jesus Christ my Saviour, and to the Holy Spirit my consoler and sanctifier, and my body to the earth from which it was taken; until it shall please God, in the day which he has determined in his eternal counsel, to raise our bodies; to reunite them to our souls so as together to enjoy forever life eternal and most blessed, which Jesus Christ his son our Lord has purchased for us by his blood ; which he has promised to give to all those who will be faithful to him until death. As for my temporal goods, which it has pleased God to give me much more than I deserve, as lands, houses, barns, orchards, pastures, and heritage, horses, cattle and other domestic animals, gold, silver,-coined or otherwise, -tin cooking utensils, iron tools, and all other utensils which belong to my property, I give and devise as follows
First. It is my wish and desire that all my lawful debts be paid at a suitable time by my executors hereafter named.
2d. It is also my wish and express desire that my wife Mary 'shall live in the full possession and enjoyment of all my property real and personal after my death; to enjoy it peaceably during her widowhood without her being obliged to give account of it to my children or to any person what- ever. But in case she shall happen to marry again she shall have a third of the revenue of all my lands, also she shall have one negress, three or four cows, three horses and all the furniture of my house, during her life; and after her death they shall return and shall belong to all my children in general, to be equally divided and shared among them and between then. Therefore it will be necessary to take an inventory.
3d. Item. I give and it is my wish that my eldest son Benjamin shall have for his right as eldest son all my cavalry equipments except the horse without claiming for that reason any other things.
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4th. Item. I devise and it is my wish to give all my prop- erty real and personal to my six children-Elizabeth, Benja- min, Mary, Simon, Rachel and Isaac, to them and to their heirs (except what is above disposed of) to be equally shared among those six, each one of them an equitable part or portion.
5th. Item. But if my wife shall have other children during my life they shall share and have part in the inheritance with the aforesaid heirs here named, each one of them and among them equally a just part or portion.
6th. Item. If I shall have a posthumous child, then it must share in all the inheritance justly and equally.
7th. Item. I wish and I desire that if any of my heirs wish to sell or change any parts or portions of their inheri- tance, they shall give preference in the matter first to their brothers and sisters, but if one of my heirs shall happen to die without heirs then his part of the inheritance shall be divided equally between all my other heirs the survivors.
8th. I appoint and establish for executors of this my testa- ment and last will my brother Philip DuBois my uncle Jacob Hasbrouck and my brother Pierre Cantine *; and thus I wish and desire that the said testament be followed entirely and in every respect in order that the whole may be performed in good order for the peace and unity of my family as being my last will and testament, Made at New Paltz the day and the year herein written and mentioned. Signed, sealed and pronounced to be my last will and testament.
DANIEL DUBOIS (Seal).
In presence of the undersigned witnesses,
JEAN THEVENIN [TEBENIN], SAMUEL BEVIER, STEPHUS. GASHERIE.
* Pierre Cantine was his wife's half-brother
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From Mr. Gustave Anjou's book of Ulster county wills we condense the following in reference to the wills of Christian Deyo, Catharine Cottin, Matthew Blanshan, Roelofsen [Jan] Elting, Abraham Deyo and the joint will of Louis DuBois and his wife Catharine Blanshan.
The will of Matthew Blanshan appears among the Secre- tary's papers. It is dated Sept. 7, 1665. It begins by stating that before Matthew Capito appeared "Matthew Blanshan. born at the village of Neuville in the province of Artois." The will provides that his wife Magdalena Joris shall possess the whole estate here in America so long as she remains a widow, also " all the land in Artois" where the testator was born and in Armentiers and other places, she to keep the three minor children, Magdalena, Elizabeth and Matthew until they become of age or marry; when they marry she to treat the minor daughters as she did the daughters who are married.
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