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And further this Deponent saith not
The Confession of Thomas Weale.
Thomas Weale confesseth That hee together wth Richard Russell & Joli Mathews did steale th' aforesd Goods out of Captaine Carteretts Cellar which Goods were by them all sold unto Marke Dale & his wife, as is before specifyde in ye Deposicons.
Herenpon they were all three by the Governors order comitted into the Marshalls hands & after shutt up close prisoners in the llole.
In the Evening of the same day being Fryday the Governor ordered some persons to goe to the prisonrs & to advise them to prepare for another world for that one of them should dve ye next day.
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Novemb. the tenth (being Saturday) in the forenoone the three prisours being brought into the Governors lodgings, they drew Lotts for their lives, & the fatall Lott fell to Thomas Weales share.
By the Request & Intercession of the Court of Aldermen the condemned person was reprieved untill Monday.
Sunday Novembr the eleventh, in the Evening a Company of the Cheife Women of the City, both English & dutch made earnest suite to ye Governor for the condemned Mans life: Mon- day Novemb the twelfth in the morning the same Women who came the last night with many others of the better sort & a greater number of the ordinary Dutch women, did again very much importune the Governor to spare him. TIEN all the Souldyrs did unanimously & wth one Consent joyne together in a petition to ye Governor in behalfe of their fellow Souldyrs & chose Sergeant Thomas Exton & Corporall Zachary Banes to deliver it. but Capt. Nedham tooke it & presented it for them.
The Tenour of the Peticon is as follows, vizt.
To our Rt. Hoble Governor Coll. Richard Nicolls The humble Peticon of all vor Honors under offiers & Souldyrs in this Garrison
Sheweth
That they doe all acknowledge your Honors Constant Clemency towards severall of us in pardoning our misdemeanors & yor just provocacon to make a severe Example at this Time of our fellow Souldyr Thomas Weale
Yet we are not without hopes that vor honor will extend mercy towards him. Considering his youth & strength may bee for the future employed in a Reformacon of his Life. & to do his Maty faithfull service in his calling. And that beyond the ordinary Goodnesse of your Nature, yor Honor may be the rather inclined at or Intercession to pardon or fellow Souldyr whose sentence alone. will strike as great a Terror in ns & detestation of such evill practices, as if he suffer'd Death. Wee doe jointly & severally faithfully promise to yor Ilonor that we will never act, contrive or coneeale any theft or Theaves, but doe & will abhorre & dis- cover any such practices or psons to yor honor, which each of us engage to doe upon the faith & word of a Sonldyer.
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Willingly submitting to bee punisht with Death, when any of us shall breake this onr solemne promise & Engagement.
Wee humbly desire this our Peticon may remaine upon Record agst the first offender in the like kind, beseeching God to direct yor heart to Mercy : Wee have unanimously desired Sergt Exton & Corpll Banes to present this or humbile peticon to yor Honor for whose health & happinesse. Wee are ever bound to pray &e.
Ilereupon all the Souldyrs of the Garrison being drawne up in the ffort owning this peticon & promising future Amendint,
The Governor pardoned the Condemned person, & released him, & all others in prison upon this or the like acct., & withall restored them to their armes, without any further punishmt, Monday November 12th 1666
WILL OF LEISLER'S MOTHER-IN-LAW.
The Last Will and Testament of Mrs. Mary Jansen.
In the name of the Lord Amen. Know all men which shall see this present Publique writeing how that in the Yeare after the birth of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ 1679 The sey- enth day of May Mrs. Mary Jansen# Widdow of Govert Locker-
" Mrs. Mary Jansen Loockormans was the widow of Govert Loockermans, who was among the earliest immigrants to this city, arriving here on the ship-of-war Sontberg, which brought Director General Van Twiller here in 1633. Mr. Loockemans was for some time engaged in the West India Company's service as a clerk. but soon embarked in trade on his own. account. He became a considerable shipowner afterwards. He married Marritje Jans, and established his residence on the present north side of Hanover Square (Pearl street .. his property then lying east of and adjoin- ing to William street. He built a respectable mansion there, one of the best then in the city. His daughter Elsie married Pieter Cornelisen Van- derveen, who came here with capital from Holland. He died in the year 1661, leaving his widow a handsome estate. She pursued her husband's business until her marriage with Jacob Heisler, who afterwards became so prominent in colonial affairs, In May, 1691, he was executed for treason. The children of Elsie Lyster (as she is termed by the notary) by Peter Cor- nelis Vanderveen were Cornelis, Timothy and Margaretta. Leisler's daugh- ters were seven. Mrs. Loockerman's children were Elsie Tymens (Mrs. Vanderveen and Mrs. Leistert, Cornelis Dirkse, married with Grietje Hon- drickse, and Jacob Loockermans, then unmarried.
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mans deceased in her owne person Came and Appeared before mee Wm. Bogardus, Publiek Notaire, Resedeing at New Yorke admitted by the right Honble Edmund Andross Esqe Seigneu of Sausmarez Liut. and Governour Genrall under his Royall Highmesse James Duke of Yorke and Albany, &c., of all Terri- tories in America, and before the undernamed Witnesses, The said Mary Jansen being an Inhabitant of this Citie to mee No- taire and Witnesses very well knowne well having and fully using her understanding. Reason and memory as outwardly Ap- peared weh considering the weaknesse and mortality of humaine Creature, the Certainty of death the uncertainty of the tim, and houre thereof, desiring to prevent the sd uncertaine boure With a Testamentall disposall, Therefore out of a free conscience and will not force. without any persuasion or delusion made by and hath made her Testament. And Disposed of her flinall and last will in Manner as ffolloweth: First Recomending her Immortall Sonle unto the mereifull hands of the Almighty god, And her Corps to her heires to an Honest burial, Secondly Recalling breaking. Casting away and Nulling all former wills and Acts of Last desires whatsoever is past before the date hereof. And De Novo disposing. therefore the Testatrix by good consideracon and reasons moving her conscience therennto hath Given in Legacy and made over unto the three Children of her Daughter Else Lyster procreated by peter Cornelis Vander veen deceased, called Cornelius Timothy and Margaretta Vander veen Each the sume of one hundred Gnilders in Beavers, at Eight Guilders a peice or the true vallne thereof. Aloe to Anna Bogardus the dugh- ter of William Bogardus the sume of fifty guilders in Beav- ers as afore 1. All which Legacyes -hee will and desires to bee paid and -attisfved presently after her death unto them and Each of them by her beires free and without any deduction. ffurther Instituting in all the goods moveable and unmovable. Actions Creditt- none at all Excepted. which shee Testatrix Be- sides the afore d Legacyes by her death shall come to Leave for her owne and universall heires her Children called Elsie Tymons marryed with Jacob Leysler Cornelis Dirkse marryed with Grietie Hendrick-e, and Jacob Lockermans not marryed vett, head for head for a like and Equall portion. Or by deceasing of
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any of them to their Lawfull children by representacon, and with a hand in Stead of the deceased, ffurther Shee Testatrice willing that what her sd sonn Cornelise and Jacob shall come to Inheritt and Injoy in Case they should come to decease without Children, then the same shall returne to her sd Daughter Elsie Leysler, and to one of them two, in an Equall and Alike portion and to their children by representacon in the whole, And with deduction of any whatsoever portion Knowne in the Law, (And that to the prejudice hereof) whether by finall will Act order the Liveing dealings or otherwise they may not dispose thereof But hapning to Leave Law full Children, then they shall have the said Goods free and therewith may do their pleasure and desire.
And for that this Last Will and Testament of the sd Testatrice . may bee the better performed and the Effect thereof to Issue therefore Shee hath desired comitted and Appointed her Cozen Mr. Johannes Van Brugh and Mr. Francis Rombouts Aldermen of this citie hereby giveing them absolute Power and Authoritie, as Appertaine to all Executors: Likewise with a Speciall power that by the decease or disapointmt of the one or the other. the remaines may take to him. Chuse and Appointe another in Stead of the deceased. whereupon shee Testatrice doth Except and Se- clude hereby all other higher and Lower Corts. The sd Testa- trice declare that what is here within menconed to bee her finall will and Last Testant desiring that the same alsoe may bee Per- formed bee it as Testamnt Codicill or Legacy, or other Instru- ment on or such a manner according to the Custome of the Country may take thi- best place, That neverthelesse some Cnr- euinstances according to Law Herein required have not beene ob- served neverthelesse keeping the same for the best and most u-uall way to bee Observed. In witnesse whereof the Originall was Signed and Sealed by the Testatrice as alsoe signed by Mr. John Davvall and Mr. Cornelis Creiger. Burgers of this Citie as witt- nes-es.
Recorded by mee Notary the day Month and Yeare above written In New Yorke
Which I doe sestitie
War. BOGARDUS Notary Publick
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Examined by mee and agrees with ve translation of the Orig- inall out of Dutch by Thomas Lovell July 22th 1678
MATTHIAS NICHOLLS Secr.
The Addicon of the above Will In the yeare 1677 the first of Novembr Mrs. Mary Lockermans Widdow of Govert Lockermans deceased declared before mee William Bogardus Publiek Notary Residing in New Yorke admitted By the Right Honble Edmund Andross Esq Seigneur of Sausmarez Lieut and Governour Genall under his Royall Highnesse James Duke of Yorke and Albany &c. of all his Territories in America, In the presence of the under-written Wittnesses, Shee an Inhabitant of this Citie lying Sick abed neverthelesse fully using her sences and understanding as Clearly Appeared unto us Notary and Witnesses. And declared to Consider the Certainty of Death and the uncertainty of the houre thereof. and therefore to Approve Ratify and allow of full power, so as Shee doth by these presents the Will and Testament which Shee hath made the Seventh day of May this yeare before mee notary aforesd and Certaine witnesses. with all the circumstances thereof for as much as the same shall bee found not to disagree with this Writing. And to an Amplificacon of the sd her Will vett to will and desire that her Negroe Boy called Francis shall bee to the Service and nse and remaine for her son Cornelis Dirkse and his Children which he shall happen to have untill hee and they Live and by their decease. ve same shall be delivered over to her son Jacob Lockermans. In Manner and hee alsoe comeing to dye and Leav- ing noe Children then the st Francis Shall belong to her Daughter Elsie Lysler and to her children. And they ffayling, to be made free and sett at Liberty, for which Service and use they shall maintain him with dyett and clothing and good discipline, not Willing neither desiring that they should Sell him alien and Trans- port neither to deliver him to the Service of a Stranger. And Concerning her Negroe boy Manellitt's her will and desire that the same shall bee to the Service and use of her sd Daughter and to her children untill his twenty fifth veare that then according to agree- ment made with his father and mother to be free and at Liberty having therefore his convenient maintenance. And in Consid- eracon of ve pinis-es Shee doth give to Legacy to her Daughter
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Elsie her golden ear Iron as being made of Gold which partly was given to her by her grandmother alsoe she doth give to her Son Jacob her Diamond Rose Ring, as alsoe to her son Cornelise the great Bible, And to his wife three of her Silver Spoones, Alsoe to Mary Van Brugh, daughter of Mr. Johannes Van Brugh, her Silver Bodkin, to Margaret Vander veen her Daugh- ters Daughter a silver Chaine with Keyes, alsoe to Susanna Leislers her sd Daughters Daughter a Silver Chaine with a Case and Cushion. all which sd menconed. The Comparant doth declare to bee her last Will. willing and Expressly desiring that the same with her former principall will may Issue with their Effect pformed and accomplished. But it is as a writing, gift of Legacy or in all other forme. as any one his Last will may Stand, that neverthelesse some Cireinstances where not herein observed ac- cording to Law. holding the same for the most powerfull and most nsuall wage- con-enting hereof Coppyes in forma may bee made and delivered. dated and made at the house of the Testatrice in the presence of Mr. Carsten Leersen and Mr. Jolm Cavileer her Neighbours and witnesses of faith hereunto desired weh as alsoe Shee Comparant, and I Notary have underwritten the Originall hereof in the Record, in New Yorke the day month and yeare above written
which I do Testify
Signed Wor BoGARDE. Publiek Notary
Examined by me July. 22. 1678 & agrees with the translation of the Originall out of Dutch by Thomas Lovell.
MATTHIAS NICHOLLS seer
HIS SON'S JOIN WITH HIM IN MAKING HIS WILL.
The Last Will & Testamt of John Marston made ye 14th Febry. 1670. Probated at Fort James, April 6th. 1671.
In ve Name of God Amen: I John Marston being in perfect sene & Memory. I give my Body to ve Earth. I will my twoe Sons John & Cornelin- to my well-beloved friend John Hinch- man to live with him. & to be wholly at his disposing till they Come to age according to Law. I also will dohm Hinchman to hav ve Oversight of my whole Estar, and Guardian to my two Sons. I will to my two Sons my whole Estat after my Debts are paid except one Gold Ring and one Silver Thimbl I will to
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my Daughter Elizabeth ye Ring, and to my Daughter Katharine th Thimbl This is my full Will, and my Souns desir; as Witness or Hands this 14th day of ffebruary 16 32 at flushing.
JOHN MARSTON SENK. JOUN MARSTON CORNELIUS MARSTON
Testibus
ROBERT O TERRY his marke JOSEPH THORNE The Testator died in February, 1671.
PETITION OF THE PALMER CHILDREN.
To ye Honor Govenor Lovelace Govenor of all his R. Hss. ye Duke of Yorke's Territories in America Greeting
The humble Peticon of yor Honor humble Petitrs request is that whereas it bath pleased ve Lord to take away our fathr lately out of this life. & that with a sudden blow of death without sickness, that we could any wayes conceive onely a distemp he hath had on him many yeares wch we could not conceiv mortall. and dying suddenly left no will onely verbally wch was Exprest to none but we bi. Children that were by long before his death & heard him say he having but little Estate in this life his whole desire was not Knowing how it might please ye Lord in his Good- nese & Mercy to deal with him said that what he left behind him should fully & freely be left to his wives will and disposing for her maintenance in respect she was stricken in years & far untitt for labour. Your Hlouors humble Petrs desire is that your Honour will be pleased to grant such favor for us that or mother ve willow being so left may fynde so much favour from your Honor- to have a Ere of Admcon graunted her without any further charge in respect ve Estate is but small & shee incapable of paying charg that may aris & yor Honors Petrs shall ever pray
Westchester April 26th. 1670
AAdm graunted & issued out according to request
Joseph PALMER BENJ : PALMER SAM: PALMER
OBADIAH PALMER THOMAS SPUCHER MARTHA MI PALMER her marke
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES.
ABEEL JOHN NELSON, " a Presbyterian minister of distinguished eloquence, who died in New York, Jan. 20th, 1812, in the forty- third year of his age. He was graduated at Princeton College in 1787, and for some time afterwards was engaged in the study of the law. Subsequently, he pursued the study of divinity, and was licensed to preach in April. 1793. For a short time he offi- ciated in Philadelphia, but in 1795 was installed as one of the pastors of the Reformed Dutch Church of this city, where he died, leaving a most brilliant record.
ADLER GEORGE J., a teacher of languages, was born in Leipsic. Germany. in 1821. He came to this country in 1833. was graduated at the University of New York in 1844. became professor of German there in 1-46. holding the position till 1854. He wrote a German Grammar in 1846, a Reader in 1847, and a Dictionary in 184S. all these being much esteemed. In 1858 he wrote a Latin Grammar, and in 1860 he translated a History of Provençal Poetry. by C. C. Fauriel, which is rather a heavy performance. Ile also published several magazine articles. Ilis reason hecame attacked in 1560. and he was sent to the Bloomingdale AAsylum. where he died. August 24th. 1565.
ADRAIN ROBERT. LL. D., an Irishman by birth, and an American by naturalization, was born September 30th. 1775. at Carrick- fergus. When a child he was remarkable for precocity of talents, but at the age of fifteen his education was interrupted in conse. quence of the death of both parents. At this early age he re- sorted to school keeping for a support, and soon had his taste for mathematics called forth. In the rebellion of 1795 he com- mended a company of insurgents, but was able to escape to America, although badly wounded. He landed in New York during the prevalence of the yellow fever, soon finding occupa- tion as a teacher at Princeton, New Jersey. There he remained
* In these Notes no attempt has been made at originality. The language is frequently a reproduction of that of the authority used. Of many of these worthdes a fuller and more careful account will appear hereafter, based upon original investigation.
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two or three years, then removing to York, Pennsylvania, to en- gage in the same calling. In 1805, he was employed in the academy at Reading, Pennsylvania, at the same time being a con- tributor to a scientific periodical published in this city. Among his contributions were a " Disquisition concerning the Motion of a Ship which is Steered to a Given Point of the Compass." and a " View of Diophantine Algebra." His solutions were remark- able for their simplicity, ingenuity and elegance ; and he soon became favorably and extensively known as a man of science. In 1810 he was appointed to fill the professorship of mathemat- ies and natural philosophy in Rutgers College. He soon after received the honorary degree of doctor of laws; in 1812, he was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society. and in 1813 a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. After being three years at Rutgers, he was appointed to a like professorship in Cohunbia College. After thirteen years of persevering and indefatigable devotion to science in the latter institution he returned to the professorship he had before Held in Rutgers, in order to recruit the failing health of his wife by a change to country air. Subsequently he was called to the professorship of mathematics in the University of Pennsylvania. where he continued from 1827 to 1834. reaching the dignity of vice-provost. Soon. however. a disposition to be erratic, con- traeted in early life. led him to remove elsewhere as an instrue- tor. for he was a professor in Columbia College afterwards. Ile was there in 1539. when he edited Ryan's AAlgebra. But his energies were on the decline, and three years before his death. which was at New Brunswick. August 10th, 1-43. he rested from his labors. His mathematical powers, and a ereditable acquaintance with the work of French geometer-, were dis- played in two papers communicated to the American Philo- sophieal Society in 1817. entitled respectively. " Investigation of the Figure of the Earth, and of the Gravity in Different Lati- tudes." and " Research concerning the Mean Diameter of the Earth." He started two journals for the discussion of mathe- matical subjects. the " Analyst." published at Philadelphia in 1s08. and the " Mathematical Diary." of which eight numbers appeared in New York, between 1825 and 1527. He also edited
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Hutton's Mathematics, and belonged to several learned societies, both in Europe and America. He left behind him a number of mannscripts which, like his published works, have been pro- nounced by a competent judge to exhibit a very high order of ability. He was also a good classical scholar, and was extensively acquainted with general literature.
AGATE FREDERICK S., an artist, was born in Sparta. New York, in the year 1807. He early took an interest in art, turning his attention chiefly to historical painting, and for this purpose visited Italy in 1835. His best known works are .Count Ugolino." " The Ascension." "Dead Christ and Mother," and "Columbus and the Egg." Ile died in New York in May, 1844.
AKERLY SAMUEL. M. D .. a learned and philanthropie physician of this city. born about the year 1785. He studied medicine with his brother-in-law. Dr. Samuel Latham Mitehill. having previously graduated at Columbia College in 1804. He con tributed largely to medical and scientific journals, and was interested in agriculture. He was one of the founders and most efficient supporters of the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and the Institution for the Blind. Dr. Akerly was a classmate of the Rev. Jolm Me Vickar. D.D .. and of William Gracie. Ile died on Staten Island July 6th, 1-45.
ALEXANDER ROBERT. a merchant, who was appointed by General Carleton one of five commissioners to act as a board for the settling and adjusting all matters of debt or accounts, of the value of ten pounds or upwards. contracted since the British took pos- region of New York in 177. He married Jane Willett in 1772. She died in Augusta, Georgia. where he was then transacting business. in 1800. He was a member of the Chamber of Com- merce of this city.
ALLICOCKE JOSEPH, a merchant of this city, and a member of the Chamber of Commerce. Ile was a member of the Sons of Liberty before the Revolutionary war, and its Secretary just before the outbreak. but he resigned shortly after, and remained in the city during the British occupation.
ANDERSON ALEXANDER, M. D .. the father of American wood en. graving, was born near Beekman's Slip in this city on the 21st of
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April, 1775, two days after the first bloodshed in the war for Independence had occurred at Lexington and Concord. His father, John Anderson, was a Scotchman, who had come to this country some little time before and had married a New England woman. Ile differed in politics front most of his countrymen in America at that time, as they were distinguished for their loyalty. while he was at the time of his son's birth the publisher of a patri- otie paper which supported this country's cause and was named the Constitutional Gazette. He continued to publish it in opposi- tion to the loyal sheets of Gaine and Rivington until the British took possession here in September, 1776, when he was compelled to fly, with his books and printing materials, nearly all of which were lost before he attained a place of safety. At the age of twelve years, young Anderson began to use the graver for his own amusement. Ile was a timid lad, shrunk from asking questions, and gained information by silent and modest observation. Peep- ing into the windows of silversmiths be saw the shape of the graver and the method of manipulating it in the lettering of spoons. and rolled out copper cents gave him his plates for his first efforts. Some of his earlier es-ays in the engraver's art were in making copies of anatomical figures from medical books. His father per- ceived this proclivity towards medicine with pleasure, and depre- cating the lad'> manifest love of art he allowed him to make prep- arations for the profession of a physician. In May, 1796, he received the degree of Medical Doctor from the Faculty of Columbia College. The subject of his address on that occasion was " Chronic Mania." the theories which he then advanced con- cerning its cau-e and eure being now long-established facts in medical science. Soon after he began his medical studies. at the age of abont seventeen years, his proficiency in art had be- come so great. notwithstanding the many difficulties which lav in his way, that he was employed by William Durell. a bookseller. to copy the illustrations of a popular little English work entitled the " Looking Glass for the Mind." The engravings that adorned it were made on wood by Bewick. the father of modern wood- engraving. Up to this time Anderson's engravings had been made on type metal, and he had no idea that wood was used for the purpose. When he had completed about half the illustrations
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