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30th. Cut and engrav'd the Soap-stamp, deliver'd it & receiv'd 8/. Call'd at Burger's and got impressions of some of Riving- ton's plates. At Gowan's and got-no money. Mr. Reid brought me a Map of Kentucky to engrave. I subscrib'd for Winter- botham's History of America and got the six numbers. Mr. Harrison gave me the cuts for 4 little books to engrave. I retouch'd one of Frobisher's stamps. Began to trace the large map.
31-t. Sunday. Passed the time much as usual. I met a man on the Battery who solicited my charity with the appearance of poverty and disease. I gave him 9d. Fore-noon-heard Mr. Beach. Job xi. T. After-noon. Mr. Bisset-Matth. xxviii. 19. Evening-heard Mr. Moore.# " For now we see thro' a glass darkly " &c. I was so sleepy that I was oblig'd to pinch myself to keep awake.
# Benjamin Moore, D.D., was educated at King's College, and was President of it under its new name. Columbia, from 1801 to 1811. Two volumes of his sermons have been published. He became coadjutor bishop in 1801, succeeded Bi-hop Provoost in 1815, and died in 1816, aged sixty-seven years. His remains, with those of his wife, are interred in Trinity churchyard.
THE WILL OF JUDITH STUYVESANT.
Bee it knowne Unto all people that I underwritten Judith Stuyvesant widdow of Mr. Peter Stuyvesant deceased on the 29th day of January Last past being of perfect health and iu ffull Senses of memory and understanding, have made my Last will and Testament and for severall weighty reasons have caused the same to bee here Inclosed and Sealed up declaring By these presents that the tennour thereof Is my last will and testament Willing and desiring that the same may bee of ffull force and effect and that Immediately after my decease this my testament may bee Opened in due manner and the contents thereof with all artickles and Clauses therein Inserted my bee duly ffullfilled and observed.
In Wittnes whereof I have hereunto Putt my hand & seale In New Yorke on the Isle of Manhattans in America this 15th, day of ffebruary Ao 1635.
JUDITH STUYVESANT (Seal)
Witnesses WILLIAM BEECKMAN JOHANNES VAN BRUGH NICHO BAYARD
TRANSLATION OF THE WILL THAT WAS SEALED UP.
In the name of God Amen Bee it known by these presents Unto all whom this may Concerne That I underwritten Judith Stuyvesant widdow of Mr. Peter Stuyvesant deceased resideing on the Isle of Manhattans have thought fitt to make my Last will and Testament in manner and forme following Impris Con- sidering the mortality of Mankind The Certainety of death and the Unecertaine the thereof I have therefore Recommended my Immortall Soul after my decease in the mercifull hands of the almighty God my creator and Redeemer and my mortale body to a decent Christian Buriall and concerning my temporall Estate I haveiug in the first place Revoked and anmilted all former testa- ments and Instruments Last will made or caused to bee made by myselfe. Now soe itt is That I the said Testatrix for severall
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Causes and Consideracons Myselfe thereunto Especially moveing have thought fitt to dispose of my said temporall Estate in the manner and forme following Impris I do bequeath as a Legacie to my son Nicholas William Stuyvesant or his Children lawfully decending (for and in consideracon of the portion and other Extraordinary gifts and benefitts heretofore Received by my Eldest son Balthazar Lazar Stuyvesant deceased) all my Testa- trices, gold and Silver Either Coined or uncoined Consisting in Jewells or otherwise none Excepted which shall bee found to bee in being at the time of my decease, Item my Testatrices greate case or Cubbard Standing att the house of Mr. Johannes Van Brugh, Together with all the China Earthen ware that is Lockt up in the sayd Cubbard and no more and I doe by these presents further make Ordaine Institute for to bee my Lawfull heires in the one Equall moyety or halfe my said son Nicholas William Stuyvesant or his Children Lawfully descending and in the other Moyety or halte the Lawfully Children of my Eldest son Balthazar Lazar Stuyvesant deceased by name Judith and Catharina Together with the Child whereof the widdow of my Eldest son att the time of his decease was Conceived, and that In all the Estate Reall and personall moveable and Immoveable actions Creditts Cloathes apparrell Linen Woollen household Stuff and otherwise none Excepted or Reserved In the same manner as they shall be found in being att the time of my decease. Provided allwaves that in Case it should happen that the sayd Children of my Eldest son do departe this life without any Lawfull Issne that then their Lawfull portion and Inheritance shall devolve to the Children of my younger son and in the same manner if my son Nicholas William Stuyvesant and his Children do departe this life with out any Lawfull Issue that then and in Such Case their lawfull portion of Inheritance shall devolve and descend to the said Children of my Eldest son And in Case it should further happen that all the sayd Children As well of my elder as my younger Sonn Came to departe without any lawfull Issue then and in such Caire my Last will and desire Is that all the said Estate shall devolve and descend As a Lawfull Inheritance the one halfe to the next kindred of mee in blood the Sayd Testatrix and the other halte to the next kindred in blood of my late deceased husband
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And for the preventing of any alienateing of the sayd Estate It is my will and testament that in Case it should happen that my Sayd son Nicholas William Stuyvesant Came to Enter into new Matrimony that all the Inheritanceyes, and Lagaeyes wherein my sayd son by these presents Is invested after the time of his decease shall devolve and bee hereby settled Upon his Children and by want of his Children upon the Children of my said Eldest Sonn deceased with further Limitacon that the sayd Inheritance and Legacyes shall not In any wise bee mixt In the rest of the Estate which then shall bee Belongeing to my said Sonn or bee of any profitt or benefitt to his wife or his Relacons, And I have hereby further Appointed & authorized My Cousen Nicholas Bayard and my sayd son Nicholas William Stuyvesant to bee the tutors and overseers of the Children of my Eldest son And their portions and Inheritances dureing the time of the sayd Children being under age to the end the said Children: parte and proporcons of the said Inheritances dureing the sayd time be governed and administered In such manner As by the sayd Tutors and Overseers shall bee thought most beneficiall Secure and Convenient I doe further bequeath to my said Cousen Nicholas Bayard and to his wife and Child or Children (if desired) a bureing place In the Tomb or Vaught of my Last deceased husband In the Chappell or Church att my Bowry: And In case it should happen that my sayd Church or Chappell did Come to decay or for an other Reason be demolished I doe hereby declare and publish it to bee my Last will and Testament that of the materialls and Rubbage of sayd Chappell bee made a buildeing Sufficient ffor a Coover upon the said Vanght and I doe further by these presents Establish appoint and Authorize my savd Cousen Nicholas Bayard and my said son Nicholas William Stuyvesant to bee the Lawfull Executor- and Administrators of this my Last will & testament Giveing and granting unto them as full and ample power Strength and Anthor- ity As to all Exeentors Established by will and testament Lawfully doth belong and appertayne And I doo therefore Exclude from the administration of my sayd Estate all other persons Whatso- ever who might elaime or pretend to have any power or Jurisdie- tion upon the same and Lastly I doe hereby order and Require my said Children and heires to be observant to all the artiekles and
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Clauses of this my Last Will and Testament and to Rest Satisfved with all and whatsoever therein is assigned unto them Under the penalty of Loosing and forfeitting the benefitt of the Sayd Lega- cyces and Inheritances By any of the partyes that shall directly or Indirectly Oppose the same which said fforfeited portion shall devolve and Is hereby Invested upon the obedient Children and partyes.
All the premises above recited I do deelare to bee my Last will and Testament desireing that the same after my decease may bee of full Effect force and virtue although all formalityes in Law required not fully are observed craveing the same May be held & deemed in the best forme as to be Inserted.
In Wittnes whereof I have hereunto putt my hand and seale In New Yorke this 29th day of January in the yeare of our Lord Jesus Christ 167 ;.
JUDITH STUYVESANT (Seal.)
Testor N. BAYARD
Entered in the records of the citty of New Yorke
JOHN WEST.
Supplemental Will of Judith Stuyvesant aforesaid, and Ratifica- tion of her former will.
In the Name of God Amen Know all people whom these may concerne that I underwritten Judith Stuyvesant Widdow of Mr. Peter Stuyvesant deceased Have thought it necessary for severall good Causes mee bereunto Especially moveing by these presents to Renew Confirme and Ratifye my last will and testament made by ice on the 29th day of Jany 1625 and here Inelosed Sealed up Provided Allwayes and with these expresse Reservacons & en- largements
Impris Whereas by the Lawes of this Government all Lands within this Government are declared to bee Lands of Inheretance (Except otherwise disposed of by will) Now Soe it is that my last will and testament Is that all the Lands & real Estate which shall bee Left by mee att the time of my decease shall bee held and deemed as Chattells And that my beires & Executors shall have power to dispose and make sale thereof Accordingly As they .
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shall Judge fritt and Expedient And that the division of the same shall be made and Regulated to all Intents and purposes as more att Large by the Inclosed Testament Is Exprest and Sett forth any former Customes and Laws to the Contrary in any wise not- withstanding And I doe by these presents further by forme of a Legacie Give and grante to the Reformed nether dutch Church or Congregation of the Citty of New Yorke My Testracies Church# or Chappell Seituated On my bowry or farmes Together with all the Revenues proffitts & Immunityes As alsoe with all the Incumbrances to the said Chappell belongeing Or appertain- inge To have and to hold the said Chappell and appurtenance after the time of My decease Unto the Overseers of the said Congregacon to the use aforesayd for Ever with further power iff they see cause to demolish or displace the same and to Employ the materialls thereof to such Uses as they shall think fritt & ex- pedient Provided that in such case of the sayd materialls bee made and built all and whatsoever In the Inclosed Testament Is Exprest and Required for the preservation of the tombe or vaught which was built by my deceased husband in the said Church
Item-I doe bequeath to my son Nicholas William Stuyvesant my greate & best Casse or Cobbert Empty and exclusive of
" This church was erected while the Dutch were still in the administration of affairs, and was the second one on the island. Governor Stuyvesant paid for its erection, and services were begun there about 1660. Hermanu- Van Hoboken, schoolmaster at New Amsterdam, reading services there until Domine Selvus began preaching. This was the nucleus of the so-called Bowery village, named after the bowery or farm of Governor Stuyvesant. By analogy the street which led there was called by the same name. Services were regularly performed in the church until the Governor's death, which happened in January. 1678. Ile contributed a hundred dollars a year towards paying the clergyman, who, after the Rev. Mr. Selyns, was the Rev. Mr. Megapolensis. On Mrs. Stuyvesant's death, as is stated in the above will, she devised the building to the Reformed Dutch Church, then worshiping in the Fort, but soon to have a house in Garden street, with power to demolish the building and erect a new one with the mate- rials, provided they preserved the vault of her husband. The church accepted the trust, but publie worship could not have been very often celebrated there. The Life of Dr. John H. Livingston, by Dr. Gunn. contains no mention of any preaching there in his time, and in 1795, the building being in decay, it was torn down, and the present St. Mark's Church ( Episcopalian) was erected. The family vault of the Stuyvesants is still there.
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what might be found therein inclosed- Item-I do bequeath to my said son and his daughter Judith And to my Eldest sons two children Each and Every one of them an equall quarter part of my Linen none Excepted and do order that the portion of my said Sons daughter Judith shall be delivered and left in the Cus- todye and keeping of her grandfather Mr. William Beeckman and that of My Eldest Souns Children In the bands Custodye and Keeping of My Cousen Nicholas Item I doe bequeath more to my Said sons daughter Judith all my Testracies Wearing ap- parrell of silk and Woolen belonging to my body Together with a Summe of One thousand Gilders Wampum value to bee paid Unto att the time of her comeing to due age without any Rent or Interest Item I doe further bequeath to my said son Nicholas William Stuyvesant" all my Testatricies china Earthen ware except the three great potts And Lastly I doe bequeath to my Cousen Nicholas Bavard+ A> an acknowledgement from my selfe My black Cabbinett of Ebbon wood with the foot or frame belonge- ing to itt Together with the three great China Potts before re- served And I doe further hereby Appoint and Confirme my said Cousen Nicholas Bayard and my sayd Son Nicholas William Stuyvesant to be the Sole Executors of my last will and testa- ment with full and ample power for to settle and State my tes- tatrices affaires and accounts As well Receipts as disbursements.
And further to doc act. accomplish and performe In all respects as all Executors Established by Wills of Right can and ought to doe Provided allwave- that my said Son Nicholas William Stuyve- sant be in all things Observant to this my Last will and testament and shall Remaine Satisfyed with all and Whatsoever therein Is
Nicholas William Stuyvesant was born in New Amsterdam in 1648, and died about 1598, He was twice married. His first wife was Maria Beekman, daughter of William Beekman. She had two children. The marriage was in 1672. His second wife, to whom he was married in 1681. was Elizabeth Slech- tenhor-t. of Albany. By her he had six children.
+ Nicholas Bayard was a relative of Governor Stuyvesant. He was a brewer. He filled several offices under the Dutch, was Mayor in 1685. and a member of the Provincial Council for years. He was very active in the Anti-Leislerian party, and when the Leislerians came into power again was tried for trea-on, convicted. and sentenced to death. His sentence was reversed on an appeal to England. He died in the year 1711.
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Assigned unto him. But in Case it should happen (which God forbid) that my said Son directly or Indirectly did oppose him selfe against the same, Then and in such case the sole Executor- ship shall bee only left to my Sayd Cousen Nicholas Bayard and my said Son shall be wholly Excluded from the same all the premises above recited I underwritten Testatrice (being now Sickly in body butt of perfect Sences in memorie and under- standing) doe hereby declare to bee my Last will and testament, desireing that the tennor hereof to all Intents and purposes may be observed and these presents bee held deemed and Reputed of the same power, force and virtue As if the same was Inserted and Comprehended in the midst and body of the Inclosed testainent although all formalityes In Law Required herein Nott fully are observed. deeming the same in the best forme as if the same were Inserted.
In wittness Whereof I have hereunto putt my hand and seale In New Yorke the first day of december Ao 1684.
JUDITH STUYVESANT. (Seal.) Signed and Delivered
in the presence of WILL : BEECKMAN JOHANNES VAN BRUGH N. BAYARD
Will probated 16th day of March. 1686.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES.
BACKER JACOBUS. an early settler, who kept a store in Beaver street, at the lower end. In 1663, being then in Holland, he was, in company with Jeremias Vau Rensselaer, instructed to bring the affairs of his colony before the authorities there.
BAKER GARDINER. See p. 86. It may be added that he finally failed in business. and was obliged to sell out his museum. One of his daughters was the mother of Hooper C. Van Vorst, of the Supreme Court, and first President of the Holland Society, who died in October. 1889.
BANYAR GOLDSBROW, an Englishman who arrived here in the colonial era. was born in London in the year 1724. At thirteen years of age he came to this country, and apparently received a legal education. He was Anditor-General in 1746, and was Deputy Clerk of the Council for some time. In 1752 he was appointed Register of the Court of Chancery, and in the follow- ing year Judge of Probate. He remained in public office until the termination of the British rule, then going to Albany, where he filled some offices under the State Government. Ile was married in 1767 to Elizabeth Mortier. daughter of the British Paymaster-General. She died in 1809, and he died in 1:13. aged ninety-one years. Ile left a large estate to his family.
BARBARIE JonN. a French Huguenot. was a merchant in this city, and a prominent officer in the French Church. In politics he was an anti-Lei-lerite. Ile was a member of the Provincial Council for several years, and died in this city about the year 1727.
BARCLAY HENRY. D. D .. rector of Trinity Church. New York. was born in Albany. and was graduated at Yale College in 1734. He went to England. where he was ordained, then being ap- pointed missionary to the Mohawk Indians. In this capacity he served for several years, when he was called to take charge of Trinity Church. thus remaining until his death in 1765. A translation of the Prayer-Book into the Mohawk language was made under his direction and that of the Rev. W. Andrews and
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the Rev. John Ogilvie, which was printed in 1769, after many difficulties. He was succeeded by Mr. Ogilvie.
BARD JOHN, a well known physician, was born in Burlington, New Jersey, February 1st, 1716. Ile was the son of Peter Bard, a native of France. who came to Maryland in 1703 as a merchant, soon after removing to New Jersey, where he was for many years a member of the Council and a Judge of the Supreme Court. The son received his early education under the care of Mr. Annan, of Philadelphia, one of the most eminent teachers on the continent. He was at the age of eighteen bound apprentice to the celebrated Dr. Kearseley, with whom he continued till 1737. He now en- gaged in practice, which speedily became large, but in 1743, in consequence of repeated applications from New York, which then had few physicians, he removed here. In the year 1793, when the yellow fever drove most of the physicians from their posts, he remained at his, although then about eighty years old. Ile did not relinquish attendance upon his patients until May, 1798, when he removed to his country house at Hyde Park, near Poughkeepsie. He died March 30, 1799, in consequence of a paralytic stroke. Dr. Bard was eminent in his profession. and his practice was very extensive. He possessed a singular inge- nuity and quickness in discriminating diseases. In the early part of his life he devoted much attention to polite learning. but noth- ing was ever published by him.
BARNES DANIEL H., a conchologist, who died in the meridian of life October 27. 1818. Ile and Dr. Griscom originated and conducted with great reputation a high school in this city. He was also a Baptist preacher. On Sunday, the day before his death. he preached at New Lebanon from the text. " Ye know not what shall be on the morrow ;" on the next day, while out in a carriage, the driver having been thrown from his seat by some obstruction. Mr. Barnes in his alarm jumped from the carriage. fractured his skull, and died soon after. He was esteemed the first conchologist of the day. His learned communications on shells were published in Silliman's Journal, with explanatory plates.
BAYLEY RICHARD, an eminent physician of this city. studied physie with Dr. Charlton. In 1769 or 1770 he attended the
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London lectures and hospitals. Returning in 1772, he com- menced practice with Dr. Charlton. In the Autumn of 1775 he revisited England in order to make further improvement under Dr. Hunter, and spent the Winter in dissections and study. Next year he returned as surgeon in the English army under Lord Howe. Ile resigned in 1777 and returned to New York. In 1781 his letter to Hunter on the croup was published, in which he recommends the active treatment of that disease. In 1787 he began delivering lectures on surgery. The next year, on the 13th of April, a mob destroyed Dr. Bayley's valuable anatomical cabinet. This was in consequence of dissected portions of human bodies hay- ing imprudently been shown to the public. For three or four days the mob paraded the streets. and few physicians' offices escaped without damage. In 1792 he was elected professor of anatomy at Columbia College, but in 1793 he took the department of , surgery, in which he was very skillful. Two years later he was made Health Officer. During the prevalence of the yellow fever he fearlessly attended upon the sick. and investigated the disease. He published his essay on this fever in 1797, maintaining that it had a local origin and was not contagious. He also published a series of letters upon the subject. The State quarantine laws originated with him. In August. 1801, an Irish emigrant ship, with ship fever. arrived. He found the crew, passengers and baggage huddled in one unventilated apartment, contrary to his orders. Entering it only a moment. a deadly sickness at the stomach and intense pain in the head seized him, and on the seventh day he expired. aged fifty-six.
BEACH ABRAHAM. D. D., an Episcopal clergyman, was born at Che-hire. Connectiont. September 9th, 1740, and was graduated at Yale College in 1757. He was ordained priest by the Bishop of London in June, 1767. For seventeen years, including the period of the Revolution. he discharged the duties of his office at New Brunswick. New Jersey. After the peace he was called to the city of New York. as an assistant minister of Trinity Church. where he remained about thirty years, and then returned in 1513 to his farm on the Raritan to pass the remainder of his days. Hle died September 11th, 1528, aged eighty-eight years.
BETHUNE DIVIE. a philanthropist. was born in Dingwall. county
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of Ross, in Scotland, in 1771. In early life he resided in Tobago, where his brother was a physician. Ile removed to the United States in 1792, and settled as a merchant in New York. Ile died in 1824. Before a Tract Society was formed in this country, Mr. Betline printed ten thousand tracts at his own expense, and him- self distributed many of them. He also imported Bibles for distribution. From 1803 to 1816 he was at the sole expense of one or more Sunday schools, and for many years he devoted one-tenth of his income to Christian work.
BLEECKER ANTHONY, a poet, was born about the year 1778, and educated at Columbia College. He studied law, but never could prevail upon himself to act as an advocate, such was his diffidence. Ile died in the Spring of 1827, aged forty-nine years. For thirty years the periodicals of New York and Philadelphia were in- debred to his fancy and good taste.
BLOMMAERT ADRIAN. an early settler, had been originally a seaman. IJe was captain of the merchant ship New Amsterdam, which -ailed between this city and Holland. Ile was in mercan- tile business, but died about 1663. Ilis family soon after removed to Holland.
BOARDMAN RICHARD. a Methodist minister, was born in Eng- land in 1735, entered into the traveling connection with John Wesley in 1769. and volunteered to come to America in response to an urgent appeal made by Mr. Wesley in 1769. He was ac- companied on his voyage hither by Joseph Pihnoor, afterwards an Episcopalian clergyman. and reetor of Christ Church. in this city. Mr. Boardman was the first traveling preacher of the Methodists in New York, and did much to build up the society then. as now. in John street. He was stationed here for portions or the whole of five years, but did much service in other towns. He returned to England at the outbreak of the Revolutionary war and died in Cork. October 4th. 1782, aged forty-four.
Besser Nicholas. a book-eller, carrying on business near the Oswego market. who sold Dutch books and published a Dutch version of the Psalms about the middle of the last century.
BOSTWICK DAVID, a Presbyterian minister. was born at New Milford, Connecticut. in 1721. At the age of fifteen he entered Yale College and was graduated after the usual course of study.
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