Codicil.-- My executors are to sell so much of my estate left to my daughter Gertrude as will make £1,700, and to be put at interest, and the interest on £700 is to be for her benefit, and the interest on £1,000 for the benefit of her two children, Cornelia and Peter Schuyler, And £600 of the principal are to be paid to her daughter Cornelia when of age or married, and £400 to her son Peter. Dated August 26, 1760.
Witnesses, William Ashton, John Stephenson, James Stephenson. Proved, November 24, 1762. Confirmed by Governor Monckton, January 17, 1763. At that time Cornelia Schuyler was wife of Dr. John Cochran.
[NOTE.-- The mother of Cornelia Schuyler was Gertrude, wife of Stephen Van Cortlandt. The two houses and lots on Queen street are now Nos. 258-260 Pearl street. They were sold by the executors of Cornelia Schuyler to Jasper Drake, November 13, 1764, for £1,760.
He left wife Hester and two children, Sarah, wife of Isaac Sears, the famous leader of the "Sons of Liberty," and Rebecca, wife of John Blagge. The latter sold her part to her sister, Sarah Sears, who sold the whole to Pascal N. Smith in 1791 for £4,500. Upon this and adjoining lots Stephen Holt erected the "United States Hotel," at one time very popular. It was first opened in January 1833, and was finally torn down in the spring of 1903.-- W. S. P.]
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Will dated November 29, 1758. Probated Novbember 24, 1762. Printed in Abstract of Wills volume 30, pp. 204-05.
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