Will of Geertie Ten Eyck - 1716

In the name of God, Amen. “Be it known and manifest to all People that I, Geertie Ten Eyck, of Albany widow of Jacob Ten Eyck, being in good health.” I leave to my grandson Jacob, son of my son, Barent Ten Eyck, deceased, 30 shillings. I leave to the children of my son, Barent Ten Tyck, deceased, viz., Jacob, Johanes, Geertie, Janitie, Maria, and Barnye, 1/5 of all of my estate. To my sons Coenraedt and Hendrick, each 1/5. To Mary, wife of Andries Van Pelt, and to my daughter Teuntie, each 1/5. The heirs of my son, Barent Ten Eyck, deceased, when they come of age are to give a deed to Jacob, Ten Eyck, of New York, bolter, for all their right to two certain houses in New York, which did formerly belong to their grand-father, Coenraedt Ten Eyck, as described in a deed by me and others dated June 11, 1712, and now in the hands of Jacob Ten Eyck. I make my sons Coenraedt and Hendrick executors.

Witnesses Jacob Staats, Geysebert Marcelis and Nicolaes Bleecker

notes

Will dated September 6, 1716. Probated July 10, 1736. Printed in Abstract of Wills volume 27, p. 204.

Transformed by JP from an online printing.

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