CORNELIUS BOGARDUS. In the name of God, Amen, May 2, 1711. I, Cornelius Bogardus, at present of the city of Albany, having undertaken to go on a voyage towards North Carolina, in company with my brother Ephraim Bogardus, and calling to mind the mortality of my body. I leave to my loving brother-in-law, Johanes van Vechten, all my estate, real and personal belonging to me or coming due to me out of the estate of my deceased father, and I make him sole executor.
Witness, Robert Livingston, Jr., Hendrick Fransen, Koenradt Ten Eyck.
Proved June 8, 1719, and Johanes van Vechten having refused the executorship, by a writing dated October 3, 1718, Letters of administration are granted to his brother-in-law [?], Ephraim Bogardus.
notes
Will dated May 2, 1711. Probated June 8, 1719. Printed in Abstract of Wills, Collections vol. 26 (for 1893), p. 191. Paragraphing and some punctuation added. Most spellings have been retained. Also printed in CW with slightly different wording. A copy of the will document is in the collection of the New-York Historical Society.
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Identity: At this point, we have not definitively fixed the identity of this testator - one of several contemporaries named Cornelis Bogardus generally at-risk in the region. However, "Cornelis" was not among the children baptized by mariner Pieter Bogardus in Albany - the most likely father of this testator.
Ephraim Bogardus: "his brother-in-law Ephraim Bogardus" - probably/perhaps means his brother Ephraim.
first posted: 5/10/15