and credits whatsoever or wheresoever the same are shall become due, to have and to hold the said goods and chattels, rights and credits unto the said Abram Williamse Van Westervelt, his executors and administrators as his and their owne goods and chattels fforever and doe hereby make and ordaine & appoint him my said loving son Abram WilliamseVan Westervelt whole and the sole executor of this my last Will and Testament. In Witness whereof I put my name and seale the day and the year first above written.
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DERIKE VAN X WESTERVELT [SEAL]
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CORNELIUS VAN HONWEGEN.
JOHANNES SCHENCK.
CATHERINE FFILKIN.
Sealed and delivered and declared in
the presence of the witnesses.
HENRY FFILKIN, Justice.
Recorded the 22nd day of Augít, 1704.
per HENRY FFILKIN, Regr.
Issue as follows:
1 Aeltie, bap. at Meppel, Jan. 22, 1651, who may have died in Holland before 1662.
2 Jannetje, b. at Meppel; m. Huybert Lambertsen Mol, of Aernhem, July 9, 1662 (N.Y. Church Records), and had one child baptized (N.Y.), Nov. 7, 1663; witness, Willem Lubbertsen (the grandfather) and Joost Goderns.
3 Willem (on tax list Flatlands, not certain).
4 Abraham, bap. in Meppel, March 2, 1653, who inherited the lands of his father at Flatlands, was a weaver and married Margaritta or Margaret ______. His name appears on Dominie Van Zaurenís list of church members at Flatbush, 1673-1685, where he took the oath of allegiance in 1687, having been in this country 25 years (Doc. Hist. N.Y., Vol. I, 661). Abraham bought a farm, situated on New Utrecht Lane in New Utrecht* on April 5, 1697, from Nicholas van der Grift (as per Liber 2, folio 132, Con. Kingís Co.), and where he was assessed for 38 acres in 1700. Part of this property he sold to Anthony Holsart, Nov. 12, 1705, with the consent of his mother, Dericke or Dirckje, and to Renier Van Sicklen, he sold his interest in a house and lot
*The first settler in New Utrecht was one Anthony Jansen Van Salee, ___ in Africa, who had been banished from New Amsterdam. He possessed about 200 acres, on which he resided August 3, 1639, and patented May 27, 1643. These lands lay partly in New Utrecht and partly in Gravesend, as these town boundaries were afterwards fixed. On Nov. 22, 1652, Cornelius Van Werckhoven, a member of the West India Company, purchased from the Indians what is commonly known as the Nyack Track, extending along the Narrows and Lower Bay, his intention being to become a patroon or feudal lord over this territory. He shortly afterwards commenced settlements, but, returning to Holland in 1654, he left Jacques Cortelyou, the private tutor of his children, in charge of his affairs. Van Werckhoven remained in Holland, where he died in 1656, leaving a widow and two children. Subsequently, these lands fell into the hands of Cortelyou, as he had left debts which Cortelyou paid. Cortelyou petitioned the Deputy-General and Council to lay out a town, which was granted January 16, 1657, and he immediately divided the property into 20 lots of 50 acres
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