Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Vol. I. 1670-1730; Bergen County, NJ Contributed to the USGenWeb Archives by Cyndie Enfinger http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ********************************************************* NOTE: I do NOT have copies of the full Wills. To order a copy, please write to New Jersey State Archives 225 West State Street-Level 2 P.O. Box 307 Trenton, NJ 08625-0307 Send $5 for each Will requested (make check out to New Jersey State Archives). Be sure to include the name and Liber no. or Will book reference for each Will requested. Please consider transcribing the full Will once received and contributing it to the NJGenWeb Archives. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Source: Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Vol. I. 1670-1730 (1901) 1710 Oct. 2. (Dutch and English.) Ackerman, David, of Hackinsack; will of. Wife Hillegond; children-David, Johannes, Mary. Real estate: land on the Westside of the road to Kindakemeck, as far as the Falls over Acquarewas Valley; a gristmill and land on the Eastside of said road, land in Cantewagh’s Plains, grist and sawmills, a house in N. Y. City. Witnesses-Albert Stevenson, Lourens van Boskerk, Jan Terhunen. Proved June 4, 1724. Bergen Wills -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1674 Oct. 15. Andrus, Yokam; will of. Leaves his property to wife and children, not named. Witnesses-Humphrey Spening and Jan I. ____? Proved March 11, 1674-5. Bergen Wills -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1719 April 13. Banta, Cornelius Epke, of Hackinsack, Bergen Co., yeoman, will of. Wife Ablech* (third wife), sons Egbert, Jacob and Abraham, daughters Rachel, Leah and Elizabeth. Eldest son Egbert to have sword as a preference or birthright. Half of cattle and movable household goods to children of first wife, and half to children of second wife, "excepting ye two spinning wheels and churn and milk tubs, shall remaine unto my three daughters, Rachel, Leah and Elizabeth, to be divided equally between them." Real and personal estate. Executors-- brothers-in-law David Desmaret, junior, and Samuel Desmaret, junior. Witnesses-- Ronlof Bogart, Elizabeth Bouguert, Richard Edsall. Proved May 20, 1719. Lib. A, p. 123 1719 April 22. Inventory of the personal estate, £148.1.6., incl. a negro wench and child, £40; made by Nicholas Lazear and Andrew van Order. * Usually written Abeltie. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Last updated 12/25/2007 This file is located at http://files.usgwarchives.net/nj/bergen/wills/wills01.txt