WILL: David Esselstyn; Albany, Albany co., New York
surname: Esselstyn, Martense, Van Duese

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Source: SAMPUBCO photocopy
New York County NY Will Book Vol. 16 page 

Written: 15 Jan 1746/7
Probated: 3 Feb 1748

David Esselstyn the son of Cornelius & Cornlelis Martense Esselstyn.

Last Will and Testament of David Esselstyn, 1757/48:

In the name of God Amen, the fifteenth January in the year one thousand seven
hundred & forty seven/eight in the County of Albany, David Esselstyn being
very sick but in Perfect memory & understanding, God be Praised, considering
the frailty of human life, knowing it appointed All Men once to Die. So I make
therefore known my Last Will & Desire, that is to say, Principally & first, I
give & recommend my Soul in the hands of God that gave it; and for my body to
be buried in a Decent & Christian Like Manner. At the deferetion to my Heirs &
Excutors, doubting not but in the general Resurection I shall recover the same
again by the Mighty hand of God.

And to mention of my temporal Estate where with it hath pleased God to bless
me during this life, I dispose thereof as followith

First I order & desire that all my honest debts shall be paid

Secondly I order & desire that my brother Johannes Esselstyn with his wife
Marytie shall come and live in the southern most end & in the room where
father & mother have resided, for a help & assistance to my mother during her
life, I say during my mothers life yet shall my sister Batha Van Duese remain
in possession of the northern end, and remain in possession of the house
during the war. She shall also have one half of the land to her use a behoof &
shall dispose of its income during the war.

Thirdly it is my desire that my brother William Esselstyn shall have the
Bible, to dispose there of at his pleasure

Fourthly, Is my desire that the estate scituate lying & being at Claverack in
the County of Albany on Cornelise Kill, to the northward of Cornelis Stevensen
Woolf Plain, the same I order & give to my brother William Esselstyn, and my
brother Jacob Esselstyn, and my brother Johannes Esselstyn, and my sister
Batha Van Duese, as also the heirs of my late brother Isaac Esselstyn; I say
the estate above mentioned so as I have inherrited from my Father, I say the
whole estate so as it is made me by my fathers Will, give I to the here above
named sister & brothers, and brothers children for them their heirs executors
administrators or assignes, to dispose there of at their pleasure.

Fifthly a peace of land to ye eastward of the said Kill which I had from the
Patroon John Renslar I order & give to the same heirs, and on the same
footing, as above to sister & brothers or brothers children.

Sixthly, all my personal & moveable estate, money & moneys worth I give to the
same my sister & brothers & brothers children as above mentioned, I say all my
moveable goods I order to them to dispose there of at their pleasure.

Appointed my friend Willem Van Nes for Executor.

In testimony of the truth, I give this under my hand & seal.

In the Presence of David Esselsteen LS
Gloude de Lameter
Christina de Lametter
Barent [his mark] B. Cammel

New York February the third 1748.
The aforegoing is a true Translation of the Original Will of David Esselsteen
according to the best of my knowledge and understanding

Translated & (??) by me

David Goese (?)