WILL: Isaac van Vlecq; New York City, New York co., NY
surname: Van Vlecq, VanVlecq, De La Noy, Delanoy

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New York Co., NY
Will Book vol. 5 page 83

Isaac van Vlecq

In the Name of God Amen

Know all men by these presents that I Isaac van Vlecq in the Citty of New
Yorke in America brewer considering mortallity of all men certainty of death &
the uncertaine time thereof have thought fitt to make my Last will & to
dispose of my temporall Estate without Persuation of any out my free will
being this my voluntary act and deed done by me with Perfect Knowledge
premiditated in manner & forme following viz:

Imprimis. I recommend my Immortal soul unto the mercifull hands of God the
father my Creator Jesus Christ my Redeemer & the holy Gosst my sanctificator &
my corpse to a decent and Christian like Buriall to be done by my Executrix
hereunder mentioned.

Secondly comeing then to dispose of my temporall Estate houses Lands and other
moveables & household stuff my Last will & Pleasure is vizt:

1st That in Inventory shall be taken of my whole Estate & the same appraized
according to Law and Equity without favour and affection of and to the one
Party above the other therein concerned.

2. I make and bequeath out the whole Estate which shall be Excluded and taken
out the Inventory the undernamed Legacy's vizt:

1st all my wife's cloths, lynnen woollen wrought gold and silver belonging to
her body shall not be inventorized much less apprized but shall be accounted
for her own free good's without any contradiction

2. My daughter Hester shall have a gold chaine five double one New testament
tept with silver one silver bodkin item the summe of twenty pound's New York
mony for and in consideratio nof her mother Petronella's portion which after
my decease shall be delivered to her when she shall be at age or come to
marriage before any division is made of my Estate

3. My daughter Magdalena shall have two Pair of Gold Pendants one Pair with
Christalls one Pair with small Pearls one Gold bodkin one gold ring one New
Estament tipe with Silver all the cloths of her mother Cornelia now in being
item the summe of seventeen Pound's ten shillings New York mony for & in
consideration of her mother's portion to be delivered in the same nature as
above exprest of my daughter Hester

4. My son Abraham shal have for a Legacy one Still kettle great two tunnis
with one of the Great Still Snakes and the helmet thereunto belonging and
likewise my clothing of Lynnen & woollen Gunn's swords * what thereof shall be
found to appertain to my body & excuse I should in the future have any form &
forms more then it shall be equally divided amongst the sonns then at live to
be delivered at the time of their age or marriage & mannaged to their most
Profit.

My will & Pleasure is ye my wife Cathalena after my decease shall be & remain
in the Possession of my whole Estate moveables & Immoveables actions and
credits none Excepted which I shall leve by decease with condition that she
shall secure & insure (casualtys Excepted) the halfe of the whole Estate for
all my children the remaining unmarryed and shall be further obligaed to
alement & make Greats the children as a Pious mother ought to do causing their
Learning for reading and writing

Item For an art or trade according to the capacity of the children & when
child or children should come to a marriage they shall be sett out according
to the condition of the Estate & according as they shall behave themselves
which I Leave totally to my sayd wife forbidding my children to speake or do
anything against their mother's actions being all left to her discretion &
then at sayd time of age or marriage each fo my children by name Hester
Magdalena Cornelia Maria Abraham & any other which the Lord by his blessing
may grant me shall be delivered an Equall portion of the half of my Estate
secured by my said wife as aforesaid without any Distinction of Mothers or
Prerogative of birth right duering which time my sayd wife shall reap have and
enjoy to Performe the Premises the use and benefit and Interest of the whole
Estate which shall remain in her hands & remaine also during her life time and
after her Decease the Portions of the father with the Legacys being first
satisfyed shall be distributed Equally amongst the children between us then
alive or their Lawfull descendents by Representation. But in case my sayd wife
shall come to a new marriage then is my will & Pleasure that the half of my
half estate not secured shall be before the Solemnisation of the sayd wedlock
secured for the children which wee have Got already in Matrimony & by God's
blessing in the future may have & the fruits thereof Received by my sayd wife
for her Disposall with the quarter Part of the Estate as she shall think fitt
& necessary & then to Perform all the Obligations Exprest in this Present Last
Will.

Further I do make and authorize Johannis Van Cowenhoven & Cornelius Plevier
for my daughter Hester Mr. William Beeckman or by his Decease his son henry
for my daughter Magdalena & my brothers in law Abraham & Peter De La Noy for
my other children tutors and overseers to the above named children giving &
granting to them with my sayd wife as all overseers & tutors of children ought
to have to see & cause that Justice be be don to my sayd children & lastly I
do make my wife the sole Executrix & administratrix of my Estate which I shall
leave by decease with Power to Elect two assistants to help her for the better
Performance of the Premises & if cause to alter the same & to Elect others
serving & allowing to my sayd wife such ample Power and Lawfull authority as
can be obtained before any Court of Judicature in this Government.

The Premises declare to be my Last will & Testament & desire the same may be
accepted also as a codicill Gift by decease or under the Liveing all the same
Perticule to required by Law where not herein observed Esteeming the same
nevertheless most resuall just & equall.

In Testimony of the trueth I have hereunto sett my hand and fixed my seale in
the 4th yeare of the Reigne of our Sovereigne Lord the King James the Second
of England, Scotland, ffrance & Ireland, defender of the faith &tc & in the
year of our Lord God 1688 the 18th day of January in the Citty of New York.

Memorandum my will is that the two assistants shall be elected out the tutors
Exprest in this will and in case there should be occassion to dispose of my
reall Immoveable Estate to pay the Children their Portion my sayd wife
Cathalina shall have Power to dispose thereof with approbation of the
assistants & the children or any of them shall be the next to have the same or
Part thereof as it then shall be appreized according to Law dated at Supra
David Jamison D. Secry

Benjamin Fletcher Captain Generall and Governor in Chief of the Province of
New York & the territoryes and tracts of Land depending thereon in America &
vice admirall of the same their Majteis Leut. Comandt in Cheife of the Militia
and of all the forces by sea & Land within the Collony of Connecticut & of all
the forts and Places of Strength within the same. To all to whome these
presents shall come greeting know yee that at New York the fifteenth day of
Aprill 1695 the Last will & Testament of Isaac van Vlecq anexed to these,
Presents was proved approved & allowed of haveing while he lived & at the time
of his death goods rights & creditts in divers Places within this Province of
New Yorke by means whereof the approbation & allowance of the sayd last will &
Testament & the granting of the Admon of all & Singular the goods rights and
credits of the sayd Decd as also the hearing of acct or reckoning of sayd
admon & the finall discharge & dismissio nfrom the same unto me alon solely
and not unto another inferior Judge are manifestly known to belong and the
admon of all & singular the goods rights & credits of the sayd decd. This Last
will & Testament any manner of ways concerningw as granted unto Cathalina van
Vlecq widdow & Exr of the sayd decd Cheifly of will & faithfully administering
the same & of making a full & faithfull Inventory of all Singular the goods
rights & credits of the sayd Decd and exhibiting the same into the Prerogative
Registry at or before the fifteenth day of October next ensueing as also of
rendering a full & true acct thereof being sworn upon the holy Evangelist of
God. In Testimony whereof I have caused the Prerogative Seale to be hereunto
affixed at ffort William Henry the fifteenth day of Aprrill int he yeare of
our Lord one thousand six hundred ninety & five. David Jamison D' Secry.