GERTRUDE VAN INGEN WILL, SCHENECTADY, NEW YORK

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF GERTRUDE VAN INGEN

Schenectady County, NY Wills, Vol. A, page 347

Probated Nov 7, 1817

In the name of the Lord, Amen.  I, Gertrude Van Ingen, Widow of Dr. Dirk Van Ingen, 
late of the City of Schenectady do, being desirous to arrange my temporal affairs and 
being of sound, disposing mind, memory and understanding (Blessed to God for the 
same) do make and publish this my Last Will and Testament in manner following, that is 
to say:  First I give and devise to my Daughter Alida, widow of James McKinney, all that 
certain piece or parcel of land lying on the Island in the Mohawk River and opposite to 
the compact part of mid-city usually called Oakes (?) or Van Slycks Island which said 
piece of land contains One Morgan of land be the same more or less, to have and to hold 
to my said daughter, Alida and to her heirs and assigns forever.

Also, I give and bequeath unto my said daughter, Alida for and during her Widowhood, 
all the Interest, income, and profits accruing or arising or which have already accrued or 
arisen from and out of all or any debts due or owing to me or out of any monies which 
now belong or which shall or may at the time of my decease belong to me which interest, 
income, and profits to be at her absolute dispersal and my further will is and I do hereby 
order and direct that after the decease or remarriage of my said daughter which shall first 
happen, the monies (if any) of which I may die possessed shall, by my executors 
hereinafter named, be added to the principal of the debts which shall or may be due to me 
at my decease and shall, by my executors, be divided into two equal parts or shares, one 
of which parts or shares, I give and bequeath unto the five children of my late son James 
Wemple or his legal representatives, share and share alike; and the other part or shares to 
my Grandson, Myndert McKinney and to their respective Executors and Administrators 
absolutely.

Also, all the rest and residue of my Estate, real and personal, and not herein otherwise 
disposed of I give, devise and bequeath to my said daughter, Alida, her heirs and assigns 
forever.

Lastly, I do hereby constitute, appoint my said daughter Alida E______ and my stepson, 
Abraham Van Ingen, executors of this, my last will and testament, in witness whereof I 
have hereunto set my hand and seal the fifteenth day of November in the year of our Lord 
One Thousand Eight Hundred and fifteen.

Gertrude Van Ingen (Her Mark)

Witnesses

Elizabeth Mercer
Elizabeth Twoman
John Barker