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Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 22:38:54 -0800
From: WayneLII(a)aol.com
Source: Dutch-Colonies-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: [D-Col] Will of John Gritman, son of William Greatman and Margaret Johnson
John was a nephew of Harme and William Johnson, and a cousin to the Lefferts,
Hagewouts of Hempstead and Staten Island. It looks like they went by Gritman
later on.
Wayne
Abstracts of Wills Vol VII 1766-1771, page 216:
Page 443.--In the name of God, Amen. October 13, 1768. I, JOHN GRITMAN, of
Hempsted, in Queens County, being sick. I leave to my wife Elizabeth a cow,
and a
cupboard and my best bed, and the interest on ��100 during her widowhood. My
executors may sell all lands at discretion. I leave to my son John ��250. "If
my executors judge it not proper for him to have it all in his lifetime, it
is to go to his children." I leave to my daughter Elizabeth ��50; To my
daughter Mary ��40; To my daughter Margaret ��40; To James Bedell, son of John
Bedell, ��50. All the rest to my 4 children, John, Margaret, Mary, and
Elizabeth. I make Valentine Hulet Peters, Benjamin Carman, and my brother,
William Gritman, executors.
Witnesses, James Smith, Nehemiah Sammis, Leffert Hagervout. Proved, October
25, 1768.