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Subject: Family ofJohannes Van Wyck
Wayne, In 1912 Miss Anne Van Wyck published her labor-of-love,
"Descendants of Cornelius Barentse Van Wyck". Her account of the European
progenitors is way off base, but she has detailed information about many
of the New World descendants. On page 383 she begins her account of
Johannes whose will you cite below.
According to Miss Van Wyck, Johannes Van Wyck married Phebe Kortright, the
daughter of Cornelius Jansen Kortright. Their oldest son, Cornelius, was
baptized on 19 October 1702 in the Jamaica Dutch Reformed church.
Here are the children of Johannes Van Wyck and Phebe Kortright:
1. Cornelius m. Mary Hicks
2. Catherine m. Stephen Hicks (license dated 24 Mat 17127)
3. Johannes m. 1) Deborah Lawrence; 2) Elizabeth Foster, widow
4. William m. Martha Carman
5. Hannah m. 1) Richard Cornell; 2) Robert Mitchell
6. Theodorus m. Mary Ritchie
7. Elizabeth
Miss Van Wyck includes the full text of Johannes' will (abstracted below).
It fills three pages.
Dorothy
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Dorothy A. Koenig
<dkoenig(a)library.berkeley.edu
On Wed, 29 Dec 1999 WayneLII(a)aol.com wrote:
I believe this is his baptism from the New Amsterdam DRC.
17 Jan; Cornelis Van Wyck, Anna Polhemius; Johannes; Boele Roelofszen,
Catharina Van Werven, Weduwe van Do Johannes Polhemius
Does anyone know his wife's last name. I believe his daughter Hannah
married first Richard Cornel, who died in 1723 or 1724.
Wayne
Abstracts of Wills Vol III 1730-1744, pages 151 & 152:
Page 192.--In the name of God, Amen, February 8, 1728. I, JOHANES VAN WYCK,
of the town of Flushing, in Queens County, Esq., "being by God's blessing in
bodily health." I leave to my true and loving wife, Phebe, the use and income
of my whole estate, during her widowhood, or until my son William shall be of
age. If she remarry, I give her ��300 for her dower; I also give her a negro
girl "Isabel," 2 cows, a riding horse, a side saddle, and a feather bed and
furniture, and the use of one of the rooms in my dwelling house, and the
pasturing and wintering of two cows and a horse. I leave to my son Cornelius,
��50. I leave to my son William all that part of my home farm I now live on,
viz., that is from my southwest corner of a 20 acre lot lately mine, and now
in possession of William Hicks, and running from thence to the northeast
corner of the land of my son Cornelius, with all the houses and buildings and
orchards. I also leave to my son William my wagons and gear and plows and
plow tackling. I leave to my son John ��300, to be paid by my son William;
��150 is to be paid when he is of age, and the rest in installments. If my son
William refuses to do this, then my executors are to sell land enough to pay
the ��300. I leave to my son John the southernmost part of my land lying
southerly from the land given to my son William; I also give him ��30. I leave
to my son Theodorus, ��500. To my daughter Elizabeth, ��100, and a feather bed
and bedding. The rest of my personal estate is left to my three daughters,
Hannah, Catharine, and Elizabeth. I make my trusty and respected friends,
Cornelius Van Wyck, of Hempsted, Stephen Hicks, of Flushing, and Theodorus
Van Wyck of Flushing, executors.
Witnesses, William Burch, Marten Weltse, Benjamin Carman. Proved, July 27,
before George Clarke, Esq.
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