Viele, 1659-1909: Two Hundred and Fifty Years with a Dutch Family of New York

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T. A. Wright, 1909 - Reference - 149 pages
 

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Page 44 - God, calling to mind the mortality of the body and knowing that it is appointed unto all men once to die do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament...
Page 44 - Nothing doubting but at the general resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God. And as touching such worldly estate wherewith it has pleased God to bless me in this life I give, demise, and dispose of the same in the following manner and form...
Page 44 - Executors nothing doubting but at the general Resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God and as touching such worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this Life I give devise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form...
Page 86 - God for the same, Do make and publish this my last will and testament, in manner and form following (that is to say...
Page 88 - Testament in Witness thereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this Twenty fourth day of January in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety One.
Page 86 - Almighty God for the same, Do make and publish this my last will and testament, in manner and form...
Page 21 - ... Viele was a blunder. He told the Onondagas that the English governor was master of their country ; and that, as they were subjects of the king of England, they must hold no council with the French without permission. The pride of Big Mouth was touched.
Page 32 - Dom' 1677 and in the nine and twentieth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord Charles the Second by the grace of God King of England &c". „. . _ Wagstaffe Vera Copia Attest' Js" Addington Cler Noverint uniu'si per p'sentes lohannem Winder Robertum Gibbs et lacobum Whetcombe de London.
Page 95 - Toll, my Large Dutch Bible and twenty shillings, New York money, for his birthright, wherewith he is to be fully satisfied as heir at law. I leave to my sons, John and Daniel, the lowermost half of my lot of land in the County of Albany, on the north side of the Scatecook creek, at a place called...
Page 23 - hath don good " service for us in travelling up and down in our Country, and wee having " a French prisoner according to our custome doe deliver him to the family " of Arnont in his stead and Room to wash of the tears of his wife and

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