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- The rough draft will written by Susanna Brockholst was found among the papers of the Philipse family, dated - - - July 1724. "In the name of God Amen, I Susanna Brockholst, of Pompton, in Bergen County, Province of New Jersey, Relict and executrix of Major Anthony Brockholst. Being desirous to settle my temporal affairs, that my children may have general contentment do make this my last will and testament. Whereas, among other things it was the good will of my deceased husband (of precious memory) to bequeath to me all his personal estate, after leaving a legacy of 50 pounds to his son, Henry Brockholst, and I have in my own right a lot of ground on the east side of Broadway in the city of New York. And since the death of my husband I have acquired several bonds and mortgages, as by deeds and writings may appear. And have since his decease married some of my daughters, and given each a portion of 500 pounds and a complete outset of apparel and household stuff, becoming children of mine. And being desirous to care for my other children, who have not been provided for, I direct all my estate to be inventoried, and sold and converted into money, and my executors to have power to sell my lot in the Broadway, in the City of New York. I leave to my daughter Judith, wife of Dirck Van Vechten a sufficient outset as my other daughters had. I leave to my son Henry Brockholds, 500 pounds and an equal value in apparel, etc., as my daughters. I leave to my daughter Mary Brockholst, 1,000 pounds and an outset. If a sufficient dowry of 500 pounds is settled upon my daughter Judith, then my executors are to pay the same amount to her and my children. I leave all the rest of my estate to my children, Henry Judith, Mary, Susanna and Johanna. I make my son Henry and my son-in-law Frederick Philipse and Philip French in the right of their wives, Johanna and Susanna, and my daughter Mary, executors. "Abstracts of Unrecorded Wills to 1790," published by The New York Historical Society, 1902.
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