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151	In the name of God, Amen. I, ANNA WILLIAMS, of the Borough town of Westchester, daughter of Stephen Williams, “a semster, being indisposed in health.” All funeral charges and debts to be paid, and the remainder of my money I leave to my sister Sarah Valentine's three daughters, Efey, Rachel, and Elizabeth, when of age. I leave to my sister, Sarah Valentine, all my wearing apparell or clothes. I leave to Efey Valentine my little trunk. To Abigail Williams, daughter of John Williams, Sr., my little stand. I leave to my mother, Rachel Williams, my bed and bedstead. I make Isaac Valentine and John Valentine, executors. Dated April 27, 1772. Witnesses, Margaret Guion, John Williams, Sr., Daniel Quinby. Proved June 15, 1772. source: Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1899: Abstracts of Wills on File in the Surrogate's Office, City of New York, Volume 3, 1771-1776. New York, NY: The New York Historical Society, 1900.	Valentine, Effie (I707)
152	In the name of God, Amen. I, ANNA WILLIAMS, of the Borough town of Westchester, daughter of Stephen Williams, “a semster, being indisposed in health.” All funeral charges and debts to be paid, and the remainder of my money I leave to my sister Sarah Valentine's three daughters, Efey, Rachel, and Elizabeth, when of age. I leave to my sister, Sarah Valentine, all my wearing apparell or clothes. I leave to Efey Valentine my little trunk. To Abigail Williams, daughter of John Williams, Sr., my little stand. I leave to my mother, Rachel Williams, my bed and bedstead. I make Isaac Valentine and John Valentine, executors. Dated April 27, 1772. Witnesses, Margaret Guion, John Williams, Sr., Daniel Quinby. Proved June 15, 1772. source: Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1899: Abstracts of Wills on File in the Surrogate's Office, City of New York, Volume 3, 1771-1776. New York, NY: The New York Historical Society, 1900.	Valentine, Elizabeth (I704)
153	In the name of God, Amen. I, ANNA WILLIAMS, of the Borough town of Westchester, daughter of Stephen Williams, “a semster, being indisposed in health.” All funeral charges and debts to be paid, and the remainder of my money I leave to my sister Sarah Valentine's three daughters, Efey, Rachel, and Elizabeth, when of age. I leave to my sister, Sarah Valentine, all my wearing apparell or clothes. I leave to Efey Valentine my little trunk. To Abigail Williams, daughter of John Williams, Sr., my little stand. I leave to my mother, Rachel Williams, my bed and bedstead. I make Isaac Valentine and John Valentine, executors. Dated April 27, 1772. Witnesses, Margaret Guion, John Williams, Sr., Daniel Quinby. Proved June 15, 1772. source: Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1899: Abstracts of Wills on File in the Surrogate's Office, City of New York, Volume 3, 1771-1776. New York, NY: The New York Historical Society, 1900.	Williams, Sarah (I700)
154	In the name of God, Amen. I, ANNA WILLIAMS, of the Borough town of Westchester, daughter of Stephen Williams, “a semster, being indisposed in health.” All funeral charges and debts to be paid, and the remainder of my money I leave to my sister Sarah Valentine's three daughters, Efey, Rachel, and Elizabeth, when of age. I leave to my sister, Sarah Valentine, all my wearing apparell or clothes. I leave to Efey Valentine my little trunk. To Abigail Williams, daughter of John Williams, Sr., my little stand. I leave to my mother, Rachel Williams, my bed and bedstead. I make Isaac Valentine and John Valentine, executors. Dated April 27, 1772. Witnesses, Margaret Guion, John Williams, Sr., Daniel Quinby. Proved June 15, 1772. source: Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1899: Abstracts of Wills on File in the Surrogate's Office, City of New York, Volume 3, 1771-1776. New York, NY: The New York Historical Society, 1900.	Vincent, Rachel (I83)
155	In the name of God, Amen. I, ANNA WILLIAMS, of the Borough town of Westchester, daughter of Stephen Williams, “a semster, being indisposed in health.” All funeral charges and debts to be paid, and the remainder of my money I leave to my sister Sarah Valentine's three daughters, Efey, Rachel, and Elizabeth, when of age. I leave to my sister, Sarah Valentine, all my wearing apparell or clothes. I leave to Efey Valentine my little trunk. To Abigail Williams, daughter of John Williams, Sr., my little stand. I leave to my mother, Rachel Williams, my bed and bedstead. I make Isaac Valentine and John Valentine, executors. Dated April 27, 1772. Witnesses, Margaret Guion, John Williams, Sr., Daniel Quinby. Proved June 15, 1772. source: Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1899: Abstracts of Wills on File in the Surrogate's Office, City of New York, Volume 3, 1771-1776. New York, NY: The New York Historical Society, 1900.	Williams, Abigail (I1007)
156	In the name of God, Amen. I, ANNA WILLIAMS, of the Borough town of Westchester, daughter of Stephen Williams, “a semster, being indisposed in health.” All funeral charges and debts to be paid, and the remainder of my money I leave to my sister Sarah Valentine's three daughters, Efey, Rachel, and Elizabeth, when of age. I leave to my sister, Sarah Valentine, all my wearing apparell or clothes. I leave to Efey Valentine my little trunk. To Abigail Williams, daughter of John Williams, Sr., my little stand. I leave to my mother, Rachel Williams, my bed and bedstead. I make Isaac Valentine and John Valentine, executors. Dated April 27, 1772. Witnesses, Margaret Guion, John Williams, Sr., Daniel Quinby. Proved June 15, 1772. source: Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1899: Abstracts of Wills on File in the Surrogate's Office, City of New York, Volume 3, 1771-1776. New York, NY: The New York Historical Society, 1900.	Williams, John Jr. (I717)
157	In the name of God, Amen. I, BENJAMIN CORSEN, of the Manor of Fordham, in Westchester County, yeoman, being in sound health. My executors shall pay all debts, and sell such part of my movable estate as my wife shall think best can be spared. I leave to my eldest son Tunis £5; To my wife the use of all the rest during her life, and after her death all to be sold by executors. From the proceeds there is to be paid to my son Tunis £150; To my daughter, Jane Lent, £40; To my grandson Benjamin, son of my son John, deceased, £30; To his brother Frederick £30. I leave the rest to my son Isaac, and make him executor. Dated October 1, 1770. Witnesses, Tunis Michaelson, Henry Michaelson, Francis Galpine. Proved, October 22, 1770. Confirmed, September 6, 1771. source: Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1898; Abstracts of Wills on File at the Surrogate's Office, City of New York. Volume 7, June 6, 1766-November 29, 1771. New York, NY: The New York Historical Society, 1899.	Corsen, Benjamin (I38)
158	In the name of God, Amen. I, HERCULES CRONKHYT, of the Manor of Phillipsburgh, in Westchester County. I leave to my wife Margaret all movables during her widowhood, and then to my children and to my wife's daughter, Susanah Dent. I leave to my son Gerritt £5, which is due to him from me by bond, and an equal portion of the movables. (Other children not named.) I make my wife, and my brother Gerardus Willse, and John Buckhout, executors. June 16, 1753. Witnesses, Petrus Buckhout, Isaac Buckhout, Conrad Terber. Proved, February 1, 1763. source: Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1897; Abstracts of Wills on File at the Surrogate's Office, City of New York. Volume 6, 1760-1766. New York, NY: The New York Historical Society, 1898.	Wiltsee, Gerardus (I61)
159	In the name of God, Amen. I, JOSHUA HUNT, SR., of the Borroughtown of Westchester, being indisposed in body. I leave to my grandson, Joshua Hunt, son of John Hunt, 10 shillings. To my son, Caleb Hunt, £5, To my son Joshua £5, To my son Israel £3, To my daughter, Miriam Oakley, £5, To my daughter, Mary Hunt, £20. I leave to my wife, Mercy Hunt, £100, and a bed and furniture in full bar to all claim for dowry. I leave to my son, Enos Hunt, all the rest of my estate, real and personal, and he is to pay all debts and legacies, and I make him and Benjamin Palmer executors. Dated July 24, 1760. Witnesses, Philip Palmer, William Doty, Miles Oakley. Proved, March 20, 1762. source: Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1897; Abstracts of Wills on File at the Surrogate's Office, City of New York. Volume 6, 1760-1766. New York, NY: The New York Historical Society, 1898.	Hunt, Joshua Esq. (I783)
160	In the name of God, Amen. I, JOSHUA HUNT, SR., of the Borroughtown of Westchester, being indisposed in body. I leave to my grandson, Joshua Hunt, son of John Hunt, 10 shillings. To my son, Caleb Hunt, £5, To my son Joshua £5, To my son Israel £3, To my daughter, Miriam Oakley, £5, To my daughter, Mary Hunt, £20. I leave to my wife, Mercy Hunt, £100, and a bed and furniture in full bar to all claim for dowry. I leave to my son, Enos Hunt, all the rest of my estate, real and personal, and he is to pay all debts and legacies, and I make him and Benjamin Palmer executors. Dated July 24, 1760. Witnesses, Philip Palmer, William Doty, Miles Oakley. Proved, March 20, 1762. source: Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1897; Abstracts of Wills on File at the Surrogate's Office, City of New York. Volume 6, 1760-1766. New York, NY: The New York Historical Society, 1898.	Hunt, Caleb (I84)
161	In the name of God, Amen. March 3, 1769. I, CALEB HUNT, of East Chester, in Westchester County, being sick. After all debts are paid, I leave to my wife Sarah all my right in the place we now live on, “which was her father's, Capt. William Pinckney's,” deceased. I also leave her a bond of Moses Drake, and a bond of John Hunt, Jr., son of Capt. John Hunt, of Westchester; Also a negro man, “Frank,” and 2 horses, and all my grain and household goods, and the interest on a bond of Nathan Vail. I leave to my daughter, Thamar Haight, 2 beds and furniture, and 3 cows, and sheep, and a looking glass, “and ½ of my land at the New City Island.” I leave to my grandson, Stephen Williams, a cow and calf; To my daughter, Eleanor Williams, ½ of my land on New City Island, and 1/2 of my other monies. I make my friend, Benjamin Drake, and my wife Sarah, executors. Witnesses, Samuel Sneden, Moses Drake, Philip Huestis. Proved, December 12, 1769. source: Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1898; Abstracts of Wills on File at the Surrogate's Office, City of New York. Volume 7, June 6, 1766-November 29, 1771. New York, NY: The New York Historical Society, 1899.	Hunt, Caleb (I84)
162	In the name of God, Amen. March 3, 1769. I, CALEB HUNT, of East Chester, in Westchester County, being sick. After all debts are paid, I leave to my wife Sarah all my right in the place we now live on, “which was her father's, Capt. William Pinckney's,” deceased. I also leave her a bond of Moses Drake, and a bond of John Hunt, Jr., son of Capt. John Hunt, of Westchester; Also a negro man, “Frank,” and 2 horses, and all my grain and household goods, and the interest on a bond of Nathan Vail. I leave to my daughter, Thamar Haight, 2 beds and furniture, and 3 cows, and sheep, and a looking glass, “and ½ of my land at the New City Island.” I leave to my grandson, Stephen Williams, a cow and calf; To my daughter, Eleanor Williams, ½ of my land on New City Island, and 1/2 of my other monies. I make my friend, Benjamin Drake, and my wife Sarah, executors. Witnesses, Samuel Sneden, Moses Drake, Philip Huestis. Proved, December 12, 1769. source: Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1898; Abstracts of Wills on File at the Surrogate's Office, City of New York. Volume 7, June 6, 1766-November 29, 1771. New York, NY: The New York Historical Society, 1899.	Williams, Stephen (I72)
163	In the name of God, Amen. March 3, 1769. I, CALEB HUNT, of East Chester, in Westchester County, being sick. After all debts are paid, I leave to my wife Sarah all my right in the place we now live on, “which was her father's, Capt. William Pinckney's,” deceased. I also leave her a bond of Moses Drake, and a bond of John Hunt, Jr., son of Capt. John Hunt, of Westchester; Also a negro man, “Frank,” and 2 horses, and all my grain and household goods, and the interest on a bond of Nathan Vail. I leave to my daughter, Thamar Haight, 2 beds and furniture, and 3 cows, and sheep, and a looking glass, “and ½ of my land at the New City Island.” I leave to my grandson, Stephen Williams, a cow and calf; To my daughter, Eleanor Williams, ½ of my land on New City Island, and ½ of my other monies. I make my friend, Benjamin Drake, and my wife Sarah, executors. Witnesses, Samuel Sneden, Moses Drake, Philip Huestis. Proved, December 12, 1769. source: Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1898; Abstracts of Wills on File at the Surrogate's Office, City of New York. Volume 7, June 6, 1766-November 29, 1771. New York, NY: The New York Historical Society, 1899.	Hunt, John Jr. (I713)
164	In the name of God, Amen. March 3, 1769. I, CALEB HUNT, of East Chester, in Westchester County, being sick. After all debts are paid, I leave to my wife Sarah all my right in the place we now live on, “which was her father's, Capt. William Pinckney's,” deceased. I also leave her a bond of Moses Drake, and a bond of John Hunt, Jr., son of Capt. John Hunt, of Westchester; Also a negro man, “Frank,” and 2 horses, and all my grain and household goods, and the interest on a bond of Nathan Vail. I leave to my daughter, Thamar Haight, 2 beds and furniture, and 3 cows, and sheep, and a looking glass, “and ½ of my land at the New City Island.” I leave to my grandson, Stephen Williams, a cow and calf; To my daughter, Eleanor Williams, ½ of my land on New City Island, and ½ of my other monies. I make my friend, Benjamin Drake, and my wife Sarah, executors. Witnesses, Samuel Sneden, Moses Drake, Philip Huestis. Proved, December 12, 1769. source: Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1898; Abstracts of Wills on File at the Surrogate's Office, City of New York. Volume 7, June 6, 1766-November 29, 1771. New York, NY: The New York Historical Society, 1899.	Hunt, Capt. John (I938)
165	In the name of God, Amen. “I, Ryer Michelsen, the elder, of the Manor of Fordham, in the County of Westchester, being now about four score years of age, and of sound and perfect memory.” It is my will that my 3 sons, Ryer, Hendrick, and Tunis Michelsen, shall have the use and benefit of all lands, meadows, rights, and privileges in Westchester County, until July 1, 1736, and then all my lands are to be sold “for the most that can possibly be got,” and each of my sons is to receive £18. And all of my personal property of horses, cattle, and sheep are also to be sold. I leave to my eldest son, Ryer Michelsen, 40 shillings as a preference for his birthright. And whereas it happened that in the life time of my eldest son, Michel Michelsen, deceased, I was bound for him for his only debt to Benjamin Corsa, for the payment of £21, 8s., on or before February 17, 1725, the same is to be paid out of 1/7 of the money, and the rest is to go to his son, Ryer Michelson. I leave to my daughter Mary, wife of Benjamin Haviland, £5. To Michel Michelsen, the second son of my deceased eldest son, Michel Michelson, £5. And whereas it so happened, that for the only debt of my son-in-law, Joseph Haviland, I and Benjamin Corsa became bound to Michael Furman, “in the sum of 20 odd pounds,” the same is to be paid out of 1/7 of the money, and also an account of money which the wife of said Joseph Haviland is indebted to me, “and has left her cupboard and glass in pledge for the same.” And the overplus is to be paid to my said daughter Sarah, wife of Joseph Haviland. The rest of the money is to be divided among my 3 sons, Ryer, Hendrick, and Tunis, and my daughters, Hannah, wife of Leonard Vincent, deceased, and Jane, wife of Benjamin Corsa. I leave to my son Ryer, and my loving friend Peter Keer, executors. Dated July 7, 1733. Witnesses, Isaac Turner, Benjamin Betts, Roger Barton. Proved, December 20, 1733. source: New York Historical Society. Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1894. New York: New York Historical Society, 1894.	Michaelson, Ryer Bastiensen (I14)
166	ISAAC WILTSEE. Isaac Wiltsee, s. of Theunis Wiltsee, s. of Hendrick Martensen Wiltsee, s. of Philippe Maton, b. in 1700, m. Sara ____. They had a daughter Geertrung, bpt. Sept. 13, 1723, in the Jamaica Dutch Church. source: Wiltsee, Jerome. A Genealogical and Psychological Memoir of Philippe Maton Wiltsee and His Descendants. Atchison, KS: G. W. Myers, 1908.	Wiltsee, Isaac (I1144)
167	Israel Honeywell, Junr., surviving Executor of the will of Gilbert Williams of Westchester, dec’d., to David Huestis; land in Westchester. Mch. 15, 1785. source: The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volume 21. New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1890.	Williams, Gilbert (I701)
168	Israel Honeywell, Junr., surviving Executor of the will of Gilbert Williams of Westchester, dec’d., to David Huestis; land in Westchester. Mch. 15, 1785. source: The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volume 21. New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1890.	Honeywell, Israel (I941)
169	Jacques Tourneur, son of Daniel 1st, and b. in H., m. June 17, 1683, Aefie, dr. of Michael Kortright, and May 29, 1714, Engeltie Thomas, wid. of Gregoris Storm, of Philips Manor. He served as a deacon, and also as constable and overseer of the town; succeeding, in 1691, to that part of his fa.’s lands on Van Keulen's Hook, known as Lots 17, 18, but in quantity three lots, and since the Bussing or Storm farm. On Aug. 7, 1691, he bought from Peter van Oblienis, for 600 gl. the old Jaques Cresson residence, which became his home. On May 27, 1698, he sold his lot No. 7, of the draft of 1691, to Joh. Myer. See also p. 353. His d. is not noticed, but his farm, and lots in the several divisions, in all 60 a., were sold to Peter Bussing in 1726. Jacques Tourneur had three drs., viz., Anna, b. 1686, Adriana, b. 1689, who m. Jacob Gerritsen, of Flatbush, and Maria, b. 1691; as also sons Michael, b. 1693, Jacobus, b. 1695, Abraham, b. 1698, and Isaac, b. 1701; the last living at Fordham in 1733. The two elder sons m. srs. the drs. of Hendrick Oblenis, and settled in Haverstraw, where the family became quite numerous. source: Riker, James. Harlem (City of New York): Its Origin and Early Annals, Prefaced by Home Scenes in the Fatherlands; or, Notices of Its Founders Before Emigration. Also, Sketches of Numerous Families, and the Recovered History of the Land-titles. New York, NY: James Riker, 1881.	Tourneur, Jacques (I23)
170	Jan Bastiaensen (born 1618) ... came to [New Netherland] from the County of Leerdam, or the Prince's land, in South Holland, in 1663, accompanied by his brother, Michiel Bastiaensen, (born 1620), both of whom afterwards lived in Harlem. Jan was the "Kortryck" who owned a Bouwery on Staten Island in 1674. He spent part of his time at Harlem, but is last mentioned there Jan. 8th, 1677, when he is witness to a power of attorney, given by his old Schoonrewoerd friend, Jan Louwe Bogert. His children were Cornelius, born 1645, Hendrick, 1648, Laurens, 1651, and Belitie, 1659, known as 'the others, uit Holland', Belitie married, December 8th, 1678, Jacob Jansen Decker, of Esopus, whither her brother Hendrick had gone to live. source: Abbott, John Howard. The Courtright (Kortright) Family Descendants of Bastian van Kortryk, a Native of Belgium who Emigrated to Holland about 1615. New York: Tobias A. Wright, 1922.	Van Kortrijk, Jan Sebastiansen (I3)
171	Jan Bastiaensen (Van Kortryk) born 1618, at Leerdam, Holland, went to the town of Beest, not far from Leerdam, where he married and where his children were born, these being Cornelis, Hendrick, Laurens and Belitie. With his brother Michiel and their families, he sailed for New Amsterdam, embarking in the Spotted Cow April 16th, 1663, and had a Bouwery on Staten Island, but probably spent a part of his time at Harlem. source: Abbott, John Howard. The Courtright (Kortright) Family Descendants of Bastian van Kortryk, a Native of Belgium who Emigrated to Holland about 1615. New York: Tobias A. Wright, 1922.	Van Kortrijk, Jan Sebastiansen (I3)
172	JAN TIBOUT was b. at Bruges and after emigrating lived for a short time at Fort Casimer, on the Delaware, where he was in 1656, and whence coming, he and his w., Sarah vander Vlucht, joined the chh. at New Amsterdam in January, 1660. There and at Flatbush (save while at Bergen, where he was court messenger in 1662, and took the oath of allegiance to the English, Nov. 20, 1665), he spent most of the ensuing years till he came to H. He was voorleser here from 1685 till 1690, when for a year Guiliaem Bertholf took his place, but resuming his office in 1691, he served yet six years, and probably till Adrian Vermeule was employed in 1699. Thence, and at least till 1709, he held the same office at Bushwick. He m., in 1687, the wid. of Glaude Delamater, and on her erf right drew Lot 13 on Jochem Pieters Hills, which was sold to Jan Dyckman. Of his dozen chn. we give only such as appear to have reached maturity (with the reservation hereafter made as to the first), viz. Marcus, Theunis, Johannes, Andries, Jacomina, who m. Reyer Michielsen, and Jannetie, who m. Hendrick van Oblinus. Andries Tibout m. Maria De Grave, settled at Hackensack; had chn., Johannes, Peter, Andries, Jacobus, Jacomina, and Annetie. He d. in 1704, and his wid. m. Albert Terhune. Johannes Tibout, son of Jan, was a turner; m. Teuntie van Rommen; was a zealous Leislerian soldier, 1689; made a freeman at N. Y., 1699, then alderman, and d. chless. June 29, 1728, leaving his property after his wife's d. to his brs. and srs. Theunis Tibout, b. in N. Y., 1663, m., 1690, Mary, dr. of Hendrick Vandewater, was a carpenter; made freeman at N. Y., 1698, proposed, 1712, to erect a horsemill in the city,” never before seen in these parts;” had eight chn., and d. July 27, 1754, æ. 90 yrs. His will was dated Nov. 8, 1753. His dr., Sarah, b. 1692, m. Jan Ewouts; he also had sons, whence the Tiebouts of New York, viz., Hendrick, b. 1694, m. 1720, Elizabeth Burger; Johannes, b. 1696, m. 1719, Maria van Deventer; Theunis, b. 1705, m. 1729, Margaret Drinkwater, and Albertus, b. 1708, who m. 1728, Cornelia Bogert, and was a captain in the old French war. Johannes, a blockmaker, living in N. Y. Jan 2, 1763, when with his sr., Sarah, he sold some property of his late fa., d. Sept. 12, 1773. source: Riker, James. Harlem (City of New York): Its Origin and Early Annals, Prefaced by Home Scenes in the Fatherlands; or, Notices of Its Founders Before Emigration. Also, Sketches of Numerous Families, and the Recovered History of the Land-titles. New York, NY: James Riker, 1881.	Tibout, Jan (I24)
173	JENNIE RYER PARRY Mrs. Jennie Ryer Parry, aunt of Captain John A. Ryer of the Yonkers Police Department, died early this morning in St. John’s Home, Riverdale Avenue, after a lingering illness. She was 75 years of age. Mrs. Parry was born in Yonkers and had lived here all her life. Upon the death of her husband, the late George Parry of this city, about 10 years ago, she entered the St. John’s Home. She was a member of the Westminster Presbyterian Church. Besides Captain Ryer, a nephew and two nieces, all of this city, survive. source: Obituary of Jennie Ryer Parry. Yonkers, NY: The Yonkers Herald, 6 Apr 1929, p. 16.	Ryer, Jane E. (I91)
174	Johannes Bastiaens, as he is properly styled in certain deeds, but calling himself (after his fa.’s patronymic) “Johannes Michelson Kortright,” m. Aeltie, dr. of John Vermilye, 2d. He was a weaver, but succeeded to the farm at Sherman's Creek, which in a mortgage given Jan. 9, 1768, he describes as No. 20, and 10 morgen, and by the original boundaries of 1691. Within a year after, he removed to N. Y., and having lost his wife, appears to have d. ab. 1775. His son John Courtright, as he wrote his name, m. in 1774 his cousin Aefie, or Effie, dr. of John and Aefie Devoor, of Hoorn's Hook, and was last of the family to own the ancestral farm; of which he made sale, May 24, 1786, to Cornelius Harsen, who conveyed it Jan. 3, 1804, to Jacobus Dyckman, whence it came to his son, the late Isaac Dyckman. It was included in the tract of 128 acres (being part of said Isaac's estate) called the George Tract, which was parcelled into lots, and disposed of by public sale, Oct. 14, 1868. Riker, James. Harlem (City of New York): Its Origin and Early Annals, Prefaced by Home Scenes in the Fatherlands; or, Notices of Its Founders Before Emigration. Also, Sketches of Numerous Families, and the Recovered History of the Land-titles. New York, NY: James Riker, 1881.	Kortright, Johannes (I1026)
175	Johannes Bastiaens, as he is properly styled in certain deeds, but calling himself (after his fa.’s patronymic) “Johannes Michelson Kortright,” m. Aeltie, dr. of John Vermilye, 2d. He was a weaver, but succeeded to the farm at Sherman's Creek, which in a mortgage given Jan. 9, 1768, he describes as No. 20, and 10 morgen, and by the original boundaries of 1691. Within a year after, he removed to N. Y., and having lost his wife, appears to have d. ab. 1775. His son John Courtright, as he wrote his name, m. in 1774 his cousin Aefie, or Effie, dr. of John and Aefie Devoor, of Hoorn's Hook, and was last of the family to own the ancestral farm; of which he made sale, May 24, 1786, to Cornelius Harsen, who conveyed it Jan. 3, 1804, to Jacobus Dyckman, whence it came to his son, the late Isaac Dyckman. It was included in the tract of 128 acres (being part of said Isaac's estate) called the George Tract, which was parcelled into lots, and disposed of by public sale, Oct. 14, 1868. Riker, James. Harlem (City of New York): Its Origin and Early Annals, Prefaced by Home Scenes in the Fatherlands; or, Notices of Its Founders Before Emigration. Also, Sketches of Numerous Families, and the Recovered History of the Land-titles. New York, NY: James Riker, 1881.	Courtright, John (I1033)
176	John Hunt, Westchester. Leaves to son James “all my land, 30 acres more or less on Throgmorton's neck with all meadow adjoining,” and £25 privilege of Commonage when he is 21. The land lies adjoining the land given to my son Jeremiah. Also leaves to son James 6 acres at the land lying betwixt Grove Siahs* and Horsman Mollinar’s land. To son John my homestead, 60 acres with meadows thereto belonging and £25 Commonage, and all the land I bought of John Disbrow, and 5 acres of the land between Grove Siahs and Horsman Mollinars. To son Jeremiah £25 Commonage. To wife Grace the use of personal estate. Makes wife Grace and brother Josiah Hunt executors. Witnesses. THOMAS COOK JOSHUA HUNT DANIEL CLARK Dated Jan. 7, 1711. Proved Jan. 16, 1711. Liber 8. P. 75. *The expression Grove Siah's means Josiah Hunt of the Grove Farm source: Pelletreau, William Smith. Early Wills of Westchester County, New York: from 1664 to 1784: a Careful Abstract of all Wills (nearly 800) recorded in New York Surrogate's Office and at White Plains, N.Y. from 1664 to 1784 : also the Genealogy of "the Havilands" of Westchester County and Descendants of Hon. James Graham (Watkinson and Ackerley Families): with Genealogical and Historical Notes. New York, NY: F. P. Harper, 1898.	Hunt, John (I979)
177	John Odell, son of William, signed as witness in 1683. He removed to Fordham, and is the ancestor of the numerous family of this name in the western part of our county. In 1706, John Odell of Fordham sold to George Kniffen of Rye his interest in the undivided lands, ‘below the marked trees which belongs unto the Eighteen,’ namely a thirty-sixth part of said lands, which part ‘was his deceased father William Odell's.’ For the descendants of John, see Bolton's History, vol. ii. Pp. 536, 537. source: Baird, Charles Washington. Chronicle of a Border Town. History of Rye, Westchester County, New York, 1660-1870, Including Harrison and the White Plains Till 1788. New York, NY: Anson D. F. Randolph and Company, 1871.	Odell, John (I21)
178	JOHN of Westchester, N.Y., s. of Thomas. GRACE William. Of Tarrytown. Joshua. Jonathan. Mary. Jeremiah. Israel. James. June 27, 1681, Mr. Hunt was chosen to keep an ordinary, to sell biere, &c. - the first tavern license granted in the county. A grand juror, 1691. In 1700, was one of the trustees for erecting the First Episcopal Church in Westchester. In 1702 and 1709, joined in the choice of church-officers. In 1704, money was disbursed to him for “a coate” for the Indians. source: Wyman, Thomas Bellows. Genealogy of the Name and Family of Hunt: Early Established in America from Europe, Exhibiting Pedigrees of Ten Thousand Persons, Enlarged by Religious and Historic Readings, Enriched with Indices of Names and Places. Boston, MA: John Wilson and Sons, 1863.	Hunt, John (I979)
179	Jonathan Dean, prominent in the early history of Jamaica and of Oyster Bay (Cohasset), married Margaret (Oakley?) and had twelve children, three of whom settled in Westchester County. Jonathan (married 1773 Mary Causter of Westchester, daughter of Joseph) figures in the early history of Nine Partners. Nicholas settled in Eastchester and later in Yonkers, and Isaac in Greenburgh. source: Spooner, Walter W. Westchester County, New York Biographical. New York, NY: The New York History Company, 1900.	Dean, Jonathan (I434)
180	Joseph Haviland; perhaps the one mentioned as Joseph Haviland, Jr., belonging to the Military of Westchester, 1715. In the will of Ryer Michaelson of Fordham, dated July 7, 1733, he mentions his two daughters; Mary, the wife of Benjamin Haviland and Sarah the wife of Joseph Haviland. It is reasonable to suppose they were the daughters-in-law of Joseph, Sr., but if so, Joseph Jr. must have m. twice, for when he d. he was of Woodbridge, New Jersey, and letters of Adm. were granted to his widow, Martha (?) Crager, Jan. 15, 1762. His license to wed her is dated Sept 30. 1752. He was a blacksmith and at one time lived in Perth Amboy. N. J. Mary and Sarah Michaelson were the daughters of Reyer Michaelson and his wife, Jacomyntie Tiebouts. The children of Ria Mekeel and his wife Yakamine, as given in the census of Yonkers in 1698 are: Mekeel, Sarah, Hannah, Geeny, Kamine, John. Reyer and his wife m. April 15, 1686. He was from Schoondervourt and she from Brooklyn and they resided on the Harlem. Of their children the following were bap. in the Dutch Church in New York: Saartie, Jan. 30, 1689; Jannetie; June 21, 1693; Jacomyntie, Dec. 25, 1695. The other children were: Reyer, Hendrick, Tunis, Mickel, Mary, Hannah, Mary, and Sarah, marrying the Havilands; Hannah marrying Leonard Vincent and Jane marrying Benjamin Corson. source: Frost, Josephine C. The Haviland Genealogy: Ancestors and Descendants of William Haviland of Newport, Rhode Island, and Flushing, Long Island, 1653-1688, with Special Records of the Allied Families of Field, Hull, Torrey, Willett-Willis. New York, NY: The Lyons Genealogical Company, 1914.	Michaelson, Ryer Bastiensen (I14)
181	Joseph Haviland; perhaps the one mentioned as Joseph Haviland, Jr., belonging to the Military of Westchester, 1715. In the will of Ryer Michaelson of Fordham, dated July 7, 1733, he mentions his two daughters; Mary, the wife of Benjamin Haviland and Sarah the wife of Joseph Haviland. It is reasonable to suppose they were the daughters-in-law of Joseph, Sr., but if so, Joseph Jr. must have m. twice, for when he d. he was of Woodbridge, New Jersey, and letters of Adm. were granted to his widow, Martha (?) Crager, Jan. 15, 1762. His license to wed her is dated Sept 30. 1752. He was a blacksmith and at one time lived in Perth Amboy. N. J. Mary and Sarah Michaelson were the daughters of Reyer Michaelson and his wife, Jacomyntie Tiebouts. source: Frost, Josephine C. The Haviland Genealogy: Ancestors and Descendants of William Haviland of Newport, Rhode Island, and Flushing, Long Island, 1653-1688, with Special Records of the Allied Families of Field, Hull, Torrey, Willett-Willis. New York, NY: The Lyons Genealogical Company, 1914.	Haviland, Joseph Jr. (I36)
182	Joshua Hunt the Elder of Throgs Neck in Westchester, and Joshua Hunt the Younger, son of sd. Joshua Hunt, Senr., of the same place, yeoman; land on Throg's Neck; June 6, 1752. source: Reynolds Totten, John, ed. The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volume 53. New York, NY: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1922.	Hunt, Joshua Esq. (I783)
183	Joshua Hunt the Elder of Throgs Neck in Westchester, and Joshua Hunt the Younger, son of sd. Joshua Hunt, Senr., of the same place, yeoman; land on Throg's Neck; June 6, 1752. source: Reynolds Totten, John, ed. The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volume 53. New York, NY: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1922.	Hunt, Joshua Jr. (I974)
184	Joshua Hunt, Senr., of Westchester, Esq., and Mercy his wife, to Joshua Hunt Junr., of the same place, yeoman, land on Throg's Neck; July 27, 1754. source: Reynolds Totten, John, ed. The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volume 53. New York, NY: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1922.	Hunt, Joshua Esq. (I783)
185	Joshua Hunt, Senr., of Westchester, Esq., and Mercy his wife, to Joshua Hunt Junr., of the same place, yeoman, land on Throg's Neck; July 27, 1754. source: Reynolds Totten, John, ed. The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volume 53. New York, NY: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1922.	Hunt, Joshua Jr. (I974)
186	LAURENS AND HELENA (BENSON) KORTRIGHT, issue: Cornelis, bap. May 30, 1704, m. Nov. 11, 1727, Hester Cannon. Elizabeth, bap. Nov. 3, 1706, m. Apr. 19, 1753, Gilbert Garrison. LAURENS AND MARGARET (BUSSING) Kortright, issue: Aaron, d. 1789, m. Margaret Delamater. Lawrence, d. 1761, unm. His will dated Nov. 8, 1760. Eve, m. 1732, Adolph Benson. Susanna, m. 1735, Aaron Meyer. Margaret, m. 1740, Abraham Meyer. Abbott, John Howard. The Courtright (Kortright) Family Descendants of Bastian van Kortryk, a Native of Belgium who Emigrated to Holland about 1615. New York, NY: Tobias A. Wright, 1922.	Kortright, Laurens (I1307)
187	Laurens Cornelissen, bap. Aug 20, 1681, m. Oct 22, 1703, Helena Benson, and m. 2d, 1708, Margaret Bussing, daughter of Arent Bussing, and from Laurens sprang the main branch of the family at Harlem. He succeeded to the homestead on Harlem Lane, which at his death in 1726, fell in the division to his widow Grietie, together with other lands. He served as constable 1708. His children by his first wife were Cornelis and Elizabeth, and by his second wife, Aaron, Lawrence, Eve, Susanna, and Margaret. Abbott, John Howard. The Courtright (Kortright) Family Descendants of Bastian van Kortryk, a Native of Belgium who Emigrated to Holland about 1615. New York, NY: Tobias A. Wright, 1922.	Kortright, Laurens (I1307)
188	LAWRENCE AND HANNAH (ASPINWALL) KORTRIGHT, issue: John, m. Catharine Seaman, May 2, 1793. Sarah, m. Col. John Heyliger, of Santa Cruz, in 1775. Elizabeth, m. Hon. James Monroe, later Pres. of the U. S., in 1786. Hester, m. Nicholas Gouverneur, Esq., in 1790. Mary, m. Thomas Knox, Esq., in 1793. Lawrence Kortright, the eldest son of Cornelius, also a merchant, became wealthy and prominent. In the old French war he was part owner of several privateers fitted out at New York against the enemy. He was one of the founders of the Chamber of Commerce in 1768. He had a large interest in Tryon County lands, and on his purchase the township of Kortright was settled. He had identified himself with the Episcopal Church, and during the Revolution remained quiet at his residence, but his sympathies were with his country. His residence was 192 Queen Street about the time mentioned. In 1778, partly on his security, Judge Fell, then a prisoner in the Provost, obtained his release. He died in 1794, but before his death he conveyed his farm at Harlem with some woodland, to his only son, John. Abbott, John Howard. The Courtright (Kortright) Family Descendants of Bastian van Kortryk, a Native of Belgium who Emigrated to Holland about 1615. New York, NY: Tobias A. Wright, 1922.	Kortright, Lawrence (I1288)
189	Leonard Vincent and wife Hannah of Yonkers, sold land in Yonkers bordering on lands formerly belonging to William Smith, dec’d.; Feb. 8, 1722. source: Mott, Hopper Striker, ed. The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volume 52. New York, NY: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1921.	Vincent, Leonard (I35)
190	LETTER FROM CHARLES HAVILAND MEKEEL OF ST. LOUIS, MO. Reyer Michielsen Van Cortright was born in Holland in 1653, came as a child to America with his father, Michiel Bastiaensen Van Cortright, in 1663; married, April 15, 1686, Jacomyntie Tiebout, daughter of Jan Tiebout and Sarah Vander Vlucht, and settled in Fordham, N. Y. “Reyer died in 1733 aged 80 years, having had eight children, to wit: Michiel; Reyer; Hendrick; Teunis; Hanah; who Leonard Vincent; Mary who married Benjamin Haviland; who married Joseph Haviland; and Jane who married Corson.” – From Page 297, “History of Harlem,” by Riker. The surname I bear “Mekeel” is simply the phonetic spelling of the Holland pronunciation of the given name Michiel and originated from the early Dutch custom of neglecting the family name (which in our case was Van Cortright), and using only a patronymic, formed by adding to the child's given name that of the father's, with the addition when written of an “s,” or the affix “sen” for son. Thus – as I am descended from the oldest son of Reyer, whose given name was Michiel, his name was Michiel Reyersen – and though his son Michiel, who was then according to the same rule known as Michiel Michiels, which name was later corrupted into the phonetic spelling Michiel Mekeel, and was thus written on his Lieutenant's commission in 1776, which we now have, and is the earliest record of the present spelling of the name. Relationship makes Reyer Michielsen Van Cortright my great great-great-great-grand father on both my father and mother's side of the family. In as much as two of his daughters married Havilands at that early date, the Van Cortright blood must flow in the veins of many of those whose ancestry you are now tracing, and I have therefore been led to give you so much of what might otherwise seem foreign to your subject. source: Frost, Josephine C. The Haviland Genealogy: Ancestors and Descendants of William Haviland of Newport, Rhode Island, and Flushing, Long Island, 1653-1688, with Special Records of the Allied Families of Field, Hull, Torrey, Willett-Willis. New York, NY: The Lyons Genealogical Company, 1914.	Michaelson, Ryer Bastiensen (I14)
191	LETTER FROM CHARLES HAVILAND MEKEEL OF ST. LOUIS, MO. Reyer Michielsen Van Cortright was born in Holland in 1653, came as a child to America with his father, Michiel Bastiaensen Van Cortright, in 1663; married, April 15, 1686, Jacomyntie Tiebout, daughter of Jan Tiebout and Sarah Vander Vlucht, and settled in Fordham, N. Y. “Reyer died in 1733 aged 80 years, having had eight children, to wit: Michiel; Reyer; Hendrick; Teunis; Hanah; who Leonard Vincent; Mary who married Benjamin Haviland; who married Joseph Haviland; and Jane who married Corson.” – From Page 297, “History of Harlem,” by Riker. The surname I bear “Mekeel” is simply the phonetic spelling of the Holland pronunciation of the given name Michiel and originated from the early Dutch custom of neglecting the family name (which in our case was Van Cortright), and using only a patronymic, formed by adding to the child's given name that of the father's, with the addition when written of an “s,” or the affix “sen” for son. Thus – as I am descended from the oldest son of Reyer, whose given name was Michiel, his name was Michiel Reyersen – and though his son Michiel, who was then according to the same rule known as Michiel Michiels, which name was later corrupted into the phonetic spelling Michiel Mekeel, and was thus written on his Lieutenant's commission in 1776, which we now have, and is the earliest record of the present spelling of the name. Relationship makes Reyer Michielsen Van Cortright my great great-great-great-grand father on both my father and mother's side of the family. In as much as two of his daughters married Havilands at that early date, the Van Cortright blood must flow in the veins of many of those whose ancestry you are now tracing, and I have therefore been led to give you so much of what might otherwise seem foreign to your subject. source: Frost, Josephine C. The Haviland Genealogy: Ancestors and Descendants of William Haviland of Newport, Rhode Island, and Flushing, Long Island, 1653-1688, with Special Records of the Allied Families of Field, Hull, Torrey, Willett-Willis. New York, NY: The Lyons Genealogical Company, 1914.	Michaelson, Michael (I27)
192	LETTER FROM CHARLES HAVILAND MEKEEL OF ST. LOUIS, MO. Reyer Michielsen Van Cortright was born in Holland in 1653, came as a child to America with his father, Michiel Bastiaensen Van Cortright, in 1663; married, April 15, 1686, Jacomyntie Tiebout, daughter of Jan Tiebout and Sarah Vander Vlucht, and settled in Fordham, N. Y. “Reyer died in 1733 aged 80 years, having had eight children, to wit: Michiel; Reyer; Hendrick; Teunis; Hanah; who Leonard Vincent; Mary who married Benjamin Haviland; who married Joseph Haviland; and Jane who married Corson.” – From Page 297, “History of Harlem,” by Riker. The surname I bear “Mekeel” is simply the phonetic spelling of the Holland pronunciation of the given name Michiel and originated from the early Dutch custom of neglecting the family name (which in our case was Van Cortright), and using only a patronymic, formed by adding to the child's given name that of the father's, with the addition when written of an “s,” or the affix “sen” for son. Thus – as I am descended from the oldest son of Reyer, whose given name was Michiel, his name was Michiel Reyersen – and though his son Michiel, who was then according to the same rule known as Michiel Michiels, which name was later corrupted into the phonetic spelling Michiel Mekeel, and was thus written on his Lieutenant's commission in 1776, which we now have, and is the earliest record of the present spelling of the name. Relationship makes Reyer Michielsen Van Cortright my great great-great-great-grand father on both my father and mother's side of the family. In as much as two of his daughters married Havilands at that early date, the Van Cortright blood must flow in the veins of many of those whose ancestry you are now tracing, and I have therefore been led to give you so much of what might otherwise seem foreign to your subject. source: Frost, Josephine C. The Haviland Genealogy: Ancestors and Descendants of William Haviland of Newport, Rhode Island, and Flushing, Long Island, 1653-1688, with Special Records of the Allied Families of Field, Hull, Torrey, Willett-Willis. New York, NY: The Lyons Genealogical Company, 1914.	Mekeel, Michael (I1038)
193	Major Robert Timpany accompanied by Captain Frederick Williams of Annapolis, founded Rossway in 1785. Having sailed in a sloop to Little Joggin, they followed the Indian Path to head of St. Mary's Bay, then down the shore to north side, and along Bay to their lands. The former located on farm now owned by Major Timpany, Esq.; while Mr. Williams selected the equally valuable tract William A. Hall, Esq. holds. Mr. Williams erected in 1788 on stream running through his property, the first Saw Mill built in the Peninsula. source: Wilson, Isaiah W. A Geography and History of the County of Digby, Nova Scotia. Halifax, Nova Scotia: Holloway Brothers, 1900.	Williams, Capt. Frederick (I79)
194	Mary Ann Post, widow of Lawrence Post, died yesterday, in this city. She was in her 91st year. Mrs. Post was the mother of William H. Post, a former Postmaster and Village Clerk of Yonkers; of Mrs. Ann M. Ackert, widow of Nelson Ackert, formerly of the firm of Ackert & Quick; of Mrs. Henry B. Archer, of 235 Warburton avenue, wife of the present Tax Receiver of Yonkers. She was a daughter of Abram and Sarah Wood, and was born in Yonkers on July 13, 1810, and she had always lived in this city. She enjoyed uniformly good health till recently. Her husband died some years ago. She has resided with her daughter, Mrs. Archer, for the last eight years. Her death was due to the weakness caused by old age. source: Obituary of Mary Ann Post. Yonkers, NY: The Yonkers Statesman, 9 Jan 1901.	Wood, Mary Ann (I637)
195	Mercy Hunt, Westchester. Leaves to daughter Elizabeth Fowler, the use of personal estate for life, then to daughter Mary Hunt. Mentions “my 3 sons Jeremiah, Pexall, and Benjamin.” Makes John Hitchcock Sr and Benjamin Palmer executors. Dated May 23, 1762. Proved July 5, 1762. source: Pelletreau, William Smith. Early Wills of Westchester County, New York: from 1664 to 1784: a Careful Abstract of all Wills (nearly 800) recorded in New York Surrogate's Office and at White Plains, N.Y. from 1664 to 1784 : also the Genealogy of "the Havilands" of Westchester County and Descendants of Hon. James Graham (Watkinson and Ackerley Families): with Genealogical and Historical Notes. New York, NY: F. P. Harper, 1898.	Oakley, Mercy (I784)
196	Michiel Bastiaensen (Van Kortryk), born 1620, at Leerdam, Holland, also married and removed to the village of Schoonrewoert, not far from Leerdam, where his children Reyer, Metje, Annetie, and Bastiaen were born, his fifth child. Aefie, born in Harlem. They all came in the Spotted Cow in 1663, with Jan and his family, and soon came to Harlem, later making their home at Fordham. source: Abbott, John Howard. The Courtright (Kortright) Family Descendants of Bastian van Kortryk, a Native of Belgium who Emigrated to Holland about 1615. New York: Tobias A. Wright, 1922.	Van Kortrijk, Michiel Sebastiansen (I6)
197	MICHIEL BASTIAENSEN, of whose history up to his emigration in 1663 we have before spoken, had, so far as known, five chn., viz.: Reyer, b. 1653; Metje, b. 1655, who m. Hendrick Kiersen; Annetie, b. 1658, who m. John Odell (ancestor of the Fordham Odells); Bastiaen, b. 1662; and Aefie, b. 1665, in N. Y., who m. Jacques Tourneur. Reyer Michielsen, named in some curious proceedings, under 1674, m. in 1686 Jacomina, dr. of Jan Tibout, and settled in the town of Fordham. He took part in building the church there in 1706, and a stone bearing his initials may now be seen in the carriage-house wall of Mr. Moses De Voe, who took it from the foundation of the old church, which stood upon Mr. D’s farm. Reyer d. in 1733, æ. 80 yrs., having had eight chn. to wit: Michiel, Reyer, Hendrick, Teunis; Hannah, who m. Leonard Vincent; Mary, who m. Benjamin Haviland; Sarah, who m. Joseph Haviland; and Jane, who m. Benjamin Corsa. The sons of his son Michiel (being Reyer and Michael) retained the name of Michaels, but other of Reyer's sons took the patronymic Reyers. Hence have descended the two families of Westchester co., and other sections of this State, named Ryer, and Michael, or as also written McKeel or Mekeel. The name Reyer is said to come from ridder, a knight. Bastiaen Michielsen, always so styled in the town books, though in the church records usually called Bastiaen Kortright, remained in H., where he m. in 1689 Jolante, dr. of John La Montagne, dec. On Sept. 19, 1701, he bought from Peter van Oblienis, a tract of land at Sherman's Creek, laid out to Oblienis in 1691, as lot No. 20. This became the well-known Kortright farm, which continued in the family till 1786. It was originally ten morgen, or twenty acres, and is so rated on the town books for the next half century; but this was exclusive (for meadows were never taxed) of the adjoining marsh, or the morasse creupelbos, of the original description. And then, be it remembered, the allotments of 1691 generally overran the estimate, and this lot lying isolated was not likely to be an exception. This brought it up to 45 acres, 27 perches. Here Bastiaen Michielsen built and lived till very aged; at least, his name in the tax lists runs down to 1753. He also owned two pieces of meadow at Kingsbridge, bought of the town by Joh. Vermilye, Apl. 1, 1693, and on the same date transferred to Bastiaen, to whom the town gave a deed Jan. 4, 1700. Bastiaen Michielsen Kortright had issue, as far as appears, Michael, b. 1697; Johannes, b. 1702; Aefie, who m. John Devoor; and Rachel, who m. Isaac Delamontagne. Johannes Bastiaens, as he is properly styled in certain deeds, but calling himself (after his fa.’s patronymic) “Johannes Michelson Kortright,” m. Aeltie, dr. of John Vermilye, 2d. He was a weaver, but succeeded to the farm at Sherman's Creek, which in a mortgage given Jan. 9, 1768, he describes as No. 20, and 10 morgen, and by the original boundaries of 1691. Within a year after, he removed to N. Y., and having lost his wife, appears to have d. ab. 1775. His son John Courtright, as he wrote his name, m. in 1774 his cousin Aefie, or Effie, dr. of John and Aefie Devoor, of Hoorn's Hook, and was last of the family to own the ancestral farm; of which he made sale, May 24, 1786, to Cornelius Harsen, who conveyed it Jan. 3, 1804, to Jacobus Dyckman, whence it came to his son, the late Isaac Dyckman. It was included in the tract of 128 acres (being part of said Isaac's estate) called the George Tract, which was parcelled into lots, and disposed of by public sale, Oct. 14, 1868. Riker, James. Harlem (City of New York): Its Origin and Early Annals, Prefaced by Home Scenes in the Fatherlands; or, Notices of Its Founders Before Emigration. Also, Sketches of Numerous Families, and the Recovered History of the Land-titles. New York, NY: James Riker, 1881.	Van Kortrijk, Michiel Sebastiansen (I6)
198	Michiel Bastiaensen, of whose history up to his emigration, in 1663, we have before spoken, had, so far as known, five children, viz.: Reyer, born 1653; Metje, born 1655, who married Hendrick Kiersen: Annetie, born 1658, who married John Odell (ancestor of the Fordham Odells); Bastiaen, born 1662, and Aefie, born 1665, in New York, who married Jacques Tourneur. source: Riker, James. Revised History of Harlem: Its Origins and Early Annals. New York: New Harlem Publishing Company, 1904.	Van Kortrijk, Michiel Sebastiansen (I6)
199	MINUIT, Peter, pioneer and colonial governor, was born in Wesel, Rhenish Prussia, about 1580. Very little is known about his personal history. Although born in a German town he is supposed to have been of Dutch extraction. He subsequently removed to Holland and had resided there for several years, when, in 1625, he was appointed by the Dutch West India Company its director-general in New Netherlands. There had been two directors before him — Cornelius Jacobsen Mey and William Verhulst — but they held this office but one year each and had very limited authority, while now the company ordained a more formal government and conferred upon its head enlarged powers, with a more exalted title, so that Minuit is properly regarded as the first governor of New Netherlands. On Dec. 19, 1625, he sailed from Amsterdam in the "Sea Mew," and, landing on Manhattan island May 4, 1626, summoned the chiefs of the native Indians, who owned these parts, and purchased the 22,000 acres constituting the island for 60 guilders, about $24, or $100 in modern value, worth of pots, cans, cattle, ax-heads, blankets, beads, and other trinkets. On July 27th, a vessel named the "Arms of Amsterdam " arrived at Manhattan island, bringing among other passengers Isaac de Rasières, the secretary of the colonial government, and on Sept. 23rd it sailed again for Holland, carrying the official announcement of the purchase of Manhattan island and a valuable cargo of furs and timber. In the meantime Minuit built a fort, a warehouse, and a mill, which had the effect of drawing people from neighboring settlements, so that soon the population of the island increased to about 200. In 1627, as a result of a friendly correspondence between Peter Minuit and Gov. William Bradford, of Plymouth, commercial relations were established between the two colonies, and this fact still further contributed toward the growth of the new settlement. Minuit directed the affairs of New Netherlands until August, 1631, when he was recalled by the Dutch West India Company. Upon arriving in Amsterdam, in 1632, he endeavored to regain his office, but was unsuccessful, as the company held him responsible for the accumulation of lands in the hands of the patroons. He thereupon entered the Swedish service, and was placed in command of a body of Swedish and Finnish colonists in two vessels, which sailed from Gothenburg in 1637, under the auspices of the Swedish West India Company. He ascended the Delaware bay early in 1638, erected Fort Christiana on land purchased from the Indians, near the present city of Wilmington. This was the first permanent European settlement on the Delaware river. This region being claimed by the Dutch, Gov. Kieft, of New Netherlands, protested against its occupancy by Minuit's party, but the protest was disregarded, and the colony remained a Swedish possession till 1655, when it was captured by the Dutch. The colonists encountered the severest hardships, and on one occasion, in 1640, their necessities became so pressing that preparations were made for abandoning their home and removing to Manhattan, when a ship laden with provisions opportunely arrived. Peter Minuit displayed great sagacity and skill in keeping the settlers together and avoiding hostilities with the Indians and Dutch. He successfully managed the affairs of the colony until his death, which occurred in 1641. source: White, James Terry. The National Cyclopedia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women who are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thoughts of the Present Time, Volume 12. New York: James T. White & Company, 1904. 208.	Minuit, Peter (I1)
200	MRS. HARRIET GRIFFETHS. Hoboken has lost another of its old residents in the death of Mrs. Harriet Griffeths, who passed away at her home, 216 Washington street, this morning. She was 73 years old. The funeral services will be held at the house to-morrow night. Rev. C. L. Mead will officiate. Interment will be at Bridgeton. source: Obituary of Harriet Griffeths. Jersey City, NJ: The Observer of Hudson County, 1 Dec 1904, p. 3.	Garrison, Harriet Louisa (I734)

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In the name of God, Amen. I, ANNA WILLIAMS, of the Borough town of Westchester, daughter of Stephen Williams, “a semster, being indisposed in health.” All funeral charges and debts to be paid, and the remainder of my money I leave to my sister Sarah Valentine's three daughters, Efey, Rachel, and Elizabeth, when of age. I leave to my sister, Sarah Valentine, all my wearing apparell or clothes. I leave to Efey Valentine my little trunk. To Abigail Williams, daughter of John Williams, Sr., my little stand. I leave to my mother, Rachel Williams, my bed and bedstead. I make Isaac Valentine and John Valentine, executors.

Dated April 27, 1772. Witnesses, Margaret Guion, John Williams, Sr., Daniel Quinby. Proved June 15, 1772.

source: Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1899: Abstracts of Wills on File in the Surrogate's Office, City of New York, Volume 3, 1771-1776. New York, NY: The New York Historical Society, 1900.

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In the name of God, Amen. I, BENJAMIN CORSEN, of the Manor of Fordham, in Westchester County, yeoman, being in sound health. My executors shall pay all debts, and sell such part of my movable estate as my wife shall think best can be spared. I leave to my eldest son Tunis £5; To my wife the use of all the rest during her life, and after her death all to be sold by executors. From the proceeds there is to be paid to my son Tunis £150; To my daughter, Jane Lent, £40; To my grandson Benjamin, son of my son John, deceased, £30; To his brother Frederick £30. I leave the rest to my son Isaac, and make him executor.

Dated October 1, 1770. Witnesses, Tunis Michaelson, Henry Michaelson, Francis Galpine. Proved, October 22, 1770. Confirmed, September 6, 1771.

source: Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1898; Abstracts of Wills on File at the Surrogate's Office, City of New York. Volume 7, June 6, 1766-November 29, 1771. New York, NY: The New York Historical Society, 1899.

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In the name of God, Amen. I, HERCULES CRONKHYT, of the Manor of Phillipsburgh, in Westchester County. I leave to my wife Margaret all movables during her widowhood, and then to my children and to my wife's daughter, Susanah Dent. I leave to my son Gerritt £5, which is due to him from me by bond, and an equal portion of the movables. (Other children not named.) I make my wife, and my brother Gerardus Willse, and John Buckhout, executors. June 16, 1753.

Witnesses, Petrus Buckhout, Isaac Buckhout, Conrad Terber. Proved, February 1, 1763.

source: Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1897; Abstracts of Wills on File at the Surrogate's Office, City of New York. Volume 6, 1760-1766. New York, NY: The New York Historical Society, 1898.

Wiltsee, Gerardus (I61)

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In the name of God, Amen. I, JOSHUA HUNT, SR., of the Borroughtown of Westchester, being indisposed in body. I leave to my grandson, Joshua Hunt, son of John Hunt, 10 shillings. To my son, Caleb Hunt, £5, To my son Joshua £5, To my son Israel £3, To my daughter, Miriam Oakley, £5, To my daughter, Mary Hunt, £20. I leave to my wife, Mercy Hunt, £100, and a bed and furniture in full bar to all claim for dowry. I leave to my son, Enos Hunt, all the rest of my estate, real and personal, and he is to pay all debts and legacies, and I make him and Benjamin Palmer executors. Dated July 24, 1760.

Witnesses, Philip Palmer, William Doty, Miles Oakley. Proved, March 20, 1762.

source: Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1897; Abstracts of Wills on File at the Surrogate's Office, City of New York. Volume 6, 1760-1766. New York, NY: The New York Historical Society, 1898.

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Hunt, Caleb (I84)

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In the name of God, Amen. March 3, 1769. I, CALEB HUNT, of East Chester, in Westchester County, being sick. After all debts are paid, I leave to my wife Sarah all my right in the place we now live on, “which was her father's, Capt. William Pinckney's,” deceased. I also leave her a bond of Moses Drake, and a bond of John Hunt, Jr., son of Capt. John Hunt, of Westchester; Also a negro man, “Frank,” and 2 horses, and all my grain and household goods, and the interest on a bond of Nathan Vail. I leave to my daughter, Thamar Haight, 2 beds and furniture, and 3 cows, and sheep, and a looking glass, “and ½ of my land at the New City Island.” I leave to my grandson, Stephen Williams, a cow and calf; To my daughter, Eleanor Williams, ½ of my land on New City Island, and 1/2 of my other monies. I make my friend, Benjamin Drake, and my wife Sarah, executors.

Witnesses, Samuel Sneden, Moses Drake, Philip Huestis. Proved, December 12, 1769.

source: Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1898; Abstracts of Wills on File at the Surrogate's Office, City of New York. Volume 7, June 6, 1766-November 29, 1771. New York, NY: The New York Historical Society, 1899.

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Williams, Stephen (I72)

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In the name of God, Amen. March 3, 1769. I, CALEB HUNT, of East Chester, in Westchester County, being sick. After all debts are paid, I leave to my wife Sarah all my right in the place we now live on, “which was her father's, Capt. William Pinckney's,” deceased. I also leave her a bond of Moses Drake, and a bond of John Hunt, Jr., son of Capt. John Hunt, of Westchester; Also a negro man, “Frank,” and 2 horses, and all my grain and household goods, and the interest on a bond of Nathan Vail. I leave to my daughter, Thamar Haight, 2 beds and furniture, and 3 cows, and sheep, and a looking glass, “and ½ of my land at the New City Island.” I leave to my grandson, Stephen Williams, a cow and calf; To my daughter, Eleanor Williams, ½ of my land on New City Island, and ½ of my other monies. I make my friend, Benjamin Drake, and my wife Sarah, executors.

Witnesses, Samuel Sneden, Moses Drake, Philip Huestis. Proved, December 12, 1769.

source: Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1898; Abstracts of Wills on File at the Surrogate's Office, City of New York. Volume 7, June 6, 1766-November 29, 1771. New York, NY: The New York Historical Society, 1899.

Hunt, John Jr. (I713)

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In the name of God, Amen. March 3, 1769. I, CALEB HUNT, of East Chester, in Westchester County, being sick. After all debts are paid, I leave to my wife Sarah all my right in the place we now live on, “which was her father's, Capt. William Pinckney's,” deceased. I also leave her a bond of Moses Drake, and a bond of John Hunt, Jr., son of Capt. John Hunt, of Westchester; Also a negro man, “Frank,” and 2 horses, and all my grain and household goods, and the interest on a bond of Nathan Vail. I leave to my daughter, Thamar Haight, 2 beds and furniture, and 3 cows, and sheep, and a looking glass, “and ½ of my land at the New City Island.” I leave to my grandson, Stephen Williams, a cow and calf; To my daughter, Eleanor Williams, ½ of my land on New City Island, and ½ of my other monies. I make my friend, Benjamin Drake, and my wife Sarah, executors.

Witnesses, Samuel Sneden, Moses Drake, Philip Huestis. Proved, December 12, 1769.

source: Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1898; Abstracts of Wills on File at the Surrogate's Office, City of New York. Volume 7, June 6, 1766-November 29, 1771. New York, NY: The New York Historical Society, 1899.

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In the name of God, Amen. “I, Ryer Michelsen, the elder, of the Manor of Fordham, in the County of Westchester, being now about four score years of age, and of sound and perfect memory.” It is my will that my 3 sons, Ryer, Hendrick, and Tunis Michelsen, shall have the use and benefit of all lands, meadows, rights, and privileges in Westchester County, until July 1, 1736, and then all my lands are to be sold “for the most that can possibly be got,” and each of my sons is to receive £18. And all of my personal property of horses, cattle, and sheep are also to be sold. I leave to my eldest son, Ryer Michelsen, 40 shillings as a preference for his birthright. And whereas it happened that in the life time of my eldest son, Michel Michelsen, deceased, I was bound for him for his only debt to Benjamin Corsa, for the payment of £21, 8s., on or before February 17, 1725, the same is to be paid out of 1/7 of the money, and the rest is to go to his son, Ryer Michelson. I leave to my daughter Mary, wife of Benjamin Haviland, £5. To Michel Michelsen, the second son of my deceased eldest son, Michel Michelson, £5. And whereas it so happened, that for the only debt of my son-in-law, Joseph Haviland, I and Benjamin Corsa became bound to Michael Furman, “in the sum of 20 odd pounds,” the same is to be paid out of 1/7 of the money, and also an account of money which the wife of said Joseph Haviland is indebted to me, “and has left her cupboard and glass in pledge for the same.” And the overplus is to be paid to my said daughter Sarah, wife of Joseph Haviland. The rest of the money is to be divided among my 3 sons, Ryer, Hendrick, and Tunis, and my daughters, Hannah, wife of Leonard Vincent, deceased, and Jane, wife of Benjamin Corsa. I leave to my son Ryer, and my loving friend Peter Keer, executors.

Dated July 7, 1733. Witnesses, Isaac Turner, Benjamin Betts, Roger Barton. Proved, December 20, 1733.

source: New York Historical Society. Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1894. New York: New York Historical Society, 1894.

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ISAAC WILTSEE.

Isaac Wiltsee, s. of Theunis Wiltsee, s. of Hendrick Martensen Wiltsee, s. of Philippe Maton, b. in 1700, m. Sara ____.

They had a daughter Geertrung, bpt. Sept. 13, 1723, in the Jamaica Dutch Church.

source: Wiltsee, Jerome. A Genealogical and Psychological Memoir of Philippe Maton Wiltsee and His Descendants. Atchison, KS: G. W. Myers, 1908.

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Israel Honeywell, Junr., surviving Executor of the will of Gilbert Williams of Westchester, dec’d., to David Huestis; land in Westchester. Mch. 15, 1785.

source: The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volume 21. New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1890.

Williams, Gilbert (I701)

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Honeywell, Israel (I941)

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Jacques Tourneur, son of Daniel 1st, and b. in H., m. June 17, 1683, Aefie, dr. of Michael Kortright, and May 29, 1714, Engeltie Thomas, wid. of Gregoris Storm, of Philips Manor. He served as a deacon, and also as constable and overseer of the town; succeeding, in 1691, to that part of his fa.’s lands on Van Keulen's Hook, known as Lots 17, 18, but in quantity three lots, and since the Bussing or Storm farm. On Aug. 7, 1691, he bought from Peter van Oblienis, for 600 gl. the old Jaques Cresson residence, which became his home. On May 27, 1698, he sold his lot No. 7, of the draft of 1691, to Joh. Myer. See also p. 353. His d. is not noticed, but his farm, and lots in the several divisions, in all 60 a., were sold to Peter Bussing in 1726. Jacques Tourneur had three drs., viz., Anna, b. 1686, Adriana, b. 1689, who m. Jacob Gerritsen, of Flatbush, and Maria, b. 1691; as also sons Michael, b. 1693, Jacobus, b. 1695, Abraham, b. 1698, and Isaac, b. 1701; the last living at Fordham in 1733. The two elder sons m. srs. the drs. of Hendrick Oblenis, and settled in Haverstraw, where the family became quite numerous.

source: Riker, James. Harlem (City of New York): Its Origin and Early Annals, Prefaced by Home Scenes in the Fatherlands; or, Notices of Its Founders Before Emigration. Also, Sketches of Numerous Families, and the Recovered History of the Land-titles. New York, NY: James Riker, 1881.

Tourneur, Jacques (I23)

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Jan Bastiaensen (born 1618) ... came to [New Netherland] from the County of Leerdam, or the Prince's land, in South Holland, in 1663, accompanied by his brother, Michiel Bastiaensen, (born 1620), both of whom afterwards lived in Harlem. Jan was the "Kortryck" who owned a Bouwery on Staten Island in 1674. He spent part of his time at Harlem, but is last mentioned there Jan. 8th, 1677, when he is witness to a power of attorney, given by his old Schoonrewoerd friend, Jan Louwe Bogert. His children were Cornelius, born 1645, Hendrick, 1648, Laurens, 1651, and Belitie, 1659, known as 'the others, uit Holland', Belitie married, December 8th, 1678, Jacob Jansen Decker, of Esopus, whither her brother Hendrick had gone to live.

source: Abbott, John Howard. The Courtright (Kortright) Family Descendants of Bastian van Kortryk, a Native of Belgium who Emigrated to Holland about 1615. New York: Tobias A. Wright, 1922.

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Jan Bastiaensen (Van Kortryk) born 1618, at Leerdam, Holland, went to the town of Beest, not far from Leerdam, where he married and where his children were born, these being Cornelis, Hendrick, Laurens and Belitie. With his brother Michiel and their families, he sailed for New Amsterdam, embarking in the Spotted Cow April 16th, 1663, and had a Bouwery on Staten Island, but probably spent a part of his time at Harlem.

source: Abbott, John Howard. The Courtright (Kortright) Family Descendants of Bastian van Kortryk, a Native of Belgium who Emigrated to Holland about 1615. New York: Tobias A. Wright, 1922.

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JAN TIBOUT was b. at Bruges and after emigrating lived for a short time at Fort Casimer, on the Delaware, where he was in 1656, and whence coming, he and his w., Sarah vander Vlucht, joined the chh. at New Amsterdam in January, 1660. There and at Flatbush (save while at Bergen, where he was court messenger in 1662, and took the oath of allegiance to the English, Nov. 20, 1665), he spent most of the ensuing years till he came to H. He was voorleser here from 1685 till 1690, when for a year Guiliaem Bertholf took his place, but resuming his office in 1691, he served yet six years, and probably till Adrian Vermeule was employed in 1699. Thence, and at least till 1709, he held the same office at Bushwick. He m., in 1687, the wid. of Glaude Delamater, and on her erf right drew Lot 13 on Jochem Pieters Hills, which was sold to Jan Dyckman. Of his dozen chn. we give only such as appear to have reached maturity (with the reservation hereafter made as to the first), viz. Marcus, Theunis, Johannes, Andries, Jacomina, who m. Reyer Michielsen, and Jannetie, who m. Hendrick van Oblinus. Andries Tibout m. Maria De Grave, settled at Hackensack; had chn., Johannes, Peter, Andries, Jacobus, Jacomina, and Annetie. He d. in 1704, and his wid. m. Albert Terhune. Johannes Tibout, son of Jan, was a turner; m. Teuntie van Rommen; was a zealous Leislerian soldier, 1689; made a freeman at N. Y., 1699, then alderman, and d. chless. June 29, 1728, leaving his property after his wife's d. to his brs. and srs. Theunis Tibout, b. in N. Y., 1663, m., 1690, Mary, dr. of Hendrick Vandewater, was a carpenter; made freeman at N. Y., 1698, proposed, 1712, to erect a horsemill in the city,” never before seen in these parts;” had eight chn., and d. July 27, 1754, æ. 90 yrs. His will was dated Nov. 8, 1753. His dr., Sarah, b. 1692, m. Jan Ewouts; he also had sons, whence the Tiebouts of New York, viz., Hendrick, b. 1694, m. 1720, Elizabeth Burger; Johannes, b. 1696, m. 1719, Maria van Deventer; Theunis, b. 1705, m. 1729, Margaret Drinkwater, and Albertus, b. 1708, who m. 1728, Cornelia Bogert, and was a captain in the old French war. Johannes, a blockmaker, living in N. Y. Jan 2, 1763, when with his sr., Sarah, he sold some property of his late fa., d. Sept. 12, 1773.

source: Riker, James. Harlem (City of New York): Its Origin and Early Annals, Prefaced by Home Scenes in the Fatherlands; or, Notices of Its Founders Before Emigration. Also, Sketches of Numerous Families, and the Recovered History of the Land-titles. New York, NY: James Riker, 1881.

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JENNIE RYER PARRY

Mrs. Jennie Ryer Parry, aunt of Captain John A. Ryer of the Yonkers Police Department, died early this morning in St. John’s Home, Riverdale Avenue, after a lingering illness. She was 75 years of age.

Mrs. Parry was born in Yonkers and had lived here all her life. Upon the death of her husband, the late George Parry of this city, about 10 years ago, she entered the St. John’s Home. She was a member of the Westminster Presbyterian Church.

Besides Captain Ryer, a nephew and two nieces, all of this city, survive.

source: Obituary of Jennie Ryer Parry. Yonkers, NY: The Yonkers Herald, 6 Apr 1929, p. 16.

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Johannes Bastiaens, as he is properly styled in certain deeds, but calling himself (after his fa.’s patronymic) “Johannes Michelson Kortright,” m. Aeltie, dr. of John Vermilye, 2d. He was a weaver, but succeeded to the farm at Sherman's Creek, which in a mortgage given Jan. 9, 1768, he describes as No. 20, and 10 morgen, and by the original boundaries of 1691. Within a year after, he removed to N. Y., and having lost his wife, appears to have d. ab. 1775. His son John Courtright, as he wrote his name, m. in 1774 his cousin Aefie, or Effie, dr. of John and Aefie Devoor, of Hoorn's Hook, and was last of the family to own the ancestral farm; of which he made sale, May 24, 1786, to Cornelius Harsen, who conveyed it Jan. 3, 1804, to Jacobus Dyckman, whence it came to his son, the late Isaac Dyckman. It was included in the tract of 128 acres (being part of said Isaac's estate) called the George Tract, which was parcelled into lots, and disposed of by public sale, Oct. 14, 1868.

Riker, James. Harlem (City of New York): Its Origin and Early Annals, Prefaced by Home Scenes in the Fatherlands; or, Notices of Its Founders Before Emigration. Also, Sketches of Numerous Families, and the Recovered History of the Land-titles. New York, NY: James Riker, 1881.

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John Hunt, Westchester.

Leaves to son James “all my land, 30 acres more or less on Throgmorton's neck with all meadow adjoining,” and £25 privilege of Commonage when he is 21. The land lies adjoining the land given to my son Jeremiah. Also leaves to son James 6 acres at the land lying betwixt Grove Siahs* and Horsman Mollinar’s land. To son John my homestead, 60 acres with meadows thereto belonging and £25 Commonage, and all the land I bought of John Disbrow, and 5 acres of the land between Grove Siahs and Horsman Mollinars. To son Jeremiah £25 Commonage. To wife Grace the use of personal estate. Makes wife Grace and brother Josiah Hunt executors.

Witnesses.

THOMAS COOK
JOSHUA HUNT
DANIEL CLARK

Dated Jan. 7, 1711.
Proved Jan. 16, 1711.
Liber 8. P. 75.

*The expression Grove Siah's means Josiah Hunt of the Grove Farm

source: Pelletreau, William Smith. Early Wills of Westchester County, New York: from 1664 to 1784: a Careful Abstract of all Wills (nearly 800) recorded in New York Surrogate's Office and at White Plains, N.Y. from 1664 to 1784 : also the Genealogy of "the Havilands" of Westchester County and Descendants of Hon. James Graham (Watkinson and Ackerley Families): with Genealogical and Historical Notes. New York, NY: F. P. Harper, 1898.

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John Odell, son of William, signed as witness in 1683. He removed to Fordham, and is the ancestor of the numerous family of this name in the western part of our county. In 1706, John Odell of Fordham sold to George Kniffen of Rye his interest in the undivided lands, ‘below the marked trees which belongs unto the Eighteen,’ namely a thirty-sixth part of said lands, which part ‘was his deceased father William Odell's.’ For the descendants of John, see Bolton's History, vol. ii. Pp. 536, 537.

source: Baird, Charles Washington. Chronicle of a Border Town. History of Rye, Westchester County, New York, 1660-1870, Including Harrison and the White Plains Till 1788. New York, NY: Anson D. F. Randolph and Company, 1871.

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JOHN of Westchester, N.Y., s. of Thomas. GRACE

William. Of Tarrytown.
Joshua.
Jonathan.
Mary.
Jeremiah.
Israel.
James.

June 27, 1681, Mr. Hunt was chosen to keep an ordinary, to sell biere, &c. - the first tavern license granted in the county. A grand juror, 1691. In 1700, was one of the trustees for erecting the First Episcopal Church in Westchester. In 1702 and 1709, joined in the choice of church-officers. In 1704, money was disbursed to him for “a coate” for the Indians.

source: Wyman, Thomas Bellows. Genealogy of the Name and Family of Hunt: Early Established in America from Europe, Exhibiting Pedigrees of Ten Thousand Persons, Enlarged by Religious and Historic Readings, Enriched with Indices of Names and Places. Boston, MA: John Wilson and Sons, 1863.

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Jonathan Dean, prominent in the early history of Jamaica and of Oyster Bay (Cohasset), married Margaret (Oakley?) and had twelve children, three of whom settled in Westchester County. Jonathan (married 1773 Mary Causter of Westchester, daughter of Joseph) figures in the early history of Nine Partners. Nicholas settled in Eastchester and later in Yonkers, and Isaac in Greenburgh.

source: Spooner, Walter W. Westchester County, New York Biographical. New York, NY: The New York History Company, 1900.

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Joseph Haviland; perhaps the one mentioned as Joseph Haviland, Jr., belonging to the Military of Westchester, 1715. In the will of Ryer Michaelson of Fordham, dated July 7, 1733, he mentions his two daughters; Mary, the wife of Benjamin Haviland and Sarah the wife of Joseph Haviland. It is reasonable to suppose they were the daughters-in-law of Joseph, Sr., but if so, Joseph Jr. must have m. twice, for when he d. he was of Woodbridge, New Jersey, and letters of Adm. were granted to his widow, Martha (?) Crager, Jan. 15, 1762. His license to wed her is dated Sept 30. 1752. He was a blacksmith and at one time lived in Perth Amboy. N. J.

Mary and Sarah Michaelson were the daughters of Reyer Michaelson and his wife, Jacomyntie Tiebouts.

The children of Ria Mekeel and his wife Yakamine, as given in the census of Yonkers in 1698 are: Mekeel, Sarah, Hannah, Geeny, Kamine, John.

Reyer and his wife m. April 15, 1686. He was from Schoondervourt and she from Brooklyn and they resided on the Harlem. Of their children the following were bap. in the Dutch Church in New York: Saartie, Jan. 30, 1689; Jannetie; June 21, 1693; Jacomyntie, Dec. 25, 1695. The other children were: Reyer, Hendrick, Tunis, Mickel, Mary, Hannah, Mary, and Sarah, marrying the Havilands; Hannah marrying Leonard Vincent and Jane marrying Benjamin Corson.

source: Frost, Josephine C. The Haviland Genealogy: Ancestors and Descendants of William Haviland of Newport, Rhode Island, and Flushing, Long Island, 1653-1688, with Special Records of the Allied Families of Field, Hull, Torrey, Willett-Willis. New York, NY: The Lyons Genealogical Company, 1914.

Michaelson, Ryer Bastiensen (I14)

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Haviland, Joseph Jr. (I36)

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Joshua Hunt the Elder of Throgs Neck in Westchester, and Joshua Hunt the Younger, son of sd. Joshua Hunt, Senr., of the same place, yeoman; land on Throg's Neck; June 6, 1752.

source: Reynolds Totten, John, ed. The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volume 53. New York, NY: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1922.

Hunt, Joshua Esq. (I783)

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Hunt, Joshua Jr. (I974)

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Joshua Hunt, Senr., of Westchester, Esq., and Mercy his wife, to Joshua Hunt Junr., of the same place, yeoman, land on Throg's Neck; July 27, 1754.

source: Reynolds Totten, John, ed. The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volume 53. New York, NY: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1922.

Hunt, Joshua Esq. (I783)

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Hunt, Joshua Jr. (I974)

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LAURENS AND HELENA (BENSON) KORTRIGHT, issue:

Cornelis, bap. May 30, 1704, m. Nov. 11, 1727, Hester Cannon.
Elizabeth, bap. Nov. 3, 1706, m. Apr. 19, 1753, Gilbert Garrison.

LAURENS AND MARGARET (BUSSING) Kortright, issue:

Aaron, d. 1789, m. Margaret Delamater.
Lawrence, d. 1761, unm. His will dated Nov. 8, 1760.
Eve, m. 1732, Adolph Benson.
Susanna, m. 1735, Aaron Meyer.
Margaret, m. 1740, Abraham Meyer.

Abbott, John Howard. The Courtright (Kortright) Family Descendants of Bastian van Kortryk, a Native of Belgium who Emigrated to Holland about 1615. New York, NY: Tobias A. Wright, 1922.

Kortright, Laurens (I1307)

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Laurens Cornelissen, bap. Aug 20, 1681, m. Oct 22, 1703, Helena Benson, and m. 2d, 1708, Margaret Bussing, daughter of Arent Bussing, and from Laurens sprang the main branch of the family at Harlem. He succeeded to the homestead on Harlem Lane, which at his death in 1726, fell in the division to his widow Grietie, together with other lands. He served as constable 1708.

His children by his first wife were Cornelis and Elizabeth, and by his second wife, Aaron, Lawrence, Eve, Susanna, and Margaret.

Abbott, John Howard. The Courtright (Kortright) Family Descendants of Bastian van Kortryk, a Native of Belgium who Emigrated to Holland about 1615. New York, NY: Tobias A. Wright, 1922.

Kortright, Laurens (I1307)

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LAWRENCE AND HANNAH (ASPINWALL) KORTRIGHT, issue:

John, m. Catharine Seaman, May 2, 1793.
Sarah, m. Col. John Heyliger, of Santa Cruz, in 1775.
Elizabeth, m. Hon. James Monroe, later Pres. of the U. S., in 1786.
Hester, m. Nicholas Gouverneur, Esq., in 1790.
Mary, m. Thomas Knox, Esq., in 1793.

Lawrence Kortright, the eldest son of Cornelius, also a merchant, became wealthy and prominent. In the old French war he was part owner of several privateers fitted out at New York against the enemy. He was one of the founders of the Chamber of Commerce in 1768. He had a large interest in Tryon County lands, and on his purchase the township of Kortright was settled. He had identified himself with the Episcopal Church, and during the Revolution remained quiet at his residence, but his sympathies were with his country. His residence was 192 Queen Street about the time mentioned. In 1778, partly on his security, Judge Fell, then a prisoner in the Provost, obtained his release. He died in 1794, but before his death he conveyed his farm at Harlem with some woodland, to his only son, John.

Abbott, John Howard. The Courtright (Kortright) Family Descendants of Bastian van Kortryk, a Native of Belgium who Emigrated to Holland about 1615. New York, NY: Tobias A. Wright, 1922.

Kortright, Lawrence (I1288)

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Leonard Vincent and wife Hannah of Yonkers, sold land in Yonkers bordering on lands formerly belonging to William Smith, dec’d.; Feb. 8, 1722.

source: Mott, Hopper Striker, ed. The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volume 52. New York, NY: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1921.

Vincent, Leonard (I35)

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LETTER FROM CHARLES HAVILAND MEKEEL OF ST. LOUIS, MO.

Reyer Michielsen Van Cortright was born in Holland in 1653, came as a child to America with his father, Michiel Bastiaensen Van Cortright, in 1663; married, April 15, 1686, Jacomyntie Tiebout, daughter of Jan Tiebout and Sarah Vander Vlucht, and settled in Fordham, N. Y.

“Reyer died in 1733 aged 80 years, having had eight children, to wit: Michiel; Reyer; Hendrick; Teunis; Hanah; who Leonard Vincent; Mary who married Benjamin Haviland; who married Joseph Haviland; and Jane who married Corson.” – From Page 297, “History of Harlem,” by Riker.

The surname I bear “Mekeel” is simply the phonetic spelling of the Holland pronunciation of the given name Michiel and originated from the early Dutch custom of neglecting the family name (which in our case was Van Cortright), and using only a patronymic, formed by adding to the child's given name that of the father's, with the addition when written of an “s,” or the affix “sen” for son. Thus – as I am descended from the oldest son of Reyer, whose given name was Michiel, his name was Michiel Reyersen – and though his son Michiel, who was then according to the same rule known as Michiel Michiels, which name was later corrupted into the phonetic spelling Michiel Mekeel, and was thus written on his Lieutenant's commission in 1776, which we now have, and is the earliest record of the present spelling of the name.

Relationship makes Reyer Michielsen Van Cortright my great great-great-great-grand father on both my father and mother's side of the family.

In as much as two of his daughters married Havilands at that early date, the Van Cortright blood must flow in the veins of many of those whose ancestry you are now tracing, and I have therefore been led to give you so much of what might otherwise seem foreign to your subject.

source: Frost, Josephine C. The Haviland Genealogy: Ancestors and Descendants of William Haviland of Newport, Rhode Island, and Flushing, Long Island, 1653-1688, with Special Records of the Allied Families of Field, Hull, Torrey, Willett-Willis. New York, NY: The Lyons Genealogical Company, 1914.

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Major Robert Timpany accompanied by Captain Frederick Williams of Annapolis, founded Rossway in 1785. Having sailed in a sloop to Little Joggin, they followed the Indian Path to head of St. Mary's Bay, then down the shore to north side, and along Bay to their lands. The former located on farm now owned by Major Timpany, Esq.; while Mr. Williams selected the equally valuable tract William A. Hall, Esq. holds. Mr. Williams erected in 1788 on stream running through his property, the first Saw Mill built in the Peninsula.

source: Wilson, Isaiah W. A Geography and History of the County of Digby, Nova Scotia. Halifax, Nova Scotia: Holloway Brothers, 1900.

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Mary Ann Post, widow of Lawrence Post, died yesterday, in this city. She was in her 91st year. Mrs. Post was the mother of William H. Post, a former Postmaster and Village Clerk of Yonkers; of Mrs. Ann M. Ackert, widow of Nelson Ackert, formerly of the firm of Ackert & Quick; of Mrs. Henry B. Archer, of 235 Warburton avenue, wife of the present Tax Receiver of Yonkers. She was a daughter of Abram and Sarah Wood, and was born in Yonkers on July 13, 1810, and she had always lived in this city. She enjoyed uniformly good health till recently. Her husband died some years ago. She has resided with her daughter, Mrs. Archer, for the last eight years. Her death was due to the weakness caused by old age.

source: Obituary of Mary Ann Post. Yonkers, NY: The Yonkers Statesman, 9 Jan 1901.

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Mercy Hunt, Westchester.

Leaves to daughter Elizabeth Fowler, the use of personal estate for life, then to daughter Mary Hunt. Mentions “my 3 sons Jeremiah, Pexall, and Benjamin.” Makes John Hitchcock Sr and Benjamin Palmer executors.

Dated May 23, 1762.
Proved July 5, 1762.

source: Pelletreau, William Smith. Early Wills of Westchester County, New York: from 1664 to 1784: a Careful Abstract of all Wills (nearly 800) recorded in New York Surrogate's Office and at White Plains, N.Y. from 1664 to 1784 : also the Genealogy of "the Havilands" of Westchester County and Descendants of Hon. James Graham (Watkinson and Ackerley Families): with Genealogical and Historical Notes. New York, NY: F. P. Harper, 1898.

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Michiel Bastiaensen (Van Kortryk), born 1620, at Leerdam, Holland, also married and removed to the village of Schoonrewoert, not far from Leerdam, where his children Reyer, Metje, Annetie, and Bastiaen were born, his fifth child. Aefie, born in Harlem. They all came in the Spotted Cow in 1663, with Jan and his family, and soon came to Harlem, later making their home at Fordham.

source: Abbott, John Howard. The Courtright (Kortright) Family Descendants of Bastian van Kortryk, a Native of Belgium who Emigrated to Holland about 1615. New York: Tobias A. Wright, 1922.

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MICHIEL BASTIAENSEN, of whose history up to his emigration in 1663 we have before spoken, had, so far as known, five chn., viz.: Reyer, b. 1653; Metje, b. 1655, who m. Hendrick Kiersen; Annetie, b. 1658, who m. John Odell (ancestor of the Fordham Odells); Bastiaen, b. 1662; and Aefie, b. 1665, in N. Y., who m. Jacques Tourneur. Reyer Michielsen, named in some curious proceedings, under 1674, m. in 1686 Jacomina, dr. of Jan Tibout, and settled in the town of Fordham. He took part in building the church there in 1706, and a stone bearing his initials may now be seen in the carriage-house wall of Mr. Moses De Voe, who took it from the foundation of the old church, which stood upon Mr. D’s farm. Reyer d. in 1733, æ. 80 yrs., having had eight chn. to wit: Michiel, Reyer, Hendrick, Teunis; Hannah, who m. Leonard Vincent; Mary, who m. Benjamin Haviland; Sarah, who m. Joseph Haviland; and Jane, who m. Benjamin Corsa. The sons of his son Michiel (being Reyer and Michael) retained the name of Michaels, but other of Reyer's sons took the patronymic Reyers. Hence have descended the two families of Westchester co., and other sections of this State, named Ryer, and Michael, or as also written McKeel or Mekeel. The name Reyer is said to come from ridder, a knight.

Bastiaen Michielsen, always so styled in the town books, though in the church records usually called Bastiaen Kortright, remained in H., where he m. in 1689 Jolante, dr. of John La Montagne, dec. On Sept. 19, 1701, he bought from Peter van Oblienis, a tract of land at Sherman's Creek, laid out to Oblienis in 1691, as lot No. 20. This became the well-known Kortright farm, which continued in the family till 1786. It was originally ten morgen, or twenty acres, and is so rated on the town books for the next half century; but this was exclusive (for meadows were never taxed) of the adjoining marsh, or the morasse creupelbos, of the original description. And then, be it remembered, the allotments of 1691 generally overran the estimate, and this lot lying isolated was not likely to be an exception. This brought it up to 45 acres, 27 perches. Here Bastiaen Michielsen built and lived till very aged; at least, his name in the tax lists runs down to 1753. He also owned two pieces of meadow at Kingsbridge, bought of the town by Joh. Vermilye, Apl. 1, 1693, and on the same date transferred to Bastiaen, to whom the town gave a deed Jan. 4, 1700. Bastiaen Michielsen Kortright had issue, as far as appears, Michael, b. 1697; Johannes, b. 1702; Aefie, who m. John Devoor; and Rachel, who m. Isaac Delamontagne. Johannes Bastiaens, as he is properly styled in certain deeds, but calling himself (after his fa.’s patronymic) “Johannes Michelson Kortright,” m. Aeltie, dr. of John Vermilye, 2d. He was a weaver, but succeeded to the farm at Sherman's Creek, which in a mortgage given Jan. 9, 1768, he describes as No. 20, and 10 morgen, and by the original boundaries of 1691. Within a year after, he removed to N. Y., and having lost his wife, appears to have d. ab. 1775. His son John Courtright, as he wrote his name, m. in 1774 his cousin Aefie, or Effie, dr. of John and Aefie Devoor, of Hoorn's Hook, and was last of the family to own the ancestral farm; of which he made sale, May 24, 1786, to Cornelius Harsen, who conveyed it Jan. 3, 1804, to Jacobus Dyckman, whence it came to his son, the late Isaac Dyckman. It was included in the tract of 128 acres (being part of said Isaac's estate) called the George Tract, which was parcelled into lots, and disposed of by public sale, Oct. 14, 1868.

Riker, James. Harlem (City of New York): Its Origin and Early Annals, Prefaced by Home Scenes in the Fatherlands; or, Notices of Its Founders Before Emigration. Also, Sketches of Numerous Families, and the Recovered History of the Land-titles. New York, NY: James Riker, 1881.

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Michiel Bastiaensen, of whose history up to his emigration, in 1663, we have before spoken, had, so far as known, five children, viz.: Reyer, born 1653; Metje, born 1655, who married Hendrick Kiersen: Annetie, born 1658, who married John Odell (ancestor of the Fordham Odells); Bastiaen, born 1662, and Aefie, born 1665, in New York, who married Jacques Tourneur.

source: Riker, James. Revised History of Harlem: Its Origins and Early Annals. New York: New Harlem Publishing Company, 1904.

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MINUIT, Peter, pioneer and colonial governor, was born in Wesel, Rhenish Prussia, about 1580. Very little is known about his personal history. Although born in a German town he is supposed to have been of Dutch extraction. He subsequently removed to Holland and had resided there for several years, when, in 1625, he was appointed by the Dutch West India Company its director-general in New Netherlands. There had been two directors before him — Cornelius Jacobsen Mey and William Verhulst — but they held this office but one year each and had very limited authority, while now the company ordained a more formal government and conferred upon its head enlarged powers, with a more exalted title, so that Minuit is properly regarded as the first governor of New Netherlands. On Dec. 19, 1625, he sailed from Amsterdam in the "Sea Mew," and, landing on Manhattan island May 4, 1626, summoned the chiefs of the native Indians, who owned these parts, and purchased the 22,000 acres constituting the island for 60 guilders, about $24, or $100 in modern value, worth of pots, cans, cattle, ax-heads, blankets, beads, and other trinkets. On July 27th, a vessel named the "Arms of Amsterdam " arrived at Manhattan island, bringing among other passengers Isaac de Rasières, the secretary of the colonial government, and on Sept. 23rd it sailed again for Holland, carrying the official announcement of the purchase of Manhattan island and a valuable cargo of furs and timber. In the meantime Minuit built a fort, a warehouse, and a mill, which had the effect of drawing people from neighboring settlements, so that soon the population of the island increased to about 200. In 1627, as a result of a friendly correspondence between Peter Minuit and Gov. William Bradford, of Plymouth, commercial relations were established between the two colonies, and this fact still further contributed toward the growth of the new settlement. Minuit directed the affairs of New Netherlands until August, 1631, when he was recalled by the Dutch West India Company. Upon arriving in Amsterdam, in 1632, he endeavored to regain his office, but was unsuccessful, as the company held him responsible for the accumulation of lands in the hands of the patroons. He thereupon entered the Swedish service, and was placed in command of a body of Swedish and Finnish colonists in two vessels, which sailed from Gothenburg in 1637, under the auspices of the Swedish West India Company. He ascended the Delaware bay early in 1638, erected Fort Christiana on land purchased from the Indians, near the present city of Wilmington. This was the first permanent European settlement on the Delaware river. This region being claimed by the Dutch, Gov. Kieft, of New Netherlands, protested against its occupancy by Minuit's party, but the protest was disregarded, and the colony remained a Swedish possession till 1655, when it was captured by the Dutch. The colonists encountered the severest hardships, and on one occasion, in 1640, their necessities became so pressing that preparations were made for abandoning their home and removing to Manhattan, when a ship laden with provisions opportunely arrived. Peter Minuit displayed great sagacity and skill in keeping the settlers together and avoiding hostilities with the Indians and Dutch. He successfully managed the affairs of the colony until his death, which occurred in 1641.

source: White, James Terry. The National Cyclopedia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women who are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thoughts of the Present Time, Volume 12. New York: James T. White & Company, 1904. 208.

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MRS. HARRIET GRIFFETHS.

Hoboken has lost another of its old residents in the death of Mrs. Harriet Griffeths, who passed away at her home, 216 Washington street, this morning. She was 73 years old.

The funeral services will be held at the house to-morrow night. Rev. C. L. Mead will officiate. Interment will be at Bridgeton.

source: Obituary of Harriet Griffeths. Jersey City, NJ: The Observer of Hudson County, 1 Dec 1904, p. 3.

Garrison, Harriet Louisa (I734)

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