Adrian Lafarge

1706 - 1752  (~ 45 years)

• Name	Adrian Lafarge  [1, 2, 3]
  Birth	Abt. 18 Oct 1706	Jamaica, Queens, New York, USA   [1]
  Christening	18 Oct 1706	First Reformed Dutch Church of Jamaica, Jamaica, Queens, New York, USA   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Also Known As	Adriaen Laforse
  Death	Aft. 13 May 1752	Westchester, Westchester, New York, USA   [2, 3]
  Person ID	I590	Ryer Genealogy
  Last Modified	13 Feb 2025

  
  

  Father	Nicholas Laforse
  Mother	Geertje Gerritsen,   b. Abt. 1680, Flatbush, Kings, New York, USA
  Family ID	F84	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  In the name of God, Amen, May 13, 1752, I, THOMAS LAWRENCE, of Westchester, being very sick. I leave to my wife Deborah my negro girl, and the use of all my lands during widowhood. I leave to my son Thomas my Great Bible, my gun, and sword (a silver hilted one) and a horse, bridle, and saddle when he is 18. If my wife marries, all the personal estate is to be sold, and the proceeds divided among my wife and 4 daughters, Deborah, Margaret, Mary, and Elizabeth. I leave to my sons, Thomas and Nathaniel, all my lands and appurtenances, “and my negro ‘Jacob’ shall go along with the lands.” I make my brother (in law), Gerardus Willse, and Joseph Embury, executors. Witnesses, Cornelius Hunt, Samuel Embree, Adrian Lafarge. Proved October 19, 1752. source: Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1895; Abstracts of Wills on File in the Surrogate's Office, City of New York, Volume 4, 1744-1753. New York, NY: The New York Historical Society, 1896.

  
  

• Sources

  [S11] Holland Society of New York, U.S., Dutch Reformed Church Records in Selected States, 1639-1989 [database on-line]., (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014). [S287] Will of Thomas Lawrence, 13 May 1752, Westchester, Westchester County, New York. [S128] Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1895; Abstracts of Wills on File in the Surrogate's Office, City of New York, Volume 4, 1744-1753, (New York, NY: The New York Historical Society, 1896).