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Subject: Re: [D-Col] Antie Monfoort, abstract will of
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 17:53:55 EDT


Pam and other who are interested.
I have in my records that Antie Monfoort was baptized 4 october 1724 in
the Jamaica DRC and it also says that she was born 29 September 1724 and her
father's Will was written 27 Dec 1725. It may be that Elbert just didn't put
Anne in his will or maybe he had started the Will prior to her birth. I don't
have the records for Jamaica here, but if someone would look up that date
that has it maybe it will clear this up.

Also on Cornelius Polhemus' first wife. She may have been Antje Van Duyn,
who was the daughter of Cornelis Van Duyn. In Cornelius' Will he say "All the
rest of my movable estate I leave to my sons Gerritt and William, and to
Machtel, wife of Volkert Rapalye, and child of my daugher Antje" This Antje
must have been the daughter of Cornelius Van Duyn and his first wife
machteltje Huyken. So she would have been old enought to have married
Cornelius Polhemus and had a daughter Machtel baptized in 1721. Antje Van
Duyn must have died so after this. If some of you don't have Cornelius Van
Duyn's abstract of his Will let me know and I will send it in again. Also
Machlet and her husband Volkert Rapalye were mentioned in two of Antje's
brother's Will also.
Wayne

In a message dated 8/10/2001 9:04:36 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
writes:

> Laurie & Wayne,
>
> I also find it strange that Elbert Pieters Monfoort did not name Antje
> or any children, for that matter, of his marriage to Susanna Van Wyck.
> He only named the children of his Remsen marriage.
>
> It would make sense for Elbert & Susanna to have named a daughter
> Margaret, after Margaret Abrahams Brinckerhoff.
>
> Note Elbert's abstracted will:
>
> > Abstracts of Wills Vol II 1708-1728
> > Page 142.--In the name of God, Amen, the 27 December, 1725. I, ELBERT
> MONTFORD, of
> > Hempstead, in Queens County, being very sick. I leave to my wife
Susannah
> the use of my farm situated upon Cow Neck in Hempstead, while she remains
my
> widow. "But if she marry or joins in matrimony, then I bequeath to her
œ200."
> I leave to my eldest son, Peter Montford, my largest Bible. I leave to all
my
> sons, viz., Peter, Rem, and Theodorus, all my estate in law lying in Orange
> County. I leave to my four children, Jane, Mary, Peter, and Rem, œ50 each.
> After my wife's decease I leave all my estate at Cow Neck to all my
children.
> I make my brother, Peter Montford and Rem Remsen, of Cow Neck, and
Cornelius
> Van Wyck, executors.
> >
> > Witnesses, Rem Remsen, Jr., Benjamin Smith, Hannah Smith. Proved, March
1,
> 1725/6.
>
> I find an un-sourced (LDS) marriage date for Elbert and Susanna Van Wyck
> of 1 Feb 1717, which would leave time for both Antje and a sister
> Margaret to have been born (before Elbert wrote his will in 1725). It
> would have been nice if he had named these children. Can anyone confirm
> this marriage date???
>
> As to just which Van Lieuw Margaret married, there aren't enough clues
> to identify him.
>
> And, the will of Cornelius Polhemus follows:
> > Abstracts of Wills Vol III 1730-1744
> > Page 124.--In the name of God, Amen. August 22, 1739. I, CORNELIUS
> POLHEMUS, of
> > Hempstead, in Queens County, "being under great indisposition of body,"
"I
> leave to my wife Susanah all her wearing apparell, and all household goods
> and furniture which was hers before I married her;" Also 3 cows, two jades (
> horses unbroken), and a plow and harrow, and the profits of the farm till
my
> son Daniel is of age; and the use of a room in my house, and œ20 per annum.
I
> leave to my son Daniel a young mare and all my silver buttons and my cane
and
> gun, and all my houses, lands and meadows when he is of age; and he is to
pay
> to my 2 daughters œ50 each. The rest of the personal estate to be sold and
> the proceeds paid to my two daughters (not named). I make my trusty friends
> William Van Dyne, of Newtown, and John Hegeman and Dirck Amerman, of
Flushing,
> executors.
> >
> > Witnesses, Jaka (?) Mitchell, Richard Cornell, Jr., William Birch.
Proved,
> July 3, 1741.
>
> His daughter Machtelt (bpt 25 Dec 1721 at the Jamaica DRC; Sp: Cornelis
> and Jackamyntje Van Duyn.) married Volkert Rapalje (the son of Teunis
> Rapalje & Sarah Van Vechten).
>
> Although Heyward Peck in his article "The Rev Johannes Theodorus
> Polhemus and Some of His Descendants" [NYGBR 90:233] does not identify
> the first wife of Cornelius Polhemus (or his 2nd, for that matter), I
> wonder if Antje might be Antje Van Duyn, the daughter of Cornelius Van
> Duyn and Machtelt Huyken. The sponsors at the bpt of little Machtelt
> Polhemus in 1721 at Jamaica would then be her siblings, Cornelius &
> Jacomyntje. And, the 'trusty friend Willem Van Dyne' mentioned by
> Cornelius Polhemus would be Antje's brother.
>
> Thoughts anyone???
>
> Pam Sears
>

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