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From: Richard VanHouten <>
Subject: [D-Col] Jacobus, Kip, Van Houten
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 19:32:52 -0500


On Dec. 23, 2001, Dorothy Koenig posted the abstract of the will of John
A. Jacobus, to wit:

***On page 198 of the NJ "Calendar of Wills 1796-1800" is found the abstract
of the will of John A. Jacobus. I believe him to have been the son of
Abraham Jacobus and Eve Kip (born 1724). It would appear that after Eva
Kip (b. ca 1758) lost her first husband, _______ Boice, that she married
her first cousin, John A. Jacobus.

John A. Jacobus "of Hardwick Township, Sussex County, NJ" wrote his will
on 23 Feb 1799. It was proved on 7 Mar 1799. He gave to his wife, Eve,
his whole estate while she remained a widow. To Nicholas Boice (my wife's
son), 45 acres and my brewry. To Jane Boice (my wife's daughter), 11 acres
adjoining Mark Thompsons's land next to where Isaac Mills now lives. To
my two daughters, Leah and Eve Jacobus, the remainder of the farm and
residue.

Executors: Wife, Eve; Nicholas Boice, and John Armstrong.
Witnesses: Ezra Miller, Anthony Squier, and Joseph Demund.***

I was just at the Sussex Co. Clerk, and found that on May 6, 1803, about
2 months after he had married Eve Kip-Boyce-Jacobus, widow of John A.
Jacobus, Peter G. Van Houten of Saddle River, Bergen Co., NJ, bought of
Cornelius Kipe and Christina his wife of Saddle River a half share of
land in Hardwick that John A. Jacobus, late of Hardwick, deceased, had
purchased from Daniel Hunt. A 3/4 acre lot on the north side of the
Paulinskill was sold to Major Anthony Squires in 1806 by Peter G. Van
Houten and wife Eve of Hardwick, and in 1811, the land of Peter G. Van
Houten on the north bank of the Paulinskill was sold by the high sheriff
of Sussex Co. by court order to settle Peter's debt to Cornelius Kip.

Was Cornelius Kype/Kip the brother of Eve Kip-Boyce-Jacobus-Van Houten?

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