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hereinafter named One year after my decease with Interest at six per cent. 

 Item I give and bequeath to my son John Guyon the Farm I now live on 

 Together with all the privilege I have reserved for the same and also all 

 the land and meadows I have in the County with all my other moveable 

 property not otherwise disposed of provided he pays Fifteen hundred 

 Dollars toward the Legacies bequeathed to my Daughters Also the mort- 

 gage on the said Farm with all my just debts and funeral Expenses and 

 Lastly I do hereby Constitute and appoint my three sons James, Harmanus 

 and John Guyon Executors of this my last Will and Testament hereby 

 revoking all former Wills by me made. In Witness Whereof, I have here- 

 unto set my hand and Seal this Twenty eighth day of July in the Year 

 of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty three. 



James Guyon [L. S.] 



Signed sealed published and Declared by the above named James Guyon 

 to be his last Will and Testament and in the presence of Us who have 

 hereunto subscribed Our names as witnesses in the presence of the 

 Testator. 



Joseph Williams. 



Joseph Y. Williams. 



Daniel S. Williams. 



APPENDIX 



(plates 4 AND 5) 



A. The Lake and Holmes Houses 



A large tract of land consisting of three lots, or two hundred and forty 

 acres, besides meadow, bounding the Guyon farm on the west, was granted 

 in 1675 to Pierre Billion and his sons. These sons, Peter and Isaac, con- 

 veyed the land in 1696 to Daniel Lake, of Gravesend, Long Island, who 

 conveyed an undivided one-half interest therein to Joseph Holmes. Actual 

 partition was thereafter made between them. Lake taking the east and 

 Holmes the west part of the original patent. 



The Lake House, a two-story stone structure built in 1786, stood on the 

 south side of the Boulevard about two thousand feet west of Guyon 

 Avenue, and just southwest of the family burying ground in which head- 

 stones still remain standing. 



This house, with considerable land, was devised by a Daniel Lake to 

 his grandson, Daniel W. Lake, who in 1812 sold the property and bought 

 the land now known as the Lake-Tysen farm. 



The Holmes House stands on the north side of the Boulevard, on land 

 now owned by Mr. George W. Cole. It bears an almost undecipherable 

 inscription which seems to have been intended for "July, 1798" The 

 appearance of the house indicates a greater age. The Holmes family bury- 



