104 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



Item. — I give and Bequeath to my well beloved wife, Guertruydt Van Cort- 

 land, if she continue my widow, all and singular my personal and mixed Estate 

 and Moveables whatsoever and wheresoever within this Province of New York 

 or elsewhere, be the same in Goods, Whares, cattle, depts, Linen, wooling, 

 plate, Jewells, or of any other nature or kind whatsoever. And I do hereby 

 make my said Beloved wife Gurtruydt Van Cortlandt, sole Execurix of this 

 my last Will and Testament who (it is my Desire and Will) shall out of my 

 mixed andpersonall Estate, pay, satisfie and Discharge all my Just Depts, and 

 also my Funeral Charges. 



Item. — I will ordaine and Devise that my s' 1 wife my Executrix shall have 

 the custody and care of the Education and bringing up of ray said Children and 

 During her widowhood shall have, take and receive to her own use, the full and 

 whole rents, Issues and Profitts of all and every parte of my said houses, lands, 

 mills and other such Estate whatsoever, without giving or rendering any inven- 

 tory or account thereof to any person whatsoever, and it is my Will and Desire 

 and Request that she, my said Executrix, do out of the same, and my personal 

 Estate provide for, maintaine, Educate and bring up, all such of my children as 

 at the time of my Death shall be under the age of one and twenty a..d unmar- 

 ried, until they attain the said age of one and twenty yeers or be married. 



Provided, always, that in case my said wife shall think fit to marry again, that 

 is my Will, Desire and Determination, that she shall give an exact and perfect 

 Inventory of all my personall Estate then in being to my Overseers, the Guar- 

 dians of my children herein after named or the survivors or survivor of them 

 and in such case, my Debts being first truly paide, I give, Will, Devise and Be- 

 queath the one Equall third parte of all my said personall Estate to my said wife 

 for her and also an equal third parte of the rents, Issues and Profits of all and 

 singular my said houses, lands, mills and Real estate for and during her naturall 

 Life, and further it is my Desire, Will and Direction that in case of my wive's 

 re-Marriage she shall have the choice or election of my houses which she shall 

 like best to live in, she allowing the rent of the same house unto her third part 

 of the rents and profitts of my Real Estate hereby Bequeathed her. 



Item. — If it should so happen that my wife afores d should re-marry then I 

 give and Bequeath two thirds of my personall Estate and two thirds of the 

 rents, Issues and Profitts, of my houses, Lands, Mills and Real Estate, to all my 

 children as aforesaid during the natnall life of my said Wife Equally to be divi- 

 ded amongst them. In case it should so happen that any of my said Children 

 should come to dye, that is to say, any of my sons before they attaine the age of 

 one and twenty years, or any of my daughters before they attaine the same age 

 unmarried, then it is my Desire, and I do hereby Order and Direct that their 

 share of my Real Estate herein before Devised shall Devolve and Come to my 

 surviving children and the heirs of the Bodyes of such of my sons who shall dye 

 after their attaining the age of one and twenty years and the heirs of the bodye 

 of such of my daughters as shall be marrried. 



Item. — In case it should so happen that all my children should dye, the sons 

 before they attaine the age of one and twenty, and my daughters before they at- 

 taine that age or before marriage, and my wife happens to marrie at all, then it is 

 my will and desire, and I do hereby order, bequeath and devise that my said 

 wife do have and enjoy all my estate Real and Personal or mixt, during her 



