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signes for ever, but for lack of such issue to her son, Philip French, his heirs and 

 assignes for ever, and I doe will order devise and bequeath, that my beloved wife, 

 Catharine, shall have during her naturall life fifty pounds current money of New 

 Yorke pr annum to be paid her out of ye proffitts of my Keall Estate, and that five 

 and twenty pounds thereof pr annum shall be charged and levyed in nature of 

 a Rent charge upon my estate at ye Tonckers devised hereby to my grandson, 

 Frederick Flypse, and ye other five and twenty pounds per annum in ye same 

 manner upon my estate and plantation at ye upper Mills, hereby devise to my 

 son, Adolphus Flipse, and that she, my wife, shall remaine and continue to 

 do in ye house I now live in, and shall have and receive ye money I have en- 

 gaged and promist her according to our agreement before and upon our mar- 

 riage preferable to all legacy and payments whatsoever. Item, I will and 

 devise to my said wife, during her naturall life, that lott of ground with ye appur- 

 tenances in ye city of New York extending from ye Broadway to ye New Street 

 lyeing between ye ground late of Robert White, deceased, and William ye 

 Clockbuyer, and I do will, order, determine and direct that my said wife 

 shall have ye custody, tuition and guardianship of my grandson, Frederick 

 Flipse, and his estate to his use until he comes to ye age of one and twenty years, 

 who I desire may have ye best education and learning these parts of ye world 

 will afford him not doubting of her care in bringing him up after ye best man- 

 ner possibly shee can. Lastly, I do make, appoint and ordaine my said son, 

 Adolphus Flipse, and my son-in-law, Jacobus Van Cortlandt, executors of this 

 my last will and testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto sett my hand 

 and seale this 26th day of October, anno dom, 1700. 



Frederick Flipse. (S) 



Signed, sealed and declared in ye presence of ye underwritten witnesses who 

 also in ye presence of ye Testator have subscribed their names, Isaac de fforeest, 

 Olof Van Cortlandt, Philip Van Cortlandt, W. Nicoll, New York, Dec. 9th, 

 1702. Then personally came before me Edward Viscount Cornbury, Captain 

 General and Governor-in-chief of New York, Ed. William Nicoll, Oloff Van 

 Cortlandt and Philip Van Cortlandt, witnesses, who have subscribed their names 

 to ye within will and made oath upon ye holy Evangelists of Almighty God that 

 they saw ye within named ffrederick fflipse sign, seale and declare ye same will 

 and testament and that at ye time thereof he was of sound mind and memory to 

 ye best of their knowledge, Jurat Coram me Cornbuby. 



New York, December 9th, 1702, Jacobus Van Cortlandt, one of ye within named 

 executors was duly sworne to ye executor of ye within, Jurat Coram me, 



Coenbuby.^ 



Philip Philipse, the eldest son of the above testator was born in New 

 York, 1663, and baptized the 18th of March, 1664. From all accounts 

 this individual appears to have been in his youth very wild and gay, 

 and possessed withal of a very delicate constitution, which induced his 

 father to send him to the Island of Barbadoes to look after his property 

 there consisting of a plantation called Penus. 15 Here in 1697 he mar- 



a Kec. of Wells Surrogates office, N. T., 1T02 to 1712, pp. 101, 105. The above will was 

 proved 9th Dec, 1702. 



b Philipse MSS. in possession of the late Frederick Philipse Philipstown, Putnam County, 

 New York. ' •" 



