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Note: Page 111.--In the name of God, Amen. I, ABRAHAM SNEDEKER, of the Precinct of Haverstraw, in Orange County, being now infirm. I give, devise, and bequeath to Abraham Thew all my real estate where I now live and my undivided right in the Pond Patent lands, and all lands that I may die possessed of. Nevertheless, subject to the payment of all my just debts and funeral expenses and the following legacies. I leave to Tunis Snedeker, son of my brother Johanes, 70; To Abraham, son of Harmanus Talman, my brother-in-law, 70; To the children of Peter Van der Voort, my brother-in-law (s/o Paul Vandervoort & Neeltje Staats), viz., Peter and Neltie, wife of Joseph Johnson, each 50. I leave to Abraham Thew, my negro man "Tone" and a negro woman and her children. I leave to Abraham Thew and Elizabeth, wife of John Smith "at the Hook," and Neltie, wife of Joseph Johnson, and to Neltie, wife of Jacobus De Klerck, my four bedsteads and bedding. I leave to my brother, Gerritt Snedeker, and to the children of my brother Johanes, and the children of my brother Theodorus, deceased, and to the children of my sister, Elizabeth Smith, and to the children of my sister, Altye Cortie, and to the children of Sarah Van der Voort all the rest of my personal estate. Provided that if Theunis Thew and Harmanus Cortie, who are now absent, do not return, then their shares are to be in the hands of Abraham Thew and his brother, John Thew. I leave to Abraham Thew the best yoke of oxen and cart and horses. "And it is my will that the yard or piece of Burying Ground shall not be sold by my executors, but remain for that purpose for the name and family of the Snedekers, with full right of ingress and egress." I make Abraham Thew, David Pye, and Theunis Snedeker, son of Johanes, executors.
Dated June 24, 1771. Witnesses, Rem Remsen, Paul Hasler, James Paul. Proved, in New York, before Edmund Fanning, Esq., November 5, 1771.
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