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Note: Title: New York Abstracts of Wills
Author: New York Historical Sociaty Collection
Page: Abstracts of Wills Vol IV 1744-1753 Page 239
Liber 17: Page 18.-
Text: Page 18. -- In the name of God, Amen, May 15, 1746, I, Nicasius Cowenhowen, of Brookland, in Kings County, boulter, being in health. I leave to my wife Elsie, the use of my house, lands, and tenements and goods, within the township of Brookland, during her life, excepting that piece of land, bounded east by Benjamin Vandewater, north by the Kings road, south by Rem Vanderbeck, and southwest by my own land, and west by Barent Bloom, this I except for sale. After my wife's decease, I leave to my eldest son John, all my houses and lands in Brookland. I leave to my son Gerritt, all that farm or Plantation, situate and being at the Raritan, in New Jersey, between the lands of Andries Ten Eyck and Peter Bodyn as by deed, with all the stock of horses, etc.; Also £500, which he has already received. I leave to my son Peter, all that farm or Plantation lying at the Raritan in New Jersey, where he lives, as by deed, with all houses and buildings; Also £1000, which he has already received, and has been paid upon the Plantation where he now lives. I leave to my daughter Dinah, wife of Simon Van Wilderen, £300. I leave to my eldest son John, £3, for his birth right. I leave all my movable estate to my children,and I make them executors.
Witnesses, Jacob Brewerton, Francis Hegeman, Adrian Hegeman. Proved, November 2, 1749.
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