Geertje Simonse ‘Charity’ Wyckoff

Called 'Gertie' by her husband (as revealed in his will).

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/185948736/geertje-wyckoff

Daughter of Simon Jansz van Arsdalen and Pieterje Claese.

Geertje Van Arsdalen was probably born between 1660 and 1662.

She married Cornelius Pietersen Wyckoff, son of Pieter Claesen and Grietje Cornelise Van Ness, at New Utrecht, Kings Co., Long Island, New York, on 12 October 1678 (Bethrothed 29 Sep 1678).

Geertje Van Arsdalen is named in her husband's will on 4 April 1726.

• Will dated 4 April 1726 Cornelius Wyckoff of Flatlands in Kings County, being in good health.
• I leave to my wife Gertie, all my real and personal estate for life,
• but if she marry then she shall give all to my two sons, Nicholas and Hendrick, to enjoy the same, as it is set forth in certain deeds of sales made by me to them, and my two sons have given bonds to me in the sum of £650, by which each of them is to pay to
• their brothers and sisters viz: Simon, Jacob, John, Petrus, Mary, Margaret, Petrella, and Hannah, each £3, within a year after my wife's decease.
• If my wife marries thay are to pay her £30, for her maintainance.
• I leave to my son Simon a silver tankard, for his birthright.
• I leave to my son Hendrick a silver mug.
• All the rest of my estate is left to my 10 children after the death of my wife.
• I make my son-in-law, Hendrick Eldertson, executor.
• Witnesses: Jacobus Stryker, Jan van Arsdalen, S. Geritsen. Proved 10 May 1746

References

• New York (County) Surrogate's Court Abstracts of Wills on File in the Surrogate's Office, City of New York (Vol. IV, 1744-1753), Collections of the New York Historical Society (New York: Printed for the Society, 1895), page 72. Abstracting Lib. 15, page 539.
• William J. Hoffman, "Claes Cornelissen Van Schouw(en), Meutelaer and the Wyckoff Ancestry", The American Genealogist Vol. 22, page 65 (1945): 22:69.

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