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About Henry van Kirk
Henry Van Kirk and wife Dorothy Morgan are ancestors of President Warren G. Harding. "Ancestors of American Presidents", Gary Boyd Roberts, NEHGS, 2009, pp98-102
Henry died in March of 1776. His will, written 18 December, 1775, was probated on 3 April, 1776. It gives his wife, Sarah, two featherbeds, furniture and other household goods, a side saddle, bridle, and other things necessary for housekeeping, a Negro wench named Dinah, the use of that part of my dwelling house that I now occupy, one-third of the garden, horses and cows, and 400 pounds yearly in lieu of dower.
The eldest son, John, got 40 acres.
The remainder of the real and moveable estate was to be sold after debts and funeral expenses had been paid. Twenty pounds went to his son Benjamin’s sons; and to Dority (Dorothy) wife of Thomas Drake; and Jemima wife of Elisha Barton, who were daughters.
An amount of pounds was to be kept at interest by the executors, Joseph and Benjamin Vankirk with interest to be paid to wife Sarah. Witnesses were John Barton, John Hart, and Jesse Pettit.
This estate was still being settled in 1841. On 23 October, 1833, Joseph Vankirk, son of Joseph and grandson of Henry was appointed administrator since the 1776 executors were since dead. On 29 October 1835, it was reported that the estate of $ 106.66 had increased to $ 509.83 because of 54 years of interest. One wonders what caused the delay and where the money was.
from Ancestors of Sarah Van Kirk, II at rootsweb
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Raymond Martin Bell, "The Vankirk Family of Hopewell Township, Hunterdon (now Mercer) County, New Jersey and Amwell Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania"; Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society Quarterly, August 1983, vol. 10, #1, p. 40.
Henry VANKIRK purchased land in Monmouth Co. NJ 17 Apr 1725 (DB-D2 p. 143) about two years after his marriage to Dorothy MORGAN. Henry's son John, who went to Pennsylvania in 1787 was baptized at the Marlboro Dutch Church in Monmouth Co. NJ 1 Nov 1724. Henry later moved to Hopewell Twp. Hunterdon Co. (now Mercer Co.) NJ.
No headstone in cemetery for Henry VanKirk.
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Henry van Kirk's Timeline
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1703
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Kings County, Province of New York
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| 1724 |
August 19, 1724
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Freehold, Monmouth County, Province of East Jersey
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July 26, 1726
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January 8, 1728
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October 28, 1729
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March 2, 1731
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July 20, 1732
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Middletown, Monmouth County, Province of New Jersey
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February 20, 1735
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Hopewell, Hunterdon County, Province of New Jersey
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November 4, 1738
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