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Adriaen van Tienhoven }
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Jacob Hendricksz Kip }
Acknowledged before me,
Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1642 – 1647 ׀ 215
Cornelis van Tienh., secretary
[Will of Antony Crol]
[150i] In the year after the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, one thousand six hundred
and forty-six, before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared
Antony Crol, from Amsterdam, who declared that reflecting on the certainty of death and the
uncertainty of the hour thereof, and therefore being desirous to anticipate such uncertainty of
death by certain testamentary disposition of last will, he, the testator, first commending his soul
when it shall have left his body into the hands of Almighty God and his body to a Christian
burial, he, Antony Crol, declares that he revokes all former testaments, codicils, donations and
other instruments of last will which may have been made by him, the testator, before the date
hereof. He, the testator, then coming to the disposal of the means and effects which Almighty
God has given him in this world, he, Antony Crol, above named, gives and bequeaths to Philip
Jansen Ringo, his partner, in recompense for the fidelity and friendship received from him, all
the means and effects and cash which the above mentioned Philip Jansen has of his, the
testator’s, in New Netherland, as more fully appears from the agreement thereof, signed the 17th
of October last past. Furthermore, Antony Crol gives and bequeaths to his above mentioned
partner the sum of three hundred guilders which are due to him, the testator, by Piter Willemsen,
in the “Olyffbergh,” on Corte Lely street, at Amsterdam. The testator expressly stipulates that
after his death his partner shall turn over to the poor the sum of one hundred guilders. The
testator requests that this his testament and last will may after his death take effect before all
lords, courts, tribunals and judges. In witness whereof this is signed by Antony Crol and the
witnesses, the 17th of October anno 1646, in Fort Amsterdam, New Netherland.
Adriaen van Tienhoven }
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Jacob Hendricksz Kip }
Antoni Crol
New Netherland Research Center New Netherland Institute