| Will* | 6 February 1762 | She left a will on 6 February 1762 at New Ultrecht, Kings Co., New York; In the name of God, Amen. I, Catharine Van Vleck, of New York, spinster, being weak and sick. "My Body to be decently interred in the Burying ground of the United Brethren, in this City, at the discretion of the Directors of said Church." I leave to my nieces, Sarah Van Vleck, Catharine, wife of Leonard Warner, and Catalina Ryckman, each £50. To Samuel Pell and John Montanye I leave £50 in Trust for the church called Unitas Fratorum, or United Brethren, in New York. My executors are to sell all my estate, and the proceeds, I leave 1/4 to my niece Sarah Van Vleck, daughter of Abraham and Mary Van Vleck. All the rest I leave to Lucas Kierstede and Catharine, wife of Leonard Warner, the children of my sister, Mary Kierstede, late Mary Groenendyck, deceased and to Isaac, Catalina, Samuel, and Albert Ryckman, children of my sister, Cornelia Ryckman, deceased and to the other children of Abraham and Mary Van Vleck, vis., The children of John Van Vleck, deceased, biz., John Abraham, Catharine, Jacobus, Henry, Mary and Cornelia Van Vleck, and to the children of Isaac Van Vleck and his wife Catharine, viz., Abraham, Isaac, and Lucretia. I make John Van Vleck, Lucas Kierstede, Isaac Ryckman and Henry Van Cleck, executors. Dated February 6, 1763. Witnesses William Pearson, James Arden, Jarvis Roebuck. Proved February 9, 1768. [ Note - the burying ground of the United Brethren or Moravian Church was on Pell street,on the west side of Doyer street. - W.S.P]1 |