Individual Details

Will

ROBERT SINCLAIR. In the name of God, Amen. Be it known and manifest unto all people, that I, Robert Sinclair, of New York, mariner, being at this
present moment very sick.'| I leave all ray estate to my wife, Maria Sinclair, during her widowhood with full power to sell the same, but if she remarry she is to make over and convey the same to my daughter, Anna Sinclair,
but if she die under age or unmarried then my wife is to have the whole, but she is to pay to the Dutch Reformed Church the sum of £150 for the poor.
After my wife's decease, the estate is to go to my daughter Anna, but if she die under age then one half is left to my wife's cousin, Evert Duyckinck, and to ray wife's brother, Garret Duyckinck, and to the children of my wife's sister Beeltie, wife of Jan Byvanck, deceased, To my wife's sister Anna, wife of Johanes Hooglandt, To my wife's sister Sytie, wife of Peter Dailie, To the
children of my wife's sister Altie, deceased,wife of Tobias Ten Eyck, and Gerrit Duyckinck and his children are to have a double portion of the same. The other half to the Dutch Reformed Church of New York, with the condition that if any of my brother's children should come here out of Scotland they are to have one half of the same. I make my wife Maria, my brother in law,
Gerrit Duyckinck, and my friend, William Jackson, executors. Dated August 4, 1704. Witnesses, Leonard Huygens, Hendrick Kermer, Jacobus Vanderspiegel, Abraham Gouverneur. Proved before Lord Cornbury•, October 8, 1704.
[NOTE.—The home lot of Robert Sinclair was on the north side of Queen street (now Pearl street), and was the second lot west of Wall street. He also
owned a water lot directly opposite, on the south side of Pearl street.—W. S. P.]