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This day, date underwritten, before me, Jacob Hendricksz Kip, clerk of Secretary C. van Tienhoven, residing in Fort Amsterdam, appeared the worthy Jan Evertsz Bout, from Barrevelt, and Tryntie Symons de Witt, both lawfully married persons here, who in the presence of and before the undersigned witnesses declared that, being persons of fairly advanced age and having reflected on the certainty of death and the uncertainty of the hour thereof, they, the testors, first commend their souls after their decease into the hands of Almighty God and their bodies to a Christian burial; then, coming to the disposition of their temporal means, effects and property, they, the testators, declare that as husband ans wife they have agreed and concluded together that, in return for the love and fidelity shown to each other, the survivor of the two shall remain in full possession and enjoyment of all the property and effects which God Almighty has granted to them in this world, and that to the day of his or her death, without being obliged to render to any of the relatives on either side an accounting, inventory, or any other return of the property left behind, but the survivor to enjoy the same without any of their blood-relations having any claim thereto, except that he or she is to pay to the blood-relations or the surviving relatives by marriage or heirs, in lieu of all the effects, means and property left behind in all the sum of five hundred guilders, reckoned at twenty stivers to guilder, and that in good pay, without the heirs having the right to claim anything more; which sum they shall divide pro rata. They, the testators, declare this to be their free and voluntary gift and donation between the living, which they request may after their deaths take effect before all courts and Judges; they, the testators, hereby also revoking all previous documents, testaments, codicils, or any other instruments of last will made and signed by them before the date hereof, declaring and holding the same null and void and as having never been made, desiring and requesting that this will only shall be valid, and no other. Thus done and signed by the testators respectively in the presence of the undersigned witnesses hereto invited, this nineteenth day of the month of August, anno one thousand six hundred and forty-nine, in Fort Amsterdam, on the island of Manhatans, in New Netherland.

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Translation: Scott, K., & Stryker-Rodda, K. (Ed.). New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Vol. 3, Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1648-1660 (A. Van Laer, Trans.). Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.: 1974.A complete copy of this publication is available on the New Netherland Institute website.