Abstracts of Wills on File in the Surrogate's Office: City of New York, 25:99, 100.
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[ABSTRACTS OF WILLS-LIBER 1-2]
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Page 362 - This Indenture, made this 23d of September, 1697, between Shuart Olpherts and Helike Clopper, widow of Cornelius Clopper, late of this city, blacksmith. The said Shuart Olpherts agrees that he will, before the first day of October next, "marry and take to wife, the said Helike Clopper, if the law of the Church will permit the same, and she the said Helike Clopper shall consent thereto." And the said Helike Clopper also agrees to marry the said Shuart Olpherts. In consideration of this, he agrees that if she survive him, his executors shall pay to her £150, in full of all dower rights. And she grants to him during his life, "a certain house and lot of ground on which she now dwells, being the corner of Maiden Lane fronting to Queen street, and ranging with Maiden Lane as far as the west side of the next lot adjoining to her garden." If he remarries then the house and lot shall go to her children. And she is to retain full control of all the rest of her property, and to dispose of it by will or otherwise.
