Abstracts of Wills on File in the Surrogate's Office: City of New York, 25:99, 100.
-----
[ABSTRACTS OF WILLS-LIBER 1-2]
[p 99]
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.
Page 363 - HELIKE CLOPPER, New York, October 14, 1700. Helike Clopper "late widow of Cornelius Clopper ; being sicke." "Whereas my husband Shuart Olpherts hath with me signed certain deeds, at my instance, for the better satisfaction of purchasers and my children, my children are to give him security to be held harmless in the same." Leaves all the rest of estate to her children of their heirs, namely
- 1/6 to the 3 children of my eldest son Johanes Clopper, Eightie, Cornelis and Anatjie.
- 1/6 to my son Cornelis Clopper.
- 1/6 to my daughter Margaret, wife of Ophert Shuarts,
- 1/6 to Catalia, wife of John Stevens
- 1/6 to Peternell, wife of Albertus Van de Water
- 1/6 to Dinah, wife of Wm. Cooley.
- My son in law Olpherts Shuarts is to have the ground adjoining his lot as far as Nicholas Autom Bogart's land extendeth.
Proved ___, 1700.
Witnesses, Zacharias Sickles, Wm. Huddlestone.
[p 100]
Inventory of estate of Helike Peters, wife of Shuart Olpherts. Gold £48, 8, 7 1/2.
