Pieter Schenck
BIRTH: 1696
New York, USA
DEATH: 14 Sep 1736 (aged 39–40)
BURIAL
Prospect Cemetery
Jamaica, Queens County, New York, USA
Son of Johannes Schenck and Magdalena de Hass.
Barbara A. Barth, "The Family of Dirck Janszen Woertman of Brooklyn Ferry", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vols. 132-133 (2001-2002): 132:200.
Pieter Schenck was born circa 1696.
Ibid.
He married Lijsbeth Woertman, daughter of Teunis Dircksen Woertman and Catrijna Sprong, circa 1720.
Ibid.
Will dated 29 July 1736 proved 12 Dec 1738. Peter Schenck, of Newtown, being sick. I leave to my wife Elizabeth the whole use and benefit of all estate during her widowhood. I leave to my son Thomas ("and to the child that my wife is now bigg with, and if born, and it please God that it will be a son, his name shall be called Peter Schenck") all my plantation whereon I now live, both land and meadow. After the death of my wife they shall have £200. I leave to my daughter Catarina, £50. Legacies to daughters Marthelina, Phebe, Margaret, and Cornelia. If the expected child is a daughter, she shall have the same as the rest, and her name is to be Elizabeth. I leave to my son John £300, to be put at interest for his support during his life. I makke my wife Elizabeth, and my honored father John Schenck and Captain Charles Duryee, and John Schenck of Bushwick, in Kings County, executors. Witnesses: William Van Duzen, John Collier, Judah Ganel.
New York (County) Surrogate's Court Abstracts of Wills on File in the Surrogate's Office, City of New York (Vol. III 1730-1744), Collections of the New York Historical Society (New York: Printed for the Society, 1894), page 242. Peter Schenck. Abstracting Lib. 13, p. 167.
Children by Lijsbeth Woertman b. 10 Mar 1700:
Cattryna Schenck b. 29 Aug 1721, d. 22 Mar 1796
Teunis Schenck b. 9 Feb 1723
John Schenck
Magdalena Schenck
Phebe Schenck
Margaret Schenck b. 1732
Cornelia Schenck b. 15 Nov 1734, d. 3 Mar 1793
Elizabeth Schenck b. 1736
Barbara A. Barth, "The Family of Dirck Janszen Woertman of Brooklyn Ferry", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vols. 132-133 (2001-2002): 132:201.
T.G. Bergen, "Contributions to the History of the Early Settlers of Kings County, N.Y.", New York Genealogical & Biographical Record vols. 9-11 (1878-1880): 11:68.
Pieter Schenck died on 14 September 1736.
Barbara A. Barth, "The Family of Dirck Janszen Woertman of Brooklyn Ferry", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vols. 132-133 (2001-2002): 132:200.
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