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EARLY RUMBAUTS
The Rumbaut surname reached the Americas as early as the 17th
century. Following is a will, from what was not yet then New York City, for
which the main witness was one Francis Rumbaut.
In the Abstract
of Wills, Volume VI 1760 - 1766, the will of Christopher Hoogland
is given as follows:
Thomas
Dongan, Lieutenant-General and Governor, to all, etc. Know ye
that at a Court of Records held in New York on Tuesday the 11 of May, 1686, the
will of CHRISTOPHER HOOGLAND was proved, and his wife Catharine was confirmed
as administratrix, April 14, 1687.
In
the name of God, Amen.
Know all men, who shall see this Publick instrument,
that in the year after the Nativity of our Lord and Saviour,
Jesus Christ, 1676, the 12th day of March, on Monday in the afternoon about 5
o'clock, did appear in their own persons before me Wm. Bogardus,
Notary Public, residing in New York, admitted by the Rt. Hon. Lord Edmund Andross, Governor-General, in the behalf of his Royal
Highness, James Duke of York and Albany, etc., and in the presence of the
underwritten witnesses. Mr. Christopher Hoogland and
Mrs. Catharine Cregier, joined in marriage, living
within this city and both well known to me and to the witnesses, the testator
being sickly, and the testatrix going and standing and sound of body, but both
using fully and absolutely their sences, memory and
speech."
They have
nominated and instituted their children, Dirck,
Harman, Martin, Christopher and Frances DeGroot Hoogland, and the children which they may by the blessing
of God get in the future, their lawful descendants and heirs equally and that
the eldest son shall not pretend any prerogative therein. And further the
testators out of special love and natural affection in matrimony received, and
if God pleases to be received, declare that the whole estate shall go to the
survivor for life. If the survivor remary, an equal
division is to be made between the children, and they are to be caused to learn
to read and write, and a trade by which they may live, and when they come of
age they shall receive their portions and the survivor is not to diminish the
right of the children but rather to help and assist them. And it is their will
that the survivor shall not be obliged to give any account of the estate to the
orphan masters of this city "or where the funeral house may be," or
to the testator's friends, excluding them, "All Laws and Statutes to the
contrary notwithstanding.
Done
at New York in the house of the testators in the presence of Mr. Francis Rumbaut and Paul Richards, merchants.
Translated
from the Dutch, by P. Delanoy.
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