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Gerrit Pieterse Wijckoff, is listed on the roll of those who took the Oath of Allegiance in Kings County in the Province of New York on the 26-30th of September in 1687. [1] His place of residence is listed as Fflackland. (Flatlands). One son farmed on Long Island, and one moved to Monmouth Co., New Jersey, where his descendants, many of them, live. Rev. John H. Wyckoff, late missionary to India, deceased, is one of his descendants.
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GARRETT WYCKOFF. In the name of God, Amen, this 9 October, 1704. Be it known that I, Garett Wyckoff, of Flatlands in Kings County, on the Island o f Nassau, being at present very sick and weak. I leave to my loving wife Katharine, all estate of houses and lands, during her life, and 12 acres of land within the limitts of Gravesend . But if she remarry, then an inventory is to be made, and my eldest son Peter shall have half of the houses and lands when he is of age, and the other half after my wife's decease, and he is to pay to the other children, namely, Greetie, Adriane, Amke, Marytie and Janica, 450 , I give to my son Peter, a silver tankard, and my plows and harrows and all the tackling belonging to a farm. The testator makes provision for an expected child. I make my loving friends and brothers, Claas Wyckoff, Hendrick Wyckoff, Peter Wyckoff, Garett Stoothoff, and Peter Nevins, my executors. And they are to sell a 12 acre lot of land, lying at Ambrose Island, so called in the town of Gravesend. Witnesses, Jan Terhunen, James Amerman, Henry Filkin. Proved at Flatlands, July 12, 1707, and confirmed by Lord Cornbury. [2]
The farm of Garret Pieterse Wyckoff included a part of the original purchase of Pieter Claesen from Wolphert Gerritsen Couwenhoven, recorded in bills of sale 27 May 1652, 31 Mar 1655, an d 28 Sept 1658, and was part of the purchase by Andreas Hudde and W. G. Couwenhoven from the Indians, 16 June 1636, in Flatlands, where he lived. His will, dated 9 Oct. 1704, is in the New York Surrogate's Office. [3] probated 12 June 1707.
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The farm of Garret Pieterse Wyckoff included a part of the original purchase of Pieter Claesen from Wolphert Gerritsen Couwenhoven, recorded in bills of sale 27 May 1652, 31 Mar 1655, an d 28 Sept 1658, and was part of the purchase by Andreas Hudde and W. G. Couwenhoven from the Indians, 16 June 1636, in Flatlands, where he lived. His will, dated 9 Oct. 1704, is in th e New York Surrogate's Office (Wills, Vol. VII, Page 407) probated 12 June 1707.
The farm of Garret Pieterse Wyckoff included a part of the original purchase of Pieter Claesen from Wolphert Gerritsen Couwenhoven, recorded in bills of sale 27 May 1652, 31 Mar 1655, an d 28 Sept 1658, and was part of the purchase by Andreas Hudde and W. G. Couwenhoven from the Indians, 16 June 1636, in Flatlands, where he lived. His will, dated 9 Oct. 1704, is in th e New York Surrogate's Office (Wills, Vol. VII, Page 407) probated 12 June 1707.