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SCHENECTADY DIGITAL HISTORY ARCHIVE
a service of the Schenectady County Public Library
[This information is taken from Early Records of the City and County of Albany and Colony of Rensselaerswyck, vol. 4, pp. 137-138. Edited by A. J. F. Van Laer, 1919 from a translation by Jonathan Pearson. Thanks to Carol Di Crosta for data entry.]
Inventory of the estate left by Jan Cock, a young man, who by the bursting of a cannon in their majesties' fort at Albany was killed on the 9th of February 1689/90, when the French destroyed Schenectady, made by Albert Ryckman and Jan Lansing, aldermen of the city of Albany.
1 hammock
4 shirts
1 linen breeches
1 plush breeches
1 broadcloth breeches
1 coat of cloth with handsome buttons
1 old cloth coat [and]
1 old broadcloth coat, [the two] sold by Katelyntie for 15 skipples of wheat
1 bombazine waistcoat
1 cloth waistcoat without sleeves
6 pairs of white thread stockings
3 pairs of silk stockings, 1 white and 2 colored
1 pair of sayette stockings
1 pair of sleeves without lace
2 pairs ditto with lace
4 cravats with lace
6 ditto without lace
1 silver spoon
1 hat, sold by Katelyntie for 2 pieces of eight
2 transverse flutes
1 razor
1 barrel and 1 lock for a gun
1 iron-bound chest
1 small trunk
3 pairs of gold buttons for shirts
1 small compass
5 dozens and 10 silver buttons for a waistcoat
1 gold ring
2 silver scruffies (small screws?)
30 pieces of eight and 6 quarter-guilders
8 pieces of eight that are due from Harpt. Jacobse
1 old Oeffeninge der Godtsaligheyt [Exercise of Godliness]
1 horse pasturing in the woods
The half of a yacht appraised by Jacob Lokermans and Hendrick Martense at thirteen hundred and twenty guilders seawan
By cash received for him by Catelyntie Jacobse, 131 gl. seawan
6 loot [4 ounces] baroque pearls
By cash due to him by Samson Bensing, 228 gl. seawan
By 30 gl. due to him from Killiaen Van Reselaer
said testator in the colony of Renselaerswyk aforesaid, this twelfth day of March 1703/4
Thus signed, sealed and delivered in presence of,
J. Abeel, Justis
David Schuyler, Justus,
Johannes Cuyler, Justis
Wessel ten Brook.
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