Meindert Doodes

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Born: Abt. 1617 Holland



Married: 22 Dec 1641


Died: Aft. 13 Dec 1677   Christ Church Parish, Middlesex County, Virginia
  In the name of God, Amen! I, Maindort Doodes, being in body of sound and perfect memory doe ordain this my Last will and Testament.  First I doe bequeath my sole to God that gave it; and my body to be buried in Christian buriall at the descretion of my Executors or Executrix hereafter named.

Item.  My Debts being firste paid.  I leave my hole personall estate in the hands of my loving wife Mary Doodes during the time of her widowhood and of inkase she should marry again then my will is that my sonne Doodes Minor's children shall have the one half of my negros forthwith delivered into the possession of their Father for the sole use and behouf of them while such time, that it shall please God to take him away, and the Rebound to the use of their Mother during the time of her widowhood and afterwards to them solely and Inkase of the mortality of Ither without issue the survivor to succeed there on: and the other half to be forthwith delivered into the possession of Peter Montague for the sole use of their children and Inkase of the mortality of Ither of them without issue the Survivor to succeed thereon as above said; and soe to Remain them and their Increase male and female and not to souled or Morgaged; and free Increase Males and female and not to be morgaged and further my will is that the two ould negroes Degoet and Pallis his wife shall serve, but ten years after my desease, then then to be free and Doe make my loving wife Mary Doodes, and my loving friend William Chance my sole Executor & Executrix to see my will truly performed in witness where of I here with set my hand and seal the 13th day of December, 1677.  And none of my other Negroes to serve any longer than forty five years an sole them or their Increase.

Maindort Doodes    (Seal)

WIFE

Mary Geret

CHILDREN

Mary Goodes

Meindert Doodes anglicized his name to Minor Doodes and as was in the Dutch custom, the children took as their last name, the first name of their father.

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Source: The Minor Family of Virginia by John B. Minor 1923 pg 4

Inscriptions taken from an old bible belong to the author's father.

Maindort Doodes was a wealthy Holland merchant and ship owner.  "Along with four other compatriots Maindort Doodes and his son Doodes Minor were naturalized by an act of 'a Grand Assembly holden in James Cittie the twentieth day of September in the twenty-third year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord the King that now is, and in the year of our Lord 1671.'

Pg. 115

"The above will of Maindort Doodes is sealed with the wax impression of a galley, Maindort Doodes being a sea captain."

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Data base called: Virginia Heraldica.
"On the will of Minor Doodes at Urbanna, Middlesex, dated 13 Dec., 1677, is a seal, bearing the impression of a 17th Century ship with three masts and resting on water.