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| FATHER: | Franciscus Winne | MOTHER: | Anna | CHR: (2) | 14 Apr 1609 St. Baaf Cathedral(9), Ghent, Flanders, Netherlands (Now Belgium) | DIED: | bef 1693 Bethlehem, Albany, NY (4) (Will) | LDS Ancestral File No.: | 45QF-V1 (1) | MARR (1):(5) | Aechie Jans (Van Schauick) in the Netherlands | (born/chr.) | CHILDREN:(5) | Pieter Winne mar. Jannetje Albertsz | abt 1643 | Lavinius Van Schaick Winne mar. (1) Teuntje Martens (2) Willemtje Viele | abt 1647 | MARR (2):(5) | Tannetje Adams (3) abt 1658 probably Albany, Albany, NY | CHILDREN:(5) (Pearson's) | Frans Winne mar. Elsje Gansevoort | abt 1659 | Adam Winne mar. Annatie Lookermans | abt 1663 | Aletta Winne mar. Caspar Leendertse Conyn | abt 1666 | Kilian Winne | abt 1668 | Thomas Winne mar. Teuntje Janse Goes | abt 1670 | Jacobus Winne mar. Maritje Bronk | abt 1676 | Martin Winne mar. Margreta Simonse Van Winkle | abt 1677 | Rachael Winne mar. Jellis Fonda | abt 1677 | Daniel Winne mar. Dirkje Van Nes 16 Mar 1698 at Albany (6) | 1678 | Eva Winne mar. John Woodart | abt 1684 | Lyntje Winne mar. Hendrick Witbeck | abt 1684 |
| Pieter Winne (Winnen); also referred to as Pieter de Vlamingh (the Fleming); charged in the accounts with an annual rent of f275 and tithes from stubble time 1652 till May 1, 1655, for a farm apparently situated at Bethlehem, which on April 10, 1655 was taken over by Eldert Gerbertsz Cruyf; also with two years' rent of a sawmill, at f150 a year; and with two years' hire of two horses for the mill at f60 a year. He made a will, June 1, 1677 (Norlarial Papers, 2:11-13, Albany County clerk's office), in which it it stated that he was born in the city of Gent in Vlaenderen and his wife, Tannetie Adams, in the city of Leeuwarden in Vrieslandt. |
| Transcribed by Robert E. Winn March 2000 |
| Winne, Pieter, "born in the city of Ghent in flanders (now living in Bethlehem two miles south of the city of Albany" and Tannatje Adams his wife "born in the city of Leeuwaerden in Vrieslandt" made a joint will July 6, 1684. Letters of administration were issued to LiviniusWinne and Caspar Leendertse Conyn, Feb. 22, 1695-6; in 1697 his estate was valued at 860 peices of 8. In 1677 he baught of Volkert Janse Dauw, one half of Constapel's Island; Same year he baught of Nicolass Van Rensselaer, a sawmill in Bethlehem, late the property of Eldert Gerbertse Cruyft. He had the following children living in 1684: Pieter Pieterse b. 1643, living at Esopus; Adam; Livinus; Frans; Alette, w. of Caspar Leendertse Conyn; Kiliaan; Thomas; Lyntie; Marten; Jacobus; Eva; Daniel; Rachel. |
| Transcribed by Robert E. Winn March 2000; emphasis added |
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| WILL OF PIETER WINNE |
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[44] In the name of God, Amen. By the content of this present public instrument know all men that in the year after the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, one thousand six hundred and eighty-four, on the 6th of July, about midday, and inthe thirty sixth year of his majesty's reign, Charles the second, before me, Robert Livingston, secretaryof Albany, colony of Renselaerswyk and Shinnechtady, etc., and before the hereinafter named witnesses, came and appeared the HONORABLE Mr. Pieter Winne, magistrate, born in the city if Gent in d Landeren,53 at present sick in body but of sound memory and understanding as is clearly apparent, who, considering the shortness and frailty of human life, the certainty of death and the uncertainty of the time and hour thereof, therefore wishing to dispose of his temporal effects to be left behind while he yet by God's grace is able, and doing so of his own free will and motion, without the inducement or misleading of anyone, he now ordains and determines this his last will and testament in the form and manner following: First and foremost commending his immortal soul (whenever it shall be separated from his body) to the gracious and merciful hands of his Creator and Savior and his body to Christian burial. likewise [45] canceling, revoking and annulling thereby all and every such testamentary disposition and bequest as he before the date hereof may have made and executed, especially that will by himself and wife made under date of 1st of June 1677, written by Mr. Adriaen van Ilpendam, notary public, holding the same null and of no effect and now making a new dispositioin, this testator declares that he has nominated and instituted, as he does nominate and institute hereby, his worthy and beloved wife Tannetje Adams as his sole and universal heir of all his lands, property real and personal, clains, credits, money, gold, silver coined and uncoined, jewels, clothing, linen, woolens, household furniture, etc., nothing excepted, so lang as she remains in her widowed state, without her being called upon or annoyed by any one of the children, or anyone for them, for an inventory or anything appertaining to the estate and after her death shall his estate be equally divided among the children whome they have begotten together, share and share alike. But if his wife enters the marriage state again, then she shall be 53Intended for Gent in Vlaenderen, Ghen in Flanders. |
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holden to divide and apportion the whole estate; that is to say, a just half thereof as it then may be found to the behoof of the children whom he has begotten by his present wife aforenamed, namely, Adam Winne, Livinus, Frans, Allette, wife of Casper Leendertse Tenyn, 54 Killiaen, Tomas, Lyntje, Marte, Jacobus, Eva, Daniel and Rachael Winne; and the other half [46] to the behoof of his wife, with this reservation that she remain holden the minor children to bring up in fear of the Lord, and cause them to learn reading and writing and a trade or handicraft wherewith in due time they may, by God's favor, with honor obtain their subsistence, the legitimate protion of said minor children remaining so long in the hands of their mother aforesaid and the rents and profits thereof being by her received until they arrive at maturity and enter into matrimony, she giving good security that the portions of the minor children be not lessened; and to the other children who may be already married and have arrived at their majority to pay over their portions pro rata, as their shares in the estate may be, share and share alike, no more to the eldest than to the youngest; she being holden to deliver an inventory of the whole estate and confirm same, if necessary, by oath. the testator wills and ordins hereby that after his death his oldest son Pieter Pieterse Winne, dwelling in the Sopus, shall out of the common estate receive once for all the sum of ten beavers in place of his legitimate portion and entire inheritance, wherewith he shall be content, without any more, not willing that he or anyone for him shall make the least claim any more upon the testator's estate, directly or indirectly. the testator further desires that if it please God the Lord both him and his wife to remove, both now being sick, the whole estate shall be kept together, without any division or partition, until the youngest child shall attain her majority or enter into the marriage state, and then be divided among the aforesaid twelve children, share and share alike, the portion of that child or children who die in their nonage to go to the survivors. [47] the testator excludes herein the honored orphan masters (saving all honor and respect) and in their place requests and constitutes, as he hereby does, Mr Marte Gerritse and Mr Cornelis van Dyck (who have accepted the same) to see the contents of this his last will and testament promptly and uprightly carried out in all its parts and provisions. All which he, the testator, declares to be 54this should be Conyn |
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| his last will and testament, desiring the same after his death to have full force and effect whether as will, codicil, donation, gift in anticipation of death, or otherwise, as the same may be last maintained, notwithstanding that some formalities demanded by the law or custom may not have been fully observed herein; desiring the utmost benefit hereof to be received, and one or more copies hereof to be made and executed as ocasion may require. Thus done and executed at Bethlehem, lying in the county of Albany on Hudson's river, two miles south of the city of Albany, at the house of the testator, which [will] he has signed and sealed in the presence of Mr Marte Gerritse and Mr Cornelis van Dyck, magistrates called as witnesses hereto, the year, month and day aforenamed. |
| Transcribed by Robert E. Winn March 2000; emphasis added |
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| Release by Pieter Winne, junior, of his share of his mother's estate |
| [48] I, the undersigned, Pieter Winne, junior, eldest son of my father Pieter Winne, senior, acknowledge and declare that in love and friendship, without persuasion or deceit, I have well and truely agreed with my aforesaid father respecting the inheritence from my mother deceased; also that after my said father's death neither I, nor any of my heirs or assigns shall make any further claim thereto, either directly or indirectly, with or without legal proceedings, inasmuch as I acknowledge that I have received from my aforesaid father all that was heretofore agreed upon. I therefore thank him for good payment and release him and his heirs from all claims, the provision heretofore made in my father's will regarding that portion of the inheritence that was to come to me being hereby canceled and annulled. In witness of the truth of which, I have subscribed and sealed this without fraud or deceit, on the fourteenth day of September at Albany, 1689, being in the first year of |
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| the reign of our sovereign majesties of Great Britan, William and Mary. | |
| Was signed: | |
| Pr. Winne Junr. (L.S.) | |
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Signed, sealed and delivered
in our presence, Dirk Wessels } Albt. Ryckman } Justices of ye Peace55 | |
55Page 49 contains letters of administratin in English to Livinus van Schaik and Caspar Leendertse on the estate of their late father Pieter Winne, senior, dated February 26, 169 3/4. |
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| Release by the heirs of Pieter Winne for their respective portions of their father's estate |
| [99] Whereas Pieter Winne of the city and county of Albany, deceased, by his last will and testament dated the 31st of December1688 did bequeath and devise his estate, real and personal, remaining after his and his wife's death and the payment of all of his debts, to his youngest son Daniel Winne, on condition that he pay to his brothers and sisters within six following years, each year a just sixth part, [their portion of the estate] according to appraisal made by impartial persons, [said estate] to be divided among said brothers and sisters share and share alike; and whereas the court of Albany has appointed as administrators of the estate Livinus Winne and Casper Leendertz and as apraisers Jacob Lokermans, Luyks Gerritz, Gerrit van Nes and Anthony Bratt, who have appraised the same at the sum of two hundred and fortyone pounds, sixteen shillings current money and whereas there are eleven heirs, to each of whom there is coming for his portion L 21-19-71/? and after the appraisal some debts against the estate have come in amounting to [amount on my copy not legible] by that there remains due to each L 21-7-71/?; and whereas Eva Winne died after having received five yearly portions and |
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| Frans Winne, as guardian of her children, has received the sixth or last part, being L 3-2, and Marte Winne has deceased and left a child to whom there is due as his inheritence L 11-14, which Frans Winne, guardian of the aforesaid child, has received; and whereas Adam Winne, eldest son of the testator, died before the appraisal or partition of the estate was made, so that Livinus Winne, guardian of the children of his brother Adam Winne, deceased, has received the full portion of the inheritance left, to wit, L 21-7-71/2; therefore we, the undersigned, heirsof the estate of Pieter winne, deceased, acknowledge and [100] declare that we have been fully satisfied for our inheritance, real and personal, that we have no further claims, whether large or small, against the estate, and that this shall serve as a general acquittance for the same. Given under our hands in Albany this 29th day of January 1703/4. | |
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Livinus L. W. Winne mark | |
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Casper K L Leenderse mark | |
| Frans Winne | |
| Jelles Vonda | |
| Hendrik Janse | |
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Jacob I W Winne mark | |
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Teuntie T Winne mark | |
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Daniel X Winne mark |