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SOURCE: Frank Dawes, 2618 Flint Way, #243, San Bernardino, CA 92408, (909) 796-4571
7/27/02
I don't know if you have seen the attached will, so I will send it. I put in punctuation where I saw fit, so it would flow easier. I cound not find a will for Conrad Burghardt (1670 - 1750).
WILL OF HENDRICK BURGHARDT
Source: LDS Microfilm #879187, Volume 9, Pages 38 & 39, Hampshire County, MA, Probate Records
In the name of God, amen, the nineteenth day of October anno Domini, one thousand seven hundred & fifty-eight, I, Hendrick Burghardt, of Sheffield in the County of Hampshire in New England, yeoman, of perfect mind and memory thanks be to God for the same, yet calling to mind the mortality of my body & knowing that it is appointed for men once to die, do make & ordain this my last will & testament.
Principally & first of all I give & recommend my soul into the hands of God, who gave it hoping through the merits & satisfaction of my saviour, Jesus Christ, to have full & free pardon of all my sins & to inherit eternal life. And my body I commit to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my executor hereafter named, nothing doubting but at the General Resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God. And as touching such worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me within this life, I give, demise, & dispose of the same in the manner & form following.
First, I will that my funeral charges & all those debts & duties which I owe in right or conscience to any manner of person or persons whatsoever, shall be well & truly contented & paid or ordained to be paid in convenient time after my decease by my executor hereafter named.
I will and bequeath to my well beloved wife Eve Burghardt one-quarter part of my improved lands during her natural life for her use & improvement, also the use of one horse whensoever she shall have occasion. Also, one convenient room in the dwelling house, & one-third part of the cellar for her use. Also, my will is that my said wife shall have the best bed & bedding & household goods for her use & benefit forever.
I will & bequeath unto my son Conrade Burghardt one horse known by the name of Trooper, also my will is that my son Conrade shall have the two lots of wild land in the after divisions already laid out, the one lying on the west side of the river, the other on the east side of the river, bounding by Jacob Burghardt’s land, which together with what he has already received out of my estate, is all I design for him & is his full share, to be to him & to his heirs & assigns forever by him & them to be freely possessed & enjoyed.
I give & bequeath to my five duaghters, viz., Janica or Jane, Chesia, Margaret, Mary, Aca or Elenor, two rights of land laid out in the hopland (so called), & all the after draughts belonging to the same yet to be laid out, to be equally divided to & among them or their heirs, which together with what they have heretofore received out of my estate, is all I designate out of my estate, to be to them, their heirs & assigns forever by them to freely & peaceably possessed & enjoyed.
I will & bequeath to my son, Lambert Burghardt, to whom I likewise constitute & make & ordain my sole executor of this my last will and testament, all the residue of my estate, both real & personal, he paying & discharging as is before stated & directed, to him & to his heirs & assigns forever by him & them freely to be possessed and enjoyed. And I hereby utterly disallow, revoke, & disannul all & every other former testaments, wills, and legacies, bequests, & executors by me in any ways before this time named, willed, & bequeathed, ratifying & confirming this & no other to be my last will and testament. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & seal the day & year above written.
Signed, sealed, published, pronounced, & declared by the said Hendrick Burghardt as his last will & testament in the presence of us, the subscribers.
Isaac Van Deusen, Abraham Van Deusen, Samuel Brown
Hendrick Burghardt (seal)
At a Court of Probate holden at Northampton within & for the County of Hampshire on the second Tuesday of December, being the 12th day of said month anno Domini 1758, Timothy Dwight Esq., Judge of said Court, the foregoing will was yesterday presented for probate by the executor therein named & Samuel Brown and Abraham Van Deusen, two of the witnesses to the same, then personally appearing made oath that they saw Hendrick Burgardt, the testator, sign & seal & heard him pronounce & declare the same to be his last will & testament, & that he was of sound mind & memory when he did it & that they, with Isaac Van Deusen, all signed as witnesses to the same at the same time in presence of said testator & of each other. Wherefore it is now ratified, approved, & confirmed as the last will & testament of said deceased.
Timothy Dwight
[Note: Hendrick actually lived in what is now Great Barrington, which was known as the North Parish of Sheffield from 1742-1761. Great Barrington was officially formed in 1761, when Berkshire Co., MA was also established from Hampshire Co., MA, which was one of the original counties formed from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.]
SOURCE: 1766 TAX LIST CLAVERACK, COLUMBIA COUNTY, NEW YORK
[Claverack included the present towns of Hillsdale, Hudson and part of Ghent. It is now located in Columbia County. There are two slightly different copies of this tax list, written by different hands.]6
"THE LIST OF RENSELAER MENNOR OF CLAVERAC"
1 February 1766
157 Toghum van Valkeburgh 158 Coenraet Bogart
[Note: Conrad Burghardt m. Judick Van Valkenburg, and it is likely that they lived next door to her father, Jochem van Valkenburg, in Claverack, which extended all the way East to Hillsdale in 1766. Hillsdale is located just to the West of Great Barrington, Berkshire Co., MA.]
SOURCE: Cleveland, E. J. & H. G. 'Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families;' Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Co., Hartford, CT, 1899. [p. 2315-17]
"Conrad Burgett and family were driven out of NY in the Indian massacre during the Revolution into the Schoharie Valley, left large property there, m. Judick Van Valkenburg, who in above massacre, was shot through the body by an Indian, but recovered. Had 10 ch: Margaret m. Lemuel Cleveland; John; Lambert Burgett (the 9th ch.), whose daughter m. Isaac Ward of Painted Post, NY, whose son, Aaron Ward of Bath, claimed descent from Annetje Jans."
SOURCE: 'Remarkable Records of Rev. Gideon Bostwick, 1770-1793, Great Barrington, MA,' compiled by Arthur C. M. Kelly, Kinship, Rhinebeck, NY 1988.
The children of Conrad Burgett and Judick Van Valkenburg were all probably born in Schoharie Co., NY, but were baptized at the Zion Lutheran Church at Loonenburg [now Athens], Greene Co., NY; at Nobletown [now Hillsdale], Albany Co. [now Columbia Co.], NY by Rev. Bostwick of the St. James Episcopal Church of Great Barrington, Berkshire Co., MA; and at Great Barrington by Rev. Bostwick.
More About Conrad Hendrickse Burghardt: Baptism: 14 May 1727, DRC, Kinderhook, Columbia, NY. Residence: Schoharie Valley, NY.
More About Conrad Hendrickse Burghardt and Judick Jochumse Van Valkenburg: Marriage: 14 January 1749/50, Loonenburg [now Athens], Greene, NY.
Children of Conrad Hendrickse Burghardt and Judick Jochumse Van Valkenburg are:
Conrad Hendrickse Burghardt (b. Abt. 1727, d. date unknown)
Notes for Conrad Hendrickse Burghardt: