Sybout, and Abraham, living, and "dafter Maritie." Peter Buckbout and Jacob Dyktnan were the witnesses to the will. In this connection it is of interest to notice that his deceased grandson had made a will date of July 3, 1746, in which he gave his gold ring and all of his estate to his grandfather, Wolfert Ecker, Sr., although as appears by the will above quoted he must have left children of his own and probably a widow:

These wills show that Wolfert Ecker must have been quite aged at the time of his death, having had great-grandchildren, and by his second son, Sybout, as early as 1746, though he lived until sometime in 1753- Wolfert Ecker, Jr., was christened Apr. 18, 1721, and estimating from this data, the probabilities are that Wolfert, Sr., must have been upwards of eighty years of age at the time of his death. Plis wife Maritie survived him. Pie was evidently a man of property and character, and good business qualifications, for not only was he an Elder in the Old Dutch Church, but he was one of the first Assessors appointed for the Phillipsburgh Manor by the General Court as early as 1714. As will further appear, he was doubtless the ancestor of all of the name of Acker or Ecker who afterwards resided in this vicinage.

Wolfert was a Deacon of the old Dutch Church 1698, and an Elder 1706-7, and by the erection of his modest home, to which Irving gave the name of ' 'Wolfert' s Roost," indelibly, though unconscious!} attached his name to that locality for all coming time.