Know all men by these presents, that, I, Stcphanus Tan Cortlandt, of the city of New Yorke, merchant, being distempered in body, but of good, sound and perfect memory, praised be Almighty God therefore do make, publish, and declare; this my last will and testament, (this 14th day of Aprill, in the j'ear of our Lord God and Saviour Jesus Christ, one thousand seven hundred, in the twelfth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord William Third, King of England, Scotland and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c.,) in manner and form following, that is to say, I bequeath my soul into the hands of the Almighty God my Heavenly Father, from whom I received it, and by whom of his inker grace I trust to be saved and received into His eternall rest, through the merrittsof my dear Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Christ. My body, in hopes of a joyful resurrection, I committ to the earth, to be buried in such decent manner and form as any Executrix hereafter named, shall think fit and convenient and touching the Distribution of what temporal Estate it hath pleased God to endow me withal in this world, I dispose of the same as folloeth That is to say Imprimis I will that all such Depths as I shall happen to owe to any Person or Persons at my Decease shall be truly Paid by my Execrutrix.

Item I devise and bequeath unto my eldest son Johnannes Yan Cortlandt (After the decease of my beloved wife) all that Neck and Part of my land on the East Side of Hudson's River at the Entering of the Highlands just over against a certain place called Haverstroo and is known by the Indians by the name of Moanagh being to be Separated and Divided from my other lands on that side of the river called Appamapagh by a certain Creeke called Moanagh and bounded on the other side by the other side of the Creeke that runs between my laud and the land of Rich Abrams and others together with the meadows that lies on the said Neck and all the buildings and other improvements made or to be made on the said land according to the agreement by mee made to the several persons now settled therein (which agreement my will is that my said Executrix, my said son and overseers herein aftcrnamed. shall take care and se that the same be fully observed, performed and kept according to the true intent and meaning thereof).