Item.-- I will and Direct that in case after the Decease of my s'1 Dear wife itt should so happen (which God prevent) that if any of my sons should be visited by the hand of God by any Distemper, sickness or accident and thereby or otherwise be rendered uncapable or unable of making a propper choyse for themselves then my overseers to whose prudence and Descretion I leave the full management of this matter; have power upon such division of my read Estate afores1 such Lott and part thereof and to assign, allow, divide and lay out to such of my sons soe visited as they shall judge most fitt and proper for his or their shares, maintanance and support.

Item. -- I give and devise and bequeath to every one of my said children and such other child or children itt shall please God to bless me with, that is to say to those who are not already provided for, in this maimer by me and what in my life time shall not by me be thus provided for, a lott of ground within the city of New York for the building a convenient dwelling house in w*'1' it is my Desire my Executrix with the Advice and consent of my said overseers shall allott, lave out and possess them of respectively as each of my sons attain the age of one and twenty years and my Daughters as they attaine to those years or be married to have and to hold them my said children respectively and to their heirs and assigues for ever. _