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Identifier: dutchnewyork01sing (find matches)
Title: Dutch New York
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Singleton, Esther, d. 1930
Subjects: Dutch Americans -- New York (State) New York New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs To 1775 New York (State) -- History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Jacob Marius; funeral: £ s. d. To 29 gallons of wyne at 6s. gd. per gallon 9 15 9 To 19 pairs of gloves at 2s. 3d. 2 43 For bottles and glass broke, paid o 3 7 Paid 2 women each 2 days attendance o 15 oPaid a suit of mourning for ye negro woman freed by ye testator and making 3 4 7i Paid for 800 Cokies and ih gross of Pipes at 3s. 3d. 6 7 7^ Paid for speys (spice) for ye burnte wyne and sugar o i iPaid to the Sexton and Bell ringer, for making ye grave and ringing ye bell 2 20 Paid for ye Coffin 400 Paid for gold and making 14 mourning rings 2 16 oPaid for 3 yards beaver stuff at 7s. 6d., buttons and making it for a suit of mourning i 14 6 Paid for ^ vat of single Beer 076 Whole amount of Funeral Charge is 31 6 8i Samuel Bayard. As at weddings silver medals were sometimes pre-sented either before or after a funeral. If presentedbefore, they were worn at the funeral. They were inall shapes, round, octagonal, oval, square, etc., some-times cast, sometimes engraved with the portrait of
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SILVER SPOONSRIJKS MlSEUM, AMSTERDAM BIRTHS AND DEATHS 263 the deceased, or with mythological figures, inscrip-tions in prose or verse, or sometimes only inscribedwith the date of birth and death of the deceased, withor without a verse from the Holy Scriptures. Some-times the design was a skull and crossbones surroundedby a wreath of laurels, and the dates were added whenthe medal was required. The memory of the deceasedwas perpetuated by these medals and by the legaciesof the rich to the church and the poor. There werefew rich burghers who did not leave generously to both.An enormous amount of money was also spent onthe carved tombstones.

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