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Title: Scandinavian immigrants in New York, 1630-1674; with appendices on Scandinavians in Mexico and South America, 1532-1640, Scandinavians in Canada, 1619-1620, Some Scandinavians in New York in the eighteenth century, German immigrants in New York, 1630-1674
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Evjen, John O. (John Oluf), 1874-1942
Subjects: Scandinavians -- New York (State) Scandinavians -- America Germans -- New York (State)
Publisher: Minneapolis, Minn., K. C. Holter
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Text Appearing Before Image:
"I, Sarah Rosenkrans, being in perfect health. I leave to my
dear mother, Magdalena Rosenkrans, all my estate, real and
personal, during her life, and after her decease as follows; To my
brother, Alexander Rosenkrans, 6 shillings. All the rest to be
divided into five parts; One part to my brother Hendrick, and
after his decease to his son Hermanns; One part to my brother
Dirck, and after his decease to his son Harsama; One part to my
sister, Rachel Van Gorden, and after her decease to Harma Van
Gorden; One part to my sister, Johana Davenport, and after her
decease to her son John; One part to my sister, Christina Cort-
right, and after her decease to her son Hendrick Cortright. I

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138 The Records of New Amsterdam, 1653-1674, VII., p. 200.
139 Collections of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, II.,
p. 52. Sara Dircks is called Sara Dircks de Noorman. Cf. Ibid., II., p. 55.
140 New York Colonial Documents, XIII., p. 115.
141 Hoes, Baptismal and Marriage Registers of the old Dutch Church of
Kingston (Esopus).
Text Appearing After Image:
PEDER JENSSQN, BAILIFF AND MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL OF BERGEN, NORWAY, 1640-1650.
From an etching by Jacob Maschius, of Bergen, about the middle of the seventeenth
century.

HENDRICKSEN. 67

leave to the children of Alexander Rosenkrans £30, viz.: Harma,
Helena, and Johanes. I leave to Helena Davenport, 1 shilling or
12 pence, New York currency. To Sarah Cole and Christian Van
Gorden, each 1 shilling. I make my brothers Hendrick and Dirck
executors. Witness, Dirck Krans, Dirck De Witt, William Cortright.
Proved in Ulster County, October 21, 1726. (See Collections
New York Historical Society, for the Year 1893, p. 372.)

Under date of May 19, 1700, Magdalena Rosenkranz was
sponsor at a baptism in Kingston.¹⁴²
Herman must have had considerable property, for under date
of January 19, 1681, a document, signed by five Indians, states:

"This day all the Indians have acknowledged that the land
called Easineh, which Kentkamin has given to Harmen Hendricksen
and Hendricus Beckman, shall belong to them and they may dispose
of it at their pleasure.

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