i88                  THE VAN DYKE FAMILY

Ensign of Foot. In 1700, he was commissioned Captain by
Richard (Coote) Earl of Bellomont. In September, 1726,
he sold for £1676 to his son-in-law, Capt. Rutgent Van
Brunt, who had married his daughter Jannetji, his home¬
stead in New Utrecht with sixty acres of land and also a
large tract of land at Canarsie, N. Y.

He died in 1736, leaving a last will and testament bearing
date May 16, 1735, which was admitted to probate in New
York County, November 9, 1736, and is recorded in the
Surrogate's office in Liber 13 of Wills, page 35. The witnesses
to the will were Cornelius Van Brunt, Joost Van Brunt,
Theodore Elsworth, and Christopher Codwise. The pre¬
amble to the will is as follows:

'' In the Name of God, Amen. I, John Van Dyck of New
Utrecht, in Kings County, on the Island Nassau, in ye
Province of New York, Yeoman, being of perfect health, both
in body and mind, and knowing the certainty of death and
uncertainty of the time of its approach, Do make this my
Last Will and Testament in manner and form following
First I bequeath my soul to God who gave it, my body to the
earth from whence it came to be decently interred at the
discretion of my executors hereafter named, in certain hopes
of Resturection and the Union of my body and soul at the
last day and of Eternal Life through the soJe merits of my
blessed Saviour Jesus Christ and as to what wordly estate
God hath pleased to Bestow upon me and that shall belong
to me at the time of my Dec'se after my just debts and
funeral expenses are paid and satisfied, I give, devise and
bequeath of the same in manner and form following."

By his wiU he gave to his children *' John Van Dyck, Mattys
Van Dyck, Catherine, widow of Daniel Hendrickson, Jannetji,
wife to Capt. Rutgers Van Brunt, Angennetj, wife to Simon
De Hart" all his personal estate after paying legacies; to his
grandson John Stephens, fiYe shillings; to his granddaughter,
Teuntji, widow of John Sleigh, £25; to his grandchildren
''the children of my daughter Catleyntje deceased which
was the wife of Garret Ketteltas in number 3 sons and 3
daughters each 5 shillings"; to his ''great grandson John Van