A History of the County of Westchester, Vol. I — Passage 33 (part 3)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] On the 14th of April, in the twelth year of the reign of William the Third, King of England, «fcc., Stephanus van Cortlandt made and published his last will and testament as follows: " Know all men by these presents, that I, Stephanus van Cort-landt, of the city of New York, merchant, being distempered in body, but of good, sound and firm memory, praised be Almighty God therefor, do make, ))ublish, and declare; this my last will and testament, (this 14th day of April, in the yeai* of our Lord God and Saviour Jesus Christ, one thousand and seven hundred, in the twelfth year of the reign of our sovereign lord William the Third, King of England, Scotland and Ireland, defender of the faith, (fcc.,) in manner and form following, that is to say, I be-queath my soul into the hands of the Almighty God, my heaven-