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- Tami, Chris. New York City Wills, Vol. 9. Orem, UT: Ancestry, Inc., 1999.
Page 7.--"In the name of God, Amen, August 9, 1777. I, THOMAS BELKNAP, of the Precinct of Newburgh, in Ulster County, yeoman. All debts to be paid by my executors. Whereas it has pleased Almighty God to lay my beloved wife, Sarah Belknap, upon a bed of sickness and affliction. My sons, Thomas and John, are to have an inventory made of all my estate, and the interest to be applied to the support of my wife Sarah in a decent and comfortable manner, and they are to render an account to my executors. I leave to my daughter Sarah, wife of Isaac Belknap, œ30. To my son John œ60. I leave to my four sons, Thomas, Joseph, John, and Jonathan, all the rest of my real and personal estate, and make them executors."
Witnesses, Cornelius Wood, Moses Hunt, Nathaniel Hutchins. Proved in Duchess County May 8, 1778.
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