Henry Peterson 
M, (26 December 1728 - )
- Relationship
- 3rd great-grandson of Herman Op Den Graeff
Henry Peterson was born on 26 December 1728 at Middletown, New Castle County, Delaware Colony, America. He was the son of Andrew Peterson and Hester VanBibber.
Henry Peterson From Gary R. Hawpe, ed. and Jeannie B. Lane comp., 'Last Will and Testament of Henry Peterson,' Van Bibber Pioneers E-Newsletter, Vol. 4 No. 7 (May 2001), pp. 7 - 8.
LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF HENRY PETERSON
In the name of God, Amen, I, Henry Peterson, Esquire, born the 26th day of December in the year of our Lord 1728, old style, at Middletown in New Castle County, on the Delaware River, in North America, being the son of Andrew Peterson Esquire, and of Hester Van Bibber, his wife, do hereby declare that in the year 1750 I went to visit my Mother s native city, Utrecht, and relations there, where I remained occupied in commerce till the year 1785, when I retired from the Dutch Republic as a British Loyalist and settled with my family in the town of Wakefield in Yorkshire in England, where I now reside: and that on my Father s dying in testate in the year 1740 his property, which was considerable, was divided by certain commissioners among his widow (my mother) and his eleven children then surviving him; on which occasion a plantation on certain lands need Middletown devolved on me by that division. In the year 1753 my younger brother, Andrew Peterson, died under age, when his land appointed to him by the said commissioners was divided in the same manner, a part of which also situated near Middletown was allotted to me as my share. All of which lands above mentioned with the houses and buildings thereon constitute my Real Estate in North America, which I have been enabled by the blessing of Divine Providence on my endeavors in a Foreign Country to retain, and to give all the rents and profits accruing from the same to my relations in Middletown aforesaid for their better support and as a mark of my affection. And I, being now in good health of body, also of a sound mind and memory, proceed to dispose of my American property by this, my Last Will and Testament, in the following manner.
I give and devise all my Real Estate standing and being near Middletown in North America aforesaid, unto my grand-nephew, Andrew Jacob Peterson, his heirs and assigns forever. He, having been born in the year of Our Lord 1792 and being the son of my late Nephew, Dr. Henry Peterson, who was the son of my brother, Jacob Peterson, also a physician, deceased in the year 1774, subject to the charged and chargeable with the payment of the sum of 500 pounds sterling, which I give and bequeath thereout and charge thereon to be paid by my said grand-nephew, his heirs and assigns at the time of my death, or if he is a minor then to be paid by his guardian and trustee, Dr. James Clayton, or whoever may act in that capacity at that time, into the hands of the Executors of this my last will and testament, hereinafter named (which sum I lent to his father, my late nephew, Dr. Henry Peterson, in the year 1793, who received the same or the value in American money from me through Rundle and Murgatroy, merchants in Philadelphia). The said sum of 500 pounds sterling to be so paid with interest on the same calculated at five per centum per annum to commence from the first day of January, 1797 and not before, which payments I direct to be made at the end of two years after my decease shall be known in America and this will produce there; and the said interest to continue payable from the first day of January, 1797 until payment of the said principal money. And if such payments be made as aforesaid then the said Real Estate which is now in the occupation of Mrs. Mary Reading, widow of Philip Reading, late of Middletown, aforesaid Esquire deceased, is to be delivered up to her by the said Andrew Jacob Peterson or his trustees; she receiving the rent thereof which shall be then nearly due and which I give to her. And I authorize her also to receive the profits thereof for her own use during two years after this my will shall be produced in America and up to the day of payment of payment of the said sum of 500 pounds and interest. And when and as soon as the said sum of 500 pounds sterling with the interest on the same from the said first day of January 1797 till payment thereof shall be made as aforesaid in American money at the then rate of Exchange in London, I request and order and direct my Executors then to divide that money into equal parts; one moiety of which I give and bequeath equally unto and amongst my three nieces, the daughters of the late Dr. James Wynkoop, late of Baltimore in North America, aforesaid deceased, whose maiden names are or were Mary Wynkoop, Hester Catherine Wynkoop, and Harriet Grace Wynkoop. And the other remaining moiety thereof I give and bequeath equally unto or amongst my five nephews and nieces, the children of the said Philip Reading, deceased, whose names are or were Philip Reading, Maria Reading, Catherine Anne Reading, Andrew Peterson Reading and Sally Eliza Reading; or however their names may be spelled or written, or to such of them as shall be alive when the time of such divisions shall arrive. But if default shall be made in payment of said sum of 500 pounds and interest according the directions hereinbefore given concerning the same, then I revoke and make void the said divisions of my said Real Estate so made to my said grand-nephew as aforesaid. And in that case I give the same Real Estate to the Executors of my will and heirs and assigns forever. And hereby authorize, direct and empower them my said executors, their heirs or assigns absolutely to sell, convey and dispose of the same; and to divide the rent proceeds whereof in money into two equal halves, one moiety of which I give and bequeath as above to the said three daughters of said Dr. James Wynkoop; and the remaining moiety to the said five children of the said Philip Reading deceased. And in order to facilitate any such sale, conveyance and disposition I hereby expressly will and declare that no purchaser or purchases of my said Real Estate or any part thereof shall be bound to inquire into or ascertain the fact of Refusal or Neglect to pay the said sum of 500 pounds and interest as the cause of a voidance of the said first mentioned devise; or shall be answerable or accountable for the misapplication or non-application or be bound to see the due application of the purchase monies to be paid for the same for that the receipt whereof acknowledged in writing under the hands of the executors and trustees of any two of them shall be a good and sufficient acquittance and discharge to such purchaser and purchasers paying the same both at law and in equity to all intents and purposes.
And lastly, I constitute and appoint Mary Reading, widow who now lives at Wilmington in New Castle County on the Delaware in North America aforesaid, Sidney George Esq. of Cecil County, Maryland in North America aforesaid and Mr. Nicholas Hammond, attorney at law in Talbot County, Maryland aforesaid, Executors of this my last will and testament, any two of whom are hereby authorized and empowered to act.
Witness for Henry Peterson:
Dav (?) Colvard x of Wakefield in Yorkshire
In the Kingdom of England
Attorney at law
William Pickard and Twistleton Haxby of the same place.
Henry Peterson From Gary R. Hawpe, ed. and Jeannie B. Lane comp., 'Last Will and Testament of Henry Peterson,' Van Bibber Pioneers E-Newsletter, Vol. 4 No. 7 (May 2001), pp. 7 - 8.
LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF HENRY PETERSON
In the name of God, Amen, I, Henry Peterson, Esquire, born the 26th day of December in the year of our Lord 1728, old style, at Middletown in New Castle County, on the Delaware River, in North America, being the son of Andrew Peterson Esquire, and of Hester Van Bibber, his wife, do hereby declare that in the year 1750 I went to visit my Mother s native city, Utrecht, and relations there, where I remained occupied in commerce till the year 1785, when I retired from the Dutch Republic as a British Loyalist and settled with my family in the town of Wakefield in Yorkshire in England, where I now reside: and that on my Father s dying in testate in the year 1740 his property, which was considerable, was divided by certain commissioners among his widow (my mother) and his eleven children then surviving him; on which occasion a plantation on certain lands need Middletown devolved on me by that division. In the year 1753 my younger brother, Andrew Peterson, died under age, when his land appointed to him by the said commissioners was divided in the same manner, a part of which also situated near Middletown was allotted to me as my share. All of which lands above mentioned with the houses and buildings thereon constitute my Real Estate in North America, which I have been enabled by the blessing of Divine Providence on my endeavors in a Foreign Country to retain, and to give all the rents and profits accruing from the same to my relations in Middletown aforesaid for their better support and as a mark of my affection. And I, being now in good health of body, also of a sound mind and memory, proceed to dispose of my American property by this, my Last Will and Testament, in the following manner.
I give and devise all my Real Estate standing and being near Middletown in North America aforesaid, unto my grand-nephew, Andrew Jacob Peterson, his heirs and assigns forever. He, having been born in the year of Our Lord 1792 and being the son of my late Nephew, Dr. Henry Peterson, who was the son of my brother, Jacob Peterson, also a physician, deceased in the year 1774, subject to the charged and chargeable with the payment of the sum of 500 pounds sterling, which I give and bequeath thereout and charge thereon to be paid by my said grand-nephew, his heirs and assigns at the time of my death, or if he is a minor then to be paid by his guardian and trustee, Dr. James Clayton, or whoever may act in that capacity at that time, into the hands of the Executors of this my last will and testament, hereinafter named (which sum I lent to his father, my late nephew, Dr. Henry Peterson, in the year 1793, who received the same or the value in American money from me through Rundle and Murgatroy, merchants in Philadelphia). The said sum of 500 pounds sterling to be so paid with interest on the same calculated at five per centum per annum to commence from the first day of January, 1797 and not before, which payments I direct to be made at the end of two years after my decease shall be known in America and this will produce there; and the said interest to continue payable from the first day of January, 1797 until payment of the said principal money. And if such payments be made as aforesaid then the said Real Estate which is now in the occupation of Mrs. Mary Reading, widow of Philip Reading, late of Middletown, aforesaid Esquire deceased, is to be delivered up to her by the said Andrew Jacob Peterson or his trustees; she receiving the rent thereof which shall be then nearly due and which I give to her. And I authorize her also to receive the profits thereof for her own use during two years after this my will shall be produced in America and up to the day of payment of payment of the said sum of 500 pounds and interest. And when and as soon as the said sum of 500 pounds sterling with the interest on the same from the said first day of January 1797 till payment thereof shall be made as aforesaid in American money at the then rate of Exchange in London, I request and order and direct my Executors then to divide that money into equal parts; one moiety of which I give and bequeath equally unto and amongst my three nieces, the daughters of the late Dr. James Wynkoop, late of Baltimore in North America, aforesaid deceased, whose maiden names are or were Mary Wynkoop, Hester Catherine Wynkoop, and Harriet Grace Wynkoop. And the other remaining moiety thereof I give and bequeath equally unto or amongst my five nephews and nieces, the children of the said Philip Reading, deceased, whose names are or were Philip Reading, Maria Reading, Catherine Anne Reading, Andrew Peterson Reading and Sally Eliza Reading; or however their names may be spelled or written, or to such of them as shall be alive when the time of such divisions shall arrive. But if default shall be made in payment of said sum of 500 pounds and interest according the directions hereinbefore given concerning the same, then I revoke and make void the said divisions of my said Real Estate so made to my said grand-nephew as aforesaid. And in that case I give the same Real Estate to the Executors of my will and heirs and assigns forever. And hereby authorize, direct and empower them my said executors, their heirs or assigns absolutely to sell, convey and dispose of the same; and to divide the rent proceeds whereof in money into two equal halves, one moiety of which I give and bequeath as above to the said three daughters of said Dr. James Wynkoop; and the remaining moiety to the said five children of the said Philip Reading deceased. And in order to facilitate any such sale, conveyance and disposition I hereby expressly will and declare that no purchaser or purchases of my said Real Estate or any part thereof shall be bound to inquire into or ascertain the fact of Refusal or Neglect to pay the said sum of 500 pounds and interest as the cause of a voidance of the said first mentioned devise; or shall be answerable or accountable for the misapplication or non-application or be bound to see the due application of the purchase monies to be paid for the same for that the receipt whereof acknowledged in writing under the hands of the executors and trustees of any two of them shall be a good and sufficient acquittance and discharge to such purchaser and purchasers paying the same both at law and in equity to all intents and purposes.
And lastly, I constitute and appoint Mary Reading, widow who now lives at Wilmington in New Castle County on the Delaware in North America aforesaid, Sidney George Esq. of Cecil County, Maryland in North America aforesaid and Mr. Nicholas Hammond, attorney at law in Talbot County, Maryland aforesaid, Executors of this my last will and testament, any two of whom are hereby authorized and empowered to act.
Witness for Henry Peterson:
Dav (?) Colvard x of Wakefield in Yorkshire
In the Kingdom of England
Attorney at law
William Pickard and Twistleton Haxby of the same place.
Last Edited=26 May 2004