- Hendrick Lott , son of Peter and Gertrude Lott, was born May 10, 1654, Flatbush, L.I., died 1728, Jamaica, L.I., married about 1684, Catrinade Witt , born May 10, 1654; died 1734, the daughter of Peter Jansen de W1tt.
After his marriage to Catrina De Witt, he and his wife settled at Jamaica, where he purchased thirty-seven acres of land of William Creed in 1683. He took the Oath of Allegiance at Flatbush 1687, and belonged to the Military Company
there. Lands mentioned in his will, which was dated April 15, 1728; and proved Sept. 6, 1728, were from a tract of twelve hundred acres at Millstone, NewJersey that he in partnership with Polhemius and Cortelyou bought in 1701. His will reads as follows:
1728. April 15. In the Nameof God, Amen. I, Hendrick Lodt, of Newtownein Queens county, Yeoman,being sick. All debts to be paid - I leave to my wife Catrina all the land and meadowbelonging to me in Kings county with all appurtenances - the present plantation on which I dwell, and which I bought of Richard Scudder, lying and being in the bounds of Newtown, and all mypersonal estate of every kind soever to her during her widowhood.
I leave to my son Peter Lodt my trooping horse pistols and holster and carbine for his right of first born. I leave to mysons Peter and Johannes all my lands and Meadowsin Newtownand all my lands in Jamaica after their mother's decease or marriage, and all mylands and meadows in Kings county and they are to pay their sister Dorothy, wife of William Remsen, Gertruyt, wife of Andries Onderdonck, and Mary £100 each within three years after they'come in possession. All my lands in Nova Caesaria (NewJersey), and all the rest of my estate I leave to my children. I make my wife and sons, Executors.
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