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- Married and had one daughter, Hester who married General William Colfax of Pompton.
History of the City of Paterson and the County of Passaic, New Jersey, page 308
I I . Christinetje, bap. Oct. 8, 1738; m. Casparus
Schuyler (b. Dec. 16, 1735, son of Philip Schuyler and
Hester Kingsland), and lived in a small frame house on the
northeast side of the Paterson and Hamburgh turnpike
road, near the corner of what is known as Wanaque avenue,
in the present Borough of Pompton Lakes. Pier father, by
his will, d a t e d June 25, 1785, devised to her "the Lott of
Land I purchased from Abraham Garritse containing two
hundred acres lying and being on Hardins plains for and
dureing her Natural life and after her decease if She
Should leave a Child or Children then I give devise and
bequeath the equal half part or moiety of said tract of
Land to be taken off the North side thereof, to such Child
or Children after they a t t a in the age of twenty one and to
their heirs and assigns for ever." In a codicil, dated Nov.
2, 1785,2 he recites t h a t his daughter Christinetie is dead,
and devises said moiety to his granddaughter, Esther Colfax,
in fee. Issue: Hester (Esther), m. Capt. William Col-
1 l b . , 257-9.
2 This will was witnessed by James Christie, Cornelius Hennion and
William Drummond. The codicil was witnessed by Arent Schuyler,
Clemens McMikin and Adonijah Schuyler. Proved June 4, ijgo.—E. J .
Wilts, Liber No. 31, f. 531.
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