what might be found therein inclosed Item-I do bequeath to my said son and his daughter Judith And to my Eldest sons two children Each and Every one of them an equall quarter part of my Linen none Excepted and do order that the portion of my said Sons daughter Judith shall be delivered and left in the Custodye and keeping of her grandfather Mr. William Beeckman and that of My Eldest Sonns Children In the hands Custodye and Keeping of My Cousen Nicholas Item I doe bequeath more to my Said sons daughter Judith all my Testracies Wearing apparrell of silk and Woolen belonging to my body Together with a Summe of One thousand Gilders Wampum value to bee paid Unto att the time of her comeing to due age without any Rent or Interest Item I doe further bequeath to my said son Nicholas William Stuyvesant* all my Testatricies china Earthen ware except the three great potts And Lastly I doe bequeath to my Cousen Nicholas Bayardt As an acknowledgement from my selfe My black Cabbinett of Ebbon wood with the foot or frame belongeing to itt Together with the three great China Potts before reserved And I doe further hereby Appoint and Confirme my said Cousen Nicholas Bayard and my sayd Son Nicholas William Stuyvesant to be the Sole Executors of my last will and testament with full and ample power for to settle and State my testatrices affaires and accounts As well Receipts as disbursements.

And further to doe act, accomplish and performe In all respects as all Executors Established by Wills of Right can and ought to doe Provided allwayes that my said Son Nicholas William Stuyvesant be in all things Observant to this my Last will and testament and shall Remaine Satisfyed with all and Whatsoever therein Is

* Nicholas William Stuyvesant was born in New Amsterdam in 1648, and died about 1698. He was twice married. His first wife was Maria Beekman, daughter of William Beekman. She had two children. The marriage was in 1672. His second wife, to whom he was married in 1681, was Elizabeth Slechtenhorst, of Albany. By her he had six children.

+ Nicholas Bayard was a relative of Governor Stuyvesant. He was a brewer. He filled several offices under the Dutch, was Mayor in 1685, and a member of the Provincial Council for years. He was very active in the Anti-Leislerian party, and when the Leislerians came into power again was tried for treason, convicted, and sentenced to death. His sentence was reversed on an appeal to England. He died in the year 1711.

Assigned unto him. But in Case it should happen (which God forbid) that my said Son directly or Indirectly did oppose him selfe against the same, Then and in such case the sole Executorship shall bee only left to my Sayd Cousen Nicholas Bayard and my said Son shall be wholly Excluded from the same all the premises above recited I underwritten Testatrice (being now Sickly in body butt of perfect Sences in memorie and understanding) doe hereby declare to bee my Last will and testament, desireing that the tennor hereof to all Intents and purposes may be observed and these presents bee held deemed and Reputed of the same power, force and virtue As if the same was Inserted and Comprehended in the midst and body of the Inclosed testament although all formalityes In Law Required herein Nott fully are observed, deeming the same in the best forme as if the same were Inserted.

In wittness Whereof I have hereunto putt my hand and seale In New Yorke the first day of december Ao 1684. JUDITH STUYVESANT. (Seal.)

Signed and Delivered

in the presence of

WILL BEECKMAN

JOHANNES VAN BRUGH

N. BAYARD

Will probated 16th day of March, 1686.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES.

BACKER JACOBUS, an early settler, who kept a store in Beaver street, at the lower end. In 1663, being then in Holland, he was, in company with Jeremias Van Rensselaer, instructed to bring the affairs of his colony before the authorities there.

BAKER GARDINER. See p. 86. It may be added that he finally failed in business, and was obliged to sell out his museum. One of his daughters was the mother of Hooper C. Van Vorst, of the Supreme Court, and first President of the Holland Society, who died in October, 1889.

BANYAR GOLDSBROW, an Englishman who arrived here in the colonial era, was born in London in the year 1724. At thirteen years of age he came to this country, and apparently received a legal education. He was Auditor-General in 1746, and was Deputy Clerk of the Council for some time. In 1752 he was appointed Register of the Court of Chancery, and in the following year Judge of Probate. He remained in public office until the termination of the British rule, then going to Albany, where he filled some offices under the State Government. He was married in 1767 to Elizabeth Mortier, daughter of the British Paymaster-General. She died in 1809, and he died in 1813, aged ninety-one years. He left a large estate to his family. BARBARIE JOHN, a French Huguenot, was a merchant in this city, and a prominent officer in the French Church. In politics. he was an anti-Leislerite. Ile was a member of the Provincial Council for several years, and died in this city about the year 1727.

BARCLAY HENRY, D. D., rector of Trinity Church, New York, was born in Albany, and was graduated at Yale College in 1734. He went to England, where he was ordained, then being appointed missionary to the Mohawk Indians. In this capacity he served for several years, when he was called to take charge of Trinity Church, thus remaining until his death in 1765. A translation of the Prayer-Book into the Mohawk language was made under his direction and that of the Rev. W. Andrews and

the Rev. John Ogilvie, which was printed in 1769, after many difficulties. He was succeeded by Mr. Ogilvie.

BARD JOHN, a well known physician, was born in Burlington, New Jersey, February 1st, 1716. He was the son of Peter Bard, a native of France, who came to Maryland in 1703 as a merchant, soon after removing to New Jersey, where he was for many years a member of the Council and a Judge of the Supreme Court. The son received his early education under the care of Mr. Annan, of Philadelphia, one of the most eminent teachers on the continent. He was at the age of eighteen bound apprentice to the celebrated Dr. Kearseley, with whom he continued till 1737. He now engaged in practice, which speedily became large, but in 1743, in consequence of repeated applications from New York, which then had few physicians, he removed here. In the year 1795, when the yellow fever drove most of the physicians from their posts, he remained at his, although then about eighty years old. He did not relinquish attendance upon his patients until May, 1798, when he removed to his country house at Hyde Park, near Poughkeepsie. He died March 30, 1799, in consequence of a paralytic stroke. Dr. Bard was eminent in his profession, and his practice was very extensive. He possessed a singular ingenuity and quickness in discriminating diseases. In the early part of his life he devoted much attention to polite learning, but nothing was ever published by him.

BARNES DANIEL H., a conchologist, who died in the meridian of life October 27, 1818. He and Dr. Griscom originated and conducted with great reputation a high school in this city. He was also a Baptist preacher. On Sunday, the day before his death, he preached at New Lebanon from the text, "Ye know not what shall be on the morrow;" on the next day, while out in a carriage, the driver having been thrown from his seat by some obstruction, Mr. Barnes in his alarm jumped from the carriage, fractured his skull, and died soon after. He was esteemed the first conchologist of the day. His learned communications on shells were published in Silliman's Journal, with explanatory plates.

BAYLEY RICHARD, an eminent physician of this city, studied physic with Dr. Charlton. In 1769 or 1770 he attended the

London lectures and hospitals. Returning in 1772, he commenced practice with Dr. Charlton. In the Autumn of 1775 he revisited England in order to make further improvement under Dr. Hunter, and spent the Winter in dissections and study. Next year he returned as surgeon in the English army under Lord Howe. He resigned in 1777 and returned to New York. In 1781 his letter to Hunter on the croup was published, in which he recommends the active treatment of that disease. In 1787 he began delivering lectures on surgery. The next year, on the 13th of April, a mob destroyed Dr. Bayley's valuable anatomical cabinet. This was in consequence of dissected portions of human bodies having imprudently been shown to the public. For three or four days. the mob paraded the streets, and few physicians' offices escaped without damage. In 1792 he was elected professor of anatomy at Columbia College, but in 1793 he took the department of surgery, in which he was very skillful. Two years later he was made Health Officer. During the prevalence of the yellow fever he fearlessly attended upon the sick, and investigated the disease. He published his essay on this fever in 1797, maintaining that it had a local origin and was not contagious. He also published a series of letters upon the subject. The State quarantine laws originated with him. In August, 1801, an Irish emigrant ship, with ship fever, arrived. He found the crew, passengers and baggage huddled in one unventilated apartment, contrary to his orders. Entering it only a moment, a deadly sickness at the stomach and intense pain in the head seized him, and on the seventh day he expired, aged fifty-six.

BEACH ABRAHAM, D. D., an Episcopal clergyman, was born at Cheshire, Connecticut, September 9th, 1740, and was graduated at Yale College in 1757. He was ordained priest by the Bishop of London in June, 1767. For seventeen years, including the period of the Revolution, he discharged the duties of his office at New Brunswick, New Jersey. After the peace he was called to the city of New York, as an assistant minister of Trinity Church, where he remained about thirty years, and then returned in 1813 to his farm on the Raritan to pass the remainder of his days. He died September 11th, 1828, aged eighty-eight years.

BETHUNE DIVIE, a philanthropist, was born in Dingwall, county