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- RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. FHL book "The Cossart Family," by Joseph A. Cossairt, 1936, pp. 52-55:
"COSSART, COSART, COSSAIRT, CASSAIRT, COSSAART, COESART, COSAT, COSSATT, KOSSART, COZAT, COZATT, CASSAT, CASSATT, COZART, ETC.
157. Francis Cossart, son of David Cossart (9), baptised at the Dutch Church, New York City, July 21, 1717. Witnesses to his baptism were his uncle and aunt, Jacob Goelet and Catherine Boele.
It will be seen that Francis became of age in or about 1738 and evidently married about this time as his eldest child Madalena we find was baptised at the Raritan Dutch Church October 17, 1740. His wife Margaret Van Nest was baptised at this same church October 14, 1719, she being the daughter of Peter Van Nest and his wife (second) Catharine Jans. David Cossart (9) father of Francis had now been dead less than a year when Madelena was born. About a month later we find Francis and Margaret sold the following described tract of land in Middlesex County: "Francis Cosart and wife Margaret of Piscataway Township, Middlesex County, yeoman, to Johnathan Dunn of Elizabethtown, Essex County - Plantation of 162 acres which Cosart bought of Peter Williamson and Williamson bought of Even Drummond and James Alexamder Esqrs., May 17, 1736 it being in Piscataway Township." See Volume E2, page 479, New Jersey Deeds, Trenton, N.J.
The foregoing deed indicates that Francis and Margaret must have been housekeeping in Piscataway Township, Middlesex County where their first child was born. In the proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society (1894) 2nd Series, Volume 13, pp. 89-94; Freeholders of Middlesex County, Piscataway Township (1750) the list contains the name of Francis Cosart. Ibid 3rd Series (1896) Volume 1, pp. 105-109. Piscataway Township in Middlesex County adjoins Bridgewater Township in Somerset County and Francis owned property lying on both sides of the line. Green Brook a very small stream separates these counties on the property that was owned by Francis.
Freeholders of Middlesex County, Piscataway Township, December 14, 1752, the list again contains the name of Francis Cosart. The History of Somerset County on page 660 shows that on March 17, 1750 Francis Cosart was elected assessor for Bridgewater Township (wherein Bound Brook and Raritan, now Summerville, are located). In 1915 the late O.L. Cozad says: "Mr. Van Doren Honeyman of Plainfield, who is the present Secretary of the New Jersey Historical Society and also the editor of the Somerset Historical Quarterly, informs me that he has in his possession a Somerset County Record which shows that on May 23, 1729 David Cosart (9) purchased a 100 acre tract of land lying north-west of Bound Brook. Reference to the New Jersey Map will show that the Somerset-Middlesex County line runs almost due north-west from Bound Brook to Fairfield. My supposition is that this 100 acre tract purchased by David in 1729 must have lain on both sides of the Somerset-Middlesex County line, and that it was this same 100 acres that was devised to his son Francis (see David's will)." If this hypothesis be correct and Francis built his residence on the Bridgewater Township line while part of his land extended across the line into Piscataway Township, he could in that case be elligible to election as an Assessor in Bridgewater Township, Somerset County at the same time to listed as a Freeholder or land owner in Piscataway Township, Middlesex County. As the baptismal records of all the children of Francis and Margaret are found in the Raritan church it indicates that they remained in the vicinity of Bound Brook up until about 1764 or 1765 when they in company with other Somerset and Bergen County families set out for the Connewago Valley in what was then York (now Adams) County, Pennsylvania.
The New York Military records show that a Francis Cossart served in Captain McMaster's Company, Colonel Fisher's Regiment, New York State Troops. Many have thought that this referes to Francis then living in the Conewago Pennsylvania settlement, but he is said to have been a man of such abnormal size (being so large, it is said, that his three sons after they were grown to manhood, and large men, could be standing closely together, button their father's vest around them). I can hardly conceive of a man of this size campaigning over the New York hills with an army. The further fact that he was a member of the York County, Pennsylvania, Committee of Correspondence during the Revolutionary War is further evidence that he is not the Francis referred to on the New York records. I think the New York soldier was his nephew, Francis (174), son of David (152).
The history of the large colony which went out from New Jersey between the years of 1764 and 1775 to Conewago, York County, Pennsylvania, is quite as interesting as a romance. How many of the past or present generations of our family have ever heard of the name "Conewago" before? Or how many of those of the family now using the names of Cossairt, Cassat, Cassatt, Cozatt and Cosat (now widely scattered throughout the south, central states and west) know that it was in this Conewago Dutch church that their forefathers worshiped and that here their sons and daughters were baptised and later married. A church and colony which during the Revolutionary period from 1775 to 1780 numbered a population of about one thousand souls and yet in the year 1794 the population had been so depleted that the church ceased to exist and by the year 1817 only about five of the total number of 170 New Jersey families who had founded the colony, remained. The colony, the church, the name, all passed into oblivion for a century and it is only of recent years that its records and past history have been exhumed and revealed. Such is a brief outline of the colony which today numbers among its descendants some of the most noted men of the day and generation. Why so large a number of New Jersey families should suddenly go to this settlement 150 miles to the west, no one now living seems to know. The church was about the center of the new settlement, was attached to the Classis of New Brunswick, New Jersey. A copy of the plan of the church which is still in existence and indicates where each member of those good Dutch forefathers there sat on Sunday to hear the preaching. There was a high pulpit shaped like a wine glass. The Dutch, unlike the Germans and English neighbors, demanded warmth during their devotions and so they had in their church two large wood burning stoves. This church building was then located only a few hundred yards along the York road to the east of Guldens where the Hunterstown roads branches off from the main highway. The name Conewago, an Indian name of course, was taken from Conewago Creek to the north of the settlement. The church was built about 1768 or 1769, in the latter year its records begin. Cornelius Cosine conveyed the land for it (one acre) to Francis Cossart (157), David Van Duyn and David Demarest, trustees. Other officers of the church during its existence, seems to have been David Cossart (Cassat), sone of Francis, John Smock, Garret Van Arsdale, John Van Dyke, Henry Commingore, Isaac Van Arsdale, Luke Brinkerhoff, John Conover, Thomas Johnson and Ralph Brinkerhoff. The pastors of the church whose names appear on the records and some of whom came out from New Jersey from time to time, were Rev. J.M. Van Harlingen, Rev. John Leydt, Rev. F. R. Hardenbergh of New Jersey and Rev. Cornelius Cosine and Rev. George Crinkerhoff residents of the settlement.
The earliest deed of record at York, then the county seat, given in 1768 by a member of the Van Arsdale family, recites that the property conveyed then adjoined lands of Henry Banta, Francis Cosat (157), David Hunter, William Love and George Sebring.
Francis Cossart's land lay about two miles east of Hunterstown along the road leading to New Chester and some two miles north-west of the church.
The farms taken up by these settlers seem to have begun at a point 3 miles east of what is now Hunterstown and extended to within a few miles of Gettysburg. The public road used by these settlers in going to church they built in their community came to be known as the "Low Dutch Road", and is so known today on certain maps. It leaves the old York turnpike at a point a little to the south-west of where the church once stood and runs to what is known as Two Taverns south from Gettysburg, and it was along this road that many of the families settled, and it was on this road that the Confederate General "Zeb" Stewart's cavalry was moving on the 3rd day of July 1863 when the Union cavalry under the command of Generals Kirkpatrick and Gregg encountered them, however, the most severe fighting took place to the south-west of Gettysburg and not on the site of the Conewago Colony which was located to the east from there.
Francis Cossart was a man of great prominence and took a prominent part in the stirring events of the Revolutionary period. In 1775 he was a member of the Committee of Correspondence for York County, a member of the Provisional Assembly, and a member of the Convention that framed the first State Constitution in 1776 of which Dr. Benjamin Franklin was president. He was not present at the close of the labors of that body which met on July 15, 1776, from the fact that his services were required at home in assisting forward of the Militia to the ferseys. On the 2nd of May, 1777, he was appointed by the Pennsylvania Board of War, one of the Commissioners for York County, to collect blankets for use of the Continental troops. When a-new Committee of Safety and Observation was elected by a popular vote throughout the county, only men interested in protecting the rights of the Colonies were chosen. There were several members from each of the 26 townships, on this list of 82 names appears the name of Francis Cazart and Abraham Banta.
Deed, February 12, 1789 - Francis Cossart, of Straton Township, York County, to Jacob Cossart, of same. Recites whereas the Execution Council of the State of Pennsylvania, by three patents, one March 12, 1785, and the other two May 25, 1785, granted and confirmed to Francis Cossart following adjoining tracts situated in Straton called Frankfort, Barrenhill, and Indian Spring. Beginning at a white oak boundry line of Cornelius Van Arsdale's land and extending to lands of Henry Banta and along fames Dickson's land, 615 acres 43 perches, as recorded in Patent Book 2 in No. 4, page 23, the other in Book 4, page 226. In consideration of L 205. Confirms to said Jacob a part of said tract. Cornelius Van Arsdal's to Henry Banta, 333 acres 129 perches.
/signed/ Francis Cossaart. Witnesses present: Lawrence Monfort, Francis Cossart Jr.
Recorded in Deed Book 2 F, pages 16, 17 and 18.
In the same Book on page 19 is a transaction between Francis Cossart and his other son David on February 12, 1789. Refers to same patents, the consideration being L 252 for the balance of 615 acres consisting of 281 acres and 75 perches. Same witnesses.
In the old family bible of Francis the name is spelled "Cosar", while the maiden name of his wife is spelled "Van Ess".
Francis died sometime after 1789. By some it is claimed that he died near 1796. Descendants claim the he and Margaret are buried in the Lod Dutch graveyard located about 1 1/2 miles to the east of Hunterstown. The writer has visited this burying ground where he found the graves of two of his sons but there is no headstone to mark the resting place of either Francis or Margaret.
After their death their descendants adopted more different forms of spelling the family name than did the descendants of any other couple in America. Those remaining about York and Adams Counties took the name of Cassat and Cassatt, those going to Kentucky took the name of Cosatt, Cozatt, Cossairt, Cassairt, Cossat, Cassat, Cassatt and Cozart, etc. This change in the spelling of the family name did not take place until near the year 1800 when we find two of Francis Cossart's sons, viz., David and Jacob using the surname of Cassat. This name appears on their headstones.
CHILDREN:
178. Madelina Cossart, born in Somerset County, New Jersey, October 17, 1740, baptised at the Raritan Dutch church January 1, 1741. We assume that she died young as there is no further trace of her to be found.
179. David Cossart, born in Somerset County, New Jersey, April 11, 1743, baptised at the Raritan Dutch church June 5, 1743.
180. Peter Cossart, born in Somerset County,. New Jersey, April 30, 1746. Peter followed Daniel Boone to Kentucky where he was killed about 1781.
181. Jacob Cossart, born in Somerset County, New Jersey, April 21, 1751, baptised in Raritan Dutch church May 12, 1751.
182. Chrtsttnna Cossart, born in Somerset County, New Jersey, August 21, 1755, baptised at the Raritan Dutch Church September 7, 1755.
183. Elisabeth Cossart, born in Somerset County, New Jersey, August 29, 1758, baptised at the Raritan Dutch church November 26, 1758.
2. Zabriskie, George Olin, "The Jan Cornelisen Van Hoorn/Van Horne Family," The American Genealogist, Vol. 46, No. 3 (July 1970), pp. 170, 175-176:
"Styntje Joris Van Hoorn, daughter of Joris Jansen Van Hoorn . . . by his wife Maria Rutgers, was born in New York and baptized there in the Dutch Reformed Church on 9 May 1677, witnesses: Mr. Evert Pieterszen Keteltas and Anna Maria _____ (second husband of child's paternal grandmother and an aunt by marriage). In the census of the North Ward taken about 1703 her husband is given as David Hoesaert, household consisting of one male and one female adult, two male children and one female. The family later moved to Piscataway Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey, where on 6 Nov. 1759, Styntje Cussaar witnessed a will. On 11 Oct. (banns 18 Sept.) 1696 in the New York Dutch Reformed Church, Styntje married David Cossart, born in Flushing, Long Island, baptized 18 June 1671 in the New York Reformed Church, son of Jacques Cousseau and Lydia Willems. The will of David Cosort of Somerset County, N.J., was dated 10 June 1736, proved 13 Jan. 1740 (NJW 2:114), and the inventory of the late David Casaar of Bound Brook was recorded 1 July 1741. The will mentions wife Staintiah, son George, Jacob deceased, David and Francis, daughters Leah dec'd, Mary Williamson, Susannah Canine, Elenor, Jane and Eve; grandchildren: Hendrick Harpending, son of dec'd daughter Leah, and three children, not named, of dec'd son Jacob and their mother Williamtiah.
Children: baptized New York Reformed Church
i. Leah, bapt. 21 July 1697, witnesses: Jacobus Goelet and Lidia Deniso (child's paternal grandmother and uncle by marriage); m. Johannes Harpending.
ii. Joris/George, bapt. 19 Nov. 1699, witnesses: Charel de Niso and Maria Ruthtgers (child's maternal grandmother and second husband of paternal grandmother); perhaps m. Elizabeth Hoagland.
iii. Jacob, bapt. 28 Jan. 1702, witnesses: Jan Van Hoorn and Jannetje Cosaer, wife of Jacobus Goelet (child's maternal uncle and paternal aunt): m. Willempje Kenney.
iv. David, bapt. 23 April 1704, witnesses: Willem Bogert and Hillegond Joris (child's maternal aunt and her husband).
v. Maria, bapt. 3 July 1706, witnesses: Enoch Michielse and Magdalena Van Hoorn (child's uncle by marriage and aunt by marriage); m. Peter Williamson.
vi. Susanna, bapt. 10 April 1709, witnesses: Ruthgert Jorisse V. Hoorn and Neeltje Vegte, his wife (child's uncle and his wife); m. Richard Conine.
vii. Johannes, bapt. 11 Nov. 1711; probably d.y.
viii. Neeltje/Eleanor, bapt. 7 Dec. 1712, witnesses: Frans Goelet and Neeltje Onkelbag (cousin of child's father); m. John Grant.
ix. Jannetje, bapt. 15 May 1715, witnesses: Jan Goelet and Lea Cosaar (child's sister).
x. Francis, bapt. 21 July 1717; m. Margaret Van Ness.
xi. Aefje/Eve, bapt. 23 Sept. 1719, witnesses: Adrian Bogert and Maria Montanje, his wife (child's cousin and his wife)."
3. FHL book "The Cossart Family," by Joseph A. Cossairt, 1936:
"COSSART, COSART, COSSAIRT, CASSAIRT, COSSAART, COESART, COSAT, COSSATT, KOSSART, COZAT, COZATT, CASSAT, CASSATT, COZART, ETC.
9. David Cossart, the second son of Jacques Cossart (3) and Lydia Willems, immigrants, born in New York City, June 18, 1671, and died at or near Bound Brook, Somerset County, New Jersey, about 1740, aged about 69 years.
David married at the age of 24 years on October 11, 1696 at the Dutch Reformed Church in New York City to Styntje Joris Van Horne, the daughter of the immigrant Joris Janses Van Horne and his wife Maria Rutgers of Flushing, Long Island. David was the last of the immigrant's children to marry, his younger brother Anthony (10) having married only two months previously.
The births of all the children of David and Styntje are recorded in the list of the Dutch Reformed Church of New York City where both parents were members. This church still exists, but under the name of "Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas", now located on 5th Avenue at the corner of 48th street. A bronze plaque on the front of the building facing on 5th Avenue reads: "Reformed Protestand Dutch Church of the City of New York. Originated under Peter Minuet, Director General of the New Netherlands, A.D. 1628. Chartered by William the III, King of England. This building was erected A.D. 1872." The original church building of this denomination was located on lower Broadway in the near vicinity of the Bowling Green.
David was a stone mason and engaged in the building and contracting trade in which he became quite wealthy for that period. The New York City tax records show that he was a property owner in both the north and south wards of the city, where he purchased and deeded property. This property was located in what is now the downtown business district of Manhattan, in the vicinity of where New York City's sky-line now begins.
Records also show that during the time David was living in New York City, he purchased lands extensively between the years of 1700 and 1728 at and in the near vicinity of what is now Bound Brook, Somerset County, New Jersey.
As early as 1700, or before that time, the lands of Rudyard, with 877 acres adjoining it, belonged to John Royce, were purchased by a company consisting of David Cossart, Samuel Thompson and Jacob de Groot, David Cossart's house stood near the corner of now East and East Main Streets, Bound Brook, N.J. His house stood until 1881 when it was destroyed by a fire that consumed several old land marks of that time. On this very same site now stands (1936) what was once the "Mansion House", later changed to the "Bound Brook Hotel", and which name has recently been changed to the "Greenbrook Tavern". David sold 300 acres to Ebenezer Trimbly, which was inherited by his son Peter, who died May 20, 1797, and left to his daughters, one of whom married Teunis Ten Eyck, and the other to Colonel Staats. In the year 1700, the 1,171 acres of the original properties were purchased by this same company of men. By 1720 Hendrick Harpending, Louis and Moses Louzanda had also become purchasers of parts of this original tract, and subsequently, in 1746, Peter Williamson, James Hude Esq., Anthony Blackford, Bartholmew Kelso, Charles McEvers, Thomas Ervine, Joseph Stansbury, David Cossart (son of David 9), occupied parts and parcels belonging to it.
In front of the "Green Brook Tavern" on East Main Street, Bound Brook is the Battle Monument, a huge stone with a bronze plaque on it reading: "Bound Brook Battle Monument, this stone marks the site of the Battle of Bound Brook, fought April 13, 1777 between 500 American soldiers under Benjamin Lincoln and 4,000 British troops under Lord Cornwallis". During the battle the American cannon were located at this point.
The Hoogland Family in America, pp. 26 and 27 has the following newspaper article which appeared in the newspapers of 1712:
"New York, April 1712 - Some Corminton Negro slaves to the number of 25 or 30 and 2 or 3 Spanish Indians, having conspired to murder all Christians here, and by that means thinking to obtain their freedom, about 2 o'clock in the morning put their bloody design into execution and setting fire to a house they stood prepared with arms to kill everybody that approached to put out, and accordingly murdered the following persons that were running to the fire, Viz., Adrian Hoogland, Adrian Beekman, son of Geradus, merchant (stabbed on coming out of his door and died in the arms of his wife); Lieutenant Corbet, August Grasset, William Echt, Marschalk Jr., Braiser Jr., and Johannes Low.
These were also wounded, Lawrence Read, merchant, Hendrick Hoogland Jr., Johannes de Honneue, John Thorp, Thomas Stersent, George Ellsworth Jr., and DAVID COESART, the first and the last 'tis feared mortally. Upon which the town was soon alarmed which occasioned the murders fleeing into the woods, where several parties are out after them. Also -
"April 14, 1712. We have 70 negroes in custody. Six of these have been their own executors by shooting and cutting their own throats, One was burnt, another broke upon the wheel, and the third hung up alive, and nine more to be executed tomorrow".
Sometime after this incident David Cossart retired with his family to his estates at and near Bound Brook, New Jersey. The exact date of his coming to Bound Brook is unknown to the writer, but the Somerset County Historical Quarterly says: "About 1719 David Cosart came over from New York and purchased considerable property along the Raritan at or near Bound Brook
In an old church list of "The Church of the River and Lawrence Brook", dated 1717 appears the name among others that of "David Cussart", Later this same church became known as "Three Mile Run", and was located in the vicinity of what is now New Brunswick, N. J.
Published in the "First Things in old Somerset", 1899, page 15, by the Rev. A. Messler, D.D. appears: "North-east of Bound Brook and between the mountains, David Cosart, Daniel Hollinshead, the heirs of Anthony Sharp and others had in possession large tracts."
The "History of Hunterdon and Somerset Counties, New Jersey", 1881, page 651, by Snell, mentions: "The tract (No. 107, about 1 1/2 miles north-east of Bround Brook - 100 acres) east of the 1000 acre lot of Cordington's Now. 32 was surveyed to David Cussart, May 23, 1729. This lot also extended to the mountains on the north, east to Green Brook, and south to the "Proprietors Lott", afterwards Rudyards. The changes of titles to those lots or tracts are too numerous to mention".
The Rev. T. E. Davis in his "First Houses of Bound Brook (1893) makes mention: "The Cossart House stood on the present site of the Mansion House. It was built in 1700 by George Cussart (David Cossart), who owned all the land between Bound Brook and Mountain Avenue, fronting on the Raritan River. George Cussart (David Cossart) died about 1740, and David Cossart, probably his son, came into possession of the property. During the Revolution the Cossart House was used as a Hotel. It was known as the "Washington Hotel", from a large swinging sign in front of it, on which was painted a portrait of Washington on horseback. Peter Staats was the landlord. He was a brother of Colonel John Staats, of Revolutionary fame, and like him was a true friend to the cause of American liberty. More than one Tory who dared to uphold the British came in the presence of Peter Staats, felt the power that lay in the strong patriot's arm. As a result of his loyalty he suffered very much from the depredations of the British soldiers. When Colonel Semico with the Queens Rangers, a band of native Americans who had enlisted in the army of Great Britain, passed through Bound Brook on the memorable raid of October 26, 1777, they stopped at the Hotel and robbed it of everything valuable which they could carry with them. After many changes and improvements the old Cossart House was entirely destroyed by the great fire of 1881."
Mr. Alfred R. justice, genealogist, for the late Edward Buchanan Cassatt of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, says: "The social status of David Cossart is indicated by his will in which he is called "Gentleman", and which makes it quite certain that his father Jacques Cossart (3) belonged to a manorial family."
THE WILL OF DAVID COSSART. (The following was copied from the Original will of David Cossart by Mrs. Anna M. North, Genealogist. The original will is in Somerset Box 1712-1741 and recorded in Liber C, folio 387 in the Office of the Secretary of State at Trenton, New Jersey).
"In the name of God. Amen.
The tenth day of June in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and thirty-six, I, David Cosort of the County of Summer Set in the province of East Jersey, Gentleman, Being very weak in Body, But of perfect mind and memory, thanks be given unto God therefore, Calling unto mind the mortality of my Body, and the knowing that it is appointed for all men once to dye, Do make and ordain this my last will and testament, that is to say, Principally, and first of all, I give and Recommend my soul into the hands of God that gave it, and for my Body, I recommend it to the Earth, to be Buried in a Christianlike and decent manner, at the discretion of my Executors, nothing doubting but at the general Resurrection, I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God and as touching worldy Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this life. I give devise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form.
IMPRIMIS
It is my will and I do order that in the first place all my just Debts and funeral Charges be paid and Satisfied.
Item:Staintiah Cosort my Dearly Beloved Wife, all my whole Estate and all my movables As Long as She Continueath my widow, Excepting a Silver Baker and a Silver Ringed Kain.
It She marieth to another man or when She is Dead, my whole Estate Shall be devised as follows Att the Experation of one year and Six weeks.
Item: I give and Bequeath unto my beloved son George Cosort att the Decease of my Body, one Silver Baker and my Silver Ringed Kain which is affore Excepted out of my Estate, likewise all my lands to him and to my son David - Excepting one hundred and ten acres which lyeth at the Back part of my land and one hundred acres of wood land. But my son George must have that half which my house and Barn And Orchard Standeth on and my son David the other half which Lyeth next to Jacob Decrotes.
Item: I give and Bequeath unto my son Francis one hundred acres of Upland and ten acres of the back part of my mowing meadow which is affore Excepted and a Dutch Bible, and as far as the hundred acres of wood land It must be Divided Equilly Between George and David and Franics, and when my three sons Inherit their lands they must be an Equill Share in Building a house for David on his land, and as high and as wide and as Long as the house that now Standeth on the hundred and ten acres which is affore willed to Francis, there must a Chimney Built in the house of Brick and a Division wall of Brick Between the house and the Canter and all the floors of the house must be Laid with Boards.
Item: I give and Bequeath unto Mary Williamson my Daughter fifty pounds which must be paid thus by my son George, that is to say, twentyfive pounds at the Expiration of one year after the Lands is divided and twenty-five pounds more at ye end of another year. ..
Item: I give and Bequeath unto my Daughter Susannah Canine fifty pounds which must be paid by my son George as thus - that is to say twentyfive pounds at the end of one year after the Land is Divided and twentyfive pounds more at ye end of another year.
Item: I give and Bequeath unto my Daughter Elener fifty fifty pounds which must be paid by my son David after ye same manner afore sd.
Item: I give and Bequeath unto my Daughter Jane fifty pounds which must be paid by my son David in Like Manner.
Item: I give and Bequeath u nto my Daughter Eve fifty pounds which must be paid by my son David in Like Manner.
Item: I give and Bequeath unto hendrick harperding Son of my Daughter Leah Deceased fifty pounds which must be paid by my son Francis after the same manner as afore mentioned And when my Lands is Divided Between my three sons I do order household goods and moveables be sold at the Best advantage and one hundred pounds to be put at use for the three children of my son Jacob Deceased and as long as Williamtiah his former wife Continueth his widow She must have the Interest of the hundred pound and no longer and the Remainder of my moveables must be Divided Equilly Between my three sons and Six Daughters and if my Lands is taken away att any time after my Decease or after the Decease of my wife, the payments must not be made by my sons which is afore mentioned. And if payment or any part of payment Be made Before the Lands is taken away they must Return it Back to my sons again the afore said payment in money att Eight Shillings per ounce, Likewise I do hereby ordain Peter Williamson and my son David to be my only and sole Executors of this my last will and testament all and Singular the Lands Messuages and tenements to my sons their heirs and assigns for Ever and I Do hereby utterly disallow Revoke and Disannull ann & Every other former testament wills, Legacies and Executeds By me in any ways Before thistime named, willed and Bequeathed Rattifieing and confirming this and no other, to be my last will and testament in witness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and Seal the Day and Year above written---"
DAVID COSORT (his X mark) (SEAL)
Signed, Sealed, Published Pronounced and Declared by the said David Cosort att his Last will and testament in the Presence of us the Subscribers Viz.
Marius Glanvill
John Riggs
Johannes (his X mark) hogland.
"Be it remembered that on the thirteenth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty, Marius Glanvill one of the witnesses to the within will personally appears before me Thomas Barton duly authorized to prove wills &c in the Eastern Division of New Jersey and being duly Sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God Did Depose that he was present and saw David Cosort the Testator within named Sign and Seal the within written Instrument and hear him publish pronounce and Declare the same to be his last will and testament and that at the doing thereof the said testator was of sound mind and memory to the best of his knowledge and as he believes that at the same time John Riggs and Johannes Hogland Signed as witnesses together with him in the Testators presence."
Thos. Barton.
"Be it also Rembered that at the same time Peter Williamson and David Cosort the Executors in the within will named personally appeared before me and were sworn to the due Execution and performance hereof according to law.
Thos. Barton.
"Be it remembered that on the Twentyth day of february in the year of our Lord One thousand Seven hundred and forty Johannes Hogland one of the witnesses to the within will personally appeared before me John Barton duely authorized to prove wills &c in the Eastern Division of New Jersey &c being duly sworn on the holy Evangelists of the Almighty God did depose that he was present and saw David Cosort within named sign and seal the within written testament and heard him publish, pronounce & declare the same to be his Last will & Testament & that at the Doing thereof the said Testator was of sound mind and memory to the best of his knowledge & belief & that at the same time John Riggs & Marius Glanville Signed as witnesses together with him in the Testators presence.
John Barton."
Inventory of estate was made July 1, 1741, by Jacob De Groot and William Olden; consisting of the "Bown Broak" farm, and personal estate of 137, 10 s. 6 d. See New Jersey Archives 1st Series, volume xxx.
The burial place of David and Styntje are unknown to the writer, but it is believed that they are both buried in the old Presbyterian graveyard in Bound Brook, where other members of the Cossart family are buried, or somewhere in the near vicinity. However, the early burial places were usually small plats of ground on the different farms, most of which have been neglected and uncared for, where, in days gone by, many were buried, cultivation has encroached upon their borders year by year, as the ruthless hands of time has leveled the little mounds over the sleepers, and the humble slab that marked the spot has fallen prone to the ground.
The births of eleven of the children of David and Styntje are recorded in the Dutch Reformed Church of New York City as follows:
CHILDREN:
149. Leah Cossart, baptised July 21, 1697.
150. Joris (or George) Cossart, born August 19, 1699.
151. Jacob Cossart, born January 28, 1702.
152. David Cossart Jr., born April 25, 1704.
153. Maria Cossart, born July 3, 1706.
154. Susannah Cossart, born April 10, 1709.
155. Johannes (or John) Cossart, born November 6, 1711.
156. Elenor Cossart, born December 7, 1712.
157. Frans (or Francis) Cossart, born Ca. 1713, baptised July 21, 171[ ]
158. Jannetje (or Jane) Cossart, born May 15, 1715.
159. Aefje (Eve) Cossart, born September 23, 1719."
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Chris & Julie Petersen's Genealogy
1717 - Aft 1789 (~ 73 years)