Jacob Hasbrouck will of 1732

              May our beginning be 
in the name of God

Be it known to all those concerned that today 
the second of March of the year one thousand seven hundred 
thirty-two I the undersigned Jacob Hasbrouck, a resident 
of nu Palle in the county de ueltre in the province of 
nu iorck in America, feeling healthy of 
mind -- may God be praised -- seeing as death is 
uncertain but that God, having kept
its hour and moment hidden from us, 
reserves that moment to his great providence, 
that is why, before my death, I wished to put 
all my affairs in order. That is why I wished 
to declare here my last will and testament in the 
form and manner that follows, and thus I 
recommend my soul to God my creator, to 
Jesus Christ my savior and to the Holy Spirit 
my consolation and my sanctifier, and my body 
to the earth from which it was taken until 
it pleases God, on the day that he has determined in his 
eternal counsel, to raise our bodies from the dead 
to reunite them with our souls so that they may together enjoy
forever the eternal and blessed life that 
Jesus Christ his Son our Lord bought us 
by His blood and that He promised to all 
those who will be faithful to Him until death.

Because it pleased God to give me many more 
earthly goods than I deserved -- lands* , houses, barns,