Bond for maintenance of Jannetje Dubois

              Know all Men by these presents that I Mathusalem
Dubois of the Township of Newpaltz in the County
of Ulster, one of the Sons and Legators of the Hendricus Dubois
Late of the Township of Newpaltz aforesaid, deceased
am held and firmly bound unto Jannetie Dubois the wife
widow and Relict of the said Hendricus Dubois deceased
in the penal sum of one thousand pounds current money
of New York. To be paid in [specie] to the said Jannetie
Dubois, her certain attorney , Executors, Administrators
or Assigns, for the which payment will and truly 
be made and done. I bind myself my Heirs, Executors
and Administrators and every of them firmly by
these presents, Sealed with my Seal, dated the # #
Ninth Day of March in the year of our Lord one
thousand seven hundred and Eighty one.- 
The condition of the above written Obligation is such
that Whereas the said Hendricus Dubois deceased in and 
by his last Will and Testament writing bearing Date
the twenty first of june, in the year of our Lord, one thou-
sand seven hundred and Seventy four Did after the
disposing of his Estate and his children give devise and
Bequeath unto his beloved wife Jannetie for and during
Her life time, the full possession use and Benefit of all his
Estate, real and personal, And whereas the said Jennetie
Dubois, Hath released and assigned unto two of their Sons 
Hendricus and Methusalem, all her Right and interest
Which she had in the real Estate by virtue of the said
Will, also part of the said personal Estate, in order and
In the intent, that her said Children might come to a Division