Codicil of Adam Vellers 1697

A[nn]o 1697 den 31 maii

coram Kerckhof en Schaler

schepenen

Erscheenen Adam Vellen, kranck te

bedde liggendoe, dan nog met goeden

verstande, die ten overstaen van sijn

soon Jan Vellen verclaerde sijn uyterste

wille end[e] meyninge te zijn, dat sijn

soon Garrit Vellen en desselfs huisvrou

Aeltjen Meerkes end[e] haeren erven ten

oorsaecke van die goede voorsorge end[e]

v[er]pleging soo sij aen comp[a]r[an]t in sijn

hoogen ouderdom en op sijn kranck-

bedde bewesen hebben eeuwig en

erffelijck sullen hebben end[e] behouden sijns

comp[a]r[an]t[e]n hoflant aen de Maersenstege

en wat hij wijders van lantgrondt

in desen schependom gelegen heeft,

voorts sijn alengs gerede linnen en

wullen, 't welck hij comp[a]r[an]t mits de-

sen aen sijn voorn[oemde] soon en schoon-

dochter en hunner erven metter daet

overgeeft, niets uytgesondert; wil-

lende alsoo dat dese sijner uyterste

wille bester gestalt rechtens als een

testament, codicil, ofte gifte van

doots wegen effect moge sorteren,

sonder arg ofte list.

EN

In the year 1697 on the 31st of May

before Kerckhof and Schaler

aldermen

has appeared Adam Vellen, lying sick

in bed, however sound of

mind, who declared in the presence of his

son Jan Vellen it to be his last

will and intention, that his

son Garrit Vellen and his wife

Aeltjen Meerkes as well as their heirs, because

of the good care and

nursing they provided to the person appearing in

his high age and on his sick-

bed, to have and hold forever

and inheritably his homestead

situated at the Maersenstege

and any land he furthermore may have

within the juridiction of these aldermen,

furthermore his already processed linen and woll

cloths, which he effectively hands over

to his aforementioned son and daughter in law

through this deed, nothiong excepted; desiring thus

this last will of his to be put in effect

in the best judicial form as if it were

a will, codicil, or donation by death,

without any tricks or deception.