The old merchants of New York City / by Walter Barrett.

OF XNE W YORK CITY.

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dagh snagle te 4 urren in mnorren stout den 29 January.
Diesen 1Maria is gestorven 3 Jaar 4 manden oult.
Out jaar 1729, Augr. 15. Is geboren Johannes Van
Zandt, te tien urren in de avent.
Out jaar 17*30, May 17, myen zoon is gehoren Wynant Van Z.andt, te urren voor de mIiddagl twiede van
diesen inine."
lut jaar 1732, Oct. 21, myen zoon Tobias Van Zandt,
geboren donderdaghl morgen ten fief urren.
[This was the third child he had named Tobias. He
lived and thrived, and( after the Revolution became a
great chocolate manufacturer at 92 Water street. He
was Assistant Alderman of the Montgomory Ward
from 17t86 to 1793.]
Out jan.r 1735, Mnatz 10, is geboren Marya Van Zandt
diesen Maria Storven out tine jaar.
On bet jaar 1772, den 11 Aug. is minevn moeder Catherine Van Zandt, gestovven van de Koorse out zeinde
80, 80 jaaren 3 mnaander.
In hot jaoar don II Dec. moyen Zuster Margaretta
Bourson gestovven van die stiriplihe out sionde 58 jaaren
2 rnaanden 27 (daaen. Jacobus Van Zandt was born ze
15 Sept. 1729, Old Style.
Johanna Maiinschalk, Ze 18, Nov. 1729, an we minarried
10 Feb., 1750. Old Style.
Wynant, son of themiii, born Sept. 80, 1751. Died in
1756.
Johanna (daughter), born ze 22 Feb., 1754. Died
12 July following. Buried in the old Dutch churchyard.
Jacobus, son, born 3d Sept., 1755.
Johannes, son, born Aug. 12. 1757.
[All those records were made by the old WVynant,
who was born in 1685. His son, the old Alderman
Wynant, who died in 1814, thlien writes.]
Wyriant Vail Zandt, my fathlier, departed this life ye
6th of October, 1757, in the 73rd year of his age.
Catherine Van Zandt, my mother, departed this life
11th Aug., 1772, aged 80 years and 23 months.