"The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record"
Volume XXII, 1891

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Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York.

1733      OUDERS.              KINDERS.       GETUYGEN.
Dec 25    John Lake, Catha-    Aaltje.        Abraham Lake, Margriet
          rina Bensen.                        Lake, h. v. Van Wm
                                              Commons.

1734
Jan 26    Hendrikus Bensing,   Dirk           John Lake.  Catharina
          Catharina Van                       Bensing, s. h. v.
          Laar.

1735
Apr 27    David Schot, Claasje David.         John Lake, Annatje Ben-
          Bensing.                            sing, j. d.

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Collections of the New-York Historical Society for the Year 1897, Vol. XXX;
Abstracts of Wills on file in the Surrogate's Office, City of New York,
Vol. VI, 1760-1766, with Letters of Administration Granted, 176-1766;
Publication Fund Series; New York, MDCCCXCVIII.

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p. 400 - Liber 25, p. 105.

In the name of God, Amen.   I, John Lake, of New York, house carpenter,
"being through the abundant mercy of God, though weak in body, but of sound
mind."  My executors are to sell the house and lot where I live, and all my
other property, at such time as my dear wife, Catharine Lake, shall think
proper.  I leave to my wife the use of all the proceeds during her life.
I leave to my son John, £5.  All the rest of my estate I leave to my sons
John and Abraham and my three daughters, Clasje, Altie, and Catharintie
[Catlytje Lake1].  I make my wife and my son John and my friend, Gilbert
Giles, house carpenter, executors.  Dated November 20, 1762.

Witnesses, Zachariah Coutant, Frederick Rhinelander, cordwainer, John De
Peyster, shopkeeper.  Proved, July 29, 1765.

1 NYHS v40, Corrections-Wills, p. 271.

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Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 16:16:54 -0600
From: pjlittle@mac.com

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There was some conflicting information concerning these families until
Dorothy K., cleared it up. According to her ms of original Dutch records
in N.Y., Classje was the wife of John Abraham Lake. They had one child Jon
Lake who was baptized in the DRC at Brooklyn in 1696. Classje parents plus
her brother Stoffel and his wife were witnesses. There was a good reason;
the brother baptized his son at the same time.

Abraham Lott, son of Peter, posted Banns in the DRC and married Geeisje
in 1695 and they had Isaac who was baptized in Jamaica, LI, in `1704.
Quite ppssibly they were the parents of Abrahams' unnamed son which the
Longstreet records show as a baptism for a Peter in 1697. The other children
of Lott. were from his second and third wife. There does not appear to be
a fourth wife as previously thought.

The alleged Will of Abraham Lott lists eight children - including
Classje's son John Lake as his own, plus Classje is considered his first
wife. Longstreet records list all of Lott's children as belonging to
Classje. Longstreet records call Classje both Lake and Lott.

DRC records provide baptism records for Lotts children and their mothers
in Jamaica DRC. DRC records in Brooklyn prove baptism records for Lake
child/children.

I think that since either Lake or Lott could have been the parent of Peter,
it is quite possible the records were misinterpreted by early researchers. I
personally lean toward the child belonging to Lott as there are no males
named Pieter in Longstreet or Lake immediate ancestry.

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