William Christoph Berkenmeyer of Loonenburg, Lutheran MInister. Sept. 11, 1744. Wife, Benigna Sibylla, sole heiress of personal property, including plate. Books to go to Trustees of Lutheran Churchland, Arent van Schayk, Jacob Haenbeck and Jan Hanessen van Hoesen. Executors: wife, with Rev. Peter Nicholas Sommer of the Lutheran Church at Schoharie, Johnnes Curts of Queensberry, merchant, Mattys van Loon of Loonenburg (now Athens) and William Halenbeck of the Flats, Albany Co., as overseers. Witnesses: Jacob Evertsen, Johs. Mynders, Jacobus Lagranse, Joahnnis Evertsen. Codicil (in German) dated August 17, 1751, directs burial in Lutheran Church at Loonenburg, revokes the paying of 10 pounds to the consistory for his burial, asks Rev. Mr. Knoll to preach the funeral sermon and appoints Mattheus van Loon, William Hallen Bok and Johannes Kurtz executors. Witnesses: Albert van Loon, Jan Caspersen Halenbeeck, Frantz van Husen, Johannes Klaw. Proved Oct. 31, 1752.
(Source: New York Calendar of Wills, #76, B 31.)
(Source: New York Calendar of Wills, #76, B 31.)