Hi to all, Yes, I think Dorothy has got it right :-), and the will confirms it. Phylis wrote > A.V. Phillips in The Lott Family in America p.18-19 gives only the name > Sarah for Peter's wife. However there is a footnote --n9. Pieter Lott, had a > sister Dorothy, who married William Remsen, named in her father's will. So that > Sarah, was probably a Remsen, sister of Rem, named "brother-in-law" in > Pieter's will. > Pieter Lott's sister Dorothy had married William Remsen, so Pieter Lott would still have a Remsen brother-in-law, even though Sarah, his wife, was probably a Covert. Larry wrote: > I found one reference to get you started: Andrew J. Provost, Early Settlers > of Bushwick (1949), available on HeritageQuest. > Vol. 3, p. 62 (Fonteyn Family) shows Sara Covert, daughter of Maurus Koevers > [Covert] and Annetje (Fonteyn), baptized 27 Dec. 1692, sponsors, Jacques > Fonteyn and his wife, Anneke (Webbers), the child's maternal uncle and aunt. > No mention is made of who she married. > The baptismal date shown above has to be incorrect; probably in error for 1697 (?). Mauritz Teunis Covert, son of Teunis Jansz Covert and Barbara Lucas (Van Kessel) married on 1 Apr 1690 at Flatbush to Antje Fonteyn, the daughter of Charles Fonteyn and Catharine de Bailee. They baptized their first 3 children at the New York Reformed Dutch Church: 29 Mar 1691: Maurits Couvors, Anneken Fonteyn; Theunis; Theunis Janszen Couvors, Barbara Lucas 16 Apr 1693: Maurits Coeverts, Anna Fonteyn; Charles; Jan Coevers, Lea Fonteyn 16 Jan 1696: Maurits Coevert, Anna Fonteyn. darna is't kindt gedoopt den 22 dicto*; 'tzoude Maurits geheeten zyn, maer is nict gedoopt**; Lucas Coevert, Anna Webbers, huysvr. Van Jacques Fonteyn *This child was subsequently baptized - the 22nd dict. **Would have been named Maurits, but was not baptized Sara Covert was baptized according to Andrew Provost above, but not in 1692. Howard: can you find a baptismal record, perhaps at Brooklyn or Flatbush, for this Sara Covert on 27 Dec 1697? Many thanks. The abstract of the will follows: Abstracts of Unrecorded Wills, Vol XI, Prior to 1790 p 127 In the name of God, Amen. September 12, 1727. I, PIETER LOTT, of Flatbush, in Kings County, being at present sick. I direct all debts to be paid. I leave to my wife Sarah, all my estate, houses, and lands, and my personal estate, until my sons, Hendrick and Mauris Lott, are of age. But if she happens to marry, my executors are to take possession, for the best of my children, viz.: Hendrick, Mauris, Catharine, Antie, Maria, and Pieter. But if she remains unmarried she is to have the east room in my dwelling house, with the cellar and chamber, and 30 acres of land in the township of Flatbush, Bounded north by the Kings road that leads to Jamaica, and west by William Van Bursum. Being in breadth 2 1/2 Lots, and in length, south from the Kings road till it makes up 30 acres. And she is to have fire wood and fencing out of my woodland in Newtown. And she is to have hay from my meadow in Flatbush. And one third of my orchard that joins to my dwelling house. I leave to my sons, Hendrick and Mauris, all my houses, lands, and meadows, in Flatbush or Newtown, when they are of age, or after the death of their mother, Catharina Lott. And they shall pay to my daughters, Catharina, Antie, and Maria, £600 each, in six years after they come in possession. I give to my son Pieter, all my farm or Plantations in Kings County, in the Town of Boswyck (Bushwick). I make my brother, Johanes Lott, and my brothers-in-law, Rem Remsen and Andries Onderdonk, Johanes Schenck, and Abraham Lott, executors. Witnesses, Joris Colm, Thomas Betts. Proved, June 4, 1730. The son, Mauritz Lott, apparently never married or had children, and left a will naming all his siblings. Abstracts of Wills, Vol XIII, 1784-1786 Liber 38, p 197 Page 156.--In the name of God, Amen. I, MOUWRIS LOTT, of New Lotts, township of Flatbush, Kings County, N. Y., yeoman, weak. Estate to be sold and proceeds to go as follows: To my sister, Maria Lott, £1,000. To Catrina, daughter of my late sister Catrina, the wife of Jacob Rapalje, deceased, £150. To my nephew, John Polhemus, son of my brother, Tunis Polhemus, deceased, £50. To my nephew, Peter Polhemus, son of my brother, Johannes Polhemus, £50. To my Executors £30 each if they well and faithfully execute the trust reposed in them. Residuary estate, one half to the children of my said late sister Catrina, and the children of Angenietje, deceased, late the wife of Martin Schenck, of Cowneck, divided so that the children of said Catrina, viz., Peter, Jacob, Sarah and Catrina Rapelje, shall each have one fifth thereof, and the other fifth be divided between children of said Angenietje (not named) by their father when they come of age. Other half shall be held by Executors during life of my brother, Hendrick Lott, who shall pay him £20 yearly and at his death said portion to children of said Hendrick Lott then living. To my sister Maria my large Dutch Bible. If any legatee shall find fault about any Legacies given them such legatee shall be cut off from any share. Executors, friend Nicholas Schenck, of Flatlands, and my two cousins, Johannis I. Lott and Hendrick Lott, both of New Lotts. (Signed) MOUWERIS LOTT. Dated October 11, 1784. Witnesses, John Van Der Veer, Esq., Hendrick Eldert, Isaac Eldert, yeoman, of New Lotts. Proved, Kings County, September 7, 1785. Confirmed, New York, September 14, 1785. Regards, Pam Sears

> > Pam If I am reading the will of Maurits Lott correctly then his mother Sarah must have remarried after the death of Peter Lott in 1730 and had a few more children as Maurits leaves bequests to the children of his BROTHERS, Tunis and Johannes Polhemus. Is there a record of the marriage of Sara to a Polhemus? Or am I reading the will incorectly? Barbara