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| Meindert Doodes |
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Immigrant Ancestor
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| Born: Holland |
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| Died: Jan 1677 Christ Church Parish, Middlesex
County, Virginia |
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In the name of God, Amen! I, Maindort Doodes, being in body
of sound and perfect memory doe ordain this my Last will and Testament.
First I doe bequeath my sole to God that gave it; and my body to be buried
in Christian buriall at the descretion of my Executors or Executrix
hereafter named. Item. My Debts being firste paid. I leave my
hole personall estate in the hands of my loving wife Mary Doodes during the
time of her widowhood and of inkase she should marry again then my will is
that my sonne Doodes Minor's children shall have the one half of my negros
forthwith delivered into the possession of their Father for the sole use and
behouf of them while such time, that it shall please God to take him away,
and the Rebound to the use of their Mother during the time of her widowhood
and afterwards to them solely and Inkase of the mortality of Ither without
issue the survivor to succeed there on: and the other half to be forthwith
delivered into the possession of Peter Montague for the sole use of their
children and Inkase of the mortality of Ither of them without issue the
Survivor to succeed thereon as above said; and soe to Remain them and their
Increase male and female and not to souled or Morgaged; and free Increase
Males and female and not to be morgaged and further my will is that the two
ould negroes Degoet and Pallis his wife shall serve, but ten years after my
desease, then then to be free and Doe make my loving wife Mary Doodes, and
my loving friend William Chance my sole Executor & Executrix to see my will
truly performed in witness where of I here with set my hand and seal the
13th day of December, 1677. And none of my other Negroes to serve any
longer than forty five years an sole them or their Increase.
Maindort Doodes (Seal) |
WIFE
Mary Geret
CHILDREN
Mary Goodes
Meindert Doodes anglicized his name to Minor Doodes and as was in the Dutch
custom, the children took as their last name, the first name of their father.
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Source: The Minor Family of Virginia by John B. Minor 1923 pg 4
Inscriptions taken from an old bible belong to the author's father.
Maindort Doodes was a wealthy Holland merchant and ship owner. "Along
with four other compatriots Maindort Doodes and his son Doodes Minor were
naturalized by an act of 'a Grand Assembly holden in James Cittie the twentieth
day of September in the twenty-third year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord the
King that now is, and in the year of our Lord 1671.'
Pg. 115
"The above will of Maindort Doodes is sealed with the wax impression of a
galley, Maindort Doodes being a sea captain."
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Data base called: Virginia Heraldica.
"On the will of Minor Doodes at Urbanna, Middlesex, dated 13 Dec., 1677, is a
seal, bearing the impression of a 17th Century ship with three masts and resting
on water.
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