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The Test[amen]t Dative and Inventary of the debt and sume of money pertaining and addebted to umquhill mr george Gregorie merchant in Terveer alias Campveer The time of his decease who deceased there in the moneth of . . . One Thousand seven hundered and thirty . . . years Faithfully made and given up by himselfe upon the seventeenth of November Jajvij C~ twenty four years In suae far as Concerns the Declaration of his Universall heiress / id est Exectutrix quasi heres in Mobilibus / and Tutors to his Children as aftermentioned And Given up by James Stewart merchant in Edinburgh as factor for in name and beliefs and for the use and behoof of Sophia Van wyngarden relict of the said defunct Conform to Letters of Factory by her thereanent Dated at Campveer the Twelth day of June One Thousand Seeven hundered and Thirty two years / new style / In suae far as Concerns the Inventory of the said defuncts debts and sume of money after specified Which umquhill Mr George Gregory and the said Sophia Van Wyngarden by their Testament and Last will of date foresaid Declared the one, the other Reciprocally that is each other To will the first dying the Longest Living of them both for his or her universall heir or heires and that with full right and Title of Institution, as ane Notariall Copy of the said Testament and Last will in English duely sealed and under the hand of Daniel Zutterman Notary publick by the provinciall Court of Holland Zeeland and west Frizeland duely admitted residing within the city of Midleburgh in Zeeland with ane attestation of the Translation thereof all underwritten In themselves at length proport In the First the said unquhill mr George Gregory had addebted and resting owing to him the time of his decease foresaid the debt and sume of money aftermentioned To witt by John Baird sometime merchant in Leith now resyding in Inverask the sume of Seventy three pound Seventeen shilling Two pence halfe peny sterl[ing] as balance of ane accompt Current Extending the said sume in Scots money to Eight hundered and Eighty six pound six shilling Six penys
Sum[m]a of the debt owing to the dead viij c~ lxxxvj : vj: vj
follows the deads legacy and Latterwill
In the Name of God Amen on this day the seventeenth of November One Thousand seven hundered and Twenty four years Compeared before me Daniel Zutterman Notary publick by the provinciall Court of Holland Zeeland and West Frizeland duely admitted Residing within the City of Midleburgh in Zeeland in presence of the underwritten witnesses Mr George Gregory merchant in Terveer and his wife mrs Sophia Vanwyngarden both of them well to pass according to the Body using their full senses and understanding as is appeared by the passing of these The which declared to be inclined to dispose of Temporall goods which after their decease they shall Leave behind them and that in following manner yet first and beforehand they Declare to Anuhilate all former Testaments Codicils or acts of Lastwill made or past by them together or by each of them in particular before the date of these not willing that they should subject or be of any value but all holden as never made or past and now Coming to their designed disposition the first dying of them both gives or dispons to the poor of the Scots Congregation of T[e]rveer a sume of Two pound fleemish and in all other goods moveables or Immoveables actions and Credits present and future of what denomination or where soever lying nothing in this world excepted But in Generall all that the first dying of them Testators after their decease shall leave behind them in this world all the same they Testators Declare the one the other Reciprocally that is each other to will the first dying the longest Living of them both for his or her universall heir or Heiress and that with full Right and Title of Institution as ought to be without being any ways obliged to give ane account of their Estate to anybody thus that the longest Living Remains obliged to bring up their Child or Children which after their decease they Leave behind to give them their due Education and settle their portion according to the Condition of their Estate till they Come to the age of Majority Marriage or any other state of perfection and then and not till then or no sons to pay amongst them all such sumes of money as they Testators shall Express and undersubscribe upon the Copy authentick of their Testament with their own particular hand wryting wherein they they Reserve to them the power to Augment or diminish the same according to the Condition of their Estate under the same particular hand writing So that the Last mentioned sum shall always rest off Effect In which Expressed sume and thereby settled portion they declare not to wrong their Child or Children in their Legittim but to pay it Richly
Instituting by these their Child or Children which after their Decease They Leave behind for his or her Joint heir with what is aforementioned and that with rights and Title of Institutione as aforesaid the first dying Nominating the Longest Living for Tutor or Tutores of their Children which after their decease they leave behind them and that with power for to Choose with them such Tutor or Tutors as the longest Liver shall think fitt without being any ways obliged to take any of the Relations of the one or the other side Lastly they Testators declare to Excludue out of their Estate My Lords the officers of the orphans and the . . . Orphans hall of Campveer or of the City of Campveer or any other orphans hall which have any Direction over orphans not willing that the same should have any direction or authority therein as excusing the same thereof by these this the Testators declare to be their Testament and Last will and utmost will willing and desiring that the same after their decease may be performed and punctully observed whither it be as Testament Codicile or Gift among theLiving or by Occasion of death or after such a Manner as any ones Testament Can or may subsist Conform to Law This past within the City of Midleburgh in Zeeland in presence of Leonardus Devos and Abraham de Meyer as witnesses the Minutes hereof are in due form signed and sealed and this I found to agree with the same su[b]s[c]rib[i]t[u]r Quod Attestor
was signed Daniel Zutterman
Notary publick

Follows the attetstation of the Translation This Testament or Last will is Faithfully and uprightly Translated out of the Lou Dutch into the English Language and this is found to
agree with Originall Done by me undersubscrivit admitted and sworn Translator of the
above Languages in this City of Midleburgh in Zeeland this 31st of January 1732 N.P. signed J Worrell Masters Andrew Marjoribanks & Ratifie approve & Confirm the said umquhill mr george Gregory his Latterwill and Testament above written & Inv[ento]ry of his Debt and Sume of money a[fter]mentioned So far as the samen is given up allenarly and we give
and committ the Intromission th[e]rwith to the said Sophia Vanwyngarden Executrix Testamentrix to the said Defunct with full power to her and the said James Steuart her factor for his Interest To uplift & Cautioner William Miller Bookseller in Edin[bu]r[gh]

Transcribed by Robert H J Urquhart, National Archives of Scotland, May 2004