Letter sent to a cousin regarding the possibility of getting money from the Pieter Teyler van der Hulst estate, and updates about claims being made by people in Michigan.https://nwcommons.nwciowa.edu/vanderhulst/1000/thumbnail.jp

Cook, Johanna A

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Northwestern College, Iowa NWCommons Teyler vander Hulst Testament Box 1: Papers 12-4-1924 Letter from Johanna A. Cook to J. R. Brinks, Dec. 4, 1924 Johanna A. Cook Follow this and additional works at: https://nwcommons.nwciowa.edu/vanderhulst Zeeland, Mich., Mr. J. R. Brinks,                Dec. 4, 1924 Dear Cousin; -   Received your most welcome letter today and thought we would answer it right away.  We are all quite well hoping the same of you and your children.  I am the daughter of Alice Hulst who died about one and a half years ago, I suppose you have heard of it from your brother Henry.  I live with my Uncle John and Aunt Grace, the last named was to [sic] busy to write so she told me to answer your letter.  We have heard from Mr. & Mrs. Henry Brinks that your wife died last fall and we wish to extend our sympathy to you and your children for it is a trying time to suffer the loss of dear ones.  It looks like winter out here nowadays we are having quite cold weather now.  How is the weather out your way?  Now referring to that inheritance, they had meetings around here last fall, we have been to one which was held at Jamestown and quite a few paid fifteen dollars for a claim, also Boerman’s from Oakland, but we didn’t pay yet we wanted to know more about it first.  They didn’t have a meeting here again so far, some say there is more hope on getting the money from the Nederlands than from New York but perhaps we won’t get any.  They say there is lots of money, but how to get a hold of it is a question.  I will enclose herewith the names of some ancestors of Peter Tylor Vander Hulst.   Perhaps it would be a good thing if Rhoda’s boys could find out something about it from a Nederland lawyer. I will copy from the picture the names and when born, married, and died just as written on picture on another paper. Will close for this time. Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from Miss Johanna Alice Cook & John and Grace Hulst. p.s. If you hear something about it will you please let us know?  If we hear something we will write to you.  When you write to Rhoda please give her our Best Regards to her, hoping she is well yet, Miss Johanna Alice Cook  Grace Hulst  John Hulst.  Transcribed by Liesbeth ten Hoeve The Grand Rapids press Bogardus Heirs to press Claims Michigan Residents Are Interested in Huge Holland Estate. Kalamazoo Sept. 22 – More than 1,500 persons in Michigan may share in an $800,000,000 estate in Holland and New York City if the claims of the Anneke Jans Bogardus heirs of Kalamazoo and vicinity can be substantiated in the courts of the Nederlands.   A series of meetings of these supposed heirs at which plans for making a legal effort to recover the money have been held this summer. A meeting in Kalamazoo will be held in two weeks. It will be preliminary to a state meeting at which a campaign will be made to register all those who believe they have any claim to share in the Bogardus estate. Earle E. Hayward, public accountant, a descendant in the ninth generation of Anneke Jans Bogardus, is at the head of the local organization. The estate has accumulated from moneys placed on deposit at compound interest to the account of Anneke, who was a granddaughter of William of Orange. She was disinterited [sic] because she married Roeloff Jansen a servant. The money on deposit in the Bank of Holland is now more than $800,000,000, it is said. The government of Holland a few years ago passed a law stopping further interest payments on the fund because it is so great. The remainder of the estate consists of claims to property in the heart of New York City, land on which Anneke Bogardus and her servant husband settled. When they came to New York in 1636. The New York Supreme Court has twice ruled these claims invalid, but discovery of further evidence has led to a third suit to establish the legality of the claims. p.s. This is an exact copy, out of the Grand Rapids press. of Sept 22, 1924 Here are the names. Abraham Vander Hulst Vice-admiraal Van Holland en West Vriesland Geb. 1619 ꝉ 1666 Broeder van Jadocus Hulst  Get: 1630 Oom van Johannes, Lucas, Peter, Albert, Berend, Maria Lucas Wilhelm, en Elizabeth van der Hulst. Maria van der Hulst Trouwde Izaak Teyler 1701 Hieruit ontsproot Pieter Teyler van der Hulst Geb. 1702, get. 1728, ꝉ 1778 Translation of above names and Dutch notes: Abraham Vander Hulst Vice-admiral From Holland and West Vriesland Born 1619 † 1666 Brother of Jadocus Hulst  Married: 1630 Uncle of Johannes, Lucas, Peter, Albert, Berend, Maria Lucas Wilhelm, and Elizabeth van der Hulst. Maria van der Hulst Married Izaak Teyler 1701 From them came Pieter Teyler van der Hulst B. 1702, M. 1728, † 1778   Transcribed by Liesbeth ten Hoeve  

Letter from Johanna A. Cook to J. R. Brinks, Dec. 4, 1924

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Letter from Johanna A. Cook to J. R. Brinks, Dec. 4, 1924

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