He came to Schenectady about 1678; his wife Maria, only daughter and heir of Ludovicus Cobes, secretary of the village, on the death of Kleyn, married Thomas Smith, and Feb. 4, 1701/2, petitioned the Court of Common Pleas of Albany county, to admit her late husband's will to probate, saying that he died the 2d Oct., 1686, at his house above Schenectady; — that he made a will leaving half of the Fourth flat to the use of his wife, said Mary, during her lifetime and after her decease to her children; that said will was written by her father Ludovicus Cobes, and that said will was lost in the destruction of Schenectady. (125-1)
Kleyn had five daughters, — Weyntje; Baata or Baafie who married Willem Marinus; Clara; Anna, wife of Pieter Clement; and Catrina, wife of Thomas Davie.
On the 22 Aug., 1678, Sander Glen petitioned the Governor and Council for a grant of the Fourth flat for Ludovicus Cobes and Johannes Kleyn, his son-in-law, and on the 11th Dec., 1684, the patentees of Schenectady conveyed the same, the easterly half to Cobes and the westerly half lying on Arent Mebie's kil to his son-in-law. (125-2)
Notes
(125-1) Dutch Church Papers, Schenectady.
(125-2) Col. MSS., XXVIII, 18; Deeds, V, 196; see also Cobes, Tam Smit; Dutch Church and Toll Papers.