The New York herald., 1879-02-08
ROYAL HEIRS.

MEETING OF DESCENDANTS OF KING WILLIAM
Nv. OF HoLLAND--THE woLFERT-wEBBER
GRNEALoGY
large number of person Of either sex met at the
residence of Mr. John Brady. No. Mitchell place.
East Fortyninth street. last evening. IN answer to
the following call. printed in last Sundays HERALD
mes,ing having been held of tho woert webber heirs
evening January So the following resolution was
That having obtained valuable with copy or
IN Holland 70 establish our cianla meeting OF tue ne's
has been called to Friday evening" February u a
seven o'clock"
chairman and secretary elected and Mr.
Clark, representing his grandmother, produced .
letter written by the American Consul at Amsterdam
to Mrs. Farmer. in reference TO the Dusenberry
estate The following an extract. referring to per-
who is said to have been trying to obtain poses
sion of the webber legacy for over six years.
That man Is inpostor. who. making Amsterdam his
5 30 aud 81 so Of ereduous supposed American
heirs OF the supposed Dutch estates The eenteman for
tunatey left Holland for New York where hope they
may keep MN aouss very H MULLER
Mr.. Clark subsequently told the HERALD reporter
that the individual referred to in the letter is in
league with young man who represents himself to
be the Of the late Secretary of State Seward He
has. it is said, obtained of money from
people to enable him to hunt up the neces-
sary documents relating to the legacy. but
has never done anything to aid the heirs. On the
contrary he has proved to be great obstacle by
of his arousing suspicious in Holland that
gigantic scheme to obtain the will fraudulently
foot. The following genealogical record is copy
of that filed among the archives Of the old Dutch Re-
formed Church which stood at No. 1O3 Fulton street,
In 1912 Wofsr. Arnaq, and A%eke a weIbe who were
America Amieke married JAMS he died and she married
july i5 ie and they were received as members Of the
Church July, 1888 Hellegona their daughter hap.
Philip Mnthorne January ~, 1886.
DOWN PRESENT DAY.
Here the branches Of the family begin to spread
and the space will not permit Of their being followed
One branch will suffice. Philip (the son of Helle-
gona and Philip Minthorne) was baptized December
lG. 1896. Philip married Johannah Rail February o.
1923. Margaret. their daughter. born in January
1892, and married Nicholas Romaine June o. 1853
Sarah, their daughter. was born January IL.
80. 1890. Isaac. their son. born De-
cember IS. 1900. Isaac married Abbey Jane
Mosher October 7. 1927. and has eight children now
living. Mrs. Tompkins, of Tarrytown, is in the
possession of copies Of old papers relating to the
Webber estate Us far back as 1888: She is also
will. dated l7l5 in which he makes Philip
Minthorne bis executor. A fac smile Of
the seal which h,.ns is on on the. the win filed in
heirs. On side of it is the representation of a
bunch OF grapes and wine glass. The meaning of
those symbols is Leave plenty" On the reverse
side is = hideous skull and crossbones, signifyng
Prepare for DEATH 1t is dated 1921. In
reference to this seal one gentleman gave an
interesting description of the manner in which
fraud is prevented. He said that there are secret
marks on the seals which known only to the
government. and without knowing which it would
be impossible to obtain any legacy. The marks may
be in the number Of small lines on leaf may be
the feathers of bird but they always refer to the
number of heirs born prior to the making Of the will
singular order is said to accompany the will
which is that it shall not be opened until the fifth
generation The people who met last night claim to
be the ones referred to. and some are quite young
enough to enjoy the great wealth they seek. The
amount is hard to ascertain. but will not fall below
$5OO000O0 The number of heirs is said to be about
sixty.
The meeting adjourned subject to call, in order
that fuller of those interested might
be had, and the chairman thought that some move
would soon be made to send representative to Hol-
land to take charge of the case there.