Maartge Frans Speelpenning left a last will, drawn up in 1710 when she was
ill and in bed. It is not clear she and her husband had much to leave behind, or any
children to leave it to, since the body of the will appears to do little but revoke
earlier wills.
As was common in that era, aldermen of the town (Heenvliet cannot have had more than a few
hundred inhabitants then, though that does not keep it from referring to itself as a
"city and free county of Heenvliet") served as witnesses in legal proceedings,
and in this case, one of the aldermen is another Speelpenning,
whose name is rendered as Frans Dirksz Speelpenningh, and who must be the one who died in
1743.
| In den Naame des heeren Amen op huijden den negenden februarij zeven tien honderd en tien, Compareerde voor schepenen der stede ende vrije heerlijkheijt van heenvliet, onder genommineert, Jan Pieterse Vermeule, kloek ende gesont van lighaame sijnde, gaande ende staande, ende sijne huijsvrouw Maartie Frans Speelpenning ... |
In the name of the Lord Amen on today the ninth of February seven teen hundred and ten, Appeared before aldermen of the city and free county of Heenvliet, the following people, Jan Pieterse Vermeule, being fit and healthy of body, moving and standing, and his spouse Maartie Frans Speelpenning ... |
| Aldus gedaen ende gepasseert binnen de Stede Heenvliett ter presentie ende ten overstaen van Dirk Villerius en Frans Dirksz Speel penningh Schepenen, actum in datum ut supra (gedaan op de datum als boven). |
Thus done and passed within the City Heenvliett presented to and in the presence of Dirk Villerius and Frans Dirksz Speel penningh Aldermen, actum in datum ut supra. (acting on the date as above) |
| X dit merk heeft Maertje selfs gestelt, Arentz Quack Jan Pieterse Vermeule D Villerius Frans Dircks Speelpenningh |
X this mark was made by Maertje herself, Arentz Quack Jan Pieterse Vermeule D Villerius Frans Dircks Speelpenningh |