Peter Jacob(s)

JACOBS

Posted By: Misty Christner (email)
Date: 5/1/2018 at 12:25:12

Source: Ft. Madison Weekly Democrate 7/2/1901

Funerals as Merry Occasions

The New York Historical Society has just issued the twenty-fifth volume of its "Collections," composed of abstracts of wills and other documents as recorded in the surrogate's office and bringing the recod down to 1707. Among the curious items in the book is the record of funeral expenses of Peter Jacob(s) Marins, a rich merchant. That a funeral was to the Dutch settlers a day of merriment is shown by the fact that "mourners" consumed about twenty-five gallons of beer, smoked 250 tobacco pipes and ate 800 "cookies". The account also includes a bill of "bottles and glass broke".