Maria van Leeuwenhoek's heirs agree that the two estates should be considered jointly and divided evenly
signed by Van der Lely and Assendelft as executors of L and MvL and as guardian of MC Hobus and by Bolland, Maria, Cornelis, Adriana, and Dirck Haaxman, and Philips de Molijn.
Recounts Lely and Assendelft going to Gouden Hoofd and finding the wills of 17 Nov 1721, codicil of 30 Nov 1721, and will of 20 May 1744) and summoning all of the living heirs on 1 May 1745, when the wills were opened and read.
Following that, an inventory was made on 26 June 1745. The executors found "various obscurities and difficulties" (diverse duijsterheden en difficultieijten). Because of these difficulties and because it is not possible to separate L's estte from M's, after consulting the interest parties, they decided to take the advice of two neutral legal eexperts. Mr. and Mr. Francois Ellinckhuizen and Dirck van Blommesteijn, lawyers for the respective Courts of Justice in Holland, advised them to lump the two estates together and divide the lump into equal halves.
The parties declared themselves satisfied by this decision and promise not to adjudicate it further. The whole agreement was "condemned"? [condemneeren] by the Supreme Court in Holland, constituting for this purpose the Messrs. Willem Hoijer, Johannis Jacobus van Reenen, and Jacob Spruijt.
ONA inv. 2792 p. 39 no 13 Joris Geesteranus