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The University of the State of New York
New York State Library
History Bulletin 9
EARLY RECORDS
OF THE
CITY AND COUNTY OF ALBANY
AND
COLONY OF RENSSELAERSVVYCK
Volume 2
(Deeds 3 and 4, 1678-1704)
TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL DUTCH
BY
JONATHAN PEARSON
LATE PROFESSOR OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY IN UNION COLLEGE
REVISED AND EDITED BY
A. J. F. VAN LAER, Archivist
ALBANY
THE UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
I916
THE UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
Regents of the University
With years when terms expire
1926 Pliny T. Sexton LL.B. LL.D. Chancellor - - Palmyra
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Vice Chancellor Albany
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and Commissioner of Education
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Charles F. Wheelock B.S. LL.D.
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New York Siate Library
Albany, N. Y.
Hon. John H. Finley
President oj the University
Dear sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith and to recom-
mend for pubUcation the first volume of Professor Jonathan Pearson's
translation of those early Dutch records of Albany, the editing and
publishing of which was authorized by vote of the Board of Regents,
June 25, 1 914. This editing has been carefully done with constant
reference to the original records by Mr A. J. F. van Laer, Archivist
in the State Library. The present work follows in immediate chrono-
logic sequence Professor Pearson's volume of nearly fifty years ago
and his own earlier title has been continued for the present series.
In the editor's introduction, details appear as to contents of the
present instalment with interesting comment on the significance of
the material as a fruitful source for the social, personal and political
history of colonial New York. The deeds, mortgages and wills when
thus translated and carefully edited are also of high practical value in
connection with local real estate titles and litigation.
Very truly vours
J. I. Wyer, Jr
Director
UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
Approved jor publication this 21st day of May, igi^
President oj the University
PREFACE
The early Dutch records in the Albany county clerk's office,
though long recognized as exceeding in interest and fuhiess many
similar records in other parts of the State, have thus far been among
the least accessible for historical purposes. Translations from these
records were made by the late Professor Jonathan Pearson almost
half a century ago, but with the exception of a small portion cover-
ing the first two volumes of Deeds they remained unpublished at the
time of his death in 1887 and could not be found in the summer of
1899 when the present editor made inquiries about them. In 1886,
at the time of the Albany bicentennial celebration, Judge Franklin
M. Danaher proposed to have translations of the records printed,
but the plan did not go through. Shortly afterwards two copies of
a manuscript calendar of the records were made by Berthold Fer-
now, one for the county in connection with the preparation of a
printed index of grantors and grantees, and the other for the late
John V. L. Pruyn of New York; but of these the first has disap-
peared, except the part relating to the court records of 1652-85, and
the second, after having been placed in the hands of the editor for
eventual publication by the State, was destroyed by the Capitol fire
of March 29, 191 1. In view of these imsuccessful attempts to make
the contents of the records available and of the fact that the records
themselves barely escaped destruction in the fire of the old city hall
on February 10, 1880, it seems especially fortunate that the State
Library should now be able to publish part of the long lost transla-
tions of Professor Pearson which recently have been found and
generously placed at its disposal by the author's sons, Mr John M.
Pearson and Dr W. L. Pearson, of Schenectady. The manuscript
received contains, besides the translations included in this volume,
translations of two volumes of Notarial Papers, 1660-95, one
volume of Mortgages, 1658-60, one volume of Court Minutes,
1658-59, and portions of two volumes of Wills, 1685-1765, all of
which, with the exception of the Court Minutes, have been revised
and will shortly be issued in two or more additional volumes. The
Court Minutes, which belong to a separate series of records running
from the establishment of the first court at Beverwyck in 1652 to
the organization of the Mayor's Court in 1686, will be reserved
for the present, but it is hoped that before long an opportunity may
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O EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
be found to publish them also in their proper chronologic place in
that important series of records. The entire manuscript, inclusive
of the court record, consists of 171 1 pages, which are numbered
from I to 407, from 436 to 587, from 487 to 918, and from 477 to
820. Allowing for a certain amount of overlapping of the figures
and for the possibility that one group of 476 pages may have con-
tained translations of the first two volumes of Deeds which have
appeared in print but which may have been counted as unpublished,
it would seem that the manuscript constitutes about one-half of the
unpublished material that is alluded to in the following passage
from Major J. \\'. Mac^^Iurray's preface to the History of the
Schenectady Patent, by Prof. Jonathan Pearson and others, which
was published in 1883.
Professor Pearson, of Union College, enjoys a well-earned repu-
tation as student, translator and writer on the colonial history of
northern New York. During the past forty or more years, he has
been a constant worker at the records of the ancient county of
Albany and has accumulated a vast store of information, which has
fortunately been put in writing and embraces many thousand pages
of legal cap manuscript. This herculean task was a labor of love
without hope of pecuniary profit ; as Professor Alexander aptly ex-
presses it — the recreation of a busy life. His friend, the late Joel
Munsell, of antiquarian fame, induced him to print much of this
matter and " Early Records of the County of Albany," translated
from the original Dutch, " Contributions Toward the Genealogies
of the First Settlers of Schenectady," " Genealogies of the First
Settlers of Albany," " History of the Reformed Protestant Dutch
Church in Schenectady," besides very many magazine and news-
paper articles have been given to the public from Munsell's Press.
There remain more than four thousand pages of unpublished manu-
script and notes, much of which was written many years ago.
Just what the rest of these four thousand pages contained it is
impossible to say, but from other statements in the same history and
from rough notes left by Professor Pearson, it seems that they
must have consisted partly of translations of church and city rec-
ords of Albany and Schenectady and partly of manuscript for a
last volume on the history of Schenectady, relating to the city
proper, more especially to streets, schools, churches, names of locali-
ties, mills, streams, hills etc.
As the title indicates, the present volume contains translations of
volumes 3 and 4 (or C and D) of Deeds, ranging in date from July
I, 1678, to March 14, 170^. Of the first of these volumes the
DEEDS I 678- I 704 7
text as here printed is complete, it having been deemed desirable to
add to Professor Pearson's translations copies of a few English
deeds which occur in the record ; but as regards Deeds, v. 4, which
is largely in English and which, besides a record of conveyances
from December 25, 1688, to September 28, 1705, with two receipts
of May I, 1707, and May i. 1708, contains five pages of proceed-
ings of the Court of Sessions held for the town and county of
Albany on March 3, i68f, and June 2, 1685, the printed text is
confined to such instruments as were originally recorded in the
Dutch language. As may be inferred from statements made above,
the present volume forms a direct continuation of Professor Pear-
son's earlier publication covering the first two volumes of Deeds,
which appeared separately in 1869 under the title of Early Records
of the City and County of Albany and Colony of Rensselaerswyck,
1656-1675,^ and again in 1870 and 1871 as part of volumes 3 and 4
of Munsell's Collections on the History of Albany, this time with
the addition in volume 4 of the Collections of "A Key to the Names
of Persons occurring in the Early Dutch Records of Albany and
Vicinity," " Contributions for the Genealogies of the First Settlers
of Albany," and " Diagrams of the Home Lots of the Village of
Beverwyck." From the nature of the case, the character of the rec-
ords here presented is largely that of the earlier series and little need
be added therefore to the preface which Professor Pearson supplied
to the first volume. It should be noted, however, that while the
earlier records fell to a considerable extent within the period of
Dutch control over the colony, when Dutch laws prevailed in regard
to the title and transfer of real estate, the records covered by the
present volume fall entirely within the period of British occupation
and witness the gradual change from Dutch to English methods of
conveyancing. As is well known, the articles of surrender ratified
on September 8, 1664, by the Dutch authorities and the British
commander, declared all inhabitants of New Netherland to be
" free denizens " and secured to them their property as well as
the enjoyment of Dutch customs concerning inheritances. Under
this agreement, the people of Albany and vicinity continued for a
period of nearly twenty years to follow their customary procedure
in regard to the transfer of real property and to record their instru-
ments in the Dutch language, unaffected by the provisions regarding
such matters in the Duke's laws promulgated at the Hempstead
meeting of 1665, which, though intended to be ultimately the law
1 In reality running from August 19, 1654, to June 20, 1678, with two
deeds of March 3, 1679.
S EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
of the whole province, it was at first not thought prudent to enforce
. in the Dutch settlements in the Hudson and ^lohawk valleys. As
an exception to this rule, however, must be mentioned the pro-
vision in the Duke's laws whereby tenure of lands was to be from
the Duke of York and all persons were required to bring in their
old grants and take out new patents from the governor. This pro-
vision applied to Albany as well as to other parts of the province
and accounts for a long series of confirmatory grants issued for the
greater part in 1667 and 1668 which in the absence of many of the
Dutch patents are of the utmost importance for a knowledge of
the original land titles and which for that reason have been fre-
quently cited in the present work. As regards the form and regis-
tration of conveyances between private individuals, the first im-
portant changes were introduced by the General Assembly convened
by Governor Thomas Dongan in 1683. First came the act to divide
the province into shires and counties, passed November i, 1683,
whereby the county of Albany was erected and described as '" to
conteynje, the town of Albany the County [colony] of Renslaers-
wyck, Schonechteda, and all the Villages, neighbourhoods and
Christian Plantacons on the East side of Hudsons river from Roelof
Jansens creeke, and on the West side from Sawers Creeke to the
Sarraghtoga." In consequence of this act we find the term " Justices
of the Peace of the County of Albany " used instead of the former
expression " Commissaries of Albany, colony of Rensselaerswyck
and Schenectady," though not till June 13, 1684, and by no means
regularly thereafter. Two days later, on November 3, 1683, an act
was passed entitled "An act to prevent fifrauds in conveyancing of
lands," which provided that from and after the 25th of December
next after the date of the act no grants, deeds, mortgages or other
conveyances whatsoever of any lands or tenements within the
province would be of any force or validity in law unless recorded
within six months in the register of the county wherein such lands
or tenements lay, and furthermore, that once a year the clerk of
each county was to transmit to the secretary's office at New York,
for registration in that office, all deeds, mortgages and other convey-
ances of which the consideration exceeded the sum of fifty pounds.
This act remedied whatever defects there may have been thought
to exist in the Dutch method of recording deeds and mortgages but
of course did not affect the question of validity of former instru-
ments, more especially that of the informal mortgages that were
included in many Dutch bonds. Consequently, on October 29, 1684,
the Assembly passed an act entitled "A Bill Concerning fformer
DEEDS I 678- I 704 9
Mortgages," whereby all mortgages of lands, houses and tenements
duly and legally obtained and made according to the former cus-
toms of the province before its restoration to his Majesty and Royal
Highness were to be deemed and adjudged in any of the courts of
equity and courts of record within the province as effectual in law
and right, as if according to the methods and practice of England or
the laws now established.
As a result of these laws, more particularly that of November 3,
1683, we find the English form of deed gradually taking the place
of the former Dutch style of transport, the record being at first gen-
erally still in the Dutch la^nguage and tearing the original signatures
of the parties and witnesses, but after August 10, 1685, more often
written in English, without actual signatures. Whatever may have
been the advantages of the new style of drawing and recording
deeds, it is undeniable that from the historical point of view the sub-
stitution of a mere record for the original instruments, signed by
the parties and witnesses, was a great loss, not only because these
signatures gave a personal touch to the records which at this dis-
tance of time is of peculiar interest, but because they are of vital
importance in determining the identity of many of the persons men-
tioned in the records. Indeed it may be doubted whether with the
loose method of designating people then in vogue, it would without
these signatures be at all possible at the present day to distinguish
between the various Jan Thomassens or Cornelis Teunissens who
are mentioned in the records now with and then without the addition
of a surname or place of origin, so that much of what we know of
the relationship of the early settlers hinges on these very signatures
which form such a conspicuous feature of the Dutch records.
In the preface to the first volume, much stress has been laid by
Professor Pearson on the brevity and vagueness of the descriptions
in the deeds and the consequent difficulty of locating the various
village lots. This difficulty undoubtedly exists but, as the author
himself has suggested, it can in many cases be successfully over-
come by comparing the descriptions in subsequent repeated convey-
ances of the same lots. From his own experience the editor is con-
vinced, however, that no satisfactory solution of the problem can be
attained by means of such simple diagrams as Professor Pearson
has given in Munsell's Collections. To account Avith absolute cer-
tainty for the many pieces of property owned at different times by
the same persons in different parts of the town, as well as for the
numerous strips and small parcels of ground that were taken off
from or added to the original lots, it is necessary to construct a map
10 EARLY RECORDS OF ALIIANY
of the entire settlement, drawn to a sufficient scale, preferably, for
the sake of greater accuracy and economy of labor, by means of a
Dutch ruler, directly from the dimensions in Dutch rods, feet and
inches as expressed in the original conveyances, without reduction
to English measurements. In doing so, no reliance should be placed
on translations, no matter by whom made, nor for that matter on the
descriptions in the early confirmatory patents, which themselves are
but imperfect translations from earlier Dutch instruments and in
which, as shown in footnotes in the present work, the compass direc-
tions have in many cases been reversed. The preparation of such
a map has long been in the editor's mind.- It would prove of great
value in tracing the title to real estate and properly should have pre-
ceded the publication of the deeds in order to insure absolute accu-
racy of translation. Time, however, forbids its preparation at the
present moment and all that can be done is to refer the reader for
the location of the lots to the diagrams in Alunsell's Collectiotis. It
should be borne in mind, however, that by Professor Pearson's own
admission these diagrams are quite imperfect and that much remains
to be learned in this matter from later registers of deeds and
mortgages.
While the value of such records as are here presented lies pri-
marily in their character as evidence of title of real estate, it is be-
lieved that a careful examination of the volume will reveal a num-
ber of things that are of interest to the student of the general
history of the period as well as to the antiquarian and the genealo-
gist. In the first place it may be pointed out that during the period
covered by the present volume the stockaded village around which
most of these records cluster occupied an important place in the
province as the center of the internal traffic with the native savages
and was the scene of many conferences between the Indians and
•the successive governors. One of the most notable of these con-
ferences of which a record appears in this volume was that held in
September 1683 in consequence of William Penn's attempt to secure
to himself the upper Susquehanna valley, which caused Governor
Dongon to make a hurried visit to Albany almost immediately after
his arrival in the province. Subsequently, the threatening situation
with regard to the French in Canada more than once compelled
Governor Dongan to visit Albany and finally in i68j-8S, just before
his recall to England, to spend the entire winter there. In the
second place it is to be noted that the same period saw the final
settling of the long-standing controversy between the colony of
Rensselaerswyck and the village of Beverwyck or Albany, resulting
DEEDS I 6/8- I 704 II
in the erection of the colony into an English manor by patent of
November 4, 1685, and the granting of a city charter to Albany on
July 22, 1686, whereby its government was definitely placed upon
an English basis and whereby all vacant and unappropriated lands
within the city limits which had formerly belonged to Rensselaers-
wyck were vested in the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the
city. These and other important events lend interest to many details
which of themselves are of purely local significance, but there is
more. It should be remembered that in history as in many other
fields it is intensive rather than extensive investigation that is likely
to lead to new results and that nothing gives a clearer insight into
the social condition of a given period than the concentrated study
of a single typical community. Such a typical community the fron-
tier settlement at Albany certainly was and once the character of
its population, its mode of living and daily occupations are fully
understood, much will be known that applies equally to the contem-
poraneous settlements at Schenectady, Kingston, Kinderhook and
other parts of the province. As to the character of the population,
the reader will doubtless be impressed with the fact that a much
larger number of settlers than is generally supposed came from parts
• of Europe outside of the Netherlands, particularly from East Fries-
land, Oldenburg and the duchies of Schleswig-Holstein. As in-
stances hereof may be mentioned such names as Evert Jansen Wen-
del from Emden, Jan Harmensen from Aurich, Elmer Otten from
Isens (Esens), Volckert Jansen Douw from Stapelholm, Jacob Jan-
sen from Noortstrant, Jan Fransen from Hoesem (Husum), Jan
Thomassen from Wittbek, Casper Jacobsen from Hollenbek, Cor-
nelis Barentsen from Ditmars, and others of less-known persons
from Norden, Jever, Eiderstedt, Bredstedt, Friedrichstadt and Flens-
burg. Just what the cause of emigration from these regions was
is an interesting question to which as yet no definite answer can be
given. Some of these men may have been of the seafaring class
who came over as sailors and who upon arrival decided to stay and
to engage in trade. Others may have been engaged as soldiers by
the Dutch West India Company and yet others may have sprung
from families that during the Spanish war sought refuge across
the Dutch borders and rather than to return to the former homes of
their parents they may have preferred to join their compatriots
across the sea. Whatever the cause, the prevalence of this element
is interesting and undoubtedly accounts for the large number of
Lutherans in the early settlement which occasioned the call to Al-
bany in 1669 of the Rev. Jacobus Fabritius, the first Lutheran
minister in the province.
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As to the mode of living of the colonists, one should like to have
a clearer idea than it is possible to gather from the records of the
character of the houses that are mentioned in the conveyances, more
particularly whether they were built of brick or wood and whether
they consisted of more than one story or not. Practically nothing
appears in the deeds that throws any light on these matters, but
from certain contracts and specifications in the Notarial Papers
which are to appear later it seems evident that between 1660 and
1680 many of the houses in the village were still of the Dutch farm-
house type, meaning that the fore part of the house was occupied
as a dwelling while the rear part served as a barn, the latter having
an open space in the center and stalls and bays on either side. It is
probable, however, that this statement does not apply to the more
prominent streets, such as Jonker, riDW State street, on which before
16S0 many substantial city houses seem to have been built. ^ Inciden-
tally it may be noted that the lots on the south side of this street,
between Broadway and Pearl street, were all granted on the same
day, namely the 23d of April 1652, shortly after Director General
Stuyvesant had condemned the lots around the old fort near the
present steamboat square. With the exception of the occasional
subdivision of a lot, the original lot lines as then laid out have been
preserved to this day and can be readily distinguished by any one
familiar wMth the original grants. As under the circumstances might
naturally be supposed and as is moreover clearly shown on the plan
of the city w^hich accompanies the Rev. John Miller's Description
of the Province and City of Nezv York, of 1695, these lots were all
laid out in a straight line, a feature which at once disposes of the
commonly accepted notion that in the early days the settlement pre-
sented an irregular appearance, land being cheap and people being
allowed to squat wherever they pleased. On the contrary, the early
deeds furnish abundant evidence that from the first the settlement
was laid out in quite methodical fashion, experienced surveyors
being employed to do the work. This policy, moreover, was in line
with the fact that under the Roman Dutch law the title to the street
was vested in the government, so that it was important to know just
where the street lines were.
In closing, a word remains to be said in regard to the editorial
work on these records. Believing it to be his duty to preserve as
far as possible the wording of Professor Pearson's translations, the
1 See in this connection the interesting chapter on " Houses in Ancient
Albany County," in History of the Schenectady Patent, p. 441-50.
DEEDS 1 678- 1 704 I
O
editor has made only such changes as on careful comparison of
these translations with the originals were deemed necessary in order
to secure correctness of interpretation. In view of the well-known
ambiguity of language in the description of many pieces of property
and the consequent uncertainty in regard to the proper translation
of these descriptions, pains have been taken to cite in footnotes
extracts from the corresponding confirmatory patents in all cases
where such ambiguity seemed to exist. These extracts often throw
an unexpected light on the location of the property and will be found
helpful in connecting the deeds here printed with those published
in the preceding volume. For the full text of the patents the reader
is referred to the records in the office of the* Secretary of State,
rather than to the worn-out set of original volumes of Patents in the
State Library from which the extracts have been copied. Peculiar
Dutch expressions such as vly and creupel bosch, which have been
variously rendered by different translators, have been freely quoted
in the text and care has been taken to bring the spelling of all proper
names, including many interesting Indian local names, into accord
with the form used in the original documents. Personal names
which Professor Pearson had supplied in the translations, in the
same way as in the first volume, have in all cases been eliminated
from the text and where needed given in footnotes, for the reason
that some of these additions were found to be incorrect and that for
others no authority could be found, so that it seemed best not to
assume, even by implication, any responsibility for them. It goes
without saying that in many cases much fuller genealogical informa-
tion than appears in the present footnotes may be found in the first
volume and above all in the useful compilations entitled " First
Settlers of Albany," " First Settlers of Schenectady," and '' History
of the Schenectady Patent." It should be borne in mind, however,
that in the absence of any church records of Albany before 1683,
most of the genealogical information to be found in the above-men-
tioned publications is based on the very records which are now made
available, so that there seemed no need of doing more than to call
attention to the errors which happened to come under the editor's
observation. Though the number of such errors is not inconsidera-
able, it is really small in comparison to the multitude of genealogical
data which Professor Pearson's patient labors have brought to-
gether. That many of these errors have been blindly copied by
other writers and passed so to speak into the traditionary stage, may
be ascribed to the fact that the original records are written in a lan-
guage which few people have taken the trouble to learn, so that for
14 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
almost half a century after Professor Pearson's investigations very
little original work in regard to the early history of Albany and
Schenectady families has been done. Now that the records become
available in translated form, a new field opens itself to the genealo-
gist which will doubtless enable him to make many hitherto unsus-
pected connections. That after all these years the public should be
enabled to reap the full benefit of Professor Pearson's work will be
pleasing to all who hold his name in grateful remembrance and is a
source of much satisfaction to the editor.
A. J. F. VAN Laer
Albany, April 2p, ipij
DEEDS VOLUME III
Deed from Reyer Schermerhorn, husband and guardian of the
widow of Elmer Otten, to Rev. Nicolaus van Rensselaer for a
house and lot on Jonker street in Albany
[i] Appeared before me, Ro'. Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyck and Schaenhechtady, etc., in presence of
the Honorable Mr Richard Pretty and Mr x\ndries Te[ller], magis-
trates of said jurisdiction, Ryer Jacobse Schermerhooren, husband
and guardian of Ariaentie Arents, late widow of Elmer Otte, de-
ceased, who declared that he grants, conveys and makes over in
true, rightful and free ownership to and for the behoof of Dom.
Nicolaus van Renselaer a certain house and lot standing and lying
here in Albany on Jonker street,^ being a corner house, bounded
south and east by the public streets, on the west by the house of
Jan Witthardt and on the north by the house of Capt. Backer ; - in
breadth on the south, on the street, one rod, ten feet and one and a
half inches and in the rear on the north side one rod and ten feet ;
in length on the east side, on the street, six rods, two and a half feet,
and on the west side five rods, eleven feet and two inches, including
an alley of four feet to the rear which is to be in common for Dom.
Renselaer aforesaid and for the house of Jan Witthardt; which he,
the grantor, does by virtue of a conveyance of the lot received by him
from Mr Jan Thomase,^ [said lot] being the half of the lot specified
in a patent granted to said Thomase by the late Governor General
1 Now State street.
2 Capt. John Baker. For information about him see Minutes of the Execu-
tive Council of the Province of New York, ed. by V. H. Paltsits, i :SO-si, note.
3 Professor Pearson here adds the name " Whitbeck," but in the deed from
Jan Thomassen to Schermerhorn, June 13, 1678, in Early Records of Albany,
I :i85, he supphes the name " Mingael." The latter is clearly a mistake, as
the signature to the deed is similar to that of the will of Jan Thomassen,
dated October 21, 1679, in Notarial Papers, 2:103-5, in which he is called Jan
Thomasz. geboortigh tot IVitbeeck in Holsteyn (born at Witbeeck [Wittbek]
in Holsteyn). The same mistake runs all through the volume wherever the
name " Mingael " has been supplied after that of Jan Thomassen. Between
1654 and 1679, Jan Thomassen repeatedly held the office of commissaris or
magistrate of Albany and with his associate Volkert Jansen Douw, also a
magistrate, he figures in many real estate transactions. He generally signs his
name " Jan Thomasz," once " Jan Thomansz," and once, with a trembling
hand, to his will, " Jan Thomaesz." Apparently there was no Jan Thomassen
Mingael of sufficient age to transact business living during the same period.
The first settler by that name died before November 3, 1642 (N.Y.Col.Mss,
2:35); his son Thomas Jansen Mingael died in 1662 (N.Y.Col.Mss, v. 10,
[15]
l6 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
Rich : NicoUs dated the 29th of April 1667/ to which reference is
herein made; and that free and unincumbered, without any charges
resting thereon or issuing out of the same- (saving the lord's right)
and without the grantor's making any further claim in the least
thereto, acknowledging that he has been fully paid and satisfied
therefor, the first penny with the last, giving therefore plenarn ac-
tionem ccssam and full power to the aforesaid Mr Nicolaes van
Renselaer, his heirs and successors or assigns, to do with and dis-
pose of said house and lot as he might or could do with his own
patrimonial estate and effects, promising to warrant and defend the
same against all persons from all trouble, claims and incumbrances
which may hereafter arise,-^ and nevermore to do nor cause any-
thing to be done contrary hereto in any manner whatsoever, binding
himself thereto as by law provided. Done in Albany, this ist of
July 1 678.^
Richard Pretty Reyer Jacobse Schermerhoorn
A. Teller
Acknowledged before me,
Ro'^. Livingston, Secretary
pt I, p. 301), and the grandson Johannes Thomassen Mingael is not men-
tioned in the records till about 1680. He signs his name in one place
" Johannis tomes meingael," and in another "Johaennis toemissen mingael,"
in a hand which is entirely distinct from that of Jan Thomasz from Wittbek.
1 This patent was a conlirmation of the grant to Jan Thomassen by Director
General Stuyvesant of March 10, 1661, recorded in Dutch Patents, HH,
p. 120-21.
2 Sondej eenige lasten daerop staende ofte nytgaende, which Professor
Pearson translates as : " with no claims standing or issuing against the same."
Lasten, however, does not refer to " claims," but means " charges," more
particularl}', taxes and rent charges, so that the phrase may be rendered :
" without any charges thereon, or rents, profits or emoluments to be paid
out of the same."
^ Belovcnde 't selve op ende Jegens een Ygelycken te zvaaren & te vryeii
voor alle Commer, naermaeninge ofte beswaernisse, die naermaels sonde
moogen koonien. This phrase, with slight changes, occurs in nearly all the
Dutch deeds and has been variously rendered by Professor Pearson as
" promising to defend the same from all and every person and free it from
all trouble, claims, or complaint which may hereafter come against the same,"
or " promising to defend the same against all and every person and to free
it from all claims, liens and encumbrances," or "promising to protect and
free the same from all trouble, actions and claims of all persons." Commer,
literally " cumber," means trouble, let, or hindrance ; in law it is used in the
sense of charge, debt, lien, or obligation and, more specifically, in the sense
of attachment. Naermaeninge means claim, or demand, and beszcaernisse
refers to anything with which property may be beszvaert, that is, charged or
incumbered. Though Professor Pearson's translation has often been changed
to make it correspond more closely to the wording of the original, no effort
has been made to secure absolute uniformity in the rendering of the phrase
above quoted.
* Soon after the purchase of this house and lot Domine Nicolaus van
Rensselaer died intestate, his widow Alida Schuyler obtaining letters of
DEEDS 1678-1704 17
Deed from Geertruy Barents, attorney for Jacob Hevick, and
the administrators of the estate of Reyndert Pietersen to Al-
bert Ryckman for a brewery, dwelling and appurtenances in
Albany
[2] Appeared before me, Ro : Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyck and Schaenhechtady, etc., in presence of
the Honorable Mr Rich : Pretty and And^ Teller, magistrates of said
jurisdiction, Geertruy Barents, as attorney for her husband Ja[cob]
Hevick, and Gerrit Swart and Mr Adriaen van Ilpendam, adminis-
trators of the estate of Reyndert Pieterse. deceased, who declared
that they had granted and conveyed to and for the behoof of Albert
Ryckman, his heirs arid assigns, the brew-house and the dwelling
in front, together with the mill house, horse stable, well and the
land adjacent thereto, lying in the town of Albany, next the house
of Leendert Phillipse ; ^ in breadth in front, on the street, three
rods, one foot and six inches ; to the south of the lot where the
blockhouse stood eleven rods and eight feet; breadth to the east,
three rods and six feet, and in length to the north of Leend'. Phil-
Hpse's eleven rods,' eight feet, being a part of the patent granted by
the Right Honorable Governor General Rich: Nicolls to Jacob
Hevick, dated the 30th of April 1667,^ to which reference is herein
made ; which she, the cedent, and the grantors in the capacity afore-
said promise to warrant and defend against all trouble, claims and
pretensions (saving the lord's right) which may hereafter arise, on
pain of execution against their persons and estates, real and personal,
administration bearing date the 30th of November 1678. She afterwards
married Robert Livingston, who made satisfaction for the house according
to an appraisement and so became possessed thereof. Robert Livingston
also acquired from Jan Jansen Bleecker, attorney for Jan Witthardt, the
other half of the lot specified in the patent to Jan Thomassen, and for the
entire property, as well as for other pieces of property owned by him,
received a patent from Governor Thomas Dongan dated the 4th of November
1684. See this patent in Patents, 1684-1686, 56:17-20, in the New York
State Library. See also the appraisal of Domine van Rensselaer's estate
and Robert Livingston's account of his administration of the estate, Dec. 30,
1680, in N. Y. Hist. Soc, Collections, 1892, 25 :68-69.
1 Leendert Philipsen Conyn.
2 This is apparently a mistake for the 27th of April 1667, when a patent
was granted to Jacob Gevinck [Hevick] and Reyndert Pietersen for this
property and for a house and lot in Albany toward the hills ; hence the
expression " being a part of the patent granted ... to Jacob Hevick." The
property described in the present deed was conveyed to Hevick and Pietersen
by Pieter Bronck, August 5, 1662; see Early Records of Albany, 1:304-5.
It is interesting to note the expression ten sitydcn van het Erff daer het
Blockhuys gestaen heeft — to the south of the lot where the blockhouse
stood. The patent of 1667, which probably follows the description of the
property in the deed of 1662, reads : " to the South of the block House in
length eleaven Rod and eight foot," showing that at the date of the patent,
or at any rate in 1662, the blockhouse was still standing. Not unlikely it was
one of the first buildings erected in this localitv.
i8
EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
present and future, submitting the same to the jurisdiction of all
courts and judges. Done in New Albany, this first of July 1678.
Gertruet Barents
Richard Pretty G : Swartt
A. Teller Adriaen van Ilpendam
Bond of Jacob Jansen Gardenier to pay arrears of rent to Geer-
truy Barents
[3] Appeared before me, Ro : Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renslaerswyck and Shaenhechtady, etc., in presence of the
hereinafter named witnesses, Jacob Janse Gardinier alias Plodder,
who acknowledges that he is well and truly indebted and in arrears
to Geertruy Barents, wife of Jacob Hevick, in the sum of one hun-
dred and sixty-eight guilders in beavers, growing out of house rent
due from his wife Barentie Straetsmans, which aforesaid twenty-
one beavers the appearer promises to pay to Geertruy Barents or
her order next ^lay 1679, in beavers, sea wan, wheat, or boards,
all merchantable and at market price, binding thereto his person and
estate, real and personal, nothing excepted, submitting the same to
the jurisdiction of all lords, courts, tribunals and judges; in witness
of the truth of which he has subscribed this in presence of Cornells
van der Hoeven and Paulus Martense, called as witnesses hereto.
Done in Albany, the 3d of July 1678.
Jacob Jansen Gerdenyer
Korneles Corneles
PouUs Marten ^ Acknowledged before me,
Ro'^. Livingston, Secretary
I, the undersigned, Geertruy Barents, gratefully acknowledge that
I am fully satisfied for the above obligation and thanking him for
his good payment release him from all further demands. Done in
Albany, this 30th of July 1680.
This is the mark X of Geertruy Barents,
made with her own hand
Acknowledged before me,
Ro'^. Livingston, Secretary
1 This signature is the same as that of Paulus Martense van Benthuysen,
in Deeds, 2:616 (Early Records of Albany, 1:400), and as that of Paulus
Martense van Rynsburch, in Notarial Papers, i :274. Benthuysen, or Bent-
huizen, is a village about six miles southeast of Leiden ; Rynsburch, or
Rijnsburg. is the name of a village and of an ancient and wealthy abbey
three miles northwest of Leiden. This abbey had large landed possessions
in various parts of the province of South Holland. The natural inference
therefore is that Paulus Martensen came from the vicinity of Benthuysen,
but from the land which belonged to the jurisdiction of the abbey of Ryns-
burch.
DEEDS 1678-1704 19
Deed from Catskill and Mahikan Indians to Capt. Sylvester Salis-
bury and Marten Gerritsen for five large flats at Catskill
[4] Appeared before me, Ro^ Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyck and Schaenhechtady. etc., in presence
of all the magistrates of said jurisdiction and about twenty Catskill
and Mahikan Indians, Maetsepak commonly called Mahak Niminaw,
Tamongwes alias Volkert, Papawachketik alias Evert, Mamaetcheek
alias Joris, Kachketowaa alias Cobus and Unekeek by the Christians
named Jan de Backer, on behalf of the whole Catskill nation, who
declared that they granted, conveyed and made over in true, right-
ful and free ownership to and for the behoof of Capt. Sylvester
Salisbury, 1 commandant, and Mr Marte Gerritse, magistrate, a cer-
tain parcel of land lying at Catskill above the land of Eldert de
Goyer,^ consisting of five large flats (vlaktens) lying on both sides
of the kill, the name of the first flat being Wachachkeek, the second
named Wichguanachtikak, the third Pachquyak, the fourth Assisko-
wachkok, and the fifth Potick, with the woodland for a cattle range
(uytdrift van vee) or otherwise, to wit four English miles around
said land, and all the kills, creeks, groves, appendages and depend-
encies thereof (excepting the land of Jan Bronk). which they, the
grantors, do by virtue of being the rightful owners and proprietors
of said lands, flats and wood land and conveying the same to Capt.
Salisbury and Marte Gerritse aforesaid, who have license and privi-
lege to buy said lands of the owners from the right honorable Gov-
ernor General Edmond Andross and to give satisfaction therefor
before this court, as appears by license thereof under date of No-
vember 2, 1677; conveying the same free and unincumbered with-
out any charges resting on, or arising out of the same (saving the
lord's rights) and without the grantors' making any further claim
thereto, acknowledging that they have been fully paid and satisfied
therefor, the first penny with the last, according to a contract of
sale thereof dated the nth of June 1678;"^ giving therefore plenam
actionem cessam and full power to said Capt. Salisbury and Marte
Gerritse, their heirs, successors, or assigns to do with and dispose
of the same as they might or could do with their own patrimonial
^ Capt. Sylvester Salisbury succeeded Capt. John Baker in July 1670 as
commander of the fort at Albany. See about him Minutes of the Executive
Council of the Province of New York, ed. by V. H. Paltsits, i :5i, 146, notes.
2 Eldert Gerbertsen Cruyf, from Hilversum, in the Gooi, or Gooiland,
province of North Holland, hence called " the Goyer." In an abstract of
this deed in Docts. Rcl. to Col. Hist. N. Y., 13 1545, the name has been errone-
ously given as " Evert de Goyer," while other mistakes in the Indian names
occur also.
" This contract does not appear to be recorded.
20 EARLY RFXOKDS OF ALBANY
estates and effects ; promising to warrant the same against any and
all persons and to free the same from all trouble, demands, or in-
[5] cumbrances which may hereafter arise or be set up either by
Christians or Indians, and nevermore to do or cause anything to be
done contrary hereto in any manner, binding therefor their persons
and properties as by law provided.
Done in Albany at the Court House, this 8th of July 1678.
This is the mark X of Mahak Nimi-
NAW made with his own hand.
This is the mark X of Volkert made
with his own hand.
Yhis is the mark X of Evert the In-
dian made with his own hand.
This is the mark X of Joris made with
his own hand.
This is the mark X of Cobus made
with his own hand.
This is the mark X of Jax de Backer
made with his own hand.
This is the mark X of Sixhoe, a Cats-
kil indian.
Philip Schuyler
Richard Pretty
Robert Livingston, Secretary
Quitclaim by Manueenta alias Schermerhorn of lands described
in deed given above
Appeared before the right honorable the magistrates of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyck, etc., a certain Catskil indian named
Manueenta and by the Christians called Shermerhooren, who is a
fellow proprietor of the lands lying in Catskill, above conveyed to
Capt. Silv: Salisbury and jMarte Gerritse by the aforesaid Indians,
and acknowledges that he is paid and fully satisfied for his share
and interest therein, having received a coverlet, a gun, a shirt, a half
cask of beer, confirming all that is done above, and now fully con-
veys the same and promises hereby to free said Capt. Salisbury and
Marte Gerritse from all trouble, actions, or demands which may
DEEDS 1 678-1 704 21
arise hereafter in any manner on the part of any persons, whether
Indians or Christians. Done in Albany, this 25th of November
1678.
This is the mark X of Shermerhooren,
A. Teller made with his own hand.
Cornells Van Dyck
Dirck Wessels .
J oh: Provoost
Acknowledged before me,
Ro^. Livingston, Secretary
Contract between Jan Conell and Andries Teller for the purchase
of Conell's house and lot on the hill in Albany
[6] Appeared before me, Ro: Livingston, secretary of Albany,
etc., in presence of the hereinafter named witnesses, Jan Conell of
the one side and Mr And®. Teller of the other side, who declared
that they had in love and friendship agreed and contracted respect-
ing the purchase of his, Jan Conell's, house and lot lying here in
Albany on the hill (aen't geherghte), as follows: First, Jan Conell
acknowledges that he has sold and Mr And^. Teller that he has
bought of him the aforesaid house and lot with all that is in the
earth and nailed fast, standing and lying here in Albany on the hill,
bounded to the south by Arent van den Berg and northerly by the
new house of Dirk Wessels, in length five rods, one foot, in breadth
eighteen feet Rhineland measure, which house and lot he promises
to deliver to the buyer within the time of 14 days, free and unincum-
bered, saving the lord's right ; for which house and lot the buyer
promises to pay the sum of one hundred good, deliverable beavers
and ten beavers to the seller's wife; but it is to be noted that the
aforesaid house is still mortgaged to Capt. Brockholes for the sum
of £26, IS. 4>^d. sterling, being the last payment [due], the first
half having been paid as per Ro : Hamilton's acquittance of date
the 23d July 1678, which £26, is. 45^ d. sterling money said Teller
promises and agrees to pay to Capt. Brockholes as an offset from
the said 100 beavers. For the execution of the aforesaid condi-
tions the contracting parties mutually bind their respective per-
sons and estates, real and personal, present and future, subject to
22 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
all lords, courts, tribunals and judges. Done in Albany in pres-
ence of Capt. Salisbury and Storm van der Zee, called as witnesses
hereto, this 9th of August 1678.
John Conell
Silve: Salisbury A. Teller
Storm van der Zee Acknowledged before me,
Ro'^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Barent Reyndersen to Gerrit Lansingh for a house
and lot on Rom street in Albany
[7] In the absence of Secretary Livinghston appeared before me,
Johannes Provoost, sheriff of Albany, and in presence of the
Honorable Ritchard Prittj and Andries Teller, magistrates of said
jurisdiction, the worthy Barent Reyndersen, who declares that he
grants, conveys and makes over, as he does hereby in real and actual
ownership and possession, to and for the behoof of Gerrit Lansingh
a house and lot lying in Albany on the hill, on Rom street^ so
named, bounded easterly by Jan Nack and westerly by Jan Vinhagen,
breadth in front on the street one rod, two and a half feet, length
on the west side three rods and eleven feet, breadth in the rear one
rod, four and a half inches, length on the east side three rods and
nine feet; which he does by virtue of a patent to him, the grantor,
given by the Right Honorable Governor General Francis Lovelace
of date the 22d of August, A°. 1670^ to which reference is herein
made ; and that free and unicumbered, excepting only the lord's
right, without the grantor's making any further claim thereto since
he acknowledges himself fully paid and satisfied therefor, the first
penny with the last, therefore giving plenam actionem cessam and
full power to the aforenamed Gerrit Lansingh, his heirs, successors,
or assigns to do with and dispose of the aforesaid house and lot
as he might or could do with his own patrimonial estate, promising
to warrant and defend the same against any and all persons from
all trouble, claims, or incumbrances which may hereafter arise, and
nevermore to do nor cause anything to be done contrary hereto
1 Now Maiden Lane.
2 This was a confirmation of the conveyance by the magistrates to Barent
Reyndersen dated June 8, 1668, for lot no. 13, " lyeing & being upon ye Hill,
Conteyning in breadth before Two Rod fiue foot, & behynde Two Rod nj'ne
foot & on ye West syde Three Rod & Eleaven foot haueing on ye West
Goosen Gerrits on y^ East Will"i Bouts on y^ South y^ High street, & on
y® North I> Schaets." Cf. Deed from magistrates to Goosen Gerritse for
lot No. 12, in Early Records of Albany, 1 1434.
DEEDS 1678-I704 23
either with or without judicial proceedings in any manner what-
soever, binding his person and property as by law provided. Done
in Albany, this 9th of September A°. 1678.
Rich'^. Pretty Barent Reyndersen
A. Teller
Acknowledged before me,
Johannes Provoost, Sheriif
Deed from Barent Reyndersen to Jan Nack for a house and lot
on Rom street in Albany
[8] In the absence of Secretary Livingston appeared before me,
Johannes Provoost, sheriff of Albany, and in presence of the Right
Honorable Anderies Teller and Ritcherd Pritty, Barent Reyndersen,
who declared that he had granted, conveyed and made over, as
hereby he does, in real and actual ownership and possession, to and
for the behoof of Jan Nack, a lot lying on the hill in Albany on
Rom street^ so called, being to the north of the street, to the east of
Gerrit Lansingh and to the west of Willem Bout, breadth in front
on the street, one rod, -two feet and a half, in the rear one rod, four
and a half inches, length to the west three rods and nine feet, to
the east three rods and seven feet; which he does by virtue of a
patent granted him, the grantor, by the Honorable Governor Francis
Lovelace, of date the 22d of August 1670,^ to which reference
is herein made, and that free and unincumbered, without any charges
thereon, save the lord's right, and without the grantor's making any
further claim thereto, acknowledging himself paid and fully satisfied
therefor, the first penny with the last, therefore giving plenam
actionem cessam and full power to the aforesaid Jan Nack, his heirs,
successors and assigns to do with and dispose of the aforesaid lot,
as he might or could with his own patrimonial estate and effects,
promising to defend the same from any and all persons and free it
from all trouble, claims and incumbrances which may hereafter
arise, and nevermore to do nor cause anything to be done contrary
to or against these, either with or without judicial proceedings,
in any manner whatsoever, binding his person and property as by
law provided. Done in Albany this 9th of September A°. 1678.
A. Teller Barent Reyndersen
Ric¥. Prettv , .
1_ Johannes Provoost, Shenir
1 Now Maiden Lane.
2 See note to preceding document.
24 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBAXV
Deed from the deacons of the Reformed Church at Albany to
Capt. Philip Pietersen Schuyler for Bastiaen de Winter's
plantation at the Steene Hoeck
[9] In the absence of Secretary Livinghston appeared before me,
Johannes Provoost, sheriff of Albany, in presence of the Honorable
Ritchard Prittj and Dirck Wesselsen, magistrates of said jurisdic-
tion, Mr Jan Janssen Bleycker and Mr Jacob Staets, deacons of the
Reformed Church in Albany and administrators of the estate of
Bastiaen de Winter, deceased,^ who declared that they conveyed and
made over, as they hereby do convey and make over in true, rightful
and free ownership, to and for the behoof of Capt. Philip Pietersen
Schuyler, a certain house and plantation or small piece of land lying
in the colony of Renselaers Wyck, above the Vlackte - at the Steene
Hoeck,^ called De Winter's plantation, with all the right, title and
interest which said Bastiaen de Winter had therein, according to the
conditions on which said Capt. Schuyler bought the same yesterday
at public sale, with this reservation that the grantee shall pay to the
patroon of the colony of Renselaers Wyck as quitrent of said lot
two skipples of maize and two pairs of fowls yearly, without any
other charges thereon or issuing out of the same, saving the lord's
right, giving hereby plenam actionem cessam and full power to said
Capt. Philip Schuyler, his heirs, or assigns, to do with and dispose
of said house and plantation on land as he might or could do with
his own patrimonial estate and effects, promising to defend the same
publicly from all and every person and to free it from all trouble,
claims or incumbrances which may hereafter arise and nevermore
to do nor cause anything to be done contrary to these, either with
1 Bastiaen de Winter, of Middelburg, in the province of Zealand, died at
the Steene Hoeck July 24, 1678, just after making his will, by which he left
his property to the deacons of the Dutch church at Albany for the behoof
of the poor. August 6, 1678, the Court of Albany authorized the deacons
to take possession of the estate with order to apply for letters of administra-
tion as soon as the new governor arrived. August 13, 1678, the deacons
petitioned Governor Andros that the residue of De Winter's estate, after pay-
ment of his debts, might be given to them for the poor. This request was
evidently granted. For order of the court, certified copy of the will, an
affidavit by Surgeon Cornelis van Dyck and the petition to Governor Andros, ,
see New York Colonial Mss, 27: 170-72, 180. The original of the will is in
Notarial Papers, 2:41-42. See also N. Y. Hist. Soc, Collections, 1892, 25:56.
2 Literally : the Flat, referring to what is known as the Schuyler Flatts,
east of the Troy road, 4 miles north of Albany.
3 Stonehook, or Stony point, on the west bank of the Hudson, just south
of Green Island.
DEEDS 1678-1704 25
or without judicial proceedings in any manner, tinder binding obliga-
tion as by law provided. Done in Albany, the loth of September
A°. 1678.
Rich'^. Pretty Jan Jansz Bleecker
Dirck IVessels Jacob Staets
Acknowledged before me,
Johannes Provoost, Sheriff
Deed from Harmen Bastiaensen to Gerrit van Nes for a garden
without the south gate of Albany (incomplete)
•[10] In the absence of the secretary appeared before me, Johannes
Provoos't, sheriff of Albany, and in the presence of the Honorable
Ritchard Pritty and Dirck Wesselsen, magistrates of said jurisdic-
tion, Harmen Bastiaensen, surveyor ^ of this place, who declared
that he granted, conveyed and made over, as he hereby does convey
and make over, in true, rightful and absolute ownership and posses-
sion to and for the behoof of Gerrit van Nes a lot or garden lying
near Albany without the town gate at the south, next to and to the
south of Poulus Martensen, in breadth in front on the highway three
rods and a half, in length on the south as well as on the north ten
rods, in breadth easterly on the river side tliree rods and one foot,
Rhineland measure^ [Not completed]
Contract for the sale of a house and lot on the hill in Albany
from Abraham van Tricht to Isaac Verplanck
[11] Appeared before me Ro^. Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyck, Shaenhechtady, etc., and before the
hereinafter named witnesses, Mr Abraham van Tricht, chirurgeon,
who declared that he had sold to Isaak Verplanck, who acknowledged
that he had bought the seller's house and lot, which heretofore be-
longed to Capt; John Baker, as [appears] by contract of sale thereof
^ Roojmccstcr; meaning the official town surveyor. The existence of this
office at an early date and the minuteness with which the dimensions of
the lots are given in many cases shows that considerable care was exercised
in the laying out of the village. The rooimeester, as the title of his. office
indicates, had to see to it that the rooilijn, or street line, was maintained;
in other words, that the property owners did not encroach on the street,
the right and title to the soil of which under the Roman Dutch law was
vested in the government.
2 Though the dimensions do not agree, it would seem as if this garden,
or a part of it, was the same for which Harmen Bastiaensen entered into
contracts of sale in 1657, first with Claes Hendricksen and then with Willem
Hoffmeyer; see Early Records of Albany, i -.^i, 51-S2. In a note on page 33,
Professor Pearson calls the grantor " Harmen Bastianse Visscher (or De
Vyselaer)."
26 KAKLV RECORDS OF ALBAXV
between said Backer and the seller, of date the 3d of May 1678/
standing and lying on the hill in Albany between the house of Dom:
Nicolaes Van Renselaer, deceased, and Arent vand[en] Bergh, being
lot N°. I, in breadth thirty-six and a half feet, and for depth the
buyer has stipulated for fifty wood feet, the foot reckoned at twelve
inches, with all that is earth and nail fast, free and unincumbered
(saving the lord's right) ; for the purchase of which the buyer is
obligated and promises to pay to the aforesaid Mr Abraham van
Tricht, or order and assigns the quantity of fifty-six good, whole,
merchantable beaver skins, to be paid in three payments, each time
a just third part, to wit, the first payment next August 1679, ^he
second payment in August 1680, and the third, or last payment in
August 1 681. The buyer may enter, take possession of and use said
house and lot immediately and the conveyance shall be made on the
final payment. In witness whereof parties have subscribed these in
presence of Aernout Corn: Viele and Jacob ten Eyck, called as
witnesses hereto. Done in Albany, the 7th December 1678.
Testes
Arnout Corn: Viele Abraham van Tricht
Jacob ten Eyck ' Isaack Verplancken
Acknowledged before me,
Ro^. Livingston, Secretary
Release by Dirck Hesselingh of his interest in a house and lot on
the hill in Albany purchased from Jan van Ake, in favor of
Nicolaes de Meyer, assignee of van Ake's claim
[12] Appeared before me, R^ Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyck and S'chaenhechtady, in presence of the
Honorable Mr And^. Teller and Mr Dirk Wessels, magistrates of
said jurisdiction. Dirk Hesselingh, who declared that on June t^-^-
1668, he bought a house and lot of Jan van Ake, standing and lying
here in Albany on the hill, with a garden outside of the town of
Albany, for the sum of one thousand guilders in beavers, which sum
the purchaser acknowledges that he has failed to pay; and whereas
]\Ions. van Aken has assigned his claim to Mr Nicolaes de Meyer,^
as per instrument thereof written by notary Van Vechten at Utrecht,
dated the 13th of August 1671, therefore, the said Mons. De Meyer
agreed with said Dirk Hesseling on the 12th of April 1677 that he
1 No record of this contract of sale is found.
2 In a confirmatory patent of June 29, 1667, for several pieces of land
on Manhattan island, he is called Nicholas de Meyer van Holsteyn.
DEEDS 1 6/8-1 704 27
should pay twelve hundred guilders in beavers in full satisfaction of
said contract or bill of sale with the interest, in three payments, as
in said agreement more at large appears ; and whereas Mons. Van
Dyck, attorney for Mons. De Meyer, last court day obtained a judg-
ment against the purchaser for the sum of one hundred beavers,
being the first two payments mentioned in said contract of the 12th
of April 1677, therefore, he, said Dirk Hesselingh, now this moment
voluntarily gives up the aforesaid purchase of the house and lot
where he now dwells, as he obtained them, with all the rights thereto
belonging, and makes them over to Mons. De Meyer in payment of
the sum of seven hundred and seventy-five guilders in beavers,
always with the understanding that the garden mentioned in said
bill of sale is excepted, with which [release] of the house and lot in
payment of seven hundred and seventy-five guilders beavers Mons.
Van Dyck is satisfied, he, the purchaser, being holden to make the
third payment according to contract. Done in Albany, this 24th of
December 1678.
A. Teller Dirck Hesselingh
Dirck Wesselsz Cornelis van Dyck
Acknowledged before me,
R'^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Anaemhaenitt, a Mahikan Indian, to Robert Sanders
for a parcel of woodland and Whale island
[13] An this 30th day of December 1678, in presence of the
honorable magistrates of Albany, colony of Renselaerswyck, etc.,
R°. Sanders has bought of Anaemhaenitt, a Mahikan and native
proprietor, a certain parcel of woodland by the Indians named
Popgassik,^ lying on the east side of the North river, to the south
of the aforesaid Ro^ Sander's farm, extending to the land and
claim of P''. van Waggelen,^ which land was mentioned in his former
contract of sale dated May ||^ 1668, when he with Harme Vedder
bought his farm, and was then conveyed by all the natives, that is
to say, free range (vry uytdrift) for his cattle, but now he, Anaem-
haenitt, sells the land in fee, with all the right, title and interest
which he, the grantor and native owner, has therein ; likewise a
small island lying in said North river, named Wallvissen Eylant,^ .
which aforenamed parcel of land and Walvissen Eylant and all
1 Robert Sanders received a patent for this land on March 25, 1680.
2 Generally called " van Woggelum," probably after the village of that
name near Alkmaar, in the province of North Holland.
3 Walvisch, or Whale island, near Lansingburg, N. Y. See Van der
28 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
rights and prerogatives, he, the aforesaid natural owner, for him-
self, his kindred and blood relations, declares in true, rightful and
free ownership hereby to be granted, conveyed and made over by
him to and for the behoof of the aforenamed Robert Sanders, with-
out his making any further claim in the least thereto, acknowledg-
ing that he has received therefor to his satisfaction a piece of cloth,
a cutlass, a kettle, two pairs of stockings, four axes, a coat, a shirt
and two jugs of rum, promising therefore never more to do nor
suffer an)'thing to be done contrar)' hereto in any manner. In con-
firmation whereof the aforesaid natural owner has subscribed this,
in presence of Capt. Silv: Salisbury, commandant, and the magis-
trates of Albany aforesaid. Done in Albany on the date above
written.
A. Teller This is the mark X of Anaemhaexitt made
Dirck IVesselsz w^ith his own hand.
Acknowledged before me,
RoB'^. Livingston, Secretary
Contract between Johannes Clute and Syman Schouten for the
sale of tv^^o parcels of land at Niskayuna
[14] Appeared before me, Rob^ Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyck and Schaenhechtady, etc., and in presence
of the Honorable Capt. Hans Hendrix and Lieut. Jan Janse Bleker,
witnesses, Capt. Jan Cloet, of the one side, and Symon Schoute, of
the other side, who declare that in love and friendship they have
contracted and agreed with each other in regard to the purchase of
two small parcels of land lying at Canastagioene,^ as follows:
First, said Capt. Johan Cloet acknowledges that he has sold and
Symon Schoute that he has bought of him two parcels of land lying
at Canastagioene, on the south side of the river, on the Groote
Vlaktc (Great Flat), being all [the land] along the river side to
which he, Cloet, has title and claim, to wnt, one piece of about 10
Donck's map of Xew Xetherland. 1656, in E. B. O'Callaghan, History of New
Nethcrland, 2:312, and map of Troy and vicinity, 1876, in A. J.. Weise,
History of the City of Troy, p. 264. Cf. also Munsell's Annals of Albany.
2 -.226, and E. M. Ruttenber, Indian Geographical Names, p. 62, (published
with New York State Historical Association, Proceedings, 1906, v. 6).
1 Niskayuna.
DEEDS 1 678-1 704 29
morgens, bounding upon the land of Cuyles ^ and Hann at Schaen-
hechtady, and the other piece, also on the Groote Vlakte, of about
six morgens, adjoining the land of Jan Spoor, on the express con-
dition that there shall remain a path on the high ground along the
shore and likewise that the purchaser shall maintain the fence along
the steenhergie (stony hill) for which land and rights of said Cloet
therein the purchaser promises to pay the vendor the quantity of
seventy-five beavers, to wit twenty-four beavers during this current
year and the reniaining fifty-one beavers in four payments in four
successive years, the first, being 12 beavers and 6 gl. in beavers, in
the year 1680, and each time a just fourth part in the years 1681,
1682 and 1683. The vendor promises with the last payment to give
a proper conveyance ; the aforesaid payments shall be made m
beavers or wheat at the market price, wherewith the contracting
parties are well satisfied, hereto binding their persons and estates,
real and personal, present and future, nothing excepted and sub-
mitting the same to the authority of all lords, courts and judges.
Done in Albany, the 15th of February 167!
JOHANNS ClUTE
Testes:
Hans Heindricks This is the mark X of Symon Schoute
Jan Jansz Bleecker made with his own hand.
Acknowledged before me,
R"^. Livingston, Secretary
Bond and mortgage by Pieter Adamsen to secure his debt to
Marten Cregier, junior
[15] Appeared before me, Johannes Provoost,. sheriff (hereto
authorized in the absence of the secretary), and in the presence of
the honorable magistrates Richard Pretty and Andries Teller, the
person of Pieter Adamse, who acknowledges that he is well and
truly and justly indebted to Marten Cryger, junior, in the sum of
forty-two guilders in beavers and six skipples of wheat for goods
and merchandise to his content received, and promises to pay the
same with expenses to said Marten Crigier, or his attorney, within
two months, specially binding thereto his house and lot lying at
Schaenhechtady, which he mortgages hereby and ofifers as special
security, for the recovery if need be of the said forty-two guilders
1 Gerrit Claessen [van Vranken?], alias Culis, or Kuleman. See note on
page 83.
30 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
and six skipples of wheat and the expenses already incurred herein,
without loss or damage. Done in Albany, this i6th of August A°.
1678.
In the margin: Was signed with the mark P A of
PiETER Adamse
Ric¥. Pretty
A. Teller Acknowledged before me,
Johannes Provoost, Sheriff
This is a true copy, copied from the original, inasmuch as the
original was accidentally defaced.^ Alb. 6 Jan. 167 j|.
Quod attestor
Rort. Livingston, Secretary
Bond and mortgage of Willam Loveridge to Hezekiah Usher
and satisfaction of mortgage acknowledged by Jan Juriaense
Becker
[16] Appeared before me, Rob*. Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Rensselaerswyck and Schaenhechtady, in presence of the
Honorable Mr Dirk Wessells and Mr Corn : van Dyck, magistrates
of said jurisdiction, William Loveridge, hatter, burgher of this town,
who acknowledges that he is well and truly indebted and in arrears
of Mr Hezekiah Uscher, merchant at Boston, in the sum of two hun-
dred and twenty-four pounds, eleven shillings and two pence Boston
money, growing out of the matter of certain wares and merchandise
which Wm. Loveridge, jun''. bought of said Usher [and for which
he executed an obhgation payable on the loth of June 1676, on
which obligation £35:16:11 Boston money has been already paid,
so that the appearer promises to pay the remainder, £224:11:2]^
(the interest being not counted to said Mr Usher at Boston in silver
money there, or beavers at silver price, before September next ensu-
ing, herewith releasing his son William therefrom and thereto bind-
ing specially his, the appearer's, three houses and lots, standing
and lying in Albany, to wit, two next to the court house and the
other on the square (Plein), and generally his person and property,
real and personal, present and future, nothing excepted, submitting
the same to the authority of all lords, courts, tribunals and judges,
1 Door ongeluck is gecanceleert gewcest.
2 The words between brackets were written in the margin.
DEEDS 1678-1704 31
for the recovery of the debt in due time, if need be, without loss or
damage. Done in Albany the ist of March 167 1.
Dirck Wesselsc
Cornells van Dyck
The words in the margin were written before
the signing hereof.
William Loveridge
Acknowledged before me,
Robert Livingston, Secretary
On this 13th day of May 1682 before me, Ro^ Livingston, secre-
tary of Albany, colony of Renselaerswyck and Schinnechtady, came
and appeared Mr Jan Jurianse Becker, submitted for Mr Andries
Teller, attorney for Mr Hezekiah Usher, who in the capacity afore-
said declared that he released the two houses of W"\ Loveridge,
hatter, standing and lying next the court house, bound over by the
foregoing mortgage to Mr Hezekiah Usher of date March i, i67|,-
granting hereby full privilege to sell, occupy the same, or dispose
thereof as he might do with his own patrimonial estate and effects.
In witness whereof subscribed with his own hand in Albany.
datum lit supra. J. Becker
Power of attorney from Maria Arents, widow of Arent van den
Bergh, to her son-in-law John Gilbert
[17] Appeared before me, Ro*. Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyk and Schaenhechtady, and presence of the
hereinafter named witnesses, Maria Arents, widow of the late
Arent van den Bergh, who declared that she hereby constituted and
made her son-in-law, John Gillbert, her attorney for her and in her
name to collect all debts from whomsoever due to her late husband,
likewise to pay all persons who have any claims against the afore-
said estate so far as the money will go and of the remainder to
make a proper return and accounting to her according to law, giving
him hereby full power and authority, with the severity of justice,
to compel those who may refuse or be unwilling to pay, to observe
all the terms of the courts unto sentence and extreme execution
thereof, and likewise upon receipt to grant a discharge and further-
more to do all things in the matter aforesaid regarding said estate
which shall be needful, either with or without legal proceedings,
promising at all times to ratify whatever her attorney shall do and
^2 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
f>erforni in the matter aforesaid, without any gainsaying. Thus
done and executed in Albany, on the nth of March 167 f. .
Testes
This is the mark X of Maria Arents made
witli her own hand.
Rich"^ Pretty
Hans Dreper
Acknowledged before me,
Ro"^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Teunis Teunissen de Metselaer to Paulus Martensen
Raemaecker for a house and lot in Albany
[18] Appeared before me, Robert Livingston, secretary of
Albany, colony of Renselaerswyck and Schaenhechtady, etc., in
presence of the Honorable Mr Dirk Wessels and Mr Corn : van
Dyk, magistrates of said jurisdiction, Teunis Teunise de Metselaer,^
who declared that he had granted, conveyed and made over in
true, rightful and free ownership to and for the behoof Paulus
Martense Raemmaecker- a certain house and lot standing and
lying here in Albany, with all that is therein fast by earth and nail,
adjoining to the south the house of Harme Janse ^' and to the
north Geurt Heyndrix,^ to the east the public street and to the west
the w^agon road; in breadth, front and rear, four rods, and in
length from the street to the wagon road; which he, the grantor,
does by virtue of the patent to him granted by the honorable the
Governor General Rich: Nicolls, dated May 15, 1667, to which
reference is herein made, free and unincumbered, without any
charges thereon or issuing out of the same, saving the lord's right,
and without the grantor's making any further claim thereto in the
least, acknowledging himself to be fully paid therefor, the first
penny with the last, and therefore giving plenam actionem cessam
and full power to the aforesaid Paulus Martense Raemmaecker,
his heirs, successors and assigns, to do with and dispose of the
1 Teunis Teunissen, mason, from Loenen, province of Utrecht. See Van
Rensselaer Boziner liiss, p. 830.
2 Raemmaecker, literally " window maker," is apparently a mistake for
Raemaecker, a contraction of Rademaecker, meaning " wheelwright." He is
also referred to as Paulus Martensen van Benthuysen and Paulus Martensen
van Rj-nsburch; see p. 70 and note on p. 18.
3 Harmen Jansen Lyndrayer (rope maker); identified by Professor Pear-
son with Harmen Jansen van Salsbergen. See Early Records of Albany,
1:133, 170; and p. [127], [175] of this volume.
* Geurt Hendricksen van Schoonhoven.
DEEDS 1678-I704 33
same as he might do with his own patrimonial estate and effects,
promising nevermore to do nor cause anything to be done con-
trary hereto, either with or without resorting to law in any manner,
binding himself thereto as by law provided.
Done in Albany, this 30th of March 1679.
Teunis Teunisz metselaer
Dirck Wesselss
Corn, van Dyck In my presence,
Ro^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed of a house and lot on the hill in Albany from Wynant
Gerritsen van der Poel to his son Melgert Wynantsen
[19-20 wanting; 21] Appeared before me Rob^ Livingston,
secretary of Albany, colony of Renselaerswyck, Schaenhechtady,
etc., in presence of the Honorable Mr Dirk Wessels and Mr Corn :
van Dyck, magistrates of said jurisdiction, Wynant Gerritse van
der Poel, who declared that he had granted, conveyed and made
over in true, rightful and free ownership to and for the behoof of
his son Melgert Wynantse a certain house and lot standing and
lying here in Albany on the hill, adjoining southerly the grantor,
northerly Lawrence van Ale, easterly Mr Abraham van Tricht and
Arent van den Bergh, and westerly the public street in breadth in
front on the street one rod, five feet and five and a half inches
Rhineland measure, in length six rods and eight feet, which he, the
grantor, does by virtue of a patent granted him by the late Governor
Francis Lovelace, of date the 13th June 1670, and likewise by
virtue of a conveyance this day given him and Jan Conell by Jan
Cloete, to wit, 6 feet ii^ inches out of the contents of said patent
and 10^ feet out of the contents of the conveyance, being the just
half of what was conveyed in the aforesaid conveyance by Jan
Cloet, together comprising as above one rod, five feet and 5^
inches ; which he, the grantor, does by reason of wages earned of
his father before his, Melgert's, marriage; free and unincumbered,
without any charges on, or issuing out of the same, saving the
lord's right, and without the grantor's making the least pre-
tensions thereto, acknowledging himself to be fully paid therefor
in consideration of the aforesaid services rendered, therefore giv-
ing plenam actionem cessam and full power to the aforenamed
Melgert Wynantse, his heirs and successors or assigns, to do there-
with and dispose thereof as he might do with his own patrimonial
34 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
estate and effects, promising never more to do nor cause anything
to be (lone contrary hereto, in a!i\- manner, binding himself
thereto as by law provided.
Done in .\lbany, the 31st of March 1679.
W'VXANDT CiEKKEVDT VAN D" I'OIvLL
Dirck J Vessels:;
Cunieliits i-aii fhwh Jn my ])resence,
RC^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Gerrit Herttenberch to Capt. Johannes Clute for a
lot in Albany on the hill
[22] Appeared before me, Robert Livingston, secretary of
Albany, colony of Renselaerswyk and Schaenhechtady, etc., in
presence of the Honorable ]\lr Dirk Wessells and Mr Cor: van
Dyk, magistrates of said jurisdiction, Gerrit Hardenberg, who de-
clared that he granted, conveyed and made over in true, rightful
and free ownership to and for the behoof of Capt. Jan Cloete a
certain lot lying here in Albany on which at present stands a part
of ]\Ielgert Wynantse's house and a part of the house of Law-
rence van Ale, adjoining southwardly Wynant Gerritse, north-
wardly Evert d'Cuyper,^ westwardly the public street and east-
wardly Arent van den Bergh, in breadth twenty-one feet and in
length on the south side six rods and eight feet and on the north
side six rods and five feet, according to contract of sale thereof of
date the nth of February 166;}; but it is to be observed that the
lot in its entirety is in breadth in front two rods and eleven inches
and in the rear two rods, and in length as above, which remaining
lot he, the grantor, has sold to his brother-in-law Johannes de
Wandelaer and hereby conveys to him ; which he, the grantor, con-
veys to both persons by virtue of a conveyance received by him
from the magistrates dated 29 May & 8 June, 1668,- free and un-
incumbered, without any charges thereon or issuing out of the
same (saving the lord's right), without the grantor's making any
further claim thereto, acknowledging himself fully paid and satis-
fied therefor, the first penny with the last, and therefore giving
1 Evert Jansen Wendel, the cooper. He came from Emden, in Ost Fries-
land, and judging from his last name was of Frisian extraction. At a later
date the name was generally written " Wendell," but " Wendel " would seem
to be the preferable spelling.
2 Meaning old and new st3de date, there being a difference of ten days
between them. Cf. Deed from the magistrates to Jan Clute, of same date,
in Early Records of Albany, i :434.
DEEDS 167S-I704 35
plenain actionem ccssam and full power to the aforesaid Jan Cloete
and Jan de Wandelaer, their heirs and successors, or assigns to do
with and dispose of the same as they might do with their own
patrimonial estates and effects, promising nevermore to do nor
cause anything to be done contrary hereto in any manner binding
himself thereto as by law provided.
Done in Albany, this 31st of March 1679.
Gerrit Herttenberch ^
Dirck Wesselsz
Cornells van Dyck
Deed from Capt. Johannes Clute to Wynant Gerritsen van der
Poel and Jan Conell for a lot in Albany on the hill
[23] Appeared before me, Robert Livingston, secretary of
Albany, colony of Renselaerswyk and Schaenhaechtady, etc., in
presence of the Honorable Mr Dirck Wessells and Mr Corn : van
Dyk, magistrates of said jurisdiction, Capt. Jan Cloete, who de-
clared that he grants, conveys and makes over in true, rightful and
free ownership to and for the behoof of Wynant Gerritse van der
Poell and Jan Conell a certain lot lying here in Albany on the hill,
whereon already stands a part of the houses of Melgert Wynantse
and Lawrence van Ale, adjoining southerly Wynant Gerritse,
northerly Evert d'Cuyper,- easterly Arent van den Bergh and west-
erly the public street, in breadth in front on the street 21 feet and
in length on the south side six rods and eight feet and on the north
side six rods and five feet, with all the rights thereto belonging, as
it was conveyed this day to him by Gerrit Hardenbergh according to
the contract of sale thereof of date the nth of February i66|,
free and unincumbered, without any charges resting on or issuing
out of the same (saving the lord's right) and without the grantor's
making any further pretensions thereto, acknowledging himself
fully paid and satisfied therefor, the first penny with the last, giv-
ing therefore plenam actionem ccssam and full power to the afore-
named Wynant Gerritse and Jan Conell, their heirs and successors,
or assigns to do with and dispose of the same as they might do
1 In his will, Notarial Papers, 2:69-70, he is said to have been born at
Maerssen, presumably the village of Maarsen in the province of Utrecht.
His name, variously spelled Hardenberg and Hartenberg (with or without
final h), appears several times in the records of the Reformed Dutch Church
at New York. His wife was Jaepje Schepmoes, born at New York.
2 Evert Jansen Wendel, the cooper.
3*^ EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
with their own ])atrimonial estates and effects, promising never-
more to do nor cause anything to be done contrary hereto in any
manner, binding himself thereto as by hiw proxided.
Done in Albany the 31st of March 1679.
Johannes Clute
Dirck IVcsselsa
Cornells van Dyck
Deed from Capt. Philip Schuyler to Madam Maria van Rensse-
laer for a house and lot on Jonker street in Albany
[24] Appeared before me, Ro^ Livingston, secretary of Albany,
Colony of Renselaerswyk and Schaenhechtady, in presence of the
Honorable Mr Dirk Wessells and Mr Cornelis van Dyk, magistrates
of said jurisdiction, the Honorable Capt. Phillip Schuyler, who de-
clared that he grants, conveys and makes over in true, rightful and
free ownership to and for the behoof of ]\Iadam Maria van Rensse-
laer, w'idow of the late Jeremias van Renselaer, deceased, a cer-
tain house and lot standing and lying here in Albany on Jonkheer
street, between the houses of Adriaan Gerritse and Maritie Dame,
bounded and limited according to the patent thereof, of date the
13th of August 1668,^ from the Right Honorable General Rich:
Nicols, which he, the grantor, does by virtue of a conveyance re-
ceived by him from Capt. Thom : Willet, of date the 2d of September
1671,^ free and unincumbered, without any charges on, or issuing
out of the same (saving the lord's right) and without the grantor's
making any further claim in the least thereto, acknowledging him-
1 The record of this patent is as follows : " Richard Nicolls Esq. &c.
Whereas there is a certaine house & Lott of ground at Albany late in the
tenure or occupation of Peter van Aallen scituate lying & being in ye high
street that goes up to y^ Hills on y^ North syde thereof hauing Ariaen Gar-
retsens house on y^ East syde or on y^ left hand & Cornelius van Xesse
on y- riglit hand or y^ west syde reaching in length from y^ street backwards
& in breadth y^ space between y^ Two houses aforemenconed, Which said
house & Lott of ground w^^^ all th' appurtenances stands forfeited & con-
fiscated to his Ma^es use by an Acte of this Governmt bearing date y^ lo'i^
day of October 1665 as belonging to a subject of y^ States Gen" of y^ United
Belgick Provinces then in Warre & open iicstility ag* his ^Ma^^^". Now Know
yee that for & in consideration of a certaine Quantity of good & merchant-
able Beaver skins rec<i & paid unto me for ye use of his Royall Highness
Lord Proprietor of theise Territoryes by Capt" Thomas Willett one of y^
Councell belonging to this his Royall Highnessse Governmt & for Diuers
other good Causes me thereunto also especially moving By vertue of y^
Com°° & authority unto me giuen by his Royall Highness, I haue thought
fitt to give graunt bargaine & sell & by theise p'sents do giue graunt bargaine
sell rati f ye & confirme unto y^ said Capt° Willett &c The Pattent is dated
August i3'ti 1668."
2 See Early Records of Albany, i -.^"j.
DEEDS 1 678- 1 704 37
self to be fully paid and satisfied therefor, the first penny with the
last, giving therefore plcnam actionem cessam and full power to the
aforesaid Madam Maria van Renselaer, her heirs, and successors,
or assigns to do with and dispose of the aforesaid house and lot
as she might do with her own patrimonial estate and effects, promis-
ing to warrant and defend the same against all persons whatsoever
claiming any right, title, or interest in the same, as in justice he is
bound to do, and furthermore never to do nor cause anything to be
done contrary hereto, either with or without legal proceedings in
any manner whatsoever binding himself thereto as by law pro-
vided. Done in Albany, the 7th of April 1679.
Philip Schuyler
Dirck IVesselss
Cornells van Dyck
Deed from Geurt Hendricksen to Jacob Ten Eyck for a lot in
Albany
[25] Appeared before me, Ro*. Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyk and Schaenhechtady, etc. and in presence
of the Honorable Mr Dirk Wessells and Mr Corn : van Dyk, magis-
trates of said jurisdiction, Geurt Heyndrixe, who declared that he
grants, conveys and makes over in true, rightful, and free owner-
ship to and for the behoof of Jacob Ten Eyk a certain lot lying
here in Albany, adjoining southerly the house of Lawrence van Ale
and Jan Janse Bleeker, northerly the lot of said Geurt Hendrixen,^
westerly and easterly the public streets, in breadth in front, on the
street, to the east, thirty and a half feet Rhineland measure and in
the rear twenty-two feet, nine inches ; in length southerly six rods,
seven and a half feet and likewise northerly six rods, seven and
a half feet ; which the grantor does by virtue of a patent granted
him by the Honorable Governor General Rich : Nicolls, dated June
4, 1667,^ free and unincumbered, without any charges thereon or is-
suing out of the game (saving the lord's right) and without the
grantor's henceforth making the least pretension thereto acknow-
ledging himself fully paid and satisfied therefor, the first penny
1 Apparently Geurt Hendricksen van Schoonhoven.
2 The abstract of this patent reads : " A Patent graunted upon a Trans-
port made by Wouter Aertsen being empowered thereunto by Pieter Menssen
bearing date the 6'^ day of Apr: 1667 unto Geurt Hendricksen for a certain
Lott of Ground House & Garden lyeing in Albany then in the tenure, or
occupacon of the s<i Geurt Hendricksen conteyning in Length and breadth
as it lay within the Fence. Now for a Confirmacon &c : Tl ; Patent is
dated the 4^ day of June 1667."
38 KAKI.V KI-:CORDS OF ALl'.AXV
with the last, and therefore giving plenam actionem cessam and full
power to the aforesaid Jacob Ten Eyck, his heirs and successors, to
do with and dispose of the premises as he might do with his
own patrimonial estate and effects, promising to defend the same
from all and every person and free it from all trouble, claims,
or incumbrances as is right, and furthermore nevermore to do
nor cause anything to be done contrar\' hereto, either with or
without going to law, in any manner, binding himself thereto as by
law provided. Done in Albany, the 7th of April, 1679.
Geurt Hend[r]icksen
Til my presence,
Rqt. Livixgstox, Secretary
Deed from Jan Lansing, husband and guardian of the widow
of Hendrick Coster, to Capt. Johannes Clute for a house and
lot and orchard on the hill in Albany
[26] Appeared before me, Ro*. Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyk and Schaenhechtady, etc., in presence of
the Honorable ^Mr Dirk \\'essells and Mr Corn: van Dyk, magis-
trates of said jurisdiction, Jan Lansing, husband and guardian. of
Geertie Coster, widow of the late Hend : Coster, deceased, who de-
clared that he grants, conveys and makes over in true, rightful and
free ownership to and for the behoof of Capt. Jan Claets a certain
house, lot and orchard standing anl lying here in Albany on the
hill, adjoining southerly Hend: Rooseboom, northerly Alarte
Crygier, easterly and westerly the street, being five rods broad and
twenty rods long, which the grantor does by virtue of a patent
granted to his predecessor Hend : Coster, deceased, by the honorable
the Governor General Rich : Niccolls, of date the 25th of April
1667^, to which reference is herein made, free and unincumbered
without any charges thereon or issuing out of the same (saving the
lord's right) and without the grantor's making any further pre-
tension in the least thereto, acknowledging himself fully paid and
1 In this patent, which was a confirmation of the Dutch grant to Lourens
Lourensen, dated October 25, 1653, the property is described as " a certain
Lott of Ground, House & Court, or yard thereunto belonging Being neer
the Fort in Beverwick at Albany bounded to the South by Pieter Bronck's,
to the North by the Lotts of low Ground to the East by the waggon way &
to the west by the Hills haveing in breadth five Rod, & in length twenty
Rod: which s<i Patent, or Groundbriefe so graunted as afores^ bearing date
the 25" day of Octob. 1653 was upon the 15"^ day of Sept: 1664 transported
and made over unto Hendrick Coster by Goosen Gerritsen who had lawfull
power so to doe." See Early Records of Albany, i :362.
DEEDS 1678-I704 39
satisfied therefor, the first penny with the last, and therefore giving
plena in actionem cessani and full power to the aforenamed Capt.
Jan Cloete, his heirs and successors, or assigns to do with and
dispose of the same as he might do with his own patrimonial estate
and effects, promising nevermore to do nor cause anything to be
done contrary hereto in any manner, binding himself therefor as
by law provided. Done in Albany on the loth of April 1679.
Jan Lansinck
Dirck Wesselsz
Cornells van Dyck Acknowledged before me,
Ro^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from John Gilbert, attorney for his mother-in-law, Maria
Arents van den Bergh, to Law^rence van Alen for a small lot
on the hill in Albany
[27] Appeared before me, Ro*. Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyck and Schaenhechtady, etc., in presence of
the Honorable Mr Dirk Wessells and Mr Cornelis van Dyk, magis-.-
trates of said jurisdiction, John Gilbert, son-in-law of Arent van
den Bergh, as attorney for Maria Arents, widow of the late Arent
van den Bergh aforesaid, deceased, for the settlement of the afore-
said estate, who declared that he granted, conveyed and made over
to and for the behoof of Lawrence van Alen a certain small lot lying
here in Albany on the hill, being seven feet broad, Rhineland meas-
ure, adjoining northerly the aforenamed Arent van den Bergh,
southerly the house of Isaack Verplank and the rear of Van Tricht's
lot, westerly said Lawrence van Ale and easterly the street, extend-
ing as far as the whole lot of said Van den Bergh, being six rods
long, which he does by virtue of patent granted to Arent van den
Bergh deceased by the Honorable Governor General Rich*^. Nicolls,
of date the 6th of September 1667, to which reference is herein
rrade, and that free and unincumbered without any charges thereon
or issuing out of the same (saving the lord's right), without the
grantor's making any further claim in the least thereto, as he ac-
knowledges himself fully paid and satisfied therefor, the first penny
with the last and therefore giving plenam actionem cessam and full
power to the aforenamed Lawrence van Ale, his heirs and suc-
cessors, or assigns to do with and dispose of the aforesaid small lot
as he might do with his own patrimonial estate and effects, promising
40 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBAXV
nevermore to do nor cause anything to be done contrary hereto, in
any manner, under binding obligation as by law provided. Done in
Albany, on the nth of Ai)ril iC^Jfj.
Dirck IVesselsa John Gilhrrtt
Cornells van Dyck
Acknowledged before me,
Ro"^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Reyer Jacobsen Schermerhorn, husband and guar-
dian of the widov^ of Elmer Otten, to Johannes Witthardt for
a house and lot on Jonker street in Albany
[28] Appeared before me, Ro^ Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyck and Schaenhechtady, etc., and in pres-
ence of the Honorable Mr Dirk Wessells and Mr Cornelis van
Dyk, magistrates of said jurisdiction, Ryer Jacobse Shermer-
hooren, husband and guardian of Ariaentie Arents, late widow of
Elmer Otte, deceased, who declared that he had granted, conveyed
and made over in true, rightful and free ownership to and for
the behoof of Johannes Witthardt, trader, at present residing in
Holland, a certain house and lot, standing and lying here in
Albany on the hill, on Jonker street, next the house of Madam
Alida van Renselaer, widow of the late Dom Nicolaus van Rensse-
laer, deceased,^ adjoining westerly the house of Mr Nicolaus
d'Meyer, northerly tiie house of Isaack Verplanck, southerly the
street and easterly the house of said Madam Alida van Renselaer,
in breadth in front on the street one rod, ten feet, one and a half
inches, breadth in the rear toward the north one rod and ten feet,
length five rods eleven feet and two inches, whereof four feet in
the rear for a passageway extending eastward to the street is free
as well for this house as for the house of the aforesaid Madam
Renselaer; which the grantor does by virtue of a conveyance
granted him by Mr Jan Thomase, being half of the lot specified in
a patent granted to said Thomase by the late Governor General
Rich^. Nicolls, of date the 29th of April 1667, to which reference
is here made, and that free and unincumbered, without any charges
thereon or issuing out of the same (saving the lord's right), with-
out the grantor's making any further claim in the least thereto.
^ See deed from Reyer Schermerhorn to Rev. Nicolaus van Rensselaer
on p. 15-16 of this volume. The maiden name of Madam Van Rensselaer
was Schuyler.
DEEDS 1678-1704 41
acknowledging himself fully paid and satisfied therefor, the first
penny with the last, and therefore giving plenam actionem cessam
and full power to the aforesaid Johannes Witthardt, his heirs and
successors or assigns, to do with and dispose of the aforesaid house
and lot as he might do with his own patrimonial estate and efifects,
promising to warrant the same against any and all persons claim-
ing any right or interest therein, as in justice he is bound to do,
and nevermore to do or to cause anything to be done contrary
hereto in any manner, binding himself thereto as by law provided.
Done in Albany, the 14th of April 1679.
Reyer Jacobse Schermerhoorn
Deed from Capt. Johannes Clute to Hendrick Lansing and
Luycas Gerritsen for a lot on the hill in Albany
[29] Appeared before me, Ro^ Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyck and Schaenhechtady, etc., in presence
of the Honorable Mr Dirk Wessells and Mr Cornelis van Dyck,
magistrates of said jurisdiction, Capt. Jan Cloete, who declared
that he grants, conveys and makes over in true, rightful and free
ownership to and for the behoof of Hendrik Lansingh and Luycas
Gerritse a certain lot lying on the hill where now the houses of the
aforesaid H : Lansing and L : Gerritse stand, in breadth in front on
the street three rods and a half foot and in the rear on the east ^
side the same, and on the west two rods and eleven feet, all Rhine-
•
land measure, being a part of lot N°. 4 conveyed to him by
Ludovi-us Cobes the 23d of November 1667 by virtue of the patent
to said Cobes granted by the late Governor General Rich*^. Nicolls
under date of the 6th of September 1667,- and that free and unin-
cumbered, without any charges thereon or issuing out of tlie same
(saving the lord's right) and without the grantor's making any
further claim in the least thereto, acknowledging that he is fully
paid and satisfied therefor, the first penny with the last, and there-
fore giving plenam actionem cessam and full power to the afore-
named Hendrik Lansingh and Luycas Gerritse, their heirs and suc-
cessors or assigns, to do with and dispose of the aforesaid lot as
they might do with their own patrimonial estates and effects,
1 Thus in the original. Cf. deed from Clute to same persons, September
9, 1672, in Early Records of Albany, i :5o6.
'There is no record of this patent except a brief memorandum that a
confirmation was granted to " Lovis Cobes N". 4. In breadth 36. foot & 14
& in length 6. Rod."
42 EARLY RECORDS OF ALHAXY
promising to warrant and defend the same against all persons law-
fully claiming any right or interest therein and furthermore never-
more to do nor cause anything to be done, either by or without re-
sorting to law, in any manner, binding himself thereto as by law
provided. Albany, the 15th of April 1679.
JOHANNS ClUTE
Dirck J Vessel Is::
Cornells c'on Dyck Acknowledged before me,
Ro^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Capt. Johannes Clute to Jan Byvanck for a lot on the
hill in Albany
[30] Appeared before me, Ro'. Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyck and Schaenhechtady, in presence of the
Honorable ^Ir Dirk W'essells and Air Cornelis van Dyk, magis-
trates of said jurisdiction, Capt. Jan Cloete, who declared that he
grants, conveys and makes over in true, rightful and free owner-
ship to and for the behoof of Jan Byvank a certain lot lying on
the hill, on which the house of said Byvank now stands, in length,
on the east side, next to Hend : Lansingh, two rods and eleven
feet, in front on the street twenty-one feet and seven inches, in the
rear two rods less a half foot, length on the west side, next to
Gerrit Hardenbergh, thirty-four feet and one inch, all Rhineland
measure,^ being a part of the lot N°. 4 to the grantor conveyed by
Ludovicus Cobes the 23d of November 1667, by virtue of the
patent to said Cobes granted by the late Gov''. Gen'. Rich''. Nicolls,
under date the 6th of September 1667, and that free and unin-
cumbered, without any charges resting on, or issuing out of the
same (saving the lord's right) and without the grantor's making
any further pretension in the least thereto, acknowledging himself
fully paid and satisfied therefor the first penny with the last,
therefore giving plenam actionem cessam and full power to the
aforenamed Jan Byvank, his heirs and successors, or assigns to
do with and dispose of the aforesaid lot as he could do with his
own patrimonial estate and efife.ts, promising to defend the same
against any and all persons and to free the same from all trouble,
claims and incumbrances as is right and furthermore nevermore
to do nor suffer anything to be done contrary hereto either with or
1 A deed from Clute to Byvanck for the same lot, dated Sept. 9, 1672,
appears in Early Records of Albany, i :5o6-7.
DEEDS 1678-1704 43
without legal proceedings, in any manner, under binding obligation
as by law provided. Done in Albany, the 15th of April 1679.
JOHANNS ClUTE
Dirck Wesselss
Corn, van Dyck Acknowledged before me,
Ro'^. Livingston, Secretary
Contract between Jacob Staets and Pieter Schuyler for the sale
of a house and lot on the First kill at Albany
[31] Appeared before me, Ro*. Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyk and Schaenhechtady, etc., in the presence
of the hereinafter named witnesses, Jacob Staas, who declared that
he had sold and Pieter Schuyler that he had bought the seller's
house and lot with the barn and all that is thereon fast by earth
and nail, standing and lying here in Albany, adjoining northerly
the first little kill ^ and Jochem Wessells, westerly the street, south-
erly the house of W™. Loveridge, hatter, and easterly the river, in
breadth in front on the street six rods and four feet in length
on the south side thirteen rods, six feet and seven in.hes, breadth
in the rear three and twenty feet, length on the north eighteen rods,
Rhineland measure, surveyed by the sworn surveyor (geszvoore
Roymeester), with all its appurtenances, being a part of what was
described in the patent granted to Mr Jacob de Hinse by the
Honorable Governor General R: Nicolls, of date the 3d of May
1667 (excepting the lord's right) ; for the purchase of which the
buyer is obligated and promises to pay to said Jacob Staas, or
order, or his assigns, the quantity of one hundred and fifty good,
whole, merchantable beaver skins, to be paid in two instalments,
to wit, the first payment next July a just half, being seventy-five
beavers, and the second payment in July 1680 — the remaining half;
^'t Ecrste killctje. Professor Pearson here supplies the name " Rutten,"
though in a note in Early Records of Albany, i :i09, he designates the
Beaver kill as the First, and the Rutten kill as the Second kill, while in
Munsell's Annals of Albany, 2:226, the Rutten kill is called the third creek
from the Norman's kill inclusive. It seems quite certain, however, that in
this conveyance the Rutten kill is intended. Surgeon de Hinse bought the
house and lot August 20, 1662, from Jan Labatie, who received a patent for
the land on October 25, 1653. See Early Records of Albany, i :3o8. For
location of Beaver, Rutten and Fox (Vossen) creeks, see Plan of the city
of Albany, by Simeon De Witt, 1794. reproduced in Year Book of the
Holland Society of New York, for 1904; Munsell's Annals of Albany, v. 3;
and other places. See also Early Records of Albany, p. 176, where a house
and lot are described as " lying without the town of Albany, on the Third
kil [Fox creek]."
44 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
the buyer shall have the power to enter, take possession of and use
the aforesaid house and lot immediately and a conveyance shall be
made on the final payment.
In witness whereof the contracting parties have subscribed this
in presence of Marte Gerritse and Johannes Provoost, called as
witnesses hereto. Done in Albany the ist of May 1679.
Jacob Staets
Marten Gertsen Pieter Schuyler
Johannes Provoost
Acknowledged before me,
Rqt. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Sweer Teunissen van Velsen to Pieter Pietersen van
Woggelum for his farm on the Poesten kill
[32] Appeared before me, Rob*. Livingston, secretar}' of Albany,
county of Renselaerwyck and Schaenhechtady, et:., in presence of
the Honorable Mr Marten Gerritse and Mr Job : Provoost, magis-
trates of said jurisdiction, Sweer Teunise, who declared that
he grants, conveys and makes over in true, rightful and free owner-
ship to and for the behoof of Pieter Pieterse van Waggelen^ a
certain parcel of land with house and barn and all the appurte-
nances thereof, lying in the colony of Renselaerswyck close upon
the river on the east bank over against Steenen hoeck (Stone hook)
heretofore called Pocstcn Boiiiccry- where the aforesaid P'' : van
W'aggelen now dwells ; which he does by virtue of the patent to
him granted by the late Gov*". Gen^ Rich : Nicolls, of date the
13th of April 1667, to which reference is herein made, excepting
only the sawmill together with the kill on which the mill stands
and two morgens of arable land and a right of way for a wagon
to the shore along the hill, conveyed to Jan Corn. Vyselaer and
Luycas Pieterse on the 25th of June 1675 — the remainder specified
in the aforesaid patent with all rights and appurtenances thereof
are now conveyed to P"". Pieters van Waggelen aforesaid and that
free and unincumbered without any charges resting on, or issuing
1 Generally called " van Woggelum." probably after the village of that
name near Alkmaar. in the province of North Holland.
2 That is. the farm of Jan Barentsen Wemp, nicknamed Pocst (meaning
a cowherd), on the Poesten kill, in the southern part of the city of Troy.
N. Y. Sweer Teunissen van Velsen was engaged by Wemp as a farmhand
and eventually married his widow. See about this farm, Van Rensselaer
Bowier Mss, p. 755-56.
DEEDS 1678-1704 45
out of the same, saving the lord's right, and without the grantor's
making any further pretension in the least thereto, acknowledging
himself fully paid and satisfied therefor, the first penny with the
last and therefore giving plena m actionem cessam and full power
to the aforenamed P"". Pieterse van Waggelen, his heirs and suc-
cessors, or assigns to do with and dispose of the same as he could
do with his own patrimonial estate and efifects, promising to war-
rant the premises against any and all persons and free the same
from all trouble, claims, and incumbrances as is right and never
more to do nor cause anything to be done contrary hereto, either
with or without judicial proceedings, in any manner, under binding
obligation as by law provided. Done in Albany, the 6th of May
1679.
SWEER ThOONUSSEN VAN VeLSEN
Marten Gertsen
Johannes Provoost Acknowledged before, me,
Ro'^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Capt. Johannes Clute to Jan Jansen Ouderkerk for a
lot in Albany
[33] Appeared before me, Ro^ Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyk and Schaenhechtady and in presence of the
Honorable Mr Marte Gerritse and Mr Johannes Provoost, magis-
trates of said jurisdiction, Capt. Johan Cloete, who declared that
he grants, conveys and makes over in true, rightful and free
ownership to and for the behoof of Jan Janse Ouderkerk, cooper,
a certain lot lying here in Albany, where his cooper's shop now
stands, lying between the house of Antony Lespinard and Gerrit
van Schayck, in breadth 14 feet and eight inches^ Rhineland meas-
ure front and rear, and in length six rods and one foot, all Rhine-
land measure, which the grantor does by virtue of a patent to him
granted by the Honorable Rich : Nicolls, late governor, of date the
ist of April 1667,2 being a part of the lot mentioned in the afore-
said patent, to which reference is herein made, and that free and
unincumbered, without any charges thereon or [rents] issuing out
of the same (saving the lord's right) and without the grantor's
making any further claim in the least thereto, acknowledging him-
self fully paid and satisfied therefor, the first penny with the last,
1 In the margin was written : " N.B. But it is to be noted that Antho.
Lespineerd has taken in half of the 8 inches, which he must surrender."
2 See note to next document.
46 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
and therefore giving plcnam actionem cessani and full power to
the aforenamed Jan Janse Ouderkerk, his heirs and successors
or assigns, to do with and dispose of the same as he might do with
his own patrimonial estate and effects, promising to warrant the
premises against any and all persons and to free the same from all
trouble, claims and incumbrances as is right and nevermore to
do nor cause anything to be done contrary hereto, either with or
without legal proceedings, in any manner, under binding obligation
as by law provided. Done in Albany, on the 6th of May 1679.
JOHANNS ClUTE
Marten Gertsen
Johannes Provoost
Acknowledged before me,
RO^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Capt. Johannes Clute to Ludovicus Cobes for a house
and lot on Jonker street in Albany
[34] Appeared before me, Ro'. Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyk and Schaenhechtady, etc., in presence of
the Honorable Air Marte Gerritse and I\Ir Johanness Provoost,
magistrates of said jurisdiction, Capt. Jan Cloete, who declared
that he grants, conveys and makes over in true, rightful and free
ownership to and for the behoof of Ludovicus Cobes a certain
house and lot, standing and lying here in Albany on the Jonker
street, adjoining southerly the street, westerly Hieronimus Wend-
ell, easterly Jan Janse Ouderkerk and northerly Tim°. Cooper,^ in
1 The description in this deed furnishes an illustration of the ambiguity
of language in many of the Dutch convej'ances which makes it difficult to
determine the exact location of the property even where, as in this instance,
a definite landmark such as a street or creek is named in the instrument.
The Dutch description of the property conveyed by this deed from Johannes
Clute to Ludovicus Cobes reads as follows: sckcr hnys & Ervc staende &
geleegen alhier in Alb: op den Jonkerstraet belendende ten suyden de straet
ten iL'estcn Hieronimus Wendell Ten oostcn Jan Janse Ouderkerk, ten noorden
Tim°. Cooper, which appears to be correctly translated as above and to place
the property definitely on the north side of Jonker, now State street. Yet, if
we examine the patent to Clute of April i, 1667, referred to in the deed,
we find the following: "A Patent graunted upon a Transport made by
Adrian Garritsen (as Attorney of Dirck Jansen Kroon) unto Jan Cloet,
upon the 12" day of November 1664, for a certaine House and Lott of
Ground in Beverwyck at Albanj-, near the Hills, having the Streete to the
North, to the South Jan Hendrick's van Baels, to the East, Jan Tomassen's,
and to the west, Wouter Albertsen's, containing all the Ground as it lyes
within the flFence, &c. The Patent beares date the i^' day of April 1667.
R. Nicolls." That this patent really relates to the same property as that
described in the deed given above, in spite of the fact that the lot is spoken
of as " having the Streete to the north," is shown by an examination of the
DEEDS 1 6/8-1 704 47
breadth in front on the street three rods and two inches and in
length five rods and nine feet, Rhineland measure, in breadth in
the rear Hkewise three rods and two in.hes, which the grantor
does by virtue of a patent to him granted by the Honorable Gov-
ernor General Rich: Nicolls, of date the ist of April 1667, being the
remainder of what was described in the aforesaid patent, Jan Janse
Ouderkerk possessing the residue, and that free and unincum-
bered, without any charges thereon or issuing out of the same
(saving the lord's right) and without the grantor's making any
further pretension in the least thereto, acknowledging himself fully
paid and satisfied therefor, the first penny with the last and there-
fore giving plenam actionem cessaui and full power to the afore-
named Ludovicus Cobes, his heirs and su:cessors, or assigns to do
with and dispose of the same as he might do with his own
deeds from the magistrates to Sander Leendertsen Glen, from Glen to Adriaen
Gerritsen, and from Adriaen Gerritsen to Johannes Clute in Early Records
of Albany, i '.392, 336, 391, 63 (in all of which the property is described
as adjoining to the north, or being bounded on the north by, the street,
in conformity with the patent just cited) and furthermore of the deeds
from Johannes Clute to Ludovicus Cobes, from Cobes to Jeronimus Wendell,
from Jan Thomase to Cornelis Steenwj'ck, from Sander Leendertsen Glen
to Jan Hendricksen van Bael, and from van Bael to Timothy Cooper, in
Deeds, 3:34, 35, and Early Records of Albany, 1:143, 185-86, 358, 127.
Turning now to the original text of the deed from Adriaen Gerritsen to
Johannes Clute, if Nov. 1664, in Deeds, i :i6q, which is referred to in the
patent to Johannes Clute, we find this description : Belent ten noorden de
straet, ten siiyden Jan Hendricksz van Bael, ten oosten Jan Toniassen, ten
westen Woiitcr Albertsen, which agrees with the translation in the patent
to Johannes Clute and with that of the deed itself in Early Records of
Albany, i :63, hut absolutely conflicts with the description in the deed given
above from Clute to Ludovicus Cobes, unless a distinction be made between
the participles belcndende and belent, the first indicating that the lot adjoins
to the south the street, and the second that the lot is bounded by, or situated
on, the north side of the street. No such distinction, however, appears to
have been observed in the deeds and it certainly has not been recognized
in the confirmatory patents issued by the early English governors. As a
result there is in many cases uncertainty as to the relative location of adjoin-
ing pieces of property, which should be constantly borne in mind in using
the present translations and the early English patents in connection with
searches regarding the title to real estate. That in this case the property
was actually located on the north side of State street is proved by the above-
mentioned deed from Jan Thomase to Cornelis Steenwyck, June 14, 1678,
for the corner lot to the west of the property conveyed by Clute, in which
this corner lot is described as being brecdt voor aen de straet ten suyden
twee Rocden ses voet & twee diiym . . . is lang . . . ten westen aen d'
straet vyff Roeden & negcn voet. This admits of but one interpretation,
namely, that the lot was bounded south and west by the streets. Professor
Pearson, in his diagrams of the lots on State street, north side, between
North Pearl and James (Munsell's Collections, 4:189), places the lot con-
veyed to Steenwyck on the northeast corner of Pearl and State streets.
It may be added that Jan Thomassen who deeded the property to Steenwyck
was not Jan Thomassen Mingael, as given by Professor Pearson, but Jan
Thomassen from Wittbek, as shown by comparison of his signature with
that to Notarial Papers, 2:103-5.
48 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
patrimonial estate and effects, promising to warrant and defend the
same against all persons whatsoever, from all trouble, claims and
incumbrances as is right and nevermore to do nor cause anything
to be done contrary hereto, in any manner, under binding obliga-
tion as by law provided.
Done in Albany, the 8th of May 1679.
JOHANNS ClUTE
Marten Gcrtscn
Johannes Provoost
Acknowledged before me,
Ro'^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Ludovicus Cobes to Jeronimus Wendel for a lot on
Jonker street in Albany
[35] Appeared before me, Ro*. Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyk and Schaenhechtady, etc., in presence of
the Honorable Mr ]Marte Gerritse and Mr Johannes Provost,
magistrates of said jurisdiction, Ludovicus Cobes, who declared
that he grants, conveys and makes over in true, rightful and free
ownership to and for the behoof of Jeronimus \\'endell a certain
lot lying here in Albany on Jonker street, whereon Jeronimus'
house stands, adjoining westerly ]\Ir Corn: Steenwyk, easterly tha
grantor, southerly the street and northerly Tim°. Cooper, in breadth
in front on the street seventeen feet and five inches and in the
rear the same, and in length five rods and nine feet, all Rhineland
measure, and in like manner the use of a common alley, 3^ feet
wide and thirty feet in length, between the houses of Pieter Schuy-
ler and him, Jeronimus Wendel with the understanding that he
may have a gate, back of the 30 feet, of 3^ feet in width, opening
out upon the common alley; which the grantor does by virtue of a
conveyance to him made by Jan Cloete on the 8th of this month
of a house and lot, whereof this lot is a part, and that free and
unincumbered without any charges on, or issuing out of the same
(saving the lord's right) and without the grantors making any
further pretension in the least thereto, acknowledging himself
fully paid and satisfied therefor, the first penny with the last, and
giving plcnam actionem cessam and full power to the aforenamed
Jeronimus Wendell, his heirs and successors, or assigns to do with
and dispose of the same as he might do with his own patrimonial
estate and eftects, promising to warrant the premises against any
DEEDS 1678-I704 49
•
and all persons and to free the same from all trouble, claims and in-
cumbrances as is right and nevermore to do nor cause anything
to be done contrary hereto, in any manner, binding himself thereto
as by law provided.
Done in Albany the 9th of May 1679.
LUDOVICUS COEES
Marten Gertsen
Johannes Provoost
Acknowledged before me,
Ro'^. Livingston, Secretary
Contract between Capt, Thomas de Lavall and Juriaen Teunis-
sen Tappen for the sale of a house and lot in Albany
[36] On this 17th of May 1679 appeared before me, Ro'. Liv-
ingston, secretary of Albany, colony of Renselaerswyck and
Schaenhechtady, etc., and before the underwritten witnesses, Capt.
Thomas de La Vail of the one side and Jurian Teunise Tappen of
the other side, who hereby acknowledge that in all love and friend-
ship they have agreed in manner following, namely Capt. de La
Vail acknowledges that he has sold and Jurian Teunise that he
has bought of him a certain house and lot, standing and lying
here in Albany, being the first house on the west side within the
south gate of Albany, at present occupied by Aernout Corn: Viele,
and the seller promises the same to deliver to the buyer or to his
order, now, immediately, just as it was delivered to him by said
Jurian Teunise, who now accepts the same as it lies inclosed, ex-
cepting an alley on the south side along the town stockade, and that
free and unincumbered (saving the lord's right), for which the
buyer promises to pay to the seller or his order one hundred and
eighty good, while, merchantable beaver skins, to wit, one hundred
and twenty good beavers together with a good black beaver
within one month after delivery and the remaining sixty beavers
within one year in beavers, wheat, peas, or boards at current rates
at the time of payment, at the option of the buyer, and on the
final payment the seller shall deliver to the buyer a good and suf-
ficient deed (in the meantime said house is specially engaged
to Mr Lavall until the time of the last payment as a special mort-
gage or security), hereto binding their persons and estates, real and
personal, present and future, nothing excepted, and subject to all
lords, magistrates, courts, and judges. In confirmation of which
4
50 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
they have [subscribed] these without fraud or deceit in presence
of Capt. Silv : Salisbury and Rich : Pretty, called as witnesses
hereto. Done in Albany datui>i iit supra.
The words in the margin were written before the signing hereof.^
Tug: De Lavall
Silv: Salisbury Jure Jan Tunsen
Richard Pretty
In my presence,
Ro^. LnixGSTON, Secretary
Deed from Pieter Bogardus, as attorney for Jonas Bogardus, to
Wouter Albertsen van den Uythoff for a lot in Albany
[37] Appeared before me, Ro*. Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaersw^'^k and Schaenhechtady, in presence of the
Honorable Mr And^ Teller and Mr Corn : van Dyk, magistrates of
said jurisdiction, Pieter Bogardus,^ in capacity also as attorney of
Jonas Bogardus, who declared that he conveyed and made over to
and for the behoof of A\'outer Albertse van den Uthoff, a certain
part of a lot lying herein in Albany between the houses of Dirk Wes-
sells and said Wouter Albertse. on which the new house of Antony
Lespinard now^ stands, in length and breadth as it lies impaled
(saving the lord's right) and that Mr W'essels's house remain drip
free, which the grantor does by virtue of a patent granted to his
mother Annetie Borgardus by the late Governor General Rich :
Nicols, of date of the loth of Jul_\- 1667,-'' whereof this lot is a part,
and that free and unincumbered, without any charges on, or issuing
out of the same (saving the lord's right) and without the grantor's
making any further claim in the least to the same, acknowledging
himself fully paid and satisfied therefor, the first penny with the last
and therefore giving plenam actionem cessam and full power to the
1 This refers to the words which in the printed text are inclosed in
parentheses.
2 For account of Pieter Bogardus, see Early Records of Albany, i -.g-j, note.
June 5. 1683, he obtained letters of administration on the estate of his wife's
stepfather, Juriaen Jansen Groenwout, who had died shortly before that
date. See Proceedings of Justices of the Peace, 1680-85, p. 414.
3 On this date a confirmatory patent was issued to the heirs of Annetie
Bogardus " for a certaine Lott of ground lying neare y« Fort at Albany
hauing to y^ north a Lott lying in Comon to y* west Martin Herpertsens
to y^ South >■* waggon way & to y« East a Comon path way conteining in
length six Rod lying vpon a square, .A.s also a garden lying thereby on y^
South side of Dirrick Jansens & on y« north side of Albert Gerrits being
in length seauen & in breadth fiue Rod, \\'^^ said Patent or Groundbreife
so graunted as aforesaid beares date y^ 23^^ day of Aprill 1652."
DEEDS 1678-I704 51
aforenamed Wouter Albertse van den Uthoff, his heirs and suc-
cessors, or assigns to do with and dispose of the same as he might
do with his own patrimonial estate and effects, promising to war-
rant and defend the same against all persons from all lawful
claims, demands and incumbrances and neither to do nor suffer any-
thing to be done contrary hereto in any manner either by or with-
out resorting to law, binding himself thereto as by law provided.
Done in Albany, the 6th of June 1679.
PlETER BOGARDUS
A. Teller
Cornells van Dyck
Deed from Wouter Albertsen van den Uythoff to Anthony Les-
pinard for a house and lot on Jonker street in Albany
[38] Appeared before me, Ro*. Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyck and Schaenhectady, etc., in presence of
the Honorable Mr And^ Teller and ]\Ir Dirk Wessells, magistrates
of said jurisdiction, Wouter Albertse van den Uthoff, who declared
that he grants, conveys and makes over in true, rightful and free
ownership to and for the behoof of Anth°. Lespinard, baker, a
certain house and lot standing and lying here in Albany on Jonker
street, adjoining eastwardly his, Antho[ny']s, new house, west-
wardly Jan Janse Ouderkerk, southerly the street and northwardly
Mr Tim°. Cooper, being in length eastwardly six rods, three feet,
in breadth in front on the street one rod, six feet, eight inches, as
long on the west as on the east and in breadth to the north one
rod, seven feet and eight inches ; likewise Wouter Albertse con-
veys to Anth°. Le[s]pinard a lot lying here in Albany next to the
aforesaid house and lot whereupon the aforesaid Anthony's new
house now stands, in length and breadth as it now lies impaled (ex-
cepting the lord's right), provided that Mr W^essells's house remain
drip free, which first house and lot the grantor conveys by virtue of
a patent to him granted by the late Governor General Rich*^. Nicolls
under date of the ist of May 1667,^ and the last lot by virtue of a
conveyance to him given by P"". Bogardus under date of the 6th
of June 1679, whereto reference is herein made, and that free and
uninrumbered, without any charges on, or issuing out of the same
1 This patent was granted upon a transport made by David Pietersen
Schuyler to Wouter Albertsen van den Uythoff, dated the loth of Septem-
ber 1665, for which see Early Records of Albany, i : 392-93, where the date
is given as " the first day of September, 1665, ofd style."
^2 EARLY RECORDS OF AI.r.AXV
(save the lord's right) and without the grantor's making any
further pretension in the least thereto, acknowledging himself fully
paid and satisfied therefor, the first penny with the last, and there-
fore giving plciiajii actionon ccssain and full power to do with and
dispose of the aforesaid house and two lots as he Anthony Les-
[)inar(l might do with his own patrimonial estate and effects, prom-
ising to warrant and defend the same against all persons whatso-
ever from all trouble, claims, and incumbrances as is right and
nevermore to do nor cause anything to be done contrary hereto,
in any manner, binding himself thereto as by law provided.
Done in Albany, the 12th of June 1679.
WouTER Alberts
A. Teller
Dirck Wesselss
Acknowledged before me,
Ro^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Juriaen Teunissen Tappen to Capt. Philip Schuyler
for a farm on the east side of the Hudson river
[39] Appeared before me, Ro'. Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyck and Schaenhechtady, etc., in presence
of the Honorable Mr And*. Teller and Mr Dirk Wessells, magis-
trates of said jurisdiition, Jurian Teunise Tappen, who declared
that he grants, conveys and makes over in true, rightful and free
ownership to and for the behoof of Capt. Phillip Schuyler, a cer-
tain farm lying in the colony of Renselaerswyck, over against said
Schuyler's farm called d'Vlakte (the Flat), on the east side of
Hudson's river, whereon said Jurian heretofore dwelt, with the
dwelling house, barn and two ricks and all the cattle and horses
which said grantor has had there, together with all the land, as
well arable as pasture, as the same lies in its fence between two
kills, and the woodland, together with all the farming tools thereto
belonging, all in accordance with the contract of sale thereof dated
the 6th of November 1677; which farm aforesaid is a just tenth part
of the colony of Renselaerswyck ; all of which he, the grantor, does
by virtue of a conveyance to him given by the worthy Mr Jeron-
imus Ebbinck, husband and guardian of Madam Johanna de Laet,
under date of the 7th of July 1676,^ whereto reference is herein
made (only excepting the lord's right), and that free and unin-
1 For this conveyance, see Early Records of Albany, i: 129-30.
DEEDS 1678-1704 . 53
cumbered, without any charges thereon or [rents] issuing out of
the same, and without the grantor's making any further claim in
the least thereto, acknowledging that he has been fully paid and
satisfied therefor, the first penny with the last, and therefore giv-
ing plenam actionem cessam and full power to the aforesaid Capt,
Phillip Schuyler, his heirs and successors or assigns, to do with
and dispose of the aforesaid farm and the appurtenances and de-
pendencies thereof as he might do with his own patrimonial estate
and effects, promising to warrant and defend the same against
all persons from all trouble, claims or incumbrances, as is right,
and furthermore neither to do nor cause anything to be done con-
trary hereto, either with or without legal proceedings, in any man-
ner, binding himself thereto as by law provided.
Done in Albany, the 17th of June 1679.
Jure Jan Tunsen
A. Teller
Dirck Wesselss
Acknowledged before me,
Ro'^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Hilletje, widow of Storm van der Zee, to Cornells
van Dyck for a lot on the Fuyck kill at Albany
[40] Appeared before me, Ro^ Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyk and Schaenhechtady, etC;, in the presence
of the Honorable Mr And®. Teller and Mr Dirk Wessells, magis-
trates of said jurisdiction, Hilletie van der Zee, widow of the late
Storm van der Zee, deceased, who declared that she grants, conveys
and makes over in true, rightful and free ownership to and for the
behoof of Mr Cornelis van Dyk, chirurgeon, a certain lot lying here
in Albany, south of the Fuyk kilV behind said Van Dyk's lot, adjoin-
ing westerly Harme Ruttgers, easterly and southerly the grantor and
northerly the Fuyk kill, in length westerly three rods, ten and a
half feet and easterly three rods, in breadth south and north two
rods, all Rhineland measure, which she, the grantor, does by virtue
of a patent to her late husband granted by the late Governor
Richard Nicolls under date of the loth of May 1667,^ to which refer-
ence is herein made, being a part of the lot mentioned in the afore-
1 The same as Rutten kill, now covered by Norton street ; see, Munsell's
Annah of Albany, 1:132; 2:226.
2 This patent was for land granted by Stuyvesant on April 23, 1652, to
Anthony de Hooges and conveyed to Storm Albertsen van der Zee on May
54 KARLV Kl-:cOKDS OF ALBANY
said patent and that free and unincumbered, without any charges
on, or issuing out of the same (saving the lord's right) and with-
out the grantor's making any further pretensions in the least there-
to, acknowledging herself fully paid and satisfied therefor, the
first penny witli the last, and therefore giving plenain actionem ces-
soDi and full ])ower to the aforesaid Corn: van Dyk, his heirs and
successors, or assigns to do with and dispose of the same as he
might do with his own patrimonial estate and efi:"ects, promising
to warrant and defend the same against all persons whatsoever from
all trouble, claims, and incumbrances as is right and furthermore
neither to do nor cause anything to be done contrary hereto in
any manner, binding herself thereto as by law provided. Done in
Albany, the i8th of June 1679.
HiLLETIEN VAN DER ZeE
A. Teller Acknowledged before me,
Dirck Wesselsz Ro'^. Livingston, Secretary
Bond and mortgage of William Parker to John Pynchon of New
England
[41] Appeared before me, Ro^ Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyck and Schaenhechtady, in presence of the
Honorable Mr. And*. Teller and Mr Dirk Wessells, magistrates of
said jurisdiction, William Parker, who acknowledges that he is
well and truly indebted and in arrears to Major John Pynshon of
N : England in the sum of one and twenty pounds and one shilling
sterling for merchandise received to his satisfaction, which afore-
said sum of £21:1 Boston money the subscriber promises to pay to
the aforenamed Major Pynchon or order at Boston within the time
of three months from date (and failing of payment at Boston, said
Parker remains obligated to pay said sum here in good beavers
reckoned at I2st. apiece, together with the duty (recognitie) and
freight of said beavers to Boston),^ therefore binding specially his
house- and lot lying here in Albany on the hill, where he now
I, 1662, by Roelof Swartwout, who married the widow of de Hooges. In
the patent the land is described as " abutting to the North on the Creek,
or Kill called the Fuycke Kill to the South and East the waggon way,
and to the West on Volchert Jans conteyning in length sixteen Rod, &
in breadth nine Rod."
1 The words in parentheses were written in the margin.
^ Probably a house on the west side of North Pearl street, on lot N°. 8,
one of the " New Lotts of Ground lately Layd out at Albany uppermost
DEEDS 1678-I7O4 55
dwells and generally his person and estate, real and personal, pres-
ent and future, nothing excepted, submitting the same to the au-
thority of all lords courts, and judges for the payment thereof if
need be without costs or loss.
Done in Albany, the 2d of July 1679.
Words in the margin written before the signing hereof.
Wm Parker
A. Teller In my presence,
Dirck JJ^esselsa Ro'^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Jan Jansen Bleecker and Jacob Sandersen Glen, at-
torneys for the late Jan Hendricksen van Bael, to Timothy
Cooper, for a house and lot on the hill in Albany
[42] Appeared before me, Ro^ Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyck and Schaenhechtady, etc., in the presence
of the Honorable Mr And\ Teller and Dirk Wessells, magistrates
of said jurisdiction. Jan Janse Bleiker and Jacob Sanderse, attorneys
of Mr Jan Heyndrixe van Bael, who declared that they grant, con-
vey and make over in true, rightful and free ownership to and for
the behoof of Mr Tim". Cooper a certain house and lot, standing and
lying here in Albany on the hill, where he. Cooper, dwells, adjoining
southerly Mr Cornelis Steenwyk and notherly Harmanus Bur-
gerse,- easterly and westerly the street, as it lay inclosed when said
Van Bael possessed it, or as it was inclosed when they the grantors
sold it on May 2"/, 1676,^ w^hich they do by virtue of a patent granted
to J. Heyndrix van Bael by the Honorable Governor General Rich :
towards the Hills," containing in breadth 45 feet and in length 6 rods,
for which Sergeant William Parker received a patent from Governor Nicolls
on May 30, 1667. On June 7, 1669, Governor Lovelace issued another patent
to him as follows: "Whereas Serjeant William Parker belonging to his
Ma'i^s garrison at Albany had heretofore a Pattent for a Lott of ground
upon ye Hills whereupon he hath built & now dwelleth thereupon, & there
being a small peice of ground behynde & Equall w^^ his Lott conteyning
in Length about three Rod & a halfe, y^ w'''^ lyeth wast & unmanured &
belongeth to no perticuler person, The Comissaryes there haueing likewise
consented to & recomended unto me y** same Know y^ &c."
2 Harmanus Burgerse was apparently a son of Burger Jorissen, the smith,
of New York. He married Margriet Carstens, daughter of Carsten Fred-
ericksen and Tryntje Warners. In 1704 he lived in iNlew York. See "Bap-
tisms in the Reformed Dutch Church, New York" (N. Y. Hist. Soc.
Collections, v. 2), under 1652, and Deeds, 5:45-46.
2 See contract of sale of May 26, 1676, in Early Records of Albany, i :i27.
50 EARLY RECORDS OF ALIJANY
Niculls uf (laic the ^ulh of April 1667,' to which reference is herein
made, and that free and unincumbered, without any charges on, or
issuing out of the same (saving the lords right) and without the
grantors' making any further pretension in the least thereto, ac-
knowledging themselves fully paid and satisfied therefor, the first
penny w'ith the last, and therefore giving plenam actionem cessam
and full power to the aforesaid Tim°. Cooper, his heirs and succes-
sors, or assigns to do with and dispose of said house and lot as he
might do with his own patrimonal estate and effects, promising to
warrant and defend the same against any and all persons from all
trouble, claims, and incumbrances as is right and furthermore never-
more to do nor cause anything to be done contrary hereto in any
manner, under binding obligation as by law provided. Done in Al-
bany on this 5th of July 1679.
Jan Jansz Bleecker
A. Teller Jacob Sanders: Glen
Dirck Jl'essellss In my presence,
Ro'^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Jan Hendrick Bruyn to Andries Hansen Huygh for
land at Kinderhook
[43] Appeared before me, Ro*. Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyk and Schaenhechtady, etc., in presence of
the Honorable Mr And^. Teller and Mr Dirk Wessells, magistrates
of said jurisdiction, Mr Jan Heyndrik Bruyn, who declared that he
granted, conveyed and made over to and for the behoof of Andries
Hanse Huygh ^ a certain piece of land lying near Kinderhoek, on the
^ This was a confirmation of the conveyance from Sander Leendertsen Glen
to Jan Hendricksen van Bael of August 18, 1664, for a " House & Lott of
Ground in the Towne afores"! towards the Hills having to the North Jan
Tomassens to the South Hendrick Kupler [Kuyler] to the East and west
the street." According to the diagrams in Munsell's Collcciio)is, 4:212, the
lot conveyed was the second from State street, between North Pearl and
James streets.
-The same as Andries Hansen Huyck; not to be confounded with Andries
Hansen Scherp (Sharp), who bought land in Kinderhook in 1671 and 1683
and who, like Huygh, makes his mark A H, though in a different way,
(Huygh combining the letters in the form of a monogram and Scherp writing
them separately. See Notarial Papers, 2:384; Wills, 1:32, 146; Deeds, 4:94,
170; Pearson's Early Records of Albany, 1:281, 483-84; and E. A. Collier,
History of Old Kinderhook, p. 47, 97, 99, 531. Pearson, in his Early Settlers
of Albany, p. 15, suggests that there may have been yet a third Andries
Hansen at Kinderhook, namely, Andries Hansen Barheit, who he thinks
may be the same as " Andries Hanse de Sweedt, dwelling at Kinderhoek,"
in 1675. Mr Collier, p. 100, also mentions Barheit as one of the early
settlers and moreover names Geertje (or Gerritje), daughter of Teunis
Teunisse de Metselaer, as the wife of Scherp as well as of Barheit, without
DEEDS 1678-I704 57
north side of the Kinderhoek kill, beginning at the kill on which the
sawmill stands and stretching along said great kill to the brink of
the hill/ being all the land which said Bruyn possessed on the north
side of the great kill, specified in a patent granted to him by the late
Governor General Francis Lovelace, dated the 9th of January 1671,^
by virtue of which he conveyes this and whereto reference is herein
made ; likewise a little point of l^^nd, also mentioned in the aforesaid
patent, lying on the south side of the great kill, beginning at the
brink of the hill and extending to the Httle kill that runs on the inside
of the height ; ^ and that free and unincumbered, without any charges
thereon or issuing out of the same (saving the lord's right) and with-
out the grantor's making any further claim in the least thereto, ac-
knowledging that he is fully paid and satisfied therefor, the first
penny with the last, and therefore giving plenain actionem cessam
and full power to the aforesaid Andries Hanse Huygh, his heirs
and successors or assigns, to do with and dispose of said parcel and
small po'int of land as he might do with his own patrimonial estate
and effects, promising to warrant and defend the same against all
intimating, however, that they were one and the same person. As a matter
of fact, Barheit and Scherp, in spite of the similarity in meaning of their
names (Barheit = gruffness), were not the same person and there is no
evidence that Andries Hansen Barheit ever lived at Kinderhoek. June 8.
1692, he sold his land on " the great flatts neer Coxhachky " to Dirk Teunise
van Vechten and in 1699 he is referred to as of " new yorke, yeoman."
See Deeds, 4:20, 166, the originals of which, according to the record, were
signed Andries Hanse Barheyt (Berheyt), in full.
^ d'offgevalle Bcrgh; literally, the fallen-off hill, apparently referring to a
hill with an abrupt descent, possibly the hill on the Kinderhook creek, two
miles northeast of Chatham Center.
2 No record of this patent appears in the office of the Secretary of State,
though it is cited in the Kinderhook Patent of March 14, 1686 {Patents,
6:154-60) and there is distinctly stated to have been "Recorded in the Secre-
taryes Office." The description of the land, as cited in the Kinderhook
Patent, is as follows : " A certaine Peece of Land beginning at the above
said Land & Goeing to the bottom of the hill called Pennekees and that on
both sides of the Creek or Kill with a small Creek on each side of the Kill
which is Called Nackamekasuck with the Wood L^nd belonging to it."
The expression " the bottom of the hill " corresponds probably to what in the
deed above is called d'offgevalle Bergh and according to E. A. Collier,
History of Old Kinderhook, p. 19, Pennekees (or Pennekoes) was the name
of the hills to the east of Valatie toward Chatham Center. Evidently, the
land conveyed by this deed was in what is known as the second allotment of
the Kinderhook Patent. See Map of the Division of Kinderhoock, facing
p. y6 of Collier's History; his chapter on Settlement and Land Litigation, and
the text of the Kinderhook Patent, on p. 532-36 of the same volume.
^ dat Cleyne killetje die biniien d'hooghte stroomt. This may refer to
what is still known as the Kline kill, in which case the offgevalle Bergh would
seem to be a hill to the southwest of Chatham Center. Cf. deed from
Andries Hansen Huygh to Dirck Hendricksen Bye, Dec. 13, 1680, which
speaks of een killetje daf nyt het Boss comt, a little kill that comes out of
the woods.
58 EARLY RECORDS OF ALltAXV
persons from all trouble, claims and incumbrances as is rij^ht and
nevermore to do, nor cause anything to Ijc done, contrar}- hereto in
any manner, binding himself thereto as by law provided. Done in
Albany, the 8th oi July 1679.
A. Teller Jan Hendrick Bruyns
Dirck U'^csschc
Tn my presence,
Ro^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Capt. Johannes Clute to Gerrit Herttenberch for a
lot on Rom street and part of another lot in the rear
[44J Appeared before me, Ro^ Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyck and Schaenhechtady, etc., in presence of
the Honorable Mr And-. Teller and Mr Dirk Wessells, magistrates
of said jurisdiction, Capt. Jan Cloete, who declared that he grants,
conveys and makes over in true, rightful and free ownership to and
for the behoof of Gerrit Hartenbergh, a certain lot lying here in
Albany on the hill, on Rom street, upon which said Gerrit Harden-
bergh has built a house, adjoining westerly Jan Janse Bleeker,
easterly Jan Byvanck, northerly the street and southerly Geert:
Vosburgh and Omy la Grangie, in length on the east side next Jan
Byvanck thirty-four feet and one inch, Rhineland measure ; in
breadth, front and rear, twenty-four wood feet and on the west side
next Jan Bleeker thirty-two feet and eight inches, Rhineland meas-
ure ; which the grantor does by virtue of a conveyance to him given
by Ludovicus Cobes, of date the 23d of November 1667,^ ^^^ ^Iso
by virtue of a patent to the grantor given by his Excellency^ Sir
Edmond Andross, Knight, governor general, of date the 25th of
March 1680, inasmuch as 15 feet, 5 inches Rhineland measure of
the lot were conveyed by L. Cobes and the remainder up to 24 wood
feet by virtue of the patent aforesaid; also, said Clute conveys to
said Hardenbergh a little corner of a lot in the rear at the hindmost
end, in breadth, front and rear, ten feet and three and a half inches,
in length on the east side two rods and on the west. side two rods
and 2 inches, which he does by virtue of the conveyance to him
given by Ryer Jacobse Schermerhooren under the date of the 19th of
April 1680,^ being [part] of the lot N°. 9, to which reference is
herein made ; and that free and unincumbered, without charges rest-
ing on, or [rents, profits and emoluments] issuing out of the same
1 See Early Records of Albany, i '.427.
~ See p. 75 of this volume. The present deed is recorded out of chron-
ologic order.
DEEDS 1678-I704 59
(saving the lords right) and without the grantor's making any fur-
ther pretension in the least thereto, acknowledging himself to be
fully paid and satisfied therefor, the first penny with the last, and
therefore giving plena 111 actionem cessam and full power to the
aforenamed Gerrit Hardenbergh, his heirs and successors, or assigns
to do with and dispose of the aforesaid premises as he might do
with his own patrimonial estate and effects, promising to warrant
the premises against any and all persons and to free the same from
all trouble, claims, and incumbrances as is right and furthermore
nevermore to do nor cause anything to be done contrary hereto in
any manner, under binding obligation as by law provided. Done in
Albany, this 20th of April 1680.
Dirck Wcsselsa . Johanns Clute
A. Teller
In my presence,
Ro'^. Livingston, Secretary
Release from Barent Meyndertsen to Sir Edmund Andres for
land at Schodack
[45] On this 5th day of August, Barent Myndertse, shoemaker,
conveyed and made over to his honor, Sir Edmond Andross, gov-
ernor general, a certain parcel of land lying on the east side of Hud-
son's river, near Schotax island, being a square piece, of one hundred
and fifty rods square, containing thirty-seven morgens and three
rods, as per patent thereof granted by his honor on the 29th of Sep-
tember 1677,^ all of which he now releases, acknowledging himself
to be fully paid and satisfied for all his right and title to said lands,
the first penny with the last, by the hand of the Receiver Ro*. Living-
ston. Done in Albany, the 5th of August 1679.
Barent Meyndersz
Acknowledged before me,
Ro'^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from William Loveridge, senior, attorney for Timothy
Cooper, to Gerrit Herttenberch for a house and lot in Albany
[46] Appeared before me, Ro*. Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyck and Schaenhechtady, in presence of the
Honorable Mr And^. Teller and Mr Dirk Wessells, magistrates of
said jurisdiction, William Loveridge, Sen''., as attorney for Mr
1 This patent is not on record.
6o EARLY RECORDS OF ALRAXY
Tim°. Cooper, who declared that he i^^ranted, conveyed and made
over to and for the belioof of Ger^ Ilartenbergh the house and lot
of said Cooper, standing and lying here in Albany between the house
of Harmanus Borgertse ^ and Jacob Tyse van dcr Heyden [abut-
ting] front and rear upon the streets, as it lies inclosed and as he
bought it at vendue ; which the grantor does by virtue of a convey-
ance given to the aforesaid Cooper by the attorneys of Jan Hendrix
van Bael, dated the 5th of July 1679, to which reference is herein
made and that free and unincumbered, without any charges thereon
or issuing out of the same (saving the lord's right) and without
the grantor in his capacity aforesaid making any further claim in
the least thereto, acknowledging himself fully paid and satisfied
therefor, the first penny with the last, and giving therefore plenam
actionem cessam and full power to the aforesaid Ger^ Hardenbergh,
his heirs and successors, or assigns to do with and dispose of the
aforesaid house and lot as he might do with his own patrimonial
estate and effects, promising to warrant and defend the same against
any and all persons from all trouble, claims, and incumbrances as
is right and furthermore nevermore to do nor cause anything to be
done contrary hereto in any manner, under binding obligation as
by law provided. Done in Albany, the 22d of August 1679.
Dirck Wesselsa Will: Loveridge
A. Teller
Acknowledged before me,
Ro^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Jacob Salomonsen to Pieter Bogardus for a house, lot
and garden south of Albany
[47] Appeared before me, Ro*. Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyck and Schaenhechtady, etc., in presence of
the Honorable Mr Andries Teller and Mr Dirk Wessells, magis-
trates of said jurisdiction, Jacob Salomonse,- who declared that
he grants, conveys and makes over in true, rightful and free owner-
ship to and for the behoof of P"". Bogardus, a certain lot with house
and garden standing and lying without Albany, south of the old
fort, where said Bogardus now dwells, adjoining easterly the com-
mon wagon road on the river side, southerly, northerly and westerly
the pasture possessed by the commander of Fort Albany, being four-
teen rods wide in front to the east on the river side, in the rear to
1 The same as Harmanus Burgerse; see p. 55.
2 Professor Pearson here supplies the name " Goewey."
DEEDS 1678-I704 61
the west eighteen rods, in length to the north fourteen and to the
south twenty-four rods, which he does by virtue of a patent granted
to his wife's former husband Thomas Janse by the Honorable Gov-
ernor General Rich: Nicolls under date of the 9th of September
1667,^ and that free and unincumbered without any charges on or
[rents] issuing out of the same (saving the lord's right) and with-
out the grantor's making any further pretensions in the least thereto,
acknowledging himself to be fully paid and satisfied therefor, the
first penny with the last, giving therefore plenam actionem ccssam
and full power to the aforenamed Pieter Bogardus to do with and
dispose of the aforesaid lot, house and garden as he might do with
his own patrimonial estate and efi'ects, promising to defend the same
against all and every person and free the same from all trouble,
claims, and incumbrances as is right and furthermore nevermore to
do nor cause anything to be done contrary hereto in any manner,
under binding obligation as by law provided. Done in Albany, the
27th of August 1679.
'Tis the mark X of Jacob Salomonse,
Dirck Wesselsz made with his own hand.
A. Teller
Acknowledged before me,
Ro'^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Jannetje, widow of Thomas Powell, to Paulus Mar-
tensen for a house and lot in Albany
[48]- Appeared before me, Ro*. Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyk and Schaenhechtady, in presence of the
Honorable Mr Dirk Wessells and Mr Corn : van Dyk, magistrates
of said jurisdiction, Jannetje Paulussen, widow of the late Thomas
Paulussen,^ deceased, who declared that she granted, conveyed and
1 This was a confirmation of the grant to Thomas Janssen of October 25,
1653, for " a certaine lott of ground w^b a house & garden lying & being in
Albany to ye South of ye ffort & to y® North of Bever Kill bounded to y®
East wth ye comon waggon way by y*" Ryver to y^ South north & west w"^
ye land in ye tenure or occupacon of him the said Thomas Jans, conteyning
in breadth on y^ East before twards ye said way fourteen Rod & behinde
on ye west side Eighteene Rod In length on ye North fourteene & on ye
South side four & twenty Rod." The original patent, like all other patents
for the years 1652 and 1653, when most of the grants for land at Albany
were issued, is missing.
2 This document is recorded out of its proper chronologic place.
3 This should be Thomas Powell. September 2, 1663, Thomas Powell of
62 EAKI.V RECORDS OF ALBANY
made over to and for tlie behoof of Paulus Mautense Raemmaeker ^
a certain house and lot standing and lyinj^ here in Albany next to
Doniine Ciideon Schaets, adjoining south and west Jurian Teunise
Tai)pcn, to the east and north the street,- in breadth in front on the
road two rods, ten feet, in length to the north ten rods, to the south
ten rods, eight feet and a half, in breadth to the west along the fence
of Jurian Teunise five rods and three feet ; which she, the grantor,
does by virtue of a conveyance to her late husband from Sander
Leendertse Glen, under date of the 26th of October 1662, to which
reference is hereby made, and that free and unincumbered, Avithout
any charges on, or issuing out of the same (saving the lord's right)
and without the grantor's making any further pretension in the
least thereto, acknowledging himself to be fully paid and satisfied
therefor, the first penny wnth the last, and therefore giving plcimm
actionem cessaiii and full power to the aforenamed Paulus Mar-
tense Raemmaeker, his heirs, successors and assigns, to do with and
dispose of the same as he might do with his own patrimonial pos-
sessions and efifeots, promising the same to warrant against any and
all persons and free the same from all trouble, claims and incum-
brances as is right and furthermore nevermore to do nor cause any-
thing to be done contrary hereto, in any manner, under binding obli-
gation as by law provided. Done in Albany, this 2d of August 1680.
N. B. Has been long written but not subscribed till now.
Dirck Wesselsjj The mark X of Jannetje Paulussen
Cornells van Dyck made with her own hand.
Acknowledged before me,
Ro"^. Livingston, Secretary
Herrisfort (Hertford?, Eng.) states in an affidavit that in 1641 he was a
sergeant in Brazil under Capt. Adam Wilschut and afterwards a lieutenant
in Capt. Claudio Messu's company. See Notarial Papers, i :37(>-7y.
^ The same as Raemaeker, or Rademaker, meaning wheelwright.
-belent ten sityden & teii westen Jurian Teunise Tappcn, ten oosteii en
noorden 's heere straet. Cf. Deed from Sander Leendersen Glen to Thomas
Powell, October 26, 1662, referred to below and translated in Early Records
of Albany, i :3I4, in which the compass directions are reversed. See also
contract between the widow of Thomas Powell and Paulus Martensen,
August 24, 1676, in Early Records of Albany, i : 133-34.
DEEDS 1 678-1 704 63
Deed from Westenhoek Indians to Dirck Wesselsen and Gerrit
Teunissen for four flats on both sides of the Kinderhook
creek
[49] On this 1st of October 1679, Mr Dirk Wessells and Mr
Gerrit Teunise ^ have bought a certain parcel of land lying at Kinder-
hoek, in presence of the honorable magistrates of Albany, colony of
Renselaerswyk and Schaenhechtaedy, of the following Indian own-
ers, to wit, Wieshaghcaet and his two brothers Powhyates and Max-
inhaet and their two cousins - Waespacheek and Pinonak, all Wes-
tenhoek Indians, the land consisting of four flats lying on both sides
of the Kinderhoek kill, being about a Dutch mile from Jan Tysen's,
whereof the two largest lie on the east side of the kill, the most
northerly comprising about twenty-seven morgens and the other
about fourteen morgens, and the other two flats lying on the west
side, one comprising about twenty-five morgens and the other about
six morgens, together with the woodland lying thereby extending to
the high hills, the four flats aforesaid lying to the north of the land
that Jan Bruyn bought of Pompoen-'' and south of the land of Matit
Niminaw, for which aforesaid pieces of land with the woodland and
the kill so far as the land extends the aforesaid owners acknowledge
themselves fully paid and satisfied, having therefor received three
hundred fathoms of seawan, or the value thereof in merchandise to
their content, which aforesaid lands they as the lawful owners wholly
grant, convey and make over to the aforesaid Dirk Wessells and
Gert Teunise, Avith all the privileges, rights and prerogatives thereof,
without their making any further pretensions in the least thereto,
acknowledging themselves to be fully paid and satisfied therefor,
the first penny with the last, promising to defend the premises
against any and all persons and to free the same from all [50]
trouble, claims, and incumbrances which may hereafter arise as well
from Christians as Indians, and nevermore to do nor cause anything
to be done contrary hereto in any manner.
^ Gerrit Teunissen van Vechten, as shown by the mark of the present
grantee to a deed of April 7, 1683, and that of van Vechten to his will
dated March 8. 170". in JJ'ills, 1:112-14.
^Necffs; which may mean either nephews or cousins.
^'t Laiidt dot Jan Bntyn van Pompocn gek^. hccft. In the patent for these
four flats to Dirck Wesselsen and Gerrit Teunissen, dated March 25, 1680,
the sentence reads : " the Land that Jan Bruyne De Pompoen hath bought,"
implying that Pompoen (Pumpkin) was a nickname of Jan Bruyn. This is
not the case, however. According to E. A. Collier, History of Old Kinder-
hook, p. 10, Pompoen was the Indian proprietor of Valatie or land to the
east of it. See also E. M. Ruttenber, Indian Geographical Names, p. 58.
and William M. Beauchamp, Aboriginal Place Names of New York, p. 48
(New York State Museum Bulletin 108).
64 KAKI.V RECORDS OF ALBAXV
In confirmation of which said natural owners have subscribed
these in presence of Mr Marte Gerritse and Air Corn: van Dyk,
magistrates, and Aernout Cornelise Viele, as interpreter hereto
called. Done in Albany datum lit supra [and in presence of] the
Alahikan Indians Cach Patt and Sagancochkan, as witnesses.
This the mark X of Wieshachkaet
Marten Gertscn made with his own hand.
Cornells van Dyck
Arnout Corn: J'iclc
This is the mark X of Maxinhaet
made with his own hand.
This the mark X of This is the mark X of Waespacheek
Cack Patt, wit- made with his own hand.
ness
This is the mark X of Pouhyates
T^, . , , X' r made with his own hand.
I his the mark X of
Sagancohkan, This is the mark X of Pinonak made
witness with his own hand.
In my presence,
Ro^. LiviXGSTON, Secretary
Power of attorney from the heirs of Gerrit Fredricksen Lansing
to Jan Barentsen ten Kate and Gysbert Jansen Vermeer to
collect their inheritance in tJie province of Overijsel
[51] Appeared before me, Ro*. Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyck and Schaenhechtady, etc., in presence
of the Honorable Dirk W^essells and Cornells van Dyck, magistrates
of said jurisdiction, Gerrit Gerritse Lansing, Hendrick Gerritse
Lansingh, Johannes Gerritse Lansing, Air Ger^ van Slichtenhorst,
husband and guardian of Aeltie Lansingh, Hendrik Rooseboom,
husband and guardian of Gysbertie Lansing, and Hilletie Lansing,
widow of the late Storm Albertse van der Ze, deceased, all citizens
of this town of Albany, who declared in accordance wath advice
from their cousin ^ Jan Barentst ten Kate, dwelling at Swoll in Over
Isell, dated the 4th of June 1679, that they constituted and appointed
^Neeff; which may mean either nephew, or cousin.
DEEDS 1678-I704 65
their said cousin Jan Barentst ten Kate, residing at Swoll, and Gys-
l)ert Janse Vermeer, residing at Hassell, where he is gastlutysm'.,^
their attorneys, specially to demand, collect and receive in Over
Yssell, etc., their inheritance and bequests left to them by their
father deceased, named Gerrit Frerickse Lansing, in his lifetime
burgher of Hassell ; of the receipts to give acquittance, to release
from further demands and furthermore to do, transact and perform
all that may be needful and that may seem advisable to them, pnjmis-
ing at all times to hold valid whatever shall be lawfully done and per-
formed in the matter aforesaid by the aforenamed attorneys Mr Jan
Barenst ten Kate and Mr Gysbert Janse Vermeer, without any gain-
saying, provided that the attorneys be 'held upon request to make a
proper accounting, statement and return of their transactions afore-
said. Done in Albany in America on the 3d of October in the thirty-
first year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord Charles the Second,
by the grace of God, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland,
defender of the faith, Annoq: Dom : 1679.
In the margin :
Was subscribed :
D: Wessells Ger"^. Gerritse Laksinc;
Corn: van Dyck Hend : Gerritse Lansingh
JoH : Gerritse Lansingh
GER'r. van Slichtentiorst
Hexd: Rooseboom
Hilletie van d**. Zee
In my presence,
Ro^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Robert Story to Gerrit Lansing for a house and lot
on the hill in Albany
[52] Appeared before me, Ro^ Livingston, secretar}' of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyck and Schaenhechtady, in presence of the
Honorable Mr Dirk Wessells and Mr Cornelis van Dyck, magis-
trates of said jurisdiction, Mr Robert Story, who declared that he
grants, conveys, and makes over in true, rightful and free owner-
ship to and for the behoof of Gerrit Lansingh, his house and lot
' Gasthuysiiiccstcr ; meaning " hospital superintendent," and not " proprietor
of an inn," as the translation had it. Hassell is intended for Hasselt, in
the province of Overijsel.
66 EARLY KKfoKDS <)I" Al.r.WS'
Standing and lying in Albany on the hill, with all that is therein fast
by earth or nail, adjoining on the east side Claes van Rotterdam, on
the south side said Gerrit Lansingh and on the north and west sides
the hijrhwav. in breadth in front on the street five and twentv feet
and in the rear said Lansing's house, extending from the upper corner
to the lower in a straight line along said Lansing's house, drip free,
the width in the rear being fourteen feet less two inches, in length
on the south side four rods, six feet and three inches, all as it lies
inclosed in fence, which the grantor does by virtue of a conveyance
to him given by Mr Samuel Holeman of date the 29th of August
1676,^ to which reference is herein made, and that free and unincum-
bered, without any charges on or issuing out of the same, saving the
lord's right, and without the grantor's making any further claim in
the least thereto, acknowledging himself fully paid and satisfied
therefor, the first penny with the last, and therefore giving plenam
actionem cessam and full power to the aforesaid Ger^ Lansinck. his
heirs and successors, or assigns to do with and dispose of the afore-
said house and lot as he might do with his own patrimonial estate
and effects, promising to defend the same against all and every per-
son and free the same from all trouble, claims and incumbrances
which may hereafter arise, and nevermore to do nor cause any-
thing to be done contrary hereto either with or without judicial
proceedings in any manner, under binding obligation as by law pro-
vided. Done in Albany, on the 4th of October 1679.
Robert Story
Dirck W ess else
Cornelis van Dyck In my presence,
Ro^. LivixGSTOX. Secretary
Deed from Pieter Jacobsen Borsboom to Cornelis van Dyck for
a garden outside of Albany behind the old fort
[53-54 wanting; 55] Appeared before me, Ro*. Livingston, secre-
tary of Albany, colony of Renselaerswyk and Schaenhechtady, etc.,
in the presence of the Honorable ]\Ir And : Teller and Mr Johannes
Provoost, magistrates of said jurisdiction, Pieter Jacobse Borsboom,
who declared that he grants, conveys and makes over in true, right-
full and free ownership to and for the behoof of Mr Cornelis van
Dyck a certain garden lying without the town of Albany behind the
old fort which said \ an Dyk now possesses,- adjoining southerly
1 See Early Records of Albany, i :i4i-42.
- JVclke d". van Dyk tcgcnzi'oordigh bcsitt.
DEEDS 1678-1704 67
the garden of Jan Janse Bleeker and Jan Byvanke, northerly Harme
Vedder, westerly Jochem the baker and easterly the common lane
(gangJi), in length and breadth as the same has been possessed by
Jan Labathee ; which he does by virtue of the conveyance to him
given by Jan Labathe, dated the 17th of September 1669/ to which
reference is herein made, and that free and unincumbered, without
any charges thereon or issuing out of the same (saving the lord's
right) and without the grantor's making any further claim in the
least thereto, acknowledging that he is fully paid and satisfied there-
for, the first penny with the last, and therefore giving plcnam ac-
tionem cessam and full power to the aforenamed Cornells van Dyk,
his successors, or assigns to do with and dispose of the aforesaid gar-
den as he might do with his own patrimonial possessions and efifects,
promising to defend the same against all and every person and free
it from all trouble, claims and incumbrances as is right and further-
more nevermore to do nor cause anything to be done contrary hereto
in any manner, under binding obligation as by law provided. Done
in Albany, this 12th of December 1679.
PlETER YaCOBSEN BorSBOOM
A. Teller
In my presence,
Ro^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Jacob Jansen van Noorstrant to Hendrick Gerritsen
van der Meulen for two lots in Albany
[56J Appeared before me, Ro'. Livingston, secretary of Alb[any],
colony of Rens[elaerswyk] and Schaenh[echtady], in presence of
the Honorable And*. Teller and Corn : van Dyk, magistrates of said
jurisdiction, Jacob Janse van Noorstrant,- who declared that he
1 See conveyance in Early Records of Albany, i :459-6o, which covers a
house and lot as well as the garden. The conveyance states that Labatie
makes over the house and lot to Borsboom " by virtue of patent in the care
of Mr. Jacob De Hinsse, of date the 3d of May, 1667." As there is no patent
to Labatie of that date, the statement refers apparently to tlie patent which
was issued on that date to De Hinse in confirmation of the conveyance to
him by Labatie, of August 20, 1662, for which see Early Records of Albany,
1:308. It will be noticed that by this last mentioned conveyance — which
must have been in the nature of a mortgage, since Labatie still had title
to the house and lot in 1669 — the garden was reserved.
2 Nordstrand, an island off the coast of Schleswig, opposite Husum, from
the vicinity of which, Bredtstedt. Wittbek, Friedrichstadt, Eiderstedt and
Dithmarschen, a number of early settlers came. In the 17th century a colony
of Dutch farmers belonging to the Old-Catholic sect settled on the island of
Nordstrand. Their descendants still entertain relations with Holland and
obtain their clergymen from there. See Johan Winkler, Oiid Nederland,
p. 103. Friedrichstadt, on the Eider, in the same region, was founded in the
68 EARLY RECORDS OF ALHAXV
granted, conveyed and made over in true, rightful and absolute
ownership to and for the behoof of Hend : Gerritse vand'. Meule '
a certain lot lying here in Albany on which the house of Tennis
Slingerlant and some other small houses stand, adjoining southerly
and westerly the common road, easterly the grantor and northerly
the Fuykse kill, in breadth on the south and north thirty feet, in
length eight and a half rods; likewise said Jacob Janse conveys to
said Hend : Gerritse a small parcel of ground in the rear on the kill,
twenty-six feet in breadth and twenty-three feet in length, according
to the survey thereof ; which he, the grantor, does by virtue of the
patent to him granted by the Right Honorable Edmund Andros.
governor general, dated the 8th of May 1679,^ to which reference is
herein made, and that free and unincumbered, without any charges
thereon or issuing out of the same (saving the lord's right) and
without the grantor's making any further claim in the least thereto,
acknowledging that he is fully paid and satisfied therefor, the first
penny with the last, and therefore giving plenaui actionem cessam
and full power [to said Van der ISleule] to do with and dispose of
the aforesaid lot as he might do with his own patrimonial estate and
effects, promising to warrant and defend the same against all per-
sons from all lawful claims, liens and incumbrances and furthermore
nevermore to do nor cause anything to be done contrary hereto in
any manner, binding himself thereto as by law provided. Done in
Albany, the 13th of January 16 %,
Jacob Jansex van Xordtt
Cornells van Dyck
A. Teller In my presence,
Ro'^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Jan Cornelissen Vyselaer to Andries Albertsen Bradt
of his half interest in the mill on the Poesten kill
[57] Appeared before me, Ro^ Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colonv of Renselaerswyk and Schaenhechtady, etc., in presence of
17th century by Dutch Protestants known as Remonstrants, the opponents of
the Calvinists, who were exiled on account of their faith after the synod
of Dordrecht. It is possible therefore that some of the settlers from
Schleswig were in reality Hollanders, and not Frisians. Danes, or Germans.
1 Hendrick Gerritsen van der Meulen was a master tailor. See Notarial
Papers, i ■.2og.
2 This patent was a confirmation of a Dutch grant of April 23. 1652, for
a lot of ground " bounded to the South by the waggon way. to the North
by a certaine Creeke called the Fuyck Kill, to the West by a waggon path
and to the East by the hospital!, being in length nine Rodd and in breadth
Eight & a halfe." This lot was apparently situated upon what is now the
northeast corner of Beaver and South Pearl streets.
DEEDS 1678-I704 69
the Honorable Air And^ Teller and Mr Corn : van Dyk, magistrates
of said jurisdiction, Jan Cornelise Vyselaer, who declares that he
grants, conveys and makes over as hereby he does, in true, rightful
and absolute ownership, to and for the behoof of Andries Albertse
Bradt a certain, the grantor's, half [interest in a] sawmill, together
with half of the kill on which the mill stands and half of two mor-
gens of arable land in the colony of Renselaerswyk, up the river, on
the east bank, over against the Steenhoeck, heretofore called Poes-
ten mill, together with the half of a right of way for a wagon along
the hills toward Pieter Pieterse van Waggelum's to the shore, as
it has heretofore been used ; likewise the grantor hereby fully relin-
quishes his half interest in the tools which belong to the aforesaid
mill, making over the same to the said And*. Albertse Bratt with
the half of ten new saws, together with all the rights and privileges
as he, Vyselaer, has possessed the same and they were acquired by
him from Sweer Teunise, together with the half of what has been
added, built and delivered to the mill since that time ; which the
grantor does by virtue of the conveyance to him and Luycas Pieterse
given by vSweer Teunise, dated the 25th of June 1675 ;^ and that free
and unincumbered, without any charges thereon or issuing out of
the same, saving the lord's right, and without the grantor's making
any further claim in the least thereto, acknowledging that he is fully
paid and satisfied therefor, the first penny with the last, and there-
fore giving full power to the aforenamed Andries Albertse Bradt,
his heirs and successors or assigns, to do with and dispose of the
same as he might do with his own patrimonial estate and effects,
promising to warrant and defend the same against all persons from
all trouble, claims and incumbrances as is right, and nevermore to
do nor cause anything to be done contrary hereto, either by or
without going to law, in any manner, binding himself thereto as by
law provided. Albany, the 15th of April 1680.
This is the mark X of Jan Corn-
Cornelis van Dyck elise Vyselaer made with his own
A. Teller hand
In my presence,
Rqt. Livingston, Secretary
1 For deed from Sweer Teunissen van Velsen to Jan Cornelissen Vyselaer
and Lucas Pietersen Coeymans, see Early Records of Albany, 1:117-18.
/O KARLV RECORDS OF ALIJANY
Deed from Palus Martensen to Jan Jansen Bleecker and Law-
rence van Alen for a house and lot in Albany
I 58J Appeared before me, Ro'. Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyk and Schaenhcchtady, etc., in presence of
the Honorable -Mr And\ Teller and Mr Corn: van Dyk, magis-
trates of said jurisdiction, Paulus Martense Raedemaeker,^ who
declared that he grants, conveys and makes over in true, rightful and
free ownership to and for the behoof of Mr Jan Janse Bleeker and
Lawrence van Ale a certain house and lot, standing and Ling here
in Albany, with all that therein is fast by earth and nail, adjoining
southerly the house of Harme Janse, northerly Geeurt Hendrix,
easterly the street and westerly the wagon road, in breadth, front
and rear, four rods and in length from the street to the wagon road ;
which he, the grantor, does by virtue of the conveyance to him
granted by Teunis Teunise !Metselaer, of date the 30th of March
1679, to which reference is herein made, and that free and unin-
cumbered, without any charges resting on. or issuing out of the
same (save the lord's right) and without the grantor's making any
further claim in the least thereto, acknowledging that he is fully
paid and satisfied therefor, the first penny with the last, and there-
fore giving ploiain actionem cessam and full power to do with and
dispose of the aforesaid house and lot as they might do with their
own patrimonial estates and eftects, promising nevermore to
do nor cause to be done anything contrary hereto in any manner,
binding himself thereto as by law provided. Done in Albany, the
2d of March 1680.
PouLis Marten
Cornelis zvn Dyck
A. Teller
Deed from Teunis Cornelissen van der Poel to Marten Cornelis-
sen for one-half of Ghonankenigh island opposite Bethlehem
[59] Appeared before me, Ro*. Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyk and Schaenhcchtady, etc., in presence of
the Honorable Mr Andries Teller and ^Ir Corn: van Dyk, magis-
trates of said jurisdiction, Teunis Cornelise van der Poel,^ who
declared that he granted, conveyed and made over in true, rightful
and free ownership to and for the behoof of Alarten Cornelise^
^ Paulus Martensen, wheelwright. See note on p. 32.
- By his signature clearly identified wth Teunis Cornelissen Spitsenbergh,
or Spitsbergen. See Notarial Papers, 2:269; Early Records of Albany, i .-119,
334; Van Rensselaer Bo-nner Mss, p. 846; and following notes.
3 Professor Pearson here and in Early Records of Albany, 1:119, supplies
DEEDS 1678-1704 • 71
the half of a certain island l)y the Indians called Ghonankenigh,'
where said Marte now dwells, lying" oblic|uely over against Bethle-
hem, with all his right and interest therein as the same has be-
longed to him; which he does by virtue of the patent granted to
him by the late Governor General Richard Niccols, dated the 13th
of August 1667,- and that free and unincumbered, without any
charges thereon or issuing out of the same (save the lord's right)
and without the grantor's making any further claim in the least
thereto, acknowledging that he is fully paid and satisfied therefor,
the first penny with the last, and therefore giving plenum actionem
cessam and full power to the aforenamed Marte Cornelise, his
heirs, sticcessors and assigns, to do with and dispose of the afore-
said half island and appurtenances thereof as he might do with his
own patrimonial estate and effects, promising to warrant and de-
fend the same against all persons from all lawful claims, demands
and incumbrances and furthermore never to do nor cause to be
done anything contrary hereto in any manner, binding himself
thereto as by law provided. Done in Albany, on the 13th of
March 16 4;;.
Cornells van Dyck
A. Teller
Teunis Corneltsze van der Puel
In my presence,
Ro'^. Livingston. Secretary
the name Van Buren, hut this is apparently a mistake and should he Van
Ysselsteyn. See J'an Rensselaer Bozvier Mss. p. 181, note, and Xotarial
Papers, I :36.
1 In the patent of the 13th of August 1667, mentioned in the text, the
island is called Constables island, which evidently corresponds to Constapel's
island, opposite Paerde Hoeck (now Parda hook), and would seem to refer
to what is now known as Bear island, about a mile south of Van Wie's point.
Constapel's island was so named after Andries Herpertsen Constapel, to
whom, jointly with Rutger Jacobsen. the island was patented on March 10,
1661. In this patent of 1661 the island is said to be situated "about two
[Dutch] miles below Fort Orange, obliquely opposite Bethlehem, in the
Indian tongue called Pachonakellick otherwise Mahicanders island," which
Ruttenber, Indian Geographical Names, p. 178, erroneously identifies with
Castle island. See Early Records of Albany, 1:119; Dutch Patents, HH,
part 2, p. 122; O'Callaghan, History of Nezu Netherland, 1:437; and Van
Rensselaer Bonner Mss. p. 829-30.
2 According to this patent, Teunis Cornelissen van der Poel came into
possession of the half of the island and one-half of the buildings, fences and
appurtenances thereof by virtue of a judgment of the court, in satisfaction
of a certain debt due to him from Rutger Jacobsen, since deceased. The
other half of the island, which originally belonged to Andries Herpertsen
Constapel, was after his death disposed of at public sale, on June 26, 1663,
to Volckert Jansen Douw, who received a patent for it on September 6, 1667.
July 26, 1675, Volckert Jansen entered into a contract with Pieter Winne
for the sale of his half interest in the island and December 13. 1677. he
made a formal conveyance thereof. See Early Records of Albany. 1:118-19,
16CH70, 325, 333'34-
7-2 KAKI.V RECORDS OF ALDAXV
Deed from Capt. Johannes Clute to Johan Friese (de Vries) for
a house and lot in Albany
I 6oJ Appeared before me, Ro^ Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyk and Schaenhechtady, etc., in presence of
the Honorable Mr. And^ Teller and .Mr Dirlv W'essells, magistrates
of said jurisdiction, Capt. Johan Clute, who declared that he grants,
conveys and makes over in true, rightful and free ownership to
and for the behoof of Johannes de Wies,' burgher of this town, a
certain house and lot standing and lying here in Albany, with all
that is thereto fast by earth and nail, adjoining southerly and also
easterly the grantor, northerly ^larte Cryger and westerly the
street, in breadth, front and rear, sixteen feet, one in h and in
length eighty feet, wood measure, with the understanding that the
house shall have free drip on both sides, except in front on the
street between [it and] Marte Cryger as the houses stood at the
time they were sold, moreover granting him, said de Aries, or his
successors, forever the privilege of repairing the sewer which runs
through the grantor's garden, without contradiction or objection
of anyone, which the grantor does b}' virtue of the conveyance
to him given by Jan Lansinck. of date the loth of April 1679.- to
which reference is herein made, and that free and unincumbered,
without any charges resting on. or growing out of the same (sav-
ing the lord's right ) and without the grantor's making any ftirther
claim in the least thereto, acknowledging that he is fully paid and
satisfied therefor, the first penny with the last, therefore giving
plenam actionem cessani and full power to the aforesaid Johannes
de A'ries, his heirs and successors, or assigns to do with and dis-
pose of the aforesaid house and lot as he might do with his own
patrimonial estate and eflfects, promising to defend the same against
any and all persons and to keep the same free from all trouble,
claims and incumbrances and further nevermore to do nor cause
to be done anything contrary hereto, in any manner, binding him-
self as bv law orovided.
Done in Albany, the 27th of ]\Iarch. 1680.
JOHANXS Cl.UTE
Dirck Wesselsz
A. Teller ^" "^>' pi'e^ence.
Ro^. LiviXGSTox, Secretary
^ See his signature on p. 149.
2 See p. 38.^
DEEDS 1 678-1 704 73
Deed from Major Abraham Staets to the elders and deacons of
the Lutheran church for a house and lot in Albany on the
First kill
[61] Appeared before me, Ro'. Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyck and Schaenhechtady, etc., in presence
of the Honorable Mr And^ Teller and ]\lr Cornelis van Dyck
magistrates of said jurisdiction, Major Abraham Staas, who de-
clared that he granted, conveyed and made over in true, rightful
and absolute ownership to and for the behoof oT Albert Bratt,
Mynd^ Frederikse, elders, and Anthony Lespinard and Carsten
Frederikse, deacons, of the Lutheran Church here in Albany, a
certain house and lot standing and lying here in Albany, with all
that is thereto fast by earth and nail, on the First kill,^ adjoining
to the south the First kill, to the north the former common path
now owned by Mr Pretty, Ja:ob Sanders. Job: Wendel, Mynd^
Harmense and Hend : Cuyler, to the east the common road and to
the west a little kill, in breadth on the east side twelve rods and
eleven feet and on the west side six rods and four feet, and in
length on the south side twenty-one rods and one foot and on the
north side twenty-three rods and two feet, all Rhineland measure,
on which lot the Lutheran church now stands; likewise the house
for the Lutheran domine, being bought and paid for by the whole
Lutheran congregation, to whom the same is now made over;
which he, the grantor, does by virtue of the patent to him grinted
by the late Governor Richard Niccols under date of the 25th of
April ir)67,- being a part of said lot, to which reference is herein
1 The same as the Rutten kill. For location of the Lutheran cliurch, see
Simeon De Witt's plan of the city of Albany, 1794, reproduced in Year Book
of the Holland Society of New York for 1904.
2 The record of this patent reads as follows : " Richard NicoUs Esq. &c.
Whereas there was a Patent or Groundbriefe heretofore graunted by the
Dutch Governour Petrus Stuyvesant unto Cap*. Abraham Staets for a certain
Lott of Ground where his House stands lying in Beverwick Albany neer
the Fort abutting on the west to the Lott belonging to Rut Jacobsen there
being a path between both of five foot breadth otT from the s^ Path west-
ward its in breadth six Rod & two foot Southward it conteynes eighteen
Rod westward to his small Creek or Kill five and twenty Rod & from the
s^ Creek to the first small creeke its in breadth eight Rod. Together with
another Lott of Ground and Garden abutting on the North to the Lott of
Ruyter Hendricks, on the west to the way, on the East to the Garden
belonging to M"" Renselaer, & on the south to Aryaen Ilpendam conteyning
in breadth five Rod and in length seaven Rod lying as it were in a square
which s'J Patent or Groundbriefe graunted as afores"! beares date the 25°
day of Octob. 1653. And whereas there is also another Garden adjoyning on
the south to Adriaen Gerritsen on the North to the Lott of Anneke Bogardus
on the East to M"" Renselaers, and on the west to the way conteyning in
breadth fifteen Rod & in length seaven Rod which s<i Garden hath been
heretofore purchased by the s^ Cap*. Abraham Staets. Now for a Con-
firmacon &c. The Patent is dated the 25*1*. Apr : 1667."
74 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBAXV
made, and that free and unincumbered, without an\- charges
thereon or growing out of the same (saving the lord's right), ac-
knowledging that he is fully paid and satisfied therefor, the first
penny w iih the last, giving therefore plcnam actionem cessam and
full power to the aforenamed persons in their capacity as [mem-
bers of the] consistory (if llie Lutlieran cliurch. being for the use
of the whole church, to do with and dispose of the aforesaid house
and lot as they might do with their own patrimonial estates and ef-
fects, promising to defend the same against any and all j^ersons and
to free the same from all future trouble, claims and incumbrances
and furthermore nevermore to do nor cause to be done anything con-
trary hereto in any manner, binding himself as by law therefor
provided. Done in Albany, the 29th of March 1680.
Abram St a as
Cornells van Pyck
A. Teller
In my presence,
Ro'T. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Jacob Lokermans to Reyer Schermerhorn, husband
and guardian of Ariaentje Arents, widow of Elmer Otten, for
a house and lot on the hill in Albany
[62] Appeared before me, Ro^ Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyck and Schaenhechtady, etc., in presence
of the Honorable ^Ir And\ Teller and Air Dirk W'essells, magis-
trates of said jurisdiction. Jacob Lokermans, who declared that he
grants, conveys and makes over in true, rightful and free owner-
ship to and for the behoof of Ryer Jacobse Schermerhooren, hus-
band and guardian of Ariaentie Arents, late widow of Elmer Otte,^
deceased, a certain house and lot standing and lying on the hill here
in Albany, being Xo. 9, in breadth in front two rods and eleven
inches and in the rear two rods ; in length on the south side six
rods, one foot, nine inches and on the north five rods, ten feet, eight
inches long; bounded north by Ryer Jacobse aforesaid and Jan
Cloete, easterly by ( ieertruy \'osburgh. southerly by Omay La
Grangie and westerly Ijy the street ; which the grantor does by vir-
tue of a patent to him granted by His Excellency Sir Edmond An-
dros, Knight, governor general, etc., of date the 25th of IMarch
1 In Notarial Papers, i :446. he signs his name as a witness to a power of
attorney of July 19, 1664, " Helmerich Otten," and is referred to in the text
as " Helmert Otten van Isens." Judging from his distinctly Frisian name,
Isens probably stands for Esens. in East Friesland, and not for Essen, as
Professor Pearson suggests in his First Settlers of Albany.
DEEDS 1678-I7O4 75
1680,' to which reference is here made ; and that free and unincum-
bered, without any charges on, or growing out of the same (saving
the lord's right), and without the grantor's making any further claim
in the least thereto, since he acknowledges that he is fully paid
and satisfied therefor, the first penny with the last, giving there-
fore plcnam actionem ccssain and full power to the aforesaid
Ryer Jacobse Schermerhooren, sticcessor of Elmer Otte, de-
ceased, his heirs and successors, or assigns to do therewith and
dispose thereof as he might do with his own patrimonial estate
and efifects, promising to warrant and defend the same against all
persons from all lawful claims, demands and in.umbrances, and
further nevermore to do nor cause to be done anything contrary
hereto in any manner, binding himself thereto as by law provided.
Done in Albany, this 17th cf April 1680.
Jacop. Lokermans
Dirck IVcssclsc
A. Teller
In my presence,
Ro^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Reyer Schermerhorn to Capt. Johannes Clute for the
house and lot described in preceding deed (not executed)
[63] Appeared before me, Ro^ Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Rensselaerswyk and Schaenhechtady, etc., in presence of
the Honorable Mr And^ Teller and Mr Dirk Wessells, magistrates
of said jurisdiction, Ryer Jacobse Shermerhooren, who declared
that he grants, conveys and makes over in true, rightful and free
ownership to and for the behoof of Capt. Johan Cloete a certain
house and lot standing and lying here in Albany on the hill, being
lot No. 9, breadth in front two rods and eleven inches and in the
rear two rods, length on the south side six rods, one foot nine inches
and on the north five rods, ten feet and eight inches ; bounded north
by Ryer Jacobse aforesaid and Jan Cloete, easterly by Geertruy
Vosburgh, southerly by Oniy La Grangie and westerly by the street ;
which he, the grantor, does by virtue of the conveyance granted him
1 The only record of a patent of that date to Jacob Lokermans is for a
lot of exactly the same dimensions as that conveyed by the present deed, but
which is described as lot no. 11 and as " having on the north side Helmer Otte
and Jan Clute on the East side Gertruy Vosburgh on the South side Omy
La Grande and on the west side the High streete According to the Returne
of the Towne Surveyo""." According to this patent, the lot was purchased by
Lokermans at public sale and conveyed to him by the commissaries.
j6 KAKI.N' KKCOKDS OF Af.r.AXV
by Jacob Lukcrmans. of date the 17th of April 1O80, to which refer-
ences is herein made, and that free and unincumbered, without any
charges on, or growing out of the same (saving the lord's right)
and without the grantor's making any further claim in the least
thereto, since he acknowledges that he is fully paid and satisfied
therefor, the first penny with the last, and therefore giving plenani
actionem ccssam and full power to the aforenamed Capt. Jan Cloete,
his heirs, successors, or assigns therewith to do and to dispose thereof
as he might do wnth his own patrimonial estate and efifects, promis-
ing to warrant and defend the same against all jjersons from all law-
ful claims, demands and incumbrances and further nevermore to
do nor cause to be done anything contrary hereto in any manner,
binding himself thereto as by law provided. Done in Albany, this
19th of April 1680.
[Not signed by the grantor]
Dirck Wesselss
A. Teller
Deed from Capt. Johannes Clute to Jan Jansen Bleecker for a
house and lot on the hill in Albany
[64] Appeared before me, Ro^ Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Rensselaerswyk and Schaenhechtade, in presence of the
Honorable ]\Ir And^ Teller and Air Dirk W'essells, magistrates of
said jurisdiction, Capt. Jan Cloete, who declared that he grants,
conveys and makes over in true, rightful and free ownership to
and for the behoof of Air Jan Bleeker a certain house and lot stand-
ing and lying here in Albany on the hill, bounded westerly by Ryer
Jacobse Shermerhooren, easterly by the house that heretofore Ger*.
Hardenburgh owned, southerly by the lot heretofore owned by
Jacob Lokermans and northerly by the street ; length on the west
side two rods, ten feet, three inches, in front on the street one rod,
ten feet and nine inches, breadth in the rear one rod, ten feet and
six inches, length on east side three rods, all Rhineland measure;
which he, the grantor, does by virtue of the patent to him granted
by His Excellency Sir Edmond Andross, knight, governor general,
of date the 25th of March 1680; likewise said Cloet conveys
to Air Jan Bleeker aforesaid a small corner of a lot that adjoins to
the rear of said lot, in breadth one rod, ten feet and six inches and
the south end one rod, nine feet and two inches, length east and west
six feet less three inches, likewise Rhineland measure; which he
does by virtue of the conveyance received by him from Ryer Jacobse
DEEDS 1678-1704 yy
Shermerhooreii, of date the 19th of April 1680, to which reference is
herein made; and that free and unincumbered, without any charges
on, or growing out of the same (saving the lord's right) and
without the grantor's making any further claim in the least thereto,
acknowledging himself to be fully paid and satisfied therefor, the
first penny with the last, therefore giving plenam actionem cessam
and full power to the aforenamed Jan Janse Bleeker, his heirs and
successors, or assigns to do with and dispose of the aforesaid house
and lot as he might do with his own patrimonial estate and ei^ects,
promising to warrant and defend the same against all persons from
all lawful claims, demands and incumbrances and further neither to
do nor cause anything to be done contrary hereto in any manner,
binding himself thereto as by law provided. Done in Albany, the
2 1st of April 1680.
JOHANNS ClUTE
Dirck Wcssclsa
A. Teller
In my presence,
Ro: Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Capt. Johannes Clute to Juriaen Jansen Groenwout
for a house and lot in Albany on the hill
[65] Appeared before me, Ro*. Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Rensselaerswyck and Schaenhechtady, etc., in the presence
of the Honorable Mr Andries Teller and Mr Dirk Wessells, magis-
trates of said jurisdiction, Capt. Johan Cloet, who declared that he
grants, conveys and makes over in true, rightful and free owner-
ship to and for the behoof of Juriaen Janse Groenwout,^ a certain
house and lot standing and lying here in Albany on the hill, with all
that is thereto fast by earth and nail, boiinded northerly and west-
erly- by Ryer Jacobse Shermerhooren, southerly by Omy La
Grangie and westerly by the street , both sides of the house and lot
drip free ; in length thirty-eight wood feet and nine inches as well
on the south side as on the north side, to wit, the house and lot
1 For account of Juriaen Jansen Groenwout, see Early Records of Albany.
I :i22, note. He died shortly before June 5, 1683, when Pieter Bogardus,
husband of Groenwout's stepdaughter Wyntje Cornells, obtained letters of
administration on his estate, Bogardus having proved to the satisfaction of
the court that it was Groenwout's desire that Wyntje CorneHs should be his
sole heir, to the exclusion of relatives in Holland. See Proceedings of
Justices of the Peace, 1680-85, p. 414. In Notarial Papers, i :2og, he is called
Juriaen Jansz van Groenwout. There are a number of places by the name
of Groenwout, or Groenewoud. in the Netherlands.
2 This should be : easterly.
-8 l•:.\ln,^■ ki'.cokds <ti" .\l.l■..\^■^■
alike, breadth in the rear as in front; wliicli lie. the j^n-antor. does by
virtue of the eonveyanee made to him by Ryer Jacobse Shermer-
hooren. of date the 9th of A])ril 1680, to whieh referenee is herein
made; and that free and unincumbered, without any charges on. or
growing out of the same (saving the lord's right) and without the
grantor's making any further claims thereto, acknowledging himself
to be fully paid and satisfied therefor, the first penny with the last,
giving therefore plcnam actionem ccssam and full power to the
aforenamed Juria[e]n Janse Groenwout, his heirs and successors,
or assigns to do with and dispose of the same as he might do with
his own patrimonial estate and effects, promising to warrant and
defend the same against all persons from all trouble, claims and
incumbrances and further nevermore to do nor cause anything to be
done contrary hereto in any manner, binding himself thereto as by
law provided. Done in Albany, this 21st of April 1680.
JOHANNS ClUTE
Dirck Wesselsz
A. Teller
In my presence,
Ro^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Gerrit Herttenberch to Jan Byvanck for a house and
lot at Albany on the hill
[66] Appeared before me, Ro*. Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Rensselaerswyk and Shaenhechtady and in presence of the
Honorable Mr And-*^. Teller and Air Cornelis van Dyck, magistrates
of said jurisdiction. Mr Gerrit Hartenbergh, who declared that he
grants, conveys and makes over in true, rightful and free ownership
to and for the behoof of Mr Jan Byvanck a certain house and lot
standing and lying here in Albany on the hill, with all that is fast by
earth or nail, bounded westerly by Jan Janse Bleeker, easterly by
Jan Byvank aforesaid, northerly by the street [Maiden Lane] and
southerly by Geertruy Vosburgh and Omy La Grangie ; length on
the east side near the house of said Byvank thirty-four feet and one
inch Rhineland measure and breadth front and rear twenty-four
wood feet, on the west side next Jan Bleeker thirty-two feet and
eight inches Rhineland measure ; likewise a small corner of lot behind
the rear end, breadth front and rear ten feet, three and a half inches,
on the east side two rods long, on the west side two rods and two
inches long; which he. the grantor, does by virtue of a conveyance
to him made by Ca])t. Jan Cloete, of date the 20th of April 1680, to
DEEDS 1678-I704 79
which reference is herein made ; and that free and unincumbered,
without any charges on, or growing out of the same (saving the
lord's right) and without the grantor's making any further claim in
the least to the same, acknowledging himself fully paid and satisfied
therefor, the first penny with the last, therefore giving plenam
actionem cessani and full power to the aforenamed Jan Byvank, his
heirs, successors, or assigns to do with and dispose of the same as
he might do with his own patrimonial effects and estate, promising
to defend the same against all persons and free the same from all
trouble, claims and incumbrances, as is right, and further nevermore
to do nor cause to be done anything contrary thereto in any manner,
binding himself as by law provided. Done in Albany, this 21st of
April 1680.
Gerit Herttenberch
Dirck IVcssels:::
Cornelis van Dyck
In my presence,
RcT^. Livingston, Secretary
Bond and mortgage of Gerrit Teunissen to the patroon of the
colony of Rensselaersv^^yck with satisfaction of mortgage by
Maria van Rensselaer
[67J On this 27th of April 1680 appeared before me, Robert
Livingston, secretary of Albany, colony of Renselaerswyck and
Schaenhechtady, etc., in presence of the Honorable Mr Dirk Wes-
sells and Johannes Provoost, magistrates of said jurisdiction, Mr
Gerrit Teunise,^ who acknowledged that he was well and truly in-
debted and in arrears to the patroon of the colony of Renselaers-
wyck, or order, in the quantity of nine hundred and twenty-seven
skipples of wheat, growing out of rent due for the farm, on which he
dwelt, which sum of 927 skipples of wheat the subscriber promises to
pay within the time of eighteen months, to wit, the just third part,
being three hundred and nine skipples of wheat, within the time of
the next six months, the second payment, also a just third part,
within six months thereafter, that is before April 1681, and the third
or last payment in October 1681 ; and if the subscriber fail to make
the two last payments, then he shall pay interest on the same at 6 per
cent reckoned from April and October 1681 ; for the full perform-
ance of which the subscriber specially binds his land lying behind
1 By this mark identified with Gerrit Teunissen van Vechten ; see Notarial
Papers, 2:56, 58.
So i:.\KI.\' Ri:(()RI)S OF Al.r.ANV
the farm on which he clweh. according to the patent thereof granted
him by his honor Kchnond Andross, dated the 29th of September
1677 :' hkewise his house and barn, and the appurtenances thereof,
together with his person and estate, real and personal, present and
future, nothing excepted, submitting the same to the authority of all
lords, courts, tribunals and judges. Done in Albany without craft or
guile, dated as above.
This is the mark X of Gerrit
Teunise, made with his own hand.
Dirck W CSS else
Johannes Pro:'flost
In my presence,
Ro^ Li\i.\"(;sTux, Sccrctarx
On this iith day of July 1683, ^ladam Maria van Renselaer,
as attorney for Mr Steph : van Cortlandt, director of the colony of
Rensselaerswyck, acknowdedges that she is fully paid for the afore-
said note of indebtedness of Ger^ Teunise in the sum of nine hun-
dred and twenty-seven skipples of wheat with the interest thereon;
releasing him from all claims from the beginning of the world to
this date, which attests,
Maria van Rexsslaer
As witness :
J. Becker
Bond and mortgage of Geertruy Vosburgh to Maritje Loker-
mans, widov;' of Pieter van Alen, and the guardians of the
latter's children
[68] Appeared before me, Ro^ Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyk and Schaenhechtady, etc., in presence of
the Honorable ]\Ir Dirk W'essells and Mr Corn : van D}k,
magistrates of said jurisdiction, Geertruy Vosburgh, who declared
tliat she is honestly and truly indebteded and in arrears to Maritie
Lokermans, late widow of P"". van Ale, deceased, and now wife of
Ger*. van Xess, and to ^Ir And^ Teller and Mr Lawrence van
Ale, gtiardians of the children left by P"". van Ale, deceased, in the
1 This patent was for a piece of upland and swamp lying to the southward
of Albany laid out by order of the governor for " Lieuten* Garritt Tunniss.
in consideracon of his severall Services with y*" Indians. & p'ticularly being
Imployed and sent out During y* late troubles." The land is described as
running from the great kill easterly toward the hills 72 rods, which seems
to indicate that it was situated on the Normans kill.
DEEDS 1678-1704 81
sum of nine hundred and twenty guilders in beavers, to be paid in
good, merchantable winter wheat, beavers price, growing out of the
purchase of the farm at Kinderhoek where she now lives ; likewise
the sum of one hundred and ten guilders, eight stivers in beavers,
to be paid also in wheat as above, for interest due on the aforemen-
tioned principal sum; which sum of 920 guilders in beavers and
fl. no; 8 beavers, Geertruy Vosburgh aforesaid promises to pay in
the time of two years beginning last February, with interest on the
aforesaid principal sum of fl. 920 at 6 per cent, for which she binds
and specially mortgages her house and lot standing and lying here in
Albany on the hill, on the south side of Luycas d' Backer and to the
north of the house and lot of the widow of Arent van den Bergh,
together with her orchard lying on the Pleyn (Plain) on the road to
the old fort, over against the garden of Mr W"\ Teller, likewise her
person and estate, personal and real, present and future, nothing
excepted, submitting the same to the authority of all lords, courts,
tribunals and judges; moreover Geertruy aforesaid promises to pay
all costs of the schout, secretary and court messenger occasioned
hereby up to this date. Done in Albany without craft or guile, this
27th of April 1680.
This is the mark X of Geertruy
Dirck Wcssclsz X'osburgii, made with her own
Cornells van Dyck hand.
Ro^. Livingston, Secretary
Bond of Sander Sandersen Glen and Jacob Sandersen Glen to
Nicolaes de Meyer, with satisfaction by Lidia de Meyer
[69] Appeared before me, Ro^ Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyck and Schaenhechtady, etc., in presence of
the hereinafter named witnesses, Sander Sandertse Glen with his
brother Jacob Sandertse Glen, both sons of Alexander Glen, who
declared themselves to be honestly and truly indebted and in ar-
rears to Mons : Nicolaes d'Meyer, trader at N : York, in the quan-
tity of seventy-two good, merchantable beaver skins, reckoned at
eight guilders apiece and which shall weigh five quarter Dutch
pounds each, for merchandise received by their father aforesaid,
as is to be seen by a mortgage dated the 5th of April 1677, which
they jointly and severally agree to pay as their own debt, the sub-
scribers promising to pay the said sum of y2 beavers to said Mons :
6
82 i;\Ki.N i<i:coKJ)S of albaxv
D'Meyer or order within the time of six following years, commen-
cing to-day, viz. o\ery year in the month of July a just sixth part,
whi h is twehc heaxers, for which they bind their respective per-
sons and estates, real and ])ersonal, nothing excepted, submitting
the same to the authority of all lords, courts, triliunals and judges,
as security for the recovery of the sum (if need be) without costs
or loss. Done in Albany, the 30th day of April 1680. X.B The
last twelve beavers shall be paid in two payments, viz, six beavers
in July 16S3 and the last six beavers in July 1686.
Sander Glen
J.\cnp, !>^AXDER.s Glen
Testes :
Dirck IVessclsc
Johannes Wendcl
In my presence,
Ro'^, Livingston, Secretary
I, the undersigned Madam Lidia d'Aleyer, wife of and attorney
for my husband Air Nicolaus d'Meyer, acknowledge and declare
that I have received from the widow of Jacob Sanders Glenn the
final balance of the seventy-two beavers mentioned in the above
obligation given by her late husband and Sander Glen, and I release
her and her heirs from all further claims.
In witness whereof she has subscribed this with her own hand
in Albany, the 6th of August t686.
LiEDYA d'Meyer
Tn my presence,
Rort. Livingston, Secretary
Assignment by Nicolaes de Meyer to Sander Sandersen Glen and
Jacob Sandersen Glen of their father's mortgage
[70] A])peared before me, Ro*. Livingston, secretary of Al-
bany, colony of Renselaerswyck and Schaenhechtady, in the pres-
ence of the hereinafter named witnesses, Alons. Nicolaes d'Meyer,
trader, residing in N : York, who declared that he hereby assigns
and makes over to Sander and Jacob Sandertse Glen, sons of
Alexander Glenn, his right and title to a certain mortgage or
bond ' in the sum of twenty beavers executed in his favor by
their father aforesaid on the 5th of April 1677, whereby his house
"^ Schcpenkennissc: i. e. a bond or obligation under the hands and seals
of two schepens, before whom the debtor appeared.
DEEDS 1678-I704 83
and lot and land and three slaves were engaged, which bond with
the sum therein comprehended is hereby transferred to them, with
full power to demand, collect and receive the same at their
pleasure, as though the same were executed specially in their favor,
hereby renouncing all the righ" and claim which he, Meyer, has had
to this day, in consideration of the fact that Sander and Jacob
Sandertse Glen aforesaid have undertaken to pay the same as
their own debt, as per obligation executed this day, wherewith he
holds himself content, so that they will have to recover the amount
from their father by virtue of the aforesaid mortgage, which is
hereby delivered to them. In confirmation of which Mons. Meyer
aforesaid subscribes this with his own hand, without craft or guile,
in the presence of Mr Dirk Wessels and Mr Johannes Wendel,
called as witnesses hereto. Done in Albany, this 30th of April 1680.
N. D. A^Ieyer
Dirck Wessclsz
Johannes Wendel
In my presence,
Ro'T. Livingston, Secretary
N.B. I, the undersigned, declare that the bond executed by
Alexand: Glen on the 5th of April 1677 to me, covers the entire
balance of all the accounts, obligations, etc. outstanding between
him and me from the beginning; likewise that I have no further
claims against said Alex : Glen to the date hereof; releasing him
from all claims as far as T am personally concerned. Albany, the
30th of April 1680.
N. D. Meyer
Dirck Wessels a
Johannes Wendel
Bond and mortgage of Gerrit Claes, alias Culis, to Marten
Cregier
[71] Appeared before me, Robert Livingston, secretary of Al-
bany, colony of Rensselaerswyck and Schaenhe.htady, etc., in
presence of the Honorable Mr And^ Teller and Mr Dirk Wessellsi
magistrates of said jurisdiction, Gerrit Claes, ^ commonly called
Culis, who declared himself to be honestly and truly indebted and
1 Professor Pearson here supplies "Van Vranken? " Cf. Early Records of
Albany, 1 :8o (note) and also p. 476 of the same volume, where the name
is given as " Gerrit Claese Kulernan," which according to the index as well
as the original text. Deeds, 2:791, should be "Kulernan." In Proceedings of
Justices of the Peace, 1680-85, p. 658, the name is written as above: " Ger^.
Claese Culis."
84 i:.\Kl.V Ki:C(JRDS OF ALBANY
ill arrears to Mr Marte Cryger in the sum of one hundred and
thirty guilders, eight stivers in beavers and one hundred and four-
teen guilders, five stivers seawan ; moreover eighteen skipples of
oats on account of a bull; which aforesaid sums of fl. i3o:[8]
beavers, fl. 114: 5 seawan and 18 skipples of oats, the subscriber
promises to pay to Mr Cryger aforesaid in the month of January
next 1681, without further delay, in good, merchantable winter
wheat at market price ; therefor binding specially a certain piece
of land lying at Canastagioene on the flat (vlakte) of Jan Cloet,
containing ten morgens, where he now dwells, together with his
cattle, to wit, four milch cows, three draught horses, that is two
mares and one gelding with two colts, and generally his person
and estate, real and personal, present and future, nothing excepted,
submitting the same to the authority of all lords, courts, tribunals
and judges.
Done in Albany this 7th of May 1680.
This is the mark X of Ger"^. Claese
CuLis, made with his own hand.
Dirck Wesselsz
A. Teller
In my presence,
Ro: Livingston, Secretary
Deed from the Indians to Arnout Cornelissen Viele for three
flats on the east side of the Hudson river, opposite Dans-
kamer
[72] On this 15th day of June 1680 the following Highland
Indians appeared before Mr Dirk Wessells and Mr Johannes
Provoost, magistrates of Albany, colony of Renselaerswyck and
Shaenhechtady, viz, Kashekan alias Calkoen, Waspacheek alias
Spek and Pillippuwas, owners and proprietors of a certain parcel of
land lying on the east side of Hudson's river, over against the
Danskamer,^ having authority from a certain Indian named
Awannis who has an interest therein, as is attested by two Saka-
makers, who declare that they give and present to Arnout Cornelise
Viele the aforenamed parcel of land as a free gift, consisting of
three flats {vlaktens) through which a certain kill runs, one flat
containing about twenty-five morgens on the north side of the kill
and the other two flats lying on the south side containing about
1 Literally, "the Dance chamber"; a cove in the north part of the town
of Newburgh.
DEEDS 1678-I704
85
twelve morgens each, together with the kill named Wynachkee on
which the land lies, stretching from the river to the second falls
called Matapan, being about three English miles in length ; likewise
the woodland thereto belonging for a range for cattle or other-
wise, about two English miles northward and an English mile
southward from said land, along the river side, and landward as
far as the second falls hereinbefore specified ; together with two
little kills, one lying in the woodland to the north called Paka-
keincq which runs into the river, and the other also to the south,^
being a little kill which flows into the great kill; which aforesaid
parcels of land with the kills, falls, woodland and appurtenances
thereof the rightful owners aforesaid grant, convey and make over
to and for the behoof of Aernout Corn : Viele, with all the privi-
leges, rights and prerogatives thereof, without their making any
further claim whatever thereto, acknowledging that they have
given the same out of divers considerations as a free gift to the
aforesaid Aernout, promising to w^arrant and defend the same
against all persons from all claims and demands, whether from
Indians or Christians, and nevermore to do nor cause anything to
be done contrary hereto in any manner. Thus done and delivered
in Albany, being interpreted by Gabriel Thomson on the date above
written, which they with their own hands have subscribed.
Dirck Wesselsc
Johannes Pvovoost
This is the mark X of
Unannamapakc as wit-
ness, being Sakamaker
of the Highland, made
with his own hand.
This is the mark X of
Paquetarcnt. made
with his own hand.
Gabriell Tomasen
This the mark X of Calkgen, made
with his own hand.
This is the mark X of Spek, made
with his own hand.
This is the mark X of Pillipuwas.
In my presence,
RC. Livingston
1 d'andcre mcde ten Ziiyden.
86'- EARLY RECORDS OF ALHAXV
Contract between Robert Sanders and Johannes Wendel for the
sale of Sanders's farm on the east side of the Hudson river
[73I On this 28th day of June 1680 appeared before me,
Robert Livingston, secretary of Albany, colony of Rensselaerswyk
and Schaenhechtad}-, in presence of the afternamed witnesses,
Robert Sanders of the one side and Johannes Wendell of the
other side, who declared that in love and friendship they had
agreed and contracted with eacli other al)out the purchase of his,
Ro'. Sander's, farm lying on the east side of Hudson's river,
obliquely over against the farm of "Antho. van Shayk, commonly
called Steen Arabia,^ viz :
First, Rob^ Sanders acknowledges that he has sold and
Johannes Wendel that he has bought of him the aforesaid farm
with all its appurtenances, as well arable land, woodland as
meadow land (vleylant), and also Walvissen Island,^ together
with the fences, house, barn, ricks, orchard, horses, cattle, hogs,
farm implements, household furniture and all that is fast by earth
or nail, belonging to him, Ro : Sanders, the seller, in particular, it
being well understood that whatever the present lessee has there
does not belong thereto, he, Ro : Sanders, having sold only his own
entire interest in the farm which he has by virtue of the convey-
ance and patent thereof.
The seller shall deliver the aforesaid farm to the buyer on the
first of July of this year 1680 and on the last payment make a
perfect conveyance and deliver up the j^atent thereof, with the
understanding that the seller shall receive the rent for this current
year to May 1681.
For which farm and its appurtenances the aforesaid Johannes
Wendel promises to pay to the aforenamed Rob^ Sanders the num-
ber of three hundred good, merchantable beaver skins, in three
payments, to wit. the first payment, a just third part, being one
hundred beavers, on the first of July 1681, the second payment, a
just third part, being one hundred beavers, on the first of July
1682. and the third or last payment, likewise one hundred beavers,
on the first of July 1683. Wherewith the contracting parties
acknowledge themselves to be content, binding herefor their
respective persons and estates, real and personal, present and
future, nothing excepted, submitting the same to the authority of
all lords, courts, tribunals and judges. Done in Albany in presence
^ Stone Arabia.
2 Walvisch, or Whale island ; see p. 27.
DEEDS i678-]704 87
of Mr Dirk Wessells and Mr Mynd*. Harmense as witnesses
hereto called, the 28th of June 1680.
Robert Sandersz
Johannes Wendel
Dirck IVesselsz
Mcyndert Hanncnsz
In my presence,
Ro"^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Capt. Johannes Clute to Jan Salomonsen for a lot in
Albany
[74] Appeared before me, Ro'. Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyck and Schaenhechtady, etc., in the presence
of the Honorable Mr Dirk Wessells and Mr Cornelis van Dyk,
magistrates of said jurisdiction, Capt. Jan Cloete, who declared that
he grants, conveys and makes over in true, rightful and free owner-
ship to and for the behoof of Jan Salomonse ^ a certain lot lying
here in Albany, bounded south and east by Annetje Everts, north
by Roeloff Gerritse, formerly Jacques Tysen, and west the street,
breadth in front on the street thirty wood feet and length to the lot
of Annetje Everts formerly belonging to Mr Renselaer, where the
mill stood ; which he, the grantor, does by virtue of the patent
granted him by the late Governor Richard NicoUs, of date the nth
of April 1667,- to which reference is herein made, and that free
and unincumbered, without any charges thereon or issuing out of
the same, saving the lord's right, without his making any further
claim in the least thereto, acknowedging himself to be fully paid
and satisfied therefor, the first penny with the last, giving therefore
plenaiit actwncnt ccssaiii and full power to the aforenamed Jan
Salomonse, his heirs, successors, or assigns to do with and dispose
of the aforesaid lot as he might do with his own patrimonial estate
and efifects. promising to warrant and defend the same against all
persons from all lawful claims, demands and incumbrances and
further nevermore to do nor cause anything to be done contrary
hereto in any manner, binding himself thereto as by law provided.
Done in Albany, this 2d of July 1680.
Dirck IVessclsc Johanns Clute
Cornelis van Dyck
In my presence,
Ro^. Livingston, Secretary
1 Jan Salomonsen Goewey.
2 The record of this patent seems to be missing.
SS K.\K1,\ KKCoKDS OF ALltAXV
Deed from Capt. Johannes Clute to Omy La Grange for the
remainder of lot No. g in Albany
[75] Appeared Ijefore me. Ko^ Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyk and Schaenhechtady, etc.. in presence of
the Honorable Mr Dirk W'essells and Mr Cornelis van Dyk, magis-
trates of said jurisdiction, Capt. Johan Cloete, who declared that he
had granted, conveyed and made over in true, rightful and free
ownership to and for the behoof of Omy La Grangie a certain
small parcel of land lying here in Albany on the hill, being the re-
mainder of lot No. 9 which was conveyed to Jan Cloet aforesaid
by Ryer Jacobse Shermerhooren, there ha\ ing been conveyed out
of the same to Jurian Groenwout as much as the width of his house
with a drip on both sides, the house being one board in width, so
that to Omy is conveyed the remainder of the width of the lot
aforesaid and thirty-six wood feet in length, on which lot a part of
Omy's new house stands ; which he. the grantor, does by virtue of
the conveyance granted to him by Ryer Jacobse Shermerhooren, of
date the 19th of April 1680, and that free and unincumbered with-
out any charges resting en. or issuing out of the same (saving the
lord's right) and without the grantor's making any further claim
in the least thereto, acknowledging himself to be paid and satis-
fied therefor, the first penny with the last, giving therefore plenam
actionem cessaiii and full power to the aforesaid Omy La Grangie,
his heirs and successors, or assigns to do with and dispose of
the aforesaid small piece of land as he might do with his own
patrimonial estate and efifects, promising to warrant and defend
the same against all persons from all trouble, claims and incum-
brances according to law and further nevermore to do nor cause
to be done anything contrary hereto, binding himself as by law
provided. Done in Albany, the 2d July 1680.
Dirck IVesselsa Johanns Clute
Cornelis van Dyck
In my presence,
Ro^, LivixGSTOx, Secretary
Contract between Jan Conell and William Loveridge for the
sale of a farm in Catskill formerly belonging to Harmen
Gansevoort
[76J On this 26th day of July 1680 appeared before me, Ro^
Li\ingston. secretary of Albany, colony of Rensselaerswyk, etc.. in
presence of the afternamed witnesses, Jan Conel of the one side and
DEEDS 1 678-1 704 89
W'". Loveridge, hatter, of the other side, who declared that they
had in love and friendship agreed and contracted in respect to the
purchase of his, Jan Conell's, farm lying in Catskill, which formerly
belonged to Harme Gansevoort, in the manner following:
First, Jan Conel acknowledges that he has sold and W"\ Love-
ridge, senior, that he has bought of him his, Jan Conell's, farm
lying at Catskill, with all the appurtenances thereof as he bought
the same from Harme Gansevoort, with arable land, woodland, fenc-
ing, house, barn, ricks, seven horses, four cows, two young cattle
and the calves there, hogs, farm tools and everything that belongs
to Jan Conel in particular, nothing ex epted, save his household
furniture.
The seller made delivery of said farm with all his interest therein
to the buyer last Thursday, excepting the grain now in field which
does not belong to him but to his father-in-law, the lessee, who is
bound to leave thirty skipples of good winter wheat in the ground
after harvest ; the seller is holden on the last payment to give a per-
fect conveyance and to deliver over therewith the patent.
For which farm and the appurtenances thereof the aforenamed
W". Loveridge promises to pay to the aforenamed Jan Conell the
number of three hundred good, merchantable beaver skins, and a
beaver hat. in the following manner, to wit. to Harme Gansevoort
all the pay which is still coming to him from the seller on account
of the aforesaid farm and to Geertney Barents thirteen beavers and
the remainder of the three hundred beavers at once in goods to his
satisfaction. Wherewith the contracting parties are mutually
content, binding their respective persons and estates, real and per-
sonal, present and future, nothing excepted, submitting the same to
the authority of all lords, courts, tribunals and judges.
Done in Albany, this 27th of July 1680.
Testes: John Conell
Isaack Verplancken Will : Loueridge
Christopher Skayffe
Acknowledged before me,
Ro'^. Livingston, Secretary
go EARLY RECORDS OF ALI'.AXV
Deed from Samuel Wilson to Harmen Gansevoort for a lot in
Albany behind Wilson's house
1 77 J Appeared before me, Ro'. Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyk and Schaenhechtady, etc., in the jjresence
of the afternamed magistrates, Mr And^ Teller and Mr Corn: van
Dyk. the worthy Mr Sam'. Wilson, who declared that he grants,
conveys and makes over in true, rightful and free ownership to and
for the behoof of Harme (jansevoort. Ijrewer, a certain portion of a
lot lying behind his, Wilson's, house, being the hindmost portion of
his lot, bounded westerly by him, the grantor, easterly by the high
way, northerly by the aforesaid (jhansevoort and southerly by Jan
van Loon ; in breadth east and west twenty-three feet, and in length
on the south side eight rods, four feet and a half and on the north
eight rods and four feet, Rhineland measure, likewise Mr \Mlson
grants said Harme Gansevoort three and a half feet on the north
side of his lot for a gate, in breadth and length 3^ feet ; which he,
the grantor, does by virtue of the conveyance to him given by Mr
And*. Teller, dated the 9th of June 1677,^ to which reference is
herein made, and that free and unincumbered, without any charges
thereon or issuing out of the same (save the lord's right) and with-
out the grantor's making any further claim whatsoever thereto, ac-
knowledging that he is fully paid and satisfied therefor, the first
penny with the last, giving therefore plenain actionem ccssain and
full power to the aforenamed Harme Gansevoort to do with and
dispose of the aforesaid lot as he might do with his patrimonial
estate and efifects, promising to warrant and defend the same against
all persons from all trouble, claims and incumbrances according to
law and further nevermore to do or cause to be done anything
contrary hereto in any manner, binding himself as by law provided.
Done in Albany, this 2d of August 1680.
Cornelis van Dyck Sameij. Wollsox
A. Teller
Acknowledged before me,
RC^. LiviNC.STOX, Secretarx
1 See Early Records of Albany, 1:155. The term duars Iiitys quoted in
that and preceding deeds would seems to imply that the house of Jurian
Janse Groenwout was of the farmhouse type and had the shape of a T, the
barn or stable in the rear being set at right angles to the front of the house.
See J. H. Gallee. Hct bocrcnhuis in N cderland fv zijn bcivoncrs. p. 59.
DEEDS 1678-I704 91
Deed from Volkert Jansen Douw to Gerrit Banker for a lot on
the south side of the Fuyck kill
[78 J Appeared before me, Ro*. Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaersvvyk and Schaenhechtady, etc., in presence of
the Honorable Mr And*. Teller and Mr Cornelis van Dyk, magis-
trates of said jurisdiction, Capt. Volkert Janse Dow,^ who declared
that he granted, conveyed and made over in true, rightful and free
ownership to and for the behoof of Mr Gerrit Banker a certain
lot lying here in Albany on the south side of the Fuykse kill,- behind
the lot of said Banker, being in breadth, in front, four rods and
two feet and in the rear, on the common road, four rods; in length
on the east and west eight rods and further to the Fuyckse kill of
the same breadth, leaving a common road between both lots as wide
as the magistrates shall see fit ; which he, the grantor, does by virtue
of the patent granted to him by the late Governor General Rich :
Nicolls, dated the 4th of May i667,'' to which reference is herein
made, and that free and unincumbered, without any charges thereon
or issuing out of the same (saving the lord's right) and without the
grantor's making any further claim in the least thereto, acknowledg-
ing that he has been fully paid and satisfied therefor, the first penny
with the last, giving therefore plenam actionem cessaiu and full
power to the aforenamed Gerrit Banker to do with and dispose of
the aforesaid lot as he might do with his own patrimonial estate and
eft'ects, promising to warrant and defend the same against all per-
sons from all trouble, claims and incumbrances as is right and
further nevermore to do or cause anything to be done contrary
hereto in any manner, binding himself thereto as by law provided.
Done in Albany, this nth of August 1680.
Corn, van Dyck Volckartt Jaxsz Douw
A. Teller
In my presence,
Ro'r. Livingston, Secretary
1 Volkert Jansen Douw is given in Pearson, Early Settlers of Albany,
p. 43, as from Frederickstadt, and in Talcott, Genealogical .Wotes of A'eu'
York and Nezv England Families, p. 64, as from Leeuwarden. In the record
of a commission as lieutenant granted to him November i, 1667 (Patents,
1664-1667, p. 169, New York State Library) he is called " Volchert Jans van
Stapelholme." Stapelholm is the name of the district east of Friedrichstadt
on the Eider, in Schleswig, so that Pearson is right. Volkert Jansen married
Dorothea Jans, from Bredstedt, likewise in Schleswig. For history of
Friedrichstadt, see F. Pont, Friedrichstadt an der Eider, 1913.
- The same as the Fuyck kill or Rutten kill.
3 This was a confirmation of the Dutch patent of April 23, 1652, " for a
certain Lott of Ground lying in Beverwick at Albany abutting to the north
92 EARLY RECORDS OF ALliANV
Deed from Major Abraham Staets to Teunis Cornelissen and
Harmen Lievese for a house and lot in Albany
[79] Appeared before nie, Ro\ Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyk. and in the presence of the Honorable Mr
And*. Teller and Air Cornelis van Dyk, magistrates of said juris-
diction, the Honorable Major Abraham Staas, who declared that he
granted, conveyed and made over in true, rightful and free owner-
ship to and for the behoof of Teunis Cornelise d'metselaer (mason)
and Harme Lievese a certain house and lot standing and lying here
in Albany on the hill, abutting to the east on the common lane at
Capt. S[c]huyler's, to the west on Air Rich: Pretyt. to the north on
the Lutheran churchyard, and to the south on the public street ■} in
breadth, front and rear, twenty-eight feet and seven inches, in
length on the east ninety-two feet and fotir inches, on the west one
hundred and three feet and a half, all Rhineland measure ; which
he, the grantor, does by virtue of the patent granted to him by the
late Governor General Francis Lovelace, of date the 30th of August
1 67 1, to which reference is herein made, and that free and unincum-
bered, without any charges thereon or issuing out of the same (sav-
ing the lord's right ) and without the grantor's making any further
claim in the least thereto, acknowledging himself to be paid and sat-
isfied therefor, the first penny with the last, giving therefore full
power to the aforenamed Teunis Cornelise, mason, and Harme
Lievese, or their heirs, successors, or assigns to do with and dis-
pose of the aforesaid house and lot as they might do with their
own patrimonial estates and eflfects, promising to warrant and defend
the same against all persons from all trouble, claims and incum-
brances according to law and further nevermore to do or cause to
to the Creeke or Kill called the ffuycke Kill, to the south on the Common
Highway, to the west the Hills, and to the East Anthony de Hooges. As
also a Garden lying to the north of Herman Bastiaensen. & to the South of
\V™. Bout stretching from the waggonway to the path by the River, con-
teyning in length eleaven Rod and in breadth four Rod & two foot."
1 " belendendc ten oosteii d'geiiieoie gang by Cap* Shnyler ten rcesten in''
Rich: Pretty, ten noorden d'Luyterse kerkhoff & ten suyden 's heeren
Straet." This description is wrong and should read : ten suyden d'Luyterse
kerkhoff & ten noorden 's heeren Straet, bounded on the south by the
Lutheran churchyard and on the north by the street. The property was
located on the southwest corner of State and Pearl streets, the common
lane by Captain Schuyler's referring to what is now South Pearl street,
which was widened at different times. Abraham Staets also owned the lot
on the southeast corner of State and Pearl streets, which extended in the
rear across the present Norton street, as is still indicated by the peculiar
jog in the sidewalk on the south side of that street. Somewhere in the lane
between the two pieces of property Captain Schuyler had a small Indian
trading house. The patent of August 30, 1671. mentioned in the deed, is
not of record.
DEEDS 1678-I704 93
be done anything contrary hereto in any manner, binding himself
as by law provided.
Done in Albany, on the nth of July 1680.
Abram Staas
Cornells 2'an Dyck
A. Teller In my presence,
Ro"^. Livingston, Secretary
Bond of Symon Schouten to Geertruy Barents for purchase
money of horses and farm tools
[80] Appeared before me, Ro*. Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyk and Schaenhechtady, etc., in presence of
the Honorable Mr And^ Teller and Mr Dirk Wessells. magistrates
of said jurisdiction, Symon Schouten, who declared himself to be
honestly and truly indebted and in arrears to Geertruy Barents,
wife of Lange Jacob,^ in the quantity of twenty-two good, whole,
merchantable beaver skins, reckoned at eight guilders apiece, being
for horses and farm tools, which he to his content has received from
her ; which sum of 22 beavers the subscriber promises to pay to
(ieertruy Barents, or her attorney, in the month of February Anno
Domini 16 %l- for which payment he specially binds his six horses,
viz, two stallions and four mares, and generally his person and
estate, real and personal, present and future, nothing excepted, sub-
mitting the same to the authority of all lords, courts, tribunals and
judges.
Done in Albany, on this i6th of August 1680.
Dirck Wcsselsz The mark X of Symon Shoute, made
A. Teller with his own hand.
In my presence,
Ro'^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Geertruy Barents, attorney for her husband Jacob
Hevick, to Sweer Teunissen van Velsen for a house, barn and
five lots of land on Lubberde land
[81-82 wanting; 83] Appeared before me, Ro^ Livingston,
secretary of Albany, colony of Renselaerswyk and Schaenhechtady,
etc., in presence of the Honorable Mr And^ Teller and Mr Dirk
1 Long, or tall Jacob, referring to Jacob Hevick, or Gevick : see next
document and Early Records of Albany, 1:311.
94 i:.\KLV RECORDS OF ALHAXV
Wessells, magistrates of said jurisdiction, Geertruy Barents, ha\-
ing power of attorney from her husband Jacob Hevick. who de-
clared that she granted, conveyed and made over in true, rightful
and free ownershij) to and for the behoof of Sweer Teunise van
\'elsen^ lier house and l)arn together with live lots (Looten) of
land lying on J.u])l)erde land,- as the same lie fenced, and as she
has ])Ossessed the same, lying northwardly of the lot of Ger^
Swan and to the south of the lot of Ysbrant Eldersen ; in breadth
on the ri\cr side twenty-six rods and three feet and on the west
[east ?] side of the same breadth and in length from the river to
the wagon road ; which she, the grantor, does by virtue of the
conveyance granted lo her by Dirk Hesselingh ■' and him. Swetr
Teunise, etc., to which reference is herein made; all which she
does in accordance with her contract made under date of the 5th
of December 1679 [stipulating] that he, Sweer Teunise, would
properly provide her husband Jacob Hevick with food and clothing
so long as he lives and then honorably bury him ; in consideration
whereof the lots of land and house, etc. are transferred to him
free and unincumbered, without any charges thereon, or issuing
out of the same (saving the lord's right) and without her, the
grantor's, making any further claim in the least thereto, acknowl-
edging herself to be paid and satisfied therefor (in consideration
aforesaid), the first penny with the last, therefore giving plenam
actionem ccssain, and full power to the aforenamed Sweer
Teunise van ^'elsen, his heirs, successors, or assigns to do with
and dispose of the said house, barn and five lots of land as he
might do with his patrimonial estate and effects, promising to
warrant and defend the same against all persons from all trouble,
claims and incumbrances according to law and further nevermore
to do or cause to be done anything contrary hereto in any manner,
binding herself as by law provided.
Done in Albany, the ist of September 1680.
Dirck IVesscls:: The mark X of Geertruy Barents,
A. Teller made with lier owmi hand.
In my presence,
Ro'^. Livingston, Secretary
1 In Notarial Papers, i :435, he is called Sweer Teunissen van Westbroeck.
He probably came from what is known as Velser-Westbroek, the western
part of the polder Velserbroek, north of Haarlem, in the province of North
Holland.
2 Now part of Troy, N. Y.
'See Early Records of Albany, 1:118. The agreement with Van Velsen,
September 5, 1679, is apparently not recorded.
DEEDS 1678-1704 95
Deed from Ludovicus Cobes to David Schuyler for a house and
lot on the hill in Albany
[84] Appeared before me, Ro'. Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaersvvyk and Schaenhechtady and in presence of
the Honorable Mr And^ Teller and Mr Dirk Wessells, magistrates
of said jurisdiction, Mr Ludovicus Cobes, schout of Sdiaenhech-
tady, who declared that he grants, conveys and makes over in true,
rightful and free ownership to and for the behoof of P''. Davitse
Schuyler his house and lot standing and lying bere in Albany on
the hill, bounded easterly by Jan Janse Ouderkerk, and westerly
by Jeronimus Wendel, northerly by Ger'. Hartenbergh and south-
erly by the street : in breadth in front on tbe street one rod and
nine feet, in which is included the half of a common alley; in the
rear one rod ten and a half feet ; length easterly and westerly six
rods less three inches ; which he, the grantor, does by virtue of
conveyance given to him by Capt. Johan Cloete. of date the 8th of
May 1679,^ being a part of what is described in a patent granted
to Capt. J. Cloet by the late Governor General Rich : Nicolls, of
date the ist of April 1667,- to which reference is herein made; and
that free and unincumliered, without any charges thereon, or issu-
ing out of the same (saving the lord's right) and without the
grantor's making any further claim in the least thereto, acknowl-
edging himself to be paid and satisfied therefor, die first penny
with the last, therefore giving plenam actionem ccssaui and full
power to the aforenamed P''. Davitse Schuyler to do with and
dispose of the aforesaid house and lot as he might do with his
own patrimonial estate and effects, promising to warrant and de-
fend the same against all persons from all trouble, claims and in-
cumbrances according to law and further nevermore to do or cause
to be done anything contrary hereto in any manner, binding himself
as by law provided. Done in Albany, this 25th of August 1680.
Ludovicus Cobes
D'lrck Wesselsz
A. Teller In my presence,
Ro^. Livingston, Secretary
I See p. 46. Tlie house stood on tlie north side of State street apparently
between North Pearl and Tames streets.
' There is no record of this patent. The date may be a mistake for the
nth of April 1667; see p. 87.
96 EAKLV RECORDS OF ALKAXV
Deed from Dirck Wesselsen and Gerrit Teunissen van Vechten
to Dirck Hendricksen Bye for a piece of land on Kinderhook
creek
[85J Appeared before me, Ro^ Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyk and Schaenhechtady. in presence of the
Honorable }>[r Cornells van Dyk and Mr Johannes Provoost, mag-
istrates of said jurisdiction, Mr Dirk W'essells and Mr (ier^
Teunise who declared that he granted, conveyed and made over
in true, rightful and absolute ownership to and for the behoof
of Dirk Heyndrix Bye alias d'Sweedt' a certain little piece of land
or flat {vlaktentje) lying on the Kinderhoek kill, next the flat
which P"". Vosburgh bought of said grantors, lying on the west
side of said kill ; which they, the grantors, do by virtue of the
])atent granted to them by the Honorable Sir Edmond Andross,
knight, governor general, of date the 15th of April 16S0, to which
reference is herein made, and that free and unincumbered, with-
out any charges thereon, or issuing out of the same (saving the
lord's right) and without the grantors' making any further claim
in the least thereto, acknowledging themselves to be paid and satis-
fied therefor, the first penny with the last, therefore giving plenam
actio7iem cessam and full power to the aforenamed Dirk Heyndrix
Bye to do with and dispose of the aforesaid little fiat as he might
do with his own patrimonial estate and eftects, promising to war-
rant and defend the same against all persons from all trouble,
claims and incumbrances according to law, and further nevermore
to do or cause to be done anything contrary hereto in any manner,
binding themselves as by law provided. Done in Albany, this
13th of December 1680.
Dirck Wesselsz
Cornells van Dyck The mark X of Gerrft Teunisse
Joh: Provoost van Vechten^ made with his own
hand.
In my presence,
Ro^. Livingston, Secretary
1 Dirck Hendricksen Bve, the Swede.
DEEDS 1 678- 1 704 97
Deed from Andries Hansen Huygh to Dirck Hendricksen Bye
for land at Kinderhook
[86] Appeared before me, Ro^ Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of- Rensselaerswyk and Schaenhe.htady, in presence of
the Honorable Mr Cornells van Dyk and Mr Johannes Provoost,
magistrates of the same jurisdiction, Andries Hanse Huyg, who
declared that he grants, conveys, and makes over in true, rightful
and free ownership to and for the behoof of Dirk Heyndrix Bye
a certain piece of land lying on the north side of the Kinderhoek
kill, bounded easterly by land of said grantor and westerly by a
little kill that comes out of the woods, northerly by the common
woods and southerly by the Kinderhoek kill, which piece of land
contains about ten morgens ; in like manner he conveys to said
Dirk Heyndrix four morgens of woodland lying to the north of
their homesteads, which is a just third part of twelve morgens of
woodland, the other two-thirds of which belong to him, Andries
Hanse and P"". Bosie, which he, the grantor, does by virtue of the
conveyance given to him by Jan Heyndrik Bruyn, of date the
8th of July 1679, to which reference is herein made, and that free
and unincumbered, without any charges thereon, or issuing out of
the same (saving the lord's right) and without the grantor's mak-
ing any further claim in the least thereto, acknowledging himself
to be paid and satisfied therefor, the first penny with the last,
therefore giving plenani actionem cessam and full power to the
aforenamed Dirk Heyndrix Bye to do with and dispose of the
aforesaid two parcels of land as he might do with his own patri-
monial estate and effects, promising to warrant and defend the
same against all persons from all trouble, claims and incumbrances
according to law and further nevermore to do or cause to be done
anything contrary hereto in any manner, binding himself as by law
provided. Done in Albany on the 13th of December 1680.
Cornells Van Dyck The mark X of Andries Hanse,
J oh: Provoost made with his own hand.
In my presence,
,Ro^. Livingston, Secretary
98 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
Deed from Andries Hansen Huygh to Andries Jacobsen Garde-
nier for land at Kinderhook
[87] Appeared before me, Rob^ Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Rensselaerswyk and Schaenhechtady and in presence
of the Honorable Mr Cornelis van Dyk and Mr Johannes Provoost,
magistrates of the same jurisdiction, Andries Hanse Huyg, who
declared that he grants, conveys and makes over in true, rightful
and free ownership to and for the behoof of Andries Jacobse
Gardinier, a certain parcel of land lying on the north side of the
Kinderhoek kill, west of the clay pit, stretching east and west
along the great kill within the thicket to between the pine woods
and the oak woods, his lowermost fence extending to the great
kill,^ which he, the grantor, does by virtue of the conveyance given
to him by Jan Heyndrik Bruyn under date of the 8th of July 1679,
to which reference is herein made, and that free and unincumbered,
without any charges thereon, or issuing out of the same (saving
the lord's right) and without the grantor's making any further
claim in the least thereto, acknowledging himself to be paid and
satisfied therefor, the first penny with the last, therefore giving
plenafii actionem cessam and full power to the aforenamed Andries
Jacobse Gardenier, his heirs, successors, or assigns, to do with and
dispose of the aforesaid parcel of land as he might do with his own
patrimonial estate and efifects, promising to warrant and defend
the same against all persons from all trouble, claims and incum-
brances according to law% and further nevermore to do or cause
to be done anything contrary hereto in any manner, binding him-
self as by law provided. Done in Albany, on the 13th of December
1680.
The mark X of And^ Hanse, made
Cornelis vanDyck with his own hand.
J oh: Provoost In my presence,
Ro'^. Livingston, Secretary
1 ten zvesten van d'Cley Ciiyl streckende oost & west langs d'groote kill
binnen d'Creupelboss, tot tnschen 't greene Boss & d'Eyke boss syn bene-
dcnste heyning streckende tot in d'groote kill.
DEEDS I 6/8- I 704 99
Bond and mortgage of Elizabeth de Linde, widow of Cornelis
Teunissen Swart, to the deacons of the Reformed Church at
Albany, with discharge of the bond
[88] Appeared before me, Rob*. Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Rensselaerswyck, etc., in presence of the Honorable Mr
Dirk Wessells and Mr Johannes Provoost, magistrates of the same
jurisdiction, Elisabeth d'Linde, widow of the late Cornelise Teunise
Swart, who declared herself to be honestly and truly indebted and
in arrears to the honorable diaconate of the Reformed Church here
in this town in the sum of four hundred and fifty-four guilders, sea-
wan, for money loaned and to her content received, which sum of
454 gl. seawan she promises to pay to the said diaconate at the first
opportunity, whereto she specially binds her land lying at Shinnech-
tady, being lot N°. 10 between Symon d'Backer and Jan van Eps,
and generally her person and estate, real and personal, present and
future, nothing excepted, submitting the same to the authority of all
lords, courts, tribunals and judges. Done in Albany on the 3d of
January i6|5.
LELSEBETH DELENDT
. ^ In my presence,
Ro"^. Livingston, Secretary
The foregoing obligation is thankfully paid by Jacob Meuse
Vromen in heavy pieces of 8, agio at 9-I per cent, to our full satis-
faction. Witness our hands, in Albany, this 2d of February i68|.
Deacon, Pieter Schuyler
Deacon, Albert Ryckman
Deed from William Parker to Jan Conell for a lot at Albany on
the hill
[89] Appeared before me, Ro*^. Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Rensselaerswyk and Schaenhechtade, etc., in presence
of the Honorable Mr Cornelis van Dyk and Mr Johannes Provoost,
magistrates of the same jurisdiction, Mr W*". Parker, who de-
clared that he grants, conveys and makes over in true, rightful and
free ownership to and for the behoof of Jan Conell, burgher of
•this place, a certain lot lying here in Albany on the hill, between
the house of Mr Dirk Wessells and the house of Dirk Albertse and
Arent van den Bergh, deceased, now in possession of John Gilbert,
on which lot he, John Conell, has built a house ; in breadth in front
on the street eighteen feet, one inch, to the south bounded by Arent
100 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
van den Bergh five rods and one foot long, to the north on Dirk
Wessells five rods and one foot long, and to the west bounded by
R : Gardiner eighteen feet broad, all Rhineland measure ; which he,
the grantor, does by virtue of the conveyance given to him by
W"^. Nottingham, deceased, of Kingston, of date the 6th of April
1679, to which reference is herein made, being a part of lot N°. 9
granted by the late Governor General R: Nicolls to said Notting-
ham ; ^ and that free and unincumbered, without any charges resting
on, or issuing out of the same (saving the lord's right) and with-
out the grantor's making any further claim in the least thereto,
acknowledging himself to be paid and satisfied therefor, the first
penny with the last, therefore giving plenam actionem cessam and
full power to the aforenamed Jan Conel to do with and dispose of
the said lot as he might do with his own patrimonial estate and
possessions, promising to warrant and defend the same against
all persons from all trouble, claims and incumbran:es according to
law and further nevermore to do or cause anything to be done
contrary hereto in any manner, binding himself thereto as by law
provided. Done in Albany, this nth of January i6|&.
Wm : Parker
Deed from William Parker to Dirck Wesselsen and Jacob San-
dersen Glen for a lot at Albany on the hill
[go] Appeared before me, Ro^ Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyk and Schaenhechtady, in presence of the
Honorable Mr Cornelis van Dyk and ]\Ir Johannes Provoost. magis-
trates of the same jurisdiction, Mr W™. Parker, court messenger
here, who declared that he grants, conveys and makes over in true,
rightful and free ownership to and for the behoof of Mr Dirk Wes-
sells and Jacob Sanderse Glen a certain portion of a lot lying in
Albany on the hill, bounded south by Jan Conell, north by Wynant
Gerritse, west by R: Garner and east by the street ; breadth in front
on the street eighteen feet and one inch, in the rear eighteen feet,
length on the south side five rods and one foot, and on north five
1 This patent reads as follows : " Richard Nicolls Esq &c : Whereas there
are certain new Lotts of Ground lately layd out at Albany uppermost towards
the Hills of which the Lott N*^: 9 conteyns in breadth forty five foot and
in length six Rod. Know ye that by virtue of the Commission unto mee
given by his R: H^ : I have given, & graunted. & by these p'nts doe give,
Ratifye, confirme, & graunt unto W'" : Nottingham his Heires, & Assignes
th'afore recited Lott of Ground N° : 9 afores<i. The Patent is dated the
30th day of May 1667." The lot was on the west side of North Pearl street,
north of Maiden Lane.
DEEDS 1 6/ 8- 1 704 10 1
rods and one foot, all Rhineland measure ; which he, the grantor,
does by virtue of the conveyance given to him by W"\ Nottingham of
Kingston, of date the 6th of April 1679, to which reference is herein
made, being a part of lot N°. 9 by the late Governor General Rich :
Nicolls granted by patent to said Nottingham, under date of the
30th of May 1667,^ and that free and unincumbered, without any
charges thereon or issuing out of the same (saving the lord's
right) and without the grantor's making any further claim what-
soever thereto, acknowledging that he is fully paid and satisfied
therefor, the first penny with the last, therefore giving plenam
actionem ccssain and full power to the aforenamed Mr Dirk Wes-
sells and Jacob Sanderse Glen, their heirs, successors, or assigns,
to do with and dispose of the same as they might do with their
own patrimonial estate and efi:"ects, promising to warrant and de-
fend the same against all persons from all lawful claims, demands
and incumbrances and further nevermore to do nor cause anything
to be done contrary hereto in any manner, binding himself thereto
as by law provided. Done in Albany, this nth of January
t6 8 f*
Cornells van Dyck
Johannes Provoost
Wm : Parker
Deed from Jan Conell to Andries Teller for a lot at Albany on
the hill
[91] Appeared before me, Ro^ Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyk and Schinnechtady, in presence of the
Honorable Mr Cornelis van Dyk and Mr Johannes Provoost, magis-
trates of the same jurisdiction, John Conell, who declared that
he grants, conveys and makes over in true, rightful and free owner-
ship to and for the behoof of Mr And*. Teller, burgher of this town,
a certain house and lot standing and lying here in Albany on the
hill, between the house of Mr Dirk Wessells and the house of Dirk
Albertse Bratt and Arent van den Bergh, deceased, being in breadth
in front on the street eighteen feet and one inch, southerly bounded
by Arent van Den Bergh, deceased, in length five rods and one foot,
and westerly eighteen feet in breadth, bounded by Rob : Gardinier,
all Rhineland measure ; which he, the grantor, does by virtue of the
conveyance given to him, by W™. Parker, of date the nth of Janu-
ary i68y, to which reference is herein made, being a part of lot
^ See note to preceding document.
102
EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
N°. 9 granted by the late General Rich: NicoUs to W*". Notting-
ham ; 1 and that free and unincumbered, without any charges
thereon, or issuing out of the same (save the lord's right) and
without the grantors making any further claim in the least thereto,
acknowledging himself to be paid and satisfied therefor, the first
penny with the last, therefore giving plenam actionem cessam and
full power to the aforenamed Mr Andries Teller to do with and dis-
pose of the aforesaid house and lot as he might do with his own
patrimonial estate and effects, promising to warrant and defend the
same against all persons from all lawful claims, demands and incum-
brances and further nevermore to do nor cause to be done anything
contrary hereto in any manner, binding himself thereto as by law
provided. Done in Albany, this /th of February i68y.
Cornells van Dyck John Conell
Johannes Provoost
In my presence,
Rc^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Hendrick Gerritsen van der Meulen to Pieter
Meussen Vrooman for a house and lot in Albany
[92] Appeared before me, Robert Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyk and Schaenhechtady, etc., in presence of
the Honorable Mr Cornells van Dyk and Mr Dirk Wessells, megis-
trates of the said jurisdiction, Hendrick Gerritse van d"". Muele, who
declared that he grants, conveys and makes over in true, rightful
and free ownership to and for the behoof of P^ Meuse- Vrooman,^
master carpenter, a certain house and lot standing and lying here in
Albany over against the house of Willem Ketelhuyse, with all that
is fast by earth and nail, abutting on the north [side] of the lot of
Jacob Staes, on the south [side] of the house of Jannetie Pauls, on
the west [side] of the lot of Jacob van Noorstrant and on the east
[side] of the street,-"^ being in breadth in front on the street
^ See note on p. 100.
2 Pieter, the son of " Mens " (Bartholomeus) Vrooman.
3 The Dutch description reads: bclendcndc ten noorden van hct Erff van
Jacob Staes, & ten suyden van't huys van Jannetie Pauls, & ten -westen
van't Erff van Jacob van Noorstrant en ten Oosten van's heere straet, which
Professor Pearson, disregarding the proposition van, translates : " bounded
northerly by the lot of Jacob Staes southerly by the house of Jannetie Pauls,
westerly by the lot of Jacob van Noorstrant and easterly by the street."
On comparing this description, however, with that in the deed from Jacob
Jansen van Noorstrant, 13 Jan. 16^]}., to which the present deed refers, it
seems evident that the lot was on the east side of what is now South Pearl
street, so that the translation should read " abutting on the north [side] of
the lot of Jacob Staes, etc." as in the text.
DEEDS 1 678- 1 704 103
fourteen feet and four inches and in the rear fourteen feet, in length
fifty-three feet, all Rhineland measure ; which he, the grantor, does
by virtue of the conveyance given to him by Jacob Janse van Noor-
strant, of date the 13th of January i6|^, to which reference is
herein made, and that free and unincumbered, without any charges
thereon, or issuing out of the same (saving the lord's right) and
without the grantor's making any further claim in the least thereto,
acknowledging himself to be paid and satisfied therefor, the first
penny with the last, therefore giving plenam actionem cessam and
full power to the aforenamed P"". Meuse, his heirs, successors, or
assigns, to do with and dispose of the aforesaid house and lot as he
might do with his own patrimonial estate and effects, promising to
warrant and defend the same against all persons from all lawful
claims, demands and incumbrances and further nevermore to do
nor cause anything to be done contrary hereto in any manner, bind-
ing himself thereto as by law provided. Done in Albany, this 8th
of February 168 .
By order of Hend: Gerritse van d"*
Cornelis van Dyck Meule who gave me authority to write
Dirck Wesselss the above conveyance.
RoB^. Livingston
Deed from Pieter Meussen Vrooman to Robert Gardiner for a
house and lot in Albany described in preceding deed
[93] Appeared before me, Rob^ Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswytk and Schaenhechtady, etc., in presence of
the Honorable Mr Cornel : van Dyk and Mr Dirk Wessells, magis-
trates of the same jurisdiction, Pieter Meuse Vroman, master car-
penter, who declared that he grants, conveys and makes over in true,
rightful and free ownership to and for the behoof of Rob^ Gardi-
ner, soldier of the garrison here, a certain house and lot standing
and lying here in Albany, over against the house of W™. Ketelhuyse,
bounded by and to the north of the lot of Jacob Staets, south of
the house of Jannetie Pauls, west of the lot of Jacob van Noorstrant
and east of the street, being in breadth in front on the street four-
teen feet and four inches and in the rear fourteen feet and in length
fifty-three feet, all Rhineland measure ; which he, the grantor, does
by virtue of the conveyance given to him by Hendrik Gerritse van
der Meule, of date the 8th of February Anno 168^, to which refer-
ence is herein made, and that free and unincumbered, without any
I04 EARl.N KF.CdKDS OF ALHANV
charges thereon, or issuing out of the same (save the lord's right)
and without the grantor's making any further claim in the least
thereto, acknowledging himself to he paid and satisfied therefor, the
first penny with the last, therefore giving plenum actionem cessam
and full power to the aforenamed Robert Gardiner, his heirs, suc-
cessors, or assigns to do with and dispose of the aforesaid house
and lot as he might do with his own patrimonial estate and effects,
promising to warrant and defend the same against all persons from
all lawful claims, demands and incumbrances and further never-
more to do nor cause anything to be done contrary hereto in any
manner, binding himself thereto as by law provided. Done in
Albany, the 14II1 of February i6<S5 .
PlETER MeESEN VrOOMAN
Cornelis van Dyck
Dirck JVesselss In my presence,
Ro^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Robert Gardiner to the administrators of the estate
of James Penniman for a house and lot described in preceding
deed
[94] Appeared before me, Rob'. Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyck and Schaenhechtady, etc., in presence of
the Honorable J\Ir Cornelis van Dyck and Mr Dirk Wessells, magis-
trates of the same jurisdiction, Rob^ Gardiner, soldier of the garri-
son of this town, who declared that he grants, conveys and makes
over in true, rightful and free ownership to and for the behoof of
the constables of Albany, in their capacity as curators of the estate
of James Penniman, deceased, a certain house and lot standing and
lying here in Albany, over against the house of W'". Ketelhuyse,
bounded by and to the north of the lot of Jacob Staas, south the
house of Jannetie Pawles, west of the lot of Jacob Janse van Noor-
strant and east of the street, being in breadth in front on the street
14 feet four inches, and in the rear fourteen feet, and in length fifty-
three feet, all Rhineland measure ; which he, the grantor, does by
virtue of the conveyance given to him by Pieter Meuse Vrooman,
master carpenter, of date the 14th of February 168?, to which
reference is herein made ; and that free and unincumbered, without
any charges thereon or issuing out of the same (save the lord's
right) and without the grantor's making any further claim in the
least thereto, acknowledging himself to be paid and satisfied there-
DEEDS 1 678- 1 704 105
for, the first penny with the last, therefore giving plenam actionem,
cessam and full power to the curators of said estate of James Penni-
man, deceased, to do with and dispose of the said house and lot as
they might do with any other goods and effects belonging to said
estate, promising to warrant and defend the same against all persons
from all lawful claims, demands and incumbrances and further
nevermore to do nor cause anything to be done contrary hereto in
any manner, binding himself thereto as by law provided. Done in
Albany, the 15th of February 1681.
Cornells van Dyck Robert Gardner
Dirck W CSS els,"
In my presence,
RoB^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from the administrators of the estate of James Penniman
to Jean Rosie for a house and lot described in preceding deed
[95] Appeared before me, Robert Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Rensselaerswyck and Schaenhechtady, etc., in presence of
the Honorable Mr Cornelis van Dyk and Mr Dirk Wessells, magis-
trates of the same jurisdiction, the constables of Albany in the
capacity of curators of the estate of James Penniman, deceased, who
declared that by virtue of letters of administration to them granted
by the court, they grant, convey, and make over in true, rightful
and free ownership to and for the behoof of Jean Rosie, burgher
of this town, a certain house and lot standing and lying here in
Albany upon the street where W'". Ketelhuyse now dwells, bounded
by and to the north of the lot of Jacob Staes, south of the house of
Jannetie Pauls, west of the lot of Jacob Jansen van Noorstrant
and east of the street, being in breadth in front on the street four-
teen feet four inches and in the rear fourteen feet, and in length
fifty-three feet, all Rhineland measure; which they, the aforenamed
grantors, in the capacity aforesaid, do by virtue of the conveyance
given to them by Robert Gardiner, of date the 15th of February
168'/, to which reference is herein made; and that free and unin-
cumbered, without any charges thereon, or issuing out of the same
(save the lord's right) and without the grantors' making any further
claim in the least thereto, acknowledging themselves to be paid and
satisfied therefor, the first penny whh the last, therefore giving
plenam actionem cessam and full power to the aforesaid Jean Rosie,
his heirs, successors and assigns, to do with and dispose of the
aforesaid house and lot as he might do with his own patrimonial
I06 EARLY RECORDS OF ALRANV
estate and effects, promising to warrant and defend the same against
all persons from all lawful claims, demands and incumbrances and
further nevermore to do nor cause anything to be done contrary
hereto in any manner, binding himself thereto as by law provided.
Done in Albany, on the i6th of February 1685 •
Johannes Wendel
Cornells van Dyck Jacob Sand: Glen
Dirck Wesselss Gerret Lansixck
In my presence,
RoB^. Livingston, Secretary
[96] Appeared before me, Rob'. Li\ingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyk and Schaenhectadie, etc., in presence of
the Honorable Mr Cornelis van Dyk and Mr Dirk Wessells, magis-
trates of the same jurisdiction, Mr W"\ Parker, who declared that
he grants, conveys and makes over in true, rightful and free owner-
ship to and for the behoof of Robert Gardiner, soldier of the gar-
rison in this town, a certain portion of a lot lying here in Albany
on the hill, behind the house of the grantee, abutting on the west
[side] of the house of And^ Teller, the house of D'Wessells and
Jacob Sanders, and the house of Jan Gilbert, on the east of said R:
Gardiner, on the north of Dirk Albertse Bratt, and on the south of
the town fence ; ^ in length, east and west eleven feet and in breadth
south and north forty-five feet ; which he, the grantor, does by
virtue of the conveyance given to him by W'". Nottingham, of date
the 6th of April 1679, being a part of lot X°. 9 granted by the late
Governor General Rich: Nicolls to said Nottingham, to which refer-
ence is herein made ; and that free and unincumbered, without any
charges thereon or issuing out of the same (save the lord's right)
and without the grantor's making any further claim in the least
1 The Dutch description reads : Belendcndc ten wcsten van't huys ran
And-^. Teller, etc., which as in many similar cases, with disregard of the
preposition van, was translated by Professor Pearson as " bounded west by
the house of And**. Teller," etc. The reference to the patent to William
Nottingham (see p. 100. note) seems to make it clear, however, that the
lot was located somewhere to the west of the present North Pearl street,
so that it could not be bounded south by the town fence, but must have
been on the south of said fence, hence, that the preposition van must be
duly taken into account and the translation made to read as above. It is
no doubt due to mistakes of this kind that Professor Pearson in the preface
to his Diagrams, in Munsell's Collections, 4:184, was forced to make the
statement that there were several gaps in Broadway " which no ingenuity
of the compiler could fill, and several lots will be found so imperfectly
described in the records, that he has to confess his inability to locate them."
DEEDS I 678-1 704 107
thereto, acknowledging himself to be paid and satisfied therefor,
the first penny with the last, therefore giving plenam actionem
cessam and full power to the aforenamed R: Gardiner to do with
and dispose of the aforesaid portion of a lot as he might do with his
own patrimonial estate and effects, promising to warrant and defend
the same against all persons from all lawful claims, demands and
incumbrances and further nevermore to do nor cause anything to
be done contrary hereto in any manner, binding himself thereto as
by law provided. Done in Albany, on the 14th of F'ebruary 1685.
Cornells van Dyck Wm : Parker
Dirck Wesselsa
In my presence,
Ro'^. Livingston, Secretary
Quittance of the children of Goosen Gerritsen van Schaick by
his first wife Geertje Brants for their portions of their father's
estate
[97] Appeared before me, Ro*. Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyck and Schaenhechtady, in presence of the
Honorable Mr Dirk Wessells and Mr Johannes Provoost, magis-
trates of the same jurisdiction, Geertje van Schayk, wife of Johannes
Lansingh, Sybrant van Schayk and Anth°. van Schayk, children of
Goose Gerritse, deceased, procreated by his first wife Geertje
Brants, who declared that they were fully paid and satisfied by the
hand of Annetje van Schayk, widow of the late Goose Gerritse van
Shayk, for their patrimonial or father's estate, having in considera-
tion of said paternal inheritance received payment for the farm
sold to Anth°. van Shayk aforesaid, which was sold for five hundred
and fifty beavers, of which the widow aforenamed takes one hun-
dred beavers, the three children by the first wife aforenamed having
received the remaining four hundred and fifty beavers, or "each one
hundred and fifty beavers for his share, wherewith they consider
themselves fully satisfied for their aforesaid claims upon their
father's estate (having formerly received their mother's estate) ;
releasing the aforenamed widow, Annetje van Schayk. her heirs and
successors from all claims and demands on account of their father's
and mother's estates, renouncing all interest therein and acknowl-
edging that they have received full payment and satisfaction to their
perfect content from Annetje van Shayk aforenamed and promis-
ing and engaging hereby not to trouble either the said Annetje van
I08 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
Schayk, or her heirs or assigns, in respect to their father's and
mother's estates, for which they bind their persons and estates, real
and personal, present and future, nothing excepted, submitting the
same to the authority of all lords, courts, tribunals and judges.
Done in Albany, on the 3d of ^^larch 16H1.
Geertien Lansin
Dirck Wesselss Sybrant van Schaick
Joh: Provoost Antony van Schaick
In my presence,
RoB"^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Annetje, widow of Goosen Gerritsen van Schaick to
Anthony van Schaick (incomplete)
[98] Appeared before me, Robert Livingston, secretary of
Albany, colony of Rensselaerswyck and Schaenhechtady, in the pres-
ence of the Honorable Mr Dirk \\'essells and Mr Johannes Pro-
voost, magistrates of the same jurisdiction, Annetie van Schayk,
widow of the late Goose Gerritse van Schayk, deceased, who de-
clared that she grants, conveys and makes over in true, rightful and
free owmership to and for the behoof of Anthonie van Schayk, son
by the first wife of Goose Gerritse, deceased, aforenamed, three
parcels of land described in a certain patent . . . [the rest
wanting] .
Contract of sale between Anthony van Schaick and Sybrant van
Schaic and Pieter Schuyler for land at Half Moon
[99] Appeared before me, Robert Livingston, secretary of Al-
bany, colony of Renselaerswyk and Schaenhechtady, in presence of
the afternamed witnesses, Anth°. van Schayk of the one side and
Sybrant van Schayk and P"". Phillipse Schuyler of the other side who
declared that in all love and friendship they had contracted and
agreed with each other in manner following, viz :
Anth°. van Schayk acknowledges that he has sold, and Sybrant
van Shayk and P*". Shuyler aforesaid that they have bought of said
Anth°. a parcel of meadow land {vlye Lants) lying in the Halve
Maen,^ between the kill which separates the lands of Jan Jacobse ^
1 Half Moon, in Saratoga county, about 15 miles north of Albanj'.
2 Jan Jacobsen van Xoortstrant; see contract of sale between him and
Annetje Lievens, widow of Goosen Gerritsen van Schaick, in Early Records
of Albany, i : 156-57.
DEEDS I 678- I 704 109
and Roeloff Gerritse ^ and the Modder kill,- having to the west the
common woods and to the east the fence of Jan van Ness, Harme
Lievese, Barent Albertse Bratt and Geurt Hendrix ;-^ together with
the woodland lying between the two aforenamed kills for a range
for their cattle and that of other persons dwelling there and also free
range for their cattle in the woods westwards and northwards ;
always with this stipulation and reservation that the aforenamed Jan
van Ness, Harme Lievese, Barent Albertse Bratt and Geurt Heyn-
drickse shall have free range in the woods for their cattle, according
to their contract of purchase [of the land] sold to them by Anetie
Lievens, widow of Goose Gerritse, deceased, so that they, the pur-
chasers, c?n claim no more than what lies between the two aforesaid
kills (with the range for cattle) ; for which marsh land and privi-
leges aforenamed Zybrant van Schayk and Pieter Schuyler, promise
to pay to Anth°. van Shayk the quantity of seventy-five good, whole,
merchantable beaveirs skins, to be paid within the two next follow-
ing years from this date ; wherewith the contracting parties acknowl-
edge themselves to be well satisfied, binding for the performance
hereof their respective persons and estates, real and personal,
present and future, nothing excepted, submitting the same to the
authority of all lords, courts, tribunals and judges. Done in Albany,
on the 3d of March 168,'.
Antony van Schaick
Cornells van Dyck Sybrant van Schaick
Dirck Wcsselsz Pieter Schuyler
In my presence,
Ro'r. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Cornelis van Dyck, attorney for Nicolaes de Meyer,
to Philip de Forest for a house and lot in Albany
[100] Appeared before me Ro^ Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyck and Schaenhechtady, in presence of the
Honorable Mr Dirk Wessells and Mr Jan Janse Bleeker, magistrates
of the same jurisdiction, Mr Cornelis van Dyk, in the capacity of
attorney for Capt. Nicolaus d' Meyer, trader at N : York, who de-
clared that by order of the aforenamed D' Meyer, he grants, conveys
and makes over to and for the behoof of Phillip d' Vooreest ^ a cer-
tain house and lot standing and lying here in Albany, on the slope of
1 Roeloff Gerritsen van der Werken, according to Professor Pearson.
^Modder kill; literally Mud kill, now called Mudder kill, between the
towns of Waterford and Half Moon.
2 Geurt Hendricksen van Schoonhoven.
■* The same as Philip de Foreest, or de Forest.
no EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
the hill {aen't hangen van't Geberghte) between the houses of Air
Abr : van Tricht and Johannes Witthart, with all that thereon is fast
by earth and nail, in length to the lot of Isaac Verplanok, formerly
belonging to Capt. Baker and in breadth as it was built upon on the
south side, according to the contract of sale and conveyance from
the magistrates here to J: Coster van Aken of date the^fth July
1667 : ^ besides a foot and a half toward the west side of a common
allev of three feet next to Abr: van Tricht and on the north side
half as wide as it was bought of the magistrates, inasmuch as the
remaining width and length thereof was sold by Jan Coster to W*".
Teller and is now possessed by Van Tricht. and furthermore in
every way and shape as it was possessed by Dirk Hesselingh, which
said house and lot he bought from Jan van Ake, as shown by con-
tract of sale of ^§ June 1668, but said Dirk Hesseling failing in
payment, Jan Coster van Ake conveyed the title to Air Xicolaas
d'Meyer, as is set forth more at large in the instrument executed
at Utrecht on the 28th of Alarch 1672 and also in that of the 13th
of August 1671, both written by the notary public Nicolaes van
Vechten ; besides Dirk Hesselings has annulled the purchase of the
aforesaid house, renouncing his claim thereto as per instrument
thereof dated the 24th of December 1678. Therefore, Air Cornells
van Dyk. in the capacity aforesaid, conveys the said house and lot
to the aforenamed Phillip de Foreest, and that free and unincum-
bered, without any charges thereon, or issuing out of the same
(saving the lord's right), without his (in the capacity aforenamed)
making any claims thereto, acknowledging himself to be fully paid
and satisfied therefor, the first penny with the last, therefore giving
plenam actionem cessam and full power to the aforenamed Phillip
de Foreest to do with and dispose of the aforesaid house and lot as
he might do with his own patrimonial estate and eflfects, promising
(in the capacity aforenamed) nevermore to do or cause to be done
an}'thing contrary hereto in any manner, under binding obligation
as by law provided. Done in Albany, on the 3d of Alarch 168^.
CORNELIS VAX DyCK
Dirck Wesselsz
Jan Jans Bleecker
In my presence,
Ro'f. Livingston, Secretary
1 Neither tnis contract of sale, nor that of ^ June 1668, seems to be
recorded.
DEEDS I 678- I 704 III
Bond and mortgage of Philip de Forest to Nicolaes de Meyer
[loi] Appeared before me, Rob*^. Livingston, secretary of Al-
bany, colony of Renselaerswyck and Schaenhechtady, in presence
of the Honorable Mr Dirk Wessells and Mr Johannes Provoost,
magistrates of the same jurisdiction, Philip d' Foreest. master
cooper, burgher of this town, who declared that he was honestly and
truly indebted and in arrears to Mr Nicolaes d' Meyer, trader at
N : York, in the quantity of ninety-four good, whole beavers at
eight guilders apiece, being for a house and lot bought of said
D' Meyer standing and lying here in Albany on the hill, where the
subscriber dwells ; which sum of ninety-four beavers the subscriber
promises to pay to Mr d' Meyer or to his attorney, Mr Cornells
van Dyk, who now makes requisition for this paper, or their order,
in manner following: a just third part the middle of August next,
a just third part the middle of August a year thereafter and the
last third part the middle of August A°. 1683, on the express condi-
tion that the buyer each time payment is due must promptly pay off
ten beavers in good merchantable winter wheat at six skipples a
beaver, to be delivered free in Albany, or in good merchantable
Long Island winter wheat at five skipples a beaver to be delivered
free in N : York, the beavers also to be delivered here ; for which
payment of ninety-four beavers as above provided the subscriber
hereby gives a mortgage on the aforesaid house and lot to him con-
veyed yesterday, binding the same specially for said payment to said
Mr Nic : d' Meyer, his heirs and successors, and generally his person
and estate, real and personal, present and future, nothing excepted,
submitting the same to the authority of all lords, courts, tribunals
and judges, to secure the payment without loss or cost. Done in
Albany without craft or guile, this 4th of March A°. Dom: i68|.
Dirck Wesselss Philip de Foreest
Johannes Provoost
In my presence,
Ro^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Geertruy Hieronimus, widow of Jochim Wessels,
baker, to the constables, administrators of the estate of James
Penniman, for a house and lot in Albany
[102] Appeared before me, Rob*. Livingston, secretary of
Albany, colony of Renselaerwyk and Schaenhechtady, in pres-
ence of the Honorable Mr Cornells van Dyk and Mr Dirk Wessells,
magistrates of the same jurisdiction, Geertruy Hieronimus, widow
112 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
of the late Jochini Wessels Becker/ administratrix of the latter's
estate, who declared that she grants, conveys and makes over in
true, rightful and free ownership to and for the behoof of the con-
stables of this town, in the capacity of administrators of the estate
of the late James Penniman, a certain house and lot, standing and
lying here in Albany on the hill, abutting on the north [side] of the
house of Dirk Albertse Bratt, on the south of the town fence,
on the east the street and on the w^est a certain parcel of land
conveyed by W™. Parker to R*. Gardiner, the present possessor of
the said house;- being in length on the south and north sides three
rods and two feet, breadth in front and rear twenty-one feet and
a half: which she, the grantor, does by virtue of the patent granted
to her deceased husband by Sir Edmond Andross, knight, gov-
ernor general, of date the 7th of July 1679, and that free and un-
incumbered, without any charges thereon or issuing out of the same
(save the lord's right) and without the grantor's making any further
claim in the least thereto, acknowledging herself to be fully paid
and satisfied therefor by the hands of James Penniman, the first
penny with the last, therefore giving plenam actionem cessam and
full power to the constables in their capacity aforesaid to do with
and dispose of the aforesaid house and lot as they might do with
any other property of said estate, they paying such charges and
taxes upon said house and lot as have already been imposed by
the governor in his patent or as may be imposed by any other gov-
ernor who may come after him. promising further nevermore to
do or cause to be done anything contrary hereto in any manner,
under binding obligation as by law provided. Done in Albanv, on
the 8th of :\Iarch i68f.
The mark X of Geertruy Hteronimus,
Cornells van Dyck made with her own hand.
Dirck Wesselsz In my presence,
Ro^. Livingston, Secretary
1 Thus in the original; intended for Jochim Wessels Backer, i.e., Jochim
Wesselsen, the baker.
2 The original description reads: Belendende ten noorden van't huys van
Dirk Albertse Bratt, & ten suyden van stats heyningcn, & ten oostcn van
's hceren stract &• ten westecn sclccr stuf^je Erffs gctransportccrt door If'"'.
Parker aen R*. Gardiner tegenwoordige possesseur van gemelden huys.
Professor Pearson translates this in his usual way " bounded northerlj' "by
the house of Dirk Albertse Bratt and on the south by the town fence, on the
east by the street and on the west by- a certain part of lot conveyed to Rt.
Gardiner (its present possessor) by \V™. Parker." The latter part of this
translation is correct as the lot was on the west side of the present North
Pearl street, but the first part should read as in the text. It will be noticed
that in the Dutch description the word van does not occur after ten u-esten,
though by mistake, it seems, it is used after ten oosten.
DEEDS I 678-1 704 113
Deed from the constables of Albany, administrators of the estate
of James Penniman, to Robert Gardiner for a house and lot
described in preceding deed
[103] Appeared before me, Rob'. Livingston, secretary of
Albany, colony of Renselaerswyk and Schaenhechtady, in pres-
ence of the Honorable Mr Dirk Wessells and Mr Johannes Pro-
voost, magistrates of said jurisdiction, the constables of Albany,
in the capacity of administrators of the estate of the late James
Penniman, who declared that they grant, convey and make over in
true, rightful and free ownership to and for the behoof of Robert
Gardiner, soldier in the garrison here, a certain house and lot
standing and lying here in Albany on the hill, to the north of the
house of Dirk Albertse Bratt, now belonging to Mr W". Parker, and
to the south of the town fence, bounded easterly by the street and
westerly by a certain portion of lot conveyed by W"^. Parker to
said R: Gardiner, being in length on the south and north sides
three rods and two feet, and in breadth front and rear twentv-one
feet and a half; which they, the grantors, do by virtue of a con-
veyance made to them yesterday by Geertruy Hieronimus, widow
of Jochim Wessellse Becker^ and administratrix of said estate,
and that free and unin:umbered, without any charges thereon or
issuing out of the same (saving the lord's right) and without the
grantor's making any further claim in the least thereto, acknowl-
edging themselves to be fully paid and satisfied therefor, the first
penny with the last, therefore giving plenam actionem cessam and
full power to the aforenamed Rob^ Gardiner to do with and dis-
pose of the aforesaid hotise and lot as he might do with his own
patrimonial estate and effects, he paying such charges and taxes
as are already imposed by the governor in the patent or as any other
governor after him shall impose upon said house and lot, promis-
ing further nevermore to do nor cause anything to be done con-
trary hereto in any manner, under binding obligation as by law
provided. Done in Albany, on the 9th of March 16S?.
Johannes Wendel
Dirck Wesselsz Jacob Sand: Glen
Johannes Provoost Gerret Lansinck
In my presence,
Ro"^. Livingston, Secretary
'^ Jochim Wesselsen, baker.
114 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
Deed from the administrators of the estate of the late Madam
Corlaer (van Curler) to Jacob ten Eyck and Isaac Verplank
for a parcel of land outside the north gate of Albany
[104] Appeared before me, Ro^ Living-ston, secretary of
Albany, colony of Renselaerswyck and Schaenhechtady, in pres-
ence of the Honorable iMr Dirk Wessells and Mr Jan Janse Bleker,
magistrates of the same jurisdiction, ]\Ir Cornelis van Dyck and
Mr Johannes Provoost, administrators of the estate of Madam
Corlaers,^ deceased, who declared that they grant, convey and make
over in true, rightful and free ownership to and for the behoof
of Jacob ten Eyck and Isaac Verplank, shoemakers, a certain
parcel of land lying without the north gate of Albany to the north
of Mews Hoogeboom, taking its beginning to the north of the
point of the kill^ and stretching lengthwise to the pond {vyver),
being seventeen rods and nine feet long and in front on the high-
way and in the rear also three rods wide, which they are using at
present for a tannery ; which they, the grantors, do by virtue of
the patent granted to them by the Honorable Sir Edmund Andross,
knight, governor general, under date of the 25th of March 1680,"
and that free and unincumbered without any charges thereon or
issuing out of the same (saving the lord's right), without the
grantors' making any further claim in the least thereto, acknowl-
edging themselves to be fully paid and satisfied therefor, the first
penny with the last, therefore giving plenam actionem cessam and
full power to the aforenamed Jacob ten Eyck and Isaack Verplank,
their heirs or successors, or assigns to do with and dispose of the
aforesaid parcel of land as they might do with their own patri-
monial estate and efifects, promising to w^arrant and defend the
1 Anthonia Slachboom, or Slaghboom, the widow of Arent van Curler.
See Van Rensselaer Boivier Mss, p. 817.
- Vossen. or Fox. kill.
3 This is apparently the patent which is recorded in Patents, 1666-1679,
V. 4, pt 2, p. 97, in the Xew York State Library, as follows : "A Pattent for
a piece of Land at Albany granted unto William Beackman &c. S''. Edmund
Andros Kn\ &c Whereas there is a certaine piece of Land Lying without
the North port of Albany for the which Arent van Curler deceased had a
pattent or Groundbrief from the Dutch Governour Petrus Stuyvesant as
by the Record thereof dated Aprill the 23d 1659 doth appeare the same being
therein described to bee to the North of Reyerts Elberts along the Innerway
in breadth twelve Rod and westward into the woods fourty foure Rod
running behind to nothinge to the which Arent van Curler afores*. made
purchase of some addicon a Survey being taken It's found to bee in all as
followeth (vizt) in breadth behind Mees Hooghboomes alongst the way
Sixteen Rod and on the River side twelve Rod In Length from the Highway
to the River as well South as North thirty foure Rod as by the Returne of
the measure thereof doth and may Appeare Know yee &c Dated the 25^i».
of March 1680." " Port " stands for Dutch Poort, meaning " gate."
DEEDS I 678- I 704 115
same against all persons from all lawful claims, demands and in-
cumbrances and further nevermore to do nor cause to be done
anything contrary hereto in any manner, binding himself thereto
as by law provided. Done in Albany, the lOth of March 168? .
CORNELIS VAN DyCK
Dirck Wesselss Johannes Provoost
Jan Janss Bleeckcr
In my presence,
Ro^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from the administrators of the estate of the late Madam
Corlaer (van Curler) to Cornelis van Schelluyne for a parcel
of land outside the north gate of Albany
[105] Appeared before me, Ro^ Livingston, secretary of
Albany, colony of Renselaerswyck and Schaenhechtady, in pres-
ence of the Honorable Mr Dirk Wessels and Mr Jan Janse Bleker,
magistrates of the same jurisdiction, Mr Cornelis van Dyk and Mr
Johannes Provoost, administrators of the estate of Madam Corlaers,
deceased, who declared that they grant, convey and make over in
true, rightful and free ownership to and for the behoof of Cornelis
Van Shelluyne, shoemaker, a certain parcel of land lying without
the north gate of Albany to the east of the highway, beginning at
the bounds and limits of the colony of Renselaerswyk and stretching
hitherwards into the limits of Albany thirty feet, being also thirty
feet long, abutting on the west side of the lot belonging to the said
estate ; all of which he bought of Madam Corlaer and says he paid
her for the same ; which they, the grantors, do by virtue of the
patent granted to them by the Honorable Sir Edmond Andross,
knight, governor general, of date the 25th of March 1680^ ; and
that free and unincumbered, without any charges thereon or issu-
ing out of the same (saving the lord's right), without the grantors
making any further claim in the least thereto, acknowledging them-
selves to be paid and satisfied therefor, therefore giving plenam ac-
tionem cessam and full power to the aforenamed Cornel: van
Shelluyne, shoemaker, his heirs, successors, or assigns to use the
aforesaid lot as a tannery or to dispose thereof as he could do with
his own patrimonial estate and effects, promising to warrant and
1 See note to preceding document.
Il6 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
defend the same against all persons from all trouble, claims and in-
cumbrances, and further, nevermore to do nor cause anything to be
done contrary hereto in any manner, under binding obligation as
by law provided. Done in Albany, the loth of March 1685.
CORNELIS VAN DyCK
Dirck Wesselss Johannes Provoost
Jan Jansz Bleecker
In my presence,
RoB^ Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Jacob ten Eyck and Isaack Verplanck to Jeronimus
Wendel for a parcel of land outside the north gate of Albany
[106] Appeared before me, Rob^ Livingston, secretary of
Albany, colony of Renselaerwyk and Shaenhechtady, etc., in
presence of the Honorable Mr Dirk Wessells and Mr Jan Janse
Bleeker, magistrates of the same jurisdiction, Jacob Ten Eyk and
Isaack Verplank, shoemakers, who declared that they grant, con-
vey and make over in true, rightful and free ownership to and for
the behoof of Jeronymus Wendell, shoemaker, a certain parcel of a
lot Iving without the north gate of Albany behind Meus Hooge-
boom's, abutting on the east side of the grantors', on the west side
of the former pond, on the north side of Mews Hoogeboom and
on the south side of the land belonging to the estate of the late
Madam Corlaer;^ in length seven rods and eight feet and in
breadth one rod, on this condition that he shall have a free passage
way of three feet and a half across the grantors' lot from the
common road to his tanners' ; which they, the grantors, do by virtue
of the conveyance given to them by the administrators of the estate
of ]^Iadam Corllaer, deceased of date the. loth of ]\ larch 168?,
to which reference is herein made, and that free and unin um-
bered, without any charges thereon or issuing out of the same
(saving the lord's right), without the grantors' making any further
claim in the least thereto, acknowledging themselves to be paid and
satisfied therefor, the first penny with the last, therefore giving
pleiiam actionem cessani and full power to the aforenamed Jer-
onimus Wendell to use the aforesaid lot as a tannery and to dispose
1 Belendendc tat oostcn van hacr Transportantcn, & ten westen van
d'gewescueii vyvcr ten noordcn van Mews Hoogeboom, & ten siiyden ran 't
Erff toehchoorende d'Boedel van Jtiffr: Coriaer Zalg". In Professor Pear-
son's translation the compass directions were reversed, in spite of the fact
that in the deed to Jacob ten Eyck and Isaack Verplanck the land is described
as being to the north of Mews Hoogeboom.
DEEDS I 6/8- I 704 117
thereof as he could do with his own patrimonial estate and effects,
promising to warrant and defend the same against all persons from
all trouble, claims and incumbrances according to law and further
nevermore to do nor cause anything to be done contrary hereto in
any manner under binding obligation as by law provided.
Done in Albany, the nth of March 168^.
Dirck Wesselss Jacob ten Eyck
Jan Janss Bleecker Isaack Verplancken
In my presence,
Ro'^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Capt. Johannes Clute, Juriaen Teunissen and Myn-
dert Fredericksen to Marten Gerritsen for land on the west
side of the Huson river opposite Neuten hoek
[107] Appeared before me, Rob^ Livingston, sezretary of Al-
bany, colony of Renselaerswyck and Schaenhechtady, etc., in pres-
ence of the Honorable Mr Cornelis van Dyk and Mr Dirk Wessells,
magistrates of the same jurisdiction, Johannes Cloete, Juriaen Teu-
nise and Myndert Frederikse, who declared that they grant, convey
and make over in true, rightful and free ownership to and for
the behoof of Mr Marte Gerritse a certain parcel of land lying on
the west side of Hudson's river over against the little Neuten
hoek,^ beginning at the land of P"". Bronk on the Catskill path, due
south along the said Catskill path to the spring (foiiteyn) and
from the spring eastward, to the hill of Steefsinck and from Steeff-
sinck eastward to the river and from the river side northwards
up to the land of Hilletie Bronk aforesaid;^ which they the grant-
ors, to wit Johannes Cloete and Jurian Teunise, do by virtue of
the patent granted to them by the late governor general, of date
the 25th of May 1667, and Mynd'. Frederikse by virtue of the con-
veyance given to him under date of the 7th of August 1675, by
Jan Hend : Bruyn who made over to him his one-third interest
in said patent, to which reference is herein made ; and that
free and unincumbered, without any charges resting on, or
issuing out of the same (saving the lord's right), without the
1 Nutten hook, in Columbia county, N. Y. The post ofifice is called Newton
Hook. Neuten is the plural of neiit, a variant form of Dutch noot, meaning
" nut."
2 See deed from Johannes Clute and others to Marten Gerritsen for same
property, April 26, 1671, in Early Records of Albany, i :47(>-8o, and also
fragment of similar deed, on p. 471 of same volume, where the name of the
hill is given as Styftsinck.
Il8 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
grantors' making any further claim in the least thereto, acknowl-
edging themselves to be paid and satisfied therefor, the first penny
with the last, therefore giving plenam actionem ccssam and full
power to the aforenamed Marte Gerritse, his heirs, successors, or
assigns to do with and dispose of the aforesaid parcel of land
as he could do with his own patrimonial estate and efifects, prom-
ising to warrant and defend the same against all persons from all
trouble, claims and incumbrances according to law and further
nevermore to do nor cause anything to be done contrary hereto in
any manner, binding themselves as by law provided.
Done in Albany, the 28th of Alarch 1681.
JOHANNS ClUTE
Cornelis van Dyck Jure Jan Tunsen
Dirck J Vessels:;
The mark X of AIvnd^'. Frederikse,
made with his own hand.
In my presence,
Ro'^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Pieter Adriaensen to Reyer Jacobsen Schermerhorn
for two parcels of land at Schenectady
[108] Appeared before me, Ro^ Livingston, secretary of Al-
bany, colony of Renselaerswy.k and Schaenhechtady, etc., in pres-
ence of the Honorable ]\Ir Cornelis van Dyk and Mr Dirk Wessells,
magistrates of the same jurisdiction, P"". Adriaense,^ who declared
that he grants, conveys and makes over in true, rightful and free
ownership to and for the behoof of Ryer Jacobse Shermerhooren
two certain parcels of land lying at Schinnechtady, both marked
N°. 4, one lying to the west of the land formerly belonging to
Arrent van Curler, and now to Sweer Teunise, whence a line be-
ing drawn between [it and] N°. 3 southeast by south extends till
it strikes a small creek bounded by N°. i,- containing by estimation
1 Pieter Adriaensen van Woggelum, nicknamed Soogemackelyck (so easy).
He was a tavern keeper in Rensselaerswyck in 1656. See Fan Rensselaer
Boii'ier Mss, p. 846. Woggelum is a village near Alkmaar, in the province of
North Holland.
2 gelegen ten westen van't landt voor desen toebehorende Arrent van
Curler, & nu Sweer Teunise, van d'wclcke 'een Lynic getrocken synde tiishen
No. 3, suydt cost ten suyden, streckt voort tot dot Iict comt by een kiUetje
belendende by N°. i. In 'the patent of June 5. 1667, which was a confirmation
of the Dutch grant to Pieter Adriaensen of June 16, 1664. the land is
described as follows : " lying to the west of Arent van Curlaers, from
whence a lyne running between X". 3 South Easide fsicl, & by ^ South and
it goes forward till it comes to a small creeke bounded by N". i."
DEEDS I 678- I 704 119
with the meadow land thereto belonging fourteen morgens or
twenty-eight acres and one hundred and sixty-four rods ; and the
other parcel lying on the hindmost parcel of land by the river,
to the east of N°. 3, to the west of N°. 6, a line being drawn on
both sides from the river to the small creek southwest by west,
being in breadth fifty-six rods and containing twelve morgens;
amounting in all to about fifty-two acres or twenty-six morgens
and one hundred and sixty-four rods; which he, the grantor, does
by virtue of the patent granted to him by the late Governor General
Rich: Nicolls, of date the 5th of June 1667; besides P"". Adrianese
conveys to Ryer Jacobse all rights to the farm appertaining, the
homestead, the garden lying in the flat, the calf pasture, etc., just
as he has possessed the same, and that free and unincumbered with-
out any charges resting on or issuing out of the same (sav-
ing the lord's right), without the grantor's making any further
claim in the least thereto, acknowledging that he is paid and satisfied
therefor, the first penny with the last, therefore giving plenam
actionem cessam and full power to the aforenamed Ryer Jacobse
Shermerhooren, his heirs, successors, or assigns to do with and dis-
pose of the aforesaid farm with its appurtenances as he could do
with his own patrimonial estate and effects, promising to warrant
and defend the same against all persons from all trouble, claims
and incumbrances according to law and further nevermore to do
nor cause anything to be done contrary hereto in any manner,
binding himself as by law provided.
Done in Albany, the 6th of April 1681.
PlETER AdRIAENSZ
Cornells van Dyck
Dirck Wesselss
In my presence,
Ro"^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Capt. Johannes Clute to Wyntje Harmens, daughter
of Harmen Thomassen Hun for a piece of land upon the
Murderer's kill
[109] Appeared before me Rob^ Livingston, secretary of Al-
bany, colony of Renselaerswyck and Schaenhechtady, etc., in pres-
ence of the Honorable Mr Cornelis van Dyk and Mr Dirk Wessells,
magistrates of the same jurisdiction, the worthy Mr Johannes
120 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
Cloete, who declared that he grants, conveys and makes over in
true, rightful and free ownership to and for the behoof of Wyntie
Harmense, daughter of Harme Thomase van Hun/ a certain parcel
of land of twenty morgens lying upon the Moordenaers kill,-
stretching south and north, called the RondeeF of the Moordenaers
kill, with a homestead over the kill next the great swamp {Krenpel
Boss) all which he, out of a singular affection and love, has given
and granted in the form of a donation to said Wyntie Harmens,
as per the instrument thereof dated the i8th of July 1673, which he
now conveys, being a part of his portion of the land which Jan
Hendrik Bruyn and Jurian Teunise and he owned heretofore,
according to the patent granted to the three of them by Rich: Xicolls,
late governor, under date of the 25th of May 166/,^ which part of
Jan Bruyn, Mynd^ Frederikse bought, and whereas Jurian Teunise
and Mynd*. Frederikse have taken possession each of a place on the
river bank, therefore he, the grantor, with the assent and approval
of his associates, has given this piece of land to the aforenamed
daughter instead of such possession; and that free and unincum-
bered, without any charges thereon or issuing out of the same (sav-
ing the lord's right), without the grantor's making any further claim
in the least thereto, acknowledging that he is paid and satisfied
therefor, the first penny with the last, therefore giving plenam
actionem cessani and full power to the aforenamed Wyntje Har-
mense, her heirs, successors, or assigns to do with and dispose of the
aforesaid 20 morgens of land, homestead and appurtenances as she
might do with her own patrimonial estate and effects, promising
to warrant and defend the same against all persons from all lawful
1 This is perhaps the earliest occurrence in the records of the name of
" Hun." In the earlier records Harmen Thomassen is generally referred to
as " van Amersfoort." and in Notarial Papers, i :446, under date of July 19,
1664, he signs himself " Harman Thomasz van amerfort." The use of the
form " van Hun " is curious but perhaps not significant. As far as van der
Aa's Aardrijkskundig zcoordenboek shows there is no such place as Hun
in the Netherlands, though there are a number of places with names derived
from that word, such as Hunnekum. Hunnenberg and Hunneschans.
2 The Murderer's kill, which flows into the Hudson near Athens, Greene
county. N. Y.
^ Rondccl. in this connection, means a round piece or neck of land.
* This patent was granted in confirmation of the purchase from the Indians
on April 20. 1665. of land " called Caniskeck beneath Fort Albany on the
west side of the River over against Claveracke afores'^. stretcheth along by
the Riverside off from Pieter Broncks his Land to the Meadowes by the
corner, or Xeck of the main Land lying behind Barents Island by the
Indyans named Mackawameek so goeth up into the woods as well on the
South as North side till it reacheth to Kats Kill path."
DEEDS I 678-1 704 121
claims, demands and incumbrances and further nevermore to do
nor cause to be done anything contrary hereto in any manner, bind-
ing himself thereto as by law provided.
Done in Albany, the 7th of April 1681.
JOHANNS ClUTE
Cornells van Dyck
Dirk Wesselss
In my presence,
Rc^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Capt. Johannes Clute to Pieter Bosie and Jan van
Loon for land on the v^est side of the Hudson river opposite
Claverac
[no] Appeared before me, Rob*^. Livingston, secretary of Al-
bany, colony of Renselaersvvyck and Schaenhechtady, etc., in pres-
ence of the Honorable Mr Cornelis van Dyk and Mr Dirk Wessells,
magistrates of the same jurisdiction, the worthy Mr Johannes
Cloet, who declared that he grants, conveys and makes over in true,
rightful and free ownership to and for the behoof of P"". Bosie and
Jan van Loon his just third part of the land which he in partner-
ship with Jan Hand : Bruyn and Jurian Teunise possesses, which
aforesaid parcel of land lies on the west side of the North river,
over against Claverak, called by the Indians Caniskeek, stretching
along the river from P"". Bronck's land to the meadows (vlyen) by
the neck of the mainland lying behind Barents island,^ all by
reason of the patent thereof granted to him Jan Cloet, Jan Hend:
Bruyn and Jurian Teunise by the late Governor General Rich :
Nicolls, of date the 25th of May 1667, to which reference is herein
made; which aforesaid his portion and estate, being a just third
part of the land specified in said patent, he conveys to P"". Bosie and
Jan van Loon aforesaid, except the land that he has conveyed with
his associates to Marte Gerritse under date of the 28th of March
last past and the land which he in particular on this day has con-
veyed to Wyntje Harmense ; furthermore all the remainder of
his rights he conveys free and unincumbered, without any charges
thereon or issuing out of the same (saving the lord's right), with-
out the grantor's having any further claim in the least thereon,
acknowledging himself to be paid and satisfied therefor, the first
1 The patent of May 25, 1667 (see note to preceding deed), adds: "by the
Indyans called Mackawameek." Cf. E. M. Ruttenber, Indian Geographical
Names, p. 175.
122 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
penny with the last, therefore giving plcnam actionem cessaiu and
full power to the aforesaid P"". Bosie and Jan van Loon, their
heirs, successors, or assigns to do with and dispose of the aforesaid
land and the appurtenances thereof, so far as the grantor has own-
ership therein, saving the conveyances aforenamed, as they could
do with their own patrimonial estate and efifects, promising to war-
rant and defend the same against all persons from all trouble,
claims and incumbrances according to law and further nevermore
to do nor cause anything to be done contrary hereto in any manner,
binding himself thereto as by law provided.
Done in Albany, the /th of April 1681.
JOHANNS ClUTE
Cornelis van Dyck
Dirck IVesselss
In my presence,
Ro^. Livingston, Secretary
Bond of Pieter Bosie and Jan van Loon to Johannes Clute, mort-
gaging the land conveyed to them
[hi] Appeared before me, Rob^ Livingston, secretary of Al-
bany, colony of Renselaerswyk and Schaenhechtady, etc., in pres-
ence of the Honorable Mr Cornelis van Dyk and Mr Dirk Wessells,
magistrates of the same jurisdiction, Pieter Bosie and Jan van
Loon, who declared themselves to be honestly and truly indebted
and in arrears to Capt. Johan Cloet in the quantity of fifty good,
merchantable beaver skins, or good winter wheat at market price
for a certain parcel of land to them conveyed this day lying on the
west side of the North river over against Claverak, which sum of
fifty beavers, or wheat at market price to be delivered here in Al-
bany, the subscribers promise to pay in the following manner, to
wit, next May fifteen beavers, May 1682 five beavers and every
year thereafter five beavers up to 50 beavers ; but on this express
condition and stipulation that the one shall not be holden to pay
for the other, each being holden for twenty-five beavers, so that
if one of them should fail to pay said Johannes Cloet can attach
his half of the land, without lessening the other's rights ; for the
payment of which sum the subscribers give mortgage upon the land
on condition aforesaid, pledging the same to said Capt. Cloet spec-
ially, each his half of the land for said payment, and generally
their persons and estates, real and personal, present and future.
DEEDS I 678-1 704 123
nothing excepted, submitting the same to the authority of all lords,
courts, tribunals and judges.
Done in Albany, on the 7th of April 1681.
The mark X of P''. Bosie, made with
his own hand.
Cornelis van Dyck Jan van Loon
Dirck IVesselss
In my presence,
Ro^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Capt. Johannes Clute to Myndert Fredericksen for a
plot of ground in Albany
[112] Appeared before me, Ro'. Livingston, secretary of Al-
bany, colony of Renselaerswyk and Schaenhechtady, in presence
of the Honorable Mr Cornelis van Dyk and Mr Dirk Wessels,
magistrates of said jurisdiction, Capt. Johannes Cloete, who de-
clared that he granted, conveyed and made over in true, rightful
and free ownership to and for the behoof of Myndert Frederikse,
smith, a certain small plot of ground in the back part of his lot
behind his house, adjoining [and] to the south of Hans Dreper, to
the north of Gabriel Thomson and to the east of Jan Harmense,^
in length east and west fifteen wood feet and as broad as said Myn-
dert's lot, which small plot of ground he has long possessed and at
present owns ; which he, the grantor, does by virtue of the convey-
ance to him, Jan Cloet, given by Jan Coster van Aken, of date the
^|th of March 1667; ^^id that free and unincumbered, without any
charges thereon or issuing out of the same (saving the lord's right),
without the grantor's making any further claim in the least there-
to, acknowledging that he has been fully paid and satisfied there-
for, the first penny with the last, therefore giving plenam actionem
cessam and full power to the aforenamed Mynd^ Frederiksen, his
heirs, successors or ^assigns, to do with and dispose of the aforesaid
small plot of ground as he might do with his own patrimonial
estate and effects, promising to warrant and defend the same
against all persons from all trouble, claims and incumbrances ac-
cording to law, and further nevermore to do nor cause anything
1 Bclcndcnde ten suyden z'an hans Dreper . . . which Professor Pearson
had translated " bounded southerly by Hans Dreper," etc. Cf. conveyance
from Jan Coster van Aken to Johannes Clute, l^ March 1667, in Early
Records' of Albany, 1:406-7; also p. 104-5, 260-61, 502-3, and diagram of
lots on corner of State street and Broadway, in Munsell's Collections, 4 1203.
Gabriel Thomson is generally called Gabriel Thomassen. His last name was
Stridles.
124 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
to be done contrary hereto in any manner, binding himself thereto
as by law provided.
Done in Albany, the 15th of April 1681.
JoHANXs Clute
Cornells ran Dyck
Dirck JVesselsa
In my presence,
Ro^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from the magistrates of Albany to David Schuyler for a
lot at Albany
[113] The honorable magistrates of Albany, colony of Rensel-
aerswyck and 'Schaenhechtady, etc., declare by these presents that
they grant, convey and make over in true, rightful and free owner-
ship to and for the behoof of Mr David Schuyler, a certain lot ly-
ing behind his house where he now lives, being in breadth on the
west five and a half rods and four inches and on the east five rods
and seven inches ; in length northerly two and a half rods and nine
inches and southerly two rods and six inches, being on the westerly
side of the lot belonging to the colony, on the easterly side of Mr
David Schuyler aforesaid, on the northerly side of Hans Hen-
drix and on the southerly side of the alley by the town fence ^ ac-
cording to the measurement and survey of the surveyor dated the
14th of May 1 68 1, which lot the aforenamed David Schuyler has
bought of the magistrates and fully paid for, [they] conveying the
same free and unincumbered (saving the lord's right), therefore
giving to the aforenamed David Schuyler, his heirs, successors and
assigns full power to dispose of the same as he might do with his
own patrimonial effects and the right to demand a patent for the
aforesaid lot from the right honorable general.
Done in Albany this 19th day of May 1681.
cornelis van dvck
Dirck Wesselsz
Cornelis van Dyck
Dirck Wesselsz
In my presence,
Rc^. Livingston, Secretary
^ Belendende ten westen van't Erff toebehoorende d'CoIony & Beoosten
van .!/"•. David Schuyler voorsz, & benoorden van hans hendrix & bestiyden
van d'Gangh by d' Stadts heyningen, which Professor Pearson first translated
as "bounded westerly by the lot belonging to the colony . . ." and then
changed as above in the text. The latter way is doubtless correct.
DEEDS 1 6/8- 1 704 125
Deed from Gerrit Reyersen to Barent Myndertsen and others for
a lot outside the north gate of Albany
[114] Appeared before me, Rob^ Livingston, secretary of Al-
bany, colony of Renselaerswyck, etc., in presence of the Honorable
Mr Cornelis van Dyck and Mr Dirk Wessels, magistrates of the
same jurisdiction, Gerritt Ryerse, who declared that he grants,
conveys and makes over in true, rightful and free ownership
to and for the behoof of Barent Myndertse, Jeronimus Wen-
dell, Cornelis van Shelluyne, Symon Jacobse Schermerhooren,
Jacob Teunise, and Johannes Mingaell, shoemakers, a certain lot
lying without the north gate of Albany, adjoining and to the south
of the cross fence of the grantor and Claes Janse van Boekhooven,
to the north and east of the grantor to the west of the high-
way,^ in breadth in front on the street forty-five feet and in length
on the south and north sides likewise forty-five feet and in the rear
sixty-one feet in width, all Rhineland measure, on which lot said
six shoemakers have built a bark mill ; which he, the grantor, does
by virtue of the patent granted to his late father Ryer Elbertse and
Claes Janse by the late Governor General Rich : Xicolls, of date
the /th of May 1667,- and that free and unincumbered, without
any charges on or issuing out of the same (saving the lord's right),
without the grantor's making any further claim in the least thereto
acknowledging himself to be paid and satisfied therefor, the first
penny with the last, therefore giving plenaui actionem ccssam and
full power to the aforenamed Barent Myndertse, Jeron : W'endel,
Cornel : van Shelluyne, Symon Jac : Shermerhoren, Jacob Teunise,
Johannes- Mingaell, shoemakers, their heirs, successors, or assigns
1 belcndcndc ten Suydcn van d' Dzvars heyning van hem Transportant &
Claes Janse van Boekhooven & ten noorden & Oosten van hem Transportant
& ten Westen van d' gemeene zvegh. Professor Pearson translates this :
" bonnded southerly l)y the cross fence of the grantor and Claes Janse van
Boekhooven and northerly and easterly of him the grantor and west of the
common way." It will be noticed, however, that in so doing he describes
the lot twice as being bounded to the south by the grantor.
2 The abstract of this patent in Patents, 1667-1671, pt 2, p. 33, in the New
York State Library, reads : "A Confirmacon graunted unto Reyer Elberts &
Claes Jans for a pcell of Land at Albany Richard Xicolls Esqz &c Whereas
there was a Patent, or Groundbriefe heretofore graunted by the Dutch
Governc Petrus Stuyvesant unto Arent van Curler for a certain piece of
Land near the Fort in Beverwick at Albany to the North of Reyer Elbertsen
lying in length along the highway, & in breadth twelve Rod going westward
into the woods fourty four Rod and abutting behind overag^t the Fence of
Arent Andriesen de Noorman, which s^ Patent or Groundbriefe so graunted
as aforesd bearing date the 23*''. day of Apr : 1659 was on the 30th. of Apr :
1663 transported and made over unto Reyer Elberts and Claes Jans by the s<i
Arent van Curler with all his Right and Interest therein. Now for a Con-
firmacon &c. The Patent is dated the y^^. May 1667."
120 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
to do with and dispose of the aforesaid lot as they could do with
their own patrimonial estate and effects, promising to warrant and
defend the same against all persons from all trouble, claims and in-
cumbrances according to law^ and further nevermore to do nor
cause anything to be done contrary hereto in any manner, binding
himself as by law provided.
Done in Albany, the 25th of May 1681.
Gerrit Reyersen
Cornelis van Dyck
Dirck JJ'essclsc
In my presence,
Ro'f. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Capt. Volkert Jansen Douw to Harmen Rutgers for
a let in Albany
[115] Appeared before me, Ro'. Livingston, secretary of Al-
bany, colony of Renselaerswyck, etc., in presence of the Honorable
Mr Corn : van Dyk and Mr Dirk Wessells, magistrates of the same
jurisdiction, Capt. A'olkert JanseDow, who declared that he grant-
ed, conveyed and made over in true, rightful and free ownership
to and for the behoof of Harme Rutgers, master brewer, a certain
lot lying here in Albany to the south of the \aiykse kill,^ to the
west of W'^. Jochimse Ketelhuyse, to the east of the grantor and
to the north of the public road^ by the churchyard and to the south
of the Fuykse kill ; in length east and west seven rods and in
breadth south and north thirty-two feet, with the reservation that
there shall remain a public road leading to the Lutheran church ;
which he, the grantor, does by virtue of the patent granted to him
by the late Governor General Rich : Xicolls, of date the 4th of May
1667;^ and that free and unincumbered, without any charges on or
issuing out of the same (saving the lord's right), without the grant-
or's making any further claim in the least thereto, acknowledging
himself to be paid and satisfied therefor, the first penny with the
last, therefore giving plenam actionem cessain and full power to
the aforenamed Harme Rutgers, his heirs, successors, or assigns
to do with and dispose of the aforesaid lot as he could do with his
1 Same as Fuyck, or Rutten kill.
2 Now Beaver street.
'In this patent, which was a confirmation of a Dutch grant of April 23,
1652, the land is described as " abutting to the Xorth of the Creeke or Kill
called the ffuycke Kill to the South on the Common Highway, to the west
the Hills, and to the East Anthony de Hooges."
DEEDS 1 678- 1 704 • 127
own patrimonial estate and effects, promising to warrant and de-
fend the same against all persons from all trouble, claims and in-
cumbrances according to law and further nevermore to do nor
cause anything to be done contrary hereto in any manner, under
binding obligation as by law provided.
Done in Albany, the 20th of June 1681.
VOLCKART JanSZ DoXTW
Cornells van Dyck
Dirck Wesselsa
In my presence,
Ro^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Harmen Jansen Lyndrayer to Pieter Winne for a
house and lot in Albany
[116] Appeared before me, Rob*. Livingston, secretary of Al-
bany, colony of Renselaerswyk and Schaenhechtady, etc., in pres-
ence of the Honorable Mr Cornells van Dyk and Mr Dirk Wes-
sells, magistrates of the same jurisdiction, Harme Janse Lyndrayer,
who declared that he grants, conveys and makes over in true, right-
ful and free ownership to and for the behoof of Mr Pieter Winne,
a certain house and lot standing and lying here in Albany, with all
that is thereon fast by earth and nail, adjoining southerly P"". Lo-
kermans, northerly the house of Lawrence and Jan Janse Bleeker,
westerly and easterly the streets ; in breadth in front on the street
two rods, and in the rear on the west side one rod and ten and a
half feet, in length on the north side six and a half rods and on the
south side six rods, five and a half feet ; which he, the grantor,
does by virtue of the conveyance given to him by Paulus Martense
Raemmaker, of date the 31st of December 1677,^ to which refer-
ence is herein made, and that free and unincumbered, without any
charges thereon or issuing out of the same (saving the lord's
right), without the grantor's making any further claim in the least
thereto, acknowledging himself to be paid and satisfied therefor, the
first penny with the last, therefore giving plenani actionem cessam
and full power to the aforenamed Mr Pieter Winne, his heirs, suc-
cessors or assigns to do with and dispose of the aforesaid house
and lot as he could do with his own patrimonial estate and effects,
promising to warrant and defend the same against all persons from
all trouble, claims and incumbrances according to law and further
1 Thus in the original. Cf. Early Records of Albany, i : 170-71, where the
date is given as the 13th December 1677.
128 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
nevermore to do nor cause anything to be done contrary hereto
in any manner, binding himself as by law provided.
Done in Albany, the 21st of June 1O81.
Harmen Jansz Lyndraier
Cornelis van Dyck
Dirck IVesselsz
In my presence,
Ro^. Livingston, Secretary
Bond and mortgage of Pieter Winne to Harmen Jansen Lyn-
drayer (not executed)
[117] Appeared before me, Ro^ Livingston, secretary of Al-
bany, colony of Renselaerswyk and Shaenhechtady, etc., in pres-
ence of the Honorable Mr Cornelis van Dyck and Mr Dirk Wes-
sells, magistrates of the same jurisdiction, the worthy Mr Pieter
Winne, who declared himself to be honestly and truly indebted and
in arrears to Harme Janse Lyndrayer in the sum of twenty-seven
beavers, which the subscriber may pay in good, merchantable inch
boards at 22 per beaver, next May 1682, being for the second pay-
ment for the house and lot which P''. Lokermans bought of said
Harme Janse Lyndrayer for him, the subscriber, and which was
yesterday conveyed to him by said Harme Janse, and whereas
said monies have been attached by some of H : Janse's creditors,
the subscriber undertakes to pay these as well as ninety boards for
Mr Rich : Pretty, being requested so to do by Harme Janse afore-
said, for so far as said 27 beavers will reach ; for which payment of
twenty-seven beavers or boards at 22 per beaver as above stated,
the subscriber hereby gives a mortgage upon his house conveyed to
him yesterday by said H : Janse, pledging the same specially to
said H : Janse or his order, and generally his person and estate,
real and personal, present and future, nothing excepted, submitting
the same to the authon'ty of all lords, courts, tribunals and judges.
Done in Albany the 22d of June 1681.
[This instrument was not signed.]
Deed from Adriaen Appel, attorney for Jan Andriessen Douw,
to Johannes Thomassen Mingael and Jacob Teunissen for a
house and lot in Albany
[118] Appeared before me, Ro*. Livingston, se,cretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyck and Schaenhechtady, in presence of the
Honorable Mr Dirk Wessells and Mr Jan Janse Bleeker, magistrates
DEEDS I 678- I 704 129
of the same jurisdiction, Jan Andriese Dow, who declared that he
grants, conveys and makes over in true, rightful and free ownership
to and for the behoof of Johannes Thomase Mingael and Jacob
Teunise, .both shoemakers of this town, a certain house and lot
standing and lying here in Albany,- adjoining southerly and westerly
Jochim Ketelheyn, northerly the house of Jan Cornelise Vyselaer
and easterly the street ; in length three rods, nine feet and seven
inches and in breadth one rod, eight feet and one inch, but it is re-
served that the alley between this house and the house of Jan Cor-
nelise Vyselaer shall remain in common, being fifteen and a half
feet long back of said Jan Gaw's ^ house ; which he, the grantor,
does by virtue of the conveyance given to him by Jan Cornelise
Vyselaer, of date the 20th of June 1678,^ to which reference is
herein made, and that free and unincumbered, without any charges
thereon 6v issuing out of the same (saving the lord's right ), without
the grantor's making any further claim in the least thereto, acknowl-
edging himself to be paid and satisfied therefor, the first penny with
the last, therefore giving plenam actionem cessam and full power to
the aforenamed Johannes Tomase Mingael and Jacob Teunise to do
with and dispose of the aforesaid house and lot as they could do
with their own patrimonial estate and efifects, promising to warrant
and defend the same against all persons from all trouble, claims and
incumbrances according to law and further nevermore to do nor
cause any thing to be done contrary hereto in any manner, binding
himself thereto as by law provided therefore.
Done in Albany, the 8th of July 1681. N. B. Adr: Appell has full
power from Jan Andriese Dow to sign this conveyance.
Dirck Wessellss A : Appel
Jan Janss Blceckcr
In my presence,
RoB'^. Livingston, Secretary
Release by Johannes Thomassen Mingael to Jacob Teunissen of
his half interest in the house and lot purchased from Jan An-
driessen Douw
[119] Appeared before me, Rob^ Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyck and Schaenhechtady, etc., in presence of
1 Generally spelled Gow, or Gouw, and referring to Jan Cornelissen
Vyselaer; see Early Records of Albany, 1:187. Gouw means "quick," but
may also stand for " ter Gouw," or Gouda, a city in the province of South
Holland.
2 See Early Records of Albany, i :i87.
130 EARLY RECORDS OF ALRANY
the Honorable Mr Cornelie Yan Dyk and Mr Dirk Wessells, magis-
trates of the same jurisdiction, Johannes Thomese Mingael, who
declared that he grants, conveys and makes over in true, rightful
and free ownership to and for the behoof of Jacob Teunise, shoe-
maker, his certain just half of a house and lot standing and lying
here in Albany on Coe straet,^ adjoining southerly and westerly
Jochim Ketelheyn, northerly the house of Jan Cornelise Vyselaer
and to the east- the street; in length three rods, nine feet, seven
inches and in breadth one rod, eight feet and one inch, reserving the
alley between said house and the house of Jan Gaw to remain in
common, being fifteen feet and a half long back of said Jan Gaw's
house; which half of said house and lot he, the grantor, conveys
by virtue of a deed to him and said Jacob Teunise given by Adriaen
Appell, attorney for Jan Andriese Dow on the 8th day of July 1681,
to which reference is herein made, and that free and unincumbered,
without any charges thereon or issuing out of the same (saving the
lord's right), without the grantor's making any further claim in the
least thereto, acknowledging himself to be paid and satisfied there-
for, the first penny with the last, therefore giving plenam actionem
cessam and full power to the aforenamed Jacob Teunise, his heirs,
successors, or assigns to do with and dispose of the aforesaid half
[interest in] the house and lot as he could do with his own patri-
monial estate and effects, promising to warrant and defend the same
against all persons from all trouble, claims and incumbrances accord-
ing to law and further nevermore to do nor cause anything to be
done contrary hereto in any manner, binding himself thereto as by
law provided.
Done in Albany, the 9th of July 1681.
Cornelis van Dyck Johannis Tomes Meingael
Dirck Wesselsz
In my presence,
Ro"^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Jan Thomassen to Jacob Jansen Schermerhorn for the
half of the island of Schodack and of a piece of land on the east
bank of the Hudson river
[120] Appeared before me Ro^ Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyck and Schaenhechtady, etc., in presence of
the Honorable ]\Ir Cornelis van Dyk and Dr Dirk Wessels, magis-
^ Literally, " Cow street " ; now Broadway.
DEEDS 1678-I704 131
trates of the same jurisdiction, the worthy Jan Thomase/ who de-
clared that he grants, conveys and makes over in true, rightful and
free ownership to and for the behoof of Jacob Janse Schermer-
hooren, the just half of the island of Schotack as he has divided it
with Volkert Janse Dow, viz, [the part] along the kill side belong-
ing to Jan Thomase and [that] on the river side belonging to Volk^
Janse Dow ; together with what belongs to him on the east bank,
with house, barn and rick, just as he bought it at vendue on the
19th of September 1670, which he, the grantor, does by virtue of the
patent to him and Volkert Janse granted under date of the 4th of
JVTay 1667^ by the late Governor General Richard Nicolls for the
whole island and a parcel of land lying on the east side of the kill
where the house of Mahac Notas stood ; and that free and unincum-
bered, without any charges thereon or issuing out of the same (sav-
ing the lord's right), without the grantor's making any further claim
in the least thereto, acknowledging himself to be paid and satisfied
therefor, the first penny with the last, therefore giving plenam ac-
tionem cessam and full power to do with and dispose of the afore-
said half island lying on the kill side and the appurtenances thereof
as the same has been owned by the grantor as [the grantee] could
do with his own patrimonial estate and effects, promising to warrant
and defend the same against all persons from all trouble, claims' and
incumbrances according to law and further nevermore to do nor
. cause anything to be done contrary hereto in any manner, binding
himself thereto as by law provided.
Done in Albany, this nth of July 1681.
Cornells van Dyck Jan Thomasz
Dirk Wesselsz
In my presence,
Ro'^. Livingston, Secretary
Release by Capt. Philip Pietersen Schuyler of his half interest in
three parcels of land at Half Moon to Annetje Lievens, widow
of Goosen Gerritsen van Schaick
[121] Appeared before me, Rob*. Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyk and Schinnechtady, in presence of the
i-His signature is the same as that of Jan Thomasz from Witbeeck, or
Wittbek, in Notarial Papers, 2:103-5.
2 In this confirmation of the Dutch grant of November 3, 1663, the island
is described as " lying in the North River neare unto Albany by the Creek,
or Kill commonly called Goyers Kill, the s^ Island being known by the
Indyan name of Schotack, or Apes Island, Together vv"'. a piece of Land
on the East side of the Creek or Kill there where the House of Maehack
Notas stood striking into the woods it conteyns about [blank] acres or
margen."
13- EARLY RECORDS OF ALIiANV
Honorable Mr Cornells van Dyk and JMr Dirk Wessells, magistrates
of said jurisdiction, the Honorable Capt. Philip Pieterse Schuyler,
who declared that he granted, conveyed and made over in true,
rightful and free ownership to and for the behoof of Annetje Lie-
vens, widow of the late Goose Gerritse, deceased, his just half of
three parcels of land specified in three separate grants or ground-
briefs and combined into one patent by the late Governor General
Francis Lovelace granted to Capt. Goose Gerritse, deceased, and to
him, the grantor, under date of the 30th of March 1672,' the first
parcel lying to the north of the fourth Spruyt- above the colony
of Renselaerswyk, being the fore land of the Halve Maen (Half
Moon) ; the second parcel is the island where Anthony Goosense
now dwells, called Langh I slant (Long Lsland) ; the third parcel
is the Halve Maen with three islands lying thereby ; all of which
he conveys by virtue of said patent, and that free and unincum-
bered, without any charges thereon or issuing out of the same
(save the lord's right), without the grantor's making any further
claim whatsoever thereto, acknowledging that he is paid and satis-
fied therefor, the first penny with the last, therefore giving plenam
actionem cessam and full power to the aforesaid Annetje Lievens,
her heirs, successors and assigns, to do with and dispose of the
aforesaid parcels of land as she might do with her own patrimonial
estate and effects, promising to warrant and defend the same
1 The record of this patent seems to be lost, but the three grants to which
reference is made were as follows: (i) a patent of October 13, 1665, for
" a certaine Tract of Land called Mathahenaack, Scituate, lyin": and being
to the North of the fourth Spring, beyond and above the Colony of Renzluers-
wick near Albany, being the foremost of a Parcell of Land called the halfe
Moone, otherwise by the Mahikanders, Nachtenack, Stretching along the
River Northwards from the said spring, unto a Creeke proceeding out of a
great Meadow, lyuig west of the said River, and so forth into the Woods,
unto the Maqua's Hill;" (2) a patent of the same date for "a certaine
Island called by the Mahikanse Indyans, Quahemesicos, and commonly
knowne by the name of Long Island, Scituate lying and being, between the
Second and Third Spring, beyond and above the Colony of Renzluerswyck,
near Albany; " (3) a patent of May 4, 1668, for "a certaine Tract or parcell
of land scituate lying & being to y'^ North, & aboue y^ said Towne of Albany
& is comonly called or knowne by ye name of y'^ halfe Moone The said land
stretching up alongst ye North Ryver from a certaine place where are seuerall
streames of water to a Creek or Kill where there is a fall of waters w''^.
running into y<^ Land at Length bath its course into ye North Ryver The
said Creek or Kill & fall being by y^ Indians called Tionwenendahow &
from thence runs up ye Maques Kill westward to a place called Dowaelsojacx,
& so strikes p'sently Eastward up alongst by ye said streams of water & then
to ye North River aforementioned, Togeth'". w"i. three small Islands lying
in y^ said Ryver over against y^ said Tract or parcell of Land called ye Halfe
Moone as aforesaid weh. said purchase was by y^ said Indian Proprietors
acknowledged at Albany upon ye 24th. day of March 1667."
2 Literally, "sprout," referring to a branch or fork of the Mohawk river.
DEEDS 1678-I704 133
against all persons from all lawful claims, demands and incum-
brances and further nevermore to do nor cause to be done any-
thing contrary hereto in any manner, binding himself thereto as
by law provided.
Done in Albany, the 12th of July 1681.
Cornells van Dyck Philip Schuyler
Dirck Wesselsz In my presence,
Ro"^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Major Abraham Staets to Johannes de Wandelaer
for a garden outside of Albany on the plain
[122] Appeared before me, Rob*^. Livingston, secretary of
Albany, colony of Renselaerswyck and Schaenhechtady, etc., in
presence of the Honorable Mr Cornelis van Dyck and Mr Jan Janse
Bleeker, magistrates of the same jurisdiction, the worthy Maj*".
Abraham Staas, who declared that he grants, conveys and rhakes
over in true, rightful and free ownership to and for the behoof of
Johannes d'Wandelaer, a certain garden lying without the town of
Albany on the Pleyn (Plain), abutting on the north [side] of the
orchard belonging to the patroon of the colony of Renselaerswyk,
to the west on the lot heretofore belonging to Dirk Jan^e Croon,
and on the south [side] of the common alley ; ^ in length seven rods
^Sekere Thuyn gelegen buyten d'Stadt Albany op't Pleyn Belendende ten
noorden van d Bogaert toebehoorende d'Patroon dcr Colony Renselaerswyk,
ten westen 't Erff voordesen toebehoorende Dirk Janse Croon, & ten suyden
van d' gemeene gangh. In the patent of April 24, 1667, the land is described
as a " Lot of Ground with a Garden belonging to it lying & being in Bever-
wick at Albany abutting on the north to Gerrit Slichtenhorst Poort or Gate,
& on the west to Derrick Jansen conteining in length seaven Rod, & in
breadth five Rod as in the Groundbriefe is set forth, which s<i Lott & Garden
was upon the 5" day of May 1662 transported & made over unto Capt^^.
Abraham Staets by Cornelys Vos." This places the garden to the south of
Slichtenhorst's gate, whereas the deed from Cornelis de Vos, May 5, 1662,
in Deeds, 2:316^17, reads: een erff tot ecn tuyn gelegen Inden durpe van
Bevenvyck belendende ten noorden van Slichtenhorst poort ende aen de west
syde dirrick Janseen, that is, to the north of Slichtenhorst's gate and having
to the west Dirck Jansen, and not, as translated in Early Records of Albany,
1:301, "adjoining to the north Van Slichtenhorst's gate, on the west side
Dirk Janssen." The Dutch deed from Cornelis de Vos undoubtedly follows
the language of the original patent of April 23, 1652, to which it refers, but
which like all other patents of that date is no longer in existence. That in
this early deed and in the patent of April 24, 1667, the garden is described
as being " in Beverwyck," while in the deed of August 6. 1681, it is said
to be "without the town of Albany," may arise from the fact that the garden
was without the town stockade and that this stockade was not yet built in
1652. In a note in Early Records of Albany, i :i3, it is stated that " The
land south of the city wall and Hudson street was called the plain," but on
p. 116, Professor Pearson says that "The plain included the area south of
the Rutten kil and east of Pearl street." The latter statement does not
seem to be quite correct.
134 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
and in breadth five rods; which he the grantor does by virtue of
the patent granted to him by the late Governor General Rich :
Xicolls under date of the 24th of April 1667; and that free and
unincumbered, without any charges thereon or issuing out of the
same (saving the lord's right), without the grantor's making any
further claim in the least thereto, acknowledging himself to be
paid and satisfied therefor, the first penny with the last, therefore
giving plenum actionem cessam and full power to the aforenamed
Johannes d'Wandelaer, his heirs, successors, or assigns to do with
and dispose of the aforesaid garden as he could do with his own
patrimonial estate 'and effects, promising to warrant and defend
the same against all persons from all trouble, claims and incum-
brances according to law and further nevermore to do nor cause
anything to be done contrary hereto in any manner, binding him-
self thereto as by law provided. Done in Albany, the 6th of
August 1 681.
Abram Staas
Cornells van Dyck
Jan Janse Bleecker
In my presence,
Ro^ Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Gerrit Herttenberch to Hendrick Rooseboom for a
house and lot in Albany
[123] Appeared before me, Rob^ Livingston, secretar\' of
Albany, colony of Renselaerswyk and Schaenhechtady, etc., in
presence of the Honorable Mr Cornells van Dyk and Mr Jan Janse
Bleecker, magistrates of the same jurisdiction, the worthy Ger*^.
Hartenbergh, who declared that he grants, conveys and makes over
in true, rightful and free ownership to and for the behoof of Hen-
drik Rooseboom a certain house and lot standing and lying here in
Albany, between the houses of Harmanus Borgerse and Jacob
Tyse van der Heyden, bounded in front and rear on the street,'
just as it was conveyed to him by the attorney of Tim°. Cooper,
deceased, except a little corner of the lot in the rear on the side,
about a foot, which, Anth°. Lespinard has bought, otherwise just as
it lies inclosed in its fence ; which he, the grantor, does by virtue
of the conveyance given to him by W'". Loverige, attorney of Tim°.
Cooper, deceased, of date the 22d of August 1679, and that free
and unincumbered, without any charges thereon or issuing out of
1 North Pearl and James streets. See p. 56.
DEEDS 1 678- 1 704 135
the same (saving the lord's right), without the grantor's having
any further claim in the least thereon, acknowledging himself to
be paid and satisfied therefor, the first penny with the last, there-
fore giving plenam actionem cessain and full power to the afore-
named Hend : Rooseboom, his heirs, successors, or assigns to do
with and dispose of the aforesaid house and lot as he could do
with his own patrimonial estate and effects, promising to warrant
and defend the same against all persons from all trouble, claims and
incumbrances according to law and further nevermore to do nor
cause anything to be done contrary hereto in any manner, binding
himself thereto as by law provided. Done in Albany, the nth of
August 1 68 1.
Gerrit Herttenberch
Cornells van Dyck
Jan Jansz Bleecker
In my presence,
Rqt. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Hendrick Rooseboom to Gerrit Herttenberch for a
house and lot in Albany on the hill
[124] Appeared before me, Ro^ Livingston, secretary of
Albany, colony of Renselaerswyck and Schaenhectady, etc., in
presence of the Honorable Mr Cornelis van Dyk and Mr Jan Janse
Bleker, magistrates of the same jurisdiction, the worthy Hendrik
Rooseboom, who declared that he grants, conveys and makes over
in true, rightful and free ownership to and for the behoof of
Gerrit Hartenbergh a certain house and lot standing and lying here
in Albany, adjoining to the south the house of Johannes Roose-
boom, to the north the house of Jacob Ten Eyck, to the west and
east the street, all as it lies in its fence, excepting the lot belonging
to the small house standing next south thereof, being three rods
and eight feet long and in breadth in the rear eight feet and five
inches ; the house must be drip free and Ger*. Hartenb : is granted
the privilege of sewering upon the lot of Johannes Rooseboom;
which he, the grantor, does by virtue of the conveyance to him
given by Jacob Heevick, Ger^ Swart and Adriaen van Ilpendam,
curators of the estate of the late Rhyndert Pieterse, of date the
14th of June 1673,^ ^^^d that free and unincumbered, without any
^ See Early Records of Albany, 1:91-92. Cf. diagram of lots on east
side of North Pearl street, between Maiden Lane and Steuben street, in
Munsell's Collections, 4:211.
136 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
charges thereon or issuing out of the same (saving the lord's
right), without the grantors having any further claim in the least
thereon, acknowledging himself to be paid and satisfied therefor,
the first penny with the last, therefore giving plcuam actionctn
cessain and full power to the aforenamed 'Gerrit Hartenbergh, his
heirs, successors, or assigns to do with and dispose of the aforesaid
house and lot as he could do with his own patrimonial estate and
effects, promising to warrant and defend the same against all per-
sons from all trouble, claims and incumbrances according to law
and further nevermore to do nor cause anything to be done con-
trary hereto in any manner, binding himself thereto as by law
provided. Done in Albany, the nth of August 1681.
Hexdrick R[oos]eboom
Cornells van Dyck
Jan Janss Bleecker
In my presence,
Ro'^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Hendrick Rooseboom to his son Johannes Rooseboom
for a small house and lot in Albany on the hill
[125] Appeared before me, Rob*. Livingston, secretary of
Albany, colony of Renselaerswyck and Schinnechtady, in presence
of the Honorable ^NTr Cornells van Dyk and Mr Jan Janse Bleker,
magistrates of the same jurisdiction, the worthy Hendrik Roose-
boom, burgher of this town, who declared that out of particular
love and affection, he gives, grants, conveys and makes over to
and for the behoof of his beloved son Johannes Rooseboom a cer-
tain small house and lot standing and lying here in Albany on the
hill, to the south and west of Ger*. Hardenbergh, to the north of
the house and lot of Phillip Pieterse Schuyler and to the east of
the street,^ breadth in front on the street ten feet and five inches,
and in the rear eight feet and five inches, in length three rods, eight
feet, three inches, all Rhineland measure ; w'hich he, the grantor,
does by virtue of the conveyance given to him by Jacob Herick,
Gerrit Swart and Adriaen van Ilpendam, curators of the estate of
the late Rhyndert Pieterse, of date the 14th June 1673," and that
free and unincumbered, without any charges thereon or issuing
out of the same (saving the lord's right), without the grantor's
1 North Pearl street ; see note to preceding deed.
2 See Early Records of Albany, i :9i-92.
DEEDS I 678- I 704 137
having any further claim in the least thereon, acknowledging him-
self to be fully content and satisfied therefor, [the same] being
freely given to him [the grantee], therefore giving plenani actionem
cessani and full power to his aforenamed son Johannes Rooseboom
to do with and dispose of the aforesaid house and lot as he could
do with his own patrimonial estate and efifects, promising to war-
rant and defend the same against all persons from all trouble,
claims and incumbrances according to law and fuither nevermore
to do nor cause anything to be done contrary hereto in any manner,
under binding obligation as by law provided. Done in Albany,
the I2th of August 1681.
Hendrick Rooseboom
Cornells van Dyck
Jan Jansz Bleecker
Deed from Hendrick Jochemsen of Kingston to Major Abraham
Staets for a lot in Albany
[126] Appeared before me, Ro^ Livingston, secretary of
Albany, colony of Renselaerswyck and Schaenhechtady, in pres-
ence of the Honorable Mr Cornelis van Dyk and Mr Jan Janse
Bleker, magistrates of the said jurisdiction, Hendrick Jochimse,
inhabitant of Kingstoun in the Esopus, who declared that he
grants, conveys and makes over in true, rightful and free ownership
to and for the behoof of Major Abraham Staets a certain part of
a lot lying here in Albany, to the south of Jurian van Hoesen,^
formerly belonging to Daniel Rinckhout, to the north of said Maj.
Abr: Staets, to the west of the brewery of Sybrant van Schayk
and to the east of the street, being the whole of the lot specified
1 The eldest son of Jan Fransen van Hoesen (Hoesem, Hoesum), the
progenitor of the Van Heusen family, mentioned below. Genealogies of
this family state that the first ancestor came from Huysen, or Huizen, on
the Zuider Zee, in the Netherlands, presumably because the name of Jan
Fransen is entered in the baptismal records of the Reformed Dutch Church
at New York under the date of September 30, 1640, as "Van huysen." It
should be noted, however, that this is a most unusual form of the name and
that Jan Fransen in the early deeds and court records at Albany, between
1652 and 1672, is invariably referred to as " van Hoesem," which would
seem to be but a Dutch phonetic spelling of the name of the town of Husum,
in Schleswig, from the vicinity of which a number of early settlers came.
At all events, there seems to be no good reason why the perfectly familiar
name of Huysen should in Dutch records be written " Hoesem," or even
" Hoesum," as in the patent mentioned below, whereas the spelling " Huysen "
for Husum may be accounted for by the fact that the same form occurs
on the map of Denmark in Ortelius' Atlas of 1598, and probably on other
Dutch maps of the period. In support of the theory that Jan Fransen came
from Schleswig it may be recalled also that Pearson in his Early Settlers of
Albany, p. 126, states that the Van Hoesens were Lutherans.
138 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
in a patent granted to the grantor Hend : Jochimse by the late
Governor General Richard Nicolls, dated the 25th of October
1667,' except what he conveyed to Capt. PhilUp Schuyler under
date of [blank];- and that free and unincumbered without any
charges thereon or issuing out of the same (saving the lord's
right), without the grantor's making any further claim in the least
thereto, acknowledging that he has been fully paid and satisfied
therefor, the first penny with the last, therefore giving plenum
actionem cessam and full power to the aforenamed Major Abrah:
Staets, his heirs, successors, or assigns, to do therewith and dis-
pose thereof as he might do with his own patrimonial estate and
effects, promising to warrant and defend the same against all per-
sons from all trouble, claims and incumbrances according to law and
further nevermore to do nor cause anything to be done contrary
hereto in any manner, binding himself thereto as by law provided.
Done in Albany, the 226. of August 1681.
Hendrick Jochemsz
Corn: van Dyck
Jan Jansz Bleecker
In my presence,
Ro^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from the magistrates to Johannes de Wandelaer for a
small parcel of land on the Plain at Albany
[127] The honorable magistrates of Albany, colony of Rense-
laerwyck and Schinnechtady, etc., hereby declare that they have
granted, conveyed and made over in true, rightful and free owner-
ship to and for the behoof of Johannes d'Wandelaer a small parcel
of land lying by his garden on the Pleyn (Plain) to preserve his
apple trees, having moved the fence further out,^ and the little
1 This patent was a confirmation of a conveyance by Femmetje Alberts,
widow of Hendrick Jansen, to Hendrick Jochemsen, dated April 16. 1666,
for a house and lot in Albany-, abutting " on y^ north to y^ lott of Daniel
Ringhout to >-* East on ye brewhouse belonging to volchert Jansen & Jan
Tomassen to y^ South on y« Lott of Jan Fransen van Hoesum togeth"". vi^^.
a garden lying by y^ Ryver side w*^. a space for a doore to go from y«
said Lott to y^ said Garden."
2 June 1 , 1666; see Early Records of Albany, 1 :399. where it is stated that
the conveyance by Femmetje Alberts, mentioned in the preceding note, was
made in the Esopus. Consequently, this deed is not recorded in Albany, but
must be looked for among the records in Kingston.
3 een Stuck je Erffs gelegen by syn Thiiyn op 't Pleyn, om syn Appell
Boonten te Preserveeren hebbende d'heyninge uytgesett, which was translated
by Professor Pearson as " a small parcel of land lying by his garden to
extend his fence for the preservation of his apple orchard." The fact that
DEEDS I 678- I 704 139
parcel is in breadth six feet and in length like the garden, viz
seven rods, Rhineland measure, lying to the south of the common
alley between him and Mr Phil : Schuyler ; which six feet of land
Johannes d'Wandelaer has bought of the magistrates for the sum
of two beavers, paid in full ; and that free and unincumbered
(saving the lord's right), therefore giving plenam actionem cessam
and full power to the aforesaid purchaser to do with and dispose
of the said parcel of land as he might do with his own patrimonial
estate and effects, promising to warrant and defend the same
against all persons from all trouble, claims and incumbrances ac-
cording to law and further nevermore to do nor cause anything
to be done contrary hereto in any manner, binding themselves
thereto as by law provided. Done in Albany, the 9th of September
1681.
Marten Gertsen
DiRCK Wesselsz
Deed from Huybert Jansen to Barent Pietersen Coeymans for a
lot in Albany
[128] Appeared before me, Rob*. Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyck, etc., in presence of the Honorable Mr
Cornells van Dyk and Mr Dirk Wessells, magistrates of the same
jurisdiction, Huybert Janse, who declared that he grants, conveys
and makes over in true, rightful and free ownership to and for the
behoof of Bar*. Pieterse Coeymans a certain piece of a lot lying here
in Albany next the house of said Huybert Janse, being to the east
and north of the lot of Harme Gansevoort, west of Huyb : Janse and
south of the street, in breadth in front on the street and in the rear
also nineteen feet and in length east and west two and a half rods,
Rhineland measure ; which he, the grantor, does by virtue of the
patent granted to him by the late Governor General Rich<^. NicoUs
under date of the nth of September 1667,^ and that free and un-
incumbered, without any charges thereon or issuing out of the same
the land was granted by the magistrates might seem to imply that the word
heyninge refers to the town fence, but this does not appear to be the case,
as it would place the garden, and consequently the Plain, within or to the
north of the town fence, whereas the reference to the common alley between
the grantee and Philip Schuyler suggests that it was some distance south
of the town fence, perhaps not far from the Beaver kill.
1 This patent was granted on a conveyance bearing date April 9, 1667,
made by Juriaen Jansen Groenwout to Huybert Jansen, for which see Early
Records of Albany, i :409.
I40 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
«
(saving the lord's right), without the grantor's having any further
claims in the least thereon, acknowledging himself to be paid and
satisfied therefor, the first penny with the last, therefore giving
plcnam actionem cessam and full power to do with and dispose of
the aforesaid lot as he could do with his own patrimonial estate and
effects, promising to warrant and defend the same against all
persons from all trouble, claims and incumbrances according to law,
and further, nevermore to do nor cause anything to be done con-
trary hereto in any manner, under binding obligation as by law
provided.
Done in Albany, the 14th of September 1681.
The X mark of Huyrert Janse, made
with his own hand.
In my presence,
Ro^. Livingston, Secretary *
Transfer of patent for land in Catskill by administrators of the
estate of Jan van Bremen to Stephanus van Cortlant, in his
capacity as director of the colony of Rensselaerswyck
[129] Appeared before me, Rob*. Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyck, etc., in presence of the Honorable ^^Ir
Cornel : van Dyck and Mr Jan Janse Bleyker, magistrates of the
same jurisdiction, the worthy Mr Adriaen van Ilpendam and Mr
Jan Becker in the capacity of curators of the estate of Jan van
Breemen,^ deceased, who declared that they found among the papers
of said Jan van Breemen a certain patent for a certain parcel of
land lying at Katskill, which land Jan van Breemen sold and dis-
posed of to Eldert Gerbertse Cruyff, which aforesaid Eldert made
over the same to the colony of Renselaerswyk ; which aforesaid
patent of date the ist of August 1668, granted to Jan van Breemen
by the late Governor General Rich : Nicolls, the aforesaid curators
transfer and make over to ]Mr Stephanus van Cortlant in his capacity
as director of the colony of Renselaerswyk; which land stretches
along the kill eastward in length one hundred and fifty-five rods, in
1 This deed is canceled in the record.
2 Jan Dircksen. from Bremen, German^'. He was in New Amsterdam in
1639 and on August 4, 1643, was commissioned skipper of a yacht of the
colony of Rensselaerswyck. He was in Catskill in 1651 and obtained a
patent for the land mentioned in the instrument above on October 25, 1653.
.A^ccording to Van Rensselaer Bowier Mss, p. 832, he sold his farm at
Catskill to Eldert Gerbertsen Cruyf on February 20, 1659, in exchange for a
house in Beverwick, but this does not seem to have prevented him from
getting a confirmation of his original grant on August i, 1668.
DEEDS I 678-1 704 141
breadth on the south side one hundred and sixty rods, extending to
and being bounded by the woods/ containing in all about seventy
acres or thirty-five morgens, according to the description of said
patent ; declaring hereby that they have found among Jan van
Breemen's papers no [evidence of any] lien or incumbrance [on the
land] and hereby delivering over the same to the honorable director,
renouncing all right and title thereto as far as the estate is con-
cerned. Done in Albany, the i8th of October 1681.
Cornelis van Dyck Adriaen van Ilpendam
Jan Janss Blceckcr J. Becker
In my presence,
RoB"^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Stephanus van Cortlant, director of the colony of
Rensselaerswyck, to Dirck Teunissen van Vechten for land in
Catskill patented to Jan van Bremen and conveyed by him to
Eldert Gerbertsen Cruyff
[130] Appeared before me, Rob^ Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyck and Schinnechtady, etc., in presence of
the Honorable Mr Cornelis van Dyk and Mr Jan Janse Bleeker,
magistrates of the same jurisdiction, the worthy Mr Stephanus van
Cortlandt, in the capacity of director of the colony of Renselaers-
wyck who declared that he grants, conveys and makes over to and
for the behoof of Dirk Teunise van Vechten a certain parcel of land
lying at Catskill, extending along the kill, eastward, in length one
hundred and fifty-five rods, in breadth on the south side one hun-
dred and sixty rods, extending [to] and being bounded by the grove,
containing altogether about seventy acres, or thirty-five morgens ;
which he, the grantor, does by virtue of a certain conveyance to him
given by the curators of the estate of Jan van Breemen, deceased, of
date the i8th of this month, by which they made over the ground
brief and patent of said land to the colony of Renselaerswyk in con-
sideration [of the fact] that the same was found among the papers
of said Jan van Breemen who had sold [the land] to Eldert Ger-
bertse Cruyff; and whereas said Eldert Gerbertse Cruyff was in
arrears to the patroon of colony of Renselaerswyk in a considerable
sum of money, he, the grantor, contracted and agreed with Albert
Rykman, attorney for Eldert Gerbertse Cruyff, as appears by the
1 streckende voorts, & is met d'Boschagie Bcpaelt. which in the patent of
August I, 1668, reads : " then goeing forword & being incompassed wth. ye
woodlands."
142 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
instrument thereof dated the 2d of June 1675, that he in his capacity
as aforesaid should receive with other effects all the claims which
the aforesaid Cruyft' had in Catskill; therefore he, Mr Stephanus
van Cortlandt, in his capacity of director of the colony of Rensel-
aerswyk, transfers and makes over to said Dirk Teunise, his heirs
or successors, the said land specified in the patent dated the ist of
August 1668, granted to Jan van Breemen by the late Governor
General Rich : Xicolls, and furthermore all the rights which said
Eldert Gerbertse Cruyff had in Catskill, and that free and unin-
cumbered, without holding or reserving thereon any [rent] charges
for the benefit of the patroon of the colony of Renselaerswyk
(saving only the lord's right), without the grantor in his capacity
as above making any further claim whatsoever thereto, acknowl-
edging that he is paid and satisfied therefor, the first penny with the
last, therefore giving plenum actionem cessani and full power to the
aforesaid Dirk Teunise, his heirs, successors and assigns, to enter
upon, possess, do with and dispose of the aforesaid land as he might
do with his own patrimonial estate and effects, promising to war-
rant and defend the same from all lawful claims, demands and in-
cumbrances so far as the colony of Renselaerswyck is concerned
and further nevermore to do nor cause to be done anything con-
trary hereto in any manner, binding himself thereto as by law pro-
vided. Done in Albany, the 20th of October 1681.
Cornells van Dyck S : V : Cortlandt
Jan Jansz Bleecker
In my presence,
R"^. Livingston, Secretary
Bond and mortgage of Dirck Teunissen van Vechten to Step-
hanus van Cortlant, director of the colony of Rensselaerswryck,
and satisfaction of mortgage by Kiliaen van Rensselaer
[131] Appeared before me, Rob*. Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyck, etc., in presence of the Honorable Mr
Cornelis van Dyck and Mr Jan Janse Bleeker, magistrates of the
same jurisdiction. Dirk Teunise van Vechten, who declared himself
to be honestly and truly indebted and in arrears to Mr Stephanus
van Cortlandt, in the capacity of director of the colony of Rense-
laerswyck, in the sum of four hundred and two guilders, fourteen
stivers in beavers and the sum of two hundred and fifty-six guilders
and fifteen stivers in patroon's money, to wit, wheat at 10 guilders
DEEDS I 6/8- I 704 143
the mudde ; ^ which aforesaid sums of four hundred and two guild-
ers, fourteen stivers in beavers and two hundred and fifty-six
guilders, 15 stivers patroon's money the subscriber promises to pay
to said Mr Stephanus van Cortlandt, director of the colony of Reuse-
laerswyk, or his order, next winter in good beavers or wheat at
market price for the /402 :i4 in beavers and the patroon's money,
being f2^6:is, at 10 guilders a imiddle ; for which payment as
above the subscriber mortgages the farm in Catskill yesterday
conveyed to him by the director, pledging the same specially to the
colony of Renselaerswyk for said payment, and generally his person
and estate, real and personal, nothing excepted, submitting the same
to the authority of all lords, courts, tribunals and judges, that the
payment may be had without costs or loss. Done in Albany, this
2ist of October 1681.
DiRCK Teunisz
Cornells van Dyck
Jan Jansz Bleecker
In my presence,
RC^. Livingston, Secretary
I underwritten Killiaen van Renselaer eldest sonn and heir 01
Jerimias van Renselaer late of y*^ Colony Renselaerswyk deceased,
and Patroon of y^ s'^. Colony doe acknowledge to have Received
out of y*^ hands of Jannetie Teunise y^ wid^. & Relect of Dirk
Teunise van Vechten lat-^ of Catskill in y^ County of Albany de-
ceased the full Contents of y^ above Mortgage being f 402 : 14 st.
in Beavers and f 256: I5st. patroons money doe therefore fully
Cleerly and absolutely acquitt Exonerate & Discharge y^ s^. Dirk
Teunise van Vechten his heirs Executors ad''°. or assigns for Ever
promiseing and Engageing to Defend them from any further Claim
or Demand to y^ premises In wittness^ whereof I have hereunto sett
my hand in Albany this 13*^ of Septemb. A°. 1703 the s"^. Kill, v:
Renselaer for himself his heirs Ex''*. x'\d''*. or assigns doth hereby
Release all & singular his Right Title Interest & Claim which he
or they have or ough[t] to have to y^ Land at Catskill so as y^
same by Steph : van Cortland is conveyd to y^ s^. Dirk Teunise
on ye 20th of Octob. A°. [1681] K. V. Rensselaer
1 One mudde = 3.056 bushels.
144 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBA XV
Bond and mortgage of Cornelis Teunissen van Vechten to
Andries Teller
[132] Appeared before me, Rob^ Livingston, secretary of
Albany, colony of Renselaerswyk and Schaenhechtady, etc., in
presence of the Honorable Mr Cornelis van Dyck and Mr Dirk
Wessells, magistrates of the same jurisdiction, Cornelis Teunise van
Vechten alias Keesoom,^ who declared himself to be honestly and
truly indebted and in arrears to Mr Andries Teller, trader of this
town, in the sum of eighty-three good, merchantable beaver skins,
to be paid in the time of eighteen months from the date hereof in
good, salable winter wheat or good peas at beaver's price; which
aforesaid sum of 83 beavers the subscriber promises to pay within
said time of 18 months in the aforenamed pay for which he specially
binds and mortgages forty-two skipples of sowing lying south of the
subscriber's house toward Claes van Petten ; item two blazed
black geldings with a gray stallion and a gray mare ; item seven
heifers, to wit, two black with white heads,- one black spotted,
two red with white heads and one wholly red, going now in their
second year; and generally his person and estate, real and per-
sonal, present and future, nothing excepted, submitting the same
to the control of all lords, courts, tribunals and judges, that the
payment may be had without loss or costs. Done in Albany, this
31st of October 1681.
Cornelis Tunisz van Vechten
Cornelis van Dyck
Dirck Wesselsz
In my presence,
Ro'f. Livingston, Secretary
X. B. This mortgage is subscribed by the two aforesaid magis-
trates on the condition that the patroon, on whose land he dwells,
must of necessity be preferred for the current year and that this
instrument shall not in the least prejudice his rights, which is
understood by the court. Albany, this 14th of February i68i.
1 Keesoom means Uncle Cornells.
^ Sii'arte Blacre; meaning a cow with black bodj- and white belly or breast
and white head, sometimes with black markings around the ej'es. The
zwartblaar or zwartivitkop Groningen breed of cattle is at the present day-
recognized as one of the three distinct breeds of Ehitch cattle.
DEEDS 1 6/8- 1 704 145
Deed from Annetje Lievens, widow of Goosen Gerritsen van
Schaick, to her son Sybrant van Schaick, for the half of a brew-
ery, lot and garden.
[133] Appeared before me, Rob*. Livingston, secretary of
Albany, colony of Renselaerswyck and Shaenhechtady and in pres-
ence of the Honorable Mr Cornelis van Dyk and Mr Dirk Wessells,
magistrates of the same jurisdiction, Annetie Lievens, widow of
the late Goose Gerritse van Schayk, who declared that she
grants, conveys and makes over in true, rightful and free owner-
ship as hereby she does grant, convey in real and actual possession
to and for the behoof of Sybrant Goosense van Schayk, her, the
grantor's, half brewery, lot and garden, as she, the grantor, has
possessed the same in company with Pieter Lassing, according to
the patent by Jan Thomase and Volkert Janse received from the
Honorable Governor General Franqois Lovelace under date of the
24th of March 166 1/ and according to the contents thereof is in
breadth on the east side or highway six rods, nine feet ten inches ;
length on the south side by Maj. Abraham Staets's alley five rods,
eleven feet; west, also bounded by Mr Abraham Staets, six rods
five feet; on the north side [along] the street seven rods one foot.
The garden on the west side along the road six rods, nine feet
long; on the north side by the road four rods, seven feet; on the
east by the river seven rods and five feet; and on the south side
again on Abraham Staets's [alley] five rods, five feet. Which she,
the grantor, does by virtue of the conveyance by her deceased hus-
band, received from Harme Rutgers under date of the 31st of May
1675,^ and that free and unincumbered, without any charges there-
on or issuing out of the same (saving the lord's right), without the
grantor's having any further claim in the least thereon, acknowl-
edging herself to be fully paid and satisfied therefor, the first penny
with the last, therefore giving full power to the aforenamed Sybrant
Goosense van Schayk, his heirs, successors, or assigns to do with
and dispose of the aforesaid half of the brewery, lot and garden
as he could do with his own patrimonial estate and efifects, promis-
ing to warrant and defend the same against all persons from all
trouble, claims and inrumbrances according to law and further
1 This patent was in reality issued to Volkert Jansen Douw and Harmen
Rutgers, then in occupation of the property, though Jan Thomassen still
owned a half interest in it. See the latter's conveyance to Harmen Rutgers,
March 28, 167I, in Early Records of Albany, i:lii. where Jan Thomassen
is by mistake called " Mingael," instead of " Witbeck." See also p. 112
for diagram of the lot conveyed.
2 See Early Records of Albany, 1:114.
146 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
nevermore to do nor cause anything to be done contrary hereto
either by or without resorting to law in any manner, binding herself
thereto as by law provided. Done in Albany, the 12th of November
1 681.
Annetge Lievens
Cornelis van Dyck
Dirck Wesselsz
In my presence,
Ro'T. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Pieter Lassingh to Sybrant van Schaick for his half
of the brewery, lot and garden possessed in company with
Goosen Gerritsen van Schaick
[134] Appeared before me, Rob*^. Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyck etc., in presence of the Honorable Air
Cornelis van Dyk and Mr Dirk Wessells, magistrates of the same
jurisdiction, the worthy P"". Lassingh, who declares that he grants
and conveys in true, rightful and free ownership by these presents,
in real and actual possession to and for the behoof of Sybrant
Goosense Van Schayk, his, the subscriber's, half brewery, lot and
garden, as he, the grantor, has possessed the same in company with
Goose Gerritse, deceased, according to patent by Jan Thomase and
Volkert Janse received from the Honorable Governor Franqoys
Lovelace under date of the 24th of March i66|,^ and is according
to the contents thereof in breadth on the east side or highway six
rods, nine feet, ten inches ; length on the south side by the alley of
Abraham Staets five rods and eleven feet; west also bounded by
Abraham Staets six rods and five feet ; on the north side [along] the
street seven rods, one foot. The garden bounded on the west side
along the road in length six rods, nine feet ; on the north side by the
road four rods, seven feet ; east by the river seven rods and five feet,
on the south side again on Abraham Staets [alley] five rods and
five feet. Which he, the grantor, does by virtue of the conveyance
by him received from Harme Rutgers, under date of the 31st Alay
1675, and that free and unincumbered, without any charges thereon,
or issuing out of the same (saving the lord's right), without the
grantor's having any further claim in the least thereon, acknowledg-
ing himself to be fully paid and satisfied therefor, the first penny
with the last, therefore giving plenam actionem cessam and full
power to the aforenamed Sybrant Goosense van Schayk to do with
1 See note to preceding instrument.
DEEDS I 678- I 704 147
and dispose of the aforesaid half brewery lot, and garden as he could
do with his own patrimonial estate and effects, promising to warrant
and defend the same against all persons from all trouble, claims
and incumbrances according to law and further nevermore to do
nor cause anything to be done contrary hereto, either by or without
resorting to law, in any manner, binding himself thereto as by law
provided.
Done in Albany, the 12th of November 1681.
PlETTER PlETTERSEN LasSEN
Cornells van Dyck
Dirck Wesselss
In my presence,
Ro'^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Capt. Johannes Clute to Johan Friese (Vries) for a
parcel of land behind Friese's house
[135] Appeared before me, Rob*^. Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyck, etc., in presence of the Honorable Mr
Cornells van Dyck and Mr Dirk Wessells, magistrates of the same
jurisdiction, the worthy Johannes Clute, who declared that in true,
rightful and free ownership he grants, conveys and makes over in
actual and real possession to and for the behoof of Johannes Vries, ^
burgher of this town a certain parcel of land situated behind the
house and lot of said grantee, lying between the houses of him, the
grantor, and Marte Crigier ; the lot which said Johannes Clute con-
veys to Johannes Vreese is in length thirty wood feet and as broad
as the grantee's house and lot made over to him by the grantor the
27th of March 1680,- that is sixteen feet, one inch, wood measure
and lying to the east of said De Vreese and to the west and north
of him, the grantor, and south of Marte Cregier ; which he, the
grantor, does by virtue of the conveyance by him received from Jan
Lansingh, under date of the loth of April 1679,^ ^o which reference
is herein made, and that free and unincumbered, without any charges
thereon, or issuing out of the same (saving the lord's right), with-
out the grantor's having any further claim in the least thereon,
acknowledging himself to be fully paid and satisfied therefor, the
first penny with the last, therefore giving plenam actionem cessam
and full power to the aforenamed Johannes Vreese, his heirs, suc-
cessors, or assigns to do with and dispose of the aforesaid parcel of
^ See his signature to next document.
2 See p. 72.
2 See p. 38-39-
148 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
land as he could do with his own patrimonial estate and effects,
promising to warrant and defend the same against all persons from
all trouble, claims and incumbrances according to law and further
nevermore to do nor cause anything to be done contrary hereto in
any manner, binding liimself thereto as by law provided.
Done in Albany, the 14th of November 1681,
JOHANNS ClUTE
Cornells van Dyck
Dirck Wesselsz
In my presence,
Ro^. Livingston, Secretary
Bond and mortgage of Capt. Johannes Clute to Johan Friese
(Vries) with satisfaction of mortgage by Captain Clute's
nephew
[136] Appeared before me, Rob*. Livingston, Secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyk, etc., in presence of the Honorable Mr Cor-
nells van Dyk and Mr Dirk Wessells, magistrates of the same juris-
diction, the worthy Capt. Johannes Cloet, who declared himself to
be indebted and in arrears to Johannes Vriese, burgher of this town,
in the quantity of twenty-five good, salable beaver skins at five quar-
ter Dutch pounds apiece, which aforenamed sum of twenty-five
beavers, or if the subscriber has no mercantile beavers thirty-one
and a quarter pounds Dutch weight instead, the subscriber promises
to pay to Johannes Vriese or order in the time of three years after
the date hereof ; for which the subscriber specially binds a parcel
of land lying behind the house and lot of said Vriese. being in
breadth sixteen feet and one inch wood measure and as long as the
subscriber's lot extends, and generally his person and estate, real
and personal, nothing excepted, submitting the same to the authority
of all lords, courts, tribunals and judges, for the recovery of the
aforenamed amount without loss or costs. Done in Albany, the
14th of November 1681.
JoHANNs Clute
Cornells van Dyck
Dirck Wesselsz
In my presence,
RC. Livingston, Secretary
I, the undersigned, Johan Vries, acknowledge and declare that I
have duly received the contents of the aforesaid bond or mortgage
DEEDS I 678- I 704 149
in the form of twenty-five beavers by the hand of Johan Cloet,
nephew and heir of Capt. Johannes Cloet, deceased, releasing him
from all further demands. Albany the nth of June 1686.
Johan Friese
Testes :
Jan Janss Bleecker
Ro'^. Livingston, CI.
Deed from Annetje van Schaick, widow of Goosen Gerritsen van
Schaick, to Anthony van Schaick for land at Half Moon (not
executed)
[137] Appeared before me, Rob*. Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Rensselaerswyk and Schinnechtady, etc., in presence of
the Honorable Air Cornelis van Dyk and Mr Dirk Wessells, magis-
trates of the same jurisdiction, Annetie van Schayk, widow of the
late Goose Gerritse van Schayk who declared that in true, rightful
and free ownership she grants, conveys and makes over hereby in
real and actual possession to and for the behoof of Anthonie
Goosense van Schayk her farm lying on the Island of Cahoos and
all her right therein, as well lands, house, barn and ricks as also
her rights in land lying above the fourth Spruyt} excepting the farm
of Harman Lievense, the farm of Jan van Ness, the farm of Barent
Albertse Bratt, the farm of Geurt Hendrix and the farm of Jan
Jacobse van Noorstrant and likewise the farm of Roeloff Gerritse;
which she, the grantor, does by virtue of a patent granted to Phil:
Pieterse Schuyler and her husband, deceased, in company, by the
late Governor General Frangois Lovelace under date of the 30th of
March 1672, which Phil: Shuyler's half was conveyed to her, the
grantor, on the 12th of July 1681, to all of which reference is herein
made ; and that free and unincumbered without any charges thereon
or issuing out of the same (saving the lord's right), without the
grantor's making any further claim in the least thereto, acknowledg-
ing that she is fully paid and satisfied therefor, the first penny with
the last, therefore giving plenam actionem cessam and full power to
the aforenamed Anth°. van Shayk, his heirs, successors or assigns,
to do with and dispose of the aforesaid farm, house, barn, ricks and
other land lying over the fourth spriiyt to her, the grantor, hereto-
fore belonging, together with all rights and privileges which she has
had therein (excepting the six farms of the aforesaid six persons).
1 Literally, " sprout," referring to a branch or fork of the Mohawk river.
150 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
as he might do with his own patrimonial estate and elTects, promis-
ing to warrant and defend the same against all persons from all
trouble, claims and incumbrances according to law and further
nevermore to do nor cause anything to be done contrary hereto in
any manner, binding herself thereto as by law provided. Done in
Albany, the 17th November 1681.
It is specially stipulated between the grantor and the grantee be-
fore the signing of this conveyance that if the Indians shall make
any claims to any of the aforesaid lands, whether due to hostile
feeling or otherwise, or if any other persons shall make any pre-
tensions thereto, Anth°. van Shayk shall save said Annetje van
Shayk harmless and take all such charges upon himself she, the
grantor, now renouncing her interest therein.^
Deed from Robert Sanders to Pieter Pietersen van Woggelum
for a piece of woodland to the south of Piskawen kill
[138 blank; 139] Appeared before me, Ro*. Livingston, secretary
of Albany, colony of Renselaersw^yck and Schaenhechtady, in pres-
ence of the Honorable Mr Cornells van Dyck and ^Ir Dirk Wessells,
magistrates of said jurisdiction, Robert Sanders, who declared that
he conveyed and made over in true, rightful and free ownership to
and for the behoof of Pieter Pieterse van Woggelum a certain piece
of woodland into which extends a certain swamp ,2 the same being
the whole of the said grantor's interest on the south side of Piskawen
kill,^ which he conveys to said P"". Pieterse, so that said kill is now
their division line ; which he, the grantor, does by virtue of the pat-
ent to him granted by the Honorable Governor General Sir Edmund
Andross, dated the 22d day of ]\Iarch i6|f ;* and that free and
unincumbered, without any charges thereon or issuing out of the
same (saving the lord's right), and without the grantor's making
any further claim thereto, acknowledging that he is fully paid and
satisfied therefor, the first penny with the last, therefore giving
plenam actionem cessam and full power to the aforesaid Pieter
Pieters van Woggelum, his heirs, successors or assigns, to do v/ith
1 The deed is canceled and underneath is written : This conveyance was
written anew the 9th of August 1682.
^■waerinnc Seekere vlyc is strcckcnde.
3 A stream between Troy and Lansingburg, N. Y.
4 This should apparently'be March 25, 1680, when a patent was granted to
Robert Sanders for " a certain parcell or piece of woodland Lyeing on the
East side of the North- River above Albany to the South of Robert Sanders
Farme or Bowery called by the Indyan name of Popqassick which s^ Land
as also a Small Island neare thereunto com [m] only knowne by the name
of the whale fishing Island, was . . . purchased of the Native Indyan
Proprietory's." See Indian deed for this land on p. 27-28.
DEEDS I 678- I 704 151
and dispose of the aforesaid piece of woodland lying on the south
side of Piskawen kill, as he might do with his own patrimonial
estate and effects, promising to warrant and defend the same against
all persons from all lawful liens, claims and incumbrances and fur-
ther nevermore to do, nor cause anything to be done, contrary hereto
in any manner, binding himself thereto as by law provided. Done in
Albany, the 19th of December 1681.
ROBBERT SaNDERSZ
Cornells van Dyck
Dirck Wesselss
In my presence,
Ro^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Mohawk sachems to Jan Mangelse for a piece of
woodland at Canastagioene (Niskayuna)
[140] On this day the 4th of March 168J appeared before their
honors of the court of Albany the following Maquas chiefs, to wit,
Rhode, sachem (Sakamaker) of the first Castle, Sagoddiochquisax
of the second Castle and Todarasse who takes the place of
Caniachkoo, his grandfather, deceased, who in accordance with the
declaration of the Maquas sachems to the proposition made the 2d
of this month, declared that out of good friendship and affection
they granted, conveyed and made over by way of gift to Jan Man-
gelse a certain piece of woodland on which some bushes (Stravellen)
stand, lying near Canastagioene on the other side of the river, ex-
tending up the river, beginning from the uppermost end of Ryk
Claese's land where the tree is marked with the mark of Harme
Vedder and Barent Ryndertse and stretches along the river over a
certain kill named by them Otskondaraogoo, which they also to-
gether with the water course convey to him, and further on to a
large black bark oak tree, on which the mark of the grantors and
the mark or name of Jan Mangelse have been put, and stretches
northward up into the woods so far as said Jan Mangelse or his
heirs shall have occasion to use the same whether for arable or pas-
ture land as he shall think best; which they, the grantors, do free
and unincumbered as they have possessed the same, with all appur-
tenances and dependencies thereto belonging, giving him herewith
full power to do with and dispose of the aforesaid land and kill
as he might do with his own patrimonial estate and effects, relin-
quishing said land henceforth now and forever, conveying the same
fully to the said Jan Mangelse, his heirs, successors or assigns,
152 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
promising nevermore to do nor cause anything to be done contrary
hereto in any manner, with or without legal process. Thus done
and confirmed with our signatures on the date above written in
Albany.
The mark X of Todarasse, made
with his own hand. The snake.
In presence of us : The mark X of Rhode, made with
Corn, van Dyck his own hand. A woman.
Dirck Wesscisc The mark X of Sagoddiochquisax;
Joh^. Provoost made with his own hand. The Sun.
Jan Jansz Bleecker Interpreted by Aern"^. Cornelise Viele.
In my presence,
Ro'^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Mohav^^k sachems to Claes van Boeckhoven for a
piece of woodland at Canastagioene (Niskayuna)
[141] On this 4th day of March i68| the following Maquase
chiefs [appeared] in presence of the court of Albany, to wit, Rhode,
sachem of the first Castle, Saggoddiochquisax of the second Castle
and Todovasse, whose grandfather was Caniachkoo, also of the
first Castle, acting in the name of the whole Maquas nation, who
declared that they had granted to Claes van Boekhooven ^ certain
privileges in addition to [those set forth in the deed of] purchase
of the land belonging to him, sold to Barent Ryndertse and Harme
Vedder under date of the -~^ 1667,^ wherein it was stipulated
that they should use the woodland with their neighbors as a pasture
for their cattle. But now they declare that they grant and convey
to him, Claes van Boekhoven, and to those who acquired his right
or participate therein, the woodland and meadow {vly) lying north-
wards within the limits of the two trees marked with the mark of
Bar*. Rynderse and Harme Vedder, to cultivate, plant, pasture and
use the same as he or they may see fit, only reserving the right of
the Maquas to have free wood and hunting there without contradic-
tion ; conveying and making over said land in true and lawful owner-
ship to said Claes van Boekhooven and his associates or participants,
their heirs and successors forever, wholly relinquishing all claims
1 Also referred to as Claes Jansen van Boekhoven, and Claes de Braebander.
2 No record of this Indian deed is found, nor does there seem to be any
record of the patent of May 19, 1671, to Harmen Vedder and Barent Reynd-
ertsen, referred to in the deed from the latter to Claes van Boeckhoven
and Ryck Claessen, October 31, 1677, for which see Early Records of Albany,
I : 166-67.
DEEDS I 678-1 704 153
on said woodland and meadow (vley) excepting only firewood and
free hunting as above specified, promising in their capacity aforesaid
nevermore to do nor cause anything to be done contrary hereto in
any manner, under binding obligation as by law provided. Thus
done and confirmed with our signatures in Albany on the day
aforenamed.
The mark of X Todorasse, made
In presence of us : with his own hand. The snake.
Corn, van Dyck The mark of X Sagoddiochquisax.
Dirck Wesselsz The sun.
J oh: Provoost The mark of X Rode, made with his
Jan Jansz Bleecker own hand. Is a woman.
In my presence,
Ro^. Livingston, Secretary
Interpreted by Aern'^. Corn : Viele.
Lease of land at Catskill from Cornells van Dyck, husband and
guardian of the widow of Silvester Salisbury, to Andries
Jansen and Hendrick Jansen
[142] On this 23d day of March 168^, appeared before me, Ro*.
Livingston, secretary of Albany, colony of Renselaerswyk and
Schinnechtady, etc., and the afternamed witnesses, Mr Cornells
van Dyk, husband and guardian of Elisabeth Beek, late widow of
Capt. Silvester Salisbury, of the one side, and Andries Janse, eld-
est son of Jan Thomase, and Hendrik Janse, his brother, of the
other side, who declared that in all love and friendship they had
contracted and agreed with each other about the hire of his,
van Dyk's, just half of and claim to the arable land at Catskill
held jointly with Marte Gerritse,^ in form and manner following,
to wit:
1 The said Mr Cornells van Dyck acknowledges that he has
leased and Andries and Hendrik Janse aforenamed that they have
hired of him his half of the arable land lying in Katskill, con-
sisting of the half of two flats, viz, the first where Ger*. Teunise
lives and the second called Potick, and that for the time of ten suc-
cessive years which shall begin on the first of May 1682 and end
the first of May 162, new style.
2 The lessee may cultivate, plant and sow said land during the
term of said lease to his profit.
1 Cf. Deed from Catskill and Mahikan Indians, July 8, 1678.
154 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
3 In case of a general war, which may God avert, the damage
shall fall wholly upon the lessor during the first eight years, but
if the lessor shall bear the risk for the last two years also, then the
lessee shall pay rent or hire for said land according to the decision
of two impartial persons, always with the understanding that it
shall be left to the lessee's choice to bear the risk, in which case
he shall be free from rent; furthermore, other accidents such as
fire, etc. shall be wholly at the risk of the lessee.
4 The lessor shall deliver upon the said land, four milch cows
and four draught horses, to wit, three mares and one stallion, one-
half the increase of which shall belong to each party but so soon
as there shall be an increase of eight cows, the lessor's half, to wit,
four cows, shall remain with the first delivered cows, making the
[143] number of eight milch cows, the half of the increase of which
the parties shall thereafter receive ; which number as likewise the
horses shall be delivered up at the end of the lease.
5 The lessee shall not be permitted to sow more than forty
skipples of winter wheat the last year, one-half of which shall be
the lessor's and the remaining half he or the following lessee shall
have at the valuation placed upon it by impartial persons; he, the
lessee, shall also have no right to sell, remove or carry away any in-
crease of the horses or cattle without consent of the lessor.
6 As rental of the said land, the said And^ and Hendrik Janse,
at the end of ten years, shall deliver a proper dwelling house
of twenty-two and a half feet square, covered with shingles and
having a stone cellar as large as the house, which house shall be
delivered over, glass, roof, floor, and wall, tight; likewise a barn
of fifty-two and a half feet long and as wide as the barn which
Marte Gerritse has built there which they shall deliver over in
substantial and good repair as to wall and roof; with a proper
protecting fence about the arable land, that is to say about the
half of the nearest land, according to the judgment of impartial
persons ; likewise to plant an orchard which must consist of two
hundred fruit trees, but the lessor is holden to furnish the trees,
which they at the end of the lease must deliver over in a good
fence ; also a good fence about the homestead ; in like manner as
a yearly quit rent 25 pounds of butter to commence in May
1683.
7 The lessees shall cut and dig out all the useless trees and
stumps of the nearest land which may in any way hinder the
plowing and planting.
DEEDS 1 6/8- 1 704 155
8 It is further stipulated that the lessees shall have the half of
the land of Potick during the aforenamed term of the lease, for
which they shall pay to the lessor yearly the quantity of fifty skip-
pies of wheat or a hundred skipples of maize at the option of the
lessees, but if the lessees do not desire to hold said land Potek any
longer they shall be released from this obligation.
[144] For the performance and execution of the aforesaid con-
ditions the lessees bind their persons and estates, real and personal,
present and future, nothing excepted, submitting the same to the
authority of all lords, courts, tribunals and judges.
Thus done in the presence of Mr Jan Janse Bleecker and Jacob
Sanders Glenn, called as witnesses hereto, in Albany on the date
above written.
CORNELIS VAN DyCK
Testes: Andries Janse '
Jafi Jansz Bleecker Hendrick Jansen
Jacob Sand: Glen
In my presence,
Ro^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from William Loveridge, senior, to Jacob Staas for two
houses and lots in Albany
[145] Appeared before me, Ro^ Livingston, secretary of Al-
bany, colony of Renselaerswyk and Schaenhechtady, etc., in pres-
ence of the Honorable Mr Dirk Wessells and Mr Jan Janse Bleeker,
magistrates of the same jurisdiction, Mr William Loveridge, senior,
hatter, who declared that he grants, conveys and makes over in true,
rightful and free ownership to and for the behoof of Mr Jacob Staas
certain, the grantor's, two houses and lots standing and lying here
in Albany, between the town hall (Stadthuys) and the house of
Cornet Pieter Schuyler ; the large house is in breadth in front on the
street forty wood feet, three and a half inches, and in the rear at
the end of the lot of the small house thirty wood feet, and in the
rear on the river bank (strant) in breadth twenty-eight wood feet,
and in length to the river bank, which house and lot are situated
to the north of the town hall ; which he, the grantor, does by
virtue of the conveyance received by him from Pieter Jacobse Bors-
boom on the 30th of September 1671,^ to which reference is herein
made; the adjoining house is in breadth on the street twenty-
four wood feet, length back -fifty-five feet, breadth [in the rear]
^ See Early Records of Albany, i :488-89.
156 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
eight feet, which house and lot Hes between the large house speci-
fied above and Cornet Pieter Schuyler ; which he, the grantor, does
by virtue of the conveyance received by him from Arent Jacobse,
dated the 8th of March 167!;^ it is to be noted also that the
honorable grantor likewise grants his rights in a few feet of ground
bought by P"". Jacobse Borsboom of Sander Leendertse, which is
also comprehended herein, and extending likewise to the King's
house [town hall] : all free and unincumbered, without any
charges thereon, or issuing out of the same (saving the lord's
right), without the grantor's having any further claim in the least
thereon, acknowledging himself to be fully paid and satisfied there-
for, the first penny with the last, therefore giving plenam actionem
cessam and full power [146] to the aforenamed Jacob Staas, his
heirs, successors, or assigns to do with and dispose of the aforesaid
two houses and lots as he could do with his own patrimonial estate
and efifects, promising to warrant and defend the same against all
persons from all trouble, claims and incumbrances according to law
and further nevermore to do nor cause anything to be done con-
trary hereto in any manner, under binding obligation as by law
provided.
Done in Albany, this 17th of May 1682.
William Loveridge
Dirck Wesselss
Jan Jansz Bleecker
In my presence,
Ro^. Livingston, Secretary
Bond of Pieter Meussen Vrooman, husband of the widow of Ger-
rit Jansen Stavast, to Hendrick Cuyler, attorney for the heirs
of Michiel Lambertsen van Bree, for the payment of one hun-
dred beavers in settlement of a debt due by said Stavast to
Van Bree, Jacob Meussen Vrooman mortgaging his house as
security ; with satisfaction of mortgage
[147] Appeared before me, Rob^ Livingston, secretary' of Al-
bany, colony of Renselaerswyk and Schaenhechtady, etc., in pres-
ence of the Honorable Mr Cornelis van Dyk and Mr Dirk Wessells,
magistrates of said jurisdiction, Mr Hendrik Cuyler, trader and
resident here, who with Mr Abraham d'Peyster was made attorney
at Haerlem in Holland of the heirs of Michiel Lambertse van Bree
in a certain action of debt respecting some pieces of linen bought
1 See Early Records of Albany, i : 178-79.
DEEDS 1678-I704 157
by Ger*. Janse Stavast there of said Van Bree, for which said
Ger'. Janse Stavast on the 30th November 1661 gave a promis-
sory note in the sum of fourteen hundred and thirty-one Carohis
guilders, one stiver, at 40 Flemish groats the guilder, with interest
at six per cent to the final and effectual payment thereof, on which
said Van Bree obtained judgment in the year 1663 on the 27th of
January, the aforesaid Ger'. Janse Stavast and his wife Volkje
Pieterse being here in this country, where said Ger*. Janse Stavast
died and the said Volkje Pieterse, his widow a second time entered
into wedlock with a certain Pieter Meuse Vrooman; the aforesaid
judgment with power of attorney to the aforesaid Hend: Cuyler
and Abraham d'Peyster having meanwhile arrived here, said at-
torneys brought suit against the aforesaid Pieter Meuse by virtue
of his marriage relation, but the matter being yet undecided, they
have in love and friendship agreed and contracted together that
the aforesaid Pieter Meuse Vrooman shall pay to the aforesaid
Hend : Cuyler or order the sum of one hundred merchantable beav-
ers or the just value thereof, whether in beavers, seawan, silver
money, or wheat at market price, to be paid in four payments, each
time a fourth part, to wit, anno 1682, in the month of September, the
first; anno 1683 the second and so on every year until the effectual
payment thereof, and the last payment being made said Kuyler
[148] promises said Pieter Meuse Vrooman or his assigns to put
said promissory note and judgment in their hands and duly to re-
lease him from all further claims ; for which payment of one hun-
dred beavers aforenamed Jacob Meuse Vrooman constitutes him-
self surety as principal debtor, for the aforenamed P"". Meuse
Vrooman, promising all failures in the payment of the aforesaid
sum which may happen to make good and pay as his own debt, for
which he specially binds his, Jacob Meuse's, new house standing
and lying here in Albany on the Coestraet (Cow street) between
Hans Hendrix and Barent the miller's except that those who have
any claims on said lot shall be preferred, the same being not yet
fully paid for, and generally his person and estate, real and per-
sonal, nothing excepted, submitting the same to the authority of all
lords, courts, tribunals and judges; for security of which debt, and
for the freeing of him from all harm, Peter Meuse Vrooman on
the other hand pledges to his brother Jacob Meuse Vrooman
specially and in the most permanent manner conveys and makes
over all the movable goods mentioned in the inventory made by the
sheriff under date of the 13th of May last by order of the court in
158 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
the form of an attachment in the matter aforesaid, \vhi:h by four
good men nominated by the court were appraised at i6gi in beavers ;
hkewise he, Pieter Meuse Vrooman, pledges and fully conveys
hereby to his brother Jacob Meuse Vrooman, all his account book,
with all the outstanding debts and credits therein contained, without
any reservation or exception whatever [149] but delivering over the
same to him, Jacob Meuse, fully with the aforesaid inventory and
the goods therein specified, together with all the effects and goods
which he, P"". Meuse, may acquire, as well having as to have, noth-
ing excepted, submitting the same in full ownership of Jacob Meuse
Vrooman aforesaid, even as if they were his own patrimonial
goods and effects, which transfer of said mentioned goods, books
and other effects to be acquired shall be directed to the effectual
payment of the aforenamed hundred beavers. Thus done without
fraud, all honestly and in good faith with the consent of the said Mr
Hend : Cuyler, P''. Meuse and Jacob Meuse Vrooman, an instru-
ment hereof in debit a forma is drawn up and executed within the
town of Albany in Ameri.a on the loth June 1682.
Hendrick Coyler
Cornells van D\ck Pieter Meesen Vroo^niax
Dirck JJ^essels.': Jacob Meesse Vromax
In my presence,
Ro'r. Livingston, Secretary
Memorandum — that on the 17th August 1686 Hendrik Cuy-
ler came before the secretary and declared that he had received
full satisfaction and payment of the hundred beavers comprehended
in the aforesaid instrument, to wit twenty-five beavers, being the
first payment of P"". Meese Vroman and the remaining three pay-
ments of seventy-five beavers in full of Jacob Meese Vrooman also
mentioned as surety in said instrument, therefore freeing them,
their heirs, executors and administrators, from all claims by these
presents. In witness whereof signed with his owm hand in xA.lbany
on the date above written.
Hendrick Coyler
In my presence,
Ro'^. Livingston, Secretary
DEEDS I 678- I 704 159
Deed from Jan van Eps, representing the heirs of Maritje Damen,
to Harmanus Burgersen for a garden without the town of
Albany behind the old fort
[150] Appeared before me, Ro*. Livingston, secretary of Al-
bany, colony of Renselaerswyk and Schaenhechtady, etc., in pres-
ence of the Honorable Mr Cornelis van Dyk and Mr Dirk Wessells,
magistrates of the same jurisdiction, Jan van Eps, son of Maritie
Daeme, deceased, empowered by Ger'. Banker and Marte Cregier,
also heirs of said Maritje Daeme and hereby declared that he
grants, conveys and makes over in true, rightful and free owner-
ship to and for the behoof of Harmanus Burgerse a certain gar-
den lying without the town of Albany behind the old fort, adjoin-
ing south by east the public road, to the west the pasture formerly
belonging to Capt. Jan Cloet and now to Rob'. Sanders and Mynd'.
Harmense,^ to the north the garden of Evert Luycasse close by lot
No. 26, being in breadth five rods and in length seven rods ; which
they, the grantors, do by virtue of the patent granted to Cornelis
van Ness, husband and guardian of the late Maritje Daeme, by
the late Governor General Rich^. Nicolls the 27th of April 1667,^
and that free and unincumbered, without any charges thereon, or
issuing out of tlie same (saving the lord's right), without his, the
grantor's, having any further claim in the least thereon, acknowl-
edging himself to be paid and satisfied therefor, the first penny
with the last, therefore giving plenam actionem cessam and full
power to the aforenamed Harmanus Burgerse, his heirs, suc-
cessors, or assigns to do with and dispose of the aforesaid garden
as he could do with his own patrimonial estate and effects, prom-
ising to warrant and defend the same against all persons from all
trouble, claims and incumbrances according to law and further
nevermore to do nor to cause anything to be done contrary hereto
^ Probably a son of the well-known surgeon Harmen Myndertsen van den
Bogaert.
2 This was a confirmation of a grant by Director General Stuyvesant to
Michiel Reyckersen for " another Lott and Garden, in the s*i Town bounded
by the south and East by the common waggon way west by the Plaine, &
north by Jacob Clomps near to the Lott N^. 26 being in breadth five Rod &
in length seaven Rod which s*' Patent or Groundbriefe so graunted as afores'^
bearing date the 25° day of Octob. 1653 having been purchased by Hendrick
Andriesen deceased & Cornelys van Nesse being marryed to Marritien
Dameus [Damens] his widdow & Relict whereby the Title & Interest there-
unto is devolved upon him." The first husband of Maritie Damen was Dirck
van Eps.
l60 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
in any manner, under binding obligation as by law provided. Done
in Albany, the 3d of July 1682.
Jan Van Eps
Cornelis van Dyck
Dirck Wesselsz
In my presence,
Ro^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Harmanus Burgersen to Robert Sanders and Myndert
Harmensen for a garden without the town of Albany, conveyed
to him by the heirs of Marritje Damen
[151] Appeared before me, Ro^ Livingston, secretar)' of
Albany, colony of Renselaerswyk and Schaenhechtady, etc., in
presence of the Honorable Mr Cornelis van Dyk and Mr Dirk
Wessells, magistrates of the same jurisdiction, Harmanus Bor-
gerse, who declared that he grants, conveys and makes over in
true, rightful and free ownership to and for the behoof of Robert
Sanders and Myndert Harmense a certain garden lying without the
town of Albany behind the old fort, adjoining southeast the public
road, west the pasture formerly belonging to Capt. Jan Cloete
and now to Ro^ Sanders and Mynd'. Harmense aforenamed, north
the garden of Evert Luycasse, close by lot No. 26, being in breadth
five rods and in length seven rods ; which he, the grantor, does
by virtue of the conveyance received by him this day from the
heirs of Maritje Daeme, deceased; and that free and unincum-
bered, without any charges thereon, or issuing out of the same
(saving the lord's right), without the grantor's having any further
claim in the least thereon, acknowledging himself to be paid and
satisfied therefor the first penny with the last, therefore giving
plenani actionem cessain and full power to the aforenamed Ro'.
Sanders and Mynd'. Harmense, their heirs, successors, or assigns
to do with and dispose of the aforesaid garden as they could do
with their own patrimonial estates and efl:'ects, promising to war-
rant and defend the same against all persons from all trouble,
claims and incumbrances according to law and further nevermore
to do nor cause anything to be done contrary hereto in any manner,
under binding obhgation as by law provided. Done in Albany, the
3d of July 1682.
Cornelis van Dyck This is the mark MB of Manus .
Dirck Wesselsz Borgerse made with his own hand
In my presence,
Ro"^. Livingston, Secretarv
DEEDS I 6/8- I 704 161
Deed from Esopus Indians to William Loveridge, senior, for land
at Catskill
[152] Appeared before us the undersigned magistrates of
Albany, colony of Renselaerswyk and Schinnechtady, etc. the
following Esopus Indians, owners of a certain parcel of land lying
at Catskill, viz, Wannachquatin, an old Indian ; Mamanauchqua,
a squaw, and her son Cunpwaen; and Usawanneek alias S[c]heele
(Cross-eyed) Jacob, and Wanninmauwa, Taw-wequanis, Anna-
neke, and Naktemoot, who declared that they granted, conveyed
and made over in true, rightful and free ownership to and for
the behoof of Mr William Loveridge, senior, hatter, all their rights
in a certain parcel of woodland lying at Catskill, extending from
the mouth of the kill where his, Loveridge's, house and barn
stand southward along the North alias Hudson's river to the mid-
dle of the great bend (Imbocht) where the trees are marked W —
and runs from the river up westward to where one comes to a
fall on the Kaeters kill, named Qwatawichnaak, and so along the
'east side of the Caeterskill to where the same empties into the
Catskill and so along the Catskill to the house and barn of W™.
Loveridge aforesaid and so to the great river; with all the kills,
creeks, flats, appurtenances and dependencies thereof, excepting
the arable land which said Loveridge bought of Jan Conell where-
for a patent has already been granted, which they, the grantors,
do by virtue of being the rightful proprietors and owners of the
aforesaid lands, saving that they stipulate that Mahak Niminaw,
sachem of Catskill, shall have when he comes home two pieces of
dufifel and six cans of rum; conveying said land free and unin-
cumbered without any charges thereon, or issuing out of the same
(saving the lord's right), without the grantors' having any further
claim in the least thereon, acknowledging that they have received
therefor to their content the following goods in the presence of
the court, to wit, three guns, three kettles, two pistols, three cov-
erlets, three pieces of duffel, three pieces of strouding, three shirts,
three pairs of stockings, ten fathoms of seawan half white and
half black, two ankers of rum, two swords, three knives, three
axes, six handfuls of powder, six bars of lead, three adzes, and a
half cask of good beer, giving therefore full power to the afore-
said W'". Loveridge, his heirs and successors, or his assigns, to
do with and dispose of the aforesaid woodland, kills, creeks, etc.
as he might do with his own patrimonial estate and effects, promis-
ing to warrant and defend the same against all persons from all
l62 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
trouble, claims and incumbrances which may arise either from
Christians or Indians ; and as Dirk Teunise Teunise^ makes some
claim to a piece of land within said limits lying on the point by
the river called Uylespiegel's land, therefore, W'". Loveridge de-
clares before the court that if he [Teunise] can make good his
claim, he [Loveridge] will gladly yield it up, otherwise, if Dirk
Teunise wishes to hold said land, he shall be bound to pay therefor
pro rata as he [Loveridge] pays for the whole lot; further the
Indians declared that they nevermore would do nor cause any-
thing to be done contrary hereto in any manner, binding themselves
thereto as by law provided. Done in Albany in the court house
on the 19th of July 1682 and subscribed by all the owners thus :
Cornells van Dyck The mark X of Waxnachquatin,
Dirck Wesselsz the old Indian
The mark X of Mamanauchoua, the
old squaw
The mark X of Cu[n]puwaen
The mark X of L'^sawanneek
The mark X of Wanninmauwaa, a
squaw
The mark X of Taw-wequanis, a
squaw
The mark X of Annaneke, an
Indian
The mark X of Naktemoot, a squaw
Acknowledged before me,
Ro''. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Gerrit Visbeeck to Thomas Davidtsen Kikebel for a
house and lot opposite the church
[154] Appeared before me Ro*. Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyk and Schinnechtady, etc., in presence of the
Honorable Mr Cornells van Dyk and Mr Dirk Wessells, magistrates
of the same jurisdiction, Gerrit Visbeek, who declared that he grants,
conveys and makes over in true, rightful and free ownership to and
for the behoof of Thomas Davidtse Kikebull a certain house and
lot standing and lying in this place over against the church, next
the house of Major Abraham Staas, which lot extends northward
to the fence of said Staas and southward as broad as the house is
1 Thus in the original.
DEEDS 1 6/8- 1 704 163
long; the length is as far as the fence stands and as the patent
mentions ; together with the garden over the town's palisades lying
in the rear thereof as the same was inclosed ; which he, the grantor,
does by virtue of the patent to his predecessor (voorsaet)'^ Jan
Franse van Hoese, granted by the late Governor General Rich<^.
Nicolls, dated the nth of May 1667,^ to which reference is herein
made ; and that free and unincumbered, without any charges thereon,
or issuing out of the same (saving the lord's right), without the
grantor's having any further claim in the least thereon, acknowledg-
ing himself to be paid and satisfied therefor, the first penny with the
last, therefore giving plenam actionem cessam and full power to the
aforenamed Thomas Davidtse Kikebull, his heirs, successors, or
assigns to do with and dispose of the aforesaid lot and garden as
he could do with his own patrimonial estate and effects, promising
to warrant and defend the same against all persons from all trouble,
claims and incumbrances according to law and further nevermore
to do nor cause anything to be done contrary hereto in any manner,
binding himself thereto as by law provided.
Done in Albany, the ist of August 1682.
Gerret V'isbeeck
Cornelis van Dyck
Dirck Wessclss
In my presence.
Ro'^. Livingston, Secretary
1 This would seem to indicate that Gerrit Visbeeck married Van Hoesen's
widow, Volkje Juriaens. Cf. Early Records of Albany, 1:411.
2 May II, 1667, Jan Fransen van Hoesen received a confirmatory patent for
two lots of ground at Albany, one " having to the South and West sides the
waggon way to the North Hendrick Jansen Westerkamp and to the East
a certain way that goes between the Garden and the Lott conteyning in
breadth before towards the way four Rod, & six foot and behind five Rod
and five foot. In length on the North side eleaven Rod, two foot and on the
South tenn Rod nine foot," granted to him April 23, 1652, and the other
" a certain Lott of Ground and Garden lying in the Towne aforemenconed
towards the River to the East of the Lott where his House stands having
on the North side Hendrick Westercamps on the West, East, & South the
Common highway being in breadth on the West side three Rod and five
foot and on the East three Rod eight foot and a halfe, in length on the
North, & South seaven Rod, three foot and a halfe on each side," granted
to him by patent dated October 25, 1653. Both lots were apparently in what
is known as the Exchange block, on the northeast corner of State street
and Broadway. See diagrams in Munsell's Collections, 4:195. The town's
palisades, mentioned in the deed, refer to the stockade on the river side.
164 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
Deed from Anna Wymans Kikebel, attorney for her husband,
Thomas Davidtsen Kikebel, to Dirck Sensing for a house and
lot opposite the church in Albany, conveyed to her husband by
Gerrit Visbeeck
[155] Appeared before me Rob*. Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyk and Schinnechtady, etc., in presence of the
Honorable ^Mr Cornelis van Dyk and Mr Dirk Wessells, magistrates
of the same jurisdiction, the worthy Madam Anna Kikebull, wife of
Thomas Davidts Kikebull, who showed a power of attorney from
her husband of date the 21st of July 1682, written by the notar}'
public \\'™. Bogardus, whereby she was authorized to convey to
Dirk Bensing a certain house and lot, in virtue of which she declared,
etc.. that she granted and made over to and for the behoof of said
Dirk Bensing a certain house and lot standing and lying in this place
over against the church next the house of ]\Iajor Abraham Staets,
which lot extends northward to the fence of said Staets and south-
ward in breadth' as the house is long, in length as far as the fence
stands and as the patent mentions, together with the garden over
the town's palisades lying in the rear thereof, as the same was in-
closed ; which she, the grantor, does by virtue of the conveyance
received by her husband this day from Ger*. Vist)eek, to which ref-
erence is herein made, and that free and unincumbered, without any
charges thereon or issuing out of the same (saving the lord's right),
without the grantor, in the capacity aforesaid, having any further
claim in the least thereon, acknowledging herself to be paid and
satisfied therefor, the first penny with the last, therefore giving
plenum actionem cessam and full power to the aforesaid Dirk Ben-
sing to do with and dispose of the same as he might do with his own
patrimonial estate and efifects, promising to warrant and defend the
same against all persons from all trouble, claims and incumbrances
according to law and further nevermore to do nor cause anything
to be done contrary hereto in any manner, binding herself thereto
as by law provided. Done in Albany, the ist of August 1682.
Cornelis ran Dyck Anxa Wymans alias Kikebel ^
Dirck JVessclss
In my presence,
Ro"^. Livingston, Secretary
1 She was a daughter of Domine Gideon Schaets ; see E. B. O'Callaghan,
History of Xetv Xetherland, 2 068.
DEEDS I 678-1 704 165
Mutual release between Pieter Davidsen Schuyler, husband of
the widow of Gerrit van Schaick, and Annetje Lievens, widow
of Goosen Gerritsen van Schaick, of all claims and demands
growing out of said Gerrit van Schaick's interest in his father's
and mother's estates
[156] Appeared before me, Rob*. Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyk and Schaenhechtady and in presence of the
Honorable Mr Marte Gerritse and Mr Cornelis van Dyk, magis-
trates of the same jurisdiction, Peter Davidtse Schuyler, husband
and guardian of his wife Alida van Slichtenhorst, late widow of Ger*.
van Schayk, deceased, son of Goose Gerritse, deceased, by his first
wife, who declared that he was fully paid and satisfied by Annetje
Lievens, widow of Goose Gerritse, deceased, for all dues and
claims by virtue of inheritance and bequest to which his prede-
cessor, Gerrit van Schayk, was entitled out of his father's estate (he
having received his mother's inheritance during his lifetime), there-
fore releasing the aforesaid widow, Annetie Lievens, her heirs or
successors, from all claims and demands on account of his prede-
cessor's (voorsaets) father's or mother's estate, fully relinquishing
hereby all interest therein and on the other hand the widow An-
netje Schayk declares that she has received full satisfaction from P"".
Davidtse Schuyler for all claims and demands which she made
against his predecessor Ger^ van Schayk, the same being fully settled
and liquidated from the beginning of the world to this date. Done
in Albany without craft or guile on this 7th of August 1682.
Marten Gertscn Pieter Daevitsen
Cornelis van Dyck Annetge Lievens
In my presence,
Ro^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Annetje Lievens, widow of Goosen Gerritsen van
Schaick, to Anthony van Schaick for her farm on Cohoes island
[157] Appeared before me, Rob^ Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyk and Schaenhechtady, in presence of the
Honorable Mr Cornelis van Dyk and Mr Dirk Wessells, magistrates
of the same jurisdiction, Annetie Lievens, widow of the late Goose
Gerritse van Schayk, who declared that she grants, conveys and
makes over in true, rightful and free ownership hereby in real and
actual possession to and for the behoof of Anthony Goosense van
Schayk, her, the grantor's farm lying on the island of Cahoos and all
her rights therein, as well lands, house, barn and ricks, as all her
1 66 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
rights in the lands which he above the fourth spruyf,^ excepting the
farm of Harmen Lievese, the farm of Jan van Ness, the farm of
Barent Albertse Bratt, the farm of Geurt Hendrix, the farm of Jan
Jacobse van Noorstrant and the farm of Roelolf Gerritse, which she,
the grantor, does by virtue of a patent granted jointly to Phil:
Pieterse Schuyler and her husband, deceased, by the late Governor
General Franqois Lovelace, of date the 30th of March 1672,- of
which Phil : Schuyler's half was conveyed to her, the grantor, on the
I2th of July 1681, to which reference is herein made; and that free
and unincumbered, without any charges thereon, or issuing out of
the same (saving the lord's right), without the grantor's having any
further claim in the least thereon, acknowledging herself to be paid
and satisfied therefor, the first penny with the last, therefore giving
plenam actionem cessam and full power to the aforenamed Anth°.
van Schayk, his heirs, successors, or assigns to do wdth and dis-
pose of the aforesaid farm, houses, barn, rick, and other lands lying
over the fourth spruyt to her, the grantor, heretofore belonging,
together with all rights and privileges mentioned in the aforenamed
patent given to Phillip Schuyler and Goose Gerritse Schayk, de-
ceased, of date the 30th of March 1672 (excepting the six farms of
the aforesaid six persons) as he could do with his ov»^n patrimonial
estate and effects, promising to warrant and defend the same against
all persons from all trouble, claims and incumbrances according to
law and further nevermore to do nor cause anything, to be done
contrary hereto in any manner, under binding obligation as by law
provided.
Done in Albany, the 9th of August 1682.
Annetge Lievexs
Cornells van Dyck
Dirck Wesselsz
In my presence.
Ro'^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Anthony van Schaick to Sybrant van Schaick and
Pieter Schuyler for a piece of meadow land at Half Moon
[158] Appeared before me, Rob^ Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyk and Schaenhechtady, etc., in presence of
the Honorable Mr Cornelis van Dyk and Mr Dirk Wessells, magis-
trates of the same jurisdiction. Anthony Goosense van Schayk who
1 Literally " sprout," referring to a branch or fork of the Mohawk river.
2 See note on p. 132.
DEEDS 1678-I7O4 167
declared that he grants, conveys and makes over in true, rightful
and free ownership to and for the behoof of his brother Zybrant van
Schayk and Pieter Schuyler a certain meadow [vlye Lants] lying
in the Halve Maen,^ between the kill which separates the land of
Jan Jacobse and Roeloff Gerritse and the Modder kill,^ having to
the west the common woods and to the east the fence of Jan van
Ness, Harme Livese, Barent Albertse Bratt and Geurt Hendrix,
together with the woodland lying between the aforenamed two kills
for a range for their cattle with others living there, also free range
for their cattle in the woods westward and northward, on con-
dition that Jan van Ness, Harme Lievese, Barent Albertse Bratt
and Geurt Heyndrix shall also have free range for their cattle in
the woods according to their [bill of] purchase or contract with
Annetje Levens, widow of Goose Gerritse, deceased; which he, the
grantor, does by virtue of a certain conveyance received by him to-
day from Annetje Levens, widow of Goose Gerritse van Schayk, de-
ceased, to which reference is herein made, and that free and unin-
cumbered, without any charges thereon, or issuing out of the same
(saving the lord's right), without the grantor's having any further
claim in the least thereon, acknowledging himself to be paid and
satisfied therefor, the first penny with the last, therefore giving
plenam actionem cessani and full power to the aforenamed Sybrant
Goosense van Schayk and Pieter Schuyler, their heirs, successors,
or assigns to do with and dispose of the aforesaid meadow as they
could do with their own patrimonial estate and effects, promising to
warrant and defend the same against all persons from all trouble,
claims and incumbrances according to law, and further nevermore to
do nor cause anything to be done contrary hereto in any manner
binding himself thereto as by law provided.
Done in Albany, the 24th of August 1682.
Antony van Schaick
Cornells van Dyck
Dirck Wesselsz
In my presence,
Ro'^. Livingston, Secretary
N. B. So far liquidated as to the conveyance money (Transp^..
gelt).
1 Half Moon; about 15 miles north of Albany.
2 Literally, "Mud kill," now called Mudder kill.
I 68 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
Contract of sale between Pieter Bosie and Jan Jacobsen Gar-
denier for land on the south side of Kinderhook creek together
with Bosie's cattle and household effects
[159] Appeared before me, Ro^ Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyk and Schaenhechtady, etc., in the presence
of the afternamed magistrates, Peter Bosie of the one side and Jan
Jacobse Gardenier of the other side, who declared that they had con-
tracted with each other respecting the purchase of his, P''. Bosie's
land and property in manner following :
First, P"". Bosie acknowledges that he has sold to Jan Jacobse Gar-
denier, and Jan Jacobse that he has bought of him, all his, Peeter
Bosie's, rights in the land which he bought of Ger*. Jacobse, con-
sisting of a large flat whereof a part is inclosed and a small flat of
about two morgens, lying at Kinderhoek, on the south side of the
Kinderhoek kill, together with all his horses, cattle, farming tools,
household furniture, etc., according to inventory thereof made by
Jacob Abr: Vosburgh, constable, and Jochem Lambertse, nothing
in the world excepted or reserved excepting his winter wheat raised
this year, one ox, two hogs and the clothing and bedding of him-
self and wife and children, with an empty chest, but all the rest,
Jan Jacobs has bought of P"". Bosie ; which land and movable goods
shall be at once delivered over to the buyer, for which the buyer
promises to pay the seller the quantity of three hundred good, mer-
chantable beaver skins reckoned at 8 gl. apiece, in 4 instalments.
each time a just fourth part, to wit, seventy-five beavers in the
summer of 1683, seventy-five beavers in the summer of 1684,
seventy-five beavers in the summer of 1685, and the last fourth part
being seventy-five beavers in the summer of 1686, which aforenamed
300 beavers the buyer can pay in silver, wheat, seawan, peas or
boards, all according to the just value of a merchantable beaver of
i}i lb. Dutch, and if the buyer deliver boards he shall be holden to
deliver the same in the summer on the river bank that they may be
transported in boats, always with the understanding that the same
must be good salable inch boards, and a boat load be delivered at a
time and if he deliver beavers, silver, seawan, wheat, or peas, he
shall be holden to deliver the same here in this place, all according to
the just value of a beaver, but shall have respite till December 1683,
1684, 1685, 1686, every time a just fourth part of the aforesaid pur-
chase money.
And as the seller has so far no conveyance for the aforesaid land,
Mr Tan van Loon, mastersmith of this place, binds himself that
said land shall be conveyed [160] free and unincumbered on the
DEEDS I 678- I 704 169
last payment and for the payment of said three hundred beavers Jan
Jacobse Gardenier hereby specially binds the aforenamed land con-
sisting of two flats, his house and sawmill and gristmill, together
with his person and estate, real and personal, present and future,
nothing excepted, submitting the same to the authority of all lords,
courts, tribunals and judges for the payment without loss or costs
of said 300 beavers. Done in Albany without craft or guile in
presence of Mr Marte Gerritse and Mr Cornells van Dyk, magis-
trates called as witnesses hereto, on the 2d of October Anno Domini
1682.
The mark X of P''. Bosie, made with his
own hand.
Marten Gertscn Jan Jacobse Gaardenier
Cornells van Dyck Jan van Loon
In my presence,
Ro''. Livingston, Secretary
Bond of Plater Bosie to Robert Livingston for the payment of
128 skipples of wheat
[161] Appeared before us, Mr Marte Gerritse and Mr Corn®, van
Dyk, magistrates of the jurisdiction of xA.lbany, colony of Rensel-
aerswyk and Shinnechtady. etc., Pieter Bosie, who declared himself
to be honestly and truly indebted and in arrears to Robert Livingston
in the quantity of one hundred and twenty-eight skipples- of wheat
growing out of merchandise received and money advanced to his
satisfaction, for a portion of which, to wit, one hundred and twenty-
five skipples of wheat, 15 stivers, he has already given an obligation
of date the 8th of March i68j, wdiich quantity of one hundred and
twenty-eight skipples of wheat the subscriber [promises to pay] to
the aforesaid Ro^ Livingston, his heirs, successors, or assigns, in
the time of one month ; for which the subscriber specially binds two
piles of wheat standing on the land that he today sold to Jan
Jacobse and if said two piles of wheat shall not cover the amount
then the first payment on his land sold shall be said Ro'. Livingston's
security for the final and effectual payment of said 128 skipples of
wheat ; furthermore the subscriber binds his person and estate, real
and personal, present and future, nothing excepted, submitting the
same to the authority of all lords, courts, tribunals and judges to
secure tlie payment without loss or costs. Done in Albany the 2d
of October 1682.
Marten Gcrtsen The mark X of P"". BosiE, made with his
Cornells van Dyck own hand.
170 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
Deed from Joachim Staets, attorney for Cornelis Steenwyck, to
Jacob Tyssen van der Heyden for a lot on Jonker street at
Albany
[162] Appeared before me Rob*. Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyk and Schinnechtady, etc., in presence
of the Honorable Mv Cornelis van Dyk and Mr Jan Janse Bleecker,
magistrates of the same- jurisdiction, Mr Jochim Staats, attorney
for ^Ir Cornelis Stecnwvk, as appears by power of attorney dated
July I, 1682, who declared that he grants, conveys and makes
over to and for the behoof of Jacob Tyse van d''. Heyden a certain
lot lying here in Albany whereon stood a certain house burnt down
in November 1681, which said Jacob Tyse bought of Mr Steen-
wyk at vendue, the lot lying on Jonker street, on which Teunis
vander Poel is now building a house ; having to the south and west
the streets, to the north the house and lot of Hendrick Rooseboom,
to the east the house of Jeronimus Wendel, in breadth in front
on the street toward the south two rods, six feet and two inches,
and in the rear two rods and three feet, in length on the east five
rods, ten feet and four inches and toward the west on the street
five rods and nine feet, Rhineland measure ; which he, the grantor,
does by virtue of the conveyance received by him from Jan
Thomase, of date of the 14th of June 1678,^ to which reference is
herein made, and that free and unincumbered, without any charges
thereon, or issuing out of the same (saving the lord's right), with-
out the grantor, in the capacity aforesaid, having any further claim
in the least thereon, acknowledging that he is fully paid and satis-
fied therefor, the first penny with the last, therefore giving plenam
actionem cessam and full power to the aforenamed Jacob Tyse van
der Heyden, his heirs, successors, or assigns to do with and dispose
of the aforesaid lot as he could do with his own patrimonial estate
and efifects, promising to warrant and defend the same against all
persons from all trouble, claims and incumbrances according to law
and further nevermore to do nor cause anything to be done con-
trary hereto in any manner, under binding obligation as by law pro-
vided therefor.
Done in Albany, the 4th of October 1682.
Joachim Staets
Cornelis van Dyck
Jan Jansz Bleecker
1 See Early Records of Albany, 1:185-6, where by mistake the name
Mingael has been supplied, instead of Witbeck.
DEEDS I 6/8- I 704 171
Deed from Adriaen Gerritsen van Papendorp, attorney for Barent
Ryndersen, deceased, to Jochim Staets for a house and lot on
Jonker street at Albany
[163] Appeared before me, Rob^ Livingston, secretary of
Albany, colony of Renselaerswyk and Schinnechtady, etc., in pres-
ence of the afternamed magistrates of Albany, etc., Mr Cornelis
van Dyk and Mr Jan Janse Bleker, the worthy Adriaen Gerritse
van Papendorp in the capacity of special attorney for Barent
Rynderse, deceased, to grant, convey and make over as by virtue
of his capacity aforenamed he does hereby grant, convey and make
over to Mr Jochim Staats, son-in-law of said Barent Ryndertse,
deceased, a house and lot standing and lying here in Albany on
Jonker street, where he, Staats, at present dwells, having to the
west Ger^ Banker, to the east the house belonging to Annetje van
Shayk and to the north the street,^ being in breadth in front on
the street two rods, four feet and a half and in the rear on the
south side the same ; length on the east and west sides ten rods
and nine feet Rhineland measure ; in like manner the attorney of
Bar.' Rynderse conveys to Jochim Staets a garden lying on the
Plain (Pleyn), being five rods square to the south of Harme Ved-
ders and to the west Jan Hendrix Bruyn ; which he, the grantor,
in his capacity of attorney of Bar'. Ryndertse does by virtue of the
patent granted to Barent Ryndertse by the late Governor General
Rich*^. Nicolls under date of the 30th of April 1667, to which refer-
ence is herein made, and that free and tmincumbered, without any
charges thereon, or issuing out of the same (saving the lord's
right), without the grantor's having an}^ further claim in the least
thereon, acknowledging that he has full power and authority to
make over said house, lot and garden as above said, therefore giving
plenam actionem cessam and full power to the aforenamed ]\Ir
Jo him Staats, his heirs, successors, or assigns to do with and dis-
pose of the aforesaid house, lot and garden as he could do with his
own patrimonial estate and effects, promising to warrant and de-
fend the same against all persons from all trouble, claims and in-
cumbrances according to law and further nevermore to do nor
1 belendcnde ten westen Ger*. Banker ten oosfen 't liuys tochehoorcnde
Annetje van Shayk; &- ten noorden 's heere Straet; which seems to be
correctly translated as above, though the patent of April 30, 1667, confirming
the conveyance of July 17, 1659, from Barent Meyndersen to Barent Reynder-
sen, reads: "being to the west of Gerrit Bancker, and to the East of Rutger
Jacobsen," omitting the reference to the street. See also Early Records of
Albany, i :250, for conveyance of July 17, 1659.
1/2 EARLY RECORDS OF ALRANY
cause anything to be done contrary hereto in any manner, binding
himself thereto as by law provided. Done in Albany, the 4th of
October 1682.
Cornelis van Dyck Adriaex Gerretsen Papendurp
Jan Jansc Bleecker
In my presence,
Ro^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from John De Lavall, administrator of the estate of Capt.
Thomas De Lavall, to Jacobus van den Bulke, attorney of
Pieter van den Bulke, confirming earlier deed from Thomas
De Lavall to Daniel De Hondecoutre, agent of Pieter van
Bulke, for two houses and a lot on Jonker street at Albany
[165] Appeared before me Rob^ Livingston, secretary of
Albany, colony of Renselaerswyk and Schaenhechtady, etc., in
presence of the Honorable Mr Cornelis van Dyk and Mr Johan
Janse Bleker, magistrates of the same jurisdiction, Mr John De
Lavall, in rapacity of executor^ of his father Capt. Tho : De Lavall,
deceased, in consequence of letters of administration to him grajited
by Capt. Anth°. Brockholes, commander-in-chief, of date the 25th
of July 1682, who declared that he confirmed a certain conveyance
of a house and lot standing and lying here in Albany, which by his
late father was granted to Mr Daniel d'Hondecoutre, agent of Mr
Peter van den Bulke, trader, at Leyden in Holland, under date of
the ist of August 1673,^ to and for the behoof of Jacobius van
Bulke in capacity as substitute for Johan van Twist, attorney of
Mr Peter van den Bulke aforenamed, which substitution was ap-
proved by said Mr Peter van den Bulke at Leyden on the 30th of
April 1682, as per instrument thereof shown to me, the secretary;
which said house stands on Jonker street between the house of
Peter Meuse \>oman and the house at present o cupied by Joseph
1 Executenr.
2 See Early Records of Albany, 1 195. The diagrams of lots on the south
side of State street between Broadway and Green street, in Munsell's Col-
lections, 4:187, identify this house and lot with the property- conveyed on
July 4, 1658, by Pieter Hartgers to Johannes Withart and for which W'ithart
received a confirmatory patent on October 28, 1667. Though there is ap-
parently no record of any conveyance from Withart to Thomas De Lavall,
the identity of the property seems to be borne out by the statement in the
deed of July 4, 1658. that Hartgers convej-s to Withart the house " which
the grantor built on a part of the lot granted to him on April 2^. 1652," and
the reference in the deed from Pieter Meesen Vrooman to Frederic Phillipse,
May 9, 1676, to the " house that Mr. De Laval owned, and that Pieter Hart-
gers caused to be built." See Mortgages, i :304-5 ; and Early Records of
Albany, i : 124-25.
DEEDS I 678- I 704 173
Yetts/ to the south the Rutten kill, to the north the street, to-
gether with the addition of the small house built on said lot next
the large house by Capt. Tho : De Lavall ; all which the subscriber,
in capacity aforesaid, conveys to the aforenamed Jacobus van den
Bulke, to be deducted from the money which Capt. Tho : De La-
vall, deceased, owed to Daniel d'Hondecoutre, agent for Mr
Peter van den Bulke, being appraised by two good men, chosen by
both parties, to wit, Mr Cornells van D}'k and Mr Rich''. Pretty at
the sum of one hundred and fifty-five beavers ; all of which is
granted and made over in consequence of a patent thereof,' and that
free and unincumbered, without any charges thereon or issuing out
of the same (saving the lord's right), without the grantor's having
the least claim thereon, acknowledging that he has conveyed said
house and lot with their appurtenances for said consideration of
a reduction of moneys, therefore giving plenmn actionem cessam
and full power to the aforenamed Mr Jacobus van den Bulke, at-
torney for Mr Peter van den Bulke, his father, or his assigns, td
do with and dispose of the aforesaid two houses and lot as he could
do with his own patrimonial estate and effects, promising to war-
rant and defend the same against all persons from all trouble,
claims and incumbrances according to law, and further nevermore
to do nor cause anything to be done contrary hereto in any manner,
binding himself thereto as by law provided. Done in Albany, the
9th of October 1682.'^
F^ John De Lavall
Cornells van Dyck Executor of my father,
Jan Janss Bleecker Thomas De Lavall
In my presence,
RoB^. Livingston, Secretary
1 Joseph Yates.
- No record is found of any patent to Thomas De Lavall for a lot on State
street. The statement may refer therefore to the patent to Johannes Withart
of October 28, 1667, mentioned in the preceding note.
3 December 24, 1684, Governor Thomas Dongan granted a confirmatory
patent to " Jacobus Vanderbulke " for this house and lot, which are described
as " scituated to the West of Peiter Meiussen To the East of the house of
Joseph Jeats bounded from the street to the Kill or Creeke commonly
called by the name of Rutts Kill being in breadth by the street thirty nine
foot and eight inches and behind the said Kill four Rood It being with a
triangle behind the house and Lott of Joseph Jeaths."
174 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
Deed from Jannetje. widow of Thomas Powell, to Anthony
Lespinard for a lot in Albany
[167] Appeared before me Rob^ Livingston, secretary of
Albany, colony of Renselaers\v}'k and Schaenhechtady, etc., in
presence of the Honorable Mr Cornelis van Dyk and Mr Dirk W'es-
sells, magistrates of the same jurisdiction, Jannetie, widow of
Thomas Pawel, who declared that she grants, conveys and makes
over in true, rightful and free ownership to and for the behoof of
Anthony Lespinard a certain lot lying here in Albany over against
the house of Jacob Janse van Noorstrant, having to the east the lot
of Frederik Phillips, to the west the lot heretofore belonging to Jan
Dareth and now to Mr Cornelis van Dyk, to the south the lot of
Adriaen Gerritse and to the north the street, in length east and west
six rods and in breadth south and north three rods ; which she, the
grantor, does by virtue of the patent granted to her by the late
Governor General Francis Lovelace under date of the 30th of
May 1673,^ ^^d that free and unincumbered, without any charges
thereon or issuing out of the same (saving the lord's right), with-
out the grantor's having any further claim in the least thereon,
acknowledging herself to be fully paid and satisfied therefor, the
first penny with the last, therefore giving plenum actionem cessam
and full power to the aforenamed Anth°. Lespinard, his heirs, suc-
cessors or assigns to do with and dispose of the aforesaid lot as
he could do with his own patrimonial estate and efifects, promising
to warrant and defend the same against all persons from all
trouble, claims and incumbrances according to law and further
nevermore to do nor cause anything to be done contrary hereto in
any manner, binding herself thereto as by law provided. Done in
Albany, the 20th of Februar}' i68|.
. This is the mark X of Jaxxetje Pawells,
Cornelis van Dyck made with her own hand.
Dirck Wesselsz In my presence.
Ro^. Livingston, Secretary
Contract of sale between Anthony van Schaick and Harmen
Jansen Knickerbacker for a piece of land at Half Moon
[168 and 169 blank; 170] Appeared before me, Rob*. Livingston,
secretarv of Albany, colony of Renselaerswyk and Schaenhechtady,
etc., Anth°. van Schaik of the one side and Harme Janse Kinneker-
1 Xo record of this patent is found.
DEEDS 1 678- 1 704 175
backer of the other side, who declared that they had contracted and
agreed with each other in love and friendship, in manner following:
Anth°. van Shayk acknowledges that he has sold and Harme
Janse Kinneker Backer that he has bought of him a piece of arable
land at the north or upper end of the Halve Maen^ over against
the Skachkook^ path, being bounded by a little kill on the south
side and likewise by a little kill on the north side, to the east the
river, and to the west the high woods,^ the grantee to have two
hundred paces above the heights next the woods to be fenced in and
furthermore free range for his cattle, with the persons living in
the Halve Maen ; for which piece of arable land and the privileges
aforesaid Harme Janse Kinneker Backer promises to pay to Anth°.
van Schayk the quantity of thirty good salable beaver skins, to be
paid in the three following years, every time a just third part, to
wit, ten bea\ers in January i68f, ten beavers in January 168 ^
and the last ten beavers in January i68|; on the last payment the
seller promises to deliver a proper conveyance of the aforesaid land,
free and unincumbered (saving the lord's right) ; with which the
contracting parties acknowledge they are content, binding for the
execution of these presents their persons and estates, real and
personal, present and future, nothing excepted, submitting the
same to the authority of all lords, courts, tribunals and judges.
Done in Albany, in presence of Gabriel Thomson and Mr Abraham
van Tricht called as witnesses hereto, the nth of December 1682.
Antony van Schaick
Hermen Jansen van Wyekycbacker*
Gabriell Tomasen
Ahram van Tricht, chirurgeon
In my presence,
Ro"^. Livingston, Secretary
1 Half Moon ; about 15 miles north of Albany.
2 Schaghticoke.
^'T hooge boss.
* This signature, though written in a neat and legible hand, is apparently
imperfect. In an indenture from Anthony van Schaick to Harmen Jansen
for land at Half Moon, dated February 26, 169!, in Deeds, 4:04-96, the
grantee is repeatedly referred to as " Harme Janse Knickerbacker van Wye,"
and the original, according to the record, was signed " Harme Janse Knicker-
backer van Wyye." In an action for debt by Hermen Jansen Kinnekerbacker
against Mews Hogeboom, in Proceedings of Justices of the Peace, 1680-85,
P- 535, the plaintiff is spoken of as " Harmen Jansen van Bommel." Bommel
is supposed to stand for Zalt-Bommel in the province of Gelderland, but
may possibly refer to Den Bommel, on the island of Over-Flakkee, in the
province of South Holland.
176 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
Bond and mortgage of Jacob Meussen Vrooman, husband and
guardian of Elisabeth de Lint, to the deacons of the Reformed
Church
[171] Appeared before me, Rob^ Livingston, secretary of
Albany, colony of Renselaerswyk and Shaenhechtady, etc., in
presence of the Honorable Mr Comelis van Dyk and Mr Dirk Wes-
sells, magistrates of the same jurisdiction, Jacob ]\Ieuse Vroman,
husband and guardian of his wife Elisabeth d'Lint, who declared
that he was honestly and truely indebted and in arrears to the
honorable diaconate of the Reformed Church here in the sum of
one hundred and twenty pounds Boston money, of which said sum
he, the subscriber, now acknowledges the receipt from P"". Schuyler
and Albert Rykman, deacons, in the following specie, to wit, two
hundred and eighty-two heavy pieces of eight each weighing a
French crown, amounting to eighty-four pounds, twelve shillings ;
item, one hundred and ninety-four Boston shilHngs, being nine
pounds and fourteen shillings, and in quarter guilders and pieces
of eight twenty-five pounds and fourteen shillings ; on this con-
dition that he return said sum to the diaconate in the same
specie, or failfng of the same, in Boston money, in the space of
two years, paying eight per cent [interest] yearly but if he pays
the same or a part of the same earlier, then he shall be holden to
pay interest at the same rate until the time of the full payment
up to the last penny ; always with the understanding that the whole
sum with the interest thereon must be paid in the stipulated time
of two years; for which payment of said sum of £120 Boston
money the subscriber specially binds the two payments on his
farm sold, lying at Schinnechtady, bought by Claes Laurense^
Purmerent for the sum of five hundred and forty beavers to be
paid within the next five years, each year one hundred beavers
and the 40 beavers in the sixth year; likewise his house and lot
wherein he dwells here in Albany between Jan Salomonse and the
house of Hans Heyndrix ; and generally his person and estate,
real and personal, present and future, nothing excepted, submitting
the same to the authority of all lords, courts, tribunals and judges
to secure the payment without costs or loss. Thus done in Albany
without fraud or deceit on the 2d of February i68§.
Comelis van Dyck Jacob Meesce Vroman
Dirck Wesselss
Acknowledged before me,
Ro^. Livingston, Secretary
1 Professor Pearson here supplies the name Van der Volgen.
DEEDS I 678-1 704 177
Memorandum. On Dec. 21, 1688, this special bond was canceled
and another in English given in the sum of two hundred and
forty-seven heavy pieces of eight as per said instrument is to be
seen.
Gerit Reyer
Elbert Tunusen^
Deacons
Bond and mortgage of Andries Albertsen Bratt to Willem Ketel-
heyn
[172] Appeared before me, Rob*. Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyk and Schaenhechtady, etc., in presence of
the Honorable Mr Cornelis van Dyk and Mr Dirk Wessells, magis-
trates of the same jurisdiction. And®. Albertse Bratt, who declared
that he was honestly and truly indebted and in arrears to W"\
Ketelheyn, in the sum of eight hundred and fifteen guilders, six
stivers and eight pennies, seawan, growing out of tavern expenses
incurred as well in his, W[ille]m's, predecessor's (Storm: v: d"".
Zee)- time as in his own time, which aforenamed sum of fl.8i5:6:8
seawan, the subscriber promises to pay in the time of one year from
the date hereof, to wit, the just half thereof next summer and the
other half in the month of March i68|, for which the subscriber
specially binds his half [interest in the] sawmill with the kilF^ and
the rights and privileges thereof, standing and lying between the
farm of Phil : P: Schuyler and the farm of P''. van Woggelum, Ju''.,
together with his person and estate, real and personal, present and
future, nothing excepted, submitting the same to the jurisdiction of
all lords, courts, tribunals and judges, for the recovery of the debt
without loss or costs.
Thus done in Albany without fraud or deceit on the 5th of March
i68|.
This is the mark AB of And^. Albertse
Cornelis van Dyck
Dirck Wesselsz Bratt, made with his own hand.
In my presence,
Ro'^. Livingston, Secretary
1 This name may also be read " Ebbert Tunusen," and is probably intended
for Egbert Teunisen.
2 Willem Ketelheyn married Hilletje, the widow of Storm Albertsen van
der Zee.
3 The Poesten kill? See deeds from Sweer Teunissen van Velsen to Pieter
Pietersen van Woggelum and from Juriaen Teunissen Tappen to Philip
Schuyler, on p. 44 and 52 of this volume, and note on p. 129 of v. i of
Early Records of Albany.
1/8 EARLY RECORDS OF ALRANY
Deed from the constables of Albany, as administrators of the
estate of Hendrick Gerritsen, to Jean Rosie for a lot in Albany
[173] Appeared before me, Rob^ Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyk and Schinnechtady, et-\, in presence of
the Honorable ]\Ir Cornelis van Dyk and Air Dirk W'essells, mag-
istrates of said jurisdiction, the worthy Jacob Sanderse Glen,
Rob*. Sanders and .Albert Rykman, constables, in the capacity of
administrators of the estate of Hendrik Gerritse,^ who declared
that they granted, conveyed and made over in true, rightful and
free ownership to and for the behoof of Jean Rosie a part of a lot
lying next to his house to the south, over against the house of
W"'. Ketelheyn, being in breadth in front on the street ten feet
and in length thirty feet, that is to his stable, all Rhineland meas-
ure; which the grantors do by virtue of the conveyance to Hendrik
Gerritse aforesaid given by Jacob Janse van Xoorstrant dated the
13th of January 1679-80, and that free and unincumbered, with-
out any charges thereon or issuing out of the same (saving the
lord's right), without the grantors in the capacity aforesaid mak-
ing any further claim in the least thereto, acknowledging that they
have been fiilly paid and satisfied therefor, the first penny with the
last, therefore giving plenam actionem cessaiii and full power to
the aforesaid Jean Rosie, his heirs, successors and assigns, to do
with and dispose of the aforesaid part of a lot as he might do with
his own patrimonial estate and effects, promising to warrant and
defend the same against all persons from all trouble, claims and
incumbrances according to law and further nevermore to do nor
cause anything to be done contrary hereto in any manner, binding
himself thereto as by law provided. Done in Albany, the 7th of
April 1683.
Jacob Sand: Glen
Cornelis van Dyck Robbert Sanders
Dirck Wesselss Albert Ryckman
In my presence,
Ro^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Dirck Wesselsen and Gerrit Teunissen to Omy La
Grange for a parcel of land on the east side of Kinderhook
creek
[174] Appeared before me, Rob*. Livingston, secretary of
Albany, colony of Rensselaerswyck and Schinnechtady, etc., in
1 Hendrick Gerritsen van der Mculen; see deed of Jan. 13, 16 if, mentioned
in the text.
DEEDS 1678-1704 179
presence of the Honorable Mr Cornells van Dyk and Mr Jan Janse
Bleker, magistrates of the same juricdiction, Mr Dirk Wessells
and Gerl Teunise/ who declared that they granted, conveyed and
made over in true, rightful and free ownership to and for the
behoof of Omy La Grangie a certain parcel of land lying on the
east side of the Kinderhoek kill, together with all their rights and
claims which they have between the land of P"". Vosburgh and the
land of Jan Bruyn which is possessed by Groot Andries, having
to the south the land of Jan Bruyn, to the north P''. Vosburgh, to
the west the Kinderhoek kill and to the east the tall woods, being
the smallest flat on the east side of the kill which is specified in
the grantor's patent, containing fourteen morgens or twenty-eight
acres, with the woodland thereto appertaining for his use wuth
others, which flat is known by the name of the Pruynie vlakte
(Prune flat) ; which they, the grantors, do by virtue of the patent
granted to them by the late Governor General Sir Edmond
Andross, of date the 15th of April 1680,- to which reference is
herein made, and that free and unincumbered, without any charges
thereon or issuing out of the same (saving the lord's right), with-
out the grantors having any further claim in the least thereon,
acknowledging that they are fully paid and satisfied therefor, the
first penny with the last, therefore giving plcnam actionem cessam
and full power [to Omy La Grangie] to do with and dispose of the
aforesaid land as he could do with his own patrimonial estate and
efifects, promising to warrant and defend the same against all per-
sons from all trouble, claims and incumbrances according to law
and further nevermore to do nor cause anything to be done con-
trary hereto in any manner, binding themselves thereto as by law
provided.
Done in Albany, the 7th of April 1683.
DiRCK Wesselsz
his
Cornells van Dyck ' Gerritt X Teuntse
Jan Jansa Bleecker mark
In my presence,
RoB^. Livingston, Secretary
1 By his mark identified with Gerrit Teunissen van Vechten. See his will
dated March 8. 170". in Wills, 1:112-14.
2 No record is found of any patent to the grantors of that date. A patent
was granted to them, however, for four flats on both sides of the Kinderhook
creek on March 25, 1680.
l8o EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
Deed from Juriaen Teunissen Tappen to Harmen Rutgersen for
two houses and lots in Albany
[175] Appeared before me, Rob^ Livingston, secretary of Al-
bany, colony of Renselaerswyck and Schinnechtady, etc., in pres-
ence of the Honorable Mr Cornelis van Dyk and Mr Dirk Wessells,
magistrates of the same jurisdiction, Jurian Teunise Tappen, who
declared that he granted, conveyed and made over to and for the
behoof of Harme Ruttgers two adjoining houses together with the
lots thereof, formerly belonging to Dirk Janse Croon, standing and
lying here in Albany of such size and bounds as the same lie in-
fenced up to the little kill, being in breadth, front and rear, five
rods and in length on both sides eight rods; which he, the grantor,
does by virtue of the conveyance received by him from Martin
Cregier, Jun*"., attorney of Mr Francis Lovelace, late governor
general, dated the 13th of September 1672;^ and that free and un-
incumbered, without any charges thereon or issuing out of the
same (saving the lord's right), without the grantor's having any
further claim in the least thereon, acknowledging that he is fully
paid and satisfied therefor, the first penny with the last, therefore
giving plenam actionem cessain and full power to the aforenamed
Harme Ruttgers, his heirs, successors, or assigns to do with and dis-
pose of the aforesaid two houses and lots as he could do with his
own patrimonial estate and effects, promising to warrant and defend
the same against all persons from all trouble, claims and incum-
brances according to law and further nevermore to do nor cause
anything to be done contrary hereto in any manner, binding himself
thereto as by law provided.
Done in Albany, the 8th of April 1683.
JURRE T.\X TUNSEN
Cornelis van Dyck
Dirck Wesselss
Tn my presence.
RoB'^. LivixGSTOX, Secretary
Deed from Cornelis Cornelissen Viele to Cornelis van Dyck for
a house and lot in Albany
[176] Appeared before me, Rob^ Livingston, secretary of Al-
bany, colony of Renselaerswyk and Schinnechtady, etc., in pres-
ence of the Honorable Air Dirk Wessells and Air Johannes Provoost,
magistrates of the same jurisdiction, Cornelis Cornelise Viele, who
1 See Early Records of Albany, i :49i.
DEEDS I 678- I 704 181
declared that he granted, conveyed and made over in true, rightful
and free ownership hereby to and for the behoof of Mr Cornelis
van Dyk, husband and guardian of Elisabeth Salisbury, late widow
of Capt. Silvester Salisbury, a house and lot lying here in Albany
on the west side of Aernout Cornelise Viele, having the street to
the north and to the south the alley of said Aern^ Cornelise and
to the west the narrow street upon which And^ Teller abuts ; in
breadth in front on the street one rod, three feet and eleven inches
and in the rear on the alley toward the kill one rod, one foot and
four inches; length on the east side five rods, one foot and ten
inches, on the west side five rods, five feet and two inches, Rhine-
land measure ; which he, the grantor, does by virtue of the con-
veyance received by him from Jurian Teunise Tappen on the 26th
of August 1670,^ to which reference is herein made, and that free
and unincumbered, without any charges thereon or issuing out of
the same (saving the lord's right), without the grantor's having
any further claim in the least thereon, acknowledging that he is
fully paid and satisfied therefor, the first penny with the last, there-
fore giving plenam actionem cessam and full power to the afore-
named Mr Corn : van Dyk, his heirs, successors, or assigns to do
with and dispose of the aforesaid house and lot as he could do with
his own patrimonial estate and eft'ects, promising to warrant and
defend the same against all persons from all trouble, claims and in-
cumbrances according to law and further nevermore to do nor
cause anything to be done contrary hereto in any manner, binding
himself thereto as by law provided.
Done in Albany, the 17th of April 1683.
Cor. Cor. Viele
Dirck W ess els 2
Johannes Provoost
In my presence,
Rort. Livingston, Secretary
1 See Early Records of Albany, i '.470, which follows the original descrip-
tion : aende snydt syde van pieter Hartgras ten ivesten dc eerste kit, which
is evidently a mistake for " on the west side of Pieter Hartgras, to the south
the first kill." The patent of May 2, 1668, mentioned in the deed, is a
confirmation of the conveyance on December 13, 1665. by Abraham Staets
and Gerard Swart, attorneys of Pieter Hartgers, to Juriaen Teunissen for
" parte of a certaine Lott w^''. a small house upon it lying & being at Albany
hauing on y<= East syde y<= said Pieter Hartgers on y^ South syde Pieter
Hartgers & y^ Creek or Kill & on ye West & north sydes y^ high street."
The property was apparently located on the east corner of State and Green
streets, and not as shown in the diagrams in Munsell's Collections, 4:187,
half way down the block between Green street and Broadway, the first three
lots in the diagrams being by mistake placed to the east instead of to the
west of Green street.
1 82 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
Mortgage from Tapuas, a Highland Indian, to Lawrence van
Alen and Gerrit Lansing of land on the east side of the Hudson
river opposite the Danskamer
[177J Appeared before us the underwritten magistrates of Al-
bany, colony of Renselaerswyk and Schinnechtady, a certain High-
land Indian named Tapuas, who now proposes to go out hunting
and who acknowledges himself to be indebted to Law: van Ale
and Ger^ Lansing in the sum of twenty-four beavers for mer-
chandise received and debt taken over by them from other persons
to whom he is indebted, together with a further loan of twenty-
one beavers, making together forty-five beavers, w^hich the sub-
scriber promises to pay^ to Lawrence van Ale and Ger^ Lansingh,
to each a just half, so soon as he shall come back from hunting,
but if he in the meantime shall happen to die, or shall not be able
to deliver said quantity of forty-five beavers when he comes back
from the hunt on which he now sets out with his companions, then
he, Tapuas, conveys his land lying on Hudson's river on the east
shore obliquely over against the Danskamer,^ being a flat of land
lying on the west side of a kill named Wynachkee, beginning from
the second falls where Aernout Cornelise's claim ends, and that for
the aforementioned payment, with this understanding that if he
does not come back with the Indian, with w'hom he now goes out,
he shall be deprived of his rights in said land, givin-j said Lawrence
van Ale and Ger*^. Lansingh then full possession and ownership of
said land together with the woodland lying thereby for a range for
their cattle and for such other purposes as they may need the same.
It is to be noted that the debts which Law : van Ale and Ger'.
Lansing assume to pay for said Indian if he, Tapuas, should hap-
pen to die or. remain behind, embraced in the tvv'enty-four beavers
aforesaid, are as follows : to Hendricus Beekman three beavers and
one otter; to Geertrtiy Noormans in the Esopus two beavers; to
Dirk Wessells one beaver and five hespanncrr ; to Rykje Staets
two hcspannen; to Jan Janse Bleeker two hespaunen; but with this
provision that if the Indian Tapuas comes back again and pays the
debts to Lawrence van Ale and Ger^ Lansing, they shall be re-
leased from the payment of the aforesaid money, but if they re-
ceive the land in full ownership they shall be holden to pay the
1 Literally, "the Dance Chamber"; a cove in the north part of the town
of Newburgh.
- Raccoons. See Journal of Jasper Danckacrts (in series of " Original Nar-
ratives of Early American History"), p. 82, where tbo hcspacn is described
as a wild animal somewhat larger than a cat.
DEEDS I 6/8- I 704 183
aforesaid debts. Tapuas, likewise promises to pay to Law : van Ale
and Ger^ Lansingh one otter for the recording fee when he returns.
[178] All of which Tapuas promises to fulfil, binding himself
thereto as by law provided, and agreeing that if he does otherwise
than is hereinbefore written, whether directly or indirectly, or by
any evasion whatever, the same shall be null and of no etTect. Done
in Albany on the i6th of May 1683.
The mark of X Tapuas, made with his
own hand.
Dirck Wesselsz The mark of X Wattawyt, a sachem
Jan Jansz Bleecker The mark of X Emmenninck, sachem
Arnout Corn: Viele of Schotak, as witness.
against the land of Haverstroe, named
Kightamonk.
Acknowledged before me,
Ro'^. Livingston, Secretary
Memorandum. Johannis Cuyler, attorney for his father Dirk
Wessellse, acknowledges that he has received from Laurence van
Ale and Gerrit Lansing a salable beaver and five hcspannen in sat-
isfaction of his debt [mentioned] in the above mortgage. Witness
my hand in Albany, this 3d of June 1702.
P''. Jon. Cuyler
Deed from Robert Sanders to Johannes Wendel for his farm on
the east side of the Hudson river
[179] Appeared before me Rob*. Livingston, secretary of Al-
bany, colony of Renselaerswyk and Schaenhechtady, in presence
of the Honorable Mr Cornelis van Dyk and Mr Dirk Wessells,
magistrates of the same jurisdiction, Robert Sanders, burgher of
this place, who declared that he granted, conveyed and made over to
and for the behoof of Mr Johannes Wendell, burgher and inhabitant
of this place, his, the grantor's, farm, house, barns, ricks, horses,
cattle, hogs etc. and all that is fast by earth or nail, according to con-
tract of sale thereof, lying on the east side of Hudson's river over
against the farm of Anth°. van Schaick, extending, along said river
from the second to the third kill which runs on the west side of the
river, extending toward the woods up to the high hill, including
a piece of marsh (vley) or meadow land, having also free range for
184 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
his cattle, all of which is comprised in a certain patent granted to
him, the grantor, by the late Governor General Francis Lovelace, of
date the ist of September 1670; together with a certain piece of
woodland lying to the south of said farm and the Wallevissen
Eylandt (Whale-island) comprehended in a patent granted to him,
the grantor, by the late Governor General Sir Edmond Andross,
knight, of date the 22A of March i6|§, excepting what was conveyed
to Pieter van Wuggelum under date the 19th of December 1681,
lying to the south of Piskawen kill, w^hich kill is likewise conveyed to
said Wendell, being the division between him and P"". van Wug-
gelum ; all which the grantor conveys to said Johannes Wendel
with all his right and title which he has therein by virtue of said
two patents, to which reference is herein made, all free and un-
incumbered, without any charges thereon or issuing out of the
same (saving the lord's right), without the grantor's having any
further claim in the least thereon, acknowledging that he is fully
paid and satisfied therefor, the first penny with the last, therefore
giving plenam actionem cessam and full power to the aforenamed
Johannes Wendel, his heirs, successors or assigns to do with and
dispose of the aforesaid farm and the appurtenances thereof as
he could do with his* own patrimonial estate and efifects, promising
[180] to warrant and defend the same against all persons from all
trouble, claims and incumbrances according to law and further
nevermore to do nor cause anything to be done contrary hereto in
any manner, binding himself thereto as by law provided.
Done in Albany, the 26th of May in the year of Our Lord and
Savior 1683.
Robert Sanderz
Cornelis van Dyck
Dirck Wesselsz
In my presence,
Robert Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Jan Jansen Bleecker and Jacob Sandersen Glen,
attorneys of Jan Hendricksen van Bael, to Harmen Rutgers
and Johannes Provoost, administrators of the estate of Hen-
drick Willemsen, and to Jan Albertsen Bratt for all his land
on the Normans kill except four morgens of arable land
[181] Appeared before me, Rob*. Livingston, secretary of Al-
bany, colony of Renselaerswyk and Schinnechtady, in presence of
the Honorable Mr Cornelis van Dyk and ]\Ir Dirk Wessells, magis-
DEEDS 167S-1704 185
trates of the said jurisdiction, the worthy Mr Jan Janse Bleeker
and Jacob Sanderse Glenn, in capacity of attorneys of Mr Jan
Hendrix van Bael S""., according to power of attorney dated the
22d of July 1675,^ who declared that they granted, conveyed and
made over to and for the behoof of Harme Ruttgers and Johannes
Provoost, administrators of the estate of Hendrik Willemse, and to
Jan Albertse Bratt, all the lands lying on the Noorman's kill called
by the Indians Tawalsouthaa,- excepting four morgens of good
arable land which the seller Jan van Bael reserves to himself, either
at one end or the other as by lot shall be determined, but with the
understanding that if he does not convey the same to anyone,
they, the buyers, shall have the right to fence, plant and cultivate
the same also, and if the seller should wish to sell the same that
they shall have the preference and refusal thereof, according to the
contract of sale thereof made and executed on the 21st of De-
cember 1674^ between Jan Hendrix van Bael of the one part and
Hendrik Willemse and Jan Albertse Bratt of the other part ; which
they, the attorneys, do by virtue of the patent granted to Jan Hend-
rix van Bael by the late Governor General Francis Lovelace under
date of the 21st of August 1672,'* and that free and unincumbered,
without any charges thereon or issuing out of the same (saving
the lord's right), without the grantors in the capacity aforesaid
making any further claim in the least thereto, acknowledging that
they are fully paid and satisfied therefor, the first penny with the
last, giving therefore plenam actionem cessam and full power to
the aforesaid administrators of the estate of Hend : Willemse, de-
ceased, and to Jan Albertse Bratt, their heirs, successors and as-
signs, to do with and dispose of the aforesaid land lying upon the
1 Apparently not recorded.
2 The same as Tawasentha. With the exception of the final double vowel
the spelling of the name in the deed corresponds with that in the patent of
August 21, 1672, cited below. Ruttenber mentions the form Tawalsontlia.
3 No record of this contract is found.
■* The description in this patent reads as follows: "Whereas by the
Consent of the Commissaries at Albany Jan Hendricks van Baal hath made
purchase of the Indian Proprietors of the Maques of a certain parcell of
Land near Schanectade lyeing and being by the Kill or Creek called by the
Indian name Tawalsoutha otherwise the Normans Kill, the said Land stretch-
ing from the Sandy Hills North-West on, to an Out Hooke of Land, the
which it also Includes Containeing in breadth and length on both sides of
the Kill all the Land as it lyes in a square together with the Wood Land,
Valley, or Meadow Ground, Kills, and Creeks therein Included, the said
Indian proprietors Names who made sale of the said Land, and sett their
marks for the Conveyance thereof being Canachko, Schaenwino, Canhowad-
adin, and Sagodermechta, who acknowledge to have Received satisfaction
for the same Now for a Confirmation unto him the said Jan Hendricks
van Baal ..."
l86 EAKl.^' RKCORnS OF ALHAXV
Noornian's kill as they niii^ht do with their own patrimonial estate
and effects, promising to warrant and defend the same from all
lawful claims, demands and incumbrances and further nevermore
to do nor cause anything to be done contrary hereto in any manner,
binding themselves thereto as by law provided. Done in Albany,
the 29th of May An°. Christi 1683.
„ ,. „ , Tan Jansz Bleecker
C ornelis van Dyck ^ o ^
^. , ,.. , Jacob San: Glen
Uirck Wesselss
In my presence,
Ro'^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Jan Albertsen Bratt to Jacob Caspersen for his half
interest in the land on the Normans kill
[182] Appeared before me Rob*. Livingston, secretary of Al-
bany, colony of Renselaerswyk and Schaenhechtady, in presence
of the Honorable Mr Dirk Wessels and Mr Jan Janse Bleeker,
magistrates of the same jurisdiction, Jan Albertse Bratt, who de-
clared that he grants, conveys and makes over in true, rightful
and free ownership to and for the behoof of Jacob Casparse his
interest in the land on the Noorman's kill, being the half of all the
land lying on the Noorman's kill alias called Tawassoutha, ^ except-
ing four morgens of good arable land which Jan van Bael reserved
from the whole for himself at one end or the other as by lot
should be determined, with the understanding that if said Van Bael
did not make over the same to anyone, the buyers might fence, plant
and cultivate the same and if Van Bael, the first seller, desired to sell
the same the preference and refusal thereof should be given to the
buyers ac ording to contract of sale thereof made between J: v:
Bael and Hen: Willemse and Jan Alb: Bratt, dated the 21st of
December 1674;^ which he, the grantor, does by virtue of the con-
veyance received by him from Mr Jan Janse Bleeker and Jacob
Sanderse Glen, attorneys of Jan Hendrix van Bael. of date the 29th
of May 1683, and that free and unincumbered, without any charges
thereon or issuing out of the same (saving the lord's right), without
1 Jacob Caspersen was probably a brother of Isaac Caspersen and a son
of Casper Jacobsen Halenbeck. See Proceedings of Justices of the Peace,
1680-85, p. 631, and Earlv Records of Albany, i :i6. ^l. The name is vari-
ously spelled Halenbeck, Halenbeek, Hallenbeck and Hollenbeck. The early
members of the family were Lutherans and it is probable that Casper
Jacobsen came from Hollenbek, in Holstein, about 20 miles south of Kiel.
2 See note to preceding deed.
DEEDS I 6/8- I 704 187
the grantor's making any further claim whatsoever thereto, acknowl-
edging that he has received in payment and satisfaction therefor
the half island of Jan Bruyn and fifteen beavers, therefore giving
plenam actionem cessam and full power to the aforesaid Jacob
Casperse, his heirs, successors and assigns, to do with and dispose
of the aforesaid land as he might do with his own patrimonial
estate and effects, promising to warrant and defend the same
against all persons from all lawful claims, liens and demands, and
further nevermore to do nor cause to be done anything contrary
hereto in any manner, binding himself thereto as by law provided.
Done in Albany, the 26th of June 1683.
Jan Brat
Dirck Wesselsz
Jan Jansz Bleecker
In my presence,
Ro^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Jacob Caspersen to Symon Volkertsen for his half
interest in the land on the Normans kill
[183] Appeared before me Rob'. Livingston, secretary of Al-
bany, colony of Renselaerswyk and Schaenhechtady, in presence
of the Honorable Mr Dirk Wessells and Mr Jan Janse Bleeker,
magistrates of the same jurisdiction, Jacob Casparse, who declared
that he grants, conveys and makes over in true, rightful and free
ownership to and for the behoof of Symon Volkertse ^ his interest
in the land on the Noormanskil as he has owned and possessed
the same, being half of all the lands lying on the Noormans kill,
alias called Tawassouthaa, with house, barn and all that appertains
thereto, excepting four morgens of good arable land which Jan
Hendrix van Bael reserved to himself out of the whole at one end
or the other as should be determined by lot, with the understanding
that if said Van Bael made over the same to no one the buyers
might fence, plant and cultivate the same and if Van Bael, the
principal seller, wished to sell the same, the preference and refusal
thereof should be given to them, according to contract of sale
dated December 21, 1674; which land aforenamed he, the grantor,
divided with Hendrick Willemse, deceased, in presence of Jan Al-
bertse Bratt and Rob'. Gardener and there fell to the grantor's
share the upper land to be reckoned from the houses, beginning
at the division of both lots and extending westwards between the
hill and the kill ; with the understanding that all the land not en-
1 Symon Volkertsen Veeder.
1 88 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
tered upon the kill is still to be divided; which he, the grantor,
does by virtue of the conveyance received by him from Jan Al-
bertse Bratt this day June 26, 1683, and that free and unincum-
bered, without any charges thereon or issuing out of the same (sav-
ing the lord's right), without the grantor's having any further claim
in the least thereon, acknowledging that he received in payment and
satisfaction therefor a parcel of land at Shinnectady and a half lot
which they have exchanged with each other, therefore giving plenam
actionem cessaui and full power to the aforenamed Symon Volk-
ertse, his heirs, successors or assigns to do with and dispose of the
aforesaid land and the appurtenances thereof as he could do with
his own patrimonial estate and effects, promising to warrant and
defend the same against all persons from all trouble, claims and,
incumbrances according to law and further nevermore to do nor
cause anything to be done contrar}^ hereto in any manner, under
binding obligation as by law provided.
Done in Albany, the 26th of June 1683.
Dirck Wesselss Jacob Kasperse
Jan Jans:: Bleecker
In my presence,
Ro"^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Jacobus van den Bulke, attorney of Pieter van den
Bulke, to Johannes Wendel and Jan Jansen Bleecker for a
house and lot on Jonker street
[184] Appeared before me Rob^ Livingston, secretary of Al-
bany, colony of Renselaerswyk and Schinnechtady, in presence
of the Honorable Mr Dirk Wessells and A'lr Johannes Provoost,
magistrates of the same jurisdiction, Mons. Jacobus van den Bulke,
in the capacity of substitute for Johan van Twist, attorney for Mr
Peter van den Bulke, trader at Leyden in Holland, who declared
that he grants, conveys and makes over in true, rightful and free
owmership to and for the behoof of Johannes Wendell and ^Nlr Jan
Janse Bleker a certain house and lot standing and lying here in
Albany on Yonkheer street, between the houses of ]\Iatthys Pieterse
Vroman and Joseph Yetts, to the south the Rutten kill and to the
north Jonkheer street, wdth the addition of a little house which
stands to the west of the large house, which he, the grantor, does
by virtue of the conveyance received by him from Jan de Lavall,
executor of his father Thomas de Lavall, dated the 9th of October
1682; and that free and unincumbered, without any charges there-
on or issuing out of the same (saving the lord's right), without
DEEDS 1 678- 1 704 189
the grantor's making any further claim in the least thereto, ac-
knowledging that he is fully paid and satisfied therefor, the first
penny with the last, therefore giving plenam actionem cessam and
•full power to the aforenamed Johannes Wendel and Jan Janse
Bleker, their heirs, successors or assigns to do with and dispose
of the aforesaid two houses and lots as they could do with their
own patrimonial estate and effects, promising to warrant and de-
fend the same against all persons from all trouble, claims and in-
cumbrances according to law and further nevermore to do nor
cause anything to be done contrary hereto, in any manner, binding
himself thereto as by law provided.
Done in Albany, the nth of July 1683.
Dirck Wesselsa J. V. Bulcken
Johannes Provoost
Attorney of my father and
Jan Van Twist
Contract of sale between certain Mahikan Indians and Robert
Livingston for a tract of land on both sides of Roelof Jansens
kill
[185] Appeared before us, Mr Johannes Provoost and Mr Jan
Janse Bleker, magistrates of Albany, colony of Rensselaerwyck and
Shinnechtady, etc., the following Mahikan Indians, owners of the
land upon Roelof Johnson's kill, being to the east of Hudson's
river a little below Catskill, to wit, Ottonawaw, a lame Indian ;
Tataemsheet, Oothout, Maneetpoo, and two squaws named Tam-
aranachquae and Wawanitsawaw ; item Auxhys, Newameen, Ma-
quoame, attorneys for Mamaranechtak who is at present in the
Esopus, and Takanitto, Tamaranachquae's son, item Attoquas-
sowaa her brother for Kachkanamaw, and Sausquas, who declared
in presence of diverse Indians of their nation that they had sold
all their land lying upon Roeloff Jansen's kill to Robert Livingston
(who has authority to buy the same from the late Governor Gen-
eral Sir Edm : Andross, of date the 12th of November 1680) ; w4iich
land lies on both sides of said kill named Sankhenak and consists
of three flats with some small flats, together with the woodland,
kills, creeks and all their claims extending along the riverside
northward from Roeloff' Janse's kill to a little kill opposite Catskill
called Wachanekassik, and southwards down the river [from] oppo-
site the Sagertje's kill to a place by the Indians called Saaskahampka
and furthermore eastwards into the woods of the same breadth as on
the riverside to a thicket {Kreiipel Boss) by the Indians called Ma-
190 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
haskakook, for which the buyer promises to pay to the said owners
[186] the following goods within the time of five days, to wit, three
hundred guilders in seawan, eight blankets and two child's blank-
ets, twenty-five ells of dufifel and four pieces of strouding {Stroiid-
li'atcr), ten large shirts and ten small ones, ten pairs of large stock-
ings and ten pairs of small ones, six guns, fifty pounds of powder,
fifty bars of lead, four fur caps, ten kettles, ten axes, ten adzes,
two pounds of paint, twenty scissors, twenty small looking glasses,
one hundred fish hooks, awls and needles of each a hundred, four
rolls of tobacco, one hundred pipes, ten bottles and three rumalets
of rum, one tun of good beer, twenty knives; four strouding coats,
two dufifel coats and four tin kettles ; the sellers promise on the re-
ceipt of said payment to deliver over said lands to said R. Liv-
ingston free and unincumbered, as well, flats, kills, creeks, as wood,
marsh and brush lands and their appurtenances, nothing excepted,
onlv that said owners stipulate for free fishing in the kill and the
right to hunt the deer within said limits on condition that they deliver
the head to the buyer; and furthermore to convey all free and
unincumbered and release the same from all claims and demands
as well of Christians as of Indians whoever they may be : wherewith
the contracting parties are content. Done in Albany and inter-
preted by Aern*. Corn: Viele, interpreter, on the 12th of July
1683.
The mark X of Nottonowaw, [made]
with his own hand.
In presence of us The mark X of Tataaemshaet, [made]
I oh: Provoost v^ith his own hand.
Jan Jansz Bleecker The mark X of Tamaranachqua
Aernout Corn: Viele The mark X of Wawanitsawaw
Robert Livingston
X. B. Before signing it was stipulated by Tamaranachquae, the
squaw, that she should have permission to plant for four years
on a little corner of land which shall be pointed out to her and not
longer, which is specially stipulated in presence of the Commis-
sioners.
Deed from certain Mahikan Indians to Robert Livingston for a
tract of land on both sides of Roelof Jansens kill described im
preceding contract of sale
[187] Appeared before us, Capt. Gervis Baxter, commander,
and before the undersigned magistrates of Albany, colony of Ren-
selaerswyck and Schinnectady, the following Mahikan Indians,
DEEDS I 678- I 704 191
owners of the land lying on the Roeloff Jansen's kill, to wit, Otto-
nowaw, a lame Indian, Tataemschaet, Oothout, Maneetpoo and two
squaws named Tamaranachqua and Wawanitsawaw ; item Auxys,
Newameen, Maquoame, representing Mamaranechtak who at pres-
ent is in the Esopus, and Takanitto, Tamaranachquae's son ; item
Attoquassowaa her brother, for Kachkanamow, Sausquas, Kipa-
quachane, who is at present in Canada, and for all the other In-
dians who have any claims hereto, who declared that they granted,
conveyed and made over in true, rightful and free ownership to and
for the behoof of Robert Livingston a certain parcel of land lying
on both sides of Roeloff Jansen's kill, by the Indians named Sanck-
henak, to the east of Hudson's river a little below Catskill, con-
sisting of three flats and some small flats, together with the wood-
land, the kill with other little kills which run through the same,
hills, dales, trees, marshes, brush land and all their rights and
claims which [land] is bounded along the riverside from said Roel-
off Jansen's kill northward up to a little kill opposite Catskill
called Wachanekasseck and southwards down the river till opposite
the Sagertje's kill to a place called by the Indians Saaskahampka
and furthermore eastwards into the woods to a thicket (Creupel
Boss) by the Indians called Mahaskakook, all which they convey and
[188] make over, reserving and excepting nothing whatsoever, only
they may have free fishing in the kill and within said limits to
hunt deers, provided the head of every deer be delivered to the
buyer; which they, the grantors, do as being the rightful propri-
etors and owners of the aforesaid land, kills, creeks, woods and
appurtenances thereof, and convey the same to Robert Livingston,
who has permission and liberty to buy the aforesaid land from the
owners, from the late Governor General Sir Edmund Andross, and
to give satisfaction before this Court as per the license thereof
dated November 12, 1680; delivering the same free and unin-
cumbered without any charges thereon or issuing out of the same,
without the grantors' having any further claim in the least thereon,
acknowledging that they were fully paid and satisfied therefor this
day, the first penny with the last, according to the contract of
purchase thereof dated the 12th of this month; giving therefore
full power to the aforesaid Robert Livingston, his heirs, succes-
sors or assigns, to have and to hold the aforesaid land forever and
[189] to do therewith and dispose thereof as he might do with his
own patrimonial estate and effects, promising to warrant and defend
the same against all persons from all trouble, claims and incum-
brances which may hereafter arise on the part of Christians or
192 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
Indians and nevermore to do nor cause anything to be done contrary
hereto in any manner, binding themselves thereto as by law provided.
Done in the Court house at Albany on the i8th of July 1683.^
The mark of X Kassh- This is the mark X of Ottoxowaw
echo, as witness. This is the mark X of Tataem-
The mark of X Man- shaett
eetpa, as witness. This is the mark X of Tamaran-
The mark of X Kach- achquae, squaw
kehant, as witness. This is the mark X of Wawanitsa-
WAW, squaw
Ger. Baxter This is the mark X of X^ewamee,
Cornelia van Dyck the daughter of Tamaranchquae
Jan Jans:: Bleecker This is the mark X of Auxvs, Ot-
Arnoiit Corn: Viele, . tonowae's son's daughter .
Interpreter
On this 18th day of July 1687 a certain lame Indian squaw-
called Siakanochqui of Catskil acknowledged that she had re-
ceived to her full satisfaction a piece of cloth and a cotton shirt
for her right and claim to a certain flat of land lying in the manor
of Livingston. Which witnesses,
SiAKANOCTiouT X her mark
This signed in the presence of
and interpreted by,
Juffr. Salisbury -
Deed from Adriaen Jansen Appel to Barentje Gerrits Paws,
widow of Jan Harmensen Backer, for a garden outside of
Albany
[190] Appeared before me, Rob^ Livingston, secretary of
Albany, colony of Renselaerswyk and Schaenhechtady, etc., in
presence of the Honorable Mr Cornelis van Dyk and 'Sir Jan Janse
1 Robert Livingston received a patent for this land from Governor Thomas
Dongan on November 4, 1684, in which the land is described as follows :
" a certaine Tract or parcell of land lyeing and being on a Creeke on the
East side of Hudsons River Comonly called or knowne by the name of
Roeloffe Johnsons Kill it being in three plains called Nickanhooke Kichpa
Wichquaskaka and two or three other small flatts or plaines containing in
all about one hundred morgen or two hundred acres together with eighteen
hundred acres of woodland lyeing and being betwtene a small Creeke or
Kill lyeing over against Katskill called Wachanekasseck and a place by the
Indians Called Suaskahampka to the south of Roeloffe Johnsons Kill That
is to say, two hundred acres alongst the River side and the rest adjoyning
to the said two hundred acres and soe running back into the woods."
2 Meaning Jtiffrouw, or Madam Salisbury, presumably the widow of Capt.
Sylvester Salisbury, who married Cornelis van Dj'ck. See p. 219.
DEEDS I 678- I 704 193
Bleyker, magistrates of the same jurisdiction, Adriaen Janse van
Leyden, commonly called Adriaen Appell, who declared that he
granted, conveyed and made over in true, rightful and free owner-
ship to and for the behoof of Barentje,^ widow of the late Jan
Harmense Backer, a certain garden lying without Albany by No.
9, having to the south Jochim Ketelheyn, to the west Annctje
Lievens, widow of Goose Gerritse, deceased, and to the north Jan
Tanse Bleeker, being in breadth five rods and in length seven rods ;
which he, the grantor, does by virtue of the patent granted to him
by the late Governor General Rich^. Nicolls, of date the 22d of
May 1667,- and that free and unincumbered, without any charges
thereon, or issuing out of the same (saving the lord's right), without
the grantor's making any further claims in the least thereon, ac-
knowledging that he is fully paid and satisfied therefor, the first
penny with the last, therefore giving plenam actionem cessani and
full power to the aforenamed Barentje Gerritse Paws, her heirs,
successors or assigns to do with and dispose of the aforesaid
garden as she could do with her own patrimonial estate and effects,
promising to warrant and defend the same against all persons from
all trouble, claims and incumbrances according to law and further
nevermore to do nor cause anything to be done contrary hereto in
any manner, binding himself thereto as by law provided.
Done in Albany, the 19th of July 1683.
Cornelis van Dyck A : Appel
Jan Jans:: Bleecker
In my presence,
Ro^ Livingston, Secretary
1 Barentje Gerrits Paws, or Pows, as she signs her name to the following
two documents. The joint will of Jan Harmensen Backer and Barentje
Gerrits Paws, dated February 16, 168I, was probated on June 5, 168.1,
and is in Proceedings of Justices of the Peace, 1680-S5, p. 4i5-i7- Their
children having died, the testators leave their property, real and personal,
to the children of the wife's sister, named Roeloff Pieterse Letwoor and
Aeltje Pieters Letwoor, living at Amsterdam, or in case of their death,
one half of the property to the church of the Augsburg Confession at Albany
and the other half to the children of Barentje's sister, Elsie Gerrits Paws,
living at New York, Elsie's daughter Annetje to have a dark gros-grain
woman's skirt before any division of the estate is made.
The conveyance by Adriaen Jansen Appel would seem to have been made
in settlement of some debt, as Barentje Gerrits immediately reconveyed the
property to Johan Byvanck, preparatory to going to Holland.
2 This was a confirmation of the grant of October 25, 1653, to Adriaen
Jansen van Leyden, alias Appel. In it the garden is described as " by No. 9 :
abutting to the South on Jochen Kettlehuyns to the West Pieter Broncks &
to the North Gerrit Jansens being in breadth five Rod, & in length seaven
Rod."
194 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
Deed from Barentje Gerrits Paws, widow of Jan Harmensen
Backer, to Johan Byvanck for a garden outside of Albany
conveyed to her by Adriaen Jansen Appel
[191] Appeared before me, Rob^ Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyk and Schinnechtady, etc., in presence of
the Honorable Mr Cornelis van Dyk and Mr Jan Janse Bleker, mag-
istrates of the same jurisdiction, Barentje Gerritse Paus, widow
of the late Jan Plarmense Backer, who declared that by virtue of
her letters of administration she granted, conveyed and made over
to and for the behoof of the worthy Johan Byvanck a certain gar-
den lying without Albany by No. 9, having to the south Jochim Ketel-
heyn, to the west Annetje Lievens, widow of Goose Gerritse, de-
ceased, to the north Jan Janse Bleeker and to the west ^ the street,
being in breadth five rods and in length seven rods ; which she, the
grantor, does by virtue of the conveyance received by her this day
from Adriaen Appell, to which reference is herein made, and that
free and unincumbered, without any charges thereon, or issuing out
of the same (saving the lord's right), without the grantor's having
any further claim in the least thereon, acknowledging that she is
paid and satisfied therefor, the first penny with the last, therefore
giving plenafu actionem cessam and full power to the aforenamed
Johan Byvanck, his heirs, successors or assigns to do with and dis-
pose of the aforesaid garden as he could do with his own patrimonial
estate and effects, promising to warrant and defend the same against
a!l persons from all trouble, claims and incumbrances according to
law and further nevermore to do nor cause anything to be done
contrary hereto in any manner, binding herself thereto as by law
provided.
Done in Albany, the 19th of July 1683.
Cornelis van Dyck Barentyen Pows
Jan Jansz Bleecker
In my presence,
Ro'^. Livingston, Secretary
Power of attorney from Barentje Gerrits Paws to Dirck Wessels
and Gerrit Bancker
[192] Appeared before me, Rob^ Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyk and Schinnectady, etc., and before the
aftemamed witnesses Barentje Gerritse Paus, widow of the late
Jan Harmense Backer, deceased, intending to depart for Holland
1 Apparently a mistake for "to the north"; see preceding deed.
DEEDS 1678-I704 195
and declared that she, the subscriber, constitutes and appoints
hereby Mr Dirk Wessells, magistrate, and Mr Ger'. Banker, trader
here, her attorneys, specially in her absence to demand, collect and
receive of diverse persons her debtors payment as well in beavers
as other goods of what they owe her according to promissory notes,
accounts and vouchers herewith placed in the hands of the attorneys,
and of the receipts to give acquittance ; also, to convey and make
over her two houses, and by laws and rigor of justice to constrain
all unwilling debtors to pay ; to that end to observe all the terms of
courts unto sentence and extreme execution thereof ; finding them-
selves aggrieved by judgment or judgments they, the attorneys, are
to provoke or appeal therefrom and said provocation or appeal Hke-
wise to prosecute to the uttermost, having power also to compromise,
agree, compound and contract and likewise to substitute one or more
persons in their place, and furthermore all things to do in the matter
aforesaid either with or without going to law which may seem to
them needful and proper and as she the subscriber could do if she
herself were present, [she] promising at all times to hold as good,
binding and valid whatever by virtue hereof may be done and per-
formed in the premises by the aforenamed attorneys, without any
opposition, under binding obligation as by law provided, provided
that the attorneys be holden when asked and desired to make a
proper accounting, showing and return of their aforesaid trans-
actions and receipts. Thus done in Albany this 19th of July 1683.
Testes: Barentyen Gerts Pows
Jan Byvanck
Arent Schuyler In my presence,
Ro'^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Mohawk sachems to Cornells van Dyck, Jan Jansen
Bleecker, Pieter Philipsen Schuyler and Johannes Wendel for
a tract of land north of Albany called Sarachtogoe
[193] Appeared before us, Capt. Gervis Baxter, commander, and
the undersigned magistrates of Albany, colony of Renselaerswyk
and Schinnectady the following Maqua sachems,^ owners oi a cer-
tain parcel of land named Sarachtogoe and by the Maquas called
Ochseratonque, or otherwise Ochsechrage and by the Mahikans ^
^ Maquas e Sakamakcrs; meaning Mohawk sachems. In the patent from
Governor Dongan for this land at Saratoga to Cornells van Dyck and his
associates, dated November 4, 1684, the Dutch adjective form " Maquasse
Sachems " has been retained.
2 Mahikanders; a proper noun corresponding in form to Afrikaanders,
for Africans.
196 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
Amissohaendiek, lying to the north of Albany on Hudson's river,
to wit, Roode, Saggoddiochquisax, Aihagari and Taiskanounda,^
being of the first and second castle, who in the presence of all the
Maqua sachems undertook to act in the name of all others w^ho have
any claims thereon and who declared that they granted, conveyed
and made over in true, rightful and free ownership to and for the
behoof of Cornelis van Dyk, Jan Janse Bleeker, Peter Phil: Schuy-
ler and Johannes \\'endel a certain parcel of land lying to the north
of Albany, named Sarachtogee as aforesaid, beginning from the
uppermost limits of the land bought of the Indians by Goose Gerritse
and Philip Pieterse Schuyler, deceased, being a kill called Tioneende-
houwe,- extending northwards up along both sides of the river to
the extreme land of Sarachtoge aforenamed, bounding on a kill on
the east side of the river named Dionoendogeha,"* holding the same
length on the west side opposite the kill, extending westwards into
the woods as far as said Indian owners point out and likewise east-
wards into the woods, together with all kills, creeks, \\-oodland,
trees, marshes, brush lands, hills, dales and all the appurtenances
thereof, nothing whatever excepted, but the free hunting and free
fishing, which they, the grantors, do as being the rightful proprietors
and owners of the aforesaid lands and appurtenances thereof and
convey the same to Cornelis van Dyk, Jan Janse Bleeker, P"". Schuy-
ler and Johannes W'endel, their heirs, successors, or assigns, free
and [194] unincumbered, without any charges thereon or issuing
out of the same, without the grantors' having any further claim in
the least thereon, acknowledging that they were fully paid and
satisfied therefor this day, the first penny with the last, according
to contract of sale thereof made, giving therefore full power to the
aforesaid Cornelis van Dyk, Jan Janse Bleeker, P''. Schuyler and
Johannes Wendel, their heirs, successors and assigns to have and to
hold the aforesaid forever and therewith to do and dispose thereof
as they might do with their owm patrimonial estates and effects,
promising to warrant and defend the same against all persons from
all trouble, claims and incumbrances which may arise from either
Christians or Indians, and nevermore to do nor cause anything to be
done contrary hereto in any manner, binding themselves thereto as
by law provided. Thus interpreted in Albany by Aernout Corn:
1 In the patent of November 4, 1684. the Indian names are spelled : " Roode,
Saggodiochquesax, Aihagure and Tinskanoenda."
- Same spelling in the patent.
3 In the patent spelled : " Dionoondehouwe."
DEEDS I 6/8- I 704
197
Viele, interpreter, in the
A''. D\ 1683.
As witnesses :
This is the mark X of
Cannondondaiv Chief
Sakaniaker (sachem)
of the 4th Castle
called Tionondoge
This is the mark X of
Odianne, Sakaniaker,
also of the 4th Castle
named Tionondoge
Ger. Baxter
Dirck Wesselss
Aernoiit Corn: Viele, in-
terpreter
court house of Albany on the 26th of July
This is the mark X of Rhode, [made]
with his own hand
This is the mark X of Saggoddiochqui-
SAX, [made] with his own hand
This is the mark X of Aihagart, [made]
with his own hand
This is the mark X of Taiskanoenda
In my presence,
RoB'^. Livingston, Secretary
[195] Meniorandiim. That the Mahikans were present at the
aforesaid purchase of the land of Sarachtogoe and saw the Maquas
aforenamed receive the payment. Being asked if they had any right
or claim to the said land, that they must now speak or forever keep
silent, they declared they renounced all rights and ownership which
they had therein, leaving it to the purchasers' discretion to give
them something as an acknowledgment or not, inasmuch as in old
times it was their land before the Maquas won it from them. And
we, the undersigned, in the name of the whole nation who may have
any claims thereon, declare that we release the said purchasers from
all further demands as far as our nation is concerned; whereupon
the purchasers as a remembrance of said purchase gave them seven
pieces of duffel, also two half casks of beer and two small casks of
wine. Done in the court house of Albany, the 26th of July 1683.
This is the mark X of Nisi Campe, made
with his own hand
This is the mark X of sachem Knaep,
made with his own hand
This is the mark X of Soquarse, as
witness
This is the mark X of Kesiiuchamak
Ger. Baxter
Dirck Wesselsz
Arnout Corn: Viele, in-
terpreter
In my presence,
Ro'^. Livingston, Secretary
198 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
Propositions of the Cayugas and Onondagas relating to lands on
the Susquehanna with the answer of the magistrates
[196 blank; 197] Propositions made by the Cajouges and Onnon-
dages sachems to the honorable magistrates of Albany, colony of
Renselaerswyk, etc., in the court house of Albany, the 26th of
September 1683.
Present
!Marte Gerritse
Corn : van Dyk
Dirk W'essells
J. Provoost
P^ Winne
Hend : van Ness
J. Janse Bleker
R. Preety, sheriff
R. Livingston, secretary
Brothers :
We are glad to see the brothers here who represent Corlaer ; ^ we
came together yesterday and heard the Great Penn, meaning the
agent of Governor Penn, speak concerning the land lying upon the
Susquehannes river, but saw none of the commissioners nor order
from Corlaer. I have slept little during the night but meditated
continually and I think the land cannot be sold without the order
of Corlaer, for we made it over to this government four years ago,
and therefore shall do nothing about the sale without Corlaer (mean-
ing the governor general) or his order or those who represent him
here. The land aforenamed belongs to us, Cajouges and Onnon-
dages, alone ; the other three nations, viz, the Sinnekes, Oneydes
and Maquas have nothing to do therewith.
We not only made it over to Corlaer, that is the governor general,
four years ago, but granted it to him to rule over it and we now
again give, convey and make it over to the governor general or his
representatives.
1 Meaning the governor of Xew York. Gov. Thomas Dongan arrived
from England on August 25, 1683. When he heard of William Penn's
efforts to secure the upper Susquehanna valley for himself, Dongan made a
hurried visit to Albany. See J. R. Broadhead, History of the State of Xew
York, 2 :375-76.
DEEDS I 678- I 704 199
In confirmation of which they have signed and sealed these pres-
ents datum ut supra.
This is the mark X of Thaoweratt,
sachem of Cajouge (L. S.)
This is the mark X of Carachjundie, of
Cajouge (L. S.)
This is the mark X of Ochquarokichke,
of Cajouge (L. S.)
In my presence,
Ro'^. Livingston, Secretary
Present ut ante
[198] Albany, the 26th of September 1683
Answers to the propositions of the Cajouges and Onnondages
We have heard your propositions and thankfully accept for Cor-
laer the conveyance of the river of Susquehannes with the land
lying thereon, and having seen that you have kept your word for
over four years and in confirmation of your gift are about to sign
and seal a conveyance for the aforenamed land, we present you with
a half piece of dufifell, two coverlets, two guns, three kettles, four
coats, fifty pounds of lead and twenty-five pounds of powder.
In the meanwhile we will acquaint herewith his honor, the gov-
ernor general, whose good affection for you you. need not doubt and
who upon the proper occasion will recompense you therefor.
Whereupon the sachems signed and sealed their aforesaid gift and
conveyance as is to be seen on the other side [of this leaf] and
accepted the aforesaid presents as full satisfaction.
Albany in the court house dato ut supra.
Cornelis van Dyck
Dirck Wesselsz
Jan Jansz Bleecker
Pieter Winne
Deed from Mohawk sachems to Arnout Cornelissen Viele for
land above Schenectady
[igg] Appeared before the court of magistrates of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyk, etc., the following Maqua sachems, repre-
senting all the three tribes of the Maquas, owners of a certain piece
of land lying above Schinnechtady on the north side of the river,
containing about 16 or 17 morgens opposite the flat occupied by
Jacobus Peck, by the Maquas called Wachkeerhoha, which flat the
2O0 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
said sachems grant, convey and make over to and for the behoof of
Aernout Cornehse Viele, interpreter, in consideration that he daily
takes much trouble both in journeying to their land, to the Sinnekes
and to the north and in [performing] other services among the In-
dians; which they, the grantors, do by virtue of being the rightful
proprietors and owners of the aforesaid land and they convey the
same to Aernout Cornelise, his heirs or successors, free and unin-
cumbered, without any charges thereon, giving therefore full power
to the aforesaid Aernout Cornelise, his heirs, or successors, or as-
signs to have and to hold the aforesaid flat forever and thereof to
dispose as he might do with his own patrimonial estate and that
in consideration [of his services] aforenamed, promising to warrant
and defend the same against all persons from all trouble, demands
and claims which may hereafter arise, w^hether from Christians or
Indians, and nevermore to do nor cause anything to be done contra:ry
hereto in any manner, binding themselves thereto as by law provided.
Thus interpreted by Akus Cornelise in the court house of Albany,
the 26th of September 1683.
Dirck Wesselss The mark X of Tigskanoexda, the
Jan Ja)isc Bleecker tortoise
The mark AC of The mark X of Oweadachane, the bear
Akus, interpreter The mark X of Tahaiadoris, the wolf
In my presence,
Ro"^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Jan Jansen Bleecker, attorney for Johannes Witthart,
to Robert Livingston for a house and lot on Jonkheer street
at Albany
[200] Appeared before us, Joh: Provoost and Cornelis van Dyck,
magistrates of Albany, colony of Renselaerswyk and Shinnechtady,
the worthy Jan Janse Bleker, also a magistrate, in capacity of attor-
ney for Johannes Witthart, trader in Holland, who declared that he
granted, conveyed and made over to and for the behoof of Rob*.
Livingston a certain house and lot standing and lying here in Albany
on the hill, on Jonkheer street, next to the house of said Livingston,
having to the south the street, to the west the house of Phillip
Foreest, cooper, to the north the lot of Isaak Verplanck and to the
south ^ the corner house of Rob^ Livingston aforesaid ; in breadth
1 This should be : to the east the corner house of Robert Livingston ; re-
ferring to the house which was conveyed by Reyer Schermerhorn to Domine
Nicolaus van Rensselaer and which came to Robert Livingston through his
marriage with the latter's widow. See p. 16-17 (note) and 40.
DEEDS 1678-I704 201
in front on the street one rod, ten feet and one and a half inches
and in the rear to the north one rod, ten feet, and in length five
rods, eleven feet and two inches from which an alley of four feet
extending back to the street eastwards is free as well for this house
as for the other house of said Livingston ; which he, the grantor,
does by virtue of the conveyance received by him, Jan Witthart,
from Ryer Jacobse Shermerhoorn, husband and guardian of
Ariaentie Arents, late widow of Helmer Otte, deceased, being the
half of the lot specified in a patent granted to J : Thomase by the late
Governor General Rich*^. NicoUs of date the 29th of April 1667, to
which reference is herein made, the other half of the said patent
being the corner house wherein said Livingston dwells ; and that free
and unincumbered, without any charges thereon, or issuing out of
the same (saving the lord's right), without the grantor's having any
further claim in the least thereon, acknowledging himself to be suf-
ficiently paid therefor the sum of seventy-two beavers to his content
received, therefore giving plenam actionem cessam and full power
to the aforenamed Robert Livingston, his heirs, successors, or assigns
to do w^ith and dispose of the aforesaid house and lot as he could
do with his own patrimonial estate and eflfects, promising to warrant
and defend the same against all persons from all trouble, claims and
incumbrances according to law and further nevermore to do nor
cause anything to be done contrary hereto in any manner, binding
himself thereto as by law provided.
Done in Albany, the 12th of October 1683.
Jan Jansz Bleecker
Johannes Provoost
Cornelis van Dyck
Deed from Jannetje Powell, widow of Thomas Powell, to An-
dries Hansen Scherp and Jurian Collier for land at Kinder-
hook
[201] Appeared before me Rob^ Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyk and Shinnechtady, etc., in presence of the
Honorable Mr Marte Gerritse and Mr Dirk Wessells, magistrates
of the same jurisdiction, Jannetie Powel, widow of the late Tho :
Pawel, deceased, who declared that she granted, conveyed and made
over in true, rightful and free ownership to and for the behoof of
Andries Hanse Sherp and Jurian Callier a certain parcel of wood-
land lying near Kinderhoek, extending from Kinderhoek kill west-
ward to the river on both sides of the path, having the full breadth
of the arable land and marsh {vley) specified in said Powel's patent,
202 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
containing two hundred acres, which breadth continues down to the
river; on this condition that said And^ Hanse and Jurian KaUier
shall convey to Stephen Coning his [their?] third part of the wood-
land lying on the north side of the path, extending from the Spigel
to the marsh according to contract of sale thereof ; in like manner
there is excepted out of the aforesaid woodland a little parcel that
Frans Pieterse Claw is supposed to own, which lies about a quarter
of an hour's walk from the aforesaid land of Steph : Janse Coningh
and is also comprehended in the aforesaid patent; otherwise, all the
remainder of the woodland specified in the patent aforesaid granted
by the late Governor General Rich'^. Nicolls to her deceased husband
Tho: Powel, of date the 13th of April 1667,^ the said widow con-
veys to Andries Hanse and Jurian Kallier free and unincumbered,
without any charges thereon, or issuing out of the same (saving the
lord's right), without the grantor's having any further claim in the
least thereon acknowledging that she is fully paid and satisfied there-
[202] for, the first penny with the last, therefore, giving pleimm
actionem cessani and full power to the aforenamed And^ Hanse and
Jurian Kallier to do with and dispose of the aforesaid woodland
(except the aforesaid parcels of land) as they could do with their
ov^^n patrimonial estate and efifects, promising to warrant and defend
the same against all persons from all trouble, claims and incum-
brances according to law and further nevermore to do nor cause any-
thing to be done contrary hereto in any manner, binding herself
•thereto as by law provided.
Done in Albany, the 15th of November 1683.
Marten Gertsen The mark X of Jannetje Powel
Dirck Wessclss made with her own hand
In my presence,
Ro^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Teunis Dircksen van Vechten to Marcelis Jansen for
a house and lot without the south gate of Albany
[203] Appeared before me Rob*. Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyk and Shinnechtady, etc., in presence of
the Honorable Mr Marte Gerritse and Mr Cornells van Dyk, magis-
trates of the same jurisdiction, Teunis Dirkse van Vechten, who
declared that he grants, conveys and makes over in true, rightful
1 No record of this patent is found.
DEEDS I 678- I 704 203
and free ownership to and for the behoof of Marcelis Janse ^ a cer-
tain house and lot standing and lying without the south gate of
Albany, having to the south the lot formerly possessed by Claes
Rotterdam, to the north Cornelis van der Hoeve and to the east
and west the highway ; in breadth in front on the wagon road nine
rods and ten feet and in length as well on the one as on the other
side twelve rods, and breadth in the rear nine rods and five feet ;
which he, the grantor, does by virtue of the patent granted to him
by the late Governor General Francis Lovelace dated the 20tli of
October 1670,^ to which reference is herein made; and that free
and unincumbered, without any charges thereon or issuing out of the
same (saving the lord's right), without the grantor's having any
further claim in the least thereon, acknowledging that he is fully paid
and satisfied therefor, the first penny with the last, therefore giving
plenam actionem cessani and full power to the aforenamed Marcelis
Janse, his heirs, successors or assigns the aforesaid house and lot
to have and to hold forever, promising nevermore to do nor cause
anything to be done contrary hereto in any manner, binding himself
thereto as by law provided. Done in Albany, the 30th of November
1683.
Marten Gertscn The mark X of Teunis Dirkse van
Cornelis van Dyck Vechten
In my presence,
RoB'^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Jacob Theysen van der Heyden to Pieter Schuyler
and Sybrant van Schaick for a lot on Jonker street at Albany
[204] Appeared before me, Rob'. Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyk and Schinnechtady, etc., in presence of
1 Marcelis Jansen, born at Bommel, in Gelderland; see Notarial Papers,
I :365-
2 The abstract of this patent reads as follows : " Francis Louelace &c
Whereas there was heretofore graunted a Patent or Groundbreife by y^
Dutch Governo'" Petrus Stuyvesant unto William Frederickse for a Certaine
Lott of ground at Albany where his house stood, having on y" South syde
Jan Michiellans & on y*^ west & East syde y^ waggon way Contayning in
breadth before nyne Rod & Ten foot, In length as well on y® one as y^
oth"" syde Twelve Rod, & in breadth behynde Nyne Rod & fiue foot, Togeth""
wth a Lott of ground for a Garden abutting on y^ North on Volchert Jans,
on y^ South on Sanders Leenderts. on ye west y'' waggon path, & on
ye East y*' path that goes to y^ Ryver, Conteyning in length Eleaven Rod &
in breadth four Rod & Two foot as it lyes in a Square, Which said .Patent
or Groundbreife bearing date y^ 25**^ day of Octob"" 1652 w"^ all y^ Right
& interest in y^ p^'mises is now belonging to Theunis Dirckse, ffor a Con-
firmation unto him y^ Said Theunis Dirckse &c."
Teunis Dircksen bought the house and lot of Willem Fredericksen Bout
at public sale, January 11. 1665; see Early Records of Albany, 1:216. For
account of Teunis Dircksen, see Van Rensselaer Bozvier Mss, p. 819.
204 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
the Honorable ]\lr Jan Janse Bleker and Mr Pieter Winne, magis-
trates of the same jurisdiction, Jacob Tyse van der Hey den, who
declared that he granted, conveyed and made over, as he does by
these presents in true, rightful and free ownership to and for the
behoof of P"". Schuyler and Syb : v : Schayk, a certain lot lying here
in Albany on Jonker street, whereupon Teun^ van d''. Poel has built
a new house, having to the east Jeronimus Wendel, to the north
Hendrick Rooseboom, to the south and west the public street, being
a corner house; in breadth on the street southward two rods and
eight inches, on the west side, also on the street, length fi'^^e rods,
five feet and ten inches and on the east side, length five rods
and seven feet, breadth in the rear of the house two rods, four feet,
nine inches and on the end of the lot northwards but two rods and
one foot, all Rhineland measure; which he, the grantor, does by
virtue of the conveyance received by him from Jochim Staets, at-
torney of Mr Cornelis Steenwyk, of date October 4, 1682, to which
reference is herein made, and that free and unincumbered, without
any charges thereon, or issuing out of the same (saving the lord's
right), without the grantor's having any further claim in the least
[205] thereon, acknowledging that he is fully paid and satisfied
therefor, the first penny with the last, therefore giving plenam
actionem cessam and full power to the aforenamed Pieter Schuyler
and Sybrant van Schayk, their heirs, successors, or assigns to do
with and dispose of the aforesaid lot as they could do with their
own patrimonial estate and eft'ects, promising to warrant and defend
the same against all persons from all trouble, claims and incum-
brances according to law and further nevermore to do nor cause
anything to be done contrary hereto in any manner, binding himself
thereto as by law provided. Done in Albany, the 30th of November
^ ^" Jacob Theysen van der Heyden
Jan Jansz Bleecker
In my presence,
RoB^. Livingston', Secretary
Deed from Jan Nack to Jan Vinhagen for a house and lot on Rom
street (Maiden Lane) at Albany
[206] Appeared before me, Robert Livingston, secretary of
Albany, colony of Rensselaerswyck and Schaenhechtady, in presence
of the Honorable Mr Dirk Wessels and Mr Jan Janse Bleker, magis-
trates of the same jurisdiction, Jan Nack who declared that he
granted, conveyed and made over, as he hereby does in true, rightful
DEEDS I 6/8- I 704 205
and free ownership, to and for the behoof of Jan Vinnagen/ a
certain house and lot standing and lying here in Albany on the
hill on Romm street as it is called, being to the north of the street, to
the west of Jan Vinnagen aforesaid and to the east of Gerrit
Lansing ; in breadth in front on the street one rod, two feet and a
half and in the rear one rod, four and a half inches, length to the
west three rods, nine feet and to the east three rods and seven feet ;
which he, the grantor, does by virtue of the conveyance received
by him from Barent Ryndertse, of date the 9th of September 1678,"
to which reference is herein made, and that free and unincumbered,
without any charges thereon, or issuing out of the same (saving the
lord's right), without the grantor's having any further claim in the
least thereon, acknowledging that he is fully paid and satisfied
therefor, the first penny with the last, therefore giving plenam
actionem cessam and full power to the aforenamed Jan Vinnagen,
his heirs, successors, or assigns to do with and dispose of the afore-
said house and lot as he could do with his own patrimonial estate
and efifects, promising to warrant and defend the same against all
persons from all trouble, claims and incumbrances according to law
and further nevermore to do nor cause anything to be done contrary
hereto in any manner, binding hiinself thereto as by law provided.'
Done in Albany, the 28th of Novem: 1683.
Dirck Wesselss J^n Nack
/cm Jansz Blcecker
In my presence,
Ro'f. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Willem Fredericksen Bout to Jan Vinhagen for a
lot on Rom street (Maiden Lane) at Albany
[207] Appeared before me, Rob^ Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyk and Schinnechtady, etc., in presence of the
Honorable Mr Dirk Wessells and Mr Jan Janse Bleker, magistrates
of the same jurisdiction, the worthy Willem Frederikse Bowt, who
declared that he granted, conveyed and made over in true, rightful
and free ownership to and for the behoof of Jan Vinnagen a certain
lot whereon said Vinnaegen has built a house, lying in Albanv on the
hill on Romm street, being to the north of the street, to the west
of the grantor aforesaid and to the east of said Vinnagen's house;
in breadth in front on the street nineteen feet, three inches and in
^ Generally called Jan Vinhagen. He signs his name " Jan Vinhaeghen."
2 See p. 23.
206 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
length on both sides thirty-six feet and in the rear as broad as in
front ; which he, the grantor, does by virtue of the patent granted to
him by the late Governor General Rich*^. NicoUs, dated the 6th of
September 1667,^ to which reference is herein made; and that free
and unincumbered, without any charges thereon, or issuing out of
the same (saving the lord's right), without the grantor's having any
further claim in the least thereon, acknowledging that he is fully
paid and satisfied therefor, the first penny with the last, therefore
giving plenam actionem cessam and full power to the aforenamed
Jan \'innagen, his heirs, successors, or assigns to do with and dis-
pose of the aforesaid house and lot as he could do with his own
patrimonial estate and effects, promising to warrant and defend the
same against all persons from all trouble, claims and incumbrances
according to law and further nevermore to do nor cause anything to
be done contrary hereto in any manner, binding himself thereto as
by law provided. Done in Albany, the 28th of November 1683.
Dirck Wesselss The mark X of Wm. Frederikse Bout
Jan Janse Bleecker
In my presence,
RoB"^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Gerrit Reyersen, son and heir of Reyer Elbertsen, to
Barent Meyndersen and Adriaen Gerritsen, administrator of
the estate of the late Rutt Aertsen, for a parcel of land without
the north gate of Albany to be used for a tannery
[208] Appeared before me, Rob^ Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyk and Schinnechtady, etc., in presence of the
Honorable Mr Dirk W^essells and Mr Jan Janse Bleeker, magistrates
of the same jurisdiction, Gerrit Ryerse, son and heir of Ryer El-
bertse, deceased, who declared that he granted, conveyed and made
over in true, rightful and free ownership to and for the behoof of
Barentse :\Iyndertse, shoemaker, and Adriaen Gerritse,- adminis-
trator of the estate of the late Rutt Aertse, deceased," a certain
parcel of land lying without the north gate of Albany on the west
side of the highway, having to the south the third kill,-* to the north
the lot of the grantor, to the west also the lot of the grantor and to
the eastwards along the highway ; length east and west seven rods
and breadth south and north four rods, but on the survey of the
1 No record of this patent is found.
- Adriaen Gerritsen van Papendorp ; see next deed.
3 The same as Rutger Arentsen, shoemaker.
* Apparently the Vossen (Fox) kill.
DEEDS 1 678-1 704 207
highway ten feet more was allotted to them on the north side and
eight feet also on the south side towards the kill, being a place for a
tannei-y ; which he, the grantor, does by virtue of the patent granted
to his father deceased by the late Governor General Rich^. Nicolls,
dated the 25th of April 1667,^ to W'hich reference is herein made;
and that free and unincumbered, without any charges thereon or
issuing out of the same (saving the lord's right), without the
grantor's having any further claim in the least thereon, the payment
therefor having been made to his late father, therefore giving
plenam actionem cessam and full power to the aforenamed Barent
Myndertse and Adriaen Gerritse, administrator of the estate of the
late Rut Aertse, to do with and dispose of the same as they could
do with their own patrimonial estate and effects, promising to
warrant and defend the same against all persons from all trouble,
claims and incumbrances according to law and further nevermore
to do nor cause anything to be done contrary hereto in any
manner, binding himself thereto as by law provided therefor. Done
in Albany, the nth of December 1683.
Dirck Wesselss Gerrit Reyersen
Jan Jansz Bleecker
In my presence,
Ro'^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Adriaen Gerritsen van Papendorp, administrator of
the estate of Rutt Aertsen, deceased, to Symon Jacobsen
Schermerhorn for his half interest in a tannery without the
north gate of Albany
[209] Appeared before me, Rob*. Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaerswyk and Schinnechtady, etc., in presence of the
Honorable Mr Dirk Wessells and Mr Jan Janse Bleker, magistrates
of the same jurisdiction, the worthy Mr Adriaen Gerritse van Pap-
endorp,- in capacity of administrator of the estate of the late Rutt
1 The only patent of that date to Reyer Elbertsen was a confirmation of
the Dutch grant of October 25, 1653, " for a certain Lott of Ground House
& Garden neer to the Fort in Beverwick at Albany haveing to the East
Juriaen the Glazier to the west the swamp by the third Creeke or Kill lying
four square & being to the East & North of the Highway."
- Papendorp is a small hamlet a few miles southwest of the city of Utrecht
in the Netherlands. Pearson, First Sctthrs of Albany, i :86. states that
Adriaen Gerritse Papendorp probably came to the colony of Rensselaerswyck
in 1634, evidently basing his statement on the fact that the name Adriaen
Gerritse appears among those of settlers for that year in O'Callaghan,
History of New Netherland, 1 1434. However, in compiling the list of settlers
of _ Rensselaerswyck for the Van Rensselaer Bozvier Mss, the present editor
failed to find any evidence that a person by that name came to the colony
in 1634, or was at any time a tenant of the patroon.
208 EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
Aertse, who declared that he granted, conveyed and made over in
true, rightful and free ownership to and for the behoof of Symon
Jacobse Schermerhoorn the just half of a certain parcel of land
lying without the north gate of Albany on the west side of the high-
way having southerly the Third kill, north and west Ger'. Ryerse
and. east the highway; the whole lot being in length east and west
seven rods and in breadth on the south side on the kill four rods,
eight feet and on the north side four rods and ten feet, being a
place for a tannery, which half lot the grantor conveys to said
Ryer Jacobse, by virtue of a conveyance received by him this day
from Gerrit Ryerse, to which reference is herein made ; and that
free and unincumbered, without any charges thereon or issuing out
of the same (saving the lord's right), without the grantor's in
capacity above named having any further claim in the least thereon,
acknowledging that he is fully paid and satisfied therefor, the first
penny with the last, therefore giving plenam actionem cessam and
full power to the aforenamed Symon Jacobse Schmerhoorn to do
with and dispose of the aforesaid half lot as he could do with his
own patrimonial estate and efl:'ects, promising to warrant and defend
the same against all persons from all trouble, claims and incum-
brances according to law and further nevermore to do nor cause
anything to be done contrary hereto in any manner, binding himself
thereto as by law provided. Done in Albany, the nth of December
1683.
Dirck Wesselss Adriaen Gerretsen Papendurp
Jan Jans:; Bleecker
In my presence,
Ro^. Livingston, Secretary
Deed from Adriaen Gerritsen van Papendorp, administrator of
the estate of Rutt Aertsen, to Cornelis van Dyck for a barn
and lot on the Pleyn in Albany
[210] Appeared before me, Rob*^. Livingston, secretary of Albany,
colony of Renselaersvryk and Schinnechtady, etc., in presence of
Mr Dirk Wessels and Mr Janse Bleker, magistrates of the said
jurisdiction, the worthy Adriaen Gerritse van Papendorp, in the
capacity of administrator of the estate of the late Rutt 
