History of the city of Paterson and the County of Passaic, New Jersey, Part 20

Author: Nelson, William, 1847-1914
Publication date: 1901
Publisher: Paterson : Press Printing and Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 466


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brothers released to him; he died intestate, leaving two daughters, Jannetje and Elizabeth; the former married Halmagh Van Houten, and the latter John R. Van Houten. 1 After the death of her husband, Jannetje and her oldest son Cornelius, released to Abraham Van Houten (a younger son of Jannetje), by deed dated July 27, 1773, a tract of 24 acres out of this Lot, probably lying next west of No. 92 Broadway, and running to the river at the end of Broadway. By deed July I, 1782, Cornelius H. Van Houten, as the old- est son and heir-at-law of Helmagh Van Houten and Yan- natie his wife, both then deceased, released to his brother Abraham a half interest in all the real estate whereof their parents had died seized. Abraham sold a quarter of an acre (2.26x2.26 chains, or 150 feet) out of the northeast cor- ner of his land to Abraham Godwin, who kept tavern there for some years-the plot of late years known as the "Bap- tist church block," including Lots 82, 84, 86, 88 and 90 Broadway, and 40 feet more taken for the opening of Wash- ington street about 1869, with a depth of 150 feet. This plot was sold to the S. U. M., November 5, 1792, by Jabes Johnson, administrator of Abraham Godwin, deeeased, for £90 N. J. money, equivalent to about $200. It would fetch more now. Abraham Van Houten, Cornelius Van Houten and John R. Van Houten, and their respective wives, deeded to the S. U. M., July 3, 1792, a tract of 45.29 acres of this Lot. The tract extended from Huntoon's mills westerly to the river, and from a line 140 feet south of Van Houten street to the northern boundary of the whole Lot. At the western end it ran to and across Broadway, down to the riv- er west of Mulberry street. John R. Van Houten and wife, by deed July 3, 1792, conveyed to the S. U. M. a tract of 12.57 acres out of this Lot, immediately east of the last mentioned parcel, and extending nearly to Summer street.


When between seventy and eighty years of age, Van Houten married, in 1820, his second wife, Rachel, widow of Adrian J. Post, who at one time kept the "Peace and Plenty" tavern, at the northwest corner of Willis street and York avenue (East Eighteenth street). By will dated February 16, 1825, he devised his real estate to his son Abraham, then three months old. He died May 15, 1825. His son, Abraham, died in 1849, having devised his real estate to his mother, Rachel Van Houten. She died Feb. 22, 1863, leaving her property (by will dated Oct. 20, 1857) to her children and grandchildren-Adrian and Elizabeth, children of John Post (b. 1803), George Post (b. 1805) and Caty (b. 1813), wife of John R. Van Houten. In 1881 the Chancellor appointed John Reynolds and Thomas M. Moore Trustees of the estate, who proceeded to sell the land. Prior to this, no deed had been given for this land, outside of the family owning it, in two centuries. Van Houten owned twenty- seven acres at the east end of Lot No. 7, beginning about 300 feet west of Carroll street. It was enclosed with a post and rail fence until 1881, and cultivated as a corn-field. Covered as it now is with elegant residences, that "farm" is worth several million dollars. Van Houten also owned a piece of this same lot, from about Washington street west-


1 MS. Notes of Peter Colt, ut supra.


1 MS. Notes of Peter Colt, of abstract of titles of the Society for Est- ablishing Useful Manufactures, perhaps about 1794.


2 Ibid.


3 Ibid. IO


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erly to within eighteen feet of Prospect street, which he laid out about 1810 in lots 30x100 feet. In 1813 he sold lots on Van Houten street near Main at $200 each. In 1795 he occupied a stone house on the south side of Broad- way nearly opposite Mulberry street. In 1818 he bought and thereafter occupied a stone house (the site now of a large brick house, next to the Broadway Reformed church), on the north side of Broadway, where he had a garden patch of seven acres. No record has been found of the partition between the daughters of Abram Thomasse (Van Riper). Elizabeth, the widow of John Vau Houten, conveyed, Octo- ber 29, 1808, a part of this tract, 24.93 chains (1650 feet) fronting on Broadway, beginning "nearly opposite to the house of Catalyntje Van Winkle," or near Summer street, and running westerly to Huntoon's mills, or nearly opposite Bridge street, with a depth of 12.55 chains for a distance of 612 feet (9.28 chains) west from the beginning, and of 6.50 chains the rest of the way. The grantee was Jane Van Giesen (her daughter), wife of Richard Van Giesen. The same day she conveyed to Elizabeth (another daughter), widow of Adrian Van Houten, late of Totowa, a tract of 13.70 (really somewhat more) acres immediately east of that just described, and extending to Abraham Van Hout- en's line. This tract was conveyed, June 15, 1835, by Albert Van Saun and Jane his wife (daughter of Mrs. Adrian Van Houten), and Aaron A. Van Houten (a son of Mrs. Ad. Van Houten) and Hannah his wife, to Freeman Dodd, of New York, who sold it off in small parcels and city lots.


Mrs. Ad. Van Houten also received from her mother a deed, Oct. 29, 1808, for a small tract of 4.96 acres, having a frontage of 5.90 chains (or 389 feet) on Broadway, a short distance east of Washington street. This plot she had laid out in lots, 30x100 feet, on April 4, 1814, by Thomas Wills, surveyor, and sold them at first at $160 per lot. A part of the tract received from her mother was sold by Mrs. Van Houten, March 5, 1825, for $480, to Albert Van Saun, namely, the wide lot on which the Messrs. Sam- uel Van Saun Muzzy, Edward H. Muzzy and Henry Muzzy, and their two sisters, great-grandchildren of Albert Van Saun, erected in 1892 the Muzzy building, No. 92 and No. 94 Broadway. This plot has continued for two centuries in the uninterrupted possession of the descendants of Urian Thomasse, one of the patentees of Acquackanonk.


Mrs. Van Giesen divided the first mentioned tract (grant- ed to her) between her two. daughters-Elizabeth, wife of Henry G. Doremus, and Mache, wife of Halmagh Van Houten (parents of John R., Richard A., Henry and Ralph Van Houten). Mrs. Doremus received the portion from Straight street nearly to Summer street, and Mrs. Halmagh Van Houten received that part between the Hun- toon mills and Straight street. These deeds were dated August 31, 1810.


No. 8-Henderic Spier ; immediately north of Broadway, which formed its southern boundary. Hendrick Spier was a son of the patentee, and this lot had been awarded to him at the allotment of 1714, although in all probability it was no longer his when this copy was made. John Hendricksen Spier, the patentee, and Mary his wife, by deed dated Feb.


15, 1708-9, conveyed to Hendrick Jansen Spier, their son, for £150 N. Y. money, a lot at Wesel containing Io0 acres, and their interest in a twenty-eighth of the Acquackanonk patent. How the title passed from Hendrick Spier has not been ascertained, but in 1768 the lot belonged to Abraham Godwin, who mortgaged it. In 1772 he conveyed it to William Swan, of Paramus. The tract extended from Broadway northerly to half way between Godwin and Tyler streets. In 1792 it belonged for the most part to Simeon Van Winkle, who was a son of Jacob Van Winkle. Sim- eon Van Winkle conveyed to the Society, April 30, 1793, a tract of 15 acres on Broadway just east of Bridge street, running along the old brook; also a tract of 20 acres on Broadway, somewhat east of Carroll street. Jacob S. Van Winkle, a son of Simeon, owned a plot of twelve acres, front- ing on Broadway and running back nearly to Division street, and from Lake street westerly to the Dickerson property. This plot he mapped out in building lots, April 1, 1794. Simeon conveyed to his son Edo, January 1, 1801, Lot No. 2, containing 9.56 acres, apparently west of Main street, near Bank street ; on July 9, 1802, he sold him his store prop- erty, on the northeast corner of Broadway and Main street, about 150 feet square, for $750, say $100 per city lot. On August 31, 1805, he conveyed to Cornelius S. Van Winkle and John S. Van Winkle, seven acres near Main and Bank streets; to Edo, four acres near Lake street ; and to Jacob S., 12 acres probably north of Division street ; and on March 5, 1805, to Edo, 15 acres immediately west of East 18th street. Abra- ham Van Houten owned seven acres near the Erie Railway. Cornelius (Walling) Van Winkle owned several acres near Mulberry street, and Abraham Godwin still owned a plot of several acres about the Passaic Hotel. In a mortgage made by Godwin June 23, 1768, to John Leak, of New York, reference is made to a survey of the Lot, March 14, 1743-4. Was this survey made when Godwin bought the tract? In a mortgage made by Jacob Van Winkle and Caty his wife, to Martin John Ryerson, June 23, 1787, on a part of this Lot, on Broadway, the tract mortgaged is said to have been conveyed to Van Winkle, April 26, 1787.


No. 9 and No. 10-Derrick (Richard) Van Houten. By deed dated April 22, 1696, Abraham Bockee conveyed to Pe- ter Powelse, "late of the town of Bergen," and presumably then of Acquackanonk, a half interest in the patent of Ac- quackanonk.1 These two lots were doubtless allotted to Powelse in the new division. His son, Paulus Peterse, of Acquackanonk, yeoman, by deed of bargain and sale, dated June 1, 174I, conveyed them to Derrick Van Houten, for the consideration of £150, proclamation money of New Jer- sey. The conveyance includes "all and singular the Erec- tions and Buildings houses Outhouses Barns Stables fences," etc., 2 from which it is to be inferred that the prop- erty had been built upon and occupied previous to this con- veyance. No. 9 extended from half way between Godwin and Tyler streets northerly to about half way between Ful- ton and Lawrence streets ; No. 10 extended still further


1 E. J. Deeds, Book F, f. 230.


2 Unrecorded deed, Nelson MSS.


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northerly to Lyon street. Dirck Van Houten was the son of Jacob Van Houten. His sister or his daughter Jannetje married Walling Van Winkle, which possibly accounts for the fact that the latter's son, Cornelis, owned most of these two Lots, about 300 acres, in 1792. By deed, May 18, 1793, Cornelis Van Winkle conveyed to the S. U. M. a tract of 100.49 acres in the western end of Lot No. 9, reserving for . himself, however, 30 acres out of the plot. By deed dated December 1, 1809, Jerry C. Van Riper conveyed to the S. U. M. a tract of 10.46 acres north of Edo Van Winkle's house-lot ; this seems to have been a part of Lot No. 9.


A tract of 14.30 acres, the eastern end of Lot No. Io, was conveyed by Derrick Ja. Van Houten to Jacob Van Winkle, by two deeds, March 16, 1772, and Feb. 21, 1774, and by him devised to his two sons, Simeon and Jacob, who equally divided by releases, dated July 9, 1786. Simeon conveyed his half to Jacob, May 24, 1788, and the latter conveyed, Feb. 24, 1794, to Martin Ryerson, John F. Post, Jr., and Simeon Van Winkle. They conveyed to Rynier Blanchard by deed June 20, 1796, and Blanchard the same day conveyed to Simeon Van Winkle. By deed Jan. 29, 1800, Simeon conveyed the property to Jacob I. Van Houten. Jacob Van Houten (son of Dirrick ?) and Yanneke his wife conveyed to their son, Jacob Van Houten, jr., April 12, 1784, the remainder of this Lot. Jacob conveyed a tract of about 30 acres to Isaac Vanderbeck (probably the same tract sold in 1802 by Van Blarcom to Godwin), and an acre and a half to John Toers. He held the rest of the Lot so late as July 12, 1792, when he mortgaged it to John F. Post. Cornelius (Walling) Van Winkle sold to the S. U. M. two parcels of Lot No. 10, by deed May 18, 1793, one of 102.29 acres, and the other of 27.51 acres. The Society also bought of Jacob Van Houten, November 10, 1792, a tract of 55.60 acres, out of Lot No. Io. Abraham Van Blarcom sold to Abraham Godwin, Aug. 18, 1802, 34 acres in the same Lot, extending the whole width of the Lot, from north to south, and from the tract sold by Van Houten on the east to the Passaic river on the west. Part of this Lot was de- vised by Cornelius (Walling) Van Winkle to his daughter Tiny (Christina), wife of Adrian Van Houten, of West street ; her son, Edward Van Houten, still owned part of it at the time of his death, within a few years, and his chil- dren remain in possession of a portion at this time.


No. II and No. 12-Adrian Post. He was a son of of Frans Post, who was a brother of the patentee. The two lots extended from Lyon street northerly about to Seventh avenue, a distance of just half a mile-forty chains. The two lots were surveyed as one plot, in 1730, as appears from the following document :1


May the 27th 1730


Att the Request of Adirean Post I have Surveyed a peice of Land Ly- ing at Acquackenongh Begining at the North west Corner of Peter Pou- elsons Land by pasaick Revier by the Division fence where formerly stood a stake from thence along pasaick Revier North Eleven degrees east 7 Chains then North Eight Degrees west seven Chains then North seventeen Degrees west seven Chains then North thirty five Degrees west Nine Chains then North Nine Degrees East seven Chains then North forty three Degrees East Eight Chains to a stake standing by an


old tree then East ten Degrees south sixty Chains to asaxefrack1 sapling marked on four sides then south Nineteen Degrees west thirty Nine Chains and thirty five Links to a stake standing on the midle Rhode then west ten Degrees North forty Eight Chains to the first [place] where it begun. Containing acording to Survey one hund[red and] Eighty Acres English measure


Surveyed per me


Richard Edsall


Upon the death of Adrian F. Post, these two lots were partitioned between his two sons-Frans (b. Feb. 26, 1718) and Peter (b. Sept. 6, 1722). The survey was made by Hes- sel Peterse, probably about 1770. He laid out the entire tract in three parcels: No. I, at the eastern end, 39.35 chains from north to south, and 21.40 chains from east to west, was allotted to Frans Post; No. 2, extending along the southern line of the entire tract, or of Lot No. II, from the west line of No. I to the river, having a depth from north to south of 10.60 chains for a distance of 16.20 chains, and of 13.90 thence to the river ; this was also allotted to Frans Post ; No. 3 was allotted to Peter Post. It had most of the river front. Its northern line was. on a course E. Io deg. S. Beginning in the northwestern corner of Lot No. I, allotted to Frans Post, it ran along his western line S. 21 deg. W. 27. 50 ch .; W. 10 deg. N., 16.20 ch .; S. 10} deg. W., 2.30 ; W. Io deg. N., 12.90 ch. to the river ; thence down stream to the northern boundary of the whole tract, and along the same E. Io deg. S. to the beginning.3


No. 13-Cornelis Gerritse (Cornelius Garrison) ; part of the Riverside tract. This lot was probably apportioned in 1714 to the father of Cornelis. The chain of title is some- what similar to that of Lots 13, 14 and 15 East. Cornelis Gerritse devised his real estate to his children, and the will being lost they agreed to divide the real estate as therein directed, and executed mutual releases accordingly. Hen- ry Gerritse, Esq., of Wesel (who had married Eliza- beth, daughter of Cornelis Gerritse), his son, John H. Ger- ritse, and Simeon Van Winkle (who had married Claesje, another daughter of Cornelis), being jointly possessed of this Lot and other lands, by virtue of the last will and testa- ment of Henry Gerritse, deceased, as well as by a deed of release from Gerrit Stimas, July 23, 1751 : Henry Gerritse, Esq., quit-claimed this Lot to Simeon John Van Winkle and John H. Gerritse, by deed Feb. 12, 1795. Simeon John Van Winkle (known as "Simeon of the Boght," to distinguish him from Simeon Jacob Van Winkle, of Broad- way and Lot No. 8 West), was the father of John S. Van Winkle ; he in turn was the father of Cornelius Van Winkle (who was named after his great-grandfather), who sold to the Riverside Land Improvement Company in 1867.


An attempt has been made to indicate, by notes on the margin of the map, the boundary lines between the several farms. In many cases these are merely approximations ; in a general way they are correct. When we consider that John Verkerk lacked the advantages of modern scientific instruments ; that he was plotting more than 4,000 acres into twenty-eight farms of equal size, in a new country,


1 A sassafras sapling.


2 The dwars lijn, or York avenue (East Eighteenth street).


3 These data are taken from the original survey, in the possession of William Pennington.


1 In the possession of William Pennington.


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through which he had to cut his way as through a wilder- ness; over hills, through valleys and swamps, it is a marvel- ous tribute to his accuracy to find that the most recent


measurements differ very little from the distances and courses indicated on this ancient map of Paterson.


AN INTERESTING OLD DEED.


In 1712 the surviving patentees of Acquackanonk released to each other the farms then actually in their possession. But one of these deeds is on record-that to Cornelius Machielsen (Vreeland). The only one of the original deeds known to exist was found about twenty years ago by Judge Simmons, of Passaic, in overbauling the roof of the old Van Wagoner house near the draw-bridge at Passaic. It was tucked carefully away, as if for concealment, under tbe ridge pole of tbe liouse, and looks as if it had been there for a century or more. It is hand- somely engrossed on a sheet of parchment twenty-seven-and-a-half inches wide and twenty-three inches from top to bottom. The two sur- veys annexed are on sheets of parchment eacb twelve and a half by ten inches; the diagrams are as clear and distinct as when made. The deed and the surveys have been rotted away at the middle fold, so that many words are missing. In the following copy the missing words are conjec- turally supplied in brackets :


THIS INDENTURE made the Twelfth Day of March in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of Our Soveraign Lady Anne by the Grace of God of Great Brittain France and Ireland Queen Defender of the Faith &c Annoq. Domini One thousand Seven bundred and Twelve BETWEEN Johannes Macbielson of Comunapong in the County of Bergen in the Province of New Jersey Yeoman, Cornelius Machielson of Comunapong aforesaid Yeoman, John Hendrick Spier of Achquechenoungh in the County of Essex in the Province aforesaid Yeoman, and Cornelius Lubbers of Communapong aforesaid, Yeoman, of the One Part And Sy- mon Jacobson van Winkel of Achquechenoung aforesaid Yeoman of the other part WITNESSETH WHEREAS By Indenture of Bar- gain and Sale bearing Date the Sixteenth Day of March Anno Domini One thousand six hundred and Eighty four and in the Sev- en and thirtieth Year of the Reign of tbe late King Charles the Second over England &c. made or mentioned to be made Between the Lords Proprietors of the Province of East New Jersey of the One Part, and Hans Diederick, Garret Garretson, Walling Jacobs, Elias Machielson, Hartman Machielson, Johannes Machielson, Cornelius Machielson,Adrian Post, Urian Tbomason, Cornelius Roelofson, Symon Jacobs, John Hen- drick Spier, Cornelius Lubbers, and Abraham Bouquee of the otber part, They tbe said Lords Proprietors for the Considerations therein men- tioned, Did Alien Grant Bargain and Sell unto tbe said Hans Diedericks, Garret Garretson, Walling Jacobs, Elias Machielson, Hartman Machiel- son, Jobannes Machielson, Cornelius Macbielson, Adrian Post, Urian Tomassen, Cornelius Roelofson, Symon Jacobs, John Hendrick Spier, Cornelius Lubbers, and Abraham Bouquee, and to their heirs and As- signs, A certain Tract of Land Scituate laying and being upon Pisaick River in the County of Essex and called and known by the Name of Acbquechenung, Beginning at the Northermost bounds of the Town of Newark and so running from the lowermost part to the uppermost part thereof as far as the Steep Rocks or Mountains, and from the said low- ermost part along the Pisaick River to the great Falls thereof and so along tbe Steep Rocks and Mountains to the uppermost Part of Newark bounds aforesaid, as it was more plainly demonstrated by a Chart or Draught thereof made by the then late Surveyor General, TOGETHER with all the Rivers Ponds Crecks Isles Islands (:Hartmans Island which particularly belonged to Hartman Machielson only Excepted:) and also all Inletts Bays Swamps Marsbes Meadows Pastures ffields ffences Woods Underwoods ffisheries Hawkings Huntings ffowlings and all other Appurtenances whatsoever thereunto belonging and apper- taining (:half part of the gold and silver mines and the Royalty of the Lords Proprietors also Excepted:) To HOLD the said Tract of Land and premisses and every part and parcel of the same to Them the said Hans Diederick, Garret Garretson, Walling Jacobs, Elias Machielson, Hart- man Machielson, Johannes Machielson, Cornelius Machielson, Adrian


Post, Urian Thomason, Cornelius Roelofson, Symon Jacobs, John Hen- drick Spier, Cornelius Lubbers, and Abraham Bouquee, their Heirs and Assigns, AND to the uses of Them their heirs and Assigns for ever, To be holden in free and common Soccage of them the L'ords Proprietors their heirs and Assigns as of tbe Seignory of East Greenwich YIELDING and pay- ing therefore Yearly unto the said Lords Proprietors their Heirs or Assigns the Cbeife or Quit rent of fourteen Pounds of Sterling money or tbe Value thereof Yearly for the said Tract of Land upon every five and twentieth Day of March for ever hereafter in liew and stead of the Half Penny per Acre mentioned in the Concessions and in lieu and stead of all other Services and Demands whatsoever, As in and by the aforesaid recited Indenture, under the respective hands of Gauen Laurie tbe then Deputy Governour of tbe said Province of East Jersey, Thomas Codrington, William Sandford, Isaac Kingsland, Benjamin Price, Henry Lyon, the then major part of his Council, and James Emott Deputy Secretary of the said Province, and under the the Common Seal of the [Province of East New Jersey and] are Entered upon the Records of the said Prov- ince of East New Jersey the Day of the Date thereof in Liber A page (164) the relation being tbereunto respectively had may more fully and at large appear AND WHEREAS [the said Johannes Machielson, Cor]nelius Machielson, John Hendrick Spier, Cornelius Lubbers, and Symon Ja- cobson van Winkel, parties to these Presents are the same Jobannes Machielson, Cornelius Macbielson, John Hendrick Spier, Cor[nelius Lubbers and Symon Jacobson van Winkel named] in the before recited Indenture of Bargain and Sale and are now the only five surviving par- ties to whom the above mentioned Tract of Land and premisses was Granted and Conveyed by the before [mentioned Indenture (all the other of] said Grantees tberein named being since deceased :) by means whereof They the said Johannes Machielson, Cornelius Machielson, John Hendrick Spier, Cornelius Lubbers and Symon Jacobson van Win- kel are [and bave become seized] of or Intituled unto all and singular the before mentioned Tract of Land and Premises Granted and Con- veyed by tbe before Recited Indenture as aforesaid as Joynt Tenants by Survivorship AND WHERE[AS the said Johannes] Machielson Cornelius Machielson John Hendrick Spier Cornelius Lubbers and Symon Jacob- son van Winkel being so Seized as aforesaid bave severally and res- pectively taken upon them to Cultivate and Improve [several portions of] the before mentioned Tract of land and premisses wbich They bave allotted to each other separately and respectively by mutual Agreement amongst themselves, and particularly the said Symon Jacobson [van Winkel] has been at great Charges and Expences in Cultivating and Im- proving two certain pieces or parcels of Land hereinafter mentioned and being the Lotts No. 4. and 13. Part of the aforesaid Tract of Land and premises, It hath [been ag]reed by and between the said parties to tbese Presents Tbat the same pieces or parcels of Land so Cultivated and Im- proved by him the said Symon Jacobson van Winkel should be layd out Surveyed and divided for him the said [Symon Jacobson] van Winkel bis heirs and Assigns for ever separately as a Part of His Dividend and Share of the aforesaid Tract of Land and Premisses by Vertue of the afore recited Grant from the said Lords Proprietors [and the said] pieces or parcels of Land have accordingly been laid out Surveyed and Divided for him tbe said Symon Jacobson van Winkel by William Bond Surveyor as followeth vizt. All that Tract piece or parcel of Land Scittuate, lay- ing and [Being in the town]ship of Achquechenung in the County of Es- sex in the Eastern Division of the Province of New Jersey Marked with Number Four, Beginning on the Westside of Pissaick River and runs up into the Woods North [Ninety-fivel degrees] West Ninety three chains


1 Doubtless a clerical error for eighty-five degrees, wbicb is the course indicated on tbe map accompanying the survey, although in the return it is given as ninety-five degrees.




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