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ANCIENT FAMILIES OF
NEW YORK.
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
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CONTRIBUTIONS
EBLUMEIS UNIVERSITY TO THE
HISTORY OF ANCIENT FAMILIES
OF
NEW AMSTERDAM AND NEW YORK.
BY EDWIN R. PURPLE,
WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH ON THE AUTHOR; AND ADDITIONS AND EMENDATIONS TO THE WORK,
BY SAMUEL S. PURPLE, M.D.
NEW YORK : PRIVATELY PRINTED.
1881.
YFATED
EDITION ONE HUNDRED COPIES ONLY.
TWENTY-FIVE OF WHICH ARE ON ANTIQUE PARCHMENT PAPER. No Forty five
CONTENTS.
PAGE.
IN MEMORIAM, .
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PEDIGREE, .
ANCIENT FAMILIES - STILLE - WOERTENDYK - SOMERENDYK (First Four Generations),
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. 5 . bach-Kierstede-Bogaert, 9
VAN SCHAICK (First Four Generations)-De Groot-Bloedgoedt-Onckel-
SIECKEN-DEY-DYE (First Four Generations)-Ryerson-Spier, . 13 . BREVOORT (First Four Generations)-Bastienszen-Sickels-Bill, 14 GREVENRAET (First Three Generations), . 16
DE RIMER (First Four Generations)-Steenwyck-Gouverneur,
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ZYPERUS, . 20
WOURTERSZEN-BREESTEDE-ADRAEN PIETERSZEN VAN ALCMAER, . 21 SANTVOORT (First Three Generations) Sanders-Walton, 22
ECKERSON (First Three Generations)-De La Montagne-Van Aernam- Bogaert-Heermans-Borry-Stuyvesant-Van Vechten, . 23
SAMMANS (First Three Generations), . 25
STRIDLES-WANSHAER (First Three Generations),
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TYMENS-VAN DER VEEN-Stephenszen, . 27
LEISLER (First Three Generations)-De Kleyn-Vaughton-Walters- Rynders-Provoost-Bayard-Cuyler-Lewis, . 29
LOOKERMANS-Van Cortlandt-Bayard-Kierstede-Bradford,
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VARICK-Van Dyck-Van Kleeck-De Witt-Freligh,
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KIP-Van der Heul-De Foreest-Kierstede-Hooglant-Ryckman- De Sille-Bryant-Van den Berg-Brower-Naylor-Lynch-Close -Purple, . · 45
MEYER - Hansen- Rutgers - Janszen -Earle-Elbertszen-Vreeland- Van Beuren-Lent-Benson, 63
DE MEYER-DE MEYERT-Neering-Crundall-De Key, . 73
VAN DYCK-COELY, . 77 VARLETH - VERLETH- Stuyvesant - Backer -- De Foreest-Hermans- Vanderheyden-Van Beeck-Schrick - Brockholst-French-Van Horne-Livingston-Clarkson-Browne-Philipse-Beverley-Mor- ris -- De Peyster-Spratt-Ashfield-Provoost-Livingston-Stevens -Rutherfurd-Teller-Van Baal-Du Bois-Bayard-Brett-Van Tricht-Stoutenburg-Schuyler-De Peyster-De Bruyn-Bayard -Van Dam-Kemble-Van Horne, . 79-114
DIETELOFSZEN-DIEDELOOS-DOREN (?)-DITLO, . II4
DUTCH ALIASES - Abrahanszen - Adamszen-Adrianszen-Albertszen- Arentszen - Barentszen - Casparszen - Claeszen - Corneliszen - Corszen-Dirckszen-Elbertszen-Evertszen-Franszen-Fredricks- zen-Gerritszen-Gilliszen, see Jilliszen-Gysbertszen-Hendricks- zen - Herbert - Huybertszen - Huygen -Idenszen -- Isaackszen- Jacobszen-Jeūrianszen-Jilliszen, or Gilliszen-Johanneszen -- Joris- zen - Joosten -Josephs-Lambertszen-Laurenszen-Leendertszen - Lucaszen - Mariūs - Martenszen - Michielszen - Paūlūszen- Peterszen - Resolvert - Reyerszen -- Theuniszen - Thomaszen - Wesselszen -- Williamszen, 115-118
MISCELLANEOUS ALIASES, and names spelt two or more ways, . 118-120
GOUVERNEUR-Broughton-Gouverneur, . . 120
KIP-of Kingston and Rhinebeck, N. Y .- Sleight-Lewis-Vredenburgh -Van Wagenen-Radcliff-Hermans, . 12I
CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS, . 125
INDEX TO NAMES AND FAMILIES,
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COLOMBIA
Etchit by H. B. Hall. Morrisance My 1972
ERPurple
In Memoriam. *
EDWIN RUTHVEN PURPLE, the third son of Lyman Smith Purple and Minerva Sheffield his wife, was born in the town of Sherburne, Chenango Co., N. Y., on June 30, 1831. His maternal grandfather, James (Fones) Sheffield, was born in Charlestown, R. I., April 12, 1766, and was of the medical profession. His paternal grandfather was Ansel Purple, born in Middle Haddam, Ct., in 1773, and his earlier paternal ancestor Edward Purple, of Haddam, Ct., 1674, was of English descent.
After the death of his father, which occurred May 7, 1839, and before Edwin was eight years old, he was placed by his mother and elder brother at school in Earlville, Madison Co., N. Y., where he continued until the spring of 1846. In the summer of that and the following year he was em- ployed at farm labor, living at home during the winter months, and attend- ing the Earlville Academy-deemed at that time one of the best and most flourishing high schools in the county. In March, 1847, he came to the City of New York and secured employment as a clerk in a drygoods im- porting house. Here he remained about three years, until the spring of 1850. In 1848 he became a member of the Laight Street Baptist Church, to which his family belonged, and to which he remained attached while in the city.
In 1850 his employer arranged to close his business in New York, and established himself in San Francisco, Cal .-- the land of great promise and of great attraction-and made such favorable overtures as to induce Edwin to follow him to that El Dorado; and accordingly, April 13, 1850, he embarked, on the steamship Cherokee, for Chagres, and went thence to Panama, where he took a sailing vessel (the bark Winthrop) for San Fran- cisco, where he arrived on the 12th of July following, taking up three months, instead of a six months' passage around Cape Horn. On arrival he found that his employer, who had preceded him, had sold the stock of merchandise to arrive, and had abandoned the idea of setting up business for himself in California, having found that it was easier to sell goods at a profit than to secure a store at a moderate rent, or have any assurance against disaster. Remaining in San Francisco a few days, he went to Sacramento City, where, through the introduction of a friend, he hired an ox-team and wagon, loaded it with flour and other provisions, and started
* In part condensed from memorial sketches read before the New York Genealogical and Biographical So- ciety, by Charles B. Moore, Esq. ; and the New York Academy of Medicine, by Laurence Johnson, M.D.
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on a trading tour across the Sierra Nevada mountain range, to meet the incoming emigration across the plains. This expedition proved success- ful, and to him was both romantic and adventurous. Soon after his return to Sacramento, late in August, 1850, the cholera broke out there, and for days the principal business houses and public places of that city were closed, and the streets nearly deserted. On this calamitous account he left for San Francisco, and from thence went to Stockton, where, in Decem- ber, 1850, he fell back to his former quiet position, and obtained a clerk- ship in the store of Seneca Dean, formerly of Orange Co., N. Y. There were many in that region from the Empire State.
In February, 1851, he commenced mining at Carson's Creek and Murphy's Camp, in Calaveras Co., and in October of that year formed a copartnership with Edwin T. Lake, an old trader in mining supplies, on the North Branch of the Calaveras River, and remained in this business two years. In the fall of 1853 he dissolved copartnership with Mr. Lake, designing to return to New York ; but, being detained longer than he expected in the settlement of his business, he commenced the study of law in the office of William Jeff. Gatewood, Esq., of San Andreas, two miles from North Branch. His practical observance of rules as an ac- countant made the study of law as a science less difficult to him. In September, 1854, he was elected one of the justices in the Fifth Town- ship, then one of the most populous in Calaveras Co. At that time the jurisdiction of justices of the peace extended to all actions, and in civil cases where the amount involved did not exceed five hundred dollars, and they had original jurisdiction in all actions to determine the right to mining claims. The business of the office, both civil and criminal, was large, and during his term was increased by disability, by reason of sickness of Judge Spencer, the other Township Justice. His mind and talents, to say nothing of his patience, were fully exercised. In the fall of 1855 he was elected one of the three supervisors of Calaveras County, and served in that capacity one year. In November, 1855, he was admitted to practise as an attorney at law in the county courts of Calaveras County. From 1855 to 1860 he was one of the nine proprietors, and was the secretary and treasurer of the San Antonio Ridge Ditch and Mining Company, which, in addition to supplying water for mining and agricultural purposes in the cen- tral portion of Calaveras Co., was also extensively engaged in the manu- facture and sale of lumber in that region.
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In May, 1860, he removed to Fort Yuma, California, where he was em- ployed as Agent of the Butterfield Overland Mail Company, until the mail service between St. Louis and San Francisco on the southern route was discontinued in April, 1861. At that date, a contract having been made by the company with the government to carry a daily overland mail be- tween St. Joseph's, Missouri, and Placerville, California, commencing July 1, 1861, the stock and stages of the company from Tucson in Arizona to Los Angelos in California were ordered to the new route between Placer- ville and Great Salt Lake City. On the 8th of May, 1861, in charge of one hundred and thirty horses and eighteen stages, with thirty men, he left Los Angelos for Salt Lake City, where he arrived, without the loss of an animal, on the 16th of June; the distance being about eight hundred miles, and half of which was through a desert country, inhabited only by roving bands of Indians. Here, as the Agent of the Overland Company,
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he remained until June, 1862, and then left there with a small company, principally old Californian acquaintances, for the Salmon River Gold Dig- gings in Oregon. Their heavy wagons loaded with supplies and drawn by oxen, were compelled to travel slowly, while the unusual falls of rain that season along the route greatly increased the difficulty and labor of crossing the mountain streams and very much retarded their progress. On the 30th of July they reached the Beaver Head, the main stream of the Jefferson Fork of the Missouri River, which they prospected for gold. Not finding the precious metal in paying quantities, they pushed on north to Gold Creek, in Deer Lodge Valley, where they arrived on the 7th of August. Here they concluded to abandon the idea of going to the Salmon River Mines, near Fort Walla Walla, 425 miles distant, and, owing to the short- ness of the season, made preparations to go into winter quarters at Stuart's ranche, located at the mouth of Gold Creek, and owned by two brothers, James and Granville Stuart (afterward called American Fork). This was a favorite winter resort of the early trappers and pioneers. After leaving the Beaver Head they met a party of seven men, John White and others, on their way from Deer Lodge to Willard's Creek (a tributary of the Beaver Head) for the purpose of prospecting it for gold. These were undoubtedly the first white men that found gold in Willard's Creek (or Grasshopper, as it was called by them), the discovery of which peopled that country, till then a mountain wilderness, with at least fifteen thousand inhabitants in the spring and summer following. They contended with the rocks for sub- sistence and for wealth, and not with each other in arms, and, finding other rich placers in that region, fixed the status of Montana as one of the richest and most valuable of the western gold and silver producing Terri- tories.
In December, 1862, Mr. Purple opened a store at Bannack City, where these new discoveries of gold were made, his stock in trade consisting principally of provisions and mining utensils, which had been brought with him from Salt Lake City. Having disposed of these, in December, 1863, he left the Territory of Montana for New York, where he arrived in Feb- ruary, 1864, after an absence from his native State of nearly fourteen years. Here he entered into a business connection with Gov. James Duane Doty, ex-Gov. of Wisconsin, and others, for the sale of mining property, in which they were mutually interested in Montana. In April, 1864, he left again for that territory, but was taken seriously sick, and returned in De- cember following to New York. His many exposures had impaired his health.
In 1869 he became a member of the New York Genealogical and Bio- graphical Society -- the first year of the existence of the Society. On the Ioth of December, 1870, he read before the Society his first paper, being extracts from the MS. autobiography of William Gowans, the antiquarian bookseller and publisher then but recently deceased. On the 13th of May, 1871, he read a paper on the Biography of Cadwallader Colden, a Colonial Governor, Physician, and Philosopher. He gradually acquired an interest in genealogical investigations and a taste for family history. He took up the Colden papers, in possession of his brother, and prepared for the NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD the " Notes Biographi- cal and Genealogical of the Colden Family, and some of its Collateral Branches in America," which were published in the number for October,
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1873. These notes were, perhaps, kept back too long, to give place to others less important and less attractive. An edition of fifty copies, in book form, of this article was privately printed in 1873.
The number of the RECORD for January, 1875, contained from his pen an elaborate Biographical and Genealogical Sketch of David Provoost of New Amsterdam, and some of his Descendants. An edition of one hun- dred copies of this article, in book form, was privately printed in 1875.
From early youth he exhibited a deep-rooted fondness for exact knowl- edge, particularly mathematics and history. This in after years led him, in genealogical pursuits, to examine carefully the source of New Nether- land family history ; and his attention was soon directed to the changing forms of Dutch family nomenclature. His careful and untiring ap- plication to this class of difficult investigations soon made him an expert in tracing with certainty the descendants of the first settlers of New Am- sterdam.
The first instalment of his " Contributions to the History of the Ancient Families of New York" appeared in the RECORD for April, 1876, con- taining four generations of the Stillé, Woretendyk, Van Schaick, Somer- endyk, Siecken, alias Dey family, Brevoort, Grevenraet, De Reimer, and Zyperus families. In the July number, Wouterszen Van Breestede, Peter- zen Van Alcmaer, Santvoort, Echerson, Sammans, Stridles, Wanshaer, Tymens, and Van der Veen families. In the October number, the first three generations of the Leisler family, correcting many previous errors, and with a note embracing the De Kleyn family. An emended edition, consisting of seventy-five copies, in book form, was privately printed in 1877, with the following title : Genealogical Notes Relating to Lieut. Gov. Jacob Leisler and his Family Connections in New York. In the January number for 1877 appeared the Loockermans and Varicks ; in the April and July numbers, the Kip family (much more full and exact than any we had before), with two corrections. An emended edition of seventy-five copies, in book form, was privately printed in 1877 with the following title : " Con- tributions to the History of the Kip Family of New York and New Jersey."
In the numbers of the RECORD from January, 1878, to January, 1879, ap- peared the Meyer, De Meyer, and Varleth families, with various family connections, such as the Hermans, Brockholst, French, Philipse, Teller, Schuyler, Bayard, and others. There also appeared in the number for January, 1879, his very important and instructive list of " Dutch Aliases." To him are the readers of the RECORD indebted for the laborious indexes to names of several of the volumes of that work.
These varied and important contributions to the family history of New Amsterdam (or New Netherland) and New York, much of the material for which are derived from the unpublished as well as published records of the Reformed Dutch and other churches, are herewith reprinted, with extensive emendations and additions, as a memorial by his surviving brother.
It perhaps need not be said-nor is it to be supposed-that all he has written has been published. In the preparation of this personal history we have been permitted to consult the MS. history of the Purple Family, pre- pared, with much labor, by him and his only surviving brother,
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He died at 47 years of age, and his travels and labors are ended. His style, like that of a truthful genealogist, was as free from surplusage, embel- lishment, or ornament, as that of an accountant's ledger. He had something biographical to say, but no one would discover by what he said that he had travelled far, or that he had ever visited California. His notes of travels, which are preserved, are both interesting and important. He wrote about such a notable character as Lieut .- Gov. JACOB LEISLER, so that few, whether friendly or hostile, had any reply or complaint ; and in his writings there are exhibitions of depth and strength of thought and sentiment deserving of particular notice.
In 1876, the New York Academy of Medicine, having purchased a building for its use, and having received from his brother, who was then its President, a gift of over three thousand volumes of medical works, the value of which has been estimated at ten thousand dollars, Mr. Purple was selected to the important position of assistant or acting librarian, and, in the language of Dr. Laurence Johnson, his biographer before the Academy, he entered upon the duties of the office in the autumn of that year. He brought to the task before him not only a love for books, but an inexhausti- ble fund of patience. He began his work with the same painstaking care that characterized his labors as a genealogist, and of the work he here per- formed but little will ever have to be undone. He labored zealously and hopefully. He believed in a great and successful future for this library, and had an unbounded faith in its ultimate success. He continued to arduously labor in the library until February, 1878, when a sudden and alarming hemorrhage from the stomach suspended, for a time, his work. His progress toward recovery was slow. He visited the library from time to time, but his active labors were over. When satisfied that he would never be able to resume active duty as librarian, he tendered his resigna- tion, and presented the sum due him as salary, which he had never drawn from the beginning of his work, to the library fund of the Academy, ini- tiated by his brother. This generous and graceful act, on the part of one not a member, was without precedent in the history of the Academy. It deserved a special recognition. To provide for this and any future con- tingency of like character, the Academy created the honorary title of Bene- factor, and Mr. Purple was the first elected to that title. His gift formed the nucleus of the Academy's present library endowment, which has grown, as the library has grown, to respectable dimensions. His death from pneu- monia occurred on the 20th of January, 1879. To us of the New York Academy of Medicine, his life was full of promise and usefulness. He began here a work which is left to others to carry on toward completion. It is peculiarly fitting in this new Library Hall, which has just been dedi- cated under such brilliant auspices, that we pause for a moment from the usual labor which engages us to pay the tribute of respect to the memory of one whose last years were consecrated to its service.
He was the recipient of distinguished honors from various historical and other learned societies, none of which did he value more than that of honorary member of the Historical Society of Montana, located at Helena City, Montana.
On the 13th of February, 1868, he married MARY FRANCES, daughter of Charles HAWLEY and of Mary Van Antwerp (Lynch) Close of New York. Five children were born to them-three survive him, all daughters. His
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wife's descent was brought out briefly in the History of the Kip Family, and this was written when his little child was fatally sick. The dedica- tion of it, as separately printed, was to the memory of this child as follows :
In Memoriam.
TO SARAH SHEFFIELD PURPLE, Born May 30, 1875, Died July 5, 1876, In whose veins mingled the blood of some of the FIRST DUTCH HUGUENOT AND PURITAN SETTLERS OF NEW NETHERLAND AND NEW ENGLAND, These Contributions, to the preparation of which her brief life gave additional incentive, Are Dedicated, With Ardent Love for her Memory and Profound Sorrow for Her early Death, By Her Father.
PEDIGREE.
Hendrick Hendrickszen Kip1, Isaac Hendrickszen Kip?, Isaac Kip 3, Abraham Kip 4, Gerrit Kip 5, Abraham Kip 6, Rachel Kip7 (wife of James Lynch), Mary V. Lynch 8 (wife of Chas. H. Close), Mary Frances Close 9 (wife of Edwin R. Purple).
Issue :- Mary C. Purple 10, Frances M. Purple 10, Amelia G. Purple 10.
Adam Brower 1, Jacob Brower 2, Jacob Brower 3, Johannes Brower 4, Ellenor Brower 5 (wife of Gerrit Kip"), Abraham Kip 6, Rachel Kip? (wife of James Lynch), Mary V. Lynch 8 (wife of Chas. H. Close), Mary Frances Close 9 (wife of Edwin R. Purple).
Issue :- Mary C. Purple 10, Frances M. Purple 10, Amelia G. Purple 10.
Dr. Johannes De La Montagne 1, had by wife Rachel Defour, Jan De La Montagne ?, Jr., who had by wife Pieternella Picques, Jan De La Montagne 3, born in Amsterdam, who had by wife Annetie Waldron, Pieternella De La Montagne 4 (wife of Jacob Brower 3), Johannes Brower 5, Ellenor Brower 6 (wife of Gerrit Kip 5), Abraham Kip ", Rachel Kip 8 (wife of James Lynch), Mary V. Lynch9 (wife of Chas. H. Close), Mary Frances Close 10 (wife of Edwin R. Purple).
Issue :-- Mary C. Purple 11, Frances M. Purple 11, Amelia G. Purple 11.
Gerrit Lansing 1, Hendrick Lansing 2, Maria Lansing 3 (wife of Huybert Gerritszen Van den Berg ?), Maria Van den Berg 4 (wife of Abraham Kip 4), Gerrit Kip 5, Abraham Kip 6, Rachel Kip 7 (wife of James Lynch), Mary V. Lynch 8 (wife of Chas. H. Close), Mary Frances Close 9 (wife of Edwin R. Purple).
Issue :- Mary C. Purple, Frances M. Purple, Amelia G. Purple.
DR. SAMUEL S. PURPLE,
(WITHOUT WHOSE AID THEY WOULD NEVER HAVE APPEARED) THESE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT FAMILIES OF NEW YORK ARE DEDICATED, WITH FRATERNAL LOVE AND REGARD, .
BY HIS BROTHER
THE AUTHOR.
COLUMEIT UNIVERSITY
ANCIENT FAMILIES OF NEW YORK.
A proper respect for the memory of ancestors is not only laudable, but deeply implanted in the hearts of the good and wise of all civilized nations. To affect indifference to matters that pertain to family history is but to ac- knowledge the weakness of conceit, and to ignore the well-established law " that the past is the parent of the future." The founders of the new world, whatever may have been their ancestral origin in the old, joined hands and hearts in a common issue-the planting of a nation whose influence is now felt to the remotest parts of the earth. To trace the origin and disclose the somewhat obscure relations of some of the ancient families of the colony and State of New York is the purpose of the following pages.
STILLE. WOERTENDYK. SOMERENDYK. (FIRST FOUR GENERATIONS.)
CORNELIS JACOBSEN, alias CORNELIS JACOBSEN VAN VREELANDT, alias CORNELIS JACOBSEN STILLE, the ancestor of the Somerendyck and Woerten- dyk families, was in New Amsterdam as early as May, 1639, and may have been the junior Cornelis Jacobsen, who, with Cornelis Jacobsen, Senior, of Mertensdyk, leased, on the 14th of May, 1638, from Barent Dircksen, baker, the bouwery or farm called Walenstyne. He and Jan Jacobsen Stille, probably his brother, were farmers and leased together 15th August, 1639, from Jonas Bronck, a lot of land with dwelling-house and stock. His brother was probably the Jan Jacobsen of Vrelant, who made a mar- riage contract, August 15, 1639, with Maritje Pieters, of Copenhagen, and who conveyed, July 29, 1644, to Lambert Valckenburgh, a house on the island of Manhatten with 25 morgens of land adjoining. He probably left the country soon after or died without issue.
On the 29th July, 1641, Cornelis Jacobsen Stille deeded to Lambert Huybertsen Mol a house and plantation next to Hans Hansen [Bergen] on Long Island, and May 13th, 1643, leased of Cornelis Van Tienhoven his bouwery in the Smiths Valley. On the 18th March, 1647, he obtained from Gov. Kieft a patent for bouwery No. 6, previously occupied by Wolf- ert Gerritsen [Van Couwenhoven], containing 28} morgens of land." This estate, says Mr. Valentine,2 lay between Division Street and the East River, extending eastward nearly to Corlear's Hook, and on the south-west in- cluded Wolfert's Meadows, through which ran the stream which carried the waters of the Kalkhook, or Fresh Water pond, to the East River. The
I Cal. of N. Y. Hist. MSS., Dutch, 1630, 1664, pp. 1, 10, 16, 22, 29, 67, 373. 2 Valentine's Manual, 1860, p. 556-8.
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original Stille farm house was situated at the head of Chatham Square, on the north-west corner of the present East Broadway ; the kitchen stood on the opposite side of East Broadway. Before 1668 Stille conveyed one- half of this farm to Augustine Hermans, which portion was again conveyed, January 10th, 1685, to Wolfert Webbers and Hendrick Cornelisen [Van Schaick] by Francisca Hermans, as attorney for her father.1 The premises were later known as the Rutgers farm, but have for many years comprised one of the most densely populated portions of the city.
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