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* Deeds, VII, 468.
+ In 1717 he was complained of by the Chamberlain of Albany, for being in arrears several years for his license fees .- Albany Annals, VII, 61.
In 1706 his wife Antje refused to pay her license for selling strong liquors .- Albany Annals, v, 150.
In the town records of Portsmouth, N. H., under date May 8, 1674, is the following entry, " laid out to C. Beck thirteen acres beginning at his father [Henry] Beck's land ;" and under date 15 March, 1679-80, " a rebate is made in the rate of Caleb Beck of 5 shillings." Query, was this the Caleb Beck who afterwards settled in Schenectady ?
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" all English measure, it being a southeast corner lot about in the middle " of said town,-by virtue of a conveyance to Caleb Beck by Carel Hanse "Toll, Oct. 4, 1714."*
This lot remained in the family three generations-about 100 years.
Capt. Beck made his will 8 March, 1728,-proved 29 Sept., 1733,- leaving to his only son Caleb "my waering cloaths from head to foot and "that he chues the best gun in the house and has it mended and prepared " as he thinks fit for himself and my Pocket Pistol and Sword * * with " all my Printed books, and the great new Chest."-" To my son-in-law " John Fairly two feet and a half of ground frunting the street that leads " to the Church [Church street] on the north side of his own lot and at the " eastmost end one foot and a halef wide that jenining to the breath of his " own lott."-To Anna his wife, his other property and after her death to son Caleb, if she thinks fit she may sell a lot behind where the bolting- house stands, 50 feet fronting on the [Union] street and so backward to Nicholas Schuyler's. t
Fairly's lot was south of Beck's, now in possession of Mrs. Volney Freeman. The bolting-house lot is now owned and occupied by Mr. Hugh Cox.
HENDRICK LAMBERTSE BONT (BINT, BENT) alias SASSIAN.
He settled early in Schenectady upon land called Poversens Landeryen lying mainly above the first lock west of the city ; he also owned the island obliquely below, which was then called Sassian's island. He purchased these lands from Benjamin Roberts, who owned lands on the north side of the river called Maalwyck. He sold the southerly half of his farm to Barent Janse Van Ditmars and the northerly half to Douwe Aukes for his (adopted) son Cornelis Vielè, and removed to Claverack.}
In the confirmatory patent granted to Viele Sept. 29, 1677, this land is described as, "a parcel of land at Schenectady,-said land stretching from " the stone kil or creek to the point of the planted land of Barent Johnson " [Barent Jansen Van Ditmars] S. S. W., somewhat Easterly, and from the "point of the said land to a black oak tree without the fence of the said "land, striking S. E. by E. in length together 352 rods, and from the " black tree to the hills in breadth 80 rods and from the common planting " land to the stone creek along the hills in length 400 rods and by the stone " kil from the hills to the river in breadth 8 rods containing in all 16 mor- "gens, 240 rods or about 34 acres.§" Notwithstanding the above patent
* Deeds, v, 343. + Will in Court of Appeal's office.
Į Albany Com. Coun. Records, III, 75. § Patents No. 1038.
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Bont still seems to have been accounted to have some right or title to the land, for on the 27 Sept., 1692, he conveyed it together with the island opposite, to Douwe Aukes for 60 beavers at 8 guilders each; and Aukes on the 14 Feb., 1712 transferred the same to Cornelis Viele. On the same day Jan Bont, son and heir of Hendrick Lambertse Bont, confirmed the same to Aukes, describing the farms as a parcel of land called Poversens above Schen- ectady on the south side of the river over against Maalwyck, also an island, Sassian's, now in the occupation of Cornelis,-the description of said farm being substantially that above written in the patent .*
This land long remained in the Vielè family and the ancient house was stand- ing between the two locks within the memory of many persons now living.
PIETER JACOBSE BORSBOOM DE STEENBAKKER.
Pieter Jacobse Borsboom was at Fort Orange, as early as 1639, and con- tinued there until Schenectady was settled in the spring of 1662, when he became one of the fifteen first settlers.t
In his will recorded in New York, Oct. 18, 1686, he mentioned his son Cornelis and four daughters. An inventory of his property was made May 30, 1689, by Barent Janse Van Ditmars, Isaac Cornelise Swits and Douwe Aukes ; it then amounted to 1630 guilders. His son Cornelis probably died young : his daughters who survived him and inherited his property were Anna, wife of Jan Pieterse Mebie; Martie, wife of Hendrick Brouwer; Fytie, wife of Marten Van Benthuysen; and Tryntie, wife of John Oliver.
Borsboom's village lot was on the south corner of Washington and Front streets.
* Deeds, v, 198.
+ Nov. 7, 1657, he bought Mad. De Hulter's horse " old Cato" for 280 gl .- Albany Co. Rec., 59.
June 4, 1657, he was wounded in the head by Marten de Metselaer .- Ibid, 246.
22 Jan., 1658, he was fined 500 gl., and costs and three years banishment for selling liquor to the Indians .- Mortg., I.
Mar. 11, 1658, he was fined 125 gl., for swindling a Mohawk Indian .- Mortg., 1, 23. July 28, 1661, he sold to Abram Staes [Staats] his brickyard for 350 gl., preparatory probably to removing to Schen. F .- Albany Co. Rec., 374.
Aug. 2, 1661, he sold a lot of ground on the First Kil to Abm. Staes, etc .- lbid, 380.
17 Sept., he bought of Jan Labatie a house and lot next south of the court house in Albany, and same day sold to Labatie his first lot at Schen., 11 Morg., etc .- lbid, 460.
Sept. 30, 1671, he sold said house and lot to Wm. Loveridge .- lbid, 489.
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On the 9th Nov., 1670, it was confirmed to him by patent and described as "a certain lot of ground at Schenectady belonging to Pieter Jacobse " Borsboom and now in his occupation, lying in a Square of 200 feet, wood " measure at eleven inches [English] to the foot, abutting on the east side on " Benjamin Robberts, on the south side on Willem Teller's, and on the West "and north sides on the highway [Washington and Front streets ], - also a " certain garden lying on the north side of his lot divided [therefrom] by a " common highway [Front street] of forty feet wide being in breadth one hun- " dred feet alongst the highway [Front street] and in length one hundred and "fifty feet striking [stretching] north near to the river; and likewise a small " island * belonging to him, which hath heretofore been given him by the " Indians, lying in the river there next the island of Sweer Teunise [Van Vel- "sen and Akes Cornelise [Van Slyck] containing about 6 acres or 3 mor- " gens."+
These two lots on the south and east corners of Front and Washington streets, passed by inheritance to his four daughters, whose descendants con- tinued in the occupancy of portions for many years.
BOUWERIES No. 7.
These two farms on the bouwlandt assigned to Borsboom in the original allotment were described in his patent of May 9, 1668, as, "two certain par- " cels of land at Schenectady both marked No. 7 : - the one lying upon the " second piece west of No. 6,- East of No. 8, a line being run between them "from the creek or kil [dove gat] } to the woodland southwest somewhat "more southerly, containing about 22 acres or 11 morgens 263 rods : - the " other lying upon the hindmost part of land in the woods to the east of " No. 5,- west of No. 8, a line cutting on each side thereof from the small " creek [dove gat] to said woods south-west by west, it's in breadth sixty " rods and makes about 24 acres or 12 morgens .- altogether about 40 [48] "acres or 23 morgens' 263 rods as granted by Gov. Stuyvesant June 16, " 1664 to said Pieter Jacobsen."§
On the 17th Sept. 1669, he exchanged his first lot of land or bouwery with Jan Labatie for a house and lot next the court house in Albany, and in 1702 it was owned by Gysbert Gerritse Van Brakel of Schenectady.||
* Now called Varkens or Hog Island, lying north-east of Van Slyck's Island.
+ Patents, 651.
¿ Dove-gat, a pool, = a dead water hole,-a slough, in contradistinction to running water. Usually applied to a bay-like inlet from some river or running stream. Example : Coveville, Saratoga Co., on Dove Gat Cove. Probably derived Doof or Doove, = Deaf, Faint, Extinguished, Dead; and Gat, = a port, a cove, a harbor, a gap, a hole, an inlet. Kreuplebosch, or Kreuplebos, a bush or thicket .- M'M.
§ Patents, 552. | Deeds, II, 759; VI, 185 ; x, 356.
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The hindmost bouwery after Borsboom's death, was divided into four equal parcels and assigned to his four daughters. Before 1738, Tryntie's quarter had been purchased by Maritie, who uniting with her children by Hendrick Brouwer, conveyed her half lot to Benjamin Van Vleck, her son by another husband, subsequently it became possessed by the Brouwers, who held until after 1800.
Anna's quarter part was purchased by Fytie or her descendants and this second half remained in the Benthuysen family more than 100 years.
Borsboom also owned a pasture on the north side of Front street of about two and one-half morgens, which was owned by Jan Labatie in 1670, and which subsequently came back to his family.
This lot commenced 114 ft. Eng. east of North street and extended along Front street 15 rods Rynland, or 185 ft. English .*
ARENT ANDRIESE BRATT.
Two brothers of this name,-Albert Andriese and Arent Andriese, were among the early settlers of Albany.t They often were called De Noorman or De Sweedt. The former remained in Albany and is the ancestor of most of the name in that county ; the latter became one of the first proprietors of Schenectady in 1662, about which time he died, leaving a widow and six children. His wife was Catalyntjè, daughter of Andries De Vos, deputy director of Rensselaerswyck. After the death of her husband, the grants of land allotted to him were confirmed to her.
In 1664, she married Barent Janse Van Ditmars. Her ante-nuptial con- tract with the weesmeesterst for the protection of the interests of her infant children, is of date Nov. 12, and binds her to pay to them their patrimonial estate of 1,000 guilders at their majority, and mortgages her land at Schen-
* Patents, 758.
+ Albert Andriese De Noorman, had a mill on the Norman's kil, to which he gave name; when he died June 7, 1686, he was “ een Van de oudste en eerste inwoonders der Colonie Rensselaerswyck," having arrived in Albany in 1630 .- Hist. N. N., 1 433.
# [ Weesmeesters-orphan masters, or officers who cared for orphan's estates. M'M].
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ectady to secure the payment of the same. These children were Jefie, aged 15 yrs., Ariaantje, 13 yrs., Andries, 11 yrs., Cornelia, 9 yrs., Samuel, 5 yrs. and Dirk aged 3 yrs. *
Van Ditmars was killed in the massacre of 1690, and the following year she married Claas Janse Van Boekhoven. By their ante-nuptial contract, made Feb. 27, 1699, among other things it was agreed by them that on the death of both parties thereto, their property should go to her children. +
Van Boekhoven and wife made their wills Jan. 11, 1699, and Jan. 7, 1705, they added a codicil by which her youngest son Dirk, was' to have his farm at Niskayuna, and on the 17th January this codicil was revoked ; his will was proved 28 Oct., 1707. į Mrs. Bratt survived her third hus- band, and finally died in 1712.
On the 18th Dec., 1712, the estates of both herself and Van Boekhov en, were appraised for the purpose of partition among her children.
The real estate in Schenectady belonging to her, amounted to the sum of £976 12s. 6d., current money of the Province, and that of Van Boekhoven in Canistageioone [Niskayuna] and Albany, to the sum of £700-together, £1676 22s. 6d., [equal to $4,191.56.] §
Mrs. Bratt's home lot was the west quarter of the block bounded by Washington, State, Church and Union streets, being about 200 feet square. In the confirmatory patent issued to her and her second husband, Van Ditmars, June 15, 1668, it was described as:
" A certain house and lot of ground at Schenectady now in occupation " of said Barent Janse [Van Ditmars] and Catelyn being in a square of 200 " feet."| And in her will she spoke of "my house and lot lying west of " Maritie Damen's [Van Eps ] lot and south of Evert Bancker's lot and having " the street [State and Washington] to the south and west." ** In 1723 her grandson Capt. Arent Bratt sold the corner parcel, 45 feet wide on State street and 190 feet deep on Washington street, to Hendrick Vrooman, but it soon returned to the family and was again sold by Arent J. Bratt in '1769, to James Shuter. The remainder of this lot remained in the family until the beginning of this century when it was sold to Robert Barker and Isaac De Graaf.
* Albany Co. Deeds, B. 597.
+ Deeds, IV, 296. į Wills, 1, 64, 74; and Court of Appeal's office.
§ Schermerhorn Papers. | Patents, 593. ** Wills, I, 74
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The ancient brick house standing on this lot, one of the few specimens of Dutch architecture remaining in the city, was probably built by Capt. Arent Bratt.
Mrs. Bratt's allotments on the Great Flat are described in the patent of June 2, 1668, as-" two certain parcels of land at Schenectady both marked " No. 1 :- the first lying to the west of Arent Van Curler's, being enclosed " with the kil and the creek to number two containing 27 acres or 13 morgens " 487 rods ;- the other being upon the hindmost piece of land, to the west of " number two, lying in a bottom containing as it is enclosed by the river and " the woodland about 22 acres or 11 morgens :- altogether 50 acres or " 24 morgens, 487 rods, as granted by Governor Stuyvesant June 16, 1664, "to said Catelyn Andriese [Bratt] widow aforesaid."*
In her will she spoke of her foremost farm containing 36 acres and of her hindmost lot comprising 30 acres. The former is now embraced mainly in the farm formerly owned by the late Judge Tomlinson, purchased in 1855 by John Meyers, deceased. The easterly boundary was the small creek running through the canal culvert and emptying into the Binne kil just east of and behind the farmhouse, and it extended west along the Binne kil and river about 1,300 feet to the Dove gat or dead hole lying between the canal and the river. Farm No. 4 owned by Van Woggelum and later by Reyer Schermerhorn, lay directly south of Mrs. Bratt's foremost lot.t Her eldest son, Andries, was killed in 1690; his son Arent succeeded to his inheritance and held this bouwery until his death in 1765. In 1732 he added 94 acres to the west by the purchase of a portion of No. 2.
The hindmost farm No. 1 fell to Mrs. Bratt's second son Samuel.t
ANDRIES ARENTSE AND CAPT. ARENT ANDRIESE BRATT.
Andries, was the eldest son and heir of Arent and Catelyn De Vos Bratt and at the time of the massacre lived near his mother upon the west quarter of the block bounded by State, Washington, Union and Church streets where he had a brewery, and where he was slain with one of his children. He was thirty-seven years old at the time of his death ; his wife Margarita, daughter of Jacques Cornelise Van Slyck and his son Arent and daughter
* Patents, 590; Deeds, IV, 296 ; v, 168; Wills, I, 74.
t It was inventoried after death in 1712, at £393-15 equal to $984.37, or about $27 an acre.
# This farm consisting of 30 acres was inventoried at £354-7-6 equal to $708.93 or $23.63 an acre.
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Bathseba were spared. His rights of primogeniture in his father's estate passed to his surviving son, who after his mother's death came into full possession of the village lot above mentioned and also of the foremost bouwery numbered one on the bouwland. The ancient house No. 7 State street, was built and occupied by Capt. Bratt until his death in 1765. By trade he was a brewer.
To the original lot he added another parcel Feb. 4, 1712, by purchasing of Jan Baptist Van Eps his house and lot, barn and orchard,-100 feet in breadth on State street, and 225 feet deep,-and bounded east by lots of Harmanus Vedder and Jacobus Van Dyck and north and west by lots of said Bratt .* He thus became possessed of a lot having a front on State street of 300 feet and over 200 feet deep.
Feb. 7, 1703, Reyer Schermerhorn, conveyed to him a lot of 100 feet by 200 feet wood measure, bounded north and east by the highway [Union and Ferry streets], south by Symon Volkertse [Veeder] and west by Pieter Van Olinda.+
Subsequently, to wit on the 26 Mar., 1714, Arent Bratt, brewer, for the sum of £35 [$87.50] sold one-half of the above lot to his brother-in-law Carl or Charles Burnst-bounded east and north by the highway [Ferry and Union streets], west by the lot of Isaac Van Valkenburgh [now the court house lot], and south by the lot of Harmanus Vedder [Bratt's step-father]. This lot 100 feet square now belongs to the estate of the late A. A. Vedder.§
On 2d May, 1764, Francis Burns of Pounwell, N. H. [perhaps a son of Charles Burns above mentioned] conveyed said lot to Daniel Campbell for £165 [$412.50].|
On the 15th May, 1705, Reyer Schermerhorn, only surviving trustee, con- veyed to Arent Bratt, grandson of Arent Andriese Bratt, a piece of pasture ground lying east of the town - about 5 acres - bounded south by the common highway [Front street], north by the river, east by the pasture ground of Claes Franse [Van de Bogart] and west by Jan Mebie, the first deed being lost or destroyed. This pasture lot beginning at a point on the
* Deeds, v, 168, 217. + Bratt Papers.
¿ Burns married Batseba, only sister of Captain Bratt. This west corner of Union and Ferry streets was long known as Batseba's hoekje.
§ Deeds, v, 264. | Deeds, VII, 483; v, 199.
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north side of Front street 100 feet east of Washington street, extended easterly along Front street to the easterly line of the lot of the estate of the late Nicholas Cain-about 325 feet Amsterdam measure.
Andries Bratt, father of Capt. Arent Bratt, owned the parcel of ground bounded by John street on the east, the burying ground on the west, Front . street on the north, and Green street on the south, comprising about four morgens. After his death it was sold to Thomas Williams of Albany, and by him to Arent Van Petten .*
On the 7 Feb. 1703 Reyer Schermerhorn only surviving trustee, conveyed to Capt. Arent Andriese Bratt, eldest son and heir of Andries Arentse Bratt, " a lot on the west end of the town bounded south by Mill creek, on ye " west by ye river [binné kil], on the north by the house and lott of Isaac "Swits and on ye East by ye commons [Washington street], equal with the " corner of said Swits lot."t This lot extending from Mill creek north nearly to State street, subsequently belonged to Willem Pieters.
In 1705, he owned a wood lot on the south side of Front street, ex- tending east from Jefferson street to the Fonda lot or to a point nearly oppo- site Mohawk street and in the rear to Jan Vrooman's lot or the line of the canal.}
On the 4th Feb. 1712 Jan Baptist Van Eps conveyed to Arent Bratt the hindmost lot No. 2, it was represented as containing twelve morgens and bounded, " east by lot No. 3, running south-west by west from the river to " the standing pool of water [dove gat now covered by the canal] west by " No. 1, now in the occupancy of heirs of Samuel Bratt, South by the afore- " said pool, and north by Maquaas river."§
Capt. Bratt was made trustee of the common lands in 1714, and continued in office until 1765; for the last fifteen years of his life, he was sole trus- tee. By his will made 11 March 1765, he devised those common lands to twenty-three persons in trust for the use of the inhabitants of the town.| In 1745, he represented the county of Albany in the Provincial Assembly. He left his real estate to his three sons Capt. Andries, Johannes and Har- manus, all of whom had houses upon the ample lot owned by their father on the north side of State and continued the business of brewing.
Harmanus was also an Indian trader and tradition says was the wealthiest man of the town.
* Deeds, VII, 468. + Bratt papers.
§ Deeds, v, 217; Bratt papers.
# See Jan Vrooman's deed.
| Wills, II, 63.
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SAMUEL ARENTSE BRATT.
Samuel, second son of Arent Andries Bratt the first settler, and of Catelyn De Vos, was born in 1659 and married Susanna daughter of Jacques Cornelise Van Slyck. He died in the year 1713 or 1714, leaving five sons. His possessions were a lot in the village and the hindmost lot number one on the bouwland. The village lot was on the north side of Front street, and beginning on the west line of the lot of the late Gen. Jacob Swits ex- tended westerly along the street about 160 feet including the lot of the late Nicholas Cain, Governor's lane and part of the lot of Charles Mathews.
He inherited the hindmost farm No. 1, on the bouwland, which in a con- firmatory deed from Reyer Schermerhorn [trustee], and his brother Dirk given in 1713, is described as, "a lot on the south side of the Mohawk above " Schenectady now occupied by Samuel Bratt called the hindmost lot No. 1, " containing fifteen morgens or thirty acres 467 rods Rynland measure, " bounded east by land of Arent Bratt and land of Johannes Teller, north " by the river, South by the commons and west by woodland of said Arent " Bratt and woodland of Samuel Bratt."*
This farm passed to Samuel's son Arent, who built the brick houset still standing a short distance west of the first lock on the canal, and continued in the family until the death of Eva Bratt, widow of Takerius Vedder, in 1839.
DIRK ARENTSE BRATT.
He was the third son of Arent Bratt and Catelyn De Vos, the first set- tlers. He was born in 1661, and married Maritje, daughter of Jan Baptist Van Eps, in 1684.
In the division of his mother's and step-father's estate, he received Van Boekhoven's farm in Niskayuna, on the north side of the river, which by patent of date, 22d Ap. 1708, was extended north into the woods one mile.t
He purchased several parcels of land in Schenectady, among which, by deed from the trustees, of date 10th Mar., 1704, were, Ist "a parcel of wood- "land in Schenectady one part of the same adjoining to the north of [ on ] " ye lot of ground belonging to ye said Dirk Bratt and to ye west of " Symon Groot Jr. . .. is broad on ye south end 150 feet and in length
* Deeds, v, 284-5.
+ On the front of this'house, scratched on a brick, may be seen, "A. Bratt, 1736."
Į Patents, 1610; Albany An., IV. 163.
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" north 400 feet wocd measure." This lot on the north side of State street, extended from the Carley house lot to the east line of the American hotel lot.
2d. "The other part is situated to ye north of said lot and of said Symon " Groot, and ye lott of said Dirk Bratt and to ye east of ye common high- " way that leads in between the lott of Barent Wemp and ye lot of Barent " Vrooman [ Centre Street ] and to ye west from another lott of ye said " Dirk Bratt and contains ye breath (sic) of ye said lott of ye said Symon ".Grott, the first above mentioned part and the first above mentioned lot of " ye said Dirk Bratt northward between the said highway and yo last men- " tioned lott of ye said Dirk Bratt to ye highway [ Union Street ] that leads " to Canastagione [ Niskayuna ] so that ye said woodland doth contain two " morgens." *
The two lots of land above mentioned, extended along the south side of Union street from Centre street to a point 245 feet east of Barret street, or to the lot of the German Methodist church, and southward to the rear, about 445 feet.
In 1719, the westerly portion of this lot 231 ft. by 444 ft. on the south corner of Union and Centre streets was owned by Hendrick Vrooman. The remainder of Dirk Bratt's land on Union street, was devised to his sons-in-law, Rickert Van Vranken and Willem Berrit.
Dirk Bratt made his will 16th Jan., 1727, - proved June 1, 1759,-and was buried June 9, 1735.
His eldest son Johannes inherited the farm at Niskayuna.
PHILIP HENDRICKSE BROUWER.
He settled in Beverwyck as early as 1655, and the year following purchased of Hendrick And. Van Doesburgh, second husband of Maritie Damens, a house, lot, garden and brewery for 4000 guilders, giving a mortgage on said property for 3144 gl. of the purchase money. In 1662 he became one of the original proprietors of Schenectady and it was on or near his foremost lot No. 2 that he shot Claes Cornelise Swits the following year.t
His death occurred about the beginning of the year 1664, and on the 29 April, his administrators offered for sale his house, brewery and mill house in Beverwyck, and a house lot, garden and 25 morgens of land at Schen- ectady,-tbe lot 200 feet square,-also a barn 30 ft. by 24, two bergen, two horses, mare, two milch cows, heifer, calves, five sows, a waggon, &c.f
* Church papers. t See Claes Swits.
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