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Į Deeds, II, 469, 472, 475.
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The real estate at Schenectady was purchased by Cornelis Van Nes, third husband of Maritie Damens, for 1,287 gl. for Jan Dirkse Van Eps, her son by her first husband, Dirk Van Eps. Brouwer's wife was Elsie Tjerck; the records make no mention of any children.
Philip Hendrickse's house lot in Schenectady was on the north corner of State and Church streets-about 200 ft. square -* being a quarter of the block bounded by State, Washington, Union and Church streets.
A patent was issued to Cornelis Van Ness for this lot and bouweries No. 2, June 16, 1664, and confirmed to Jan Van Eps, April 29, 1667.+
HENDRICK WILLEMSE BROUWER.
One Willem Brouwer came to Beverwyck at or about the time that Philip Hend. Brouwer settled there and was probably a connection. In 1655 he owned property in New Amsterdam. His death occurred about the 3d of Aug., 1668; the following entry is found in the Deacon's book of the church at Albany. " Tot die begraevenisse van Willem brouwer 40 guilders, 15 [stuivers]." He left two sons Hendrick and Willem, both of whom settled in Schenectady. The former the progenitor of those bearing this name in Schenectady married Maria Pieterse, daughter of Pieter Jacobse Borsboom and widow of Teunis Carstense of Albany. Brouwer died about the beginning of the year 1707, having made his will Dec. 12, 1706,- proved Feb. 16, 1703. Later his wife married - Van Vleck, by whom she had a son Benjamin.
Hendrick Brouwer owned a lot on the east side of Church street, beginning at a point 108 feet north from the church lot and extending probably to Front street, and through his wife came into possession of one quarter of hindmost lot No 8, which she inherited from her father.t He left six sons and two daughters, one of whom,-Jacob-born 1700,-an Indian trader, was barbarously murdered at the falls on the Oswego river in the spring of 1730, by an Onondaga Indian.§
In 1724 Mrs. Brouwer was also called an Indian trader.|
* As measured by Adam Vrooman in 1713, the north and south sides of this lot were 200 ft. long, and the east and west sides were 225 ft., Amsterdam measure.
+ Patents, 392 ; see also Van Eps.
# See Borsboom. § Note, Col. Doc., IX, 1019. | Albany Annals, VIII, 293.
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GERALDUS CAMBEFORT, or Comfort.
He was in Schenectady as early as 1690; his first wife was Antje Raal, his second, Arientje Uldrick, widow of Gerrit Claase Van Vranken of Nis- kayuna, married Oct. 16, 1692. The natives sold him a parcel of land " boven Kaquarrioone" [now Touereoune], which he contracted to sell to Carel Hansen Toll in 1694.
The patent for this land was given April 22, 1703, and is described as " twenty acres of land on the north side of the Mohawk beginning at Kaquar- " rioone the west bounds of the patent of Schenectady, running west up the " river to the limits of land of Carel Hansen [Toll] formerly belonging to "Hendrick Cuyler."* On the 18th May, 1707, Cambefort being then a resident of Niskayuna, conveyed the above described land to Toll,t who conveyed the same to his son-in-law Johannes Van Eps. Lewis Groot about 1798, in his testimony before the commissioners appointed to settle the dispute between the proprietors of the Schenectady and Kayaderasseras Patents, said that Comfort's Patent extended west to the creek on which Groot's mill stood [Lewis' creek] and that Cuyler's Patent extended west from said creek .; Not long after his second marriage, Comfort removed to Niskayuna, where he was living as late as 1720.
TEUNIS CARSTENSE.
In 1679 Carsten Carstense De Noorman died in Albany, leaving two children, viz. Teunis, aged 19 years, and Elizabeth, aged 14 years.
The former settled in Schenectady, where he married Maritie, daughter of Pieter Jacobse Borsboom, and died in 1691, at which time his widow took out letters of administration on his estate ; subsequently-on 26 Mar., 1692, she married Hendrick Brouwer and after his death in 1706 became an Indian trader.
CHRISTIAAN CHRISTIAANSE.
In 1669 Paulus Janse received a patent for a morgen and a-half of land at Schenectady, "lying to the west about halfway the land of Arent Van Curler."§ This parcel of land lying on the Binne kil about halfway from - Mill creek to the farmhouse of the late John Myers, was purchased from Paulus Janse by Christiaan Christiaanse in 1671.| His village lot was on the north side of Union street adjoining the Dutch church lot and included the
* Patents, 1577.
§ Patents, 971.
t Deeds, v, 71.
Il Deeds, II, 811.
# Toll Papers.
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lot owned by the late Isaac Riggs (now included in the church grounds) and the lot occupied by Mr. Aaron Barringer, being 100 feet broad front and rear and 200 feet deep, Amsterdam measure. The deed for this lot having been lost in the destruction of Joris Aertse Van der Baast's house in 1690, Johannes Sanderse Glen, magistrate of the village, reconveyed the same Dec. 1, 1694, and on the same day Christiaanse conveyed it to Neeltie Claase, widow of Hendrick Gardenier .* April 7, 1695, an inventory of the estate of the late Hendrick Gardenier of Scotac, Albany county, was taken and this lot was then valued at 15 beaver skins sewant.t Feb. 22, 170} Johannes Ouderkerk and Neeltie Claase, then his wife, conveyed it to Jellis Van Vorst.t
DAVIDT CHRISTOFFELSE.
His father, Christoffel Davidts § or Kit Davidts, a native of England II came to Beverwyck as early as 1650, and lived for a time on a farm at " Dominie's Hoek " now called "Van Wie's Point." He married Cornelia, daughter of Andries De Vos of Albany, and had two sons, David and Joris, and perhaps other children. His wife was not living in 1657, when an in- ventory of his and his wife's estate was made and his trustees agree to pay for a lot purchased by him 26 Feb., 1657. As early as 1658 he was a skipper on the North river.
His son Davidt became an early resident of the village, occupying a lot of 100 feet front on the cast side of Church street, 100 feet southerly from Union street. Bastiaan De Winter sold this lot Nov. 21, 1670, to Jan Labatie, by whom it was probably sold to Christoffelse. In the massacre of Feb. 9, 1690, the latter was slain with his wife and four children. His heirs
* Toll Papers.
+ "Het erff op Shinnectady gelegen tuschen het erff Van D Domini Salgr. Van Shinnectady en het erff Van Pottman zynde gewaerdeert op fifthien Bevers sewant."
¿ Deeds, v, 111 ; see also Van Vorst ; Wills, I.
§ 3 Dec., 1654, he was ordered not to molest Mons. De Hulter in possession of his land, at Esopus probably, nor to incite the savages against him .- Albany Co. Records. 25 Sept., 1656, he received a patent for 36 morgens of land at Esopus about a [Dutch] mile inland"from the North river, &c .- Dutch MSS., H. H., 68.
In 1657 he sold this land to Jacob Janse Stoll for 1400 gl .- Albany Co. Records, 24, 377. 1663 he asked permission to reenter upon, land from which he had been driven by Indians at Esopus .- Dutch MSS., x, 127.
| He was born in 1616 at Bisscohopwyck, Eng. B. & M. I.,-Dutch MSS., XVI, 246; Deeds, I, 64.
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still owned it in 1699; soon after it passed into the possession of Caleb Beck. Christoffelse also owned the west half of foremost lot No. 2, on the bouwland bought of Maritie Damens by Douwe Aukes in 1681.
PIETER and JOSEPH CLEMENT.
Pieter Clement jonge man geboren in N. Utrecht en wonende tot Schan- nechtady, married in Albany, Anna Ruyting geboren en wonende tot Schannechtady, Nov. 26, 1707. July 28, 1721, he married Anna Vedder, " beide Van de Woestyne."
Joseph, brother of Pieter, married Anna, daughter of Jacobus Peek of the Second flat on the south side of the river. In 1755 he was living in ' ' Maquaasland."
These brothers were stepsons of Benjamin Roberts, who by will made June 28, 1706, devised his farm at Maalwyck to his wife Maria, and in case of her remarriage, to his stepsons, Pieter and Joseph Clement.
In 1710 Pieter sold his half to Cornelis Viele, together with half of Benten island for £445, and in 1712 Joseph sold the other half to Carel Hansen Toll for £400 .*
LUDOVICUS COBES.
He was born in Herentals, in Brabant, and from 1656 to 1677, was court messenger of Fort Orange and Beverwyck, notary public of Albany, and in 1677, became schout and secretary of Schenectady until his death.
With his son-in-law, Johannes Klein, who married his only daughter, Maria, he purchased and occupied the Fourth flat on the north side of the river. This land was conveyed Sept. 26, 1683, by the Mohawk Sakemakers, to Arnout Cornelise Vielè, of Albany, in consideration of his many labors undertaken for the Indians, and is described as lying over against the Second flat, occupied by Jacobus Peek, and containing 16 or 17 morgens of land. t It was called by the natives, wachkeerhoha. Dec. 11, 1684, the patentees of Schenectady conveyed it, together with a lapie by it, to Ludovicus Cobes and Johannes Klein, reserving a yearly rent of one skipple of wheat per morgen. ¿ On his death it passed to his widow and daughter Maria Klein.§
Cobes also had a house lot in the village, on the north corner of Union and Church streets, which he mortgaged in 1684 to Johannes Wendel, of Albany, for 580 gl. The house was described as a "corner house - opposite
* See Toll, Roberts and Vielè.
+ Deeds, III, 199, # Deeds v, 196. § See Klein, also Fourth flat.
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" to Reyer Schermerhorn's [ on the west corner ], bounded west, by Symon " Groot, north, by the house and lot formerly occupied by Maria, wife of " Johannes Peek, and south and east, by the highway [ Union and Church " streets], as enclosed."*
Soon after, and before 1690, Reyer Schermerhorn bought Cobes' house and lot in the village, for his step-daughter, Tryntje Otten, prior to her marriage with Gerrit Symonse Veeder, and it remained in her family until after 1812, when it was occupied by Maj. Jelles Fonda, whose wife was a Veeder.
CLUTE.
There were three individuals of this name who early became residents of Albany or Niskayuna,-Capt. Jan, his nephew Johannes and Frederick Clute.
Captain Jan Clute came to Beverwyck about 1656, from Neurenburg and became a trader and considerable land holder in Beverwyck, Loonen- burgh [opposite Hudson], Niskayuna, etc. He was held in great esteem
* Deeds, III. 324.
+ Not. Papers, II; Deeds, I, 187.
The following are some of his real estate transactions as appears by the records. 1657, he bought a garden behind Fort Orange of Theunis Metselaer.
1662, he contracted to buy 22 morgens of land at Catskil of Jan Andriese.
1663, he bought of Sander L. Glen a house and lot on the Hill, Beverwyck. 1664, he bought of Adriaen Gerritse a house and lot for 630 gl.
1665, with Jan Hendr. Bruyn bought a tract of land opposite Claverac landing [now Hudson], of the Indians.
1665, he bought of Wm. Fred. Bont a house and lot for 390 gl.
1667, he bought a garden behind Fort Albany of the Estate of Rutger Jacobsen.
1667, he bought a house and lot of Jan C. Van Aecken. ‹
1667, he bought lot No. 4 of Ludovicus Cobes, for which he conveyed to L. Cobes the lot bought of Wm. Bont in 1665.
1668, he bought of the commissaries of Albany, lot No. 11 on the Hill.
1669, 4 March, he bought " Great Island " at Niskayuna. of Pieter D. Van Olinda.
1670, he sold a house and lot, to J. J. Bleecker.
1670, he and others sold their land at Coxsackie to Marten G. Van Bergen.
1670, he sold a lot to Gabriel Thomase.
1676, he owned a house and lot in Yonkers (State) street.
1677, he bought of Claas J. Van Boekhoven a parcel of land at Niskayuna.
1677, he bought a part of Van Schelluyne's land at Niskayuna.
1678, he sells his land at Catskil to Jan Conell and Gerrit J. Van Vechten.
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by the Indians from whom he obtained extensive grants of land. His chief purchases in Niskayuna, were:
1st. The "Great Island," in the Mohawk river which he purchased 4 March, 1669, of Pieter Danielse Van Olinda and his Indian wife Hilletie [Cornelise Van Slyck], and the same was confirmed to him by patent of Gov. Lovelace, Aug. 2, 1671, together with six morgens of land bought of Maritie Damens on the mainland and a small island lying west of the " Great island."*
2d. " A certain piece of land lying at Canastagioenet on this [South] side of the river," which he bought of Claas Janse Van Boekhoven, Oct. 21, 1677.1
3d. The lands of Dirk Van Schelluyne at Canastagioene.§
On the 3d April, 1678, Capt. Clute sold to Sweer Teunise [Van Velsen] of Schenectady, a certain neegher, named Jacob, about 24 years of age, for whom he promises to pay 100 good whole beaver skins @ eight guilders a piece [$320].|
It is not known that he had any other relative here than Johannes Clute, his nephew, who on his death in 1683 became his heir.
JOHANNES CLUTE alias de boslooper.'
Johannes Clute, nephew of the last, settled in Niskayuna upon land in- herited from his uncle Capt. Jan Clute.
Through embarrassments caused either by his own or his uncle's debts, he was obliged to part with a portion of his land soon after the death of the latter. Thus in 1704, he sold to Frederick Clute of Kingston, 150 acrestt and in 1707 he conveyed the " Great Island" in the Mohawk and other lands at Niskayuna to Robert Livingston of Albany, for £706 "to free himself from embarrassment.}}"
* Gen. Entries, Iv, and Albany Co. Records, 436.
t [ Canastagioene was properly applied to the flats on the north side of the river opposite the present Niskayuna .- M'M.]
# Albany Co. Records, 167.
§ Albany Co. Records, 168. | Notarial Papers, II; Albany Annals, II, 118.
** [Bush-runner,-a trader among the Indians. M'M.]
tt Deeds Iv, 308. ## See Great Island.
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To add to his other troubles he was taken prisoner in 1692, by the In- dians and carried captive to Canada. Whilst absent his affairs were managed by his wife Baata Van Slichtenhorst. On the 28th of June, she cited Sander Glen and Barent Wemp, administrators of Sweer Teunise Van Velsen's estate, before the court of Albany, demanding of them " nine "pounds six shillings and six pence for ye remaining pay' of a negro " named Jacob sold by old John Cloet to Sweer Teunise, and produces ye " book of sd John Cloet senior, kept by her husband, John Cloet Junior." The defendants asked time .* By his wife Baata, daughter of Gerrit Van Slichtenhorst, he had eight children. He was buried in Niskayuna, Nov. 26, 1725.
FREDERIC CLUTE.
He came from Kingston to Niskayuna in 1703, and bought 150 acres of land from Johannes Clute. What relationship if any, existed between them is not known. He married Francyntje DuMond or Dumont, probably in Kingston and before removing to Niskayuna had six children and four afterwards.
All the Clutes in this region are believed to be descended from either Johannes or Frederic.
JACOBUS CROMWELL.
He was an innkeeper and in 1711 bought a house and lot in Front street of Wouter Vrooman for £130. This lot which he occupied as a tavern, is described as bounded north by the river, south by the street, east by lot of Adam Vrooman and west by lot of Claas Fransen [Van de Bogart], length 542 feet, breadth on the street 952 feet and on the river 33 feet, one inch, Dutch measure. It is now divided into two parcels and occupied by Messrs. Joseph Harmon and Nicholas Yates.t
Cromwell married Maria Philipse, 26 September, 1703; after his death she married David Lewis, innkeeper, who received a conveyance of the above property from Willem Marinus to whom Cromwell had devised it by will of date 19 August, 1711.
* Albany Annals, II, 118.
+ Deeds IV, 308.
# Deeds, v, 496.
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DE GRAAF.
Andries De Graaf was a citizen of New Amsterdam in 1661. His son Jan Andriese, brickmaker, was a resident of Albany in 1655; in 1658 he with two others, was fined 500 guilders for selling liquor to the Indians. In 1660 he went to New Amsterdam with one Roseboom and commenced the making of bricks .*
Claas Andriese De Graaf, another son of Andries De Graaf, was born about the year 1628,t and became one of the first settlers of Schenectady, taking up land at the Hoek,t in Scotia, where for several generations the family resided.
He probably died about 1697, in which year his wife leased her farm to Jonathan Stevens and Daniel Mascraft.
De Graaf married Elizabeth, daughter of Willem Brouwer of Albany; she survived her husband many years, dying in 1723.
JAN DE LA WARDE.
He came over from Antwerp in 1662, in the ship De Vos, Jacob Janse Huys, skipper, and settled in Albany. He bought land at Niskayuna and an island in the Mohawk, which he sold to Joris Aertse Van der Baast, from whom he acknowledged in 1698 to have received satisfaction several years before.§
He died in Albany, Jan. 28, 1702.
His island called anciently La Warde's island and afterwards Joris Aertse's island, lies just north of Van Slyck's island. Van der Baast having been slain in 1690, his attorney, Pieter Bogardus of Albany, with the trustees of Schenectady conveyed it to Gysbert Marcelis of Albany in 1699; it then contained 15 morgens of land and was then called Joris' Great island; this conveyance was confirmed by patent dated June 23, 1714.| From the time of Marcelis' purchase to this time, it has been called " Gyse's island."
* Valentine's Man., 1861, p. 521; Albany Co. Rec., 59, 221.
t Deeds, II, 88; Albany Co. Rec., 224.
# Called Claas Graven's hoek ; another Claas Graven's hoek is mentioned in the old records,-a portion of what subsequently became Cuyler's Patent at Crane's Village below Amsterdam.
§ Deeds, IV, 140. | Patent, 1673; Deeds, Iv, 140; see also Van der Baast.
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BASTIAEN DE WINTER.
He was a native of Middleburgh, Holland and came to Albany 1654 and to Schenectady in 1662.
Falling sick, in 1670, he sold his house in the village and farm on the bouwland to Joris Aertse Vander Baast, Jan Labatie and Elias Van Gyse- ling, with the intention of returning to Holland but died before doing so, about August, 1678. Leaving no heirs in this country, the Dutch church of Albany claimed and probably received his property, for the use of the poor.
De Winter's village lot 200 ft. square, was on the south corner of Church and Union streets. His patent was granted by Governor Lovelace, Oct. 21, 1670.
On 22 Nov., 1670, he sold his house, barn and northerly half of this lot to Joris Arissen Van Der Baast, the surveyor, and on the next day the southerly half to Jan Labatie of Albany .* Van der Baast occupied his parcel until Feb. 9, 1690, when he was slain by the French and Indians, and his house burned. Sometime previous to 1690, Jan Labatie conveyed the southerly half to David Christoffelse, who was also slain at the same time. In 1699, Peter Bogardus, attorney for the heirs of Van der Baast, conveyed his lot to Gysbert Marcelis of Albany, and in 1716, Caleb Beck by virtue of a con- veyance from Carel Hansen Toll, of date Oct. 4, 1714, became owner of both lots.t
De Winter's bouwland was conveyed to him by patent of Gov. Lovelace 21 Oct. 1670 and is described therein as :
" a piece of ground at Schenectady to the south of [bouwery] No. 2, being " encompassed with a creek and containing 7 acres or 3 morgens 200 rods as "'granted by Gov. Stuyvesant June 15, 1664, to said Bastiaen :- also the " plantation of then belonging to said Bastiaen having been lately measured, "containing in breadth on the west 350 rods abutting on Willem Teller's "first lot, on the north side by Jan Van Eps [late Maritie Damens his '· mother] in length 60 rods ; on the east side on Sander Leendertse Glen's " going with a sloping point south East 236 rods and so it is bounded with "a creek and hath on the south side the high woods."
By deed of date 22 Nov., 1670, De Winter conveyed this farm to Elias Van Gyseling and Pieter Cornelise Viele.& Soon after Van Gyseling became owner of the whole parcel. ||
* Deeds II, 788 to 791.
+ Deeds, v, 343. į Patents, 759
§ Deeds, II, 789.
| See Van Gyseling.
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JOHANNES DYCKMAN.
He was probably a son of Jan Dyckman, Commies of Fort Orange and Beverwyck and was born in 1662 .* Marrying Jannetie, daughter of Cor- nelis Viele, his father-in-law conveyed to him a farm below the Aal Plaats, which he abandoned by reason of the Indian alarms after the year 1690.t
JONATHAN !DYER.
He came from Wales, and was a bricklayer by trade. In 1695 he married Maria Dirkse Hessling,¿ and between that date and 1708, had six children baptized in the church at Schenectady.
In 1714, being then a resident of New York, he quit claimed the Sixth flat, on the north side of the river, to Reyer Schermerhorn.§
In 1716 he owned a lot on the north side of State street, purchased probably, of Willem Appel, of 75 feet front, Amsterdam measure, com- prising the lots of Mr. George Swortfiguer and estate of the late William Cunningham,-numbers 103-111.
HANS JANSE EENKLUYS.
He is first mentioned in the records as a servant or soldier in the Dutch West India Company's service, in 1632, and as such was one of those who erected the arms of the States General at Kievits Hoek [ Saybrook], at the mouth of the Connecticut river. |
In 1648, on the occasion of Governor Stuyvesant's visit to Fort Orange, he was there, and was employed to clean the Heer Patroon's cannons and fire the salute .**
After a long service he retired to Schenectady soon after it was settled, and in his old age was cared for by the church, to whom he left his property for the poor of the village. He died in 1683, leaving no heirs.
* His mother Maria, 10 April, 1676, bound him to Maj. Abram Staas, he then being about fourteen years of age .- Not. Papers, I, 556.
+ Land Papers, VII, 78.
# Jonathan Dyer jonge man van Weels in Englandt en Maria Dirkse weduwe van Harmanus Hagedorn, married Nov. 21, 1695 .- Albany Church Records.
§ Deeds, VI, 192.
| Col. Hist., I, 287 .- O'Callaghan's Hist. N. N., I, 149. ** O'Callaghan's Hist. N . N., II, 71.
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His farm consisted of 18 morgens of river flats lying in the third ward, bounded by the Mohawk on the north, Front street on the south, the Hansen, or Simon Groot's kil [College brook] on the east, and the Fonda place on the west. After holding this land 180 years, it was sold by the church in 1863, for about $10,000. It was generally used as a cow pasture, and as it was given for the maintenance of the poor, was called the arme wey, or " poor pasture " *
JILLIS FONDA.
The first settler of this name,-Jillis Douwese Fonda, was in Beverwyck as early as 1654, with his wife Hester.t In 1666 she was the widow of Barent Gerritse.
Douwe Jillise, son of Jillis Douwese Fonda, married Rebecca He owned land at Lubberde's landt [Troy], in 1676; and died Nov. 24 (27), 1700. Besides other children he had a son Jillis, who married Rachel, daughter of Pieter Winne of Albany, Dec. 11, 1695, and about 1700, re- moved to Schenectady. He was by trade a gunstocker. At the date of his will made Sept. 8, 1737, his wife and eight of his eleven children were living.
Of his sons, Douw removed to Caughnawaga where he was slain by Sir John Johnson's Indians in 1780; Pieter was a shoemaker and tanner and lived upon the south corner of State street and Mill lane (now the site of the Young Men's Christian Association building), and had his tan vats in the rear; Abraham was a carpenter and in 1752, built and occupied the house No. 27 Front, now owned by his great-grandson Mr. Nicholas Yates.
Jillis Fonda's farm was next west of the " poor pasture " and his house at the easterly end of Front street was within the memory of many persons marked by two huge elms, which throw their arms across the whole breadth
* Church Papers.
+ Oct. 21, 1656, a suit was brought against her for removing Lewis Cobussen's wife's petticoat from the fence ;- defendant said plaintiff pawned the article for beaver ;- put over .- Dutch MSS., XVI, 2, 14, 15.
29 April, 1664, Hester Douwese assisted by her son Douwe Gillise and her daughter Geertien Gillise, sold to Jan Costerse Van -Aeken two distiller's kettles for 400 guilders sewant .- Albany Co. Records, 347. It would seem by this transaction that the husband Jillis Douwese Fonda was deceased.
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of the street. This lot commenced at the centre line of Mohawk street and extended easterly along the street 480 feet to the Arme wey and north to the Mohawk river, comprising latterly 6.43 acres; the land opposite this lot on the south side of the street extending easterly as far as the canal culvert and southerly across the canal and Fonda street, likewise belonged to this farm.
He also owned a farm of kreupelbos land on the north side of the river about a mile north of Freeman's bridge, now in possession of Mr. Charles Ellis .* Besides this he owned the island called "Fonda's island," next west of Van Slyck's island, containing seven morgens, which he bought about 1736 of Philip Livingston, and devised in his will of date Sept. 8, 1737, to his three sons,-to Pieter two morgens,-to Abraham four morgens,-and to Jacob one morgen. This island originally belonged to Symon Symonse Groot, and was patented to him in 1694.t For a hofstede to this island farm he had two morgens of land on the mainland near Claas Gravens' hoek, which in his will was devised to his son Douwe.
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