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In 1693 Symon Schermerhorn was a skipper on the Hudson river.t
MANASSEH SIXBERY.
He was a young Englishman from Loudon ; coming to Schenectady he married in 1699 Pietertje, daughter of Jan Janse Joncker and settled upon the easterly portion of the First flat, called Hazlenut flat. Ten years later, in 1709, being a soldier at Fort Nicholson [Fort Edward] and sick, he made a will giving his property to his wife and four children, Johannes, Wilhel- mus, Cornelis and Mary.
His son Wilhelmus settled in Maquaasland about 1720.§
* [ Query, Goose pond .- M'M.]
# Col. MSS., XXXIx, 71.
+ Wills, 1, 163,
§ Toll Papers.
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CORNELIS SLINGERLAND.
He was the eldest son of Teunis Cornelise Slingerland of Albany. In 1699 he married Eva Mebie of Schenectady, where he settled, and between 1700 and 1723 had eight of his ten children baptized in the church here. It is supposed the family removed to Niskatha [New Scotland] where a Cor- nelis Slingerland was buried 3d Sept., 1753. His house lot in the village, 1706-22, was on the south side of State street, forty feet east of Water street alley and extended easterly probably to Church.street .* He also had a lot on the east side of Washington street, now owned by Mrs. Buchanan.
THOMAS SMITH.
Tam Smit was from New England ;- in 1696 he married Maria, only daughter and heir of Ludovicus Cobes, and widow of Johannes Kleyn; his wife inherited one-fourth of the Fourth Flat on the north side of the river from her father, and Smith held a life lease of the other half from the widow of Cobes.t
Jan. 19, 1705, the trustees of Schenectady conveyed to him "a certain " small swamp on the north side of the Fourth Flat about 8 miles above " the town about the bignes of two morgens, also one other morgen of land " on the hill behind the swamp," reserving a rent "one-half bushel of good " winter wheat yearly."}
CASPARUS SPRINGSTEEN.
He was a miller ; married Jannetie, sister of Reyer Schermerhorn, 28th July, 1695, in New York, and had three children baptized here between 1703 and 1707.§
JONATHAN STEVENS.
Jonathan Stevens, a young man from New England, probably came to Schenectady about 1690, with Thomas Smith.
In 1693, he married a Mohawk woman named Lea, widow of Claas Willemse Van Coppernol. |
* Deeds, VI, 30, 31; Deeds, IV ; Old Deed ; Albany Annals, IX, 89.
+ See Cobes and Kleyn ; Deeds, v, 355. # Dutch Church papers.
§ Valentine's Manual for 1862; Albany Annals, v, 169.
| Dutch Church records ; Deeds, IV.
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In 1698, he hired Mrs. De Graaf's farm at the Hoek, and the Fourth Flat of Tam Smith for five years .*
His home lot in the village was on the north side of State Street, having a front of 75 ft. 6 in., Amst. measure (now reduced to 65 ft. Eng.), and extending in the rear beyond Liberty street, and behind the lots lying on either side of it, comprising more than an acre of ground.
Numbers 107 and 109, owned by Mr. G. I. Swortfiguer, and 111 and 113 belonging to the estate of the late William Cunningham, were parts of Stevens' lot.
His farm was in Glenville, bounded east by the Aal plaats kil, and south by the Mohawk river, and comprised several hundred acres of flat and woodland.
His son Arent, had great influence with the Mohawks, and for more than 20 years acted as interpreter and agent for Sir William Johnson in his negotiations with the different tribes. He owned lands, and for some time resided at Canajoharie.t
ISAAC CORNELISE SWITS.
Two sons of Cornelis Claese Switst of New Amsterdam, settled in Schenectady in 1663, to wit, Claas and Isaac.§
Claas Cornelise Swits was hired Jan. 13, 1663, by Willem Teller to work on his farm No. 5 as bouwknecht.|| Adjoining to this bouwery on the north- east side, was bouwery No. 2, owned by Philip Hendrickse Brouwer. In September, 1663, Claas was plowing his master's land, when Brouwer came along with his gun loaded with shot to shoot ducks, and forbade his ploughing there, ordering him off as he had repeatedly done before.
Thereupon they had some words and finally Brouwer threatened if he did not leave the land, he would shoot him; which he did, and Swits receiving the shot, died about three or four hours later. It was claimed by Brouwer that the injury was greater than he intended, and Swits himself before he died and later all his near relatives, absolved him from the legal conse-
* Toll Papers.
+ Col. Doc., VI, 292, 512, 783, 787, 796, 975; VII, 70.
# Dutch MSS., x3, 37; Patents G. G., 129; H. H., 23; Gen. Ent., XXIII, 72.
§ See " Schenectady Families."-Albany Records, I, 72.
I [Bouwknecht = farm laborer .- M'M.]
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quences of his rash act, as appears by a formal release over their hands and seals executed March 1, 166%, and afterwards confirmed by Governor Nichols .*
It would seem that the cause of this sad accident was a disputed line be- tween the two farms.
Isaac Cornelise Swits alias Kleyn Isaack, was born in New Amsterdam in 1642, and came to Schenectady in 1663 with his brother Claas. The year following, in company with Claas Frederickse Van Petten, he hired of Willem Teller a " bouwerye gelegen op schanechtede bestaende in woonhuys, " schuer, bergh en bouwlandt in twee parcelles genomeneert van den lantmeter, " No. 5, &c."t
He married Susanna, daughter of Symon Groot and had nine children, eight of whom were living in 1701 when he made his will.}
His home lot in the village was on the west side of Washington street opposite the west end of State street, extending to the Binne kil and south- westerly towards Mill creek.
In 1690 when the village was burned, he and his eldest son Cornelis were carried captive to Canada, but returned the following summer.§ During his absence the Governor ordered his home lot in the village to be taken for the site of a new fort. [Probably one angle of stockade.]
He repeatedly petitioned || the Governor and Council for remuneration in money (£30) or land, and finally on the 16 April, 1707, was allowed the privilege of receiving from the Indian proprietors a deed for 1,000 acres of land lying along the south side of the Mohawk river, extending from the Aal plaats to Rosendaal, for which a patent was granted Oct. 2, 1708, under the following description, "a tract of woodland on the south side " of Canastegione [Mohawk] river, bounded west by the bounds of the " woodland of the town of Schenectady, east by the bounds of Canastegione " aforesaid, containing 1000 acres from said river south ward between the " bounds aforesaid." **
Isaac Swits also had a parcel of woodland south-east of the village, bounded south-west by State street from the Coehorne creek to the easterly
* Notarial Papers, I, 1, 410.
+ Not. Papers, I, 439.
# Will, Court of Appeal's office ; date of Will April 1, 1701 ; proved Oct. 4, 1707.
§ Doc. Hist., II, 153, 200.
Į Once Nov. 2, 1704, and again Oct. 21, 1706.
** Coun. Min., x, 62; Land Papers, Iv, 28, 120'; Patents, 1638.
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side of Nott Terrace, northerly and easterly by the Coehorn kil nearly, and south-easterly by the south-easterly side of Nott Terrace nearly. Portions of this large parcel of land remained in the family until the present generation, when it was divided into house lots and sold.
When Juffrouw's land came into market, after the death of the widow of Arent Van Curler, Isaac Swits purchased a portion thereof, commencing on the Binne kil a little to the south-east of the late John Myer's farm house on the flats, and extending thence southerly.
In 1702 he purchased of Evert Bancker of Albany, the foremost bouwery No. 6 on the Great Flat, for £183-12; a portion of this farm remained in the family nearly 100 years .*
CORNELIS SWITS.
He was the eldest son of Isaac Cornelise Swits. At the destruction of the village in 1690, he was carried away to Canada but returned the follow- ing summer.
He married Hester Visscher of Albany and took up his residence there, about 1702.
On the 7th July, 1702, he purchased of Evert Bancker for £42 [$105] current money of the province, " a certain lott of ground lyeing at Shen- "nechtady aforesaid to ye North of Cattelyn Noorman's [Bratt] and to ye " south of ye hills, being behynde to the east of the way and before to the "west of Pieter Adriaensen's, in length fifteen rodd and four foote " [184 ft], and in breath (sic) fifteen rodd and three foote [183 ft.], "all which ye said Evert Banker doth convey unto ye said Cornelis Swits, "by virtue of a patent granted by ye late Governor Richard Nicolls unto " ye aforesaid Gerrit Banker bearing date ye 7th of Aprill, 1667."+
This lot was on the south corner of Washington and Union streets. It is not probable that Swits ever resided here ; long afterwards, it came into possession of John Duncan and John and Henry Glen.
TEUNIS CORNELISE SWART.
Two brothers of the name of Swart were among the early settlers of Schenectady ;- Frederic Cornelise, who was proposed by Secretary Ludovicus
* See Bancker ; Patents, 382-3; Deeds, v, 107, 154; and Isaac Swits' Will in Court of Appeal's office.
+ Deeds, Iv, 296; see also Bancker.
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Cobes in 1676 as one of the magistrates of the village, and Teunis Cornelise from whom all the families of this name in this vicinity 'are descended.
After the death of the latter about 1680, his wife Elizabeth Lendt or Van der Linde* married Jacob Meese Vrooman of Albany; he died about 1690, and Oct. 14, 1691 she again married Wouter Uythoff of Albany.
Teunis Swart occupied the lot on the east corner of State and Church streets, 170 feet front on the former and 200 feet on the latter street, until his death; and was succeeded in possession of it by his widow and son Cor- nelis, who early removing to Ulster county conveyed it in 1692 to his brother-in-law Claes Laurense Van der Volgen, reserving for his brother Esaias Swart a lot of forty feet front on Church street from the north end.
The deed is dated Jan. 4, 1692, conveying the lot of Teunis Cornelise Swart, granted to and in the name of Jacob Meese Vrooman [second husband of Elizabeth, widow of said Swart] by the magistrates of Schenec- tady, according to deed of date Feb. 7, 1683, by Wouter Uythoff [third husband of said Elizabeth] and said Elizabeth to Claas Laurense Van Pur- merent [alias Vander Volgen], -" being a corner lot over against the church " (te weten de kerk),t two hundred feet long [on Church street] and one "hundred and seventy feet broad [on State] street having des heeren " Straetent [State and Church streets] on the south and west and to the east " Jan Labatie according to deed of date Feb. 7, 1683 ;- exceptinga piece " conveyed to Esaias Swart by deed of July 30, 1681."§
His farm on the bouwland granted to him by patent Jan. 15, 1667, con- firmatory of that given by Gov. Stuyvesant, June 16, 1664, describes it as " a certain parcel of land at Schenectady over the third creek or kil [ Poenties " kil ] marked with number ten, to the east of number nine and number six, "to the west of number nine and number eight, to the south the hills and "to the north the river south-west and by west,- in breath 64 rods and " containing 48 acres or 24 morgens, 576 rods."|
This being the middle allotment of the bouwland was a double farm, ex- tending from the river to the sand bluff or hill and wa's divided nearly into
* Deeds, III, 88, 310; IV, 35,
t The church which then stood at the junction of Church and State streets was from the beginning used as a watchhouse and continued to be so used nearly one hundred years. ['te blok huys (te weten de kerche) =the block house that is to say the church .- M'M.]
# [Heeren Straeten = public streets .- M'M.]
§ Deeds, Iv, 34, 35.
| Patents, 309.
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two equal parts by the river road. It was sold by the Swart family about 1692 (except the southernmost eight acres which Jesaias Swart held),* to Claas Lourense Van Purmerend alias Van der Volgen, Teunis Swart's son- in-law, who conveyed the northerly half lying between the road and the river, to Claas Janse Van Boekhoven.t The latter dividing this portion comprising eleven morgens, into equal parcels by a line running from the road to the river, in 1693, conveyed the westerly half to Catharine Glen, wife of Gerrit Lansing ; } and the easterly half to Dirk Arentse Bratt, his step- son.§ Bratt's portion passed to Wouter Vrooman in 1741;| and in 1757, Adam, son of Wouter Vrooman conveyed the same to Isaac Vrooman .**
Teunis Swart also had a pasture on the north side of Front street, consist- ing of two and a half morgens of land, which was confirmed to him by patent Sept. 10, 1670,-" now in the occupation of Teunis Cornelys jonge " pointee, lying in the pasture or Weyland, having on the south [East] Ger- " rit Banckers on the north [west] Barent Janse [Van Ditmars] - in length " 92 rods, breadth by the river side 15 rods and by the high way [Front "street] 17 rods."tf This lot commencing at or about the New York Central railroad, extended along the street easterly 210 feet Eng., and was conveyed in 1715 to Jan Mebie by Cornelis eldest son of Teunis Swart.tt
ESAIAS, OR JESAIAS SWART.
Teunis Cornelise, Swart had three sons who lived to maturity and had families,-Cornelis the eldest, who removed to Ulster county, §§-Adam who
* Deeds, III, 310.
+ Deeds, Iv, 34, 35.
Deeds, IV, 37. Catharina Glen before her marriage with Lansing, was the widow of Cornelis, son of Barent Janse Van Ditmars, former husband of Van Boekhoven's present wife (Mrs. Bratt). This parcel of land probably came to Catharina Glen as part of her inheritance from her first husband.
§ Deeds, IV, 38.
| Wills Court of Appeal's office.
** Deeds, VII, 261 ; wills of Cornelis Vander Volgen, 1735 ; of Lourense Claase Vander Volgen 1739; and of Wouter Vrooman 1748, in Court of Appeal's office.
tt Patents, 754.
## Toll Papers.
§§ Cornelis Swart was 70 years old 22 May, 1722, and was born therefore about 1652. Wills, I, Deeds, IV, 35 ; Albany Annals, VI, 48,
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settled in Kinderhook,* and Esaias or Jesaias, who remained in Schenectady and became the progenitor of those who bear this name in this vicinity.
Esaias, born in 1653, married Eva, daughter of Teunis Van Woert of Albany, and had three sons, Teunis who settled in Schoharie; Wouter who settled on the south side of the Mohawk river on the Thickstone place,t whose daughter he married, and Jesaias who settled on the north side of the Mohawk at the Sixth flat, of which he received a conveyance Aug. 5, 1713, from the trustees of Schenectady for £6-19-6 yearly rent, together with 60 acres of woodland lying northward of the same.t
His village lot, of 40 feet front and 163 feet deep, was on the east side of Church street, 163 feet north from State street, the same having been re- served out of his father's lot when it was sold to his brother-in-law Van der Volgen.§
He had also had eight acres of bouwery No. 10, which his step-father Jacob Meese Vrooman and his mother Elizabeth, widow of Teunis Cornelise Swart, conveyed to him Feb. 20, 1685,-" bounded south by the hills, west " by Symon Volckertse [Veeder], north by Claas Laurense Van der Volgen "and east by a low place formerly a swamp, adjoining the pasture of Claas " Laurense Purmerend [Van der Volgen], being a part of farm or bouwery "No. 10 granted to said Teunis Cornelise [Swart] by patent Jan. 15, " 1667.""
WILLEM TELLER.
Willem Teller was for nearly 50 years a trader in Albany. In a deposi- tion made by him in 1698, being then about 78 years of age, he said that he arrived in this province in the year 1639,-was sent to Fort Orange by Gov. Kieft, served there as corporal and was then advanced to be Wacht- meester of the Fort; that he had continued his residence at Albany from 1639 to 1692, with some small intermissions upon voyages to New York, Delaware and one short voyage to Holland.
* Adam Swart Van Schenegtade married Metie Willemse Van Slyck Van Nieuw Albanie, Jan. 15, 1690 ;- in 1706 he resided in Kinderhook .- Albany Dutch Church Records.
+ Above Hoffman's Ferry.
# Church and Toll Papers.
§ Deeds, IV, 35.
| Deeds, III, 310.
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From Albany he removed in 1692 to New York, with his sons save Johannes, who settled in Schenectady. He was one of the first proprietors of Schenectady [though never a resident here] and one of the five patentees named in the first patent of the town in 1684.
He died in 1701 in his 81st year .*
His house lot was the west quarter of the block bounded by Washington, Front, Church and Union streets, and in his patent dated June 2, 1667, was described as " a certain house lot in Schenectady on the north-east side of " Gerrit . Bancker's, on the south-west of Pieter [Jacobse Borsboom] de " Steenbakker, being in length and breadth on both sides 200 feet."}
In 1700, he conveyed this lot to his son Johannes, who by will gave the same to his sons Willem and Jacobus, the latter taking the westerly half and Willem the remainder, which he left to his son Jacobus in 1752. At this time Gerrit A. Lansing owned the northerly half and Cornelis Cuyler the southerly half of Willem's portion.t
In 1801, the original lot was owned by Abraham Oothout, John Porteous and Jacobus Teller. About this time the corner lot came into possession of James Murdock who had a storehouse upon it ; after his death in 1812, it was sold by his administrators to Dr. Archibald Craig.§
Willem Teller's bouweries on the Great flat are described in the confirma- tory patent dated June 29, 1667, as " two pieces of land at Schenectady " both marked No. 5, the first lying to the west of the first creek [ Willem " Teller's Killetje]," to the east of No. 6, a line cutting between south west " somewhat southerly and so going forward on the other side of the creek " into the woods, in bigness with the hoek about 26 acres or 13 morgens 95 "rods." ... "The other lying on the hindmost piece of land by the wood- " side, to the west of No. 7 to the east of No. 1, a line cutting again from " the small creek [dove gat] to the woodland South west and by west,-its " breadth 72 rods and contains about 20 acres or 10 morgens 165 rods ; - " in all 46 acres or 23 morgens and 260 rods, as granted by Governor Stuy- " vesant June 16, 1664, to Willem Teller."
* N. Y. Wills, II, 150-162; Albany Annals, VII, 87; Deeds, Iv, 466.
+ Patents, 491.
# Deeds, IV, 209; VI, 359.
§ Schenectady Deeds, 1, 467; Albany Deeds, XVII, 464.
| Now sometimes called the Poenties kil.
** Patents, 491.
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June 20, 1700, Willem Teller conveyed the above mentioned two bou- weries to his son Johannes, "in consideration that he was much reduced in "property in 1690, at the burning of Schenectady by the French."*
These two parcels of land remained long in the Teller family, but have now passed out of the name either by sale or marriage.
Willem Teller also had a pasture on the north side of Front street, com- prising two and a half morgens lying between the pastures of Adam Vrooman and Pieter Jacobse Borsboom, which in 1700 he also conveyed to his son Johannes. This lot commenced 194 feet Eng., west of North street and extended easterly along Front street to a point 114 feet, Eng., east of North street.t
Johannes Teller, by his will made May 15, 1725, devised to his son Johan- . nes " a parcel of land at Schenectady No. 5, being the hindmost part by the " woodside tothe west of No. 7 to the east of No. 1 containing about 20 acres " or 10 morgens and 260 rods with all the pasture ground and upland thereun- "to belonging, also my third part in the saw mill : "- to sons Willem and Jacobus "a certain lot of land in Schenectady being the foremost lot No. " 5 over the first creek, to the east of No. 6; it is in bigness with the hoek " about 26 acres and 95 rods, together with my housing and lot of ground " in the town of Schenectady now in my possession being in length and " breadth 200 feet."}
Johannes Teller, son of Willem, was born in 1659, and married Susanna, daughter of Capt. Johannes Wendel, of Albany, August 18, 1686. By the destruction of the village in 1690, he was not only greatly impoverished, but was carried away to Canada by the French. He had six children,- three sons and three daughters - living at the date of his will. He died May 28, 1725.
DOMINIE PETRUS THESSCHENMAECKER.
He was the first settled minister in Schenectady. Having officiated in 1676, in Kingston, to the acceptance of the people, they petitioned for his continuance ; - in 1679, he was ordained in New York, by a council com- prising the ministers then settled in the Province, as of the church at Newcastle on the Delaware, where he continued until about 1684, when he
* Deeds, IV, 209 ; VII, 359; XIX, 56; - Willem Teller's will.
+ Deeds, IV, 209.
Johannes Teller's will.
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came to Schenectady. In the destruction of the village in 1690, the par- sonage the site of which is unknown, was burned, and the Dominie was killed .*
JEREMI THICKSTONE.
He was brother-in-law of Carel Hansen Toll and with him settled in the westerly bounds of Schenectady near Hoffman's ferry. His farm was first patented to Johannes Luykase [Wyngaard] and lay on the south side of the river; afterwards it came into possession of Wouter Swart, who married Thickstone's daughter.
Luykase's patent dated April 4, 1687, comprised "all that certain small " tract of land above Schenectady on the south side of the river beginning " at a marked tree above the steep rack strandt and stretching along the " river to another tree and so back into the woods as far as the trees are " marked, containing eleven acres."t On the 24 Feb., 170}, Jan and Catie Luykase sold the above parcel of land to Carel Hansen Toll, and on the 9th March, 171$, Toll sold the same and a small island in the river to his brother-in-law Thickstone for £100.§
WILLEM ABRAHAMSE TIETSOORT.|
He was in Schenectady as early as 1681, but soon after removed to Dutchess county .**
His lot in the village was on the north side of State street, late the prop- erty of John Vrooman, deceased, now belonging to the estate of the late Pieter Rowe. Tietsoort was in quiet possession of this lot in 1690, when the village was burned and afterwards sold it to Willem Appel, innkeeper of New York ;- his writings having been burned, Tietsoort, on the 14 April, 1704, requested Reyer Schermerhorn, the sole surviving trustee, to give a new deed to Appel, which he did. This lot was then 55 feet wide front and
* Doc. Hist., III, 8vo., 865; Gen. Ent., 65; Col. Doc., IV, 468 note; III, 458; County Records, 1, 28.
t Toll Papers.
# [Touching shore or rocky riff. Stoney landing place -for canoes .- M'M.]
§ Deeds, v, 72, 300.
| [Claes Willemse in " Schenectady Families."-M'M.]
** Proceeding Justices' Court, Albany, I, 13.
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rear, 348 feet long on the east side and 292 feet deep on the west side, Amsterdam measure. Nearly the whole front of this lot was taken by the canal .*
He also in 1715, purchased a pasture of Evert Bancker on the north side of Front street, consisting of about 2} morgens of land. This pasture lies opposite John street.t
Willem Tietsoort of Dutchess county made his will Dec. 11, 1716,-proved May 26, 1726, in which he spoke of his wife Neeltie, daughter of Teunis Swart and of ten children, four sons and six daughters.}
CAREL HANSEN TOLL.
Carel Hansen first settled on land at or near Hoffman's Ferry, which he bought of Hendrick Cuyler and Geraldus Cambefort on the north side of the river and of Johannes Luykase [Wyngaart] on the south side, which latter parcel he conveyed to his brother-in-law Jeremi Thickston who married his sister Rachel. His lands on the north side extended from Taquaatsera, or Droybergh-kil, the boundary between the Sixth and Seventh flats, westwardly to the lands of the heirs of Philip Groot, i. e., to about Swart's Ferry. In 1712 he purchased a parcel of land at Maalwyck from Joseph Clement, to which he removed and where he died in March, 173.3.
About the time of his removal to Maalwyck he owned the present court house lot on Union street, 100 feet front and 210 feet deep, which he sold in 1712 to Isaac Van Valkenburgh for £53 ($132.50).§ Oct. 4, 1714, he conveyed to Caleb Beck the lot on the southerly corner of Union and Church streets, bounded easterly by Van Valkenburgh's lot and southerly by Jesaias Swart's lot. ||
Carel Hansen married Lysbet, daughter of Daniel Rinckhout of Albany, and had eight children,-three sons and five daughters.
He was member of the Provincial Assembly for Albany county 1714- 1726 .**
* Schermerhorn Papers.
+ See Banker.
į Schermerhorn Papers.
§ Deeds, v, 153.
| Deeds, v, 343.
** The Indians gave him the nome of Kingego which signifies a fish, because of his swimming for his life to escape imprisonment .- Dr. Toll's Narrative.
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The following is a description of the lands owned by Carel Hansen.
First. Cuyler's flat. This parcel of land was granted to Hendrick Cuyler of Albany, in confirmation of a purchase made of the Mohawks Dec. 13, 1686, by license of Governor Dongan, Sept. 2, 1686, and is described as a " piece of land situate mostly on the north side of the Mohawk river, " called Adriutha, above Schenectady, opposite Pieter Van de Linde's and "a little above the farm of Claes Willemse Van Coppernol, beginning on " the north side of the river from a white oak tree that is marked with a " wolf, standing on the other [west] side of a small kil or creek [Lewis' " creek] on this [east] side of a certain piece of land called Claes Graeven's " hoek, with a small island that lies almost over against it, and running up "in length above the rift of the river which lies a little above said Claes " and that as far as a great water beuken* or beach which is also marked " with the wolf standing just on this side of a small kil or creek [Eva's " kil (?)] and from thence over the river on the south side from a great black "oak tree which is also marked with the wolf, together with all the small " islands or banks that lie within said limits, and so down the river to a " young black oak tree growing on the site of an old tree which is marked " with the wolf, bear and turtle, the arms of three races of the Maquaas, being " on the water side and nigh the limits of Claes Willemse aforesaid, which " said land contains three small flats or plains on the north side of the river, " whereof the piece called Claes Graeven's Hoek is one, and one small flat " or plain on the south side of the river; the low land being about 40 acres " and the woodland and upland thereunto adjoining fifty acres."t
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