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Benjamin Roberts owned a farm at Maalwyck west of Viele's, also the land opposite on the south side of the river, called Poversen, which he sold to Hend. Lamb Bont, and Bont to Vielè, to whom said lands were con- firmed by a patent of date Sept. 29, 1677, and by Bont's son to Douwe Aukes who conveyed the same to his adopted son Cornelis Viele, Jr., son of the first settler.}
After Robert's death his farm at Maalwyck came into possession of his two step-sons, Pieter and Joseph Clement; the former sold his share to Cornelis Viele, Jr., in 1710, being the westerly moiety. The deed recites that " whereas Benjamin Roberts late of Schenectady, obtained a patent " July 1, 1669, from Governor Lovelace for a piece of land on the north " side of the Mohawk river over against ye hindmost land heretofore belong- "ing to Arent [Bratt] the Norman, &c., and whereas said Roberts by his " will June 28 in ye 5th year of Anne gave said land to his wife Mary for " her support while living and a widow, and if she married then to [his step- "sons] Pieter and Joseph Clement to be divided between them giving to " the former the house, barn, &c ,"-therefore Pieter Clement aforesaid con- veyed the westerly half of said farm together with the easterly half of Benten island to Cornelis Viele [Jr.,] for the sum of £445.§
* Gen. Ent., 133; Orders in Coun., 127.
+ Patents, III, 64. This land lay in Maalwyck and the island was subsequently called Viele's island.
Patents, 1038 ; see also Bont.
§ Deeds, v, 108, 140, 141.
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Cornelis Viele, senior, also had a gift of land from the natives at the Aal Plaas on the north side of the river. This tract extended two miles down the river and five miles into the woods. The certificate is dated 12 Feb., 1718, and states that Vielè had possession thereof eighteen years and then sold it to his daughter, Jannetie, wife of Johannes Dyckman, who left it at the time of the massacre (in 1690) after occupying it two years .*
His wife was Suster [sister ?] - possibly of Mohawk blood. Children: Arnout Cornelis, Pieter, Volkert, bp. Dec. 1, 1689, [died without issue], Jannetie [wife of Johannes Dyckman], Debora [wife of Daniel Ketelhuyn].t
ARNOUT CORNELISE VIELE.
Arnout, son of Cornelis Viele, the first settler, married Geeritje Gerritse of Amsterdam; the records mention but three children,-Arnout, Willempie, who married Symon Jacobse Schermerhorn, and Maria,t who married first Matthys Vrooman, and secondly Douwe Aukes of Schenectady. He usually resided in Albany and was for many years provincial interpreter at all the important negotiations with the Indians, and at their yearly gatherings at Albany. On account of their high esteem for him and as a recognition of his services, the Mohawks in 1683 gave him a parcel of land above Schen- ectady on the north side of the river called Wachkeerhoha.
In 1687 while on his way to Ottawa to trade with the natives, he was taken prisoner by the French.§
Espousing the cause of Leisler in opposition to Col. Ingoldsby he was dismissed from his office of interpreter, after which he retired to Long Island, | but being held in " great esteeme with the Indians " and "being a , * Land Papers, VII, 78. t [The Vielè family chart gives him eleven children : Arnout Cornelisson, 1677; Willem- pie, -; Maria, 1684; Mary, 1685 ; Cornellise, 1687; Debora, 1695; Pieter Cornellise, 1700; Susannah, 1707; Ludovickus, 1709; Teunis, -; Volkert, -. It also makes Maria Cornellise instead of Maria Arnoutse, the wife of Mathys Vrooman and Mary Cornellise, the wife of Dowe Aukes. This does not accord with the Schenectady and Albany Dutch Church Records but Gen. Viele may have family bible of that date as authority .- M'M.]
# [See Ante, Cornelis Cornelise Vielè, note.]
§ Col. Doc., III, 431.
| Col. Doc., IV, 198.
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good and faithful interpreter," he was recalled and reinstated in his office .* At the burning of Schenectady in 1690, his son Arnout was carried away to Canada and remained with the Indians three years, but on the occasion of the attack made upon the Mohawk castles by the French in 1693, he escaped.t
The above mentioned grant from the Mohawks was that parcel of flat land afterwards called the Fourth flat. It is not probable that Viele settled upon it, or that his title was regarded as good, for it was about this time occupied by Ludovicus Cobes and his son-in-law Johannes Kleyn, ¿ under title re- ceived from the trustees of the township in 1684.
HENDRICK MEESE VROOMAN.
Of the three brothers of this name who came to New Netherland, two, Pieter and Jacob, settled in Albany, and left no male descendants ; Hen- drick, after living at Kinderhook and Steene Raby [Lansingburgh] removed in 1677, to Schenectady, and on the sale of the Van Curler bouwery, pur- chased 20 morgens of the same. This parcel was a strip of land, commeno- ing a little south of Water street, and extending south-westerly to or near the sand bluff, embracing the land covered by the canal and railroad tracks, being bounded on the east by the land belonging to the Veeders. As there were then no public roads across the flats in this direction, Vrooman's land was reached by a lane still in existence, called Vrooman's alley, or lane, leading from Water street south-westerly, nearly parallel to Rotterdam street.
His village lot on the north side of State street, extended from Lange gang (Centre street), to within 49 feet of Given's Hotel, and extending back northerly about 500 feet.
Here Hendrick Meese was slain in 1690, with a son and two negroes. His two sons, Adam and Jan, inherited his estate.§
* Col. Doc., IV, 214, 329, 347.
+ Col. Doc., IV, 17.
# [He may have transferred his claim under Indian title to Ludovicus Cobes schout and secretary. It would require no record, as no patent had been issued to him by the Governor .- M'M.]
§ Albany Annals, v, 79; Deeds, II, 848; Not. Papers, II.
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ADAM VROOMAN.
Adam, son of Hendrick Meese, was born in Holland, in 1649; in 1670, with consent of his father, he bound himself for two years to Cornelis Van- den Bergh, of Albany county to learn the millwright's trade, for 80 guilders in silver and a pair of new shoes the first year, and 120 guilders in silver the second year; and in 1683 he built a mill on the Sand-kil where the Brandywine mill now stands. In 1690, when Schenectady was destroyed, he saved his life by his bravery in defending his house, which stood near the north gate on the west corner of Front and Church streets .* On this occasion his first wife, Engeltje, with her infant child, was killed, and his two sons, Wouter and Barent, were carried away to Canada. In 1697, he went to Canada with an embassy to obtain the release of his sons (one of whom had become a Catholic), his brother (Jan ?) and cousin (Matthys, son of Pieter Meese, of Albany), all held as prisoners. He made his will Sept. 12, 1729,-proved June 13, 1730, and died on his farm in Schoharie, Feb. 25, 1730, and was buried in his own private burying ground on lot No. 35 Front street.
Vrooman married three times, first, Engeltie -, secondly, Grietje Ryckman, widow of Jacques Cornelise Van Slyck, in 1691, and thirdly, Grietje Takelse Heemstraat, Jan. 13, 1697, in Albany. He had thirteen children,- nine sons and four daughters, all living at the date of his will save two daughters.
Besides his village lot above mentioned he owned divers other parcels of land.
On the 22 April, 1703, he received a patent for his mill right on the Sand kil, described as " all that creek called Sand creek near Schenectady and the mill thereon erected and all profits &c. to the said creek belonging." He is said to have " enjoyed the same" about 20 years.t
In 1707, he petitioned to have his patent confirmed and explained because some people insinuate that two small springs or sprouts of water which run into said creek and all meet at a place called Symonse's [Veeder's] meadow were not included in his patent ; he therefore desired a new patent, which
* Henry Yates aud Duich Church Papers.
+ Patents, 1578.
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should include the same and the whole Sand kil to the Mohawk river .* The result of this petition was a new patent dated Sept. 17, 1708, for "all that " creek, called the Sand Creek and the mill thereon erected with two small " springs or sprouts of water which run into the same creek and all meet at "a place called Symon's meadow and so continue under the name of the "Sand creek till it empties itself into the Mohawk river." This mill prop- erty and land adjoining were conveyed to his son Wouter.t
Jan. 2, 170§ Vrooman bought additional land of the trustees of Schenec- tady for the purpose of erecting another saw-mill there.t
All that remains to show the occupation of this spot for milling purposes by the Voomans, is the ancient brick house built probably by Adam's son Wouter, still standing and used as a dwelling.
Vrooman's patent for lands in Schoharie is dated Aug. 26, 1714 ; this tract comprised "600 acres of lowland and upland," and was occupied by his son Pieter and his descendants.§
March 30, 1726, he obtained a new Indian title to the flats known as "Vrooman's Land " about 1400 acres of the best land in the Schoharie Valley. ||
He likewise with his brother Jan, inherited about 20 morgens of land from his father Hendrick, who bought the same of the administrators of Mrs. Antonia Van Curler.
Adam's portion, consisting of 10 morgens, lay directly south of the village and is now largely occupied by the canal and railroads; he conveyed his portion to his son Jan, in 1726 .**
June 5, 1688, " Adam Vrooman doth petition ye Common Council [of " Albany] y' whereas Rode ye Maquaase sachem, for divers considerations "hath about three years agoe granted him two flatts or plains upon both " sides of ye Maquaase river above Hendrick Cuyler's land [at Crane village] " containing about eleven morgens wh: said land he doth presume is in- " cluded in ye grant given to this citty and inserted in their charter and " therefore prays y' ye Mayor, Aldermen and commonalty would be pleased " to grant him a conveyance for ye said two parcels of land lying near ye
* Land papers, Iv, 106. + Patents, 1624. Deeds, VI, 259.
! ¿ Groote schult boek. § Patents, 1680.
" Simm's Hist. Schoharie. ** Old deed.
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" stone house [Juchtenunda] so called by ye Indians, as ye goe to ye " Maquaase Country, and forty acres of Woodland adjoining them, which " would be a convenient settlement for ye sd Adam Vrooman, and is willing " to pay a small acknowledgement for ye same yearly."*
These lands were granted and consisted of sixty acres, for a yearly rent of two bushels of winter wheat, conditioned that he should build a small house on it and plow a part of the land next spring. This grant is described as "being on both sides of the Mohawk river west of Hendrick Cuyler's " land ;- on the south side ten morgens opposite a place called by the Indians " jucktanunda that is ye stone houses, being a hollow rock on ye river side " where ye Indians generally lie under when they travill to and from there " country. The other pieces on the north side of the river, one a little " higher than ye said hollow rock or stone houses att a place called by ye " natives Syejodenawadde and so eastward down the river so as to compre- " hend twelve morgens. The other just above the marked tree of " Hendrick Cuyler, .. . . one morgen and three or four little islands."t
The patentees of Schenectady, on May 4, 1718, conveyed to him " a piece " of woodland containing three morgens 527 rods, butting the street south- " ward [Union street] that leads from the town 49 rods, and on the north- "most end [on Green street] 49 rods, and butting westward the land of "Symon Groot 47 rods, and butting the woodland of his son Barent 48 rods " all Rynland measure."} This wood lot commenced on the north line of Union street at the westerly line of the lot of John B. Clute, and extended along Union street to the original easterly line of the grounds of Union school, now occupied by the New York Central railroad track, and was bounded northerly by Green street. This lot he gave to his son Jan, January 17, 1729, " being four morgens of bushland with one-half of the brewhouse " thereon erected, and likewise one-half of the furnaces, coppers, vats, " vessels and all other utensils in said brewhouse, being at present in the " use and occupation of said Adam Vrooman and Barent his son." This brewhouse stood on the easterly end of the aforesaid lot where the canal and railroad cross Union street, which was often called Brewer's street. §
On the 4th May, 1718, being about to dispose of his house and lot on the west corner of Front and Church streets, the patentees of Schenectady gave him a new deed describing it as a lot "in Schenectady fronting the street " eastward [northward] that leads from the Fort to the river [Front street]
* Albany Annals, II, 101.
t Deeds, IV, 2.
+ H. Yates' and Dutch Church Papers.
§ Old Deed.
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" 97 feet, and butting the lot of Gerrit Symonse [Veeder] southward 97 " feet, and butting the lot of Symon Groot [westward] 144 feet, all Dutch " wood measure, together with the houses, brewhouses, &c."
On the 6th of May he conveyed the above lot to Pieter Quackenbos .*
The patentees likewise conveyed to Adam Vrooman on the 4th May, 1718, "a piece of pasture land butting the road [Front street] south that " leads from the north gate towards Jan Luykasse'st forty rods and four "feet, northward by the Mohawk river 29 rods, butting eastward the " pasture ground of Johannes Teller 46 rods, and westward the land in pos- "session of David Lewis 42 rods, all Rynland measure, containing 2 morgens " 346 rods."{ This lot commenced on the north line of Front street at the east line of the lot of Nicholas Yates' and extended easterly along said street 498.5 feet English, to a point 194 feet westerly from the west side of North street,§ including that part of Ferry street between Front street| and the river.
In 1727 he conveyed all that portion of this pasture lot lying between the west line of No. 35 Front street and the easterly line of said lot,-335 feet Amsterdam measure,- to his son Jan, reserving however a parcel 35 feet long and 18 feet broad, for a burying place for himself, his heirs and assigns forever.
This burying place now forms a part of lot No. 35 .**
JAN VROOMAN.
He was son of Hendrick Meese, and married Geesie, daughter of Symon Volkertse Veeder, July 4, 1680, and had fifteen children, nine sons and six daughters, the most of whom attained maturity and left families. He made his will April 24, 1732.
His village lot, inherited of his father, had a front on the north side of State street of 172 feet, extending from a point 49 ft. east of Given's Hotel lot to the Stanford block.
* Deeds v, 417, 514.
t The north gate through the palisades was at the north end of Church street, and Jan Luykasse's lot was on the west corner of Jefferson and Front streets.
+ H. Yates' Papers.
§ To the lot of the late Isaac Ledyard.
| This part of Ferry street was not then opened.
** Deeds, VI, 209.
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His house and the westerly half of this lot, by his will were devised to his son Cornelis, who died the next year, leaving his property to his mother, by whom it was devised to her son Bartholomew, in 1734. The easterly half Jan Vrooman devised to his son Jacob, who had already built a house upon it.
In 1686 he bought half of Jan Hendrickse Van Bael's patent, on the Normanskil .*
On March 10, 170%, the trustees of Schenectady conveyed to Jan Vroo- man, "a piece of land near Schenectady, to the west the highway [Jefferson " st.] that's laid out on the east side of the woodland of Philip Schuyler, " to the north and north east ye woodland of Arent Bratt, to the east and " south the highway [Pine street] that leads to Symon Groot's bridge, " containing two morgens."t This parcel extended the whole length of Jefferson street, from Front to Pine streets, and of a sufficient breadth to - comprise four acres.
Jan Vrooman's, portion of his father's bouwland was conveyed to him June 8, 1714, by his elder brother, Adam, to wit, "one half of a certain " piece of land called Juffrouw Corlaer's Weyland, which half contains ten " morgens or thereabouts, Bounded north by the other half belonging to " said Adam, east by the meadow of Gerrit Symonse [Veeder], south and " west by the land of Jan Wemp; together with free ingress and regress of " the waggon road [ Vrooman's lane] to the said piece of land and half the " benefit of the grass growing on said road."; By his will, made April 24, 1732, this parcel was divided among his sons.
CAPT. HENDRICK VROOMAN.
He was the fourth son of Adam Vrooman and until 1705 was resident of Albany. He married first Geertruy -, and secondly Maria, daughter of Barent Wemp, and had eleven children. When the church was built in 1732 he was baes of the carpenters.
Among other parcels of land owned by him, was one conveyed by the trustees of Schenectady 10 Mar., 170§, and described as " one morgen of " woodland on ye south side of the highway [State street], on the side of " the [Coehorn] creek that runs by Johannes Baptist Van Eps dwelling,§
* Deeds, III, 309, 322. + Dutch Church Papers. # Old Deed.
§ J. B. Van Eps lived on the east corner of Jay and State streets.
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" breadth in front on the [State] street twenty rods [240 ft.] and runs back " south along said creek and land of Barent Wemp [which was on the west " side of the creek] thirty rods [360 ft.] untill it takes in one morgen."* The front of this lot extended from Coehorn kil south-easterly along State street to a point about 62 feet beyond Clinton street and to the rear towards Smith street 330 feet English.
The patentees of Schenectady, Jan. 3, 1718, likewise conveyed to him another parcel of land on the south corner of Union and Centre streets described as " a piece of woodland in the east part of the town, beginning "at the north west corner of the lot of Jan Barentse Wemp by the street " [Centre] and runs from thence along said street north 35° E. 37 rods [444] "to the crossway [Union and Centre streets], thence south 78° E. 19 rods " [228 ft.] along the road that leads to Niskayuna [Union street], thence " south 34° W. 40 rods [480 ft.]- thence to the place of beginning, con- " taining one morgen 105 rods, Rynland measure."+
This lot extended south from Union street nearly to Liberty street and there joined upon his brother-in-law Wemp's lot which fronted upon State street, and easterly to No. 120 Union street. In 1755, Tobias Ryckman of Hackensack, N. J., conveyed the northerly half of this lot to Ryckert Ryck- ertse Van Vranken for £86 [$215]; it was then described as " a house and " lot bounded north by the road to Niskayuna, 19 rods 3 feet [231 ft.], East " by lands of Dirk Bratt 18 rods 8 ft. [224 ft.], south by land of Wouter " Vrooman 19 rods 3 ft. [231 ft.] and west by the road [Centre st. ], leading "to Jellis Fonda's, 12 rods and 8 ft. [152 ft.]."} Wouter, who in 1755 owned the southerly half of Hendrick Vrooman's lot was his brother.
BARENT VROOMAN.
Barent, son of Adam Vrooman, maried Tryntje, daughter of Takel Heem- straat of Albany, June 18, 1699. He died and was buried in Albany, Aug. 14, 1746. (?)
His village lot on the north corner of State and Centre streets had a front on the former street of 86 feet and extended in the rear to Liberty street. It was afterwards owned by Maj. Abraham Swits, now by Mr. Charles Stanford.
Jan. 2, 170% the trustees of the town conveyed to him " a piece of wood land at Schenectady adjoining on the east side of the woodland of Adam " Vrooman, on the north side of the cross way [Union street], on the south
* Dutch Church Papers.
t Dutch Church Papers. # Ibid.
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" side of the waggon way that leads to the bridge called Symon Groot's "bridge* [Green & Pine streets], on the west of the highway that comes "out from the lot of the said Barent Vrooman & the lot of Barent Wempt "[Centre street], containing in length on the west side along ye fence of " ye said Adam Vrooman's woodland 48 rods, and on the east side the like " breadtb, on ye north end 37 rods 10 ft. and on the south end at the said "Crossway [Union street] 20 rods 3 ft. Rynland measure;" - consideration £9 [$2250]"} This parcel of woodland bounded by Union, Centre and Green streets and the New York Central railroad nearly, and containing about "4.64 acres was sold for $22.50 or about $4.84 per acre.
In Feb. 1705 the trustees of the town sold to him another parcel of land described as " a piece woodland on ye east side of ye common highway that " leads betwixt the lot of Barent Vrooman and lot of Barent Wemp towards "Symond Groots bridge [Centre and Pine Streets], which piece lies opposite " to ye pasture land of ye said Barent Vrooman and contains ye same " breadth of ye pasture, being 48 rods and holding that same breadth east- " ward along the north side of the highway that leads from Schenectady to "Niskayuna [Union street], till it takes in the quantity of four morgens, or " 8 acres."§ The consideration for these eight acres was £15 or $3750 being $4.68 per acre. This parcel extended from Centre street to a point 152 feet easterly from Fonda street having a front on Union Street of about 618 feet, and in the rear to Pine street.
In 1744 he bought of the town seven morgens 545 rods of land lying on the hill along the Nestigeyone road ;- rent three shillings and three pence yearly.||
He also owned Kruisbessen island containing about two morgens of land, which he purchased of Hendrick Vrooman and Arent Danielse Van Antwerpen, March 11, 170g, and by his will made Sept. 6, 1748, devised to Isaac Swits and his wife Maria .**
* Pine street at this time extended easterly through the lot of the Schenectady loco- motive works, crossing the college brook, then called Symon Groot's kil, within the yard, by a bridge called as above and so on through college grounds to Nott street.
t As stated above Barent Vrooman's village lot was on the north corner of Centre and State streets; Barent Wemp's lot was on the opposite or east corner, now occupied by the Carley house.
# Deeds, v, 95; Groote schult boek.
§ Deeds, v, 96. | Groote schult boek. ** Sanders Papers.
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Barent Vrooman was by trade a carpenter, Indian trader and brewer, owning the brewhouse on Union street* with his father Adam, and after- wards with his brother Jan.
WOUTER VROOMAN.
Wouter, son of Adam Vrooman, married Marytje, daughter of Isaac Casparse Hallenbeck of Albany. They had sixteen children. His wife died Jan. 19, 1748; he made his will May 7, 1748,-proved April 18, 1757,- and died Oct. 26, 1756.
He owned the following parcels of real estate in or adjacent to the village.
Ist. The south half of his brother Hendrick's large lot on the south corner of Union and Centre streets. This lot fronted on Centre street com- mencing on the east side thereof-at a point 152 feet south-westerly from the south corner of Union and Centre streets and had a front of 292 feet and a depth of 231 feet Rynland measure.t
2d. A pasture lot on the north side of Front street next west of his father Adam's lot, which on the 21st April, 1711, he sold to Jacob Cromwell inn- keeper for £130 [$325],-" a house and lot bounded north by the river, " south by the street [Front], east by the lot of Adam Vrooman and west " by the lot of Claas Fransen Van de Bogart,-length 542 feet ;- breadth " on south end 95} feet and on north end 33 feet one inch, Dutch measure."t This lot is now owned by Joseph Harmon and Nicholas Yates.
3d. His father also conveyed to him Oct. 13, 1710,-consideration £292-10 the mills and land at the " Brandywine mills," which passed to Adam and Isaac, sons of said Wouter.§
The mill property and lands were confirmed to him in 1716 by a new lease for which he paid £15 and 600 boards, with a yearly rent reserved of one board. ||
4th. He owned 5} morgens of bouwland,-a portion of farm No. 10, which he purchased of Dirk Bratt of Niskayuna, April 3, 1741, for £207, "just over the third bridge [on the " Poenties kil], between the lot late " belonging to Reyer Schermerhorn and the lot late belonging to Catrina "Glen, late widow of Cornelis Barentse Van Ditmarse and late wife of
* At the crossing of the N. Y. Central railroad and the canal.
t Deeds, VII; Dutch Church Papers.
# Deeds v, 496. § Deeds VI, 259. | Dutch Church Papers.
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" Gerrit Lansingh, Jr., decd, having the waggon way [river road] to the "south and Maquas river to the north, in breadth to the waggon way 32 "rods, and the same breadth towards the river, formerly belonging to "Cornelis Teunise Swart deceased."*
5th. His father Adam, by deed of gift of date 15 Feb., 1725, conveyed to him " a certain lot in Schenectady bounded south by the road [Front street] "over against the house and lot of the widow of Capt. Philip Schuyler " deceased, 75 feet, and west butting the lot of his sister Christiana " deceased, wife of Teunis Swart 215 feet from the roadway or street, on "the north end butting the land of his father Adam deceased (?) 65 feet " and on the land and orchard of his father Adam east 210 feet up to the "street ;- Amsterdam measure."t The westerly line of this lot is now the westerly line of the lot of Daniel Vedder who owns a portion of said lot. In 1748 Wouter Vrooman devised this lot and the house "in which I now " dwell as the same was conveyed to me by my father," to his youngest son Nicholas also "that parcel of land,-2} morgens,- purchased by me of " Philip Livingston near the fort."} This latter lot, on the north side of Front street, was originally patented to Sander Leendertse Glen in 1664, and commenced at a point 299 feet English, east of North street and extended along the street easterly 210 feet English.
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