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MARTEN'S, VAN SLYCK'S OR WEMP'S ISLAND.
This large island lying west of the city, and separated therefrom by the Binne Kil was early granted by the Mohawks to Marten Cornelise tt Van Slyck alias Marten Maurits, a half breed, who dying in 1662, Governor Stuyvesant gave a patent for the same, Nov. 12, 1662, to his brother and heir Jacques Cornelise Van Slyck and Jan Barentse Wemp.}} Stuyvesant's patent was confirmed by Governor Nicolls Ap. 13, 1667 ; it then contained, including another small island separated by a creek, 82 acres.§§
Sept. 13, 1694, another confirmatory patent was granted to the heirs of Sweer Teunise ( who married Wemp's widow ) for three morgens or six acres, more than the half of this island, and the small one to the rear of it,
* Deeds, 711. + Gen. Entries, iv, 283. ¿ Deeds, v, 55. § Deeds, v, 54. | Deeds, v, 192 ** Col. Doc., iv. 906. ++ Col. MSS. xxxix. 216. # See original in Union Coll. Library. SS Patents 357, 1469, 1474.
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separated by a small kil, " containing in the whole of both islands, 22 mor- gens, or 44 acres." The entire contents of the island were, therefore, 41 morgens or 82 acres.
A portion of the west end of the island was anciently called, " Jan Pappen Leghten." *
KRUYSBESSEN (GOOSEBERRY) ISLAND.
This island lies northerly of Van Slyck's island from which it is separated by a rapid called " Knock 'em stiff." Jan. 2, 1699, the justice of the peace (Johannes Sanderse Glen), and gemeen-mannen of Schenectady, conveyed to Gysbert Gerritse [Van Brakel] an island on the north side of the river called Kruysbessen (Gooseberry) island lying west of Spuyten duyvel [island] consideration 32 beavers at six guilders per beaver to be paid within three years.t
On the 10th April, 1702, Reyer Schermerhorn by virtue of the Dongan Patent conveyed the same to Jellis Fonda, containing one morgen more or less.
Again the 22d Sept., 1706, Gillis Fonda conveyed the same to Hendrick Vrooman and Arent Danielse [Van Antwerpen],-two morgens more or less.
Hend. Vrooman and Arent Danielse conveyed this island to Barent Vrooman, on the 11 March, 170g.
June 6, 1750, Isaac Swits and wife Maria, by virtue of Barent Vrooman's will made Sept. 6, 1748, conveyed this island to Jacob Glen from whom it passed to the Sanders family in whose possession it has since remained.}
SPUYTEN DUYVEL.
Johannes Sanderse Glen bought this island of the trustees of Schenectady together with a parcel of "boslandt " in 170% for £16-10. §
* Deeds, vii. 248. One Jean Poppe lived at Flatbush, in 1679. See Danker and Sluyter's Journal, 131.
t Toll Papers; John Sander's Will.
į Sander's Papers; Deeds, v, 97.
§ Grote Schuldt-boek ; Toll Papers.
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It lies just opposite the old Glen [now Sanders] House in Scotia and formerly contained several acres, but is now reduced to the fraction of an acre and quite valueless for tillage.
VARKENS OR HOG ISLAND.
This island lies at the north end of Van Slyck's island and is separated from it by an arm of the Mohawk river, which at the ordinary low water is a mere sluggish bayou.
It originally contained about three morgens or six acres. The eastern end next the Binne kil is called the platt, a low muddy islet of triangular shape and at ordinary times scarcely separated from it. In early times this island was claimed by the owners of Van Slyck's island. In 1694 Rode, a Mohawk Sachem, declared " that about thirty years ago when Schenectady " began to be settled he and other Mohawks granted to Marten Cornelise "[Van Slyck] the island known as Varken's island on the north side of "Akus' island."*
On the 9th Nov., 1670, Pieter Jacobse Bosboom received a patent "to "confirm to him a small island belonging to him, which hath heretofore been " given to him by the Indians, lying in the river there next to the island of "Sweer Teunise and Akes Cornelise [Van Slyck] containing about six acres or three morgens."+
VAN EPS ISLAND.
This small island lies north of Varken's island from which it is separated by a bayou nearly filled up.
A portion of this island was devised in 1800 by John Baptist Van Eps to his son John, after his wife's decease; another portion-an undivided sixth part-was conveyed in 1808 by Tobias H. Ten Eyck to Cornelis Vrooman.t
DE LA WARDE'S, JORIS AERTSE'S, OR GUISE'S ISLAND.
This island lies on the north-westerly side of Van Slyck's island, and con- tained originally fifteen or sixteen morgens of land.
* Col. MSS, XXXIx, 216. t See Patents, 651. ¿ Deeds, xx, 25.
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It was first owned by Jan De La Warde who sold it to Joris Aertse Van der Baast .* The latter was killed at the destruction of the village in 1690, and on the 27 Feb. 1698 his attorney Pieter Bogardus of Albany with the trustees of Schenectady, conveyed it to Gysbert Marselis of Albany.t This conveyance was confirmed by patent of date 23d June, 1714. 1
The hofstede of this farm was on the mainland opposite, adjoining the land of Claas De Graff and consisted of 6 acres. Nicholas De Graff who. owned the neighboring mainland purchased this island of Gysbert Mar- selis.§
FONDA'S ISLAND.
The situation of this island is best described in the patent to Simon Simonse Groot, of date Aug. 9, 1694, " to confirm to him a small island in "the Mohawk river within the town of Schenectady possessed by him for "twenty-seven years, to wit, a certain small island in the Mohawk river lying " to the north of the Hoek, | or point of Reyer Jacobsen's [Schermerhorn], " and the southward of the island belonging to Joris Aertsen [now Guise's] "and to the westward of the island lately belonging to Sweer Teunise " deceased,-containing five morgens or ten acres."
Philip Livingston of Albany, afterwards became its owner and sold it to Jellis Fonda'by whose will made Sept. 8, 1737, it was divided among his three sons, Pieter, Abraham and Jacob.tt
SASSIAN'S OR CLAAS VIELÈ'S ISLAND.
The next island above Guise's island is Sassian's or Claas Viele's island containing between seven and nine morgens.
It lay opposite the " hindmost lot No. 1," of Arent Bratt, and belonged originally, to Hendrick Lambertse Bont alias Sassian, by whom it was sold to Douw Aukes and then to his adopted son Cornelis Vielé.
The Viele's long possessed and gave their name to it.} }
* Deeds, Iv, 140. + Deeds, IV, 264. į Patents, 1673.
§ Mortgages IX, 89 ; XII, 95.
| De bakker's hoek on the south side of the river, being foremost farm numbered 9 owned by Volckertse Symonse Veeder de bakker.
** Patents, 1466.
tt Will of Jellis Fonda among Bratt papers.
#Į Patents III, 64; Deeds v, 198 ; see also Douwe Aukes, Bont and Viele.
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BENTEN, OR BENT'S ISLAND.
This is the large island next above Sassian's island, lying on the north side of the river and originally contained about ten morgens. It was first pos- sessed by Bent Roberts, from whom it passed by his will to his two stepsons Joseph and Pieter Clement. They sold the upper half to Carel Hansen Toll and the lower half to Cornelis Vielè .*
* Deeds, Iv, 13; v, 108, 140, 141 ; Groote Schult boek; see also Toll, Roberts, Clement ; Dutch Church papers.
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ADULT FREEHOLDERS.
ADULT FREEHOLDERS, WHO SETTLED IN SCHENECTADY BEFORE 1700, TOGETHER
WITH A DESCRIPTION OF THEIR HOUSE LOTS AND OTHER POSSESSIONS."
Several of the first settlers who cooperated in founding the village in 1662, were of mature age,-scarcely any were aged.
Van Curler, Glen, Bratt, Swits, Schermerhorn, Vedder, Veeder, Van Eps, Vrooman, Wemp, etc., may be mentioned as of this class, whose children before 1700 had reached mature years and become heads of families.
They were nearly all farmers, whatever else they might do; their farms were small, seldom exceeding fifty acres of arable land and their families were large, often numbering from ten to fifteen children.
Their wants were few and simple ; every one labored with his hands and the virgin soil yielded abundantly, and fully satisfied their frugal wants. There was neither poverty nor riches in the little community, but a sufficient competence was within the reach of all.
JAN AND WILLEM APPEL.
Adriaen Appel, alias Van Leyden, was an innkeeper in Beverwyck as early as 1654, when he received a patent for a lot on condition that the house to be erected thereon be not an ordinary tippling house but an inn for travelers.
In 1656, being an innkeeper and tapster, he was complained of by Johannes Dyckman for refusing to permit the farmer of the excise to guage
* For a list of all citizens of Schenectady as well freeholders as others, see "Schenec- tady Families."
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his liquors ; at this time he resided without the limits of Beverwyck, in Colonie Rensselaerswyck, and hence claimed exemption .*
In 1662 he removed to New Amsterdam, where he remained till 1671, re- turning he was appointed one of the four schoolmasters of the village of Albany in 1676, and was so employed in 1686.
His two sons Jan and Willem were residents of Schenectady in 1690, and when the village was destroyed, the former "being greviously wounded " was on that account granted £6 by the Governor and Council ; and the latter who " was wounded in his limbs at the burning of Schenectady " was for that reason exempted in 1693 from the payment of 30s. excise. About this time they removed to New York, whence Willem returned to Schenec- tady about 1704 and bought of Ryer Schermerhorn a lot on the north side of State street of 105 feet front and rear. This lot extended from the store of Mr. Robert Ellis west to the building of Mr. Samuel Myers, including the canal and the building called the "Wedge" and the lot in the rear on Liberty street now belonging to the estate of the late Peter Rowe. In 1710, Appel, then a vintner in New York, sold this lot to Simon Vrooman for £48 ($120). He also owned another lot on State street in 1709, comprising the lots of Mr. George I. Swortfiguer and estate of the late William Cun- ningham,-Numbers 103 to 111 inclusive. He probably disposed of this lot to Jonathan Dyer, who owned it in 1716.
DOUWE AUKES [DE FREEZE ].
Douwe Aukes came over in 1663 in the ship Stettin from Arnhiem, being then a young man of twenty-four years. He early settled in Schenectady as an innkeeper or victualler, either as successor or partner of Cornelis Viele. He married Maria Arnoutse Vielè, widow of Matthys Vrooman of Albany, in 1685.
Leisler made him justice of the peace in 1689. When the village was destroyed in 1690, his wife, two children and negro woman Francyn were killed and his brother-in-law, Arnout Viele was carried away to Canada.
His inn was on the southerly corner made by State street and Mill lane next the church and it was here that the traditional merrymaking was going
* Marselis Janse, the farmer of the excise this year, was defendant in a suit brought by Appel to recover the value of an anker of brandy, which he lost by drawing it with violence through the streets .- Albany Co. Records, 10.
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on, on the fatal night of Feb. 8, 1689-90. In the Groote Schult Boek (among the Common Council records) it is said of the dimensions of his house lot, Douwe syn erf by de kercke daer syn huys op staet is breet lang de weg [State street], 140 en lang [deep] thirty Voet. The depth of his lot is here limited to thirty Amsterdam feet or twenty-eight English feet, i. e., from the street to the palisades, which in early times extended from Ferry street to Washington street, at this distance from State street. Later he had an extension of his lot southerly on the low ground in the rear and across mill creek .*
On the 20th July, 1718, the patentees of Schenectady confirmed to Douwe Aukes, Victualler, the aforementioned lot, with " two houses thereon on the " south side of the street that leads from the east gate to the Dutch church "[standing in front of the late G. Q. Carley's store], bounded on the north " by said street [Albany road] on the west and south by the commons and on "the east by the lot of ground of Robert Wendel," being 140 feet front and fifty feet deep, thirty of which and the whole front were formerly granted to said Douwe Aukes De Freese by Reyer Schermerhorn, Feb. 15, 1703.t
In 1708 Aukes owned a lot on the north side of State street of fifty Amsterdam feet front, which he had parted with in 1716 to Abraham DeGraaf. This lot now belongs to the estate of William McCamus, deceased, and is comprised in numbers 131 to 137.
On the 10th of April, 1704, he conveyed to Arent Danielse Van Ant- werpen, " a lot in Schenectady by virtue of transport from Jan Luykasse "[Wyngaardt] of date 13 Feb., 1703, bounded west by Giles Fonda, east by "Gerrit Gysbertse [Van Brakel], south by the highway [State street], length "on the east side 385 feet, on the west side 433 feet, breadth on the south " [State street] 78 feet, on the north 90 feet." This lot is now occupied by Given's hotel, save what was taken in opening Wall street in 1803. §
Aukes also owned a pasture on the east side of Ferry street between Union and Green streets described in the Groote Schult boek as " syn erf by het vort lang aen wee [west] syde 540 en aen eene sy [end] 211 en aen de andre sy 220 voet." This lot is still well defined, the front upon Union street extends from
* In 1710 Douwe Aukes petitioned the Governor against Capt. Fletcher Matthews, who in company with others at his house in Schenectady, " behaved scandalously and broke and defiled his furniture and goods."-Col .. MSS., LIV, 184.
+ Church Papers.
# Deeds E, 114. § Deeds, v, 187.
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Ferry street to the Presbyterian church lot, the west line is Ferry street, 540 feet Amst : or 495 feet Eng: the east line is the westerly bounds of the Presbyterian church lot and the north line, 220 feet Amst. or 202 feet Eng. is 93 Eng. feet south of Green street. This lot comprised the Episcopal church and parsonage lots.
On the 10th Feb., 1713, Aukes, being then eighty years of age, conveyed to Cornelis Vielè, son of the former owner and keeper of his inn, and uncle of his late wife Maria Arnoutse Vielè, whom he called his son, all his estate in the village, that is to say:
"1. One house and lot wherein he [Aukes] now lives.
"2. One other lot of ground and barn behind or on the west side of the lot aforesaid near to the grist mill yt belongs to ye Dutch church .*
"3. One other lot of pasture ground lying on ye south or west side of the creek whereon said mill stands.
"4. One other lot of pasture ground lying on the east side of the street that leads directly up to the ffort gate [Ferry street] near to the fort.t"
His farm was what was then called Poversens lying about the first and second locks west of the city.}
BENT BAGGE.
He was an inhabitant as early as 1669, the owner of a house and land, which on the 12 July, he leased to Jan Rinckhout of Albany, for one year.§ He was also in Schenectady as late as 1681.|
Where his house stood or his land lay, is not now known. (Perhaps Bagge was an alias for Roberts) ?
GERRIT BANCKER.
Though one of the first proprietors, he never became a permanent resident of Schenectady. He probably came from Amsterdam where his brother Willem was a merchant as late as 1700. Before 1655 he was in New Amsterdam where he owned a house and lot; two years later he settled in Beverwyck, which became his residence until his death about February,
* This grist mill stood upon Mill lane near the brick wool warehouse standing there. + Old deed. # See Jan Hend. Bont and Cornelis Vielè.
§ Notarial Papers, I. | Proceedings Just. Court, Albany, I, 13.
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1699. His home lot in Albany was on the south side of Yoncker [now State] street-the third east from Pearl as it then was; he also owned divers other lots in the village.
Mr. Bancker married Elizabeth, daughter of Dirk Van Eps, and sister of Jan Van Eps, one of the first settlers of Schenectady. After her husband's death Mrs. Bancker removed to New York and engaged in trade ;- she died July 3, 1693, aged 70 years, leaving a large property for those times, to her only son Evert. According to the inventory of her estate, she had three houses in State street, Albany ;- a hofstede, barn and two lots of land at Schenectady ;- in Katskil two pieces of land; in Colonie, Rensselaerswyck a bouwery, two houses, barn, orchard, hofstede, negro slaves, &c., and lastly a house and lot in New York, besides considerable personal property .*
When Arent Van Curler began the settlement of Schenectady in 1662, he became one of the fifteen proprietors, receiving the usual allotment of a village lot and two bouweries on the Groote Vlachte.
His house lot was the north quarter of the block bounded by Union, Washington, State and Church streets,-183 ft. on Union, and 184 ft. on Washington streets, Rhynland measure.
In the confirmatory patent granted by Gov. Nicolls 27 April, 1667, it is described as follows:
" A certain parcel of land at Schenectady to the north of Catelyn [Bratt] "Norman's to the South of the hillst being behind to the East of the way "[Washington Street] and before to the West of Pieter Adriaensen's in " length 15 rods 4 ft. [184 ft. ] and in breadth 15 rods 3 ft. [183 ft.]"}
His son Evert, who inherited this lot, sold it on the 7th July, 1702, for £42 [$105] to Cornelis Swits, who also bought one of the Bancker farms at the same time, in whose family a portion of it remained until 1760.§
Towards the close of the last century this village lot was divided into several smaller parcels, which were owned by John Duncan and John and
* Court of Appeal's office.
' + These hills or more properly hillocks, lay then on the westerly side of the block bounded by Front, Church, Union and Washington streets and were long since graded down.
į The Rynland rod consisted of 12 feet, of 12.36 Eng. inches each. Patents, 383.
§ Deeds, IV, 296.
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Henry Glen, the last occupying the corner lot, which about 1802 he sold to James Murdoch. [Occupied by D. L Van Antwerp.]
BOUWERIES NO. 6.
The farms allotted to Gerrit Bancker were numbered six, the one on the second piece, the other on the hindmost piece, and described in the Patent of 27th April, 1667, as, " two parcels of land at Schenectady both marked "number six, the one being on the second piece of land to the west of No. "5 and to the east of No. 7 striking on both sides from the creek or kil "[Dove gat]* into the woods with a south west line something more " southerly ; it is in breadth 36 [Rynland?] rods containing about 22 acres "or 11 morgens and 145 rods : - the other, on the hindmost piece of land "near the river, to the west of No. 10 to the east of No. 4, striking on both " sides from the river to the small creek [Dove gat] with a south west " line ; it's in breadth 50 rods containing about 20 acres or 10 morgens and "520 rods : in all 44 acres, or 22 morgens 65 rods as granted by Gov. "Stuyvesant June 16, 1664."+
As neither Gerrit Bancker nor his son Evert were ever permanent settlers here, both these farms were sold soon after the death of the former,- the foremost lot to Isaac Swits in 1702 for £183-12 and the hindmost parcel to Harmen Vedder.t
Gerrit Bancker had a patent also for "a piece of pasture granted [be- " tween Front street and the river] at Schenectady lying to the south of " the woodside, to the east of Pointers or Cornelis Dirksen's [Teunis Swart's,] " and to the west of Simon the Baker's [Symon Veeder], containing the " quantity of ground as the land of said Cornelys Dirksen's doth." The date of this patent was Oct. 15, 1670.§ The dimensions of Swart's pasture was, length ninety-two rods, breadth by the river fifteen rods and by the highway [Front street] seventeen rods or about two and a half morgens. |
In 1715, Evert Bancker sold this lot to Willem Abrahamse Tietsoort of Dutchess county.
This pasture was between Front street and the river, commencing nearly opposite John street and extending easterly along the street 210 feet English.
* [Dove gat,-a cove,-a pool where water sets back from the river-M'M.]
+ Patents No. 382.
# Deeds v. 107, 154, VII; Isaac Swit's Will and Albert Vedder's will in Court of Appeal's office.
§ Patents No. 754. | Patents, No. 761.
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BARHEYT, OR BARHEIT, OR BARHYDT.
There were two early settlers of this name in Albany county, viz., Andries Hanse Barheit, de Sweedt, dwelling at Kinderhook in 1675, and in 1693, "on ye great flatt neer Coxhachky, next to Pieter Bronck's farm ;"- and Jeronimus Hanse Barheit, probably a brother of the former. Johannes Barheit, perhaps the eldest son of the latter, residing in the manor of Rensselaerswyck, in 1720, married Catharina Gilbert of Albany, and among other children had two sons,-Johannes and Hieronimus, born in 1703 and 1709, respectively, who settled in Schenectady, and became the progenitors of the families bearing this name in this vicinity.
Jeronimus married Maria, daughter of Jesse De Graaf, in 1737, and in 1760 purchased of the heirs of Hendrick Hansen, of Albany, a parcel of land lying between John, Jefferson, Front and Pine streets, comprising one and a half morgens. An account of the early ownership of this parcel of land is given in a deed of date 1766 : - " Whereas Ryer Schermerhorn " [ patentee ] late of Schenectady, deceased, by deed dated Jan. 3, 1702 did " sell to Hendrick Hansen late of Albany deceased, all that certain lot "between the roads | Front and Pine Streets ], bounded west by a lot hereto- " fore granted to Andries Bratt deceased, East, north and South by the " commons [Jefferson, Front and Pine Streets ], being in breadth east and "west twenty rods and in length north and south sixty-five rods Rhynland "measure ; - And whereas Hendrick Hansen by will Sept. 2 1723 did devise " one half of said lot to his son Nicholas,-and whereas said Nicholas did on " the 21st Jan., 1743 by deed sell to Hans Hansen his half of said lot ; and " whereas said Hans Hansen did by deed sell to Gerrit A. Lansing half a " morgen of said ground lying on the northwest part of said lot, and whereas. " said Hans Hansen by his will the 10th March 1756 did direct that his wife " Sara should have the possession and income of his whole estate while she " remained a widow, and after to his two sons John and Pieter ;- and whereas " said Sara, John and Pieter did by deed the 11th Feb. 1760 sell to Jeroni- " mus Barhydt one and a half morgens of ground out of said lot bounded as " follows, beginning at the northeast corner of said lot by the street [ West " corner of Front and Jefferson streets], that leads from the town to Jellis "Fonda's [Front street ],-and runs West along said [Front] street four rods " [48 feet], then south with a course parallel to the line of Gerrit A. Lansing's " ground there, fifteen rods [ 180 feet ]- then west with a course parallel to " said [Front] Street Six rods [ 72 feet] to the ground of Gerrit A. Lansing, " then south along the ground of Gerrit A. Lansing to the South East corner " of the same, being about seventeen rods [ 204 ft. ], -then west along the " same ground of Gerrit A. Lansing ten rods [120 ft. ] to the ground formerly " belonging to Andries Bratt deceased, then South along the ground of
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" Andries Bratt thirty-two and one-half rods [390 ft.] to the [Pine] " street lying on the south part of the said lot, then East along the " [Pine] street twenty rods [240 ft.],-then north with a straight line to the "place of beginning Sixty-five rods [780 ft. ] Rhynland measure, containing "one and a half morgens," &c., &c. This lot, therefore, had a front on Front street of forty-eight feet at Jefferson, extended along the latter street 780 feet to Pine street, and westerly along the same 240 feet, and then north to the lot of Gerrit A. Lansing and John Glen, Jr., whose lots had a front on Front street together of sixteen rods [192 ft]. *
CALEB BECK.
Capt. Caleb Beck settled in Schenectady about the year 1700. He was an innkeeper licensed " to draw or sell liquor by retaile."t
His house lot was on the south corner of Union and Church streets, where after his death in 1733, his widow continued the business together with trade in dry goods and groceries until her death. Beck's son also named Caleb, was an attorney-at-law and succeeded his mother in the ownership of this lot. The last Caleb, grandson of the first, married Catharina Theresa, daughter of Rev. Doctor Romeyn, minister of the Dutch church of Schenectady, and died in 1798, leaving five sons, of whom the best known was Dr. T. Romeyn Beck, late of Albany.
In a mortgage for £8-8 given Sept. 9, 1716, to Harmanus Wendel of Albany, Beck's house lot is described as " a lot in Schenectady bounded " south by lot of Josias Swart 179 ft. 10 in .- East by lot of Isaac Van " Valkenburgh, formerly Pieter Van Olinda's 105 ft. 9 in. North by the " [Union] street and opposite over against the house and lot belonging to " the Dutch Church, 182 feet, West fronting the [Church] street that leads " from the now Dutch Church to the north gatet of said town of Schenectady " at present just by the dwelling house of Adam Vrooman, 107 ft. 4 in .-
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