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In the meanwhile I remain, your Worthy Honors' humble and willing servant,
In Fort Orange,
18th August Aº. 1662.
LA MONTAGNE.
(Superscribed) :
Honorable, Valiant and Worthy Lords. My Lords Petrus Stuyvesant Directr. General and the Council of New Netherland.
E. Page 186. JOCHEM PIETERS FLAT.
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This large tract embraced three-fourths of the grant made in 1639 to Jochem Pietersen Kuyter, and whence its name. It lay between the old Kingsbridge Road and Harlem River, and extended, say from the north- ern line of the old Church Farm and village plots of Heiser, Chesterman, etc., upward, including nearly all the late Myer Farm. The preceding pages may be consulted for its history prior to 1661, when it was divided into 22 lots, each 6 2-3 morgen. or 13 acres, as usually rated.
The earliest list of proprietors is that of 1670, given on page 266, but we know, for the most part, who were the original owners. The sub- sequent titles, though difficult to trace, because of exchanges made from time to time (to group together lots having the same owner), and the vacating of three lots or numbers, as will further appear, have been cicarly made out, it is believed; a work, which if it but adds a technical value to the modern title, is of real significance. It holds true (all modern legis- lation notwithstanding) that ordinarily every link carried backward into the "good old honest times," serves to improve the chain and strengthen confidence in the title. We believe our efforts to restore such lost links will also prove a material help to the modern conveyancer in his often perplexing work. To each of these lots on "Jochem Pieters" was originally attached a house lot in the village and a share of salt meadow. For many years these allotments were usually sold together; often a lot on Van
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Keulen's Hook being included. A knowledge of this fact is not without its value in tracing the title to the several parcels. It must also open to many a one a new source of pleasure, to discover the homes where the ster- ling characters treated of in these pages spent their years and energies, and which of these in the olden time tilled the soil he now occupies-reft indeed of its former rural charms, but invested by modern taste with other attrac- tions no less endearing.
We name the owners of these lots in the order of the numbers, as on May 1, 1670; premising that No. I lay at the south end:
No. I. Daniel Tourneur. No. 12. Thomas Delavall.
2. Laurens Jansen.
13. Joost Van Oblinus.
3. Thomas Delavall. 14. Glaude Delamater.
4. Lubbert Gerritsen. ..
5. Pierre Cresson.
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16. Jan Nagel.
7. David Demarest.
8. Resolved Waldron.
9. Hendrick Karstens' heirs. ..
10. Johannes Verveelen.
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" II. Jean Le Roy. 22. do.
Lot No. I, as it was originally laid out in 1658, belonged to John Mon- tanye, who gave it up in 1661, for other land, when the upper part, with the lower part of No. 2, was taken to form No. I, and to which Tourneur succeeded, as he had owned No. 2. See pages 185, 186. Tourneur's children dividing up his property in 1690, this lot fell to his son Thomas, and passed in 1710 to Captain Charles Congreve. He sold it, July 22, 1713, to John Van Oblienis, and he, August 12 ensuing, to Abraham Myer, whose son Abraham, with his wife Mattie, conveyed the eastern part to Johannes De Witt (since Hon. D. P. Ingraham's) ; and the western part, called the Pond Lot, containing 7 acres 4 r., to Johannes Sickels, by deed of September 6, 1768, Sickels building a farm-house at the west end next the Kingsbridge Road, its site on 123d Street, south side, midway of Third and Fourth Avenues. His son John S. succeeding by devise, this house became the home of his son-in-law, John Adriance, and the birth- place of the late Isaac Adriance, Esq., named page 155. See Nos. 2. 3, 4.
No 2. Nicholas De Meyer owned this lot, and No. 18, in 1662; one of them bought that year from Simon Lucas. He sold both in 1669 to Cornelius and Laurens Jansen ( see page 258) ; the latter getting No. 2. From him descending to his son Albert Low, of Somerset County, New Jersey, he released it to his brother Lawrence, December 8, 1731. Law- rence sold to Isaac Myer, May 9, 1738, who gave it to his nephew Johannes Sickels. See page 600.
No. 3. Simon De Ruine, called the Walloon, had this lot in 1662. He sold, March 13. 1666, to Bussing and others ( see page 546), and they April 7 following, to Captain Delavall. He exchanged it for No. 18. with Cornelis Jansen (Kortright), from whose widow, Metje Cornelis, it was gotten by Adolph Meyer, April 6, 1697, in lieu of No. 10. Meyer's heirs conveyed No. 3 to Johannes Sickels, November 15, 1748, when it is called 18 acres. See. No. 4.
No. 4. Hendrick J. Vander Vin apparently owned this lot in 1662. Lubbert Gerritsen succeeded about 1664, at the sale of whose lands, July 5, 1674, it was bought by David Demarest, Sr. He sold it, March 12, 1677, to Paulus Richard, and he. August 1, 1677, to Adolph Meyer, to whose son Abraham the other heirs conveyed it November 15, 1748. This lot had then received an addition of 6 acres, as No. 3 had of 5 acres ; caused as follows : The New Lots of Jochem Pieters, so called, were laid out, as we have seen, in 1677. beginning at Delavall's or Carteret's northern line. By mistake or otherwise in fixing this line, the "old lots," yet lying
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6. Meynard Journee.
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17. Daniel Tourneur.
18. Cornelis Jansen.
19. Thomas Delavall.
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in common fence, were encroached upon full three lots; to remedy which, afterward, and give the Delavall heirs the quantity claimed by them in this tract, the town assigned to them the adjoining island, thence known as Carteret's Island, containing 12 acres of upland, and bargained with Dyckman and the Nagel heirs for 29 acres of the three lots which the latter owned here, and for which they took other land at Spuyten Duyvel. See page 546. This arrangement could hardly have dated prior to 1690, nor later than 1700, but the Nagels retained a nominal possession of these lots for some years thereafter, and drew land on the morgen rights in 1712. In 1724 this flat was resurveyed, at the instance of Pipon and Gouverneur, claiming under Delavall. Nine lots due the claimants being set off to them at the upper end without regard to the old lines; and then the other lots to the several owners down to and including Zacharias Sickels, who held No. 5, there remained an excess of 11 acres, which had already been ascertained, and sold by John Nagel, in 1722, to Abraham Myer; and of which 5 acres were added to No. 3, making it 18 acres, and 6 acres to No. 4, making it 19 acres (See remark under No. 10.) Abraham Meyer having set off from No. 4 about 2 acres at the west end on the Kingsbridge Road, as a building plot, and also reserving the river end, since in part the Coles property, sold the main portion of the lot to Johannes Sickels, September 6, 1768. The 2-acre piece, mortgaged to Sickels by Abraham Myer, May 1, 1774, was purchased in 1815 by T. W. Van Norden. With these additions and exceptions noted, Johannes Sickels came to hold the Nos. I to 4; all which passed under his will of February 12, 1781, proved November 10, 1784, to his son John, known as John S. Sickles, remaining in his possession till his death, June 4. 1804, when it fell by devise to the heirs of his daughter Mary, Mrs. John Adriance. Thus the survey of 1724 affected the division lines of all the remaining lots yet to be described, as must be borne in mind by the inquirer after the original lines as they were prior to said survey, if he would fix these even approximately,-for more than this can hardly be expected.
No. 5. Pierre Cresson, originally holding No. 6, exchanged, in 1661, for No. 5, in the way before shown. He sold to John Brevoort, May 23, 1677: he to his son-in-law, Zacharias Sickles, February 20, 1705; and he to Nicholas Kortright, January 15, 1729. See next Nos.
No. 6, owned by Michiel Muyden, was bought by Jaques Cresson. He sold, December 4, 1669, to Meynard Journee, and he March 7, 1676, to John Nagel and John Delamater. These making a division of the Journee lands, July 14. 1677, Nagel took this lot or number, being one of those vacated by his heirs.
No. 7 was owned by John De Pre, who bought Simon Lane's allot- ment. De Pre sold, April 7, 1662, to William Montanye, who conveyed it to his brother John, and he, in 1665, to David Demarest. Demarest sold, March 12, 1677, to Paulus Richard; he, July 31, 1677, to Joost Van Oblinus, and he to his son Peter, August 24, 1705. From the latter to Peter Wal- dron, and thence to Abraham Myer.
No. 8. Lubbert Gerritsen having bought the allotment of Matthys Boon, including this number, sold it. November 22, 1662, to Jan Laurens Duyts. He sold to Resolved Waldron, who exchanged it for No. 12, with his son-in-law Nagel, whose heirs vacated it.
No. 9. Hendrick Karstens hield this number, probably from 1662. At the sale of his estate, July 5, 1674, it was bought by his son Conrad Hendricks. He sold it, August 16, 1678, to John Nagel, whose heirs vacated it with Nos. 6, 8. These three numbers were therefore dropped out, while the land embraced under them being assigned to the next owners in their order, left the requisite quantity to make up the nine lots for the Delavall heirs. We describe the remaining lots under the old numbers, which were in some cases retained.
No. 10 was owned successively by Dominie Zyperus, Jurian Hanel
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(see his patent, page 598), and Johannes Verveelen. 'The latter sold to Adolph Meyer, October 13, 1683, and on April 6, 1697, he let Metje Cor- nelis have it for No. 3. Thus the Kortrights came to own Nos. 5 and 10, which two lots Nicholas Kortright, the heir to a large part of Metje Cornelis' lands, sold in 1731 to Abraham Myer. The now united Nos. 5, 7, 10, passed to Abraham's heirs, and became the famous 42 acre tract, or Lawrence Benson homestead. See page 603. These three lots, com- puted at 6 2-3 morgen each (and 2 acres to the morgen), made just 40 acres, and with No. 4 adjoining, at first 13 acres, but increased as before- said to 19, made together 59 acres, being so estimated in a mortgage for this tract, therein bounded north by Aaron Bussing, and south by John Sickles, given by Abraham Myer to St. George Talbot, June 7, 1766.
No. 1I was purchased from Jacob Elderts, June 1, 1662, by Jean Le Roy, being part of an allotment Elderts had recently bought from David Du Four. Le Roy sold, May 2, 1674, to Simon Cornier, he, July 26, 1675, to Paulus Richard, and he, the same day, to David Demarest, Jr. Dem- arest conveyed it back to Richard, April 12, 1677, and he on the same date to Joost Van Oblinus. Oblinus sold it, some twenty years later, to Arent Bussing. See Nos. 12, 13.
No. 12 Captain Delavall bought out of the estate of Jan Cogu. He exchanged with John Nagel for No. 16; Nagel exchanged with his father- in-law, Waldron, for No. 8. Waldron's widow sold No. 12 to Arent Bussing, July 16, 1690, and Johannes Waldron confirmed the sale April 5, 1697.
No. 13 was bought by Joost Van Oblinus, November 8, 1663, from Philip Casier's widow and son-in-law Uzille; Casier having gotten it from Jean Gervoe. Oblinus conveyed it to Arent Bussing, October 26, 1693. Bussing thus acquired Nos. 11, 12, 13, which passed in 1718 to his son Peter, and in 1737 to his son Aaron, under whose will (see page 485), his executor, Adolph Myer, conveyed said tract, May 10, 1787, to John Adriance, who sold it, June 27, 1825, to Charles Henry Hall.
Nos. 14, 15. Jacques Cousseau, owning No. 15, March 25, 1662, on that date bought 14, from John Sneden's estate. He sold both to Daniel Tourneur, and he directly to Delamater, whose patent of June 25, 1668, includes them. Delamater, about 1676, transferred 15 to Delavall, and shortly before his death No. 14 also. See ensuing numbers, all which unite in Delavall.
No. 16, given by Jan Pietersen Slot to his son Peter, was sold by the latter, in 1665, to Resolved Waldron, who assigned it to John Nagel, by deed of June 2, 1670, Nagel afterward exchanging it with Delavall . for No. 12.
No. 17. Tourneur bought, February 1, 1667, from Dirck Claessen, potbaker, who having owned it five years at least, was probably the original drawer. Tourneur sold it, about 1676, to Captain Delavall.
No.18. Nicholas De Meyer, as before said, owned this and No. 2, in 1662, and sold them to the Jansens. No. 18, in the division, fell to Cornelis, who exchanged with Delavall for No. 3.
No. 19 was obtained by Delavall from Jacques Cresson, who bought it with No. 6, from Michiel Muyden.
Nos. 20, 21, 22, Delavall purchased, as would appear, two from Arent Moesman, and one from Valentine Claessen; in this order as to date, but their respective numbers we are not sure of. Claessen, we believe, bought Adam Dericksen's allotment. One of Moesman's had probably belonged to Philip Casier, and the other to Jean Le Roy, who bought, 1662, of Philip Presto. In 1673, Delavall was the ostensible owner of nine lots here (see page 307), of which he probably gave six to his son-in-law, Carteret, in 1676 (see page 339), as in the subsequent division of Delavall's lands, Carteret's heirs got six, and Darvall's successors (see page 378), three of these lots. The title to these nine lots involves largely the history of
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the Delavall lands hereafter given, Appendix I. In an adjustment of their respective claims by Carteret's son-in-law, Philip Pipon, and Abraham Gouverneur, deriving from Darvall, Pipon took the six uppermost lots, and Gouverneur the three lower lots. By the survey of 1724, these nine lots were run out as each 6 morgen, the additional two-thirds of a morgen on each lot, making together 6 morgen, being put in Carteret's Island. It was this contraction of the nine lots that gave the II acres to lots Nos. 3, 4. On May 1, 2, 1725, by lease and release, Gouverneur and wife con- veyed the "Three Lots," containing 18 morgen, to Johannes Myer, and on February 11, 12, 1740-1, Simon Johnson, John Amboyneau, and James Faviere, as trustees of Elias Pipon, son of Philip, conveyed the "Six Lots," including an additional acre, probably for the road,* with nearly 8 acres of adjoining woodland (known as the Carteret Lot) and Carteret's Island, to Jacob Myer. This property descended to Jacob's grandchildren. See page 605. In the division of Johannes Myer's lands, in 1753, between his sons Jacob and John, the latter took the Three Lots, together with the residue (called 5 acres, see page 606) of the Carteret Lot. From John: Myer the title (terminating. see page 606, in deeds from Gabriel Furman and Richard Harrison to Charles Henry Hall, in 1825 and 1826) forms one of Mr. Adriance's valuable series of printed abstracts.
F. Page 186. VAN KEULEN'S HOOK.
This tract, known originally as the Otterspoor, but renamed from an early owner, Conrad Van Keulen, of Amsterdam, included the range of farms to the north of the Mill Creek (108th Street) : from the late Morris Randell farm, on Harlem River, westward to the Peter Benson or Mill farm. A line drawn from the foot of 125th Street westward to the Fifth Avenue at IIIth Street would nearly describe its northern boundary. Laid out in 1661, in 22 lots of equal breadth, all running to the river or creek, and designed to be three morgen each, the contents necessarily varied with the length, and this led, in 1676,'to a new survey. by which most of the lines were contracted, and the lots equalized. The many transfers and exchanges occurring make it difficult to trace these lots by the numbers, but out of "confusion worse con- founded" a result has been attained, which is here given with a reasonable assurance. See the names of the original grantees, page 186.
Lot No. I passed from Du Four, with his other lands, to Jacob Elderts, and from him, June 1, 1662, to Jean Le Roy. The latter sold out, May 2, 1674, to Simeon Cornier; he, July 26, 1675, to Paulus Richard; he, the same date, to David Demarest, Jr .; he again to Richard, and he to Joost Oblinus, on the same day, April 12, 1677. Sold by Oblinus to John Dela- mater, it was bought of his heirs, in 1710, by Samuel Waldron, and annexed to the adjoining farm, late of his father, Resolved Waldron.
No. 2 Resolved Waldron bought at the sale of Cogu's estate, in 1665. Sce No. 3.
No. 3 was sold by Gerritsen, with other lands, November 22, 1662. to John Duyts; he sold these to Resolved Waldron, who bought himself a residence directly north of this lot, on the street, which ultimately formed the northwest corner of his farm. See pages 204, 297. Waldron also secured the lower half of the adjoining lot, No. 4, giving him 216 lots together. His son Samuel, who bought the farm November 25, 1690, added, by sundry purchases, Lot No. I, and all the upland and meadow
* On laying out the New Lots, in 1677, a road five rods broad was left "for the use of the land of Mr. De Lavall," along the north side of his lots. Deed, Zacharias Sickels to Samson Benson, January 23, 1706.
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lying between these lots and the street, including the old Haldron lot, which he bought of Kiersen, January 1, 1701. We except, however, the small open space at the landing, kept till many years later for public use, and on which stood Colonel Lewis Morris's coach-house, the town having granted Morris, June 26, 1724, a plot twenty feet square whereon to place it. Samuel Waldron sold the farm to Captain Congreve and John James, March 23, 1711, and they, on March 27 ensuing, to John Van Horn, who soon after conveyed it to Derick Benson. See pages 431, 456, 468, 698. Benson died in possession in 1751, and his only son, John, remained upon the property, for which He ultimately took a deed from Peter Lott, of New York, November 2, 1758. John being an executor, with the widow and Dr. Paterson, he probably joined with these in conveying to Lott, in order to get a lawful title. Benson built a new house on the farm proper; his old house stood on the north side of the street, on one of the old erven joining the river. He sold to John Bogert, Jr., March 12, 1766. See page 435. After his grandson, James Bogert, Jr., came to own the farm, in 1811, he took down the farm-house and built another; but this being burnt, Morris Randell bought the property in 1825, and erected on the old foundation a fine residence, still seen at the foot of 125th Street, south side.
No. 4. Dominie Zyperus, Jurian Hanel, Johannes Verveelen, and his son-in-law, Adolph Meyer, were the successive owners, Meyer getting it by the marriage contract with Maria Verveelen, though the patent was not transferred to him till October 13, 1683. But it was then agreed that Verveelen should use this lot (i. e., what remained of it) till his death. Meyer had sold John Dyckman, November 9, 1673, a piece of the north end, and Dyckman appears to have leased for Verveelen's lifetime the rest of the half lot, with an acre in the rear left by the survey of 1676, making 2 morgen. This eventually returned to Meyer, after whose death it was conveyed to Kiersen for half of No 9. Teunis Delamontanie got three acres of it, which he sold, in 1727, to Johannes Benson, who added in 1742 an acre adjoining, on which had stood the first Vermilye house. This four acres eventually passed to Benjamin Benson, brother of Johannes, from him to his son-in-law Lawrence Benson, and was conveyed, Sep- temebr 4, 1797, to his daughter Susannah, wife of Dr. Philip Milledoler.
No. 5 Tourneur exchanged for No. 19, before or while John Mon- tanye owned it, whose father-in-law, Isaac ,Vermilye, occupied a morgen at the upper end; see pages 297, 641. His son Johannes adding an acre at the rear left vacant by the survey of 1676, his widow sold, in 1715, to John Delamater, who directly sold the house and one acre of the land to Humphrey Peto. Peto, in his will, proved July 20, 1742, says: "My house and lot of land in the township of Harlem, where I now live, I give and bequeath unto my nephew, Thomas Van Bremen, second son of my sister, Johanna Wickfield, now the wife of David Devoor." See page 409. It was sold that year to Johannes Benson, as before noticed. Montanye sold the lower part of No. 5 to Demarest, he to Paulus Richard, and he to Laurens Jansen, November 19, 1677, whence it rated as two morgen.
No. 6 was sold by Lucas, in 1662, to Nicholas De Meyer; by him, in 1669, to the Jansens, and falling to Laurens' share, he built on the northern end, and lived there. It and the half of No. 5 descended, with his other lands, to his eldest son, Albert Low, who conveyed the whole, December 8, 1731, to his brother Lawrence, from whom Maria Myer bought this tract, May 22, 1732. She deeded it, August 1, 1735, to her son Isaac, whence it passed by devise to his nephew, Johannes Sickels, who devised it to his daughter Mary, wife of Samson Benson. Benson and wife sold the same, October 8, 1803, to their daughter Margaret, wife of Andrew McGown, and these, October 31 ensuing, to John G. Bogert and Jacob Bradford, who made a division of the tract March 15, 1809.
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Nos. 7, 8, 9. Jan Pietersen Slot gave his son, Peter, one morgen off the west side of No. 9; the rest of the tract was included in his patent sold Johannes Verveelen. See page 679. Verveelen sold this patent. August 21, 1689, to his son-in-law Meyer, whose widow acquired the one morgen of No. 9, now rated as a half lot. This had passed, in 1665, from Peter Slot to Resolved Waldron; from his widow, in 1690, to John Bre- voort; from his son-in-law Sickels to John Kiersen, and to Mrs. Meyer. At her death her children transferred the three lots to her grandson, Ben- jamin Benson, November 15, 1748. Benson gave them to his son-in-law, Lawrence Benson, who conveyed them to his daughter Susannah, wife of Rev. Philip Milledoler, September 4, 1797, and to said Philip, September 21, 1804.
No. 10 was sold by Casier's widow and son-in-law, Uzille, to Joost Oblinus, November 8, 1663. See Nos. 11 to 16.
No. 11 was sold by Gervoe to Philip Casier, who exchanged with Uzille for 16. Uzille and the widow Casier conveyed it with No. 10 to Oblinus, who about 1688 sold these numbers to John Delamater.
No. 12 was sold by De Ruine, with his other lands, March 13, 1666, to Bussing, etc., who sold out directly to Captain Delavall. See page 546. Delavall soon exchanged it for No. 21, with Glaude Delamater, whose son John sold it, with Nos. 10, 11, to Peter Oblienis, May 10, 1690.
No. 13 evidently passed from Adam Dericksen's widow (married to Moenis Peterson), to Valentine Claessen, from him to Delavall, from him to Verveelen and Bussing, and from them to Joost Oblinus, who sold Nos. 13, 14, 15, to his son Peter, August 24, 1705.
No. 14 Jaques Cresson sold, with his other land, December 4, 1669, to Meyndert Journee, and he, March 7, 1676, to John Nagel and John Delamater. The latter took this lot in a division made July 14, 1677, and sold the half, then the whole of it, to Cornelis Jansen, who conveyed it to Adolph Meyer, and he to Joost Oblinus, in exchange for 20. Joost to Peter as aforesaid. .
No. 15, in the division of the De Meyer farm by the Jansens, fell to Cornelis, from whose widow, Metje Cornelis, Joost Oblinus obtained it, in exchange for No. 16, which see.
No. 16 Uzille exchanged for No. 11, with Casier, who sold it, January II, 1663, to Jacob Elderts, he to Delavall, and he to Joost Oblinus and John Brevoort as joint owners. Oblinus, getting the other half, exchanged this lot with Metje Cornelis for No. 15. His son Peter buying. this lot also, thus came to own Nos. 10 to 16, which he ultimately conveyed to his nephew, Peter Waldron, September 20, 1742, with the house, barn, and orchard, which occupied five of the out-gardens, lying north of the seven lots, and finally joined to them by the closing of the lower street. Waldron bought up the rest of these gardens (save Nos. 19, 20), and also an adjoin- ing plot, once within the old village, by deed from the town, March II. 1747. See page 705. This strip along the Church Lane, and the said seven lots, composed the late John P. Waldron farm.
No. 17 was sold by Derick Claessen to Daniel Tourneur, February 1, 1667, and is described in his patent of September 1, 1669, as "13 acres, or 6 morgen and 240 rod." It was equal to two of the other lots, and always carried a six morgen right.
No. 18 Tourneur bought from Cousseau. On the partition of Tour- neur's lands in 1691, this and Lot 17 fell to his son Jacques, to whom Peter Bussing succeeded in 1726. They passed by devise to his son Aaron, whose daughter, Mrs. Storm, succeeded by deed from her father's execu- tors, August 18, 1784, whence its title is well known. See page 485. The two out-gardens, Nos. 19, 20, attached to these lots, contained the farm-house, the original home of the Bussings. See page 230.
No. 19 passed with De Pre's property, in 1662, to William Montanye, from whom, or his brother John, Daniel Tourneur obtained it for No. 5.
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