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Whereupon it is resolved that ye said Corset Vedder shall be granted a new release according to ye aforesaid report he releasing first his claim to the land in his pos- session and orderd ye sd clerk to draw the said indentures
The said comittee have also shown Lowis Viele where
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the Mudder kill is which is on the south side thereof where they have caused trees to be marked
The petition of Maria Brat widow of Johannis Brat deceased being read praying for an abatement of the heavy acknowledgment which is on the land in her pos- session, and also a release for a small spott of ground on the east of Tamhenicks creek above the bridge as may be sufficient for a hoftstead
The comonality have taken the said petition in con- sideration and granted her the land above the bridge to contain about three or four acres be it some what more or less to be bounded on the south by Tamhenicks creek on the north by the road keeping one rodd from the said road to near the gully thence to the land of the s1 Maria Brat thence along her land to the said creek, orderd yt a release be drawn for the same
April 26 .- The petition of Thomas Barret desiring to purchase a lott of ground within this city being read, & resolved that the same be taken in consideration
The petition of Abraham Lansing praying to purchase a piece of vacant ground on the north of this city, and on the north of the lott of Johannis Roseboom Esq'r to contain thirty foot in breadth in the front & rere and in length as the lott of the sd Roseboom
Resolved the same shall be taken in consideration by councill and thereupon agreed with the said Abraham Lansing for the said lott of ground to pay for the same thirty pounds in two equall payments fifteen pounds at receipt of the release and the remaining fifteen pounds a year after receipt, and have orderd yt the release for the sd grond shall be drawn and yt the mayor shall sign the same in behalf of the Comonalty and affix the city seale thereto and that the same shall be entered into ye publick records
The petition of Jacob Boeckman being read praying to purchase a lott of ground on the north of the lott of Johannis Cuyler Esq'r which is referred to future con- sideration
July 12 .- The Comonalty have pursuant to their former
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resolutions sold & granted unto the Revd Mr. Thomas Barclay of the city of Albany minister a certain lott of ground seituate lying & being on ye south side of ye said city without ye stockados near to ye Luthren blockhouse fronting towards ye hill and on a line with ye corner of the pasture of Johannis Mingael containing in breadth towards ye hill six rodd & in length eastward nine rodd for which the said Thomas Barclay is to pay ye sume of fortyeight pounds in three equall payments that is to say sixteen pounds at the receipt of ye release and sixteen pounds in July next & the remaining sixteen pounds in July 1719
Att a Mayors Court held in the City Hall of Albany the 15th day of July 1718
The petition of Symon Danielse being read desireing liberty to build and errect a small griss mill on a small creek to the south of his land which is referd to further consideration
The petition of Anthony Van Schaick of this city being read desireing to purchase a small spot of ground within this city on ye west of ye lott of ground of Luy- case Hooghkirk which is referd to further consideration
July 29 .- William Hogan plentive who appears
Fredrick Myndertse defendant: Mr. Collins appears & produces a warrant of Attorney to confess judgment on a bond of twenty pounds, dated the 13th day of May, 1717, against him the sd Fredrick Mvndertse which warrant of attorney bears date the 19th day of June, 1718.
The court give judgment for ten pounds with the ine terest and costs of suite
Att a Comon Councill held in ye City Hall of Albany ye 8th day of August 1718
Whereas an ordinance made by ye sd mayor aldermen and comonalty publishd on the 3d day of December last past relateing paveing and repairing of the streets and
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alleys within this city is expird by its own limitation, and sundry persons not being able to pave and repair the same within the time therein limitted
It is therefore hereby ordaind publishd and declard yt ye above recited ordinance shall be in force untill the 15th day of September next ensueing as if ye several clauses and penalties where herein particularly mentiond and containd any thing herein containd to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding
Johannis D'Wandlaer of Schaahkook appears in Com- on Councill acquaints ye comonalty that he has sold his land at Schaalkook to Daniel Ketelhuyn for two hund- red and forty pounds but being oblidgd by indenture to give ye comonalty the refuzall thereof which he now doth give unto them
The comonalty having taken the same unto consider- tion do resolve to take unto themselves ye sd land of ye sd Johannis D'Wandlaer at Schaahkook aforesaid on such conditions and payments as he had made with the sd Ketelhuyn for ye s' land which was to pay £120 the first of May 1719, and £120 ye first of May 1720, for which sums ye comonalty have given bonds and ye said D'Wandlaer released his claim to ye sd land
The petition of Isaac Van Valkenburgh being read praying a lease for eight morgan of land at ye Verre- bergh for ye term of 31 years commencing the first day of April last & ending ye first day of April 1749 paying therefore yearly after May 1721 two skeple of winter wheat and & a couple of fatt hens & to clear ye sd eight morgan & deliver the same in a good fence
The mayor aldermen & comonalty having taken the Petition of Isaac Van Valkenburgh into consideration, which they have granted, and order yt a lease be drawn accordingly.
The Petition of Jacob Visger being read praying Li- berty to remove some Stockados to build a house on his I.ott of ground situate lying and being in ye said City on the west of the mainguard blockhouse, which Petition is Resolved to be referred till further consideration.
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Sept. 15 .- It is Resolved by the Comonality, that a gutter shall be made above ye English Church by the In- habitants of this City to be orderd by the Surveyors of ye highways of this City, at or before primo October next.
Albany the 29th September 1718
This day being appointed by the charter of this city for the aldermen of the respective wards to make return of the aldermen assistants and constables choisen for the ensuing year who are as follows vizt
First Ward.
Aldermen.
Assistants.
Myndert Schuyler Johannis Ten Broeck
Goose Van Schaick Jacob Lansingh
Lambt Radlif Constable
Second Ward.
Johannis Roseboom Niccolas Bleeker
Abraham Cuyler Johannis Lansing
Arent Pruyn Constable
Third Ward.
Hendrick Hansen Elbert Gerritse
Johannis Pruyn David Schuyler Johannis D. Garmoy Constable
Johannis Van Sante High Constable Teunis Brat Chamberlain
Att a Mayors Court held in the City Hall of Albany yº 7th day of October 1718
John Hogan plentive by Evert Wendell his attorney
Thomas Barclay defendant John Collins his attorney appears for him
The defendants attorney desires that ye write may abate since the plentive has enterd his action in the name John Hogan instead of Jurjyaen * Hogan which ye court have taken in consideration & do grant accordingly
[*George. ] [ Annals, vii.] 8
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Att a Comon Council held in ye City Hall of Albany ye 13th day of October 1718
Pursuant to the resolution of the comonality on the 18th day of April last a new release according the Report of ye Comittee for Corsett Vedder being drawn & read in Comon Councill, and orderd that the same shall be now signed by the mayor in behalf of the com- onalty and yt the city seale shall be thereto affixed and the same enterd in the publick records of the said city The said Corsett Vecder having released first his claim to the land in his possession
The Comonalty have granted unto Simon Danielse his heirs and assigns for ever a certain small Creek on the south side of his land to build a griss mill thereon pro- vided he grinds no wheat for boulting except ye same be boulted within the city of Albany for which he is to pay yearly after January 1724 six skeple wheat yearly
Daniel Ketelhuyn gives the comonalty the refuzall of seven morgan of land which he has sold unto Peter Winne the Comonalty give him leave to dispose of the same
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Att a Mayors Court held in ye City Hall of Albany yo 18th day of November 1718
Jurian Hogan by Evert Wendell his attorney plentive Thomas Barclay by his attorney John Collins defendt
Vincent Mathews by Evert Wendell his attorney plentive
John Burk by his attorney John Collins defendant
December 2 .- Vincent Mathews by Evert Wendell his attorney plentive
John Burk by his attorney John Collins defendant
The defendants attorney desires a nonsuit against the plentive for not delivering a copy of the note mentioned in his declaration to the defendant or leaveing in the clerks office according to the law in that case made and provided
The plentives attorney affirms ye defendant never de- manded of ye note or writing mentioned in his declaration
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and therefore prays judgment against the defendants with costs of suit
The court having taken ye same in consideration and are of opinion yt ye plentive shall be nonsuited and pay. yt costs of suit and he is hereby nonsuited accordingly
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Att a Comon Councill held in Albany the 6th Decem- ber 1718
The comonalty have this day appointed the following persons to be fire masters for the year ensueing (vizt)
Harme Ryckman Daniel Flensburgh
Warnaer Van Yvere Jurian Hogan
Teunis Eghbertse Johannis Van Oostrande
Orderd that a warrant shall be directed unto them to perform that office
The following persons are appointed to be comittee to view and examine the accounts of this city vizt Myndert Schuyler Johannis Roseboom Esq's aldermen Niccolas Bleecker & David Schuyler assistants who are to bring in their report att or before ye 18th instant
December 9 .- Resolved that an ordinance shall be published prohibiting all Indian trade without ye walls of this city pursuant to ye directions of ye charter ye sd city is as follows
By the worshipfull mayor recorder aldermen and com- onalty of ye city of Albany
An Ordinance
Whereas in & by our charter under the seale of the province of New York bearing date the 22th day of July 1686 for the consideration therein expressed amongst divers other things there is granted ratifyed and con- firmed unto the mayor aldermen & comonalty of ye said city for the time being To have hold & enjoy the privil- edge preheminence & advantage of having within their own walls the sole management of the trade with the Indians liveing within & to the eastward northward and
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westward of the county of Albany within ye compasse of his majestys dominions here therein & thereby prohibite- ing & dischargeing all & every of ye inhabitants of the said province (the inhabitants of the city of Albany only excepted) to trade or trafique with any of ye five nations of Indians called the Sinnekes Cayouges Onnonndages, Onneydes, & Maquase who live to ye westward or with any other Indian or Indians whatsoever within ye county of Albany or to ye eastward northward and westward thereof so far as his said majesties dominions here do or may extend, or to have or keep within their houses or elsewhere any Indian goods or merchandize upon penalty of ye forfeiture & confiscation of such Indian comodities whether the same be bever peltry or other Indian como- dities what soever except Indian corn venison and drest dear skins so traded for, and upon pain and penalty of ye forfieture & confiscation of all such Indian goods and merchandize as guns powder lead duffels rum and all other Indian goods & merchandize which should at any time hereafter be found concealed or kept in any house or place without ye walls of ye said city and within ye sd county and other ye limitts and boundaries therein and herein before sett forth and prescribed to be sued for prosecuted & disposed off in such manner as therein is particularly sett forth and prescribed
Bee it therefore ordaind publishd and declard and it is hereby ordaind publishd and declard that no person or persons whatsoever within this city and county or with- out the same within the limitts and boundries aforesaid shall trade or trafique with any Indian or Indians for any beaver or peltry or any Indian comodities without the gates of this city expect for Indian corn venison and drest deer skins on penalty of forfieting such Indian com- odities so traded for to be taken & sued for by ye sherrif his deputy or deputys as also under penalty of being fined for so tradeing att the discretion of such court before whom the same shall be prosecuted so as such fine exceed not twenty pounds current money of this country two thirds of such fine so to be adjudged to the mayor alder-
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men and comonalty of ye said city and the other third to ye sherrif his deputy or deputys or such persons as shall sue for ye same
Be it further ordaind publishd and declard and it is hereby ordaind publishd and declard that no person or persons whatsoever within ye said city and county or without ye same within yº limitts and boundaries aforesd shall have and keep within their houses or elsewhere without ye gates of ye said city any strowds blankets rum or any other Indian comodities or merchandize whatsoever on pain and penalty of forfieting such Indian comodities or merchandize so kept and concealed as aforesaid to be taken & sued for by ye sherrif his deputy or deputies one third part to ye use of ye mayor of ye sd city for ye time being one third part to the use of the mayor aldermen & comonalty of ye sd city and one other third to ye sherrif his deputy or deputys who are to sue for ye same
Given in Albany the 9th day of December in the fifth year of his majesties reign Anno. Do. 1718
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NOTABLE WOMEN OF OLDEN TIMES.
From D. T. Valentine's Manual of the Common Council of New York, 1855, p. 517, et seq.
ELIZABETH VAN Es,
The daughter of Cornelius Hendriksen Van Es, magistrate at Albany. When Elizabeth grew up to woman's estate, she married a young man named Ger- rit Bancker, a trader at that place. The weddings, in those days, were scenes of great festivity, and gathered a company from miles around, and one unfor- tunate youth, named Cryn Cornelisen, while on his way to the home of the bride (it was in the early spring of 1643) and conveying some of the guests over the Hud- son river on the ice, with a double team and sleigh, the ice gave way, and the whole party were immersed. By the gallant exertions of the young men the girls were rescued, but the horses were carried under the ice, and were drowned. The record states that the party were in a sad plight on arriving at the festival. After the decease of her husband, Mrs. Bancker removed with her family to New York, where she opened a store on her own account. She resided there until her death, which took place in 1694, at the age of about seventy years. The inventory of her effects is worth preserving, as showing the personnel of a first rate lady of ancient times in New Amsterdam. After enumerating a large quantity of store goods and a share in a brigantine, we find, one negro boy named Toby, two bands of seawant (Indian belts), two breast plates of seawant, one Bible with silver clasps,
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one silver tankard, one silver becker, one silver mustard, three gold hoop rings, two gold rings with stones, one hundred and three beaver skins, eighteen otters, twenty- three martins, nine fishers, eight minks, two cats, eight- een water-rats, forty-nine hespannen, nine grey squirrels, one red squirrel. seven bear skins, one wolf skin, one beaver rok, two Dutch Bibles, one small Bible with sil- ver clasps, one New Testament with silver clasps, two Catechisms, one Isaac Ambrosius. one House-wife, one Horim's Church History, one French Flock of Israel, one Coleman's Christian Interest, three Christ's Ways and Works, one De Witt's Catechism, two Dyken's Church History, &c.
HELENA TELLER,
A daughter of William Teller, merchant, at Albany. This gentleman was one of the pioneer traders of the New Netherlands, having first commenced as an itine- rant fur trader, and finally, after his marriage, became settled at Albany as a general storekeeper.
Helena was one of his daughters by his first wife, and married a young Frenchman named Francois Rom- bouts, who having come to New Netherlands in 1654, as supercargo of a merchant vessel, met with some mis- fortune that prevented his return, and he established himself in New Amsterdam as a merchant. He became successful in business, and was for some years a magis- trate in that city. In 1679 he held the office of mayor. Mr. Rombouts resided on the west side of Broadway, below Rector street, on property formerly occupied by Paulus Leendersen Vandiegrist, embracing a large garden and orchard. He died in the year 1691, leaving his widow and an only daughter. His widow survived him some years. Her father, the venerable William Teller, Sen., died in the year 1701, at an advanced age. Some family difficulties between the children of the first and second wives of Mr. Teller had occasioned him much domestic trouble.
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JOHANNA DE LAET,
A daughter of Johannes De Laet, a merchant in Holland, and one of the four original proprietors of the colony of Rensselaerswyk, married first Johannes De Hulter, in Holland, and, secondly, Jeronimus Ebbing, whom she accompanied to this country. Ebbing was a man of property, and conducted an extensive trade between this and the fatherland. His place of residence was on the Brouwer straat, in New Amsterdam. In 1674 his wife sold all her right and claim as heiress of Johannes De Laet, to the colony of Rensselaerswyk for the sum of five thousand seven hundred and sixty-two florins or two thousand three hundred and one dollars, which debt was discharged by the transfer to her of certain bouweries and lands, which were deemed an equivalent. This lady was proprietor, among other tracts, of the weyland or pasture lying between the third and fourth kills, now called on the map of the city of Albany Rutten and Fox creeks. About the year 1675, Mr. Ebbing removed his residence to Esopus. now Kings- ton, where, it is believed, both himself and the subject of this sketch lived during the rest of their lives. This couple were among the most distinguished supporters of the church, and the society in that era owed much to their example in this respect.
KATRIJN ROELOFS.
This lady was the daughter of the famous Annetje Jans by her first husband, Roelof Jansen.
Kaatje was not born in this country, but came hither with her parents in 1630, when still a child. She lived for a time near Albany, and shortly after removed to New York, where she resided until near the close of the century. Her advanced age, towards the close of her life, made her an oracle in respect of events of the olden time. She could remember when the habitations of the town, with the exception of two or three buildings, were no better than temporary shanties, or the rude huts of
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the Indians. . She recollected the old Indian war of 1641, and events several years preceding. Katrijn was married to Johannes Van Brugh, a respectable merchant, with whom she passed half a century of domestic happiness.
Soon after their marriage the couple established their residence on the outskirts of the town, on the present Hanover square, where they lived until taken away by death. The present open space called Hanover square, then lay along the river shore, and was still occupied by several of the primitive trees of the forest, which were permitted to stand for many years, casting their broad shadows over the handsome green. There the Indians came to camp on their visits to the city, and the market wagons rested from their journeys under the cooling shade.
ANNETJE JANS.
Every one has heard of the name of this lady, whose fame has penetrated to many a hearth-stone, bearing visions of unbounded wealth to any quiet family, whose pedigree can be traced through two or three generations back in this city. To count up those who in their imag- ination represent untold wealth as the descendants of this famous lady, would be an impossibility. Annetje Jans was the widow of Dominie Bogardus, the first clergyman of New Amsterdam, who arrived in 1633.
He married this lady some years after his arrival, she being then called Annetje Roelofs ; she was the widow of Roelof Jansen, one of the earliest settlers; at the time of her marriage to Dominie Bogardus, Annetje Jans, or Roelofs, had four children, the issue of her former mar- riage, and by the Dominie she subsequently had also four children. The farm about which this controversy has been so long sustained, embraced about sixty-two acres, which were granted to Roelof Jansen, in the year 1636; upon his death it passed to his widow. and after her marriage with the Dominie it commonly went by the name of the Dominie's bouwery. It extended from a line a little south of the present Warren st., north-westerly
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about a mile and a half, to'what is now Christopher street, forming an irregular triangle. having its base on the river, running, however, on Broadway only from Warren to Duane street. Dominie Bogardus embarked on the ship Princess, on a visit to the fatherland, in the year 1647, and the vessel being cast away, the Dominie with about eighty others perished. The widow continued her residence in New York, and in 1654, the grant of the farm was confirmed to her and her heirs by Governor Stuyvesant, and subsequently in 1667, after her death, it was confirmed by the English government (which had then recently come into possession of the province) to her heirs. It appears that in 1670, the vendue master of New York sold by order, and for the account of the heirs of Anna Bogardus, deceased, a part of this property consisting of land and meadow lying on the north of Mespath's kill (above Canal strect), commonly called Dominie's hook; John Sharpe became the purchaser at 7,950 florins; Sharpe afterwards refused to ratify on account of some alleged flaw in the title, and the sale was never carried through.
In the following year William Bogardus for himself and brothers, Jan and Jonas, and two of Annetje Jans's sons- in-law (acting in the right of their wives, and by an assignment of Peter Bogardus) conveyed this farm to Colonel Francis Lovelace, the Governor of New York.
One of the sons (Cornelius) did not join in the convey- ance, and it is alleged that his heirs are entitled to a share of the property. In 1705, the farm (then called the King's Farm) was leased by the colonial authorities to Trinity Church, who have since remained in possession and enjoyed the income of the property which is immense, being in the best parts of the city. The ground recently taken on behalf of the heirs, is not simply as the repre- sentatives of the son Cornelius. but upon the ground that whatever title the Colonial Government took from the heirs, became vested after the Revolution, in the people of this state; to place the matter in a situation which may benefit the heirs, legislative action has been invoked
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and the matter is now again pending in the supreme court of New York.
To return to the personal affairs of the subject of this sketch, it appears that she was a lively person, and as scandal concerning the great ones of those days was much in vogue, this lady was not without being assailed by its shafts; though they fell harmlessly before her.
LYSBET VAN VOORHUYDT,
Daughter of Cornelius Segars Van Voorhuydt, of Castle Island near Albany. Forming an attachment for a young French trader who visited Albany on his peregrinations among the Indians, she married him against her parents' consent, and was renounced by her family. She left her home, and her husband, Francis Boon, after accumulating some money, established himself in the mercantile line in New Amsterdam. his place of business being on the West side of Broadway, opposite the present Bowling Green. He became a man of wealth, and after some years' residence there, removed to the West Indies, where this lady died. Her parents had cnt her off with a shilling, but her own affluent circumstances, before her death, had rendered their vindictiveness a matter of in- difference in a pecuniary point of view.
GEERTRUYD SCHUYLER.
This lady, a native of Albany, and inheriting the spirit of one of the leading citizens of the time, married Ste- phanus Cortland. She came prominently before the public in the time of the Leislerian troubles, at the com- mencement of which her husband was mayor of New York. The revolutionists having ordered a popular elec- tion of city officers, and chosen a body friendly to their cause, the latter found themselves without any of the municipal paraphernalia, such as the city record. seal. &c. as Van Cortland, in whose custody they were deposited, had been compelled to escape from the city, to avoid a war- rant which had been issued against him by Lcisler. It was understood, however, that the public property in
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