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1683-Minute of a grant from the Court at Kingston to Henry Alberts for a parcel of woodland "by ye south side of ye great creek."
1684-Oct. 25-Deed from the Indians to Governor Dongan for lands extending along Hudson's River to the lands belonging to the Murderer's Creek Indians, thence westward to the foot of the high hills called Pitkiskaker and Aioskawasting (now known as the Shawangunk Mountains), thence southwest all along the said hills and the river called Peakadasank (now Shawangunk Kill) to a water pond lying upon said hills called Maretange, comprehending all those lands, meadows and woods called Nescotack, Chawangon, Memorasink, Kakogh, Gitawanuck and Ghittawagh.
This purchase was included in a patent Sept. 12, 1694, to Captain John Evans. The grant was set aside by the Colonial Assembly in 1698, ap- proved by Queen Ann in 1709, and the immense tract thrown open for settlement by small patents, the first one granted being that on which the City of Newburgh now stands. For nearly one hundred years that por- tion of the territory lying north of Murderer's Creek, continued a part of Ulster County, and many of the early patents adjoining or more immedi- ately south of the New Paltz Patent, remain in that connection.
1685-May 25-Description of a survey of 200 acres of land lying upon the north side of Esopus Kill or river, butting upon the land of Captain Thomas Chambers and known by the name of Upton. Laid out for Edward Whittaker.
1685-May 26-Description of a survey of 672 acres of land lying upon both sides of Rondout Kill including part of the Paltz River, and known by the name of Hardick, laid out for William Fisher.
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1685-May 27-Description of a survey of 830 acres of land, lying on both sides of the Rondout Kill or river, and known by the name of Moggewarsinck, laid out for Henry Beakman.
Beekman sold this patent to Peter Lowe, Nov. 2, 1708, who included it in a grant to himself March 8, 1722, as appears by survey abstract, Land Papers 89, 158. The limits of the new patent are described as within the then town of Rochester, and as "beginning at the great fall called Honeck, from thence up the creek northerly to the high mountains, including sev- eral pieces of land ** and also all the land that lies on Mombaccus Kill within the bounds belonging to the Indians, i. e. not conveyed by the deed of 1677, excepting 300 acres of land which had been granted to Warnear Koornbeck. Moggewarsink, otherwise on record Moggew-assin-k, means "At (on or to) a great rock," and refers to the great rock lying in Ron- dout Creek above its junction with the Sandberg.
1685-May 28-Description of a survey of 963 acres of land lying upon the south side of Rondout Kill, or river, and known by the name of Rosendale, laid out for Jacob Rutsen.
1685-May 29-Description of a survey of 400 acres of land lying upon Rondout Kill, and known by the name of Wawarasinke, laid out for Anne Beak.
On this patent was founded the old village of Wawarsing, and the name of the boundmark became the name of the present town. The name was from that of the southeast boundmark of the patent where Rondout Kill bends abruptly to the north which it describes as a point, a stone or corner "where the current bends, winds, or eddies around." The pre- cise point is a large stone lying on the bank of the stream which has been identified by surveys of the patent.
1685-June 6-Description of a survey of a 160 acres of land "lying upon both sides of the Mumbackehouse Kill or brook (now Rochester Creek), in the rear of the land of Tjrk Claus de Witt, laid out for Tunis Jacobsen Klaarwater.
1685-June 6-Description of a survey for 290 acres upon the north side of Mumbackhous Kill, laid out for Tjerck Claus de Witt.
1685-June 6-Description of a survey of 212 acres lying on the south side of Rondout Kill, and known by the name of Mumbackhouse, laid out for Philip Coale.
1685-June 8-Description of a survey of 212 acres of land lying upon the south side of Rondout Kill, and known by the name of Mumbackhous, laid out for Leonard Coale.
1685-June 8-Description of a survey of 344 acres upon the south side of Ron- dout Kill, being known by the name of Mumbackhouse, laid out for Nicholas Antonia.
1685-June 8-Description of 208 acres of land lying upon the south side of Rondout Kill, and known by the name of Mumbackhouse, laid out for Claud Loeter.
1685-June 8-Description of a survey of 222 acres lying upon the north side of Rondout Kill, and known by the name of Mumbackhouse, laid out for Garret Daker.
Clarence T. Frame.
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1685-June 9-Description of a survey of 176 acres lying on the north side of Rondout Kill, laid out for Peteer Cole.
1685-June 9-Description of a survey of 366 acres on the north side of Rondout Kill, laid out for Peter Holebrand.
1685-June 9-Description of a survey of 100 acres of land lying on the north side of Rondout Kill, laid out for Gisbert Alerts.
All the preceding tracts of land were in the district known as Mum- backhouse (Mumbakers). The several orthographies are given as they appear of record.
1685-June 12-Description of survey of 2900 acres of land lying upon Hudson's River betwixt the Rondout Kill and the Cline Esopus, and known by the name of Hussey's Hill, including the Cline Esopus ffly and Sunken ffly at the mouth of Rondout Kill with the two lakes. Laid out for Frederick Hussey and others.
1685-June 16-Description of a survey of 259 acres of land lying on the south side of Esopus Kill, laid out in two parcels for Waldron Du Mont.
1685-June 16-Description of two pieces of land containing together 83 acres, lying on the south side of Esopus Kill, together with a house and lot in Kingston, bounded on the northeast by the house-lot of Wessel Tenbrooge, laid out for Matice Matison.
1685-June 17-Description of a survey of 324 acres upon the north side of Ron- dout Kill, and known by the name of Mumbackhouse, laid out for Roeliffe Hen- drick Infelt.
1685-June 17-Description of a survey of 100 acres of land lying at Esopus, being near and on the east side of Esopus Kill, and in the rear of the lands of Captain Thomas Chambers and William Traphagen, laid out for Derricke Hen- derson.
1685-June 20-Description of survey of 327 acres of land lying on the south side of Esopus Kill or river bear the dividing line between Kingston and Hurley, laid out for Tjerke Clause de Witt.
1685-June 20-Description of a survey of four acres of land lying by Kingston to the northward of the Mill lot; also a house-lot in Kingston, laid out for Cor- nelius Hogeboom.
1685-July 7-Description of a survey of 290 acres of land lying upon the north side of Rondout Kill, and known by the name of Mumbackus, laid out for Leonard Beckwith.
1686-April 4-Description of a survey of 2000 acres of land lying upon both sides of the Well's River, in the town of New Pauls, beginning on the east side of the river, and at the south end of a small island in the river at the mouth of the river Chauwangung, laid out for James Graham.
This tract was at the junction of the Shawangunk and the Wallkill, on the east side or slope of the ridge or hill called Nescotack.
1686-April 5-Description of a tract of 83 acres on the north side of the Esopus Kill, within the bounds of Hurley, and known by the name of the Old Bowery, laid out for Garret Cornelius.
1686-April 9-Description of survey of a ffly or meadow ground upon the great Binnewater (inland water), lying to the northeast of Kingston, containing about 38 acres, laid out for Henry Clauson and Yochum Englebert Van Nauman.
1686-April 10-Description of a survey of 69 acres upon the south side of Esopus Kill, laid out for John Hamell.
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1686-April 12-Description of a survey of 19 acres within the limits of Hurley, laid out for John Ewenson.
1686-April 13-Description of a survey of 200 acres upon the south side of Esopus Kill, within the limits of Marbletown, laid out for John Post.
1686-April 13-Description of a survey of 158 acres of land upon the south side of Esopus Kill, within the limits of Marbletown, laid out for Gisbert Cron.
1686-April 13-Description of two parcels of land on the south side of Esopus Kill, one lying entirely in Marbletown and the other partly in Hurley, laid out for Garrat Gisbertson.
1686-April 15-Description of a survey of a certain tract known as "Primaker's Land," lying upon the Esopus in the limits of Hurley, and some other lands in the vicinity, containing 321 acres laid out for Venike Rosen.
Primaker or Pruemaker, from whom the land was named, was the aged Indian sachem who was killed by the Dutch troops in the Esopus war of 1660. "The oldest and best of the Esopus chiefs," is his record.
1686-April 20-Description of 80 acres in Marbletown, upon the south side of Esopus Kill, touching a hill called the Calibar (Kaleberg), laid out for William Johnson.
1686-April 23-Description of 30 acres to the northeast of Maudlin (?) Island, in Kingston, laid out for William Haines.
1686-April 13-Description of survey of two lots, in all about 130 acres on the south side of Esopus Kill, in Marbletown, laid out for John Coke.
1686-April 26-Description of a survey of about 169 acres on the north side of Esopus Creek, in Marbletown, laid out for Henrik Cornelius Bogart.
1686-April 26-Description of several tracts of land within the limits of Hurley adjoining the Mother Kill on the west, laid out for Derick Skipmouse.
1686-April 26-Description of a tract "within the limits of Kingston, by the Roundout Kill, known by ye name of ye Plain Fields, together with swamp land, in all 144 acres," laid out for Thomas Chambers.
1686-April 29-Description of three pieces of land, in all about 90 acres in Mar- bletown, laid out for John Bigges.
1686-April 29-Description of eight acres in Kingston, also a house-lot lying upon ye west street in Kingston, laid out for Jacob Aretson.
1686-April 28-Description of three acres in Kingston, "westward by ye Mill Pond," laid out for Jacobus Elmindorf.
1686-May I-Survey of 47 acres on the north side of Esopus Kill, in Kingston, together with an island called Pearl Island, containing about 21 acres, laid out for William Legg.
1686-May I-Survey of 600 acres lying upon Hudson's River to the northward of Callicoone Hooke (Turkey Hook), in Kingston, laid out for John Tyson.
1686-May 3-Survey of 87 acres in Kingston, upon ye north side of Esopus Kil, and "fronts on ye Platte Kill," laid out for Peter Winne.
1686-May 4-Description of survey of 201 acres about two miles south of Kingston, laid out for Cornelius Sleght and Cornelius Hoghboom.
1686-May 4-Survey of 55 acres of swamp and "about seven acres of land in ye valley, to the eastward of the southwest gate," laid out for Jan Tyson.
1686-May 4-Description of survey of 100 acres on the south side of Esopus Kill, beginning at the falls, laid out for Arian Tunisson.
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1686-May 4-Survey of 25 acres lying at the Green Kill in the bounds of Hurley, also six acres of upland by the Wagon Path on the south side of Esopus Creek, laid out for Corns. Elmendorf.
1686-May 4-Description of survey of about 216 acres lying upon Esopus Kılı, within the bounds of Kingston, laid out for Henry Alburts.
1686-May 4-Survey of 27 acres on the east side of the Kline ffly, on the west side of Kingston, together with a garden lot at Kingston, containing five acres, and a piece of woodland on the south side of Esopus Creek, near Kingston, containing 25 acres, laid out for Girth Artson.
1686-May 7-Survey of about 442 acres at the mouth of Esopus Kill, being part of the tract called "the Sagiers," laid out for George Meales.
1686-May 7-Description of survey of 252 acres lying about three miles west- ward from the mouth of Esopus Kill, beginning at the side of a run called the Beaver Kill, being part of the tract called Sagiers, laid out for George Meales, and others.
1686-May 8-Survey of 300 acres lying northward from the mouth of Esopus Creek, being part of the tract called Sagiers, laid out for George Meales and others.
Sagier was a pioneer of date prior to 1660. He obtained lands from the Indians and is said to have built a small sawmill at the mouth of the creek which still bears his name. The tradition is of doubtful value. He did not perfect his title by patent, and the land reverted to the gov- ernment. Zager (Dutch) means Sawyer, and Zagerij means Sawmill. The latter is not met of record.
1686-May 8-Survey of 201 acres crossing the run called Sawyer's Kill, about a mile north of the mouth of Esopus Creek, being part of the tract called Sagiers, laid out for George Meales and others.
1686-May 14-Description of a survey of 797 acres in the county of Ulster. in the neighborhood of Wanton Island, laid out for himself by Ro. Fulerton, sur- veyor.
Wanton Island (Lenape Wanquon), is now the northeast bound of Ulster County. The Indian name means "Heel," heel-shaped, pro- tuberant.
1686-May 28-Survey of about 63 acres "being part of Hurley great piece" on the north side of Esopus Kill, laid out for Matthew Blanjohon.
1686-May 28-Description of a house-lot in Kingston "on ye north side of the Bridge Street," together with another small lot "without Kingston by the Mill," laid out for Matice Slight.
1686-May 28-Survey of 47 acres "being part of Hurley great piece," lying on the north side of Esopus Kill; likewise a house-lot in Hurley, and two lots of Hurley ffly or meadow ground, known as Nos. 11 and 13, laid out for Rowliffe Swartwood (Swartwout).
1687-March 9-Survey of a house-lot in Kingston, containing about ten acres, laid out for Henry Denyke.
A survey implies title previously obtained from some authority or indi- vidual-not record patents.
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1686-May 31-Description of a survey of 64 acres on the north side of Esopus Creek within the limits of Marbletown, laid out for Thos. Van de Marke.
1686-June 3-Description of a house-lot in the Church Street, in Kingston, laid out for Mart Hoffman.
Hoffman was a soldier in the war of 1663. He was the father of Zach- ariah Hoffman of Shawangunk.
1686-May 7-Survey of sundry lots in Hurley, in all about 30 acres, laid out for John Elta.
1686-June 8-Survey of 100 acres "lying on both sides of the Mother Kill, and known by the name of Otford, being within the limits of Kingston," laid out for John Hall.
1686-June 16-Survey of 400 acres in Kingston, laid out for John Spragg.
1686-Dec. 9-Survey of two pieces of meadow or ffly, in all 89 acres, lying north of Kingston, laid out by request of Wm. de Myre.
1687-Jan. 20-Description of a survey of 410 acres "known by the Indian name of Chauwangung," laid out for Thomas Lloyd.
This tract was at the settlement known later as Tuthiltown. The survey was based on a prior grant. It was the specific tract or place called Chawangon in the Indian deed to Governor Dongan in 1684, from which the name was extended to the mountain, the stream, and the town. All subsequent grants in the vicinity were located by it, as "at" or "near" Skawongung. Severyn Tenhout, Benjamin Smedis, Jacobus Bruyn, Matthias Mort, John McClean, located in the same vicinity. The tract was on the north side of the abrupt bend in the stream and extended from the bottom lands on the creek up the hill or ridge called Nescotack. The name means "On the hill's side." It was never the name of the mountain except by extension to it. Every place round about was called at or near "Shawongunk," or "ung," after Lloyd's settlement.
1687-May 17-Patent granted by Governor Dongan, approved by Council May 17th, 1688, to Dirick Shepmous, William de Meyer, Jacob Ruttsen, Wessell Ten- brooge, Barrett Aertze, Tunis Jacobsen, Benjamin Provoost, Wm. Legge, Jacob Aertson, Mattyze Mattise, Wm. Haines and John Wm. Hooghteen, "one body cor- porate and politique to be called by the name of The Trustees of the Freeholders and Commonality of the Town of Kingston," and defining the bounds of their jurisdiction, "beginning at the southward of Little Esopus Creek, thence west to the bounds of the Town of Hurley, thence along the bounds of Hurley to a certain creek called Motthar Creeke, thence northerly to another creek called Preenaker's Creek; thence upon a north line three miles into the woods, thence on the same course as the mountains range to the bounds of Albany County, and from thence along the said bounds to Hudson's River." Under this charter the town was gov- erned, from 1688 to 1816, by trustees elected annually.
1688-July 30-On representation of having purchased from the Indians by con- sent, Governor Dongan issued patent to Joochim Staats for a tract of land "lying and being above the village called Mombackus, extending from the land of Anna Beake southwesterly," etc., including the now most valuable portion of the valley of Sandberg Kill in the present town of Wawarsing.
John D. Fratsher.
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1693-May 10-Draught of two pieces of land, in all 130 acres on the west side of Esopus Creek, laid out for Hendrick Cornelius.
1695-April 5-Deed from two Indian women to the children of Nicholas An- thony for land lying to the south of Rondout Kill.
1697-May 27-Joost van Metren asked for "a tract of stoney woodland in Mar- bletown," and Humphrey Davenport asked for land upon Mumbackhous Kill.
1697 -- Oct. 14-William West asked patent for a piece of land "on which he had erected a corne mill"; also the vacant land adjoining, the whole being bounded south and east by lands of Col. Beekman, the Rondout Kill, and a direct line over the hills to the bounds of Hurley.
1697-Oct. 14-Patent to Thomas Swartwout, Jacob Coddeback, Peter Gumaer, Anthony Swartwout, Bernardus Swartwout, Jan Tys, and David Jamis, for lands on the Neversink River known as Machagh-Kameck, Paenpach, etc., now in part in Orange County, and in part in Sullivan County, primarily in Ulster and known on the Tax roll of 1714 as the "Neighborhood of Wackemeck."
1700-April 10-Indian deed to Engeltie, wife of Stephen Gasherie, lands on the south side of Rondout Kill, at a small run of water, to the west of the land of Rochsinck, called by the Indian name of Wiggewappog; thence along Rondout Kill to a small run of water called by the Indian name of Warramick, together with a certain fall named Sanchatisinck.
1701-Dec. 10-Survey of 710 acres of land, "at a place called Maschabeneer Shawengonck, laid out for Matthias Mott, with affidavit by Jacob Rutsen con- cerning its purchase from the Indians. Survey and affidavit filed with application for a patent.
1701-Sept. 22-Petition of Matthias Mott for a patent of about 400 acres "at a place called Shawangung," which was given him by the Indians when he was a child.
1702-June 10-Remonstrance by Sovereyn Tenhout against granting to Mat- thias Mott the land which he had petitioned for, accompanied by an extract from the minutes of the Court at Kingston showing that the land had been granted to Tenhout in 1683. He asked for a patent for 300 acres (apparently additional) "called by the Indians Masseecks" or Massecks, a name which describes low wet lands, a marsh or meadow.
No date-John Smedes and James Greeyer asked for 300 acres "lying on the south side of Nesquatalk, otherwise written Nescotack," on both sides of the Paltz River, for which a patent had been promised by Governor Bellmont.
No date-John Middagh "of Ulster County" asked for 300 acres on the south side of Esopus Creek "commonly called or known by the Indian name of Aqua- meeck," which the name probably described as "a fishing place on the other side" serving to locate the tract.
1702-March 12-John Hardenbergh, "of ye County of Ulster," asked license to purchase 300 acres "called by the Indians Wenachsink, lying over ye Shawengonck Kill on both sides of ye Wallkill." The place was in Shawangunk, and the Indian name described it as "at or on the fine, rich lands."
1702-March 12-Albert Rosa, "of ye county of Ulster," asked for a license to purchase about 300 acres of land "called by the Indians Anguagekonk," northward of Kingston upon a certain creek called Sawkill, "westerly above Wm. Legg's new Sawmill, and near ye high mountains."
1702-March 12-John Hardenbergh, "of ye county of Ulster" asked for license to purchase from the Indians 250 acres on the Sawkill.
1702-April 18-Robert Sanders asked for a patent for a tract of "2000 acres of profitable land, besides waste land and woodland in Ulster County, at a place called
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by the Indians Oghgotacton." The patent seems to have been granted, but there is no trace of its location.
1702-Sept. 12-Petition of William Nottingham, "an inhabitant of ye county of Ulster," for a piece of land "on ye second piece of ye towne of Marbletown." Granted July 1, 1703.
1703-May 8-Petition of Claes Clase Sluyter for land on Rondout Kill contain- ing 400 acres, "between ye land of widow Pawling and ye widow Dirck Kyser." Court at Kingston reported favorably.
1703-June 16-Petition of Captain Thomas Garton for and on behalf of ye inhabitants of the town of Marbletown, praying for the appointment of Trustees for said town and the issuing of letters patent.
This was the beginning of the organization of the town of Marble- town. The patent was issued June 25, 1703, and Col. Henry Beekman, Capt. Thomas Gaston (Garton) and Capt. Chas. Brodhead named as Trustees, whose successors continued to be elected annually until 1808.
1703-June 16-Petition of Colonel Henry Beekman "for and on behalf of the inhabitants of the town of Mumbackus," praying the appointment of Trustees for said town, and the issuing of letters patent.
The petition was granted June 25, 1703, and Colonel Henry Beekman, Joachim Schoonmaker and Moses de Puy named as the first trustees. The early and familiar name Mumbackus was exchanges for Rochester, as a compliment to the Earl of Rochester.
1703-Nov. 4-Petition of Arian Garretson and others in behalf of themselves and the rest of the inhabitants of Hurley praying for a patent and the appointment of trustees. Not acted on.
1704-Aug. 28-Patent to Philip French, Ebenezer Wilson and others, for lands "Beginning at a place in Ulster County called the Hunting House or Yagh House, lying to the northeast of land called Bashe's Land, thence to run west by north until it ineets the Fishkill or main branch of Delaware River, thence to run southerly to the south end of Great Minnisink Island, thence due south to the land lately granted to John Bridges & Co." i. e., to the Wawayanda Patent.
This was the Great Minnisink Patent covering lands now in Orange County and as far south as Great Minnisink Island nine miles south of Port Jervis, and as far north as about Mamakating, Sullivan (then Ulster) County, near which the Hunting House stood. Its boundaries were materially enlarged in 1764 under an order granting unoccupied lands to parties who were willing to pay taxes thereon, the line being extended north to Sandberg and east to Middletown, Orange County, and the Minnisink angle formed. A considerable portion of southwestern Ulster is still on this immense grant.
1704-Oct. 24-Petition of Cornelius Cool for and on behalf of the freeholders and inhabitants of Hurley for survey of a tract "lying between the north bounds of Kingston and the Great Mountains, commonly called the Blue Hills."
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The "Blue Hills" referred to bound Esopus Valley on the west, spread over Western Ulster and mingle with the Katskills on the north. Their name is from the reflection of the color of the rocks. The survey asked for was made and the tract described : "Bounded N. W. by the mountains, N. E. and east by Kingston, S. E. and S. W. by New Paltz, and Marble- town."
1706-July 16-Petition of Johannes Hardenbergh and Company for permission to purchase "a small tract of vacant land in the County of Ulster."
1707-March 22-Indian Deed to Johannes Hardenbergh for a tract of land in Ulster County "extending from the west bounds of Marbletown to a certain place called Kawienesink (Kawanesink), and northeast to a certain Kill called by the Indians Anquathkonck, and southerly to the town of Marbletown."
1708-Feb. 4-Petition of Johannes Hardenbergh and others for a patent for lands "beginning at ye Sandberg or hill" at ye N. E. corner of ye lands of Ebenezer Wilson & Co. (Minnisink Patent) thence northwesterly to ye Fish Kill River, and west to the headwaters thereof, including the same, thence to a small river called Cartwright's Kill, and so by ye said Kill to ye northwesternmost bounds of Kingston, on said Kill, thence by ye bounds of Kingston, Hurley, Marbletown and Rochester, and other patented lands to the beginning.
This was the historic Hardenbergh Patent which covered northwest- ern Ulster and mainly the County of Sullivan and part of Delaware. The patent was granted in 1709.
1708-Oct. 12-Petition of Cornelius Cool and others of the town of Hurley, for a patent for a tract of land adjoining the town of New Paltz, Report thereon by Rip van Dam and other members of the Council recommending the issue of the patent, with the saving clause admitting the rest of the town of Hurley to share in its benefits.
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