Lot: A8 (Grant Lots)

Lot
A8
Lot Group
Grant Lots
Date Start
1649-06-06
Date End
1668-02-14
To Party 1 (text)
Jan Huygen
From Party (Text)
DWIC
Grant Description
Gr-br. to Jan Huygen. (Original in library of J. June 6 Pierpont Morgan, Esq.) Desc: Cert, premises for a ho. and garden situated and located on the Island of Man- hattan along the paling of the Gentlemen's Carriage Road,* bet. the Church-yard and the premises of Hendrick Jansen having a br. on the Gentlemen's Car- riage Road of 3 r.; its length along the premises of Hendrick Jansen of Utrecht, 9 r., 4 ft.; and on the S. side; Northward toward the Church-yard, 9 r., 4 ft. Recites
Document Source(s)
Original in library of J. June 6 Pierpont Morgan, Esq
Full Grant Entry (The Iconography of Manhattan Island, Vol. 4, Ch. 4: The Dutch Grants):

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Full Stokes Entry (See images below)
1649
Gr-br. to Jan Huygen. (Original in library of J. June 6
Pierpont Morgan, Esq.) Desc: Cert, premises for a ho.
and garden situated and located on the Island of Man-
hattan along the paling of the Gentlemen's Carriage
Road,* bet. the Church-yard and the premises of
Hendrick Jansen having a br. on the Gentlemen's Car-
riage Road of 3 r.; its length along the premises of
Hendrick Jansen of Utrecht, 9 r., 4 ft.; and on the S. side;
Northward toward the Church-yard, 9 r., 4 ft. Recites
•Broadway.

THE DUTCH GRANTS

361

June 6 measured by Paul Leendertsen, surveyor and found to
have a length of 7 r., 3 ins. Recites Jan Huygen died;
the widow married again with Dirck Wiggerts. Accord-
ing to the calculation the following are the dimensions of
the premises: Br. of front along the road, 3 r.; br. of rear,
3 r., 3 ft.; length of both sides, 9 r., 11 ft., 3 ins.
1668

Feb. 14 Conf. Governor Nicolls to Dirck Wiggerts. (Pats.
Alb., II: 169.) Recites gr-br. to John Huygen, June 5,
1643 {sic); also, death of Huygen and marriage of his
widow to Wiggerts. Desc: W. side of the Broad High-
way, bet. the Church-yard and lot of Hendrick Jansen.
On the Highway, 3 r.; behind, towards the strand, 3 r.,

3 ft.; in length, S. side, next to Hendrick Jansen van
IJtrecht, 9 r., 1 1 ft., 3 ins.; and on the N. side, towards the
Church-yard, the like.