Lot: D2 (Grant Lots)

Lot
D2
Lot Group
Grant Lots
Date Start
1645-09-30
Date End
1653-03-10
To Party 1 (text)
Harry Peers
From Party (Text)
DWIC
Grant Description
Gr-br. to Harry Peers. (GG: no.) Desc: One lot Sep. 30 for a ho. and garden bounded W. by Tomas de Metselaer (the mason) and N. by the road; it extends along said road to his ho., 4 r., 8 ft., 5 ins.; the br. before the ho. is 1 r., 4 ft., further to the lot of Jan Cornelissen, 2 r., 5 ft., 3 ins., along his said lot on the E. side to the lot of Isaac de Foreest, 4 r., 9 ft., 6 ins.; further along said Foreest's, 2 r.; then 2 r., 3 ft., 4 ins. along the lot of the afsd. Metselaer, being the S. side; then 3 r., 8 ft., 4 ins.; then along the said lot being the W. side to the place of beginning, 5 r., 5 ft.; amtg. in all to 33 r., 4 ft., 2 ins.
Document Source(s)
GG: no
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)
1645

Gr-br. to Harry Peers. (GG: no.) Desc: One lot Sep. 30

for a ho. and garden bounded W. by Tomas de Metselaer

(the mason) and N. by the road; it extends along said

road to his ho., 4 r., 8 ft., 5 ins.; the br. before the ho. is

1 r., 4 ft., further to the lot of Jan Cornelissen, 2 r., 5 ft.,

3 ins., along his said lot on the E. side to the lot of Isaac
de Foreest, 4 r., 9 ft., 6 ins.; further along said Foreest's,

2 r.; then 2 r., 3 ft., 4 ins. along the lot of the afsd.
Metselaer, being the S. side; then 3 r., 8 ft., 4 ins.; then
along the said lot being the W. side to the place of
beginning, 5 r., 5 ft.; amtg. in all to 33 r., 4 ft., 2 ins.

Note: In this grant, the frontage on the road or N.
side is stated in 3 distances, viz.: 4 r., 8 ft., 5 ins. to the
ho.; I r., 4 ft. in front of the ho.; then further to the
lot of Cornelissen, 2 r., 5 ft. — a total frontage of 8 r., 5 ft.,

8 ins. The S. boundary is also given in 3 distances: 2 r.
plus 2 r., 3 ft., 4 ins. plus 3 r., 8 ft., 4 ins., in all 7 r., 1 1 ft.,
8 ins.

1653
Deed. William Beeckman to Nicholas Bout. (HH: Mch. 10
18.) Desc: Lot, New Amsterdam, conveyed to said
Beeckman by Roelof de Haes, 2 Apl., 1650.

1^59

Mtge. Nicholas Bout to Pieterjacobsen Buys. [Mtges., June 14
1654-60: 133.) Desc: Ho. and lot in the Marckvelt
Steegh, bounded E. by ho. and lot of Jan Evertsen Bout,
S. by lot of Teunis Tomassen of Naarden; W. by the
lot of Gerrit Hendricksen; N. by the lane afsd.
1663

Terms and conditions of sale by the Honourable Court Nov. 8
of premises afsd. (Lib. B, Deeds, N. Y. Co.: 124.)
1667

Deed. Mayor, &c. to Simon Jansen Romeyn. (Lib. Apl. 16
B, Deeds, N. Y. Co.: 126.) Desc: Ho. and parcel of
land S. side Marckvelt St., abutting N. side on said
street, with E. side upon land of J. Teunissen; W. side
ho. and lot of J. Liendersen; S. side, lot of J. Teunissen
(Kay); N. side, 6 r., i,)/i ft.; E. side, 4 r., i ft., with a
square of 6^^ ft. from said square upon said course, 2 r.,
3K ft.; S. side, 5 r., 3>^ ft.; W. side 5 r., 3 ft., 9 ins.,
formerly of N. Boot.