Lot
F10
Lot Group
Grant Lots
Original Grants and Farms Document(s)
Grant Lot Document(s)
Date Start
1656-06-30
Date End
1656-09-08
Tax Lot Events
To Party 1 (text)
Jacob Wolphertsen van Couwenhoven
From Party (Text)
DWIC
Grant Description
Gr-br. to Jacob Wolphertsen van Couwenhoven, (HH-2: 58.) Desc: A lot with building thereon called the Old Church on the Island of Manhattan, within the City of New Amsterdam, at the East river, opposite Hendrick Hendricks Kip; being in br. as the same is lying bet. the ho. of Hendrick Janse Smith (at present occupied by Jan Perie) and the lane which runs bet. Cornells van Tienhoven's ho. and the afsd. Old Church and in length from the range of the st. to the river.
Document Source(s)
HH-2: 58
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)
The Old Church
Built by Van Twiller, 1633.
1656
June 30 Gr-br. to Jacob Wolphertsen van Couwenhoven,
(HH-2: 58.) Desc: A lot with building thereon called
the Old Church on the Island of Manhattan, within the
City of New Amsterdam, at the East river, opposite
Hendrick Hendricks Kip; being in br. as the same is
lying bet. the ho. of Hendrick Janse Smith (at present
occupied by Jan Perie) and the lane which runs bet.
Cornells van Tienhoven's ho. and the afsd. Old Church
and in length from the range of the st. to the river.
Sep. 8 Deed. Jacob W. Van Couwenhoven to Isack de
Foreest. (Lib. A, Deeds, N. Y. Co.: 71.) Recites a deed Sep. 8
from the Director-General to Van Couwenhoven, the
last of July past; and according to a sale Sep. i, inst. to
De Foreest, at public auction. Desc: A house and lot
on Strand of East river opposite Hendrick Kip, bet. ho.
of C. van Tienhoven and Jan Perie, called the Old
Church.
Note: Heirs of De Foreest in possession of, and sell-
ing the same lot, with building, in 1682. (Lib. 12,
Deeds, N. Y. Co.: 93.)
Built by Van Twiller, 1633.
1656
June 30 Gr-br. to Jacob Wolphertsen van Couwenhoven,
(HH-2: 58.) Desc: A lot with building thereon called
the Old Church on the Island of Manhattan, within the
City of New Amsterdam, at the East river, opposite
Hendrick Hendricks Kip; being in br. as the same is
lying bet. the ho. of Hendrick Janse Smith (at present
occupied by Jan Perie) and the lane which runs bet.
Cornells van Tienhoven's ho. and the afsd. Old Church
and in length from the range of the st. to the river.
Sep. 8 Deed. Jacob W. Van Couwenhoven to Isack de
Foreest. (Lib. A, Deeds, N. Y. Co.: 71.) Recites a deed Sep. 8
from the Director-General to Van Couwenhoven, the
last of July past; and according to a sale Sep. i, inst. to
De Foreest, at public auction. Desc: A house and lot
on Strand of East river opposite Hendrick Kip, bet. ho.
of C. van Tienhoven and Jan Perie, called the Old
Church.
Note: Heirs of De Foreest in possession of, and sell-
ing the same lot, with building, in 1682. (Lib. 12,
Deeds, N. Y. Co.: 93.)
