Lot
Calk Hook Farm
Lot Group
Original Grants and Farms
Property Was Used in 1660 For:
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THE CALK HOOK FARM Block Check List. 211-230-210-196-155-146-211.
WiLLEM Kieft, Director, etc., to Jan Jansen Damen. Ground-brief dated March 15, 1646. — LiberGG: 137 (Albany).
Conveys "a parcel of land, situated on the Island of Manhattan named the 'Kalckhoeck' (in use by said Jan Damen for ten years prior to this date). Extent, according to the surveyor's map twenty morgens three hundred eighty six rods." — Orig. pat., owned by N. Y. Hist. Soc, printed in society's Collections (1913), 68-69. See Chronology, PI. 7-b, Vol. IV.
A survey of the Calk Hook, in a dispute between Abraham Verplanck and others, was ordered by the provincial council, May 25, 1662 (see Chronology). Earlier than this the tract had been divided into four nearly equal parts. In April, 1689, an actual survey was made by John Howell. — Map formerly on file in N. Y. register's office. No. 1 16. The most north-westerly quarter (known on this later map as Lot No. 3), was conveyed by heirs of Damen to Augustine Heermans, Oct. 17, 1661. — Liber Deeds, A: 249 (New York).
Heermans conveyed to Petrus Stuyvesant (deed not of record), who, on Oct. 7, 1669, sold to Thomas Lewis "one quarter part of the Lot known as the Kalck Hoeck." — Book of Records of Deeds and Transfers (1665-1672), 160, in city clerk's office. New York.
Nov. 10 and 12, 1725, the heirs of Thomas Lewis sold the property to Anthony Rutgers. The deeds, recorded in Liber Deeds, XXXI: 118-25 (New York) recite the actual division of the entire Calk Hook in April, 1689; the awarding of Lot No. 3 to Lewis; his death; an act of general assembly directing the division of the estate between his children, after the death of Geesie Lewis, his widow, etc.
By Feb. 3, 1723, Anthony Rutgers had also acquired the south-westerly quarter of the tract, from Capt. Richard Hill. — Liber Deeds, XXXI: 115, 116 (New York). This lot (No. I, on Howell's Map), originally of Abram Isaac Verplanck, had been conveyed by his heirs to William Huddleston, Feb. 27, 1697. —Ibid.,XX'V: no (New York). Huddleston to Hill, March 24, 1702. — Ibid., XXV: 1 14. Mr. Rutgers, now owning the westerly half of the Calk Hook, built the mansion described in Chronology under date of 1723.
The north-easterly one-quarter, known as Lot No. 4 on Howell's Map, vested in Isaac Bedlow. No deeds found of record. Bedlow died intestate between Jan. 15, 1673, when he appeared in court {Exec. Coun. Min., ed. by V. H. Paltsits, II: 772), and April 10, 1673, when a commission was appointed to audit his accounts (Hid., I: 152). July 15, 1698, Thomas Hawarden and Catrina, his wife; Joseph Smith and Mary, his wife (Catrina and Mary were daus. of Bedlow); and Claes Burgher, husband of a deceased dau., conveyed their interest in Lot No. 4 to Jacobus van Cortlandt. — Liier Deeds, XXIII: 34I (New York). April 2, 1718, one Isaac Bedlow conveyed his interest to Van Cortlandt. — I/>id., XXXIV: 467.
The remainder of the Calk Hook — Lot No. 2 — the southeasterly one-quarter, was allotted to Jan Vigne. March 30, 1708, Peter Roos, describing himself as heir-at-law and nextof-kin of Vigne, conveyed the plot to Jacques Fountain, who immediately re-conveyed to his father-in-law, VVolfert Webber. —Iiid.,XK.Vl: 536 (New York).
A copy of the Howells Map endorsed "Surveyed & delineated by me John Holwell [sic], Surveyor April Anno Dom. 1689," is in the Gibbs Collection of maps, 1845, '" '^^^ ^• Hist. Soc. Evidently the same as Map No. 116 which has been lost from the register's office.
WiLLEM Kieft, Director, etc., to Jan Jansen Damen. Ground-brief dated March 15, 1646. — LiberGG: 137 (Albany).
Conveys "a parcel of land, situated on the Island of Manhattan named the 'Kalckhoeck' (in use by said Jan Damen for ten years prior to this date). Extent, according to the surveyor's map twenty morgens three hundred eighty six rods." — Orig. pat., owned by N. Y. Hist. Soc, printed in society's Collections (1913), 68-69. See Chronology, PI. 7-b, Vol. IV.
A survey of the Calk Hook, in a dispute between Abraham Verplanck and others, was ordered by the provincial council, May 25, 1662 (see Chronology). Earlier than this the tract had been divided into four nearly equal parts. In April, 1689, an actual survey was made by John Howell. — Map formerly on file in N. Y. register's office. No. 1 16. The most north-westerly quarter (known on this later map as Lot No. 3), was conveyed by heirs of Damen to Augustine Heermans, Oct. 17, 1661. — Liber Deeds, A: 249 (New York).
Heermans conveyed to Petrus Stuyvesant (deed not of record), who, on Oct. 7, 1669, sold to Thomas Lewis "one quarter part of the Lot known as the Kalck Hoeck." — Book of Records of Deeds and Transfers (1665-1672), 160, in city clerk's office. New York.
Nov. 10 and 12, 1725, the heirs of Thomas Lewis sold the property to Anthony Rutgers. The deeds, recorded in Liber Deeds, XXXI: 118-25 (New York) recite the actual division of the entire Calk Hook in April, 1689; the awarding of Lot No. 3 to Lewis; his death; an act of general assembly directing the division of the estate between his children, after the death of Geesie Lewis, his widow, etc.
By Feb. 3, 1723, Anthony Rutgers had also acquired the south-westerly quarter of the tract, from Capt. Richard Hill. — Liber Deeds, XXXI: 115, 116 (New York). This lot (No. I, on Howell's Map), originally of Abram Isaac Verplanck, had been conveyed by his heirs to William Huddleston, Feb. 27, 1697. —Ibid.,XX'V: no (New York). Huddleston to Hill, March 24, 1702. — Ibid., XXV: 1 14. Mr. Rutgers, now owning the westerly half of the Calk Hook, built the mansion described in Chronology under date of 1723.
The north-easterly one-quarter, known as Lot No. 4 on Howell's Map, vested in Isaac Bedlow. No deeds found of record. Bedlow died intestate between Jan. 15, 1673, when he appeared in court {Exec. Coun. Min., ed. by V. H. Paltsits, II: 772), and April 10, 1673, when a commission was appointed to audit his accounts (Hid., I: 152). July 15, 1698, Thomas Hawarden and Catrina, his wife; Joseph Smith and Mary, his wife (Catrina and Mary were daus. of Bedlow); and Claes Burgher, husband of a deceased dau., conveyed their interest in Lot No. 4 to Jacobus van Cortlandt. — Liier Deeds, XXIII: 34I (New York). April 2, 1718, one Isaac Bedlow conveyed his interest to Van Cortlandt. — I/>id., XXXIV: 467.
The remainder of the Calk Hook — Lot No. 2 — the southeasterly one-quarter, was allotted to Jan Vigne. March 30, 1708, Peter Roos, describing himself as heir-at-law and nextof-kin of Vigne, conveyed the plot to Jacques Fountain, who immediately re-conveyed to his father-in-law, VVolfert Webber. —Iiid.,XK.Vl: 536 (New York).
A copy of the Howells Map endorsed "Surveyed & delineated by me John Holwell [sic], Surveyor April Anno Dom. 1689," is in the Gibbs Collection of maps, 1845, '" '^^^ ^• Hist. Soc. Evidently the same as Map No. 116 which has been lost from the register's office.
