Lot
Cornelis Groesens Farm
Lot Group
Original Grants and Farms
Property Was Used in 1660 For:
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THE CORNELIS GROESENS FARM Block Check List. 51-49-46.
Jan Jansen Damen was in possession of this land earlier than 1638.
Cornells Groesens secured a Kieft ground-brief for the tract, five and a half acres, Jan. 10, 1645.
The wall was built across it; the first Lutheran Church stood upon part of it just inside the wall near the Land Gate. Before July 1673, "the new Burial place without the Towne" occupied part of it, just outside the wall. Johannes van Brugh, who had bought the land at the north-east corner of the farm, had a formal Dutch garden there, which was still taxed to him in August, 1673.
Finally the city of New York acquired the whole farm, probably by purchase, as recited in the Dongan Charter, April 27, 1686, which ratifies the city's title.
April 22, 1703, the corporation of New York conveyed it all to Trinity Church. The south wall of the building at iii Broadway is coincident with the north line of the farm.
Cornells Groesens' house lot was on the east side of Broadway, opposite to the farm. After the wall was built, only a narrow strip remained to the north of the wall, and even that was soon taken for part of the road — later Wall St.
Before May 5, 1656, Cornells Groesens and his wife Lysbet had been murdered by the Indians. Their two children were made captives by the savages, but were ransomed. June 9,
1656, the children were sent by the orphanmasters to their grandfather in Holland, "or in his absence the nearest friends." — Min. of Orphan Masters, I: 15-22.
For a complete history of the Groesens tract, see Key to Dutch Grants, Block A, Lot 18, Block B, Lot 12; Key to Castello Plan, Block A, Lots 16, 17, 18, and Lot 10, outside the wall; Vol. II: 224, 225, 341, 363.
AlsoL. M. R. K., Ill: 927.
In the middle of the last century a proposal was made to cut Albany St. through this farm, part of Trinity Churchyard. — See Eccles. Rec.,\\: 11 80.
See Chronology, June 8, 1852.
Jan Jansen Damen was in possession of this land earlier than 1638.
Cornells Groesens secured a Kieft ground-brief for the tract, five and a half acres, Jan. 10, 1645.
The wall was built across it; the first Lutheran Church stood upon part of it just inside the wall near the Land Gate. Before July 1673, "the new Burial place without the Towne" occupied part of it, just outside the wall. Johannes van Brugh, who had bought the land at the north-east corner of the farm, had a formal Dutch garden there, which was still taxed to him in August, 1673.
Finally the city of New York acquired the whole farm, probably by purchase, as recited in the Dongan Charter, April 27, 1686, which ratifies the city's title.
April 22, 1703, the corporation of New York conveyed it all to Trinity Church. The south wall of the building at iii Broadway is coincident with the north line of the farm.
Cornells Groesens' house lot was on the east side of Broadway, opposite to the farm. After the wall was built, only a narrow strip remained to the north of the wall, and even that was soon taken for part of the road — later Wall St.
Before May 5, 1656, Cornells Groesens and his wife Lysbet had been murdered by the Indians. Their two children were made captives by the savages, but were ransomed. June 9,
1656, the children were sent by the orphanmasters to their grandfather in Holland, "or in his absence the nearest friends." — Min. of Orphan Masters, I: 15-22.
For a complete history of the Groesens tract, see Key to Dutch Grants, Block A, Lot 18, Block B, Lot 12; Key to Castello Plan, Block A, Lots 16, 17, 18, and Lot 10, outside the wall; Vol. II: 224, 225, 341, 363.
AlsoL. M. R. K., Ill: 927.
In the middle of the last century a proposal was made to cut Albany St. through this farm, part of Trinity Churchyard. — See Eccles. Rec.,\\: 11 80.
See Chronology, June 8, 1852.
