Lot
Cornelius Vanderhoof Farm
Lot Group
Original Grants and Farms
Property Was Used in 1660 For:
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THE CORNELIUS VANDERHOOF FARM (Later Known as the Martin Smith Tract) Block Check List. 1299-1317-1315-1297.
This eight acre farm was part of the Common Lands of the city of New York, granted to the municipality by the Dongan Charter, April 27, 1686.
In July 16S4, Jacob Kip petitioned Gov. Dongan for "a parcel of land lying and being Round in a criple Bush," which was not then granted.
The Ratzer Map shows the large swampy meadow at the turn of the road, part of which Vanderhoof seems to have enclosed.
Cornelius Van Derhoff was in New York as early as 174I, when he served the town as a watchman. — M. C. C, V: 44. Vanderhoof was a brickmaker; the clay at the cripplebush furnished the material for the bricks which he was supplying to the city in large quantities in 1753-4, at which time he was appointed constable for the Bowery division of the Out Ward. — Ibid., V: 41 8, 434, 437. He may have had a lease from the city; his name occurs in a list of lessees who owed money to the corporation in 1757 (ibid., VI: 79), but he never procured a deed.
March 20, 1771, a committee "appointed to Enquire into the Incroachments made upon the Corporation Lands in the Outward" reported: "it is our opinion that Vanderhoof should be ejected." — Ibid., VII: 274.
Evidently, Vanderhoof came to terms with the city. The records are silent about it.
Vanderhoof married Elizabeth, daughter of Abraham Delamater, in 1750. — Riker, Hist, oj Harlem, 504. He died in 1773, leaving eight children.- — Liber inils, 37: 222 (New York).
Only six children survived their father. Deeds from these heirs or their representatives finally vested the title to the farm in Martin Smith, April 16, 1796. — Liber Deeds, CCXXXIV: 48 to 66 inch (New York).
The house shown on the Ratzer Map, and on Maerschalck's survey of the Turtle Bay farm, 1771, seems to be in the same location as the house on the Randel Map, near the south-east corner of Third Ave. and 44th St.
This eight acre farm was part of the Common Lands of the city of New York, granted to the municipality by the Dongan Charter, April 27, 1686.
In July 16S4, Jacob Kip petitioned Gov. Dongan for "a parcel of land lying and being Round in a criple Bush," which was not then granted.
The Ratzer Map shows the large swampy meadow at the turn of the road, part of which Vanderhoof seems to have enclosed.
Cornelius Van Derhoff was in New York as early as 174I, when he served the town as a watchman. — M. C. C, V: 44. Vanderhoof was a brickmaker; the clay at the cripplebush furnished the material for the bricks which he was supplying to the city in large quantities in 1753-4, at which time he was appointed constable for the Bowery division of the Out Ward. — Ibid., V: 41 8, 434, 437. He may have had a lease from the city; his name occurs in a list of lessees who owed money to the corporation in 1757 (ibid., VI: 79), but he never procured a deed.
March 20, 1771, a committee "appointed to Enquire into the Incroachments made upon the Corporation Lands in the Outward" reported: "it is our opinion that Vanderhoof should be ejected." — Ibid., VII: 274.
Evidently, Vanderhoof came to terms with the city. The records are silent about it.
Vanderhoof married Elizabeth, daughter of Abraham Delamater, in 1750. — Riker, Hist, oj Harlem, 504. He died in 1773, leaving eight children.- — Liber inils, 37: 222 (New York).
Only six children survived their father. Deeds from these heirs or their representatives finally vested the title to the farm in Martin Smith, April 16, 1796. — Liber Deeds, CCXXXIV: 48 to 66 inch (New York).
The house shown on the Ratzer Map, and on Maerschalck's survey of the Turtle Bay farm, 1771, seems to be in the same location as the house on the Randel Map, near the south-east corner of Third Ave. and 44th St.
