Lot
John Hopper Farm
Lot Group
Original Grants and Farms
Property Was Used in 1660 For:
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THE JOHN HOPPER FARM Block Check List. 1102-1267-1264-1098-1102.
The Hopper farm is identical with lot i of the Ten Lots. The early history of lots I and 2, until they vested in Jacobus van Cortland t, follows.
Lots I and 2, one equal one fifth of the whole, were allotted to Jacob Leendertsen Vande Grift.
Jacob Leendersen Vandecrift to Isaac Bedlow, one of the aldermen of this City. Deed dated April 9, 1668. — Book of Records of Deeds and Transfers (i 665-1 672), 122, in city clerk's office. New York.
Recites patent of Oct. 3, 1667.
Conveys "The just full & equall half of all my Right Title Interest & property ... to the north of the Create Kreek or Kill."
Jacob Leendersen Vandegrift to Isaac Bedlow. Deed dated Aug. 27, 1668. — Ibid., 137.
Conveys: "The Remainder of all his Interest Propertie Right & Title," to the same land.
Thomas Howarden, and Catharine, his wife (one of the daughters of Isaac Bedlow); Joseph Smith and Mary, his wife (another of said daughters) ; Claes Burgher who married Sarah, now deceased (another of said daughters), to Jacobus van Cortlandt. Deed dated July 15, 1698. — Liber Deeds, XXIII: 342 (New York).
Conveys "One equal full fifth of all that a certain tract or parcell of land ... to the Northward of the Great Creeke or Kill."
Thirty years later, Isaac Bedlow, grandson of Isaac Bedlow, deed., executed a quit claim deed to Van Cortlandt of his interest in the property, April 2, 1728. — Liber Deeds, XXXIV: 467 (New York). This must have been taken to quiet some claim to the land, which in the meantime had been sold by Jacobus Van Cortlandt.
No deed found from Van Cortlandt, or into Aernout Webber.
Aernout Webbers, yeoman to John Balme, gentleman. Deed dated Nov. 2, 1713. — Liber Deeds, XXXI: 227 (New York).
Conveys "A farm . . . near the place commonly called the Great Kill, bounded on the north by land of Jacob Regnier; to the south by land of Wolfert Webbers Jr.; west to the North River and East to the commons. 60 by 250 rods."
John Balme, gentleman, to Mathias Hopper, yeoman, formerly of Hackensack, N. J. Deed dated Aug. 13, 1714. — Liber Deeds, XXXI: 230 (New York).
Conveys same property.
John Hopper owned the farm in 1759. (See the Cosine farm.) H. S. Mott, The Nei!) York of Yesterday, p. 8, says that he inherited it from his father, Mathias Hopper.
The John Hopper house is shown on Randel, north of 51st St. about 200 feet west of Broadway. Mott says that was the site of the original farm house. — Ibid.
The later real estate history of this farm is to be found in H. C. Tuttle, Abstracts of Farm Titles, Vol. III.
The Hopper farm is identical with lot i of the Ten Lots. The early history of lots I and 2, until they vested in Jacobus van Cortland t, follows.
Lots I and 2, one equal one fifth of the whole, were allotted to Jacob Leendertsen Vande Grift.
Jacob Leendersen Vandecrift to Isaac Bedlow, one of the aldermen of this City. Deed dated April 9, 1668. — Book of Records of Deeds and Transfers (i 665-1 672), 122, in city clerk's office. New York.
Recites patent of Oct. 3, 1667.
Conveys "The just full & equall half of all my Right Title Interest & property ... to the north of the Create Kreek or Kill."
Jacob Leendersen Vandegrift to Isaac Bedlow. Deed dated Aug. 27, 1668. — Ibid., 137.
Conveys: "The Remainder of all his Interest Propertie Right & Title," to the same land.
Thomas Howarden, and Catharine, his wife (one of the daughters of Isaac Bedlow); Joseph Smith and Mary, his wife (another of said daughters) ; Claes Burgher who married Sarah, now deceased (another of said daughters), to Jacobus van Cortlandt. Deed dated July 15, 1698. — Liber Deeds, XXIII: 342 (New York).
Conveys "One equal full fifth of all that a certain tract or parcell of land ... to the Northward of the Great Creeke or Kill."
Thirty years later, Isaac Bedlow, grandson of Isaac Bedlow, deed., executed a quit claim deed to Van Cortlandt of his interest in the property, April 2, 1728. — Liber Deeds, XXXIV: 467 (New York). This must have been taken to quiet some claim to the land, which in the meantime had been sold by Jacobus Van Cortlandt.
No deed found from Van Cortlandt, or into Aernout Webber.
Aernout Webbers, yeoman to John Balme, gentleman. Deed dated Nov. 2, 1713. — Liber Deeds, XXXI: 227 (New York).
Conveys "A farm . . . near the place commonly called the Great Kill, bounded on the north by land of Jacob Regnier; to the south by land of Wolfert Webbers Jr.; west to the North River and East to the commons. 60 by 250 rods."
John Balme, gentleman, to Mathias Hopper, yeoman, formerly of Hackensack, N. J. Deed dated Aug. 13, 1714. — Liber Deeds, XXXI: 230 (New York).
Conveys same property.
John Hopper owned the farm in 1759. (See the Cosine farm.) H. S. Mott, The Nei!) York of Yesterday, p. 8, says that he inherited it from his father, Mathias Hopper.
The John Hopper house is shown on Randel, north of 51st St. about 200 feet west of Broadway. Mott says that was the site of the original farm house. — Ibid.
The later real estate history of this farm is to be found in H. C. Tuttle, Abstracts of Farm Titles, Vol. III.
