Lot
John Horne Farm
Lot Group
Original Grants and Farms
Property Was Used in 1660 For:
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THE JOHN HORNE FARM Block Check List. 80(^827-850-797-800.
The John Home tract originally included the Home and Varian farms.
Home purchased the land first granted to Solomon Pieters the negro. He encroached on the common lands of the city of New York for a parcel nearly as large as that patent.
Edmund Andros, Governour, etc., to Solomon Peterson. Patent dated Dec. 14, 1680. — Liber Patents, V: 6 (Albany).
Sr Edmund Andros, Knt., &c. Whereas "A certaine peice or Parcel! of Land, situate, lying and being upon the Island Manhatans in the Rear of the Lotts at the Great Kills [:'. e., in the rear of the Weylandt patent], W^Ji by vertue of my Warrant is Surveyed & Laid out for Solomon Peterson, Beginning at the rear of the Lott of Johannes Cowenhoven by the Swamp, Ranging into the Woods, Southeasterly, 56°, 60 r., ranging thence Southwesterly 34° 80 r., Ranging thence Northwesterly 56°, 60 r. and thence extending Northeasterly 34° by ye Swamp, 80 r. to ye first Station. Containing in all 30 Acres of Upland as by the Returne of ye Surveyor doth & may Appeare, Now, ike."
The survey dated Dec. 5, 1679, made by Ro. Ryder, is in Land Papers, T. 160 (Albany).
Marite Peters, wid. of Solomon Peters, deed., free negro, JacqiB Solomons, Isaac Solomons, Samuel Dey, Jeannetie Janse, wid. of Bernardus Janse, deed., to John HoRNE and Cornelius Webber. Deed dated May 15, 1716. — Liber Deeds, CXI I: 247 (New York).
Conveys ".'\11 that certaine piece or parcel of land . . . near the great Kill heretofore granted by Sir Edmund Andross . . . to ye above named Solomon Peters: Beginning at ye rear of ye lott of Johannis Couwenhoove, now deceased, and running its courses and lines according to ye grant or patent." Containing 1,0 acres of upland.
Cornelius Webber's interest seems to have vested in John Home. No deeds found.
The grant covered thirty acres; Home gradually infringed upon the common lands to the east as far as the old Bloomingdale Road; to the south as far as the Abingdon Road.
June I, 1714, Home was ordered by the court to remove the fence from "A large quantity of the Land belonging to this Corporation lying at the Bowry." — M. C. C, III: 62.
1721, Oct. 2. Garrit Onckelbagg procured a deed from William Smith of the county ot Orange, yeoman, and Maria, his wife, of a parcel ol land "heretofore belonging to their grantfather Solomon free negro deceased bounded east by the Post Road and south by the land of Klaes Romyn [across the Abingdon Road]." — Liber Deeds, XXXT. 155 (New York).
Garrit Onckelbagg, a silversmith, bought up several of the old negro grants as a speculation. The heirs of Solomon Peters, having already conveyed this parcel, no title passed to him.
1760, Jan. 9. A committee of encroachments made report to the common council, concerning {inter alia) vacant lands between Jacobus Home's patent fronting the hither end of Bloomingdale Road and the meadow fronting the Bowery road granted to Sir Peter Warren, of which lands Home has possessed himself by extending his inclosure to the aforesaid meadow: Jacobus Home, being summoned, is willing to submit to the determination of the Board, insisting "he had a Small Patent which he could not find at present." — M. C. C, VI: 200.
1760, Nov. 24. Committee ordered to commence action ot ejectment. — Ibid., VI: 236.
Evidently Home came to terms with the corporation.
By 1760 John Home seems to have been succeeded by Jacobus Home. In 181 <;, the farm was owned by a later John Horn, who died in that year, leaving a will dated Feb. 20, 1815; proved Aug. I, 1815. — Liber Wills, \A\: 403. After that time the family name is always spelled Horn.
The Ratzer Map shows the early farm house and gardens west of the Bloomingdale Road, north of the Abingdon Road. The farm lane was approximately on the line of the later 22nd St. The house stood about 200 feet west of the present Fifth Ave. It had been demolished before the time of the Randel Map. The buildings there shown are of a later date.
The John Home tract originally included the Home and Varian farms.
Home purchased the land first granted to Solomon Pieters the negro. He encroached on the common lands of the city of New York for a parcel nearly as large as that patent.
Edmund Andros, Governour, etc., to Solomon Peterson. Patent dated Dec. 14, 1680. — Liber Patents, V: 6 (Albany).
Sr Edmund Andros, Knt., &c. Whereas "A certaine peice or Parcel! of Land, situate, lying and being upon the Island Manhatans in the Rear of the Lotts at the Great Kills [:'. e., in the rear of the Weylandt patent], W^Ji by vertue of my Warrant is Surveyed & Laid out for Solomon Peterson, Beginning at the rear of the Lott of Johannes Cowenhoven by the Swamp, Ranging into the Woods, Southeasterly, 56°, 60 r., ranging thence Southwesterly 34° 80 r., Ranging thence Northwesterly 56°, 60 r. and thence extending Northeasterly 34° by ye Swamp, 80 r. to ye first Station. Containing in all 30 Acres of Upland as by the Returne of ye Surveyor doth & may Appeare, Now, ike."
The survey dated Dec. 5, 1679, made by Ro. Ryder, is in Land Papers, T. 160 (Albany).
Marite Peters, wid. of Solomon Peters, deed., free negro, JacqiB Solomons, Isaac Solomons, Samuel Dey, Jeannetie Janse, wid. of Bernardus Janse, deed., to John HoRNE and Cornelius Webber. Deed dated May 15, 1716. — Liber Deeds, CXI I: 247 (New York).
Conveys ".'\11 that certaine piece or parcel of land . . . near the great Kill heretofore granted by Sir Edmund Andross . . . to ye above named Solomon Peters: Beginning at ye rear of ye lott of Johannis Couwenhoove, now deceased, and running its courses and lines according to ye grant or patent." Containing 1,0 acres of upland.
Cornelius Webber's interest seems to have vested in John Home. No deeds found.
The grant covered thirty acres; Home gradually infringed upon the common lands to the east as far as the old Bloomingdale Road; to the south as far as the Abingdon Road.
June I, 1714, Home was ordered by the court to remove the fence from "A large quantity of the Land belonging to this Corporation lying at the Bowry." — M. C. C, III: 62.
1721, Oct. 2. Garrit Onckelbagg procured a deed from William Smith of the county ot Orange, yeoman, and Maria, his wife, of a parcel ol land "heretofore belonging to their grantfather Solomon free negro deceased bounded east by the Post Road and south by the land of Klaes Romyn [across the Abingdon Road]." — Liber Deeds, XXXT. 155 (New York).
Garrit Onckelbagg, a silversmith, bought up several of the old negro grants as a speculation. The heirs of Solomon Peters, having already conveyed this parcel, no title passed to him.
1760, Jan. 9. A committee of encroachments made report to the common council, concerning {inter alia) vacant lands between Jacobus Home's patent fronting the hither end of Bloomingdale Road and the meadow fronting the Bowery road granted to Sir Peter Warren, of which lands Home has possessed himself by extending his inclosure to the aforesaid meadow: Jacobus Home, being summoned, is willing to submit to the determination of the Board, insisting "he had a Small Patent which he could not find at present." — M. C. C, VI: 200.
1760, Nov. 24. Committee ordered to commence action ot ejectment. — Ibid., VI: 236.
Evidently Home came to terms with the corporation.
By 1760 John Home seems to have been succeeded by Jacobus Home. In 181 <;, the farm was owned by a later John Horn, who died in that year, leaving a will dated Feb. 20, 1815; proved Aug. I, 1815. — Liber Wills, \A\: 403. After that time the family name is always spelled Horn.
The Ratzer Map shows the early farm house and gardens west of the Bloomingdale Road, north of the Abingdon Road. The farm lane was approximately on the line of the later 22nd St. The house stood about 200 feet west of the present Fifth Ave. It had been demolished before the time of the Randel Map. The buildings there shown are of a later date.
