Lot
Teunis Somarindyck Farm
Lot Group
Original Grants and Farms
Property Was Used in 1660 For:
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THE TEUNIS SOMARINDYCK FARM Lot 7 OF the "Ten Lots" Block Check List. 1194-1111-1111-1187-1194.
This lot, with lot 8, belonged either to Egbert Wouters or to Jan Vinge. Nothing in the records proves the allotment.
Lot No. 7 was purchased by Thomas Hall in his lifetime, or by his widow, Anne Medford Hall.
The will of Anne Medford, widow of Thomas Hall, was executed, Aug. 31, 1669. A copy was recorded March 2, 1686/7. — Liber fViUs, XIX-B: 181 (New York).
All of her estate was devised to her husband's "two Cozens By name Umfree Underbill and Mary Underbill, wife of Richard Stires."
She manumits her negro called Frans and further bequeathes to her said negro "One small parcell of ground of her lands layeing about the Great Kill upon this Island Manhattans aforesaid for his own use."
To another negro she sold the hundred acres which is here called the seventh lot of the ten lots of the patent.
Anna Hall, widow of Thomas Hall, deed., to Anthony John Evertse (negro). Deed dated Feb. 8, 1685/6. Not found of record; recited in following deed.
Anthony John Evertse, negro, to Adrian van Schaick. Deed, March 23, 1697. Not found of record; said to have been in possession of Jacob Halsted, Esq.
Conveys "all that certaine parcell of land which he, the said Negrow, for a valuable consideration did purchase of Anna Hall, situate, lying and being at Great Kills, aforesaid, between the land of Johannes Van Brugh and the Brant Skeyler [sic] as by bill of sale bearing date the 4th of November, Ano Dm. 1685, as alsoe by a transport thereof dated the 8th of February, 1685-6, relacon being to them had at large will appeare, containing as by said bill of sale and transport is set forth and Umited."
For will of Adrian Van Schaick, see the Harsen farm.
Rebecca van Schaick, widow of Adriaen van Schaick, sold lots 6 and 7 to Cornelius Dyckman, April 26, 1701. (See history of the lot 6.) Lot 7 vested in Cornelius Dyckman, Jr.
Cornelia, daughter of Derick Dyckman, and granddaughter to Cornelius Dyckman, Jr., married Teunis Somarindyck, Dec. 22, 1745. — Marr. in Ref. Dutch Ch., p. 174.
Tunes Somarindick and Cornelia, his wife, to Richard Somarindick. Deed dated March 28, 1796. — Liber Deeds, LIII: 128 (New York). Consid., 10 s.
Conveys (among others) parcel of land bounded northwesterly by Hudson's River, northerly by land formerly in the possession of Charles Ward Apthorpe, and now in the possession partly of John Cornelius Vanderhavel, partly of Richard Cunningham, and partly of said Charles Ward Apthorpe, south-easterly by the common land belonging to the corporation of the City of New York, and south-westwardly by land formerly of Johannes Harsen, now in the possession of Nicholas Olive, and partly of Jacob Harsen, "said tract of land being all the real estate belonging to the said Tunes Somerindick at Bloomingdale." Con. 106 acres, 2 roods, 13 perches.
Upon condition that grantee pays to Cornelia Somarindyck twenty pounds per annum during her natural life.
The Teunis Somarindyck house, which stood near the north-west corner of 75th St. and Broadway, is picturesquely shown in a drawing by Eliza Greatorex in Old New York from The Battery to Bloomingdale, Vol. II: 184; see also L. M. R. K., p. 952.
The date of erection of the house has not been fixed.
In Chronology, Dec. 6, 1757, there is an account of the meeting of the "House" (of representatives) "in the Assembly Chamber, at the Flouse of Mr. Teunis Somerndyck, in the Bowery Division of the Out Ward."
When that item was written, the Somarindyck house was identified as the farm house at Bloomingdale. Later research places it correctly. William Smith, the historian, affirmed that the meeting was not held in De Lancey's kitchen, but "in an out house occupied by the overseer of his own farm upon the skirts of the town."
Teunis Somarindyck probably acted as overseer for De Lancey at this time. Possibly for some years earlier and later. The Assembly continued to meet at his house until March 11, 1760, at least. He had been constable there as early as 1741 (M. C. C, V: 29), collector and assessor until 1749 {Hid., V: 273)-
James De Lancey died July 30, 1760. In 1764, Somarindyck was acting with Garrit Cosine as assessor at Bloomingdale. — Ibid., VI: 391.
The house on the De Lancey estate can be identified. It was not an "outhouse" but a good sized dwelling. It is shown on PI. 36 b fronting to a lane leading from the Bowery Road. The map in Lamb, History of the City of New York, I: 617, shows it at the north west corner of Bullock (Broome) St. and First (Chrystie) St.
An entry in M. C. C, VII: 287, speaks of "The lane which leads from the Bowery Lane ... & passes the house of James De Lancey Esq. which was formerly occupied by Tunis Somerdike." — June 13, 1771.
This lot, with lot 8, belonged either to Egbert Wouters or to Jan Vinge. Nothing in the records proves the allotment.
Lot No. 7 was purchased by Thomas Hall in his lifetime, or by his widow, Anne Medford Hall.
The will of Anne Medford, widow of Thomas Hall, was executed, Aug. 31, 1669. A copy was recorded March 2, 1686/7. — Liber fViUs, XIX-B: 181 (New York).
All of her estate was devised to her husband's "two Cozens By name Umfree Underbill and Mary Underbill, wife of Richard Stires."
She manumits her negro called Frans and further bequeathes to her said negro "One small parcell of ground of her lands layeing about the Great Kill upon this Island Manhattans aforesaid for his own use."
To another negro she sold the hundred acres which is here called the seventh lot of the ten lots of the patent.
Anna Hall, widow of Thomas Hall, deed., to Anthony John Evertse (negro). Deed dated Feb. 8, 1685/6. Not found of record; recited in following deed.
Anthony John Evertse, negro, to Adrian van Schaick. Deed, March 23, 1697. Not found of record; said to have been in possession of Jacob Halsted, Esq.
Conveys "all that certaine parcell of land which he, the said Negrow, for a valuable consideration did purchase of Anna Hall, situate, lying and being at Great Kills, aforesaid, between the land of Johannes Van Brugh and the Brant Skeyler [sic] as by bill of sale bearing date the 4th of November, Ano Dm. 1685, as alsoe by a transport thereof dated the 8th of February, 1685-6, relacon being to them had at large will appeare, containing as by said bill of sale and transport is set forth and Umited."
For will of Adrian Van Schaick, see the Harsen farm.
Rebecca van Schaick, widow of Adriaen van Schaick, sold lots 6 and 7 to Cornelius Dyckman, April 26, 1701. (See history of the lot 6.) Lot 7 vested in Cornelius Dyckman, Jr.
Cornelia, daughter of Derick Dyckman, and granddaughter to Cornelius Dyckman, Jr., married Teunis Somarindyck, Dec. 22, 1745. — Marr. in Ref. Dutch Ch., p. 174.
Tunes Somarindick and Cornelia, his wife, to Richard Somarindick. Deed dated March 28, 1796. — Liber Deeds, LIII: 128 (New York). Consid., 10 s.
Conveys (among others) parcel of land bounded northwesterly by Hudson's River, northerly by land formerly in the possession of Charles Ward Apthorpe, and now in the possession partly of John Cornelius Vanderhavel, partly of Richard Cunningham, and partly of said Charles Ward Apthorpe, south-easterly by the common land belonging to the corporation of the City of New York, and south-westwardly by land formerly of Johannes Harsen, now in the possession of Nicholas Olive, and partly of Jacob Harsen, "said tract of land being all the real estate belonging to the said Tunes Somerindick at Bloomingdale." Con. 106 acres, 2 roods, 13 perches.
Upon condition that grantee pays to Cornelia Somarindyck twenty pounds per annum during her natural life.
The Teunis Somarindyck house, which stood near the north-west corner of 75th St. and Broadway, is picturesquely shown in a drawing by Eliza Greatorex in Old New York from The Battery to Bloomingdale, Vol. II: 184; see also L. M. R. K., p. 952.
The date of erection of the house has not been fixed.
In Chronology, Dec. 6, 1757, there is an account of the meeting of the "House" (of representatives) "in the Assembly Chamber, at the Flouse of Mr. Teunis Somerndyck, in the Bowery Division of the Out Ward."
When that item was written, the Somarindyck house was identified as the farm house at Bloomingdale. Later research places it correctly. William Smith, the historian, affirmed that the meeting was not held in De Lancey's kitchen, but "in an out house occupied by the overseer of his own farm upon the skirts of the town."
Teunis Somarindyck probably acted as overseer for De Lancey at this time. Possibly for some years earlier and later. The Assembly continued to meet at his house until March 11, 1760, at least. He had been constable there as early as 1741 (M. C. C, V: 29), collector and assessor until 1749 {Hid., V: 273)-
James De Lancey died July 30, 1760. In 1764, Somarindyck was acting with Garrit Cosine as assessor at Bloomingdale. — Ibid., VI: 391.
The house on the De Lancey estate can be identified. It was not an "outhouse" but a good sized dwelling. It is shown on PI. 36 b fronting to a lane leading from the Bowery Road. The map in Lamb, History of the City of New York, I: 617, shows it at the north west corner of Bullock (Broome) St. and First (Chrystie) St.
An entry in M. C. C, VII: 287, speaks of "The lane which leads from the Bowery Lane ... & passes the house of James De Lancey Esq. which was formerly occupied by Tunis Somerdike." — June 13, 1771.
