Lot: D20 (Taxlots)

Joannes Vervelen bought this house from Joannes de la Montague, Jr., June, 1659. — Liber Deeds, A: 162. Isaac de Forest had sold it to Montague four years earher. — Ibid., A: 30. The man who built it, however, was Hendrick Gerritsen, tailor, in 1652; though he was obliged to borrow 37 florins, 11 stivers (about $15.25), to finance its erection. This amount he did not object to paying, when he was sued for it, but he demurred at the additional item of "an anker of beer" after the house was roofed. Nevertheless, he was condemned to pay it all, with costs, April, 1653, upon which he sold the house to De Forest, and went to Midwout. — Rec. N. Am., I: 62, 74, 77, 80, 180. Vervelen and Montague, undoubtedly, found it a convenient abode, not far from their Red Lion Brewery. Lambert Hendricksen, from Campen, seems to have been its owner, or tenant, in 1665, after Vervelen went to Harlem. — Ibid., V: 224.