Lot
E7
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Date Start
1658-07-27
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Description
This property later became a school house.
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This lot, the site of No. 10 Stone Street, was sold by Hendrick Hendricksen Kip to Caspar Steymensen (Stymets, Steymets, Steynmets), July 27, 1658. — Cal. Hist. MSS., Dutch, 60.
Caspar Steynwits, or Steymets, married Janneken Gerrits, of Zutphen, March 31, 1652 {Marriages in Ref. Dutch Ch., 16), at New Amsterdam, but later became one of the earlier settlers of Bergen (Jersey City), and was largely identified with Jersey interests. He was one of the first schepens at Bergen, in 1661, magistrate in 1665, and a captain of militia in 1674 {Bergen Records, in Hoi. Soc. Year Book, 1914, pp. 30,41, 45), and here also he married his second wife, Treijntje Jacobs, March 15, 1671, the ceremony occurring before the court. — Ibid., 58. He was, however, living in the Stone Street house in 1701, when, as Casper Stymetz, he is listed as a voter in the South Ward of New York. — M. C. C, II: 164, 166.
The house in Stone Street he rented to the city for many years. It was "the City School," conducted by Evert Pietersen (Keteltas) from 1661 to 1686, when Rector Pietersen retired on account of his advanced age and growing infirmity. — Eccles. Rec.,\: 503; II: 932. The schoolmaster was taxed here as a tenant in 1665.- — Rec. N. Am., V: 223. Steymets sometimes found the city a slow payer. In 1666, and again in 1670, he was obliged to remind the officials that his rent was in arrears — the city paying him 260 florins a year. — Rec. N. Am., VI: 4, 221.
Caspar Steynwits, or Steymets, married Janneken Gerrits, of Zutphen, March 31, 1652 {Marriages in Ref. Dutch Ch., 16), at New Amsterdam, but later became one of the earlier settlers of Bergen (Jersey City), and was largely identified with Jersey interests. He was one of the first schepens at Bergen, in 1661, magistrate in 1665, and a captain of militia in 1674 {Bergen Records, in Hoi. Soc. Year Book, 1914, pp. 30,41, 45), and here also he married his second wife, Treijntje Jacobs, March 15, 1671, the ceremony occurring before the court. — Ibid., 58. He was, however, living in the Stone Street house in 1701, when, as Casper Stymetz, he is listed as a voter in the South Ward of New York. — M. C. C, II: 164, 166.
The house in Stone Street he rented to the city for many years. It was "the City School," conducted by Evert Pietersen (Keteltas) from 1661 to 1686, when Rector Pietersen retired on account of his advanced age and growing infirmity. — Eccles. Rec.,\: 503; II: 932. The schoolmaster was taxed here as a tenant in 1665.- — Rec. N. Am., V: 223. Steymets sometimes found the city a slow payer. In 1666, and again in 1670, he was obliged to remind the officials that his rent was in arrears — the city paying him 260 florins a year. — Rec. N. Am., VI: 4, 221.