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O7
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Skipper Adriaen Bloemmaert (Blommaert, Bloemert, Blommert) built this house on the most easterly Melyn lot, for which he had received a ground-brief in September, 1651. The Plan shows a handsome house on a wide lot, with a garden or orchard in the rear. Actually, Adriaen Bloemmaert's lot was no wider than the others, measuring 25 Dutch feet on the Strand and 20 feet on the Hoogh Straet. In wealth and social position, he was superior to his neighbours; evidently, his home was appropriate to his means. Although the Plan exaggerates the width of the house, it, no doubt, presents an otherwise faithful picture of it.
Adriaen Bloem.maert is the only settler of this name known in New Amsterdam. In October, 1644, he was granted permission to sail with his ship, "Prince Maurice," to New Netherland {Cal. Hist. MSS., Dutch, 30), which is the first mention of him noted. He was, evidently, high in favour with the authorities, both in Holland and in America. Sometimes he sailed his own vessel, and sometimes acted as skipper for the Company.
In 1649, he was engaged in the trade with the West Indies. In one entry, Stuyvesant expresses great anxiety because his vessel was overdue. He asks the commissary at the Delaware River to inquire of incoming English captains "when they have left Barbadoes and whether they have not heard of the galiot of Adrian Bloemert." — N. Y. Col. Docs., XII: 64. About this time (September 10, 1650), Augustine Herrman, in a letter complaining of excessive harbour duties levied by Stuyvesant, says: "yet he will have it by force; but Vastrick and Bloemert are gone free, or are paid for it." — Ihid., I: 444.
In 1652, the directors in Holland chartered Bloemmaert's ship, "bet Hoff van CleefF," for their trade to Cura9ao. They speak of the skipper in terms of great respect. — Ihid., XIV: 167, 173. In May, 1655, he was commander of the ship "New Amsterdam," but by August of that year had been succeeded by Pieter Dircksen Waterhout. — Cal. Hist. MSS., Dutch, 280; Rec. N. Am., I: 348, et seq. Pieter Dircksen informed the fiscal that Bloemmaert had altered the marks on some ankers of brandy imported in the "New Amsterdam," whereupon the officer sued Bloemmaert; the latter, being absolved by the court, promptly sued Pieter Dircksen for slander. — Rec. N. Am., II: 66; Cal. Hist. MSS., Dutch, 160.
In 1657, Bloemmaert is mentioned as skipper of the "Hope" {N. Y. Col. Docs., II: 452); in January of that year, he was nominated for schepen. — Rec. N. Am., II: 285. The Records for 1657 are lost; according to O'Callaghan's Register of New Netherland, 62, he was elected, and served, but O'Callaghan is undoubtedly in error. The schepens from February, 1657, to January, 1658, were Beeckman, J. de Peyster, Loockermans, and H. J. vander Vin. — Rec. N. Am., II: 289. Bloemmaert was one of the double number of eight nominees, but not one of the four confirmed.
He sold his house here to Rem Jansen, at public sale, July 5, 1657, but the deed was not delivered until June 19, 1659. — Liher Deeds, A: 161. As Jansen was then residing at Fort Orange, Bloemmaert may have continued to live in the house.
Sieur Adriaen Bloemmart left New Amsterdam between August 26, 1659 {Rec. N. Am., Ill: 29), and September 15, 1659, when Walewyn vander Veen represented him as attorney. — Mortgages, 1654-1660, trans, by O'Callaghan, 143-4; Rec. N. Am., Ill: 204. He had correspondents in more than one port of Europe, and evidently was a very successful trader. In October, 1661, he seems to have been living at Harderwyk, in Holland. His death occurred before September, 1663. — Rec. N. Am., Ill: 368-9; IV: 306.
This is the only land on Manhattan with which the name of Bloemmart is connected, and neither geographically nor chronologically can it be identified with the locality once called "Bloemmart's Vly," the low wet land drained by a stream through the Graft.
The name "Bloemmarts Vly" seems to be a modern revival. It is first met with in a letter from Isaac de Rasieres (c. 1628) to Samuel Bloemmart, his patron, a wealthy merchant of Amsterdam, and one of the directors of the West India Company. In this letter, which is printed in Jameson's Nar. N. Neth., 97-115, the writer ingeniously suggests making a small island of the lower extremity of Manhattan Island, on which the Fort was then being built, "by cutting a canal through Blommaert's valley." Samuel Blommaert's name had been bestowed in a complimentary fashion on various places in New Netherland, which, however, he seems never to have visited. In Van Rensselaer's colony, for example, there were Blommaert's Burg, Blommaert's Islands, and Blommaert's Kill, and the log of the ship "Rensselaerswyck" (1636-7) mentions a cape called "bloemerts puint." Furthermore, Samuel Blommaert promptly renamed the Fresh River after himself, when he registered his colony there, in 1629. — Van Rensselaer Bowier MSS., 157, 198, 374. It is entirely probable that his name was given in the same graceful fashion by De Rasieres or his contemporaries to this valley. It did not survive. No early real estate records mention it; nor does it appear in the Records of New Amsterdam, or in other contemporary documents.
Rem Jansen, from Jeveren, the smith, seems to have divided his time between Fort Orange, New Amsterdam, and Long Island. O'Callaghan {Rec. N. Am., VI: 5w) says he was the ancestor of the Remsen family.
He married, here, in 1642, Jannetie Rapalje and d. in 1681, leaving fifteen ch. all of whom, it is said, attended his funeral. He lived on his farm at the Wallabocht, in 1663, hence he is represented as of long Island. — Cf. Cal. Hist. MSS., Dutch, 253.
Jansen is found in New Amsterdam as a patentee, in 1647 (Block J, No. 2), and also as the purchaser of this house and garden. Yet he was often at Fort Orange — in 1650 he is referred to in the records as an inhabitant there. — Fan Rensselaer Bowier MSS., 841.
He sold the northerly part of his garden here to Walter Salter, September 3, 1664. The deed was not recorded until September i, 1666. — Liber Deeds, B: 102; cf. Book of Records of Deeds ^ Transfers (etc.), 1665-1672 (translated), 53. Rem Jansen's own house on the Strand was confirmed to him in 1668. — Patents, III: 19 (Albany). The Salter house, built after the date of the Plan, was once the subject of a law-suit, for which see Rec. N. Am., VI: 5-6, 24.
From a stray leaf of court records published in Hoi. Soc. Year Book, 1900, p. 118, under date of August 31, 1663, and from the tax-list of 1665, it is apparent that Hans Stein occupied the smith's house during those years. — Rec. N. Am., V: 222.
Adriaen Bloem.maert is the only settler of this name known in New Amsterdam. In October, 1644, he was granted permission to sail with his ship, "Prince Maurice," to New Netherland {Cal. Hist. MSS., Dutch, 30), which is the first mention of him noted. He was, evidently, high in favour with the authorities, both in Holland and in America. Sometimes he sailed his own vessel, and sometimes acted as skipper for the Company.
In 1649, he was engaged in the trade with the West Indies. In one entry, Stuyvesant expresses great anxiety because his vessel was overdue. He asks the commissary at the Delaware River to inquire of incoming English captains "when they have left Barbadoes and whether they have not heard of the galiot of Adrian Bloemert." — N. Y. Col. Docs., XII: 64. About this time (September 10, 1650), Augustine Herrman, in a letter complaining of excessive harbour duties levied by Stuyvesant, says: "yet he will have it by force; but Vastrick and Bloemert are gone free, or are paid for it." — Ihid., I: 444.
In 1652, the directors in Holland chartered Bloemmaert's ship, "bet Hoff van CleefF," for their trade to Cura9ao. They speak of the skipper in terms of great respect. — Ihid., XIV: 167, 173. In May, 1655, he was commander of the ship "New Amsterdam," but by August of that year had been succeeded by Pieter Dircksen Waterhout. — Cal. Hist. MSS., Dutch, 280; Rec. N. Am., I: 348, et seq. Pieter Dircksen informed the fiscal that Bloemmaert had altered the marks on some ankers of brandy imported in the "New Amsterdam," whereupon the officer sued Bloemmaert; the latter, being absolved by the court, promptly sued Pieter Dircksen for slander. — Rec. N. Am., II: 66; Cal. Hist. MSS., Dutch, 160.
In 1657, Bloemmaert is mentioned as skipper of the "Hope" {N. Y. Col. Docs., II: 452); in January of that year, he was nominated for schepen. — Rec. N. Am., II: 285. The Records for 1657 are lost; according to O'Callaghan's Register of New Netherland, 62, he was elected, and served, but O'Callaghan is undoubtedly in error. The schepens from February, 1657, to January, 1658, were Beeckman, J. de Peyster, Loockermans, and H. J. vander Vin. — Rec. N. Am., II: 289. Bloemmaert was one of the double number of eight nominees, but not one of the four confirmed.
He sold his house here to Rem Jansen, at public sale, July 5, 1657, but the deed was not delivered until June 19, 1659. — Liher Deeds, A: 161. As Jansen was then residing at Fort Orange, Bloemmaert may have continued to live in the house.
Sieur Adriaen Bloemmart left New Amsterdam between August 26, 1659 {Rec. N. Am., Ill: 29), and September 15, 1659, when Walewyn vander Veen represented him as attorney. — Mortgages, 1654-1660, trans, by O'Callaghan, 143-4; Rec. N. Am., Ill: 204. He had correspondents in more than one port of Europe, and evidently was a very successful trader. In October, 1661, he seems to have been living at Harderwyk, in Holland. His death occurred before September, 1663. — Rec. N. Am., Ill: 368-9; IV: 306.
This is the only land on Manhattan with which the name of Bloemmart is connected, and neither geographically nor chronologically can it be identified with the locality once called "Bloemmart's Vly," the low wet land drained by a stream through the Graft.
The name "Bloemmarts Vly" seems to be a modern revival. It is first met with in a letter from Isaac de Rasieres (c. 1628) to Samuel Bloemmart, his patron, a wealthy merchant of Amsterdam, and one of the directors of the West India Company. In this letter, which is printed in Jameson's Nar. N. Neth., 97-115, the writer ingeniously suggests making a small island of the lower extremity of Manhattan Island, on which the Fort was then being built, "by cutting a canal through Blommaert's valley." Samuel Blommaert's name had been bestowed in a complimentary fashion on various places in New Netherland, which, however, he seems never to have visited. In Van Rensselaer's colony, for example, there were Blommaert's Burg, Blommaert's Islands, and Blommaert's Kill, and the log of the ship "Rensselaerswyck" (1636-7) mentions a cape called "bloemerts puint." Furthermore, Samuel Blommaert promptly renamed the Fresh River after himself, when he registered his colony there, in 1629. — Van Rensselaer Bowier MSS., 157, 198, 374. It is entirely probable that his name was given in the same graceful fashion by De Rasieres or his contemporaries to this valley. It did not survive. No early real estate records mention it; nor does it appear in the Records of New Amsterdam, or in other contemporary documents.
Rem Jansen, from Jeveren, the smith, seems to have divided his time between Fort Orange, New Amsterdam, and Long Island. O'Callaghan {Rec. N. Am., VI: 5w) says he was the ancestor of the Remsen family.
He married, here, in 1642, Jannetie Rapalje and d. in 1681, leaving fifteen ch. all of whom, it is said, attended his funeral. He lived on his farm at the Wallabocht, in 1663, hence he is represented as of long Island. — Cf. Cal. Hist. MSS., Dutch, 253.
Jansen is found in New Amsterdam as a patentee, in 1647 (Block J, No. 2), and also as the purchaser of this house and garden. Yet he was often at Fort Orange — in 1650 he is referred to in the records as an inhabitant there. — Fan Rensselaer Bowier MSS., 841.
He sold the northerly part of his garden here to Walter Salter, September 3, 1664. The deed was not recorded until September i, 1666. — Liber Deeds, B: 102; cf. Book of Records of Deeds ^ Transfers (etc.), 1665-1672 (translated), 53. Rem Jansen's own house on the Strand was confirmed to him in 1668. — Patents, III: 19 (Albany). The Salter house, built after the date of the Plan, was once the subject of a law-suit, for which see Rec. N. Am., VI: 5-6, 24.
From a stray leaf of court records published in Hoi. Soc. Year Book, 1900, p. 118, under date of August 31, 1663, and from the tax-list of 1665, it is apparent that Hans Stein occupied the smith's house during those years. — Rec. N. Am., V: 222.