Lot: Q25 (Taxlots)

Lot
Q25
Lot Group
Taxlots
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Property Was Used in 1660 For:
Date Start
1657-00-00
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Ide Cornelissen van Vorst was confirmed here in 1668. The patent states that "he purchased the lot." — Patents, III: 44 (Albany). As his step-father, Jacob Stoffelsen, is recited to have been in possession of the lot in 1657 {Liber Deeds, A: 85), no doubt he was the vendor.

Ide Cornelissen van Vorst was a son of Cornelis van Vorst, of Bergen, whose bouwery is shown on the Manatus Maps. (Appendix, II.) Cornelis van Vorst died before March 31, 1639. — Cal. Hist. MSS., Dutch, 6. His widow was married to Stoffelsen before September, 1640. — Ibid., 73. There is an amusing suit reported, in 1654, between Stoffelsen and his step-son, in which Ide Cornelissen is erroneously spoken of as a woman! — Rec. N. Jm., I: 242. For an interesting account of these families, see the Bergen Records, in Hoi. Soc. Year Book, 1914.

In November, 1665, Ide Cornelissen Van Vorst took the oath of allegiance, at Bergen. — N. J. Archives, ist series, I: 49.