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Beyond-the-Wall7
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1648-07-16
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Beyond the Water Gate, in the Smith's Valley, there were but three houses south of the Maidens' Path, in 1660. The most imposing of these. No. 7, was built by Willem Teller, of Albany.
On July 16, 1648, he and his partner, Rutger Jacobsen, purchased from Goosen Gerritsen (van Schaick) a rectangular piece of land "without the Water Port, towards the East River; striking along by Jan Damen's land 16 rods, 2 feet. By the Strand side 16 rods, 3 feet. Along Adam Roelants, 8 rods, 7 feet, and on the side of Maryn Adriaensen, 10 rods." The deed is not of record, but is recited in the confirmation to Teller of the northerly half of the land, in 1667. — Patents, II: 64 (Albany).
Without doubt, the original grant for this parcel was from Kieft to Tymen Jansen. Judge Hoffman gives its date as 1640, and a reference to Liber I: 13, in Albany, which it has not been possible to verify. — Hoffman's Estates and Rights of the Corporation, 1862, II: 216. However, Jan Jansen Damen's grant on the west recites Tymen Jansen as a neighbour here. — Liber GG: 91 (Albany).
Gerritsen may have purchased it when he made that memorable trip to the Manhattans for which he bargained before he should finally settle down as a gerechts persoon, or member of the court, at Albany. — Fan Rensselaer Bowier MSS., 811.
Teller's house was built before 1655, for it was taxed in that year {Rec. N. Am., I: 374); but, as he lived at Fort Orange from 1639 until 1692, except for "small intermissions upon voyages to New York [and other places]" (Munsell's Collections on the Hist, of Albany, IV: 170), the house upon the Strand was generally rented. In 1656, Frans Claessen owed Teller a balance of three years unpaid rent, presumably for this house. — Rec. N. Am., H: 125.
In 1664, Teller procured a license to marry Maria Verleth, the widow of Paulus Schrick. — Marriages in Ref. Dutch Ch., 29. She was his second wife, and he was her third husband. — Rec. N. Am., I: 326n.
In 1693, Teller and his wife sold their property here to Marten Jansen Meyer, the sm\t\i.— Liber Deeds, XVIII: 234. Probably, this deed but confirmed an earlier one which was not recorded, for the smith had already conveyed the southerly fifty feet of the property
On July 16, 1648, he and his partner, Rutger Jacobsen, purchased from Goosen Gerritsen (van Schaick) a rectangular piece of land "without the Water Port, towards the East River; striking along by Jan Damen's land 16 rods, 2 feet. By the Strand side 16 rods, 3 feet. Along Adam Roelants, 8 rods, 7 feet, and on the side of Maryn Adriaensen, 10 rods." The deed is not of record, but is recited in the confirmation to Teller of the northerly half of the land, in 1667. — Patents, II: 64 (Albany).
Without doubt, the original grant for this parcel was from Kieft to Tymen Jansen. Judge Hoffman gives its date as 1640, and a reference to Liber I: 13, in Albany, which it has not been possible to verify. — Hoffman's Estates and Rights of the Corporation, 1862, II: 216. However, Jan Jansen Damen's grant on the west recites Tymen Jansen as a neighbour here. — Liber GG: 91 (Albany).
Gerritsen may have purchased it when he made that memorable trip to the Manhattans for which he bargained before he should finally settle down as a gerechts persoon, or member of the court, at Albany. — Fan Rensselaer Bowier MSS., 811.
Teller's house was built before 1655, for it was taxed in that year {Rec. N. Am., I: 374); but, as he lived at Fort Orange from 1639 until 1692, except for "small intermissions upon voyages to New York [and other places]" (Munsell's Collections on the Hist, of Albany, IV: 170), the house upon the Strand was generally rented. In 1656, Frans Claessen owed Teller a balance of three years unpaid rent, presumably for this house. — Rec. N. Am., H: 125.
In 1664, Teller procured a license to marry Maria Verleth, the widow of Paulus Schrick. — Marriages in Ref. Dutch Ch., 29. She was his second wife, and he was her third husband. — Rec. N. Am., I: 326n.
In 1693, Teller and his wife sold their property here to Marten Jansen Meyer, the sm\t\i.— Liber Deeds, XVIII: 234. Probably, this deed but confirmed an earlier one which was not recorded, for the smith had already conveyed the southerly fifty feet of the property