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Herman Le Roy Farm
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HE HERMAN LE ROY FARM
Block Check List, i 897-1 iii-ini-i 838-1 857-1 8541897.
The Herman Le Roy farm was part of the plantation of Theunis Eidesse Van Huyse, the early history of which is set forth under the Apthorp farm.
This tract comprised:
A. All of lot 8 on the Berrian Mapof Theunis Eidess's farm.
B. The westerly one-half of lots 6 and 7.
C. Two-thirds of the easterly one-half of lot 7.
Lot 8, the most northerly lot on Berrian 's Map, was conveyed by Theunis and his wife to Abraham Delamontaine, married to their daughter Rebecca.
Lots 6 and 7 to George Dyckman, the husband of their younger daughter, Catalina.
The deeds do not recite the lot numbers. No copy of Berrian's Map has been found.
A. Lot 8
Theunis Eidese van Huyse, yeoman, and Janetie, his wife, to Abraham de Lamontanie, weaver. Deed dated June 22, 1720. — Liber Deeds, XXX: 137 (New York).
Conveys "All that certain Piece or Parcell of Land scituate lying and being in the Out Ward of the said City of New York adjoyning to Hudsons River the same being One Just and Equal Eighth part of all that Farm Plantation or Tract of Land on which the said Theunis Eidese Van Huyse now dwelleth and Containeth in breadth forty two Rods or thereabouts being fifty-seven Acres and A halfe or thereabouts and Runneth from the said River South Easterly along the Land of Capt. Jacobus De Kay. ... to the Eastward bounds of the said Theunis Eidse Van Huyse's land. ..."
B. The Westerly One-Half of Lots 6 and 7
Teunis Eidese van Hyese and Janetie, his wife, to George Dikeman, of Bergen County. Deed dated Jan. 23, 1720. — Ibid., XXXIII: 313 (New York). Consid., £400.
Conveys "one equal fourth part of that farm, plantation or tract of land on which the said Teunis Eidese van Huyse now lives, containing in breadth about 84 r. or thereabouts, being about 115 acres, and running south-easterly from Hudson River to the common land of the corporation of New York, having on the south-west the land sold by the said Teunis Eidese van Huyse and Janitie, his wife, to Ede van Huyse, and on the north-east the land of Abraham de Lamontaine."
Riker says that George Dyckman bought lot 8 from Montanye in 1729. — Hist, of Harlem, 506. The deed may have been delivered in 1729. It has not been found. There is evidence that Dyckman purchased it much earlier.
The westerly one-half of lots 6, 7, and 8 were acquired by Johannes Van Beverhoudt Gloudisz. Deed not found. However, the earlier deed into George Dyckman was recorded at the request of Van Beverhoudt, Dec. 13, 1749. — Liber Deeds, XXXIII: 313 (ante). Evidently preparatory to taking title from Dyckman.
It was a very usual thing for gentlemen to have the earlier deeds in the chain of title placed upon the record, but their own deeds and other muniments of title were preserved in their strong boxes. An aristocratic custom followed by the Warrens and others.
Johannes Van Beverhout built the large stone house. The following advertisement is pertinent:
1752, Sept. 25. "To be sold, A certain Farm situate at Bloomendal, in the Out Ward of the City of New- York, between the Farms of Adrian Hoogeland and Dennis Hicks, and is bounded Westerly to Hudson's River, containing 109 Acres; also a Lot or Piece of Salt Meadow lying on the West Side of the aforesaid River, in the County of Bergen. The Farm is pleasantly situated either for a Gentleman or a Farmer, having delightful Prospects both up and down the River; and on it is lately built a large Dwelling-House of 50 Feet in Breadth front and rear, and 44 Feet in Depth, with Sash-Windows, Beausets, Closets, and in all other Respects completely finished, with Cellars under the whole House: Also a new Stone Kitchen, a Farm or Out-house, and Kitchen, of Stone and Brick; a large Barn new shingl'd, two Gardens, one of near two Acres of Land, inclos'd with neat Pales and Board-Fence. Whoever inclines to purchase the same, may apply to Mrs. Margaret Van Beverhout, Hving on the Premisses, or to Charles Crommelin, in New-York. Good Security for the Payment of the purchase Money, will be preferr'd to ready Money."— The N. Y. PostBoy, S 25, 1752.
Evidently Van Beverhoudt took over the farm early in 1750. No reference to him has been found in the records earlier than December, 1749, as before stated. His wife was Margrita Langemak. A daughter, Maria, was baptised May 27, 1750. — Baptisms in Ref. Dutch Ch.,\\l: 159. A second daughter, Margarita, May, 1752 [ibid., 176), at which time Van Beverhout was dead. His marriage is not in the church records of New York. His widow married Nicholas Bayard, Dec. 20, 1755. — Marr. in Ref. Dutch Ch.,\: 191.
Margaret van Beverhout to Humphrey Jones. Deed dated later than Sept. 25, 1752. Not found of record; recited in Liher Deeds, XLIII: 297, following.
The date of the death of Humphrey Jones has not been found. He was still living on the farm in October, 1764. See agreement about a road leading across Charles Ward Apthorp's farm.' — Liber Deeds, UlAW: 413 (New York).
Nicholas Jones, son of Flumphrey Jones, succeeded to the farm. In 1780, he advertised it for sale: "To be sold a Farm at Bloomingdale, about aoo acres more or less, seven miles from the city, on said farm is a large strong stone built house, pleasantly situated near the North River, conditions for the sale will be made easy to a purchaser. For particulars apply to Nicholas Jones on the premises, by whom an indisputable title will be given."- — The Royal Gaz., Oct. 28, 1780.
"The large strong stone built house" which Van Beverhoudt had built, long afterward known as the homestead of Humphrey Jones, stood south of 102nd St. about 225 ft. west of West End Ave. It is called the Ann Rogers house in L. M. R. K., Ill: 951.
On the map of the Le Roy farm made by Maerschalck in 1796, referred to later, the house is still called "The Homestead," a long straight lane leading from the house to the road.
Mott, A^. y. of Yesterday, p. 44, gives a pleasant account of the house, and a picture. He says the lane was a raised causeway supported by stone walls, and was known as "Cherry Lane," a name not noted on any known map or atlas.
C. Two-Thirds of the Easterly One-Half of Lot 7
The easterly half of lots 6, 7, and 8 was sold by George Dyckman to Lawrence Kortwright, Sr., after June, 1720, and before 1726, when Kortwright died. Riker does not include this tract in his list of the Kortwright lands {Hist, of Harlem, 516), but later deeds prove it.
Lawrence Kortwright had a son Lawrence; a daughter Eve, who married Adolph Benson. (For several other children, see ibid., 517.)
Evidently Lawrence Kortwright and his sister Eve had inherited or purchased the easterly half of George Dycknian's farm.
Lawrence Kortwright, Jr., sold his share of the land to Humphrey Jones. The deed h.is not been found.
It comprised the easterly one half of lot 8,and about twothirds of the easterly one half of lot 7, on Berrian's Map of Theunis Eidesse's farm.
Marinus Willett, sheriff, to John Jones. Deed dated Feb. 23, 1786. — Liher Deeds, XLIII: 297 (New York). Consid. £2,300. Property sold to satisfy a debt of £1,117 P'us £4 I s. adjudged Margaret Jones for damages sustained by her on account of detention of said debt; and a debt of £800 plus £14 16 s due Jacobus Bogert.
Conveys "All and singular the said Dwelling House Barn and Tract piece or parcel of Land situate lying and being at Bloomingdale in the Out Ward of the City of New York aforesaid which was purchased by Humphrey Jones Father of the said Nicholas Jones of Margaret Van Bevethout Beginning a little above the Bank where the Fence divides the premises from the Land of Nicholas De Peyster and runs thence South Forty nine Degrees East ten chains thence South Fifty five Degrees East ten chains thence South Fifty Degrees East eleven chains thence South Fifty one Degrees East four chains and forty links thence South Thirty eight Degrees thirty minutes West thirty two chains and thirty two links then North Fifty three Degrees West thirty two chains then North Thirty five Degrees East thirty one chains and eighty links to the place of beginning Bounded Northerly by the Lands of Nicholas De Peyster and James De Peyster Easterly by Lands now or late of Jacob Dyckman and Adolphus Benson Southerly by Land now or late of Dennis Hicks and Westerly by Hudsons River Containing One hundred and nine Acres.
"Also all that certain Tract Piece or Parcel of Land situate at Bloomingdale aforesaid which the said Humphrey Jones purchased of Lawrence Kortwright Beginning at a certain Stone Eleven inches from a Beach Tree in the Southwest corner of the Fence, adjoining the Fence of the above mentioned Land North Easterly by a range of marked Trees to the line of James De Peyster and Southeasterly along the said line of James De Peyster and Land formerly of Albert Herring till it meets the Commons Southerly along the Commons till it meets the partition Fence now or late of Adolph Benson and Jacob Dyckman thence Westerly along the said Fence to the place of Beginning. Together with all & singular the Houses Outhouses Barns Stables Edifices Gardens Orchards Meadows Pastures Woods Underwoods Fences Ways &c."
John Jones and Ellena, his wife, to Hermon Le Roy. Deed dated Jan. 7, 1796. — Ibid., LIX: 9 (New York). Consid., £13,000.
Conveys both parcels.
A "Map of a Farm situate in Bloomingdale belonging to Herman Le Roy of New York," surveyed Feb. 6, 1796, by Casimer T. Goerck, C. S., shows the farm divided into eleven plots. The acreage of the Van Beverhout farm totals lojj^ acres, exclusive of Bloomingdale Road. The Kortwright farm contained 56^ acres. In all, about 165 acres, possibly more, when the roads were included. Nicholas Jones estmated it at 200 acres. A copy of the Goerck Map is in the files of the Title Guarantee and Trust Co.
Block Check List, i 897-1 iii-ini-i 838-1 857-1 8541897.
The Herman Le Roy farm was part of the plantation of Theunis Eidesse Van Huyse, the early history of which is set forth under the Apthorp farm.
This tract comprised:
A. All of lot 8 on the Berrian Mapof Theunis Eidess's farm.
B. The westerly one-half of lots 6 and 7.
C. Two-thirds of the easterly one-half of lot 7.
Lot 8, the most northerly lot on Berrian 's Map, was conveyed by Theunis and his wife to Abraham Delamontaine, married to their daughter Rebecca.
Lots 6 and 7 to George Dyckman, the husband of their younger daughter, Catalina.
The deeds do not recite the lot numbers. No copy of Berrian's Map has been found.
A. Lot 8
Theunis Eidese van Huyse, yeoman, and Janetie, his wife, to Abraham de Lamontanie, weaver. Deed dated June 22, 1720. — Liber Deeds, XXX: 137 (New York).
Conveys "All that certain Piece or Parcell of Land scituate lying and being in the Out Ward of the said City of New York adjoyning to Hudsons River the same being One Just and Equal Eighth part of all that Farm Plantation or Tract of Land on which the said Theunis Eidese Van Huyse now dwelleth and Containeth in breadth forty two Rods or thereabouts being fifty-seven Acres and A halfe or thereabouts and Runneth from the said River South Easterly along the Land of Capt. Jacobus De Kay. ... to the Eastward bounds of the said Theunis Eidse Van Huyse's land. ..."
B. The Westerly One-Half of Lots 6 and 7
Teunis Eidese van Hyese and Janetie, his wife, to George Dikeman, of Bergen County. Deed dated Jan. 23, 1720. — Ibid., XXXIII: 313 (New York). Consid., £400.
Conveys "one equal fourth part of that farm, plantation or tract of land on which the said Teunis Eidese van Huyse now lives, containing in breadth about 84 r. or thereabouts, being about 115 acres, and running south-easterly from Hudson River to the common land of the corporation of New York, having on the south-west the land sold by the said Teunis Eidese van Huyse and Janitie, his wife, to Ede van Huyse, and on the north-east the land of Abraham de Lamontaine."
Riker says that George Dyckman bought lot 8 from Montanye in 1729. — Hist, of Harlem, 506. The deed may have been delivered in 1729. It has not been found. There is evidence that Dyckman purchased it much earlier.
The westerly one-half of lots 6, 7, and 8 were acquired by Johannes Van Beverhoudt Gloudisz. Deed not found. However, the earlier deed into George Dyckman was recorded at the request of Van Beverhoudt, Dec. 13, 1749. — Liber Deeds, XXXIII: 313 (ante). Evidently preparatory to taking title from Dyckman.
It was a very usual thing for gentlemen to have the earlier deeds in the chain of title placed upon the record, but their own deeds and other muniments of title were preserved in their strong boxes. An aristocratic custom followed by the Warrens and others.
Johannes Van Beverhout built the large stone house. The following advertisement is pertinent:
1752, Sept. 25. "To be sold, A certain Farm situate at Bloomendal, in the Out Ward of the City of New- York, between the Farms of Adrian Hoogeland and Dennis Hicks, and is bounded Westerly to Hudson's River, containing 109 Acres; also a Lot or Piece of Salt Meadow lying on the West Side of the aforesaid River, in the County of Bergen. The Farm is pleasantly situated either for a Gentleman or a Farmer, having delightful Prospects both up and down the River; and on it is lately built a large Dwelling-House of 50 Feet in Breadth front and rear, and 44 Feet in Depth, with Sash-Windows, Beausets, Closets, and in all other Respects completely finished, with Cellars under the whole House: Also a new Stone Kitchen, a Farm or Out-house, and Kitchen, of Stone and Brick; a large Barn new shingl'd, two Gardens, one of near two Acres of Land, inclos'd with neat Pales and Board-Fence. Whoever inclines to purchase the same, may apply to Mrs. Margaret Van Beverhout, Hving on the Premisses, or to Charles Crommelin, in New-York. Good Security for the Payment of the purchase Money, will be preferr'd to ready Money."— The N. Y. PostBoy, S 25, 1752.
Evidently Van Beverhoudt took over the farm early in 1750. No reference to him has been found in the records earlier than December, 1749, as before stated. His wife was Margrita Langemak. A daughter, Maria, was baptised May 27, 1750. — Baptisms in Ref. Dutch Ch.,\\l: 159. A second daughter, Margarita, May, 1752 [ibid., 176), at which time Van Beverhout was dead. His marriage is not in the church records of New York. His widow married Nicholas Bayard, Dec. 20, 1755. — Marr. in Ref. Dutch Ch.,\: 191.
Margaret van Beverhout to Humphrey Jones. Deed dated later than Sept. 25, 1752. Not found of record; recited in Liher Deeds, XLIII: 297, following.
The date of the death of Humphrey Jones has not been found. He was still living on the farm in October, 1764. See agreement about a road leading across Charles Ward Apthorp's farm.' — Liber Deeds, UlAW: 413 (New York).
Nicholas Jones, son of Flumphrey Jones, succeeded to the farm. In 1780, he advertised it for sale: "To be sold a Farm at Bloomingdale, about aoo acres more or less, seven miles from the city, on said farm is a large strong stone built house, pleasantly situated near the North River, conditions for the sale will be made easy to a purchaser. For particulars apply to Nicholas Jones on the premises, by whom an indisputable title will be given."- — The Royal Gaz., Oct. 28, 1780.
"The large strong stone built house" which Van Beverhoudt had built, long afterward known as the homestead of Humphrey Jones, stood south of 102nd St. about 225 ft. west of West End Ave. It is called the Ann Rogers house in L. M. R. K., Ill: 951.
On the map of the Le Roy farm made by Maerschalck in 1796, referred to later, the house is still called "The Homestead," a long straight lane leading from the house to the road.
Mott, A^. y. of Yesterday, p. 44, gives a pleasant account of the house, and a picture. He says the lane was a raised causeway supported by stone walls, and was known as "Cherry Lane," a name not noted on any known map or atlas.
C. Two-Thirds of the Easterly One-Half of Lot 7
The easterly half of lots 6, 7, and 8 was sold by George Dyckman to Lawrence Kortwright, Sr., after June, 1720, and before 1726, when Kortwright died. Riker does not include this tract in his list of the Kortwright lands {Hist, of Harlem, 516), but later deeds prove it.
Lawrence Kortwright had a son Lawrence; a daughter Eve, who married Adolph Benson. (For several other children, see ibid., 517.)
Evidently Lawrence Kortwright and his sister Eve had inherited or purchased the easterly half of George Dycknian's farm.
Lawrence Kortwright, Jr., sold his share of the land to Humphrey Jones. The deed h.is not been found.
It comprised the easterly one half of lot 8,and about twothirds of the easterly one half of lot 7, on Berrian's Map of Theunis Eidesse's farm.
Marinus Willett, sheriff, to John Jones. Deed dated Feb. 23, 1786. — Liher Deeds, XLIII: 297 (New York). Consid. £2,300. Property sold to satisfy a debt of £1,117 P'us £4 I s. adjudged Margaret Jones for damages sustained by her on account of detention of said debt; and a debt of £800 plus £14 16 s due Jacobus Bogert.
Conveys "All and singular the said Dwelling House Barn and Tract piece or parcel of Land situate lying and being at Bloomingdale in the Out Ward of the City of New York aforesaid which was purchased by Humphrey Jones Father of the said Nicholas Jones of Margaret Van Bevethout Beginning a little above the Bank where the Fence divides the premises from the Land of Nicholas De Peyster and runs thence South Forty nine Degrees East ten chains thence South Fifty five Degrees East ten chains thence South Fifty Degrees East eleven chains thence South Fifty one Degrees East four chains and forty links thence South Thirty eight Degrees thirty minutes West thirty two chains and thirty two links then North Fifty three Degrees West thirty two chains then North Thirty five Degrees East thirty one chains and eighty links to the place of beginning Bounded Northerly by the Lands of Nicholas De Peyster and James De Peyster Easterly by Lands now or late of Jacob Dyckman and Adolphus Benson Southerly by Land now or late of Dennis Hicks and Westerly by Hudsons River Containing One hundred and nine Acres.
"Also all that certain Tract Piece or Parcel of Land situate at Bloomingdale aforesaid which the said Humphrey Jones purchased of Lawrence Kortwright Beginning at a certain Stone Eleven inches from a Beach Tree in the Southwest corner of the Fence, adjoining the Fence of the above mentioned Land North Easterly by a range of marked Trees to the line of James De Peyster and Southeasterly along the said line of James De Peyster and Land formerly of Albert Herring till it meets the Commons Southerly along the Commons till it meets the partition Fence now or late of Adolph Benson and Jacob Dyckman thence Westerly along the said Fence to the place of Beginning. Together with all & singular the Houses Outhouses Barns Stables Edifices Gardens Orchards Meadows Pastures Woods Underwoods Fences Ways &c."
John Jones and Ellena, his wife, to Hermon Le Roy. Deed dated Jan. 7, 1796. — Ibid., LIX: 9 (New York). Consid., £13,000.
Conveys both parcels.
A "Map of a Farm situate in Bloomingdale belonging to Herman Le Roy of New York," surveyed Feb. 6, 1796, by Casimer T. Goerck, C. S., shows the farm divided into eleven plots. The acreage of the Van Beverhout farm totals lojj^ acres, exclusive of Bloomingdale Road. The Kortwright farm contained 56^ acres. In all, about 165 acres, possibly more, when the roads were included. Nicholas Jones estmated it at 200 acres. A copy of the Goerck Map is in the files of the Title Guarantee and Trust Co.
