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THE ICONOGRAPHY OF MANHATTAN ISLAND
 

William Bayard and James Jauncey were attainted of
treason. Their estates were confiscated under the Act of 1779.
Sabine says that Bayard died at his seat, Greenwich House,
Southampton, England, in 1804.—Ssbine, Loyalists, I: 218.

The Bayard house stood at the south side of Horatio Street,
partly in the bed of the street. The Jauncey house was west of
the road, Greenwich St., partly in the bed of Bethune St.
Real estate records fail to show when they were demolished.
However, Bethune St, was ceded to the city in February,
1827. Horatio St, was legally opened in 1835. So both houses,
if they stood so long, had to give way to the street openings.

THE CORNELIUS VANDERHOOF FARM
(Later Known as the Martin Smith Tract)
Block Check List.  1299-1317-1315-1297,

This eight acre farm was part of the Common Lands of the
city of New York, granted to the municipality by the Dongan
Charter, April 27,1686.

In July 1684, Jacob Kip petitioned Gov, Dongan for "a
parcel of land lying and being Round in a criple Bush," which
was not then granted.

The Ratzer Map shows the large swampy meadow at the
turn of the road, part of which Vanderhoof seems to have
enclosed.

CorneUus Van Derhoff was in New York as early as 174I,
when he served the town as a watchman,—M. C. C, V; 44,
Vanderhoof was a brickmaker; the clay at the cripplebush
furnished the material for the bricks which he was supplying
to the city in large quantities In 1753-4, at which time he was
appointed constable for the Bowery division of the Out Ward,
—Ibid., V: 418, 434, 437. He may have had a lease from the
city; his name occurs in a list of lessees who owed money to
the corporation in 1757 {ibid., VI: 79), hut he never procured a

March 20, 1771, a committee "appointed to Enquire into
the Incroachments made upon the Corporation Lands in the
Outward" reported: "it is our opinion that Vanderhoof should
be ejected."—/^(i/., VII:   274.

Evidently, Vanderhoof came to terms with the city. The
records are silent about it.

Vanderhoof married Ehzabeth, daughter of Abraham Dela-
mater, in 1750.-—Riker, Hist, of Harlem, 504. He died in 1773,
leaving eight children.—Liber Wills, 3y\ 222 (New York).

Only six children survived their father. Deeds from these
heirs or their representatives finally vested the title Co the farm
in Martin Smith, April 16, jyg6.—Liber Deeds, CCXXXIV:
48 to 66 ind. (New York).

The house shown on the Ratzer Map, and on Maerschalck's
survey ofthe Turrie Bay farm, 1771, seems to be in the same
location as the house on the Randel Map, near the south-east
corner of Third Ave. and 44th Sc.

THE JACOBUS VAN ORDEN FARM
Block Check List.   679-7S4-ioi2-993-8og-So8-704-679.
Also   for Another Parcel not Adjacent to Above,
Block Check List,   754-807-805-752-754,
The farm of Jacobus van Orden comprised

A.  All of loc three of the Weylandt patent.

B.  All of lots one, four, five and six of the same patent east
of the old road to Greenwich (the Fitzroy Road).

C.  Part of the common lands of che city of New York, west
of the Bloomingdale Road as far as the easterly ends of lots
three, four, five and six of the Weylandt,

Wessel Pietersen, from Norden in Oost Vrleslandt, the
founderof this branch of the Van Orden family in New Amster¬
dam, married Josyntje Thomas, van Utrecht, May 19, 1668,
 

—Marr. in Ref. Dutch Church, 33. Their eldest son, Wessel,
baptised Oct. i, 1671 {Baptisms Ref, Dutch Church, 103),
married Jacomyntje, daughter of Johannes van Couwenhoven,
April 20, 1693.—Marr. in Ref. Dutch Ch., 74.

Wessel Pietersen and Jacomyntje had two sons, Johannes,
baprised Oct. 11, i6g6 {Baptisms Ref. Dutch Church, 23^),
and Jacobus, baptised Jan. 30, 1706 {ibid., 313). They had
also five daughters.

In the baptismal records, the father is called Wessel Pieterse,
until June 3, 1711, when Anna was baptised; then and there¬
after his name appears as Wessel van Norden, His descendants
modified it to Van Orden,

This family Is not to be confused with that of Peter Casper-
sen van Naerden, the ancestor of the Van Nordens of New
York; nor with the line beginning with Wessel Evertsen van
Naerden,

For a short time after cheir marriage, Wessel and Jacomyntje
lived on che Peter de Groot farm, near the Van Couwenhovens,
at Nortwyck. Ssereckals in Liber Deeds, XXXIII: 435 (New
York). By 1696, they occupied the farm later known as the
Samler farm.

Wessel Pietersen van Orden, son of che founder and son-in-
law Co Johannes van Couwenhoven, became the owner of a
large part of the land which Van Couwenhoven had owned in
the Weylandc pate'nc. He also acquired a considerable tract in
the common lands, all of which became vested in his son Jaco¬
bus van Orden, His elder son, named Johannes, after his grand¬
father van Couwenhoven, is not found in the records; possibly
he died young.

No wUl of Wessel Pietersen van Orden has been found; nor
any deeds from the Van Couwenhoven heirs, either Co him or
Co his son, Jacobus, the owner of this farm.

Jacobus van Orden married Christina Sabrisco (Zabriskie),
April 25, 1730.—Marr, in Ref. Dutch Ch., 151. By his wiU
dated Oct. 8, 1772, proved Nov. 12, 1782 {Liber Wills, XXXV:
126, New York), he devised £10 to his son. Jacobus, as his
heir, and the residuary estate after the death of his widow,
Chris tyncje.

To his daughters, Jacomyntje, wife of Isaac Schultz, Eliza¬
beth, wife of Richard Dawson, and Magdalena, wife of Thomas
Tibbett Warner, certain specified parcels of land. His death
occurred earlier than February, 1780, Recitals in Liber Deeds,
XL:  588 (New York).

Jacobus van Orden, Jr., died unmarried and after his
mother. His wlU, dated Feb, 4, 1782, proved Nov, 12, 1782
{Liber Wills, XXXV: 130, New York), left his estate equally
CO his siscers, Jemima (Jacomyntje) and Magdalena, and the
children of his deceased sister, Elizabeth, namely, Charles and
James Dawson, sons of Richard Dawson, and John O'Brien,
son of Henry O'Brien, th£ second husband of Elizabeth.

Both wills were proved the same day,

A brief history of the Weylandt patent is necessary to the
study of the farms Included in its area. The Jacobus van Orden
farm and the Glass House farm of Rem Rapelyea occupied all
of the patent except lot two and the westerly pare of lot one,
which were pare of the Franklin and Robinson tract,.

An entry in the Common Council Minutes, Jan, g, 1760, is
very illuminating. An abridged extract follows;

The committee appointed May 10, 1758, to inspect the
encroachments upon che Corporation lands in che Out Ward
reported; "The Patent Commonly Called the Weylandt Pat¬
ent . . . Extends from the North River Two hundred and
Ten Rods so that it Crosses the Great Kill road . , . hutStiU
leaves a Vacancy Between its South East Boundry and the
Bloomandal Road which of Course Belongs to this Corpora¬
tion. This Parent is divided into lotts from the River Back¬
wards being six in Number; the Ends of the Northeastermost
four of which Lotts .   .   . have been extended up to Bloom en-