LISPENARD'S   MEADOWS
 

ii^P'^^^^^r.i: N a little hill far out in the
northwestern suburb of the
city of New York—so remote
that it would have been gird¬
ed about by Hudson, Canal,
and Vestry streets, had those
thoroughfares then existed—
stood a century and a half ago the farm - house
of Leonard Lispenard. The farm to which this
house related was a portion of the estate that
was known to successive generations as the Duke's
Farm, the King's Farm, the Queen's Farm, and
finally—when it became by gift the property of
the English Church—as the Church Farm.'* Lis-
penard's holding, of which he was the lessee from
Trinity, was styled specifically the Dominie's
Bouerie, or the Dominie's Hook, and was a con¬
siderable property lying between the North River
and a bit of swamp where now is West Broadway.

* The Corporation of Trinity claimed title to this property on
the ground that it was a part of the King's Farm ; and also on the
ground that it had been conveyed by the widow of the Dominie
Bogardus to Governor Lovelace, and by him granted to the Eng¬
lish Church.