16-Gravesend, New York, 1660

16-Gravesend, New York, 1660

Here is an excerpt from Gravesend Town Records. Deeds, Leases 1653 to 1670, liber II, 127, abstracted from the English original:
February the 9th 1660. Anthonie Johnson and Nicholas Stillwell did come before mee John Tilton, Clerke of the Corporation of Gravesend, and he the said Anthonie . . . sould all his Rite unto a Certain pcell of Land with ye houseing Barricke Guarden Orchard; as allsoe all that Hooke of land from the usuall place of his landing with his Bote to the Secant which was graunted unto him from the Govrnour Genll of this Province . . . unto Nicholas Stillwell for Sixteen hundred guilders
and one plantation, number Twenty Nyne, with houseing Guarden . . . in Gravesend . . . this 1 of Aprll Ano 1660 in gravesend in the Pvince N. Neatherld.

In answer to a question about the location of the land described above, she stated that [in the attached image] you will see a 1674 map of Gravesend, surveyed and drawn to scale (not a sketch; 20 poles to the inch) and written in English by John Terhune, son of the immigrant Albert Albertsen Terhunen, the lintwever.

On the far western side of Gravesend, you will see an almost diamond shaped property designated: "Anthony Jansen Van Salee's Patent or Francis Stillwell Bowery" which borders Gravesend Bay. This property also borders Robert Pumyea's patent and Cornelius V. Brunt's mansion house. All of this is in the middle of the map on the far left side. By 1674, due to shifting boundary lines, much of this property was then situated in New Utrecht.

Source: An email from Barbara Terhune on 12 Dec 2007 posted on the Dutch Colonies mailing list sponsored by Rootsweb. Barbara is related by marriage to John Terhune.

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