Jacob Adriaensen Van
Woggelum's Albany Lot, 1652
About this Diagram "In the absence of any map of the lots of those early times, this attempt to construct one is based mainly upon the descriptions found in the Albany County Records, the Patents in the Secretary of State's office, and Mr. Munsell's Annals of Albany. In most cases these descriptions are brief and obscure; some are not only defective but false and contradictory, and capable of a correct interpretation by subsequent repeated conveyances of the same lots. It is not to be supposed that this performance gives a complete picture of all the house lots in ancient Beverwyck; several gaps in Broadway will be found which no ingenuity of the compiler could fill, and several lots will be found so imperfectly described in the records, that he has to confess his inability to locate them. "Much remains to be learned in this matter, by the patient student, in the later registers of deeds and mortgages, and it is to be hoped that some one who has leisure may pursue these researches and render more complete this imperfect attempt to illustrate the History of Ancient Albany."** The Early Provenance of the Lot 1. In 1652 this lot was patented to Jacob Adriaense (Soogemackelyck, alias Rademaker Van Utrecht). 2. In 1667 the lot was sold to Cornelis Segerse (Van Voorhoudt). 3. In 1729 Grietje Ryckse (Van Vranken) had a lot on what is now Montgomery street.† _____ **Collections on the History of Albany. Albany, N. Y.: J. Munsell, 1871. Page 185. †Patents, 394, 444, 456, 500; Alb. An., ix, 47. |
