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Subject: [D-Col] Garritsen, Quitclaim
Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 23:14:52 EDT

List,
Where could I find a map of the below described property?
Does anyone know where this property would be?

As a result of a search on MI Making of America.
http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/
<A HREF="http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/">Making of America</A>
using the word Gerritsen.
There were many returns and I haven't searched all of them, but have searched
enough to know that I should also look at the images for Willemsen,
Williamson, Willimsen and other variants.
Below is just one instance of a find.
The text is transcribed from the footnotes on pages 413 and 414 of the book:
Author: Furman, Gabriel, 1800-1854.
Title: Antiquities of Long Island; by Gabriel Furman. To which is added a
Bibliography by Henry Onderdonk. jr.
Ed. by Frank Moore.
Publication date: 1874.
* The above deed to the Corporation of New York did not extend to the River.
January 15, 1717, Samuel Garritsen, of Gravesend, quit-claimed to David
Aersen of Brooklyn, all his right and title to a piece of land, "lying next
to the house and land belonging to the City of New York, bounded north-west
by the River, south-east by the highway that goes to the ferry, south-west by
the house and land belonging to the City of New York, and north-east by the
house and land belonging to the said John Rapalje, containing one acre be the
same more or less." On the 16th day of the same month, David Aersen sold
this property to Gerrit Harsum of New York, Gunsmith, for the sum of £109
current money of New York. "

Richard
Tucson, AZ

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