LIST 
 
 OF 
 
 CONVEYANCES 
 
 MADE TO 
 
 CHARLES HENRY HALL 
 
 AND RECORDED IN THE 
 
 OFFICE OF REGISTER 
 
 OF THE 
 
 CITY AND COUNTY OF NEW YORK, 
 
 FROM THE 1ST DAY OF JANUARY, 1825, TO THE 1st DAY OF JULY, 1845. 
 
 NEW YORK: 
 
 A. S. GOULD, PRINTER, 144 NASSAU ST. 
 
 1845. 
 
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LIST 
 
 OF 
 
 CONVEYANCES 
 
 MADE TO 
 
 CHARLES HENRY HALL 
 
 AND RECORDED 
 
 IN THE OFFICE OF REGISTER 
 
 IN THE 
 
 CITY AND COUNTY OF NEW YOUK, 
 
 FROM 1ST JANUARY, 1825, TO 1ST JULY, 1845. 
 
 Lib.' 
 
 Page. 
 
 Grantors. 
 
 Date of deed 
 
 When ack- 
 
 When re- 
 
 
 
 
 nowledged. 
 
 corded. 
 
 187 
 
 406 
 
 Richard Dur- 
 
 1825, 
 
 1825, 
 
 1825, 
 
 
 
 yee and Wife. 
 
 Feb. 2. 
 
 Feb. 4. 
 
 Feb. 18. 
 
 187 
 
 407 
 
 Richard Dur- 
 
 1825, 
 
 1825, 
 
 1825, 
 
 
 
 yee and Wife. 
 
 Feb. 2. 
 
 Feb. 4. 
 
 Feb. 18. 
 
 190 
 
 394 
 
 Samuel Miner 
 
 1825, 
 
 1825, 
 
 1825, 
 
 
 
 and Wife. 
 
 April 18. 
 
 April 18. 
 
 May 31. 
 
 190 
 
 398 
 
 JohnC Smith 
 
 1825, 
 
 1825, 
 
 1825, 
 
 
 
 and Wife, 
 
 April 18. 
 
 April 18. 
 
 May 31. 
 
 
 
 Henry Smith, 
 
 
 
 
 Henry Ulrick 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 and Wife, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Children and 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 heirs of Mar- 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tin Smith 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 deceased. 
 
 
 
 
 Deseription of premises. 
 
 Strip of ground in 8th Ward, 
 New York, on Crosby street. 
 
 Lot of ground in 8th Ward, 
 on Crosby street ; also adjoin- 
 ing lot ; also another adjoining 
 lot on Columbia street. 
 
 Piece of land in 9th (for- 
 merly 7th) Ward of city of New 
 York, being six acres on Third 
 Avenue, (east side,) between 
 lands of Thomas Charles Win- 
 throp and heirs of Jacobus Kip 
 deceased. 
 
 Three undivided fifths of six 
 acres of land on east side of 
 Third Avenue, between lands of 
 Thomas Charles Winthrop and 
 heirs of Jacobus Kip deceased. 
 
LIST OF CONVEYANCES MADE TO CHARLES HENRY HALL. 
 
 Lib. |Page. 
 
 190 400 
 
 190 396 
 
 191 059 
 
 Grantors. 
 
 John Fleming 
 and Wife. 
 
 Willett Sher- 
 wood and 
 Wife. 
 
 Garret Myer 
 and Wife. 
 
 Date of deed 
 
 When ack- 
 
 When re- 
 
 
 nowledged. 
 
 corded 
 
 1825, 
 
 1825, 
 
 1825, 
 
 April 18 
 
 April 22. 
 
 May 31. 
 
 1825, 
 
 1825, 
 
 1825, 
 
 April 29. 
 
 April 30. 
 
 May 31. 
 
 1825, 
 
 1825, 
 
 1825, 
 
 July 7. 
 
 July 7. 
 
 July 8. 
 
 Description of premises. 
 
 One equal undivided fifth in 
 9th (formerly 7th,) Ward of 
 city of New York, of six acres 
 on Third Avenue, 'between lands 
 of Thomas Charles Winthrop 
 and heirs of Jacobus Kip de- 
 ceased. 
 
 Triangular piece in 8th Ward, 
 on Crosby street. 
 
 All those certain lots, pieces 
 or parcels of land situate, lying 
 and being in the 9th Ward of 
 the city of New York, being 
 part and parcel of the farm of 
 which John Myer the elder, the 
 father of the said Garret Myer, died seised, following, that is to say ; all that certain lot, 
 piece or parcel of land lying on the south-easterly side of the Eighth Avenue, and bounded 
 as follows, viz. : Beginning at the easterly corner of the said Avenue and the road leading 
 from Haerlem, thence running along the said avenue »north thirty-four and a half degrees 
 east, three chains and nine links to a stake and stones ; thence running north eighty-six and 
 a half degrees east, forty-four chains and ten links to Haerlem River ; thence running along 
 the said river south twenty-nine degrees and a quarter, west one chain and twelve links ; 
 south twenty-five degrees east, two chains and filly links ; south twenty and a half degrees 
 west, two chains; south thirty-seven degrees east, two chains aud ninety-six links to a stake 
 and stones ; thence running south eighty-seven degrees and three-quarters west, forty-six 
 chains and twenty-five links to a stake and stones on the north-easterly side of the said road 
 leading from Haerlem ; thence running along the said road north fourteen degrees west, 
 four chains and forty-seven links to the place of beginning ; containing thirty- two acres of 
 land be the same more or less: And also all that certain other tract, piece or parcel of land, 
 consisting of upland and salt meadow and bounded as follows, viz. : Beginning at the south- 
 easterly corner of a piece of upland and salt meadow, which by an indenture bearing date 
 on the third day of March, in the year 1820, is remised, released and quit claimed unto 
 Peter Myer (son of the said John Myer, the elder, deceased,) at a stake and stones standing 
 at the edge of salt meadow belonging to John Delancey ; thence running along the said salt 
 meadow south three degrees west, one chain and eighty-four links ; south forty-four and a 
 half degrees west, one chain; south three and three-quarter degrees east, one chain and 
 eighty-four links ; south nine degrees and one-quarter east, ninety links to a stake and stones ; 
 thence running south eighty-five degrees and a quarter west, three chains and fifty-four 
 links to a stake and stones at the edge of the salt meadow ; thence running along the same 
 south seven aud a half degrees east, one chain and seventy links to a stake and stones ; 
 thence running south eighty-four and a half degrees west, five chains and sixty-eight links 
 to upland, which, by an indenture bearing date on the said third day of March, in the year 
 1820, is remised, released and quit claimed to the children of Jacob Myer deceased ; thence 
 running along the same, north nine degrees west, thirty-five links to upland belonging to the 
 said John Delancey ; thence running along the same north seven degrees west, one chain 
 and twelve links ; north thirty degrees west, one chain and ninety links ; north seventy-two 
 degrees west, eighty-three links, south eighty-three degrees and a half west, one chain and 
 fifty-three links ; north three degrees east, one chain to a stake and stones ; thence running 
 north eighty-four and a half degrees east, eight chains and sixty-six links to a stake and 
 stones at the edge of the upland ; thence running along the same, north three degrees east, 
 three chains and eighty links to a stake and stones ; thence running along said land remised, 
 released and quit claimed to the said Peter Myer as aforesaid, north eighty-three degrees and 
 a half east, four chains to the place of beginning ; containing four acres, two roods and four- 
 teen perches and a half of land, be the same more or less ; subject to easement of cart way, 
 road, or passage, of that part, &c. last mentioned, consisting of salt meadow to and from that 
 part of the said farm, &c., herein first above mentioned, which lies northerly and westerly 
 
LIST OF CONVEYANCES MADE TO CHARLES HENRY HALL. 
 
 Lib. jPage.! Grantors. 
 
 191 
 
 193 
 
 194 
 
 195 
 
 533 
 
 Benjamin L. 
 Benson and 
 Mary Benson 
 
 Date of deed | When ack 
 nowledged 
 
 1825, 
 July 6. 
 
 1825, 
 July 8 
 
 When re- 
 corded. 
 
 303 
 
 Peter Gerard 
 Stuyvesant. 
 
 Abraham 
 Van Ranst. 
 
 1825, 
 May 10. 
 
 1825, 
 May 17. 
 
 1825, 
 July 22. 
 
 1825, 
 May 19. 
 
 Description of premises. 
 
 of the lot, &c last above men- 
 tioned, Sec ; and also the ease- 
 ment appertaining to the piece 
 of land last described of a cart- 
 way, road or passage to and 
 from the last mentioned lot, 
 through the most direct route 
 to and from the piece first de- 
 scribed, through and over that 
 part, &c. first mentioned, con- 
 sisting of salt meadow lying on 
 the south-east side of the ave- 
 nue, which, by an indenture 
 bearing date 3d March, 1820, 
 is remised, released and quit 
 claimed to the said children of 
 the said Jacob Myer deceased, 
 as herein before mentioned, so 
 long as they or either of them 
 shall hold the same. 
 
 AH those two certain pieces, 
 parcels or tracts of land situate, 
 Sec. in the 9th Ward of the 
 city of New York, and bound- 
 ed as follows, viz : The first 
 piece is bounded east by Haer- 
 lem River, north by land late 
 of John Adriance, south by 
 land of John B. Coles and the 
 heirs cf John S. Sickels de- 
 ceased, southerly and westerly 
 by one hundred and twenty- 
 fifth street and the old Kings- 
 bridge road. The other piece 
 of ground is bounded northerly 
 by one hundred and twenty- 
 fifth street, south by land of 
 ?»Ir. Van Norden, southerly and 
 westerly by the old Kingsbridge 
 road, containing together about 
 forty-seven acres. 
 
 1825, I Agreement to sell part of the 
 Aug 3. Petersfield farm, First Avenue 
 and Stuyvesant street. 
 
 1825, 
 Oct. 31. 
 
 Eli Concklin \ 1825, ! 1825, 
 and Wife. June 29. | July 6. 
 
 1825, 
 May 20. 
 
 Two lots near Burnt Mill 
 Point; Nos 1060 and 1061 
 Stuyvesant property, fronting on 
 Twelfth street. 
 
 Lot and buildings on Crosby 
 July 9. street. 
 
LIST OF CONVEYANCES MADE TO CHARLES HENRY HALL. 
 
 Description of premises. 
 
 Farm in the township of Har- 
 lem, bounded southerly on land 
 late of Lawrence Benson, eas- 
 terly on Harlem river, north- 
 erly by lands of Gabriel Fur- 
 man and Richard Harrison, and 
 westerly by the road leading 
 from Harlem to the Kings- 
 bridge road, being the farm sold 
 to J, A. by Adolph Myers 
 executor, &c. of Aaron Bus- 
 sing. 
 
 Piece or tract in the 9th 
 Ward of the city of New York. 
 Beginning at that point on the 
 northerly side of 125th street, 
 where the line of the land of 
 Benjamin L. Benson and the 
 parties of the first part inter- 
 sect said street ; thence east 
 along said line to the centre 
 line of 126th street, thence eas- 
 terly along said centre line to a 
 point distant west from the wes- 
 terly side of the Fourth Ave- 
 nue one hundred and ten feet ; 
 thence southerly, on a line par- 
 allel with Fourth Avenue to the 
 centre line between 125th and 
 126th streets ; thence west a- 
 long said centre line fifty feet, 
 thence south on a line parallel 
 to the Fourth Avenue to 125th 
 street ; thence west along 125th 
 street to the place of beginning, 
 containing about twenty-five lots 
 of 2500 feet each, being pTirt 
 of the land of John S. Sickels 
 deceased. 
 
 Piece of ground in the 9th 
 Ward of the city of New York, 
 bounded south by 125th street, 
 north by the centre line of 126th 
 street, north-westerly by Mr. 
 Benson's land, and easterly by 
 lots lately belonging to Mr. Se- 
 guine. 
 
 Piece of land in the 9th Ward 
 of the city of New York. Eas- 
 terly by the Fourth Avenue, 
 westerly by 126th street, and 
 north-westerly by the line of 
 the land of Benjamin L. Ben- 
 son, containing about six lots of 
 2509 square feet each, together 
 with right to avenue and streets, 
 part of estate of John S. Sick- 
 els deceased. 
 
 Tage 
 
 Grantors. 
 
 Date of deed 
 
 When ack- 
 
 When re- 
 
 
 
 nowledged. 
 
 corded. 
 
 440 
 
 John Adri- 
 
 1825, 
 
 1825, 
 
 1825, 
 
 
 ance. 
 
 June 27. 
 
 June 2/. 
 
 July 9. 
 
 442 
 
 William B. 
 
 - 
 
 1825, 
 
 1825, 
 
 1825, 
 
 
 Kenyon and 
 
 June 29. 
 
 July 1. 
 
 July 9. 
 
 
 wife, by Isaac 
 
 
 
 
 
 Adriance, at- 
 
 
 
 
 
 torney. 
 
 
 
 
 444 
 
 John Adri- 
 
 1825, 
 
 1825, 
 
 1825, 
 
 
 ance. 
 
 July 7. 
 
 July 8. 
 
 July 9. 
 
 445 
 
 Isaac Adri- 
 
 1825, 
 
 1825, 
 
 1825, 
 
 
 ance. 
 
 June 29. 
 
 July 1. 
 
 July 9. 
 
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 LIST OF CONVEYANCES MADE TO CHARLES HENRY HALL, 
 
 Lib. 
 
 Tagc. 
 
 Grantors. 
 
 Date of deed 
 
 When ack- 
 nowledged. 
 
 When re- 
 corded. 
 
 Description of premises. 
 
 195 
 
 447 
 
 Jacob Seguine 
 and Wife. 
 
 1825, 
 June 29. 
 
 1825, 
 July 1. 
 
 1825, 
 July 9. 
 
 Ten lots in the 9th Ward of 
 the city of New York, (bound- 
 ed easterly by the westerly side 
 of the Fourth Avenue, south- 
 erly by 125th street, westerly 
 by land of La?titia J, Kenyon, 
 northerly by 126th street and 
 the centre line between 125th 
 and 126th streets,) and com- 
 mences at the north-westerly 
 corner of 125th street and 
 Fourth Avenue, running thence 
 westwardly at right angles with 
 Fourth Avenue one hundred 
 and sixty feet ; thence north- 
 erly at right angles with last 
 course to the centre line be- 
 tween 125th and 126th streets ; 
 thence eastwardly along said 
 centre line fifty feet ; thence 
 northwardly at right angles 
 with said centre line to the 
 southerly side of 126th street ; 
 thence eastwardly along the 
 southerly side of said street to 
 the westerly side of the Fourth 
 Avenue ; thence southerly a- 
 long said westwardly side of 
 Fourth Avenue to the place of 
 beginning, being property con- 
 veyed by William B. Kenyon 
 and wife to party of first part 
 17th March, 1825. 
 
 195 
 
 450 
 
 Gabriel Fur- 
 man and Wife. 
 
 1825, 
 July 5. 
 
 1825, 
 July 6. 
 
 1825, 
 July 9. 
 
 Piece of land at Harlem, 
 bounded easterly by the Har- 
 lem River, southerly by land 
 lately sold by John Adriance to 
 Charles H. Hall, westerly by 
 land of Richard Harrison and 
 Peter Myers, and northerly by 
 land of Peter or Garret Myers, 
 including the purchases here- 
 tofore made by the said Ga- 
 briel Furman of William Law- 
 rence, G. Ludlow, Master in 
 Chancery, Peter Myers and 
 others, and of Peter Myers, 
 containing forty acres and three- 
 quarters of an acre more or 
 less. 
 
 196 
 
 337 
 
 Noah Scovell 
 and David P. 
 Hall. 
 
 1825, 
 Nov. 6. 
 
 1825, 
 Nov. 28. 
 
 
 
 1825, 
 Dec. 20. 
 
 Forty-three lots on Ninth and 
 Tenth streets, on a map annex- 
 ed marked A. 
 
\ 
 
 LIST OF CONVEYANCES MADE TO CHARLES HENRY HALL. 
 
 Lib. 
 197 
 
 197 
 197 
 197 
 197 
 197 
 197 
 197 
 
 Page 
 65 
 
 Grantors. 
 
 Nicholas Win 
 Stuyvesant 
 and Wife. 
 
 Nicholas Wm. 
 Stuyvesant 
 and Wife. 
 
 '0 Nicholas Wm 
 Stuyvesant 
 and Wife. 
 
 80 
 
 198 
 
 280 
 
 Date of deed 
 
 1825, 
 Aug. 1. 
 
 1825, 
 Aug. 1. 
 
 1825, 
 Aug. 1. 
 
 Nicholas Wm. 1825, 
 Stuyvesant Aug. 1. 
 and Wife. 
 
 Nicholas Wm 
 Stuyvesant 
 and Wife. 
 
 i (Nicholas Wm 
 Stuyvesant 
 
 and Wife. 
 
 Nicholas Wm 
 Stuyvesant 
 and Wife. 
 
 Nicholas Wm. 
 Stuyvesant 
 and Wife. 
 
 Henry Lynch. 
 
 1825, 
 Aug. 1. 
 
 1825, 
 Aug. 1. 
 
 1825, 
 Aug. 1. 
 
 1825, 
 Aug. 1. 
 
 1825, 
 Sept. 30. 
 
 When ack 
 novvled<ied. 
 
 1825, 
 Aug. 10 
 
 1825, 
 Aug. 10 
 
 1825, 
 Aug. 10. 
 
 1825, 
 Aug. 10. 
 
 1825, 
 Aug. 10. 
 
 1825, 
 Aug. 10. 
 
 1825, 
 Aug. 10. 
 
 1825, 
 Aug. 10. 
 
 1825, 
 Nov. 30. 
 
 When re- Description of premise?, 
 
 corded. 
 
 1825, Block between Second and 
 Aug. 1J. Third Avenues and Sixth and 
 Seventh streets. 
 
 1825, Block between Second 'and 
 Aug. 11. Third Avenues, and between 
 Seventh and Eighth streets. 
 
 1825, Block between First Avenue 
 Aug. 11. and Avenue A, and between 
 Tenth and Eleventh streets. 
 
 1825, Block between First Avenue 
 Aug 11. and Avenue A, and Eleventh 
 ' and Twelfth streets. 
 
 1825, Block between Avenue A and 
 Aug. 11. Avenue B, and Tenth and 
 Eleventh streets. 
 
 1825, Block between Avenue A 
 Aug. 11. and Avenue B, and Eleventh 
 and Twelfth streets. 
 
 1825, Triangular piece on Bowery, 
 Aug. 11. Third Avenue and Seventh 
 street. 
 
 1825, Strip composing the site of 
 Aug. 11. Seventh street between Second 
 and Third Avenues, subject to 
 right of corporation to take for 
 a street. 
 
 (Hermitage tract.) 
 1825, Lots Nos. 695, 696, 697, 
 Dec. 20. 698, 889, 890, 891, 892, Eighth 
 Avenue and Fortieth street, 
 subject to a mortgage from 
 Lynch to Norton. The wife of 
 grantor on same instrument re- 
 leases her dower. % 
 

 
 LIST OF CONVEYANCES MADE TO CHARLES HENRY HALL. 
 
 Lib. 
 
 Page 
 
 Grantors. 
 
 Date of deec 
 
 1 When ack 
 nowledged. 
 
 When re- 
 corded. 
 
 Description of premises. 
 
 198 
 
 285 
 
 Henry Lynch 
 
 1825, 
 Sept. 30. 
 
 1825, 
 Nov. 30. 
 
 1825, 
 Dec. 20. 
 
 (Hermitage tract.) Lots 257, 
 258, 259, 260 on Forty-sixth 
 street, between Ninth and Tenth 
 Avenues ; 393, 394, 395, 396 
 on Forty-first street, between 
 Ninth and Tenth Avenues, 
 subject to mortgage from Lynch 
 to John L. Norton. Wife of 
 Lynch releases her dower. 
 
 202 
 
 21 
 
 Thorn asJGard- 
 ner and Wife 
 
 1825, 
 Anril 18 
 
 1826, 
 Jan. 24. 
 
 1826, 
 r eb. o. 
 
 One equal undivided fifth part 
 of land in 12th Ward, New York, 
 bounded north and east by 
 lands of Thomas Charles Win- 
 throp, on the south by lands 
 of Jacobus Kip deceased, and 
 on the west by Third Avenue, 
 containing six acres. 
 
 202 
 
 437 
 
 Jacob Sea- 
 man and 
 Wife. 
 
 1826, 
 March 14. 
 
 1826. 
 March 14 
 
 1826, 
 May 8. 
 
 House and lot 137 Crosby 
 street ; on Goerck's map num- 
 bered 128. 
 
 206 
 
 83 
 
 William Dil- 
 worth and 
 Wife and 
 Abraham 
 
 Voorhes and 
 Wife. 
 
 1825, 
 Dec. 27. 
 
 1825, 
 Dec. 28. 
 
 1826, 
 June 16. 
 
 Forty-four lots between Tenth 
 street and Stuyvesant Creek 
 and Avenues B and D. 
 
 206 
 
 177 
 
 James A. 
 Hamilton and 
 Wife. 
 
 1825, 
 Dec. 29. 
 
 1826, 
 Feb. 16. 
 
 1826, 
 July 3. 
 
 Twenty-five lots on Rose Hill, 
 being part of the estate of Nich- 
 olas Cruger deceased. 
 
 207 
 
 163 
 
 James A. 
 Hamilton and 
 Wife. 1 
 
 1825, 
 Jan. 3. 
 
 1825, 
 Jan. 3. 
 
 1826, 
 July 3. 
 
 The one equal undivided half 
 part of sixty-two lots, part of 
 the Rose Hill farm. Subject 
 to agreement to sell two of said 
 lots. 
 
 207 
 
 164 
 
 James A. 
 Hamilton and 
 Wife. 
 
 1825, 
 Jan. 3. 
 
 1825, 
 Jan 3. 
 
 t826, 
 July 3. 
 
 One undivided half part of 
 fifty-six lots on the Third Ave- 
 nue, between Twenty-third and 
 Twenty-fifth streets, subject to 
 the rights of Oliver E. Cham- 
 berlain, Morris Reed and Ebe- 
 nezer Tall man to the premi- 
 ses and the rents and profits 
 thereof. 
 
 o 
 
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 LIST OF CONVEYANCES MADE TO CHARLES HENRY HALL. 
 
 Lib. 
 
 207 
 
 Page. 
 
 199 
 
 207 
 
 207 
 
 203 
 
 329 
 
 Grantors. 
 
 David P. Hall 
 
 Elizabeth 
 Pierce. 
 
 Richard Ha 
 rison. 
 
 Date of deed 
 
 1826, 
 May 13. 
 
 1826, 
 May 11. 
 
 1826, 
 July 9. 
 
 When ack- 
 nowledged. 
 
 1826, 
 June 7. 
 
 1826, 
 May 11. 
 
 1826, 
 July 13. 
 
 When re- 
 corded. 
 
 1826, 
 July 10. 
 
 1826, 
 July 10. 
 
 1826, 
 July 19. 
 
 Description of premises, 
 
 Reconveyance of lot on Cros- 
 by street, No. 151 on Goerck'e 
 map. 
 
 Lot on Crosby street, No. 
 151 on Goerck's map. 
 
 Land in the 12th Ward of 
 the city of New York, convey- 
 ed 17th February, 1820, by 
 William Lawrence and Wife 
 to the party of the first part, 
 beginning at the road now or 
 formerly leading from land of 
 John Myers to the village of 
 Harlem, thence running north 
 eighty-seven degrees and thirty 
 minutes east twenty chains and 
 ninety-seven links along land 
 now or formerly of said John 
 Myers to the north-west corner 
 of a lot of land formerly be- 
 longing to John Keese and 
 lately to Gabriel Form an, thence 
 along the west line of the said 
 lot south two degrees and thirty 
 minutes east, seven chains and 
 thirty-eight links to the south- 
 west corner of said lot lately 
 belonging to Gabriel Forman, 
 thence along land now or for- 
 merly of John Adriance south 
 eighty-eight degrees ten miu- 
 utes west, fifteen chains ; then 
 south two degrees east, twenty- 
 five links to the said road ; then 
 along the same northerly as it 
 runs to the place of beginning, 
 containing fourteen acres, one 
 rood and thirty-one perches of 
 land be the same more or less. 
 Subject to a right of way gran- 
 ted to John Keese and Gabriel 
 Forman, twenty-two feet wide 
 along the southerly side of the 
 lot hereby granted. 
 
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 LIST OF CONVEYANCES MADE TO CHARLES HENRY HALL. 
 
 Lib. iPage 
 
 207 
 
 210 
 
 211 384 
 
 331 
 
 448 
 
 Grantors. 
 
 James A. 
 Hamilton and 
 Wife. 
 
 Date of deed When ack- When re- 
 nowledged. corded. 
 
 1826, 
 March - 
 
 1826, 
 March 27. 
 
 1826, 
 July 19. 
 
 William H. 
 Minturn and 
 Wife. 
 
 Peter Myer 
 and Wife. 
 
 1826, 
 Oct. 23. 
 
 1826, 
 May 2. 
 
 1826, 
 Oct. 23. 
 
 1826, 
 May 4. 
 
 1826, 
 Oct. 25. 
 
 1826, 
 Dec. 5. 
 
 Description of premises. 
 
 One undivided fourth part of 
 block of ground on Rose Hill 
 farm, on Third Avenue, be- 
 tween Twenty-third and Twen- 
 ty-fifth streets. Subject to 
 trusts, &c, set forth in agree- 
 ment between the parties hereto 
 of the first and second parts, 
 
 bearing date day of , 
 
 1825. 
 
 Lot in 4th Ward, on Water 
 street. 
 
 Land in the 12th Ward of 
 the city of New York, (being 
 part of the farm of which John 
 Myer, the elder, died seised,) 
 bounded as follows : beginning 
 on the north-easterly side of the 
 road leading from Harlem, ad- 
 joining land belonging to the 
 said Charles H. Hall, and which 
 was lately conveyed to him by 
 Garret Myer ; thence running 
 along the said land and other land 
 belonging to the said Charles 
 H. Hall, north eighty-seven de- 
 grees and thirty-five minutes 
 east, twenty-four chains and 
 twenty-two links ; south two 
 degrees, eight chains and thirty- 
 seven links and a half to lands 
 belonging to Harrison ; thence 
 running along the said lands, 
 south eighty-nine degrees and a 
 half west, twenty-one chains 
 and fifteen links to the said 
 road ; thence running along the 
 said road, north twenty-three 
 degrees and one-quarter west, 
 four chains ; north twenty-one 
 degrees and one-quarter west, 
 one chain and eighty-four links ; 
 north fourteen degrees and 'three- 
 quarters west, two chains and 
 nineteen links to the place of 
 beginning ; containing eighteen 
 acres and twenty-four rods of 
 land more or less. 
 
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 LIST OF CONVEYANCES MADE TO CHARLES HENRY HALL. 
 
 Lib. 
 
 Page. 
 
 Grantors. 
 
 Date of deed 
 
 When ack- 
 nowledged. 
 
 When re- 
 corded. 
 
 Description of premises. 
 
 218 
 
 26 
 
 Thomas H. 
 Smith. 
 
 1827, 
 March 16. 
 
 1827, 
 March 19. 
 
 1827. 
 March 19. 
 
 General release and discharge 
 of debts and claims on real es- 
 tate and personal property, and 
 an agreement to pay off, satisfy 
 and discharge three certain 
 bonds and mortgages executed 
 by the said Charles Henry Hall 
 to Nicholas William Stuyve- 
 sant, dated on or about the 
 28th day of September, 1824, 
 for the sum of fourteen thou- 
 sand dollars in the whole, and 
 which will become due and 
 payable in the year 1844, with 
 interest at seven per cent., which 
 bonds were executed to secure 
 the payment of a part of the 
 purchase money of six blocks 
 of land at Branda Mula Point, 
 this day conveyed by Hall to 
 Smith ; Also, to pay off a bond 
 and mortgage executed by 
 Charles Henry Hall to John 
 McComb, 27th October, 1824, 
 for three thousand five hundred 
 dollars* or thereabouts, in part 
 payment of a lot of land on 
 Broadway and which has since 
 been conveyed by Hall lo Smith. 
 
 218 
 
 155 
 
 Benjamin L. 
 Benson. 
 
 1827, 
 March 12. 
 
 1827, 
 March 28. 
 
 1827, 
 March 30. 
 
 Two blocks of land at Har- 
 lem ; commencing at the point 
 where the middle of the Fourth 
 Avenue is intersected by 125th 
 street ; thence westerly along 
 the line of the centre of said 
 125th street to the point where 
 the said street is intersected by 
 the fifth Avenue ; thence north- 
 erly along the line of the cen- 
 tre of the Fifth Avenue to the 
 point where the same is inter- 
 sected by 127th street ; thence 
 easterly along the line of the 
 centre of 127th street to the 
 point where the same is inter- 
 sected by the Fourth Avenue ; 
 thence southerly along the line 
 of the centre of the Fourth 
 Avenue to the place of begin- 
 ning. 
 
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 LIST OF CONVEYANCES MADE TO CHARLES HENRY HALL. 
 
 Lib. 
 
 Page. 
 
 Grantors. 
 
 Date of deed 
 
 When ack- 
 nowledged. 
 
 When re- 
 corded. 
 
 Description of premises. 
 
 219 
 
 350 
 
 Luke Usher 
 and Wife. 
 
 1827, 
 April 16. 
 
 1827, 
 April 27. 
 
 1827, 
 May 1. 
 
 The undivided four-fifth parts 
 of piece of ground in 8th Ward 
 on Crosby, Houston and Mul- 
 berry streets. 
 
 219 
 
 351 
 
 Cornelius J. 
 Tompkins and 
 Wife. 
 
 1827, 
 May 1. 
 
 1827, 
 May L 
 
 1827, 
 May L. 
 
 Lot 125 on Goerck's map, on 
 Crosby street. 
 
 225 
 
 220 
 
 Jonathan 
 Prescott Hall 
 and Wife. 
 
 1827, 
 Sept. 18. 
 
 1827, 
 Sept. 20. 
 
 1827, 
 Sept. 20. 
 
 Land between Second and 
 Third Avenues, touching the 
 old eastern post road and Turtle 
 Bay Farm. 
 
 228 
 
 268 
 
 Joseph Dodge 
 and Wife. 
 
 1.-27, 
 Dec. 12. 
 
 1827, 
 Dec. 14. 
 
 1827, 
 Dec. 20. 
 
 Two lots at Corlears Hook. 
 
 229 
 
 225 
 
 Henry Ward 
 and Wife. 
 
 1828, 
 Jan. 26. 
 
 1828, 
 Jan. 30. 
 
 1828, 
 Feb. 2. 
 
 Eight lots on Third Avenue 
 and Forty-second street. 
 
 232 
 
 357 
 
 William Wag- 
 staff and 
 Wife. 
 
 1828, 
 Feb. 9. 
 
 1828, 
 March 5. 
 
 1828, 
 April 5. 
 
 (Harlem ) Two triangles. 
 One of them on the south side 
 of the old Kingsbridge road, as 
 laid down on a map made by J. 
 F. Bridges, April, 1827, from a 
 survey by D. Ewen, in March, 
 1826, opposite to lot No. 200 ; 
 bounded on the south and west 
 by lands of William Wagstaff, 
 commencing on 128th street 
 two hundred and sixty-two feet 
 from the west side of the Sev- 
 enth Avenue ; thence west sixty- 
 three feet ; thence north paral- 
 lel with Seventh Avenue, forty- 
 two feet to the old Kingsbridge 
 road ; thence south-east along 
 the said road to the place of be- 
 ginning. The other triangle 
 bounded as follows : Beginning 
 at the south-easterly corner of 
 the Seventh Avenue and 127th 
 street ; thence east along said 
 127th street thirtv-eight feet : 
 thence north-west along the old 
 Kingsbridge road forty-eight feet 
 unto the Seventh Avenue ; 
 thence southerly along the said 
 avenue twenty-four feet to 127th 
 street and the place of begin- 
 ning. 
 
14 
 
 LIST OF CONVEYANCES MADE TO CHARLES HENRY HALL. 
 
 Page 
 
 464 
 
 4GG 
 
 329 
 
 332 
 
 Grantors. 
 
 James A. 
 Hamilton 
 and Wife. 
 
 James A. 
 Hamilton 
 and Wife. 
 
 Mary Jane 
 De Lancey, 
 Edward 
 Bullus 
 and Wife, 
 John Ellison 
 and Wife. 
 
 Henrietta El- 
 lison, Caroline 
 Matilda Elli- 
 son, Emily 
 Ellison, Wil- 
 liam Ellison, 
 Thomas Ellt 
 son, Charlotte 
 Amelia Elli- 
 son, by Wm 
 N. Dyckman 
 Guardian, &c 
 
 John Adri- 
 ance. 
 
 Date of deed 
 
 1828, 
 April 7 
 
 1828, 
 April 7. 
 
 1826, 
 June 16. 
 
 1826, 
 July 1. 
 
 1827, 
 July 17. 
 
 When ack 
 nowledged. 
 
 1828, 
 April 12. 
 
 1828, 
 April 12. 
 
 1826, 
 June 17. 
 and 
 1826, 
 July 7. 
 
 1826, 
 July 7. 
 
 When re- 
 corded. 
 
 1828, 
 April 22. 
 
 1828, 
 April 22. 
 
 1828, 
 March 15. 
 
 1828, 
 March 15. 
 
 1827, 
 Oct. 23. 
 
 1828, 
 March 28. 
 
 Description of premises. 
 
 Lot 713 Rose Hill farm. 
 
 Lot 945 Rose Hill farm. 
 
 Three equal undivided ninth 
 parts of houses and lots, known 
 on a map of the lands of Al- 
 derman Beekman deceased as 
 lots 146 and 151 on east side of 
 Broadway. 
 
 The six equal undivided ninth 
 parts of house and lots 146 and 
 151 on Broadway, (east side) 
 in preceding conveyance descri- 
 bed. 
 
 Release of part of mortga- 
 ged premises, viz., all that piece 
 or parcel of land bounded, &c, 
 as follows : Beginning at a point 
 where the southwardly side of 
 129th street is intersected by 
 the line which divides or for- 
 merly divided the lands con- 
 veyed by Benjamin L. Benson 
 to the said Charles Henry Hall 
 from the lands mortgaged as 
 aforesaid (mortgage of 27th 
 June, 1825,) ; thence westerly 
 along said Benson's line to the 
 old Kingsbridge road ; thence 
 northerly along the said road to 
 the line of the land formerly 
 belonging to Richard Harrison, 
 and by him conveyed to the 
 said Charles Henry Hall ; thence 
 easterly along said Harrison's 
 line to 129th street aforesaid ; 
 thence easterly along the south- 
 erly side of 129th street to the 
 place of beginning. 
 
15 
 
 LIST OF CONVEYANCES MADE TO CHARLES HENRY HALL. 
 
 Lib. 
 
 Pago. 
 
 Grantors. 
 
 Date of deed 
 
 When ack- 
 nowledged. 
 
 When re- 
 corded. 
 
 Description of premises. 
 
 237 
 
 12 
 
 Asahel Lang- 
 worthy 
 and Wife. 
 
 1828, 
 April 10. 
 
 1828, 
 April 30. 
 
 1828, 
 May 1. 
 
 Five lots between Second 
 and Third Avenues and be- 
 tween Twenty-third and Twen- 
 ty-fifth streets ; Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 
 and 47 on map made by Fr. 
 Nicholson for B. P. Cruger. 
 
 237 
 
 378 
 
 Josiah Sturges 
 and Wife. 
 
 1828, 
 April 25. 
 
 1828, 
 April 25. 
 
 1828, 
 May 30. 
 
 The one-fifth part of a piece 
 of ground on Crosby and Mul- 
 berry streets. 
 
 238 
 
 216 
 
 Robert Lati- 
 mer and Wife, 
 Sophia Usher. 
 
 1828, 
 April 28. 
 
 1828, 
 May 30. 
 
 1828. 
 June 18. 
 
 Lot 129 on C. T. Goerck's 
 map. On west side of Crosby 
 street. 
 
 240 
 
 268 
 
 Luke Usher 
 and Wife. 
 
 1828, 
 Aug. 6. 
 
 1828, 
 Aug 12. 
 
 1828, 
 Aug. 18. 
 
 Three lots on the easterly 
 side of Crosby street ; Nos. 
 107, 108 and 109 on a map by 
 C. T. Goerck. 
 
 241 
 
 114 
 
 John Adri- 
 ance. 
 
 1828, 
 Sept. 20. 
 
 1828, 
 Sept. 27. 
 
 1828, 
 Sept 30. 
 
 Release of part of mortga- 
 ged premises from mortgage re- 
 corded in liber 81 of Mortga- 
 ges, page 464, on 1st July, 
 1825. All that part of said 
 mortgaged premises bounded 
 northerly by 130th street ; wes- 
 terly by a line drawn parallel to 
 the Fourth Avenue, at the dis- 
 tance of two hundred and thirty- 
 five feet therefrom ; and south- 
 erly by the line which formerly 
 separated the land of the said 
 John Adriance and Benjamin L. 
 Benson. 
 
16 
 
 LIST OF CONVEYANCES MADE TO CHARLES HENRY HALL. 
 
 Lib. Page 
 
 241 
 
 300 
 
 243 
 
 243 137 
 
 Grantors. 
 
 John Adri- 
 ance. 
 
 136 
 
 243 
 
 139 
 
 James Hooker 
 4 
 
 Date of deed 
 
 1828, 
 Oct 13. 
 
 When ack- When re- 
 nowledged. corded. 
 
 1828, 
 Oct. 16. 
 
 1828, 
 Oct. 16. 
 
 James Hooker 
 and Wife. 
 
 1828, 
 Dec. 1. 
 
 1828. 
 Dec. 1. 
 
 Robert L. 
 Rcade. 
 
 1828, 
 Dec. 1. 
 
 1828, 
 Dec. 1, 
 
 1828, 
 Dec. 1. 
 
 1828, 
 Dec. 2. 
 
 1828, 
 Dec. 2. 
 
 1828, 
 Dec. 2. 
 
 1828, 
 Dec. 3. 
 
 Description of premises. 
 
 Release of part of mortga- 
 ged premises from mortgage re- 
 corded liber 81 of Mortgages, 
 page 464. All that part, &c, 
 described as follows, viz. : north- 
 erly by 130th street, easterly 
 by a line drawn parallel to the 
 Fourth Avenue, on the westerly 
 side thereof, at the distance of 
 two hundred and thirty-five feet 
 therefrom ; westerly by a like 
 parallel line drawn at the dis- 
 tance of three hundred and ten 
 feet from the Fourth Avenue, 
 and southerly by the division 
 line between the lands formerly 
 of Benjamin L. Benson, now 
 owned bv the said Charles H. 
 Hall, and the lands held under 
 the aforesaid mortgage by the 
 said John Adriance. 
 
 Triangular piece on Seventh 
 street, Bowery Road and Third 
 Avenue. 
 
 The equal undivided half part 
 of six blocks. The first be- 
 tween Second and Third Ave- 
 nues and Sixth and Seventh 
 streets ; the second between 
 Second and Third Avenues and 
 Seventh and Eighth streets ; 
 the third between Avenue A 
 and First Avenue and Tenth 
 and Eleventh streets ; the fourth 
 between Avenue A and First 
 Avenue and Eleventh and 
 Twelfth streets ; the fifth be- 
 tween Avenue A and Avenue 
 B and Tenth and Eleventh 
 streets ; and the sixth between 
 Avenue A and Avenue B and 
 Eleventh and Twelfth streets. 
 
 The equal undivided half part 
 of six blocks in preceding con- 
 
 veyance described 
 
17 
 
 LIST OF CONVEYANCES MADE TO CHARLES HENRY HALL. 
 
 Lib. Page. 
 
 244 
 
 424 
 
 245 
 
 245 
 
 18 
 
 386 
 
 Grantors. 
 
 Nicholas Wm 
 Stuyvesant 
 and Wife. 
 
 Thomas 
 Eames and 
 Wife. 
 
 Henry Thom- 
 as and W r ife 
 
 Date of deed 
 
 1828, 
 Dec. 23. 
 
 1828, 
 Aug. 15. 
 
 1828, 
 April 15. 
 
 When ack 
 nowledged. 
 
 1828, 
 Dec. 30. 
 
 1828, 
 Aug. 15. 
 
 1828, 
 May 12. 
 
 1828, 
 Dec. 10. 
 
 When re- 
 corded. 
 
 1829, 
 Jan. 2. 
 
 1828, 
 Nov. 21. 
 
 1828, 
 Dec. 27. 
 
 Uesciiption of premises. 
 
 Release of part of premises 
 mortgaged. (See liber 84 of 
 Mortgages, page 66.) Releases 
 a piece of ground lying on 
 east side of Third Avenue, be- 
 tween Sixth and Seventh streets, 
 one hundred and fifty feet wide 
 on Sixth and Seventh streets 
 
 Lot on C. Goerck's map, No. 
 124 on Crosby street. 
 
 Three triangular pieces of 
 land ; (distinguished on map 
 annexed of exchange of pro- 
 perty) ; the first commencing 
 at a point in the north line of 
 127th street, seventy-seven feet 
 and ten inches eastwardly from 
 the intersection of 127th street 
 with the Fourth Avenue ; 
 thence still eastwardly along 
 the north line of 127th street 
 one hundred and thirty -two feet 
 and two inches ; thence north- 
 wardly on a line making a right 
 angle with the last mentioned 
 line ninety-nine feet and eleven 
 inches, and from thence in a 
 straight line to the place of be- 
 ginning, together with one-half 
 of 127th street contiguous ; the 
 second commences on the cen- 
 tre line between 127th and 
 128th streets, about two hun- 
 dred and eighteen feet eastward 
 of the easterly side of the Fourth 
 Avenue, terminating two hun- 
 dred and thirty-five feet from 
 easterly line of Fourth Avenue, 
 and from thence still eastward 
 about sixteen feet ; from thence 
 northwardly on a line making 
 a right angle with the last men- 
 tioned line about twelve feet, 
 and from thence in a straight 
 line to the place of beginning : 
 the third commences at a point 
 in the centre of 128th street, 
 about four hundred and sixteen 
 feet eastward of the east side 
 of the Fourth Avenue ; thence 
 eastwardly about one hundred 
 feet ; thence in a line nearly 
 due north about fifty feet ; and 
 thence in a straight line to the 
 place of beginning. 
 
 3 
 
18 
 
 LIST OF CONVEYANCES MADE TO CHARLES HENRY HALL. 
 
 Lib. Page. 
 
 245 
 
 547 
 
 Grantors. 
 
 Nicholas Wm 
 Stuyvesant 
 and Wife. 
 
 248 
 
 506 
 
 Sarah C, Lud 
 low. 
 
 248 
 
 508 
 
 252 
 
 66 
 
 William G. 
 Bucknor. 
 
 Nicholas Wm 
 Stuyvesant 
 and Wife. 
 
 Date of deed When ack- When re- 
 nowledged. corded. 
 
 1829, 
 Jan. 1. 
 
 1829, 
 April 17. 
 
 1829, 
 April 17. 
 
 1829, 
 Jan. 16. 
 
 1829, 
 April 18. 
 
 1829, 
 April 18. 
 
 1829, 
 Jan. 19. 
 
 1829, 
 April 20. 
 
 1829, 
 April 20. 
 
 Description of premises. 
 
 Release part of block be- 
 tween Second and Third Ave- 
 nues and Sixth and Seventh 
 streets, mortgaged, and mort- 
 gage recorded in liber 84 of 
 Mortgages, page 66. Parallel- 
 ogram released is seventy feet 
 four and a half inches wide on 
 northerly side of Sixth street, 
 ninety feet ten and a half inches 
 deep, and the easterly line 
 thereof is two hundred and 
 ninety-five feet four and a half 
 inches east of Third Avenue. 
 
 Lot on the westerly side of 
 Crosby street, near Houston 
 street, 124 on C. T. Goerck's 
 map, which premises were mort- 
 gaged by Hall to Sarah C. 
 Ludlow, by mortgage recorded 
 in liber 122 of Mortgages, page 
 234. 
 
 Release of two lots corner of 
 Crosby and Houston streets ; 
 which premises or a part thereof 
 were mortgaged by mortgage 
 recorded in liber 104 of Mort- 
 gages, page 43, and the mort- 
 gage afterwards assigned (see 
 liber 123 of Mortgages, page 
 71,) to the party of the first 
 part : said premises or part 
 thereof also mortgaged to the 
 party of the first part. (See 
 liber 122 of Mortgages, page 
 406.) 
 
 Release of part of mortgage 
 premises. (Liber 84 of Mort- 
 gages, page 66.) Ten lets num- 
 bered 1, 6, 7, 30, 35, 36, 37, 
 38, 39 and 40, on a map made 
 by Edward Doughty, January, 
 1829, on Second Avenue and 
 Sixth street. 
 
19 
 
 LIST OF CONVEYANCES MADE TO CHARLES HENRY HALL. 
 
 Lib. 
 
 Page. 
 
 Grantors. 
 
 Date of deed 
 
 When ack- 
 nowledged. 
 
 When re- 
 corded. 
 
 Description of premises. 
 
 254 
 
 306 
 
 Oliver M. 
 Lownds, late 
 Sheriff, &,c. 
 
 1829, 
 June 27. 
 
 1829, 
 Aug. 28. 
 
 1829, 
 Aug. 29. 
 
 The right, title and interest 
 which Josiah Sturges had on 
 the 24th December, 1819, or 
 afterwards, of, in and to lot on 
 Crosby and Mulberry streets. 
 
 256 
 
 635 
 
 John L. Nor- 
 ton. 
 
 1829, 
 Oct. 1. 
 
 1829, 
 Oct. 12. 
 
 1830, 
 Jan. 4. 
 
 Release of part of premises 
 mortgaged by Henry Lynch to 
 the party of the first part : 
 (Liber 85 of Mortgages, page 
 76.) Lots 257, 258, ^59, 260, 
 393. 394, 395, 396, 695, 696, 
 697, 698, 889, 890, 891, 892, 
 on the Hermitage Tract, in the 
 Twelfth Ward of the city of 
 New York. 
 
 
 589 
 
 Nicholas Win. 
 Stuyvesant 
 and Wife. 
 
 1829 
 May 19. 
 
 ic^y , 
 June 2. 
 
 1 ftQfl 
 
 J.OOU, 
 
 March 10. 
 
 Release of part of mortga- 
 ged premises. (Liber 240 of 
 Mortgages, page 294.) Ten 
 lots numbered 1, 6, 7, 30, 35, 
 36, 37, 38, 39 and 40, on a map 
 made by Edward Doughty, 
 January 8th, 1829, on Second 
 Avenue and Sixth street. 
 
 260 
 
 5 
 
 Nicholas Wm. 
 Stuyvesant. 
 
 1830, 
 Feb. 24. 
 
 1830, 
 March 4. 
 
 1830, 
 March 13. 
 
 Releases block between Ave- 
 nue A and Avenue B and 
 Tenth and Eleventh streets from 
 the payment of $3,750, part of 
 $13,750, the consideration ex- 
 pressed in a mortgage recorded 
 liber 84 of Mortgages, page 77. 
 Also releases block between 
 Avenue A and Avenue B and 
 Eleventh and Twelfth streets 
 from the payment of $3,750, 
 part of $13,750, the considera- 
 tion expressed in a mortgage re- 
 corded in liber 84 of Mortga- 
 ges, page 80. Also releases 
 block between Second and Third 
 Avenues and between Seventh 
 street and Eighth street from 
 the payment of $4,500, part of 
 the consideration of Deed Poll 
 recorded in liber 127 of Mort- 
 gages, page 249, and also of 
 $10,000, part of consideration 
 expressed in Deed Poll, recorded 
 in liber 129 of Mortgages, page 
 22, to the intent that the said 
 last described block of land may 
 stand charged and be subject to 
 redemption on payment of 
 $30,000 and no more 
 
20 
 
 LIST OP CONVEYANCES MADE TO CHARLES HENRY HALL. 
 
 Lib. Page. 
 
 405 
 
 635 
 
 162 
 
 Grantors. 
 
 Tunis E. 
 Dikeman 
 and Wife, 
 
 Luke Usher 
 and Wife. 
 
 Date of deed When ack- 
 nowledged. 
 
 1830, 
 April 13. 
 
 Horatio G. 
 Wilkes, Ad 
 ministrator, 
 &c, of, &a, 
 Eliza Ludlow 
 deceased. 
 
 Henry Thom- 
 as and Wife 
 
 1830, 
 April 24. 
 
 1830, 
 June 24. 
 
 163 
 
 265 
 
 165 
 
 Harriet 
 Davey. 
 
 Heman 
 Averill. 
 
 1830, 
 May 26. 
 
 1830, 
 May 26. 
 
 1830, 
 May 26. 
 
 1830, 
 April 14. 
 
 1830, 
 April 26. 
 
 1830, 
 June 28. 
 
 1830, 
 July 1. 
 
 When re- 
 corded. 
 
 1830, 
 April 26. 
 
 1830, 
 May 10. 
 
 1830, 
 July 2. 
 
 1830, 
 July 13. 
 
 1830, 
 Aug. 17. 
 
 1830, 
 July 15. 
 
 1830, 
 Aug. 24. 
 
 1830. 
 Aug. 24. 
 
 1830, 
 Aug. 24. 
 
 Description of premises. 
 
 Confirmation of title to lot 
 bought of Eli Concklin, on 
 Crosby street ; (in record, Cras- 
 berry street by mistake) ; lot 
 124 on C. Goerck's map. 
 
 Release of lot on Houston 
 street, near Crosby street, from 
 mortgage. 
 
 Release of part of mortgaged 
 premises. Three lots on the 
 north-east corner of Fourth Av- 
 enue and Twenty-ninth street, 
 Rose Hill. 
 
 Conveyance to cure indefi- 
 niteness in deed recorded liber 
 220, page 387. Right, &c, of 
 parties of first part to lot on 
 Crosby, Houston and Mulberry 
 streets. 
 
 Part of lot numbered on map 
 by C. T. Goerck as No. 129, 
 on the westerly side of Crosby 
 street. 
 
 Conveyance to cure indefi- 
 niteness in description in deed 
 recorded liber 220, page 387. 
 Lot on Crosby, Houston and 
 Mulberry streets. 
 
21 
 
 LIST OF CONVEYANCES MADE TO CHARLES HENRY HALL. 
 
 Lib. Page. Grantors. Date of deed When ack- When re- Description of premises. 
 
 nowledged. corded. 
 
 265 
 
 265 
 
 2C6 
 
 267 
 
 267 
 
 166 
 
 215 
 
 143 
 
 293 
 
 Oliver M. 
 Lownds, late 
 Sheriff, &c. 
 
 Nicholas Win 
 Stuyvesant 
 and Wife. 
 
 William H. 
 Butler and 
 Wife. 
 
 Nicholas Wm. 
 Stuyvesant. 
 
 Peter Myer 
 and Wife. 
 
 1830, 
 May 1. 
 
 1830, 
 June 30. 
 
 1830, 
 May 26. 
 
 1830, 
 Nov. 30. 
 
 1830, 
 
 Oct. i. 
 
 1830, 
 July 15. 
 
 1830, 
 Aug. 24. 
 
 1830, 
 July 7. 
 
 1830, 
 July 17. 
 
 1830, 
 Nov. 30. 
 
 1830, 
 Sept. L. 
 
 1830, 
 Aug. 24. 
 
 1830, 
 Dec. 2. 
 
 1830, 
 Dec. 14. 
 
 1830, 
 Dec. 20. 
 
 Conveyance to correct errors 
 in deed recorded liber 254, 
 page 306. Right, title and in- 
 terest of Josiah Sturges to pro- 
 perty on Crosby, Houston and 
 Mulberry streets. 
 
 Lots numbers 97, 98, 99 and 
 100 on northerly side of Sev- 
 enth street, on map made by E. 
 Doughty, January 8th, 1829. 
 
 Conveyance made on account 
 of supposed indefiniteness in de- 
 scription in deed recorded in 
 liber 220, page 387. Lot on 
 Crosby, Houston and Mulberry 
 streets. 
 
 Release of part of mortga- 
 ged premises. Lots 64, 65 and 
 66, on the southerly side of 
 Eighth street, lying two hun- 
 dred and fifty feet three inches 
 east of Third Avenue. E. 
 Doughty's map, January 8th, 
 1829. 
 
 Piece of land in the Twelfth 
 Ward of the city of New York, 
 between Seventh and Eighth 
 Avenues and 128th and 129th 
 streets ; beginning at the south- 
 westerly side of the old Harlem 
 Road, on the boundary line of 
 the land of William Wagstaff 
 and the said Peter Myer, thence 
 south sixty-nine degrees and for- 
 ty-five minutes west along said 
 boundary line sixty-six feet nine 
 inches to a line drawn parallel 
 to the E ghth Avenue, at the 
 distance of two hundred and 
 fifty-eight feet from the easterly 
 side thereof; thence north-east 
 along said parallel line seventy- 
 seven feet six inches to the 
 old Harlem Road ; thence south- 
 east along said old road forty- 
 five feet to the place of begin- 
 ning. 
 
22 
 
 LIST OF CONVEYANCES MADE TO CHARLES HENRY HALL. 
 
 Lib. 
 
 267 
 
 Page 
 
 379 
 
 267 
 
 492 
 
 Grantors. 
 
 James C. 
 
 Everitt 
 and Wife. 
 
 Thomas E. 
 Davis 
 and Wife. 
 
 267 
 
 495 
 
 Thomas E. 
 Davis 
 and Wife. 
 
 267 
 
 498 
 
 267 
 
 503 
 
 Thomas E. 
 Davis 
 and Wife. 
 
 Nicholas Win 
 Stuyvesant 
 
 Date of deed When ack- When re- 
 nowledged. corded. 
 
 1830, 
 Dec. 20. 
 
 1830, 
 Dec. 21. 
 
 1830, 
 Dec. 20. 
 
 1831, 
 Jan. 1. 
 
 1830, 
 Dec. 31. 
 
 183], 
 Jan. 13. 
 
 1830, 
 Dec. 31. 
 
 1830, 
 Dec. 31. 
 
 1831, 
 Jan. 1 
 
 1831, 
 Jan. 1. 
 
 1831, 
 Jan. 13. 
 
 1831, 
 Jan. 13. 
 
 1830, 
 Dec. 27 
 
 1830, 
 Dec. 29. 
 
 1831, 
 Jan. 13. 
 
 Description of premises. 
 
 Lot on Chambers street, sub- 
 ject to bond and mortgage $1500 
 consideration money. 
 
 Two lots on Bleecker street, 
 between Thompson and Lau- 
 rens streets, part of the estate 
 of H. A. Coster deceased , sub- 
 ject to two mortgages, made by 
 parties of the first part to Fran- 
 cis Depau for $9000 each— 
 $18,000, part of consideration 
 money. 
 
 Two houses and lots on 
 Bleecker and Minetta streets, 
 subject to a mortgage for $5400 
 to Cornelia Livingston, for part 
 of the purchase money. 
 
 Lot on the northerly side of 
 Houston street, near Laurens 
 street, subject to a mortgage 
 executed to Cornelia Livingston 
 for $3000, part of consideration 
 money. 
 
 Release of part of morfga- 
 ged premises. Thirty-four lots 
 on map of property in Eleventh 
 Ward, made by E. Doughty, 
 City Surveyor, January 8th, 
 1829. Nos. 52 to 63, both in- 
 clusive, 67 to 82, 91 to 96, all 
 inclusive, Second and Third 
 Avenues, and Seventh and 
 Eighth streets. 
 
23 
 
 LIST OF CONVEYANCES MADE TO CHARLES HENRY HALL. 
 
 Lib. Page. Grantors. bate of deed When ack When re- Description of premises. 
 
 novvledged. coided. 
 
 267 
 
 505 
 
 268 
 
 268 
 
 77 
 
 Nicholas Wm. 
 Stuyvesant. 
 
 1830, 
 Dec. 27. 
 
 1830, 
 Dec. 29. 
 
 John Adri- 
 ance. 
 
 406 
 
 William Wag 
 staff and 
 Wife. 
 
 1830, 
 Oct. 29. 
 
 1830, 
 Dec. 20. 
 
 1830, 
 Oct. 30. 
 
 1830, 
 Dec. 21. 
 
 1831, 
 Jan. 13. 
 
 1830, 
 Nov. 29. 
 
 1831, 
 Jan. 6. 
 
 Release of part of mortga- 
 ged premises. Twenty-five lots 
 in Eleventh Ward. On E. 
 Doughty's map numbered 8 to 
 29, both inclusive, and 31, 32, 
 34, Second Avenue, and Sixth 
 and Seventh streets. 
 
 Release of part of mortga- 
 ged premises. Triangular piece 
 of ground in the Twelfth Ward 
 of the city of New York, bound- 
 ed westerly by the Fourth Ave- 
 nue ; north-easterly by 131st 
 street ; and south by the divi- 
 sion line of the lands formerly 
 of the said John Adriance and 
 Benjamin L. Benson. 
 
 Triangular piece of land at 
 Harlem, between Seventh and 
 Eighth Avenues and 128th and 
 129th streets: beginning at a 
 point equidistant from 128th 
 and 129th streets, at the dis- 
 tance of three hundred and 
 twenty-five feet easterly from 
 the easterly side of the Eighth 
 Avenue, thence north-east along 
 a line drawn parallel to said 
 Eighth Avenue forty feet to the 
 south-westerly side of the old 
 Harlem Road, thence south- 
 easterly along the said old road 
 sixty-two feet to a line drawn 
 in the centre between said 
 128th and 129th streets and 
 parallel thereto ; thence north- 
 westerly along said line fifty- 
 seven feet to the place of be- 
 ginning, together with part of 
 old road opposite. Said lot be- 
 ing part of lands conveyed by 
 William Molenaor to parties of 
 first part. 
 
21 
 
 LIST OF CONVEYANCES MADE TO CHARLES HENRY HALL. 
 
 Lib. Page 
 
 268 
 
 268 
 
 550 
 
 269 
 
 384 
 
 269 
 
 271 
 
 Grantors. 
 
 528 Nicholas Wm 
 Stuyvesant. 
 
 421 
 
 139 
 
 Thomas E. 
 
 Davis 
 and Wife. 
 
 Thomas E. 
 Davis 
 and Wife. 
 
 Nicholas Wm 
 Stuyvesant. 
 
 Jonathan 
 Prescott Hall 
 and Wife. 
 
 Date of deed 
 
 1830, 
 Dec. 27. 
 
 1830, 
 Dec. 31. 
 
 When ack- 
 nowledged. 
 
 1830, 
 Dec. 29. 
 
 When re- 
 corded. 
 
 1831, 
 Jan. 20. 
 
 1831, 
 Jan. 1. 
 
 1831, 
 Feb. 1, 
 
 1831. 
 Feb. - 
 
 1831, 
 Feb. 1. 
 
 1831, 
 Feb. 1. 
 
 1831, 
 Feb. 23. 
 
 1831, 
 Feb. 19. 
 
 1831, 
 Jan 24. 
 
 1831, 
 Feb. 19. 
 
 1831, 
 Feb. 23. 
 
 1831, 
 March 10. 
 
 Description of premises. 
 
 Release of lots 83, 84, 85, 
 86, on a map of C. H. HalTs 
 property in Eleventh Ward, 
 made by E. Doughty, City Sur- 
 veyor, January 8th, 1829, situ- 
 ate on north side of Seventh 
 street, between Second and 
 Third Avenues ; from mort- 
 gage. 
 
 Lot on the easterly side of 
 Bedford street, between Han- 
 cock and Downing streets, New 
 York city. Subject to a mort- 
 gage for $3000, executed by the 
 parties of the first part. 
 
 Lot and house on the south- 
 erly side of Bleecker street, be- 
 tween Thompson and Laurens 
 streets, New York city. Sub- 
 ject to a mortgage from Davis 
 to executors of John J. Glover 
 deceased for $8000. 
 
 Release of part of mortga- 
 ged premises. Lots on Dough - 
 tv's map of January 8th, 1829. 
 Nos. 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50 
 and 51, Third Avenue and Sev- 
 enth street ; also a lot on north 
 side of Seventh street, twenty 
 feet wide, lying seventy-five feet 
 east of Third Avenue. 
 
 Farm No. 1 on map of the 
 division of Turtle Bay Farm. 
 Subject to a mortgage executed 
 by J. P. Hall to the Globe In- 
 surance Go. for $20,000. 
 
25 
 
 LIST OF CONVEYANCES MADE TO CHARLES HENRY HALL. 
 
 Lib. 
 
 Page. 
 
 Grantors. 
 
 Date of deed 
 
 When ack- 
 nowledged. 
 
 When re- 
 corded. 
 
 Description of premises. 
 
 274 
 
 276 
 
 James Rogers 
 and Wife. 
 
 1831, 
 March 31. 
 
 1831, 
 April 2. 
 
 1831, 
 May 18. 
 
 Lots 227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 
 232 and 233, being parcel No. 
 17, at Harlem, at the intersec- 
 tion of One hundred and thirty- 
 second street and the Sixth Ave- 
 nue. Harlem map. 
 
 275 
 
 337 
 
 Thomas E. 
 Davis 
 and Wife. 
 
 1831, 
 Feb. 1. 
 
 1831, 
 Feb. 4. 
 
 1831, 
 June 4. 
 
 Lot on Houston street, be- 
 tween Crosby and Mulberry 
 streets. Subject to a mortgage 
 from Thomas E. Davis to the 
 Eagle Insurance Company for 
 $11,000. 
 
 275 
 
 339 
 
 Thomas E. 
 
 Davis 
 and Wife. 
 
 1831, 
 Feb. 1. 
 
 1831, 
 March 2. 
 
 1831, 
 June 4. 
 
 House and lot on the south- 
 east corner of Bleecker and 
 Thompson streets. 
 
 276 
 
 313 
 
 Jacob H. 
 Strever. 
 
 1831, 
 July 6. 
 
 1831, 
 July 6. 
 
 1831, 
 Aug. 29. 
 
 Surrender of lease, dated 2d 
 April, 1827, of lot No. 112, in 
 said lease mentioned. 
 
 279 
 
 4bb 
 
 Stephen Rich- 
 ard and Wife. 
 
 1829, 
 Dec. 15. 
 
 1832, 
 Feb. 23. 
 
 1832, 
 March 8. 
 
 Lots numbers 870, 871, 874, 
 875, 872, 873, 906, 907, 908, 
 909, 910 and 911, being par- 
 cels numbers 87 and 88 at 
 Harlem, between the Fourth 
 and Fifth Avenues and 128th 
 and 129th streets. Harlem map. 
 
 281 
 
 480 
 
 Thomas E. 
 Davis 
 and Wife. 
 
 1832, 
 Feb. 3. 
 
 1832, 
 Feb. 15. 
 
 1832, 
 Feb. 17. 
 
 Three lots on the northerly 
 side of North street ; Nos. 
 453, 445 and 437 on a map 
 made by T. R. Ludlum, City 
 Surveyor, April, 1827. Sub- 
 ject to two mortgages made by 
 Abraham Randolph, for $5500 
 and for $500, both of which 
 constitute part of the conside- 
 ration money of this deed ; and 
 also subject to a lease of the 
 two lots 453 and 445 for ten 
 years from 1st May, 1832. 
 
 4 
 
26 
 
 LIST OF CONVEYANCES MADE TO CHARLES HENRY HALL, 
 
 Lib. 
 
 Page. 
 
 Grantors. 
 
 Date of deed 
 
 When ack- 
 nowledged. 
 
 When re- 
 corded. 
 
 Description of premises. 
 
 282 
 
 252 
 
 George Gal- 
 lagher 
 and Wife. 
 
 1831, 
 Feb. 1. 
 
 1831, 
 April 1. 
 
 1832, 
 March 9. 
 
 Triangular piece of ground 
 on the westerly side of Hudson 
 street, between Chamber and 
 Reade streets. 
 
 282 
 
 255 
 
 Ellis Potter of 
 
 first part, 
 Edward Hoff- 
 mire of second 
 part and 
 Charles H. 
 Hall of third 
 part. 
 
 1832, 
 Feb. 8. 
 
 1832, 
 March 9. 
 
 1832, 
 March 9. 
 
 Articles of agreement in re- 
 ference to error in assignments 
 of leases of lots on Chambers 
 street, made by the party of 
 the third part to the parties of 
 the first and second parts re- 
 spectively. Ellis Potter also 
 agrees to pay off and discharge, 
 and to save harmless, the par- 
 ties of the second and third 
 parts from a mortgage executed 
 by the said Charles H. Hall to 
 George Gallagher, 1st Febru- 
 ary, 1831, for $9000. 
 
 282 
 
 259 
 
 George Gal- 
 lagher. 
 
 1831, 
 Feb. 1. 
 
 1831, 
 May 3. 
 
 1832, 
 March 9. 
 
 Assignment of lease of lot 
 number 635, on " map of the 
 Church Farm," dated 30th Jan., 
 1811, and made between the 
 rector and inhabitants of the 
 city of New York in commu- 
 nion of the Protestant Episco- 
 pal Church in the State of New 
 York and John B. Murray, for 
 forty-two years. Subject to 
 rents, &c, in said lease re- 
 served. 
 
 284 
 
 106 
 
 Nicholas Wm. 
 Stuyvesant. 
 
 1832, 
 April 5. 
 
 1832, 
 April 5. 
 
 1832, 
 April 6. 
 
 Release of block between the 
 First Avenue and Avenue A, 
 and between Eleventh and 
 Twelfth streets, from a mort- 
 gage recorded in liber 122 of 
 Mortgages, page 272, and the 
 assignment thereof recorded in 
 liber 122 of Mortgages, page 
 469, on which there is now de- 
 clared to be due only $5000, 
 and which sum is hereby char- 
 ged upon the three other blocks 
 in said mortgage described. 
 This release is declared to be 
 without prejudice to a mort- 
 gage recorded in liber 137 of 
 mortgages, page 369, for $17,- 
 500, and which is still an in- 
 cumbrance on the said block of 
 land. 
 
27 
 
 LIST OF CONVEYANCES MADE TO CHARLES HENRY HALL. 
 
 Lib 
 
 Pag ( 
 
 Grantors. 
 
 Date of dee 
 
 d When ack 
 nowledged 
 
 - When re- 
 corded. 
 
 Description of premises. 
 
 286 
 
 198 
 
 J. F. Hance. 
 
 1831, 
 May 16. 
 
 1831, 
 May 16. 
 
 1832, 
 May 17. 
 
 Release of lot on the south- 
 erly side of Tenth street ; No. 
 Ill on Scovell's map, from 
 mortgage and also of right of 
 mortgagee to a lease of said 
 lot executed by Charles H. 
 Hall to W. Piatt and C. Had- 
 den. 
 
 291 
 
 141 
 
 Nicholas Wm 
 Stuyvesant. 
 
 1832, 
 Nov. 27. 
 
 1832, 
 Nov. 28. 
 
 1832, 
 Nov. 28. 
 
 Block of ground between 
 Avenue A and Avenue B, and 
 Eleventh and Twelfth streets. 
 
 291 
 
 352 
 
 Nicholas Wm. 
 Stuyvesant. 
 
 1833, 
 Jan. 11. 
 
 1833, 
 Jan. 12. 
 
 1833, 
 Jan. 14. 
 
 Release of part of mortga- 
 ged premises. Block of ground 
 between Avenue A and Ave- 
 nue B, and Tenth and Eleventh 
 street. 
 
 294 
 
 526 
 
 Horatio 
 Wilkes, Ad- 
 ministrator, 
 &c, of Eliza 
 
 Ludlow 
 deceased. 
 
 1833, 
 March 13. 
 
 1833, 
 March 22. 
 
 1833, 
 April 5. 
 
 Release of part of mortga- 
 ged premises. Lots Nos. 16, 
 i/, lo on .First Avenue; 
 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 28 on 
 Twenty-third street ; 85, 86 and 
 87 on Second Avenue. Map of 
 Rose Hill Farm. 
 
 298 
 
 79 
 
 Luke Usher 
 and Wife. 
 
 1833, 
 April 6. 
 
 1833, 
 April 20. 
 
 1833, 
 May 1. 
 
 Reconveyance of lots num- 
 bers 561, 562, 563, 564, 565 
 and 566, being parcel number 
 84 at Harlem, on the south- 
 west corner of Fifth Avenue 
 and 129th street. Harlem map. 
 
28 
 
 LIST OF CONVEYANCES MADE TO CHARLES HENRY HALL. 
 
 Lib. 
 301 
 
 Page. 
 92 
 
 Grantors. 
 
 Thomas E. 
 Davis 
 and Wife. 
 
 Date of deed 
 
 1833, 
 June 1 . 
 
 When ack- 
 nowledged. 
 
 1833, 
 June 14. 
 
 When re- 
 corded. 
 
 1833, 
 June 20. 
 
 Description of premises. 
 
 House and lot on the south- 
 erly side of Eighth street, be- 
 tween the Second and Third 
 Avenues. 
 
 301 
 
 94 
 
 Thomas E. 
 Davis 
 and Wife. 
 
 1833, 
 June — . 
 
 1833, 
 June 14. 
 
 1833, 
 June 20. 
 
 Five houses and lots on the 
 westerly side of Greene street, 
 near Bleecker street. Subject 
 to five mortgages for the aggre- 
 gate sum of $20,000. 
 
 301 
 
 214 
 
 Thomas E. 
 Davis 
 and Wife. 
 
 1833, 
 July 3. 
 
 1S33, 
 July 3. 
 
 1833, 
 July 6. 
 
 Lot with building thereon on 
 the northerly side of Eighth 
 street, between the Second and 
 Third Avenues. 
 
 301 
 
 217 
 
 Thomas E. 
 
 Davis 
 and Wife. 
 
 1833, 
 July 3. 
 
 1833, 
 July 3. 
 
 1833, 
 July 6. 
 
 Lot and building on the north- 
 erly side of Eighth street, be- 
 tween the Second and Third 
 Avenues. 
 
 302 
 
 119 
 
 Thomas E. 
 Davis 
 and Wife. 
 
 1833, 
 June 1. 
 
 1833, 
 June 15. 
 
 1833, 
 June 21. 
 
 Lot extending from Pearl to 
 Bridge streets. Subject to a 
 mortgage for $10,000 to A, N. 
 Lawrence and others, execu- 
 tors, &c. 
 
 302 
 
 121 
 
 Thomas E. 
 and Wife. 
 
 1833, 
 J une 1. 
 
 1833, 
 June 14. 
 
 1833, 
 Tnnn 21 
 
 Lot on the south-westerly 
 corner oi rrince aim cum van 
 streets. Subject to a mortgage 
 to Daniel W. Kissam, Jr., and 
 others for $4000. 
 
29 
 
 T.ib. 
 
 302 
 
 Page 
 
 123 
 
 LIST OF CONVEYANCES MADE TO CHARLES HENRY HALL. 
 
 Grantors. Date of deed When nek-' When re- Description of premises. 
 
 William 
 Wagstaff 
 and Wife, 
 
 Date of deed 
 
 When ack- 
 
 
 nowledL'cd. 
 
 1833, 
 
 1833, 
 
 May 1. 
 
 1 r/::: 
 
 June 17. 
 
 corded 
 
 1833, 
 June 26. 
 
 4, G, 
 
 Sixty-two lots on a ma]) of a 
 tract of land at Manhattanville, 
 in the Twelfth Ward of the 
 city of New York, the property 
 of William Wagstaff, surveyed 
 10th September, 1826, by A. 
 Loss and F. R. Hassler, City 
 Surveyors, as parcels numbered 
 numbered 38 and 39, and two 
 
 7, 12, 13, 21, 22, 23, 30, 3G, 37, and part of parcel 
 other parcels not numbered on said map, one of which contains four and the other six lots. 
 Parcels 3G and 37, and parts of parcels 38 and 39, contain together ten lots, and taken 
 together are one hundred and twenty-five feet wide on 124th and 125th streets, and have 
 their easterly line seventy-five feet west of the Seventh Avenue and parallel thereto. The 
 parcel numbered 30, containing 4 lots, bounded northerly by 125th street, southerly by 124th 
 street, Westerly by a line drawn parallel to the Eighth Avenue, distant three hundred feet 
 from the easterly side thereof ; and easterly by a line drawn parallel to said Eighth Avenue, 
 distant three hundred and fifty feet therefrom. Parcels numbered 21, 22 and 23 contain 
 together twelve lots, are bounded northerly by 124th street, southerly by 123d street, eas- 
 terly by a line drawn parallel to the Eighth Avenue, distant two hundred and fifty feet from 
 the easterly side thereof, and westerly by a like parallel line, distant one hundred feet from 
 the easterly side of said Eighth Avenue. The parcels numbered 12 and 13, containing toge- 
 ther eight lots, are bounded northerly by 124th street, southerly by 123d street, easterly by 
 a line drawn parallel to the Seventh Avenue, distant one hundred feet from the westerly 
 side thereof, and westerly by a like parallel line to the said Seventh Avenue, at the distance 
 of two hundred feet therefrom. The parcels numbered G and 7, containing twelve lots, and 
 a parcel not numbered on said map but lying southerly from parcel number 8, and contain- 
 ing four lots, are bounded as follows : beginning at a point on the southerly side of 123d 
 street, distant three hundred feet easterly from the Eighth Avenue ; thence easterly along 
 123d street two hundred feet to parcel numbered 8 ; thence southerly and parallel to Eighth 
 Avenue one hundred feet ; thence easterly at right angles to said Eighth Avenue one hun- 
 dred feet; thence southerly and parallel to Eighth Avenue seventy feet to the land of the 
 heirs of Sampson Benson ; thence south sixty-nine degrees thirty minutes west, eighty feet 
 to Benson's Lane ; thence north thirty-three degrees west, along said lane, two hundred and 
 seventy-five feet be the same more or less to parcel number 5 ; thence northerly and paral- 
 lel to Eighth Avenue one hundred and twenty-eight feet to the place of beginning. The 
 parcel numbered 4, containing six lots, is bounded as follows : beginning at a point on the 
 southerly side of 123d street, distant one hundred feet from the easterly side of the Eighth 
 Avenue ; thence southerly and parallel to Eighth Avenue two hundred and ten feet to Ben- 
 son's lane ; thence north seventy-one degrees east along said lane one hundred and fifty-five 
 feet more or less to parcel number 5 ; thence northerly along said parcel and parallel to 
 Eighth Avenue, and at the distance of two hundred feet from the easterly side of said ave- 
 nue eighty-six feet to 123d street ; thence westerly along 123d street one hundred feet to the 
 place of beginning. Also, six lots not numbered on said map but adjoining parcel number 
 40, bounded as follows : beginning at a point on the southerly side of 125th street, distant 
 one hundred feet from the easterly side of the Seventh Avenue : thence easterly along 125th 
 street ninety-three feet to the land of the heirs of Sampson Benson ; thence south sixty- 
 nine degrees thirty minutes west along said land two hundred and fifty feet to 124th street ; 
 thence westerly along 124th street forty-eight feet to the Seventh Avenue ; thence northerly 
 along the Seventh Avenue one hundred and one feet ; thence easterly at right angles one 
 hundred feet ; thence northerly and parallel with Seventh Avenue one hundred feet to the 
 place of beginning, together with half of avenues and streets in front of said parcels and 
 lots. Also, seventy- eight lots, bounded northerly by 127th street, four hundred and fifty 
 feet ; southerly by 125th street, five hundred and twenty-five feet ; easterly by Seventh 
 Avenue, four hundred and fifty-nine feet ; and westerly as follows : beginning at a point on 
 the northerly side of 125th street, distant two hundred and seventy-five feet from the eas- 
 terly side of the Eighth Avenue ; thence northerly and parallel to said Eighth Avenue, two 
 hundred and twenty-nine feet and six inches to the middle of 126th street ; thence easterly 
 along the middle of said street seventy-five feet ; thence northerly and parallel to said 
 
30 
 
 LIST OF CONVEYANCES MADE TO CHARLES HENRY HALL. 
 
 Eighth Avenue two hundred and twenty-nine feet and six inches to 127th street. Also, 
 
 the whole of the block of ground between 127th and 128th streets and the Seventh and 
 Eighth Avenues, excepting those five lots bounded northerly by 128th street, one hundred 
 and twenty-five feet ; southerly by a line one hundred and twenty-five feet in length and 
 drawn equidistant from and parallel to 127th and 128th streets ; and easterly by a line 
 drawn parallel to Eighth Avenue, distant one hundred and twenty 125 feet from the easterly 
 side thereof ; and westerly by the Eighth Avenue. Also, twelve lots, beginning at a point 
 on the northerly side of 128th street, distant two hundred and fifty-eight feet from the eas- 
 terly side of Eighth Avenue ; thence northerly and parallel to said Eighth Avenue two hun- 
 dred feet to 129th street ; thence easterly along 129th street sixty-seven feet ; thence south- 
 erly and parallel to Eighth Avenue one hundred feet ; thence easterly and at right angles 
 with Eighth Avenue one hundred and fifty feet ; thence southerly and parallel to said 
 avenue one hundred feet to 128th street ; thence westerly along said street two hundred 
 and seventeen feet to the place of beginning: Also, sixty-eight lots, bounded as follows: 
 beginning at the north-east corner of 125th street and the Seventh Avenue ; thence eas- 
 terly along said street two hundred and fifty-nine feet to land of the heirs of Sampson 
 Benson ; thence north sixty-nine degrees thirty minutes east along said land, five hundred 
 and twelve feet more or less to the middle of the old Kingsbridge and Harlem Road ; 
 thence northerly along the middle of said road sixty-two feet to 127th street ; thence wes- 
 terly along 127th street five hundred and ten feet to the Seventh Avenue ; thence south- 
 erly along Seventh Avenue four hundred and fifty-nine feet to the place of beginning. 
 Subject to the following mortgages, executed bv the parties of the first part : 
 
 One to Charity C. and Mary Clark for $7,515, liber 98 of Mortgages, page 17. 
 
 One to Francis Finlay for $2,000, „ 124 „ „ 220. 
 
 One to Susan Ledyard for $700, „ 139 „ 34. 
 
 One to do $350, „ 143 „ » 162. 
 
 One to do $2,000, „ 147 „ ,, 462. 
 
 One to do $2,420, „ 154 „ „ 428. 
 
 And amounting together to $14,985. 
 
31 
 
 LIST OF CONVEYANCES MADE TO CHARLES HENRY HALL. 
 
 Lib. 
 
 Page. 
 
 Grantors. 
 
 Date of deed 
 
 When ack- 
 nowledged. 
 
 Wlien re- 
 corded. 
 
 Description of premises. 
 
 302 
 
 316 
 
 Stephen Rich- 
 ard and Wife. 
 
 1833, 
 June 11. 
 
 1833, 
 July 9. 
 
 1833, 
 July 20. 
 
 Sixteen lots at Harlem. Lo(« 
 Nob. 192, 193, 194. 195, «196, 
 197, 198, 199, 200, 458, 459, 
 4G0, 461, 462, 463 and 464, on 
 Harlem map ; together with tho 
 right of parties of first part to 
 the old Kingsbridge Road oppo- 
 site said lots. 
 
 302 
 
 431 
 
 Benjamin 
 Hyde and 
 Wife, and 
 Stephen Hyde 
 and Wife. 
 
 1833, 
 July 29. 
 
 1833, 
 July 29. 
 
 1833, 
 Aug. 1. 
 
 Six lots at Harlem. Lots 
 numbers 535, 536, 537, 576, 
 577 and 578, being parcel No. 
 78 on Harlem map. 
 
 308 
 
 35 
 
 Aaron Dexter 
 and Wife. 
 
 1833, 
 Dec. 30. 
 
 1833, 
 Dec. 30. 
 
 1834, 
 Jan. 7. 
 
 Eight lots at Harlem, at the 
 corner of Seventh Avenue and 
 132d street. Lots numbers 8, 
 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15, 
 being parcel No. 2 on Harlem 
 map. 
 
 309 
 
 583 
 
 Thomas E. 
 Davis and 
 Wife. 
 
 1833, 
 June 13. 
 
 1833, 
 June 14. 
 
 1834, 
 April 28. 
 
 House and lot number 14 
 Broadway, New York city. 
 Subject to a mortgage from 
 Seth P. Staples to Francis De- 
 pau for $12,000. 
 
 314 
 
 1 
 
 Hamilton 
 Murray. 
 
 1834, 
 April 13. 
 
 1834, 
 April 28. 
 
 1834, 
 May 2. 
 
 Release of part of mortga- 
 ged premises. Block between 
 131st and I32d streets, and 
 Sixth and Seventh Avenues, 
 containing sixty-four lots of 
 land. 
 
32 
 
 LIST OF CONVEYANCES MADE TO CHARLES HENRY HALL. 
 
 Lih. Page 
 
 315 
 
 84 
 
 Grantors. 
 
 Stephen 
 Kings] and 
 and Wife. 
 
 3L 
 
 315 
 
 ( J4 
 
 258 
 
 Joseph G. 
 Russell, by his 
 
 attorney in 
 fact, Stephen 
 Kingsland, 
 and Jane, 
 wife of said 
 Russell. 
 
 Daniel P. 
 In grab am. 
 
 Date of deed When act- When re- 
 nowledged. corded. 
 
 1834, 
 Mayl. 
 
 1834, 
 May 1, 
 
 1834, 
 April 16. 
 
 1834, 
 May IG 
 
 1834, 
 May 16. 
 
 1834, 
 April 16. 
 
 1834, 
 May 16. 
 
 1834, 
 May 16. 
 
 1834, 
 une 17. 
 
 Description of premises. 
 
 Reconveyance of eight lots at 
 Harlem, bounded as' follows ; 
 beginning at a point on the 
 northerly side of 129th street, 
 one hundred and five feet west 
 of the Fourth Avenue, (adjoin- 
 ing land heretofore conveyed to 
 Joseph G. Russell,) thence north- 
 erly along the land of said Rus- 
 sell one hundred and ninety- 
 nine feet ten inches to 130th 
 street ; thence westerly on the 
 southerly side of 130th street, 
 one hundred and five feet ; 
 thence southerly in a line paral- 
 lel to the Fourth Avenue one 
 hundred and ninety-nine feet 
 ten inches to 129th street ; 
 thence easterly on the north- 
 erly side of 129th street, one 
 hundred and five feet to the 
 place of beginning. 
 
 Reconveyance of eight lots 
 at Harlem, on the westerly side 
 of the Fourth Avenue, between 
 129th and 130th streets, being 
 one hundred and five feet deep. 
 
 The salt marsh or meadows 
 and land covered with water, 
 situate easterly and immediate- 
 ly in front of a tract of up- 
 land, this day conveyed by 
 the party of the first part to 
 the party of the second party 
 in the Twelfth Ward of the 
 city of New York, on the eas- 
 terly side of the Third Avenue, 
 between Ninety-second and 
 Ninety-fourth streets, and which 
 piece of marsh or meadow is 
 bounded westerly by the said 
 piece of upland above men- 
 tioned, easterly by low water 
 mark of East River or passage 
 of water between Hell Gate 
 and Harlem ; northerly by the 
 marsh belonging in part to An- 
 drew McGown, and in part to 
 others ; and southerly by the 
 marsh now or lately belonging 
 to Rhinelander. 
 
LIST OF CONVEYANCES MADE TO CHARLES HENRY HALL. 
 
 Page 
 
 259 
 
 Grantors. 
 
 Daniel P. 
 Ingraham. 
 
 71 
 
 175 
 
 Date of deed When nek 
 nowledged. 
 
 1834, 
 April 16. 
 
 1834, 
 April 16. 
 
 Samson Ben- 
 son McGown 
 and Wife. 
 
 JohnR. Peters 
 and Wife, 
 Obadiah 
 Holmes and 
 Wife, and 
 Russel Steb- 
 bins and Wife. 
 
 1834, 
 June 14. 
 
 When re- 
 corded. 
 
 1834, 
 June 17. 
 
 1834, 
 June 17. 
 
 1834, 
 May 1. 
 
 1834, 
 Dec. 1. 
 
 1834, 
 June 20. 
 
 1834, 
 Dec. 3. 
 
 Description of premises. 
 
 Piece of land in the Twelfth 
 Ward of the city of New York, 
 at or near a place formerly 
 called Horn's Hook, being for- 
 merly part of the farm of Wil- 
 liam Waldron deceased, and 
 beginning at the southerly cor- 
 ner of Ninety-second street and 
 the Third -Avenue, running 
 thence north-easterly along the 
 said Third Avenue about three 
 hundred and forty-two feet six 
 inches, until it meets the land 
 now or late belonging to the 
 heirs of Abraham Duryea de- 
 ceased ; thence easterly along 
 the land of the heirs of said 
 Duryea deceased about four 
 hundred and thirty-six feet six 
 inches to the shore of the East 
 River ; thence along the said 
 shore, as it runs in a south- 
 westerly direction, unto the 
 land formerly belonging to 
 Xavier Gautis, now the pro- 
 perty of John Wood ; thence 
 westerly along the land of the 
 said John Wood about four hun- 
 dred and thirty-five feet to the 
 southerly line of Ninety-second 
 street ; thence along the same 
 westerly to the place of be- 
 ginning. Subject to a mort- 
 gage to Margaret Hunt for 
 $1,000. 
 
 Marsh or meadow in the 
 Twelfth Ward of the city of 
 New York, bounded west by 
 the Third Avenue ; north by 
 103d street ; south by the mid- 
 dle of Ninety-ninth street and 
 by Harlem River, being four- 
 teen blocks and parts of blocks, 
 as laid out on the map of the 
 county of New York, and be- 
 ing the same property as con- 
 veyed by Margaret McGown to 
 the said Samson Benson Mc- 
 Gown, bv deed dated 1st Janu- 
 ary, 1834. 
 
 That part of 126th street, ex- 
 tending from the easterly side 
 of the Eighth Avenue to three 
 hundred and fifty feet east of 
 the Eighth Avenue. 
 
 5 
 
34 
 
 LIST OF CONVEYANCES MADE TO CHARLES HENRY HALL. 
 
 Lib. 
 
 319 
 
 Page. 
 
 319 
 
 623 
 
 333 
 
 495 
 
 Grantors. 
 
 Thomas E 
 Davis 
 and Wife. 
 
 Stephen Holt 
 to Charles 
 Henry Hall, 
 
 Erert A. 
 Bancker and 
 John W. Bur- 
 ges. 
 
 Edward 
 Sandford. 
 
 Date of deed 
 
 1833, 
 June ] . 
 
 1834, 
 
 1835, 
 July 15. 
 
 When ack 
 nowledged. 
 
 1834, 
 Oct. 16. 
 
 1834, 
 Nov. 29. 
 
 1835, 
 Aug. 13. 
 
 When re- 
 corded. 
 
 1834, 
 Oct. 17. 
 
 1834, 
 Nov. 29. 
 
 1835, 
 Aug. 18. 
 
 Description of premises. 
 
 House and lot on the north- 
 erly side of Eighth street, be- 
 tween the Second and Third 
 Avenues, No. 15 on a map by 
 Edwin Smith, known as No. 10 
 St. Mark's Place. Subject to 
 two mortgages ; one from John 
 T. } inckney and wife to Tho- 
 mas E. Davis for $9,000, and 
 assigned by said Davis to Mag- 
 dalen Hosack and others, guar- 
 dians, &c. on which there is 
 now due $8,000 for principal ; 
 the other made by Thomas E. 
 Davis to Magdalen Hosack and 
 others, guardians, &c , for 
 
 Si,ooo. 
 
 Holt's Hotel, lot and build- 
 ings, &c, on Pearl, Water and 
 Fulton streets. Trust deed to 
 let or sell and pay creditors. 
 
 Lots of ground in the Twelfth 
 Ward of the city of New York, 
 known and distinguished on a 
 map of valuable property be- 
 longing to Edward Sandford, 
 Esq., compiled January 30th, 
 1835, by Joseph F. Bridges, 
 City Surveyor, by the numbers 
 379 to 398, both inclusive ; 365 
 to 374. both inclusive ; 475 to 
 484, both inclusive ; 521 to 532, 
 both inclusive : 541 to 550, both 
 inclusive ; 583 to 592, both in- 
 clusive ; 749 to 756, both in- 
 clusive ; 757 to 818, both inclu- 
 sive : 839 to 866, both inclusive ; 
 887 to 890, both inclusive ; 901 
 to 910, both inclusive ; 925 to 
 934, both inclusive ; 939 to 968, 
 both inclusive ; 969 to 980, both 
 inclusive ; which said lots lie on 
 Avenue A, on First, Second 
 and Third Avenues, and 103d, 
 104th, 105th and 106th streets, 
 together with the right, title and 
 interest of party of the first part 
 to the land forming the streets 
 and avenues in front of said 
 lots. 
 
35 
 
 Lib. 
 
 339 
 
 LIST OP CONVEYANCES MADE TO CHARLES HENRY HALL. 
 
 Page. ' Grantors. Date of deed When ack- When re- I Description of premises, 
 
 nowledged. corded. 
 
 16S 
 
 339 
 
 609 
 
 Jonathan 
 Prescott Hall 
 and Wife. 
 
 1835, 
 May 28. 
 
 1835, 
 June 24 
 
 John C. 
 Morrison 
 and Wife. 
 
 339 
 
 617 
 
 1835, 
 Sept 4. 
 
 183/ 
 Oct. 16 
 
 Edward 
 Sandford. 
 
 339 
 
 618 
 
 Edward 
 Sandford. 
 
 1835, 
 Oct. 10. 
 
 1835, 
 Oct. 16. 
 
 1835, 
 Oct. 10. 
 
 1835, 
 Oct. 16. 
 
 1835, 
 June 29. 
 
 1835, 
 Oct. 17. 
 
 1835, 
 Oct. 1' 
 
 1835, 
 Oct. 17. 
 
 Six lots at Harlem, on the 
 corner of Fifth Avenue and 
 129th street. Lots 855, 856, 
 857, 858, 859 and 860, being 
 parcel No. 82 on Harlem map. 
 Being the same premises con- 
 veyed by Charles Henry Hall 
 to William Wintcrton, 27th 
 November, 1837. 
 
 Thirty lots in the Twelfth 
 Ward of the city of New York, 
 known and distinguished on a 
 map of valuable property be- 
 longing to Edward Sandford, 
 Esq., compiled January 30th, 
 1835, by J. F. Bridges, City 
 Surveyor, by the numbers 819 
 to 838, both inclusive, and 867 
 to 876, both inclusive, on First 
 Avenue and 104th and 105th 
 streets, together with half of 
 avenues and streets in front of 
 said lots. Subject to three 
 mortgages by John C. Morrison 
 to Edward Sandford, July 15th, 
 1835, in the whole for $3,000. 
 
 Marsh or low land at Har- 
 lem, bounded westerly by the 
 Third Avenue ; easterly by 
 Harlem River ; northerly on 
 one side, by a line drawn 
 through the centre of Ninety- 
 ninth street, as laid down on 
 the commissioner's map of the 
 city of New York ; and south- 
 erly by upland this day con- 
 veyed by the party hereto of 
 the first part to the said party 
 hereto of the second part, and 
 partly by the marsh or low- 
 land formerly belonging to the 
 estate of Abraham Duryee de- 
 ceased. 
 
 Tract of land at Harlem. 
 Bounded westerly by the Third 
 Avenue ; northerly and easterly 
 by the marsh and lowland this 
 day conveyed by the party 
 hereto of the first part to the 
 party hereto of the second part ; 
 and southerly by land lately be- 
 longing to the estate of Abra- 
 ham Duryee deceased. Sub- 
 ject to a mortgage from Ed- 
 ward Sandford to Margaret Mc- 
 Gown for $4,000. 
 
30 
 
 LIST OF CONVEYANCES MADE TO CHARLES HENRY HALL. 
 
 Lib. Page 
 
 340 
 
 95 
 
 Grantors. 
 
 Date of deed 
 
 When ack- 
 
 When re- 
 
 
 nowledged. 
 
 corded. 
 
 1835, 
 
 1835, 
 
 1835, 
 
 May 1. 
 
 May 18. 
 
 June 15. 
 
 Description of premises. 
 
 Peter Myer 1835, 1835, 1835, Lund in the Twelfth Ward of 
 and Wife. May 1. May 18. June 15. the city of New York, distin- 
 guished on a map of land be- 
 longing to Peter and John Myer, 
 made by Samuel S. Doughty, 
 City Surveyor, March, 1835, by 
 the letter B. Beginning at a 
 point in the westerly line of the 
 Sixth Avenue, where the boundary line between the land hereby conveyed and land of 
 Charles Henry Hall strikes the same, and running thence along the westerly line of the Sixth 
 Avenue north thirty-three degrees thirty minutes east, four chains and seventy-three links ; 
 thence north eighty-six degrees fifty-five minutes east, eleven chains and ninety-seven 
 links to the centre of a creek ; thence partly along the centre of said creek south one de- 
 gree thirty-three minutes west, three chains and ninety-seven links ; thence south eighty- 
 seven degrees fifty minutes west, three chains; thence south eighty-six degrees thirty min- 
 utes west, four chains ; thence south eighty-seven degrees west, seven chains and forty-two 
 links to the place of beginning, be the said dimensions more or less; containing five acres 
 and seven perches more or less. Also, that other piece of land, distinguished on said map 
 by the letter C, beginning at the intersection of the aforesaid creek and of a small ditch at 
 a point marked on said map ; thence north eleven degrees and twenty minutes west, along 
 the centre of said creek, seventy-four links ; thence along the centre of said creek north 
 fourteen degrees forty minutes east, twenty-six links ; thence north seventeen degrees west, 
 one chain and eight links, still along the centre of said creek ; thence further along the cen- 
 tre of said creek north one degree fifty minutes east, seventy-two links to a ditch ; thence 
 along said last mentioned ditch north eighty-one degrees fifty minutes east, two chains 
 seventy-seven links ; thence south five degrees thirty-five minutes east, three chains forty- 
 three links to another ditch ; thence along said last mentioned ditch, north eighty-two de- 
 grees twenty minutes west, two chains and sixty-nine links to the place of beginning, 
 be the said several dimensions more or less ; containing three roods and eleven perches 
 more or less. Also, that other piece of land in the Twelfth Ward of the city of New 
 York, distinguished upon the map above referred to by the letter D. Beginning at a 
 point on said map where two ditches meet ; thence along one of said ditches north seven 
 degrees forty minutes west, one chain and sixty-eight links ; thence north eighty-five de- 
 grees thirty-seven minutes east, three chains and fifty-nine links ; thence south eleven de- 
 grees fifty minutes east, ninety-six links ; thence south four degrees east, thirty minutes ; 
 thence along an island in the salt meadow, following the boundaries of such island, south 
 thirty-six degrees fifty-five minutes east, twenty links : thence along said island north 
 seventy-three degrees forty-five minutes east, sixty-three links ; thence north eight degrees 
 fifteen minutes east twenty links ; thence north forty-six degrees six minutes west thirty 
 links; thence north eighteen degrees eight minutes west, thirty-four links; thence north 
 twenty-five degrees seven minutes east, fifty links ; thence north twenty-nine degrees fifty- 
 five minutes east, one chain ; thence north sixty-two degrees east one chain and sixty-six 
 links ; thence south three degrees and forty-five minutes west, one chain and fourteen links ; 
 thence south three degrees east, fifty-three links ; thence south twenty-two degrees west, 
 fifty-one links ; thence south thirty-three degrees fifteen minutes west, one chain and fifty- 
 seven links ; thence north eighty-eight degrees twenty minutes west, four chains and 
 seventy-two links to the place of beginning, be the said several dimensions more or less, 
 containing one acre and fifteen perches more or less, together with all (he right, title and 
 interest of the parties of the first part of, in and to all the land lying between the Sixth 
 Avenue and Harlem River and property of the said Charles Henry Hall. 
 
37 
 
 LIST OF CONVEYANCES MADE TO CHARLES HENRY II ALL. 
 
 Lib* {Page. 
 
 340 
 
 Grantors. 
 
 John Myer 
 and "Wife- 
 
 Date of deed When ack 
 «o\vJed»ed. 
 
 1835, 
 May 1. 
 
 lt<35, 
 May 22. 
 
 When re- 
 corded. 
 
 1835, 
 June 15. 
 
 Description of premises. 
 
 Land in the Twelfth Ward 
 of the city of New York, dis- 
 tinguished on a map of land 
 belonging to Peter and John 
 Myer, made by Samuel S. 
 Doughty, City Surveyor, March, 
 1835, by the' letter A, bounded 
 and described as follows : be- 
 ginning on the westerly side of 
 the Sixth Avenue and running 
 along the same north thirty- 
 three degrees thirty minutes 
 east, five chains and ninety-one 
 links ; thence north eighty-five 
 degrees forty-five minutes east, 
 four chains and twenty-seven 
 links ; thence north eighty-four 
 degrees six minutes east, one 
 chain and forty links ; thence 
 south four degrees fifty minutes 
 east, thirty-five links to a ditch ; 
 thence along the centre of said 
 ditch north eighty-three degrees 
 twenty-five minutes east, two 
 chains and fifty links to a creek ; 
 thence along the centre of said 
 creek south one degree five 
 minutes west, seventy-two links ; 
 thence along the said centre of 
 said creek south seventeen de- 
 grees east, one chain and eight 
 links ; thence along said centre 
 of said creek south fourteen de- 
 grees forty minutes west, twenty 
 links ; thence further along the 
 said centre of said creek, south 
 eleven degrees twenty minutes 
 east seventy-four links ; thence 
 further along the centre of said 
 creek, south three degrees east, 
 one chain ninety-five links ; 
 thence south eighty-six degrees 
 fifty minutes west, eleven chains 
 and ninety-seven links to the 
 place of beginning, be the said 
 several dimensions respectively 
 more or less, containing four 
 acres three roods and seven 
 perches more or less. Also, 
 that other piece of land on said 
 map marked E, beginning at a 
 point marked on the said map 
 as a point where two ditches 
 meet, thence south eighty-eight 
 degrees twenty minutes east, 
 four chains and seventy-two 
 links ; thence south twenty- 
 seven degrees fifty-five minutes 
 west, three chains and sixty-two 
 
38 
 
 LIST OF CONVEYANCES MADE TO CHARLES HENRY HALL. 
 
 Lib. Page, 
 
 Grantors. 
 
 341 
 
 101 
 
 David P. Hall 
 and Wife. 
 
 Date of deed When ack- When re- 
 nowledced. corded. 
 
 1835, 
 July 1. 
 
 1835, 
 July 10 
 
 1335, 
 July 16. 
 
 Description of premises. 
 
 links ; thence south forty-one 
 degrees thirty minutes west, 
 thirty links ; thence north 
 eighty-three degrees thirty min- 
 utes west, thirty-nine links ; 
 thence south thirty-seven de- 
 grees thirty-five minutes west, 
 fifty-three links ; thence south 
 sixty-two degrees west, one 
 chain ; thence north fifty de- 
 grees thirty minutes west, thirty- 
 one links ; thence north thirty- 
 five degrees forty minutes west, 
 one chain : thence north five 
 degrees thirty-five minutes west, 
 three chains and forty-three 
 links to the place of beginning, 
 be the said several dimensions 
 respectively more or less, con- 
 taining one acre one rood and 
 nineteen perches more or less, 
 together with the right, title and 
 interest of the parties of the 
 first part to all the land lying 
 between the Sixth Avenue and 
 the Harlem River and the pro- 
 perty of the said Charles Henry 
 Hall. 
 
 Triangular piece of land at 
 Harlem. Beginning at a point 
 in the centre of the block be- 
 tween 124th and 125th streets, 
 and the Fourth and Fifth Ave- 
 nues, distant eleven feet and six 
 inches or thereabouts easterly 
 from the easterly side of the 
 Fifth Avenue, and running 
 thence easterly and parallel to 
 125th street eighty-eight feet 
 and six inches or thereabouts ; 
 thence northerly and parallel to 
 the Fifth Avenue fifty-seven 
 feet and eleven inches or there- 
 abouts ; thence south-westerly 
 along lands belonging to said 
 party of the second part one 
 hundred and five feet or there- 
 abouts to the place of begin- 
 ning, being premises colored 
 brown and marked C on map 
 annexed. 
 
39 
 
 LIST OF CONVEYANCES MADE TO CHARLES HENRY HALL. 
 
 Lib. 
 
 34-4 
 
 Tage 
 
 242 
 
 Gr.intors. 
 
 Peter Camp- 
 beli and Wife. 
 
 344 
 
 313 
 
 Date of deed When ack- When re- 
 nowledged. corded. 
 
 Archibald 
 
 Watt 
 and Wife. 
 
 1835, 
 Oct. 19. 
 
 183;"), 
 Oct. 29. 
 
 1835, 
 Oct. 19 
 
 1835, 
 Nov. 13. 
 
 1835, 
 Nov. 17. 
 
 1835, 
 Nov. 1 7 
 
 Decsrintion of premises. 
 
 Lots numbers 867, 868 and 
 869, at Harlem, between 128th 
 and 1 29th streets and Fourth 
 and Fifth Avenues. Harlem 
 map. 
 
 Piece of ground in the Twelfth 
 Ward of the city of New York, 
 bounded as follows : commen- 
 cing at a point on the westerly- 
 side of the Sixth Avenue, north- 
 erly from the north-westerly 
 corner of 138th street and the 
 Sixth Avenue, at the distance 
 of eleven feet therefrom, and 
 running thence along the wes- 
 terly side of the Sixth Avenue 
 northerly two hundred and sev- 
 enty-five feet and ten inches ; 
 thence south five degrees east, 
 eighteen feet : thence north 
 eighty-five degrees forty-five 
 minutes east, one hundred and 
 seventeen feet ; thence south 
 seventy-eight degrees fifteen 
 minutes east, thirty-six feet ; 
 thence south twenty-seven de- 
 grees fifteen minutes east, one 
 hundred and twenty feet ; thence 
 south fifteen degrees forty-five 
 minutes east, forty-two feet ; 
 thence south two degrees thirty 
 minutes east, thirty-seven feet ; 
 thence south eighty-six degrees 
 west, three hundred and seventy 
 feet to the place of beginning. 
 Also, that other piece of ground 
 in the city and ward aforesaid, 
 between the Sixth Avenue and 
 the Harlem River, and between 
 140th and the southerly side of 
 138th streets, distinguished by 
 the color yellow, on a map an- 
 nexed to the deed, bounded as fol- 
 lows : commencing at the Har- 
 lem River where a score is cut 
 in the meadow, and running 
 thence along said score north 
 eighty-three degrees fifteen mi- 
 nutes west to a creek ; thence 
 south, south-easterly and north- 
 westerly along said creek and 
 Harlem River to the place of 
 beginning. Said Watt or his 
 assigns, owner of lands, adjoin- 
 ing lands hereby conveyed, are 
 not to be assessed when the 
 Sixth Avenue is opened for any 
 
40 
 
 LIST OF CONVEYANCES MADE TO CHARLES HENRY HALL, 
 
 Lib. Pago. 
 
 344 
 
 353 
 
 Grantors. 
 
 James Connei 
 and "Wife 
 
 346 
 
 272 
 
 346 
 
 542 
 
 George Claus 
 and Wife 
 
 George W 
 Smith 
 and Wife. 
 
 Date of deed 
 
 When nek- 
 
 When re- 
 
 
 UVfl KUgCU< 
 
 corded. 
 
 1835, 
 
 1835, 
 
 1835, 
 
 Nov. 30. 
 
 Dec. 15. 
 
 Dec. 28. 
 
 1830, 
 
 1830, 
 
 1836, 
 
 Jan. 8. 
 
 Jan. 8. 
 
 Jan. 22. 
 
 looO, 
 
 
 1836, 
 
 March 10. 
 
 March 29. 
 
 Apsil 27. 
 
 Description of premise?. 
 
 portion of the premises hereby 
 conveyed, in consequence of its 
 being taken for the opening of 
 said avenue. Subject to a mort- 
 gage to John Delancy deceased 
 for $9,000, which is to be finally 
 paid by the said Archibald Watt 
 but not sooner than may suit his 
 convenience. 
 
 Thirty-two lots in the Twelfth 
 Ward of the city of New 
 York, known and distinguished 
 on a map of valuable property 
 belonging to Edward Sandford, 
 compiled January 30th, 1835, 
 by Joseph F. Bridges, City Sur- 
 veyor, by the numbers 375, 
 376, 377, 378, 399, 400, 401, 
 402, 551 to 556 both inclusive ; 
 577 to 582 both inclusive ; 
 603 to 608 both inclusive ; and 
 629 to 634 both inclusive ; 
 Second Avenue, and 103d and 
 104th streets. Also the land 
 forming the streets in front of 
 said lots. Subject to a mortgage 
 to Edward Sandford. 
 
 Reconveyance. Six lots with 
 the buildings thereon at Har- 
 lem, between 131st and 132d 
 streets and the Seventh and 
 Eighth Avenues. Lots num- 
 bers 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 
 being parcel No. 7 on Harlem 
 map. 
 
 Piece of ground in the Twelfth 
 Ward of the city of New York, 
 bounded as follows : commen- 
 cing at a point on the easterly 
 side of the Third Avenue, fifty- 
 one feet south of the south- 
 easterly corner of the Third 
 Avenue and 94th street ; thence 
 
41 
 
 LIST OF CONVEYANCES MADE TO CHARLES HENRY II ALL. 
 
 Lib. 
 
 Page. 
 
 Grantors. iDateofdeed 
 
 When ack 
 nowledged. 
 
 357 
 
 346 
 
 Phebe Ann 
 Hubbs and 
 Mary Hubbs. 
 
 1836, 
 June 11. 
 
 When re- 
 corded. 
 
 1836, 
 June 13. 
 
 1836, 
 June 16. 
 
 Description of premises. 
 
 running southerly along the 
 easterly side of the Third Ave- 
 nue one hundred and twenty- 
 nine feet to the southerly boun- 
 dary line of a piece of land 
 containing six acres, conveyed 
 to Abraham Duryer by Mari- 
 nus Willett, sheriff, &c, 29th 
 March, 1787, and recorded in 
 the office of the Register of 
 the city and county of New 
 York, in liber 56 of Convey- 
 ances, page 155 ; thence eas- 
 terly eighty-four degrees east, 
 along the southerly boundary 
 of the said six acres lot, and 
 along lands formerly of Wil- 
 liam Waldron and Dirk Lef- 
 ferts now belonging to the said 
 C. H. Hall, to the salt meadow 
 or river, the said line being in 
 length four hundred and forty 
 feet more or less ; thence north 
 one degree east along the said 
 salt meadow or river to land 
 formerly belonging to Benjamin 
 Benson, and late to Sampson 
 Benson deceased, the said line 
 being in length one hundred 
 and seventeen feet more or less ; 
 thence westerly along said Ben- 
 son's land and across Ninety- 
 fourth street, one hundred and 
 eighty-four feet ; thence north- 
 westerly (or nearly so) along 
 said Benson's line one hundred 
 and eighty-eight feet to the place 
 of beginning ; together with the 
 land covered with water or not 
 lying between the eastern boun- 
 dary line of the said premises 
 and the low water mark of 
 Harlem River. 
 
 Release of part of mortgaged 
 premises. Lots at Harlem num- 
 bered 864, 865, 866, 915, 916, 
 917, parcel 85, between 128th 
 and 129th streets and between 
 Fourth and Fifth Avenues. 
 Harlem map. 
 
 G 
 
42 
 
 LIST OF CONVEYANCES MADE TO CHARLES HENRY HALL. 
 
 Lib . Page 
 
 362 
 
 286 
 
 Grantors. 
 
 Date of deed 
 
 When ack-| 
 
 
 
 nnwlprlrrpH 
 
 ! Perkins 
 
 1836, 
 
 1836, 
 
 Nichols. 
 
 April 19. 
 
 June 30. 
 
 corded. 
 
 1836, 
 June 30. 
 
 Description of premisee. 
 
 Four pieces of land in the 
 Twelfth Ward of the city of 
 New York, betw T eenthe twelfth 
 and thirteenth mile stones on 
 the Kingsbridge Road, the first 
 of said pieces containing thir- 
 teen acres three roods and four- 
 teen perches, being the same 
 premises which Aaron Post and wife granted and conveyed to George W. Hall, John Bolton 
 and Curtis Bolton, 13th November, 1826 ; the second of said pieces, containing four acres 
 two roods and four perches, being the same premises which Henry Post granted and con- 
 veyed to said G. W. Hall, J. Bolton and C. Bolton by deed of same date ; the third of said 
 pieces, containing thirty-one acres three roods and twenty-eight perches, being the same 
 premises which the said Henry Post conveyed to the same persons 5lh February, 1817 ; 
 the fourth of said pieces being a piece of salt meadow land, bounded westerly and southerly 
 by the Kingsbridge Road ; easterly by the creek ; and northerly by land now or late of Ja- 
 cob Hyatt, and formerly of John and Abraham Kerson, containing five acres one rood and 
 seven perches, be the contents of said four pieces of land more or less. Also, all the estate, 
 &c., of the party of the first part of, &c, a small island in Harlem River, opposite the said 
 land, being the same premises which Garret Myer and others conveyed to the said George 
 W. Hall, John Bolton and Curtis Bolton, 28th December, 1816, as the. said several pieces 
 were conveyed to the party of the first part by Thomas Ludlow Ogden, 20th September, 
 1825, by deed recorded in liber 193 of Conveyances, page 456 ; the third piece of land 
 above mentioned being subject to a right of passage way reserved to Jacobus Dyckman, 
 his heirs and assigns. Also, piece of salt meadow at Kingsbridge, bounded as follows, viz. : 
 Beginning at Spiten Devil Creek and running south twenty-three degrees west, fifty-seven 
 feet to the upland of Jacob Hyatt ; north seventy-three degrees west, ninety-seven feet ; 
 south eighty-one degrees fifteen minutes west, one hundred and fifty feet north seven de- 
 grees west, one hundred and sixteen feet ; north thirty-two degrees and thirty minutes 
 west, one hundred and thirty feet to the westermost point of a post : thence along Spiten 
 Devil Creek, south sixty-seven degrees and forty-five minutes east, one hundred and sixty- 
 seven feet to a post ; thence south fifty-nine degrees forty-five minutes east two hundred 
 and twenty feet to the place of beginning, containing three roods and five perches of ground. 
 Also, that other lot of salt meadow at Kingsbridge, bounded as follows, viz : Beginning at 
 Spiten Devil Creek at the eastermost point of the meadow, and running thence along the 
 upland of Jacob Hyatt, south fifty-seven degrees and thirty-nine minutes west, one hundred 
 and ninety-six feet to the land of Henry Post ; thence along said Post's land forty-seven 
 degrees thirty minutes west, one hundred and eighty-five feet to a piece of salt meadow be- 
 longing to John Warner ; thence along Warner's line north twenty-six degrees west eighty- 
 one feet to Spiten Devil Creek ; thence along said creek north thirty-three degrees thirty 
 minutes east, one hundred and eighty-four feet ; thence north seventy-five degrees and 
 twenty-five minutes east, one hundred and seven feel ; north eighty degrees forty-five min- 
 utes east, one hundred and thirty-two feet to the place of beginning, containing three roods 
 and one perch of land. Also, that other piece of salt meadow bounded as follows : begin- 
 ning at the Spiten Devil Creek, adjoining the north-westerly corner bounds of land be- 
 longing to the estate of the late David R. Lambert, and the north-westerly corner bounds of 
 the land of the said Perkins Nichols, and running northerly by the turnings and windings of 
 the said creek and adjoining the same to the lands of the said Perkins Nichols ; thence turn- 
 ing and running in a north-easterly direction adjoining the said Perkins Nichols' land, till it 
 strikes the land of the said Nichols at or near the upland ; thence turning and running in a 
 southerly direction adjoining the land of the said Perkins Nichols to the place of beginning, 
 containing six and one-half acres of land. Also, that piece of land bounding on said road 
 and otherwise bounding on land belonging to the said Perkins Nichols, forming a small gore 
 or triangle of land near the canal and marble quarry of the said Perkins Nichols. Also, 
 that piece of land near Kingsbridge, west of and bounding on the Kingsbridge Road, and 
 otherwise bounding on land of said Perkins Nichols, forming a small wedge or gore of land 
 near the canal and marble quarry of the said Perkins Nichols, being the same premises con- 
 veyed to said Nichols by Aaron Post and wife, 15th October, 1835. 
 
43 
 
 LIST OF CONVEYANCES MADE TO CHARLES HENRY HALL. 
 
 Lib Page. 
 
 Grantors. 
 
 Date of deed 
 
 When ack 
 novvledged. 
 
 VVlien re | 
 corded. 
 
 Description of premises. 
 
 362 
 
 496 
 
 John B. Coles 
 
 1836, 
 July 19. 
 
 1836, 
 July 19. 
 
 1836, 
 Aug. 10. 
 
 Three triangular pieces of 
 land at Harlem, described in a 
 map annexed to deed drawn by 
 J. F. Bridges, City Surveyor, 
 6th December, 1827, by the let- 
 ters O, K and C, and shaded 
 green ; and bounded as follows, 
 viz. : The first parcel marked 
 O, commencing at a point in 
 the centre of 128th street, at 
 the distance of about three hun- 
 dred and sixty feet westward, 
 from the intersection of 128th 
 street with the Third Ave- 
 nue ; thence westward about 
 fifty-four feet ; thence north- 
 westwardly about fifty feet ; 
 
 and Wife, 
 Isaac W. 
 Coles and 
 Wife and 
 William F. 
 Coles and 
 Wife, for 
 themselves 
 
 and as trustees 
 
 of Hannah, 
 wife of Wil- 
 liam Neilson, 
 and Eliza F. 
 wife of Tho- 
 mas A. Mor- 
 
 ns. 
 
 thence north-eastwardly about 
 one hundred and sixteen feet ; 
 thence south in a line parallel 
 with the Third Avenue one hun- 
 dred and thirty-three feet or 
 thereabout to the place of be- 
 ginning ; the second piece mark- 
 ed K, commencing at a point in 
 the centre of 129th street, about 
 two hundred and ten feet west- 
 ward from the Third Avenue ; 
 thence westward about fifty- 
 three feet ; thence north-eas- 
 terly about eighty-three feet ; 
 thence south and parallel with 
 the Third Avenue about seventy- 
 three feet to the place of begin- 
 ning ; the third piece marked 
 C, commencing at a point one 
 hundred and thirty-five feet 
 west from the west side of the 
 Third Avenue, and ninety-nine 
 feet eleven inches northerly 
 from the north side of 129th 
 street ; thence westerly thirty 
 feet or thereabouts ; thence 
 south in a line parallel with 
 the Third Avenue thirty-eight 
 feet or thereabout to the place 
 of beginning. The object of 
 this deed, and of a deed given 
 by the said Charles Henry 
 Hall and wife to the said par- 
 ties of the first part bearing 
 even date herewith, are to 
 square the lots and lines on 
 lands adjoining. 
 
44 
 
 LIST OF CONVEYANCES MADE TO CHARLES HENRY HALL. 
 
 Lib. 
 
 362 
 
 Page 
 
 558 
 
 363 
 
 439 
 
 Grantors. 
 
 Margaret 
 McGown. 
 
 Peggy Dyck 
 man, Jane O. 
 Dyckman and 
 John H. 
 Dyckman. 
 
 Date of deed When ack-i When re- 
 nowledged. corded. 
 
 1836, 
 Aug. 26. 
 
 1836, 
 June 15. 
 
 1836, 
 Aug. 27. 
 
 1836, 
 Oct. 20. 
 
 1836, 
 Aug. 21 
 
 1836, 
 Nov. 23. 
 
 Description of premises. 
 
 Release of part of mortga- 
 ged premises. Six lots at Har- 
 lem, bounded northerly by 
 126th street ; southerly by 125th 
 street ; easterly by a line drawn 
 parallel to the Seventh Avenue 
 on the westerly side thereof, 
 four hundred and fifty feet 
 therefrom ; and westerly by a 
 line drawn parallel to the said 
 avenue on the westerly side 
 thereof, at the distance of five 
 hundred and twenty-five feet 
 therefrom. 
 
 Piece of land on the south- 
 easterly side of the Post Road 
 leading from the city of New 
 York to Albany, and bounded 
 as follows : Beginning on the 
 south-easterly side of the said 
 road, at the division line be- 
 tween the land of the parties 
 of the first part and the land 
 of Aaron Post ; thence running 
 along the said division line, 
 south forty-two degrees and a 
 quarter east, eleven hundred 
 and eighty-four feet six inches 
 to Harlem River ; thence run- 
 ning along the said river south 
 thirty degrees and three-quar- 
 ters west, three hundred and 
 thirteen feet to a stake : thence 
 running north fifty-four degrees 
 forty minutes west, two hun- 
 dred and ninety-one feet four 
 inches ; north thirty-five de- 
 grees twenty minutes east, fifty- 
 nine feet four inches ; north 
 fifty-four degrees forty minutes 
 west, one thousand and twenty- 
 four feet ten inches to the said 
 road ; thence running along the 
 said road, north fifty degrees 
 thirty-five minutes east, five 
 hundred and twenty-eight feet 
 to the place of beginning ; con- 
 taining eleven 37-100 acres, 
 more or less. The conveyance 
 is upon condition that no part 
 of the premises be used or ap- 
 propriated as a public or private 
 cemetery or burial ground. 
 
45 
 
 LIST OP CONVEYANCES MADE TO CHARLES HENRY HALL, 
 
 Lib. Page, 
 
 363 484 
 
 364 
 
 131 
 
 Grantors. 
 
 Thomas 
 Gardner 
 and Wife. 
 
 Benjamin L. 
 Benson. 
 
 365 
 
 130 
 
 John R. Peters 
 and Wife, 
 Ohadiah 
 Holmes and 
 Wife, and 
 Russel Steb- 
 bins and Wife. 
 
 365 
 
 585 
 
 1836, 
 May 10- 
 
 1836, 
 May 25. 
 
 Jeremiah 
 Youmans. 
 
 1836, 
 June 1. 
 
 1836, 
 Nov. 24. 
 
 When ack- 
 
 When re- 
 
 nowledged. 
 
 corded. 
 
 1836, 
 
 ^36, 
 
 Nov. 8. 
 
 Dec, 16. 
 
 1836, 
 
 
 May 10. 
 
 
 1836, 
 
 1836. 
 
 June 27. 
 
 July 25. 
 
 1836, 
 
 1836, 
 
 July 7, 13, 
 
 Sept 6. 
 
 and 19. 
 
 
 1836, 
 
 1836, 
 
 Nov. 24. 
 
 Nov. 26. 
 
 Description of premises. 
 
 One equal undivided fifth part 
 of six acres of land in the 
 Twelfth Ward of the city of 
 New York, on the easterly side 
 of the Third Avenue, bounded 
 north and east by lands now or 
 lately belonging to Thomas 
 Charles Winthrop, and on the 
 southerly side by lands now or 
 lately belonging to the heirs of 
 the late Jacobus Kip. 
 
 Release of part of mortgaged 
 premises. Land in the Twelfth 
 Ward of the city of New York, 
 bounded northerly by 130th 
 street ; southerly by 129th street ; 
 easterly by the centre line be- 
 tween the Fourth and Fifth Av- 
 enues ; and westerly by a line 
 drawn parallel to the Fifth Av- 
 enue, on the easterly side thereof 
 at the distance of one hundred 
 and sixty feet therefrom. 
 
 Reconveyance of premises 
 conveyed through mistake by 
 deed from Charles Henry Hall 
 to John R. Peters, Obadiah 
 Holmes and Russell Stebbins, 2d 
 December, 1833. Lot of land 
 in the Twelfth Ward of the city 
 of New York ; commencing at 
 a point in the northerly line of 
 126th street, three hundred and 
 seventy-five feet easterly from 
 the north-easterly corner of 
 126th street and Sixth Avenue ; 
 running thence easterly along 
 said northerly line ten feet ; 
 thence northerly on a line paral- 
 lel to the easterly line of the 
 Sixth Avenue to the southerly 
 line of 127th street ; thence 
 westerly along said southerly 
 line ten feet ; thence southerly 
 on a line parallel to said easterly 
 side of the Sixth Avenue to the 
 northerly line of 126th street, 
 the place of beginning. 
 
 Release of part of mortga- 
 ged premises. Block of ground 
 in the Twelfth Ward of the city 
 of New York, bounded by the 
 Sixth and Seventh Avenues, 
 and by 132d and 133d streets to 
 the middle of said streets and 
 avenues. 
 
46 
 
 LIST OP CONVEYANCES MADE TO CHARLES HENRY HALL. 
 
 Page 
 
 k 26 
 
 Grantors. 
 
 Julia Maria 
 Lambert. 
 
 Date of deed When ack- When re- 
 nowledged. corded. 
 
 1836, 
 May 5. 
 
 1836 
 Sept. 10 
 
 1836, 
 Sept. 10. 
 
 Decsription of premises. 
 
 That tract of land which, by 
 a deed of 26th July, 1828, re- 
 corded in Register's Office, city 
 and county of New York, in 
 liber 239 of Conveyances, page 
 247, was conveyed to the said 
 party of the first part by Henry 
 P. Jones, Master in Chancery, 
 described as follows, to wit : tract 
 of land in the Ninth, now Twelfth 
 Ward of the city of New York, 
 on the westerly side of the Post 
 Road leading from New York to 
 Albany, and bounded as follows : 
 beginning at tbe said road, at a 
 post adjoining the land formerly 
 sold by Dennis Post to Jacobus 
 Dyckman ; thence running along 
 the land of the said Dyckman, 
 or that sold as aforesaid, north 
 fifty-four degrees west, twenty- 
 two chains and forty-three links 
 to a small creek running into 
 the Spiten Devil Creek ; thence 
 running along the same north 
 sixty-six and one-half degrees 
 east, one chain ; north eighteen 
 degrees west, two chains ; north 
 one degree west, two chains and 
 seventy links to the said Spiten 
 Devil Creek ; thence running 
 along the same north eighty-one 
 degrees east, four chains and 
 sixty-six links to land now or 
 lately belonging to William Og- 
 den and John R. Murray ; thence 
 running along the same, south 
 forty-eight degrees four minutes 
 east, twenty-three chains and 
 sixty-eight links to the said road ; 
 thence along the said road, south 
 forty-nine degrees west, two 
 chains and fifty links ; south fifty- 
 five and three-quarters degrees 
 west, two chains and sixty-four 
 and a half links to the place of 
 beginning ; containing fifteen 
 acres one rood and twenty-four 
 perches of land more or less. 
 Also, that tract of land in the 
 Twelfth Ward of the said city, 
 being the upper or north-eastern 
 part of land formerly owned by 
 Jacobus Dyckman, lying be- 
 tween Kingsbridge Road and 
 Spiten Devil Creek, which tract 
 is described according to a sur- 
 vey and map made 24th August, 
 1804, by Charles Loss, City 
 Surveyor, as follows: beginning 
 on the bank of the Spiten Devil 
 
47 
 
 LIST OF CONVEYANCES MADE TO CHARLES HENRY HALL. 
 
 Lib. Page. Grantors. Date of deed When ack- When re- Description of premise*. 
 
 nowk'dged. corded. 
 
 366 
 
 4-7 
 
 Benjamin L 
 Benson. 
 
 1836, 
 Dec. 14. 
 
 1836, 
 Dec. 2* 
 
 1836, 
 Dec. 30. 
 
 t the upper or most 
 or north-eastern part 
 
 OirGek, a 
 nort hern 
 of the whole tract of land for- 
 merly owned by Jacobus Dyck- 
 man, and on the boundary line 
 formerly owned by Jacob and 
 William Norgle ; thence running 
 along said boundary line south 
 forty-three degrees east, eight- 
 een chains and thirty-nine links 
 to the Kingsbridge Road ; thence 
 along said road south forty-nine 
 degrees west, five chains and 
 two links to a stake ; thence run- 
 ning north forty-nine degrees 
 and twenty-minutes west, twen- 
 ty-two chains and seventy-eight 
 links to the bank of Spiten De- 
 vil Creek ; thence along said 
 creek according to the courses 
 thereof, twenty-eight chains and 
 sixty-seven links to the place of 
 beginning ; containing twelve 
 acres one rood and twelve per- 
 ches. Also, that certain tract 
 of land in the Twelfth Ward of 
 the city of New York, begin- 
 ning on the westerly side of 
 Kingsbridge Road, at the corner 
 of the fence forming the herein 
 described premises and land now 
 or late belonging to Jacobus 
 Dyckman ; thence running wes- 
 terly along said fence as the 
 same now stands to a small 
 creek putting up through the salt 
 meadow ; thence south-westerly 
 along said creek to the corner of 
 fence which separates certain 
 woodland belonging to Dennis 
 Post from the herein described 
 premises ; thence nearly a south- 
 easterly direction along said last 
 mentioned fence to the Kings- 
 bridge Road aforesaid ; and 
 thence north-easterly along the 
 said road to the place of begin- 
 ning ; containing twenty acres 
 by estimation, more or less. 
 
 Release of part of mortgaged 
 premises. Block of land in the 
 Twelfth Ward of the city of 
 New York, lying between 131st 
 and 132d streets and Fourth 
 and Fifth Avenues. 
 
48 
 
 LIST OF CONVEYANCES MADE TO CHARLES HENRY HALL. 
 
 Lib. 
 
 367 
 
 Page 
 
 500 
 
 Grantors. 
 
 Mary Hall, 
 and John Pye : 
 
 Executor, 
 &c., of Wil- 
 liam Hall. 
 
 Date of deed 
 
 1836, 
 Dec. 8. 
 
 When ack- When re- 
 nowledged. corded. 
 
 369 
 
 514 
 
 Aaron Post 
 and Wife. 
 
 1836, 
 June 15. 
 
 1836, 
 Dec. 8. 
 
 1836, 
 Dec. 19. 
 
 1836, 
 Oct. 19. 
 
 1837, 
 Jan. 30. 
 
 Description of premises. 
 
 Release of part of mortgaged 
 premises. Forty-four lots in the 
 Twelfth Ward of the city of 
 New York ; forty of which lots 
 lie together and are bounded as 
 follows, beginning on the north- 
 easterly corner of the Fourth 
 avenue and 130th street ; run- 
 ning thence along the easterly 
 side of said avenue one hundred 
 and ninety-nine feet ten inches 
 to the south-easterly corner of 
 131st street : thence easterly a- 
 long the southerly side of 131st 
 street 510 feet ; thence south- 
 westerly and on a line parallel 
 with the Fourth avenue one 
 hundred and ninety-nine feet 
 ten inches to 130th street ; 
 thence westerly along 130th 
 street to the place of beginning; 
 the other four lots beginning at 
 a point distant 460 feet easterly 
 from the north-easterly corner 
 of the Fourth avenue and 129th 
 street on the northerly side of 
 said street ; running thence eas- 
 terly along said street fifty feet ; 
 thence north-easterly on a line 
 parallel with the Fourth avenue 
 one hundred and ninety-nine 
 feet ten inches to the southerly 
 line of 130th street; thence 
 westerly along the southerly 
 line of 130th street fifty feet; 
 thence southerly on a line par- 
 allel with the Fourth avenue 
 one hundred and ninety-nine 
 feet ten inches to the place of 
 beginning ; together with half 
 the streets and the Fourth ave- 
 nue in front of said lots. 
 
 Land in the Twelfth Ward of 
 the city of New York on the 
 south-easterly side of the post- 
 road leading from New York 
 city to Albany, bounded as fol- 
 lows: beginning at a stake on 
 the south-easterly side of the 
 said road (distant 396 feet from 
 the division line between the 
 land of the said Aaron Post and 
 the land of Peggy Dyckman, 
 Jane O. Dyckman and John H. 
 Dyckman,) thence runuing 
 
49 
 
 LIST OF CONVEYANCES MADE TO CHARLES HENRY HALL, 
 
 Lib. 
 
 Page. 
 
 Grantors. 
 
 Date of deed 
 
 When ack 
 nowledged. 
 
 When re- 
 corded. 
 
 Description of premises. 
 
 south fifty-four degrees and for- 
 ty minutes east, seven hundred 
 feet to Haerlem river ; thence 
 running along the said river 
 south thirty-six degrees and one- 
 quarter west, seventy-seven 
 feet ; north nine degrees and 
 three-quarters west, two hun- 
 dred and thirty-six feet six in- 
 ches ; south sixteen degrees east, 
 300 feet ; south three degrees 
 and a half west, seventy-three 
 feet nine inches.; south fifty de- 
 grees west, 104 feet to the said 
 division line between the lands 
 of the said Aaron Post and the 
 land of the said Peggy Dyck- 
 man, Jane O. Dyckman and 
 John H. Dyckman ; thence run- 
 ning along the said division line ; 
 north forty-two degrees and a 
 quarter west, eleven hundred 
 and eighty-four feet six inches 
 to the said road ; thence running 
 along the said road north fifty 
 degrees and thirty-five minutes 
 east, 396 feet to the said stake 
 the place of beginning, contain- 
 ing 10 52-100 acres more or 
 less. No part of premises are to 
 be used or appropriated for a 
 public or private cemetry or bu- 
 rial ground. 
 
 376 
 
 28 
 
 Harriet W. 
 Wiswall. 
 
 1837, 
 
 1837, 
 March 28. 
 
 1837, 
 April I, 
 
 Lot of land at Harlem bound- 
 ed and described as follows, viz. : 
 commencing in the centre of 
 107th street, distant 110 feet 
 easterly of the Third avenue ; 
 thence easterly through the cen- 
 tre of said street, 200 feet ; 
 thence southerly parallel with 
 the Third avenue, one hundred 
 and thirty feet eleven inches to 
 the centre of the block of land 
 lying between 106th and 107th 
 streets ; thence westerly through 
 the centre of said block two 
 hundred feet ; thence northerly 
 and parallel with the Third ave- 
 nue one hundred thirty feet ele- 
 ven inches to the centre of 107th 
 street the place of beginning. 
 Also that other lot of land in 
 the Twelfth Ward of the city 
 of New York, bounded and de- 
 scribed as follows, viz. : com- 
 mencing in the centre of 107th 
 
 7 
 
50 
 
 LIST OF CONVEYANCES MADE TO CHARLES HENRY HALL. 
 
 Lib. 
 
 Page, 
 
 Grantors. 
 
 Date of deed 
 
 When ack 
 nowledged. 
 
 When re- 
 corded. 
 
 Description of premises. 
 
 street, 125 feet easterly of tha 
 Second avenue ; thence north- 
 erly and parallel with the Se- 
 cond avenue 105 feet to the land 
 of Archibald Watt ; thence eas- 
 terly along the line of the lands 
 of said Watt and parallel to 
 107th street 575 feet to the cen- 
 tre of the First avenue ; thence 
 northerly along the centre of the 
 said First avenue two hundred 
 sixty-one feet ten inches to the 
 centre of 108th street ; thence 
 easterly through the centre of 
 108th street to the Harlem ri- 
 ver ; thence southerly along said 
 Harlem river to the centre of 
 107th street; thence westerly 
 through the centre of 107th 
 street to the place of beginning, 
 together with all the water and 
 lands under the water in front 
 thereof. 
 
 378 
 
 204 
 
 381 
 
 275 
 
 Francis Fick- 
 ett and Wife. 
 
 Daniel P. 
 Ingraham. 
 
 1837, 
 May 10. 
 
 1837, 
 Oct. 14. 
 
 1837, 
 May 1 1 
 
 1837, 
 Oct. 17. 
 
 1837, 
 May 18. 
 
 1837, 
 Oct. 19. 
 
 Sixteen lots in the Twelfth 
 Ward of the city of New York. 
 Beginning at a point on the 
 north-east side of 130th street, 
 distant 310 feet easterly from 
 the Fifth avenue ; running 
 thence north-easterly along a 
 line parallel to the Fifth avenue 
 to 131st street; thence south- 
 easterly along 131st street, 200 
 feet ; thence south-westerly a- 
 long a line parallel to the Fifth 
 avenue to 130th street ; and 
 thence north-westerly along 
 130th street to the place of be- 
 ginning. 
 
 Release of part of mortgaged 
 premises; Eight lots in the 
 Twelfth Ward of the city of 
 New York ; bounded as follows, 
 northerly by ninety-third street, 
 southerly by ninety-second 
 street, easterly by a line drawn 
 parallel to Third Avenue on the 
 easterly side thereof at the dis- 
 tance of 100 feet therefrom, and 
 westerly by the Third avenue. 
 
51 
 
 LIST OF CONVEYANCES MADE TO CHARLES HENRY HALL. 
 
 • I Page. 
 
 276 
 
 Grantors. 
 
 Margaret 
 Hunt. 
 
 Date of deed VVIien ack- 
 nowledged. 
 
 521 
 
 John Adri- 
 ance. 
 
 387 
 
 114 
 
 Francis 
 Fickett. 
 
 1837, 
 Oct. 2. 
 
 1838, 
 Jan. 19. 
 
 James Hooker 
 and Wife. 
 
 1838, 
 April 27 
 
 1837, 
 Oct. 17. 
 
 When re- 
 corded. 
 
 1837, 
 Oct. 19. 
 
 1838, 
 Jan 19. 
 
 1838, 
 April 27 
 
 1828, 
 Dec. t 
 
 1838, 
 March 23. 
 
 1838, 
 May 18. 
 
 1838, 
 Aug. 22. 
 
 1838, 
 Aug. 25. 
 
 Description of premises. 
 
 Release of the eight lots on 
 east side of Third avenue be- 
 tween ninety-second and nine- 
 ty-third streets in the preceding 
 conveyance described, from a 
 mortgage made by Daniel P. 
 Ingraham to Margaret Hunt. 
 
 Release of part of mortgaged 
 premises. Land in the Twelfth 
 Ward of the city of New York 
 bounded west by the Fifth ave- 
 nue, east by the centre line be- 
 tween the Fourth and Fifth ave- 
 nues ; north by 134th street ; 
 and south by 133d street. 
 
 Release of part of premises 
 mortgaged to Stephen Kings- 
 land, by him assigned to Joseph 
 G. Russel and by him assigned 
 to Francis Fickett. Eight lots 
 at Harlem bounded and describ- 
 ed as follows, viz. : beginning at 
 a point on the northerly side of 
 129th street, distant one hun- 
 dred and ten feet westerly of 
 the Fourth Avenue (as laid out 
 on the commissioner's map, and 
 before the same was widened 
 to its present width) ; thence 
 northerly and parallel to the 
 Fourth Avenue one hundred 
 and ninety-nine feet ten inches 
 to 130th street ; thence wes- 
 terly along said street, one 
 hundred feet ; thence southerly 
 and parallel to the Fourth Av- 
 enue, one hundred and ninety- 
 nine feet and ten inches to 
 129th street ; thence easterly 
 along said street, one hundred 
 feet to the place of beginning. 
 
 The equal undivided half part 
 of six blocks in the Eleventh 
 Ward of the city of New York. 
 First, block between Second and 
 Third Avenues and Sixth and 
 Seventh streets ; Second, block 
 between Second and Third 
 Avenues and Seventh and 
 Eighth streets; Third, block 
 
52 
 
 LIST OF CONVEYANCES MADE TO CHARLES HENRY HALL. 
 
 Lib. Page. 
 
 390 
 
 621 
 
 Myndert Van 
 Schaick. 
 
 391 
 
 217 
 
 391 
 
 532 
 
 Grantors. 
 
 Date of deed 
 
 Peter Myer. 
 
 1839, 
 Jan. 25. 
 
 1838, 
 Oct. 22. 
 
 When ack- 
 nowledged. 
 
 1839, 
 Jan. 29. 
 
 Margaret 
 Hunt. 
 
 1839, 
 Jan. 31. 
 
 1838, 
 Oct. 23. 
 
 When re- 
 corded. 
 
 1839, 
 March 16. 
 
 1839, 
 Feb. 12. 
 
 1838, 
 Oct. 23. 
 
 1839, 
 Feb. 18. 
 
 Decsription of premises. 
 
 between First Avenue and Av- 
 enue A and Tenth and Ele- 
 venth streets ; Fourth, block 
 between First Avenue and Av- 
 enue A and Eleventh and 
 Twelfth streets ; Fifth, block 
 between Avenue A and Ave- 
 nue B and Tenth and Eleventh 
 streets ; Sixth, block between 
 Avenue A and Avenue B and 
 Eleventh and Twelfth streets. 
 
 Release of part of mortga- 
 ged premises. Block of land 
 bounded westerly by the Third 
 Avenue ; northerly by 104th 
 street. ; easterly by the Second 
 Avenue : and southerly by 
 103d street; excepting however 
 from the said block of ground, 
 two lots situate at the north- 
 easterly corner of the said Third 
 Avenue and 103d street, sold 
 to Peter Quin ; said two lots 
 fronting on the Third Avenue, 
 and being each twenty-five feet 
 two inches in width and one 
 hundred feet deep. 
 
 Release of part of mortga- 
 ged premises. Triangular piece 
 of ground in the Twelfth Ward 
 of the city of New York ; 
 bounded northerly by 137th 
 street ; westerly by the Sixth 
 Avenue ; and southerly by land 
 purchased by the said Charles 
 Henry Hall of Garret Myer. 
 
 Release of part of premises 
 mortgaged by Daniel P. Ingra- 
 ham to Margaret Hunt. Five 
 lots : beginning at a point on 
 the northerly side of Ninety- 
 third street one hundred feet 
 easterly from the Third Ave- 
 nue ; running thence easterly 
 
53 
 
 LIST OF CONVEYANCES MADE TO CHARLES HENRY HALL. 
 
 Lib. Page. 
 
 391 
 
 583 
 
 393 
 
 34 
 
 Grantors. 
 
 Daniel P. 
 Ingraham. 
 
 Myndert Van 
 Schaick 
 and Wife. 
 
 Date of deed When ack 
 nowledged. 
 
 1839, 
 Feb. 6. 
 
 1838, 
 Nov. 28. 
 
 1839, 
 Feb. 8. 
 
 1838, 
 Dec. 5. 
 
 When re 
 corded. 
 
 1839, 
 Feb. 18. 
 
 1838, 
 Dec. 12. 
 
 Description of premises. 
 
 one hundred and twenty-five 
 feet ; thence northerly parallel 
 to the Third Avenue one hun- 
 dred feet eight and a half inches 
 to a point equi-distant from 
 Ninety-third and Ninety-fourth 
 streets ; thence running wes- 
 terly on a line equi distant from 
 Ninety-third and Ninety -fourth 
 
 I streets, one hundred and twenty- 
 five feet ; thence southerly on 
 
 | a line parallel to the Third Av- 
 enue one hundred feet eight 
 and a half inches to Ninety- 
 third street, the place of begin- 
 ning. 
 
 Release of part of mortga- 
 ged premises. Five lots in the 
 Twelfth Ward of the city of 
 New York, bounded southerly 
 by Ninety-third street ; north- 
 erly by the centre line between 
 Ninety-third and Ninety-fourth 
 streets ; westerly by a line par- 
 allel to the Third Avenue on 
 the easterly side thereof, and 
 distant one hundred feet there- 
 from ; and easterly by a line 
 parallel to the Third Avenue, 
 on the easterly side thereof, and 
 distant therefrom two hundred 
 and twenty-five feet. 
 
 Land in the Twelfth Ward 
 of the city of New York. 
 Block bounded easterly by the 
 Sixth Avenue ; southerly by 
 132d street ; westerly by the 
 Seventh Avenue ; and north- 
 erly by 133d street, containing 
 sixty-four lots. Also, block 
 bounded westerly by the Fourth 
 Avenue ; northerly by 131st 
 street ; easterly by Harlem 
 River ; and southerly by 130th 
 street, containing forty-four lots ; 
 together with the rights and 
 privileges of the parties of the 
 first part to the water, and land 
 covered with water in front of 
 said block. Also, eighteen lots 
 bounded easterly by the Fifth 
 Avenue ; northerly by 129th 
 streets ; southerly by 128th 
 street ; and westerly by a line 
 
54 
 
 LIST OF CONVEYANCES MADE TO CHARLES HENRY HALL. 
 
 Lib. 
 
 Page. 
 
 Grantors. 
 
 Date of deed 
 
 When ack 
 nowledgeU. 
 
 394 
 
 464 
 
 399 
 
 559 
 
 John Harris 
 and Wife. 
 
 1839, 
 Jan. 30. 
 
 1839, 
 March 26, 
 
 Francis 
 Nicholson. 
 
 When re- 
 corded. 
 
 1837, 
 Oct. 1. 
 
 407 
 
 474 
 
 Perkins 
 Nichols. 
 
 1837, 
 Dec. 7. 
 
 Description of premises. 
 
 drawn parallel to the Fifth 
 Avenue at the distance of two 
 hundred and thirty-five feet 
 therefrom ; numbered 558, 559, 
 560, 561, 562, 563, 564, 565, 
 566, 567, 568, 569, 570, 571, 
 572, 573, 574 and 575, being 
 parcels numbers 79, 80 and 81 
 on Harlem map. 
 
 1839, Block of ground at Harlem, 
 March 28. bounded northerly by the centre 
 of 101st street, as laid down on 
 the commissioner's map of the 
 city of New York ; southerly 
 by the centre of 100th street 
 as laid down on said map ; eas- 
 terly by the Third Avenue ; 
 and westerly by the Fourth 
 Avenue. Subject to the pay- 
 ment of $7,000, being half the 
 amount due on a mortgage from 
 Edward Sandford to Margaret 
 McGown. 
 
 1840, 
 April 28. 
 
 1840, 
 May 19 
 
 1839, 
 Oct. 29. 
 
 1840, 
 Sept. 11. 
 
 Four lots in the Twelfth 
 Ward of the city of New York, 
 bounded as follows : beginning 
 at a point on the northerly side 
 of 129th street, distant four 
 hundred and ten feet west of 
 the Third Avenue ; thence run- 
 ning westerly along 129th street 
 fifty feet ; thence northerly in 
 a line parallel with the Third 
 Avenue to the southerly side of 
 130th street ; thence easterly 
 along said 130th street fifty 
 feet ; thence southerly in a line 
 parallel to the Third Avenue to 
 129th street and the place of be- 
 ginning. 
 
 The one equal undivided half 
 part of the following pieces or 
 parcels of ground, to wit : 
 those four pieces of land in the 
 Twelfth Ward of the city of 
 New York, between the twelfth 
 and thirteenth mile stones, on 
 the Kingsbridge Road ; the first 
 
55 
 
 LIST OF CONVEYANCES MADE TO CHARLES HENRY HALL. 
 
 containing thirteen acres three roods and fourteen perches of land, and being the same 
 premises which Aaron Post and wife granted and conveyed to George W. Hall, John Bolton 
 and Curtis Bolton, 13th November, 1616. The second of said pieces, containing four acres 
 two roods and four perches, and being the same premises which Henry Post granted and 
 conveyed to the above named George W. Hall, John Bolton and Curtis Bolton, by deed of 
 the same date ; the third of the said pieces of land, containing thirty-one acres three roods 
 and twenty-eight perches of land, being the same premises which the said Henry Post 
 granted and conveyed to the same persons aforesaid, 5th February, 1817 ; the fourth of 
 said pieces of land, being a piece of salt meadow land situate near the Kingsbridge on 
 the east side of said road, bounded westerly and southerly by the said road ; easterly by the 
 creek ; and northerly by land now or late of Jacob Hyatt, and formerly of John and Abra- 
 ham Kerson, containing five acres one rood and seven perches of land, be the contents of 
 the said four pieces of ground more or less. Also, the estate, right, title and interest of the 
 party of the first part of, in and to a small island in Harlem River, opposite the said land, 
 being the same premises which Garret Myers and others conveyed to the said George W. 
 Hall, John Bolton and Curtis Bolton, by deed dated 28th December, A. D. 1816, as the said 
 several pieces of land were conveyed to the party hereto of the first part by Thomas Ludlow 
 Ogden, 20th September, 1825 ; by deed recorded in liber 193 of Conveyances, page 456, 14th 
 October, 1825. The third piece of land above mentioned, being subject to a right of pass- 
 age way, reserved to Jacobus Dyckman, through the same from the salt meadow of said 
 Dyckman to the said road. Also, that piece of salt meadow at Kingsbridge, bounded as 
 follows, viz. : beginning at Spiten Devil Creek and running south twenty-three degrees west, 
 fifty-seven feet to the upland of Jacob Hyatt ; north seventy-three degrees west, ninety- 
 seven feet ; south eighty-one degrees and fifteen minutes west, one hundred and fifty feet ; 
 north seven degrees west, one hundred and sixteen feet ; north thirty-two degrees and thirty 
 minutes west, one hundred and thirty feet to the westermost point of a post ; thence along 
 Spiten Devil Creek south sixty-seven degrees and forty-five minutes east, one hundred and 
 sixty-seven feet to a post ; thence south fifty-nine degrees forty-five minutes east, two hun- 
 dred and twenty feet to the place of beginning ; containing three roods and five perches of 
 ground. Also, that certain other lot of salt meadow at Kingsbridge, and bounded as fol- 
 lows, viz. : beginning at Spiten Devil Creek, at the eastermost point of the meadow, and 
 running thence along the upland of Jacob Hyatt, south fifty-seven degrees thirty minutes 
 west, one hundred and ninety-six feet to the land of Henry Post ; thence along said Post's 
 land forty-seven degrees thirty minutes west, one hundred and eighty-five feet to a piece of 
 salt meadow belonging to John Warner ; thence along Warner's line north twenty-six de- 
 grees west, eighty-one feet to Spiten Devil Creek ; thence along said creek north thirty- 
 three degrees thirty minutes east, one hundred and eighty-four feet ; thence north seventy- 
 five degrees and twenty -five minutes east, one hundred and seven feet ; north eighty de- 
 grees forty-five minutes east, one hundred and thirty-two feet to the place of beginning, 
 containing three roods and one perch of land. Also, that other piece of salt meadow bound- 
 ed as follows : beginning at the Spiten Devil Creek, adjoining the north-westerly corner 
 bounds of land belonging to the estate of the late David R. Lambert, and the north-westerly 
 corner bounds of the land of the said Perkins Nichols, and running northerly by the turnings 
 and windings of the said creek, and adjoining the same to the land of the said Perkins Ni- 
 chols ; thence turning and running in a north-easterly direction, adjoining the said Perkins 
 Nichols' land till it strikes the land of the said Nichols at or near the upland ; thence turn- 
 ing and running in a southerly direction, adjoining the land of the said Perkins Nichols to 
 the place of beginning, containing six and one-half acres of land. Also, that other piece 
 of land bounding on said road, and otherwise bounding on land belonging to the said Perkins 
 Nichols, forming a small gore or triangle of land near the canal and marble quarry of the 
 said J erkins Nichols. Also, that other piece of land near Kingsbridge, west of the said 
 Kingsbridge Road, bounding on said road, and otherwise bounding on land of said Perkins 
 Nichols, forming a small wedge or gore of land near the canal and marble quarry of the 
 said Perkins Nichols, being the same premises conveyed to the said Perkins Nichols by Aaron 
 Post and wife, 15th October, 1835, excepting and reserving from the above described pieces 
 or parcels of ground two certain lots of ground, each containing twenty-five feet in width 
 in front and rear, and one hundred feet in depth on each side, fronting on the Kingsbridge 
 Road, and being the same two lots conveyed to Edward Cromwell 19th April, 1836, being 
 the same premises as were conveyed by the said Charles Henry Hall to the said Perkins 
 Nichols, April 20th, 1836, by deed recorded in liber 362 of Conveyances, page 403. 
 
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