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TitleDeed, Aaron and Jane Newkirk to Jacob D. Van Winkle, 1819
Date Created1819
DescriptionDeed for parcel of land in the Township of Bergen, now part of Jersey City. The property is described in relation to neighbors and a "white oak tree" rather than streets or lot numbers, indicating how...
Time PeriodExpansion and Reform (1801-1861)
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TitleRelease and Receipts, Settlement of Estate of John Van Winkle, 1844-1851
Date Created1844-1851
DescriptionDocument closing the settlement of the estate of John Van Winkle, and receipts of payments to heirs from sale of two properties. Two of the six heirs sign with an "X" mark, indicating the level of...
Time PeriodExpansion and Reform (1801-1861)
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TitleDeed for Lot from Estate of Englebert Steenhuijs, 1688: Deed in Colonial Dutch from 1688
Date Created1688
DescriptionDeed for a part of the land of the late Englebert Steehuijs, first schoolteacher in New Jersey, sold by executors to Gerritt Gerrittsen. Handwritten original in Dutch, with typed transcription and...
Time PeriodColonization and Settlement (1585-1763)
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TitleLease of land from Hilletje Jans, widow of Ide Cornelius Van Vorst, to her son-in-law Jan Ariense Sip, 1694
AuthorToers, Claes Arentse
Date Created1694
DescriptionDocument in which Hilletje Jans, widow, asserts that she has leased a tract of land to her son in law Jan Arianse Sip, and agrees to continue the lease until her death, at which point all of her land...
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TitleA True and Perfect Inventory of the Goods and Chattles Rights and Credits of Jacob Everson Late of the Township of Bergen Deceased
Date Created1832
DescriptionInventory of small farm, holding only one ox and one cow. Lists contents of household, livestock and grains, with monetary values. Also notes one bond as credit. Taken November 8, 1832.
Time PeriodExpansion and Reform (1801-1861)
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TitleA True and perfect Inventory of all and singular the good and chattles, rights, and credits, of Garret J. Newkirk late of the township of Bergen, in the County of Bergen Deceas'd made by us whose names are hereunto Subscribed, the twenty sixth day of December in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
AuthorNewkirk, Garret J.
Date Created1818
DescriptionInventory of the estate of Garret Newkirk, November 16, 1818, including three slaves as well as tools and products of a farm estate. An example of the possessions of a well-off farm, and the relative...
Time PeriodExpansion and Reform (1801-1861)
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TitleDeed for small parcel of land, 1822
Date Created1822
DescriptionDeed conveying a one-tenth of an acre lot between owners of adjacent properties, from John Van Houte to Jacob D. Van Winkle. Property is described in relation to the road from Bergen to Prior's Mill,...
Time PeriodExpansion and Reform (1801-1861)
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TitleDeed and guarantee of release, 1787
Date Created1787
DescriptionTwo documents relating to the purchase of lands by Daniel Van Winkle, from heirs of Cornelius Diedericks. The first being a deed in which the "lots of land swamp and meadow" are sold for "Five pounds...
Time PeriodRevolution and the New Nation (1754-1820)
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TitleDeed for 313 Acres in Bergen County, 1786
Date Created1786
DescriptionQuit-claim deed in which Michael H. and Cornelius H. Vreeland of "Achqueghenonck," transfer a land title to Michael D. and Elizabeth Vreeland, of Hackensack. The first location, at that time part of...
Time PeriodRevolution and the New Nation (1754-1820)
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TitleDeed to lot in what is now Bayonne, 1826
Date Created1826
DescriptionDeed in which the children of Cornelius Vreeland grant a parcel of land to their brother. The property is described as being near the intersection of the only two main roads through the southern part...
Time PeriodExpansion and Reform (1801-1861)