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Vander Grift. Gabrey afterwards fled from the country, and the estate being confiscated, was again granted by the Governor, July 12, 1673, to Michael Heynall, Dirck Jansen, and Jeronimus Rapalie.1

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Peter Caesar Italien, elsewhere called Caesar Alberti,2 received from Governor Kieft, June 17, 1643, a grant of land

“or a tobacco plantation, lying in the bend of Marechkawieck, next to Peter Montfoort’s on the east side, and Michael Picet on the west; extending along the marsh 57 rods, and along the land of Peter Montfoort, in a southerly direction, towards and into the woods, in the length, 270 rods: amounting to 24 morgens and 250 rods.”

On May 1, 1647, he received an addition to the westerly side of his farm, two hundred and twenty rods in length and twenty-eight and a half rods in breadth, provided it could be done without prejurdice to his neighbors.3 On the 17th of May, 1647, “Jacques Cortelyou., as vendue-master and as attorney of the heirs and children of Peter Ceser Italian,” and the ÒDeacons" of the City of New York, conveyed to John Damon the above patent, in which the premises are described as

The heirs and children also executed a conveyance, confirming that of Cortelyou. May 10th, 1695, the above property, with the exception of six acres previously sold to Garret Middagh, was conveyed by John Damon, and Fitie his wife, of the Wallabout, to William Huddle-

1 Gen. Entries, iv. 287; Kings County Conveyances, lib. i. 89.

2 Pieter Caesar Alberti was the ancestor of the Alburtus family. (See Annals of Newtown.)

3 Patents, G G, 65.