The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-08-28
The Property On Park Row
and Its Title.
Cory Of the Original Grant and
Covenant.
PREVIOUS ATTEMPTS 70 SELL.
The Compromise Between the Trustees
and the Common Council.
IFrom the SUNDAY MercurY. August 27.I


Who owns the valuable ground on which tho
Times building stands Mayor HAIL says 1t belongs
To the city, and Mr. George Jones and his associates
assert thar they are lbs rishtfu owners. Whatever
motive may oe attributed to the corporate au.
the property aud add It 10 our municipal wealth,
the question involved rs OF suficent Importance 10
me OF s ss b
the Chief Magistrate are not Wholly new. During
the last fifteen years the title to the ground
has been subject OF Omiaous whispers among tho
friends OF the select circle Of distinguished editors
who iTst appropriated tho site TO secular purposes
They shook their heads ana talked about fatal de-
fects; but their ambiguous givings out' were con.
fined to their own ranks. At last the bubble burst,
and the news flashed oa the public ear that the
sagaclous Raymond sad the thrifty Wesley had cree
TED stately pie OF granite on parcel or land to
as Iournahsys present full and Impartial history
o. ,a9 or ag Is
TIE GROUNDS FOR EJEo lNa The OWNERS OF TUE
as communicated to the representative OF the Ie1.
cWy by Mayor Hall. are Us rollows:-
/. That the plot-now the site OF tho Times and
World buildinGs-was granted by the city to the
Tru tees Brlc6 church In 1766, to be used ex
ciu,ivey Tor reie Gus purposes aud cemetery, the
3. That oy viItue OF the grant, the trustees paid
yearly rent ol Gao to the city, THEREBY acknowledge
& That ia The year 1853 the trustees had resolu.
ton passed by The Common Council enabling them
pay SOL, 500 to the commissioners OF the Sinking
Fund-being about One-lourtn OF the amount Tor
4. That Tie Commissioners Of the Sinking Fund
were expressly prohibited by section OF the
charter OF S53 IRON selling public property, unless
at public auction, and ~ the highest Dldder and
that,
'1A' HISTORY OF THE BRIoK CHURCH.
Some twenty years before the BRICK Church was
built the DONG regasim worshipped IN a neat little
edlhce IN Wall, between Nassau street and Broad.
way The membership RAPIDLY Increased under the
W v' snot al able to ACCOMMODATES ali its worship.
peis. The poorer members, owing to the growth OF
the young city moved nom Inc leSion below Nsrlan
! being thus designated. The commons" now the
| City Hail fark was an open plain unlenced. Dat
inviting. Between II and Fulton street lay the old
BeeKman farm stretching to the shores OF the East
RIVER ana dotted here oa and tIere ,.r with
lltue almost angular plot, adjoining the
I lands Of Beekman, Is the ground now
SLOT even as shown on Rutgers early map, as early
as 1885, and, as we view it on the map beforeus IN
ITS primtlye shape, we DO not wo dsr tat e VASE o;
hills and valleys along The east SIDE up tne oid bos
ton post road Through Broadway, and the view on
dreenwich Village, now Christopher street
pied t to The CITY Tor grant Of this plot, On
which they desired to erect temple, ana they sue
s ton IN the grant That Inc popry should revert to
the city whenever appropriated TO secular purposes
cory OF THE oRIsINAL GRANT.
CITY 81 w ov on .:.s nn 18th y Of hsS
ary housand hundred and si1y:x present John
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for BY the ps,i;ioasr containing eight LOIS and
sSrvey now laid before The Board ssy thereof by
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and n Ia OF M Ss g. haSs 't Inc and
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sSd have granted par
re.sa. bargain and sell ep ree1ss and
Smith, n ag'n
John sn, lho& s;s John Stevens
Iiet joan Lasher, Jr. William smith, Jr;, John Dunlap
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whole year ndenu1e bearing date the day next be;
the for transferring into possession and to their
All certain piece parcel OF ground situate
x Continue y
breadth of hrysI feet 70 the Common. next adjoining e
Of ground hereby granted Begin
where the line Of the M @ as Of the SAID "a. &c
IT. Get and runs thence north degrees east two hun
Of Gs,rssss rasttow Commons and p
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south III rytwo degrees east. one hundred sud nifty
sAi se', char .As.ss
%SoS o. os rs.er certainty hsreunto a1nessd and 81
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or parcel OF land IN any wise Or which now
same
ss, .so the Fs.esn end
any part reo their appurtensnces and also ali the
and f ss
Is any ~
heredt aud PREMISES the appurtensnces unto
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ater parcu'ary nentioned to wt;so the parties Of
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Of ground above mentioned hereby granted
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The Oua Or niornens the dead ana 'nu''n'"'d 0f
SANE At Any TINE FOREVER
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par, herein soovs ss aary ned or ether Of them their
signs or Of them shah and do cause paid
unto the Mayor Aldermen and Conmonsty the city OF
New York Tor the time ncng for the OF the
a. % and o ,s .1 ATTY hs s, sum =. lawful
May in every year thence ensuing that
them this present indenre ad everything therein
con,anel shat rcma IN fuI force and virtue forever
| BRicy CHURCH TO THE CORPORATION,
But shall happen that the aforesaid parties of the
second part named, and their heirs executors and
administrators ana every OF them shall not In len years
from the date OF these presents the tract or
parcel OF ground, Aforesaid, thereon or
on any part thereof chuIc ece the public wor.
ship OF Almighty God the same a pa thereof for
cemetery cnuchyard shall any time thereafter an.
popratc, apply, or r. the private ar r
or II they shall make uetaut In the sum
OF go any part or paice there II, contrary to the
form above aud that the in
thereof the LIST day of May wherec the same
ot to be PAID shall be behind unpaid SPACE Of
nne mons nest after either o. said lays time hcrcon
that then thtnscorth II shall he Iayfui
TO and for the Mayor and Tom OF the city Of
New Yor er into all and
singular tn ao csid premises, with the appucna 10
re-ente ~ them and their
former esat to nave again. ENJOY and enjoy this their
present wiring anything in the contained anv
hp To he uotvx