The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1872-01-11
Annette JAMS.

From a small book privately printed
by that able and industrious antiquar-
ian, the late William Jackson Davis,
we copy for our readers the following
interesting account of a lady whose
property has been the cause of a great
deal of trouble and discomfort to her
descendants even to the present day
annette Jams was the widow Of
Dominic Bogardus, the first clergy
man of New Amsterdam, who arriv-
ed here in 1888. He married tiIis lady
some years after his arrival, she be-
ing then called Annette Roclefs. She
was was the widow of ROelofS Jansen,
one of the earliest settlers. At the
time of her marriage to Dominic BO-
gardus, Annette JAMS, or Roclof5, had
four children, the issue Of her former
marriage, and by the Dominic she
subsequently had also four children.
The farm about which this controversy
has been so lOnged sustained embrac-
ed about sixty-twO acres, which were
granted to ROclof Jansen in the year
1886. Upon his death it passed to his
widow, and after the marriage with
the Dominic it commonly went by
the name of DOminie's BOwery. 1t
extended from a line q little south Of
the present Warren street, northwest
erly about a miIeand half, to what is
now Christopher street, forming an ir-
regular triangle, having its base on
the river, running, however, on Broad
way only from Warren to Duane
street. Dominic Bogardus embarked
on the ship Princess, on q visit 70 the
fatherland in the year 1913, and the
vessel being cast away, the DOmin lie
with eighty others, perished. The
widow continued her residence in this
city, and in 1854 the grant Of the farm
was confirmed to her and her heirs by
Governor Stuyvesant, and subsequent
IL in 1867, after her death, it was con-
firmed by the English Government
(which had then recently come into
possession of the Provence) TO her
heirs. 1t appears that in 1870 the
yendue master Of this city sold by or
der, and for account of the heirs of
Anna Bogardus, deceased, q part OF
this property, consisting Of land and
meadow lying on the north Of Mes
| paths Kill (abOve Canal street, COM
monty called Dominie's Hook; John
Sharpe became the purchaser at ., $40
flOrins. Sharpe afterward refused TO
ratify on account of some alleged flaw
/ in the title, and the sale was never
carried through. In the following
year, William BOgardus, for himself
and brothers, Jan and Jonas, and two
| of Annette Jaus' sons-in-law, (aeJing
/ in right of their wives) conveyed this
/ farm to Colonel Francis Lovelace, then
| Governor of New York One of the
sons (Cornelius) did not join in the
| conveyance, and it is alleged that his
/ heirs are entitled to share OF the
/ property. In l7O5, the farm then
/ called the Kings farm was leased by
/ the colonial authorities 70 Trinity
/ Church, which has since remained IN
possession, and enjoyed the income
| of the property, which is immense,
being in the best part Of the city
The ground on which represent heirs
rest their right to this property, is not
/ simply as the representatives Of the
/ son Cornelius, but upon the ground
/ that whatever title the Colonial gov
I ernment took from theirs became
vested, after the Revolution, in the
/ people of this State.
To return to the personal affairs Of
the subject Of this sketch, it appears
that she was a lively person, and as
/ scandal concerning the great ones Of
| those days was much in vogue, the
/ lady was not without being assailed
by its shafts; though they fell harm
Iessly before her. She continued her
] residence in this city until her death"