The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-04-17

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recorded december IS, lses Consideration,
Sl6,550
Peter b. sweeny also sold one-third or this
section, on the day after his purchase, 10 Richard
D. Connolly. for $6,l6o SO.
NUMBER SEVEN
These initial purchases evidently whetted Mr.
sweenV's appetite for more landed property. as
he appears 10 have made the extensive purchases
thus recorded
BouGHT.-Barnet L. solomon ana wife to Peter
b. Sweeny ana Hugh Smltn-Lot a. southeast
beginning at sixth avenue and Broadway running
along Broadway 3S.T leet, thence eastefy Ills
leet nortnerly $50 ieer, westerly lSo ieet ana
Also lot on north side OF Thlrty-third street. 1880
leet east OF broadway, 25xss;s feet. Dee o cstsd
sheraton, S4l2,375.
This properly SKILL remains In Peter B. Sweeny's
ana Hugh smiths HANDS, and has been leased In
the following manner:-
LEAsE-Peter B. sweeny and Hugh Smith 70
Samuel W. Geery and y. Henry Sabine. Lease OF
southeast corner sixth avenue, rnirty.lourth
street. l,29s and 1900 Broadway and 70 West
Dated March 5, 1870; recorded March 10, 1870.
Consideration, $4,000 per annum.
NUMBER EIGHT
Having gained much property In the neigh
bornood OF Broadway and Sixth avenue Mr. Swee
ny and his partner. Mr.. smith. made the follow
ing purchase. it being Mr. sweeny's eighth ven-
ture:-
BoUGHT.-Barnet L. Solomon and wife and
Henry J. Hart, executor, 10 Peter b. Sweeny and
Hugh smith. Lot northeast corner OF Broadway
ana Thirty third street, running from Broadway
eaSLeTy along TnrtythIrd street l23. feet thence
nortnerly 9s9 teet, InencewesterlY l6l.21s eet TO
Broad way thence down Broadway soutnery 1862
1eet- Deco dated January 80, 1869; recorded
February /, 1869. CONSIDERATION. S2S7, 625.
This section stlu remains IN their hands Messrs.
sweeny and Smith having paid out on that day
nearly 100000
NUMBER NINE.
Mr.. Sweeny next began buying from his part
ner. Hugh Smith, as Is shown oy the following
record -
BoUGHT.--Hugn Smith to Peter B. Sweeny.-
Lot north side OF Sixty htn street, 100 feet east
OF Filth avenue, 25Xl00.5 feet Deed dated Feb
ruary 20, 1869; recorded February 20, 1862 Con-
sideratlon. $l2 QUO.
This property did not long remain in Mr..
Sweenys hands, for the records snow that he
sold 1t back again to Hugh Smith December 81
1859, the deed being recorded the next day and
tue consideration being the same as he paid Tor
1t. There seems. however. TO nave been some
trouble in the transfer Of December %, 1862 Tor
we find the same lot recorded in a deed from
Peter B. Sweeny to Hugh Smith, dated August =,
1871; recorded August s, 1873, the consideration
being 81.
NUMBER TEN.
In his tenth purchase he came down below Gen.
tral Park, as loows:-
Peter Il. Sweeny.-Lot south side OF Fory-sxtn
street, 100 ieet west OF sixth avenue 2oxioo5 leet
Deco dated Nay is, 1869; recorded May, 1869.
consideration $1,000.
Mr.. Sweeny sold THIS lot June "a, 1872. 10 Isaac
Bigur for $4,000. the deed being recorded July G.
1872.
NUMBER ELEVEN.
Mr.. sweeny's eleventh purchase has already
been alluded 10 and described in Tweed's nine
teenth purchase, as tue parcel bounded BY Sixty
ga
Fourth avenues, and his nth OF that block was
sold by him TO Thomas Murphy.
NUMBER TWELVE.
The next transaction N which we ind Mr..
sweeny recorded q buyer was In the parcel
mentioned in Tweed,s TWEEN Ey.second purchase, It
being the block bounded BY sixty-eightn and
Slxty-nlntn streets. Madison and Fourth avenues
the deed from Thomas Murphy being made out,
as was the case In Tweed's twenty-second trans
action for the fournhs part OF the block, and was,
OF course. the same; dated october %. 1859: re.
corded October % 1869; the consideration speci-
ned. However. In Mr.. sweeny's deco was $4,000
instead OF So 900. Mr.. Sweeny, with Tweed. Con-
molly, Murphy ana Smith, It will be remembered,
sold TO John c. Thompson seven lots on the north
SIDE OF sixty-eightn street, and seven lots the
south side Of Sixty-ninth street. 100 feet west OF
Fourth avenue, eacn plot being l75xIo05 feet. the
consideration being. a. in the other instance, the
OF deed and transaction by Murphy, in first selling
10 partners his share In the plot. giving deed
therefor, and subsequently selling portion Of me
same land with his partners TO thompson. swee-
ny also sold 10 Murphy one-nrn part o the entire
block together with the one-nitn part Of the block
bounded by slxty-n1ntn aud SEVENTEEN streets,
Madison aud Fourth avenues. for 500 900. the deed
beng dated April %, 1874 recorded April 20, 1871
the last mentioned block being bis eleventh pur-
chase.
NUMBER THrRTEES.
In hts next purchase Mr.. sweeny was joined BY
Hugh smith as follows:-
BoUGHI.-MAry V. H. seilar auc David p. Selar
10 Peter b. sweeny aud Hugh Smltn.-Lot on
gourn side OF Tnirty.lourtn street $50 eet east OF
sixth avenue, 25x9s.9 eet Deeu dated November
~, 1902; recorded February !. 1870 Considera-
ton, $4,000.
Like tue property IN this neighbornood already
oescrlbea In purchases ana seven. this lot re-
mans In the hands OF the buyers.
NUMBER FouRrKES.
No. IL Is Q continuation ana connected with
transactions NOS 5 aud 9. Ia No. Mr.. Sweeny
bought . lot IN EIgnty-seyenta street IRON George
Al. Van Mort aud vile, aud in No. another rom
David r. Ingranam, Jr., referee, the lots lying side
By side. onetniro part OF both these lots. IL viii
be remembered, ne sold to Richard d. Connolly
Now we Ind him in this fourteenth transaciIoa
repurchasing from Connolly the one-third part OF
OOth los. ihe oeSc - uaseu June = AstV e
corded June o. 1870; consideration, $4,000. Like
the other parts, all " tue land stands stlll
recorded In tue name Of Peter %. sweeny
NUMBER FIFTEEN.
In this transaction Mr.. Sweeny Is again Joined
bg Hugh smith, tie record standing as follows:-
BoUGHr.-Samuei kaufman anu vile to Peter B.
Sweeny aud hugh Smitn.-LOL on south slle or
THIRTEEN street. beginning at a point 5L4ts leeL
west 81 sixth avenue; running thence soutBerly
20. Al eet, hence sOuthwesterly 203 ieet, thepce
nor neriy s53s leet. to InlrlIetn street; thence
westerly along fuirueth street 25sL feeL Deed
dated June rs, 1870: recorded June 90, ls70 Con-
sheraton, klt,500.
Under a deed GATED october D. 1870, and re.
corded the same day, we md that hugn smith
sold his naif share OF the above property for the
same amount that he paid Tor IL, $3.50, to Peter
b. Sweeny. THIS proved a profitable specula-
recorded:-