The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-10-18
lie of the Merry Monarch's
Reign Presented to the
Free Public Library.
s2ANT OF LAND IN PEMBREPOOK
Given by Governor Philip Car
teret In l67o-Property
Belongs to Cadmus
Family.

A very ancient document has just beer
presented to the Free Library. 1t is
deed of land in Pembrepook BaGonne)
and granted by Philip Carteret, governor
of the province of New Jersey during th'
reign of King Charles the Second. Tit
quaint spelling and phraseology will IN
terest many. 1t runs as follows
BY Phillip Carteret Esqr Governor, of
Ye Province of New Jersey and MS
Council.
Sir George Carteret knit and Baronet
Vice chamberlain to his MaJesties
householde and one of his malestles
most honobl Privy Councell hath gwen
and Granted and Confirmed and by
these presents does give granite and
confirme unto Hessell Vigerse OF the
corporation of Bergen a plantation or
pook contayning twentie Mergens
being in breadth fourty rodds and IN
dept three hundred seaventy nve
Rodds Dutch measure lying northerly
by the lands of Cornellis Abramsern
and southerly by the land of JoaS
Wander Linden, to holde to him the
said Hessell Vigerse his HERES or AS
signs for ever yielding and paying
yearly to the said Sir George Carteret
Lord proprietor of the said province
his heires or assignes Every Five and
the English account one halle penny OF
lawful monny of England for Ever
of the said Acres, or according. to pro-
portion of the rent agreed upon, with
the corporation of Bergen To bee hol-
den as of the manner of East Gren-
witch In Free and Common Soccage,
The first payment of which rent to be.
gin the five and twentieth day of
March which was in the yeare of our
Lord one thousand six hundred and
seventy according to the English ac- :
compt
nc Of March fhnllSand
six hundred and seaventy five and in
the seaven and twentieth yeare of His
Majesties Rayne Charles We Second
&c.
John Berry, James Bollen, Lourens
Andres, Pm Carteret, Robert Van
quellin, Surveyor General
This property forms part of the Thirt
ward of Bayonne. Vigerse afterward!
decided the land in an equally quaint docu
is as follows:-
Know all men by these presents that
I Hessell Vigerse of Pembrepook in
East Jersey, Yeoman. for and in con-
sideration of a valuable sum of money
and more especially for Love which |
bare toward my loving friend Douwe
ADKINS Of Schenectady. Brewer, have
and by these presents assigned given
and made over unto my said friend
Douwe Adkins his heires ex and adms,
assigns for ever all my whole and sole
estate but reall and PERSONAL either
here in America or elsewhere him the
said Douwe Adkins TO have hold and
enjoy the same with the appurtenances
to the sole and only proper use and
behoof of him the said Douwe Adkins
his heires and assigns for ever.
Provided always that in case the
said Hessell Vigerse should happen
during his natural life to want
natural sustenance that then the said
Douwe Adkins doth obliedge himself
to maintaine and keep the said Hessell
Vigerse during his natural Life in
meate drinke APPAREL washing and
lodging and to give him a good and
handsome funerall or burialll. Fit
ness whereof / hove hereunto set my
hand and seal this sixteenth day of
September. one thousand six hundred
and ninety six.
In March, 1923. Adkins conveyed tn,
property to Cornelius Aresnith, who il
turn conveyed it to Rutgert Van Horne
On August II, 1873 Van Horne gave th'
land to his son John and he conveyed tt
his nephew Ioras Cadmus. 1t has beer
in the Cadmus family ever since 1747.