He was from Picardy, and settled first in the Woestyne (127-3), on the south side of the Mohawk river, but subsequently removed farther west into the Maquaas country, where he was living as late as 1736. (127-4)
On the 20th April, 1708, the patentees of Schenectady granted to him "a certain parcel of land about three miles down the Schenectady river, and on the south side thereof, — one part thereof joins on the north-east side of the creek, that which parts this and ye woodland of Claas and Tjerk Fransen [Vande Bogart], and lays between said river and the hill called Callebergh (127-5), containing ten morgens or twenty acres; as also three morgens of woodland, situate on the said hill, called ye Callebergh, together with five morgens more situate about 50 yds. north from ye said three morgens, — altogether 18 morgens or 36 acres." (127-6) This parcel is now included in the farm of Mr. George G. Maxon.
Notes
(127-3) [Woestyne = Wilderness. — M'M.]
(127-4) Dutch Church records; John Dunbar's will.
(127-5) Calleburgh = a bare hill. — M'M.]
(127-6) Dutch Church Papers.