A History of the Schenectady Patent in the Dutch and English Times 7: Adult Freeholders

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A History of the Schenectady Patent in the Dutch and English Times
7: Adult Freeholders — Jonathan Dyer

[This information is from p. 109 of A History of the Schenectady Patent in the Dutch and English Times; being contributions toward a history of the lower Mohawk Valley by Jonathan Pearson, A. M. and others, edited by J. W. MacMurray, A. M., U. S. A. (Albany, NY: J. Munsell's Sons, Printers, 1883). It is in the Schenectady Collection of the Schenectady County Public Library at Schdy R 974.744 P36, and copies are also available for borrowing.]

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He came from Wales, and was a bricklayer by trade. In 1695 he married Maria Dirkse Hessling (109-3), and between that date and 1708, had six children baptized in the church at Schenectady.

In 1714, being then a resident of New York, he quit claimed the Sixth flat, on the north side of the river, to Reyer Schermerhorn. (109-4)

In 1716 he owned a lot on the north side of State street, purchased probably, of Willem Appel, of 75 feet front, Amsterdam measure, comprising the lots of Mr. George Swortfiguer and estate of the late William Cunningham, — numbers 103-111.

Notes

(109-3) Jonathan Dyer jonge man van Weels in Englandt en Maria Dirkse weduwe van Harmanus Hagedorn, married Nov. 21, 1695. — Albany Church Records.

(109-4) Deeds, VI, 192.

A History of the Schenectady Patent in the Dutch and English Times7: Adult Freeholders — Jonathan Dyer

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A History of the Schenectady Patent in the Dutch and English Times
7: Adult Freeholders — Jonathan Dyer