This page conforms to the XHTML standard and uses style sheets. If your browser doesn't support these, you may not see the page as designed, but all the text is still accessible to you.

SCHENECTADY DIGITAL HISTORY ARCHIVE

Bringing the heritage of Schenectady County, New York to the world since 1996

You are here: Home » Resources » Pearson's History » Benjamin Lenyn

A History of the Schenectady Patent in the Dutch and English Times
7: Adult Freeholders — Benjamin Lenyn (Linnè, La Noy)

Prof. Jonathan Pearson

Go back to: Adult Freeholders | Labatie | ahead to: Lens

[This information is from p. 127 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.]

[The original version uses assorted typographical symbols to represent footnotes. To improve legibility, the online version uses the form (page number - note number.)]

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.

Go to top of page | back to: Adult Freeholders | Labatie | ahead to: Lens

You are here: Home » Resources » Pearson's History » Benjamin Lenyn

https://www.schenectadyhistory.org/resources/patent/lenyn.html updated June 24, 2024

Copyright 2024 Schenectady Digital History Archive — a service of the Schenectady County Public Library

Statcounter