Manuscript Group 567, Ramapo Purchase Records, 1709-1722

567.  RAMAPO PURCHASE

 
Records, 1709-22. 3 items.

 
Account book, 1712-22, and two deeds relating to the Ramapo

Purchase,
a tract of land which includes the townships of Franklin

and
Hohokus in Bergen County, N.J. and Rockland County, N.Y.

The
account book includes rent and land purchase records ofJohn

Barberie,
Elias Boudinot, Peter Fauconnier, Peter Kerlack,

Abraham
Van Tiel, and others, who purchased this tract from the

Indians in
1709. According to this volume, the owners subse-

quently
sold or leased the property to the ” “Palatines settled
on the

tract of
land between Saddle River and the Hills over Romopuck

and
Mawhawhay.” These records formerly belonged to B.W.

Throckmorton
and are printed in NJHS <1Proceedings 50>1 (October,

1932):375-94.

 
Gift of Mrs. E.H. Sisson, 1932.

MG 567 – Ramapo Purchase, 1709-1722

Initial processing of this collection was
provided as part of the “Farm to City” project funded by a grant from
the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

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