Hollick: Old Cubberly House at New Dorp 69 



" The members returned on the 7.30 p. m. train. This was the 

 largest attendance at any meeting in the history of the Associa- 

 tion — twenty-four being present, besides visitors and guests of 

 Dr. and Mrs. Britton." 



According to data kindly furnished me by Mr. Edward C. 

 Delavan, Jr., the main facts in connection with the original and 

 subsequent ownership of the property are as follows : 



September 29, 1677. Governor Edmund Andros granted by 

 patent to Obadiah Holmes a tract of land of about ninety-six 

 acres, known as the Governor's Lot, on part of which tract the 

 house was subsequently erected (4 Patents 140). 



October 28, 1695. Obadiah Holmes and Elizabeth, his wife, 

 deeded it to Nathaniel Britton'' (B Deeds 608). 



April 9, 1 714. Nathaniel Britton and Elizabeth, his wife, to 

 Thomas Walton, 2d^ (C Deeds 48). 



June 20, 1 761. Thomas Walton, 3d, to Isaac Cubberly^ (E 

 Deeds 84). This deed contains recitals of the will of Thomas 

 2d and various conveyances to Thomas 3d by his brothers, sisters, 

 and mother. 



July 18, 1833. Adria Cubberly to Isaac Cubberly, 2d (V 

 Deeds 252), recites that the grantor, spinster, is the daughter of 



3 The great-great-great-grandfather of Nathaniel L. Britton, the present 

 owner. 



* Thomas Walton, ist, had a grant of land near the Old Town. Appar- 

 ently he died prior to 1698 (B Deeds 300). A strip of land was also laid 

 out for him in the New Lots at the Old Town, probably between Richmond 

 Road and the shore of the Bay, somewhere in the vicinity of Red Lane, in 

 1685 (2 Land Papers (i^^. 



The instructions of Governor Francis Lovelace to Captain Jaques Cor- 

 tilleau (also spelled Cortelijau and Courtelija) to lay out new lots at the 

 Old Town and Great Kill may be found in Minutes of the Executive 

 Council of the Province of New York 2 : 487-489, in the library of the 

 Association. 



Thomas Walton, 2d, evidently died some time in or after 1728, inas- 

 much as his last will is dated February 19, 1728. 



^ Isaac Cubberly, in his will [39 Wills 240 (287), N. Y. Surrogate's 

 Office], devises to his son, James Cubberly, "the southern part of my farm 

 or plantation that I now live on with all the buildings and improvements 

 thereon." 



