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F. Saint Andrew's Church 



1680. Dec. 28. — Edmund Andros, Governor, to James Hubbard. 

 1699. Dec. 9. — Hubbard to James Fitche. 



Fitchet to James Hanse Dye. 

 1704. March 18. — James Hanse Dye and Mary, his wife, to Matthew 



Decker. 

 1707. March 18. — Matthew Decker and Eve, his wife, to William Tillyer. 

 1711. Aug. 6. — William Tillyer and Mary, his wife, to Trustees for the 



building of an English Church. 

 The parcel last conveyed was a small lot near the southwest corner of 

 the Hubbard patent. 



G. Huguenots at the Head of the Fresh Kill 



The description of the Hubbard patent begins " at a little cove of reedy 

 meadow at the Head of the Fresh Kill," and as the Head of the Fresh 

 Kill the locality was known until, as shown by the will of Arent Prall 

 and the Popple Map, it acquired the opprobrious name of Cuckoldstowne, 

 later becoming officially known as Richmond Town, now shortened into 

 Richmond. 



Here we find the names of DuBois, Rezeau, Gitou, and Joubert, as well 

 as that of Antoine Fonfaigne. 



Here Robert Rider received a patent for 320 acres of land. He was a 

 surveyor, and, dying insolvent and intestate, his land was sold by his rep- 

 resentatives to Antoine Fontaigne. Antoine died, leaving a widow, Sarah, 

 who later married Hanse Lawrence, and a son known as Vincent Fountain. 



Vincent conveyed the east 160 acres of the patent to James Hanse Dye 

 and the west 160 acres to Elizabeth Gerritse. 



James Hanse Dye, in 1696, conveyed the east 80 acres of the tract to 

 James Fitchet, who in the following year mortgaged it to Hanse Lawrence 

 Dye, and in 1699 conveyed it to Thomas Coone. Apparently, Hanse 

 Lawrence (Dye) took back 79 acres under his mortgage, Coone retaining 

 one acre, on which later was erected the building which came to be known 

 as DuBois's Tavern, perhaps the same sometimes referred to as the Cuck- 

 oldstowne Inn, the building standing in what is now the bed of Centre 

 Street, near the Fresh Kill Road. 



DuBois' Tavern Lot 



1699. Feb. 29. — Hans Lawrence to Thomas Coone i acre. 



1700. March 6. — Thomas Coone to Louis DuBois i acre. 



1718. March 19. — Louis DuBois, junior, blacksmith, and wife, to 



Philip Tillyer i acre. 



1 761. March 2. — Mortgage, Richard Cole to Barnt Slaght i acre. 



1767. May I. — Mortgage, William Crisp and wife to Richard Cole i acre. 

 1768. — Mortgage, Thomas Frost and wife to Richard Cole I acre. 



