Delavan : The Guyon House 137 



1781. April 24. — Thomas Frost and wife to Moses Doty i acre. 



1798. April 30. — Doty's Heirs to Isaac Swain i acre. 



1806. Aug. 18. — Isaac Swain's administrators to Martines Swaim i acre. 



1806. Aug. 19. — Martines Swaim, cordwainer, to John DuBois ... i acre. 



1826. Sept. 19. — Loan Officers to Catherine DuBois i acre. 



1836. May 2. — Catherine DuBois, widow, to Henry I. Seaman ... i acre. 



1842. June 20. Henry I. Seaman to Farnham Hall i acre. 



This last deed recites that all or part of this one acre lot then formed 

 the bed of Centre Street. 



Reseati 

 The remaining 79 acres were conveyed as follows : 



1702. May 18. — Hans Lawrence and Sarah, his wife, to William Dye. 

 1702. Feb. 21. — William Hanse to John Androvat. 



The Androvets were Waldenses from the Vaudois village of Merindol, 

 on the Durance. (2 Baird, 118.) 

 1705. Nov. 9. — John Adrovat and wife to Rene Rezeau. 



Rene Rezeau, a mason, of Isle de Re, fled with his wife, Anne Coursier, 

 from France, in 1685. (i Baird, 305.) 



The Rezeau burying ground, adjoining the present county courthouse, 

 and the lot granted by Jacob Rezeau in 1769 to the Dutch Protestants and 

 English Presbyterians, formed part of this 79 acre tract. 



There was an earlier Dutch church at Richmond, for on March 6, 1696, 

 James Hanse Dye and James Fitchet gave a lease for fifty years of a 

 small lot on the west side of the Fresh Kill Road to " The Dutch Congre- 

 gation." This lease was assigned March 13, 1700, to Louis DuBois with 

 " one house at the head of the Fresh Kills and the planks thereunto belong- 

 ing which formerly was built for the Dutch Congregation and for the 

 service thereof formerly used." References are found in deed of neigh- 

 boring property to ' the voorleezer's house." It may be surmised that 

 this congregation migrated north to the vicinity of the Merrill Cemetery, 

 in the John West patent, Northfield (B Deeds, 424), and later to the 

 North Shore. 



Rcseau and Van Pelt, > 



being the west 80 acres of the east 160 acres. 



172,2. May 8. — James Dye and Mary, his wife, to Samuel Holmes. 

 1740. Dec. 22. — Samuel Holmes and Mary, his wife, to Jacob Rezeau and 

 John Van Pelt. 



Gitou, 

 being the east 80 acres of the west 160 acres. 

 1704. Jany. — Johannes Garretson and Hester, his wife, to Louis Gitou. 



