36 THE BRONX SOCIETY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. 



622 Cp. 37 originally and from a very early date, part of the 

 farm of Hendrick Ryer. Some time before 1822 

 John Berrian came into possession of this plot, for 

 in that year he sells it to Jonas Farrington for 

 $500.00. This undoubtedly included the house, 

 which seems to have been standing in April of 

 1816, for in that year Hendrick Ryer. conveying 

 the adjacent form to his son, Henry Ryer. describes 

 the boundary line as running "southwest along a 



Tr ^' 2/ leds'e of rocks to land of John Berrian at a Cedar 



U .Co. s J 



Bush at the point of rock, and thence along Ber- 



rian's land back of the house to the stone on the 



road to Kingsbridge marked " L." 



623yp.it; Farrington sold the acre to Peter Lawrence in 



W. Co. 

 6 22 (-p.6o November, 1827, for $600.00, buying it back in 



W.Co. March of 1828 for the same price. April ist, 



6^Cp. 17 I g 2 g ) ] ie so i(] j t ro Richard Corsa for $650.00, who 



r „r- .,_ retained it until March 28th, 1846, when h>hn 



J I J Cp. .") '/ 



W.Co. Valentine purchased it for $1,000.00. 



The Valentine family continued to own this little acre 

 until 1866, so it appears certain, both from the records and 

 from the article quoted above, that John Valentine was Poe's 

 landlord. 



The description of the acre in 622 Cp. 3" and subsequent 

 deeds is as follows : 



"Beginning at the northwest corner of the lot at a stone 

 marked ' L.' 



' Thence east and southeast along the land of Hendrick 

 Ryer to a cedar bush by the first point of rocks. 



'Thence along said land to land of Peter Lawrence, for- 

 merly of Richard Berrian. 



" Thence along that land, southwest, in a line with a stone 

 wall along the road by the stone barn, up the hill, close to a 

 young apple tree. 



"Thence, along the road to King's Bridge to the stone 

 marked ' L ' and beginning. 



" One acre of land more or less." 



