52 31en and Things in Albany Two Centuries Ago. 



Schaets was here from 1652 to 1683 as a preacher, when 

 he was succeeded by Dom. Dellius, and died in 1694 ; and 

 tliat in 1664 the lot was patented to Jan Thomasse, after 

 which it was transferred successively to Cornelius Steen- 

 wyck, and Jochim Staats and Jacob Tysse Vanderheyden, 

 all in the time of Domine Schaets, it is inferred that it 

 must have been Domine Dellius or his successor, Domine 

 Lydius (1700-1709), instead of Schaets, who had the house 

 that stood there; which latter is the more plausible from 

 the fact that his grandson, Balthasar Lydius, occupied the 

 house and died there in 1815. The records are often quite 

 fatal to the most fondly cherished traditions. Yet this was 

 one of those quaint Dutch edifices so common half a cen- 

 tury ago, when Pearl street, as well as the other streets of 

 Albany, abounded in gable enders, surmounted by iron 

 horses in the attitude of doing a mile in 2:40, and also by 

 other devices, mindful in all seasons of the true course of 

 the wind ; and by various other ornamental conceits in 



Vanderheyden House. 



iron, designed to strike the beholder with awe and admi- 

 ration. The Vanderheyden house especially, which occu- 



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