What the History Book Doesn't Tell

What Dutch Houses in the Hudson Valley Before 1776 does not tell is the Tid Bit that it was Christofer VanBommel and his son, Peter [See Dutchess Co. Deed Below]who sold to Johannis Abraham Fort in 1759. Other research indicates Johannis Fort's wife, Rebecca Ostrander, was the daughter of Elizabeth VanBommel & Hendrick Ostrander; Elizabeth VanBommel, the daughter of Peter VanBommel. From correspondence with Ostrander Family descendants, it appears that the father and son grantor's [sellers] in the deed below were the Uncle and 1st cousin respectively of Rebecca (Ostrander) Fort, wife of the grantee [purchaser] Johannis Abraham Fort.


Dutchess County Deed Liber 4 Page 275
Made 27 April 1759
Consideration - 950 Pounds current money of New York.

This Indenture made this twenty seventh day of Aprill [sic] in The Thirty
Second yeare [sic] of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the second by
the Grace of God of Great Brittain [sic] France and Ireland Kind defender of
the Faith &c: and in the years [sic] of our Lord Christ one Thousand Seven
Hundred and Fifty nine

Between

Christofer VAN BOMMEL and HIS SON, Peter VAN BOMMELL Both of POUGHKEEPSIE in Dutchess County and in the province of New York, Farmer of the one part

and Johannis Abraham FORT Late of ULSTER County and in The Province
aforesaid, Weaver of the second
Part..........................................................

Together will all and singular the Houses, Edifices, Buildings, Orchards,
Gardens, pastures, Commons, woods, wood Land, water, water courses, mines,
mineralls[sic], profits  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Said Christofer VAN BOMMEL and Giertie his wife and Peter VAN BOMMEL for
themselves and their heirs.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . [No Wife here for Peter, was his wife deceased?]

Land was sold to Christofer VAN BOMMEL 4 July 1742 by Johannis Lansing and Helena his wife.

Land on the East Side of the Hudsons River at a certain place called LONG
REACH.. . . . . . .

East side of John Caspers Kill.

[Lots more to this deed to be deciphered and it is very interesting but I will not transcibe here - it's 4 pages]

Dutchess County Deed Liber 10 Page 255
In 1784 Johannis A. Fort deeded to Abraham Fort, "son" - So we can safely
say that Johannis Fort died aft. 7 April 1784. One of the boundaries in the
description of this 1784 deed is "along the line of MARCUS VAN BOMMEL"