Anthony Portugis

Maria (Maritie)'s twin.

• ostensibly freed as a member of his father father's family, along with siblings.
• aka Anthony Antonisse

needs to be checked... Was this the Amthony the Negro who lived between the Stuyvesant Great Bouwerie and the future Gramercy Park?
In relation to this proposal:

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• Ruggles
  • Samuel B. Ruggles
    • "The "Outline of the Title of Samuel B. Ruggles to his lands between 15th Street on the South, 28th Street on the North, the Bloomingdale Road and Old Post Road on the West, and the First Avenue on the East," of which a printed copy is preserved in the New York Historical Society, refers to a map made by Edwin Smith, Surveyor, comprising five parcels, oiie of which is "The Gramercy † Farm, lying between 19th Street on the South, 23rd Street on the North, the Bloomingdale Road on the West and the Second Avenue on the East, containing about 22 acres." This document also quotes the tradition as to the "transport" by Judith Stuyvesant and mentions' "another conveyance dated in the ninth year of his Sacred' Majesty, King William the Third, Anno Domino, 1697," in which certain lands are described as being "in the Bowery ward near unto a certain place or rising hillock called Crommessie" and as being bounded "south by the lands of Antonio, the free negro."
  • † Krom Moerasje" brook (its name, in Dutch, which meant "crooked little swamp," was anglicized to "Gramercy")