Elsie Lispenard

heiress of 1/3 of the Rutgers farm; dau of Anthony Rutgers & Cornelia.

http://dcodriscoll.pbworks.com/w/page/9956266/Lispenard

read a somewhat confused account at https://hiddenwatersblog.wordpress.com/2017/02/01/lispen1/
"Like Greenwich Greet, the draining of Lispenard’s Meadow was a project long in the making. Anthony Rutgers, who was married to a Lispenard ††, received permission to drain the swamp in 1733, but it wasn’t until 1805 that a ditch was dug along what is now canal Street, designed to drain the meadow and Collect Pond further inland. In the undated illustration above from the NYPL Digital Collections, we see the route of Canal Street looking west. On the hilltop is the Lispenard mansion, which was demolished by 1813."

†† correction: It was Anthony Rutgers' daughter who was married to a Lispenard