Gerrit Fullewever, the Miller

Gerrit, the miller (Gerrit Fullewever), bought this house (No. 4-7 , Block C, Castello) from Jan Jansen Schepmoes, the deed passing February 10, 1650. No doubt, he was in possession in July, 1647, the date of a deposition which mentions his tavern.-Cal. Hist. MSS., Dutch, 38. The house was built before March, 1645, when Gerrit Douman leased it.-Ibid., 32. Its garden stretched along the Great Highway more than one hundred feet. The house lots Nos. 6 and 7 were a part of it. Fullewever was still living here in I 677.-M. C. C., I: 53. The date of his death has not been ascertained. On August 22, 1683, his widow, Barentje Hendricks, married the well-known Domine Gideon Schaats, who had lately moved to New Amsterdam from Albany.-Marriages in Ref. Dutch Ch., 53. She left the house to him by will dated October 27, 1688. He sold it, in 1692, to Sieur William Teller.-Liber Deeds, XXIII: 320. Lots Nos. 4, 5, 6, and 7 formed the site of the Standard Oil Building, No. 26 Broadway.