Johannes Pieterse de Groot

DRC Baptism Hackensack

5 July 1704 Joannes •ª, s/o Pieter De Groot and Belitie Van Schaieck

Submitted 5/12/2011 by KATHYDEGROOT PEDIGREE RESOURCE FILE

~• from cited source attached to this profile:
Johannes De Groot, (1704-1788), a carpenter, and his wife Elizabeth Sickles De Groot (b. 1704, married 1726) moved from Hackensack to Staten Island by 1731 when their son Robert was baptized at the Dutch Reformed Church in Port Richmond. Johannes erected a house on the shore road (Richmond Terrace), just east of the Cruser
homestead.

Their children married into some of the most prominent families on the island includingthe Posts and Crusers. In 1802, Johannes and Elizabeth De Groot’s grandson, John De Groot (1753-1816), purchased a 3.3 acre tract fronting on Richmond Terrace at present day Alaska Street.11 John De Groot built a house for his family on the eastern corner of the property. By the time John De Groot made his will in 1816, his second son John (1790-1843), a boatman, had built a small one-andhalf-story house at the western corner of his father’s land. John De Groot (Sr.) specified in his will that the house belonged to his son but that the land on which it stood remained part of his estate.

He stipulated that following his death the land was to be surveyed and that his son was either to lease or purchase the house lot from his estate. The following year, John De Groot (Jr.) bought the land fromhis father’s executors. The households of John De Groot and his widowed mother Mary [Wood] De Groot were listed next to one another in the federal censuses of 1820 and 1830, indicating that they continued to maintain independent but neighboring households.

In 1833 John De Groot (Jr.) purchased the balance of his father’s land and his parents’ house from his father’s executors. In April 1836, real estate developer Ward Woodruff purchased the entire property, which extended as far south as the factory pond, from John De Groot (Jr.). Woodruff immediately sold back to De Groot, a parcel extending seventy-five feet along Richmond Terrace and 104 feet along a new street (Water Street, now Alaska Street) that Woodruff was then having laid out. Given the high price De Groot paid for this parcel ($3,000 versus the $4,800 Woodruff paid him), it seems likely that there was a relatively new and substantial house on the site. De Groot’s earlier house also remained standing and eventually became part of this house. De Groot continued to reside in a house on his land until his death in 1843. His parents’ house was either demolished or renovated by Woodruff who moved to a house on the southeast corner of Richmond Terrace and Water Street. "