Neetje Slingerland

Known as The Widow Slingerland,

when her husband died she owned the old family farm, after long feuding between the pleasant hardworking farmer family of slingerland and the Normanskill Van Rensselaer Plantations that were trying to tax and rent people in the area, buying up the land. she eventually inherited the family home of Slingerland.

Teunis Cornelis Slingerland and his wife, Engeltie Albertsen Bradt, lived in a house on the plain (the pastures) south of Fort Orange and had other sites in Albany. They obtained farm land on both sides of the Normanskill near Albert Andriessen at least by 1670. That year, Slingerland had a dispute with a neighbor, Peter Winne, who then lived south of the Normanskill, over fencing Slingerland's corn on the land. The couple had a house on the property within a decade.

In 1677 complaints were made to the court that Teunis Slingerland intended "to cut off the path below his house, across his land lying on the Normanskill."23 This was the well-traveled path to Bethlehem which ran across the property; he was forbidden to do this by the court. These were rare disputes; Teunis and Engeltie, who still held property in Albany, had become successful Albany traders

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Before long, the pasture opposite the island was leased to Hitchen Holland to make a gentleman's country seat Holland appears among area neighbors on the census of 1742. His land, which included the former Hevick and Wynkoop locations, lay east of the Slingerland property, where Slingerland descendants continued to live.Holland's Sizeable Tract Extends from the Normanskill to the small stream north of present-day Cherry Hill Historic Site, precisely the intended location of the old Godyns Burg of one hundred years before (see illustration of farm surveys).36

after 1788, the adjacent Slingerland property along the Normanskill as well as other parcels,  A dependable son-in-law, Teunis Cornelis Slingerland helped take responsibility for his aging and difficult father-in-law, according to the court records. Slingerland leased Albert Andriessen Bradt's orchard in 1677 and arranged to pay him rent in apples, which Albert refused to accept.47 Considerable effort was made by Teunis Slingerland and Maria van Rensselaer in determining what was appropriate rem for the orchard. It was Teunis Slingerland's intention to supply apples to Albert Andriessen, as income from his farm. Albert Andriessen, however, did not wish to accept apples but demanded money because he was supposed to pay support to Geertruy, his third wife, with the apples. It was clear he did not wish to help her in any way.  As has been noted, Teunis and Engletie, who had a trading house in Albany and a dwelling in the pastures near the fort, eventually moved to their land near Albert Andriessen. After Teunis Slingerland took over Andriessen's orchard, it was understood Slingerland was to have a six-year lease of the orchard after Albert's death. After this transaction, the Slingerland land merged with the Bradt farm land, and it can be assumed the joined properties comprised much the same land as was shown in a late eighteenth-century survey of the farm of Abraham Slingerland (see illustration of Widow Slingerland's farm on farm survey map). Teunis Cornelis Slingerland, with his son-in-law Johannes Appel, had made a large speculative purchase from the Indians of land on the Onesquethaw Creek, a segment of Coeyman's Creek, in 1685. Some of his grown Slingerland children located there in the eighteenth century, and a road ran directly from the bridge over the Normanskill, where the mills and the Slingerland farm were located, to Onesquethaw, near present-day Feura Bush, where both Bradt and Slingerland relatives lived. The male children of Teunis Cornelis Slingerland and Engeltie Albertse who were part of this family interaction were Arent, Albert, and Cornelis.''

she lived next to the Albert Andriessen orchard across from the Rensselaer tobacco farm,