Person:Anna Medford (1)

Anna Medford
b.Bef 1621
m. Bef 1641
  • HThomas HallAbt 1611 - Abt 1670
  • WAnna MedfordBef 1621 -
m. 14 Nov 1641
Facts and Events
Name Anna Medford
Married Name _____ Cuyck
Married Name _____ Hall
Gender Female
Birth? Bef 1621
Marriage Bef 1641 to Willem Cuyck
Marriage 14 Nov 1641 New York ColonyReformed Protestant Dutch Church [she is the widow Cuyck]
to Thomas Hall
Death? New York Colony
References
  1.   Hahn, Delbert. The Hall-Edwards Estate: Fact or Fiction?, in Ancestry magazine
    Nov-Dec 1995.

    ... Hall's property, according to heirs, was said to be within the boundaries of the farm land given to Trinity Church "outright and in fee" in 1705 by England's Queen Anne. This farm land was known as the Church Farm. Many alleged heirs claim that Hall died intestate in 1669 (some say 1670) and that his property passed to his daughter, who married Thomas Edwards. ...

    ... What is actually known about Thomas Hall? He was an Englishman by birth who had been taken prisoner by the Dutch. After being released he became a permanent resident of New York City and the proprietor of a farm and a brewery near present-day Beekman Street. After his death in 1670, his property was purchased by William Beekman. [1] A copy of Thomas Hall's will is among the Beekman family papers contained in the Manuscript Collection of the New York Historical Society in New York City. In his will, dated 9 Aug 1669, Hall left "all his remaining goods, moveable and immovable ... nothing excepted to his widow, Anna Medford Hall, "his sole and universal heir."

    Records of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in the City of New York record the marriage of Thomas Hall to Anna Medford, widow of Willem Cuyck, on 14 November 1641. Baptismal records of the church from the time of Hall's marriage until his death contain no record of a Hall offspring being baptized and no identifiable marriage records for any children of Thomas and Anna Hall. The farm became Anna Hall's property after the death of her husband and was sold the following year to William Beekman. A transcript of the deed conveying the Hall brewery and farm from Anna Medford Hall to William Beekman is on record. [2] ...

    [1] David T. Valentine. MANUAL OF THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK FOR 1865, 444-47.
    [2] Isaac Newton Feels Stokes, ICONOGRAPHY OF MANHATTAN ISLAND, vol. 1, p. 78.