To the Honorable; JACOB HINSDALE, Lewis F. WRIGHT and Lorin EGGLESTON, Committee, etc.

Gentlemen: In reply to your request to locate the above property, I have the honor to report as follows:

I have deemed it unnecessary to report the historical part of the property in question, although interesting, except such portions as would be considered along the line of the title;

Myndert HERMANSE acquired through the patent, a large tract of land, and he states that he had two sons, Myndert VAN DE BOGERT and Jacobus VAN DE BOGERT, and recites that Jacobus was the elder. I have not undertaken to fathom how they could be his sons of a different name; however, Jacobus became the legal owner of quite a large tract of land of which the Court House property was a part; Mr. VAN DE BOGERT deeded to the King's magistrates nearly all the portion where the present Court House stands for one year, and the next day, together with his wife Margerett, who was not mentioned in the first deed, deeded to Jacobus TERBOS, Anthony YELVERTON, Lewis DUBOIS and John TEN BROCK, four of his Magisties Justices of the Peace, in trust for the use of the Court House and jail, recorded in liber 2, page 319 and described as follows:

Beginning at a stone set in the ground in the south side of the road that leads from the minister's house to the church (MAIN STREET), thence south 49 degrees 30 minutes east one chain and two links; thence south 23 degrees west two chains twenty links to a stone set in the ground and thence north 69 degrees 45 minutes west 94 links to a stone set in the ground (this last course would have been along UNION STREET, but the street was not opened at that time) and from thence north 22 degrees east two chains fifty-one links to the place of beginning, containing thirty five perches; being bounded northeasterly and southeasterly by the KING'S ROAD and northwesterly and southwesterly bo other land of Jacobus VAN DE BOGERT. As MAIN and MARKET streets bounded, or now bounds two sides of the property, and afterwards UNION street was opened on the south, to locate the line properly, it became necessary to locate the property adjoining on the west.

The property on the west was recited in the different subsequent deeds as Jacobus VAN DE BOGERT's orchard, this, together with the property on the south, came into the possession of Myndert VAN KLEECK, son of Johanna VAN KLEECK by proper deeds; some were recited to pay the debts of Jacobus VAN DE BOGERT. Myndert VAN KLEECK sold to William TERRY, in 1767, the following property on the west of the Court House at that time described as follows:

Beginning at the southwest corner of the Court House lot, and running thence north 69 degrees 30 minutes west 3 chains 28 links; then north 30 degrees east 2 chains 25 links to the DOMINIE's corner (this DOMINIE's corner was located on the west side of WASHINGTON street between MAIN and UNION streets), thence north 64 degrees east 66 links to the KING's road (now MAIN street) thence south 68 degrees east 2 chains 56 links to the northwest corner of the Court House lot; then south 22 degrees west 2 chains 34 links along the said Court House lot to the place of beginning. Recorded liber 5, page 358. The distance of 2 chains and 56 links fixes the frontage of the property along MAIN street at the time and the distance of 2 chains and 34 links, the distance from MAIN to UNION street, the same distance was given in the VAN DE BOGERT deed as 2 chains and 51 links. William TERRY the above grantee, having died in possession, the executors, James LIVINGSTON and William VAN KLEECK deeded to Ebenezer BADGER the same premises in 1779, L.7, P.427.

Ebenezer BADGER, in 1792, sold to the Supervisors of Dutchess County, L.11, P.428, and by an act of the Legislature passed April 6th, 1786; "Entitled an act for the completing of the Court House and Jail for the County of Dutchess." The description is as follows:

Beginning at the northeast corner of the Court House lot and running thence southerly along the Court House lot to the southwest corner of the Court House lot to the southwest corner of the Court House lot to the street leading to the UNION stores, (this is the first mention of UNION street in the recital of the different deeds), thence westerly along said street 13 English feet; thence northerly along ground of Ebenezer BADGER, keeping 13 feet distant from the line above mentioned to the street called "POST ROAD," thence easterly along the last mentioned road 13 feet to the place of beginning. The name KING's road was dropped for the "POST ROAD" undoubtedly for patriotism.

Ebenezer BADGER sold to Peter B. MORGAN in 1797, L. 16, P. 441, the following described premises: beginning at a point 6 inches east of the northeast corned (*sic) of Ebenezer's shop and runs along the road (MAIN street) south 62 degrees 30 minutes east 56 links to the Court House lot; thence along the Court House lot south 20 degrees 15 minutes west 1 chain 15 ½ links; thence north 20 degrees 15 minutes east 1 chain 20 links to the place of beginning. Peter B. MORGAN also bought the lot on Union Street directly south of the last mention lot, L. 17, P. 268. There seems to have been some errors in these two deeds as they do not conform to the map and survey made in the partition of the estate of Ebenezer BADGER and filed in the Clerk's office numbered 59.

This lot of Peter MORGAN's on UNION street afterwards became and is not the property of the County of Dutchess.

Peter B. MORGAN sold this lot to Alexander STEWART in 1808, L.20, P.488; he sold the MAIN street property, now the Trust Company's building to Abraham BOKEE, L. 21, P.20. Abraham BOKEE sold the MAIN street property to Oliver HOLDEN in 1815, L.24, P. 458. Alexander STEWART, the owner of the UNION street lot, became incompetent, his trustees, John FORBUS, and Abraham BROCKEE sold to Peter J. BROAS and BROAS conveyed to Griffen JONES, L. 30, P.394. Griffen JONES sold to Joseph GIDNEY this lot, afterwards noticed in the map as the "GIDNEY lot". Joseph GIDNEY sold to John WITED, Jr., L.36,P.434.

Martha J. WITED, and others sold to the Supervisors of Dutchess County the above lot L.118, P.499 by the following description: (This description agrees with the partition may of Ebenezer BADGER of the property adjoining on the west.) Beginning at the north line of UNION street at the southwest corner of the Court House lot and jail and Surrogate's office, and running thence northerly along the westerly side of the above mentioned lot 71 feet and 10 inches to the "Bank lot" (now the TRUST COMPANY); thence westerly along the south line of the bank lot 38 feet 9 inches to the lands of Richard PUDNEY, (formerly Ebenezer BADGER) thence south along the east line of said PUDNEY lot 73 feet 3 inches to the north line of UNION street; thence east along the north line of UNION street 38 feet to the place or (*sic) beginning.

These measurements agree with the old VAN KLEECK survey and also the survey made by Henry LIVINGSTON in 1826, for the partition of the estate of Ebenezer BADGER, and is also the present condition of the property. The PUDNEY lot is now owned by John DALE of 50 foot frontage on UNION street.

The BADGER estate had a frontage on MAIN street of 138 feet which gave Oliver HOLDEN a frontage of 39 6-10 feet. Sarah ECKERT purchased at the partition sale the lot west of Oliver HOLDEN as lot No. 5. This lot was purchased by Oliver HOLDEN in 1830, having a frontage of 28 75-100 feet; this made the total frontage of Oliver HOLDEN 68 35-100 feet.

It seems that Oliver HOLDEN erected a house on lot 5, and presumably to be at right angles to the street, he extended the northeast corner over on his first purchase 2, 5-10 feet, this left his first purchase a frontage of 37, 1-10 feet, which also was the distance from the northeast corner of his house to the Court House property; this lot was then sold to the Poughkeepsie Bank, which is the present frontage of the Trust Company's building.

Oliver HOLDEN sold off from the northwest corner of his lot a small portion, which made the remainder of lot 5 a frontage of 30 feet, the present condition of the property now known as the "Dale Building."

In the survey of the old buildings, the Dale and the Poughkeepsie Bank, before the present buildings were erected, I found practically correct to the old descriptions. The Trust Company's building is erected on their line, that is the east side of the buttresses.

This makes the corbel over the east door and a part of their cornice, or that part extending over the east line of the buttresses, on the property of the County of Dutchess.

Accompanying this report is a map showing the lines of the property of the Court House belonging to the County of Dutchess, and the property adjoining on the west.

All of which is respectfully submitted.

B. H. BREVOORT, Civil Engineer.