John N.'s Plot of Land

John N.'s Plot of Land

Place

John "Neiger," a free black man, was recorded having land remarkably early in May 1676. In Town Records Volume I, the town writes, "John Neiger have begun to set himslefe upp a house in the Streete by the side of Mrs. Codners home lot ... to goe from the fence yt Doth belong to John Stretton Senir...the said John Neiger is to have this land for his life time in Case hee live there but he is now way to dispose of or to sell it away but if he remove from it yn it is to remain again to the the towne as before."

Records of the Town of East Hampton, Long Island, Suffolk Co., N.Y., with Other Ancient Documents of Historic Value. Vol. 1. Sag Harbor, NY, 1887.