Founding Documents
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- 20 May 1761 Purchase by Arent van Corlaer and Nicholas Lake from undigenous (Shachtickook) Jacob Schenk I T
Source: New York State Archives, Series A0448 (New York State Department of State Recorded Indian Treaties and Deeds), Volume 2, pages 62-63 - obtained by Wesley Johnston
- 17 June 1761 Petition and 21 November 1761 Grant I T
Source: FamilySearch, Patents of state of New York, 1640-1912, Volume 13, pages 451 (peition), 452-455 (grant) - obtained by Marshall Lake
McMillan (p. 211) notes "However, this five thousand acres, so granted, did not cover all of the land included in the Deed of Jacob, Alias Schenk. There was still a great acreage of land covered by this deed.
"Evidently inspired by Arent Van Courlaer, other brothers and brothers-in-law, led by Hendryck Schnider, who had married Sarah Lake and after her death, had married her sister, Jane Lake, became the leading spirit in applying for a much larger grant, which was then called the Schneyder Patent, or Grant.
"He gathered about him nine others and interested them in making application for ten thousand acres of the wild lands lying alongside the five thousand acres already applied for by Arent Van Courlaer, Nicholas Lake, Junior, Thomas Lake, Jacobus and John Lake.
"Those interested in this later application for ten thousand acres, were, Hendrick Schneyder, John Wettick, Hendrick Lake, a brother-in-law; John Johnson, a nephew of Eleanor Lake-Johnson, Garrett Williamson, brother-in-law of Thomas Lake, of the five thousand acre grant, Nathaniel Acherly, Benjamine Abbott, William Taylor, and Marinieus Voorheis, all of the Province of New Jersey, and Daniel Hollinbeck, of the City of Albany."
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