VAN NANDA - ONDERDONCK HOUSE



1416 Flushing Avenue


	On 7 October  1690, Hendrick SMITH willed to his heir a large piece of what 
was the easternmost part of the disputed land.

	It was sold, also, to the inhabitants of Brooklyn by its Indian owners for 
"100 guilders of seawant, 
½ tun of strong beer, 
2 tun of good beer, 
3 guns long barrells with 1 lb. powder and lead pro­portionally, 
2 bars to a gun, 
4 match coates." 

Governor Francis LOVELACE confirmed this patent.	.

	On 10 May 1711 , Tunis and Mary TITUS sold part of this property to Paulus 
Van der ENDE of Flatbush who probably built at least part of the house that now 
stands on it.

	The lower and older part of the building is of stone, with walls two feet thick. 
From appearances its original roof was raised, a storey added to the dwelling and a new 
roof put on it. Later a modern wing was built against the old building.

	There is little that has been learned about the early history of the house and its 
farm. Its owner after Paulus was Frederick VAN NANDA, probably son or grandson of the 
aforementioned Paulus. VAN NANDA'S daughter married Moses BEEGEL or BEADEL and was
living in the house in 1769. After the Revolution it belonged to Hendrick BEADEL and on 
3 May 1831 the property was sold to Adrian ONDERDONCK who married Ann, daughter of Peter 
WYCKOFF of Bushwick, in 1919.

	The ONDERDONCKS lived in the house for many years. After their deaths it was sold to the 
COVERTS and then passed through a number of hands until 1886 when it became the property of 
Peter WYCKOFF. It is now occupied by the American-Moninger Green­house Manufacturing 
Corporation.

	Adrian ONDERDONCK who bought the house from Hendrick BEADEL was born in 1795, the son of 
Joseph ONDERDONCK (born (1766) and Dorothy MONTFORT who were married in 1789.

	Joseph's father was Adriaen ONDERDONCK. He was born in 1726 and married Maria HEGEMAN in 
1755. He was the son of Andrew ONDERDONCK (born 1 June 1686) and Gertrude LOTT who were 
married 2 June 1706.

	Andrew ONDERDONCK was the son of Andries ANDRIAENSEN who married Maria VAN VLIET in 
Flatbush, 11 November 1683. At that time he claimed he was a native of New Castle on the 
Delaware and a resident of Flatbush. He was a member of the Flatbush Church from 1677 to 1685. 
About that year he moved to Jamaica, Long Island, where he was killed, so it is said, by the 
upsetting of a load of hay prior to 13 August 1687. He signed himself Anderese OONDERDONK.

	His father was Adriaen ANDRIESEN. It is believed that he was a Finnish carpenter from 
Westeroose in Sweden who was with the Swedes on the Delaware from 1659 to 1670. The next time 
we hear of him he is living in Flatbush where he and his wife Beletje were communicants of 
the church in 1677.


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