John Brownlow Tucker dies.
"Will (Cigar Box transcription) — Tucker, John Brownlow:
Property: 1827–30
House + Lot (Ben. Higgs): 100
House + Land (North Side): 500 [added 1829]
Mdze: 1000 [0 by 1829]"
I do not know how this Ben Higgs house figures into the block's layout. It merits future study.
Darrell’s survey of St. George’s clearly shows the Sunday School facing York Street and the house at 37 York Street, which was set back from the road, northeast of the school. Note: The buildings at 22 Clarence and 39 York appear connected in Prof. Jarvis’s file called 1854 Darrell_1876Barracks.pdf.
John Brownlow Tucker, esq., with Susan Todd Tucker, wf., owned 37 York St. Tucker sold part of the old Zuill grant for £25 to “Rev. Richard Thomas Tucker, Rector of STG and trustee for Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel + Foreign Parts,” for the new Sunday School. This land for the school bordered the churchyard to the north, Tucker’s remaining lot to the east, York Street to the south, and more church property to the west. Sale dimensions: N: 51’, E: 34’, S: 5’, S–to–W: 53’, W: 10’.
John James Tucker sold 33 and 37 York Street — conveying the size of the lot — to John Barr for £1400. [Note: Was the number 33 York later applied to St. Peter's Church?]
The sale consisted of a house and storehouse. The five-sided property had the burying ground to the north, the lot of Benjamin Sawyer Hayward, d., to the east, York Street to the south, and the church gate to the west [N: 100’, W: 140’, S: 67’, S–to–W: 52’ (angle), W: 10’].
Marshal's Sale: house, storehouse, & land, “Bounding southerly on York St.,” of John Zuill, dec'd. Based on John James Tucker’s will, Tucker added the house to his full list of assets in 1829.
Prof. Jarvis’s Abridged Version of the 1821–30 Assessments (see: Cigar Box)
"Zuill, John. 1821–30
[Items]
House (Jona. Dunscombe): 400 [added 1827]
House + Lot (father’s est.): 400 “
½ Store adj. (father’s est.): 200 “
Furniture: 80"
John Zuill mortgages the same to John J. Tucker for a £200 debt (BoM2: 265). Zuill’s property had the new burial ground to the north, Benjamin Sawyer Hayward’s house and lot to the east, the street and parade to the south, and the old churchyard to the east.
Mr. Zuill appears to have struggled with his finances.
John Zuill household: 3 white males “over,” 2 white males “under,” 4 white females “over,” 2 white females “under,” 2 black male slaves “over,” 2 black male slaves “under,” 2 black female slaves “over”?, 1 black female slave “under.”
John Zuill mortgages house, lot, and garden to William Smith, Comptroller of H.M. Customs, for £200 debt, to be mortgaged by 1807. The church was listed as to the north, although Widow Wright still lived on the land at this time. The land to the east now belonged to Benjamin Sawyer Hayword. What is unusual is the description of the western border: “Road from House of Jonathan Dunscom + Parish Church.” One would assume that, per earlier documents, just the church land would be to the Zuill lot’s west.
John Zuill mortgages house, storehouse and lot (occ. by Miss Susannah Musson) to James Hall & Josephus Darrell (execs. of Wm. Hall, dec'd) for £436.8.8 BDA debt.
The structure Miss Musson occupied had Henry Tucker lots to the north and east, York Street to the south, and the rest of the Zuill lot to the west. Zuill also mortgaged a house south of the Governor’s Garden occupied by Dr. John Loan (best guess) to Hall and Darrell.
BAH: STG, 32: “St. Peter’s Sunday School is set along Duke of York Street in front of the church. The lot on which this building stands was granted to John Zuill in 1794 as an extension of his property to the east. Reverend Richard T. Tucker purchased it from John Brownlow Tucker in 1844 to erect a Sunday school building.”
So: the Sunday School built at 35 York Street sat next to the house at 37 York. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves….
Zuill, John, TSTG, w. 10th Sept. 1761, proven 19th Aug. 1763: “To son John, his part i.e. 1 share of house where he lives + land & gardens, forever. To son John — Negro boy Kennedy & ½ share of Negro man Peter. To son John all that part of pers. [best guess] estate which mother Marg. gave to brother Robert, which said part belonging is ¾. If sons should die without issue, then estate real & personal goes to wife Elizabeth.”
Zuill, Margaret, Widow [doesn’t make sense, since her husband John died in 1761], TSTG, w. 22nd Jan. 1743, proven 18th April 1757 — apparently the mother of our John Zuill: “House + land + gardens in TSTG, which was lately purchased off Joseph & Mary Outerbridge — Sons Robert & John Zuill equally. To Son Robert — Negro boy Jona? — “ — John — “ — Kennedy. Residue of personal estate to grandsons equally.”
