Shelton Avenue Awards

New York, 1895

The Village Must Pay Damages Amounting to $8,320.

John K. Murray, Augustus Rapelye and Edward Cooper, commissioners appointed by the County Court to assess damages for the extension of Shelton avenue, in the village of Jamaica, westward to Fulton street, have filed their awards with Clerk Powell. They are as follows:

Aaron A. Degrauw, for 35,255 square feet of land $3,150; John Gallagher, for 1,115 square feet, $175; Maria Seiler, for 342 feet of land, $165; same owner, for 2,225 feet, $275; same owner, for 2,498 feet, $295; Thomas Patterson, as mortgagee of the three last parcels of land, $650; Frederick Scholl, for 46 feet, $75; Mary Gunther, 1,692 feet, $250; same owner, 2,500 feet, $300; Emma Stehlin, 1,850 feet, $240; same owner, 91 feet, $10; Annie Lienfelder, 51 feet, $5; Emily A. Brown, 1,449 feet, $100; same owner 1,500 feet, $105; same owner, 3,663 feet, $250; Margaret L. Harrison, Emma M. Richardson and Carrie E. Lefferts, 11,810 feet, $2,000; Seth Boggs, 749 feet, $250; Charles Wood, lesse of piece of Boggs' land, $25; total, $8,320.

The commissioners will meet at Trustee's Hall on Friday, April 22nd, at 9 o'clock for the purpose of hearing any person objecting to the appraisement.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, April 5, 1895, p. 8.