History and legend of Howard avenue and the Serpentine road, Grymes Hill, Staten Island . ember, 1840. The Nesmiths continued topurchase property up to 1865, some fiftyparcels in all, until they not only ownedeverything between the Grymes andCunard-Vanderbilt places and the Rich-mond road and Clove road and the Turn-pike, but also purchased beyond the Turn-pike to the shores of Silver lake in the onedirection and east of the Richmond road inthe other. The description of one piece ofproperty, 1844, which lay along the Rich-mond road includes a marked cedar treenear the foot of Brimstone Hill. T
History and legend of Howard avenue and the Serpentine road, Grymes Hill, Staten Island . ember, 1840. The Nesmiths continued topurchase property up to 1865, some fiftyparcels in all, until they not only ownedeverything between the Grymes andCunard-Vanderbilt places and the Rich-mond road and Clove road and the Turn-pike, but also purchased beyond the Turn-pike to the shores of Silver lake in the onedirection and east of the Richmond road inthe other. The description of one piece ofproperty, 1844, which lay along the Rich-mond road includes a marked cedar treenear the foot of Brimstone Hill. The Nesmiths are identified in some of thedeeds as of the city of New York, a deed dated in 1865 Thomas Nesmith isspoken of as of Derry, N. H,; it is a com-mon family name in those parts and thefamily may have come from New Hamp-shire originally. May 18, 1866, John P. Nesmith sold hishome, which he called Inwood, to JoannaC. Browne, wife of Col. George Browne,she in 1874 to William B. Ogden. In 1881Anna B. A. Shaw, widow, of the city ofPhiladelphia, purchased and placed the. THE SERPEXTIXE ROAD. NORTH FROM THE GATE OF THE OLDJOHN P. XESMITH PLACE. THE BEND IN THE DISTANCE MARKS THE NORTHERNEND OF THE SERPEXTIXE ROAD. AT THAT POIXT THE ROAD FORMERLYPLUXGED DOWX HILL TO RICHMOND ROAD AT BROAD STREET, AND HOWARDAVENUE RAN INTO IT AND STOPPED. THE LOWER PART OF THE ROAD WASLATER ABANDOXED AXD ROAD AXD AVEXUE BECAME ONE. SERPENTINE ROAD 69 property in trust for her son, Edward of New York; in 1890 Amzi L. Bar-ber became the owner, but sold the sameyear to George H. Kendall, and he in 1902to the present owner. Sheriff Denyse tells the following story,but does not recall to which one of theNesmiths it applies. Pat Henry, a con-tractor, undertook to dig a well for one ofthe Nesmith houses, he agreeing not toask for his money until he could show water,but after reaching a depth of forty or fiftyfeet without even getting damp feet he tiredof his bargain and sel
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