Eliza Vanderbilt Webb and Dr. William Seward Webb

Dr. William Seward Webb & Eliza Vanderbilt Webb

Eliza Vanderbilt Webb (center) and Dr. William Seward Webb (far right) and family are pictured here. Mrs. Webb was a member of the wealthy Vanderbilt family and Dr. Webb used her substantial fortune to promote his railroad and other businesses in the Adirondacks. The Webbs were, around 1893, the owners of the land that eventually became Seymour Point and later Penwood, Lots 40, 41, 42 and 43 within Herkimer County, Town of Webb.

The Owners of Lots 40, 41, 42, 43 John Brown's Tract, Herkimer County, New York

1791-State of New York
1792-Alexander McComb
1798-John Brown
1803-Estate of John Brown
1893-William Seward and Eliza Osgood Webb (40, 41, 42, 43)
1893-Arletta E. Ingham (40, 41)
1901-William Bedell Sylvester (40, 41)
1903-William J. and Marie B. Thistlethwaite (42, 43)
1905-James and Anna Thistlethwaite (42, 43)
1905-Helen Seymour Sylvester (42,43)
1908-Herbert Agate (part of 43)
1915-Helen Seymour Sylvester (40, 41, 42, 43)
1921-Estate of Helen Seymour Sylvester (40, 41, 42, 43)
1921-James Horatio Seymour (fee simple); William Sylvester (life)
1933-Estate of James Horatio Seymour
1943-Helen Seymour Wiley
1945-James M. and Marjorie A. Kennedy
1953-Albert and Dorothea R. Gordon
1967-Dorothea Gordon
1970-Dorothea Gordon (40); M.G. Burstein/C.L. Gordon (41, 42, 43)
1980-Dorothea Gordon (40/life); Margery Burstein (40, 41, 42, 43)
1981-George L. Spoll (42); Joseph and Josephine Testa (43)
1992-Margery Burstein (40, 41)