The Hermitage and its property had a succession of owners
(“The Hermitage: Historical Analysis,” 11; “The Hermitage: Chain-of-Title,” 161; Bergen County Deeds, Richard Day, Sheriff of Bergen County to Aaron Burr, May 15, 1785 and Ann De Visme to William Bell, June 19, 1794 in John Davis, Compiler, Bergen County, New Jersey, Deed Records, 1689-1801, Heritage Books, 170, 231; Burr to Theodosia, May 12, 1785, Chester, in Davis, I, 261; Lomask, 111; Trenton Book of Wills, December 6, 1782; Frederick Bogert, Federalist and Antebellum Years 1784-1860, vol. IV of Bergen County, New Jersey: History and Heritage, The Bergen County Board of Chosen Freehoilders, 1983, 5)
For a time John Cleves Symmes was a neighbor of the Rosencrantz family in New Jersey’s Delaware Valley. He served in the continental Army during the Revolutionary War and was Associate Justice of the New Jersey State Supreme Court from 1777 to 1787 when he was a witness in the Burr purchase of The Hermitage. Symmes was a delegate to the Continental Congress from New Jersey and was a justice of the Northwest Territory Supreme Court. He with others obtained the very large Miami Purchase in Ohio. One of his daughters, Ana, married William Henry Harrison who became the 9th president of the United States.
(“The Hermitage: Chain-of-Title “)