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Title: New Amsterdam and its people; studies, social and topographical, of the town under Dutch and early English rule
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Innes, J. H. (John H.)
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ken, and had built in or about 1652. As for the Prinse Straet, it and a line a few rods north ofthe present Beaver Street, west of Broad, formed the southerlylimit of the West India Companys reserved parcel of pasture-ground, which has already been spoken of 1 as having beenleased to Jan Jansen Damen in the spring of 1638 : upon thetermination of that lease, 1644, the Director and Council de-termined to grant portions of the land in building plots, andfor that purpose the narrow Prinse Straet was laid out alongthe southern bounds of the field. At the period of our sur-vey the street apparently contained but two houses : one wasupon the north side, and about eighty-five feet east of thepresent Broad Street; it had been built about the year 1652by Albert Pietersen, from Hamburgh, a trumpeter in theservice of the West India Company. The other house stoodupon the south side of the street about fifty feet from BroadStreet, and belonged to Lourens Petersen, who had found 1 See ante, page 9.
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THE TUYNEN OR GARDENS 151 his way to New Amsterdam from the seaport of Tonsbergat the mouth of the Christiania Fiord in Norway. Thehouse is mentioned as standing here as early as 1647. Be-yond this point, the old pasture-field had been recentlybroken up into plots of about one-half acre each, whichin 1654 had been granted to several of the magnates of thesettlement, — to Nicasius de Sille, member of the Council, toSecretary Van Tienhoven, to Carel van Brugge, late commis-sary at Fort Orange, and to Dominie Samuel Drisius. Theseplots extended up to the present Wall Street, and were notas yet improved at the time of our survey : they were the tuy-nen or gardens ; and a few years afterwards, when the pres-ent Exchange Place was laid out through them, it was calledby the Dutch, Tuyn Straet, and by the English subsequently,Garden Street. Back of the house and brewery of Jacob van Couwenhovenran a narrow lane, not very agreeable to the eye, perhaps, inthe seventeenth century, but of consi

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