New Amsterdam and its people : studies, social and topographical, of the town under Dutch and early English rule . Protestant cause, whose untimely deathalone prevented him from carrying out vast and mysterious Tienhoven shall have the privilege of usiug the aforesaid roaJ heyond his pali-sades (as having hcen a road for a length of time) with wagon and horses. Butwhen the said laud have been sulTiciently cleared by Loockermansand Leendortsenand shall have been enclosed with a sufficient fence, which must be kept up bythem, then the wagon road shall run exactly as the palisades of Tienliovensl
New Amsterdam and its people : studies, social and topographical, of the town under Dutch and early English rule . Protestant cause, whose untimely deathalone prevented him from carrying out vast and mysterious Tienhoven shall have the privilege of usiug the aforesaid roaJ heyond his pali-sades (as having hcen a road for a length of time) with wagon and horses. Butwhen the said laud have been sulTiciently cleared by Loockermansand Leendortsenand shall have been enclosed with a sufficient fence, which must be kept up bythem, then the wagon road shall run exactly as the palisades of Tienliovensland stand, of wliich the said Loockermaus and Leendertseu shaU give one-half ofthe laud for the breadth of the road; and iu like manner Cornells van Tienhovenshall give one-half thereof, which aforesaid road shall be used equally, servingonly as an outlet to the Long Highway, aa their own private road. This only laid out from the Long Highway towards the East Kiver as far asa jioiut at tlie iutersectiou of the present Gold and Ann streets, Loockermanaa;il Lccudertseus laiul tenniuating at that THE WALLENSTEIN BOUWERY 313 schemes which would have tiunsformed Germany into a greatProtestant Empire. Whether this belief was sufficiently jus-tified by facts can in all probability never be determined. Itexisted, however, in the minds of many, and in the year 1638we find Barent Dircksen Swart, who then appears to havebeen in occupation of this farm, making a lease for six yearsto Cornelis Jacobscn, the elder, from Mertensdyk and Cor-nells Jacobsen, the younger, iiis brother, ^ of the Bouwerynamed Walensteyn, with all its stock of cows, heifers,mare, stallions, wagons, etc. The yearly rental of this farmto be paid by the lessees was to be one hundred and fiftypoun^ls of butter and fifty schepels of grain, whether wheat,rye, or barley. Although the- Indian troubles were still in thefuture, the lessees had not forgotten the unprotected state ofthe farm, for they continue t
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