New Amsterdam and its people : studies, social and topographical, of the town under Dutch and early English rule . , and had built in or about 1652. As for tlie 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 akeady been spoken, of 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 prant portions of the land in building plots, andfor that purpose the narrow Prinse
New Amsterdam and its people : studies, social and topographical, of the town under Dutch and early English rule . , and had built in or about 1652. As for tlie 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 akeady been spoken, of 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 prant 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 Loui-ens Petersen, who had found Seo niUe, page 9. ! ^^e. THE TUYNEN OH GARDENS 151 his way to New Amsterdam from the yeaport of Tonsbergat the mouth of the Christiania Eiord in Norway. Thehouse is mentioned as standing here as early as 1617. Be-yond this point, tlie old pasture-field had been recentlybroken up into plots of about one-half acre each, whichin 1651 had been granted to several of the magnates of thesettlement, — to Nicasius de Sillo, member of the Council, toSecretary Van Tienhoven, to Carol van IJrugge, late commis-sary at Fort Orange, and to Dominie Samuel Drisiua. 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 Ja
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