. Manual of the corporation of the city of New York, for the years .. . ock, the old mansion house belong-ing to Mr. Nicholas Stuyvesant, in the Bowery, took fire and wasburnt to the ground, with part of the furniture in the house. Thefire was said to be occasioned by means of the ash-house beingnear the dwelling. Colonel Munickhausen, of the Hessians, or-dered a guard for the protection of the property resetted from theflames, and was present, with several of his officers, during thegreater part of the night, and when he retired left the guard en- 579 tirely at the direction of the family int
. Manual of the corporation of the city of New York, for the years .. . ock, the old mansion house belong-ing to Mr. Nicholas Stuyvesant, in the Bowery, took fire and wasburnt to the ground, with part of the furniture in the house. Thefire was said to be occasioned by means of the ash-house beingnear the dwelling. Colonel Munickhausen, of the Hessians, or-dered a guard for the protection of the property resetted from theflames, and was present, with several of his officers, during thegreater part of the night, and when he retired left the guard en- 579 tirely at the direction of the family interested until all the effectswere removed and secured. That the building th\is consumed wasthe mFaision originally erected by the Grovernor is corroborated bythe original diagram of the laying-oif of the farm into streets,made in 1803 (a fac-simile of which was published in the Manualof 1803), where the site of the house is pointed out as betweenthe present Second and Third avenues and Tenth and Eleventhstreets, with a memorandum indicating that it was burnt in & hXl y \ LbANT fe MANMON The descendants of the Governor erected two other mansion-houses on the estate at a period anterior to the revolutionary , which was called Petersfield, was situated near the East rivershore, on the present block bounded by avenue A and^First avenueand Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets. This mansion was aiiproachedby a winding lane, commencing at the present junction of Fourthavenue and Twelfth street, and passing the old Stuyvesant pear-tree on the corner of Third avenue and Thirteenth street. Themansion was occupied until 1836 by the late Peter Gerard Stuy-vesant. The other of these mansions, called The Bowery House, stood 580 within tlie block at present bounded by First and Second avenuesand Eighth and Ninth streets. The entrance avenue commencednear the present j unction of the Bowery and Sixth street. It waslast occupied, and within the present century, by Nicholas Will
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