. A Walloon family in America; Lockwood de Forest and his forbears 1500-1848. high landwe know as Morningside Heights to a little streamnow called Harlem Creek, which rose not far fromthe present Mount Morris Park and ran in a south-erly and easterly direction until it emptied into theHarlem River. The northern boundary of the tractwas at about 124th Street, while on the south itincluded the high land in Central Park at about109th Street. Near this latter boundary was a copi- ^ For a brief note on Muscoota see Documents Relativeto the Colonial History of the State of New York, procuredin Holla
. A Walloon family in America; Lockwood de Forest and his forbears 1500-1848. high landwe know as Morningside Heights to a little streamnow called Harlem Creek, which rose not far fromthe present Mount Morris Park and ran in a south-erly and easterly direction until it emptied into theHarlem River. The northern boundary of the tractwas at about 124th Street, while on the south itincluded the high land in Central Park at about109th Street. Near this latter boundary was a copi- ^ For a brief note on Muscoota see Documents Relativeto the Colonial History of the State of New York, procuredin Holland, England, and France by J. R. Brodhead. and index volume edited by E. B. OCallaghan. Vols,xii-xiv edited by B. Fernow. Albany, 1855-61 and 1877-83 [commonly called New York Colonial Documents], , p. II. ^ A verbal grant was all that was necessary in the veryearliest days, but settlers were led to expect that a groundbrief would be given to them after they had held and im-proved their land for two I-ears. The period was often, how-ever, much longer. [82]. > -o CQ CO Q c u i-I ^ £» 0 tTo A OS Z C ^ bd •— HJ < < ^ =3 >% -C î= Q CO o a! w (J u s ^-l -^ P -a, e! w rn I h o« •i-^ ^ \D I. < Q « O u < aj h CO S Hi < < Q UJ OJ -0 ^ u 2 u c ^: O 2 ^ toc ■g > 2 CO «J h o ; The Muscoota Bouweries ous spring, or, as the Dutch called it, fonteyn, New NetherUndwhich still flows almost as it did then, a ripplingbrook with little waterfalls, until it empties intoHarlem Mere in the northern part of the park. To build a house on such property was not an easymatter in 1637. The land had first to be cleared andmany logs prepared, for not only were they to beused for the frame of the house and barn, but also fora heavy stockade or palisade which must be erectedto surround all the buildings. This was to serve as aprotection from wild beasts for the settlers and theirlive stock, and also as a defense against the Indians,whose trail ran
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