New Amsterdam and its people : studies, social and topographical, of the town under Dutch and early English rule . el of ground,—^ nearly three hundred Iect in fiout yage along the River Road, and jjart of it extending l)ieknearly or quite to the present Wall Street. Here lie bteiiibto have at first established, his residence in a house afteiwaidsoccupied by DanielLitscho and. subsequently by AndiiesJochemsen as a tavern, the site of which is at present coveiedby No. 125 Pearl Street; but in a few years lie had builta new residence for himself on a portion of his ground alittle fartlicr west a
New Amsterdam and its people : studies, social and topographical, of the town under Dutch and early English rule . el of ground,—^ nearly three hundred Iect in fiout yage along the River Road, and jjart of it extending l)ieknearly or quite to the present Wall Street. Here lie bteiiibto have at first established, his residence in a house afteiwaidsoccupied by DanielLitscho and. subsequently by AndiiesJochemsen as a tavern, the site of which is at present coveiedby No. 125 Pearl Street; but in a few years lie had builta new residence for himself on a portion of his ground alittle fartlicr west along the road. Tliis Litter building ap-pears to liave been a stibstantial edifice, of some size .mdpretensions, and is quite clearly shown upon the DukesPlan, supposed to represent the town as of the yeai early as 1G54 it was enclosed witli a high wall, pro\idedwith a gate kept locked and barred by night: tliesc piititu-lars we learn from tlie prosecution of one Willemscn forburglary at tliis house in tliat year, as it was thouglit tli ithe must have liad confederates to liolp liim climb tlie ^\ dl. ^from the Stddt Buys to the TownPalisades /6^jI .ppP^^ed from the Butch and \fSk ^S^^h Records by .7. H. JXXES
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