. History of the city of New York . heen saidEverthing comes ( him who waits 8-xcept a hatred hook. TIIK FIRST ESaUSll SECllKTAllY. 107 sum was contributtHl. In llio iiioniiii^, soinc. Hiw upiM-ulccl to the ^ov-eruor for permission to rucousidor llici luultcr ; l»uL ExcelltMK-y wouldpermit no names to be erased IVom the imiuT. An arrangement was at once elVected with John and liichardOgden,^ of Stamford, for the mason-work of a stone church, sev-enty-two feet long, Hfty wide, and sixteen high, at one thousand dollarsfor the jol), and a gratuity of forty dollars more should the work Iw sa
. History of the city of New York . heen saidEverthing comes ( him who waits 8-xcept a hatred hook. TIIK FIRST ESaUSll SECllKTAllY. 107 sum was contributtHl. In llio iiioniiii^, soinc. Hiw upiM-ulccl to the ^ov-eruor for permission to rucousidor llici luultcr ; l»uL ExcelltMK-y wouldpermit no names to be erased IVom the imiuT. An arrangement was at once elVected with John and liichardOgden,^ of Stamford, for the mason-work of a stone church, sev-enty-two feet long, Hfty wide, and sixteen high, at one thousand dollarsfor the jol), and a gratuity of forty dollars more should the work Iw satisfactory. The agreement wassigned and sealed on the 20th ofMay. The church was to ]>e lo-i alcd in the fort, that it might notbe exposed to Indian depreda-tions ; although many olyected, onthe ground that the fort was over-crowded already. The walls weresoon up, and the roof covered Avithoak shingles, which, from exposureto the weather, became blue likeslate. Kieft caused to be erecteda marble slab with this inscription: —. Inside of Fort, with G in the front wa Anno Domini, 1642, WiLHELM KlEFT DiRECTEUR GENERAL. Heeft de gemeente desen tempel doen bouwen. When the fort was demolished, in 1787, to make room for the Govern-ment House, this slab was discovered buried in the earth, and was re-moved to the belfry of the old Dutch Church in Garden Street, where itremained until the burning of that church, in 1835, when it totally dis-appeared. It was now becoming necessary to observe regularity in drawingboundary and division lines; hence Andries Hudde was appointed sur-veyor, with a salary of eighty dollars per annum and a few additionalfees. The first record of the sale of city lots, we find this year. Thereis one extant, showing that Abraham Van SteenA\yck sells to AnthonyVan Fees a lot on Bridge Street, thirty feet front by one hundred and tendeep, for the sum of nine dollars and sixty cents ! ^ The influx into the Dutch settlements of persons who spoke onlythe English l
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