New Amsterdam and its people : studies, social and topographical, of the town under Dutch and early English rule . he outlyingsettlements, in the Indian War of 1G43, were quartered here. the 18lh of September of that year, there arrived in the t,ftown the distressed colonists of Achter Col (near the preseutElizabethport), which had been destroyed on the precedingnight by the Indians. These people, who had collected in abuilding there, managed with great difiiculty to make theirescape in a canoe after tlie house in which they were gatheredhad been set on fire; they kept off the Indians by
New Amsterdam and its people : studies, social and topographical, of the town under Dutch and early English rule . he outlyingsettlements, in the Indian War of 1G43, were quartered here. the 18lh of September of that year, there arrived in the t,ftown the distressed colonists of Achter Col (near the preseutElizabethport), which had been destroyed on the precedingnight by the Indians. These people, who had collected in abuilding there, managed with great difiiculty to make theirescape in a canoe after tlie house in which they were gatheredhad been set on fire; they kept off the Indians by means oftheir firearms, but lost everything else. They were lodged ina body at the City Tavern at the expense of the West ludiaCompany. Here, too, in the beginning of 1651, was quartered the crewof the ship Nieuw Nederlandsche Fortuyn, — the vessel of :*ithe Baron van der Capellen, — seized and confiscated by order 1 riiilip Gerritsens lease lionrs date February 17, 1643, but ruus from theiBt of January, 1642, for six years i I Plan of the Stadt Huys or TownHall of New Anistcidam Compiled by J. //. INNES. References: a. Main l,u,U:nj; of the &adt Huyi. b. Exirniion, suffosrd to hnuc been a kilchcn, rlc. c c. Small loll granted by the HurgomaslerSj /66^—66. d. La„e or Alley to the Stadt Huys enclosure. e. Site of ta-vern built h Gwv. Lo-velace, Present line of Pearl Street. ?41 THE CITY TAVERN AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS 179 of Director-General Stuyvesant; nominally, on account of anilleged infraction of the revenue laws, but really to gratifyhis hatred against Cornelis Melyn, whom he believed to be: t partner in the vessel, ?— for which proceeding tlie WestIndia Company had to make satisfaction afterwards in theNetherlands.^ Tlie tavern, indeed, from an early day was in frequent useas a place of detention for suspected persons and fur variouspolitical or other prisoners. For this purpose, some portionof the building — probably a part of its basement—musthave bee
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