Manual of the corporation of the city of New York, for the years .. . KKSENT BAITERY, IN 1656. The present inclosure is all beyond the original water-line, andthe early condition of the adjacent lands is not strictly withinthe limits of a description of the improvements in that section ; hut )00 it may be mentioned that tlio )noHt notable improvement adjacentto the present Battery was the erection of a private mansion Ly Gov-ernor Stuyvesant in the year 1658. This was designed for his privateresidence, and was considered in its time as the principal effort madeby private enterprise towards bea
Manual of the corporation of the city of New York, for the years .. . KKSENT BAITERY, IN 1656. The present inclosure is all beyond the original water-line, andthe early condition of the adjacent lands is not strictly withinthe limits of a description of the improvements in that section ; hut )00 it may be mentioned that tlio )noHt notable improvement adjacentto the present Battery was the erection of a private mansion Ly Gov-ernor Stuyvesant in the year 1658. This was designed for his privateresidence, and was considered in its time as the principal effort madeby private enterprise towards beautifying the GOV. stuyvesants house, erected AFTERWAEDS CALLED THE WHITEHALL. In the Dutch records the following mention is made of this build-ing : Thursday, 14th February, 1658. The Heer Nicasius De Sille andthe Heer Peter Tonneman handed the Heeren Burgomasters a certainpetition from the Heer Director-General, reading as follows : To the Right Honorable Lords Councillors of N. Netherland, and theW. Burgomasters of the City Amsterdam therein : Petrus Stuyvesant, your Honors petitioner, represents in due formto the Lords Councillors, to whom it appertains to gi-ant the patent,also to the Burgomasters, to whom the conveyance of lots is surren-dered, that he, as your Honors are aware, fenced, dammed, and raised 501 up, at great cost and labor, out of the water and swamp, certainabandoned lots, granted in the year 1647, by the Heer Kieft, your pe-titioners predecessor in quality as Director-General, to one Jan Pie-tcrsen. and conveyed by him or his attorney to one Thomas Baxter,a bankrupt and fugiti
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