. New Amsterdam and its people; studies, social and topographical, of the town under Dutch and early English rule. ession of thislarge parcel of ground, — nearly three hundred feet in front-age along the River Road, and part of it extending backnearly or quite to the present Wall Street. Here he seemsto have at first established his residence in a house afterwardsoccupied by Daniel Litscho and subsequently by AndriesJochemsen as a tavern, the site of which is at present coveredby No. 125 Pearl Street; but in a few years he had builta new residence for himself on a portion of his ground alittle
. New Amsterdam and its people; studies, social and topographical, of the town under Dutch and early English rule. ession of thislarge parcel of ground, — nearly three hundred feet in front-age along the River Road, and part of it extending backnearly or quite to the present Wall Street. Here he seemsto have at first established his residence in a house afterwardsoccupied by Daniel Litscho and subsequently by AndriesJochemsen as a tavern, the site of which is at present coveredby No. 125 Pearl Street; but in a few years he had builta new residence for himself on a portion of his ground alittle farther west along the road. This latter building ap-pears to have been a substantial edifice, of some size andpretensions, and is quite clearly shown upon the DukesPlan, supposed to represent the town as of the year early as 1654 it was enclosed with a high wall, providedwith a gate kept locked and barred by night: these particu-lars we learn from the prosecution of one Willemsen forburglary at this house in that year, as it was thought thathe must have had confederates to help him climb the
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