. How to know New York City : a serviceable and trustworthy guide, having its starting point at the Grand Union hotel, just across the street from the Grand Central depot. olution. In 1626,soon after Peter Minuit, first governor of New Netherlands, had ar-rived in the ship Sea Mew, and bought the island of Manhattanfrom the natives for $26, he built here Fort Amsterdam, a blockhousesurrounded by a cedar palisade. Seven years later it was enlargedby Wouter Van Twiller, and garrisoned by one hundred and fourrotund Dutch soldiers. This site is now occupied by the block of sixold-fashioned brick b
. How to know New York City : a serviceable and trustworthy guide, having its starting point at the Grand Union hotel, just across the street from the Grand Central depot. olution. In 1626,soon after Peter Minuit, first governor of New Netherlands, had ar-rived in the ship Sea Mew, and bought the island of Manhattanfrom the natives for $26, he built here Fort Amsterdam, a blockhousesurrounded by a cedar palisade. Seven years later it was enlargedby Wouter Van Twiller, and garrisoned by one hundred and fourrotund Dutch soldiers. This site is now occupied by the block of sixold-fashioned brick buildings south of the square. On the site of theProduce Exchange, in 1633, Wouter Van Twiller built the firstchurch on Manhattan, and a house for his good Dutch the site of the fort, a stately lonic-porticoed mansion was built in1790, for the Presidential palace, and became the official residence of;Gov. George Clinton and John Jay. In 1815 it was replaced by theBowling-Green Block. No. 39 Broadway was the site of the firstEuropean dwelling on Manhattan, built in 1612 by Hendrick Chris-tiaensen, the agent of the Dutch fur-trading company, who raised here. How to Know New York. 35 four small houses and a redoubt, the foundation of the present greatcity. Christiaensen was killed by an Indian afterwards, this beingthe first murder on record in the province. In July, 1776, to celebratethe Declaration of Independence, the people came down here in vastcrowds, and knocked over the equestrian statue of George III., whichwas melted into bullets to assimilate with the brains of the adver-sary. The great fire of 1776, which destroyed the greater part ofNew York, began near Whitehall Slip, and swept over the city on astrong south wind, while the angry British garrison bayonetted manyof the citizens, and threw others, screeching, into the sea of Livingston lived on lower Broadway, in a house hung withGobelin tapestry and rare paintings, with a $30,000 dinner-serv
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