. Manual of the corporation of the city of New York, for the years .. . lthough its history wasnot suspected) in the liquor-store of a Mr. Fagan, at what wasthen No. 126 Chatham street. It is a curious circumstance that streets were laid out and con-siderable improvements made in the vicinity of the tea-wator G14 spring before the streets were regulated or many improvementsmade even much nearer the city than Beekman street. In a mapmade for military purposes in 1757, which appears to have beenlaid down from original surveys, and exhibits not only the topog-raphy of the country, but the situati
. Manual of the corporation of the city of New York, for the years .. . lthough its history wasnot suspected) in the liquor-store of a Mr. Fagan, at what wasthen No. 126 Chatham street. It is a curious circumstance that streets were laid out and con-siderable improvements made in the vicinity of the tea-wator G14 spring before the streets were regulated or many improvementsmade even much nearer the city than Beekman street. In a mapmade for military purposes in 1757, which appears to have beenlaid down from original surveys, and exhibits not only the topog-raphy of the country, but the situation of all the buildings inthat vicinity, we observe that Roosevelt street and Mulberrystreet are already occupied with buildings, and the embryoticstage of the present streets in that vicinity is plainly marked earlier history of this section has few points of were but three or four residents in the vicinity in the timesof the Dutch. A farm-house was erected at an early period uponthe hill looking down Chatham square, and near the junction with. CHATHAM SQUAKE IN 1812. the Bowery a distillery and dwelling were constructed. The last-named building was taken down in 1806, at which time it wasstated in the newspapers to have outlived its century, and asketch of its history was given, which, however, is to be regardedas only traditionary. The Jews burial-ground, of which relicsstill exist, was established iii this vicinity at an early date. In 615 1728 a petition was presented on their behalf, in which it wasstated that some years previously they had purchaged a piece ofland beyond the fresh water for a burial-place which had becomefilled ; they had purchased other lots and desired a license, whichwas granted. In 1737 the highway, from the run of water at the foot of FreshWater hill to the Downes pasture, at the head of the present Chat-ham square, was surveyed and laid out in definite bounds. T he land lying on the east side of the road is traced down asfoll
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