. New Amsterdam and its people; studies, social and topographical, of the town under Dutch and early English rule. 1 See ante, page Alley. Looking towards Stone Street. The ancient Stadt Huys Lane,with part of the site of the Stadt Huys. THOMAS WILLET 193 if any existed. About all that seems to be known of theantecedents of Thomas Willet of New Amsterdam is that inhis marriage record in the Dutch Church he is described asbeing from Bristol, in England. Thomas Willet, the grantee of the Hoogh Straet land,appears in 1643 — then being a young man of twenty-twoyears of age — as one
. New Amsterdam and its people; studies, social and topographical, of the town under Dutch and early English rule. 1 See ante, page Alley. Looking towards Stone Street. The ancient Stadt Huys Lane,with part of the site of the Stadt Huys. THOMAS WILLET 193 if any existed. About all that seems to be known of theantecedents of Thomas Willet of New Amsterdam is that inhis marriage record in the Dutch Church he is described asbeing from Bristol, in England. Thomas Willet, the grantee of the Hoogh Straet land,appears in 1643 — then being a young man of twenty-twoyears of age — as one of the English soldiers in the employof the West India Company. As such, he was one of thosewho took part in the massacre of the Indians, by DirectorKiefts orders, on the night of February 25, 1643, at Pa-vonia; and upon the next day he was one of the witnesses ofthe killing of the Dutchman, Dirck Straetmaker, and his wife,who in spite of warnings to the contrary had insisted on visit-ing the scene of the horrid butchery of the preceding night,where the bodies of the slain were still lying; he and hiswife were there murdered b
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