New Amsterdam and its people : studies, social and topographical, of the town under Dutch and early English rule . was sold, by the representatives of her estate, to BareutCoersen. Next adjoining the house of Pieter Andriessen upon theeast, in a garden of nearly seventy-five feet front upon Hoogh Straet, stood at the time of our survey the dwelling- 1 house of Jacob van Couwenhoven, previously alluded to,^ S^^ which was sold in the following year to Nicholas de Meyer. |. This building was of stone, and of nuich greater pretensions ^j. than most of its neighbors, for at its sale to De Meyer, wh
New Amsterdam and its people : studies, social and topographical, of the town under Dutch and early English rule . was sold, by the representatives of her estate, to BareutCoersen. Next adjoining the house of Pieter Andriessen upon theeast, in a garden of nearly seventy-five feet front upon Hoogh Straet, stood at the time of our survey the dwelling- 1 house of Jacob van Couwenhoven, previously alluded to,^ S^^ which was sold in the following year to Nicholas de Meyer. |. This building was of stone, and of nuich greater pretensions ^j. than most of its neighbors, for at its sale to De Meyer, which ^^?as at public auction, it was already mortgaged for about 3500 guilders, or $1400 of the present currency; it stood ^; upon the site of the present buildings, No. 47, and a part of ^ No. 45 Stone Street. This house was occupied as a residence ?» for more than thirty years by Nicholas de Meyer. He was ?! from Hamburg, then claimed to be under the jurisdiction of f:the Duchy of Holstein, from which cause he was occasionally culled by the Dutch of Now Amsterdam, Nicolaas van Hoi- \ 1 See anle, p. ITONK hlKKKT. !,ooking, towanls H; r NICHOLAS DE MEYER 171 steyn. Tlie ordinary appellation of De Meyer (that is, thesteward or faniier) seems, however, to have Leenpreferred by Nicholas and his descendants, and became tliefamily name. Nicholas had married, in 1C55, Luda, orLydia, daughter of the cx-iiscal, or prosecutor, Ifendrickvan Dyke; he became, in later years, a inan of considerableprominence iir the city, having been one of tlie magistratesiu 1CG4, at the time of the surrender to the English. After-wards, in 1G76, he was mayor of the city. He was a manof active business interests and took a considerable part indeveloi:)ing the settlement of the village of Haerlem, where hehad purchased various parcels of land amounting to betweensixty and seventy acres in extent; he also owned a wind-millnear the intersection of the present Chatham and Duanestreets, and a brewery in t
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