. New Amsterdam and its people; studies, social and topographical, of the town under Dutch and early English rule. died, and two years later the Hoogh Straet housewas sold, by the representatives of her estate, to BarentCoersen. Next adjoining the house of Pieter Andriessen upon theeast, in a garden of nearly seventy-five feet front uponHoogh Straet, stood at the time of our survey the dwelling-house of Jacob van Couwenhoven, previously alluded to,1which was sold in the following year to Nicholas de building was of stone, and of much greater pretensionsthan most of its neighbors, fo
. New Amsterdam and its people; studies, social and topographical, of the town under Dutch and early English rule. died, and two years later the Hoogh Straet housewas sold, by the representatives of her estate, to BarentCoersen. Next adjoining the house of Pieter Andriessen upon theeast, in a garden of nearly seventy-five feet front uponHoogh Straet, stood at the time of our survey the dwelling-house of Jacob van Couwenhoven, previously alluded to,1which was sold in the following year to Nicholas de building was of stone, and of much greater pretensionsthan most of its neighbors, for at its sale to De Meyer, whichwas at public auction, it was already mortgaged for about3500 guilders, or $1400 of the present currency; it stoodupon the site of the present buildings, No. 47, and a part ofNo. 45 Stone Street. This house was occupied as a residencefor more than thirty years by Nicholas de Meyer. He wasfrom Hamburg, then claimed to be under the jurisdiction ofthe Duchy of Holstein, from which cause he was occasionallycalled by the Dutch of New Amsterdam, Nicolaas van Hol- 1 See ante, p. Stone towards Hanover Square. The ancient Hoogh Straet. NICHOLAS DE MEYER 171 steyn. The ordinary appellation of De Meyer (that is, thesteward or farmer) seems, however, to have beenpreferred by Nicholas and his descendants, and became thefamily name. Nicholas had married, in 1655, Luda, orLydia, daughter of the ex-fiscal, or prosecutor, Hendrickvan Dyke; he became, in later years, a man of considerableprominence in the city, having been one of the magistratesin 1664, at the time of the surrender to the English. After-wards, in 1676, he was mayor of the city. He was a manof active business interests and took a considerable part indeveloping 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 Duan
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