. Manual of the corporation of the city of New York, for the years ... it-1 ^ ^sr££r::*|^1^3(Fifc-;-w:r>.. ? ^\^ I JJLkUb- ^ o. 495 THE ORIGINAL GRANTS OF VILLAGE PLOTS STRJEK-r-. The compiler has, for this years Manual, prepared a map of theoriginal grants of vilhige lots in that part of the city below Wall West India Company, in 1()2(), purchased the whole island from theIndians, so that all titles are derived from that company. They, in thefirst instance, permitted settlers to choose their places of residence, and tooccupy as much land as might suffice for garden purposes
. Manual of the corporation of the city of New York, for the years ... it-1 ^ ^sr££r::*|^1^3(Fifc-;-w:r>.. ? ^\^ I JJLkUb- ^ o. 495 THE ORIGINAL GRANTS OF VILLAGE PLOTS STRJEK-r-. The compiler has, for this years Manual, prepared a map of theoriginal grants of vilhige lots in that part of the city below Wall West India Company, in 1()2(), purchased the whole island from theIndians, so that all titles are derived from that company. They, in thefirst instance, permitted settlers to choose their places of residence, and tooccupy as much land as might suffice for garden purposes, except in one ortwo localities, where, from the anxiety of the inhabitants to establishthemselves, it was necessnry to ccnfine them to smaller lots. These wereimmediately under the walls of the fort, which was thus the more accessiblein case of sudden invasion by the savages. There was also a particularlocality which was naturally the centre of trading establishments, and atthat place the lots were therefore limited to more confined was in the front of the wharf and the eonip;inys warehouses, andoccupied the pre
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