New Amsterdam and its people : studies, social and topographical, of the town under Dutch and early English rule . ^ of the family. Jan-netje, the wife of Melyn, and his daughter Cornelia and herhusband were for several ycais engaged in fieiiuent litiga-tions with Captain Adriaen Pos, the agent of Melyus co-partner, the Baron van der Capellen, respecting the divisionof the Staten Island propeity, and the settlement of variousconflicting claims in connection therewith; but it docs notappear that Cornelis Melyn, for the space of nearly five years,again set foot in New Amsterdam, to encounter lii
New Amsterdam and its people : studies, social and topographical, of the town under Dutch and early English rule . ^ of the family. Jan-netje, the wife of Melyn, and his daughter Cornelia and herhusband were for several ycais engaged in fieiiuent litiga-tions with Captain Adriaen Pos, the agent of Melyus co-partner, the Baron van der Capellen, respecting the divisionof the Staten Island propeity, and the settlement of variousconflicting claims in connection therewith; but it docs notappear that Cornelis Melyn, for the space of nearly five years,again set foot in New Amsterdam, to encounter liis old enemy,Director-General Stuyvesant, — a tyrant, as we liave nowand then been accused by the ignorant, as he complacentlyremarks of liimsclf. Melyn was certainly in New Amster-dam in 1661, however, no doubt protected by his Orf ,1. U^^ THE MELYN HOUSE REMOVED 123 1K. Tlie Melyn Iiouhc in Broad Street did not remain long inexistence after ita builder had (iuitted it. After the Indiantroubles of 1655 had in sonic measure subsided, it was de-tided to open up and to regulate several streets, in order toafford accommodation to the increasing number of those whotlesired to build in tJie town. One of the changes proposedin tiio early part of 165G was to widen and deepen TheDitch, so as to form a canal navigable for small boats, witha sufficient roadway on each side of it; this, when completedby sheathing tlie sides of tlie canal with planks, formed thewell-known lleere (iraft, which covered the site of tlie pres-ent Broad Street, and which was a reminder, in a humbleway, of the lleere (haft in Amsterdam.^ To carry out this Avoik, it became necessary to renrove thehouse of tiie Melyn family, and in June, 1656, Jacob Schel-liiiger, Melyns son-in-law, was nutilied not to proceed withtlie rest of his immediate neig
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