Manual of the corporation of the city of New York, for the years .. . E NEAR TRINITT CHURCH, 1740. After the year 1743, the fact appears that parties owning the up-land near Cortland and Dey streets began to take up water-grantsfrom the Corporation. The conditions of these grants were thatgrantees should leave a street forty feet wide fronting their upland,and another street of the same width at the extremity of their streets were in continuation of those already adopted as beforementioned, and were those now known as Greenwich and Washing-ton streets. The quit-rents for these gran
Manual of the corporation of the city of New York, for the years .. . E NEAR TRINITT CHURCH, 1740. After the year 1743, the fact appears that parties owning the up-land near Cortland and Dey streets began to take up water-grantsfrom the Corporation. The conditions of these grants were thatgrantees should leave a street forty feet wide fronting their upland,and another street of the same width at the extremity of their streets were in continuation of those already adopted as beforementioned, and were those now known as Greenwich and Washing-ton streets. The quit-rents for these grants were four pence perfoot. Trinity Church owned the Kings Farm, extending from Broadwayto the river, between the present Fulton and Warren streets, andthey took out their grant about the year 1751. At about the sameperiod, their farm was laid out in 550 Above that farm lay the Domines Hook, extending to the presentCanal street. This also originally belonged to Trinity Church. Thefollowing sketch shows the river shore along nearly the whole of VIEW OF NORTH RIVER SHORE TOWARDS LISPENARDS, 1761. It was not until after the Revolution that the streets (presentGreenwich and Washington), originally designed more than half acentury previous, were regulated or improved as streets, except inoccasional places. Two or three piers were erected on the west sideof Greenwich street, between Cortland and Fulton streets, previousto the Eevolution ; and one large building, iised for the deposit of ar-tillery stores, occupied the block between Cortland and Dey streets,but below Liberty street the river shore was in its natural conditionuntil near the commencement of the present century. In 1713, the subject of erecting a poor-house and house of correc-tion was first agitated, and a committee was appointed to considerof a convenient place to erect the same, of the dimensions and mate-rials proper for its construction, and of the ways and means to be 550 Above that farm lay
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