Genealogical and family history of southern New York and the Hudson River Valley : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the building of a nation . THB KOKTH ?Jntctior ( iewj oJ Uoit (irai/o SOUTHERN NEW YORK 1147 rived in one of the Patroons ships in Decem-ber, 1637, as assistent, and was in chargeuntil the Patroons death in 1646-47, andthereupon leased the Flatte (jreenbush fromthe guardians of the young Patroon for sixsuccessive years. It is believed that it waserected under Van Curlers administration,and that because of the depredations of th
Genealogical and family history of southern New York and the Hudson River Valley : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the building of a nation . THB KOKTH ?Jntctior ( iewj oJ Uoit (irai/o SOUTHERN NEW YORK 1147 rived in one of the Patroons ships in Decem-ber, 1637, as assistent, and was in chargeuntil the Patroons death in 1646-47, andthereupon leased the Flatte (jreenbush fromthe guardians of the young Patroon for sixsuccessive years. It is believed that it waserected under Van Curlers administration,and that because of the depredations of thesavages, it was made as a stronghold, withunusually, thick walls, twenty inches at least,and a number of portholes, nine originally,for muskets, pierced through square stonepieces set into the Holland brick of the facing the Hudson river may still beseen, one at either side of the door, and areobjects of curiosity. One is preserved in theUnited States National Museum at Wash-ington, D. C. In alteration and re-buildingduring the earlier part of the nineteenth cen-tury, the others were taken out and were the Indians had accomplished theirmassacre at Wiltwyck, June 17, 1663,
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