The magazine of American history with notes and queries . the fort began to breathe more freely. The fence remainedstanding some nine years, and formed the northern boundary of a fifteen-acre sheep pasture—a public field of rolling upland and swampymeadow, where the cows, oxen, horses, goats and sheep of the settlersgrazed in common. The meadow-land in the valley, along the line of thepresent Broad Street, was taken up for tanneries in the course of theperiod ; and prior to 1653, a considerable portion of the remainder of the sheep pasture had been granted by the West India Company, in largepa
The magazine of American history with notes and queries . the fort began to breathe more freely. The fence remainedstanding some nine years, and formed the northern boundary of a fifteen-acre sheep pasture—a public field of rolling upland and swampymeadow, where the cows, oxen, horses, goats and sheep of the settlersgrazed in common. The meadow-land in the valley, along the line of thepresent Broad Street, was taken up for tanneries in the course of theperiod ; and prior to 1653, a considerable portion of the remainder of the sheep pasture had been granted by the West India Company, in largeparcels, to persons of influence, apparently on speculation. But it waseven then unimproved—a bit of barren landscape—although the little town had creptgable-roofs andthe prospect wasof promise. Thecolony at thisa ferment owingclared on theAtlantic betweenHolland. Intel-battles foughtcame with everyOld World. Thetorious, chiefly,were enormous ;of their vesselsmys hands, theirsuspended andm e r c e by thecut off. Gov-watched all thesements with acute. THE EARLY WINDMILL. in sight with itswind-mills andalive with signsaffairs of thejuncture were into hostilities de-other side of theEngland andligence of terribleupon the seaship from theDutch were vic-while their lossessixteen hundredfell into the ene-fisheries weretheir entire corn-English Channelernor Stuyvesantsignificant move-anxiety, and, convinced that prudence was the better part of valor, took earnest meas-ures to preserve peace with his English neighbors on this side of theocean. To conciliate his own people he yielded to the pressure for munic-ipal privileges, and thus a new power in the government came intoexistence. The city of New York, originally called New Amsterdam, was created WALL STREET IN HISTORY 307 by proclamation, February 2, 1653, the governor of the province naming its first officers, and defining their exceptionally limited au- ik thority. The inconspicuousevent was duly chron-icled ; and the newCity
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