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Title: New Amsterdam and its people; studies, social and topographical, of the town under Dutch and early English rule
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Innes, J. H. (John H.)
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d, after the fashion of shingling, with the thickbark of the chestnut or of other suitable forest trees. Theroofs were all thatched with the native reeds.2 1 See, however, the remarks in note, post, page 33, as to the indications of asystem of streets; or rather lanes, earlier than that finally adopted. 2 It is the writers opinion that the very valuable engraved view of New Am-sterdam, usually spoken of as the Hartgers view, which is supposed to bethe earliest one extant of the settlement, is to be referred to the period abovespoken of in the text, and may be fixed wi^i comparative certainty to some timebetween the years 1628 and 1632, a date considerably earlier than is usually as-scribed to it. A slight examination of this view by any person acquainted withthe early topography of New Amsterdam will show that it is a reversed one,and as such must, in all probability, have been taken J>y means of a plaincamera obscura, — no doubt from some point on the Lon£ Island shore, — and
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THE COMPANYS BOUWERYS 3 Soon after the first body of agricultural settlers sent overby the West India Company had arrived, at about the periodlast mentioned, and after the Director, Peter Minuit, hadeffected the purchase of Manhattan Island from the Indians,a body of negro slaves belonging to the Company was set towork clearing a large space of ground east of the presentBowery, and extending from a fresh-water swamp occupy-ing the site of the present Roosevelt and James streets toEighteenth or Twentieth Street. This tract was divided intosix bouwerys or farms, which, with the buildings erectedupon them by the West India Company, and with certainstock furnished by that body, were leased to various tenants. In addition to these farms, several clearings were begun byindividuals, who were promised grants of land on favorable never restored to its true position. The correct view appears by simply holdinga mirror to the reversed one. Having been obtained by this method, it is evidentthat th

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