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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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isdaughter Cornelia: her first husband, Captain Jacob Loper,had died prior to 1653, and she married in that year JacobSchellinger, a merchant of Amsterdam, who was carrying onbusiness in New Netherland, and who, after the retirement ofCornells Melyn, became the mainstay of the family. Jan-netje, the wife of Melyn, and his daughter Cornelia and herhusband were for several years engaged in frequent litiga-tions with Captain Adriaen Pos, the agent of Melyns co-partner, the Baron van der Capellen, respecting the divisionof the Staten Island property, and the settlement of variousconflicting claims in connection therewith; but it does notappear that Cornells Melyn, for the space of nearly five years,again set foot in New Amsterdam, to encounter his old enemy,Director-General Stuyvesant, — a tyrant, as we have nowand then been accused by the ignorant, as he complacentlyremarks of himself. Melyn was certainly in New Amster-dam in 1661, however, no doubt protected by his Englishcitizenship.
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THE MELYN HOUSE REMOVED 123 The Melyn house in Broad Street did not remain long inexistence after its builder had quitted it. After the Indiantroubles of 1655 had in some measure subsided, it was de-cided to open up and to regulate several streets, in order toafford accommodation to the increasing number of those whodesired to build in the town. One of the changes proposedin the early part of 1656 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 the sides of the canal with planks, formed thewell-known Heere Graft, which covered the site of the pres-ent Broad Street, and which was a reminder, in a humbleway, of the Heere Graft in Amsterdam.1 To carry out this work, it became necessary to remove thehouse of the Melyn family, and in June, 1656, Jacob Schel-lingcr, Melyns son-in-law, was notified not to proceed withthe rest of his immediate neighbors in the construction ofsheet-

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