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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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other purposes than those of commerce. In November, 1654, it was hired by the burgomasters for the temporary re-ception of fifty boys and girls sent over from the almshouseat Amsterdam, — an experiment by the magistrates of thatcity. These children were to be bound out for the term offive years, after which period each was to receive fifty-threeacres of land. Nor was Allertons warehouse devoid of his-torical associations. When the Indians landed, in largenumbers, upon Manhattan Island, on the 15th of September, 1655, in the absence of Director-General Stuyvesant and ofhis soldiers, who had started a few days before upon their ex-pedition against the Swedes on the Delaware River, one of thefirst points at which they commenced their work of violence wasat this warehouse. They ran in large armed parties throughthe streets, says Van Tienhoven, in his report to the Coun-cil, violently attacked the house of Mr. Allerton, knockingthe lock from his door, beating his servants, and ransacking
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ATTACK ON THE WAREHOUSE 337 his premises, on pretence of searching for two Indians.There is indeed no telling to what lengths the Indians mighthave proceeded upon this occasion, for they were in numberfive or six hundred, and all of this portion of the town was intheir power. They observed, however, that the guns of aDutch ship commanded by Captain Scharborgh, which lay inthe East River opposite Allertons Warehouse, were beingbrought to bear upon the spot. A panic seized them, andthey scurried away into the Kreupelbosch and behind thehill back of Thomas Halls house, to get out of range of theguns in the vessel. It is quite probable that these depreda-tions by the natives led to the subsequent construction ofpalisades around Allertons place, for in the Dukes Plan of 1661, the building appears to stand in an enclosure. As Isaac Allerton advanced in years, he seems to havewithdrawn more and more from active business at New Am-sterdam, his son Isaac Allerton, Junior, taking his place.This

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