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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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egetation is in sight, and warehousesalong the south side of Pearl Street cut off all view of the river. A very different scene presented itself in the seventeenthcentury, however. Then, from the narrow roadway along thenorth side of the square, all the intervening ground, to therivers edge beyond the present Pearl Street, was a grassybank shaded by native forest trees, under which strollersfrom the town sometimes whiled the time away, or visitingIndians camped. Immediately in front of the spot where nowstands the building known as the Old Cotton Exchange, agully or shallow ravine led down to the river beach; this hadbeen deepened, for the purpose of making a passage or cart-way to the shore, by Burger Jorissen; insomuch that in1646 the council made an order that he must rail or fencethe road which is made before his door, so that no personsmay fall in; and that it be a good wagon road. 1 This pas- 1 The condition of this locality in 1679 is shown in the plate at page 188 ofthis work.
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THE THIRTY YEARS WAR 225 sage way was known as u Burgers Path for more than acentury. Nearly opposite it, upon the north side of HooghStraet, just about at the little bookstore in the rear portion ofthe building, now (1901) occupying the northwest corner ofWilliam and Stone streets, stood the house built about 1614by Hendrick Jansen, the tailor, but soon sold to BurgerJorissen. Immediately east of this, at the present corner ofthe last-mentioned streets, but infringing somewhat uponStone Street (which has been straightened), was the black-smiths shop of Jorissen. William Street did not as yet exist,and its ground, with about half of the New Cotton Exchangeupon the east of it, formed originally Burger Jorissens gar-den, and possibly a small orchard, — for his plot containedabout three-quarters of an acre of land. About a hundredand twenty-five feet farther down the road stood the comfort-able residence of Govert Loockermans, in a large enclosure ofground sloping down to a small pond,

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