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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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scapes;it appears to have stoutly resisted absorption by the moreimposing structure whose blank walls of yellow brick over-tower it on two sides. Just south of this house, along the present Broad Street,was a small space of ground which belonged to the Melynfamily, and which became available for building purposeswhen the Heere Graft was opened and regulated, in 1657or thereabouts. Here, at a date unknown, but doubtlesswithin three or four years after the period last mentioned,a cottage was built which was afterwards occupied for manyyears by Isaac Melyn, a younger son of Cornells. IsaacMelyn appears to have been engaged in shipping venturesas early as 1672: he was at that time owner or master of 1 The record of baptisms in the Dutch Church contains the names of two ofthe children of Captain Loper; namely, Jacobus, October 25, 1648, and Janne-ken, October 30, 1650. The daughter Janneken married, October 9, 167-1, JorisDavidson of Albany : as to the son, see Appendix II. to this volume.
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View of tiif Southeast Corner of Broad and Stone Streets. Showing the sites of the later Mclyn House and that ofthe poet Jacob Steendam. SIBOUT CLAESSEN 125 the ship Expectation, and having a controversy with somefreighters respecting damage occasioned by a leak, he receivedthe permission of the Governor and Council to have thecargo unloaded and examined by arbitrators. The BroadStreet premises were sold in 1722 by Joanna, the wife ofJonathan Dickinson of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, who wasthe only surviving child of Isaac Melyn, to William Yer-planck, a merchant of New York.1 At the time of our survey of New Amsterdam in 1655, adwelling-house had been recently built on the south side ofHoogh Straet, immediately east of the spot upon which thelater, or second, Melyn house was, within a year or twoafterwards erected; its site is at present covered by thenortherly end of the large building which encloses two sidesof the small Melyn plot, above described.2 The lot uponwhich this dwelling-

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