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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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forms the easterly portion of Stone Street, being nearlya continuation of the street originally known by that name.Upon the south side of this street, just west of the presentCoenties Alley, and situated well back towards the shore, theDirector and Council had erected, in 1641, the commodiousbuilding known as the Great Tavern, afterwards in part usedas the Town Hall, of which further notice will be taken here-after. From the present Broad Street to the Great Tavern,all the land lying between the Hoogh Straet and the shorehad been taken up, at an early date, by two individuals, oneof whom was Burger Jorissen, a man of prominence in thetown, who had built a house here, and received a ground-brieffor it in 1643; he occupied a plot of about one hundred andthirty-five English feet frontage, next adjoining the tavern.The other occupant was located upon a much smaller plot,about at the corner of the present Broad Street; this was oneEben Reddenhaus, a German from the principality of Waldeck,
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CORNELIS MELYNS HOUSE 105 who had recently (in 1641) married in New Amsterdam,and built a house here, but who died soon afterwards. Thereremained but one more available parcel along the river in thisvicinity, and that one covered the end of the present BroadStreet, at that time (as already stated) not designed to bekept open as a street. Of this parcel, Cornells Melyn receiveda ground-brief in 1643; it was about sixty-two English feetin front along the road, which with the bridge lay north of it,and it extended in depth about eighty-eight English feet tothe river shore; through it the stream or ditch from Blom-maerts Vly ran into the East River. Here, then, Cornelis Melyn built his house, evidently amodest one, designed only for occasional use in troublesometimes. It would appear to have been a two-story house ofsmall size ; in all probability built of brick. This house wasremoved about 1657, when the authorities determined tochange the ditch in Broad Street into a Graft, or canal,wit

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