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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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standing too near 1 See ante, page 229. 278 NEW AMSTERDAM AND ITS PEOPLE the Town Waal, you are therefore ordered to take in yourfence, so that wagons and horses can conveniently pass. 1Finally, to get rid of the inconvenience arising from the prox-imity of this house to the gate, the burgomasters decided tocondemn and to demolish the building, which was done in June,1657, the owners being awarded five hundred and fifty guilders,or two hundred and twenty dollars for their property. Atabout the same time, the adjacent tavern of Sergeant Litschoseems also to have been removed, though the records do notshow the amount of his award. 1 This order of the burgomasters bears date October 7, 1656. The Waalreferred to is not the line of palisades, but tbe protection to the shore, by sheetpiling or otherwise. Mr. Valentine has made the mistake of constantly confound-ing the two. Plan of New Amsterdam from the Palisades to the FerryA.D. 1655 Compiled from the DutchEnglish Records by.7. //. INNES
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P <? Q <P? <? Q-Vp 9 9 C 9 <? Q 9 9 P O <P ^ p. < i 7/ CHAPTER XX THE SMITS VLY. — HENDRICK J AN SENS GRANT. —AUGUS-TYN HEERMANS AND HIS HOUSE. — MARYN ADRIAENSENAND HIS ATTACK ON DIRECTOR KIEFT PROCEEDING outwards from the town, we have nowreached the district long known as the Smits Vly.This was a tract of low-lying land between the river shoreand the foot of the hills forming the body of the island; itstretched along the river from near Wall Street about to thepresent Beekman Street, a distance of a quarter of a mile,and varied in width from about one hundred and fifty to twohundred and fifty feet. Though doubtless full of springs, itdoes not seem to have been sufficiently wet to deter improve-ment, for portions of it were built upon at a very early date.The term vly, as used in this connection, does not exactlycorrespond either with the English valley, or meadow;the Dutch appellation would be perhaps more accuratelyrendered as the Smiths Flats. As to the or

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