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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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the Protestant cause, whose untimely deathalone prevented him from carrying out vast and mysterious Tienhoven shall have the privilege of using the aforesaid road heyond his pali-sades (as having been a road for a length of time) with wagon and horses. Butwhen the said land have been sufficiently cleared by Loockermans and Leendertsenand shall have been enclosed with a sufficient fence, which must be kept up bythem, then the wagon road shall run exactly as the palisades of Tienhovensland stand, of which the said Loockermans and Leendertsen shall give one-half ofthe land for the breadth of the road; and in like manner Cornelis van Tienhovenshall give one-half thereof, which aforesaid road shall be used equally, servingonly as an outlet to the Long Highway, as their own private road. This lanewas only laid out from the Long Highway towards the East River as far asa point at the intersection of the present Gold and Ann streets, Loockermansand Leendertsens land terminating at that place.
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THE WALLENSTEIN BOUWERY 313 schemes which would have transformed Germany into a greatProtestant Empire. Whether this belief was sufficiently jus-tified by facts can in all probability never be determined. Itexisted, however, in the minds of many, and in the year 1638we find Barent Dircksen Swart, who then appears to havebeen in occupation of this farm, making a lease for six yearsto Cornells Jacobsen, the elder, from Mertensdyk and Cor-nells Jacobsen, the younger, his brother, 1 of the Bouwerynamed Walensteyn, with all its stock of cows, heifers,mare, stallions, wagons, etc. The yearly rental of this farmto be paid by the lessees was to be one hundred and fiftypounds of butter and fifty schepels of grain, whether wheat,r)re, or barley. Although the Indian troubles were still in thefuture, the lessees had not forgotten the unprotected state ofthe farm, for they continue thus, in the lease: It being wellunderstood, should the house come to be burned unfortunatelyeither by hostile Indian

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