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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.) cn
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e. The premises seem to have contained a well ofsome repute, the site of wliicii is clearly marked in tlie con-veyances of tiii.s property, and whicli may, indeed, slill existunder the Old Cotton Exchange which at the present daycovers Abraham Clocks modest holding, — house-site, gar-den, and all. This well was at the right of tlie entrance totlie modern building, upon Hanover Stjuare, and about eigh-teen feet back from the street line. Of Abraham Clock, but little is known; he was livinghere as late as IGOi, but died within a few years alter thatdate. One of the trials of his humble life at this spot wastliat his plot of ground was subject to the encroachments oftlie waves at high tides. Later, in 1G72, when his widow,Tryntje, had been ordered to fill out the stri.ct, or Waal, infront of her premises, and also the hollow way uiioii the east,she declared herself unable to have the work done; and lliemagistrates of the city decided to rendei- her special aid, asshe has so much to do.
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fS c 4 . CHAPTER XVII BASOVEIi SQUAIiE AND BUHGEUS PATH. —BURGER JORIS-SEN, THE SMITH.—the THIRTY YEARS WAR-llES-DRICK JANSEN, THE TAILOR, AND HIS OPINION OFDIRECTOR KIEFT.-SMJTU STREET M , Tliat frae Novombor till October,Ac market-day tlioiv was iiae sober;That ilka inclder wi the miller,Tliou sat as lang as thoii had siller;That cvry iiaig was cad a shoo on.The smith and thoo gat roaring fou on. liui:NS: Tain o Sliantcr. WE are at Ilanovcr Square, — not a very stately locality,perhaps; but a place replete with historical associa- ^lions,— of Burger Jorissen, rough aud intemperate at times, but a vigorous pioneer of the new colony; of IlenJrick Jansen,ihe virulent enemy of Director Kieft; of Go vert Loocker-mans, the shipping merchant, a pioneer of the commerce of I New Amsterdam, as enterprising in his way upon the sea asHas Burger Jorissen upon the land. Half of the politicalhistory of the colony, during the reign of William III., centres i about this spot, witli its memor

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