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Title: Valentine's manual of old New York
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Brown, Henry Collins, 1862-1961
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Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Valentine's Manual Inc.
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high bank; and here,in 1680, came William Richardson, the towns first miller,with his family, and his two negro-slaves, Jack and Dick,his six yokes of oxen, and all his possessions. William Richardson agreed to live in the wildernessat the mills that he might always be ready to operatethem; for his compensation, not only did the town givehim the exclusive right to maintain mills on the lowerBronx, and to cut certain kinds of timber, and to occupyand use twenty acres of land, but he might from thosewho patronized the mills, keep all timber sawed to thehalves and all corn ground to the fourteenth part. After the death of Richardson in 1693, the mills passedto two Dutchmen, Evert Byvanck, who had lately marriedthe wealthy widow, Wyntie Van Exveen, and his brother-in-law, Johannes Hogelandt; but the latter did not longremain, for he found that a tide-mill had begun opera-tions on Westchester Creek and that most of the grind-ing of the Westchester settlers would naturally go there; ( 148)
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11 ~S .5 5 rr. HH ^ g s«S5 5 £ OF OLD NEW YORK so he sold his interest to Evert Byvanck, and thereafterthe latter, an elderly man with no children, charmed bythe quietness and sylvan beauty of the place, could be seenseated on his stoop, calmly smoking his long pipe, as hewatched his negroes at work in the mills below and theriver glide over the dam and past the ford. In turn, Evert Byvanck died and his widow inheritedthe mills, but could not live alone in the woods, so soldthe property to William Provoost, who had married herdaughter, Aegie Van Exveen. William Provoost at this time, in 1711, was a risingmerchant of New York City, and could not spend histime attending mills, so he turned them over to NicholasBrouwer who came from Kings County; and althoughfor a few years they passed into the hands of DanielTourneur, they eventually came again to Brouwer, butprobably all the while William Provoost had an interestin the property. Provoost became wealthy, one of the leading mer-chants

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