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Identifier: dutchnewyork01sing (find matches)
Title: Dutch New York
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Singleton, Esther, d. 1930
Subjects: Dutch Americans -- New York (State) New York New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs To 1775 New York (State) -- History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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houses, however,were built of brick and stone with tiled roofs, andsome wooden houses had brick chimneys. The Com-pany at first supplied the bricks and tiles from Amster-dam, but very soon there were brick kilns on ManhattanIsland, at Fort Orange, and in the Dutch settlement onthe Delaware. Jan A. de Graaf owned a brick kilnin New Amsterdam in 1658; and ten years later 1250hard bricks cost twenty-four florins in Fort Orange.Not only brick but stone was used in the constructionof the more important edifices. The price of brick andthe extent to which it entered into the building of theearly houses of New Amsterdam may be gathered fromthe records. When the West India Company leasedthe Bouwery at Hoboken to H. C. van Vorst in 1639,4000 bricks were delivered to him to build the chim-ney ; all other necessaries were at his own expense. OnMay 29, 1643, Laurens Cornelissen delivered with hishouse stone enough to build an oven capable of bak-ing a schepel and a half of wheat. On Nov. 2, 1643,
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GARDENS, HOUSES, AND STREETS 41 Dirck Cornelissen received a note for twenty-five guil-ders for building a chimney. Tienhovens requisitions to the West India Companyin 1650 include three or four house carpenters whocan lay brick ; and in 1659 the list of materials,particularly required contained the following items: 12,000 tiles @ 18 g fl. 216.00 100,000 hard brick @. 4 400.00 20 hogsheads lime @ 3^^ 65.00 10 chaldron smiths coals 174.00 The records contain several lawsuits regardingbricks. On May 29, 1657, Peter Bosboom was finedfor breach of contract in refusing to manufacturebrick for Peter Bent. In 1642, John and Richard Ogden, of Stamford,contracted to build a stone church in New Amster-dam, seventy-two feet long by fifty-two feet broad,and sixteen feet high above the ground, for 2500guilders. La Montague, in 1661, reports to Stuyvesant thathe has bought at Fort Orange 3000 bricks at ten guil-ders in beaver the thousand and 3000 for twenty-twoguilders in wampum. In 1660, Cornells

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