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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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8, some seven years after the death of the latter, theheirs of the estate sold the brewery with nearly half an acreof ground for 1375 guilders ($550) to one Anthony Moore,and it then, in the course of several years, passed throughvarious hands, eventually coming again into the possession ofJan Vinje. This latter personage was for a long time en-gaged in the brewing business upon the modern Pearl Streetnear Piatt, and although the period was several years afterthe date of our survey, some reference will be made to himin speaking of the latter locality. At the northwestern angle of Maiden Lane and PearlStreet stood a house, erected probably in 1641 or 1642 byCaptain Lourens Cornelissen Vanderwel, who, in documentsexecuted by himself, bears the imposing designation of Skipper under God of the ship the Angel Gabriel/ of aboutone hundred lasts burden. The skipper owned about anacre of ground here, stretching back some two hundred andfifty feet to the foot of the Gouwenberg of Secretary Van
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SKIPPER CORNELISSEN 299 Tienhovens farm. The ground at this, the widest part ofthe Smits Vly, seems to have been pretty wet, and the skipperhad to establish a broad trench through his garden, about onthe line between the present buildings Nos. 205 and 207Pearl Street, and probably another one upon the east side ofhis plot, between the buildings Nos. 219 and 221. Of Captain Cornelissen we have not much information.In his blustering letter of January 2, 1646, to Dominie Bo-gardus, already alluded to,1 Director-General Kieft says: when, however, in 1644, one Lourens Cornelissen was here,a man of profligate character, who had violated his oath, hadcommitted perjury and theft, he was taken under your pat-ronage, and you were in daily correspondence with him, forthe reason merely that he had slandered the Director. Thegist of Cornelissens offence, however, being evidently thefact that he had spoken against Kieft, it is perhaps fair tolook upon the rest of the accusation, coupled as it is wi

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