New Amsterdam and its people; studies, social and topographical, of the town under Dutch and early English rule (1902) (14743112916)

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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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Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization



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in 1653.1 Back of this garden was a somewhatrough hillock used for pasturage purposes ; along its wet andspringy sides the common celandine displayed its yellowflowers thickly; this plant was called by the Dutch the gouwe,and the hill became known as the Gouwenberg, which namewas in the course of time corrupted by the English intoGolden Hill, from which the present irregular street calledGold Street took its origin. The lower portion of that streetappears to have been originally a lane giving access from MaagdePaetje, or Maiden Lane, to the pasture field just spoken of. To the north and east of the bouwery house, which musthave stood just about at the northwestern angle of the presentJohn and Cliff streets, lay its orchard, apparently of two orthree acres in area; twenty-five years of growth in a newsoil must have given its trees a fair size at the period of our 1 In 1656, lots upon the modem Pearl Street at that point are bounded on thenorth by the clapboards of the Companys garden.
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« VAN TIENHOVENS LANE 311 survey; and to the Dutch traveller, passing by on his way tothe Long Island ferry, these trees on the hill above him, whitewith their fragrant blossoms in May, or loaded with their redand yellow fruit in autumn, perhaps called to mind theorchards of Beveland, or of Gooiland in the old country.Between the orchard and the low ground of the Smits Vlyran the farm lane above described, which, turning at rightangles at the farmhouse, skirted the brow of the hill; aswidened, it forms the modern Cliff Street, between John andFulton streets. At a point which corresponds with the inter-section of the present Cliff and Fulton streets, the lane ofVan Tienhovens farm came to the declivity of a ravine orgully which formed the division between this farm and theland which belonged at the time of our survey to ThomasHall, but which is better known from its later owner, WilliamBeeckman, as the Beeckman estate; to avoid this it appearsto have again turned westwards, running al