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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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to theriver side. The premises seem to have contained a well ofsome repute, the site of which is clearly marked in the con-veyances of this property, and which may, indeed, still 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 the entrance tothe modern building, upon Hanover Square, and about eigh-teen feet back from the street line. Of Abraham Clock, but little is known; he was livinghere as late as 1664, but died within a few years after thatdate. One of the trials of his humble life at this spot wasthat his plot of ground was subject to the encroachments ofthe waves at high tides. Later, in 1672, when his widow,Tryntje, had been ordered to fill out the street, or Waal, infront of her premises, and also the hollow way upon the east,she declared herself unable to have the work done; and themagistrates of the city decided to render her special aid, asshe has so much to do.
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CHAPTER XVII HANOVER SQUARE AND BURGERS PATH. —BURGER JORIS-SEN, THE SMITH. —THE THIRTY YEARS WAR. — HEN-DRICK JANSEN, THE TAILOR, AND HIS OPINION OFDIRECTOR KIEFT. — SMITH STREET That frae November till October,Ae market-day thon was nae sober;That ilka melder wi* the miller,Thou sat as lang as thou had siller;That evry naig was ead a shoe on,The smith and thee gat roaring fou on. Burns : Tarn o Shanter. WE are at Hanover Square, — not a very stately locality,perhaps; but a place replete with historical associa-tions,— of Burger Jorissen, rough and intemperate at times,but a vigorous pioneer of the new colony; of Hendrick Jansen,the virulent enemy of Director Kieft; of Govert Loocker-mans, the shipping merchant, a pioneer of the commerce ofNew Amsterdam, as enterprising in his way upon the sea aswas Burger Jorissen upon the land. Half of the politicalhistory of the colony, during the reign of William III., centresabout this spot, with its memories of Nicholas Bayard, of t

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