THE CASTELLO PLAN                                            273

No. 7

George (Joris) Rapalje built this house. He sold It in June, 1654, to Hendrick Hen¬
dricksen Obe, who, although he was drummer at Fort Amsterdam, found it convenient
to live at Middleburgh (Newtown) "for the present," and therefore sold it again, in
October, 1654, to Pieter Lucasen, from Goes, In Holland, "skipper of the little craft
called Abraham's Sacrifice."—A. F. Co/. MSS., Ill: 11^; Liber Deeds, A: 5. However, the
house reverted to the drummer; but it was generally rented out. Hendrick Bosch, who
seems to have moved quite frequently, leased it in April, 1661.—La Chair's Register, in Hol¬
land Society Year Book, 1900, p. 133.

When Colve took New York, in August, 1673, one of his first acts was to engage the
services of Hendrick Obe " as City-drummer for fl. 400 zewant, for which he shall serve three
Burgher Companies according to his ability."—Rec. N.Am., VI: 402. As a guilder, seawant,
was worth 13V3 cents, the pay amounted only to $53.33.

Obe sold the house, March 25, 1673, to Luykas van Tienhooven, son of the former
provincial secretary.—Original Book of N. Y. Deeds, in N. Y. Hist. Soc. Collections, 1913,
p. 8.

No. 8

Claes Jansen, baker, owned a small house on the site of the present No. 19 Pearl Street.
The lot was a narrow one then, as it is now, and encroached on the Rapalje grant. By
1674, Cathalyna, widow of Joris Rapalye, had acquired it; she sold it to Jeremias Jansen
Westerhout, a kinsman of her late husband, February 19, 1674.—Original Book of N. Y.
Deeds, in N. Y. Hist. Soc. Collections, 1913, pp. 19-20. In 1677, Michiel Smith was assessed
here.—Af. C. C, I: 52; Liber Deeds, XXI; 146.

For Claes Jansen, baker, see Block F, No. 14.

No. 9

This house, which stood on the exact site of No. 21 Pearl Street, was built between
July, 1645, and July, 1647, by Gillis Pietersen van der Gouw, master carpenter.—Cal. Hist.
MSS., Dutch, 38. At the period of the Plan, it was owned by Isaac Grevenraet. His sons,
Andries and Henry, sold the property, in May, 1687, to Mme. Aeltje Schepmoes,['] widow
of Jan Evertsen Keteltas.—Liber Deeds, XIII: 301. By that time, a much better house
probably had replaced this one, for the widow paid 7,700 guilders for the property. In
July, following, she married Johannes van Giesen, of Utrecht.—Marriages in Ref. Dutch
Ch., 62; ante-nuptial contract. Liber Deeds, XXV: 46.

For Grevenraet, see Block C, No. 12.

No.  10

This house, built for Cornells Pietersen, a pilot, and brother of Gillis Pietersen, was,
evidently, one of the most substantial houses on the block. Its garden ran back to "the
plain of the Fort." At the period of the Plan, it was owned and occupied by the great
Huguenot merchant, Jacques Cousseau.

The narrow streets of the Dutch town must have presented a great contrast in his eyes
to the spacious beauty of his native city of La Rochelle. But Cousseau, having determined
to make his fortune in New Amsterdam, lost no time in Identifying himself with his adopted

[i] "Johannis Van Giesen, Y. M., from Utrecht (Netherland), and Aeltje Schepmoes, (wid. of Jan Evertse
Keteltas).   Received certificate to New York, July ri, 1687."—Bergen Records, in Hoi. Soc. Year Book, 1914, p. 64.