Stokes, I. N. Phelps The iconography of Manhattan Island 1498-1909 (v. 2)

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302              THE ICONOGRAPHY OF MANHATTAN ISLAND

du Piu  (Dupuy).—Liber Deeds,  B:   128;   Book of Records of Deeds y  Transfers  (etc.),
1665-1672 (translated), 100.
Site: 48-50 Beaver Street.

No. 17

The brew-house of Michiel Jansen (Vreeland), of Gamoenepa, (Communipaw): built
In the rear of the house and lot which he bought from Marcus Hendricksen Vogelsang,
April 4, 1656 (see No. 20, infra). His widow, Fijtje Hartmans, sold it to Meindert Barensen,
the cooper, October i, 1663.—Liber Deeds, B: 25; Deeds y Conveyances (etc.), 1659-1664,
trans, by O'Callaghan, 334-5.

For Michiel Jansen, see Block J, No. 14.

The long, narrow, garden between Nos. 16 and 17, which, in 1660, was planted with
eight small trees, belonged to a free negress, Susanna Anthony Robberts. Her house had,
evidently, been demolished for some time, but she was still living, for she is recorded, on
February 14, 1661, as having hired out her brother, Jochim Anthony Robberts, to Wolphert
Webber.—Register of Solomon La Chaire, trans, by O'Callaghan, 18. One Anthony Sarley,
of the Bowery, conveyed the property of Ahasuerus Fromantel, December 11, 1691.—
Liber Deeds, IX: 223 (Albany).

Between Susanna's lot, which was only 31 feet, 6 inches wide, and the brew-house, was
a small lot, which Megapolensis sold to Sarah, widow of Hans Hansen, delivering the deed
March 10, 1663.—Patents, II:  163 (Albany).

Susanna's ground Is now a part of 52-54 Beaver Street. The brew-house stood on the
Beaver Street side of the Delmonico Building.

Nos.   18   AND   19

Rutger Jacobsen, ancestor of the Rutgers family of New York and Albany, built this
house, after October 4, 1649, and before October 15, 1655, when the house was taxed.
—N. Y. Col. MSS., Ill: 67; Rec. N. Am., I: 374.

It seems to have been the finest residence on the block, with a coach-house, or possibly
a small warehouse. In the rear (No. 19). The garden was more than 150 feet deep, and
included the end of the Slyck Steegh. That part of the land which lay between the High
Street and the Steegie was bought from Wessel Evertsen; the remainder from Megapolensis.
The little lane, cut through pursuant to the survey of 1657, did not diminish Jacobsen's
land at all.

Rutger Jacobsen, from Schoonderwoert, province of South Holland, began his career
in these parts at Rensselaerswyck, April 8, 1637. He probably came in the ship
"Rensselaerswyck," which arrived at the "manatans," Wednesday, the 4th of March,
1637.—Van Rensselaer Bowier MSS., 374. He married a maiden of New Amsterdam,
Trljntje Janszen, from Breestede, June 3, 1646.—Marriages in Ref. Dutch Ch., 14. The
greater part of his life was spent at Albany, where he was engaged very extensively in the
brewing Industry.

There is a very interesting history of this settler and his descendants (several of whom,
also, were prosperous brewers), in an article on "The Rutgers Family of New York," writ¬
ten by one of them—Hon. Ernest H. Crosby—and printed In the A^. Y. Geneal. y Biog.
Rec, April, 1886. Also, a good biographical sketch is to be found In the Van Rensselaer
Bowier MSS., 812.

Between 1656 and 1661, Abraham de Lucena, a prominent Jewish merchant of New
Amsterdam, occupied the premises, only surrendering his lease to Isaac Bedloo after the
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