84                                       GRANTS  ON  PEARL  STREET.

North river shore. We may consider the grants above
enumerated, as the beginning of Broadway in its character
of a public street, it having previously been no more than
a road through fields owned by the West India Company,
under their Indian title to the island.

It was before suggested, that the favorite building local¬
ities in the outset of this city, were those immediately
adjacent to the fort; and one of the earliest being on the
present line of Pearl street, between Whitehall and
State streets. This had been occupied from the time that
the fort was first laid out. The situation was convenient
for the kind of buildings then customary, as some protec¬
tion was afforded from the cold northerly winds by the
walls of the fort. Among the early occupants, ranging
between the years 1643 and 1647, were the following, on
the north side of the street, commencing at the present
Whitehall street: Lamert Van Valkenbergh, Jan Evertsen
Bout, Barent Jansen, Michael Pauluzen, Anthony Jansen,
Jochem Pietersen, Cars Pietersen, Gillis Pietersen, Claes Jan¬
sen, Joris Rapelje, Hans Hansen, Jan Snediger, Jacob Con¬
stable, Tryntje Jonas, Francis Doughty, and Paulus Heymans.
On the south side of the street were Rem Jansen, The
Company's Bakery, Jan Cornelisen Coster, Claes Jansen Van
JSTaerden, Claes Jansen Ruyter, Cornelis Tunizen. Jan Jansen
Schepmoes, Jurien Blanck.

The early settlers upon Whitehall street, were as
follows: In 1645, Tunis Tomassen Van Jfaarden was
granted the lot on the present south-east corner of White¬
hall and Marketfield streets, having a front on Whitehall
street of about one hundred feet, and depth on Marketfield
street of about seventy feet. In the following year, a
grant was made to  Roelof Jansen Haes, of the property