CHAPTER IX.

condition  of  the  city  at  the  time  OP  THB   CAPITULATION  TO  THE
ENGLISH  IN 1664,  CONTINUED.

We have now come to the part of the town anciently
called " T'Marckvelt," or the Marketfield, so called from
the circumstance of the line of buildings facing the open
space now in part occupied by the Bowling Green. It
was then, however, an uninclosed space lying in front of
the fort, and occupied at stated intervals for a fair or
market, to which the country people brought their cattle
for sale. The buildings forming the street called the
"Marketfield," commenced on the east side of the present
Whitehall street, above Stone street, and extended as far
as the present Beaver street; and on the opposite side they
occupied the west side of the present Broadway, running
toward Morris street. The number of buildings fronting
on the " Marketfield" at that period, being ten or eleven.

Metje Greveraat, a widow, occupied a small house on
the east side of Whitehall street, north of Stone street.

Jonas Barteltzen, a store-keeper, occupied premises on
the east side of Whitehall street, between Stone and Mar¬
ketfield streets. Mr. Barteltzen, became afterward a man
of considerable property. Amongst other real estate
owned by him was a house, barn and plot of ground on