40                       THE OLD MERCHAJ\-rS
 

CHAPTER IV.

As I have said before in these chapters, we have had
two classes of Dutch or Holland merchants in this city.
One is the class whose ancestors came over here 235
years ago —^ such as the Stuyvesants, Rapelyes, Bayards,
Anthonys; and that class of Holland merchants who.
came here immediately after the Revolutionary war —
such as Henry A. and John G. Coster, John A. Will-
ink, Jan Boonen Graves, Frederick Gebhard, and John
C. Vanden Heuvel. He was indeed a type of the true
merchant. He was a man far advanced in life when he
came to this city to reside, in 1790. He had been a
merchant in the Dutch West Indies, where he owned
two plantations. He had agents who remitted to him
every year. When he came here he resided at 87
Liberty street; he lived there until 1800, wdien he
moved up to 229 Broadway, north corner of Broadway
and Barclay street. How much was thought of the
integrity and capability of Mr. V. may be judged from
the fact that though a foreigner, yet, in 1801, he was
elected a director in the United States Branch Bank,
of which Cornelius Ray was president, and such men
as Robert Lenox, Nicholas Low, Peter Schermerhorn,
and others of that class, were directors.

Mr. Vanden Heuvel hiSt a lovely young wife soon