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In 1660, and until 1880, the Markvelt Steegh began at the Market Field, as it naturally would.[^] The corner house was built by Frederick Arentsen, a turner, from Swartensluys, who came to New Amsterdam in 1654, under contract for three years to Lourens Andriessen, from Boskerk, a master turner. A year before his term expired, on "Sunday Morning," July 23, 1656, he ran away, "without either words or reason," and married Grietje Pieters, of Breda. — Marriages in Ref. Dutch Ch., 20. His master sued to recover his services, but to no purpose. — Rec. N. Am., II: 144, 148. Having bought his lot from Teunis Tomassen, the mason {Liber Deeds, A: 148), who agreed to take part of the price in chairs, he insisted on having it "deliver^ to him at thirteen inches to the foot," which Tomassen and his wife, Beletje Jacobs, disputed. — Rec. N. Am., II: 327, 331; III: 3, 12. He hired Christian Barensen to build his house; then sued him, in April, 1658, because it was not finished. Barensen answered that no time had been specified, and that he could get no money; finally, that he had turned the contract over to Jacob Leunissen {ibid., VII: 183-5), who finished it by September, 1658. — Mortgages, 1654-1660, trans, by O'Callaghan, 100.
Before the grading and fencing were finished, Arentsen quarreled with his neighbour on the south, Gerrit Hendricksen, attacking him so fiercely with a broom-stick that he broke his own windows in his rage, as all the neighbours testified. — Rec. N. Am., II: 395-6. In 1670, he tore down the south fence again, in a dispute with WarnaerWessels, and was fined 20 guilders and costs. Surveyor Cortelyou was then called in to make a survey in the presence of the mayor, which was to be absolute. — Ibid., VI: 234.
Arentsen was an expert cabinet-maker. Both he and his wife appear to have been extremely contentious. He prospered, however. In 1677, "Mf fFredrick Arients" was taxed here on a high valuation. — M. C. C, I: 53. Riker says {Hist, of Harlem, 143) that this settler was Frederick Arents Bloem, ancestor of the Bloom family of New York.
'] The following quotations are from Eccles. Rec; the liber references are to books of church records. [2] Marketfield St., between Whitehall and New Sts., was sold to the New York Produce Exchange by the City of New York, under authority of Chap. 159, Laws of 1880.
Before the grading and fencing were finished, Arentsen quarreled with his neighbour on the south, Gerrit Hendricksen, attacking him so fiercely with a broom-stick that he broke his own windows in his rage, as all the neighbours testified. — Rec. N. Am., II: 395-6. In 1670, he tore down the south fence again, in a dispute with WarnaerWessels, and was fined 20 guilders and costs. Surveyor Cortelyou was then called in to make a survey in the presence of the mayor, which was to be absolute. — Ibid., VI: 234.
Arentsen was an expert cabinet-maker. Both he and his wife appear to have been extremely contentious. He prospered, however. In 1677, "Mf fFredrick Arients" was taxed here on a high valuation. — M. C. C, I: 53. Riker says {Hist, of Harlem, 143) that this settler was Frederick Arents Bloem, ancestor of the Bloom family of New York.
'] The following quotations are from Eccles. Rec; the liber references are to books of church records. [2] Marketfield St., between Whitehall and New Sts., was sold to the New York Produce Exchange by the City of New York, under authority of Chap. 159, Laws of 1880.