Lot: G8 (Taxlots)

Claes Jansen, baker, owned a small house on the site of the present No. 19 Pearl Street. The lot was a narrow one then, as it is now, and encroached on the Rapalje grant. By 1674, Cathalyna, widow of Joris Rapalye, had acquired it; she sold it to Jeremias Jansen Westerhout, a kinsman of her late husband, February 19, 1674. — Original Book of N. Y. Deeds, in N. Y. Hist. Soc. Collections, 1913, pp. 19-20. In 1677, Michiel Smith was assessed here.— M. C. C, I: 52; Liber Deeds, XXI: 146.

For Claes Jansen, baker, see Block F, No. 14.