Lot: K4 (Taxlots)

No. 49 Wall Street. Hendrick Jansen Sluyter was a soldier in the Company's service as early as 1655. He was known by the sobriquet of "Blue Coat." For a time, he served the city as a watchman, but was dismissed from this position in January, 1659. — Rec. N. Am., VII: 208. Soon afterward, he and his wife were participants in a disgraceful street brawl, which shocked the community so greatly that Sluyter had to promise to send his wife back to Holland. — Rec. N. Am., Ill: 23. However, like many sentences of the day, this was not carried out. Hendrick " Bluecoat" died, and his widow voluntarily departed for Holland with her children, March 12, 1663. — Min. of Orph. Court, trans, by O'Callaghan, 320. She was offered 600 guilders ("about {^240) for the little house on the Plan.