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his plot of ground is shown as vacant on the Plan — an evidence of the accuracy of this survey. It was sold to Jacques Cousseau at public sale, April 10, 1659. Before the deed was recorded, July 31, 1659, the buildings had been "pulled down" by Cousseau (so recited in Liher Deeds, A: 171).
The old house had harboured some very undesirable citizens, of whom the neighbours, Jan Schepmoes, Jacob Steendam, and others, frequently complained. Under date of May 31, 1655, the record says:
Whereas this day a remonstrance has been made to the Schout, Burgomasters and Schepens of this City against the wicked, enormous, beastly, dreadful and immoral lives of Jacob Stevensen and Mary Joosten, his wife, who came recently hither from Patria; . . . Therefore . . . the Magistrates knowing and criticising their behaviour, the said Jacob Stevensen and Mary Joosten are hereby, for the second and last time, ordered and by the Court Messenger cautioned to henceforth conduct themselves in such wise that no complaints be made against them to the Court by the Commonalty or their neighbours. — Rec. N. Am., I: 317.
On November 20, 1656, "the HonW^ Jacob Strycker" complained that the "chimney of Jacob Stevensen's house in Pearl Street was neither repaired or pulled down he is the next neighbour and nothing else is to be expected, not only by him but by the whole street, but a sudden destruction by fire." — Ibid., II: 230.
The threat of the authorities to deport the Stevensens (ibid., I: 317) may have been put into execution; they do not appear again on the records.
(For Cousseau, see Block G. No. 10.)
The old house had harboured some very undesirable citizens, of whom the neighbours, Jan Schepmoes, Jacob Steendam, and others, frequently complained. Under date of May 31, 1655, the record says:
Whereas this day a remonstrance has been made to the Schout, Burgomasters and Schepens of this City against the wicked, enormous, beastly, dreadful and immoral lives of Jacob Stevensen and Mary Joosten, his wife, who came recently hither from Patria; . . . Therefore . . . the Magistrates knowing and criticising their behaviour, the said Jacob Stevensen and Mary Joosten are hereby, for the second and last time, ordered and by the Court Messenger cautioned to henceforth conduct themselves in such wise that no complaints be made against them to the Court by the Commonalty or their neighbours. — Rec. N. Am., I: 317.
On November 20, 1656, "the HonW^ Jacob Strycker" complained that the "chimney of Jacob Stevensen's house in Pearl Street was neither repaired or pulled down he is the next neighbour and nothing else is to be expected, not only by him but by the whole street, but a sudden destruction by fire." — Ibid., II: 230.
The threat of the authorities to deport the Stevensens (ibid., I: 317) may have been put into execution; they do not appear again on the records.
(For Cousseau, see Block G. No. 10.)