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O3
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Date Start
1644-12-15
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Description
Little house likely to have been the home of Cornelis Melyen.
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In 1660, all that remained to Cornelis Melyn of his holdings in this block was this little house and its garden, which extended from the rear of Hendrick Jansen vander Vin's lot, about 60 feet north of the Strand, to the Hoogh Straet.
Melyn seems to have been in New Amsterdam frequently between June, 1660, and February, 1661, as his appearances in court prove. — Rec. N. Am., Ill: 169, 178, 182, 198, 225. Probably, then, at the time of our view, he lived in the little house here depicted. In 1697, Jacob Melyn, a son of Cornelis, had a house at the corner of the High Street, on a plot 20 X 20, which had been conveyed to him by the administrators of his mother's estate, May 26, 1684; he sold it. May 26, 1697, to William Bickley, Senior. — Liber Deeds, XXI: 228.
In 1680, Isaac Melyn, another son, mortgaged the lot where the little house stands ' to Gulyn Verplanck, for 1840 guilders. — Ibid., XII: 32. It seems to have passed under foreclosure to Verplanck's estate. His heirs partitioned it, in 1722, having first secured a release from Johannah, the only child of Isaac Melyn, then the wife of Jonathan Dickinson. — Ibid., XXX: 267, 448.
Nos. I, 2, and 3 cover the site of the building at Nos. 93, 95, and 97 Broad Street.
Melyn seems to have been in New Amsterdam frequently between June, 1660, and February, 1661, as his appearances in court prove. — Rec. N. Am., Ill: 169, 178, 182, 198, 225. Probably, then, at the time of our view, he lived in the little house here depicted. In 1697, Jacob Melyn, a son of Cornelis, had a house at the corner of the High Street, on a plot 20 X 20, which had been conveyed to him by the administrators of his mother's estate, May 26, 1684; he sold it. May 26, 1697, to William Bickley, Senior. — Liber Deeds, XXI: 228.
In 1680, Isaac Melyn, another son, mortgaged the lot where the little house stands ' to Gulyn Verplanck, for 1840 guilders. — Ibid., XII: 32. It seems to have passed under foreclosure to Verplanck's estate. His heirs partitioned it, in 1722, having first secured a release from Johannah, the only child of Isaac Melyn, then the wife of Jonathan Dickinson. — Ibid., XXX: 267, 448.
Nos. I, 2, and 3 cover the site of the building at Nos. 93, 95, and 97 Broad Street.