Lot: R4 (Taxlots)

This small building belonged to Jan Jansen Hagenaar, a carpenter, who did considerable work for the city. — Rec. N. Am., VII: 148. He and a fellow-craftsman, Willem Deuckles, bought a lot here from Gillis Pietersen, master carpenter for the Company in earlier days, but at this time of Fort Orange. — Register of Walewyn tan der Veen, trans, by O'Callaghan, 113; Liber Deeds, A: 98, 160. Jansen lived in Breuckelen, and there is every indication that this structure, which was erected after June 27, 1659 {idem), was not a dwelling, but a carpenter's shop. Early in 1662, Jan Jansen asks the court "if there be any thing else to do, as all that he was ordered is done? He is ordered to look up the City ladders and to make a shed to keep the ladders under." — Rec. N. Am., VII: 248. In November, following, while crossing the East River from his home, he was drowned. — Min. of Orph. Court, trans, by O'Callaghan, 213.

According to the Register of Solomon Lachaire, trans, by O'Callaghan, 364, William Doeckes (Deuckles, Doeckles, Dueckles) hired young Adriaen Jansen, a lad of sixteen years. The boy's guardians, however, soon secured his release, as the little fellow was not properly fed or clothed by his master. From his own pathetic statement, it appears that "whenever he earns a stiver by making any trifles, he must buy food for it." — Rec. N. Am., IV: 184, 192. Jansen's heirs sold the property, in 1672, to Roelof Jansen Slaghter (butcher). — Liber Deeds, B: 199; cf. Book of Records of Deeds y Transfers (etc.), 1665-1672 (translated), 235-6. See controversy over the sale, in Rec. N. Am., VI: 2:7^7 ■

The building shown on the Plan stood in the bed of the present New Street.