Soldiers of the DWIC were housed in the Barrack building.

The canal was empty at low tide,  although Stokes notes that: Heeren gracht had “boats, canoes, and skiffs.” (I: 76).  So they must have been at bottom during low tide.

The NYC Municipal Archives show that there was a bit of a problem with garbage dumping in the canal.  See this document: https://encyclopedia.nahc-mapping.org/document/proclamationburgomasters-and-schepenen-prohibiting-throwing-out-rubbish-public-streets-or 

Additionally, those living near the canal were asked to dig it out regularly: https://encyclopedia.nahc-mapping.org/document/orderto-people-living-heere-graft-dig-out-canal 

Church in the fort had stone walls a slate roof, and some windows with stained glass containing coats of arms made by Evert Duykinck.

A contract for the stone work with the John and Richard Ogden gives detailed dimensions.

Stokes (I:58) about the Church of St. Nicholas in the fort at New Amsterdam needing repairs in 1656: "Evert Duyckinck, the New Amsterdam glazier, put in the church glass panes, bearing painted coats of arms, for each of the members of the city court."

These were the members of the city court in 1656: Cornelius van Tienhoven, Allard Anthony, Oloff Stevensen, Jacob Strycker, Jan Vinje, Johannes Van Brugge, Willem Beeckman, and Hendricks Kip.

Extract from the official records of October 9, 1656 (Singleton, 43): “Evert Duyckinck requests by petition to be informed from whom he is to receive payment for the glass which he put in the church for Schout, Burgomasters and Schepens, demanding 2 ½ beavers for each. The Court decided the petitioner shall go to each one for whom the glass was made for his payment either in trade, or as he can agree the same.”

 

Construction on Fort Amsterdam was begun in 1625 by Dutch West India Company surveyor and engineer Crijn Fredericksz. Despite professional advice that a masonry structure would best withstand the elements of the waterfront site on which it was built, plus the depredations of rooting hogs and pigs, the fort was constructed of timber and suffered much degradation over time. A four-sided structure with bastions at each corner to protect the sod-covered rubble-filled walls of clay and sand, it  was finally torn down in 1790 following the American Revolution.  During its day, it was variously the center of New Amsterdam’s trading activity, soldiers’ barracks, by 1642 the Reformed Dutch Church, the WIC Director’s house, and a storage depot for West India Company goods. 

Jaap Jacob's book  https://www.newhollandfoundation.nl/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/PDF-Dutch-Colonial-Fortifications-in-North-America.pdf   has extensive research on the many years in which changes and improvements to the Fort were made.   See pages 12-14.   He notes: 

"An anonymous English description of New Amsterdam indicates that the building works were completed in 1661: … and a Fort foursquare, 100 yards on each side, at each corner flanked out 26 yards. In the midst of the East and westside is a gate opposite to the other; the walls are built with lime and stone, and within filled up with Earth to a considerable breadth for planting guns, whereon are mounted 16. guns. In this Fort is the Church, the Governors house, and houses for soldiers, ammunition, etc.38

The Gallows were used for hangings. 

The depiction above is from the H. Stossel painting at the Southstreet Seaport Museum.
http://www.seany.org/
 

Illustration of the plan for the wall from Vol I of the Court Minutes, pg 72.

The Wall. The original plan for a wall of palisades was not utilized.   A less expensive method using uprights and planks was the final outcome.  See the attached article by Charly Gehring of the New Netherland Institute for more info.

In 1653 Petrus Stuyvesant as Director General and the Council of New Amsterdam proposed the building of a wall to protect the community, "in order to repulse a sudden attack".    In the minutes of their meeting, they required that members of the community participate including the Director General and the council, the mayors and schepens, the merchants, the free Africans, slaves and citizens.      The work was expected to take 3 weeks, and during that time, no ships or barks (boats) were permitted to leave so that as many people as possible could participate.

See pages 69-70 of the Council Minutes from 1952-1654 for a detailed description:  https://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/files/3414/0152/0685/Volume_V_-_Council_Minutes_1652-1654.pdf

Much research on the wall has been done at the NYC Municipal Archives:  https://newamsterdamstories.archives.nyc/blog/the-dutch-the-english-and-the-wall-that-divided-them

And the New Netherland Institute:   https://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/history-and-heritage/additional-resources/dutch-treats/putting-the-wall-on-wall-street/

According to the minutes dated 17 March 1653, initial plans called for palisades 12 feet long, 18 inches in circumference, and sharpened at  top.    This wall was planned to create a line that stretched  across the island.    However, this plan was much too expensive.  From the article: The Wall that becomes a Street by Charles Gehring we learn:

"During the first Ango-Dutch war (1652-1654) tensions rose between New England and New Netherland as this European naval conflict threatened to spill over into the New World.   In the spring of 1653 a delegation from New England visited Director General Petrus Stuyvesant in New Amsterdam with accusations that en had incited Indians to attack settlements in Connecticut.  When Stuyvesant denied the charges, the new Englanders left abruptly for a conference in Boston, leaving the impression that military action would soon follow.   Stuyvesant responded to the threat by strengthening his defenses on Manhattan.   In addition to repairing Fort Amsterdam plans we made to construct a defensive work across Manhattan on the northern edge of the city.

According to the minutes of the construction committee dated 17 March 1653, initial plans called for palisades 12 feet long, 18 inches in circumference, and sharpened at the upper end to be set in line across the island. Behind the palisades a breastwork would be constructed 4 feet high, 4 feet at the bottom and 3 feet at the top, covered with sod, with a ditch 3 feet wide and 2 feet deep, 2 ½ feet within the breastwork (see sketch which appears in margin of original document). The total length of ground to be lined with palisades was 180 rods (a rod = 13 feet). However, when the job was put up for bid no one came close to the committee’s offer of ƒ25 a rod. The lowest bid was ƒ40 per rod, which would have amounted to a total of ƒ7200 for the job. The committee decided to downsize the project by using planks instead of palisades. The specifications of expenses were: 180 rods make 2340 feet, 15 feet to the plank make 156 planks in length, 9 planks high, altogether 1404 planks at ƒ1 ½ per plank, amounting to ƒ2106. 340 posts at ƒ340; nails at ƒ100; transport costs at ƒ120; labor for setting them up and carpenters’ wages ƒ500. Total ƒ3166."  See:  Charles Gehring, The Wall that Became a Street

See Stokes Vol. 4, p. 138  for Mar. 15 for more info on building the wall. Source materials for Stokes begins with Fernow, Records of New Amsterdam, Vol. 1, Court minutes of New Amsterdam,  beginning on p. 69 and shows a sketch on p. 72 showing posts 9 feet above ground.   

Here is the entry from the minutes regarding the wall as a defense:   https://encyclopedia.nahc-mapping.org/document/further-resolution-measures-defense-be-adopted

Although the note from the note below only mentions the Africans, it does describe the process, and we now know that the Council called for teams of people to work together with representation from the entire community.

"When the Africans finished the trench, they formed a wall by standing big logs into it. Each log was 18 inches around and 12 feet long. Then they pounded dirt and stones back into the trench around the base of each log to make the wall strong. They built blockhouses at the ends of the wall, and gates were added where roads ran through it. " 

For more information on slavery in New Netherland, please see Andrea Mosterman’s digital exhibit for the New Netherland Institute:  https://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/history-and-heritage/digital-exhibitions/slavery-exhibit/ and her book https://www.amazon.com/Spaces-Enslavement-Resistance-Netherland-Institute/dp/1501715623

The Wharf.  Little has been written of the wharf on New Amsterdam’s East River. It is pictured in the famous “views” of the little city, unprepossessing in size and unscalable in imagination. A contemporary description, written in 1661, says that from the northeast gate at the east end of the palisade, or wall, built across the island, south to Whitehall at the Battery was a distance of 400 yards. In this area, “there is a gutte, whereby at high water boats goe into the towne.” Between this point and Long Island, across the East River, “[big] ships ly at anchor, to lade and unlade goods, secure from hurt of any wind and weather.”  The wharf was meant to serve the smaller boats that wished to move into and out of the town and to help in the loading and unloading of sea-going vessels.

This  painting, Windmill, 1670 by Jacob van Ruisdael, gives an approximation of typical Dutch windmills at the time of New Amsterdam.

This property was originally a house, but became a 'public house' or tavern under Lodowyck Pos.   Stokes, Vol II.

Stokes - " Site of No. 1 Broadway."  

This was both a house and a tavern.   The original structure burned to the ground and Marten rebuilt it and was operating a tavern by 1647.  Stokes.
 

Jacob de Lang, merchant, of Bemster, in Holland, bought this house and lot, afterward No . 5 Broadway, March 17, 1655, through his attorney in New Amsterdam, Jacob Hendricksen Backer.—Rec. N. Am., I: 75 ; Liber Deeds, A : 10.

The deed recites that a certified copy was made, confirmed with the city seal—evidently with the purpose of transmission to the purchaser, who appears never to have visited New Netherland. Backer delivered the deed to his patron, September 15, 1659.—Ibid., A : 177.

The house was built by Jan Hendricksen Steelman, alias Coopall, or Buy All, whose various activities had landed him deeply in debt to Jacob Jansen de Lang.—Mortgages, 1654-1660, trans, by O'Callaghan, 65-7.

De Lang's widow, Maria Verveelen, sold the property in 1664 to Francis Boon {Liber Deeds, B : 47), who, in turn, conveyed it to Gerrit van Tright in 1665.—Ibid., B : 8

Small house.  Stokes.

Pieter Sinkham, a tailor, was a tenant here in 1660.   The property was owned by Peter Stuyvesant.  Stokes describes this as a "little house".
 

An 'Inn of questionable character'.  Stokes

"At the Belle Videre where Do Drijsij houses stand, there are 4 houses" - De Sille List of 1660 - Stokes.

House, garden, and orchard.  Stokes.
Please read the Stokes page for a description of the Company's Garden on Heere Street.

House and garden.  Stokes.

This house was originally built by a wealthy merchant.

This property is an orchard.  

'House and Lot by the Land Gate' Stokes.

A wheelwright purchased this lot in 1661.   A house was built on the lot,
but the wheelwright lived elsewhere.    

The measurements of this house in the model are currently:

13' Wide x 25' Deep x 10' Tall.

This is an approximation, as the house has not yet been modeled in detail.

House and Brewhouse. Stokes.

House and Brewhouse. Stokes.

This was the Latin School.

Small House.

1659-02-19

Maize Land. Stokes.

Maize Land. Stokes.

Was owned by Marinus Adriaensen  (Maryn Adriaensen)     Bio info is available for him in Stokes.   Requires further research.
 

What was once a formal garden is now part of Trinity Church Yard.  Stokes.
 

Substantial buildings including a cooperage and homestead. Stokes.

Possibly both a house and a tavern.  Stokes is a bit unclear.  TD. 2009-10-04

Original Patent of Isaac Allerton and Govert Loockermans for 2 lots of land on Manhattan Island 
1643-02-06

 http://digitalcollections.archives.nysed.gov/index.php/Detail/objects/51145

House owned by Samuel Edsall but rented to Jan Fries. Stokes.

This was the 'southerly house' mentioned in Stokes description.   Although this house belonged to Pieter Rudolphus in 1660, his residence was on Prince Gracht  (C34).  Stokes.

At one time this house belonged to Cosyn Gerritsen van Putten, the main wheelwright for the colony, so it may have had a wheelwright's workshop at one time.

This is described as the 'northerly house' in Stokes.

In a part of this house school was kept here by Harmanus van Hoboocken before his own house at L10 was built.

C 18 and 18A = "1 large new and 1 small decayed old house"   It appears that #18 was the new house and 18A the old house.  Stokes.

Schulyer, who owned this property lived in Albany.

Small, old decayed house.

Schulyer lived in Albany.

Stokes description of this property is unclear as to function or property type.   Review by Scholarly committee or more information necessary, especially as Red Lion Brewery is listed elsewhere.  TD 11-2-09

The Deaconry of New Amsterdam purchased this property from Paulus van der Beeck.   Most probably, it was the first poorhouse.  Stokes.

Little house/cottage. Stokes.

Purchased on speculation.  Stokes.

Modest cottage. Stokes

'...low, wide, house, with a wing...covered the entire frontage of the street, about 30 feet....'  Stokes.

House and outbuilding.

Most scholars refer to this property as the White Horse Tavern.    For a dozen years,  Philipe Geraerdy kept tavern here, and prospered,  he died some time in  December, 1654.   His son ran the tavern for a short time and then sold the building.

The Wooden Horse Tavern. Stokes

Some time in or before 1657.

House of Maria Polet, widow of Philip Geraerdy.....she kept a tavern here....   Stokes.   It is not clear from Stokes if this house was a house, or both a house and a part of the Wooden Horse Tavern at D5.  For the sake of the model, we will assume that it is a house, where perhaps she took on overflow customers from the Wooden Horse next door.    Maria is not listed in the Holland Society's original list of ancestors and so it is not possible to associate her with this house.   This is a functionality that must revised in future iterations.    TD 11-04-09

Ebbingh is described as a 'wealthy merchant', so the house might reflect that.
 

D8 and D9 were double attached houses, made of brick.

D8 and D9 were double attached houses made of brick.

The brewery was a large building.  '.....occupying 3 sides of the quadrangle...'   A well is also mentioned.  See Stokes D10.

This was the residence of Oloff Stevensen van Cortlandt and part of the compound including the very large brewery, a well, possibly outbuildings, and 2 other houses.   Stokes 10-10A-10B-10C.

This house was part of the compound that included the large brewery,  Olaf Stevensen Van Cortlandt's residence and another house.

This house was part of the compound containing the large brewery, Olaf Stevensen Van Cortlandt's residence, and another house.

Since Abraham de la Noy is listed as an innkeeper, it is possible that this house was also used as an inn.   Stokes is not clear about this. TD 11-05-09

...large house with ornamental dormers...Stokes.

cottage

A cottage rented to a young shoemaker and his wife. Stokes.

Cottage.

Little house.

This was 2 small houses until purchased by David Wessels who demolished the small cooper's house.

This was a house and lot rented to Meindert Barentsen 1,660,016 by Bout.   Original deed at New York Historical Society.

House and double lot.

...pretentious...double gable to the street....Stokes

5 houses of the Company....Stokes

These were attached houses owned by the DWIC, and used to house the company's servants as well as goods and merchandise.
"Jacob Hendricks, "the barber' (i.e. Varrenvanger), is stated to have been living in the Company's house."  Stokes
 

This property later became a school house.

...In his shop...he dealt as a mercer, selling silks, linens, galloon, lace, stockings and buttons.... Stokes.

Jacob Hendricksen and Jacob Stryker, Jr. shared a half interest in this property in the year 1660.

small house

became The Gasthuys (Hospital)

became The Gasthuys (Hospital)

This was the residence of Dr. Hans Kierstede and his wife, Sara Roelof Kierstede.

Cornelis Steenwyck's "elaborate dwelling-house (F2,3,4) was erected upon the south-east corner of the present Whitehall and .Bridge Streets, now know n as No. 27  Whitehall Street."  Stokes

....Cornelis Steenwyck....His elaborate dwelling house....Stokes

The measurements of this house in the model are currently:

19'3" Wide  x  45'11"  Deep  x  11'10" Tall.

This is an approximation, as the house has not yet been modeled in detail.

Paulus Leendersen built this tall warehouse in 1650.

Pack House of the DWIC.

This warehouse is described as a 3 story building in Stokes.

...his extensive dwelling here was referred to as "van Tienhoven's Great House."....

This lot was also part of ..."van Tienhoven's Great House"...Stokes.

In 1656 Isaac De Forest built a house on the grounds of the old church which is described as "which was an ornament to the City."   Stokes

This is described as a small house and a tavern in Stokes.

Small house.

Baker's shop. Stokes

Tavern, granted permission to tap in 1656.

"...a pretty cottage, which, in 1660, belonged to Annetje Jans Bogardus, then living at Albany....A splendid tree shaded the cottage--shaded, too, the smaller house at the rear belonging to Trijin Jonas, the midwife......."Stokes

Both Annetje and Trijin are not listed as Ancestors under the current configuration of the model.  This points to the issue of assigning ownership of these lots to Spouses and/or developing a list of Female Ancestors vs. Male Ancestors in the next phase of the project.  TD -11-12-09

--a fair sized house, with a stable in the rear, and a trim garden with fruit trees....Stokes

tavern, was a maritime building, many seafaring men frequented it.

...house...an old one...had probably fallen into complete decay.   The Plan shows that it was demolished before July, 1660...Stokes

No. 2 and 2A   -   Jan Evertsen Bout is said to have lived here.   He owned a much better house in Block D (No. 21), but he lived at Breuckelen the greater part of the time.  His domicile in New Amsterdam seems to have been for business purposes.....Stokes.

No. 2 and 2A - Jan Evertsen Bout is said to have lived here. He owned a much better house in Block D (No. 21), but he lived at Breuckelen the greater part of the time. His domicile in New Amsterdam seems to have been for business purposes.....Stokes.

.....Stuyvesant's house was probably built of stone.....Stokes J1

House and orchard.

little house

THis property belonged to Janneken Bonus.  She was a widow with children.  See Stokes.   Janneken is not listed under the list of ancestors.  In Phase II she must be included.  TD.

little cottage

Red Lion Brewery

Little house.

The "trivial school" of Harmanus van Hobocken

The measurements of this house in the model are currently:

12.5' Wide  x  22'  Deep  x  10' 4" Tall.

This is an approximation, as the house has not yet been modeled in detail.

In 1660 this house was the scene of a double wedding as both of Nicassius' daughters were wed here.

6 houses were built on this lot by Adriaen Vincent.

Although Thomas Davidts owned this property, he was often in Albany, and the house was occupied by Foppe Robberts.

M5 and M6 are 2 small dwellings.

Tavern where brawls often took place.

DWIC owned this property to house enslaved workers from Africa and the Americas.  It was the "house of the company's negroes'" as listed in Stokes.

In Andrea Mosterman's book  Spaces of Enslavement , she notes " New York's enslaved population also included a significant number of Native Americans.  In fact, frequent references to enslaved Native Americans in colonial legislation suggest that their enslavement was not uncommon in the region, even though a 1679 law prohibited the bondage of New York's indigenous populations and granted freedom to Native Americans who had been brought into the colony from other parts of the Americas after they had been there for six months.  Thus, New York's enslaved population consisted of an ethnically diverse mix of men, women, and children of African and Native American descent." p 6

"The men and women enslaved by the company helped build the colony's infrastructure and fortifications, such as Fort Amsterdam, clear the land, develop its agriculture, and tend to livestock." p 23

" Enslaved men who worked in chains likely produced some of the most physically taxing labor, such as the digging of the canals.  Their circumstances were so severe that working alongside them became a form of punishment in the colony...."  See this document as an example: https://encyclopedia.nahc-mapping.org/document/dutch-colonial-council-minutes-17-may-6-june-1644

" By the 1660's, the seven or eight people still enslaved by the company in New Amsterdam may have inhabited this building as well. ..... if most of the people enslaved by the company lived here, which was likely the case considering that it was referred to as the house of the company slaves, it housed multiple families, thus leaving little privacy and space for each of them." p 35

We are estimating that this meant there may have been 7-8 families living in the very small house, so perhaps as many as 35-40 people.  More research may provide additional information.  TD 2023

...mean little house...Stokes

This was the house of a master glazier known for creating stained glass windows.

little house

Brew house of Michael Vreeland

Tax Lots M18 and 19 were owned by Rutger Jacobsen.   He built this house, after October 4, 1649 and before October 15, 1655....  "It seems to have been the finest residence on the block, with a coach-house, or possibly a small warehouse, in the rear (No. 19).  The garden was more than 150 feet deep....

Coach house or warehouse

(site of Burger Jorrisen’s smithy, 1655); this would have been both a smithy and a house
 

Meindert Barentsen and his wife's mother occupied houses at M22 and M23.   See Stokes file attached for details.

Meindert Barentsen and his wife's mother occupied houses at M22 and M23. See Stokes file attached for details.

Pieter Wolfertsen van Couwenhoven (263) aquired this property from Govert Loockermans (151).  (Notes from the Index to the Castello Plan).

Home of Govert Loockermans (151), a wealthy brewer who became a major landholder in New Amsterdam.  Described in Stokes as 'house and brewhouse',  it is later described in Stokes as "the great stone brewhouse".

Measurements for this house in the model would be the equivalent of:
20' 8" X 29' 4" X 18'
 
Length X Width X Height
 

"Claas Karstensen" of Sant, in Norway own this little house until October 1662 when he sold it to Aldert Conick.  (Stokes).
 

Gysbert Teunissen van Barnevelt (1660180) was listed as a farmer.  As a result, we have modeled this house as a farmer's house.  TD

Here are the dimensions used in creating the 3D model of this house:

Width (Frontage on the Street) - 15'10"
Length - 29' 8.1"
Height from finished floor to beginning of roof line - 7' 9"
Interior Height from floor to ceiling - 7'8"
Roof Height from floor level to top peak of roof - 20'4"

The measurements were researched by Len Tantillo

Stokes describes this property as a house built by the Chimney Sweep, Pieter Andriessen Schoorsteenweger (1660156), and sold to William Herrick (1660075).

Pieter's tavern was in operation for many years, as he was listed as a tapster as early as 1648.

Measurements for this house as it is represented in the model would be the equivalent of:

15' 9.5" X 27' 5.5" x 12' 7.5"
Length X Width X Height

Taxlots 8,9,and 10 were owned by Nicholas de Meyer in 1660 and included a house and a mill.  See Stokes Vol II for more details.   Lot #10 was the old stone house, the mill was at the western end, and the garden was in between according to Stokes. TD.

Taxlots 8, 9, 10 were purchased by Nicholas de Meyer and contained a mill, a lot, and a stone house.  Lot #10 was the stone house and was occupied by Nicholas and his family.  According to Stokes, the western end was the mill, the house was lot #10 and the garden was in between.   See Stokes VolII for more details.  TD.

"old stone house of van Couwenhowen", see Stokes Vol II for more details. 
 

Tielman van Vleck (349) and his wife Maghdaleentee Herlyn (660,038)acquired this property from from Michiel Paulussen (1660134). (Notes from the Index to the Castello Plan.)

Aris Otto's tavern was described as being 'not of a very high order'.

This house may not have existed in 1660 or was under construction. Wessell Evertsen (1,660,063) was in the process of building the house for Assur Levy (1,660,117).   Levy  took occupancy in June 1, 1663.   (Stokes Vol II).
 

Little house likely to have been the home of Cornelis Melyen.

It is likely that Adolph Pietersen was occupying this property in 1660 as the notes on the Index to the Catello Plan suggest that Mattheus built it for him in 1651.   However, Adolph Pietersen is not currently in our data set.  TD
 

Small house built by poet. Poorly maintained chimney. See Stokes Vol II

Blocks O8 and O9 are described as: de Stadt Huys

Blocks O8 and O9 are described as: de Stadt Huys

Stokes description is not clear about whether or not this parcel was developed by 1660.  TD

Stokes is not clear about whether or not this parcel was developed by 1660. TD.

Charles Bridges acquired this property through his marriage to Sarah Cornell, but he retained only a life estate.  The property went back to the Willett Family.  (Sarah Cornell had been married to Thomas Willett.) TD - See Stokes Vol II. 

La Chair ran an unsuccessful tavern in this house.  See Stokes Vol II for more info. TD

Smith, Richard (c.1596-1666) Richard Smith was born in Thornbury, Gloucestershire ca. 1596.   In 1621, he married Johan Barton and they had 5 children:  Johan 1624; Katheryne 1627; James 1629; Richard 1630; and Elizabeth 1632.  About 1635 he moved his family to Taunton in the Plymouth colony, and arrived in New Amsterdam in 1641.  During the 1640's Smith  conducted a flourishing trading business in New Amsterdam.  He owned a sloop, the Welcome, on which he carried European trade goods to his post at Cocumscussoc where he exchanged them for furs.  In 1648, Smith bought out his rival Jan Wilcox and in 1651 he purchased the trading business and adjacent property of Roger Williams.  Smith served as one of the 'Eight Men", and advisory council to the Dutch Director, Kieft.   Smith's daughter, Katheryne married Gysbert OpDyck, and his daughter Johan married Thomas Newton.  The Smith family left New Amsterdam in 1649.   Gysbert and Katheryne remained in New Amsterdam where Katheryne died about 1660.  Richard Smith died at Cosumscussoc in 1666.

Paraphrased from: Smith's Castle at Cocumscossoc: Four Centuries of Rhode Island History, Neil G. Dunay, Norma LaSalle, R.Darrell McIntire, 2003. 

Based on the above information, we have modeled the house assuming that Gysbert OpDyck and Richard Smith's daughter Katherine remain in residence during 1660.    Richard Smith was a wealthy merchant dealing in European goods and furs, and the house would have reflected his prosperous business.   

Narrative Action:  Katherine died about 1660 so we have attempted to show a funeral, or to have people stop by the house to pay respects to Gysbert OpDyck.

The measurements of this house in the model are currently:

30' 5.5" Wide  x  11.5'  Deep  x  8' Tall.

This house would have had every convenience of the time.  TD See Stokes Vol II.

Two small houses under one roof.  They were rented to Mathys Muller, town watchman, and Gerrit Pilser.   The houses may not have been in very good condition. 

Description of this property in Stokes is not clear.  May be a bowerie, may be a house.

This house had 8 small apple trees on the property.

Large House

Small house rented to Andries Jochemsen by Daniel Litschoe.

'neglected little house and lot'.

House rented by Claes Claesen Smith from Andries Jochemsen.    Claes allowed goats to ruin the orchard and garden.

This is one of 3 houses built by Claes Hendricksen, master carpenter.

One of three houses built by master carpenter Claes Hendricksen.  This one was the 'Great House' that Claes lived in, and that Andries Jochemsen lived in after he purchased all three houses circa 1660.

Jochemsen, a sailmaker, also decided to open a tavern here in 1657.
 

One of three houses built by master carpenter Claes Hendricksen.  This one was the 'Great House' that Claes lived in, and that Andries Jochemsen lived in after he purchased all three houses circa 1660.

Jochemsen, a sailmaker, also decided to open a tavern here in 1657.
 

This house was sold to Willem Pietersen.  We do not currently have information on him.  TD 2-18-2010
 

See Stokes Taxlot Q14 for a detailed account of this property.

Burger Jorisen had 3 lots.  This one was the residence, Q17 was the still, and Q18 was the smithy.  Stokes.

This house belonged to the estate of Govert Loockermans, until 1672, when it was sold to Joannes van Brugh.

Small outbuilding.

R1- Dwelling; R2 - Tobacco warehouse of Albert Andriessen...who established a trading post here.  He used the house as an office for his factor.

Tobacco warehouse

R 3 and 3A are listed as the homes of Claes van Elslant and of Andries Claessen, his son.

...every indication that this structure, ...was not a dwelling, but a carpenter's shop....Stokes Taxlot R4