Dedication
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SITE PHOTOS
- BARLOW, Caleb
- BARLOW, Edwin
- BARLOW, Margaret
- BARLOW, Obed
- BARLOW, Walter
- BARLOW, Walter Sherman
- CRAWFORD, Mary Ett
- GREENHALGE (GREENBALGE), Sarah Ellen
- HICKS, Lydia Lavinia
- HULL, Rev. Joseph
- Site of house built by Rev. Joseph Hull, 1595-1665, who with Elder Thomas Dimmock was given the charter for the land now occupied by the town of Barnstable
- MASKELL, Martha
- MASKELL, Michael
- MCGEE, Arminda Mary (Minnie)
- MCGEE, Edwin N.
- MCGEE, Selah Augustus
- MERCER, Bathia S.
- OMANS, Anson
- OMANS, Glenn A.
- OMANS, Stephen
- PIMPERTON, Mary Ann
- POOLEY, Minnie
- PORTER, William
- PRENCE, Thomas
- RAND, Louisa C.
- REYNOLDS, Sarah
- SHERMAN, Effie
- SHERMAN, Horace
- SOOP, Abraham
- SPAWN (SPAUN), Abram
- SPAWN (SPAUN), Frederick
- SPAWN (SPAUN), Julia
- SPAWN (SPAUN), Lewis
- SPAWN (SPAUN), Martha
- SPAWN (SPAUN), Peter
- VOLKERSTON, Dirck Noorman
- 1660 Map of New Amsterdam, part of The Virtual New Amsterdam Project
Scroll down to the link to the map. Take a virtual tour of the places where Dirck and other family members lived!
Between 1638 and 1645 Dirck owned and probably occupied the large house at 125 Pearl Street, just below Wall Street. It was on a quarter-acre and had a garden and apple trees. He sold the house in 1645. The deed states he took six of the apple trees when he moved. In 1648 Sergeant Daniel LITSCHOE purchased the site and converted the house into a tavern. The site of this tavern appears on the 1660 map of the city; however, LITSCHOE traded it in 1653 for "the Jansen house" just north of the City Wall. This may have been the old VIGNE home, since Jan Jansen DAMEN had just died, so Adrienne CUVELIER - Dirck's mother-in-law and Jan's widow - may have spent her last three years of life in Dirck's old house on Pearl Street. In 1691, Captain KIDD and his new wife, the former Mrs. Sarah OORT, moved into a large house on Pearl Street, half a block south of Dirck's old house.
In 1638 Dirck leased a bouwery (farm) and stock from the colony's Governor, Willem KIEFT, "on halves." This farm was near brother-in-law Cornelis VAN TIENHOVEN's "plantation" at Smits Vly (translation: Smith's Flat), northeast of Wall Street. On August 4, 1649, VAN TIENHOVEN sold property on the 250 block of Pearl Street to Dirck and their other brother-in-law, Abraham VER PLANCK. The lots were about a half-acre each, extending from the East River (at Maiden Lane) to some high ground at the rear. Dirck subdivided his lot into smaller properties, and during the next five years sold the lots with or without a house. The deeds are recorded. Hage BRUYNSEN the Swede bought a lot from him in November 1653 and built his own house. (In February 1654 Dirck sued BRUYNSEN to pay for the property.) Dirck built himself a house in 1649, then sold it to Roeloff TEUNISSEN - a Swedish sea captain from Goteborg - in 1651 after building himself another new house. [These are also shown on the 1660 map.] Dirck and Abraham later owned other lots on Manhattan through their wives' inheritance, which was substantial: their mother-in-law Adrienne CUVELIER (VIGNE) and her husband Jan Jansen DAMEN owned Manhattan from Pine Street north to Maiden Lane, and from the East River to the Hudson River.
- 1660 Map of New Amsterdam, part of The Virtual New Amsterdam Project
Scroll down to the link to the map. Take a virtual tour of the places where Dirck and other family members lived!
- WHALEY, Abigail
