Gulian C. Verplanck; His Ancestry, Life, and Character: Delivered Before the Century Club, April 9, 1870 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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A book published in Amsterdam, in 1651 (be scfiryvingbe Van Virginia, etc), contains the earliest pictorial representation of the little dorp or Village which has since become the commercial metropolis of America. This print represents a fort at the southern extremity of the island of New York, close to the water's edge, with a few houses sparsely scattered to the east and west of it, the roofs of some of which, from the inequality of the ground, are alone visible, and tow erin g above all, that indispensable and uniformly prom incut object in a Dutch Village, a windmill. Before the drawing for this print was made, or, to express it more definitely, in 1630, four years after the purchase of the island from the Indians, when the entire popula tion, men, women, and children, did not exceed three hundred souls, Abraham Isaacson Ver Planck, or, as he was sometimes called, Planck, was married to Maria, daughter of Jan Vigne, one of the proprietors of the land surrounding The Collect, or Great Fresh-water Pond, which existed up to the early part of the present century, on the space now bounded by Broadway.

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