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Title: New Amsterdam and its people; studies, social and topographical, of the town under Dutch and early English rule
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Innes, J. H. (John H.)
Subjects: Cornelius Van Steenwyk
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e of the district known as The Betuwe, which skirts the south bank of the Rhine below Arnhem, and who was himself, at the period of our survey, one of the city magistrates or schepens, of New Amsterdam, and was a merchant or trader who seems to have been associated in business with his wifes step-father, Cornells de Potter, a merchant of note in the town. Looking a mile or so up the East River from his windows upon the water-side, Johannes Nevius could see the dwelling-house and the pastures and grain-fields of his father-in-laws farm just where the Breucklyn Road came down the hill at the present Fulton Street in Brooklyn. Here De Potter had purchased, as early as 1652, from Cornells Dircksen, the old ferryman, and from one or two 1 For sketch by Mr. D. T. Valentine, giving many curious particulars of Cornelis van Steenwyck, see Man. N. Y. Com. Council for 1864, p. 648. In 1654 Nevius and Cornelis de Potter were sued as being jointly indebted for the construction of a vessel called the New Love.
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Portrait of Cornelis van Steenwyck THE TOWN CLERK NEVIUS 49 other owners, the ferry property with sixty or seventy acres of land lying north of Fulton Street; and with the curious appurtenance of thirty-five goats and a half on Jan Marrisfarm at Gravesend, — evidently a share or interest in a herdkept there. He does not seem to have managed the ferry inperson, but leased it to others. Ariaentje Bleyck, the wife of Johannes Nevius and step-daughter of Cornelis de Potter, appears by her marriagerecord in the Dutch Church on Nov. 18, 1653, to have beena native of, or at any rate to have resided at, Batavia, in the island of Java. It was there, in all probability, that her mother, Swantje Janse, married Cornelis de Potter (who was doubtless a widower at the time), since his own daughter Elizabeth, who in the same year of the marriage of her step-sister was united in matrimony to Isaac Bedlo, afterwards a man of note in New Amsterdam, appears likewise in the marriage record as from Batavia. Joha

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