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To: mairdie
'lost' ancient Mexican city 'had as many buildings as Manhattan'

Only when you count the out houses too.

24 posted on 02/17/2018 12:05:51 PM PST by dennisw (The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong)
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To: dennisw

It used to be the case that you could name the Manhattan residents:

The families who made up New Amsterdam are listed by block and building number they owned or occupied. This list originally appeared in the “Du Trieux Family Newsletter” of 1984.

WITHIN FORT AMSTERDAM: 1. Dutch Reformed Church of St. Nicholas; 2. Governor’s house; 3. barracks for Company soldiers; 4. guardhouse; 5. officers’ quarters or storehouse; 6. secretary’s office, a. the gristmill; b. the sawmill; c. cemetery; d. small fortification; e. the Land Gate; f. the water gate; g. Weighting House Peir; h. probably the site of the gallows.

BLOCK A: 1. Tavern of Lodewick Pus (Pos?) captain of the Battle Watch; 2. Pieter Laurenzen Cocl (Coch?); 3. Martin Cregier, tavernkeeper and captain of Burger Guard; 4.5. Jacob de Lang; 6. Dominee Joh. Megapolensis, first Protestant-missionary to the Indians; 7. Lucas Andries; 8. Barent Cruytdop; 9. Dirck Wiggers; 10. tavern of Lucas Dircksen; 11. Reindert Jansen Hoorn; 12.13 Dominee Samuel Drisius; 14. Laurens Andriessen; 15. 16. Paulus Leendersen van der Grift, sea captain and trader; 17. Hendrick van Dyck; 18. Jacobus Vis; 19. Cornelis Jansen Pluyvier, innkeeper; 20. Dominee Samuel Drisius; 21. West India Co. garden; 22. West India Co.’s orchard.

BLOCK B: 1. Augustine Heerman, artist and merchant; 2. Pieter Shaelbanck, jailer; 3. Joseph Waldron; 4. Resolveert Waldron; 5. Dirck Stecken; 6. Leendert Aerden; 7. Hendrick Hendricksen; 8.9. Dominee Samuel Drisius; 10. Couwenhoven’s brewery; 11. the Latin school.

BLOCK C: 1.2. residence and tavern of Abraham Pietersen; 3. Gerrit Fullewever; 4. Sergeant Pieter Webel; 5. Geertie, widow of Andries Hoppen; 6. Ensign Dirck Smit; 7. Jan Hendricksen van Gunst; 8. Thomas Franse; 9. Samuel Edsen; 10. Weyntje Elbers, widow of Aert Willemsen; 11. Isaac Graventract; 12. Pieter Rudolphus; 13. Gabriel de Haas; 14. Boardinghouse of Claes Ganglois Visscher; 15. Jacobus Kip; 16. Jacobus Vis; 17.18. Col. Philip Pietersen Schuyler; 19. Deacon’s House for the Poor; 20.21 Jacobus Kip; 22. Pieter Rudolphus; 23. Jan Cornelissen, Weighing house porter; 24. Jacob Mensen; 25. Daniel Tourneur; 26.27.28. Coenraer ten Eyck; 29. Dirck Jansen; 30. Buele Roeloffsen; 31. Thomas Fredericksen; 32. Toussain: Briel; 33.34.35.36. Thomas Wandel; 37. Willem Bradenbent; 38.39.40. Egbert Woutersen; 41. Jan Jansen-owner, Christiaen Pieters, tenant.

BLOCK D: 1. Frederick Arentsen; 2. Gerritt Hendricksen; 3. Nicolaes Boot; 4. Barentzen Family, tenants, Jan Bout-owner; 5. Joh. Verneelen; 6.7. Cloff Stevensen Van Cortland. He also owned #14; 8. Pieter van Naarden; 9. Coenrear ten Eyck; 10.11. Renout Reynoutsen; 12. Gerrit Jansen Roos; 13. Hendrick Jansen Spiers; 15. Frederick Lubbersen; 16. Abraham de la Nuy 17.18. residence and brewery of Cloff Stevensen van Cortlandt, burcomaster 1655-65.


25 posted on 02/17/2018 12:13:21 PM PST by mairdie
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To: dennisw

Archaeology however interesting ..today exists to diminish the achievement of whites Judeo Christian or Western civ in general

By hook or crook

I rarely bother now

But give me an old 1955 Britannjca on the subject and I’ll study it

Political correctness infects everything

It’s Captain Trips of our minds


26 posted on 02/17/2018 12:18:53 PM PST by wardaddy (As a southerner I've never trusted the Grand Old Party.....any questions?)
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