New York as an Eighteenth Century Municipality Prior to 1731 Volume 75, No. 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...it would cost five hundred guilders to fence the same properly. There was not the necessary money "in the chest," so "it was concluded that a collection be made." 5 Five months later there was still no fence, the graveyard being as before the choicest of all rooting spots for the sovereign pig. Govert was again summoned to court together with his fellow warden, Johannes de Peyster. They referred to the "trifling income" of the church and spoke of many small debts that were "due here and there," which the empty " chest" did not allow them to pay. Thereupon the mayor and aldermen " resolve to advance from the Burghers excise the amount necessary to build the fence, the church wardens promising to repay "from the first incoming money." 1 1 Rec. N. Am., vol. i, p. 33. 2 Ibid., vol. vii, p. 187. Ibid., vol. i, p. 38. Ibid., vol. v, p. 45. 'Ibid., vol. v, p. 253. A man who figures almost as frequently in the early records of the city as Peter Stuyvesant himself, is Allard Anthony. He was one of the first board of schepens in the city and commanded Governor Nicolls' respect sufficiently to be appointed sheriff in the English city. He likewise was an owner of hogs--the same untethered species. His wife complained before the mayor's court, September 15, 1668, that some of her pigs had been found killed on the land of certain neighboring negroes. The Africans denied being guilty of killing the animals. Anthony had been fined a short time previously for damages caused his negro neighbors because of his "imperfect" fence. It is a very safe guess that the damages were traceable to his hogs and that the negroes took vengeance. The court ordered the ex-sheriff to repair his fence to prevent any fur...