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its present width by curtailing the lots on the west side, 

 and it was called James street. Frans Janse Prnyn, the 

 first of the name here, is supposed to have located on the 

 corner of Maiden lane as early as 1665, and his descendants 

 occupied the premises until 1865, two hundred years, when 

 it passed to other hands, the last occupants of the premises 

 of that name having deceased without posterity. 



The first occupant of the Hope Bank corner was Evert 

 Janse Wendell (1663-1704) the ancestor of a numerous 

 posterity ; and on the corner above, Gerrit Wynantse located, 

 the progenitor of the Vanderpoels. The old Lydius house. 



North Pearl from State Street. 

 Elm Tree Corner. 3 Vanderlieyden House. 6 Lydius House. 



which stood here till 1833, was taken down by Mr. George 

 Dexter, who now owns the premises, and who thinks it 

 was built by Dom. Schaets, and that all the material, bricks 

 and timber, were brought from Holland. But as Dom. 



