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| Title: | The manumitted Negroes [and their plots in New Amsterdam, ca. 1644] |
| Item Type: | Maps |
| Date: | 1880 |
| Call Number | NS13 M5.2.63 |
| creator: Innes, John H. |
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| General_note: This land north of Smith's Hill was formerly part of Nicholas Bayard's Farm. | |
| Extent: 1 manuscript map | |
| Added_date: 1920 | |
| Dimensions: 24 x 25 cm. | |
| Medium: black ink and black pencil on paper with paper scraps attached | |
| General_note: The landowners had worked as slaves for the Dutch West India Company and had been manumitted, or freed, thereafter. "The negro's [sic] farm was composed of the five smaller farms, viz: Emanuel's land; Cleyn Antonio's land, Cleyn Manuel's land; the land of Antony Portuguese, and the land of Manuel De Ros, called Swager's Land." Also called "the negroes' causeway." (Stokes' "Iconography", vi, p.75) |
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