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Summary

Map of old Greenwich Village. A section of Bernard Ratzer's map of New York and its suburbs, made in the Eighteenth Century, when Greenwich was more than two miles from the city.

Bernard Ratzer's Greenwich Village map circa 1760 - Project Gutenberg eText 16907

From The Project Gutenberg EBook of Greenwich Village, by Anna Alice Chapin

A glance at Bernard Ratzer's map—made in the beginning of the last half of the eighteenth century for the English governor, Sir Henry Moore—shows the only important holdings in the neighbourhood at that time: the Warren place, the Herrin (Haring or Harring) farm, the Eliot estate, etc. The site of the Square, in fact, was [Pg 9]originally composed of two separate tracts and had two sources of title, divided by Minetta Brook, which crossed the land about sixty feet west of where Fifth Avenue starts today. Westward lay that rather small portion of the land which belonged to the huge holdings of Sir Peter Warren, of whom more anon.

Sir Henry Moore, Baronet (1713-1769) was a British colonial leader who served as royal Governor of New York from 1765 to 1769. => map should be dated within this range

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Bernard Ratzer  (1700–)
Alternative names	Bernard Ratzen
Description	British cartographer and surveyor
Date of birth	1700
Work period	1756–84
Work location	New York region
Authority file	: Q4893571 VIAF: 282719 ISNI: 0000000059403454 LCCN: n50054008 BNF: 14967005x BNE: XX1714408 WorldCat

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