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This is about Cliff Street in New York City on Manhattan Island, I was reading the New Amsterdam and Its People 1902 about how Cliff Street was named after Dirck Van Der Cleef and how it bordered on one side of his property and how he died before he could take the oath of allegiance in September 1687. It said all of his Sons died in childhood or in their teens. All of the maps I’ve seen said his farm bordered The Wall (Wall Street), Exchanged Place, and William Street, Cliff Street is a mile away from Wall Street. When I read the New York Genealogical & Biographical Record Volume 128 Number 1, Pages 110 and 111 reads “Pieter van der Linde sells unto Jan Cornelissen van Kleeff, who also acknowledges to have purchased, a certain plantation named Lindenborch with the house, fences, timber and all that is therein fastened by earth and Nail, situate on the island Manhatans, on the East River between the plantations of Tomas Samelson and Pieter Stoutenburg, and that both great and small according to the groundbrief thereof;”. This deed was dated Wednesday, 7 April 1655, then I was looking at a map of Manhattan Island about 1664 and I saw Pieter Stoutenburg’s plantation which is outside of Wall Street about a mile. The map was from The Historical Atlas of New York City. I was wondering is possible that Cliff Street is where Jan Van Cleef owned the land and the writer of the book mistakenly thought it was Dirck’s Farm? The street was name for Dirck, but, could it be the land Jan Van Cleef owned?
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