The house on Pearl St
The stone house, originally built by Herman Wolf’s 3th great-granduncle Cornelis (son of Johannes and his wife Marytje Swart), eventually came into use by the community and is historically known today as the Old Dutch Church Parsonage. A full filing of the Historic Places paperwork can be found at this link: https://catalog.archives.gov/medialz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/01000845.pdf (very slow to load)
NOTE: This is NOT built on the same plot where his grandparents Cornelis and Elizabeth lived. The OG Cornelis lived in an early timber-and-stone dwelling inside the stockade gates. His home, and his barn, stood on a different plot entirely—at the corner of what is now John Street and Fair Street. Later on, they began expanding their property holdings south of the stockade.
The non-elected, universally hated governor Peter Stuyvesant ordered the wood stockade built in 1658, and settlers were strictly forbidden from living outside it due to the Esopus Wars. Under English Governor Francis Lovelace, living outside the stockade transitioned from "tolerated" to explicitly authorized and encouraged in ~1669.
"Marston Notes"
"Marston Notes"
