"N.H.Treanor" wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Jun 2001 [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
> > Beverwyck was a physically separate town laid out to the north of Fort Orange
> > and some distance from it.  It was under the jurisdiction of Fort Orange.
> > Beverwyck became Albany in 1664.
>
> The term, "some distance," leaves me wondering whether that means 200
> feet, a mile, or what.  Does anyone have information that would narrow
> that down?

The amount was 3,000 feet from the perimeter. The majority of the village of
Beverwijck developed at that distance as was eventually palisaded for protection in
the fall of 1659.

Martha Dickinson Shattuck