In 1652 Gov. Stuyvesant established a perimeter of jurisdiction and
control around Fort Orange, extending in distance about a cannon shot from
Fort Orange.  To the north, I believe the boundary was not far from the
still-standing Quackenbush house, east of Clinton Square.

    It was within this larger area of West India Company jurisdiction that
Stuyvesant laid out the village of Beverwyck.  He first laid out a broad
street, today's State Street,  running up the hill westward from the bank of
the Hudson River at a point about 1,500 feet north of Fort Orange, and the
first lots were granted along the sides of this street.  In 1656 the Reformed
Church was built in the center of this street at its intersection with a
north-south street, today's Broadway.