I believe that the distance was "one cannon-shot". It was Pieter Stuyvesant who made a decision worthy of Solomon in separating the village from Fort Orange, a case of Dutch West India Company interests competing with those of the Van Rensselaer Patroonship. There was actually brawling and blood shed before the radius was drawn. Try Alice Kenney's Stubborn for Liberty., published, I believe by Syracuse University Press circa 1975 or so.

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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?