Early American Wall Street Survey Map.

LUDLAM, Stephen [Wall Street].

$9,800.00

Item Number: 139509

Rare 1817 hand-colored copy of an original map of early 18th century Wall Street attached to a Deed of Partition between Col. Abraham de Peyster and Samuel Bayard dated January 3rd 1718, copied on April 8th 1817 by Stephen Ludlam, City Surveyor. One page, the hand-colored map details the intersection of Wall Street, Broad Street, and Kip Street (now Nassau Street) and includes the Presbyterian Church, the original City Hall, and 23 partitioned lots each labeled as owned by Abraham DePeyster or Samuel Bayard. Born in 1657 in New Amsterdam, wealthy merchant and ship owner Abraham de Peyster received numerous political appointments in New York City at the turn of the 19th century. He became the 20th mayor of New York City in 1691, a position he held for three years, and on October 4, 1698, he was appointed to the Supreme Court of Judicature. Because of regular conflicts of interest that arose due to his extensive business involvement, he was recused from many cases. Despite this, he served as acting Governor of the Province New York in 1700 and, subsequently, Chief Justice on January 21, 1701. In near fine condition. The map measures 12.5 inches by 30 inches.

 

 

Wall Street was originally known in Dutch as "Het Cingel" or the Belt when it was part of New Amsterdam in the 17th century. An actual wall existed on the street from 1653 to 1699, constructed under orders from Director General of the Dutch West India Company, Peter Stuyvesant, at the start of the first Anglo-Dutch war soon after New Amsterdam was incorporated. During the 18th century, Wall Street was a slave trading marketplace and a securities trading site, and from the early eighteenth century (1703) the location of Federal Hall, New York's first city hall. In the early 19th century, both residences and businesses occupied the area, but increasingly business predominated, and New York City's financial industry became centered on Wall Street.