Margaret Stuyvesant

~• died unmarried
~• mentioned in St. Mark's parish histories

"Evert Bancker, Jr., surveyed and laid out Stuyvesant Street for Petrus
Stuyvesant November 30, 1787 and, we assume, mapped a complete street plan through
his property, squaring with the points of the compass. Stuyvesant Street actually
runs due cast und west. The present Manhattan grid pattern follows tho axis of
the Is I and. The streets running north and south were named for Petrus Stuyvesant 1 .
four daughters, Judith, Elizabeth, Margaret and Cornelia. The streets which ran
parakllel to Stuyvesant Street were, in order from north to south, Tenbroeck, Winthrop, Gerard, Governor, Peter, Stuyvesant, Nicholas William and Verplanck, and
were named for male members of the family. Unfortunately the Bancker map cannot
be found, but the street pattern has been recorded on the Goerck-Mangin Map, 1799, which is drawnfrom actual survey" and a portion of it appears on the later
William Bridges map 1807-1811. <Appendix A>

APPENDIX f1
We do not know how much of the street plan was actually put into effect .
The Goerck-Mangin Map, 1799, pub I ished by Peter Mave rick, New York, 1803, included other proposed streets, such as South and West Streets. This may also
be true of the section of the map that describes the Stuyvesant property. The
Bridges Map shows Stuyvesant Street running to the East River; Nicholas William,
Verplanck, Peter and Governor Streets running just to Judith Street; Judith
Street to "Bowery House"; Gera rd Street to Eliza Street, and Eliza Street
running between Gerard and Stuyvesant Streets. (City of New York and Island of
Manhattan as laid out by Commissioners appointed by the Legislature, Apri I 3,
1807, Williiam Bridges, City Surveyor. Engraved by P. Maverick, 181 I). Documents of the period mention Stuyvesant, Peter, and Eliza Streets (Conveyance
of burying ground to St. Mark's, Liber 71, p. 362, Nov. 10, 1803). Property
owners on Verplanck, Nicholas Wi I I iam, Stuyvesant and Peter Streets, were
assessed in condemnation records for the opening of Third Avenue, 1812.