Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
bowery .
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At eight o'clock the next morning, which was Saturday, the commissioners on both sides met at Stuyvesant's "bouwery" and arranged the terms of capitulation.
Great Epochs in American History, Vol. II The Planting Of The First Colonies: 1562—1733
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At eight o'clock the next morning, which was Saturday, the Commissioners on both sides met at Stuyvesant's "bouwery" and arranged the terms of capitulation.
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Governor Stuyvesant contributed nearly eighty dollars annually to the support of this minister, but upon condition that he should preach every Sunday afternoon, at his farm or bouwery upon Manhattan Island.
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[Footnote 138: So called because its main street ran through the farm or _bouwery_ of Peter Stuyvesant.] [Footnote 139: Or east.] [Footnote 140: Resolved Waldron (1610-1690), elected constable in
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