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From: "roland elliott" <>
Subject: Re: [D-Col] Location of Anneke Jans' farm (was: Widow of Roeloff Jansen)
Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 10:18:14 -0700
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I sit corrected!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Howard Swain" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 10:02
Subject: [D-Col] Location of Anneke Jans' farm (was: Widow of Roeloff
Jansen)


> Hi Roland and all,
>
> From: "roland elliott" <>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 12:09 PM
> Subject: Re: [D-Col] Widow of Roeloff Jansen
>
> > Her farm was dead center in the World Trade Center complex.
>
> That is not correct.
> Perhaps you are remembering the article from The New Yorker
> last fall in which the author made that error.
>
> In fact, her farm was somewhat north of the WTC.
>
> Bob Protzmann presented the correct info around January 2003 to this list.
>
> Also, I sent this URL:
>
http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=ABK4014-0070-115
>
> Page 842 shows the location of her farm.
> Its southern boundary is at Warren St., while the northern boundary of the
> WTC complex was at Vessey -- 4 blocks south of Warren.
>
>
> I hope we are not seeing the birth of yet another Anneke Jans fairy tale.
>
> Regards,
> Howard
>
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