a certain allowance given as shall be adjudged reasonable." About this time it was found by the Harlem people that as there was a convenient fordingplace at Spuyten Duyvil, a good road should be made to Harlem and a good ferry established over the river; so, on January 3, 1667, at a meeting of the mayor and magistrates, it was determined that tlie Harlem people should make one-half the road from Harlem to the Manhattans and that Spuyten Duyvil " be stopped up "; that like care be taken for a suitable ordinary (tavern) for persons coming and going; and the mayor. Captain Delaval, promised the nails and the making of a scow, on condition that the ferryman should repay him when required to do so.

Johannes Verveelen agreed to take the ferry and the ordinary for six years. He was duly sworn to provide lodgings, victuals and drink for travelers, but to tap no liquor for the Indians ; he was also allowed to have six extra feet to his lot of hind in Harlem, as he was cramped for room, and must make convenience " for his ordinary." Travel toward Westchester and the eastward gave a new spur and energy to Harlem. Verveelen fitted up his ordinary and provided the boats, and his lusty negro, Matthys, was placed in charge. People enjoyed the hospitality of the inn on their way to and from Broiixside, and their cattle were safely ferried across at the following rates: " For one person, four stivers, silver money; for two, three or four, each three stivers, silver money ; for one beast, one shilling; and for more than one, each ten stivers silver." Riker locates the inn and ferry at the north side of One Hundred and Twenty-third Street, three hundred feet west of First Avenue.