R.R.Wilson says, "Rum and warfare had before this made an end of the Indian village of the first days.

Its Dutch successor, however, grew from year to year." [Illustration: JEFFERSON MARKET.

The old clock that has told the hours of justice for Greenwich Village during many years.] The names of these first Dutch residents of the Bossen Bouwerie--or Sappocanican as it was still occasionally called--are not known, but it is certain that there were a number of them.

In the epoch of Peter Stuyvesant someone mentioned the houses at "Sappokanigan," and in 1679, after the British had arrived, a descriptive little entry was made in one of those delightfully detailed journals of an older and more precise generation than ours.

The diary was the one kept by the Labadist missionaries--Dankers and Sluyter--and was only recently unearthed by Henry Murphy at The Hague.