Revised History of Harlem (City of New York): Its Origin and Early Annals. : Prefaced by Home Scenes in the Fatherlands; Or Notices of Its Founders Before Emigration. Also, Sketches of Numerous Families, and the Recovered History of the Land-titles, Part 41

Author: Riker, James, 1822-1889
Publication date: 1904
Publisher: New York, New Harlem Pub.
Number of Pages: 926

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. The Labadist views were embraced by Nicasius de La Montagne. Jaques Cres- son. Petrus Bayard. William Beekman and his aunt, Susanna, widow of \rent Keteltas, named p. 277. Cresson could hardly have joined the community, as he died but a year after Peter Sluyter's second arrival at New York, July 27. 1683, on his way to Mary- land. Beekman and Montagne were but young men. Bayard left his wife, Blandina Kierstede, in New York, but returned and died here in 1699. His son Samuel. born 1675, married Susanna Bouchelle, Sluyter's stepdaughter, and, in 1698. Sluyter conveyed him part of the manor. Sluyter had married Anna Margareta Coude, then the widow Bouchelle. She died in 1721. he in 1722, and the community dissolved. (See Jour. of Dankers and Sluyter, and N. Y. G. & B. Rec. 1878, 188).

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let an incident show. It was in the winter of 1676; Jean le Roy became embarrassed, and unable to pay his last year's rent for the town lot. When told to the generous Captain, he headed a subscription for his relief with 10 gl .; more than was given by all the rest besides.

The last mention of Capt. Carteret at Harlem is under date of Nov. 21st, 1679, when he sold his land on Montagne's Flat to Glaude Delamater, "for 200 guilders and a wether." Certain provisions in the will of his father, Sir George Carteret, whose death occurred Jan 14th ensuing, made it necessary for him to return promptly to England and Jersey; and he appears no more in this country. He still held the farm and mill property with Little Barents Island, the title to all which descended to his daughter, Mrs. Pipon, of Jersey.

On the 6th of November, 1679, died at the house of Johannes Vermelje, the worthy old Norwegian settler, Claes Carstensen,* whose age was 72 years. He had been for some time in needy circumstances and was aided by the deacons, having been a church member for many years.

On the same date Abraham Shotwell sold the Sawkill farm to John Robinson, of New York, merchant.

A question of some local interest had arisen between Jan Louwe Bogert and Joost van Oblinus, touching a piece of salt meadow at Hoorn's Hook, which Oblinus (in behalf of his son Peter. still a minor) claimed as belonging to the lot laid out to Peter on Aug. 6th, 1677, by Robert Ryder, the surveyor, and described as "a parcel of land being the tenth lot in the row, in breadth on the river side twelve rods, bounded southwest by the land of Jan Hendricks, stretches northwest into the common woods one hundred and sixty rods, and northeast by the river, including all points and morasses therein comprehended, con- taining twelve acres."

On the 12th of November Louwe procured a citation for Oblinus, requiring him to answer next court day "why he has forbidden him to set off his meadows." The case .came up on

* Claes Carstensen being from Sant, in Norway, was called "the Norman." He was here prior to the Indian war of 1642, had learned the Indian language, and figures as public interpreter, at the forming of treaties, &c. In 1646 he married Helena Hen- dricks. served. in 1053. as corporal in the burgher corps at New Amsterdam, and was admitted to the small burgher right in 1657. After the English came in power. ite removed to Harlem, and on March 2. 10;1. was granted a small house lot for the term of his life. On his decease, and at the request of Resolved Waldron, elder and constable, the deacons, Arent Hermens and Jan Nagel, took an inventory of his effects. found in his house and at Vermilye's, where he died: these being sold. November In. 1679. at public vendue for 268 guilders, 10 stivers "for the benefit of the deaconry here."

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the 4th of December, Oblinus appearing as plaintiff, and the following is the minute :

JOOST VAN OBLINUS. Pltf., ) a's. JAN LOUWE

Whereas a dispute has arisen between Joost van Oblinus and Jan Louwe van Schoonrewoert over a certain small meadow lying in the Bay of Hellgate, which each of the parties claims as belonging to him; after several debates and rebuts on either side, it was decided by the Honorable Court (the said small meadow being the most southerly in the range under against the steep hill next the little kil) that Jan Louwe for his meadows shall have those that stretch from his great kil till to the little kil from anckers house ;* the rest to Joost van Oblinus. And ordered that each shall bear his own costs attaching to this case.

The line of partition here indicated was apparently the same as that afterward fixed and described in the deeds for the adjacent upland, given by the town, March 2d, 1701, to Jan Louwe Bogert and Jan Delamater, the latter then owning the Hoorn's Hook or Waldron farm, which included the Oblinus lot. By the above decision Oblinus plainly took a small share of the meadows claimed by Bogert under the town's grant to his pre- decessor Montagne.

Bogert's shrewdness in protecting his own interests more than once exposed him to the charge of being disobliging, if not churlish. Some time before-in 1675-he had forbidden David du Four and others from passing over his land, as they had been wont to do, to shorten their travel from Hoorn's Hook to the mill. the village, and church. It happened that Du Four and wife, in passing this way on Sunday, April 18th, in the said year, noticed a cow. one of two which Bogert had taken of Hans Jacobs Harding, "to winter. and to feed and water with his own cattle," lying out in the road alone, while Bogert's cattle were grazing in the meadows. Harding's cow died, as he charged. from neglect : and the honest Swiss, finding such fruits of a friend- ship with Bogert running back to their emigration in the same ship, brought his suit, Du Four being a witness for him .* Hence

*The Dutch word used (anckers) may be either the possessive or plural form. Here it probably means anchor, perhaps the anchorage house: though the reference is by no means cicar. For those whom it may interest, we give the record in the original :

.Alsoo questie was geresen tusschen Joost van Oblinnis ende Jan Louwe van Schoonrewoert over seecker valecytge, gelegen in de boght vant Hellegat die elck van parthyen sustincerde hem toe te behooren, naer v'scheyden debatten en rebatten ten weder zyde, is by den E gerechte verstaen dat het geseyde valeytge synde het suydelyexte in die rygh onder tegen de stelve bergh naest het killetge. dat Jan Louwe voor valeyen sal hebben die haer strecken van syn groote kil tot aen het killetge van anckers huys, de rest nen Joost van Oblinnis. Enn ordonneren dat ider syn cygen costen over dese saecke gevallen. sal dragen.

. Hans Jacobs Harding was a weaver, and then lived at Stuyvesant's Bowery. where he had bought a small place, February 12. 1669, from Jan. Piertersen Slot. He was a native of Bern, and married here July 29. 1668, Geertie, daughter of Lam- bert Moll, of Bushwick. She was born 1648. Her older sister Marritie, also born here,

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Du Four and others, going that road again August 5th, were for- bidden and threatened by Bogert, who called them "rebels and highwaymen." David complained Sept. 2d, but the Court so far sustained Bogert as to decide "that there is no common way over defendant's land." At another time, William Waldron, of New York, cooper, accused Bogert of having for spite unfastened and taken to his house a cutting bench, two of which Waldron had been using, and left nailed to stumps in the woods on Bogert's point. But Bogert denied doing it, and after a long debate, pro and con, they were reconciled. It was the tradition-so said a descendant of Jan Louwe, the late excellent James Bogert, Jr .- that Louwe's credit with the Indians for veracity led them to call Him in their language Schoonrewoerd, or True Lips! But as this term is Dutch and not Indian, alas for the tradition .*

The winter of 1679-80 was barren of noteworthy incidents, unless it was a bear hunt which took place on the farm of Mr. John Robinson, at the Saw Kill; for bears, wolves, and other noxious animals still infested the woods on Manhattan Island, and were so troublesome, especially the latter, even years after, that official encouragement was given to destroy them.t In the bear hunt here noticed "very good diversion and sport" was afforded those who took part in it, one of whom was the Rev. Charles Wolley, chaplain of the garrison at New York. Bruin was chased and treed in Robinson's orchard; "and," says the chaplain, giving an account of it in his Journal, "when he got to his resting place perched upon a high branch; we dispatched a youth after him with a club to an opposite bough, who, knock-

married, in 1646, Gerrit Hendrickse Blauvelt, from Deventer, who died in New York about 1684, his sons Hendrick, Huybert, Johannes, Abraham and Isaac, who all had families, removing to Tappan or Orangetown, Rockland County, and whence sprang the numerous Blauvelts. Harding died in 1685. The next year his widow married Thys Fransz Oudewater, of Tappan, whither she and her children went to live. This name took the form of Outwater, and probably Atwater. Thys had a brother Thomas, of New York; they were both born at Albany, and were sons of Frans Jacobsen, who lived at Fort Orange as early as 1657. Dr. Thomas Outwater, of Rockland, of Revo- lutionary merit, was a descendant.

The Harding children were Tryntie, born 1670; Frena, 1671; Conrad, 1673; Lambert, 1676; Reyer, 1678; Johannes, 1679; Jacob, 1681; Lambert, 1683: Emeline. 1685. The last married Johannes Verveelen. All the sons married, except perhaps Lambert, and the Hardings in time spread through the counties of Rockland, Orange and Ulster, some being sturdy patriots in the Revolution.

* Schoonderwoerd, as more correctly written, was obviously so called from the Dutch schoonder, signifying fairer, finer, &c., and woerd, another term for polder, a tract of low land recovered from the overflow of the sea or surrounding rivers b. dykes and drainage; this term (woerd) applying as well to islands that had under- gone the same reclaiming process. Very many such places throughout Holland bear names, of which this term forms the ending; variously written waard, woerd, woert. etc. Schoonderwoerd was simply the Fairer-podler. We suspect the "tradition" aforesaid came from mistaking this term woerd for the more familiar woord, so tak- ing Schoonderwoerd to mean fairer word: and fancy supplying the rest.

t The modern annotator of Woolley's Journal, aware of the prevalence of "bears" about Wall street, may be pardoned for locating Robinson's farm, the scene of this bear hunt, near that section of the city: Journal, Note 33. He only failed to bear in mind that the old species, more cautious, and less disposed to risks, seldom ventured so far down.

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ing his paws, he comes grumbling down with a thump upon the ground; and so we after him again." The sequel is not told; we know the youth was dispatched, but whether the bear was, is more than doubtful, since Mr. Wolley says they had neither gun nor weapon, except "a good cudgel;" whence also it may be inferred that the hunt was not prearranged, but incidental to one of those not agreeable surprises, which till years later often awaited the astonished farmer, on visiting his barnyard upon a winter's morning.

We naturally connect Mr. Wolley's visit to Robinson's farm with the sale which. Robinson made, Jan. Ist, 1680, of the half of said farm, with the leather mill, etc., to John Lewin, Esq ... and Mr. Robert Wolley, of London, merchants, the latter probably a brother of the chaplain; which purchase was effected through the immediate agency of William Pinhorne, who had returned from England in 1678, in the same vessel with Chap- lain Wolley, directly after a business interview with Lewin and Wolley in London, at which the chaplain was present. Lewin soon visited his purchase, as he arrived in New York on October 16th ensuing, commissioned by the Duke of York to inquire into and report upon the administration of Gov. Andros.

Jan Nagel, Jan Dyckman, Arent Hermens Bussing, Adolph Meyer, and Jan Delamater were busy hewing timber to fill a con- tract made Jan. 2d. 1680, with Nicholas de Meyer as agent for Hendrick Cuyler, of Albany, for whom they were to furnish tim- ber for a house, including "beams, posts, rafters, plates, sleepers, door-posts, and casings, according to the plan thereof," to be delivered in the ensuing May, part at the water side, and part in New York, at the Burgher's Path : and for which they were to receive "the sum of 1300 guilders with a half-ancker of rum. to wit: one third in silver money or sewant, one third in good winter wheat. and one third in goods at such price as he (De Meyer) sells the same at his store for current sewant."*

The timber for the town house had been ready for some time. As early as December 20th preceding, a vote was taken to give out the contract for building it, but it had been delayed in order

* Hendrick Cuyler, tailor, was born in 1673. His brother. Reynier, hutton maker. resided at Amsterdam. Hendrick married. at New Amsterdam. Anna, daughter of Jan Schepmoes, and about 1664 went to Albany, where he acquired property. He eventually returned to New York. and with his wife united with the church by letter. November 20. 1688. He died soon after, in 1690. His daughters. Maria. Sarah. Rachel and Eva, married respectively John Cruger, Peter Van Brugh, Myndert Schuyler and Rev. Petrus Van Driessen. His son. Johannes Cuyler, born 1661, was mayor of Albany in 1725-6. He married Elsie. daughter of Major Dirk Ten Broek. From him and his brothers, Henry, married to Maria Jacobs, and Abraham, whose wife was Catrina, daughter of Hon. Jan Jansen Bleecker, come the respectable family of Cuyler, allied from an early day to many others noted in the annals of New York.

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that debts due the town might first be collected. On May 6th, 1680, action was taken regarding the house for the clerk; a visitation of the outside lands was authorized with a view to as- sessing those in fence; several small pieces of land were sold or granted; and a resolution was passed to sell Moertje David's Fly. But to particularize :

Constable Johannes Vermelje and Daniel Tourneur were ap- pointed and empowered to employ a carpenter to build the house, "for the least cost to the town." It was to be made 22 feet long and 20 feet broad, and all complete with chimney, mantelpiece, doors and windows. Adolph Pietersen De Groot, carpenter at New York, took the job at 250 guilders .* The inhabitants agreed to work at the building a certain number of days gratis.

The visit to the outside lands under the town's jurisdiction was to ascertain the quantity enclosed within fence, with a view to making an assessment for town expenses. It was intrusted to the constable, with Arent Hermens and Joost van Oblinus, and who reported as follows :

Hendrick Bosch, at Moertje Davids Fly, I erf, I morgen.

John Robinson, at the Saw-kill, I erf.

Jacob Young, I erf, 2 morgen. Jean Baignoux, on Hoorn's Hook, I erf, I morgen. Jean Belin and

Etienne Button, S on ditto, I erf, I morgen.

Jan Dircksen, on ditto, I erf, I morgen.

Michiel Bastiaensen and -

Hendrick Kiersen, at Spuyten Duyvel. )

(No quantity reported.)

Cornelis Jansen purchased of the town "a small piece of land lying next to his land upon Montagne's Flat next the run (de fonteyn), paying therefor to this town at once 25 guilders." Johannes Vermelje "was granted and allowed the place before his house extending into the street, from the corner post of Jan Dyckman, on a line straight to the corner of Laurens Jansen's

. Gerard Magister, and his wife Madeleine l'Admiral, had now left the town, posibly to join Demarest's colony. But inquiry, even an appeal made and repeated in the columns of that valuable medium, the N. Y. G. and B. Record, fails to recall this worthy Huguenot pair from their subsequent obscurity. A bill for carpenter work, written by Magister's own hand, reads as follows:

Memoire de l'ouvrage que ici fait pour le comunaute de Harlem.

le 14 fevriere 1677. fait une bariere. 10 franc fait une siviere a Peter le mort ... . 10 franc

le 17 decembre 1877, reclove une table et fait a banc pour le maitre d'ecole ... 4 franc

le 16 fevriere 1678 fait 2 . banc. 8 franc

la somme et 32 franc

fait par moi

Gerard Magister.

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house, as broad as his erf and land may stretch, for him to set off and use." Laurens Jansen was in like manner allowed to take in the street so far as his land stretched, and Arent Her- mens was permitted to set off for his use a place 33 feet in the street "along his two gardens"; for which he was charged 12 gl.

It was resolved to sell Moertje Davids Fly at public vendue, on Monday, the 10th instant. Whoever wanted it was invited to come, hear the conditions, and benefit himself. The constable was authorized to extend the notice, and the secretary to post a handbill. On May 10, 1680, toward evening, the time appointed, the constable and magistrates being present, the terms of sale were made known as follows:

Conditions and Terms on which the constable and magistrates have a mind to sell to the highest bidder a certain meadow lying in this town's jurisdiction, at the North River, named Moertje Davids Valey.

Ist. Whoever remains purchaser shall be held to pay in the following February, 16 80-81, punctually, with good winter wheat, without any de- fault.

2. The cost attending this sale, as stiver money and other expense of writing, shall be borne and paid by the buyer.

Vander Vin started the sale with a bid of 50 gl. from Re- solved Waldron, between whom and Hendrick Bosch was the principal contest. Finally, Barent Waldron gave the sixteenth bid, advancing 50 gl. and calling out "Mine," as was then the custom. when it was struck off to him at 205 gl. -

Meanwhile, Daniel Tourneur and the Jansens commenced a prosecution against Colonel Lewis Morris for the trespass upon their meadows at Stony Island the previous year. This case assumed a graver importance, as upon its legal decision seemed to hang other landed rights which the inhabitants had upon that side of Harlem River.

On June 5th a formal declaration was entered in the Mayor's Court, or Court of Record, at New York, as follows :

Daniel Tourneur, Cornelius Jansen and his brother Lawrence Jansen, Plaintiff, against Lewis Morris, Sen., Defendant.

The Plaintiffs declare against the Defendant in an action of Trespass upon the Case, for that he the Defendant sometime in or about the month of July or August, in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and seventy-nine, contrary to law and against the public peace. did enter into and upon Plaintiff's meadow upon Stone Island, over against New Harlem, and then and there by force and arms did with scythes mow and cut down the grass which was growing upon the said meadow, and with force and arms carried the hay away, whereby the Plaintiffs were much damnified for want of hay for their own cattle in the winter season, which is to the damage of the Plaintiffs, Forty

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Pounds. And thereupon the Plaintiffs bring their Suit and crave Judg- ment, with costs of Court, ct dam. ad quoque.

To which Colonel Morris entered this counter plea :

City of New York, Ss. And the said Col. Lewis Morris comes and defends the wrong and injury to him done, etc., and saith that the said Daniel Tourneur, Cornelius Jansen, and Lawrence Jansen their action against him ought not to have, for that he knoweth not of any such place as Stone Island over against New Harlem, as in the Declaration is set forth, or that any Trespass is by him committed. But if by it shall be meant a certain Island called Stone Island adjoining to his Plantation and belonging to him, and that thereon the pretended Trespass should be committed, he the said Col. Lewis Morris doth plead in bar to the said action, that the said Island is not within the Jurisdiction of this Court, and therefore not triable in this Court. And therefore prays Judgment, that the Plaintiffs may be nonsuited and pay costs, etc.

Having thus joined issue, the case came to trial as follows :

City of New York. The Court of Record of the City aforesaid, holden at the City Hall within the said City, the 6th day of July, 1680. Before Francis Rombouts, Mayor; William Beeckman, Johannes Van Brugge, Peter Jacobs, Gulian Verplanck, Samuel Wilson, Aldermen.

Daniel Tourneur et alii, ) against about a Trespass upon a marsh.

Col. Lewis Morris,

Mr. William Pinhorne, Mr. Jacob Leisler,

Mr. Paul Richard, Mr. James Matthews,

Mr. William Cox, Mr. Baltus Bayard,

Jurors.

Mr. Thomas Codrington,

Mr. Norton Claypole,

Mr. John Lawrence, Jun. Mr. Albert Bush,

Mr. John Robinson, Mr. Philip Smith, J

The Deposition of John Delamater saith, that as he was going to the Mill-dam, he saw three canoes loaden with hay, and he asked the negroes where they had the hay so soon; they answered they had it at Stony Island.

The Deposition of John Dyckman: Being at the meadow where the hay was cut which is now in question; seeing negroes cut grass there, asked the negroes who set them to cut the hay; they told him that their master Col. Morris set them to do it. This deponent said that he could find it in his heart to take away the hay which was made. The negroes answered, he should not. This deponent asked why he should not carry it away. The negroes answered, for because they were stronger than he.

Mr. Nicholas Demeyer sworn, saith that Col. Morris did confess that he did send his negroes to cut the grass off the land in question, and said he would send them to cut it again this year.

Verdict. The Jury find for the Plaintiffs ; fifty shillings damage, and costs of court.

The Court agree with the verdict. for all charges whatsoever.

Morris had relied with too great confidence upon the inability of the other side to prove that he cut and took away the hay, or ordered it done. He insisted "that they prove their damage how much it is," and declared the jury was "not lawfully impan-

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elled," that "the Smith,"-alluding to Bush,-was "no jury- man."*

Morris paid no heed to the decision, but soon made good his threat by again mowing the meadows. Of this Tourneur and the Jansens complained July 26th, and the next day the Mayor issued his warrant to the constable of Harlem to 'give warning unto the said Colonel Lewis Morris, his agents, work- men, and servants, that they presume not to mow, cut, or carry away, any of the grass or hay from off the said marsh or meadow late in the controversy as aforesaid, as they and every of them will answer the contrary at their perils," etc.

Nor did this notice move Morris, who still denied the juris- diction of the Mayor's Court. Whereupon the plaintiffs appealed to Governor Andros. In this appeal they say:

"That your petitioners about seventeen years past did buy and was possest of our several lands lying at Harlem, to which belongeth a certain marsh 'or meadow ground called by the name of Stony Island; for which land and meadow ground your peti- tioners hath and can produce patents signed in Governor Stuy- vesant's time and afterward renewed by Governor Nicolls, yet notwithstanding and although it is our just right, Colonel Morris the last year did send his servants and workmen to cut the grass off our said meadow and carried the same away before we had knowledge of it; and the 6th day of July last past we had a trial in the Mayor's Court, where we obtained a judgment against him, with damage and costs of court; yet notwithstanding the same, he hath sent his servants and workmen to mow the said meadow and make it into hay, and saith he will carry it away, although he hath been forewarned to the contrary. Whereupon

· Hendrick Bosch, ancestor of the Bush family, was a native of Leyden, his father bearing the same name, Hendrick. The son married Ann Maria Rembach, from which union was Albert Bush, named in the text, born at Leyden in 1645. Losing his wife, Hendrick married Maria, daughter of Gerrit Eshuysen, with whom, his said son Albert, and an infant of two years (which last died early), he embarked for America, December 23, 1660-a wrong year being given in N. Y. Col. Mss. vol. XIV. He established himself as a sword-cutter in New York, where he had other children, viz .: Dorothy, born 1661, who married Isaac Caspars Halenbeck, of Albany; two Gerrits, born 1663, and 1665, both died early: and Hillegond, born 1666, who married Lodewyck Ackerman. By a third wife, Egbertie Dircks, widow of Hage Bruynsen, of Harlem, he had also Cornelia, born 1672, who married Peter Gerard Cavalier; Hendrick, born 1674; Samuel, 1677, and Joshua, 1678. His farm near Moertje Davids Fly, referred to elsewhere in the text, was sold before his death to Thomas Tourneur. Being of a "great age," he made his will April 23, 1701, when all his children were living, save those above excepted, and said son Albert. Ile cut off from sharing his estate. his two eldest daughters, for "stubborn and disobedient carriage toward me these many years," &c. All the sons had families. . Albert learned his father's trade, married. 1668, Elsie, daughter of Jurian Blanck, and had children, Jurian, born 1669; Anna Maria, born 1672; Justus, born 1674; Albertus-Conradus, born 1681, and Caspartis, born 1683. The daughter married Edward Marshall, tailor. On May 24, 1721. Albert's widow and children, except Jurian, petitioned the Assembly; wish to sell his house and lot. The registers of the Collegiate Church, New York, give the descendants of Albert and others. Joshua Bush settled on Staten Island. his posterity being still there; Justus Bush removed to Rye; others of the family went to Hackensack. Marshall, born in Barbadoes, died June 1, 1704, aged 37 years.

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Revised History of Harlem (City of New York): Its Origin and Early Annals. : Prefaced by Home Scenes in the Fatherlands; Or Notices of Its Founders Before Emigration. Also, Sketches of Numerous Families, and the Recovered History of the Land-titles, Part 41

Author: Riker, James, 1822-1889 Publication date: 1904 Publisher: New York, New Harlem Pub. Number of Pages: 926

Author: Riker, James, 1822-1889
Publication date: 1904
Publisher: New York, New Harlem Pub.
Number of Pages: 926