The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-02-01
ON WALL Street
Capt. Kidd Had Residence on
That Th0TOlghfaTG.
He HAD GOOD NEIGHBORS
Married His Property-Was an Un-
lucky Pirate-Searching for
Mythical Treasures.
New York Sum

And he sailed: and ne sailed"
At the last meeting of the New York
Historical Society William S. Peile- |
treau read paper on the subject OF
where Capt Kidd lived and who his |
neighbors were. The Captain, accOr- |
ding to Mr.. Pelletreau, had very res |
pectable neighbors, some of the best |
people of the city of New York living
close to him in Wall street and its
vicinity In fact. Mr.. Pelletreau was
rather panied to note that among mo-
dern New Workers some of the very
respectable people of other days OF the
city are not so we'll remembered as the
pirate Captain who dwelt among them.
AS an instance, he cited an experience
at the time the statute OF Recorder
John Watts was put up in Trinity
churchyard OF five young fellows who
stood looking on, all OF whom pre-
sumably had had the benefits of a
common school education in the city,
three when asked who John Watts
was answered: You've got me-; one
said that he was the hymn writer, and
another that he invented the steam
engine. ANY of these would have been
able to tell who Capt. Kidd was" said
Mr.. Pelletreau The incident may have
suggested itself through the connec-
ton of the name of Gen. DE Puyster,
who erected the statue, with the his
tory of Capt. Kidds New York resi-
dence.
Col. Abraham De Puyster was the
most important neighbor the pirate
| Captain had, Mr.. Pelletreau said. Capt.
! Kidd lived at what is now 90 Wall
street, and although nearly all the lots
of that neighborhood have undergone
changes in the last two centuries, that
lot remains as it was laid out at the
time Kidd lived on it. 1t seemed a bit
curious. with all the stories of Kidd 5
wealth in mind, to hear the speaker
say that Capt. William Kidd never
| bought a lot, never built a house and
never owned one. Kidd came into his
Wall street house by marriage. After
the need for the wall which gave Wall
street its name had disappeared the
property on the north side of the street
was bought in part on speculation. In
1859 George Brown, maltster. sold 8
lot there TO William Cox for $50. Cox
was drowned in August of that year
off Staten Island. and in 1851 his widow
married Capt. Kidd. Mr.. Pelletreat
said that the only person who seem:
TO have said a good word for Capt
Kidd that has come down to us wa:
a brother-in-law, Samuel Bradley, wh'
praised him in will which he made
in 1898.
Bradley, however, outlived Kidd. Coz
had left his property in such shap
that his wife inherited the Wall stree
house. She did not. Mr.. Pelletrea'
said. from the evidence that is attain
able. lose any social standing by mar
rying Kidd. Col. De Puyster owne
the property all along William stree
near Wall and the grounds were know
as De Puyster's Gardens. The land re
manned in the De Puyster family man
wears. There were plenty Of neighbor
on the east, along Pearl street. In
Kids held property in the neighool
hood of % Pine street, and some al
thorities say that it was the Captain
:. intention TO build on those lots, ot
on July 5, 1893, he and his wife sol
them to Capt. Thomas Clark, who, l
February. 1895, sold them at a goo
profit. In 1893 the Kids sold SON
land to Robert Livingston, who bui
two houses on it. He lived until 1I2
10 Another important neighbOr OF hid
was James Graham. an Alderman. WI
), one night was stabbed with swo'
by Capt. James Baxter. Many vi
d nesses were examined, but they pro
b ed as blind as the proverbial bat The
q all knew that the Alderman had he'