Jacques Cortelyou
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1625 – 1693
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Who was Jacques Cortelyou?
Jacques Cortelyou was an influential early citizen of New Amsterdam who was Surveyor General of the early Dutch colony. Cortelyou's main accomplishment was the so-called Cortelyou Survey, the first map of New York City, commonly called the Castello Plan after the location in a Tuscan palace where it was rediscovered centuries later.
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