The "Allerton Warehouse" was built on a small spit of land on the East
River, that once belonged to the early "marshal" of the New Amsterdam
settlement Philip du Treaux or as the Dutch called him "du Troy" its
written. Nearby the "old shipwreck" and the first ferry to Brooklyn,
it was purchased by Thomas Hall (or left to him) and had an orchard
and other property.

Thomas Hall was the indentured servant of George Holmes and had
escaped from him on the Delaware River where a party of the Virginia
Colony had encamped in an abandoned Dutch fort there. Arriving at New
Amsterdam the authorities sent a ship after the "encroachment" and
captured all 10 of the Virginia colony. All were sent back but George
Holmes and Thomas Hall whom, stating the ability to cultivate tobacco
were granted membership in the colony and property to raise it in the
vicinity of what today would be Greenwich Village. It's not known if
it was successful, thought not, and trade in the important cash crop
was developed, cited with Augustine Heerman of the Maryland colony.
Historians of course are interested in its origin and why perhaps many
of these "facts" have been researched.

Thomas Hall entered into business with Isaac Allerton and the
"warehouse" (also a dwelling as many were into the 18th and early 19th
century, and in this case also a liquor license was granted to serve
the English traveling to New Amsterdam by the early city government.
He was also responsible for starting the first fire fighting company
and other civic acts, some, the first representative activities of the
settlement to the Dutch in Holland, going over the local
administrations "heads".

Sir Walter Raleigh, once imprisoned in the Tower of London, is often
cited as introducing tobacco to the English speaking world and I
thought this research I had found might be of interest.

George Myers