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It officially became a village in 1712 and is first referred to as Grin ' wich in 1713 Common Council records.

Sir Peter Warren began accumulating land in 1731 and built a frame house capacious enough to hold a sitting of the Assembly when smallpox rendered the city dangerous in 1739.

His house, which survived until the Civil War era, overlooked the North River from a bluff ; its site on the block bounded by Perry and Charles Streets, Bleecker and West 4th Streets, can still be recognized by its mid-19th century rowhouses inserted into a neighborhood still retaining many houses of the 1830 – 37 boom.