"een huijs end erve staend op de Londse Kaey"

(a house and parcel standing on the London quay)

the history of Singel 77, Amsterdam


We live in a little canal house at Singel 77, Amsterdam. We have always been puzzled by our gable stone which reads 'T DUIJTS CANNON (the German cannon), because it seems unlikely that the weapons merchant would have been working from such a little house. There is also a date 1744 in the gable, which we always have believed was too recent for the type of house. Archival research so far has resolved these questions in a surprising manner.

The site contains lots of documents.