bowerie

Outside of these extended the corn-fields and cabbage-gardens of the community, with here and there an attempt at a tobacco plantation; all covering those tracts of country at present called Broadway, Wall Street, William Street, and Pearl Street, I must not omit to mention, that in portioning out the land a goodly "bowerie" or farm was allotted to the sage Oloffe, in consideration of the service he had rendered to the public by his talent at dreaming; and the site of his "bowerie" is known by the name of

Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete Washington Irving 1821

For this purpose he had purchased a farm, or, as the Dutch settlers called it, a _bowerie_, a few miles from town.

Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists Washington Irving 1821