The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Bowery \Bow"er*y\, n.; pl. Boweries. [D. bouwerij.]
   A farm or plantation with its buildings. [U. S. Hist.]
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         The emigrants [in New York] were scattered on boweries
         or plantations; and seeing the evils of this mode of
         living widely apart, they were advised, in 1643 and
         1646, by the Dutch authorities, to gather into
         "villages, towns, and hamlets, as the English were in
         the habit of doing."                     --Bancroft.
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