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patent the town of Brooklyn first claimed the ownership of land between high and low water mark on the Brook- lyn side, and an equal right with New York to erect and maintain ferries.
We find no adverse claim on the part of New York until nineteen years afterward, in 1686, when the Corpora- tion of New York obtained from Governor Dongan a charter by which the ferries were granted to New York. But this charter says nothing about water rights, and expressly reserves the rights of all other persons and bodies corporate or politic. Moreover, Brooklyn in the same year secured from Dongan a patent fully confirm- ing that of Nicolls. A similar confirmation was secured in 1691. But New York was still running the ferry, and to fortify its claims bought land on the Brooklyn side in 1694.
In the reign of Queen Anne the Corporation of New York induced that infamous trickster and reprobate, Governor Cornbury, to give New York a charter, by which it was to be entitled to all "vacant and unappro- priated land " below high water mark from the Wallabout to Red Hook. The charter was really void, for there was no unappropriated land in the region named, pre- vious patents and charters having given them to Brooklyn as a town. In 1721 the colonial legislature confirmed Brooklyn's rights, but New York's politicians bought for a specific sum ($5000) a new charter from Governor Montgomerie confirming the pretended right of New York to ownership in land to high-water mark on the Brooklyn shore. New York secured a charter ownership in 400 feet of land under water around the whole lower part of the city, and step by step, with money and un- faltering political trickery, the city set itself against the development and independence of Brooklyn. By Section 37 of the Montgomerie charter, the ferry franchise was confirmed "forever," with a provision that no other per- son or persons whomsoever should have the right to establish a ferry or ferries in the premises. Legislative
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acts and legal decisions have been piled up around a pretense, the fallacy and injustice of which appear upon examination of the early records.
New York was not satisfied with the crafty legislation by which it sought to overawe the village across the river. It began to question the right of Brooklyn people to cross to New York in their own boats. The result was that a Brooklyn man, Hendrick Remsen, sued the New York Corporation. He won his case ; the Corpora- tion appealed to the King, and the matter remained un- decided in consequence of the Revolution. Although the Constitution of the State confirms all grants of land within the State made by authority of the King of Great Britain or his predecessors, prior to August 14, 1775, New York afterward adhered to its false claims to the river rights. However, by State rulings within the pres- ent century, Brooklyn was permitted to exercise jurisdic- tion to low-water mark. A Supreme Court decision in 1821 declares that the City and County of New York includes the whole of the rivers and harbor adjoining to actual low-water mark on the opposite shores. It was only in 1824 that Brooklyn was able to secure from the Legislature concurrent jurisdiction with New York in the service of process, in actions civil and criminal, on board of vessels attached to its own wharves.
When Brooklyn sought to erect itself into a city, New York met the proposition with the same spirit of unwill- ingness to recognize in the sister town any right to individual existence. Every step that Brooklyn took toward securing municipal rights was hampered by the opposition of New York politicians. Brooklyn became a city in 1834, in spite of New York's opposition. New York retired from the fight with its fraudulent ownership of the river and the " ferry rights," by which it was and still is able to levy a continuous tax upon Brooklyn.
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STATISTICS FROM THE FEDERAL CENSUS OF 1890
BROOKLYN MANUFACTURES 1
FEDERAL CENSUS OF 1890
THE tabulated statements presented herewith include only establishments which reported a product of $500 or more in value during the census year, and, so far as practicable, only those establishments operating works located within the corporate limits of the city.
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COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF TOTALS
Industries
Industries Reported
Establish- ments Reporting
Capital ª
Hands Em- ployed
Wages Paid
Cost of Materials Used
All Industries
§ 1880 11890
180 229
5,201 10,561
$61,646,749 125,849,052
47,587 103,683
$22,487,457 61,975,702
$129,085,091 137,325,749
Industries
Miscellaneous Expenses 3
Value of Product
Population
City Assessed Valuation
Municipal Debt 4
All Industries
£1880 ₹1890
$14,824,466
$177,223,142 248,750,184
566,663 806,343
$232,925,699 445,038,201
$38,040,000 34,639,542
1 From compilation in Eagle Almanac, 1892.
3 The value of hired property is not included for 1890, because it was not reported in 1880.
" No inquiry in 1880 relating to " Miscellaneous expenses."
" The amount stated represents the "net debt," or the total amount of municipal debt less sinking fund.
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DETAILED STATEMENT FOR 1890 BY IMPORTANT INDUSTRIES IN BROOKLYN ELEVENTH CENSUS
CLASSIFICATION OF INQUIRIES 1
Boots and shoes- factory products (65)
Chemicals
Coffee and spice - roasting and grinding (13)
Confec- tionery (197)
Cordage and twine (3)
Foundry and machine shop products (169)
Furnish- ing goods (67)
Paper hangings (5)
Slaughtering and meat packing (63)
Sugar and molasses refining (8)
CAPITAL EMPLOYED - Aggregate. . .. ..
$1,327,119
$8,483,835
$2,963,392
$2,923,509
$2,256,400
$13,725,518
$1,507,853
$1,790,121
$2,120,822
$3,999,510
HIRED PROPERTY - TO- tal ..
366,230
275,000
306,300
1,047,500
1,473,750
377,650
303,482
380,560
255,622
PLANT-Total
385,934
4,888,250
546,696
1,028,053
1,854,300
6,046,228
427,420
401,946
918,400
1,821,000
Land ..
56,700 113,400
1,196,800
198,400 194,350
251,085 311,225
303,000 701,000
1,617,500 1,362,670
110,100 142,550
31,500 121,584
317,550 346,752
399,000 527,500
Machinery, tools, and implements ..
215,834 574,955
2,158,629 3,320,585
153,946 2, 110,396
465,743 847,956
850,300 402,100
3,066,058 6,205,540
174,770 702,783
248,862 1,084,693
254,098 821,862
894,500 1,922,888
Raw materials . Stock in process and finished product .. .... Cash, bills, and accounts receivable, and all sun- dries not elsewhere re- ported .. ..
137,612
1,365,535
721,678
207,660
175,600
1, 182,099
312,438
61,890
114,907
186,214
154,802
878,468
930,671
269,041
60,500
1,525,807
142,902
186,974
197,490
335,016
282,541
1,076,582
458,047
371,255
166,000
3,497,634
247,443
835,829
509,465
1,401,658
WAGES PAID - Aggre- gate ..
$1,032,547
$1,140,475
$479,036
$1,096,252
$650,256
$5,641,132
$1,203,461
$445,510
$532,120
$330,558
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Buildings . ..
1,532,821
LIVE ASSETS-Total ....
Establishments : -
(36)
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Average number of hands employed.
2,050
1,848
794
2,237
1,612
7,753
2,218
852
623
596
Males above 16 years ..
840
1,295
477
1,387
1,012
6,868
868
660
607
$83
Females above 15 years.
326
289
IO
552
600
42
485
146
3
2
Children . .
24
31
22
2
IO
20
Pieceworkers .
860
233
3º7
276
841
855
26
13
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MATERIALS USED- Aggregate cost ..
$1,432,934
$7,329,134
$11,047,538
$1,833,791
$4,352,638
$5,125,183
$1,443,218
$1,067,697
$11,769,741
$14,816,112
Principal materials.
1,381,752
7,050,313
10,711,647
1,738,998
4,626,489
1,389,325
1,042,362 18,045
11,637,737 32,256
14,412,045
Fuel. .
3,888
195,545
14,752
25,621
210,767
27,893
Mill supplies ..
9,206
20,656
3,835
6,000 35,500
240,541
15,692
7,000
99,748
15,986 287,739
EXPENSES, MISCEL-
LANEOUS - Ag'gate
$73,249
$612,809
$84,334
$194,993
$63,180
$799,912
$84,811
$300,754
$130,096
$227,760
Paid for contract work ..
1,450
22,110
21,445
73,320
117,888
26,441
22,000
34,252
20,450
Power and heat .
3,720
900
3,800
120
14,664
600
15,863
13,902
21,877
Insurance.
4,420
29,190
11,382
5,050
7,540
36,223
10,573
7,343
9,490
21,397
Repairs, ordinary, of
5,842
149,644
6,635
5,730
25,000
74,565
9,502
1,700
8,387
'29,171
Interest on cash used in the business. .
1,549
43,651
13,462
22,009
1,895
61,833
3,691
65,449
All sundries not else- where reported .....
26,138
318,364
29,633
87,330
20,500
462,296
31,371
192,015
60,374
68,516
GOODS
MANUFAC-
$2,813,209
$10,467,109
$12,247,162
$3,731,202
$5,625,792
$15,350,776
$3,315,691
$2,143,023
$13,317,789
$16,629,982
Principal product ..
2,770,689
10,425,949
12,044,967
3,721,07I
5,622,912
14,222,090
3,268,994
2,143,023
13,118,381
16,623,134
All other products, in- cluding custom work and repairing ...
42,520
41,160
202, 195
10,131
2,880
1,128,686
46,697|
199,408
6,848
1 To avoid disclosure of operations of individual establishments, only such industries as have 3 or more establishments engaged therein are included.
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900
Taxes. .
4,494
48,950
11,439
9,981
10, 140
60,267
4,429
290
All other materials.
47,294
74,070
300,483
65,337
47,386
10,308
100,342
4,206,138 105,000
12,000
Rent ...
25,636
b'Id'gs and mach'y. ..
TURED - Aggregate
STATEMENT OF CITY DEBT, DECEMBER 31, 1893
Title of Loan
Amount Dec. 31, 1892
Amount Dec. 31, 1893
Increase
Decrease
PERMANENT DEBT PAYABLE FROM TAXATION :
Prospect Park
$8,697,000.00
$8,697,000.00 10,013,000,00
Soldiers' Aid Fund
112,000.00
60,000.00
$52,000
Arrearage Fund ..
2,350,000.00
2,350,000.00
Local Improvement ..
200,000.00
Certificates of Indebtedness.
505,160.93 549,000.00
434,160.93
City Bonds (Arrearage of County Taxes). .
549,000.00
Main Sewer Relief and Extension Fund ..
1,250,000.00
1,250,000.00
Local Improvement (Laws of 1888) ...
1,300,000.00
1,300,000.00
Local Improvement (Laws of 1889),
900,000.00
900,000.00
Local Improvement (Laws of 1892) ..
300,000,00
455,000.00
$155,000.00
School Improvement (Laws of 1888)
400,000.00
400,000.00
School Improvement (Laws of 1889).
800,000.00
800,000.00
Public Site, Purchase and Construction.
500,000.00
500,000.00
Municipal Site ....
265,000.00
265,000,00
Fourth Precinct Station House ..
50,000.00
50,000.00
Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument.
220,000.00
205,000.00
Park Purchase ...
650,000.00
650,000.00 1,000,000.00 1,450,000.00
School Building Fund.
304,000.00
606,000.00
302,000.00
Certificate of Indebtedness, ch. 48, Laws of 1892.
162,844.92
54,830.18
108,014
Certificate of Indebtedness, ch. 50, Laws of 1892 .. . Certificate of Indebtedness, ch. 45, Laws of 1891 .. Asphalt Repavement Fund ..
125,000.00
148,852.55
23,852.55
15,000
Museums of Art and Science.
8,000.00
37,000,00 8,000,00
Total.
$32,818,005.85
$32,932,843.66
$575,852.55
$461,014
.
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15,000
New York and Brooklyn Bridge, $ 4, Laws of 1891 .. New York and Brooklyn Bridge, § 5, Laws of 1891 .. Public Market ...
1,000,000.00
1,400,000.00
50,000.00
750,000.00
750,000.00
15,000.00
37,000.00
200,000 71,000
New York Bridge .
10,013,000.00
WATER DEBT
$14,566,000.00
$15,316,000.00
$750,000.00
TEMPORARY DEBT PAYABLE FROM TAXATION, ETC. : Fourth Avenue Improvement.
17,000
Eighth Ward Improvement.
51,000.00 650,000.00 315,000.00 50,000.00
499,000.00 119,000.00
69,000.00 15,000.00
North Second Street Improvement.
15,000.00
Tax Certificate (Contagious Disease Hospital). .
7,000.00
7,000.00
Total. . .
$1,066,000.00
$1,324,000.00
$275,000.00
$17,000
TAX CERTIFICATES.
$2,700,000.00
$3,400,000.00
$700,000.00
RECAPITULATION
Permanent Debt. ..
$32,818,005.85 14,566,000.00 1,066,000.00 2,700,000.00
· $32,932,843.66 15,316,000.00 1,324,000.00 3,400,000.00
$114,837.81 750,000.00 258,000.00 700,000.00
Water Debt ....
Temporary Debt ..
Tax Certificates .
Gross Debt .. Sinking Fund.
51,150,005.85 4,636,893.90
52,972,843.66
4,935,344.55
1,822,837.81 298,450.65
$46,513,111.95
$48,037,499.11 700,000.00
$1,524,387.16
Less 3 and 8 months' Tax Certificates.
Net City Debt ...
$46,513,111.95
$47,337,499.II
$1,524,387.16
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34,000.00 650,000.00
184,000.00
Twenty-sixth and adjacent Ward Sewers .... Sewerage Fund (1892) ...
INDEX
Simple page numbers refer to Vol. I .; page numbers preceded by "ii." refer to Vol. II.
ACADEMY of Music, ii. 116, 226. Adams, John, 229.
Julius A., ii. 149. Rev. John Coleman, ii. 221. Adelphi Academy, ii. 212.
Aertsen, Huyck, 59, 63. Ryniere, 126. Ainslie, Robert, ii. 103.
American Astronomical Society, ii. 208.
Amersfoort (Flatlands), 55.
Amphion Musical Society, ii. 228. Amphion Theatre, ii. 198. Andros, Maj. Ed., 116, 133.
Apollo Club, ii. 228. Apprentices' Library, ii. 73, 75. " Arbitration Rock," ii. 42. Arion Society, ii. 228.
Arnold, S. G., ii. 89.
Assembly, State, meets in Brook- lyn, 188 ; patriotic resolutions, 200; and Colonial Congress, 208.
Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, ii. 221. Atkinson, John P., ii. 152.
Atlantic Bank, ii. 234. Atlantic Basin, ii. 191.
Atlantic Dock Company, ii. 92. Aycrigg, Benjamin, ii. 15, 17.
Backhouse, E. T., 237. Backus, Dr. Truman G., ii. 211. Baker, John H., ii. 23.
Ball, Charles, ii. 32.
Bank of Williamsburgh, ii. 234.
Barbarin, Captain, ii. 51.
Bardwell, W. A., ii. 216. Barnes, Demas, ii. 156. Barnet, Wm., 179. Barnum, Ed. B., 190.
Barre, Daniel, ii. 56. Battle of Brooklyn, 247-274. Bayard, Nich., 136, 167. Bayles, Rich. M., 7.
Bedford, settled, 101 ; school- house, 102, 161.
Bedford Academy, ii. 214.
Bedford Corners, ii. 72.
Bedford Road, 237.
Beecher, Henry Ward, ii. 119, 125, 126, 164, 218. Bellomont, Governor, 147, 152, 153.
Bennett, George C., ii. 89, 106. George I., ii. 32. Wm. Adriaense, 29.
Benson, A. W., ii. 152, 154.
Bentyn, Jacques, 29.
Bergen, Hans Hansen, 39, 67.
Jacob, ii. 53. Jan Hans, 101.
Johannes, 285. John T., 214; ii. 56. Michael Hans, 101. Tunis G., 102 ; ii. 92, 97.
Bergen Hill, 239. Berri, Wm., ii. 231.
Berrian, Cornelius, 126.
Berry, Abraham J., ii. 104.
Bibaut, John, 155.
Bill, Charles E., ii. 151.
Billing, Th., 235.
Bird, George L., ii. 70. Major, 249.
Birdsall, T. W., ii. 69.
Blanco, Jn., 235.
Bloom, Jacob, 235.
Board of Health, first, ii. 66.
Boerum, Isaac, 235. Simon, 201, 204, 207. William, 220, 300.
Boerum house, ii. 4I.
Bogert (Bogaert), Nich., 208. Teunis Gysbert, IOI.
Bokee & Clem, ii. 75. Boome, Jacob, ii. 25.
Booth, Samuel, ii. 129, 132, 15I.
Boughton, Samuel, ii. 23. Bout, Jan Evertsen, 59, 63, 108.
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Bowen, Henry C., ii. 230. H. E., ii. 230. James, ii. 116.
Boyd, Samuel, ii. 32.
Boys' High School, ii. 202.
Bradford, Wm., 145.
Breuckelen, of Holland, 59.
Brevoort, J. Carson, ii. 152. Broadhead, Henry, 190.
Brodhead (quot.), 24.
Bronson, Greene C., ii. 86.
Brooklyn, name, 59; first sale of land in region of, 29-30; early days, 53-68; beginning of offi- cial existence, 66 ; first houses, 73; first preacher, 93; first schoolmaster, 97; leads Long Island towns, 167; State As- sembly meets in, 188 ; battle of Brooklyn, 247-274 ; first school, 99; during Revolution, 211- 304; after the Revolution, ii. I-46; recognized as a town, 28; during war of 1812, 51-56; incorporated as a village, 62; markets, 65; incorporated as a city, 79-81 ; property valua- tions before 1860, 83; receives Bushwick and Williamsburgh, 107; during Civil War, 117- 131 ; bridge, 149-159; “ Brook- lyn System," ii. 169-171.
Brooklyn Academy of Music, ii. 116, 226.
Brooklyn and Long Island Fair, ii. 122-124.
Brooklyn Art Association, ii. 228.
Brooklyn Art Club, ii. 228. / Brooklyn Auxiliary of the/U. S. Sanitary Commission, ii. 122. Brooklyn Bridge, ii. 94, 149-159, 168, 178-190.
Brooklyn Choral Society, ii. 228.
Brooklyn City Hospital, ii. 93. Brooklyn City Railroad, ii. 94.
Brooklyn Club, ii. 226.
Brooklyn College of Pharmacy, ii. 215.
Brooklyn Collegiate and Poly- technic Inst., ii. 100, 212.
" Brooklyn Daily Argus," ii. 230.
" Brooklyn Daily Citizen," ii. 231.
" Brooklyn Daily Eagle," ii. 88- 91, 128, 229.
" Brooklyn Daily Standard," ii. 230.
" Brooklyn Daily Times," ii. 89, 128, 229.
" Brooklyn Daily Union," ii. 128, 229.
Brooklyn Entomological Society, ii. 208.
Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital, ii. 223. Brooklyn Female Academy, ii. 100
Brooklyn Fire Insurance Co., ii. 234. "Brooklyn Freie Presse," ii. 128, 229. Brooklyn Gaslight Company, ii. 78.
Brooklyn Heights Seminary, ii. 214.
Brooklyn Home for Consump- tives, ii. 223.
Brooklyn Homeopathic Hospi- tal, ii. 223.
Brooklyn Hospital, ii. 223.
Brooklyn Hospital for Conta- gious Diseases, ii. 223.
Brooklyn Institute, ii. 69, 91, 93, 202-211, 216, 229. Brooklyn Latin School, ii. 214.
Brooklyn Library, ii. 215.
" Brooklyn Life," ii. 231.
Brooklyn Lyceum, ii. 91, 93.
Brooklyn Maennerchor, ii. 228.
Brooklyn Maternity, ii. 223.
Brooklyn Microscopical Society, ii. 208.
Brooklyn Museum, ii. 197.
" Brooklyn Phalanx," ii. 122.
Brooklyn Philharmonic Society, ii. 226.
Brooklyn Saengerbund, ii. 228.
Brooklyn Select Academy, ii. 31. Brooklyn Sunday School Union Society, ii. 64, 110.
" Brooklyn System," ii. 169-176. Brooklyn Theatre, ii. 166, 197. Brooklyn Throat Hospital, ii. 223. Brooks, Daniel, ii. 32. Elbridge S., 142.
Brower, Abraham, 183. Nich., 183. Wm., 214. Brown, Henry K., ii. 126. Laurence, ii. 62.
Brown's Business College, ii. 214. Brush, Conklin, ii. 94. Bryant, William C., ii. 107.
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Bryant Literary Society, ii. 229. Bryant & Stratton's Business College, ii. 214. Buck, Dudley, ii. 228.
Building Department, ii. 137.
Bunce, Postmaster, ii. 29.
Burch, Robert, ii. 230.
Burge, J. H. Hobart, ii. 32.
Burnet, Wm., 179.
Bushwick, land purchase, 99; town plot, 100; first school, 100; first schoolmaster, IO1 ; old church, ii. 37-40 ; patriots, 38; after Revolution, 38; dur- ing war of 1812, 55; and Wil- liamsburgh, 101, 102 ; consoli- date with Brooklyn, 107. Bushwick Creek, 100.
Bushwick Democratic Club, ii. 225. Butler, Wm. H., ii. 104.
Cecilia Ladies Vocal Society, ii. 228.
Calvary Cemetery, ii. 194.
Campbell, Douglass, 42, 95. Patrick, ii. 161.
Canaver, Peter, ii. 76.
Carlyle, Thomas, 17.
Carnaville, Chas. A., ii. 129.
Carpenter, Geo., 214.
Carroll Park, ii. 143.
Cary Fund, ii. 206.
Casper, Andrew, 235.
Catholic Cathedral, ii. 160.
Catholic Historical Society, ii. 220.
Cemetery of the Evergreens, ii. 93, 194.
Central Grammar School, ii. 200. Chadbourne, Zebulon, ii. 85. Chadwick, Rev. J. W., ii. 165, 221.
Chardavogne, Wm., 221. Charles II., 104, 110. Charter of 1872, ii. 162. Chester, Mrs., ii. 69.
Chinese Sunday-schools, ii. 220. Chittenden, S. B., ii. 151.
Christian Commission, ii. 124. Church Charity Foundation, ii. 160, 220.
Churches, first in Kings County, 88; Reformed Dutch, 145; First Baptist, ii. 75; in 1835, 83; in 1893, 219.
City Bible Society, ii. 220. City Hall, ii. 71, 84, 96, 99. City Park, ii. 143.
Clarke, Governor, 188, 190. Clausen, Hendrick, 162. Clinton, Governor, 188. Jas., 213. Sir Henry, 217, 231.
Clinton Ave. Congregational
Church, ii. 120.
Clove Road, 278.
Clubs, ii. 224.
Cob dock, ii. 2.
Cobble Hill, 239 ; ii. 55.
Cochran, Dr. David Henry, ii. 212.
Coffee, Peter, ii. 60.
Colden, Governor, 210.
Cole, John, ii. 29.
Collard, Geo. W., 189.
College of Nineteen, 61.
Collier, Jurian, 183.
Colman's Point, 22.
Columbia College, 198.
Columbia Theatre, ii. 198.
Colve, Governor, 113.
Committee of Sixty, 206.
Common lands, 1 58.
Concordia Maennerchor, ii. 228.
Coney Island, 55, 122 ; ii. 33. Congregational Church Exten- sion Society, ii. 220. Congregational Club, ii. 220. Congress of Representatives, 290, 291. Conkling, John T., ii. 32, 132. Conselyea, Wm., ii. 38. Consolidation of Brooklyn and N. Y., ii. 163.
Continental Congress, 223, 230, 261, 280.
Cook, Purcell, ii. 32.
Coombs, John W., ii. 152. Coope, Ed., ii. 69.
Copeland, Edward, ii. 93. Ed., 189. " Corkscrew Fort," 239.
Corlaer's Hook Ferry, ii. 42. Corlies, E. W., ii. 152. Cornbury, Lord, 167-175 ; ii. 262. Cornell, John, ii. 71. T. B., ii. 152.
Cornell House, 257. Cornwallis, Earl, 243. Cortelyou, Isaac, 185. Jacques, 129.
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Cortelyou, Peter, 161. Coudrey, Samuel, ii. 16. Council of Twelve, 61. Courts, 127-131; ii. 30, 72, 73, 75, 95, 98, 99, III. Cowenhoven, 59. Captain Peter, ii. 56. John, 161. Nicholas, 180, 214, 224, 284, 290. Cozzens, Issachar, ii. 16.
Crane, Dr. Jas., ii. 133.
Craven, A. W., ii. 152.
Crescent Club, ii. 226.
Cripplebush, i. IOI. Crisper, Casper, 285. Crist, Abraham, ii. 86. Criterion, ii. 198. Crittenden, Dr. Alonzo, ii. 211.
Crombie, John S., ii. 213.
Crook, Abel, 190.
Cropsey, Andrew, ii. 38. Andrew G., ii. 38. Casper, ii. 38. Geerte Jans (Kasparse), ii. 38. Jerome Ryerson, ii. 38. Johannis (Kasparse), ii. 38. Joost (Kasparse), ii. 38. William, ii. 38.
Cross, Colonel, ii. 122. John A., ii. 85. Cullen, Edgar M., 189. Henry J., ii. 32.
Cunningham, 268; ii. 4. Robert, ii. 69. Cutting, Wm., ii. 61.
Cuyler, Rev. Theo. L., ii. 218.
Cypress Hills Cemetery, ii. 93, 194.
Dana, Prof. James D., ii. 203. Dankers, Jasper, 119. Darbee, Levi, ii. 106. De Bevoice, Charles, 235. Johannes, 285. De Hart, Simon Aertsen, 12I. De Heister, General, 243. De Lancey, Lieut .- Governor, 189. De Launcey, 262. De Mille, Richard M., 189. De Sille, Nicasius, 100, 118. De Witt, Benjamin, ii. 20. Dean, Capt. Wm., 56. John, 64.
Debevoise, James, ii. 97. Jost, 213. Debtors' Prison, ii. 73. Declaration of Independence, 230, 232. Denice, Denys, 207.
Denton, Daniel, 10.
Deutscher Liederkranz, ii. 228.
Dewyre, Capt. Wm., ii. 56.
Dickinson, P. P., ii. 152.
Dircksen, Cornelis, 53. Joris, 59. Dongan, Governor, 108, 117, 132, 133, 163; ii. 262.
Dorlant, John Garretse, 162, 163.
Doughty, John, ii. 24. John, ii. 62, 64, 71. Rev. Jno., 41.
Draft Riots, ii. 121. Draper, 96. Dress among the Dutch, 76.
Driggs, Daniel D., ii. 161. Edmund, ii. 152.
" Drum Beat," ii. 123. Duke of York, 104. " Duke's Laws," 108, 131. Duness, Count, 243. Dunmore, Governor, 205, 206. Duryea, Maria, 14.
Dutch, and American Explora- tion, 17; and Puritans, 42; manners and customs, 69-105; and education, 94-99; and En- glish, 103; nomenclature, ii. 258. Dwight, Rev. Dr., 189.
" Eagle and Brooklyn," vi. East New York, 274. Eastern Dist. Industrial School, ii. 224. Edson, Franklin, ii. 179, 181.
Education under the Dutch, 94, 124. Elections in early Brooklyn, 159 (note). Ely, Smith, Jr., ii. 151. Embargo Act, ii. 50. English, and Dutch, 103; take New York, 105. Enos, De Witt Č., ii. 32.
Episcopalians, at Jamaica, 174; in Brooklyn after the Revolu- tion, ii. 24. Erie Basin Docks, ii. 134. Erskine, Sir Wm., 243.
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Etherington, Sam., 220. Euterpe Chorus and Orchestra, ii. 228. "Evening Star," ii. 78. Everdell, Colonel, ii. 127. Everett, Thomas, 220. William, 221. Everit, Th., ii. 62. Excelsior Club, ii. 226.
Faith Home for Incurables, ii. 223. Farmers' and Citizens' Bank, ii. 104. Federal Building, ii. 195. Ferry, the, 53, 120, 153; ii. 27, 77; ferry and river rights, 132; ii. 261. Ffilkin, Henry, 155, 158, 162. Field, Thos. W., ii. 38.
Field and Marine Club, ii. 226. Fire Department, early organiza- tion, ii. 24; first legislation re- lating to, 26; fire limits, 139; reorganized, 146. Fish, Colonel, 257. Fiske, John1, ii. 48, 169, 171.
Flatbush, county court, 35; Eras- mus Hall, 35; settled, 55; es- tablishes a church, 88; popula- tion in 1738, 188; first mill, ii. 34. Flatbush Ave. and Amersfoort Road, 55.
Flatlands, called New Amers- foort, 29; settled, 54; new church, ii. 33. Fleet estate, ii. 72. Fletcher, Benj., 144. Floyd, Wm., 230. Flushing Bridge and Road Com- pany, ii. 28. Fly Market, 221. Foord, John, ii. 230.
Fort Amsterdam, 31, 52. Fort Greene, 237; ii. 23, 120. Fort Hamilton, 122, 243. Fort James, 116.
Fort Orange, 23. "Four Chimneys," 257. Fowler, Wm. A., ii. 15I. Foy, Joseph D., ii. 19. Franklin, Benjamin, 229. Franklin Literary Society, ii. 229. Freeck's Mill, 239; ii. 41. Fricke, Geo., ii. 69.
Froebel Academy, ii. 214. Fulton, Robert, ii. 56-58. Fulton Ferry, ii. 27, 57, 159. Fulton Street, 161. Furman, Gabriel, 172, 173; ii. 68, 69. William, ii. 69.
Galbraithe, Robert, 221. Gardiner, Lyon, 39.
Garrison, John, ii. 64, 69, 71.
Garritsen, Wolfert, 28, 54.
Garritson, Samuel, 163, 188, 203. "Gazette," 146, 186.
George III., 199.
Gerbritse, Jan, 162.
German Hospital, ii. 223.
German Young Men's Christian Ass'n, ii. 221.
Germania Club, ii. 225. Germania Savings Bank, ii. 166.
Gibbons, John, ii. 31. Girls' High School, ii. 202. Golden Hill, battle of, 205.
Good Hope, prison ship, ii. 5. Gowanus Mill, 29, 183. Graham, Augustus, ii. 69, 93, 202.
Grand Opera House, ii. 198. Grant, General, 243.
Gravesend, settled, 55; popula- tion in 1810, ii. 33. Graydon, Colonel, 295. Green, Andrew H., ii. 152. Greene, General, 229, 233, 237, 240. Greenwood, John, ii. 86.
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