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from whom are descended the Polhemus, the Bergens, the Bogarts, and many other of the most notable families of Kings County. Few women have been more highly hon- ored in the number and the character of their descendants than SARAH DE RAPELJE.
The first correction of this historical error is due to Mr. James Riker, the author of History of Newtown, L. I., who, in a paper read before the New York Historical Society, in May, 1857, thoroughly investigated and exploded the time-honored tradition which had disfigured the pages of all previous historians. Prime (Hist. L. I., 358-61) especially has collected a great mass of tradition, which is more interesting than reli- able.
1 N. Y. Col. MSS., vol. i. 251.
2 Riker's Newtown, pp. 18, 83.
3 N. Y. Col. MSS., vol. vi. p. 353.
4 In the original Dutch record, 200 morgen, erroneously translated 20 by Vander. kemp.
" The earliest recorded use of the name " Waale-bocht." (See note 4, p. 24.)
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this time, on the farm in the Waaleboght, patented to her late hus- band, Hans Hansen Bergen, and her petition probably alludes to those lands. No evidence exists on the Colonial records as to any grant to her, either from the government or the Indians, of 200 morgen, except her statement in the petition. "From this petition," says the family historian, "has probably arisen, with the aid of a little stretch of the imaginatien, the story of the Indians having presented her with a farm, in consideration of her having been the first-born white child in the colony."
When, upon the conquest of the colony of New Netherland, by the English, in 1664, the inhabitants were obliged to take out new patents for their farms, BOGAERT, Sarah's second husband, embraced the opportunity, as it would seem, to take out the new patent for Hans Hansen's 200 morgen in his own name, instead of that of Hans' children, who were rightfully entitled thereto. At least no record has ever been found of their possession of any portion of their father's estate, nor any evidence of any compensation made to them therefor by their step-father. It is possible, however, although not very probable, that compensation may have been made, and that the written evidence has disappeared in the lapse of time. If Bogaert defrauded the orphans, it can only be said that it was not an isolated case, the records showing that others, similarly situated at that time, took out the new and confirmatory patents in their own name. By virtue, therefore, of this confirmatory patent, which was dated April 5th, 1667, the whole property, excepting that tract known and designated on the map as the General Johnson Homestead Farm, remained in the possession of Bogart, and was divided among his heirs.
The above-mentioned "Homestead Farm" was probably pur- chased from Bogart by Rem Jansen Vanderbeeck, the ancestor of all the Remsens in this country,1 who, in 1642, had married Jannetie, a daughter of Joris Janse de Rapalie .? He resided at Albany for
1 Riker (Hist. Newtown, 386) says his trade was that of a "smith," and he came from Jeveren in Westphalia. A valuable and interesting genealogy of the family may be found in Riker's work. The name of Vanderbeeck seems to have been dropped in the second generation.
2 It is of this lady that the curious tradition remains, that she was taken, when a child, across from Governor's Island to Long Island, in a tub. (See Appendix, 5.)
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some years, and the period of his removal to the Waaleboght is un- certain. As a citizen and a magistrate he was highly esteemed in Brooklyn, where he died in 1681, leaving a widow, who survived him for many years, and fifteen children, all of whom, according to tra- dition, were present at his funeral, and all of whom were married.1 In 1694, the widow and her children conveyed the property to two of their number, Isaac and Jeremias Remsen," and in 1704 Isaac
1 Riker, 386 ; Prime. 359.
2 We have been favored by Teunis G. Bergen, Esq., with the following translation of this deed, the original of which is in the possession of Jeromus B. Johnson of Flat- bush. Some portions of the document have become illegible through the ravages of time, etc. :
" m .
. In the third, King Our Lord, one
. thousand six hundred and ninety-four, tenth day of April ; declared of the deceased Rem Jansen, of the Walle-boght, in the aforesaid county through his children, to wit, Joris Remsen, Rem Remsen, Jacob Remsen, Jeronimus Remsen, Daniel Remsen, Abraham Remsen, Jan (Dorlant), Aris Vanderbilt, Joseph Hegeman, Gerrit Hansen, Elbert (Adriaensen), Marten Adriaense, each for himself and his heirs, to ISAAC REMSEN and JEREMIAS REMSEN, and their heirs and assigns, have set over, granted, and conveyed a certain parcel of land, situated in the Walle-bocht, in the aforesaid county, on the southerly side of the land of Teunis Gysbertse ; also bounded and encompassed by the kil in the Walebocht, as set forth in the patent for the same ; also with the length, breadth, course, and number of morgens made known in said patent, with all the right and privileges in any way appertaining to said parcel of land ; also, as included with and appertaining to said land, three parcels of meadow : the 1st, held in common with Jacob Hegeman, situated in the limits of Midwout (Flatbush), over the second kil, and known as Number 10; the 2d, a block lot, situated on the third kil, and lying between Tomas Lambertsen and Jan Vanderbilt ; the 3rd, situated over the third kil, in the long neck in the limits of Jamaike, and held in common with Jerominus Rapalie. For the above-described land and meadow, with their appurtenances, declared the above-named parties to convey to the said Isaac Remsen and Jeremias Remsen, to be fully satisfied and paid for the same, to the first and last cent, therefore deliver (give) over said land and meadow, with the appurtenances and privileges, for themselves and their heirs, to the aforesaid Jeremiah and Isaac, clear and unencumbered, to be kept, with all their rights, by them, the said Jeremias and Isaac, and their heirs and assigns.
the mark of
JANNETIE JORISSE,
ABRAM REMSEN.
by herself. JAN DORLANT.
JORIS REMSEN. ARIS VANDERBILT.
REM REMSEN. JOSEPH HEGEMAN.
JEKOB REMSEN. GERRET HANSEN.
JEROMINUS REMSEN. ELBERT ADRIAENSEN.
DANIEL REMSEN. MARTIN ADRIAENSEN.
"Signed in the presence of . . . ys Hegeman, Johannes Van Eckelen, and also delivered."
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sold out his share to his brother Jeremias, who thus became the sole owner of the paternal farm.1 It was inherited, after his death, in July, 1757, by his son Jeremias, who, dying without issue, in 1777, left it to his relative, Barent Johnson .? This worthy citizen and patriot, deceased in 1782, and his executors in 1793, conveyed the estate to his son, the late General Jeremiah Johnson, by whom it was first laid out in streets and city lots, and by whose eldest son, Barnet Johnson, the old homestead and a portion of the original farm is now held.3
The history of the remaining portion of the Hans Hansen Bergen patent is briefly as follows :
The parcels since known as the Boerum and Abraham A. Remsen estates were originally comprised in a farm owned by one Teunis Bogert, who, by will, dated June 22, 1767,4 devised it to his sons Adrian and Cornelius. Partition deeds were executed between them, April 25, 1769, whereby Adrian took possession of the north- erly half, now known as the Boerum farm, and Cornelius of the remaining or southerly portion, being the greater portion of the Abraham A. Remsen estate.5
Adrian sold his farm, April 13, 1775, to Jacob Bloom, who devised it by will, dated March 5, 1797, as a life-estate to his son Barent.® His heirs, in March, 1816, conveyed it to Abraham A. Remsen,' who, in November of the same year, sold it to Abraham Boerum,8 who remained in possession until his death, in 1848, and from whom it derived its name of the " Boerum farm."
Cornelius Bogert sold his portion of the paternal estate, March 8,
The southerly portion of the land described, in the above deed, as lands of Teunis Gys- berts Bogart, is that since known as land of James Scholes.
1 & 3 See " Deduction of Title to so much of ' the Homestead Farm,' so called, of the late Jeremiah Johnson, deceased, as is embraced within the limits of the City of Brooklyn, and as was in his possession at the time of his death. Dated Brooklyn, May, 1853. Prepared by William M. Ingraham, Brooklyn." Folio, pp. 20.
2 Will dated 1776 ; proved 1782. N. Y. Wills, liber xxxV.
4 Liber xxvi. 210, N. Y. Co. Wills.
6 See map on file in Kings County Clerk's office, endorsed " Map showing the Farm of Teunis Bogart, deceased," as divided between his sons Adrian and Cornelius, and to be filed in Kings County Clerk's office with the old deeds not recorded.
6 Kings Co. Wills, liber i. 227.
7 Kings County Conveyances, liber xi. 461.
8 Ibid., 458.
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1774, to Abraham Remsen, who, in April, 1793, conveyed it to his son William, and he, in May following, transferred it to his brothers, Jeremiah and Abraham Remsen, junior. Adjoining the southerly side of this farm, and including the late Scholes tract, was a farm of 76 acres, owned and possessed, prior to 1729, by one Gysbert Bogert, and by him sold, in December of that year, to his son Gys- bert Bogert, junior. By him it was conveyed, June 29, 1741, to Jeremiah Remsen, the then owner of the present Johnson farm. Mr. Remsen, on the 28th of January, 1742, conveyed it to his son Abraham, and he, on April 10th, 1795, conveyed it to his sons, Jer- emiah and Abraham.1
The title to the farm of Cornelius Bogert, and to that of Gysbert Bogert, having thus become fully vested in the brothers Remsen, partition deeds were executed between them on the 14th of Septem- ber, 1795, by which Abraham became possessed of the northerly portion, since known as the Abraham A. Remsen estate ; and Jere- miah of the southerly portion, sold after his death, in 1831, by his executors, to James Scholes, and since known as the Scholes estate.ª
Having thus completed our survey of the early patents along the water-front of Breuckelen, from the bounds of New Utrecht to those of Bushwick, we now enter upon the consideration of what may be termed
THE SECOND TIER OF PATENTS,
located between the Waale-boght and the head of Gowanus Creek, in the rear of those already discussed. These lands are all especially described as "lying at Marechkawieck, on the Gowanus Kill ;" proving, beyond a doubt, that the name of " Marechkawieck," although applied primarily to the shores of the Waale-boght, was also used to designate the whole of the country between the two · localities. The existence in this neighborhood, as we have seen, of "Sassian's " and other tracts of maize-land, as well as the fact that various Indian skeletons and relics have, from time to time, been exhumed in the same vicinity, incline us to the belief that this was
1 Conveyances, lib. xxi. 213, Kings County Clerk's office. 2 Ibid., 209.
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the locality occupied by the " Marechkawiecks," whom we know to have been the original proprietors of the soil.1 They were undoubt- edly dispossessed during the war of 1643, and on the very patents which we are about to examine, the village proper of " BREUCKELEN," as distinguished from the hamlets at the "Waale-boght," "Gow- anus," and "The Ferry," was afterwards established.
XX.
March 11, 1647, GERRIT WOLPHERTSEN (VAN COUWENHOVEN)} received a patent for
" a certain piece of land, at the (Ma) Rechawieck, both the maize and woodland, on the marsh of the Gouwanus kil, between the land of Jacob Stoffelsen and Frederick Lubbertsen, extending from the aforesaid marsh till into the woods next the land of said Frederick, till to the land of Andries Hudde, northeast by north, a little northerly, 148 rods; behind through the woods, till to the land of the aforesaid Jacob Stoffelsen, southeast by east 80 rods next to the land of Jacob Stoffelsen aforesaid, till to the aforesaid marsh, southwest a little westerly 165 rods, along the marsh to the place of beginning 60 rods, with an oblique outpoint : amount- ing in all to 19 morgens, 341 rods." 3
This plot evidently fronted on the main road leading from Flat- bush, through the village of Breuckelen, which was located at this
1 A large Indian burying-ground was located northeast of Freeke's Mill Pond, and the surrounding meadows, and in grading streets some remains have been disturbed on the Bout and Van Rossum patents, hereafter described.
The following fragment (from N. Y. Col. MSS., iv. 158), probably relates to this locality : "January 27, 1643. Deposition of Geertjen Mannincks, wife of Claes Mente- laer, said, that Roelant (Robert) Hackwaert, told at her house in the Bay, that there were seven hills of corn about a pistol-shot from the road, which he would confirm by his oath.
" Roelant Hackwaert declared that he saw the savages at Marechkawieck cover the corn-hills."
2 In N. Y. Col. MSS., i. 234, 235, is a receipt of Wolphertsen, who is there mentioned as a " resident of Keskachquerem, on Long Island," for four cows hired by him of the deacons of New Amsterdam. From this, he would appear to have had at that time a farm at "Keskachquerem," which was, probably, the name of the original territory of Bushwick, purchased by Kieft in 1639. See ante, p. 26, and Appendix 2.
3 Patents, G G, 172.
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point, to " the Ferry," and is included in lands marked as G. Mar- tense's on Butts' map. Wolphertsen sold this property to Nicholas Janse, baker, of New York, whose widow, Maritje Garritse, sold the same, Sept. 13th, 1698, to George Hansen (Bergen), of Broockland, for the sum of £176 11s. The lands were described as bounded " southeast by land of Jurian Andriese, northwest by land of Jacob Hansen (Bergen) and land of Derick Wortman, southwest by Gowanus Kil, and northwest by the King's highway, as formerly in possession of Gerrit Wolphertsen." Also, "the just and equal part of all that hook or neck of land in said township, containing 55 Dutch rods broad and 250 Dutch rods long; bounded south by land of Jacob Brower, north by land of Machiel Hansen (Bergen), west by Gow- anus Kil, or Mill Creek, and east by the common woods."1
Martense and Gerritsen possess, through their wives, these lands of Bergen ; but it is probable that Bergen, or his heirs, subsequent purchasers, added other lands to the estate, besides Wolfertsen Van Couvenhoven's patent.
XXI.
JACOB STOFFELSEN, the West India Company's overseer of negroes, and engaged under Van Twiller, in 1635, in the construction of Fort Amsterdam, had a farm next to Wolphertsen's, but of which no patent is found on record. Its position, however, is clearly defined by the adjoining patent of Wolphertsen, which is described as lying between it and that of Lubbertsen ; and its size is specified in Bout's patent as being of the same dimensions, viz, 28 morgens and 270 rods. Like the others, it commenced on the meadows at the head of Gow- anus Creek, and ran northeasterly to the "King's Highway," i. e., the old Flatbush and Breuckelen Ferry Road. On the maps of the present city, it may be described as extending along Fulton avenue, from Bond street, or thereabout, to a line between and parallel to Smith and Hoyt streets.
Stoffelsen seems not to have been a resident of Breuckelen after 1656, in which year he hired the Company's farm at Aharsimus,
1 Kings Co. Convey., ii. 181.
7
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which was renewed to him in 1661 and 1662. In 1663 he, with other farmers in that vicinity, was fined for working on Sunday; and in 1664, his wife petitioned for, and was granted, 8 or 10 acres addi- tional behind the company's farm, on which latter she had received, in 1658, permission to build a house.1
XXII.
JAN EVERTSEN BOUT, a somewhat prominent man in the colony,? was the patentee of the lands adjoining Van Couwenhoven's on the west. This property was described in the deed granted to him by Gov. Kieft, July 6, 1645, as
"land at Marechkawieck, on the Kil of the Gowanus, as well the maize- land as the woodland, bounded by the most easterly end of (the land of ) Huyck Aertsen (von Rossum), and by the most westerly end of (the land of) Gerrit Wolphertson (von Couwenhoven), it extends next the said land ( ¿. e. of Wolphertsen) ; along till out of the woods, northeast a little northerly 165 rods, its breadth in the woods southeast to the land of Huyck Aertsen, 69 rods, next to the land of said Huyck Aertsen along to the maize-land 55 rods, southwest and southwest by west, further on till to the valley (marsh) southwest, a little southerly, 137 rods further on to the place of beginning, along the marsh, with certain outpoints, laid out in a parallelogram. Amount in all, both the places, as well ( ¿. e. likewise) of Jan Evertsen (Bout) and Jacob Stoffelsen, 28 morgen 270 rods.3
February 14th, 1667, Bout received a confirmatory patent of the above premises, which covered the neck of land on which a few years ago were located Freecke's and Denton's flour-mills, and also a considerable tract east of Freecke's mill-pond, extending to the
1 N. Y. Col. MSS., viii. 313, 1044; ix. 572 ; x. 40; Part ii. 294, Part iii. 21.
2 In 1643 he had a bouwery at Pavonia ; in September of same year was selected by the Eight Men to fill the vacancy in their Board, caused by the expulsion of Van Dam ; in 1646, became one of the founders of Breuckelen ; in 1647, was a farmer there and chosen a member of the Nine Men, who formed Stuyvesant's Council; in 1649, was one of the signers of a memorial to the Home Government, requesting certain reforms in the management of the Colony, and also of the Remonstrance which accompanied it, and of which documents he and two others were chosen to be the bearers to the Fa- therland ; was successful in his mission, and returned to Nieuw Netherlands in 1650. (See Col. Doc. N. Y., i. 367, 379.)
8 Patents, G G, 108.
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main road in the then village of Brooklyn. Bout gave the neck to the children of Adam Brower, the common ancestor of the Browers of this vicinity.
April 1st, 1668, a patent was granted to Jan Evertsen Bout for
" a certain Hook or corner of land within the jurisdiction of the town of Breucklyn, beginning from the fence of Gerrit Croesus' land, where the marke stands, and soe goes across to the highway, being in breadth 110 rod, as also 3 or 4 rods along the said high- way, and reaches in length 250 rods in the woods."
In 1674 this land, being the same as that known on Butt's map as belonging to G. Martense, was in possession of Andries Janse Jurianse, who had married Annetje Para, Bout's widow. He died before 1695, and she married Jan Janse Staats, and on the 17th March of that year she conveyed to Jurian Andriese (probably the son of her second husband) for the sum of £150, certain premises in Broockland, described as
"on the north side of the King's highway, on the east side of Michiell Hansen (Bergen), on the west side of Joras Hansen (Bergen) and Lambert Andriese, with all the meadow there annext and thereunto belonging, and that soe great and small as it always was possessed by her above said de- ceased husbands."
February 19th, 1707-8, Jurian Andriese conveyed to Carell De- bevois, for £400, premises in Broockland,
" containing 27 morgens, or 54 acres, be it more or less, and bounded southeasterly by the land of Machiell Hansen (Bergen), westerly by the land of Joris Hansen (Bergen), and in the rear southwesterly by a certain creeke running through the meadows coming from Gowanos mill soe called, including all the meadows in the rear of the said land, and adjoin- ing thereto between the said creek and the said land."
These deeds covered that portion of Bout's patent not included within "the Neck," and possibly may have included some addi- tional land of Jurianse, the second husband of Annetie Para.
Upon Bout's patent was located Freeke's Mill, or the "old Gow- anus Mill," probably the oldest in the town of Breukelen. As early
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as in 1661, it was occupied conjointly by Isaac De Forest and Adam Brower, the latter purchasing the interest of the former.1 They were, undoubtedly, tenants of Bout, who, in 1667 (King's Co. Con- vey., p. 179), gave "the corn and meadows and place whereon the mill is grounded," to the children of Adam Brower. And, according to a deed, dated April 30, 1707, of Sybrant Brower to Abram and Nicholas Brower (King's Co. Convey., liber iii. p. 201) it appears that their ancestor, Adam Brower, had received from the heirs of Bout and Teunis Nuyse a conveyance of the neck of land upon which the mill was located. This mill-pond was formed by damming off the head of Gowanus Kil, and the old mill was located just north of Union, west of Nevin, and between that street and Bond.2
Denton's Mill, or " the Yellow Mill," in Gowanus, was also built upon Bout's patent, by Adam and Nicholas, the sons of Adam Brower, in 1709. The mill-pond was formed by the damming off a branch of the Gowanus Kil, and the mill was located on the north- east side of the present First street, about midway between Second and Third avenues. The dwelling-house, which was burned down about 1852, was in Carroll, midway between Nevins street and Third avenue.
There is some uncertainty regarding the precise limits of these three patents of Bout, Stoffelsen, and Van Couvenhoven, which to- gether evidently cover that portion of our city included between Fulton avenue, Smith and Nevins streets, and described on our map as lands of Martense and Gerritsen.3
XXIII.
On the 22d of February, 1646, HUYCK AERTSEN (VAN ROSSUM) received from Gov. Kieft,
" a piece of land lying at the Marechkawieck, on the marsh of the Gowanus Kil, the maize-land as well as the woodland, bounded on the southeast by the land of Jan Evertse (Bout), along the marsh east 68 rods, southeast 30
1 See Dr. O'Callaghan's note in Hist. Mag. for Aug., 1862.
? See map of land, mill and mill-pond of John C. Freeke, by J. Lott, 1833.
' See ante, pp. 96, 97, Wolphertsen's patent.
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rods further up the maize-land till to the woods, northeast by east 85 rods, northeast by north 60 rods, the breadth in the woods till to the land of said Jan Evertsen (Bout) northwest eighty-seven rods, again to the maize land next the land of the aforesaid Jan Evertsen (Bout) southwest and southwest by west 55 rods, through the maize-land to the place of begin- ning, southwest a little southerly, 137 rods: amounting in all to 19 mor- gens and 105 rods."
To this was subsequently added another parcel, making in all 29 morgens.1 This tract may be described as lying between Fulton avenue, Fourth avenue, Nevins and Douglass streets, designated on the map as belonging to Mary Powers and to Nicholas Casthalez.2 It was confirmed by Gov. Nicholls, June 21, 1667, to Albert Cornelis- sen (Wantenaer),3 who had married Trientje, the widow of Huyck Aertsen van Rossum, deceased. March 7, 1680-1, Cornelissen con- veyed, by endorsement on the back of the patent from Gov. Kieft, and the confirmatory one from Gov. Nicholls, the above premises to Michael Hansen (Bergen) ; also, by a separate conveyance, the adjoining meadows, which he had bought of Theunis Nyssen on the 16th of May, 1656, and which had been confirmed to him by a patent from Gov. Nicholls, dated June 26, 1668.4 The original patent to
1 Patents, G G, 136.
2 It, however, covered rather more than these two pieces.
8 Or " the glove-maker." Albert Cornelissen, in June, 1643, let himself as a wheel- wright to Conyn Gerritsen, for one year (N. Y. Col. MSS., ii. 61). On June 5, 1665, he was tried for killing Barent Jansen, of Brooklyn, by striking him in the side with a knife, of which wound he died the same day. As the deed was done in self-defence, the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter, and he was sentenced to be burned in the hand before the rising of the court, to forfeit all his goods and chattels, and to remain in prison for a year and a day. He was, however, pardoned on the same day by Gov. Nicholls. (Alb. Rec. Patents, vol. i. 165.)
4 These meadows of Teunis Niessen are referred to in Holl. Doc., i. 338, in the Answer of the W. I. Co. to the Remonstrance of the New Netherlands, 1650. Jan Evertsen Bout and J. Van Cowenhoven complained, in that remonstrance, that " after the transfer had been executed of the patents to the proprietor, Kieft had added thereto a little clause which was manifestly contradictory ; inasmuch as the patents included the land and valley, and the clause takes the valley (or meadows) back to the Com- pany," &c. The reply (p. 340) says : "We are informed, and therefore say, that the petitioners will not prove the late Director, William Kieft, hath called in more than one patent ; and he subjoined with his own hand, that he reserved the valley, not for the Company, but for the town of Breuckelen, in general. The reason for the revocation was because Jan Evertsen Bout, one of the petitioners, who occupies part of the valley, together with others beside him, who undertook to found or improve the town of
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