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This tract was sold, January 29, 1652, by Pieter Linde, who had married the widow of Jan Manje, to one Barent Janse." On the 23d of August, 1674, Jan Barentse and Aucke Janse, together with Simon Hansen, as guardian of the minor children of Barent Janse, and his wife Styntje Pieterse, both deceased, " all living within the town of Midwout or Flackbush," appeared before Nicasius de Sille, the Secretary of the Dutch towns, and declared that they had trans- ported the above land ("house, barn, orchard, upland, and bush- land,") to Dirck Janse Woertman.3
VII.
ANDRIES HUDDE, a member of Director Van Twiller's Council, in 1633, and an enterprising and prominent citizen of Nieuw Amster- dam, was the patentee of the lands adjoining Jan Manje's. Follow- ing the example of the Director, Mr. Hudde dabbled largely in real
1 Kings Co. Conv., liber i. 246, and deed of Woertman to Remsen, lib. iii. 76.
2 Kings County Conveyances, liber i. 24"
8 Ibid., 247
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estate, a pursuit for which his occupation as "town surveyor" af- forded him ample facilities. In 1636 he was concerned with Wolfert Gerritsen in the purchase of several flats on Long Island, since oc- cupied by the town of Flatlands and Flatbush. And in 1638 he became the owner of a fine plantation on Manhattan Island, near Corlaer's Hook. This property in Brooklyn was obtained by him, by patent, from Governor Kieft, September 12, 1645. It is therein described as being
" upon Long Island, over against the fort (at New Amsterdam), lying to the southwest of Jan Manje, and to the south or behind to the maize-land of Frederick Lubbertsen, and to the easterly side against Claes Cornelissen Mentelaer, stretching in front at the water or river side from the land of said Mentelaer to the land of said Manje, southwest by south 72 rod, next the land of the said Manje to the aforesaid maize-land, south southeast and betwixt south by east 245 rods, along the maize-land east by west 40 rods, and further through the woods to the land of the aforesaid Mentelaer, north by east well so northerly 145 rods, all along the land of the afore- said Mentelaer to the first beginning due northwest 156 rods, amounting together to 37 morgen, 247 rods."1
Hudde never occupied this land himself, being, for several years thereafter, actively engaged as commissary at Fort Nassau, on the South River, where, in 1646, he purchased for the West India Com- pany the site of the present flourishing city of Philadelphia."
On September 10, 1650, however, Pieter Cornelissen, by virtue of a power of attorney from Hudde, dated July 27, 1650, conveyed the above patent to Lodewyck Jongh, for the sum of four hundred guilders, which conveyance was approved by the Governor and Council by an order dated January 2, 1651.3 On the 19th of July, 1676, Harmatie Janse, the widow of Lodewyck Jongh, conveyed eight morgen and five hundred and thirty-six rods of the land mentioned in the above patent, to Jeronimus Rapalie ; and February 12, 1679 (English style), she conveyed another portion, comprising twelve morgen, to Dirck Janse Woertman.4
On May 3d, 1685, Woertman, by order of Harmatie Janse, con-
1 Conveyances, liber i. 249.
' Conveyances, liber i. 250.
2 Brodhead's Hist. N. Y. i. 426.
4 Convey., lib. i. 250.
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veyed to the heirs of Joris Dirckse, " a small stroke of land lying at the east side of the highway (now Fulton street), being all they can pretend (to claim) by the aforesaid patent."1
The three patents of Hudde, Manje, and Ruyter, described in the preceding pages, comprehended, as will be seen, the whole territory afterwards occupied by the Remsen and Philip Livingston estates, Ralph Patchen, Cornelius Heeney, Parmenus Johnson, and others, The entire tract lying northeast of Lubbertse's patent, and having a river front (of two thousand six hundred and forty-six feet) extending from about Atlantic to Clarke streets, and from Court street to the East River, being at present one of the most thickly settled portions of our flourishing city, was purchased, as we have already seen, by Dirck Janse Woertman,? and was by him sold to his son-in-law, Joris Remsen, on the 10th of October, 1706, for the sum of £612 10s. current money of New York.3 This deed, after reciting at length the several patents to Manje, Hudde, and Ruyter, together with the chains of conveyances vesting the same in Woert- man, specifies that all these parcels, "now lie near the ferry, bound round to the Salt River, the lands of Garret van Couvenhoven and Garret Middagh, the highway leading from Brookland to the ferry, the land of the heirs of Jurian Briaz, and the lands of George Hansen (Bergen),4 and Jacob Hansen (Bergen), and Cornelius Sebring."6 Joris Remsen, who was the second son of Rem Jansen Vanderbeeck, the ancestor of the Remsen family in this country, built a mansion near the brow of the Heights, which then presented the appearance of a rough and bold promontory of rocky cliffs, rising
1 Conveyances, Kings Co., liber i. 251.
2 There is still extant (Kings Co. Conveyances, liber i. 165) a marriage settlement between this Dirck Janse Woertman, " last man of Marrietie Theunis," and Annetie Aukes, " last wife of Wynant Pieterse," and a list of the goods and chattels she brought her husband.
3 Conveyances, Kings County, liber iii. p. 76.
4 He bought of Marritje Gerritse, widow of Nicholas Janse, baker, the land patented by Governor Kieft, in 1647, to Gerrit Wolphertsen (Van Couwenhoven) .- Kings Co. Conveyances, liber ii. 181.
5 Jacob Hans Bergen held the lands which his wife Elsie had inherited from her father, Frederick Lubbertsen.
6 Sebring bought of Peter Corson, in 1698, one hundred acres "in the neck of Brook- land, commonly called Frederick Lubbertsen's Neck," etc .- Kings Co. Conveyances, liber ii. 162.
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from a sandy beach, and covered with a fine growth of cedar-trees, which gave to the place a remarkably picturesque appearance, as seen from the New York side. The Remsen mansion was used for hospital purposes by the British during their occupation of the town in the Revolution ; was afterwards occupied by William Cutting, the partner of Robert Fulton in the steamboat business, and after his death it was sold to Fanning C. Tucker, Esq. He lived there several years, and then sold it to ex-Mayor Jonathan Trotter. From him it passed to Mr. Wm. S. Packer, and its site is now marked by Grace Church. The building itself was launched down the face of the Heights, and now stands on the site of the old Joralemon street ferry-house, on Furman near Joralemon street.
Philip Livingston, Esq., became the owner of an extensive portion of the old Remsen estate, prior to 1764, and in August of that year received from the city of New York (in whom it had been vested by the Montgomery charter of 1736), a perpetual grant (subject to an annual rent of thirty shillings currency, $3.75), of all the land front- ing his property, along the whole breadth of his lot, between high and low water mark. The Livingston mansion-house stood on the east side of the present Hicks street, about four hundred feet south of Joralemon street, and, during the Revolutionary War, in conse- quence of Mr. Livingston's adherence to the American cause, was appropriated by the British, who then occupied Brooklyn, to the purposes of a naval hospital. After Mr. Livingston's death, the trustees appointed by Legislative Act of February 25, 1784, to sell his estate, disposed of that portion known as " the distillery property," to Daniel McCormick, in July, 1785, and on the 29th of April, 1803, they conveyed to Teunis Joralemon the property south of the dis- tillery, and the Livingston mansion thenceforward became known as the Joralemon House. It was taken down at the opening of Hicks street.
VIII.
On the 14th of November, 1642, CLAES CORNELISSEN (MENTELAER) VAN SCHOUW, received from Governor Kieft, a patent for land
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" on Long Island, over against the island of Manhattan, betwixt the ferry and the land of Andries Hudde, as the same lies thereto next, extending from Hudde's land along the river, 102 rods; into the woods southeast by south, 75 rods ; and south southeast, 75 rods; south by west, 30 rods ; and along the land of the said Hudde, northwest, 173 rods to the beach, amounting to 16 morgen and 175 rods."
This property, having a water-front of 1,276 feet six inches, prob- ably extended from the north line of Hudde's patent to the ferry at the foot of the present Fulton street.
At " the Ferry" and its immediate vicinity, grants for house or building lots were made to several individuals, and by the beginning of the last century there was probably quite a hamlet at this point, having several streets and lanes, with houses clustered closely together. This is evidenced, not only by a number of deeds of lots " at Brooklyn Ferry," purchased and sold by Hans Bergen,1 but by an interesting map, entitled, "A Draft of Israel Horsfield's Land at the Old Ferry, in the township of Brooklyn, in King's county, near the New York ferry on Nassau Island," drawn, on a scale of forty feet to the inch, by Englebert Lott, May 13, 1763. The copy, attested by Horsfield, September, 1767, which we have seen in the possession of Silas Ludlam, City Surveyor, is particularly
1 March 23, 1716, Hans Bergen bought from the freeholders of Brooklyn, a lot, " bounded northeast by highway from Brooklyn to the ferry ; southeast by highway between the lot and ground of Thomas Palmeter ; southwest by highway lying be- tween the ground of said Hans and said lot of land to the river ; northwest by the river. (Kings Co. Convey., liber iv. 303, 119.) This purchase apparently covered the whole westerly front of Fulton street, from the alley known as Elizabeth street to the East River.
May 2, 1717, Hans Bergen bought Thomas Palmeter's dwelling-house and lands, at Brooklyn ferry, late of John and Sarah Coa ; east, west, and north by roads, and south by land of Garret Middagh, two acres. (Kings Co. Convey., liber iv. 154.) This covers the lands fronting on Fulton street, from Elizabeth street to the Middagh property, southeast of Hicks street.
January, 1728, Hans Bergen conveyed to Israel Horsfield land at the ferry ; southwest by Bergen's land ; east southeast by land of Gabriel Cox ; northeast by highway ; north- west by highway, and partly by land of Horsfield and Middagh, beginning at a street or highway at east corner, now of Gabriel Cox, then by said street towards East River ; north 60, west 226 feet, to another street leading to the East River side; then by said street, south 60, west 120 feet, to lot of I. Horsfield ; then by the lot," etc., etc.
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valuable, inasmuch as the original, formerly deposited in the Town Clerk's office, is now lost. A map of the Fulton street widening, and also the Village Map of 1816, by Jeremiah Lott, now in the Street Commissioner's office, need to be carefully studied, as throw- ing light upon the existence of this settlement at the ferry, which it is probable was mostly located on the grounds subsequently owned by John Middagh and Cary Ludlow, on the southwest side of Fulton street.
North of the Ferry, as near as can be ascertained, came, either a patent for a small parcel belonging to Cornelis Dircksen (Hooglandt), " the Ferryman," or that of Jacob Wolphertsen (van Couwenhoven).
IX.
On January 24th, 1643, Dircksen sold this property (of which we have been unable to find any recorded patent), then described as " his house and garden, with some sixteen or seventeen acres of land on Long Island," to one William Thomassen, together with his right of ferriage, provided the Director would consent, for 2,300 guilders in cash and merchandise.1 William Thomassen we suppose to be the same individual as William Jansen, who is known to have suc- ceeded Cornelis Direksen as ferryman about this time. Direksen, after retiring from the charge of the ferry, obtained from Governor Kieft, December 12, 1645,
"a piece of land, both maize and woodland, lying on Long Island, behind the land by him heretofore taken up; it lies betwixt the land of Herry Breser and another parcel ; it extends along the said Herry's marsh till to the aforesaid parcel, and further into and through the wood and maize land to the buildings and improvements of Claes Cornelissen Mentelaer, west by north and west northwest between both, 172 rods; its breadth behind in the woods to the said Herry, northeast by east, 59 rods ; further on to the maize-land, east a little south, 45 rods ; further through the maize- land to the marsh, southeast by east, 109 rods; amounting in all to 12 morgen and 157 rods."
I N. Y. Col. MISS., ii. 44.
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The patent for the land of Dircksen, above described, as " hereto- fore taken up," has not been found, but is probably covered by the land sold to Willem Thomassen, and by that described in the follow- ing conveyances.
January 4, 1652, Cornelis Dircksen, ferryman, sold to Cornelis de Potter,
" a lot of land on Long Island, near the ferry, next the lot of Breser's, granted to him by the Director-General, by deed of April 28, 1643, and now as measured in behalf of Claes Van Elfland, November 7, 1651 ; broad towards the north, 39 rods ; then along the shore towards the woods till a marked tree to the east side, 63 rods; and to the west, 76 rods ; this measured lot lays in a triangle amounting to 2 morgen."1
December 3d, 1652, Cornelis Dircksen (Hooglandt), of the ferry on Long Island, conveyed to Cornelis de Potter,
" certain buildings and a piece of land, containing 2 morgens and 67} rods, extending along the wagon-road, whereof the perpendicular is 65 rods, and the base 39 rods,"
by virtue of the ground-brief given to the grantor by the Director- General and Council, April 28, 1643.ª
August 28, 1654, a patent was granted to Egbert Van Borsum, then acting as ferryman, for
" a lot on Long Island, situate at the ferry, beginning at an oak-tree near the fence of Mr. Cornelis Potter, is broad 40 feet Rynland; from thence to the strand, broad 40 feet Rynland ; further back to the oak-tree, broad 40 feet Rynland.">3
March 12, 1666, a patent was granted to Egbert Van Borsum to confirm to him a piece of ground, with a house thereon, at the ferry in Brooklyn, on Long Island,
" beginning at a certain oak-tree near the limits of the land heretofore be- longing to Cornelis de Potter, containing in breadth 40 feet ; so to run down to the water-side as much ; then to go along the strand, in breadth 40 feet ; and from thence to strike up again to the oak-tree, as aforesaid."
1 N. Y. Col. MSS., iii. 99. 9 Patents, H H, 8.
8 Patents, H H, Part ii. 19.
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Also a grant to the said Egbert of "20 foot of ground more, adjoining to the former, both above and below, along the strand."
X
The land referred to in the preceding patent as that of Herry Breser was originally granted to Jacob Wolphertsen (von Couwen- hoven), by Governor Kieft, July 3, 1643. It was
" a piece of land lying on Long Island, on the East River, bounded north by west by Cornelis Dircksen (Hooglandt), ferryman's land ; stretching from said ferryman's land, east by south, along the river, 56 rods; and along ditto into the woods, south by east, 132 rods ; in breadth in rear in the woods, 40 rods; and on the east side, north by west till to the river, 120 rods; amounting to 10 morgen and 48 rods."
The same land, having a water-front of 686 feet, was confirmed to Herry (Henry) Breser, by Governor Kieft, September 4, 1645, and described as
" land lying at the East River, between (the river and) the land of Cor- nelis Dircksen (Hooglandt), ferryman; south by east from the strand (beach), 132 rods ; thence 45 rods east a little southerly till to the maize- land ; further on through the maize-land till to the marsh, 109 rods ; through the marsh, northeast by north, 20 rods; further again to the woods, next to the land of Jan Ditten, west northwest till to the woods, and through the woods, next to the land of Frederick Lubbertsen, to the East River, north by west 120 rods; along the strand to the place of be- ginning, 56 rods ; amounting in all to 16 morgens 468 rods."1
This property was conveyed by Breser, on the 29th of August, 1651, to Cornelis de Potter, for the sum of 1,125 guilders.2
The patents of Lubbertsen and Breser comprised the balance of the Comfort and Joshua Sands' property, as described on our map,
1 Patents, G G, 112. In N. Y. Col. MSS., vi. 37, is a document, dated 1655, in which Harry Breser, who retired " from here during the (Indian) troubles, contrary to the Pla- card," solicits permission to return, and is allowed to "reside and trade here, and to bring his mercantile concerns in order, and dispose of his real property, but not to recover permanent residence."
9 N. Y. Col. MSS., iii. 92.
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up to line, probably, of Fulton street ; and previous to the Revolu- tionary War were owned by John Rapalje, a great-great-grandson of the first settler. Mr. Rapalje was a person of considerable import- ance, was the owner of the largest estate in Brooklyn, had occupied, at one time, a seat in the Provincial Assembly, and enjoyed the highest confidence and respect of his fellow-citizens. Upon the breaking out of the Revolution, the family adhered to the British cause, in consequence of which a bill of attainder was passed against him, October 27, 1779, and he was banished to New Jersey. After the occupation of Long Island by the British, he returned to Brook- lyn, and there remained with his family until October, 1783, when, in company with his son, his son-in-law, Colonel Lutwyche, and a grand-daughter, he removed to England, and settled at Norwich, in the County of Norfolk. All efforts to procure a reversion of his at- tainder, and the restoration of his confiscated estates in America, having failed, his losses were reimbursed to him by the British gov- ernment, and he died at Kensington, in his seventy-fourth year, January 12, 1802. Loyalist as he was, it was often said of him by his old neighbors of Brooklyn, that "he had an honest heart, and never wronged or oppressed a Whig or other man."1
His lands and other property, in various parts of Brooklyn, hav- ing been confiscated to the people of the State, were sold by the Commissioners of Forfeited Estates.2 That portion under consider- ation, lying between Gold and Fulton streets, was purchased, on the 13th of July, 1784, by Comfort and Joshua Sands, for the sum of £12,430, paid in State scrip.3 Some ten or twelve years after the
1 See genealogy Remsen family, in Riker's Hist. Newtown, 383 ; Holgate's American Genealogies, 20.
2 Liber 6, Conveyances, p. 345, Kings Co.
3 Described as "all that certain farm or parcel of land and the several dwelling- houses, buildings, barns, stables, and other improvements thercon erected, and being late the property of Jolin Rapalje, Esq., situate, lying, and being in the township of Brooklyn, Kings County, and State of New York ; bounded, southerly, partly by the highway leading from Brooklyn ferry and partly by the lots of Jacob Sharpe and others ; easterly, by the land of Matthew Gleaves (the Tillary parcel on our map), and the lands now or late belonging to the estate of Barent Johnson, deceased ; northerly, by the land of Rem Remsen ; and westerly, by the East River ; containing 160 acres," etc .- Lib. vi., Conveyances Kings Co., p. 345.
The land at this time was unfenced, the titlo deeds were in Rapalje's possession, and unrecorded, and the boundaries of his lands were given by the Commissioners from common report.
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war, Rapalje's grand-daughter, who had married George Weldon in England, came, with her husband, to New York, with the intention of prosecuting for recovery of the estate, on the ground that its confiscation had taken place subsequent to the treaty of peace. They brought with them the original title deeds and other docu- ments of the estate, and, it is said, the town records of Brooklyn, which Rapalje carried to England. A number of depositions were made and collected in Brooklyn, relative to the property, and Aaron Burr and other eminent counsel were consulted, whose advice was adverse to the prosecution of the suit. The Weldons, therefore, returned to England, carrying with them all the valuable records and papers which they had brought with them.'
No further attempt has ever been made to disturb the title, and the land was afterwards laid out in streets and lots by the Messrs. Sands.2
XI.
Adjoining Fiscock's patent, on the East River, was that of FRED- ERICK LUBBERTSEN, granted by Governor Kieft, September 4, 1645, having a water-front of nine hundred and fifty-five feet six inches, and described as extending to "Herry Breser's, formerly Jacob Wolphertsen (Van Couvenhoven's) land :"
"northwest by west, 120 rods; its breadth behind, in the woods, east by north, 59 rods; back again to the strand (beach), north and north by west, 134 rods ; along the strand, west by south one-half point southerly, 78 rods : amounting in all to 15 morgens and 52 rods."3
1 MSS. of Jeremiah Johnson, who says that these facts were concealed, and unknown until subsequent researches had been made in the public Government offices of Eng- land, for the true Records of Brooklyn.
2 See " A Plan of Comfort and Joshua Sands' Place, by C. Th. Goerck, 1788," in pos- session of Silas Ludlam, City Surveyor. The streets were somewhat differently named from the present names. The present Washington street was named State; the present Adams street was named Congress ; the present Pearl was Elizabeth ; the pres- ent Jay, Hester. In present Water street, a little west of present Jay (then Hester), stood Sands' Powder-house Dock. On the foot of Dock street was the "Storehouse Dock." See, also, Cooper's map of Comfort Sands' property, 1806.
3 Patents, G G, 114.
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XII.
ALONG THE EAST RIVER.
The " land lying at the west corner of Marechkawieck, on the East River," was first granted to EDWARD FISCOCK, whose widow married one JAN HAES. On April 2d, 1647, Haes received from Governor Kieft a confirmation of this property, which was described as extending
"from the land of Frederick Lubbertsen, east, southeast, and south- east by east to the marsh, 80 rods ; and along the valley (meadow), north- east, 126 rods, with certain out and in points ; further north by east, 45 rods ; west-northwest, 30 rods; west by north, 80 rods; west and west by south, 67 rods; along the land of Frederick Lubbertsen, and south and south by east, 134 rods : amounting to 38 morgens 485 rods."1
This tract, having a water-front of eight hundred and twenty feet and nine inches, was located at the west cape or point of Wal- labout Bay, and embraced a part of the present United States Navy-yard, and a portion of the Comfort and Joshua Sands estate. The point formed by the junction of the Waale-boght with the East River was subsequently called " Martyn's Hook," probably from one Jan Martyn, who is mentioned as a proprietor in that vicinity about the year 1660.ª At a more modern day the name became corrupted to that of " Martyr's Hook."" A portion of this
1 Patents, G G, 206.
2 Oct. 19, 1660, a patent was granted to Jan Martyn, for "a lot on Long Island, at the Ferry on the east side of the East River, on the west side of the land of the aforesaid Jan Martyn, on the north side of Joris -. The north side is 15 rods 7 feet ; the east side, 18 rods 4 feet ; the west side, 12 rods 3 feet ; the south side, 18 rods 7 feet.
July 8, 1667, Peter Meet received a confirmatory patent for two parcels, one being the above-mentioned, and the other a parcel granted, Dec. 12th, 1653, to Adriaen Hubertsen, being a lot and house-garden, "lying by the Ferry aforesaid, on the west side of the lot of Francis Poisgot, on the east side of Samuel Minge, being in breadth, on the north side, 6 rod, and on the south side the like," which piece, transferred by the said Adriaen to the said Jan Martin, was, together with the former, transferred by the latter to Jan Jacob de Vries, who afterwards conveyed the same parcels to Peter Meet.
3 Also " Martense's Point," a corruption of Martyn ; subsequently, from its successive owners, " Remsen's Point" and " Jackson's Point."
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property was sold by Haes, on 4th of January, 1652, to Cornelis de Potter, who on the same day became the owner of lands in the same vicinity, previously owned by Cornelis Dircksen (Hooglandt), the ferryman (ante, pp. 75, 76).1 The property afterwards came into possession of Aert Aertsen (Middagh), the ancestor of the Middagh family, who, in 1710, erected a mill on this Hook, where a natural pond in the marsh, requiring a short dam, afforded the necessary facilities. He sold, Feb. 9, 1713, an undivided half of the premises to Hans Jorisse Bergen, who, on the 28th January, 1722-3, conveyed to Cornelius Evertse the same, described as " one-half of the meadow, sand, creek, grist-mill, dam, beach of the old dwelling-house, bolting-mill and bolting-house (the new dwelling-house only ex- cepted), situated in Brooklyn, at a place called Marty's Hook, as in fence, and as bought by the said Hans Jorisse Bergen of Aert Aertsen (Middagh)."" This above-mentioned mill, built by Middagh, is undoubtedly identical with that marked on Ratzer's plan as . Remsen's Mill ; and the same property in the Wallabout (now occu- pied by the United States Navy-yard), together with the land as far as the line of Gold street, was afterwards known as the Remsen estate. As such it belonged to Rem A. Remsen, who died in 1785,
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