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1765. At the general election held at Flatbush on the first Tuesday of April, 1765, the following Super- visors were chosen :
Johannes Bergen, for Brookland.
Richard Stillwell, " Gravesend.
Dirick Remsen, " Flatlands.
Johannes Lott, Jr., " Flatbush.
Theodorus Polhemus, " Bushwick.
Albert Van Brunt,
" New Utrecht.
At their annual meeting in October following, they chose Peter Lefferts treasurer for the ensuing year, whose compensation was fixed at two shillings less than the fees fixed by an act of the General Assembly, the Supervisors thinking, as their predecessors did, the provincial government too liberal in the fixing the sala- ries of county officers. They also made choice of Simon Boerum for their clerk, fixing his salary at three pounds.
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Among the charges against the county this year are the following items :
To Abraham Schenck, Esq., for 45 days service done in the General Assembly at 6s. per day ... £13: 10: 0 To Simon Boerum for 45 days service done in the General Assembly, at 6s. per day. 13: 10: 0 To the said Simon Boerum, as Clerk of the Board of Supervisors. 3:0:0
To Jacobus Vandeventure, Coroner, for 3 inquisi- tions. . 4:5: 0
To John Lefferts, Esq., for repairing the goal of said county and putting it in a condition to keep the prisoners therein from falling out .... 2:17:7 John Lefferts, for trying a free negro man, and having him whipped with forty lashes, he being a thief. 4:2: 4
To Domincus Vanderveer, for entertaining the Supervisors, Clerk, Treasurer and Loan officers two meetings. 5:13: 11
The whole indebtedness of the county this year is £49: 10:1, and awarded to be paid according to the following quotas:
Brookland. £14: 13: 0
Flatbush. . 10: 0: 6
New Utrecht. 6: 14: 10
Flatlands 6: 2: 4
Bushwick. 6: 2: 6
Gravesend: 5: 16: 11
49:10: 1
After the cota was divided upon the several towns, there was added to the cota of Brookland the sum of £13: 17: 5.
This year the demand upon the county for money by the General Assembly was as follows : Three acts to raise a subsidy by each act, one hundred thousand pounds, and the other for raising a subsidy of sixty thousand pounds, for the collection of which the Super- visors gave out their warrants, the quotas of each town being as follows:
Brookland. £292: 17: 11
Flatbush. 174: 16: 0
New Utrecht. 111: 9: 11
Flatlands. 98: 9: 8
Bushwick.
100: 2: 0
Gravesend
96: 9: 6
The vote for imposing this sum upon the respective towns in the county did not pass this year without a somewhat heated discussion. Several Supervisors had caught the spirit of opposition to the encroachments of the Crown, which was manifesting itself in New York, Boston, and other parts of the country.
1766. The Supervisors chosen this year at the gen- eral election, held on the second Tuesday of April, met at Flatbush, on the seventh day of October following, and chose Peter Lefferts as Treasurer of the County, to serve on the terms fixed at the last and other preceding meetings of the Board. They also made choice of Simon Boerum for Clerk of the Board, with the usual salary of three pounds.
Among the charges against the county this year were the following:
To Abraham Schenck, for 49 days services done in the General Assembly, at 6s. per day.
To Simon Boerum, for 52 days services in the Gen- eral Assembly, at 6s. per day.
To said Boerum, as Clerk to the Supervisors, for his services. £3: 0: 0 To Jacobus Van Deventure, Coroner, for 3 inquisi- tions of dead bodies buried. (and six shillings extraordinary).
4: 7:0
To Adrian Hegeman, Jr., for transporting one vagrant to Wm. Berrys; for transporting him before to Staten Island, and keeping the man 3 days and other expenses. 0:10:0
To Dr. Vandewater, for medicine and attendance on the sick vagrants ... 2: 10:0
To Dominicus Vanderveer, for entertaining the Supervisors, Treasurer, Clerk and Justices and Loan Commissioners right well .. 2: 19:6
Kings County, ss .: According to three particular acts of Lieutenant-Governor Cadwallader Colden, acting as Gover- nor General, with his Council and the General Assembly of the Province of New York, &c., two thereof are for raising a subsidy by each act of one hundred thousand pounds, &c., and the other raising a subsidy of sixty thousand pounds, the Supervisors do vote to give their warrants for collecting the quota for Kings County as follows:
Brookland. £282: 1: 3
Flatbush. 175: 6: 0
New Utrecht. 113: 10: 8
Flatlands. 100: 6: 0
Bushwick. 105: 10: 11
Gravesend.
98: 8: 8
£875: 3: 6
So bitter was the opposition of the people of Kings County, and the Province of New York generally, to the payment of these frequent and exorbitant demands of the General Assembly, and so rapidly was the spirit of independence gaining everywhere in the Colonies, that the foregoing amount of £875: 13: 6, ordered to be paid by this Board, was the last sum of money ever paid by the Supervisors of Kings County, by order of the General Assembly, representing the British Gov- ernment.
Peter Lefferts paid to Dominicus Vanderveer for enter- taining the Justices, Supervisors, and Loan officers of the said county, £2: 9, and Dirick Remsen, Supervisor for Flatlands, is to pay to the said Vanderveer, the sum of £1: 5 for the same purpose, there being extras in his bill.
The Treasurer and Clerk met together and examined the books, and found there is in the hands of the Treasurer in cash the sum of 4s. 4}d.
1767. The Supervisors elected at the general elec- tion this year, on the first Tuesday of April, at their annual meeting, held October 6th, made choice of Peter Lefferts for Treasurer for the ensuing year. They also made choice of Simon Boerum as their clerk. This Board having more regard for the act of the Governor-Gen- eral, and the General Assembly of the Province of New
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York, than their predecessors, gave the Treasurer the fees established by that body, which were very remu- nerative.
Among the charges against the county this year were the following:
To Simon Boerum, for 40 days services in the Gen- eral Assembly, at 6s. per day.
To the said Boerum, for sundries as Clerk of the Supervisors .. £3: 0: 0
To Jacobus Vanderventure, Coroner, for five inqui- sitions of dead bodies buried in the county, at 27s 6: 15: 0
To Dr. John Lodiwick, for attending a sick man from the 19th of December, 1766, to April, 1767, and for his medicine.
To the Deacons of Brookland church, for money advanced for entertaining the said sick man, which was done right well, so that with the care and medicine of Dr. Lodiwick he has got quite well.
To Peter Stryker, for mending the goal, which it needed very much.
To Dominicus Vanderveer, for entertaining John Becket and his wife, in Goal, and for three rails for feuce around the same.
9:16: 6
To Derrick Remsen for money he had advanced for entertaining John Becket in Goal ..
To John O'Rouke, public whipper for said county, from the first day of October, 1766, to the first day of October, 1767, and for whipping several bad thieves and other criminals. 3:10: 0 Expenses for entertaining the Justices, Supervisors Treasurer and Loan Officers 9: 10:10
The said supervisors do let the county garden spot to Barnet Van DeVenture, for one year, for seven shillings, which begins the 30th of October, 1767, to the 30th of October then next following.
1768. Kings County, ss: On the first Tuesday in June, 1768, the Supervisors of said county met at Flatbush, together with the Loan Officers and Justices of the said county, to close the Loan Officer's books, and said Loan Officers rendered a true and just account to the Supervisors and Justices of the said county and the said books were closed accord- ingly.
The following eurious entry in the record of the pro- ceedings of the Supervisors this year, exhibits the exact manner, in which the acting excise commissioners were dealt with in those days.
Theodorus Polhemus, appointed Commissioner for the excise of strong liquors for Kings County, aforesaid, by an act of Sir Henry Moore, signing himself "Baronet," with the Council and General Assembly of the Province of New York, wherein and by the said act, he is obliged to render under oath to the Supervisors a true and exact amount or list of all the moneys he receives for the said excise, yearly, and now he swears upon oath to the said Supervisors, to a true list or amount for the year 1765 the sum of £36, which is one pound eight shillings over what he is to pay for that year. And also rendered a true account or list or amount upon oath to the said Supervisors for the year 1766 the sum of £35: 16, sixteen shillings over; and also rendered a true list or amount upou oath to the said Supervisors for the year 1767 the sum of £32: 5: 6, and also rendered a like true account of all moneys received for the year 1768, which is £36: 12: 0. So there is
over thirty-two shillings in the whole, and you therefore see that the said Commissioner is indebted to the Supervisors in the sum of one pound, one shilling, and sixpense, which we do direct that he pay into the hands of the treasurer without any delay.
October the 17th. We the treasurer and clerk have met together to examine the books, and find that the County is indebted to the Treasurer, Mr. Peter Lefferts, in the sum of £7: 15: 2}, which we do direct him to collect under our war- rants, given this day, and the said Commissioner, Theodorus Polhemous, has paid the said sum of one pound, one shilling aud sixpense to the Treasurer.
The account of Dominicus Vanderveer, of five pounds, five shillings and sixpense, his charges for entertaining the Supervisors, Justices of the County, and Loan Commission- ers, is hereby directed to be paid.
1768 .- The supervisors eleeted at the general election held on the first Tuesday of April, met at their annual meeting of the said board, at Flatbush, on the fourth day of October, and made choice of Mr. Peter Lefferts as treasurer for the ensuing year, to receive the very liberal fees voted several years before by the General Assembly. They also made choice of Mr. Simon Boe- rum as their clerk. His fee this year was fixed at fifty shillings.
Among the charges against the county this year were the following:
To Simon Boerum, for 68 days services done in General Assembly at 6s. per day.
To said Boerum as clerk to the Supervisors .... . £ 2:10: 0 To said Simon Boerum for money he advanced for one Tub in the Goal. .. 5: 0: 0
To Abraham Schenck, Esq., for sixty-eight days services done in the General Assembly at 6s. per day. Also for two certificates for said services furnished by the said Clerk, which was omitted last year for 45 days service at 6s. per day ... ..
To Richard Stillwill, for transporting John Becket and wife to Pensecola, fifteen pounds, and the interest on the same 18 months. 16:17: 0
To Dominicus Vanderveer, for iron work done to the Goal and iron shackles for Cæsar, the criminal lately hanged, and other services about the hanging of Cæsar. 1:10: 6
To Johu Losee, for making eight new constable staffs. 16: 0
To John O'Rouke, for whipping one man.
To the deacons of Brooklyn church, for money advanced for entertaining one sick man. 3: 15: 0
All the charges allowed against the county this year amounted to £103: 6: 10.
1769. The supervisors eleeted this year at the gen- eral eleetion, which took place on the first Tuesday of April, met at Flatbush on the third day of October, and made choice of Mr. Peter Lefferts as Treasurer of the county, to have the full fees allowed by law for his ser- viees. They also elected Simon Boerum clerk of the board, with a salary of fifty shillings.
Among the charges against the county this year are the following:
To Simon Beorum, for 97 days service done in Gen-
eral Assembly at 6s. per day.
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To said Simon Boerum, for services as Clerk of the Supervisors. £2: 10: 0
To John Rapelyea, Esq., for 96 days services in General Assembly, at 6s. per day ..
To Rutgert Van Brunt, sheriff, for keeping watch at the Goal over the criminal, strangled .. .
To John O'Rouke, as public whipper of the county, from the first day of October 1768, to the first day of October, 1769. 3: 16: 0
To the said O'Rouke, for whipping one person-a hard case. 3: 0
To the Sheriff, for cleaning the court-house, and one load of wood. 2: 1: 0
The whole indebtedness against the county this year was £91: 14: 8.
The proceedings of the board this year closes with the following imperative entry in the record of their pro- ceedings.
Dominicus Vanderveer must have the sum of two pounds fourteen shillings and eleven pense out of the money now in hands of the Treasurer, and the Treasurer shall then deliver his notes, and a warrant is issued against the said Treasurer to pay the same,
1770. On the first Tuesday in April, Ano Domino 1770, were chosen Supervisors for Kings County:
Johannes Bergen, for Brookland.
Richard Still will, 66 Gravesend.
Dirck Remsen, Flatlands.
Albert Van Brunt, " New Utrecht.
Theodorus Polhemous, .. Bushwick.
Johannes Lott, Flatbush
The annual meeting of the said board took place on the first Tuesday of October, 1770, at the house of Mrs. Elizabeth Vanderveer, widow of Dominicus Van- derveer, Inn Keeper, at Flatbush, who had so long and so acceptably entertained the Supervisors, Justices, Treasurer and Loan Commissioners of said county, and who, since the adjournment of the board, had gone the way of all mankind to the unseen world.
At this meeting, Peter Lefferts was chosen Treasurer for the ensuing year, to serve for the salary allowed by the General Assembly.
Simon Boerum was chosen Clerk of the Board for the ensuing year ; his salary was fixed at fifty shillings per year.
The following were among some of the charges against the county this year :
Simon Boerum, for 57 days services in the General Assembly, 6s. per day. £17: 2: 0
To said Boerum, as Clerk to the Supervisors. 2: 10:0
To Simon Boerum, for a book or record furnished for said county 1: 0: 0
To John Rapelye, for 52 days services done in Gen- eral Assembly, at 6s. . 15: 12: 0
To Leffert Lefferts, Coroner, for six inquisitions for dead bodies buried in said county, at 27s. . 8: 2: 0
To Philip Nagle, Esq., for transporting one free Negro wench to Jamaica* 0: 2: 0
*In the year 1755, a census of slaves was taken in all the counties, ex- cept Albany and Suffolk. There were in Brooklyn. 50; Bushwick, 43; Flatlands, 30 ; Flatbush, 35; New Utrecht, 67; Newtown, 87. This num- ber of slaves did not increase very much in the next ten years.
To Cornelius Wykoff, for transporting one vagrant to New York city, where he belongs, and to notify the authorities of said city. 0: 5: 0
To John O'Rouke, public whipper, from the 5th day October, 1769, to October 5th, 1770, and for whipping several thieves and other criminals. 4: 0: 0
The following entry appears on the records of the proceedings of the Supervisors this year, at a special meeting held in March, 1770:
" Whereas, there is in the city of New York, and in other parts of this Province, and in the Colonies Generally, a Spirit of resistance and opposition to the King, which doth threaten to break out into armed resistance, quite alarming, which is alleged by those engaged in it, to be upon good cause and just reason, on account of unjust taxations, and other al- leged wrongs, therefore-
Resolved, That we, the Supervisors, representing the Sev- erall towns in this County, will still adhear to our Loyalty, until better informed as to the causes of all this disturbance, in which some of the people of the county have taken a part, particularly in the liberty-pole fight in New York .*
There were members of the Board who strongly ad- vocated the amendment of this resolution, so it would read as follows:
That we do solemnly sympathize with those good citizens of New York, and elsewhere, who do, in all candor, honesty and equity oppose the unjust measures of England, and her rulers, taken in regard to her colonies in America.
*The Liberty-pole fight, alluded to in this resolution, took place on the 13th of January, 1770. A large number of the people of Brooklyn crossed the river, and joined the citizens in the contest against the British soldiers, stationed in New York, which grew out of the follow- ing circumstance : A part of the 16th Regiment, Royal Infantry, at- tempted to destroy the Liberty Pole, which stood near Bowling Green, by blowing it up with gun powder. The citizens interfered, and the soldiers desisted, but, with fixed bayonets they charged on the citizens, driving them into a tavern near by, a favorite resort for the "Sons of Liberty." The soldiers soon demolished the furniture, broke the win- dows, and greatly damaged the building. On the night of the 16th, three days after, the soldiers succeeded in prostrating the pole, cut- ting it into pieces, and piling them up against the tavern-the rallying place of the Sons of Liberty. The next morning the alarm bells rang, and three thousand citizens, inany of whom were from Kings County rallied at the scene of the outrage, and adopted a resolution that, " all British soldiers, found in the streets after roll call, should be treated as public enemies." During the ensuing night, the soldiers busied themselves in posting up insulting placards, daring the people to carry out this resolution. Many of these placards found their way over the river, and were posted up in Brooklyn. Some were found at Flatbush. In the course of the day, three soldiers were caught in the act of post- ing up more of these placards. They were immediately arrested by.the citizens ; a fight ensued, and the citizens were victorious. But a re- inforcement of twenty soldiers came upon the ground, and another fight with cutlasses, clubs and pistols, took place. The military were compelled to give way before the unarmed citizens, the former retreat- ing slowly towards Golden Hill, now John Street, between Cliff Street and Burling Slip. Here, some of the English officers appeared, and the soldiers were ordered to their quarters. Though the soldiers were driven, several of the citizens were dangerously wounded, among whom was one Victor Camp, a citizen of Brooklyn. One citizen was instantly killed by a sabre stroke of a British soldier. After this the Mayor issued a proclamation, forbidding the soldiers to leave their barracks, unless accompanied by a non-commissioned officer. Not long after this, another Liberty Pole was erected, which stood until the British took possession of Long Island and New York, in 1776, when their soldiers destroyed it. It will therefore be seen, that the people of the city of New York, aided by citizens of Kings County, struck the first blow for liberty, and shed the first blood in its defense; for this fight, sometimes called "the Battle of Golden Hill," took place sometime before the Boston massacre which took place in Kings Street in that city.
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The amendment, however, was lost, and the foregoing resolution received the sanction of the majority of the board.
The total amount of indebtedness against the county this year amounted to £55, for the collection of which the Supervisors issued their warrants as follows :
Brookland £18: 14: 9
Flatbush 11: 16: 3
New Utrecht 7: 12: 6
Bushwick
7: 2: 5
Flatlands
6: 13: 11
Gravesend
6: 11: 1
To the Widow Vanderveer, the sum of of £5: 7: 6, for entertaining the Supervisors, Justices, and Treasurer and Loan Officers
1771. The following named persons were chosen Supervisors, at the general election held at Flatbush the first Tuesday of April, 1771.
Johannes Bergen, for Brooklyn.
Richard Stillwill,
Gravesend.
Dirck Remsen,
Flatlands.
Albert Van Brunt,
New Utrecht.
Theodorus Polhemous, 66 Bush wick.
Johannes Lott,
Flatbush.
At their annual meeting, which took place at Flat- bush, October 1st, 1771, Peter Lefferts was made Treas- urer, to serve for the then ensuing year, at the salary fixed by law, and Simon Boerum was chosen Clerk for the ensuing year.
Among the charges against the county this year were the following:
To Simon Boerum, for his services done in the General Assembly, 58 days, at 6s. per day .....
To the said Simon Boerum, for his services as Clerk for the Supervisors
To John Rapalye, for 50 days services done in the General Assembly, at 6s. per day
It will be scen that Kings County continued to be regularly represented in the General Colonial Assembly of the Province of New York, notwithstanding the disturbed state of the country. "But this body, repre- senting the people of the Province, was not always in harmony with the Governor-General, who represented his majesty, the King, in the Colonial Government, and the Council, which acted in a two-fold capacity; first, as advisory; and second, as legislative. It was sometimes called a privy Council to the Governor. The origin of those political difficulties in New York, which continued with greater or less acrimony until the separation from the parent country, was the persistent attempt which some of the Governors made to obtain grants of revenue to the Crown for life. Occasionally grants were made to the officers of the Crown for a term of years, but, as time went on, the General Assembly grew more refrac- tory upon the subject of grants for revenue-pertina- ciously insisting that they would vote the salary for the officers of the Crown only with the annual supplies.
This was a principle which the Governors, as represent- atives of the Crown, felt bound to resist, as being an infringement of the royal prerogative. Thereafter, until the colony cast off its allegiance, the struggle in regard to revenue and its disposition, was almost con- stantly before the people in one form or another; and in some years, owing to the obstinacy of the repre- sentatives of the Crown on one side, and the inflexi- bility of the people on the other, supplies were not granted at all." The Provincial Assemblies, which by repeated enactments ordered the Supervisors to raise such immense sums of money by taxing the people of the county, were more subservient to the demands of the royal governors than any of their predecessors.
The famous Wm. Tryon was now Governor-General of the Province. Of all the Colonial Governors, he was the strongest advocate for the high prerogative of the Crown in America-a most relentless enemy to the rights of the colonists. "On the 8th of July, 1771," says Colonel STONE, "Sir William Tryon, Bart, having rendered himself odious to the people of North Caro- lina by his petty tyranny, arrived in New York, bear- ing his Majesty's commission as Governor-General and Commander-in-chief, in the place of Lord Dunmore, who, as Governor-General, had been very popular." Tryon's administration at first gave much satisfaction, and tended largely to induce the Supervisors and the people of Kings County to look with some disfavor upon the spirit of hostility to the Crown which was manifesting itself. But the high-handed measures of the British ministry (with which Tryon strongly sym- pathized), in attempting to foist the odious stamp-act upon the colonists, soon caused the new Governor-Gen- eral to be an object of popular hatred. On the 17th of July, 1771, he visited Flatbush with his suite, for the purpose of reviewing " the train bands," as the militia companies of those days were called, in sort of general muster. He was received, and entertained by the Judges, the Supervisors of the county, and the members of the General Assembly. In a speech which he made after the review, he took occasion to congratulate the people of Kings County upon "their undoubted and steady loyalty to their Sovercign," which, he said, " had all the appearance of permanent continuance." He promised to see to it "that all their rights and privileges should be carefully guarded and maintained." This plausible and eloquently delivered address tended largely to keep the officials, particularly the Super- visors, loyal to the King, for a time at least.
The charges against the county continue as follows:
To Abraham Brower, for money he has been obliged to pay to the constable of New York for charges for apprehending Sarah, the wife of Cæsar, the negro man that was lately strangled, for things which the said Sarah had stolen in Kings County, she having concealed the same in Kings county, said charges amount to ... £ 1: 19- 6
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To Peter Antonious, for mending the locks and keys to the said goal, they having been torn and broken by James Domes and Samuel Fairbanks, prisoners, who had escaped out of said jail. £1:10:10
To Peter Colyer, constable of Boswick, for trans- porting one vagrant person to Brookland ferry. . 0: 5: 0
To John O'Rourke, public whipper, from the first day of October, 1770, to the first day of Octo- ber, 1771 3: 0: 0
" There is at present no money in the hands of the Treas- urer, and it will be indebted after Lefferts, the Coroner, is paid out of the cash in the hands of the Treasurer; * there- fore, we raise the sum of £55."
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