The Eastern District of BrooklynG. Quattlander, 1912 - 205 pagina's |
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Abraham Abraham Rycken acres APPENDIX Bedford Avenue Boswijck Bowronville Bridge Broadway Brooklyn City Railroad building built burgh Bush Bushwick Avenue Bushwick Church Bushwick Creek Bushwick village Cemetery Church was organized City of Brooklyn corner Cripplebush Cypress Hills Plank Debevoise Division Avenue Driggs Avenue Dutch Kills East New York East River Eastern District edifice erected Evergreen farm Fifth Street Flatbush Flushing Avenue governor Grand Street Green Hills Plank Road Hotel incorporated Indians Jacob Jamaica Turnpike Jansen Johannes Schenck John Kent Avenue Kijkuit Kings County known land Lane later Long Island Lots Lotts Manhattan Avenue Maspeth meadow Meserole Metropolitan Avenue Myrtle Avenue Newtown Creek Noorman's Kil North Second Street patent Peter Place plantation Railroad Reformed Dutch Church Ridgewood Section Schenck settlement settlers Skillman Smith's Island South Second station house Stuyvesant territory Titus town of Bushwick Union Avenue village of Williamsburgh Wallabout Wallabout Bay Ward William Williamsburgh Woodpoint Road
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Pagina 129 - Nederlandts, under the commission and control of their High Mightinesses the Lords States General of the United Netherlands, and the privileged West India Company.
Pagina 149 - Fly, thence by the said highway to the dwelling house, late of John Vandervoort, deceased : thence in a straight line northerly, to a small ditch, or creek against the meadow of John Skillman ; thence by said creek to Norman's kill ; thence by the middle or centre of Norman's kill to the East river ; thence by the same, to the place of beginning.
Pagina 131 - Island, including the same, together with all the meadow-ground or valley thereunto belonging ; and continuing the same course, they pass along by the ffence at the wood-side, soe to Thomas Wandall's meadow, from whence, stretching upon a south-east by south line, along the woodland to the Kills, taking in the meadow or valley there ; then pass along near upon a south-east by south line six hundred rod into the woods : then running behind the lots as the woodland lyes, south-west by south ; and out...
Pagina 149 - Brooklyn, and running thence to easterly along the division line between the towns of Bushwick and Brooklyn, to the lands of Abraham A. Remsen ; thence northerly by the same to a road or highway, at a place called Sweed's Fly, thence by the said highway to the dwelling house, late of John Vandervoort, deceased : thence in a straight line northerly, to a small ditch, or creek against the meadow of John Skillman...
Pagina 129 - Awl blades, (which they acknowledge to have received into their hands and power to their full satisfaction and...
Pagina 153 - BushBoundaries. wjcj^ an(j wnjcn js bounded easterly by the town of Newtown, Queens county ; south by the towns of New Lots, Flatbush and New Utrecht ; and west by the town of New Utrecht and the Bay of New York ; and north by the East river; shall be united into one municipal corporation, to be known and called the city of BROOKLYN.* First ward.
Pagina 139 - CENSUS OF KINGS COUNTY ABOUT 1698. A list of all the freeholders, their wives, children, apprentices and slaves within the Kings County, on Nassauw Island.
Pagina 22 - Feb. 16. — As fourteen Frenchmen, with a Dutchman named Peter John Dewit, their interpreter, have arrived here, and as they do not understand the Dutch language, they have been with the Director General, and requested him to cause a town plot to be laid out at a proper place ; whereupon his Honor fixed upon the 19th instant to visit the place, and fix upon a scite.
Pagina 22 - The Director General visited the new village, when the inhabitants requested his honor to give the place a name ; whereupon he named the town Boswijck...
Pagina 150 - ... and kept by the clerk of the corporation, subject, however, to the inspection of any inhabitant of the village, who may have an interest therein, in order that no resident may plead ignorance of the permanent plan to be adopted, for opening, laying out, leveling and regulating the streets of the said village of Brooklyn.