Notes Geographical and Historical, Relating to the Town of Brooklyn in Kings County on Long-Island

BY GABRIEL FURMAN.
“They are worthy of reprehension who contemn the study of antiquity, (which is ever accompanied with dignity) as an arid curiosity.” Lord Coke.
BROOKLYN : PRINTED BY A. SPOONER, NO. 50 FULTON-STREET.
1824 .


The Compiler offers these notes to the inhabitants of his native town, in the hope that they may be in some small degree useful and entertaining in discussions relating to the history and rights of this thriving place. He claims no merit for this performance, and neither does he write from the vanity of being considered an author, but is only actuated by a desire to rescue from oblivion such facts as may be interesting to his fellow-citizens. The Compiler would consider himself guilty of ingratitude, if he did not in this public manner, acknowledge the obligations he rests under from the kind assistance afforded him whilst collecting these notices, by Jeremiah Johnson, Abraham Vanderveer, Silas Wood, and John Doughty, Esqrs.


NOTES &c. OF THE TOWN OF BROOKLYN.
This town is situated in Kings County, on the west end of Long-Island, in the State of New-York. It is bounded north by the City and County of New-York; east by the township of Bushwick; south by the township of Flatbush and New Utrecht; and west by New-York Bay; and contains the village of Brooklyn, which is about a mile square. This town formerly composed part of a powerful Indian Sachemdom; and with the other parts of the Island bore the Indian name of Matowcas.