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

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ADVERTISEMENT.

SITUATION.

ANCIENT NAMES AND REMAINS.

SOIL AND CLIMATE.

ANCIENT GRANTS AND PATENTS.

Town Rights and Ferries.

ROADS AND PUBLIC LANDING PLACES.

COMMON LANDS, AND THE DIVISION THEREOF.

DIFFERENCES AS TO BOUNDS.

DIFFERENCE WITH BUSHWICK.

DIFFERENCE WITH FLATBUSH.

DIFFERENCE WITH NEW-UTRECHT.

REVOLUTIONARY INCIDENTS.

ANCIENT GOVERNMENT.

PRESENT GOVERNMENT.

PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND INSTITUTIONS.

SCHOOLS, NEWS-PAPERS, AND MORAL CHARACTER.

FIRE DEPARTMENT.

MISCELLANEOUS.

APPENDIX. A. Deed from William Morris and wife to the Corporation of New-York.

APPENDIX, N O . 2.

ADVERTISEMENT. (2)

CONTENTS.

ON THE EAST RIVER.
on the East River.

NOTES
GEOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL,

RELATING TO THE

Brooklyn,
IN
KINGS COUNTY

ON

LONG-ISLAND.

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BY GABRIEL FURMAN.
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“They are worthy of reprehension who contemn the study of
antiquity, (which is ever accompanied with dignity) as an arid
curiosity.”
Lord Coke.

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BROOKLYN:
PRINTED BY A. SPOONER, NO. 50 FULTON-STREET.
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1824.

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