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Hanse being a carpenter, agreed to do a job of work for depon’t, if depon’t would plow for him, and that depon’t did plow for him the very land now in question, close up to the meadows, that it was then in fence and fences stand now in the very place they were then. Never heard of any pretence, and says that if be had any be would not have gone to advise his brother; Says that he turned his plow ag’t the fence of the land of Bevois, and that fences stood then as now so far as he thinks. Says that he has heard his mother say she was carried off Nutten Island by a Squab, and that it was all sedge and meadow, only a creek between Nutten Island and Long Island; his mother's sister was first born in this country; its now 116 or 117 years since she was born;1 his mother was four years younger; he beard often from other people that there was but a small creek between Nutten and Long Island.2

“Abraham Lott, aged 57, remembers between 30 and 40 years that fences stand at George Bergen’s as now; says he was an arbitrator; was shown then the will of Fred. Lubbertse, who devised to his own two daughters each one plantation as then in fence, and to his wife's two sons3

1 From this testimony it appears that Jannatie, dau, of Joris Jansen de Rapalie, who m. Rem Vanderbeek, the common ancestor of the Remsens and the mother of Jeromus, was also carried from Nutten (now Governor's) Island to Long Island, by a squaw; that her sister (Sarah) was born about 1625, which agrees with the recorded date of her birth. Quaere: from the witness's reference to his mother's sister Sarah, might it not be inferred that he intended to be understood that Sarah, and not his mother Jannatie, was the one carried over, as previously testified to by Maratie Bevoise, and that the tradition referred to the same person?

2 On the margin against this paragraph is the following, in the handwriting of John Jay: “His mother carr'd from Nutten to Long Island by a squaw. Sworn 1711, at ye Tryal.” (A reference to Ratzer’s Map will show that “Red Hook,” or “Lubbertse’s Neck,” or “the Neck of Brookland,” as it was indifferently called, was almost completely isolated from the main-land, in its rear, by extensive salt meadows and creeks. At certain seasons and in certain conditions of the tide—as corroborated by the memory of those even now living—Red Hook became, in fact, an Island. Moreover, being comparatively high ground, when viewed from the main-land, it concealed Nutten (or Governor's) Island in some measure. It is probable, therefore, that Red Hook Point became confounded, in Jannatie de Rapalie's subsequent recollections, with Nutten Island; and that the “creek between that Island and Long Island,” as it seemed to her childish apprehension, and over which she was ferried in a tub, was in fact only the overflowed meadow between Red Hook and the main-land. This is our theory concerning the origin of the tradition relative to the former connection between Red Hook and Governor’s Island, which certainly is disproved by the earliest known surveys and soundings, and which is unsupported by any philosophical explanation of the physical changes, etc., which that locality may have undergone since the early settlement of the country.—Stiles.)

3 These were Cornelius Corssen and Peter Coresen, children of Tryntje Hendricks, the wife of Frederick Labbertse, by Cornelius Petersen Vroom, her first husband.