HISTORY OF BROOKLYN. 381

“Kings County,” says the author, “contains 4,495 inhabitants, including 621 electors: 930 of these are free white males, of ten and upwards; 700 free white male under that age; 1,449 free white females; 1,432 slaves, and 46 free persons not enumerated. The inhabitants are chiefly of Dutch extraction. Some are attached to their old prejudices; but, within a few years past, liberality and a taste for the fine arts have made considerable progress. The slaves are treated well, but the opinion relative to their freedom is yet too much influenced by pecuniary motives. It would certainly redound to the honor of humanity, could that blessing be effected here.”

After defining the boundaries of the township of Brooklyn, and enumerating the different settlements therein,1 he mentions “Olymru,” a tract of land which, he says, “was surveyed and laid out in streets as long ago as the year 1787, and then intended as a city; its progress has been arranged according to the plan, and begins to

mon street; and, afterwards, along Red Hook lane to District street, crossing from Brouwer’s (afterwards Freeke’s) mill-pond to Red Hook lane; oomprising the first five of the subsequent city wards. (2) The Red Hook District included the lands lying west of District street, and a line extending from the head of BrouwerÕs mill-pond to the corner of Red Hook road, and including Red Hook Point. (3) Brooklyn District comprised the land south of the Ferry to Flatbush, between the estate formerly of N. R. Cowenhoven and the Post Road. (4) Bedford District included all the land east of Brooklyn line, including the north farm of Rem Lefferts, to the third division of woodlands, and along the line of Lot. No. 1 to the town of Bushwick. (5) The Gowanus District comprised that part of Brooklyn lying west of Brooklyn, Bedford, and Red Hook, and bounded southerly by the town of Flatbush and westerly by the town of New Utrecht. (6) Cripplebush District was bounded southerly by Bedford, easterly by the town of Bushwick, northerly by Wallabout Creek, and westerly by the easterly line of Garret Nostrand. (7) The Wallabout District was bounded westerly by the District of Brooklyn, easterly and southerly by Bedford, easterly and northerly by the town of Bushwick, and southwesterly, northerly, and westerly by the Wallabout Bay and the Ferry District.*

*Gowanus, Red Hook, The Ferry, and Wallabout Districts are bounded northerly by the North and East rivers.