HISTORY OF BROOKLYN. 391

what weakened, and the windows badly broken. An adjoining ropewalk was also levelled to the ground.

This year the sum of $1500 was appropriated by the town for the erection of a now “Poor-house.”

1809, March 17th. “The Brooklyn, Jamaica, and Flatbush Turnpike Company,” was incorporated. Its first officers were William Furman, Pres.; John Lefferts, Sec.; James Foster, Treas. The Company, during the year, paved Main and Old Ferry streets in the village.

In June of this year, the Long, Island Star was established by Thomas Kirk. The number for June 22, contains the following advertisements: Joseph B. Pirsson (removed from New York), circulating library, in Main st., two doors from Sands street; Joel Bunce, corner of Old Ferry and Front streets, hardware and groceries; Joseph Herbert, boot and shoo maker, in Sands street, between Main street and the Bridge; and George Hamilton, who kept a Select School, where “students were taught to make their own pens.”

The number for June 29th, contains proposals for constructing a turnpike road from Brooklyn to JamaicaÑand an advertisement for two Postriders, “immediately, at this office;” also Hot and Cold Baths by one Peter Van Rooten.

September 7th, John Gibbons announces that he has opened an Academy for both sexes, at the place lately occupied by Goo. Hamilton, where the various branches of education are “taught on unerring principles.” Also “Mrs. Gibbons will instruct little Girls in Spelling, Reading, Sewing, and Marking.” An evening school for young men is proposed, and “N. B. Good Pronunciation.”

During the mouths of July, August, and September, of this year, the yellow fever prevailed in Brooklyn, which gave rise to a long and wordy newspaper war between the physicians of the village, Drs. Osborn, Ball, and Wendell. On the 27th of September, De Witt Clinton, Mayor of New York, issued a Proclamation, announcing the disappearance of the disease, and the resumption of the ordinary intercourse between that city and Brooklyn, which had been interdicted by his previous proclamation of 2d of August. Twenty-eight persons had died of the fever in Brooklyn, all of whom were under twenty-eight years of age. It was at first thought that