100 HISTORY OF BROOKLYN.

as in 1661, it was occupied conjointly by Isaac De Forest and Adam Brower, the latter purchasing the interest of the former.1 They were, undoubtedly, tenants of Bout, who, in 1667 (King’s Co. Convey., p. 179), gave “the corn and meadows and place whereon the mill is grounded,” to the children of Adam Brower. And, according to a deed, dated April 30, 1707, of Sybrant Brower to Abram and Nicholas Brower (King's Co. Convey., liber iii. p. 201) it appears that their ancestor, Adam Brower, had received from the heirs of Bout and Teunis Nuyse a conveyance of the neck of land upon which the mill was located. This mill-pond was formed by damming off the head of Gowanus Kil, and the old mill was located just north of Union, west of Nevin, and between that street and Bond.2

Denton's Mill, or “the Yellow Mill,” in Gowanus, was also built upon Bout's patent, by Adam and Nicholas, the sons of Adam Brower, in 1709. The mill-pond was formed by the damming off a branch of the Gowanus Kil, and the mill was located on the northeast side of the present First street, about midway between Second and Third avenues. The dwelling-house, which was burned down about 1852, was in Carroll, midway between Nevins street and Third avenue.

There is some uncertainty regarding the precise limits of these three patents of Bout, Stoffelsen, and Van Couvenhoven, which together evidently cover that portion of our city included between Fulton avenue, Smith and Nevins streets, and described on our map as lands of Martense and Gerritsen.3

XXIII.

On the 22d of February, 1646, Huyck Aertsen (van Rossum) received from Gov. Kieft,

“a piece of land lying at the Marechkawiecks on the marsh of the Gowanus Kil, the maize-land as well as the woodland, bounded on the southeast by the land of Jan Evertse (Bout), along the marsh east 68 rods, southeast 30

1 See Dr. O’Callaghan’s note in Hist. Mag. for Aug., 1862.

2 See map of land, mill and mill-pond of John C. Freeke, by J. Lott, 1838.

3 See ante, pp. 96, 97, Wolphertsen’s patent.