HISTORY OF BROOKLYN. 49

I.

In the year 1636, Jacques Bentyn and William Adrianese Bennett purchased from the Indians a tract of land in Brooklyn, extending from the vicinity of Twenty-eighth street, along Gowanus Cove and the bay, to the New Utrecht line,1 as appears by the following Dutch record, being a certified copy, by Michael Hainelle, clerk, from the old records of the town of Brooklyn:

“On this 4th day of April (English style), 1677, appeared before me Michil Hainelle, acknowledged as duly installed Clerk and Secretary, certain persons, to wit: Zeuw Kamingh, otherwise known in his walks (or travels) as Kaus Hansen, and Keurom, both Indians; who, in presence of the undersigned witnesses, deposed and declared, that the limits or widest bounds of the land of Mr. Paulus Vanderbeeck, in the rear, has been or is a certain tree or stump on the Long Hill,2 on the one side, and on the other the end of the Indian foot-path, and that it extends to the creek of the third meadows,3 which land and ground, they further depose and declare, previous to the present time, was sold by a certain Indian, known as Chief or Sachem. Ka, to Jacques Bentyn and William Ariensen (Bennett), the latter formerly the husband of Marie Thomas, now the wife of Mr. Paulus Vanderbeeck; which account they both maintain to be the truth, and truly set forth in this deposition.

“In witness of the truth is the original of this with the said Indians’ own hands subscribed, to wit: by Zeuw Kamingh or Kaus Hansen, with this mark, XX, and by Keurom with this mark, XX, in the presence of Lambert Dorlant, who by request signed his name hereto as a witness. Took place at Brookland on the day and date above written.

“Compared with the original and attested to be correct.

“Michil Hainelle, Clerk”

1. Ante, pages 23 and 24.

2. The “Long Hill” referred to is the eminence now called “Ocean Hill,” in Greenwood Cemetery, on the rear of the farm late of Cornelius W. Bennett and that late of Abraham Schermerhorn, and on the boundary between Brooklyn and Flatbush.

3. The “third meadow” is the low ground, formerly meadow, between the land now of Henry A. Kent and that of Winant and Bennett; said meadow being located on the boundary between Brooklyn and New Utrecht.