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natives became dispossessed of the property during the troubles consequent upon the Indian war of 1643.

But, although thus early in possession, Lubbertsen did not take up his residence upon the land until some thirteen years after, in 1653. He received from Governor Nicolls a confirmatory patent of the above lands, dated March 28, 1667,1 and devised them by will, Nov. 22, 1679,2 to “his own two daughters, Aeltie, the wife of Cornelis Seubring, and Elsie, the wife of Jacob Hansen Bergen, each one a plantation as then in fence; and to his wife’s two sons, Peter and Hendrick Corsen (Vroom), by her former husband, other lots.”3

On the 17th of April, 1726, agreeable to an award of commissioners appointed to divide the property, Lubbertse’s two daughters, Aelqe (then the widow of Cornelis) Seabringh, and Jacob Hansen Bergen and his wife Elsie, executed releases to one another.

Bergen’s property, consisting of over two hundred acres, was given to their eldest son, Hans Jacobse Bergen, in 1732,4 who subsequently resided upon his grandfather Lubbertse's patent, in South Brooklyn, his land extending to the head of Freeke's Millpond. He died before 1749, and by his will, made in 1743, a portion, if not the whole of his farm, became the property of his only son, Jacob Bergen, who occupied the old Lubbertse dwelling-house, near the junction of the present Hoyt and Warren streets. That portion (one hundred and thirty acres) of land, located in the vicinity of Court street and Gowanus Creek, and designated on Butt's map as land of Jacob Bergen and Jordan Coles, was conveyed by him to John Rapalie, in 1750, for £700;5 “and it is probable,” says Mr. T. G. Bergen, “that he sold during his lifetime, although the deeds have not been seen, other portions of his patrimonial estate, and that he purchased a portion of Gerret Wolphertse Van Couven-

1 Liber IV., Patents, p. 30, office Sec. State.

2 Liber I., Conveyances, 130, Kings County.

3 Testimony of Abraham Lott in case of Horsfield vs. Heirs of Hans Bergen.

4 Kings County Conveyances, lib. V. 160.

5 Kings County Conveyances, lib. V. p. 164. Rapelje, in 1794, conveyed the main portion of this purchase to Robert Stoddard having previously sold a portion to Jordan Coles. One hundred and ten acres of this was sold by Stoddard, 14 1799, to Jacob Bergen, for $8,750.