66 HISTORY OF BROOKLYN.

hoven’s patent (since of George Bergen, and afterwards of Horsfield), and a portion of Jan Evertse Bout’s patent (since of Debevoise, and afterwards of Horsfield), said purchased lands lying between the northerly portion of his patrimonial estate and those of Van Rossum’s patent (once of Michael Hanse Bergen, and late of Powers). This probability is founded on the fact, that the Van Brunts, the descendants of his daughter Sarah, owned said portions of Van Couvenhoven’s and Bout’s patents, and that they resided in the ancient dwelling-house located on the Bout patent, which the spirit of improvement, caused by the spread of the city, some twenty years ago, swept out of existence.”1

That portion of the original Lubbertse estate devised to his two step-sons by his first wife, Peter and Hendrick Corssen (Vroom), finally passed into the hands of the former. In August, 1689, we find two indentures or agreements, of similar import, executed between one “John Marsh, of New Jersey,” and Corssen, and Cornelis Subring, the husband of his step-sister Aeltje, concerning the erection of “a water-mill for grinding of corn,” located “at the southwest side of the Graver’s Kill, within the meadows belonging severally to Corssen and Sebring,” over against New York. Marsh was allowed to make a dam in the said kill, near the house of Peter Wynants, and was to pay, for the privilege of building the said mill, “700 feet of good canoe wood, one half inch thick, to both Sebring and Corssen, and to grind for them corn for their own family use, free of charge, so long as the mill remained there.” This was the mill designated on Ratzer’s map, and subsequently known as Cornelius Sebring’s Mill, and still later as Cornell's or the “Red Mill,” situated south of present Harrison street, between Columbia street and Tiffany Place, and about opposite to Sedgwick street.2 It probably passed into Sebring's hands prior to March, 1698, at which time Corssen conveyed to Sebring, land,

“in the neck of Brookland, commonly called by the name of Frederick Lubbertsen’s neck, and formerly in the occupation of the said Lubbertsen; bounded east by the land of Jacob Hansen (Bergen); west, by the Red

1 For various conveyances, mortgages, etc., of portions of this land, see Kings County Conveyances, lib. L pp. 157, 180, 271,

2 Map of property in Sixth Ward, belonging to Kelsey, Blake, and other heirs of John Cornell, deceased 1838.