70 HISTORY OF BROOKLYN.

This tract was conveyed by Claes Janse, March 11, 1660, to Machiel Tuddens, and by him transported, April 3,1666, to Michael Hayneste (probably Hainelle), from whose heirs it was subsequently purchased by Dirck Janse Woertman.

VI.

Next to Ruyter’s patent, on the East River, lay that of JAN MANJE, granted to him by Governor Kieft, Sept. 11, 1642, and described as

“a piece of land, greatly (i.e., of the size of) twenty morgen, lying about southeast a little easterly, over against the fort in New Amsterdam, in Breuckelen, stretching about southeast one hundred and ninety rods inward, the woods towards Sassian's maize-land, along the limits of the said maizeland fifty rods, and then again to the water_side two hundred and twenty rods, north northwest well, so northerly, and along the strand or water-side seventy rods. Which aforesaid land is lying upon Long Island, between Andries Hudde and Claes Janse Ruyter.”1

This tract was sold, January 29, 1652, by Pieter Linde, who had married the widow of Jan Manje, to one Barent Janse.2 On the 23d of August, 1674, Jan Barentse and Aucke Janse, together with Simon Hansen, as guardian of the minor children of Barent Janse, and his wife Styntje Pieterse, both deceased, “all living within the town of Midwout or Flackbush,” appeared before Nicasius de Sille, the Secretary of the Dutch towns, and declared that they had transported the above land (“house, barn, orchard, upland, and bushland,”) to Dirck Janse Woertman. 3

VII.

Andries Hudde, a member of Director Van Twiller’s Council, in 1633, and an enterprising and prominent citizen of Nieuw Amsterdam, was the patentee of the lands adjoining Jan Manje's. Following the example of the Director, Mr. Hudde dabbled largely in real

1 Kings Co. Conv., liber 1. 246, and deed of Woertman to Remsen, lib. III. 76.

2 Kings County Conveyances, liber I. 24

3 Ibid., 247