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estate, a pursuit for which his occupation as “town surveyor” afforded him ample facilities. In 1636 he was concerned with Wolfert Gerritsen in the purchase of several flats on Long Island, since occupied by the town of Flatlands and Flatbush. And in 1638 he became the owner of a fine plantation on Manhattan Island, near Corlaer's Hook. This property in Brooklyn was obtained by him, by patent, from Governor Kieft, September 12, 1645. It is therein described as being

“upon Long Island, over against the fort (at New Amsterdam), lying to the southwest of Jan Manje, and to the south or behind to the maize-land of Frederick Lubbertsen, and to the easterly side against Claes Cornelissen Mentelaer, stretching in front at the water or river side from the land of said Mentelaer to the land of said Manje, southwest by south 72 rod, next the land of the said Manje to the aforesaid maize-land, south southeast and betwixt south by east 245 rods, along the maize-land east by west 40 rods, and further through the woods to the land of the aforesaid Mentelaer, north by east well so northerly 145 rods, all along the land of the aforesaid Mentelaer to the first beginning due northwest 156 rods, amounting together to 37 morgen, 247 rods.”1

Hudde never occupied this land himself, being, for several years thereafter, actively engaged as commissary at Fort Nassau, on the South River, where, in 1646, he purchased for the West India Company the site of the present flourishing city of Philadelphia.2

On September 10, 1650, however, Pieter Cornelissen, by virtue of a power of attorney from Hudde, dated July 27, 1650, conveyed the above patent to Lodewyck Jongh, for the sum of four hundred guilders, which conveyance was approved by the Governor and Council by an order dated January 2, 1651 3 On the 19th of July, 1676, Harmatie Janse, the widow of Lodewyck Jongh, conveyed eight morgen and five hundred and thirty-six rods of the land mentioned in the above patent, to Jeronimus Rapalie; and February 12, 1679 (English style), she conveyed another portion, comprising twelve morgen, to Dirck Janse Woertman.4

On May 3d, 1685, Woertman, by order of Harmatie Janse, con-

1 Conveyances, liber I. 249.

2 Brodhead's Hist. N. Y. I. 426.

3 Conveyances, liber I. 250.

4 Convey., lib. I. 250.