72 HISTORY OF BROOKLYN.

veyed to the heirs of Joris Dirckse, “a small stroke of land lying at the east side of the highway (now Fulton street), being all they can pretend (to claim) by the aforesaid patent.”1

The three patents of Hudde, Manje, and Ruyter, described in the preceding pages, comprehended, as will be seen, the whole territory afterwards occupied by the Remsen and Philip Livingston estates, Ralph Patchen, Cornelius Heeney, Parmenus Johnson, and others, The entire tract lying northeast of Lubbertse's patent, and having a river front (of two thousand six hundred and forty-six feet) extending from about Atlantic to Clarke streets, and from Court street to the East River, being at present one of the most thickly settled portions of our flourishing city, was purchased, as we have already seen, by Dirck Janse Woertman,2 and was by him sold to his son-in-law, Joris Remsen, on the 10th of October, 1706, for the sum of£612 10s. current money of New York.3 This deed, after reciting at length the several patents to Manje, Hudde, and Ruyter, together with the chains of conveyances vesting the same in Woertman, specifies that all these parcels, “now lie near the ferry, bound round to the Salt River, the lands of Garret van Couvenhoven and Garret Middagh, the highway leading from Brookland to the ferry, the land of the heirs of Jurian Briaz, and the lands of George Hansen (Bergen),4 and Jacob Hansen (Bergen),5 and Cornelius Sebring.”6 Joris Remsen, who was the second son of Rem Jansen Vanderbeeck, the ancestor of the Remsen family in this country, built a mansion near the brow of the Heights, which then presented the appearance of a rough and bold promontory of rocky cliffs, rising

1 Conveyances, Kings Co., liber i. 251.

2 There is still extant (Kings Co. Conveyances, liber i. 165) a marriage settlement between this Dirck Janse Woertman, “last man of Marrietie Theunis," and Annetie Auk”, “last wife of Wynant Pieterse,” and a list of the goods and chattels she brought her husband.

3 Conveyances, King’s County, liber III. p. 76.

4 He bought of Marritje Gerritse, widow of Nicholas Janse, baker, the land patented by Governor Kieft, in 1647, to Gerrit Wolphertsen (Van Couwenhoven).—Kings Co. Conveyances, liber II. 181.

5 Jacob Hans Bergen held the lands which his wife Dole had inherited from her father, Frederick Lubbertsen.

6 Sebring bought of Peter Corson in 1698, one hundred acres “in the neck of Brookland, commonly called Frederick Lubbertsen’s Neck,” etc, —Kings Co. Conveyances, liber II162.