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valuable, inasmuch as the original, formerly deposited in the Town Clerk's office, is now lost. A map of the Fulton street widening, and also the Village Map of 1816, by Jeremiah Lott, now in the Street Commissioner's office, need to be carefully studied, as throwing fight upon the existence of this settlement at the ferry, which it is probable was mostly located on the grounds subsequently owned by John Middagh and Cary Ludlow, on the southwest side of Fulton street.

North of the Ferry, as near as can be ascertained, came, either a patent for a small parcel belonging to Cornelis Dircksen (Hooglandt), Òthe Ferryman," or that of Jacob Wolphertsen (van Couwenhoven).

IX.

On January 24th, 1643, Dircksen sold this property (of which we have been unable to find any recorded patent), then described as “his house and garden, with some sixteen or seventeen acres of land on Long Island,” to one William Thomassen, together with his right of ferriage, provided the Director would consent, for 2,300 guilders in cash and merchandise.(1) William Thomassen we suppose to be the same individual as William Jansen, who is known to have succeeded Cornelis Dircksen as ferryman about this time. Dircksen, after retiring from the charge of the ferry, obtained from Governor Kieft, December 12, 1645,

“a piece of land, both maize and woodland, lying on Long Island, behind the land by him heretofore taken up; it lies betwixt the land of Herry Breser and another parcel; it extends along the said Herry's marsh till to the aforesaid parcel, and further into and through the wood and maize land to the buildings and improvements of Claes Cornelissen Mentelaer, west by north and west northwest between both, 172 rods; its breadth behind in the woods to the said Herry, northeast by east, 59 rods ; further on to the maize-land, east a little south, 45 rods; further through the maizeland to the marsh, southeast by east, 109 rods; amounting in all to 12 morgen and 157 rods.”

1 N. Y. Col. MSS., ii. 44.