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war, Rapalje’s grand-daughter, who had married George Weldon in England, came, with her husband, to New York, with the intention of prosecuting for recovery of the estate, on the ground that its confiscation had taken place subsequent to the treaty of peace. They brought with them the original title deeds and other documents of the estate, and, it is said, the town records of Brooklyn, which Rapalje carried to England. A number of depositions were made and collected in Brooklyn, relative to the property, and Aaron Burr and other eminent counsel were consulted, whose advice was adverse to the prosecution of the suit. The Weldons, therefore, returned to England, carrying with them all the valuable records and papers which they had brought with them.1

No further attempt has ever been made to disturb the title, and the land was afterwards laid out in streets and lots by the Messrs. Sands. 2

XI.

Adjoining Fiscock's patent, on the East River, was that of Frederick Lubbertsen, granted by Governor Kieft, September 4, 1645, having a water-front of nine hundred and fifty-five feet six inches, and described as extending to “Herry Breser's, formerly Jacob Wolphertsen (van Couvenhoven’s) land:”

“northwest by west, 120 rods; its breadth behind, in the woods, east by north, 59 rods; back again to the strand (beach), north and north by west, 134 rods; along the strand, west by south one-half point southerly, 78 rods: amounting in all to 15 morgens and 52 rods.”3

1 MSS. of Jeremiah Johnson, who says that these facts were concealed, and unknown until subsequent researches bad been made in the public Government offices of England, for the true Records of Brooklyn.

2 See “A Plan of Comfort and Joshua Sands’ Place, by C. Th. Goerck, 1788,” in possession of Silas Ludlam, City Surveyor. The streets were somewhat differently named from the present names. The present Washington street was named State; the present Adams street was named Congress; the present Pearl was Elizabeth; the present Jay, Hester. In present Water street, a little west of present Jay (then Hester), stood Sands' Powder-house Dock. On the foot of Dock street was the “storehouse Dock.” See, also, Cooper's map of Comfort Sands’ property, 1806.

3 Patents, G G, 114.