94 HISTORY OF BROOKLYN.

sold out his share to his brother Jeremias, who thus became the sole owner of the paternal farm.1 It was inherited, after his death, in July, 1757, by his son Jeremias, who, dying without issue, in 1777, left it to his relative, Barent Johnson.2 This worthy citizen and patriot, deceased in 1782, and his executors in 1793, conveyed the estate to his son, the late General Jeremiah Johnson, by whom it was first laid out in streets and city lots, and by whose eldest son, Barnet Johnson, the old homestead and a portion of the original farm is now held.3

The history of the remaining portion of the Hans Hansen Bergen patent is briefly as follows:

The parcels since known as the Boerum and Abraham A. Remsen estates were originally comprised in a farm owned by one Tennis Bogert, who, by will, dated June 22, 1767,4 devised it to his sons Adrian and Cornelius. Partition deeds were executed between them, April 25, 1769, whereby Adrian took possession of the northerly half, now known as the Boerum farm, and Cornelius of the remaining or southerly portion, being the greater portion of the Abraham A. Remsen estate.5

Adrian sold his farm, April 13, 1775, to Jacob Bloom, who devised it by will, dated March 5, 1797, as a life-estate to his son Barent.6 His heirs, in March, 1816, conveyed it to Abraham A. Remsen,7 who, in November of the same year, sold it to Abraham Boerum,8 who remained in possession until his death, in 1848, and from whom it derived its name of the “Boerum farm.”

Cornelius Bogert sold his portion of the paternal estate, March 8,

The southerly portion of the land described, in the above deed, as lands of Tennis Gysberts Bogart, is that since known as land of James Scholes.

1 & 3 See “Deduction of Title to so much of ‘the Homestead Farm,’ so called, of the late Jeremiah Johnson, deceased, as is embraced within the limits of the City of Brooklyn, and as was in his possession at the time of his death. Dated Brooklyn, May, 1853. Prepared by William M. Ingraham, Brooklyn.” Folio, pp. 20.

2 Will dated 1776; proved 1782. N. Y. Wills, liber xxxv.

4 Liber xxvi. 210, N. Y. Co. Wills.

5 See map on file in Kings County Clerk's office, endorsed “Map showing the Farm of Teunis Bogart, deceased,” as divided between his sons Adrian and Cornelius, and to be filed in Kings County Clerk's office with the old deeds not recorded.

6 Kings Co. Wills, liber i. 227.

7 Kings County Conveyances, liber xi. 461. 8 Ibid., 438.