HISTORY OF BROOKLYN. 95

1774, to Abraham Remsen, who, in April, 1793, conveyed it to his son William, and he, in May following, transferred it to his brothers, Jeremiah and Abraham Remsen, junior. Adjoining the southerly side of this farm, and including the late Scholes tract, was a farm of 76 acres, owned and possessed, prior to 1729, by one Gysbert Bogert, and by him sold, in December of that year, to his son Gysbert Bogert, junior. By him it was conveyed, June 29, 1741, to Jeremiah Remsen, the then owner of the present Johnson farm. Mr. Remsen, on the 28th of January, 1742, conveyed it to his son Abraham, and he, on April 10th, 1795, conveyed it to his sons, Jeremiah and Abraham.1

The title to the farm of Cornelius Bog ert, and to that of Gysbert Bogert, having thus become fully vested in the brothers Remsen, partition deeds were executed between them on the 14th of September, 1795, by which Abraham became possessed of the northerly portion, since known as the Abraham A. Remsen estate; and Jeremiah of the southerly portion, sold after his death, in 1831, by his executors, to James Scholes, and since known as the Scholes estate.2

Having thus completed our survey of the early patents along the water-front of Breuckelen, from the bounds of Now Utrecht to those of Bushwick, we now enter upon the consideration of what may be termed

THE SECOND TIER OF PATENTS,

located between the Waale-boght and the head of Gowanus Creek, in the rear of those already discussed. These lands are all especially described as “lying at Marechkawieck, on the Gowanus Kill;” proving, beyond a doubt, that the name of “Marechkawieck,” although applied primarily to the shores of the Waale-boght, was also used to designate the whole of the country between the two localities. The existence in this neighborhood, as we have seen, of “Sassian’s” and other tracts of maize-mand, as well as the fact that various Indian skeletons and relics have, from time to time, been exhumed in the same vicinity, incline us to the belief that this was

1 Conveyances, lib. xxi. 213, Kings County Clerk’s office.

2 Ibid., 209.