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point, to “the Ferry,” and is included in lands marked as G. Martense’s on Butts’ map. Wolphertsen sold this property to Nicholas Janse, baker, of New York, whose widow, Maritje Garritse, sold the same, Sept. 13th, 1698, to George Hansen (Bergen), of Broockland, for the sum of £176 11s. The lands were described as bounded “southeast by land of Jurian Andriese, northwest by land of Jacob Hansen (Bergen) and land of Derick Wortman, southwest by Gowanus Kil, and northwest by the King’s highway, as formerly in possession of Gerrit Wolphertsen.” Also, ̉the just and equal part of all that hook or neck of land in said township, containing 55 Dutch rods broad and 250 Dutch rods long; bounded south by land of Jacob Brower, north by land of Machiel Hansen (Bergen), west by Gowanus Kil, or Mill Creek, and east by the common woods.”1
Martense and Gerritsen possess, through their wives, these lands of Bergen; but it is probable that Bergen, or his heirs, subsequent purchasers, added other lands to the estate, besides Wolfertsen Van Couvenhoven's patent.
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Jacob Stoffelsen, the West India Company’s overseer of negroes, and engaged under Van Twiller, in 1635, in the construction of Fort Amsterdam, had a farm next to Wolphertsen's, but of which no patent is found on record. Its position, however, is clearly defined by the adjoining patent of Wolphertsen, which is described as lying between it and that of Lubbertsen; and its size is specified in Bout's patent as being of the same dimensions, viz, 28 morgens and 270 rods. Like the others, it commenced on the meadows at the head of Gowanus Creek, and ran northeasterly to the “King's Highway,” i.e., the old Flatbush and Breuckelen Ferry Road. On the maps of the present city, it may be described as extending along Fulton avenue, from Bond street, or thereabout, to a line between and parallel to Smith and Hoyt streets.
Stotelsen seems not to have been a resident of Breuckelen after 1656, in which year he hired the Company’s farm at Aharsimus,
1 Kings Co. Convey., ii. 181.