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which was renewed to him in 1661 and 1662. In 1663 he, with other farmers in that vicinity, was fined for working on Sunday; and in 1664, his wife petitioned for, and was granted, 8 or 10 acres additional behind the company's farm, on which latter she had received, in 1658, permission to build a house.1

XXII.

Jan Evertsen Bout, a somewhat prominent man in the colony,2 was the patentee of the lands adjoining Van Couwenhoven's on the west. This property was described in the deed granted to him by Gov. Kieft, July 6, 1645, as

“land at Marechkawieck, on the Kil of the Gowanus, as well the maizeland as the woodland, bounded by the most easterly end of (the land of) Huyck Aertsen (von Rossum), and by the most westerly end of (the land of) Gerrit Wolphertson (von Couwenhoven), it extends next the said land (i.e. of Wolphertsen) ; along till out of the woods, northeast a little northerly 165 rods, its breadth in the woods southeast to the land of Huyek Aertsen, 69 rods, next to the land of said Huyek Aertsen along to the maize-land 55 rods, southwest and southwest by west, further on till to the valley (marsh) southwest, a little southerly, 137 rods further on to place of beginuing along the marsh, with certain outpoints, laid out in a parallelogram. Amount in all, both the places, as well (i.e. likewise) of Jan Evertsen (Bout) and Jacob Stoffelsen, 28 morgen 270 rods.3

February 14th, 1667, Bout received a confirmatory patent of the above premises, which covered the neck of land on which a few years ago were located Freecke’s and Denton’s flour-mills, and also a considerable tract east of Freecke’s mill-pond, extending to the

1 N. Y. Col. MSS., viii. 313,1044; ix. 572; x. 40; Part ii. 294, Part iii. 21.

2 In 1643 he had a bouwery at Pavonia; in September of same year was selected by the Eight Men to fill the vacancy in their Board, caused by the expulsion of Van Dam; in 1646, became one of the founders of Breuckelen; in 1647, was a farmer there and chosen a member of the Nine Men, who formed Stuyvesant's Council; in 1649, was one of the signers of a memorial to the Home Government, requesting certain reforms in the management of the Colony, and also of the Remonstrance which accompanied it, and of which documents he and two others were chosen to be the bearers to the Fatherland ; was sucessful in his mission, and returned to Nieuw Netherlands in 1650.(See Col. Doc. N.Y., i. 367, 379.)

3 Patents, G.G, 108.