HISTORY OF BROOKLYN. 157

1668), that as long as he should keep the mill, he must “grind for all persons, without distinction or exception, according to custom, the first come to be first served,” under penalty.1

January 4, 1668, one Robert Hollis was granted the exclusive privilege of selling strong drink in Breuckelen.2

During this year, also, the little village-hamlet of Bedford3 was

1 Brouwer, although a respectable citizen, in good circumstances, seems to have been rather fractious and troublesome at times, if we may judge from this and other items recorded concerning him. In February, 1667 (—8), he had been ordered under arrest for seditious speeches; and in September, 1669, he was fined 500 guilders for an assault on Gerrit Coosen. (Council Minutes, ii. 282, 195, 537.)

2 July 18, 1669, Robert Hollis received a patent for a piece of land in Breuckelen, “lying and being to the south of Jan Martyn’s, and the north of Jan Damen’s, containing in breadth (an east line being run on each side) 40 rod, and in length 200 rod, in bigness about 26 acres or 13 morgen,” sold in 1647, by Jan Misroel, to the said Hollis. (Council Minutes, ii. 320.)

3 The settlement of the locality, which retains, even at the present day, its ancient name of Bedford, seems to have commenced in 1662; for on the 1 18th of March, in that year, Jan Joris Rapalje, Tennis Gysbert (Bogaert), Cornelis Jacobsen, Hendrick Sweers, Michael Hans (Bergen), and Jan Hans (Bergen), made a humble request to the Director and General for “the grant of a parcel of free (unoccupied) woodland, situated in the rear of Joris Rapalje, next to the old Bay road.” The request was granted to the suppliants, provided that they placed their dwellings “within one or the other concentration, which shall suit them best, but not to make a new hamlet.” (N. Y. Col. MSS., x. Part i. 88. By this grant the parties are supposed to have obtained 20 morgen (or 40 acres) of land apiece at Bedford. (See also ibid., xxii. 145, 146 ; xxiv. 60.)

Feb. 18, 1666, a patent was granted to Thomas Lamberts, to confirm to him a certain parcel of land lying in the Walleboght, within the limits of a ceftain village known by the name of New Bedford, on Long Island, "being on the south side of the land belonging to Jan Lourensen, and on the north side of that which belongs to Michael Hansen (Bergen); containing in breadth, 24 rods; and in length, upon an east line, 500 rods: which in all, by estimation, amounts to about 40 acres of ground," as granted by Governor Stuyvesant, May 15, 1664, to said Lamberts.

Feb. 18, 1666, a patent was granted to Thomas Lamberts, confirming to him a parcel of land, “being on the south side of the land belonging to Jan Laurensen, and on the west side of the cart-way, containing, by estimation, 3 acres or thereabouts.” Also "a certain plot of ground, lying on the south part of New Bedford aforesaid, being on the north side of the above-mentioned land, and on the west side of the cart-way, having a house and barn standing thereon ; containing, in length, 24 rod ; and in breadth, on the east and west sides, 16 rod," as occupied by said Lamberta.

May 14, 1700, Thomas Lambertse, of Bedford, conveyed to Leffert Peterse (the ancestor of the Lefferts family), of Flatbush, the premises covered by the last-mentioned patent of Feb. 18, 1666. (Lib. ii. 218, Kings County Conveyances.)

Dec. 3, 1667, a patent was granted to Charles Heynant, described as an inhabitant of Bedford, within the jurisdiction of the town of Breucklyn, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, upon Long Island, having a lot of ground in the place aforesaid, but having not a sufficient quantity of woodland belonging thereto, granting to him "an addition of about 3 morgen, or 6 acres, of land adjoining his said lot.”