158 HISTORY OF BROOKLYN.

honored by the establishment of an inn or ordinary “for man and beast :”

“License granted to Thomas Lamberts, of Bedford, to sell beer, wine, and other liquors.

“Whereas, Thomas Lamberts, of Bedford, within the jurisdiction of Breuckelen, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, upon Long Island, is willing to undertake the keeping of an Ordinary, for the accommodation of strangers, travellers, and other persons passing that way, with diet and lodging and horse meals, I do hereby give him license to sell beer, wine, or any other strong liquors for their relief. And for his further encouragement therein, do think fit to order that no person living in the said village of Bedford have privilege so to do but himself This License is to continue for one year after the date hereof, and no longer. Given under my hand, at Fort James, in New York, this 17th day of December, 1668.
“Francis Lovelace.”

In the year 1670, the inhabitants of Breuckelen, being desirous of enlarging the bounds of their common lands, and of extinguishing the Indian title to the same, applied to Governor Lovelace, and obtained from him the following permission to purchase from the native proprietors a large tract of land in and about the hamlet then and since known as Bedford:

“L.S. Whereas, the inhabitants of Breucklyn, in the west Riding of Yorkshire, upon Long Island, who were seated there in a township by the authority then in being, and having bin at considerable charges in clearing, ffencing, and manuring their land, as well as building ffor their conveniency, have requested my lycense, for their further security, to make purchase of the said land of some Indians who lay claim and interest therein; these are to certify all whom it may concerne, that I have and doe hereby give the said inhabitants lycense to purchase their land according to their request, the said Indians concerned appearing before me as in the law is required, and making their acknowledgments to be fully satisfyed and paid

The Bedford settlement, of which these notes serve to show the beginnings, was located at the intersection of the old highway to Jamaica with the “Clove Road” to Flatbush, on the south; and with the “Cripplebush Road” to Newtown, on the north; and extending about a quarter of a mile each way from that point.