200 HISTORY OF BROOKLYN.

the 31st of March, 1684, issued an order to all the towns to bring in their patents and Indian deeds, for examination preparatory to the granting of now charters.1 Breuckelen, together with Boswyck, complied with this order on the 16th of April following,2 and desired some arrangement to be made concerning quit-rent. Owing, however, to the difficulties attendant upon the settlement of a dispute which had previously arisen between the towns of Newtown, Boswyck, and Breuckelen, concerning their bounds,(3) no immediate action could be taken in reference to the new patents and quit-rents of the three places. And it was not until May 3, 1686, that Breuckelen received from Gov. Dongan the following Patent:

“L.S. Thomas Dongan, Lieutenant Governor and Vice Admiral of New York, and its dependencies under his Majesty James the Second, by the grace of God, of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.—Supreme lord and proprietor of the Colony and province of New York and its dependencies in America, &c. To all to whom this shall come sendeth greeting, whereas the Honorable Richard Nicolls, Esq., formerly Governor of this province, did by his certain writing or patent under his hand and sea], bearing date the l8th day of October, Annoque Domini, one thousand six hundred and sixty seven, ratifie, confirm and grant unto Jan Everts, Jan Damen, Albert Cornelissen, Paulus Verbeeck, Michael Enyle (Hainelle), Thomas Lamberts, Tennis Gysberts Bogart, and Joris Jacobsen, as patentees for and on behalf of themselves and their associates, the freeholders and inhabitants of the town of Breucklen, their heirs, successors and assigns forever, a certain tract of land, together with the several parcels of land which then were or thereafter should be purchased or procured for and on behalf of the said town, whether from the native Indian proprietors, or others within the bounds and limitts therein sett forth and expressed, that is to say, the said town is bounded westward on the further side of the land of Mr. Paulus Verbeeck, from whence stretching southeast they go over the hills and so eastward along by the said hills to a southeast point, which takes in all the lotts behind the swamp, from which said lotts they run northwest to the River, and extend to the farm on the other side of the hills heretofore belonging to Hans Hansen,

1 Council Minutes, v. 63.

2 Ibid., v. 71.

3 N. Y. Col. MSS., xxxiii. 68,233, xxxiv. 15, xxxv. 146,152. For amount of this dispute, see Riker’s excellent history of Newtown.