208 HISTORY OF BROOKLYN.

All the king’s highways in the county were likewise to be continued and confirmed, as they had been for twenty years past, and were to be laid out four rods wide, at least.1

Another emeute of the disaffected people of Kings County occurred about 8 o’clock in the evening of the 14th of September, 1697 (or 6?), when John Rapalje, Isaac Remsen, Jooris Vannesten, Joras Danielse Rapalje, Jacob Reyerse, Aert Aertsen, Theunis Bujs, Garret Cowenhoven, Gabriel Sprong, Urian Andriese, John Willemse Bennett, Jacob Bennett and John Meserole, jr.—most of whom will be recognized as inhabitants of Breuckelen and Boswyck —“met, armed, at the courthouse of Kings, where they destroyed and defaced the king's arms which were hanging up there.”2

November 11, 1697, negroes were forbidden to be brought over from New York on the Sabbath, without tickets or passes. Similar legislation was made in the succeeding years, negroes being forbidden to “run about on the Sabbath,” or to purchase liquors. It was further “ordered that no people shall pass on the Sabbath day, unless it be to or from church, or other urgent and lawful occasions, according to act of assembly, upon penalty aforesaid of fine and imprisonment.”3

“At a towne meeting held this twentieth day of Aprill, 1697, at Bedford, within the jurisdiction of Broockland, in Kings County, upon the Island of Nassau, Resolved by all the ffreeholders of the towne of Broockland aforesaid, that all their common land not yet laid out and divided, belonging to their whole patent, shall be equally divided and laid out to each ffreeholder of said towne, his just proporcon in all the common lands abovesaid, except those that have but an house and home lott, which are only to have but half share of the lands aforesaid. And for the laying out of the said lands there are chosen and appointed by the ffreeholders abovesaid, Capt. Henry Ffilkin, Jacobus Vanderwater, Daniel Rapalle, Joris Hansen, John Dorlant and Cornelius Vandayne. It is further ordered that noe men within this township abovesaid, shall have priviledge to sell his part of the undivided lands of Broockland not yet laid out, to any person living without the township

1 See. Ct. Sess., Old Road Book.

2 Ct. Sess. Rec., Old Road Book, 38—contains the original depositions of Justices Hegeman, Filkin, and Stillwell.

3 Ct. Sess. Rec., Old Road Book.