HISTORY OF BROOKLYN. 217

—N. Y Post Boy. This mill was probably the one at the Wallabout Bay.’

1764, April 16. James Degraw, Brooklyn, offers for sale his farm opposite the church, and joining Mr. Harvey’s, a mile from the ferry. It is convenient for the New York market, having ten acres of land and forty fruit-trees.

1764, Oct. 11. Aris Remsen offers twenty shillings reward for the apprehension of a runaway negro named Harry. “He had on a Scotch bonnet, short, wide trowsers, and half-worn shoes, with steel buckles. He is apt to get drunk, and stutters. He speaks good English, French, Spanish, and a little of other languages.”

1765, Feb. 28. “James Leadbetter and Thomas Horsfield have opened their brewery in Brooklyn, where may be had English ale, table, ship, and sprace beer.”—N. Y Gazette.

VIEW OF BROOCKLAND, IN 1766-72

1767, Jan. 8. “Last week, on Wednesday, a very valuable negro fellow of Mr. Samuel Waldron, who keeps the Brooklyn ferry, in pushing off the boat from the ferry stairs with an oar, lost his purchase and fell out of the bow of the boat, and by a sudden rise of the sea, his head was crushed between the boat and dock, so that he died in a few minutes after he was taken up.”

1767, February. “Joyce’s great wound Balsam is a corrector of coughs and colds, and cures ulcers and fistulas; and has many other virtues too tedious to mention. Sold at Edward Joyce's shop, near

1 Ante, p. 81.

2 From Rutger’s map, of that date.