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Brooklyn ferry.” The same remedy, under the name of the “great American balsam,” is again advertised in January, 1769, by Edward Joyce, Surgeon, as for sale by him, and also at Capt. Koffler’s at Brooklyn ferry.

1767. Israel Horsfield, sen., Brooklyn ferry, advertises to sell at outcry to the highest bidder, Sept. 8th, at the brew-house, “two negro men, one of which has lived with a ship-carpenter, and is a good caulker, and has lately lived with a brewer and malster, and is very handy.” On the 2d of November following, Mr. Horsfield offers for sale his brew-house, malt-house, drying kiln, dwelling, and storehouse, built of brick, one and a half feet thick, after an English plan; a horse-mill, for grinding malt and pumping water, a copper kettle holding thirty-six barrels, two lead cisterns, which will steep seventy bushels of barley each.

1767, Nov. 16. Francis Koffler1 offers a reward for a runaway indentured Irish servant, John Miller, “which kept the bar and made punch at his house," at Brooklyn ferry, and who is particularly described as wearing “deer-skin breeches, speckled yarn stockings, double-soled shoes with brass buckles, and a beaver hat.”

1768. A New York paper chronicles the fact that, “in the hard gale of wind and snow-shower we had here on Saturday night (March 19th), a servant man and valuable slave of Mr. Pikeman, of Long Island, were drowned in a periauger, going across the river with manure for their master's farm”

1768. “To be run for, April 5th, at Mr. James Noblett’s, Brooklyn, a neat saddle, with hog-skin seat, valued at £5, the best two out of three single mile heats; free for any horse not more than quarter blood, carrying ten stone. Entrance fee 5s., cash.”

1768. “Liberal Reward. On July 8th. the house of Widow Rapelye, Brooklyn ferry, was broken open and robbed of one gold ring, marked M. D., heart in hand; seven silver spoons, marked J. R. D., one pair gold sleeve-buttons; two Johannesses; one doubloon; two

1 This gentleman’s obituary is found in the N. Y. Journal of Aug. 29, 1771: “Last Friday, departed this life, after a lingering sickness, at Brooklyn, in an advanced age, Captain Francis Koffler, an honest, upright man, greatly lamented. In the last war he had command of several privateers out of this port, and acquired great honor by the bravery and resolution with which he acted in the several engagements lie was in.”