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Call Number: 1986.003
Extent: 0.08 Linear feet, in one folder
This collection consists of two items, written by J. Cather: a letter to John A. Dix, Governor-elect of the State of New York, reccommending Colonel David E. Austin for the post of Commissary General of Ordinance, dated 1872; and a letter to General Franklin Townsend, Adjutant General of New York State, reccommending a General Jourdan for a vacant Major Generalship, dated 1879. Cather was a District Attorney in Kings County
Names:
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Lawyers — New York (State) — Kings County
- Soldiers — New York (State) — Kings County
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Call Number: 1978.117
Extent: 0.1 Linear feet, in one folder
The collection contains transit receipts, dated 1890, for the Brooklyn Bureau of Permits for moving and transporting corpses. The records themselves contain the name, age, cause of death, and cemetery name for each body transported.
Names:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.). Bureau of Permits
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Local transit — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
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Call Number: 1991.026
Extent: 0.08 Linear feet, in one folder
A conveyance between Francis B. Stryker, Mayor of the City of Brooklyn, to John Delaplaine for property located in Brooklyn. The property sold was located on Navy Stret in the Seventh Ward of Brooklyn. The conveyance is dated 1846.
Names:
- Delaplaine, John
- Stryker, Francis
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Real property auctions — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
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Call Number: 1977.637
Extent: 0.08 Linear feet, in one folder
A handwritten manuscript of an address given by George Hall to the Brooklyn Board of Trustees of Brooklyn, upon his election as Mayor.
George Hall (1795-1868) was born in the town of Flatbush and attended Erasmus High School. In 1826 and 1832 he was elected trustee of Brooklyn’s third ward. In 1834, as Brooklyn became incorporated, the Board of Alderman selected him as the new city’s Mayor.
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Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Mayors — New York (State) — Kings County
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Call Number: 1978.070
Extent: 0.08 Linear feet, in one folder
The collection contains a Congressional order commissioning Robert Burnet as a 2nd Lieutenant in the New York Regiment of Artillery, dated 1783.
Names:
- United States. Congress
- Burnet, Robert
Places:
- New York (State)
- United States — Armed Forces — Officers
Types of material:
- Military commissions
- Military records
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Call Number: 1977.640
Extent: 0.08 Linear feet, in one folder
Two orders of permission for Deborah Covenhoven to travel from New Jersey to Long Island (dated July 6, 1782 and signed by New Jersey Governor William Livingston) and Staten Island (dated July 27, 1782 and signed by Magistrate of Police William Walton).
Names:
- Covenhoven, Deborah
- Livingston, William, 1723-1790
- Walton, William, 1731-1796
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- New Jersey
- Staten Island (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
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Call Number: 1986.005
Extent: 3.0 Linear feet, in three record cartons.
This collection contains 12 bound volumes of Kings County Clerk’s office bonds of administration, with registers of property transactions in the county. Each volume’s entries span approximately 2 months, noting the principles, dates, and locations of each transaction. Each volume also contains an index of names.
Names:
- Kings County (N.Y.). Office of the County Clerk
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Public officers — New York (State) — Kings County
- Real property — Ownership — New York (State) — Kings County
- Real property — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
- Bonds (legal records)
- Volumes (documents by form)
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Call Number: 1978.046
Extent: 0.4 Linear feet, in two folders and one bound volume
The Gravesend history collection contains a charter for Gravesend, signed by Governor Dongan; a land deed and title searches for property in Gravesend; genealogies of prominent families; and a manuscript copy of William H. Stillwell’s Annals of the Town of Gravesend.
Names:
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Gravesend (New York, N.Y.) — History
Types of material:
- Charters
- Deeds
- Manuscripts (document genre)
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Call Number: 1978.034
Extent: 0.02 Linear feet, in one folder.
English transcriptions of Dutch legal documents concerning the towns of Flatlands, Flatbush, and Gravesend. Some appear to have been copied from official records of the Dutch government of New Amsterdam (later New York City) and to have been written by Peter Stuyvesant, the last governor to lead New Amsterdam before the colony was seized by the British in 1664. The original documents date from 1656 to 1719, while the transcriptions were created circa 1850. The repository at which the original Dutch documents are housed is not known.
Names:
- Stuyvesant, Peter, 1610-1672
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Flatbush (New York, N.Y.)
- Flatlands (New York, N.Y.)
- Gravesend (New York, N.Y.)
- New York (N.Y.) — History — Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Subjects:
- Real property — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
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Call Number: 1978.158
Extent: 1.5 Linear feet, in nine oversize volumes.
Nine volumes containing property tax assessments for Wards 1 through 9 in the City of Brooklyn for the year 1841. Each volume number corresponds to the number of the ward in which it was used to record assessments. In each volume, assessments are organized by street name. For each street name, the volumes list the names of property owners on that street, descriptions and values of the properties, and amount taxed. Volume 6, containing property assessments for Ward 6, also includes assessments for the year 1840.
Names:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Property tax — New York (State) — Kings County
- Real property — New York (State) — Kings County
- Tax assessment — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
- Tax records
- Volumes (documents by form)
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