Old Town maps, 1830-1839.

Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)

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Gravesend (New York, N.Y.)

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Gravesend was one of the six original towns of Kings County. Founded by religious dissenter Lady Deborah Moody and her followers in 1643, it was the only one of the original towns to be founded by English settlers. Gravesend was annexed by the City of Brooklyn in 1894. From the guide to the Town of Gravesend record transcriptions, 1646-1670, (Brooklyn Historical Society) ...

Flatlands (New York, N.Y.)

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The Town of Flatlands was one of the original six towns in what is now Brooklyn, N.Y. The land on which Flatlands was founded was acquired by Dutch settlers from the Canarsie (sometimes spelled Canarsee), the original inhabitants of the area, in 1636. By 1647, the Dutch were calling the area Nieuw Amersfoort (New Amersfoort). In 1661, New Netherland Director-General Peter Stuyvesant granted New Amersfoort the right to local rule. By 1664, the British had taken control of New Netherl...

New Lots (New York, N.Y.)

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Flatbush (New York, N.Y.)

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The Town of Flatbush was founded in 1636 when Dutch settlers purchased land from the Native Americans of the region, known as the Lenape (people), and began to populate what they designated as Vlacke Bos ("flatlands covered with bushes"). In 1652, the governor of New Amsterdam (later New York), Peter Stuyvesant, granted the inhabitants of Vlacke Bos a patent, and the town was officially chartered, becoming one of the original six villages to comprise what would eventually become the...

New Utrecht (New York, N.Y.)

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Kings County (N.Y.). Office of the County Clerk.

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