Brooklyn Historical Documents.

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Brooklyn Historical Documents.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/468817392

This collection is comprised of materials such as transcripts of manuscripts (with occasional translations), excerpta, copies of maps, pictures of buildings and localities, and data to authenticate information relative to the past and present history of Brooklyn, New York, and its inhabitants from the 1500s through the 1800s. Unfortunately, not all the manuscript copies are available in full typescript form. For example in Box 1, the "Seventh Manuscript" is on view in its entirety as is the "Thierteenth Manuscript". However, other folders found in Box 1 have descriptions but no scripts are available for viewers to see.

36 boxes (13 cu. ft.).

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Brooklyn College

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Brooklyn College

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Long Island Historical Society

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In 1896 several influential individuals in Brooklyn, New York, decided to collect authentic authoritative materials relating to the past and present history of Brooklyn and its inhabitants. Therefore, on June 28, 1897, The Hon. Frederick W. Wurster, mayor of the city (of Brooklyn, New York), authorized the Long Island Historical Society to compile information covering the Dutch and English records of the earliest settled towns in Brooklyn which included Midwout (later Flatbush), Brooklyn, Amersf...