RICH  MEN AND WOMEN

OF

BROOKLYN  AND  WILLIAMSBURGH



Farley Edward   Willliamsburgh.............20,000
Farmer Thomas..............................15,000
Fay David..................................10,000
Fay Temple.................................25,000
Felt David................................100,000
Field Richard..............................40,000 
Filly Edward...............................50,000 
Fish Edmond................................35,000  
Fisher Abijah..............................25,000  
Fisher William.............................40,000

Fiske George B. ...........................45,000
	President of the  L. I. R. R. Company. Through his instrumentality, 
chiefly, the company has obtained its present flourishing position, and 
the stock obtained a value which renders an investment in it certain of 
profitable return.

Flanders Benjamin..........................20,000

Fleet Samuel..............................150,000
	Is descended from an old English family. The ancestor, Thomas Fleet, a 
captain in the British Navy, came to this country about the year 1650 and 
purchased a tract of land on the north side of Long Island, near Huntington; and  
transmitted it to his posterity, one of whom is now in possession. The 
subject of this article was brought up a farmer, and made snug property
during the last war with England, when grain and produce were very high. 
He afterwards removed to Brooklyn, where he purchased two farms which 
have long been valuable as city lots.

Flindt John M..............................15,000
Flindt William.............................15,000  
Forbes James...............................45,000  
Forbush William............................15,000  
Fowler John................................10,000
Fountain George Washington.................10,000  
Fox Elizabeth..............................10,000
Frazier Thomas.............................15,000
Freeker John estate of.....................25,000 
Freeland James.............................35,000  
Frere Thomas...............................50,000
Friel James................................25,000
Frost Jacob................................50,000
Frost Sunuel................................20,000


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