BROOKLYN...5 Dutch Towns






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Brooklyn, as we know today, was originally made up of six seperate towns, 
five of them Dutch and one English. 

The five Dutch towns were :

Bushwick
Flatlands
Flatbush
Brooklyn
New Utrecht

The English Town was :

Gravesend


BUSHWICK consisted of : Greenpoint, Bushwick & Williamsburgh.

BROOKLYN consisted of : Wallabout, Cripplebush, Brooklyn Village or Breukelen, 
Bedford & Gowanus.

FLATBUSH consisted of : Flatbush or Midwout, & New Lots.

FLATLANDS consisted of : Flatlands or Nieuw Amersfoort.

NEW UTRECHT consisted of : New Utrecht or Nieuw Utrecht, & Fort Hamilton

GRAVESEND consisted of : Gravesend.

United in one borough, known as Kings County, after King Charles II of England, 
these townships

The old town of Bushwick, lies roughly between Division Ave. and
Broadway and the Queens County line. It extends from the East River to 
about Highland Blvd.
Included within this township are :
Williamsburgh
Greenpoint
The Bushwick section itself
and part of the old Eastern District of Broklyn.

Brooklyn
The Village of Brooklyn was incorporated in 1816.

Williamsburgh
On April 14, 1827, the Village of Williamsburgh was incorporated within the 
Town of Bushwick.
By 1834 the Village & Town of Brooklyn were combined to form the 'City of Brooklyn'.
1835, the Town of Bushwick, including Williamsburgh had a population of 3,314.
By 1840 Williamsburgh became a seperate town and with the continued expansion 
of people and business by 1851 Williamsburgh became a city.

Flatbush
By 1852 the eastern part of Flatbush became the Town of New Lots.

1854 saw Williamsburgh & Bushwick annexed to Brooklyn as The Eastern District. (E.D.)
(In the old directories you will find the rest of Brooklyn referred to as the 
Western District.)

Consolidation was brought about in 1854-55 and since that time Williamsburgh 
has been a part of Brooklyn.

By 1886 through 1896 Brooklyn had annexed all the remaining towns.<P> 
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Towns with Wards in 1898<P>
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With help from :
Articles in the
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Frank D. Schroth, Publisher
1946

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