WHEN BROOKLYN WAS YOUNG By Walter Barrett Clerk 1863 C O N T E N T S INTRO: by the Author
CHAPTERS
THE BATTLE AT THE OLD STONE HOUSE
A ROMANCE OF MELROSE ABBEY
ERASMUS HALL
THE LEFFERTS HOUSE & TALES OF STEINBOKKERY POND
THE ZABRISKIE HOMESTEAD & ABIGAIL LEFFERTS LOVE STORY
THE VAN PELT MANOR HOUSE
BENSONHURST & WASHINGTON; CLAY'S APPLEJACK
A LOST SUNBONNET & HOW MISTRESS VAN BRUNT CONQUERED THE BRITISH IN THE VAN BRUNT HOMESTEAD
YE BOWERIE OF LADY MOODY, A SCENE OF EARLY DISSENSIONS & INDIAN TROUBLES
THE VOORHEES HOMESTEAD IN THE CELLAR OF WHICH TRADITION SAYS: A HESSIAN SOLDIER WAS BURIED
CORTELYOU MANOR HOUSE FROM WHICH A WOMAN SIGNALLED WITH A RED PETTICOAT FOR THE BRITISH TO LAND
NICASIUS DE SILLE HOUSE. WHERE THE GENERAL WOODHULL DIED OF WOUNDS
De HART OR BERGEN HOUSE FORMERLY THE CENTRE OF A HUNTER'S PARADISE
SCHENCK HOMESTEAD BUILT IN 1656 REPUTED TO BE THE OLDEST HOUSE IN NEW YORK STATE
THE BERGEN HOUSE WHERE THE GHOST OF LORD HOWE IS SAID TO R0AM ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF LONG ISLAND
THE SUYDAM HOUSE OCCUPIED BY HESSIANS DURING THE REVOLUTION
THE REMSEN PLACE & ]ANNETTE DE RAPELJE'S TRIP IN A TUB
HENDRICK L. LOTT H0MESTEAD & CAPTAIN LOTT OF THE KINGS COUNTY MILITIA
THE HOMESTEAD OF CAPTAIN CORNELIUS VANDERVEER WHO CAME NEAR BEING HANGED BY THE REDCOATS
THE DITMARS HOUSE & ITS STORY
DENYSE'S FERRY THE SCENE OF THE FIRST RESISTANCE TO BRITISH ARMS IN THE MIDDLE STATES
BOUGHTON HOUSE FROM THE WINDOWS OF WHICH COULD BE SEEN THE PRISON-SHIPS RIDING IN WALLABOUT BAY
HOWARD'S TAVERN & GENERAL HOWE
THE FIRST CHURCH IN BROOKLYN
THE PIERREPONT MANSION ON THE HEIGHTS. WASHINGTON'S SIGNAL STATION DURING THE SIEGE OF BROOKLYN
THE OLD FORT UPON THE HEIGHTS & LOVE LANE
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