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FIRST BROOKLYN FERRY HOUSE (NEW YORK CITY.) NICOLLS, RICHARD. Document Signed, as British colonial governor, confirming Peter Stuyvesant's land grant
FIRST BROOKLYN FERRY HOUSE (NEW YORK CITY.) NICOLLS, RICHARD. Document Signed, as British colonial governor, confirming Peter Stuyvesant's land grant to Egbert van Borsum, for the first Brooklyn ferry house. 1 1/2 pages, folded folio sheet; separated at folds with some loss, wax seal intact. New York, 12 March 1666
- Notes: Prior to 1654, the ferry across the East River was entirely unregulated and unreliable. Laws passed in that year, however, required the ferryman to hold regular trips across and to provide shelter on either side of the river. To that end, Stuyvesant granted the land at the foot of Fulton Street to Egbert Van Borsum who built the first ferry house in Brooklyn on that spot in 1655. This patent signed by Nicolls in 1666 affirms Van Borsum's title to that property. The original ferry house was demolished in 1700.
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