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Title: Historic homesteads of Kings County ...
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Ditmas, Charles Andrew, 1887-1938
Subjects: Historic buildings
Publisher: Brooklyn, N.Y., The Compiler
Contributing Library: University of Maryland, College Park
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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not able to publish the catalogue completeas a part of this book, but I may include it with some note in another book ofMore Historic Homesteads of Kings County. In that list are manyheirlooms loaned by the late Mrs. Jacob V. B. Martense and Mrs. Prince. No. 173d is a Foot Stove, used in the Martense family. And manyother heirlooms are listed such as a Lace Veil worn in 1790. Exhibited atthe Worlds Fair, Chicago, in 1893. Pictures depicting the Legend of Mar-tense Lane and Old Joost. A portrait of Elizabeth Campbell, the grandmotherof Mrs. Doctor Vanderveer. Her Silver Tea Set and Silver Porringer.A Spinning Wheel which belonged to a New York belle, and many otherarticles including the Family Bibles. This list should form the basis of a permanent collection to be gatheredtogether and preserved in one of the old homesteads as a Museum of History,that we may know how our ancestors lived, and that we may study the pastwith the idea of future improvement of our condition and customs. (70)
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The John Lefferts Homestead, erected previous to, and rebuilt during the Revolution The John Lefferts Homestead No one can estimate the good this historic structure has accomplished.Situated at the gateway to Flatbush, the tired man of business, wearilyriding home at dusk, sees first, as he enters Flatbush, this beautiful old Dutchhouse, nestling low down in a group of grand old maples, and his tired mindfinds refreshing thoughts of the suburban home to which he is going, of thequaint old town, cooler in summer and warmer in winter than Brooklyn,with its society as old as New Yorks Knickerbocker stock. To-day a scion of this old family occupies the homestead; in fact,members of the Lefferts family have occupied this land since it was grantedto Lefferts Pietersen van Hagewout, founder of the Lefferts family. He mar-ried Abagail Van Nuyse, daughter of Aucke Janse, founder of the Van Nuysefamily. He is spoken of elsewhere in this book. Lefferts death occurredDecember 8th, 1704. As he cam

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