--part1_39.2ca16a5.260c4eaf_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_39.2ca16a5.260c4eaf_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <NYBROOKLYN-L-request@rootsweb.com> Received: from rly-za02.mx.aol.com (rly-za02.mail.aol.com [172.31.36.98]) by air-za01.mail.aol.com (v70.20) with ESMTP; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 09:10:01 -0500 Received: from bl-11.rootsweb.com (bl-11.rootsweb.com [209.85.6.27]) by rly-za02.mx.aol.com (v70.21) with ESMTP; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 09:09:46 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-11.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id GAA28466; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 06:07:25 -0800 (PST) Resent-Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 06:07:25 -0800 (PST) X-Original-Sender: NancyL916@aol.com Thu Mar 23 06:07:23 2000 From: NancyL916@aol.com Message-ID: <b6.2db8717.260b7ef8@aol.com> Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 09:06:48 EST Old-To: NYBROOKLYN-L@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 70 Subject: [NYBROOKLYN] N.Bklyn Pt5 Resent-Message-ID: <lCZ9SD.A.p8G.cUi24@bl-11.rootsweb.com> To: NYBROOKLYN-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: NYBROOKLYN-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <NYBROOKLYN-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/10013 X-Loop: NYBROOKLYN-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: NYBROOKLYN-L-request@rootsweb.com Judgee LEFFERTS, had devised his property to his daughter, Mrs. James CARSON BREVOORT, for life & at her death to her children. If she had no children the property was to go to the children of his brother, John. His son, Henry, married a Miss SCHENNERHOM NYC. There was no issue this marriage & he consequently became divorced from his wife. He married a daughter of John LEFFERTS of Flatbush by whom he had children who eventually would get the proceeds of the sales of his property & inherit whatever estate would be left unsold. The proceeds of the sales property was deposited in the Brooklyn Trust Company. One of these sales, late 80's the block bounded by Bedford Ave., Brevvoort Pl., Atlantic & Franklin Aves. Henry BREVOORT was the son of Mrs. James CARSON BREVOORT & the gr&child of Judge LEFFERTS, the heir of the proceeds left of the old Leffert LEFFERTS estate Jacob RYERSON, Leffert LEFFERTS both owned considerable property between Stuyvesant & Saratoga Aves, Bainbridge & Fulton Sts. Judge Nathaniel H. CLEMENT of the City Court of Brooklyn & Water Registrar E. J. 0. FLYNN, made considerable purchases of property & realized largely from the increased values resulting fthe building of the Fulton Street Elevated Rail Road. The ALDRICH estate was made up originally of over one thousand different wood lots bought from a number of farm owners, SACKMAN,RADDE,RADEMACHER & others. These were lying btewwn Broadway & Atlantic Ave. & extended from Howard Ave. to New Lots line. Abt 1850 Stephen ALDRICH purchased the property, his family owned forty years later a considerable portion of the land, though they gradually had been selling off & had built a large building on Broadway, New York, called ALDRICH Court. The trotter Americus won his laurels in 1844 on a Long Island Race course. In the spring of 1821 the Legislature of the State of NY passed an act allowing trials of speed of horses in Queens County for a term of years during the months of May & October. Union Course was constructed in the western end of the town of Jamacia by an association of horse owners from the counties ot Queens, Kings, & Suffolk. Horse racing, which had been confined in Queens County to the old Newmarket Course on Hempstead Plains, est.by proclamation of Governor LOVELACE in 1669, was now transferred to this new course. --part1_39.2ca16a5.260c4eaf_boundary--