Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 01:27:31 EST Subject: lefferts and schenck info- was on brooklyn page To: NJ-L@rootsweb.com, NJMONMOUth-L@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 61 The U.S. Government purchased the Naval Hospital from the widow and other heirs of Martin SCHENCK in 1824, 35 acres.The hospital occupies the hill section of the SCHENCK farm.The Naval Cemetery connected with the hospital is also along this tract. The register in 1892, showed 1,187 interments. The hospital was erected in 1828, on land purchased on land from Sara SCHNECK in 1824. Several farmhouses were between this building and the bay. The bridge which led from the hospital to the tide water of the bay was used by fishermen. In 1835 Wallabout Bay, excepting exterior land owned by the U.S. Govn't, known as COB Dock with Fort Nonsense on the east was a mud flat surrounded by a splendid channel.The flats filled with carbs & eel. In 1827 the 1st attempt was made to enclose the Navy yard. In Dec. 1893 the old ship housewhich had been built in 1820, was demolished. SCHENCK'S Creek became Kent Ave. Basin in the 1860's. Dead Man's Lane was a path running thru the old Marine or Government Burial Ground. In 1869 the City of Bklyn ceded this lane, which had been a shortcut to Flushing Ave., to the U.S. Govn't and received in exchange the part of Washington Ave. which runs from Flushing to the bridge. Abt a yr later the govn't had a wall built around the burying grounds. English Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, org. 1894. The Rev. S.G. WEISKOTTEN was the 1st pastor. In 1907 the congregation moved to Flatbush, on Lenox Rd. Bedford is the anglicized form of the Dutch word, Bestevaar, in turn was a translation of the I ndian name of the locality, meeting Council Place, the place where the wise men meet.New Bedford was granted in 1664, the hamlet of Bedford was in 1866 called the village of New Bedford, but it never was made a separate town. August 19, 1708, a patent was granted to Elias BOUDINET for land bounded northeast by Boswijck (Bushwick) Patent, southeast by Brookland (Brooklyn) Patent. Nov. 1815, this patent was to be sold at public auction for arrears amt. $60.69. Nicholas BLOOM House, # 1224 Fulton St. between Bedford & Nostrand Ave, taken down 1909. Judge Leffert LEFFERTS built in 1838 a mansion on Fulton, opp. the home of his brother Jacobus LEFFERTS. Henry BREVOORT took down this house and erected a new one. The Lambert SUYDAM house stood in 1776 on the northside of Fulton between Arlington Pl. & Nostrand. Later it became the Daniel LOTT house, taken down in 1856. George PATCHEN house, surrounded by large grounds on Fulton near Classon Ave. John W. HUNTER, 17th Mayor of Bklyn, born 1807 in the village of Bedford, whither his father, a farmer, had moved from New Jersey. The Bedford Village School was built on the "village green", in 1721, a room added, 1775, replaced by a new school, 1810. James CARSON BREVOORT, the eldest son of Henry BREVOORT & Laura CARSON of New York City, was born July 10, 1818. In 1845 he married the only daughter of Judge Leffert LEFFERTS of Bedford and resided there-after in the LEFFERTS homestead. His library consisted of nearly 6000 bks. in 1810, while abroad. The brothers, John & Peter DELMONICO, were natives of Switzerland. The brothers and the female members of the family dispensed bon bons, coffee, liquors, pat`es & confections, in a coffee, cake, confection store, in 1828 at # 23 William St. NYC. In 1831 they opened a fully appointed French & Italian Rest. 76 Broad St., until the erection in 1837 of the building at # 2 South William St. The building # 76 Broad was operated later by the family for furnished rooms. John DELMONICO bought a country seat in the Eastern District. It has been described as a beautiful place, his paintings, mainly scriptual subjects were many valuable ones. In Nov. 1842 he was deer hunting at SNEDIKER'S Long Island, his associates found him dead, the excitement of the coming of and firing at the deer induced apoplexy. The men of the Northern Liberties Eng. Co. accompanied his remains to his home.Peter DELMONICO & a nephew continued the business.