Barbara, Thurmon, Many thanks for the explanations. I think I have it figured. I've now found what I take to be Newtown Creek - a waterway just south of Queen's Tunnel & at the eastern end of the waterway is Maspeth, mentioned in the land sale from Wandall to Barnsmith to Joseph Sawcut (page 121). Part of my problem is that I am working from a USA road map which is not very detailed. Have also tried the Yahoo Map web site but this does not have Elmhurst or Forest Hills. Anyway I think I know where I am, but would be grateful for confirmation that this is indeed the Creek. I was also wondering where the South Sea might be (see the William Bloomfield hog trespass case. p50). I don't know a lot about hogs but I guess they're not too speedy so the South Sea would not be very far away if William and his pals Daniel Estall and Caleb Leveredge were driving their hogs there. I would be interested in reading more about the Newtown patent. Barbara, do you have information or an article you could post to the List?, or perhaps you could point me in the right direction. Regards, Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: Barbara Bell [mailto:BellSea@webtv.net] > Sent: 30 October 2003 04:38 > To: SACKETT-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [SACKETT-L] Newtown Boundaries > > > That is what I was trying to say, that the whole of the Newtown patent > was the northern part of Queens, from Newtown Creek up to Long Island > Sound and I have read that that was about 15,000 acres. Newtown, the > village, is what is now called Elmhurst. To the south was the Dutch > village of Brooklyn (Breukelin). With the Newtown patent, it was a > group of English who purchased the land as shareholders, then parcelled > it out amongst themselves as town land, upland, and salt marsh or > meadows, so their holdings might have been far apart and they then had > to buy and sell to come up with something more convenient. > > Just want to say thank you to Chris for posting this information. We > have found it very interesting. > > Barbara > > > ==== SACKETT Mailing List ==== > RootsWeb blocks HTML formatting in email messages. Be sure to set your > email software to text only before posting a message to the list. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy > records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >