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The Compiler offers these notes to the inhabitants of his native town,
in the hope that they may be in some small degree useful and
entertaining in discussions relating to the history and rights of this
thriving place. He claims no merit for this performance, and neither
does he write from the vanity of being considered an author, but is only
actuated by a desire to rescue from oblivion such facts as may be
interesting to his fellow-citizens. The Compiler would consider himself
guilty of ingratitude, if he did not in this public manner, acknowledge
the obligations he rests under from the kind assistance afforded him
whilst collecting these notices, by Jeremiah Johnson, Abraham
Vanderveer, Silas Wood, and John Doughty, Esqrs.
NOTES &c. OF THE TOWN OF BROOKLYN.
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