Quit rents to the following amounts and at the following periods have
been paid on the Brooklyn patents.
June 8, 1713. Paid to Benjamin Van de Water, Treasurer, the sum of £96
7s. 1d. for upwards of 16 years quit rent.
April 6, 1775. Charles Debevoice, Collector of the town of Brooklyn,
paid to the Receiver General of the Colony of New-York, 20 bushels of
wheat, for one year’s quit rent, due from said town.
November 9, 1786. Fernandus Suydam, and Charles C. Doughty, two of the
Trustees of the town of Brooklyn, paid to the Treasurer of the State of
New-York, the sum of £105 10s. in full for arrears of quit rent due from
the said town.