Bedford Corners, Brooklyn

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Excerpt from Bedford Corners, Brooklyn: Reprinted From the Annual Report of the State HistorianThe settlement of Bedford seems to have begun in the last years of Governor Stuyvesant's administration (1647 As early as 1668 Bedford had an inn. By 1775 Brooklyn was a pleasant but quiet agricultural town, numbering between three and four thou sand inhabitants, who were mostly grouped within three or four hamlets or neighborhoods. One of these hamlets was Bedford, consisting of some scattered farmhouses with their surrounding fields. Not far from Bedford 'corners, which was the center of the hamlet, some of the incidents which go to make up the Battle of Long Island took place.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.