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- SOURCE: Book: 1880 History Of Parke County (Indiana), by J.H. Beadle,Chicago: H.H. Hill & N. Iddings, Publishers, pg. 456, Biographicalnotes on Jacob H. Brewer; Rockville Public Library, Parke County,Indiana; In the notes of Joyce Lorraine Clore Elkins of Parke County,Indiana; Clore Family Genealogy Records now owned by her daughter,Sandra Lee Elkins Juhl, Compiler:
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"...His great-great-grandfather, Sybrant Brewer, or Brower, as thename was originally spelled, was one of the first settlers of NewAmsterdam, now New York, and there married Sarah Webber, returning toHolland where they made their wills and died." [Transcribed 31 july2008, SLJuhl, Compiler & Family Genealogist; sljuhl1234@yahoo.com]
A History of the City of Brooklyn. Including The Old Town And VillageOf Brooklyn, The Town Of Bushwick, And The Village And City OfWilliamsburgh. Vol. I.
Chapter II.
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Upon Bout 's patent was located Freeke 's Mill, or the "old GowanusMill," probably the oldest in the town of Breukelen . As early 1661 ,it was occupied conjointly by Isaac De Forest and Adam Brower , thelatter purchasing the interest of the former.* They were, undoubtedly,tenants of Bout , who, in 1667 (King's Co. Convey., p. 179), gave "thecorn and meadows and place whereon the mill is grounded," to thechildren of Adam Brower . And, according to a deed, dated April 30,1707 , of Sybrant Brower to Abram and Nicholas Brower (King's Co.Convey., liber iii. p. 201) it appears that their ancestor, AdamBrower , had received from the heirs of Bout and Teunis Nuyse aconveyance of the neck of land upon which the mill was located. Thismill-pond was formed by damming off the head of Gowanus Kil , and theold mill was located just north of Union, west of Nevin , and betweenthat street and Bond.*
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