COOL, CORNELIS LAMBERTSEN, m. Altien Brackhonge, who after his death m. Willem Bredenbent. Bought May 17, 1639, of Thomas Bescher or Beets a plantation in Gowanus (for which he obtained a patent Apl. 5, 1642), to which he removed, having previously resided in N. A. This patent, as near as can be ascertained, covered the farms designated on Butts's map of Brn as of Peter Wyckoff, John Wyckoff, Henry Story, and Winant Bennet. Issue:--Altie Cornelis, who m. 1st Gerret Wolferse Van Cowenhoven, and m. 2d Elbert Elbertse Stoothoff; Peterje Cornelis, who m. Claes Jansen Van Purmerent, alias Jan Pottagie; and Lambert
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Cornelise. See pp. 251 and 252 of Bergen Genealogy. Made his mark to documents.

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¹April 5th, 1642, a patent was granted to Cornelis Lambertsen (Cool), for a tract at "Gouwanes," adjoining William Adriaensen (Bennet), "which land was formerly occupied by John Van Rotterdam and Thomas Beets." A deed from Thomas Bescher, an Englishman, who probably was the same individual known as Thomas Beets in the patent to Cornelis Lambertsen (Cool), of May 17th, 1639 (prior to the date of the first Brooklyn patent), recorded in the office of the secretary of state at Albany, for the premises covered in the patent, is the earliest conveyance from one settler to another which has been found for lands in Brooklyn. In this deed Bescher conveys his right in "the plantation heretofore occupied by Jan Van Rotterdam and afterwards by him, Thomas Bescher, situate by Gouwanes on Long Island, extending Southwardly to a certain Kil a little cripplebush at which side William Adriaensen (Bennet), Cooper, lies contiguous, and on the north side Claes Cornelissen Smit's, streching in the length in the woods, for 300 carolus guilders at 20 stuyvers the guilder." This is the earliest reference found in the records relating to a settlement in Brooklyn, and from this deed it may be inferred that the first agricultural settlement in said town was made on these lands, but however of this there is no certainty. Bescher died in 1640; his wife Nanne entered into a contract, April 27, 1641, to marry Thomas Smith, in which it was stipulated that Bescher's surviving daughter, Eva, should have the plantation, house, etc., of her father, situated on Manhattan Island. Jan, or Jan Cornelise Van Rotterdam, afterwards occupied premises on Manhattan Island, and was dead in 1648.