Brooklyn becomes the Largest Long Island Settlement. Division of the Common Lands. Regulations as to the Cutting of Lumber. The King's Highway laid out. Brooklyn Officials at the Opening of the Century. Lord Cornbury's Proclamation to Long Island Justices. Slavery. Encroachments on the Common Highway. The Trial of Zenger. Population in 1738. Fortifying Long Island. Newspaper Glimpses of pre-Revolutionary Life. Ferries. Kings County in the Assembly and the Provincial Convention. Philip Livingston. General Town Meeting in Brooklyn 157 CHAPTER VIII KINGS COUNTY DURING THE REVOLUTION 1775-1783 Kings County at the Opening of the Revolution. Participation in Events leading to the Crisis. Military Officers. Long Island Tories. The Continental and Provincial Congresses. Fortifying. Declaration of Independence. General Greene on Long Island. Draft in Kings County. Landing of the British at Gravesend. The Battle of Brooklyn. The Night Retreat. British Occupation of the County. Temptations to Disloyalty toward the American Cause, and Action of the People under British Pressure. The County in Congress. Losses in the Battle. Incidents. Prisoners billeted on the Inhabitants of Kings County. Long Island Refugees. Conspicuous Figures of the Period. Peace 211 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS VOLUME I PORTRAIT OF STEPHEN M. OSTRANDER _Frontispiece_ THE FIRST BROOKLYN FERRY _Facing page_ 38 THE FERRY IN 1746 102 BROOKLYN CHURCH AND DUFFIELD HOUSE IN 1776. (Drawn from Illustrations in Stiles's History of Brooklyn) 174 FIRST FIRE ENGINE USED IN BROOKLYN. (Drawn from lithographic illustration in Manual of the Common Council, 1863) 206 BROOKLYN DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. (From the Map by Gen. Jeremiah Johnson) 260 STEPHEN M. OSTRANDER The name of Stephen M. Ostrander has been honored in the city of Brooklyn as that of a man whose career exemplified a stainless citizenship. The honors have been not those of public favor offered in a citizen's lifetime, nor of memorials after he has passed away, but the monuments of a cherished memory, the recognition of a generous and wholesome personality.