Transcriber's note: Volume I of this eBook is available at Project Gutenberg as eText #41979. [Illustration: VILLAGE OF BROOKLYN IN 1816] A HISTORY OF THE CITY OF BROOKLYN AND KINGS COUNTY BY STEPHEN M. OSTRANDER, M.A. LATE MEMBER OF THE HOLLAND SOCIETY, THE LONG ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY, AND THE SOCIETY OF OLD BROOKLYNITES _EDITED, WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES, BY_ ALEXANDER BLACK AUTHOR OF "THE STORY OF OHIO," ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES VOLUME II. BROOKLYN Published by Subscription 1894 Copyright 1894, BY ANNIE A. OSTRANDER. _All rights reserved._ This edition is limited to five hundred copies, of which this is No. 21 CONTENTS CHAPTER IX BROOKLYN AFTER THE REVOLUTION 1784-1810 Effect of the British Occupation on Life and Business in the County. Brooklyn particularly disturbed. Town Meetings resumed. The Prison Ships and their Terrible Legacy. Tragedies of the Wallabout. Movement to honor the Dead. Burial of the Remains. The Tammany Enterprise and the Removal of the Bones. Further Removal to Fort Greene. Organization of the Brooklyn Fire Department. The Ferry. The Mail Stage. New Roads. Planning "Olympia." Early Advertisements. Circulating Library and Schools. The Rain-water Doctor. Kings County Medical Society. Flatlands. Gravesend. Flatbush, the County Seat. Mills. Erasmus Hall. New Utrecht. Bushwick, its Church, Tavern, Graveyard, and Mills. The Boundary Dispute. The Beginnings of Williamsburgh. Rival Ferries. "The Father of Williamsburgh" 1 CHAPTER X BROOKLYN VILLAGE 1811-1833 Brooklyn during the "Critical Period" in American History. The Embargo and the War of 1812. Military Preparations. Fortifications. Fort Greene and Cobble Hill. Peace. Robert Fulton. The "Nassau's" First Trip. Progress of Fulton Ferry. The Village incorporated. First Trustees. The Sunday-School Union. Long Island Bank. Board of Health. The Sale of Liquor. Care of the Poor. Real Estate. Village Expenses. Guy's Picture of Brooklyn in 1820. The Village of that Period. Characters of the Period. Old Families and Estates. The County Courts removed to Brooklyn. Apprentices' Library. Prisoners at the Almshouse. Growth of the Village. The Brooklyn "Evening Star." Movement for Incorporation as a City. Opposition of New York. Passage of the Incorporation Act 47 CHAPTER XI THE CITY OF BROOKLYN 1834-1860