TITLE: Deed, William Bromefield to John Bowne
DOCUMENT ID: BFP 2018.1.01-02
DATE: 12 November 1653 (New Style)
This is the first known purchase of land in Flushing by John Bowne, two years after his initial visit in 1651. William Bromefield [Broomfield/Bromfeld] sells Bowne a four-acre lot bounded on one side by the property of William Storer and on another by the town Common. This document was written and witnessed by Flushing town clerk Edward Hart, draughtsman of the Flushing Remonstrance.