TITLE: Deed, John Firman to John Bowne
DOCUMENT ID: BFP 2018.1.01-07
DATE: 1 January 1666 (Old Style) / 11 January 1667 (New Style)
John Firman of Newtown sells John Bowne a five-acre piece of meadow on the west bank of Flushing Creek, bordered by Thomas Roberts' meadow on the south, Henry Sawtell on the north, and "the woods" to the west. The 17th-century settlement of Newtown lay in the approximate location of present-day Forest Hills and Corona, Queens, across the Creek from Flushing.