History of Long island from its discovery and settlement to the present time . Keteltas, where he built a country residence, to whichhe retired a few years afterwards and where he spentthe remainder of his life. He died on the 16th ofFebruary, 1832, and was buried in the Episcopal church-yard in that village. Mr. Bogert was a sound practical lawyer, distin-guished for his knowledge of mercantile law, in whichhe had few, if any, superiors at the bar. He possesseda clear and discriminating mind, was an acute reasoner,and his arguments never failed to command the respectand attentive consideratio
History of Long island from its discovery and settlement to the present time . Keteltas, where he built a country residence, to whichhe retired a few years afterwards and where he spentthe remainder of his life. He died on the 16th ofFebruary, 1832, and was buried in the Episcopal church-yard in that village. Mr. Bogert was a sound practical lawyer, distin-guished for his knowledge of mercantile law, in whichhe had few, if any, superiors at the bar. He possesseda clear and discriminating mind, was an acute reasoner,and his arguments never failed to command the respectand attentive consideration of the bench, being remark-able for good sense, and always well timed and to thepurpose. Beyond this, he made no pretensions tooratory, and could not be said to be eloquent, yet hismanner was earnest, impressive, and dignified. In allthe relations of life he sustained an irreproachablecharacter. 286 HISTORY OF LONG ISLAND On January i, 1898, the town of Jamaica became apart of the Borough of Queens, city of New York, andthe form of town government was abolished. o o o ££l C=3 £* H=3 £ W FLUSHING Is bounded north by the Sound, east by North Hemp-stead, south by Jamaica, and west by Newtown, is cen-trally distant from the City Hall, New York, abouttwelve miles, and contains an area of twenty-five squaremiles or 16,000 acres. The older records of the town are entirely wanting,having been destroyed by fire in 1789,1 which circum-stance is not only greatly to be lamented, but has sub-jected the compiler of its history to serious difficulty inobtaining the most material facts and circumstances inrelation to its early settlement and subsequent progress. It seems that long before much effort was made tosettle upon any part of the territory within the limitsof the town, a conveyance had been obtained from theIndians by the West India Company, evidenced by thefollowing instrument translated out of the Dutch rec-ords in the office of the secretary of state. 11 We the Direct
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