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[14 December 2013]
- Tommes or Thomas (or Thomas the Frenchman,) from Denmark, m. June 16, 1677, Jannetie Brouwers of Amsterdam,
- a resident of Flds. Obtained a patent May 25, 1668, for a tract of land at Gowanus. Leased Feb. 7, 1667, to
- Pieter Jansen Van Noort Brook a plantation at Gowanus adjoining that of Paulus Vander Beek, which probably cov-
- ered his patent, and was afterwards the farm of Simon De Hart and late the farms of Simon and John S. Bergen.
- For a more full account of this lease, see the article or account of Van Noort Brook. The land covered by his
- patent was included in the Bennet and Benton purchase, from whom he probably bought the same. There was a
- Thomas Fransen (not the above Thomas) of the city of N. A. or N. Y., a carman, who married three wives and had 13
- children bp. between 1658 and 1697, as per p. 769 of Valentine's Manual of 1863. A Thomas Fransen and Elsje Jans
- his wife were mem. of the D. ch. of N. A. in 1663. He made his mark to documents.--henk 19:12, 14 December 2013 (UTC)
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