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hrmjustin

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17. He worked with the teamsters when they worked with horses and than he worked for a company that
Wed Jun 26, 2013, 10:13 PM
Jun 2013

delivered oil in the Brooklyn and Manhattan area.

My Grandfathers uncle had the last farm in lower Brooklyn when he sold it to developers. They kept the house and barn which they turned into a house and my grandfather settled there until he sold it in the late 70's. He was 93 when he died. As for the Church it was not really farmland in the 1890's but it was at the founding in the early 1820's.

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