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This definitive history of Brooklyn and Kings County covers the region's earliest inhabitants through its growth as a major center of trade and commerce. Ostran

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Excerpt from A History of the City of Brooklyn and Kings County, Vol. 1 of 2 AT the time of his death, in 1885, Mr. Ostrander had completed considerable ms. For