Ditmas family papers
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Abstract
The Ditmas family papers span the period 1647 to 1900 and consist of indentures, deeds, bonds, bills of sale, mortgages, agreements, and other documents, mostly regarding land transactions in the town of Flatbush in Kings County, N.Y. Other documents pertain to transactions involving enslaved African Americans; land transactions in the towns of Bushwick and Gowanus in Kings County; and land disputes. One document in the collection is written in Dutch.
Biographical / Historical
The Ditmas family (also spelled Ditmars) resided in the town of Flatbush in Kings County, N.Y. Family members chiefly represented in this collection include Johannes Ditmas and his descendants through the following three generations. Johannes Ditmas was a Quartermaster in the Kings County Regiment of Militia and participated in the Revolutionary War. His son, John J. Ditmas, married Priscilla Burr of Fairfield, CT. John and Priscilla's son, also named John J. Ditmas, married Elizabeth Armstrong of Pawtucket, R.I., and later moved from Flatbush to Sunbury, OH. John and Elizabeth's daughter, Elizabeth Armstrong Ditmas (b. 1853), had been born in Flatbush and continued to reside there as of the 1890s. She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution through her relation to her great-grandfather, Johannes Ditmas.
Scope and Contents
The Ditmas family papers span the period 1647 to 1900 and consist of indentures, deeds, bonds, bills of sale, mortgages, agreements, and other documents, mostly regarding land transactions in the town of Flatbush in Kings County, N.Y. Other documents pertain to transactions involving enslaved African Americans; land transactions in the towns of Bushwick and Gowanus in Kings County; and land disputes. One document in the collection is written in Dutch.
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Open to users without restriction.
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date (if known); Ditmas family papers, 1986.054, Box and Folder number; Brooklyn Historical Society.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Cynthia B. Lake, 1987.
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Minimally processed to the collection level.
Oppressive descriptive language was remediated from the abstract and scope and contents notes in this finding aid as part of an anti-racist descriptive language audit performed in December 2020.
