Title: Deed, John Harrison to John Bowne
Document ID: BFP 2018.1.01-15
Date: 7 December 1693 (Old Style) / 17 December 1693 (New Style)
John Harrison of Jamaica on the Island of Nassau (Long Island) sells John Bowne three shares of land “south of the hills,” as laid out in a document issued by Robert Fullerton, Surveyor. Unfortunately Fullerton’s survey does not survive, making it impossible to precisely locate the tracts described in these deeds; however, “the hills” refers to a ridge that formed the southern boundary of Flushing and the borderline with Jamaica. The area in question is today’s Jamaica, Queens. (The name is derived from a Native American word, and does not refer to the Caribbean island of Jamaica.)