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AccessibilityMcLaughlin Park
Jay St., Bridge St. bet. Tillary St. and Cathedral Pl.
Brooklyn
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What was here before?
Lenape Native Americans originally inhabited the area, later known as Breuckelen after the arrival of the Dutch in the 1600s. In 1755, Barent Johnson purchased 40 acres roughly between Tillary and Willoughby Streets. When Johnson died in 1777 of wounds incurred fighting on the American side in the Battle of Long Island, his land passed to his son, John Barent (J.B.) Johnson. J.B. Johnson, a Dutch Reformed Minister, had three children with his wife Elizabeth Lupton Johnson. Upon both their death in 1803 of tuberculosis, their children became heirs to the large tract of land in a quickly growing Brooklyn and started building houses and selling land in the mid-1820s.
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