Robert Fulton (1765-1815)
An American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the first commercially successful steamboat.
Comfort Sands (1748-1884)
The eldest brother of Joshua Sands. Early in his life he served as a clerk in a store of his native village , then went to New York in 1762, where he entered the employment as a merchant in Peck Slip. In 1769, he commenced on his own business which became successful and had amassed a considerable fortune before the opening of the Revolutionary war.
Joshua Sands (1757-1835)
The younger brother of Comfort Sands, who became intimately identified with Brooklyn by the purchase of the Rapelje Estate. In 1824, he was was chosen president for the board of Trustees of Brooklyn, with which village he was always prominently connected in political, religious and social affairs, and which he lived to see incorporated and thriving city.
DeWitt Clinton (1769-1828)
An early American politician and naturalist who served as United States Senator and the sixth Governor of New York. He he was largely responsible for the construction of the Erie Canal.
Henry Stanton (1805- 1887)
An American 19th century abolitionist and social reformer.
Hezekiah Beers Pierrepont (1768-
Was smong the more prominent of the prospering merchants. In1802 he bought part of the old Livingston estate and, anticipating the eventual incorporation of Brooklyn village, hired a surveyor to lay out his property into streets: Clinton, Clark, Montague, Remsen, Joralemon and, Pierrepont, thus immortalizing his neighbors and increasing his fortune.
Teunis Joralemon (1760-1840)
Was originally from New Jersey, but moved to Brooklyn in 1803. He was known for acquiring Livingston estate-- was a prominent land owner.