Ep. 125 - The Cortelyou Elopement

In the Bath district of Brooklyn stands Cortelyou manor, built one hundred and fifty years ago, and a place of defense during the Revolution when the British made sallies from their camp in Flatbush and worried the neighborhood. It was in one of these forays on pigs and chickens that a gallant officer of red-coats met a pretty lass in the fields of Cortelyou.

In the Bath district of Brooklyn stands Cortelyou manor, built one hundred and fifty years ago, and a place of defense during the Revolution when the British made sallies from their camp in Flatbush and worried the neighborhood. It was in one of these forays on pigs and chickens that a gallant officer of red-coats met a pretty lass in the fields of Cortelyou