Leffert Lefferts

Leffert Lefferts (1774 - 1847)[1] was the first President of the Long Island Bank, the first bank in Brooklyn, New York.[2] The Lefferts family were an important family in the history of Brooklyn and were among the financiers of the State of New York.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Agreement between Leffert Lefferts and Cornelius and Garret Nostrand Lefferts Family Papers, Brooklyn Historical Society, 2014. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
  2. ↑ Stiles, Henry R. (1869). A History of the City of Brooklyn, Including the Old Town and Village of Brooklyn, the Town of Bushwick, and the Village and City of Williamsburgh. Volume II. Brooklyn. pp. 211–4. ISBN 978-0-7884-4164-6.
  3. ↑ Ditmas, Charles Andrew. (1909) Historic Homesteads of Kings County Brooklyn, New York: Charles Andrew Ditmas, p. 112.
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