Appendix 13

They lived in Brooklyn a little more than five years. Then they came to Valley Stream and established a farm in what now is Curtis field. There they reared their family of 14 Children (one of their sons died at the age of 22, about 20 years ago.) They lived there for more than 35 years, after which they moved to their present comfortable home on Montague Street.

Children live Nearby

They have seen many changes in Valley Stream. When they came there, Mr. Borman says, all of the land near their present house was farmland then. He remembers when what now is the Merrick Rd. was the main thoroughfare made of rough planks, the only road on which farmers could carry produce to Jamaica. They have seen the present village of Valley Stream