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Finally, the areas around present-day Crown Heights saw its first European settlements starting in about 1661 / 1662 when several men each received, from Governor Pieter Stuyvesant and the Directors of the Dutch West India Company what was described as “ a parcel of free ( unoccupied ) woodland there ” on the condition that they situate their houses “ within one of the other concentration, which would suit them best, but not to make a hamlet .”