Meet Lady Deborah Moody, The ‘Dangerous Woman’ Who Founded Gravesend, Brooklyn
After Lady Moody became the first woman to found a settlement in the New World in 1645, she then established one of the first “grid systems” in what would later become New York City. New York Public LibraryMap of Gravesend . 1873 . She was branded a “ grave char , ” but “ persist still , ” she moved to Brooklyn and founded a residential area based on religious exemption and rational planning ....