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QUEENS COUNTY 
 
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 L D E N TIMES: 
 
 'BEING 
 
 A SUPPLEMENT 
 
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 EVERAL HISTORIES THEREO-F-. 
 
 BY 
 
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 ATJTHOK OF REVOtUTIONABY IN<CH>ENTS OP LONG ISLAND, AND BRITISH ■'J?HI.SONS 
 
 AND PRISON SHIPS -ArT- NEW -TORK. 
 
 JAMAICA, N.'Y:: 
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 1865. 
 
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PREFACE. 
 
 This work does not pretend to be a complete history,, of Queens County, but 
 rather a contribution thereto. It contains scarcely anything that has hitherto ap- 
 peared in any of our local histories. 
 
 Since the appearance of Mr. Thompson's history, the indefatigable and sagacious 
 Dr. O'Callaghan has gathered up fi-om- 'the- damp, and dusty gan-ets of the public 
 offices in Albany a most valuable mass- of old- and long neglected historical docu- 
 ments. Having rescued these from mice and- 'mildew, he has, by the bounty of- the 
 State arranged them in- chronological order in bound volumes, with- indexes to each. 
 The interests of< the State require that these and other- old- documents should no 
 longer be scattered through different offices, but be placed in some convenient room 
 under- the- eye- of -an obliging and- intelligent custodian. 
 
 Besides his History, of NewNetherland, Dr. O'Callaghan has edited the Docu- 
 mentary- and-=- Colonial History of New York, the Minutes of the Grovernor and 
 Council, an. Index t-of Marriages, • and of Land Papers, the New Netherland Kegister, 
 etc. Long,3nay the State encourage him in these useful labors. 
 
 After ■' spending some weeks in examining the Archives-' of the State, I had re- 
 course to the numerous bundles of old- papers find to the records' in our Town and 
 County Clerks' Offices, to the Supervisors' minutes, and. the books and papers of the 
 Surrogate and County Treasurer. 
 
 lu'thig basement of the City ■ Hall, New York, is a rich placer well worth 
 working. - It consists- -of court minutes, rough drafts, briefs and various other papers 
 of lawyers practising in the Supreme Court, which were left in custody of the clerk. 
 They illustrate the history not of Queens County only, but of all the other coun- 
 ties in the State, especially the proceedings against the tories of the Eevolution. 
 
 Much of th©- present volume has never before been in print. I have made lib- - 
 eral extracts from old and scarce newspapers, my design being to present the reader 
 a picture of " olden times," and let Antiquity step on the stage and speak -for itself 
 while I stand behind the scenes and move the panorama of nearly two centuries 
 -thereby exhibiting our ancestors as they thought, spoke and acted. 
 
 The earlier records of Flushing, the first volume of the Hempstead- -records, and 
 the first volume of the Supervisors' minutes (with : probably many other records) are 
 lost; but there must* yet remain in private hands some records-»of our' Agricultural, 
 Educational, Literary, Medical and Keligious, Associations, now 'extinct. These with 
 all similar historical documents and local newspapers, should be- sent to the rooms of 
 the Long Island Historical Society, of which -Henry E. -Stiles, M. D., is Librarian, 
 for safe preservation .and easy ..reference. - 
 
 Although the history of Queens Ooiiilty remaiils to be ' written, the following, 
 among other publications, -show that the towns- have- not been altogether neglected. 
 
Denton's Brief Description, Biker's Newtown, "Mandeville's Flushing, Macdonald's 
 Presbyterian Church, Jamaica, the iTownsend Memorial, Woodbridge's Presbyterian 
 Church, Hempstead, . Garmichael's History of St. George's Church, Garretson's His- 
 tory of the 'jDutch Churches, Prince's .Agricultural History, the Journals of travell- 
 ing preachers such as Bownas,^.Cha.l-key, ..Hicks and others. The Gazetteers of Spof- 
 fofd aJid/'Franch are worth consulting,; the latter especially, as it contains most val- 
 ■uable statistics ©f our county. Our historians have hitherto paid little attention to 
 the industrial pursuits of our county, such as farming, gardening, manufactures and 
 fi&hing, nor to our various and peculiar sports and amusements, modes of life, usa- 
 ges, customs, manners, progress of religion, morals, education, etc. 
 
 One fsad chapter in any future history of Queens County must be consecrate'd to 
 the memory ^f .her sons who have sacrificed their lives in maintaining the s-integrity 
 . of the .Union. 
 
 The public will be pleased to hear that Alden J. Spoojsbb .has -issued pro- 
 posals for another History of our Island. 
 
 Many thanks are due Mr. Charles Welling and his assistant, Mr. Joseph 'Man- 
 waring, for their patience and care in passing these sheets through the press. A 
 few errata are noted at the end of the volume. 
 
 Every name in this book appears in the index, -wiiere all the variations of 
 spelling are reduced to one. Some names occur so freq[uently that it was . not . easy 
 to note every page. 
 
 The second series of this work will contain Suifolk andfi^s^CoJintaes in "ol'den 
 times," with the feibliography of Long Island, and annals of the ' Keforme'd .Protes- 
 tant Dutch Church in Queens County. 
 
 Jamaica, L. I , April, 1865. 
 
QUEENS COUNTY IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 1639, Jan. 15. — The Eockaway Indians sold to 
 tlie Dutch West India Co. a tract of land embra- 
 cing Hempstead, reserving to themselves the right 
 of fishing, planting, noaize and hunting. 
 
 1640, Mmj lO.^^Spme emigrants fromiBjmn 
 went over to the headof Oow Bav^and. pulled down, 
 the Dutch arms that were nailed to a tree, and car- 
 ved a fool's face in their stead ; but the Sachem 
 Penawitz who had sold the land to the Dutch, gave 
 ii)fiormatiprLo£,the, trespass, , whereupon a force of 
 25..so]diers was dispatched by water -from N. Y. 
 who carried off.the trespassers and thus broke up 
 the settlement.^6?o?om'a? History, 2 :' 145. ' 
 
 1643, Oct. 24. — ^Long Island is destitute of iilhab- 
 itants and stock, except a few insignificant places 
 over against, the Main, which are about to be aban- 
 doned. The English, have not escaped. , They 
 too, except one place, are all' murdered and burnt 
 by^the Indians. — Col. His., 1 : 190. 
 
 1643, Mar. 4. — The season of hunting, fishing 
 and planting being now at hand, the Indians were 
 anxious for peace. The great Sachem of the Ca- 
 narsee tribe, Penawitz sent to enq^uire of the Dutch 
 why they had murdered his people who had never 
 iojured them. Jacob Olferz and Jacob Peterze 
 De Vries went to Kockaway and arrived at the 
 wigwam of the one-eyed chief who entertained them 
 with oysters and fish. His residence was some 
 miles from the shore surrounded by 200 or 300 
 warriors, the owners of 30 houses. A peace, was 
 made.— J)e Vries, p.l72. 
 
 16 ii, .April. — Seven savages were arrested at 
 Hempstead (where an English clergyman, Mr. 
 Fordham, was governor) on a charge of killing two 
 or three pigs, though it was afterwards discovered 
 that some Englishmen had done if. Fordham sent 
 word to Gov. Kieft at New York, of the arrest and 
 that he had the Indians confined in a cellar. Kieft 
 seat Underbill and Opdyk, with 15 or 16 soldiers 
 who killed 3 of the 7 Indians in the cellar. . They 
 took the other 4 with them, jn a sailing boat, 2 of 
 whom were towed along.. by a fifcMQg^.arQuud their 
 neeks till- they were dr.owned, while the 2 survivors 
 were detafneci...priso»ers at the Fort till they were 
 delivered to the -eoldjers who soon dispatched them 
 with knives. The savages- <lesirfcd to dance thfe 
 Kinte-Kaet/.e, a religious observance- among them 
 before death.-^^Doc.. jfris., .4' : 105. 
 
 (Another version of apparently, the same affair,, 
 the preceding being written by an opponent of the 
 governor.)., 
 
 "^ We were advised that Penavitz was secretly 
 waging war agauist us -frith his tribe who killed some 
 o-f our people and set their houses on fire. It was 
 resolyed to send thither a troop of 120 men — the 
 Burghers under their company, the English under 
 Oapt. John Underhill, the old 'soldiers under Peter 
 Cock — all commanded by Mr. LaMontagnd, to pro- 
 ceed from N. Y. in 3 yachts, land in Schout's bay 
 and march toward Hempstead, where there is an 
 English colony dependent on us. Some who had 
 been sent forward in advance dexterously killed 
 an Indian who was out as a spy. . Our force formed 
 themselves in2di-risons. Underbill with 14 English 
 toward the smallerr and 80 men toward the lar- 
 ger village named Matsepe.* Both were success- 
 ful, kUling-about 120 Indians. One of ours re- 
 mained on* the field and 3 were woxmded." — Col. 
 His,. 1 : 186. 
 
 1645,Jfa?/24. — The Sachem of Mockgonnekonck \ 
 with 47 armed savages appeared at the Fort in N... 
 Y. to offer their ser-vices to the government. Where- 
 upon it was resolved that the Sachem should em- 
 bark in one of the Company's yachts properly vict- 
 ualed and sail to a spot where he may land his : ; 
 spies to learn where the enemy is to be found. 
 Afler which he must destroy them and return from 
 Long -Island to the Fort for his recompence. 
 
 1645,. June 10. — Wm. Gerritse sings libelous 
 songs against the Eev. Francis Doughty, for which 
 he is sentenced to be tied to the May-pole. — Albany 
 Becords. , 
 
 1647," J.M^'. 23. — Delegates from Hempstead ap- 
 peared at N. Y. who say that the savages around 
 them are being lured by Indians from the Main to 
 make an attack on the people of -Hempstead and 
 destroy their vilkge. . The Secretary is ordered to 
 go there in a yacht, and ascertain from the Indians ! 
 if the repor4.be true aud-itake with him a piece of' 
 cloth- and some trifles for the chief and offer a re- 
 newal of friendship.- :. 
 
 1651, Sep. 14.: — The Indians on the Main pro- 
 curing fire-arms from the whites came over to L. I., 
 
 *The great river called Massepe tetween Jamaica and 
 Hempstead.: — Jam. Record, 1:A. ^ 
 
QUEENB COtTNTY 
 
 slaughtered and drove off the cattle of the Hemp- 
 stead people. The damages are more than 1,000 
 gwldeis.— Col His., 2:157. , 
 
 1651, Sep. 25. — Hempstead produces ' froHi the 
 proceeds of their servants' labor, corn, beef, pork, 
 butter, tobacco and staves, which they exchange 
 for liquors and merdiandise.^-CoZ. His.,-2 : 158. ■ 
 
 1653. — Sam'l. Mayo's vessel "(of Barnstable) 
 employed in conveying the goods of the Eev. Mr. 
 Leverich from Sandwich to Oysterbay, was seized 
 at Hempstead Harbor, by Baxter, under the au- 
 thorities of Ehode Island. [Mayo died at Oyster- 
 bay.] 
 
 1655, April 2. — ¥/m.Leverich and other "Eng- 
 lish settlers at Oysterbay, are warned eff the Dutch 
 tenitories. — Col. His., 2 : 160. 
 
 1655, May 18. — Daily strange reports about 
 the Indians are received at Gravesend, from Hemp- 
 stead, Newtown, and elsewhere on L. I., that they 
 intend to rout out the Dutch, and that the house 
 and plantation of "Wm. Hallet, west of Hellgate, 
 has been laid waste. Hence it behoves the Eng- 
 lish to separate from the Dutch. Stuyvesant- ad- 
 vises the Dutch and English of Gravesend to re- 
 main together and keep good watch. He will 
 spare them some soldiers if they need them. 
 
 1655, May SS.^The planters at Oysterbay, 
 through Mr. Leverich, desire to be annesr6(£ to 
 New Haven Colony. — Hoadly, 2 : 144. 
 
 1655, Nov. 27. — Tackapousha, in the name of 
 the L. I. Indians, appears at the Fort (N. Y.) and 
 proffers to the Dutch a continuance of his fidelity, 
 and says not one of the L. I. Indians was con- 
 cerned in the late massacre at N-ev,r.Ams"terdam. 
 
 1656, Jan.'S. — John Smith, wTio had, by his 
 own confession, stolen pigs at Newtown, is con- 
 ducted to the place where Justice is ■ administered, 
 and beaten severely with roHs, then marked, and 
 banished forever, as an example to others. 
 
 1656, Jan. 15. — Domines Drisius and Megapo- 
 lensis, write to Holland for a minister to supply the 
 place of More, who has left Newtown. 
 
 1656, Mar. i2. — In the articles of peace with 
 the Indians, it is agreed that all shall be forgotten 
 since 1645. — Hempstead Becords, p. 22. 
 
 1656. — Wm. "Wickendam,* a cobbler, from 
 Rhode Island, came to Flushing and began to 
 preach, and went with the people into the river and 
 dipped them. For this he was fined iClOO and or- 
 dered to be banished. As he was poor and liad a 
 family the fine was remitted. Hallet, the Sheriff, 
 had dared to collect conventicles in his house, and 
 had permitted Wickendam to preach and adminis- 
 ter the sacraments, though not called thereto by 
 any ecclesiastical authority. For this he was re- 
 moved .from office and fined ,^50. 
 
 *He died Feb. 3d, 1670, and left three daughters. 
 
 1657.^^" At Flushing they have heretofore had 
 a Presbyterian preacher who conformed to the' 
 Dutch Church, but many of the people became en- 
 dowed with divers opinions and absented them- 
 selves from preaching, nor would pay the preacher 
 his promised stipend, so that he was obliged to 
 leave, and went to Virginia. Now they have been 
 some years without a minister. Last, year one 
 Wickendam, a fomenter of error, cam'e there and 
 stated that he was commissioned by Christ. He 
 began to preach and then went with the people into 
 the river and dipped them. This becoming known 
 to the Governor, the Fiscaal proceeded 'toi-Flushing 
 and brought him along. He was banished the 
 Province." — Doc. J?«s., B": 106. » 
 
 1657; — '■ At Hempstead there are some Indepen- 
 dents ; also many- of the Dutch persuasion and 
 Presbyterians. They have a Presbyterian preach- 
 er, Richard Denton, ^n honest, pious and learned 
 man, who hasin all things conformed to the Dutch 
 church. The Independents listen attentively to 
 his preaching, 'but 'When he begins to baptize the 
 children of parents Vho are not members of the 
 church, they sometimes burst Out of the church." 
 —JDoc.His., 3:107. 
 
 1657. — "At Newtown the people are mostly 
 Independents, and have Johannes More, who 
 preaches well but administers no sacraments, and 
 has thus continued many years. There are' also 
 many Presbyterians, but are not a^le to' maintain a 
 minister." — jDoc. His., 3 : 107. 
 
 1657, Mar. 8. — The ship Prince Maurice, with 
 60 soldiers and a cargo of Dutch goods and emi- 
 grants, (180 souls in all) was ivi-ecked on a cold, 
 snowy night off Fire Island. All werB saved, and 
 by the friendly aid of the Indians, reached N. Y, 
 by land. — Col. His., 3 : 345. 
 
 1657, July 17. — Gov. Stuyvesant, at his house 
 in Fort Amsterdam, writes to the Magistrate of 
 Hempstead as follows : Loviqg Friends : — Before 
 my departure from you I was in hopes of a good 
 act among you, both in settling of Mr. Denton's 
 continuance amoijg you according to agreement, 
 and of the tenths for the present year. But being 
 in haste back and ready for my retm-n, both were 
 broken off by -some tm-bulent spirits, if in the 
 name of the whole town or anyone I am yet igno- 
 rant, but not satisfied. Therefore you 'may be 
 pleased to understand that we as yet expect the 
 tentfe'Tipon the field for the year present, and (ac- 
 cording to the value of them) for the year past.-^ 
 This therefore is ordered, that befoi-e the gathering 
 of the crop you shall give timely notice, so that we 
 may send a man for what is the Patron's due and 
 for the minister. You all do know that Mr. Robt. 
 Fordham, sometime minister «f Hempstead; did 
 leave the place, and also the exercise of 'the minis- 
 tiy, 'without our wish or 'knowledge, and for little 
 or no reason. Therefore -we ►cannot admit him in 
 such a manner ^jf coming again. 
 
 1657, July 25.— Rich. Gildersleeve, in behalf of 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES, 
 
 tlie toTvn-off -Hempstead, rejplied to the preceding : 
 Riglit ^orsiiipfnl — ^Yours of tlie 17th we have 
 received wherein we imderstand you are not satis- 
 fied, hearing speeches from some private persons 
 not employed hyThe town. The town does not 
 own what they have said. We hope according to 
 the agreement made for 100 skeepels of wheat for 
 the tenths, you will be content. The which the 
 town agreed with you and are willing to perform. 
 Our desires are to embrace Mr. Denton's ministry, 
 if God be pleased to continue him among us. As 
 for yourself we have had sufficient experience of 
 your willingness, and doubt not you are the same 
 by your late free and noble proffer. We hope you 
 will not take exceptions against the whole of ns for 
 the extravagant speeches of some individuals,' for 
 so it sometimes wHl fall out where a general vote 
 is had. We have sent Mr. Seaman, the bearer 
 hereof, who shall further inform your Worship. 
 
 1657, July 29. — Gov. Stuyvesant replies to the 
 preceding as follows : Loving FriendS; — Your let- 
 ter, by Mr. Seaman and his inforinatton; 'have .given 
 us fail satisfaction. About the contiriuanee^of Mr. 
 Denton among you, we shall uSe all Hte endeavors 
 we can. If he cannot be persuaded you must look 
 for another able and -^bdly -man whereunto we 
 shall contribute what is in our.^power. Boe. His., 
 3 : 189. 
 
 1658, Jid>j 10. — ^At 'a Town meeting, Hemp- 
 stead, it is agreed that Rich. Gildersleeve shall go 
 to Manhattans to a^-ee with the Gov. concerning 
 tithes, not-to exceed" 100 schepels of wheat, and to 
 be delivered (if required), at the Town harbor. — 
 Totcn-Becords, p. 32. 
 
 1658, Oct. 3, was Humiliation day, new style. — 
 Hemj)stead Hecords. 
 
 1658. — Ten shillings is voted those who helped 
 to quench the fire when the town (Hempstead) was 
 endangered. Records, 
 
 1659. — Thos Langdon, Hempstead, killed 10 
 wolves, and in 1661, he killed Ifl more. 
 
 1661, Jan. 8. — Do. Drisius preached at Jamaica 
 to correct the in-egulaiities of the itinerant Quakers 
 and other fanatics. 
 
 1661, Feb. 18. — Robt. Hobbs purchased of Wm. 
 Hallet a house, garden, orchard and 2 a£;res of land i 
 in Flushing, but he reftised to. give a deed and yet 
 sued for the. money, now Tobias Feeks claimed the 
 land, yet the magistrates of Flushing, gave judge- 
 ment against Hobbs who appealed to the Dhector. 
 
 1661, May. — Randolph Huwitt's wife haviivg. 
 been banished from New Amsterdam on account of 
 her disorderly conduct, resided with her husband 
 at Flushing four years, when they retm-ned and 
 petitioned to be allowed to carry on their former 
 business of Tavern k-eepiag- Petition ^rejected. 
 
 1661, July 4, — Thos. Ter^ and Sam'l. Dearing 
 petition for leave for theBiselv«s-t© settle 7 families 
 and Hempstead 10, at Matiaecock. Granted, but 
 
 they are to bring in no Quakers or such like opin- 
 ionists. — Records, B.p. 16. 
 
 1662, jlpj'iZ.'-MJysbert Opdyck, anold servant 
 of the company, petitions to be appointed Sheriff 
 of Flushing, Middleborgh and Rustddrp. 
 
 1662, July'"22. — Connecticut orders Mr. Jno. 
 Rigebell to be -chosen constable of Oysterbay. — 
 Trumbull Rec, 1 : 390. 
 
 1662, Oct 5. — jEfftiaiea, Flushing, Hempstead, 
 Newtown and Gravicsend, are annexed to Connec- 
 ticut. 
 
 '1653. — The Kttle n:eCk or point of land east of 
 Matta Garrett's bay, commonly called Mad Nan's 
 Neck, is '••granted "by Hempstead to Tlios. Hicks, 
 John and Thos. Ellison, in lieu of their dividend. — 
 Records. 
 
 "1663, Mixfcli' 10. — Thos. Rushmore, constable, 
 of Hempstead, opposes the government of Con- 
 necticut. He should be removed.* — Trtimbidl, 
 1 : 424. 
 
 1663, Nov. 7. — Anthony Waters and John Coe, 
 miller of Newtown, raised a force, of near 300 men 
 and marched through the Eniglish towns on the 
 west of L. I., convoked the- people, told them they 
 should no longer pay customs or taxes, removed 
 the magistrates, and finally threatened the Dutch 
 towns, if they did not also pronounce in favor of 
 the English King. 
 
 16G4, Jan. 4. — Hempstead. Newtown, Jamaica, 
 Oysterbay and'Flushing, combine to govern their 
 own affairs irrespective of -Connecticut. 
 
 1664, March 3, — Gov. Stuyvesant visits Hemp- 
 stead, escorted by 10 soldiers. — Col. His., 2 : 468. 
 
 1664, May'12. — The' following residents of Ja- 
 maica, were made .fireemen of Connecticut : Thos. 
 Benedict, Jas. Smith, Mr.'Walker, Dan'l. Denton, 
 Henry Witney, John 'Ba'j-hs, Wm. Smith, Fulk 
 H&vi^.— Trumbull Rec, 1 : 429. 
 
 1664, Jitt</ 12.— 'Inhabitants -of Hempstead made 
 freemen of Conn. : Richard Gildersleeve, Sr. and 
 Jr., Thos. fHicks, ^ Jer. Wood, John Carpenter, 
 John Smith, Jr., Mr. Fordham, Henry Pearsall, 
 Edward Titus, Wm. ■ Scadding, Jas. Pine, Wm. 
 Yeates, Thos. Carle, Robt. Marvin, John Smith, 
 'Naa.— Trumbull Rec, 1 : 429. 
 
 1664, May 12. — Inhabitants of Newtown made 
 freemen of -Conn., if they accept it : Mr. Leveridge, 
 Rich. Betts, Sam'l Coe, Caleb Leveridge, Ralph 
 Hunt, Jno. Burrows, Jno. Ramsden, Nich. Carter, 
 Gershoib Moore, Jas. Christie. 
 
 Of Flushing: Wm. Noble, Ehas Doughty, 
 Waiter 'Salter, Rich. Weller, Jno. Thorne, Nich. 
 
 Persell, Thos. :, Jona , Wm. Salsbee, 
 
 Jno. Heeded.— TnMiii. Rec, 1: 430. 
 
 1664, May 12. — The Court of Conn, appointed 
 
 *By order of the court at Hartford, he was put in jail 
 Sept. 6, ]649, for disorder in the meeting-house on the Sab- 
 bath. He then lived in Connecticut. 
 
QUEENS COUNTT 
 
 Commissioners : for" Jamaica, Kobt. Coe, Tlios. 
 Benedict; Hempstead, Jno. Hicks, Ricli. Gilder- 
 sleeve; Flushing, Wm. Hallet, Wm.Nolile; Oys- 
 ter Bay, Jno. Rickbell, Robt. Ferman ; Newtow^i, 
 Oapt. Jno. Coe, Ricli. Betts ; Gravesend, Jas. Hub- 
 bard, Wm. Wi\'km&.— Trumbull, Bee. 1 : 430. .. 
 
 1665, Oct. 4. Dennis HoldTen*--and wife-NiSra, 
 separate in consequence of an ill carrespoijdence 
 between them and divide their estate equally, un- 
 der the eye of the magistrate of Flushing.— 7oL 1, 
 Order and Warrants, 
 
 1665.— Nora Holdren and John Lockerson, her 
 son, (of Flushing) petiti&n.to have possession ^of an 
 estate of .=£30 sterling now in the hands of Antony 
 Waters, of Jamaica, and Johi;..CIpckram of New- 
 town, as overseer of said John Lockerson,t who 
 will be of age in July next.— !CM«*'S, Vol. 11, 226, ; 
 
 1666, Jan. l.r— A Se-ssioftS house and prison is , 
 to be built in Jamaica, and/.seiOO to be Ifevied on 
 the towns in the North Riding.^of Yorkshire. 
 
 1(366. — Mr. Francis Doughty, -was minister at 
 Flushing, at 100 guilders a year. His contract 
 for salary was burnt one year before trial by Wm. 
 Lawrence's wifer, who put it under a pye in an oven. 
 Doughty's son sued J^fen Hicks, Ciipt. John Un- 
 derbill, and Capt. Wm. Lawrence, for back salary. 
 Underbill had ordered the church door shut up be- 
 , cause Doughty preached against the Gorvemment. 
 Thereafter Doughty was discharged. His son re- 
 covered 600 guilders ; each party to pay their own 
 costs. The defence was, that Gov. Stuyvesant, by 
 calling each person into, his room separately, had 
 forced the to^yn to sign a call to said Doughty. 
 
 1666, 3Iarc% 14.— Oapt. Underbill begs tp be 
 excused from military service on aceqii»,t of his 
 age. He and 7 Other families have farms at Ma- 
 tinecock, and are on good terms with the Indians 
 there. 
 
 1Q66.. March 26. — The people of Jamaica agj-ee 
 to keep the Sessions. House in repair for 21 years, 
 on condition of being Allowed to worship in it. It 
 cost ^eiOO, Flushing withheld her part of the 
 contribution and was cited, for neglect thereof, be- 
 fore the Cpurt of Sessions, at Jamaica. , 
 
 1666, June.— tAb Tackapousha is .. dissatisfied 
 with the sale of his lands; the Governor reque'sts 
 the town &f Hempstead to give the Indians a 'gra- 
 tuity far peace's sake. 
 
 1666, Jidij 3. — Greafc:drou^t.j„ H^nce no wheat 
 or wheat-meal to be exported from N. Y.J 
 
 16.66-, Dec. 18. — Wm. Lawrence, of Flushing, 
 for seditious. words, is fined ^£15, and to m^ke an 
 apology to the court. 
 
 *Demiis Holdren and Sarah.Wilkins, widow^.^of Flush- 
 ing, had licensij of marriage, July 23, 1669. 
 
 tAncestor of the Kissams. He married Susanna Thoiiie, 
 of Jamaica, July lb, 166,71 " 
 
 1667,-iKrarcA 6. — John Tredwell married Ehza,- 
 bgth. Starr, of Hempstead. 
 
 ■ 1667;:' AgrU 6. — Jos, Carp-enter proposes to 
 build a saw, and fulling mOl at Muskftfco Cove. 
 He petitions for land on each side' of .-the a-iver or 
 cove. Hempstead, he says, clearly can't own it. 
 [He and Nath'l Coles were the first two settlers of 
 ithat. plantation,] 
 
 1667, July 25.— Weekope, Kleinbear,. a;nd 
 Watawitt, Mahicander and Eivev Indians, have 
 leave to go to L. I. to dry clams and oysters, 
 
 1667, Aug. 12.— Wm. Bishop, John Elce, Aaron 
 Forman, Ed. Griffin, Joseph Hedger, Rich. Long, 
 Wm. Noble, Nich. Pearsall, Thos. Sadler, George 
 Tippets, Jos. Thorn, John JSiorn, George- Wright, 
 and Jona. Wright, of Flushing, present theniselves 
 to the Governor and give in their names to be ready 
 to serve BKs Majesty under- his honorable, com- 
 mand, and on all occasions.-^FoL 1, Orders, p. 180. 
 
 1668, Feb, 24.T-^Tne mhabitants of Matineeock 
 and KiUingworth, through Oapt. Underbill.,,, peti- 
 tion the Governor to be made an independent town 
 from IIempstea,d.— FoZ. 1, Orders, Warrants. 
 
 16'68, iVc«i-r-Great sickness in N. Y., and over 
 the land in general. Some are daily swept away 
 and many more are lying on their lang-raisting 
 beds, expecting each hour, their dissolution. .Aday- 
 of, humiliation is ordered, by the Gov,e];nor, ^h(J.<, 
 complains of swearing, an intemperate way of 
 drinking and all manner of impieties as prevailing. 
 —Orders, Vol. 2, 294. „ •{ ■■ ' 
 ' 1669, March 31.— To his Escelleney, the Earl 
 of Bellomont, Oapt. Gen. ...and Gcsv. of the. Pro- 
 vince of N. Y„ &c. The humble petition of Sam'l 
 Clowes showeth, that your. Excellency's petitioner 
 being very desirous to be some Tray serviceable to 
 His Majesty and your Excellency in this Province ; 
 doth hereby humbly offer himself and reqiiest your 
 Excellency would graciously please to invest him 
 . with the employ of Comptroller or Siu'veyor of the 
 customs, or .any other post youi;: -Escelleney shall 
 think him qualified for ; and youi.. Excellency's 
 petitioner shall (as in duty and gratitude bound) 
 ever pray, &c» 
 
 ■ 1669. — Gov. LovelaBfiiAppoints a horse race to 
 take place i« May. Subscriptions to be taken fojr, 
 a crown in. silyer or the ,value in good wheat ; the 
 list of subscribers to be sent to Oapt. Salisbury. 
 [G'ov.Nicolls had appointed a race the year before ; 
 no];, so much, he says,, for . the divertisement of. 
 youth as for the encouragement of the bettering of, 
 the breed of horses, which through gi-eat neglect is- 
 impaired.]— 7oL 1, Ori^ers. . 
 
 1669, May 16.— John Ti-edwell bad iis shoul- 
 der dislocated.' The Governor therefore excuses 
 him from^ the present general and town trainings. 
 
 16,69,< J^a^.— Thwia,as Rushnaore -(is ordered to 
 give up to Oapt. Seaman, the nailitary eedorsrw'hich 
 he ^ot of the Governor. 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES, 
 
 1669. — David "Whiteliead was shot in tlie thigh 
 (before June) and lost the use of one hand from 
 the wilful shot of Wm. Albertus ; and stiU endures 
 great misery, and can do no service for himself, but 
 is partly supported by a fine he got' of Albertus. 
 Thomas Stevens distrained Whitehead, got his 
 clothes, &c., but, on his petitioning the Governor, 
 he was declared free from all arrest. — Vol. 2, Or- 
 ders. 
 
 1669, Sept. 8.— Thos. Haddersly, guilty of a 
 breach of promise in N. Y.. after the bans had 
 be'fen three times, published, went to Flushing and 
 pretended marriage to -a daughter of one Hedger. 
 A wan-ant was issued against him. — Vol. 2, Qrders, 
 p. 525. 
 
 1669, Oct. 6. — Jamaica offers Mr. Hubbard, of 
 Gravesend, a lot to encourage him in setting up a 
 mill in the town. — Mec. p. 50. 
 
 1669, Nov. 5. — Wm. Hallet not performing his 
 contract to build a complete Sessions House, at 
 Jamaica, the coiirt decided that it must be done by 
 next Christmas day, or he be fined d£10. 
 
 1670, Jan. 20. — The town of Jamaica agrees to 
 buUd a good dam for a mill, to be erected byBenj. 
 Coe. He to grind the town's corn for the 12th (in 
 preference to strangers) and they are to bring it 
 such days as he may appoint, — Ilec, p. 51. 
 
 1670, April 4. — Jamaica votes that Nicholas, 
 the coOper, shall have half an acre of land by the 
 Beaver Pond,- to build a house on, to supply the 
 town with such cooper's work as they shall stand 
 in need of. — Mecord, 
 
 1670, May 1. — If the schoolmaster comes, Gil- 
 dersleeve is to give up to him. — Hemp. Bee. 
 
 1670. The people of Jamaica petition the 
 Governor against a certain witch, Katharine Hari- 
 son's setthng there. Petition granted. [She had 
 lived 19 years in Wethersfield, and been 12 
 months -in prison at Hartford, and was released on 
 her promise to remove elsewhere — Trumbull Mec. 
 2 : 132. 
 
 1670, Aug. 22. The Governor grants a pass to 
 Tackapousha, with 40 other Indians, to visit his 
 friends, the Northern Indians, to make some ac- 
 customed presents to them. 
 
 1670, Dee. 29. The libels of Hempstead, Flush- 
 ing and Jamaica, were ordered to be publickly 
 burnt before the Town House, in N. Y. [It ap- 
 pears. They would not bring palisadoes for the 
 Fort at N. Y., as their patent did not req^uire it.] — 
 Town Becords, 1 : 55. ^ 
 
 1671, April 25. — The people of Hempstead are 
 not to plow or break up land for the Indians nor 
 assist them therein. All Indians at Eockaway, 
 except actual res^ents, are to be forewarned to de- 
 part. Ten families there, are to have 40 acres of 
 land for com. — Becords. 
 
 1671. — [Jonah] Sutton at MadNan's Neck is 
 
 appointed trumpeter to the volunteers under Thos- 
 WUlets, who are ordered out May 22. The offi- 
 cers are to give him a suit of uniform clothes. 
 
 1671. — Hempstead is ordered to pay Richard 
 Charlton, schoolmaster. They have refused, or 
 too, long delayed the fulfillment of their contract. 
 — Gen. Entries, i:li7, 
 
 1671, July 23.— Tobias Peeks of Flushing 7 
 years ago, deserted, his wife, Mary and her child- 
 ren, and went to Holland, leaving also a son by a 
 former wife. She paid some of his debts and peti- 
 tions the Governor for leave to remain on her 
 small farm and be exempt from paying any more 
 debts.— ^ 7b?. 4, orders. 
 
 1671, Sept. 21. — ^Ben. Coe agrees with the Town 
 of Jamaica to set up a mill on the river between 
 Old Town Neck and Long Neck, to grind the 
 town's corn well (and before strangers^ . and to 
 take the 12th part for toll. If he sells the mill, 
 the town is to have the refusal. — Becords, p. 61. 
 
 1671, Oct. 4.— iJohn Hubbs sues Wm. Hubbs 
 for hog-stealing. John WooUey and Edward 
 Banbury are witnesses. The sentence of the Court 
 is £5 fine or 10 stripes. 
 
 1672. — Andries, a negro slave of Capt. Wm. 
 Lawrence was whipped 3^ stripes and branded on 
 the forehead with a hot iron, for theft and larceny 
 of some hnen, etc. at Jamaica. 
 
 1672.^— Rich. Lattin of Oysterbay being inform- 
 ed against by Loren M-ott, was fined ^£50 for sedi- 
 tious words and to be imprisoned during the Gov- 
 ernor's pleasure. He was excused from corporal 
 punishnient by reason of his age. [He at first fled 
 but returned home on~>the issue of a proclamation 
 for the confiscation of his estate if he did not ap- 
 pear.] 
 
 1672, June 24. — In a contested election for' Con- 
 stable at Hempstead, Robt. Jackson had 39 votes 
 and Simon Searing 31. John Hicks and James 
 Pine object to Jackson because the major part of 
 his , votes was froni MadNan's Neck, who have 
 small parcels of land and have no relation to the 
 town equal to the ancient inhabitants^some par- 
 cels being divided into several shares. The- Court 
 decide that the people of MadNan's Neck may 
 vote, if freeholders, and that they cannot be set 
 off as a village by themselves and be abstracted 
 from Hempstead. Capt. Seaman and J. Smith, B. 
 appear for Jackson and Thos. Hicks and James 
 Pine for Searing. The election is confirmed in 
 Coimcil. 
 
 1673, Jan. 7. — Thos. Appleby married Elizabeth 
 Osboi-n, both of MadNan's Neck. 
 
 1673.— The house of Ellen Wall, for 23 years a 
 resideut of Flushing, was by an unexpected mis- 
 chance burnt down, whereby she became needy 
 and was forced in her old age (against nature al- 
 most) to begin the world again. The town's peo- 
 ple owe her some small debts but she is put off by 
 
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 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 the magistrates, and petitions tte Governor for ve- 
 lie{.—See also Biker's Newtmvn, p. 47. 
 
 1674, Jan. 15.— Jokn Jenniags, a sojourner at 
 Hempstead, on complaint made by tlie wife of one 
 Skudder of Maspeth Kills, that he carried off his 
 brother's indentures, is sentenced to be put in 
 prison in the Hole and on his release to be put in 
 the stocks at Hempstead— there to sit two hours 
 with a paper oa hifi breast signifying Ms crime, 
 and to pay all charges. 
 
 1674, Feh. 9.— The Court of Flushing send a 
 dangerous fellow, under charge of two men, to the 
 G-overnor, at New Orange, with a request that he 
 be imprisoned there, as they have no jail or lock- 
 up at Flushing.— (7oZ. Ms3., 23 : 304. 
 
 1674, Apri^ 18.— Samuel Furman of Oysterbay, 
 went about the streets of Ne-vV York makiAg_ a 
 great noise an'5 uproar, and presumed to come in- 
 to the church and abuse the word of God and blas- 
 pheme His Holy name,, for which he is sentenced 
 to be severely whipped with rods, banished the 
 Province and pay costs. — Col. IMs. 2 : 705. 
 
 1674, Nov. 30. — Thos. Champion, Rich. Gilder- 
 sleeye, Wm. Jecocks, Jfimes Pine, Simon Searing 
 and Jer. "Wood of Hempstead, in behalf of some 
 others, request Gov. Andres- (as being father- of 
 this Commonwealth) to gistaU such authority among 
 them as may be a means under God for upholding 
 and maintaining the ministry and worship of God 
 " among us," that his honor may be promoted and 
 his sabbaths observed, for the good of themselves 
 and their posterity. 
 
 1674.— Thos. Case of Newtown, is ordered by 
 the Court there not to entertain the wife of Wm. 
 Smith without his consent.*-^^?. 501, Einman's 
 Conn. 
 
 1674, Kov. 16. — John Bun-oughs of Newtown, 
 is sentenced to be imprisoned till Monday, , and 
 theai to be fastened to the whipping post before 
 the City Hall at New York, and there stand one 
 hour with a placard on his breast, denoting , that he 
 had addressed seditious letters to the Governor 
 and Council, (which he pretended to be^n the name 
 of the town) and to be incapable hereafter of bear- 
 ing any, office or trust. 
 
 1674, Nov. 24.— Daniel Patrick* and Fi-ancis 
 Coley of Flushing, for contemptuously working on 
 Thanksgiving Day, and giving reproachful lan- 
 guage to the magistrates that questioned them for 
 it, are sent to the New York Sessions by Justice 
 Cornell and Mr. Hinchman. 
 
 1675, Jan. 1. — Chancy, an Indian, bound for two 
 years to Moses Mudge of Musketo Cove, and since 
 become his servant for debt, has run away and 
 is supposed to be with the Sequetanck Indians. 
 
 *Tlios. Case of Fairfield removed to the Dutch.' in 1664, 
 was afterwards imprisoned, rejected 'the inward 'light and 
 died 1692, childless.-^5ttca^e, Gen. Diet. 
 
 +One Capt. Daniel Patrick was killed in Stamford.-^ 
 Hoadlyl,!^. ' 
 
 1675, Jem, 24.— The Indians on Long Island 
 are to be disarmed at this .juncture and their arms 
 laid up in the nearest block house, and all Indian 
 canoes on the north side of the Island above Hell 
 Gate, are to be collected on account of the Indiah 
 disturbances at the eastward. No intercourse is to 
 be allowed with the Indians on the Main, and 
 those at Pell's must go to winter within Hell Gate 
 on Long Island. 
 
 1675, Fed. 24. — Jamaica votes that a committee 
 be fully empowered to'^ treat with and (if they see 
 cause) consummate an agreement with Mr. Joseph 
 Carpenter, of Musketo Cove, and Caleb Carman, 
 of Jamaica, for building a corn and saw mill where, 
 the old mill stands. — liecords, p.lo.- 
 
 1675, Feb. 29. — Tackapousha from Eockaway, 
 sends to Gov. Andros at New York, two Indians 
 bearing an Indian scalp with the hair on. 
 
 1675, Jv/ne 10. — Francis Bloodgood and Myn- 
 dert Coeirten of Flushing, are bound over on a 
 complaint of Dr. Taylor against Ooerten for sedi- 
 tious words ; but no one appearing against them, 
 they are dismissed. 
 
 1675, July 22. — John, son of John and Susan- 
 na Skidmpre, while playing at the house of Sam- 
 uel and Naomi Barker at Jamaica, one Sunday (a 
 difference arising, as was alledged betwefen them) 
 took up and cocked a loaded gun (in tlie absence 
 of the parents) fired and shot Ms son Thomas Bar- 
 ker through the body with a brace of buBets, so 
 that he died next day. As the neighbors manifes- 
 ted so much malice, Skidmore petitioned the Gov- 
 ernor for a trial by disinterested parties, as his son 
 did not know of the gun's being loaded. He was 
 tried Oct. 7. The witnesses were John Oldfield 
 and Richard Burgess, lads, who were not put to 
 their'oath by reason of their age. It appeared that 
 the dece9.sed forgave thejad. Verdict of the jury ; 
 chance medley, whereupon the prisoner was cleared 
 by proclamation of the, Court. 
 
 1675, Sep, 15.— G&-^t. Thomas Townsend of 
 Oysterbay, complains to the Governor that the 
 Quakers won't keep watch. It is ordered th^t all 
 must obey the laws. 
 
 1(575, Oct 21. — A block, house must be erected 
 forthwith on MadNah's neck. The people have 
 neglected former orders and did 'not help Hemp- 
 stead cither, and are to be punished for contempt 
 if further delayed. ^ 
 
 , 1675, Oct. 27. — The Indians have in friendship 
 brought in their arms to Hicks. " You may lend 
 them, says the Governor, as many back as you 
 judge proper for their present hunting. See, how- 
 ever, that the people of Hempstead omit not send- 
 ing daily to see them according to order." ■ 
 
 ,1675.-— Thomas. tlase wtile pr^ching atiMatin- 
 ecock is, an-ested by the Constable of Oysterbay. 
 Se had also preached at Humphrey Clay's.* 
 
 *Clay lived in BusHwick in imS.^Doc.His. 3, 135. 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 1675, Oct. — Mary Case is fined £5 for inteiTupt- 
 ing Mr. Leverich wbile preaching, and saying to 
 liim: " Come down,- thou whited walli thou that 
 feedest thyself and starvest the people." The Con- 
 stable led her out of the meeting. Samuel Scud- 
 der is fined £Qi or go to jail for sending a long and 
 scandalous letter to Mr. Leverich. ' Francis Ooely 
 snbniits and is dismissed. Elizabeth Appleby dis- 
 turbed the Court of Sessions and is committed. 
 Thomas Case is fined 6620 for preaching and ma- 
 king a disturbance before John Bown's door at 
 Flushing. ^ 
 
 1675, Nov. 23. — Cornbury or Little MadNan'.s 
 Neck hitherto supposed to be in Flushing (the line 
 having been run) is annexed to Hempstead. Hicks 
 who lives there has an interest also and office iaa 
 Hempstead. 
 
 1676. — Thomas Case of Newtown, deluded 
 women by his teaching. He pursued extravagant 
 and illegal courses to the scandal and disturbance 
 of the Colony. He has delnded aM drawn away 
 Ann, wife of John Rogers, and -Susanna, daughter 
 of John Townsend, notwithstanding the deinands 
 and endeavors of the husband and father; he de- 
 tains them from their duty ; and utters from place 
 to jplace many unfit gestures and words against the 
 laws of <jrod and the authority of this Government. 
 
 1676, Jan. 12. — Too, many persons visit Thos. 
 Case in prison. None hereafter tp be admitted. 
 
 1676, Jan. — The Constable and Overseers of Ja- 
 maica grant liberty to Richard J^ones to make use 
 of the Meeting House to teach school in for the 
 year ensuing, except when wanted for town busi- 
 ness, provided he keep the windows from break- 
 ing and keep it decent and clean on Saturday 
 nights against -the -Lord's "Day, and have the seats 
 placed in order, — Town Records, p. 80. 
 
 1676, 3f6ii/ 12. — Jehi# Rogers had complained 
 to the Governor, of Ann, his ivife, being drawn 
 away by Thomas Case, in whose henuse and com- 
 pany at Maspeth KOls, he found her after 14 days 
 absence, but could not get her to come home with 
 him. Ann' was brought before the Governor a* 
 Oysterbay, and after sundry extravagant exjpres- 
 sions, she promised to return hoiQe and comport 
 herseK accofding to the duty of a wife, without 
 rambling abroad, particularly after Case ; but next 
 morning she pteEjumed to come into the house of 
 Geo. Dennis wheise the Governor was lodging, in 
 a dancing, q^aaking manner, with sUly insignificant 
 discburse to the disturbance and scandal of the 
 house, g,nd in derision of authority, for which she 
 was sent to New York, tb be kept in close custody. 
 
 iie^iS, May 17. — Three pieces -pf land, one mile 
 sijuare each, are bofight of the Matinecock Jjidians 
 about Musketo Cove, pf which the people already 
 have the herbage and trees. The Indians at first 
 asked An extravagant rate, but at last consented to 
 take 600 gfiilderS; seawant. ' 
 
 1676, JmZ«/ 24.— Richard Jones of.Janiaica is 
 
 sent prisoner to New York, on information of Alex. 
 Smith, for using treasonable words against His 
 Majesty. 
 
 1676, Sep. 29. — Gildersleeve and Searing in the 
 name of the town of Hempstead, forbid any squat- 
 ters on Cow Neck. 
 
 1676, Oct. 3. — The Governor grants, on petition, 
 100 acres of land, improveable and not yet appro- 
 priated, on the west side of Cow Neck, with mea- 
 dow prpportionaible, to John Cornell, who, with his 
 wife and five children, had been driven from his 
 habitation at the eastward by the Indians. Cor- 
 nell having obtained the above grant, proceeded 
 to build thqrcon. Hempstdad then voted (Oct. 14) 
 that all holders of rights on Cow Neck should go 
 and pull down the building* that Cornell had set 
 up. Whereupon the claimants tore down his 
 building. He then got out a warrant to bring the 
 rioters with all force, civil and military, before the 
 Governor. The following proceedings then took 
 place, 'at a Special Court of Assizer the indictment 
 was read and the jury called over. The prisoners 
 at the bar, Thos. Rushmore, Nath'l. Fearsall, Adam 
 Mott, Abm. Smith, and Jos. Langdon, excepted to 
 Elias Doughty, Dr. Taylor and Thomas Stevens, 
 in whose places were put John Cooper., John Conk- 
 lin and Nicholas Edes. A question then arose 
 whether the prisoners should hold up their hands for 
 a riot or not. The Court decided in the negative. 
 A paper signed, Sept. 19, by Rushmore, "with 
 ^lany hands of combination," was produced and 
 read. These 37 signers bou.nd themselves to as- 
 sert their rights in Heippstead, and especially on 
 Cow Neck. / 
 
 It is, moved by Mr, Leete* the King's Counsel, 
 to amend the indictment, and insert felony instead 
 of riot. C. Sandford, counsel for the prisoners, in- 
 sisted that there must be^twelve to make an unlaw- 
 ful assembly a riot, according to law. All are with- 
 drawn but the Court. The Court decided to pro- 
 ceed accordiAg to the indictment, and that the rest 
 be called over who set their hands to the paper and 
 resolution,; and then decide how they shall be pro- 
 ceeded against. 
 
 Four of the prisoners are withdrawn and Na- 
 thaniel Pearsall' left remaining and indicted apart. 
 He pleads not guilty. A paper was read, sigiied 
 by . Searing, Pearsall and Richard Gildersleeve, 
 which is the beginning, of the " combination." He 
 acknowledges it and subniits to the Court Richard 
 Cornell, one of the bench, being, asked his knowl- 
 edge, taxes P.earsall to be the' first man th?.t begun. 
 There were to be 25 men but ,he counted only 22. 
 
 The prisoner offers to prove (1) his title, and 
 questions whether a riot can be committed on one's 
 own land — overruled. 2. He moves to extenuate 
 the fact as to the value of the damage done, and as 
 to the agreement' under their hands, called a " com- 
 bination;" and, he thinks (3) that their e.ndesiYors 
 to defend their title legally not to be a ript -as he 
 had no arms, gave no threatening words nor heard 
 
 *Wae this Wm. Leete, Bep. Gov. of New Hdven? 
 
10 
 
 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 the forewarning of Coniell in His Majesty's name. 
 Sandford read from Dalton's Justice, that to( re- 
 move a common nuisance any number of persons 
 may meet and remove it to another place. The 
 jury without parting from Cotirt deliver in their 
 verdict that Pearsall is guilty by proof and confes- 
 sion. The prisoner is withdrawn and Thomas 
 EushiHore brought to the bar. He said he meddled 
 with nothing but what was his own, and that Cor- 
 nell called them " wolves and Indians." Christo- 
 pher Yeomans being sworn says, he was stripping 
 off some tobacco in his house, at Great Neck, aiid 
 heard a great noise of people, and afterward, saw 
 some horsemen and Lieut. Mott come up, who 
 asked him if he would' go with him, ^ni borrowed 
 his canoe. So they got in and rowed over to Cow 
 Neckj where he saw Eichard Cornell' and near 
 twenty Hempstead men, among whom was the 
 prisoner at the bar, Thomas Enshmore, who (Mr. 
 Cornell saith) was the first who laid hold of and 
 struck at the building which they c[raet]y pulled 
 do^vn. Mr. Cornell first spoke to Yeomans, but he 
 replied: "T am none of them." Then Cornell 
 said : " bear witness what ye see done." Eoger 
 Pedly' testified as above, and also that Eushmore 
 said: "Come let us do what we came about." 
 Whereupon he laid hands upon a pole and the rest 
 followed him and pulled down what had been set 
 up and then cut it to pieces. 
 
 The Court charged the jury, who went out on 
 the whole case and find all guilty. The sentence 
 is as follows : 
 
 Nathaniel Pearsall, Clerk of Hempstead, who 
 first signed the paper is fined ^20 and to give 
 bond for his good behavior. Thomas Eushmore, 
 who stands in his justification, is fined .£40 and six 
 months' imprisonment, then to come otit on giving 
 security for his good behavior to the next Court of 
 Assizes. Adam Mott (who pleads he was not in 
 the I' combination " nor knew of the Governor's 
 special warrant, nor did anything to withstand au- 
 thority, but went to defend his own concerns upon 
 the land) on his submission and good, behavior is 
 fined £5. Abm. Smith acknowledges his hand — 
 was employed by the town to warn off John Cor- 
 nell, and was the last time with" the -rest to preserve 
 their rights on the Neck, but with no ill intent and 
 gave no ill words, and told Cornell if he had any 
 goods or things in the small buUding, he would do 
 well to take them out. He is fined ^eiO and to 
 give security for his good behavior. Joseph Lang- 
 don confessed that he was one of the rioters and 
 helped to pull down the house, and owns his hand 
 to the paper. He is fiined «£10 and to give securi- 
 ty for his good behavior.— Fb;. 20, Assises. 
 
 All the rest are to be summoned to the next 
 Covtrt of Sessions, at Jamaica, when the Court are 
 to examia.e into the business and "(as they see 
 cause) to.acqudt the fine «r bind them to their good 
 behavior "and to appear at the Court of Assize ; 
 and the agreement is declared to be iHegail, antE who- 
 ever acts thereby is to be declared criminal. It is 
 the judgment of the Court tbat Mr. Cornell has 
 
 liberty to settle at Cow Neck again, where he was : 
 and if the land shall appear to belong to the Hemp- 
 stead men, tbey shall be paid for it as much as 
 they can prove it to be worthy — VoL 3 z 127, Cotm- 
 dl Minutes^ 
 
 1676. — ^Hempstead was cited before the Gover- 
 nor to show ajparticralar survey for all their Indian 
 purchases, B&th sides were to plead their own 
 cause. Captain Seaman came with Eushmore 
 from Hempstead to .speak to the Governor, at the 
 Court of Assize, to give their reasons for not tak- 
 ing out their patents, and about the Neck and other 
 matters. They came but never spake a word. 
 
 1676 1 — ^William Leyerich is sued for saying 
 that the Dutch, at Albany, suppEed powder io the 
 Indians. He is fined twenty beavers for not being 
 able to make good his assertion, and to give bonds 
 in the sum of =6100 for his good behavior for the 
 next six months. 
 
 1677, March 13.— The Pequod Indians have 
 been over to see Moimguamy, the Eockaway Sa- 
 chem. The Governor orders Hempstead to settle 
 with the Indians for the land they have bought. 
 
 1677, Juli/ 22. — Gildersleeve, aged 73, and his 
 wife, testify that Tackapousha has been paid for 
 his lands. 
 
 1678. — John Okeson, (Kissam) buys of John 
 Smith, Eock, two lots, of ninety-nine acres, at Mad 
 Nan's Neck, for ^90, to be paid in good merchant- 
 able blade tobacco, in casks — ^to be delivered at 
 the weigh-house. New York, at price ciuTcnt, equiv- 
 alent to good mei'chantable pork, wheat, beaver, 
 seawant, in four payments, 1679, '80, '81 and '82. 
 — Comity Iteco.rds. 
 
 . 1669 1— The maiTiage of John Underbill, Jr., 
 and Mary Prior, of Oysterbay, is pronounced null, 
 and they are fined by the Sessions, in June, ^£5 
 apiece, for a breach and contempt of the law ; and 
 to pay ^10 more if they shall not be legally mar- 
 ried before the holding of the next Com-t of Assizes, 
 which being neglected, they are fined 6eiO each and 
 the judgment of the Court below affirmed. 
 
 1678, Jan. 24. — ^A wai-rant is granted to Cap 
 tain James Hubbard to survey and make a map of 
 Great or Cow Neck. 
 
 1678, Dec. 11.— The Constable of Flushing 
 complains that Johw Prior and Elizabeth Bown 
 live together unlawfiilly, under pretence of mar- 
 riage in Quaker meeting. 
 
 1679, May 19. — ^Thomas Eushmore has license 
 to erect a grist and saw mill, on a stream on the 
 west side of Mad Nan's Neck, on land not yet 
 taken up or improved, and to cut tim.ber not ap- 
 propriated, for his saw mUl. 
 
 1679, Dec. ic— Tackapousha, who elaiiaed half 
 of Cow Neck, has liberty from the Court of Ses- 
 sions to settle on the east side, bw* he is to admit 
 ao strange Indians. 
 
IN OLDEN TIMEl 
 
 11 
 
 1664. — Hendrick Thompson, Cow-keeper of Ja- 
 maica, is charged with using scandalous words 
 against the -King. 
 
 1663, Apr-il. %1, — Thomas Case and Mary Mea- 
 cock, have not been lawfully engaged as man and 
 wife, and are declared -free from the obligation of 
 Wedlock; each to enjoy >what property belongs tO' 
 him or' her ; the -children of Mary to remain with 
 the mother. — Gen. Entries, 1 : 111. 
 
 1674, Dec. ]. — Petition from the people of Ja- 
 maica, praying for a representative form of govern- 
 ment— CoZ. ilfss.,- 24 : 25. 
 
 1675, Nov. 1. — Mary Case was released ,from 
 prison, in New York, at the request of her friends, 
 and on her promise not to go abroad to unlawful 
 meetings, nor to have any at home. — Col. Mss., 
 25:1. 
 
 1677, Jan^l. — SEempstead voted,'bya majority, 
 to build a Meeting House, 30 feet long, 24 feet 
 wide and 12 feet stud between the joints, with a 
 lean-to on each side- The builder was Joseph Car- 
 penter. — Toion Becords, JB^ p. 123, 128. 
 
 1680. — Jean "-Guenon, Frs. Breteau and Jean 
 Apr6, three Frenchmen, of Flushing, petition for 
 more land. They have lived there over twenty 
 years.— FoZ. 1, p. 170, Land Papers. 
 
 1680j May 12.— The old Meeting House and 
 Fort, at Hempstead, were sold at outcry, for 662, 
 12s., in meeting house pay — that part of the Fort 
 excepted that stands in Jeremy Wood's lot. — 
 Becords, B, p. 64. 
 
 1680, Oct. 6. — John West, merchant, of New 
 York, was appointed, by Governor Andros, Secre- 
 tary of the Province and Clerk of the Court of 
 Assizes. Jn August, 1683, he was superseded by. 
 John Spragg, as Provincial Secretary. Jn 1£84 he 
 married the daughter of Thomas Eudyard. On the 
 return of Andros to power he accompanied him to 
 Boston. West was seized on Andros' overthrow 
 and immured in the . castle at ' Boston. — Col. His., 
 3 : 657. 
 
 1681, Feb. 14.— -Christopher Dean and Thomas 
 Bobbins had a warrant to seize a. ketch riding in 
 Combury bay, and loaded with wheat, grain and 
 flour, unbolted. They applied to Thomas Willets, 
 Thomas Hicks arid Richard Cornell, to assist them, 
 who refused till they had consulted Major Thomas 
 Willets. Dean and Eobbins, lin ai mad, hare- 
 brained and preposterous manfler, -went on board 
 Mr. Hascock's sloop, took a g\in and threatened to 
 fire into the said Ketth, with .other daring expres- 
 sions, which had like to make a mutiny and dis- 
 turbance among the neighbors. On their complaint 
 to. New York, the three magistrates replied that 
 they had sent for the .Captain .and found he had 
 some wheat and had taken security of him to an- 
 swer for what he iiad on board.— ToL 30, Albany 
 Eeeords. A1sq,XIoI. His., 5': 57 ; 6 : 461. 
 
 .1681, March 13. — John Hanse, John Tunesen 
 
 and Jerome Rapelye get land, at 'Rockaway, of 
 the IndHans.—'Hempstead Becords, p. 1S5. 
 
 1681, Sept. 22.^Jamaica appoints Wm. Creed 
 ,to go to HuHtington to confer with the other dele- 
 gates about grievances and the privileges , of the 
 county, etc.— -iJeco»»«?s. 
 
 1682, Jan. 4. — Hempstead hires carpenters to 
 build a Parsonage, i. e., a Town House, 35 feet 
 long, 18 feet wide, nine or ten feet between the 
 joints. — Becords C, p. 29, 123. 
 
 i682.— 'Wamassomman, an .Indian, killed two 
 wolves, for which the Constable of Henipstead 
 gave him two Jndian coats, five shillings and a 
 quart of rum. — Becords. 
 
 1682, May 6. -^Re v. Jeremiah Hobart, called to 
 Hempstead, by major vote. Salary 6fi'70 and fire- 
 wood. Some dissented. — Bee., p. 123. 
 
 1682, June. — The people of Mad Nan^s Neck 
 engaged the Rev." Morgan Jones as their minister, 
 but the Rev. Mr. Hobart, of Hempstead, forbid his 
 living among them. On his leaving them the peo- 
 ple petition the Governor for a resident minister to 
 instruct themselves .and their sixty children ; for 
 otherwise they cannot but expect that atheism or 
 irreligion will grow up among them, as Mr. Hobart 
 .has been there but three times for the past four 
 years, and then on week-days^ .whereas he was or- 
 dered, by the Governor, to preach there once a 
 month.— Doc. His., 3 : 346. 
 
 1682, June. — Hempstead, sensible of the. ill 
 neighborhood of Tackapousha, with his Indians, on 
 Cow Neck, (which is in the town bounds) com- 
 menced an action (May 25, 1682) against him at 
 the Jamaica Sessions and obtained judgment, but 
 John West, Clerk of the Court, was also attorney 
 for the Indians, and appealed to the next Court of 
 Assizes, \V~ien no Indians appeared, but West 
 plead for them. Hempstead finding no bill brought 
 in by the Indians eight days before trial, neglected 
 to bring their former judgment confirmed. The 
 Couigt :insisted on going on with the trial and 
 Herupstead depended on the minutes of the previ- 
 ous Court in West's possession, but he did not or 
 wo.uld not produce them, and so the town was cast. 
 But it did redound well to the Clerk's advant- 
 age by the Indians' grant and gift to him of a 
 great, tract of land. Hempstead petitions the Gov- 
 ernor for a review of the case as the Indians did 
 not appear at the last trial and were not boulid by 
 it, neither .should Hempstead be. Petition grant- 
 e,(l.T-'Mbmy Becords, 31. 
 
 1682, Oci.^Hendrick Hegeman and others pe- 
 tition the Governor for leave to buy vacant land on 
 Cow Neck, of the Naturals or Indians, as they 
 have gained their suit in the Sessions. • 
 
 1682, 1)ec. 8. — The. town of Hempstead pleads 
 against Hanse and, his associates settling at Rocka- 
 way. — Land Papers, Vol. 2:3. Becords, p. 29. 
 
 1683, Oct. 3. — Thomas Higham, tailor, sells a 
 
la- 
 
 ,Q.XJE-ENS, COUNTY 
 
 negro slave who has lost all thefiiigers on the right- 
 hand, and thumb on- the leit.-^Hempstead Beo., C. 
 
 p. 24:. 
 
 1684-/«7a».'S!:— T-iie, inhal)itants of , Mad Nan's 
 Neck petition the G-ovei-nor for right of coinnipn- 
 age, to have" tEfe privileges of the township, to have 
 the niinister come over among them to ii^struct 
 thfeir children in the duties of Christianity, and to 
 have the right of voting, at town meetings. — Albany 
 Becords, 31. 
 
 ' 1684, March. — Flushing votes to Governor Don- 
 gan 400 acres of land, extending south of Success 
 pond to the edge of Hempstead Plains. Hemp- 
 stead also glraiits him^SOO* acres, adjoining.'- 
 
 1685, Feb. 18: — Morgan Jones, late minister of 
 Newtown, petitions' the Goverrior. He came, he 
 says, from' Maryland to New York, March 9; 1679-, 
 and Governor Andros ordered him to go to New- 
 town tO' Be their niinister.- The Constable and 
 OverseeJS' agreed to give him £50 a year (mer^ 
 chant's J)ay) and fifty acres of land and build a' 
 house &r him. They are now ofilOtf in arreai-s 
 aiid won't -^aj.— 'Albany Becords, 32. 
 
 16855 MmrcJi ¥1. — Jamaica votes that Benjamin 
 Coe and John Hansen shall have liberty to set up 
 a corn and fulling-mill, on Foster's Eiver', "in our 
 Bounds" — giving them the privilege of streair^ ; 
 they engaging to maintain:!, good mill, and grind 
 for the town for the twelfth part. — Becords. 
 
 1685.— Boscobel,' a tract of 2S0' acres, on the 
 south side of Hempstead Plains, was laid oiit for 
 John Spragg, the Governor's Secretary. It was 
 bought of Elias Orty aud others. — Land Bapers, 
 Vol. 2. Town Becord; p. 58. 
 
 1686, Bee. 15.— John Smith complains to the 
 Governor that the Indians pitch their wigwams on 
 land on the north side of Hemjistead, granted him 
 twenty years ago. 
 
 1687, June 12.— Ordered in Council, that Mad 
 Nan's Neck pay all arrears to Hobart, and that 
 they be separated from Hempstead, hereafter, and 
 that Morgan Jones be inducted a& their nainister. 
 
 i68&; March 2'?.-1filliam Smith and John 
 Foster, of Foster's Meadow, and Samuel Sweezy, 
 took (by ■sv'a'rra'at fron* Daniel Whitehead) several 
 marked horses from Southold, but afterward gajte 
 them up and repented. 
 
 im^, May IS.^'All the old Magistrates and 
 mihtary officers are put &ut of office, in Suffolk and 
 Queens counties, by the J)iBople, who choose others 
 in their stead. A great part of the militia have 
 marched from their hortfes, and are now at or flear 
 Jamaica. Their intention is to seize the fort at 
 New York, and to keep o#' J'ope'ry, French inva- 
 sion and slavery. 
 
 1690, Jan. lO.^The officers of the rmlitary 
 com-pahy, on Mad Nan's Neck, are Eichard Os 
 bom. Captain ; John Hobbs; Lieutenant, and Jo- 
 nah S-tl!tton, Ensign. 
 
 1690; April 22. — Nathaniel Pearsall, chosea to 
 the Assembly from Queens County, refuses ttf. sit 
 and act as Eepfesentativ'e.-^2)oc. His., 2 : 282',- 
 
 1690,' i\rov. 7:— Capt-- John Clap,, in behalf of 
 104- citizens of Newtown, Flushing, Hempstead 
 and Jamaica, complaiiis'- to ' the King-, of Leisler's 
 usurpation, and that Jacob MilButn aaid Samuel 
 Edsall have been selling, seiizing and' confiscating 
 their property, for refusing,obedien€fe to him. They 
 even stripped' tlieir wives and dkmghters pf tBeir- 
 wearing: apparet; and shot and' wounded divei-s 
 poor Englishmen's, and then sequestered and sold 
 their estates. 
 
 1690J B^c. 4'.- — Eev.- J, Hobart has an order 
 from the Court of Oyer and Terminer, tp compel 
 Hempstead to pay the arrears of his salary. — Town 
 Becords, jj. 66. 
 
 16-91, March 25.— John Jackson received 38 s. 
 and 6' d. for hay and oats that he furnished to ' 
 twenty-seven horses of the Hempstead troop, that 
 were marched to Brooklyn ferry. 
 
 1691, May 4\ — James Sackett, of Newtown, ap-' 
 pointed, against his own wish. Collector of Taxes, 
 in Leisler's time, prays relief of the Governor, as 
 the people now demand their money back. 
 
 1691. — John Bowne and Nathaniel Pearsall, 
 elected to the Assembly, from Queens County, 
 were dismissed the House, for refusing to take the 
 oath. Five days after, John Jackson, Sheriff of 
 Queens County, returned Captain Daniel White- 
 head and John Tredwell, as members, but Tred- 
 well was seized on some charge, by the Sheriff of 
 New York, and the Assembly, on due . investiga- 
 tion, " find the allegations against him so scandal- 
 ous that he can't serve- as member." Seven days 
 ■ after the Sheriff returns the name of John Eobin- 
 son, to supply TredwieU'S place. — Assembly Jour- 
 nal. 
 
 1691, July 3.'— Jer, Hobart petitions the Gover- 
 nor.- He has been minister of Hempstead eight 
 years and his salary is not paid. — Albany Bee, 
 Vol. 37. 
 
 16Q1, July 11. — To the proprietors and free- 
 holders of the town of Hempstead :-"The reqiiest 
 of John Stuard huffl;bly showeth, that inasmuch as 
 it has pleased God to make me a master of a fami- 
 ly, I finding it a necessity to settle myself, I am 
 willing t& settle among you, to follow the trade of 
 aj eo«q?)er, as- also to practice the art of surgery. I 
 do therefoi-e request that you be pleased to give 
 me a right of i» or 2ft acres of land that is tillable, 
 a little east of the Pine Point, near'tlie Plain Edge. 
 It is the bit of thsst ho-llow, called the Bloody Hol- 
 low, for which I shall be very tkankful, and also 
 ready and willing to serve you in either of the 
 
 arts aforesaid, so far as I have understanding 
 
 Beeotd's C, p, 56-, . ^ 
 
 [81 perspns joined in tJief ai1)ove- petition.], 
 
 1691 f— Cow and Great Neck (45 families) pe- 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
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 tition the Governor to be set off from Hempstead, 
 and choose their own Assessors. To muster, pay- 
 taxes, and carry their grain to that inland place is 
 too great a. hardship, especially as their houses are 
 eight, ten, and some fifteen miles asunder. They 
 wish to send their grain (for taxes) to New York, 
 direct, by water.. — Albany Becords, Vol. 37. 
 
 1692, March 6. — Daniel Lawrence, laborer, is 
 cited to New York, for misdemeanor in damning 
 the blood of the Justices. 
 
 1692, June 17.- — In the list of Captain Peter 
 Schuyler's company, among other names, are :; 
 John Allison, Matthew Bedell, Joseg.h Bates, John 
 G-aile, Thomas Higgom, William Hall, Pr. Mason, 
 Vincent Martin, Kichard Potter, James Pinhouse 
 (for J. Pettit), William Parcell, William Eobard, 
 Amos- Smith, Samuel Skidmore, John Thomas (for 
 Samuel Allyn) and, Jeremy Thicks ton. Queens 
 County contributed 16 men ; lOngs,. 14 ; Suffolk, 
 16. 
 
 1692.- — To Captain Bradhurst's company, Suf- 
 folk contributed 15 men ; Kings, 2 j, and Queens, 
 3, viz : Barnaby Floy, Clerk ; Thomus Force, Ser- 
 geant, and William' Albertson. 
 
 1692, Sep. 9. — John Coe petitions to be set free. 
 He has been fifteen aionths in jail on the suit of 
 Thomas Hire for d£230. He was ari'ested by Hire 
 April 20, 1691, for having brought him to New 
 York on Leisler's warrant. 
 
 1695, Sept. 9. — William Lawrence and John 
 Coe were eleven months in jail for treasonable 
 crimen, in Leisler's time, (April, 1691) and were 
 indicted in October following. 
 
 1694, March 1. — Yoris Abrahamse, of Newtown, 
 was pitched on for Collector of the- County rate, 
 but he petitions the Governor to be- released from 
 the office, as he is wholly incapacitated, under- 
 standing no accounts, nor one who can write or 
 speak English, neither understanding any law, way 
 or method in distraining for saidi rates, not being 
 able to read or know the lists of persons named on 
 it. He also has hired a person to act as his sub- 
 stitute at Fort Albany ; and prays he may not be 
 compelled to serve in both capacities. 
 
 1692-^4. — Thomas Willet cut down two acres of 
 corn of William Peat, at Cow Neck. 
 
 1696, March 17. — The trees of Thomas Willet, 
 at Cow Neck, were cast down with axes, staves 
 and knives, and evils threatened to him by Timo- 
 thy Halstead, Jr., William Peat, George Pearsall, 
 Samuel Eainer, ' Jer. and Israel Smith, Peter Tot- 
 ten, Ephraim Valentine, laborers, and other evil 
 doers. A warrant was issued, by Thomas Hicks 
 and Daniel W&ifteliead, to arrest and carry them to 
 the next jail. They were fined £2 each, where- 
 upon they petitioned the Governor for relief, saying 
 that they went ignorantjy to cut their wood, on 
 Cow Neck, by permission of the town of Hemp- 
 stead. 
 
 1698, Sept. — ^Daniel a'nd John Lawrence were 
 fined .£3 each, for burning a hovel or small house, 
 valued at 6612, 2s., which William Hallet, after 
 digging a cellar, had set up on what they claimed, 
 as their land., 
 
 1698.— Jackson and Whitehead were chosen 
 to the Assembly, and their election was unsue-- 
 cessfuUy contested by Content Titus, Jonas Wood, 
 William Lawrence, Hope Carpenter, and John 
 Coe. — Assemhly Journal. 
 
 1699, March 31. — The petition of Samuel 
 Clowes, to be appointed Comptroller of the Cus- 
 toms, (erroneously dated 1669, on page 6) was re- 
 jected. 
 
 1699, May 6. — Governor Bellomont writes that 
 " Captain Whitehead, who is one of the members . 
 that serve for Queens County, keeps a public house, 
 at Jamaica, and is a disciple of Nichols. 'Tis at 
 his house that Nichols always had' a rendezvous 
 with his pirates, in Colonel Fletcher's time. Nich- 
 ols has so poisoned the people of Queens County 
 (who are all English) that two thirds of them are 
 said to be downright Jacobites, and to avoid taking 
 the oaths to the King (which I lately enjoined all 
 the males to do from sixteen years old and up- 
 wards) a great many pretend themselves Quakers, 
 but soon after, at the election of Assemblymen, 
 those very men pulled off the mask of Quakerism, 
 and were got very drunk, and swore and fought 
 bloodily — their patron Nichols being a spectator 
 all the while. In Suffolk they are all English too, 
 bat of a quite different temper and principle, the 
 balance is, as I am told, ten WUliamites for one 
 Jacobite."— CoZ. His., 4 : 508.. 
 
 1699. — A third part of the goods imported into 
 the Colony of New York were run into the four 
 ports on Long Island, viz. :. Setauket, Oysterbay, 
 Musketo Cove and Soiith&ld. John Townsend, of 
 Oysterbay, was appointed by the Governor, Sur- 
 veyor of the Customs, with a . salary of <£30 per 
 year and one third of the seizures, but being abused 
 by" the inhabitants, he soon resigned his office 
 " through fear of being knocked on the head " by 
 some of the smugglers.^- JoMrwaZ of Assemhly. 
 
 No date. — Mercy, an Indian woman, of Cow 
 Neck, says that Penuis, an Indian, the Sagamore's 
 son, belonging to Block Island, enq^uired if she 
 knew how many houses there were on this end of 
 Long Island ;, and further asked Massecue, an In- 
 dian, servant of Samuel Sands, whether he would 
 assist him to cut off the English. Upon which 
 Massecue wished to know whether they wouldT be 
 kind t© them. But answer was isiiade that no mer- 
 cy should be shown, but if the Mohawks should say, 
 " strike," he would do it But, saith the Indian, 
 if you will join with us, then you shall be safe, all 
 one as one of us. And Mercy says that Penuis 
 had been out upon discovery upon Great Mad 
 Na,n's Neck,* Cow Neck and Littleworth, and pla- 
 
 *Great Neck was originally called Mad Nan's Neck. 
 
14 
 
 QTJ.EElSrS iO'O.UlfTY 
 
 ces thereabouts, -who a£terwa,rds made his bpagts 
 that he would d,estroy these places like nothing, ; 
 and this Penuis was designed to go into the Mo- 
 hawk country and raise a party of Indians to land 
 in the night' arid foggy days, by small numbers at a 
 time, arid so keep them private in the woods until 
 he had his number on Long, Island to accomplish 
 his design ; and further the French are to taeet by 
 water and so fall on and destroy all together, for 
 Leisler's sake. Further, Penijis said, if this Indi- 
 an woman would keep his counsel, that after he 
 had conc|jUered the Island and destroyed the Eng- 
 lish, he would make her his queen, and he set ,a 
 mark on her arm as a demonstra#on of his fidelity. 
 
 Joseph Hunt, an Indian belonging to Rye, and 
 landing on Cow Neck, the 14th inst., declared of 
 six stray Indians seen in 'the woods on the Main, 
 who had their faces blacked and their eyes red — a 
 token of war. On Wednesday last there came a 
 strange Indian into a wigwtiin on Cow Neck, who 
 had a new. coat, gun, hatchet and two kniyes, oHe 
 in each , garter, of his stockings, who .enquired 'if 
 there were any more houses thereabouts. The In- 
 dian girl tbeing afraid said there were more. He 
 then asked whether this was Tackapousha's coun- 
 try.. Being afraid she answered he was dead, and 
 his .. country was further southward ; and so the 
 Indian went away, and nothing • furthfer was (heard 
 of Mm. ^ ..--■■' I! «■;" ' ui ''•; 
 
 Captain Sands' Indian was much affrighted- at 
 the ,,new;s,_but after some private conference be- 
 tween Joseph BTuht and Captain Sands'- Indians, 
 they w;'ere all reconciled and quiet in their minds 
 and went all cheerfully about his business. And 
 all the Indians repaired to that Indian house 'ii\ 
 night where the strange Indian w^s , ,s'eeii,_^a,iid the , 
 Indian seems ever since lo' be much encouraged. 
 
 A further relation from Mr. Sands, -jvhich he had 
 from an Indian boy, thai this Penuis would have 
 an Indian, called Charles, to go up to Albany, 'for 
 they did intend (5 or 6,000 of them) to ^et into 
 Albany; under pretence of -going to take Canada. 
 Under this pretence the Dutch ahdi English will 
 be kind and' open hearted, and in the hight of their 
 frolic we will cut off the town. — Col. Mss., Vol 37. 
 
 1701. — Jackson and Whitehead were expelled 
 the House of Assembly, for absenting' themselves 
 and refusing to serve. "They left the House, '.ais 
 they said, because non-residents were not allowed 
 to Sitj but refused to give their reason to the House. 
 Colonel Thomas Willet and John Talman were 
 elected in place of the expelled members. It seems 
 they presented to the House an offensive-paper, 
 " written in barbarous language ; indited by others 
 who. took advantage of their simplicity.'^' They 
 then went home and would not obey the.summpns 
 to attend the House', whereupon they too were ex- 
 pelled. The offensive paper that catised this ex- 
 pulsion closed 'in these words: " till you giv us 
 furder satisfaktion and the speaker (Gouverfleur) 
 clere himself from being an aliane, we cannot acte 
 with you, to sit and spend ower tynie and the 
 countie's mony to mackeactes that-s^'ill be voyd'in 
 
 themselves— andiwe consider -you no house." Cap- 
 tain, Thomas,, Hicks , and ■ Jonathan Smith were 
 elected in plac,e of , Ijbe expelled members. — Ass. 
 Journal. . , . 
 
 • 1701, Mai/ 3. — John Searing, .Jobn Carle, and 
 Thomas Gildersleeve, are chosen at Town Meeting - 
 to' repair the Meeting 'House, on the town's charge. 
 — Hempstead Bec&nds' Z>, jj. '94. 
 
 1702. ^^The Eev. George Keith, in his Journal, 
 says.: "I arrived at Boston from England, June 
 11th, with Eev: Patrick .Gordon, who died about J 
 six weeks after, at Jamaica, oi a, violent fever then 
 frequent at New York, where he first had it as is 
 thonght- The Quakers hav:e their greatest meet- 
 ings at; Flushing and Oysterbay. These I have 
 aljteijded several times. Sept. ISth, -^e (Talbot 
 and Keith) hired a sloop to carry us from New 
 London to Oysterponds, Long Island. After that, 
 we came on yhors^bactk twenty -four miles, and , 
 lodged at Mr. Howell's, an inn-keeper. . Next day , 
 we, travelled forty-five , miles i to Seatalket, and ; 
 lodged at M,i;. Gibs's, innrkeeper. JSText day trav- 
 elled thirty -two, miles to Oystei^bay, where we, 
 were kindly received and hospitably entertained by 
 Edward' White,, at ,hi^'^ house, on frepcost, for sev- 
 eral days, whej-e we ' staid to rest and-^refresh us., 
 He was a Justice of the; Peace, and had, with his 
 wife, been^ formerly a, Quaker, and., was, not, quite 
 cbjn,e,off! frpHi thein- Sept. 20th, (Sunday) at the ; 
 reqjiest of Mr,, White, and some neighbqrs,; having 
 uged, tji^,, church prayers, I preached .from "Titus, , 
 Si: 11, 12, and that day llr., Talbot,. baptized a, 
 child; at the .request of the, mpther, the hiisband 
 being 'frpm,,homs,f. Sept. 24th, I went to tj3,e'i 
 Quakers' meeting, at Flushing, accpjnpanied , by,, 
 Mr.,Talbp-t, and Mr. Vesey, and, divers other per^s 
 sons froni, Jamaica, well, .affected ,to the Church of 
 Englap,d. , ■ AftesP some time of silence I began to . 
 speak,„,s.ti^n,ding, ,up,^n. the gallery, where their 
 speakers u.se to stand- when they speak ; - tjiit I TaSi 
 so much- interrupted by th<3 cleinior and, noise that, 
 seyeral of the Quakers made, forbidding me to 
 speak, ;th9,t I eonlil not proceed. Aftei; this one • 
 of their speakers -began to spea,k, and continued 
 about an.'hour. The .whole was a^a|EHble of non- 
 sense, and perversion of Scripture -vs^ith gross te^ec- 
 tions -^n the church and government thpjr^., ' ^q^ 
 said y|ce was .set, up (which was a reflection on the 
 go vernmenti there) because some were lately made 
 Justices of tlje Peace on Long Island,, who were 
 not greatly affected -to Quakerism, etcl, etc. After 
 he had done he went out of the meeting in all haste, 
 fearing he should be questioned about what he had; 
 -said. I stood np again^to speak -but they made a 
 new interruption, and threatened me with being 
 guilty of a breach of the "Act of toleration," and 
 thereby had put myself <£20 in the Queen's "debt. 
 I replied that I was silent while their preacher was 
 speaking, but that they broke the Act by inter- 
 rupting me. They said I had no right to speak in 
 their meeting house, which they had paid for, and 
 I had contributed nothing. One was so hot that 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 15 
 
 he c^feimanded me to go out of the house. I said 
 that it was not his, and that all who have a mind 
 to come in at meeting-time may come, and ye are 
 hound to keep your doors open, etc., etc. Sept. 
 30th, I preached from James, 5 :.13y at the weekly 
 Fast, appointe^y the Governor, By reason of: the 
 great mortality then in New York, where above 
 500 died in the space o£ a few weeks,- and that 
 very week, 70. My Lord^Combxirywas very'kind 
 to us. At his invitation we did eat at- his tahlfe 
 ; both Sundays and other times.. Sept. 27. (Sundky)) 
 ' I preached at Hempstead in the afternoon, from 
 JjTike, 10 : 42, where was-suoH a multitude that the 
 church could not hold them so that many stood 
 without, at the doors and windows, to hear, who 
 were generally well affected and 'greatly deshed 
 • that a Church of England minister should be set- 
 tled among them. MS-.. John Thomas is now their 
 minister. Nov. 26,' (Thursday). I preached at 
 Hempstead, on Acts, 2&r.-V8: Nov. 29) preached 
 1 again there, on Heb., 8 : 10, 11, 12. Dec. 3; I 
 ' again- visited the Quaker meeting, at Flushing, 
 having obtained a letter from My Lord Combury 
 , to two Justices of the Peace to go along with me, 
 to see that the Quakers- should not interrupt me , 
 but they did,.and'to9k nwnotiee of My Lord Com- 
 bury 'i letten which was read to themi by Talbot, 
 in their meeting. I brought the printed' Act of 
 toleration -with me, and Talbot'read some passages 
 to show that they had not qualified their meeting 
 houses nor their preachers as the Act requires. 
 . We staid and heard three speakers utter nonsense 
 ; and' perversions of scripture. The chief speaker, a 
 ! most ignorant person, said : " Balak fGbrnbury] 
 had sent Balaam [Keith]' to curse the people of 
 God." After they had done, and generally gone 
 away, (speakers "and others) many who were not 
 Quakers staid and heard me detect the perversions 
 . they had made of. the scriptures, etc. Dec. 6, I 
 ; preached ^at Oysterbay, in the Town House, on 
 ' Eom., 10 '. 7, 8, 9, and we were kindly entertained 
 : by Edward White. 1703, Nov. 14i--fS1adky) 1 1 
 preached at Jamaica, on Heb. 8 :,9, lOi. Nov. IT,' 
 
 1 preached at Oysterbay, (Wednesday) ■ on Jude., 
 20, 21 ; and Nov. 19, I baptized the wife of Cap- 
 tain Jones and the -wife of Edward White and all 
 his children, tiree sons and five daughters. (He 
 and his wife -were formerly Quakers but are come 
 over to the church)^ Nov. .2;6i; (Saturday) )I bap- 
 tized John Towflsend, Justice of the Peace and his 
 three chiMren and Mr. Nathaniel Cole, his wife and 
 three children. There,, had scarce been any pro- 
 fession of the CJiristiauireli^on among the people 
 of that to-wn...,13hey hadlscarce any, notion of re-^- 
 ligion but Quakerism.'- IShe Quakers- had formerly 
 a meeting there but many of= them- became follow- 
 ers of Thomas Chase [pasejj and were called 
 " Chase's crew," who set up a new sort of Quaker- 
 ism, and condemned marriage, etc.- Nov. 21, (Sun- 
 day) I preached at Hempstead church, on 1 Peter, 
 
 2 : 9, and lodged at Isaac Smith's, four miles from 
 the church, where I baptized a young woman of 
 his family, and a boy aiid'girl of his relations and a 
 
 neighbor's child, a boy. This Smith had formerly 
 been a Quaker, and was scarce then fully come off, 
 but came and heard me preach and was well af- 
 fected, and did kindly entertain me. 
 
 1702, Oct. 20. — On account of the sickness in 
 New York, by which . 500 died in ten weeks, the 
 Assembly adjourned to Jamaica till November 
 14th. [It was the yellow fever, brought from St. 
 Thomas],— Co?. Him, 4 : 972, 1004. 
 
 1702, Oct. — Four horse-carts and sixteen wag- 
 ons were hired to go from Jamaica to Brooklyn 
 Ferry for the transportation of Governor Com- 
 bury's effects, a horse for the trimipeter and a 
 horse for Antony Walters. 
 
 1702, Nov. 17. — -The town of Hempstead votes 
 one hundred acres of land; with conveniences of 
 
 I -watering near the East Meadow Point, for a free 
 school ;. also timber for building, fencing and fire- 
 wood, with other cqnveniences. — Ass. Journal, 1 : 
 150.- 
 
 1703; Jan. 12.: — -^ ^ general town meeting are 
 chosen for Church Warden, John Pine ; for Ves- 
 trymen, Jona. Smith, SaiBuelltentonr. Daniel Kis- 
 
 sam; Jblin Ha-vilandJ and r These for 
 
 Hempstead. For Oysterbay — Thomas Jones, 
 Church Warden ; Edmund Wright, Isaac Dough- 
 ty, Samuel Dickinson, Eichard Willis and Na- 
 thaniel Coles, Vestrymen.^^ — Becords D, ^. 114. 
 
 1703, Nov. 8. -^William La-wrence met Jacob 
 Wiltse, of Newto-wji, on the highway, near the late 
 Thomias La-wrence's,-, and assaulted him with a 
 stake, which he suddenly took up, and smote him 
 with that violence and blows that he broke his 
 arm ; under the pain and bruises of which he now 
 languishes. Bat Lawrence being of His Majesty's 
 Council, Wiltse can. get no satisfaction unjess he 
 presents him: to tHe 'Gouneal.-.— <7o?. M.ss., Vol. 48. 
 
 lOT4t April IL — Jamaica -grants liberty to John 
 Gale to set up'a'gyist mill, being a tide mill near 
 to or upon the great hamoc, or upon the old town 
 neeky for grinding well, the- town's corn (before 
 strangers')) ati all- seasonatlfe- times, fit for either 
 sifting or bolting;- and for the 12th part ; and at 
 all.tiiaes to use his best skill and endeavor to grind 
 as-'is'-^above expressed ; and not to set up a fulling 
 mill on said creek ; i. e. on the creek between the 
 old town neck and long neck. 
 
 1704, May 8. — A good fulling mill to be sold at 
 Oysterbay, as also a plantatioa having on it, a large 
 new brick house, barn, stable, ete., a young orchard 
 anditwenty acres clear land. Enquire of William 
 
 'Btedford, printer. New York, and know further .^ — 
 Boston News Letter. 
 
 1704, May 31.-^Tuni3 Johnson, Derick John- 
 son Amberman and Derick Longstreet, fishermen, 
 of ■ Flatlands, were brought prisoners to Jamaica 
 for trespassing in Jamaica Bay by fishing with 
 
 *Oysterbay "and Hfempstead, By act of Assembly, were 
 constituted one parish. 
 
16 
 
 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 nets -witliont consent of th^ freeholders. They 
 were let off on their giving' a bond for'^eiOO not to 
 do so again. But in May, 1707, Grovernor Corn- 
 bury ordered them to attend him at EockaiTray 
 Beach, with their boats and nets, and bid them, 
 when there, to fish and draw their nets. ' After 
 Cornbury was out of office (May, 1709)ithe people 
 of Jamaica sued- the fisherraen for the penalty of 
 their bond which they had forfeited. The prison- 
 ers petition for a i-elease from their bond. — -Col. 
 Mss., 49 md 53. 
 
 1704, June 16.. — Arrived in New York, the 
 Eev. Mr. Urquhart, Minister of Jamaica. He 
 came from England in the Eaulkland, man-of-war; 
 in consequence of the sea being infested with 
 French and Spanish privateers. , 
 
 1704. — Saipuel Clowes, at Jamaica, is fined' =65 
 for selling rum by the small measure, contrary to 
 law, to Maty Denton, who con-^eyed it to Samuel 
 Mills' tavern.— (7oL Mss., 49. 
 
 1704, Oct. 17.— Major Daniel Whitehead dies, 
 and Jona. Whitehead, his son, is elected to the 
 Assembly in his stead. ^ ' 
 
 1705, April 9. — Hard frost last night. It' 
 blows hard aiid cold from the north-west, which, 
 we fear, will do great damage. 
 
 1705, April 23.— On Wednesday Isist wag, tried 
 in Jamaica, by a special commission of Oyer and 
 Terminer and Delivery, before Eoger Mompesson, 
 Esq., Chief Justice of New York and NeV Jersey, 
 one Samuel Wo6d, late of Connecticut Colony, for 
 stealing money and goods from John Marsh. He 
 was found guilty and sentenced tp' be burnt in the 
 left cheek near the nose w-ith the letter T. — Cor- 
 respondent of the Boston News Letter. 
 
 1705, Ma^ 30,— John Searing, Sr., John Carle 
 and Thomas Gildersleeve' are chosen by major 
 vote, in answer to an order from the Governor, to 
 repair the Parsonage house and home lot, and 
 fence the Parsonage meadow, so that they may be 
 tenantable, at the town's cost and charge, and to 
 repair the church and what is needful about them 
 9II. — Hempstead Records D, p. 160. 
 
 1705, Oct. 11. — Jamaica, on Friday, 5th inst., 
 died here the Eev. Mr. John Hubbard, Pa,stor'of 
 the church in this place, aged 28 years 'and 9 
 months wanting four days. He was buried on 
 the 7th. 
 
 1705, July 17. — Governor Cornbury says wool- 
 en manufactures are. setting up, and he has seen 
 serge made on Ijong Island, that any man might 
 wear. 
 
 1705, Oct. 20.— "Mr. Urquhait js well chosen 
 for the people of Jamaica, and indeed, I think, 
 none fitter than the Scotch Episcopal to deal with 
 WMgs and fanatics of all sorts. Had not Hub- 
 bard been allowed to preach, he would have 
 brought them all to the church by this time ; but 
 now they resort to a barn that is hard by and will 
 
 not payiMi. Urquhart what is: allowed 1 by law, 
 though My Lord ' Cbrnbilry hM, given orders for 
 it" — Talbot in Keith's Journal, ' ' 
 
 l%5, Dee.' li'.— William, John, £)amel, and 
 Jona. Lawrence, cut' down the fe^ce'of William 
 Hallet, Newtown, with axes. ' '' ' ' 
 
 1706, Jan. 5.— Thanksgiving day, for the suc- 
 cess of His Majies^ty's' arms.' '' ■ ' ''[' 
 
 :■ 1706, Jan,. 7. — Christmas day was the coldest 
 day 'ever felt in New York. The Hudson was 
 frozen over and continued fast for several days.; 
 
 1706, Jan, 21. — Extraordinary warm weather 
 for twelve days past, 
 
 . 1706, July S9. — Embargo laid oti shipping in 
 New York for sixty days ; shops: shut, no ordinary 
 work to be done, but all must turn out and work 
 on the fortifications. Besides those in the Fort, 
 one hundred cannon are mounted. — Boston News 
 Letter, ' 
 
 1706, Oct 14.— Great rains and mighty floods 
 in. and about New York. 
 
 I ,1707, Jan. 14. — At a .general town meeting 
 held in Hempstead, according to Act of Assembly, 
 by major vote of the people, John Scaring; Cap- 
 tain John Carman, John .'Treadwell, "Jr.; 'isaae 
 Doty, Sr., Abraham Undej,-hill, Morris Sliadbolt 
 and Nathaniel Coles, are chosen Vestrymen for 
 the present year. ; and Mr. Thomas Jones and 
 Thomas Gildersleeve, Chuich Wardens. — Becords 
 I>,p. 193. 
 
 1707, Jaw, 29. — So mild a winter never known. 
 ,A.ll this month, except a day or two, was like 
 
 .March or April. . ' 
 
 1707, Jan. 20. — At a meeting, of the Justices, 
 Church Warden^ and Vestry, the Assessors are 
 ordered to assess every free-holder and Sojourner 
 in Hempsljead and the bounds thereof, to raise the 
 sum of £4:0 for the minister, £5 for the poor, and 
 662, 5s. for the Collector's salary. — Becords L>, p. 
 194. ' ' ' 
 
 1707.— Dr. Henry Taylor, of Flushing had his 
 barn burnt. — Col. Mss., 52. 
 
 1707, Jan. 23.— The Eev. John Hampton, an 
 itinerant minister, preached on, Sunday, January 
 20th, in the Presbyterian church,. NewtQwn, with- 
 out having first procured a license from Governor 
 Cornbury and also gave notice th.a,t Eev. Francis 
 Makemie would officiate there on Wednesday. 
 But Cornbury anticipating them, had them both 
 arrested, as soon as they reached Newtbiisrn, by 
 Thomas Cardale,' High Sheriff of Queens county, 
 and Stephen Luff, Under Sheriff. They , were 
 kept as prisoners on parole, at the houses of two 
 of the neighbors tha,t night. The next day they 
 were led off in a sort 'of triumph to Jamaica, seven 
 or eight miles out of the direct road, and there kept 
 all day and night. On the 23d, at noon, they got 
 to the Fort in New York. After vexatious delays 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 17 
 
 they were tried for disseminating docStiines, "to 
 the great disturbance of the church as by law es- 
 tablished." The jury acquitted them but the Grov- 
 erAor had a heavy bill of costs imposed on them, 
 ^83, 7s., 6c?., which they Lad to pay before they 
 were set free. — Narrative of Imprismvincnt 
 
 ,1707, Jan. 26.— On Saturday night, "William 
 Hallet, Jr., Esq., of Newtowii, his wife and five 
 children, were all inhumanly murdered by an In- 
 dian- man and negro woman, their own slaves, who 
 were apprehended and confessed the fact. They 
 did it, as is said, because they were restrained from 
 going abroad on Sabbath days. They were exe- 
 cuted at Jamaica, Monday, February 2d, and put 
 to all the torments possible for a terror to others of 
 ever attempting the like wickedness. 'Several, 
 other families were destined for the like slaughter, 
 had they succeeded in this without discovery. 
 February 10. — On Satm-day last two negro men 
 were also executed at Jamaica, as accessaries to 
 this barbarous murder, and several others are in 
 custody. Our Chief Justice* Judges and Attorney- 
 Greneral, are indefatigable in the discovery of the 
 negro plot and bloody murder, and are still, sitting 
 at Jamaica in prosecution thereof. — Boston News 
 Letter. 
 
 1707, ; July 7.— A convenient .farm between 
 Huntington and Oystei:ba,y, of .34J00 or 4,00,0 
 acres, on a neck called Queens VUlage alias Horse 
 Neck — good meadow, well wooded and watered. 
 Ten or twelve rods oi fence will enclose the whole. 
 Five hundred acres, more or less, are to hire.^^jBos- 
 ton Neivs Letter, 
 
 1708, Sept, 2. — Divers of the principal inhabi- 
 tants of Queens County petition the Assembly for 
 a law to repair or build anew the County Hall and 
 common jail. Granted. — Ass. Jour., 1 -. 221. 
 
 1709, April 5. — John Talman and John Town- 
 send are elected to the Assembly. The return of 
 the latter is unsuccessfiilly contested by William 
 Lawrence and Thomas Waters. Cornelius WUlet, 
 High Sheriff, prays to be re-imbursed his, great ex- 
 penses in defending himself against the groundless 
 complaint of said Dftwrence and Waters. — Ass. 
 Jour., 1 : 241. ' ' ' 
 
 1709, Nov. 10. — A writ is issued for electing two 
 members of the present Assembly, in the rooms of 
 Mr. John. Talman and Captain John Townsend, 
 
 . deceased. — Ass. Jour., 1 : 267. 
 
 1710, July 4.^ jona. Everett, brother «f John, 
 Sheriff of Queens County, was in New York, at 
 the hpuse of Mr. Cure, victualler, when a difference 
 happened between Everett and one John Harold, 
 a Sailor, who violently beat and disfigured 'Everett ■ 
 so that he came home sick and died on the 16th. 
 Verdict of the Coroner's Jury that he was mur- 
 dered by Harold, who in the mean time had fled 
 on boaBd one of His Majesty's ships. — Col. Mss., 
 Vol.'sl 
 
 1710, Sept. 12.— James Clements, William Wil- 
 
 lis,, iThomaS; Jones, Peter Benian, ^ij^,J2^chariah 
 Mills, Supervisors of Queens County, pray that a 
 bill may be brought in the Assembly to confirm the 
 purchase of a County Hall and Jail, and, to sell the 
 old hall and two jails,, and the labd between the 
 old and new buildings^the land to run back till it 
 meets the Parsonage lot. — Ass. Journal, 1 : 274. 
 
 1710, Sept. 13.— An act passed to enable the Su- 
 pervisors of Queens County to sell the old County 
 Hall and Prisons, and confirm their purchase of 
 new ones. The people of Jamaica pray that they 
 may he supported in their property of the lapds on 
 which the gaols and sessions .house stood, and the 
 lands hetween them. — Ass, Jour., 1 : 275 - 7. 
 
 1711, July 9. — The G-overnor requires the peo- 
 ple's houses in Jamaica to be inspected for pork, 
 bacon and other provisions, by Eichard Oldfield, 
 who reports 13,615 lbs. wheat flour, 622 bushels 
 wheat and 5,583 lbs. salt meat. — Col. Mss., Vol. 65. 
 
 lYlT,' Jiily 16.— Thomas Whitehead was Cap- 
 tain of a company of Queens County militia, to go 
 on an expedition to Canada. J ohn Lokison was 
 in Captain Jackson's coippany to go to Albany. — 
 Col. Mss., 55. 
 
 .j .1711,, July 18. — Several inhabitants, of Queens 
 County petition the Assembly that if their appren- 
 tices be compelled to go on the Expedition to 
 Canada, their masters may reap the benefit. — Ass. 
 Jour.., 4 : 293. ■ 
 
 1712, Nov. 4. — Samuel Baylis, Esq., and other 
 inhabitants of Queens County, petition the Assem- 
 bly to lessen , the rewards for killing squirrels, 
 crows or bla,ckbirds and their young .ones. — Ass. 
 Jfnur., 1 : 328. 
 
 1716, Aug. 31. — A ])ill was brought in the As- 
 sembly to encourage the .destroying of foxes and 
 wild cats ,on Long Island.^ J.ss. Jour., 1 : 389. 
 
 171'2. — Two depositions are sent to Governor 
 Hunter against Jona. Wright, for not paying the 
 " listing " money for the late expedition and using , 
 coiitemptuous language. j 
 
 1712, May 21, (Wednesday) was Thanksgiving 
 day for deliverance from the negro plot. ^ Mr. 
 Poyer preached at Jamaica from Psalms, 5:11. 
 
 17lS, Nov. 20.— Was buried at the Kills, New- ' 
 town, Eichard Betts, aged 113 years.— Power's 
 Records. 
 
 1714, May 10. — Sheep-parting at Isaac Smith's, 
 Herricks, for washing and shearing ; and on the 
 first Monday in October, when 'they are to be 
 driven off the Plains. — Toivn Records. 
 
 1714, Dec. 20.— On Friday, Deborah Gryce 
 was hanged at Jamaica for murdering her child. 
 After conviction she confessed the fact. — Cor. of 
 Boston News Letter. 
 
 1715, Jan. 3. — On Friday, a free negr-o woman 
 was hanged at Jamaica for murdering her child. — 
 
 Boston News Letter. 
 
18 
 
 Q^UEENS COUNTY 
 
 1718, Sept. 2Bi — Eichard Combesji BfepjWtj Con- 
 stable, having received a warrant mth an assess- 
 ment annexed, to levy the ministerii rate, went to 
 the house of l)aniel Bull, Jara»ioa^,aaid demanded 
 his proportion thereof.. Bull said he would pay 
 nothing, on which the Constable said he must dis- 
 train. . Bull inutnediately- -toek . u^ an axe and 
 swinging it over the constable's head said, in very 
 great haste, he would split his brains if he touched 
 any thing there.. Presently Jacaftiah Denton 
 came to the window, whom . the constable com- 
 manded, in thejKing's name, to assist him,, but he 
 laughed and refused to obey. Combes then went 
 up and • down town and mustered sixteen or sev- 
 enteen peoplej but when he returned he found Bull, 
 William, Carman, Sammel and Henry Ludlum, 
 Robert and Hezekiah Denton,, and Eghraim Smith, 
 standingj^before the door with g^eat clubs in their 
 hands, and stripj)ed to their waisteoats, who lifting 
 ; up tjieir clubs, .bid him come if he duist, and gave 
 ; him a gjeat deal of scurrilous lang^iag^.. Bull then 
 I advancedt.twa or three steps fromsihis company to- 
 wards the constable, and-.told him if he cana® one 
 foot forward, he would knock out his brains.- The 
 'constable then seeing there were twenty or thirty 
 persons in Bull's, company walked off .and made no 
 distress.. ItsagsearsAat" when the constable or- 
 dered Eobert Denton, Thomas Thurston, Adam 
 Smith and three or four others to aid and assist 
 him, CeorgeMcNish, the Presbyterian minister, 
 told them not to mind or obey him^ The rioters 
 apologized December 18th, and were let offswith a 
 fine of =626 lOs.] j-i)oc. His.^ 3,. 287, 
 
 1720, Feb. 12.— Tim ; Bagfejr, has license to 
 manufacture oil from whales driven ashore oil the 
 south coast of Long Island. 
 
 1720, Oct. 28.— A bill was brought ia the Assem- 
 bly to empower the Justices of Queens County to 
 sell their County House and Jail, in Jamaica, and 
 build another where they shall think most conve- 
 nient, in said county. — Ass. Jour., 1 : 444. 
 
 ' 1721, Feb. 24.— This day there was a famous 
 horse race run for MQ, between the inhabitants of 
 Queens County and Samuel Bayard, merchant, of 
 New York, where the latter gained but little. . 
 
 1721, Sept. 11. — The distemper among hoBSes 
 continues and spreads on Long^ Island, and; not 
 only, horses, but also many neat . cattle and.hces 
 are dead. ~ 
 
 1722,. Sept: 29.— John Chanders is tried--fbr 
 forgery in cheating Moses Eiirjuan. His bonds- 
 men were Robert.CranfiU and. l&lkert Harman..., 
 
 Vi22,Sept. 29-— Andrew Gale, Jamaica, is tried 
 for murder. Verdict, not guijty. . Witnesses foE 
 the King— Phebe Carpenter, Cornelius Loesie, 
 William Johnston, John Mills, Samuel 6lQw«s, 
 Eichard Oldfield.and Nehemiah Smith; for the 
 prisoner— John Cai-penter, Cabriel Luff, Daniel 
 
 Smith, Thomas Thurston, and Abigail Gale 
 
 Judge Morris's Minutes. 
 
 ' 1722. — Before November 12tli, James Loquar*; 
 
 i school-master, of-. Jamaica, bad. died..^ His effect^ 
 were linder o£50. Eey. George McNish, as chief 
 creditor, was appointed administrator,^ — County 
 Mecords. 
 
 1722, Nov. 29. — Ean away from Ezek'iel Bald- 
 win, of Hempstead, one Indian man, slave, named 
 Dickj. of; middle stature, and of a smiling counten- 
 ance. He speaks English pretty well and no other 
 langiiage, and canjead,. He has a big^nose and 
 has white scratches on his arms and a blue spot on 
 the inside of one of: his wrists, a little above his 
 shirt wristbands. He ran away about the begin- 
 ning of. September, and had on a homespun shirt 
 
 1 and a dark c«lored drugget coat. We have been 
 informed that he intended to get into Indian 
 "habit., Qthers tell that. heJbas said he -wtiuld go 
 ■'toward Newi London and' Hhode Island and so to 
 Jsea., Whoever can take up said Indian man and 
 i secure him, ajad give notice to his master, so that 
 ' he can be had again, shall have three pounds re- 
 ward;' besides reasonable charges. — Amer. Weeklffi 
 Mercwy, Phila. 
 
 1723, April 2. — John Baker is chosen whipper 
 for Hempstead and the bounds thexeoi^^r—Becords, 
 B, p. 3396!. 
 
 1723, May S.— Thomas Lynstead, bom in Eng- 
 land, and of loose religious principles, bad taught ' 
 school at Oysterbay two years, when being detect- 
 jcd by Mrs. Albertson in having false money bills, 
 of the denomination of 20s.,, in his possession, ia. 
 a stocking, he hung himself in a stable, at Hemp- 
 stead. A large parcel of these bills, snpposed to 
 be' pi-inted in Ireland, were afterward foundc ifl a 
 !hollow»tree near Jamaica, and burnt, by order of/the 
 Assembly.— CoLilfss.,. 65, and Ass. Joitr.,.lbMO. 
 
 1723, June 25. — Tiin Bagley has a commission 
 as ranger in the Island of Nassau in place of 
 Hicks. 
 
 1723, July 5.— Tha. Justices of, thjB. Peace. ia. 
 Queen's County are authorized to repainthe ^©la-^ 
 and Court House. — Ass. Journal, 1 : 499.: 
 
 _1724r,May 20.:TrJBy orde^f ithe Supreme Court, 
 Eichard Bsadley* AttorneyyGeneral, prosecuted 
 Colonel , Isaac ig^cks and Colonel Thomas Willet, 
 Eepresaatatives of Queens Odunty, togeth'er with ■ 
 all the other Justices of the Peace,>for the insuffi- 
 ciency of the County JML... The House vote it a 
 breach' of privilege. Hicks and Willet have leave 
 to go home a few days on extraordina,ry business.^ — 
 \Ass. Jour.,.l : 501. 
 
 11 2U June 11.— A biUwas-bhsfUghtin the As- 
 ■ sembly to enable the Justices of the Peace, in 
 'Queens Cousty, to finish and complete the gaol and 
 Court'Housealready erected. — Ass. Jour., 1 : 504. 
 
 '■ 1725,- S6pt::}:3.—KT. Benjamin Hicks is elected 
 to the Assembly, in room of Colonel Thomas Wil- 
 let, deceased. — Ass. Jour., 1 :.516.,. 
 
 1726, Dec. 16.— The house occupied by the 
 
 \ \ 
 
IN, OXDEN TIMES. 
 
 19 
 
 widow. Helena Semi^s, at FJtiatjngs.-was as^iden- 
 tal'ly set on fire and all her stifestanee burnt. Loss 
 ■£60, exclusive of ^ the, house, which was not hers. 
 She beijjg agedii.gjQtitions the GoYernor. for a li- 
 cense to solicit Aonsi,%ims.—C(il. Mss., VdhS!?. 
 
 1726,' J}ec. 20. — Samjjel, a colored man, of 
 Flushing, wd;s execiited, a^t Jainaica, for burglary 
 i in that ,p][g,ee. . ^ 
 
 1727, March 10. — Died, Samuel Mills, yeoman, 
 of Jamaica, aged. 95,:yeai;s. He was born jn 
 America, and always a very laborious, honest man 
 ; of very temperate life, and able, to do a good^day's 
 work but a few days before, he died. He left be- 
 hind him p-ine children, eig]jty;grand-childred, fifty- 
 four great grand-children; and several of the last 
 are marriageable. His wife was delivered of a 
 chijdi when she was 51 years old.: . He lived sixty- 
 eight years T)scith her, and she is ,still lalive, and has 
 had sixteen child];^Bi^7:=^. Y. G'ase^. , 
 
 1727, Oct. 3G. — Last night, between the hours 
 of ten and eleven, we had a small shocksof.an 
 earthquake, which awaked soraei people outi of 
 their sleep. The same night there were tw6' 
 shocks on Long Islands ; i i 
 
 1727. — Afa Court in New York^ December ith, 
 David^JWaUace and Da,vid Wilson, convicted of a 
 cheat, in passing.^ome counterfeit biUa of credit^ of 
 New Jersey, are , sentenced to stand in' the Pjllory, 
 on the 12th in^t.,i Between the hours of ten and 
 eleven; and then. placed in a cga:t, so as to be 
 publicly seen, with a halter about their necks, and 
 brought to the,-piii3!lick ijrhipping post, and there 
 to receive, the foianeE thirty -nine, and the latter, 
 twenty-eigiit, stripes ; then, after a convenient time, 
 to, be taken to the Ferry, and,, on thp 3d Tuesday 
 in January, to ,be> set, in the PiilQry,f,t Flatbush,*? 
 and be whipped as before ; then to^be cpnyeyed to 
 Jamaica,* and, on the 4tih Tuesday in Februaryj to. 
 stand on the Pillory and be whi|j|)ed!ias before ;, 
 then to be served the same in Westchester,* on thb' 
 4tJi Tuesday in March; after al which Wallace is 
 to- be iniprisoned six months, and-.Wilson three 
 months, and then discharged on paying their fees.' 
 — Bradford's N..Y,Jiase^e. . 
 
 1728. — The 'Jamaica Fair opens Tuesday,. May 
 6th, and continiaes four days, when there wUl be 
 exposed to , sale a variety of goods, merchandize 
 and several fine hoa^ses. , It is expected the LION 
 will be there to bfe seen. — N. T. Gaz:, No. 131. 
 
 1728, Aiig. 9. — Josiah Millikin,-,of Musketo 
 Cove, periwig maker,, denies that be gave any in- 
 formation to the Custom House o&cers, whereby 
 they were enabled to discover and seize several 
 casks of iiaported brandy and wine concealed in 
 Captain Walton's cellar.— iV. J. Gazette, No. 146. 
 
 1728, Dec. 28.— The pleurisy has raged pretty 
 much in these parts and several have died thereof. 
 
 *These being tte places where they had passed the 
 counterfeit hills. 
 
 1730, Aug. 6. — ^We hear from Long Island th"kt 
 they have had such very dry wefither there that 
 all their grass is burnt up so that they have been 
 forced to fodder their cattle with their fiust-ieropiof 
 hay..^-Amer.. Mercurp-f. 
 
 1732, Jan. 9.^— In and about Jamaica, one hun- 
 dred and sixty persons have been inoculated for 
 the smaill pox,j and none have died but Foster Wa- 
 ters, who hail taken .the infection before and fell 
 sick' the day after he was inoculated. On the 
 other hand one-half died of those who took it in 
 the natural way. — N. Y. Gazette. 
 
 1732i tMrch 27.— Last week the wife of William 
 Hijimphreys, of Hempstead, was brought to bed, of 
 a daughter, which child's grand&ther hath a. grand 
 mother yet, uving, being, of, that age that she can 
 say : " Giiandson, send me your granddaughter, 
 that I may have the pleasure to see of my issue 
 one of the fifth generation." — N. Y. .Gaz^t^. . 
 
 1732, May 1. — Notice..-^All persons- who have 
 any demands on the estate of the Rev. Mr. Thomas 
 Poyer, deceased, late rector of the • chusch at Ja- 
 maitia, are desired to .sends their accounts to his 
 widow in . order for their beiag satisfied. Those 
 persoiis who have borrowed any books of Mr. Poy- 
 er, are desired to return them immediately. — N. Y. 
 Gazitte. 
 
 1732.T— The house where Mr. Poyer lately lived ' 
 in, at Jamaica, with a lot of land thereto adjoining ; 
 his household goods, books, and other things, will 
 be sold M public vendue, to the highest bidders, on 
 Monday, the 30th day, of May next. [Mr. Poyer, 
 _a native of Wales, was over twenty .years rector of 
 the church, most of which timje was spent in vexa- 
 tious litigation, either- for the salary or possession 
 of the ehiiii^h and parsonage. The church and 
 parsqn^^gg-- cases were finally decided against him. 
 Heleft,a,rec,ord of his baptisms, marriages and buri- 
 als, On his vpyaige to this country he, with his 
 wife Frances, was wrecked on Long. Maud, about 
 one hundred miles east of Jamaica. . His second 
 wife.is saidjo have been a widow FoXcroft, from 
 Boston. His third wife was Miss Sarah.Dldfield, of 
 Jamaica, whom he left a widow in destitute circum- 
 stances, with several children, of whomjittle is 
 known, except that his son Daniel went>i,t6 Eng- 
 land, ThotnaSi a 'cordwainer, .mairried. Margaret 
 Hicks, of , Eockaway> .anliv,remaved to .Fishkill, 
 John maaried Mary .Hhiftads', fif Jamgica, .and re- 
 moved to New Jersey; Joseph died at the age 
 of five years, and ' his. daughter Sarah married 
 Aaron Van Nostrand. There w;ere tnany difficul- 
 ties attendant on settling the early miiiisters of 
 the Church of England, in this town, as they 
 all cam^ from the old country. . The first sent 
 over was the Rev. Patrick Gordon, in 1702, who 
 was taken suddenly ill, of a fever he caught in New 
 York,, and died in July, at Jamaica,, on the very 
 night before the Sunday on which he was to offici- 
 ate. Mr. James Honeyman, the first Missionary 
 established here for a short time, says : " We have 
 
 5, 
 
20 
 
 QUEENS OOUKTY' 
 
 a clmrch but neither bible nor prayer book, and 
 no ctethe»-for4be pulpit or altar. "MrsUr^uehart, 
 the.first rector •here'-was inducted in-Augu&t,it704. 
 He.marMed, ataTfHaiaica, Mary, daughter of Daniel 
 Whitehead, and widow of Thomas Burroughs, and 
 died in 1709. - It was his widow (whose daughter 
 Abigail, by a' fofmer husband, married the Eev. 
 Benjamin Woolsey, of Oysterbfiy,) that surren- 
 dered the parsonage to the Presbyterians. Mr. 
 Poyer was inducted here July 18th, 1710; ^,ud 
 died Jahuarjr 15th, 1732^ 
 
 Governor Combury writes to .Thomas Cardale, 
 High Shjsriff of Queens County : " You are hereby 
 required' to p?iy unto Mr. James Honeyman out of 
 the money made of the corn by you collected for 
 the maintenance of the minister of Jamaica, pro- 
 po'rtionably for the time he has been at Jamaica, 
 according to the allojvance niade by act of ifteneral 
 Assembly ; and hereof you are il'ot to fail. 'Ijiven 
 under my hand and seal at Fort Anne, in New 
 York, -July-igth, 1704." .- 
 
 [The ;mini,ster'S' rate was often paid in the pro- 
 duce of the faim which was stored, till sold, in a 
 building erected for. the puq)ose, called the -town- 
 barn.] 
 
 1733,' /S'epif, 4.^-Jaines'Halstead,'tried for burn- 
 ing' a barn.' Verdict, not guilty. 
 
 1733. — On Saturday last, Sept. 15th, was exe- 
 cuied at Jamaica, one Edward King, a tinker, as 
 we hear, for the murder of William Srnith, on the 
 highway, near i-Flushing, -by giving him a mortal 
 stab in the breast with a knife, of which he in- 
 stantly died, ! crying : " Lord ! have mercy on my 
 poor soul." 'The fact was' discovered by an Indian, 
 who was in-the wood and saw the same committed. 
 Witnesses for the prisoner, Susana Miles, Helena 
 Balseyy ■ and ■ Christopher- Farmer ; for the King, 
 Sarah Byvank, Adam Lawrence, Jacob Eyder, 
 John Eyder, Jr., Justice Clements, George Eoyn- 
 olds, Edmund Stickling, Samuel Prince, ' John 
 Bowne, Jr. and Sr., Francis Bloodgqod, Hugh Ey- 
 dei:, James Halstead and Mary Cook. — Court 
 Minutes. 
 
 1733, Oct. Sl.^Ehpde- Island having a boun- 
 dary dispute with Massachusetts, chose ColoneL 
 Isaac Hicks, of Hfimpsfead, and James Jackson, 
 of Tlushiug, referees, and was so pleased with their 
 conduct therein that the colony voted each of them 
 a Silver tankard of the value of ==e50„with the arms 
 of the colony handsomely, engraved thereon, as an 
 acknowledgement of their';assistance in ende^ivpr- 
 ing td reconcile and put an end to the dispute be- 
 tween the two governments.^ J.rMoWs.S'isi, BJiode 
 IslanS; 2 -. 112. 
 
 1734, April 8.-—0n Jriday lastthe^new erected 
 church, at Jamaica, was opened by the name of 
 Grace Church, and divine service perforaied there- 
 in,- for the I first, time. The minister ef the -parish, 
 the Eev. -Mr. Thomas Colgan, preached a sermon 
 upon the occasion, from Genesis, 28-: 16, 17. His 
 Excellency the Governor {Cosby], his lady and 
 
 whole family, were pleased to honor the meeting 
 with their presence, and by their very generous 
 benefactions -great encouragement was given to a 
 charitable Contribution for the finishing and com- 
 pleting- eo •good-'a work-^-a work dedicated to the 
 service of God. The militia was under arms to 
 attend His Excellency, and so .great a concourse of ; 
 people met, that the church was not near able to 
 contain the nunfter. , After the sermon was ended 
 His Excellency and family, and several gentlemen, 
 ladies and clergy^ were very splendidly entertained 
 at the house of Mr. Samuel Clowes, a tavern, in 
 the same town, by the members of the said church. 
 — Bradford's N. Y. Gazette. 
 
 1734, Sejit. 14. — Henry Hinton, Jamaica, is,,,f 
 indicted for accideritally shooting Ezekiel Weeks. 
 The Grand Jury return : " We ...don't know." 
 Whereupon he was dischai-ged.— CoM»'f Minutes.' 
 
 1734, Dec. 19. — At Newtown, a negro man 
 slave, naaned Joe, belonging to WilKam Pettit, 
 cordwainer, and one -Jonathan- Hunt, -was killed by 
 said Pettit. The jury of inc^uest found by exami- 
 nation that Pettit, with his fist and feet, beat, 
 wounded, kicked and bruised the negro on his 
 head, breast and other parts of his body to . that 
 degree that he iiistantly died thereof, for which 
 Pettit is now in Jamaica jail. 
 
 1734, Nov. 1. — At a town meeting it was put to ■ 
 vote, as concerning the moving (ff the seats out of "■ 
 the old church into the new church ; and by the 
 major vote they are to be -moved into the new 
 church. — Hempstead Becord's, D,p. 417. •' 
 
 1735— On Tuesday, .April :22d, -His Excellency 
 our Governor, with his lady and' family, attended 
 by a I great many of the. principal merchants and 
 gentlemen of the city of. New York, set out for 
 Hempstead, to be present, at the consecration of '. 
 the church lateily erectedithere.* About six miles 
 west of Jamaica he •'\vas met by the troops of 
 horse, who escorted him to Jamaica, where a hand- 
 some dinner was provided for all the company. 
 In the aJ^ternqon he proceeded to Hempstead, es- ,- 
 corted as before, 'where he arrived, in the evening,. - 
 and was entertained in a very handsome manner 
 bythB Eev.^Eobert Jenny, minister of that place. 
 The next day being St. George's day,' the regiment 
 of militia and troop being drdwn up on either sid,e 
 from Mr. 'Jenny's house to the 'chui-ch, His Ex-'- ' 
 ceU^n-ey, -attended by the most considerable gentle- 
 men of the eoimty, walked to the diurch where a 
 verj^ excellent sermon was preached on the occar 
 sion,' before a most crowded audience, by the Eev^ 
 Mr. Jenny, from Ps. .S4 : l,' 2 :, " How amiable are 
 thy tabernacles," etc. After divine service His 
 Excellency reviewed the regiment of militia and 
 troops standing under arms, and expresed a particii- 
 lar satisfaction on the appearance both of the offi- 
 cers and men. His Excellency was afterwards ' 
 
 *1735, Jwie 27.-Petition for charter of St. George's 
 Chui-ch, Hempstead, read and approved.— Coi. Mss., Fof 70. 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
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 entertained in a splendid manner by Colonel 
 TredweU, commander of the regiment, and in the 
 evening by Colonel Corn-well, at Eopkaway, in 
 th« same manner. The next day he retiimed and 
 arrived in.town in good he.alth, pleased with the 
 reception he everywhere met -^ith from all ranks, 
 with the extraordinary concourse of people from 
 all parts, on the occasion, and with the handsome 
 appearance 'of the militia both horSe and foot; — JSf. 
 Y. Gasette. 
 
 1735, Jwne 27.— Petitioncsrs for a Patent of In- 
 corporation of the church at "Hempstead. — (M. 
 Mss., 70 : 131.. 
 
 Balden, George, Marvin, Robert, 
 
 Clowes, Gerhardus, Mitchell, J'acainiah, 
 
 Cornell, William, Jr., Mott, Joseph, 
 
 Comcll, Thomas, Jr., Peters, Charles, 
 
 Cornell, John, 2, Pine, James, Sr. 
 
 Cornell, Richard, Jr., Roe, John, 
 
 Cornell, William, Smith, Peter, Jr., 
 
 Germon, Isaac, Smith, Timothy, 
 
 Gildersleeve, Thomas, Smith, Peter, 
 
 GildeTsleeve, Georjge, Smitii,' J%;cob, 
 
 Hewlett,-^Damel, Smith, Joseph, 
 
 Huging, James, Smith, Titus, 
 
 Jeniiey,' Robert, Rev., Sutton, Robert, 
 
 Langdon, Joseph, Thorn, Joseph, 
 
 Lee, Thomas, WiUiams, Thomas, 
 Langdon, William, 
 
 1735, Sept. 2.-?Samuel Weeks, Sr. and Jr., of 
 Oysterbay, are indicted for pulling down and rob- 
 bing the house of James Halstead. 
 
 1735, Sept. 2. — Jacob Lewis, of Oysterbay, is 
 tried for altering the mark and stealing steers off 
 the Common. 
 
 1735, Nov.'j. — Colonel Hicks presented to the 
 Assembly a petition from Queens County which 
 attributed the decay of trade in the colony and 
 the lessening of the price of land in Queens County, 
 in a great measure, to the long continuance of the 
 Assembly. That body vote the charge to be both 
 unjust and a-udacious. — Ass. Journal, 1 :'687.- 
 
 ■ 1736, March S.^La^t Thursday night, about 
 ten or eleven o'clock, the house of Benjamin Lawi'- 
 ence, of Flushing, was burnt to the ground, and 
 notliing of his goods saved. The man and wcfiaan 
 had been abroad about their affSiirS, and' at that 
 time, the ioian cofeing' home saw' the house all in a 
 flame and ran in and pulled his /our small children 
 out of their be^ and threw them "naked upon the 
 snow, and attempted to fetch out sonie of his goods, 
 but the fire was so far advanced that he could not 
 get the least rag to cover his children's nakedness, 
 to keep them from the piercing cold of that night, 
 but all was burnt. The Same day Thomas Wil- 
 lets had occasion to drive his cattle over a creek 
 on the ice, which breaking in he lost eigbt cows. — 
 N. T. Gazette. 
 
 1736, March 31.— The widow of Th6masPar- 
 myter, offers for sale her farm, with pleasant gar- 
 den, at Whitestone, opposite Frog's Point. It has 
 
 twenty acres of clay ground fit for making tobacco 
 pipes. For sale, also, two negi'o slaves, with uten- 
 sils and other conveniences for carrying on that 
 business. — N: Y. Gasette. 
 
 1736, 8ept:"'^1.—0n flie 6th inst., the house, 
 warehouse, 4nd all the, goods and merchandizes of 
 Mr. John Foster, af IJ'lushing, at midnight, were 
 consumed to ashes, and little or nothing saved but. 
 his books and papers and the s&iplore which they 
 were in. Loss computed .at ^£2,000. It is feared 
 it , V^s done by sdihc malicious person. — N. Y. 
 GcMtte. 
 
 1737. — Pew-holders in Grace Church, Jamaica : 
 Betts, Richard, Richard, Jr. ; Bridges, Timothy ; 
 Clark, Andrew ; Clowes, Samuel, Samuel, Jr. ; 
 Colgan, Thomas ; Furman, Robert; HoweU, Rob- 
 ert ; Luff, Gabriel ; Poyer, Sarah, gratis ; Reyn- 
 olds,' George ; Sawyer, Daniel ; Smith, Samuel ; 
 Steed, William ; Taylor, TSeiija'Bain ; 'Thoi-ne Ben- 
 jamin ; Van Hook, Isaac ; Waters, Anthony ; 
 Welling, 'William ; Whitehead, Benjamin and 
 Daniel; Willet, Edward; Willets, John; Wig- ' 
 g-ins, William and Silas ; Wright Henry ; Young, 
 Guy. Also see Doc. His., 3 : 324, for twenty-one 
 petitioners for a charter. 
 
 ■ 1737, April 25. — Vast losses have been sus- 
 tained in this colony and those adjacent by the 
 death of cattle for the want of fodder, and many 
 persons have been almost ruined thereby. We 
 hear fro'in Long Island that 5,000 head of cattle 
 have been lost this winter (of which eight hundred 
 and fifty died in the town of Hempstead) besides 
 sheep and'lambs innumerable- — N. Y. Gazette. 
 
 ' 17^7, rTune 2r-^At an election inTQueens County, 
 for two inetaibers of the General Assembly, held 
 at "Jamaica, the candidates and votes were as 
 .follows : Colonel Isaac Hicks, 432 ; David Jones, ' 
 Esq., 390;; Captain Benjamin Hicks, 342, and 
 Thconas- Alsop, Esq., 287. The first two named 
 were chosen, and treated the electors very hand- 
 somely. ;Two things were very remarkable at this 
 election. One was that the Quakers, who used 
 formerly to stick together as one man, were divid- 
 ed. The other that two old widows tendered and 
 were admitted .to vote; and it is smd these two 
 old 'ladies wiU be' chosen coustablesfor the next 
 year. , , , . , 
 
 1737, Dec. 12,-^Dorcas, alias Tabitha, wife of 
 Peter Buckhout, of Newtown, is eloped from her 
 husband's bed and board. Merchants, shopkeep- 
 ers and others are desired not to trust her. — Zen- 
 ger. 
 
 1738. — Saturday, July 19th, then broke out of 
 Jamaica Gaol, William Wiggins, 50 years old, of a 
 long visage, and short gTay hair, very talkative 
 and stammers. He had on an old home-spun coat 
 and Jacket, old sheepskin breeches and broad 
 brimmed beaver hat. Also, Amos, Langdon, slow 
 of speech, a weaver, Ejged 30, who had on an old 
 gray worsted coat, double breasted camblet jacket, 
 snuff-colored, old leather breeches, gray homespun 
 
i^MrVl.'- ^-J,JgW~ 
 
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 QUEENS COUNTY; 
 
 stockings, dog-skin shoes, and 9, np,rrov„l:)rimgaed 
 beaver hat.-iialf worn. MO,, reward,; an4 cli^^ 
 for the foiTQ^, an;d<*3 for tliql^tter, areo%re^/by 
 George E^^nolds; Undsr.^erif^fr-ifvr-Gfa^ete,, 
 
 1738..^ James Jones offers at public vendne, 
 July 26th, to the highest bidders, a farm, at 
 Whitestone,'(ktePan%ter's) of fifteen acres, with 
 garden and orchard, a--pleasant seat on the Sound . 
 for a gentlen^an, or a store j.also, a large CLuantity 
 of pipe-maker's clay, tools for making pipes, some 
 negroes, a new chaise and a good horse to draw it, 
 a pleasure boat well fitted, household goods and 
 other things..-^--?/'. T. Gqzgtte. . 
 
 1738,,D!S(;e,12-.— 'On "Wednesday, at 11- o'clock 
 at night.V* felt an earth quake. The first sense 
 was like a strong gale of wind, which increased till 
 it resemb,le4 the noise of coaches swiftly driven. 
 We-hadfone single shock, and after a few seconds 
 a violent tremor of upwards of a minute. It 
 moved front west to east. Some houses on Long 
 Island were somewhat damaged, but as yet we 
 have heard of no considerable dam^e. 
 
 1740, J"«*»j6iS3. — There are to be raigedin Ame 
 rica, three thousand men, to form thirty companies, 
 of one hui|dred men each. The captains, second- 
 lieutenants and ensigns of which, are to be appomt- 
 cd by the Governors of the several Provinces, but 
 the first-lieutenants are to come from England. 
 The genel-al rendezvous is appointed by His Ma- 
 jesty to be on HeB^gstead Plains, where they are 
 to encamp. These forces are destined for'the ex- 
 pedition against the territories of the Catholic King, 
 in the "West Indies. — Boston News Letter. 
 
 1740, Sept. 2.— Samuel Baldwin, of Hempstead, 
 is presented to the Grand Jury for offering money 
 to the Sherifi' j;o get such a jury as he .should name, 
 for Unas Ha%of Oysterbay. 
 
 1740, Oct. 13.— Biefe?*^ Com^s ,was hanged for 
 felony and burglary. The Court ordered the 
 money and stolen goods to be returned to Benja- 
 min Hinchmaii, Jamaica. [Witnesses (for the 
 King) Benjamin Hinchmap, Anthony "Walters, 
 George Reynolds, Eichard Goigj , Thomas W-jclipn 
 and Joseph Smith.] , 
 
 1741, Feb.,,5,-^X^fiX& is a great scarcity in Bos- 
 ton. Maryland and Long Islajiid, wheat is offered 
 for sale at the Boston Mills, at 22s. per bushel, for 
 bills of credit of any currency except Maniifactojgf 
 or Land Bank Bills. 
 
 1741, Feb. 23. — By our accounts from the coun- 
 try, the people hereabouts are in so great want of 
 fodder for their cattle in several places that four 
 cows are given to have one returned in May, and 
 that the cold has been so severe that even deer, 
 squirrels and birds, have been found frozen to 
 death. Great quantities of sheep have perished. 
 "Wood sold this day for 40s. per cord. — N. Y. Ga- 
 zette. 
 
 1741, July 29. — Charles Campbell (now of Ja- 
 maica) offers for sale the plantation late of Theo- 
 
 dorus V, "Wyck, at the head qf Great Neck, close 
 ,by. the river or sound, twenty miles from.. New 
 York, and a mile from^he ^laJiding. It contaiiis 
 two hundred and seven acres (of which fifty is 
 wooded), bears wheat and cuts sixty loads of hay, 
 and is well watered' with brooks and springs. On 
 it is a house, three stories high, milk-house and two 
 large orchards.— i^. Y. G-azette. 
 
 ' lT41,%)i,l.— The negro slaves in New York 
 were suspected of a plot to set fire to the city and 
 kill the whites, with a view of gaining their free- 
 dom. A large number was executed. It was 
 supposed the Long Island negroes were to join 
 those of New York, and some arrests were made. 
 Among others, Johannes Hardenburgh's Will, 
 Justice "Wallet's BoUn, and John Borland's JacJc — 
 all of Jamaica. The evidence against them 
 amounted only to this, that Will said to BpbiM 
 " "What think you of Corlears H^k or the plot V 
 " D— n it," replied BoUn, " I'H have .nothing to do 
 with it or to say to it. If they (the slaves) jW^ilJi-, 
 put their fingers in the fire they must feel the 
 pain ; let them go on and prosper." For this 
 their ma,sters were obliged to enter intcj, recogni- 
 zances for their appearance at the Queens County 
 Oyer and Terminer, when they were discharged. 
 In Kings County, Christopher Godtsrise's Jack 
 and Cambridge, and Israel Horsefield's Cesar, and 
 Timothy Horsefield's Guise were also arrested on 
 a charge of conspiracy. Cesar lias sentenced to 
 be transported tq Oape Francois, and. G^ise to St. 
 TJioma,s. Itocibr Safry, a negro slave of Mr. J. 
 ICifeserole, was sentenced to be burnt to death, on 
 the 18th of July. 
 
 1741, Oct. 14. — Joseph Smith., a^d Nathaniel 
 Pearsall having lain in Jamaica jail several years, 
 for debt, petition the Assembly for relief.. They 
 alledge t^j|i;t,;t;heir creditors are inexorable, although 
 Ihey have offered to giv^.,jjg-,vaH. their property. — 
 Ass. Journal, 1 : 814.- 
 
 1741, Kov. 13.— The ferty boat of Major Thomas 
 Jones, of Oysterbay, was overset in the Sound, 
 and himself, his negro, three mep and one woman, 
 who were passengers, with six horses, were all 
 drowned. 
 
 1743, Feb. 21. — At Musketo Cave, a sheep was 
 killed last week which weighed one hundred and 
 fifty-two pounds. Fine mutton doubtless ! 
 
 June 20.-^'We are here very much infest- 
 ed with caterpillas^ .aadj^erm?^ of an uncommon 
 kind, which have ^cme abij%4an?^of mischief about 
 New,Y9rt> in one farm especially, where they have 
 destfeyed a field of barley upwards of a mile in 
 length.,' What the issue of it will be, God only 
 knows; .for we hear they .arp,,nu?aerou8 in several 
 parts ofthe country. 
 
 1744, Jan. 9. — :A comet was seen the beginning 
 of last week in the we&t, and may be seen from 
 sunset till midnight. Feb. 27. — The comet, so 
 much talked of lately, is now got, to.. our appear- 
 
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 IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 23 
 
 ance, a Bmall distance before tlie sun, aud appears 
 very bright at its rising. On Saturday it was seen 
 here almost all day. — N. Y. Postboy. , , 
 
 1744, Jime 11. — The earthqiiake at Boston, 
 Sunday, 3d iist., was felt by many persons in 
 New York and on Long Island, but nothing so 
 violent as 'twas said to be 'there.; — N. Y. Pdsfboy. 
 
 1744, July 2. — A Proclamation of "War against 
 France* was pnblished in New York. 
 
 1745, May 6. — To be sold, the corner house 
 where Samuel Clowes now hves, in Jamaica, with 
 several out-houses, a garden of an acre of ground, 
 together with^ about: ninety-acres of very good land 
 near adjoining; being a place very ■conveniently 
 situated for any public business. — PostBoy." 
 
 1745, May, 20.^-Twenty shillings and. charg^. 
 Run away, April 20th, from Joseph Hawkshurst, 
 Oysterbay, a negro man Tom, aged twenty-six, 
 middle stature and pock-fretten. . He had an old, 
 beaver hat, red* duffils jacket, ozenbfigs shirt and 
 blue breeches. He is much given to,dSiuk.-r— Post- 
 boy. 
 
 1745, Nov. 13. — At night tiie iors© o£. the Eev. 
 David. Brainerd, the Indian Missionary, who was 
 attending Presbytery, at -Newtown, was stolen 
 fioK: Mm.-r::- Jburnal. . 
 
 I'iiGiJiareh 5.— *The small pox is said to pre- 
 vail in the country about Jamaica. 
 
 ' 1746, April 25. — In the act for raising the sum 
 o£. <5£13,000, for fiirther fortifying the colony of 
 New York and for cancelling the BUls of Credit, 
 the Quota of Queens, was =£487,9,5 ; of Kings, 
 d£254,18 ; of Suffolk, 66433,6,8, yearly for three 
 years. — Ass. Jour., 2 : 109. 
 
 1746 June — Jona. Lawrence, of Queens Coun- 
 ty, and James Fanning, of Suffolk, have liberty to 
 raise recrtdts for the war in Canada. In July 
 Fanning had one hundred men mustered, of whom 
 Hempstead sent ^eventy-eight, and Jamaica twen- 
 ty-two, under Capt. Wraxall. 
 
 1746, June 9. — Embargo on shipping from New 
 York. 
 
 1746, Juhf, 31'. — A. day of solemn Thanksgiving 
 for the late victory by His Majesty's arms, under 
 the conduct of thfe.Diike of Cumberland over the 
 rebels, near Cullddeii, inNoi:th Britain. — Post Boy. 
 
 1746i A^lg. Ih — Five complete, companies of 
 the force raised in New York and on Long Island, 
 for the expedition against the. Canada border, ..are 
 now embarked, for Albany on.-J;heir,,w,ay^.to..the 
 place of rendezvous... 
 
 1746, Oct. 22.— Eichard Brown fOysterbay?] 
 tried for murder. Verdict, not guilty. jWitnesses 
 (for the King) Mary Frost, Sarah and , Mary Til- 
 lier, Derick Albertson and Benjamin Carpenter;, 
 (for the., prisoner) Joseph Coles, Jacob Valentine,, 
 Wright Frost, Thomas Kirby and Eichard Lattin.] 
 
 : L 
 
 1746, Nov. 29.— The account, of Adam Lawr- 
 ence, Sheriff of Queens County, for , receiving, 
 lodging and attending eight French prisoners,' from 
 June 3d to July 14th, was. 6e22,19,3> — Asa. Jow., 
 2 : 140. 
 
 1747, Feb., 2>— On Tuesday last,- at- Musketo 
 Cove, Dennis Lawrence, a young man of fan- char- 
 acter, an app^centice to Captain "Walton of New 
 York, and Thomas Brooks, a laborer, were both 
 unhappily poisoned .by taking„a spoonful-, of rats- 
 bane by mistake, for flour of brimstone, to cure the 
 itch.— iV. T. PSsidby.- 
 
 174:7,. Feb.-. 9* — "We. have had'" a. long series of 
 cold, freezing weather — rivers full of ice. Wood 
 is scarce and dear, as was never equalled before ;. 
 4Qs. to 58s. per cord, and half the inhabitants in 
 want. A good turkey brings 5s ; (former price was 
 3s. 6d.) a fat fowl, Is. 6d.; butter, 14d What 
 must our poor suffer ! — N. Y. Postboy. 
 
 1747, Oct. 26. — John Bowne and Matthew 
 Fraaiklin offer for sale the whole estate of Benja- 
 min Burling, deceased. A grist mill with three 
 pair of stones, and screen to clean the wheat, a 
 bolting mill that goes by water, with conveniences 
 to hoist meal and wheat with ease — ^for all which 
 there is water enough, and for near so many more, 
 all in good order. Also, a large boat suitable to 
 tend the mills. Also, 58 acres of very good land 
 and meadow, with dwelling house and. orchard" 
 thereon, and a house near the mill for the miller 
 to live in, at Flushing town landing ; extraordi- 
 nary convenient for a tradesman. Also, horses, 
 cattle, household goods; utensils for husbandry, a 
 large quantity of EngUsh and salt hay. — Postboy. 
 
 1747. — The Jamaica Lottery will be drawn on 
 November 10th, in Queens County Hall, in the 
 presence of three or more Justices of the peace, 
 and such other persons as the adventurers may 
 nominate. The managers, „ Jacob Ogden and 
 Samuel Clowes giye their -trouble gratis. There 
 are one .thousand three hundred tickets, at 8s. each, 
 equal to .£520... From each prize 12^ per cent, 
 will be deducted ,for purchasing a bell for Grace 
 Church.— iV. Y. Postboy. 
 
 17.47', Nov. L6.-r-D,erick -Brinckerhoff offers for 
 sale, a very good plantation. of. i.wo hundred and 
 forty acres, on the road fromiiFlushing to Jamaica, 
 three miles from ..Flushing town landing, and two 
 miles from Jamaica. . The house has two rooms on 
 the floor, with a leanto and kitchen thereto an- 
 nexed, a new bam, cedar shingled, wagon-house, 
 sheep-house, a good orchard of two hundred and 
 fifty trees of divers sorts of fruits, pretty garden 
 spot — all in stone 'fence. A spot of ground iu the 
 rear produces forty loads, of hay. — Postboy. 
 
 1747, Nov. 17; — The account of Lieutenant 
 James Thorn, of Colonel Hicks' Eegiment for 
 Queens County, for forty -four days service of him-r. 
 self and men, in the fort at Schenectady, was- 
 ^£113,19,6.- ^ss. Jour., 2 : 200. 
 
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 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 1747, Nov. 17.— The bUl of the* Shetiff Of West- 
 chester County, for. lodging and- victualling some 
 militia foHn;i^Hems and Sjaffidk County, in May 
 and June, lW6,vHc3ien on their way to Albany, 
 ■was 0643,14. — Ass.iJom;,^^ :.20X). 
 
 1747, Nov. 17. — The account of Adam'^Lawr- 
 ence, late Sheriff of Queens County, for lodging 
 and victualling t^werrty'^ht , French prisoners, 
 from September 27th, 1746, to February 6th, was 
 ^6122,14,6.— J.SS. Jour., 2 : 200. 
 
 1748, Jlfa^/ .16.— John Thome, at the White- 
 stone, offers , fer sale a convenient situation for 
 trade,>i,where th^-F^j is now .kept, one hundred 
 and three acres of land, a good .orohard of six 
 acres, two acres of interval land cleared for mow-, 
 ing, dwelling-house forty by twenty feet, with 
 stone cellar, and a bam and bolting-house together. 
 — Postboy. 
 
 1748, June 10. — Twenty shillings reward. — Ean 
 away from William Rogers, Oysterbay, an Irish' 
 servant Jad, Henry ..McQueede, eleven- years old 
 and much zfreckled;-; had on a blue jacket*, check 
 shirt aitd leather hreedhee.—iiPosfboy. 
 
 l748-9.^-Mch6las Ba«:ip[g±on was. -school- mas- 
 ter at Flftwer.Hill [Manhasset];'hut in:1757 he 
 was in New Yorfe where he taught youth to write . 
 the usual hands, arithraetic in both kinds, with the 
 extraction of the roots, as, also, navigation and 
 merchants' accounts, after the Italian manner. He 
 also performed wj^tuags for gentlemen. — JY. Y. 
 Mercw^. 
 
 1749, Jaw,- E^.—fSojine time ago-died in Hemp-, 
 stead, Colonel .Thojpias Hicks, aged ninety years, 
 who left behind him, of his own offspring, above 
 three hundred children, gsand children, great-grand 
 children ajid-^reat-great-grand children. Also, at 
 Newtown, Jacob Blackwell, aged fifty-two years. 
 He was six feet two inches high and weighed, 
 three yeajss tbefore his death, four hundred and ' 
 thirty-nine pounds, and by all appearance in- 
 creased much more, before he died. ^How much is 
 not known, because, though often solicited, he" 
 would not consent to be weighed a second time. — 
 JV. Y. Posfboy. 
 
 17L49, Felj-S'Si. — About twelve o'clock last night, 
 was heard at Jamaica, two or three terrible and [ 
 imost sjirprising claps of thiander, which seemed to 
 shake the e!a.rth and Jerrified some women so much 
 that they fainted aavay. The lightning .fired the ' 
 bam of Jonah Rhodes, which was soon consumed to ^ 
 ashes, and with it certain quantities of English hay, ; 
 wheat, rye, flax, six shoats, twenty-sis ejees, and!"' 
 lambs, a fine mare and many utensils of husbandry. ■• 
 Loss ^680. Three barns built on the same spot' 
 ,have been burned within a few years, one by acci- . 
 -dent and two by lightning.-rJV. Y. postboy. 
 
 1749, March .S. — The common topics of dis-i. 
 course at Jamaica, since the coming of Mr. John 
 Bonnin, are entirely chaaged. Instead of the 
 common -chat nothing is scarce mentioned now but 
 
 the most entertaining parts of Europe, which are 
 represented so vividly in Mr. Bonnin's curious 
 prospects. He proposed to tarry there but one 
 week, but his lectures and views have been safsat- 
 iisfactory that crowded concaurses afj people.; are 
 daily spectators. He^arries^andtherwiveekbtit de- 
 signs for Flushing on Saturday next, and Hemp- 
 stead on Saturday after. — JV. . Y. Postboy. 
 
 ; 1749, June 19. — Next Thadld«yjwill -be a pub- 
 lic Thanksgiving in this eolony^^or -the late glori- 
 ous peace. — Postbgy. 
 
 1749, 'Julys,— ^Beasondble rewards. — Run away 
 from William a,nd Benjamin . Hawkshurst, Oyster- 
 bay, a negro man, J-Tom, a middle size yellow fel- 
 low^.pretty well clothed, and took a horse. — Post- 
 boy. 
 
 '1749, SIm^; 21. — ^Fulling, dyeing, shearing and 
 pressing of homespun cloth, taking spots and stains 
 out of broad cloth, draggets, silks, etc., is done at 
 Whitehead's mill, (so called) at Jamaica, by an 
 exe^lent workman lately from Europe. Cloth 
 may be left at Derrick Remsen's, Flatlands ; Wil- 
 liam Furman's, Newtown, and Richard iTitus^S, 
 iiorth side of the great Hempstead Plains: — JV. ¥. < 
 Postboy. 
 
 1749, Sept. 25. — ^63 JReward amd charges. — Ran 
 away from John Betts, Jamaica, a mulatto fellow, ' 
 Isaac, aged 24, had on a very good head of hair, 
 felt hat, brown coat, lineil vest and breeches, blue 
 yarn stockings and good shoes. — Postboy.- 
 
 1749, Dec. 4. — The best sort of Newtown pip- 
 pins to be sold cheap, by the ton or barrel, in the 
 bes|; order for shipping. Enquire of the printer 
 hereof. — JV. Y. Postboy. ' { 
 
 1750, J%me A.— On Friday last there was a 
 great horse race on Hempstead Plains, which en- 
 gaged the attention of so Hianyof the, city of New 
 York that upwards of seventy .-diairs and ^ chaises 
 were ,. carried over Brooklyn .ferry the day before, 
 besides a far greater naEQber.,of horses. .Th* num- 
 ber of horses on theiplains, it was thought.rfar ex- 
 ceeded one thoHsand.— ::JV. -Y. Postboy. 
 
 1750, Sept. <3. — On Monday last, came on. the 
 election of members olAssembly for Queens Coun- 
 ty. IJpon:Uie..Glose'of the poll the vote stood, for 
 Mr. Jones, (late speaker) 452; Thomas Cornell, 
 477 ; Judge Hicks, 293 ; David Seaman, 288.— 
 Postboy. 
 
 175«, Sept. 28— The account of ^John Van 
 WyckK^heriff of Queens County for receiving, lodg- 
 ing and victualling sixty-three French and Spanish 
 prisoners of war, from June 11th, 1748, to July 
 10th,,' and.for transporting them from Flushing to 
 New .York, July 11th, was 6694,4.-^.55. Journal, 
 2 : 300. 
 
 1750, Dec. 10.— On Tuesday last were brought 
 to New York market, four quarters of ^ calf, eight 
 months old, which weighed four hundred and sev- 
 enteen pounds neat. Skin and tallow, one hun- 
 
*N* dlLDEN T?IMES. 
 
 25 
 
 dred and two pauafesife'&.t. ' It was raised by'Ben| 
 jamm WatesBi-^oS^'ewtown.— JV. Y. Gak€tte. \ 
 
 T?Sl, iIf«?/13.-^A»yt'perBoit 'd6a«)us,»)may b^ 
 supplied with vases, urns, floweir-pots, etc.,' to adoni, 
 gardens^ And -|«ps 'of bouses ; or any other oma* 
 meatiaaMffJctf^lay, by Edmoud Annely, at'White- 
 stoae^he- iKLving set up the potter's business by 
 •meeffiks- of a Geitaan femily that he bought, who are 
 supposed by their work to be the'-taost iageuioaS. 
 that ever arrived in America. H^ has* clay capa- 
 ble of making eight different sorts of ware, 
 
 1752, -Feft, 15.— '* YesterdSiy came on our elec- 
 tion, ~llt4JJfflnaiea,'5'for^'Sepresentatives, when, not- 
 withstanding the utmost efforts of the CoM»:#,party 
 in meetings and entertainments in aU comers off 
 .QuefflarGounty, assisted by Tom Plain, Zachariah 
 and %hB*est «€ the hireling tribe, our two late 
 members, "Jones and 10 omeU, carried the eleetioi;, 
 by a very great majority, and thus I am persusided 
 it will be, should we have an election every *nonth 
 in the year, for we are determined not- -to be wor- 
 ried out, and we know our interest toccwell to be 
 deceived either by paper or. parchment."=— Posi- 
 loy. 
 
 1752, JVo«. SG.^Last Thursday morning Na-- 
 thaniel Lloyd, a' young gentleman of Longi'lsland, 
 with two other young men from Boston, going in a 
 boat to his brother's, at Long Island,- eyersetand 
 all were drowned. 
 
 1752, Dec. 18, — AU persons:>in>"-Oysterbay hav- 
 ing a right in Hempstead Plains'^Will.-please make 
 it appear -unto John-33orlon, John>BirdsaU, John 
 Foster, Jacob Smith, Esq., Richard Ellison, Jr;,. 
 and John ■Williams,- who are a committee to lay it 
 out.->-~ 
 
 1753, 'Jfa^/ '"7.— On 'Thursday last as Samuel. 
 Doughty, of Flushing, was riding on horseback 
 near Westchester, his horse casually stumbled and 
 bruised biHi so -dangerously by'faUing -on him that 
 his life was then despaired of. 
 
 11-753, May 30. — The General Assembly met at 
 the' Court House, in Jamaica, as being free from 
 small poX, whieh then prevailed in STewTork, but 
 finding it an inconvenient place to ^t' in, they ad- 
 journed to Benjamin Hinchman's. The-'-Governor 
 and OouncU sat at the Widow StiUweU's and 
 Thomas Braine's [now Dr. Shelton's]. 
 
 1753, June 23. — Sundry people of Queens^ 
 County complain of the extravagant demands of 
 the Excise officers and of their comm.on custom of 
 selling the excise to many persons unable and unfit! 
 to keep public houses of entertainmentpw-iiss.: 
 Jour, 2 : 345, ; 
 
 1753, Julif 2. — Was paid BenjaSiin 'Hindhman 
 for the use of his house, for providing a table for 
 the Assembly, and hire of horses for the messen- 
 gers from Jamaica -to -New -York, .sElO.i. — Jour., 
 2 : 349. 
 
 ' IVS^io^he people p^ Hempstead domplain that 
 persons ^ke up and destroy their clams for' the 
 sake of the shells to''make*merchandize of.^-^JIe- 
 cords E., jp. 218, M-a. 
 
 '"l-7S'4,"'J«fw.-"27. — ^^Last* Monday morning, the 
 weather being uncommonly pleasant ajad warm, 
 many people were induced to go into Jamaica Bay 
 for Oysters, clams, etc. ; but about npon^twh & se- 
 vere gale of wind arose from the northwest with a 
 sudden change from warfei to' 'cold as was scarce 
 ever known here, when all the small craft put off 
 to gain the shore in the best manner' 4hfiy could. 
 A number of canoes and petty 'aAgers' came on 
 shore at a point of meadow south bf J&naica, and, 
 with the utmost difficuftyj-the- people belonging to 
 th^m traveled up'-to'alix^iiSe 'two "hilled fr-bm the 
 place of landing. -'Alt got safe to the house though 
 much benumbed and several speechless, except 
 Daniel Smith, a,'^y'6ua^'iBan, who perished on the 
 meadows, haif '''ai-mile frbln 'the house. His com- 
 panions not'%eiag able to help him any flirther, 
 having dragged hitoi a-mile aft&rhe lost the use of 
 his feet. 'The stlme day the creVs §f two canoes, 
 in Jamaica =<Bayi consisting of eight people, from 
 Newtown,- not returning at night were sought for 
 next day, but the ice being so thick it was imprac- 
 ticable to go far in quest of them until Friday, 
 wheil one canoe was mund driven on an island of 
 sedge in which were found the bodies of Sstinuel 
 Leveridge, Amos Roberts, William Salier and 
 Thomas Morrel, alias Salier — aU frozen to death ; 
 the- steersman sitting in an erect posture 'at the 
 helfa. The three fortner were married men leaving 
 distressed families behind them. To-day-another 
 '-'canoe was seen but could not be comeat by reason 
 of the ice, in which, it is supposed, are the other 
 four missing persons — one while 'man servant 
 and three valuable negroes. '-Several people have 
 also been miserably frozen '•^t- Hempstead South, 
 who were out the sa'me n'i'ght but we can't learn 
 that any have died thoftgh some are thoiight to be 
 in great danger.^^iV!. Y. 'Mercury. 
 
 1754, J^e&.*4.— ^L'ast'-week a s&all whale, twenty 
 -€eet»long, was towed up to New York by*a sand 
 boat fr'om Rockaway, where it was' found floating 
 near the shore by some clammers. '"Ihis, and one 
 much larger; Vas killed by some whalers off Sandy 
 Hook a fortnight ago but were driven to sea by 
 hard weather. A year ago two whales were 
 st]eud£ south of the Highlands.— JV^ T.- Mercury. 
 
 ^1754, March 18. — Last week ^Vas bro^ht- to 
 New York and killed,, two young steers of but five 
 ; years old, raised and fatted by Richard Thpme of 
 ^Hempstead bounds. They were extremely fat, 
 and, with an allowance for their age, one was sup- 
 posed to equal, if not exceed, the large ox killed 
 in' Philadelphia ; the four quarters of it'wdghing 
 >with the tallow, 1,234 \hs .-■'—PosWoy. 
 
 1754, May 7. — At Flushing, -'and several ether 
 ^Perhaps the shells' were burnt ioi lime. 
 
26 
 
 QUEENS COUNTY. 
 
 places on Long Island, a very Lard shower of had 
 fell which did incredible damage. Many fields of 
 rye were mined and an abundance of glass windows 
 broke. The hail stones were as large as pigeons' 
 eggs. — N. Y. Gasette. 
 
 1754.^0n the evening of the 4th September, a 
 negro man, Tom, middle stature, pock-broken, be- 
 longing to Benjamin Hawkshurst, Cold Spring, was 
 discovered carrying away from his master's mills, 
 a bag of Indian meal to sell it. "Wheupon he left. 
 It is supposed he has been instrumental to wrong 
 his master to a considerable value. Whoever takes 
 him up may depend on being well rewarded. He 
 was brought up in the city amd can- work at the 
 baking business. — Postboy. 
 
 1755. — Samuel Eqdman ha,d a ferry from Pel- 
 ham to Hempstead Harhor„and., to Mattagarison's 
 bay.— (?»«■. ofN. Y. , 
 
 1755, Feb. ll.--For putting, the colony -in a- 
 state of defence, the quota of Queen's was 66500 ^ 
 of Kings, 66240; of Suffolk, 66430.— J.SS. Jbt«r., 
 2 : 435. 
 
 1756, Feb. 20. — Josiah Martin, oif Hempstead 
 township, [Hyde Park 1] complained to the Grover- 
 •nor that Justice Josejph Kissam had entertained a 
 complaint made by Benjamin Doughty, that Qua- 
 mina, a negro slave of said Martin, had some time 
 last spring broken in Eichard Cornell's smoke- 
 house [Success ?1 and stolen some of his gammons. 
 The negro was, however, acquitted, but brought 
 up a second time on a cii^rge of receiving two gam- 
 mons from another negro who had received two 
 more and sold them. One Moore, it was said, had 
 bought some also, but he denied it under oath. 
 Quamina having threatened the witness who swore 
 against him, Kissam ordered twenty -five lashes to.be.-^ 
 inflicted on his bare back. William- Algeo's store, 
 having been robbed of sundry goods, linens, sugar 
 and'rum, he suspected some idle disorderly persons 
 there and got. out a search warrant, but found no- 
 thing. Quamina, being an old convicted thief, was 
 among the suspected, and his master's house (in 
 his absenee) searched. 'Quamina, oh being>again 
 seized and threatened, attempted suicide-.^ Kissam 
 presented to the Governor several numerously 
 signed certificates, embracing.. most of the house- 
 holders of what is now North Hempstead. The 
 complaint was probably dismissed. — Col. Mss., 
 80 : 23, 37. 
 
 1755, June 19. — This has been the longest sea- 
 son of dry weather ever known throughoiit the 
 English part of this continent. The crop of wheat 
 and rye is well nigh perished and cannot exceed 
 half a crop. There is not flax enough to produce 
 the seed. sown. Hay, oats Indian corn, and all 
 other frujqts of the earth have the same appearance, 
 and if it continues dry a few days longer all will 
 have gone. It is said several congregations in this 
 and the neighboring governments have set aside 
 days of fasting and prayer that Heaven may avert 
 the impending danger. — N. Y. Gazette. 
 
 1755, Aug. 18.— William Keese, boatman,; of" 
 Flushing, offers to supply persons in New York 
 with li-^e stock.— JV.r. Mercury. 
 
 1755, Sept. 24.— This day one thousand and fif- 
 teen sheep, collected in three days in Quisens 
 County, were dehvered at New York ferry to be 
 sent to Albany by water, which were cheerfully 
 given for the use of the army, how at or near Crown 
 Point. While their husbands, at Gfeat Neck, were 
 employed in getlinig -sheep,- the good mothers in 
 that neighborhood,' in a fe-Vrhoirra, eP'Hecte.d iiearly 
 seventy good large cheeses and sent them to New 
 York to be forwarded with the sheep to the Mvasy. 
 The people of Kings County propose to raise man- 
 ey ito defray the expenses of transporting these 
 sheep and cheese to Albany.*— Jf. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1755, Oct 10. — GenerarWilliam. Johnson writes 
 to Messrs. Jones and Cornell, Representatives of 
 Queens Countyj-J' A few days ago I received- a. 
 letter from Sebuyler and Depeyster, at Albanys' 
 acquainting me that, yea had sent to them sixty- 
 nine cheeses and two hundred', sheep, being part of 
 one thousand raised in Queens County as a pres- 
 ent to this, army, and which they have forwarded 
 to me. This letter was read at a council of war, 
 consisting of all the field ofljeers in.this camp. The 
 most equitab&adivisjoB hath beeamade of this gen- 
 erous and public spmte.d .prespntj. which, we could . 
 follow. Though cattle anct'a few sheep had, been 
 sent by some of the Provinces to their, trodpg, yet 
 your sheep were very seasonable and highly bene- 
 ficial to the army in„genei;al.. Your cheeses were 
 highly acceptable!, and: ^reviving, for unless among 
 some of the officers it was food scarcely known 
 among us. This generous humanity of Queens 
 Cpuoty is :,uia.animously and gratefully applauded 
 by all here. We pray that your benevolence may 
 Ibe retui^ed to. you by the. Great Shepherd of hu- 
 man kind a hu.ndre.d-.fold;., and may those amiablesr 
 housewiyeSj to whose skill we owe the refreshing, 
 cheeses long continue to shirie in their useful and 
 endfearihg stations. I beg, gentlemen, that you 
 will accept of and conVey to your generous county 
 my grateful and respectful salutations for their sea- 
 sonable beneficence to the army under my com- 
 mand." 
 
 1755, Nov. 24.--rOn Tuesday morning last, at 
 four o'clock, an earthqiiake. of three minutes was 
 sensibly felt by .the inhabitants .of.Oysterbay^, 
 Newtown, Jamaica and Flushing.. — N. Y. Mercury^. 
 
 1755^ Dec. 15.^— .-Frtim Jamaica, we hear adr. 
 vice of the death of Rev.. Thomas Cplgan, Rector 
 of the church, a gentleman much esteemed by his 
 acquaintance.-^i^. Y. Mercury. 
 
 ' 1755, Dec. 29. — James Wilson, dyer,. New York, 
 offers for sale two good houses in a pleasant, heal- 
 thy situation, ia the town spot of Flushing, oppo- 
 site the English church, with garden barn, stable, 
 
 *£57.6,7 were paid fbr-the freight of these sheep to Al- 
 bany. 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 2T 
 
 orchard and' thirteen acres of land. Enquire of 
 Nathaniel T-om,-livingvnigh.^Ji^. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1756, Jan. 23.'— Thomas Thorne, ~ JVfiDsq^nito 
 Cove, offers for sale, a dwelling, stable and orchard, 
 with ten acres of "laiid" and swamp, and a parcel of 
 fine locust trees, opposite Captain Walton's. There 
 is a spring before the door. It is convenient for a 
 ta^erii-keeper or tradesman. — iV. T. Mercury. 
 
 i756,'Jan. 26 .^-"DaTidAlgfeb, offers fiw sal&his 
 plantation of over two hundred acres, cleared and 
 all in good fence, four miles from Hempstead, on 
 the north side of the plains and about two mUes on 
 said plain. It has a fine young'beafing orchard of 
 above two hundred -appife" trees, a house 'with four 
 rooms arid" fire-places on a floor, smo*ke-house, 
 kitchen and cellar under the whole,''store-house and 
 chaise-house, good mowing ground, and a barn fif- 
 ty-six by forty-three feet.^-iV. T. Mercury. 
 
 1756, Feb. 16.^^Mre. ll-ances Willett offers for 
 sale her farm of one hundred and eighty acres, north 
 side of -the great- plains, adjoining Colonel Josiah 
 Martin's to the eastward, and Adam Lawrence to 
 the westward. It has a good dwelling-house, 
 kitchen' and dairy, two flower and a kitchen gar- 
 dens, two shingled barns, smoke-house, com crib 
 aiid'?hOvel for cattle. 
 
 The above said Mrs. WUlett has for sale at her 
 store, Wall street, New York, good St. Kitts rum, 
 by the hogshead, at the lowest market price. — 
 Postboy. 
 
 1756. — Run aw«{y'from~^his bail, Benjamin 
 Hawkshurst, at Oysterb^y, March 16th, John Col- 
 lins, middle sizej tawhy, of Indian breed, an inden- 
 tured servant as security for a <£A0 debt. He was 
 enlisted in Capt. Higgins' company of battoe men, 
 but discharged, and now secretes himself. ; 20s. 
 reward if taken -in New T!Srk, and .£63 if taken"^*' 
 far as Albany. — Postboy. 
 
 1753', Jime 3. — Sundry inhabitants of Oyster- 
 bay, of the Church of England, havS'b^^ VolnntsfrJ^ 
 contributions and charitable' assistance of others, 
 erected a church there, but feeing-^ew they are un- 
 able to flnish it, and pray 'the^Assembly to be al- 
 lowed to raise .56500 by Lotterl'Jo complete it and 
 buy a bell.— J.SS. Jour,, 2 :' 338; ' 
 
 1753, J^me 4.— Gov. Clinton resided dMng'fhe 
 summer at Flushing on account of the sn^U pox 
 being in the city. - 
 
 1753, Jtme 18.-MEdmoad'%anely"offers for sale 
 his place, at Whit^'fciMie. -It "has a stone house, 
 wharf, garden, gra'v'eUed, walks, asparagi^s-beds, 
 flowering shrubs, etc^^Pttstboy-.r. 
 
 1754, '^ug 12: — John WooBi^g^ftiitiqilS for the 
 privilege, across the Souifd^ lo '^^stchestei:, of a 
 ferry from the head'bf •Hem^steidH^bofitoMata- 
 garisons Bay. 
 
 1736, April '5. — A steer, of the age of two 
 years, eight months and a half, bred by Colonel 
 Benjamin Treadwell, of Great Neck, was killed 
 
 three weeks ago, in this city, whose four q^uarters 
 weighed eight hundred and' fifty pounds, and the 
 fat, exclusive of the kidney^, one hundred and 
 twenty-three pounds. — N. T. Mercury. 
 
 1756, May 1. — A Procjamation for a fast on ac- 
 count of earthquakes throughout the colonies. — 
 Col.Mss.,Vol 82. 
 
 1756, May 17. — Captain Hugh Wentworth sells 
 linseed oil at 6s. a gallon by- the cask; at his Mills, 
 Flushings - 
 
 1756. — Friday, May 21, is to be religiously ob- 
 served in this Province as a day of public Fast 
 and Humiliation. — iV. Y. G&sette. 
 
 1756, May 24. — In the hard gust we had yes- 
 terday sennit, a boat, with three negroes, who had 
 been fishing ia Flushing Bay, and near the Two 
 Brothers, overset, and two negroes were drowned'; ■ 
 one the property of Bamardus Eyder, the other of 
 Benjamin Fowler. The third saved 'hts life by 
 holding to the mast till he was taken off by a boat 
 that went to him. — N. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1756, May 24. — On Saturday- la;st, Captain 
 Williams, of Oysterbay, came to New York, on 
 his way to the North, with a compa,ny of stout 
 men who will be reviewed this -day,b^. oufGover- 
 Taor.—^JSI^'Yi'M'er^ry. ■ 
 
 17^6, June 28. — Ean away from Henry Allen 
 Great Neck, Lieum, a mulatto fellow, walks stoop- 
 ing, hes a down look, black curled hair, well set; 
 had a felt hat, brown to^'^'shirt and trowsers, 
 brown jacket with blue worsted lining, one shirt of 
 Irish linen, broad cloth "b:^eeches. Forty .shillings 
 and charges will be paid^to any one "who 'shall se- 
 cure him in His Majesty's j.^ils.-'^PosfbSy. 
 
 } 1756, — ^ezi^Rfew^d.— Deserted, June 28th, 
 |rom*Cajrtaia Gilbert 'P6tter's company, Chester 
 JWan9er',^aged thirty-one, of a surly .ccrnlitenance, 
 ■ round' sh'ouMeredj'hfeavy gait; John' BWhus, an 
 Indfan fellow,''' aged twenty-seven ; 'arid- Samuel 
 Lang, a negro, aged twentyrfottr—s-'gdl'- of- Oyster- 
 bay. Also, Charles Poew^eS;' an -Indian, of 
 Brookhaven. Tliey'all had on New York regi- 
 mentals- and carried off four of the King's arms 
 with brfybrifetB' and caxtouch boxes. — Postboy. 
 
 1756, Jidy 1. — The Justices of Kings, Queens 
 and Suffolk Counties are empowered to'bindout 
 the neutral French from Nova Scoti£, who are dis- 
 tributed in said counties.-^^ife; Jour., -2 i 494. - 
 
 . j l-5!<56.— '"'Jamaica, July 7tJi. ■^-About'six o'clock 
 , last 'Sffliflay afternoon, we had ' the' mttst violent 
 hurricane that, perhaps, was ever -Seen in this 
 part of North America. It began near Hell-gate 
 on the north side, and run in- a straight course 
 across the Island to the' sout!h,'be^g about fifteeit ' 
 mites in? length, -and not' exeeediiig eighty rods in 
 bi^adth, Hi&ng iacredible havoc, destroying al- 
 most every tiring in its'way. The iafg^s't o^k-and 
 hickory trees wfere not able to withstand 'its vio- 
 lence, but were surprisingly torn up by the roots 
 
28 
 
 Q.UEENS COUNTY. 
 
 split into innumerable pieces and many large limbs 
 of several hundred weight, carried into open fields 
 near half a mile's distance from t^ie woods. Sev- 
 eral houses" are damaged, six bams destroypd^np- 
 wards of eight hundred bearing apple trees blown 
 down, near eighty-acres of excellent tiiaber-^la^ 
 scarce article, -of late, among-us) entirely ruined,- 
 and several lengths of fence blown down and 
 bToten. A grind stone, near -Captain Laijgdon's 
 in Newtown, of upwards of one hundred .and fifty' 
 pounds weight, was removed by the force of the, 
 wind, with the frame it was fixed .on^.-twelve .or 
 fifteen feet, and thrown into his "gsirden. ; An iron 
 chimney-back was also removed several feet from 
 the place it stood oni Cap-tain -Langdon's barn 
 was shattered into innumerable .pieces. Jilany 
 large timbers and boards were carried to an incredi- 
 ble distance. The. iron liinges of the doors, weigh- 
 ing several pounds, were found a quarter- of a mile 
 from the place where the barn had stood. Large 
 showers of limbs of trees, shingles, leaves, etc., fell 
 in Bo.me pla.ces.near amjle from the course of the 
 wind. Two apple trees were removed whole, with 
 a great quantity of earth sticking to their roots, 
 upwards pf thirty rods. "The utmost extent of the 
 hurricane's duration did not-exceed half a ininute. 
 . Captain 'Betts, at ■ Janiaica, is thought to be the 
 greatest sufferer, having lost near two hundred 
 choice apple trees, one barn entirely gone and 
 another much. damaged, near fifteen acses of good 
 timber land.. laid waste, besides -fencfes, etc., com- 
 puted at .^301). .The whole damage, at a modei-ate 
 computation,™ aEBOuats to between i£2,000 and 
 
 43,000. 
 
 .Doubtless some persons will be aurp-ised, and 
 others ridicule this relation, especially the account 
 of the grind stone and chimney-back ; but itis to be 
 hoped suciiwill suspend their judgments until they 
 are certified of the truth thereof, by persons of the 
 greatest veracity who were eye-witnesses to the 
 above facts, and many more as surprising, but too 
 tedious to be here enumerated." — Cor. of N. Y. 
 Mercury. 
 
 1756, Jvly Vd.^AZ Eeward,and charges,-r- 
 Deseifted from Captain TJiomas Williams' compa- 
 ny, in the service , of the Province of New York, an 
 Indian jnan, Reuben, a down-looldng fellow, short 
 hair, thick set, born in Queens County. He had 
 on New Yoa;k regimentals and carricJd off his fire- 
 locfc.^-POsiSo!/. " 
 
 1756, — (£.5 iR.eTiraird > and charges, if secured in 
 any jail. — ^Deserted from Captain Thomas Wil- 
 lianis' company, JulyilOth; Solomon Rainer, tall 
 and down-lookt. He took his firelock No. IS, and 
 branded N. Y. in the breech,, and had on his regi- 
 mentals ;. Harper WatiseSr, Jr., middling tall and; 
 down look ; also, Thomas Stringham, tall, well set, 
 goes stooping, and is round shouldered. 
 
 Ylb^, Aug. 16. — £2> Reward and ^charges. — 
 Run away frota W.', Mott, Great Neck, a negro 
 man slave, Joe, a well Set likely fellow, full-faced 
 and black. Bom here and speaks good English, 
 
 He had on. a gray ho^osp.un eoat with pewtertbut- 
 tons, white linen jacket aJid homespun linen, shirt, 
 a speckled linen ha,ndkerchief around his neck, felt 
 hat,- tow trowsers, old pumps 'vvith' bufckles. * Com- 
 manders pf .ve.esels aie forbid . carrying ' him off. — 
 
 i7-56, Fep/.' 29.— The "estate of Thomas." Moon, 
 in the. town-spot of Flushing is offered for sale by 
 his widow, Elizabeth, a good large dwelling-house, 
 seven acres of land, orchard, farming utensils and 
 cattle, also shop goods.— iV. Y. Mercury. 
 
 .1756, Oct. 25.— Captain Wentworth, of iFlush- 
 ing, being at St. Thomas, mustered as many New 
 Yorkers as he could find (twenty-four hands in all) 
 and in his new vessel, indifferently_)qiounted .with 
 great guns, put to sea in- pursuit of a French Pri- 
 vateer, cruising off the harbor and chasing New 
 York vessels. .But the privateer thought fit to dis- 
 appear.-r-Pos/&0^. 
 
 1756, Nov. 1. — To be sold, the pleasant and 
 noted place in the town spot of Jamaica, called 
 Spring Garden, being in sight of the County 
 House,- Dutch, English a,nd..Pres^byterianchu]Jches, 
 and Tetired from all. It contains twelve acres 
 clear land, twelve of woodland, enough to supply 
 two fires, two orchards, a cider mill, green-house, 
 low land that can be made to mow twenty .loads, of 
 English. hsy.. , Apply to John Hutchings or Rob- 
 ert Howell,* on,thie premises.— JV. Y- Mercury. 
 
 1756, Nov. 15. — The name or abode of the per-' 
 sgn who gave information of the landing, clandes- 
 tinely, pf some Dutch goods near Lloyd's Neck', 
 being unknown to the Collector of .His Majesty's 
 customs, he is desired, to come and receive his • 
 share, or send . directions how it may Ije disposed 
 oi.s-JPostloy. 
 
 Ifm, IS^ov. -19.— The sum of 6e5,15" was paid 
 Nehemiah Carpenter, for building a watch-house 
 near the Beacon, at Rockaway, and.*€16 were paid 
 Thomas Cornell, Esq., for two months' service of 
 t-wo proper persons to attend and watch the Beacon 
 and alarm gun. — Ass. Jour., 2, 517, 618. 
 
 1756, Nov. 19. — The following bills were paid" 
 by order of -tiic General Assembly) for supporting 
 the neutral French brought here in May last and 
 sent to the' Magistrates of Queens County : 
 Christopher Robert, Flushing, nine meti, £ 4, '2, .1 
 Samuel Fish Jr., Newtown, ten " 21, 7, 
 Joseph Kissam, Hempstead, eight " 10, 5, 7 
 Sam'l, Townsend,* Oysterbay, nine " 10,13, 0^ 
 James Denton, Jamaica, ' ten " 12,14,11 
 
 1757, Jan. 10.— To be sold a houSe and lot in 
 tenure and occupation of, Dri Jacob Ogden, oppo- 
 
 *pi6a Nov. 1776. 
 
 tHe sent an insulting letter to the Assembly, on the con- 
 duct pf the House in respect to. the iiiaintenjince, of theneyi- 
 tral French. " He was brought before the House by 'ttie 
 Sergeakt-M-Arms, and on his siibmissiOn, was replimanded 
 and then dismissed. — Jour., 2 : 554. 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
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 site the Presbyterian -imeeting-hotise, Jainaica. It 
 contains two and a half acres, good barn,^'arden 
 and orchard — all in -good fence. Apply to Mrs. 
 Rebecca Semple, at her house, next to Richard R. 
 Smith's, ■schiookaaster, New York. Said' Semple 
 has imported from Bristol the best Scotch snuff, to 
 I be sold cheap for ready money or short credit. All 
 pcffsons indebted for sniiff above a twelve month 
 are requested to pay forthwith, as they would pre- 
 vent trouble. — N. Y. Mercurt/. "j 
 
 1757, Jan. 27. — A number of the King's soldiers, 
 of the Twenty-second Regiment, was sent to Ja-_ 
 maica to be billeted there. Nebemiah Denton and 
 Thomfis Hinchman were appointed by the- tmvnio 
 supply them with wood and other necessaries 'that 
 the town is obliged to, they keeping an account of 
 their disbu.rsements. — Town liccords. 
 
 1757, Feb. 2S.— For sale, the plantation of 
 Abraham Willett, of Flushing, 'deceased, contain- 
 ing one hundred and sixty acres of land and mea- 
 dow, well watered by divers living springs. It 
 has a two-story dwelling,, with ""five, fire-places, a 
 new barn, and considerable orcharding. Apply to 
 Abraham and Gharlef Willett, Executors. — N..Y. 
 Mercury. 
 
 1757, -March X. — Q-ovemor Hardy, in a Procla- 
 mation dated, at Flatbush, orders all deserters from 
 the forces in the- pay of the Province, or those on 
 furlotjgh on .Xong Island, to repair to Newtown. 
 The deserters .will not be proceeded against as such 
 if they, yctm-n to duty, — Postboy. 
 
 .1757, -March 9j — To the French and Indian 
 
 ■ war,.',<5ueens County^ sends thirty-eight men ; Suf- 
 jfolk, thirty-eight; Kings, eight. 
 
 ■.3-737, April 11.^ — Between seven and eight 
 
 ■ o'clock, on Friday night last, the boat of John 
 Wilson, of Flilshing, lying in New York harbor 
 
 •was robbed of cash to the amount of £15. — Mer- 
 
 'Cury. *• 
 
 1757, May 16.— On Friday last, Richard Hal- 
 let, Jr., of the town of Newtown, was killed in fall- 
 ing a tree in the woods. — N. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1757, May 16.— To be let, the farni, house, &c., 
 at Whitestone, now in possession of Daniel Waters, 
 where the ferry to Frog's Point is carried on, 'It 
 has a good bearing orchard of one hundred and fif- 
 ty trees, thirty acres swamp and sixty of meadow, 
 and seventy-six of pasture land. Apply to John 
 or Edward Nicoll, New York,; Joseph Wiljnot, 
 Jamaica, or John- Cornell, near the premises. — 
 Postboy. 
 
 1757, May 25.— G-ov. Hardy notifies- boatmen 
 and markctmen from the country bringing to New- 
 York provisionss or. other necessaries for the King's 
 ships, that they shall' not be impressed.— Pos^&o^. 
 
 1757.— rBaoes at Jataaica, Mondayi .June -^th. 
 The New York Pmme. by fonr year olds,' subject 
 to articles to be . seen- at time of entry ■ at John 
 Combs'. .Next day, the stakes to-be run for by 
 
 the same horses, except the winner and those dis- 
 tanced.— JV. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1757, June 13. — iChe .-New = York subscription 
 plate, run for at Jamaica, was won by Lewis Mor- 
 ris, Jr.'s, horse, American Childers.— JV. Y. Mer- 
 cury. 
 
 175V,.June 27. — The embargo at New York is 
 taken. ofi' all outward bound vessels. 
 
 17 57 i-rTivo Pisfofes' reward, besides what the 
 ■law allows. Jamaica, July 6th, deserted this day, 
 about one o'clock in the morning, from Joseph 
 Howard's, tavern' keeper, at the half-way house, 
 betwixt Jamaica and the Ferry, John Jones, 
 born in Ireland, aged twenty-five, hair and com- 
 plexion brown, of a thick and crooked built and 
 had on a dark grey jacket and trowsers, and 
 dresses like a sailor ; and John Sighmont Fisher, 
 born in the. Dutch countries, speaks bad English, 
 but high' and low Dutch he speaks extremely well. 
 He is of fair complexion, fair short hair, had on a 
 brown coat and red jacket without sleeves. They 
 carried away the landlord's great coat, and white 
 cloth coat he used to wear in the church, his gun 
 and other things not yet missed. — Postboy. 
 
 1757. — Wednesday, July 13th, is appointed, by 
 Proclamation of the Governor, to ' be observed 
 throughout this Province, as a day of solemn pub- 
 lic Prayer, Fasting and -Humiliation, to irajilorC; 
 the Divine blessing on His Majesty's arms, by sea 
 and land, and especially for the security of these 
 Colonies. 
 
 1757, Aug. 8. — Samuel Borden, on account of 
 his advanced age, is leaving off trade, and offers to 
 let 'a merchant shop in the town of "Flushing, con- 
 veniently situated for trade. It has a large con- 
 venient lodging-room and a good pump well sup- 
 plied with water, near the door. — N. Y-. Mercury. 
 
 1757, Aug. IS.^Of the Queens County militia, 
 six hundred are ordered to Albany, and the Suf- 
 folk militia are to. march into .Queens County. 
 
 1757, J.M^,T4.^CoJonel ^Hieks -writes to the 
 Governor that the militia of Queens County axe . 
 poorly armed, and as there is danger of an invasion 
 by the French, he requests £130, which is in the 
 treasury of the' county from Quaker fines, to buy 
 arms with. 
 
 1-757, Aug. 15,.— David Jones, of Fort Neck, 
 writes to the Hon. A. Kennedy : "" It has been 
 represented to me that there has'.been of'late ob- 
 served -too gi-eat -an intimacy Ijetween the negro 
 slaves and the people called neutral French. This 
 it is apprehended tends to stir up the negroes to in- 
 surrection, when such numbers- of our best men 
 ai;e , gone from us. His Majesty's Council will 
 doubtless think it expedient to give immediate or- 
 der .-to, see the- laws against slaves duly executed ; 
 a-ad that all officers, civil and military, have a 
 watchljileye oyer the neutral French." 
 
 il757, Sept. 2.— On the receipt of the news of 
 
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 QUEENS-COUNTY 
 
 the surrender of Fort William Henry to the French, 
 six hundred men were ordered to'maarcM fjf&nr' 
 Queens County toward Albany. . They mutinied 
 when near Albany and left the army.. . 
 
 1757.— Will be ran for WediieBday, Nov. 23, 
 the New York subscription Purse, by»any hqrse 
 carrying ten stone, the- best of three heats, each 
 heat twice round Jamaica Pond. Horses to be en- 
 tered with Mr. John Combs, paying $2 the day 
 before the race, or at the post $4. — Postboy. 
 
 1758, Feb.f 20:-^'— Stolen. — Mr. Isaac Isaacs, Ja- 
 maica, offers ten shillings reward for a large silver 
 spoon marked "I. I. F.". If offered to a silver- 
 smith, or other, they are desired to stop it and se- 
 cure the thief. — N. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1758, Fel. 27.— Last Tuesday night three lads, 
 eight or ten years old, were playing beside a pond, 
 at Newtown, near the house of Edward Titus (one 
 of whom was his only son,) who being missed in 
 the evening, were sought for, and at twelve at 
 night were found drbwuedfone of their hats 'lying 
 on the ice, and the ice broken near- it.^-i^ Y.- "Mer- 
 cury. 
 
 1758. — This is to give notice that there is to be 
 sold by way of vendue, Ma<rch 16tJi, at ten o'clock, 
 on the premises, the farm that fofmerjy belongjed 
 to Samuel Sands, at the bottom of Cow Neck, now 
 in possession of Samuel Smith. It has 217 acres 
 of upland, meadow and marsh, ten acres of English 
 mowing ground, twenty of salt meadow, a good 
 house, orchard, and barn twenty-six by -twenty- 
 eight feet. — Postboy. . 
 
 1758, Marcl, 24.— The Assembly adjourn so 
 that the members may return home to expedite 
 and forward the levies iaiheir. respective- couoties^! 
 — -JbMr.,.2 .-.SSS. . 
 
 1758.^To be sold' at public vendue, Monday, 
 March 27, the neat, commodious and impjcoved-. 
 farm of Elbert Adriawce, with a good house and}.-: 
 barn, at Fresh Meadows, two miles from Jamaica, 
 on the upper road to Flushing. It has one hun- 
 dred and fifty acres, part timber land. — Postboy. . 
 
 1758, March 28.— Fbr the' -ensuing- campaign 
 the quota of Queens County is two hundred and 
 ninety men;- Suffolk, two^Aundred and eighty- 
 nine ; and Kinggi, sixty-three.— iV. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1758.— To M-«old' M^puWic vendue, Wednes- 
 day, Ap]al-.;5th^ at the dwelling-housie of .Daniel 
 Lawren.ee,- deceased, household furnituise, horses, 
 cattie'and a paicel of young negroes ; als6, a dwel- 
 ling-house andJat, on FlusMngxreek,,.with a good 
 store-house and dock. 
 
 1758, April ia~.List of the offieers of the three 
 companies of ninety-five>recrmtB in Qji^feens County, 
 in the pay of the Province : 
 
 1st. Captain, Thomas Williams ; First Lieuten- 
 antv Daniel Wright ; Second Lieutenant, William 
 Algeo ; Sergeants— John Allison, Joseph Cassi- 
 dy,. James Palmer ; Corporals— Daniel Southard, 
 
 Cooper Brooks, John Halton ; Drummer, Benja- 
 pia Agens. 
 
 2d. Captain, Richard Hewlett r ■Fifst' LieufeH- 
 ant, Ephraim Morse ; Second Lieute'natit, Dow 
 Ditmars ; Sergeants ^-^ Samuel BrcTwn, Nichol'a's 
 Wilson, Timothy Hill ; Corporals — John LarrabSe, 
 Jsaac Totten, James Brown. . 
 ■" 3;^ - C&.ptain^ Petrus StuyveBaHt; .First Lieu- 
 tenant, David Jones; Second Lieutenant, Morris 
 Smith; Sergeants^— Simeon Smith, George Dun- 
 bar, James Marr, CorneH-as Turner ; Corporals — 
 Jeremiah Finch, John Wal1*irs,:Matthew Eobins. 
 —Col Mss., Vol. 85'. ' ■ ' 
 
 .1758, May 31.— The foUowing bills for lodging 
 and victualling French officers, in 17^7 and 1758, 
 at 75. per week, were ordered -to- be- paid by the 
 Assembly,^ — Jour., 2 : 558. 
 
 Thomas Hinchman, , for 24 officers,, ^638,3" 
 William Sackett, " 2 . " 7,0,;?.. 
 
 John Losie, " 2 " 10,2 , 
 
 John Poster, " 4=-.:. " 18 
 
 Wniiain Denton, " 4-"'- "" 16- 
 
 j Jonah Shodes, " 6 ""^ 18',i8 
 
 Joseph Betts. " 2 " 8,16 
 
 Joseph Lawrence, "3 " 4,19 
 
 Eichard Pinfold;" " 2 "- 23,16 
 
 . Nathaniel .-Moore, " 2 "-'-'• 24,00 
 
 Benjamin Waters', 'fes- transporting ":them froHi 
 Jamaica to Newtown, August, 1757, 661,10;'' 
 
 Adam Lawrence, for trouble, time and expense, 
 in fetching and boarding out all the aforesaid 
 French pjgsoners, sent to Queens County, c£3,00. 
 
 1758.-^ Etih' away, June 24th, from Jamaica, 
 James Thorn, a carpenter;; r«d -hair, freckled sandy 
 Complexion, a musket ball scar on his right, leg. 
 HeTbad cm a blue great coat, red plush waiste«Kit 
 t(vith^t<*leev6ST an ordinary hat with narrow silver^ 
 lace'on-it^-toid''A. cirtJwig,-,.- H&took a horse with a 
 snip on the nose aad a brand; also, a Russel 
 Emoting saddle with green worsted girt, without 
 h6usdng or saddle cloth, a snaffle bridle with buckle 
 at thfg. bits. Forty shillings reward for man and 
 horse or ;2Qs. for eith&r, and charges paid by Caleb 
 Whealton: . 
 
 17S5.S", Juiy 17.—4&!s. iJewajr(:?.,-^Deserted from, 
 Captain Hewlett's company, William, Steele, aged 
 twenty-five, dark complexion, English. born; John 
 Conner, Irish bom, aged thirty, fair comjlexion ; 
 Hamilton Blackwood, Irish, a marinerj brown 
 complexion, aged- twenty-nine— all;, enlisted in 
 Queens Gatmty; and, .from./^Captaito "««rplank's 
 company, Benjamin Akerly%,.L6B^' Island born, 
 aged' twenty-three, mddyj.cfHnplexion ; William 
 Johns»ii,iaged twenty-fioiir, red hair ; John Wil- 
 liams,3 a'ge^ thir-ty^oaiji.Maekhair. — Postboy. 
 
 1768.--Tidlbe-Boldvdf publics vendue, Saturday, 
 July 29th, at -the- late dwellingiBfi Eichbell Mott, 
 deceaBei^^n^CoVNeek-i^oneihrndSed acres of good 
 land 4a4he west side of hi»-Mm>'Tvell watered and 
 timbered, good fence and/ ^ grove of locust timber. 
 Henry Sands, John Molt, Deborah Mott, Executors.' 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 31 
 
 1758, iVo». 20^:— Ai^purse of-pfi^lQ is to, be run for^; 
 at Newtown, on Decemker Sth, .tlj^,.l>esiof three 
 heats, one inile each... Entrance, one dollar, to be 
 paid the day.before^tl^e, race to DanieLSietts.^— j^.. 
 Y. Mercury. 
 
 1758, Dec. 5. — The people of Jamaiea and' 
 Newtown petition the Assembly to^be relieved of 
 the heavy, and ,un,e!jual burthens theyMor under 
 by having His Majesty's regular troops quartered 
 among them. — Ass^Jxmr., 2 : 574* 
 
 1758, Ikc:^A± a- warmly contested eFeetion 
 Hicks, arpartisan of Governor Clinton, and his col- 
 league,- Z'ebulon Seaman, were elected over Mr.. 
 JustieeJones andt Gornell, wiio were- o£ the Liv- 
 iiggton party,. 
 
 1759, Jan. T. — Captain Falconer ofiers $3' re- 
 ward, and the allowance for apprehending desert- 
 ers, for John Smith, a deserter from His Majesty's 
 Forty-fourth Kegiment, now quartered at Hemp- 
 stead. He has a short nose,- round face, a little 
 thick-lipt, speaks English.with.a-German accent.^ — 
 N. Y. Mercury.. 
 
 1759, Jan li — Wllliamii Betts'' farm;> fbr sale, 
 pleasantly situated at the west end of the Main 
 Street, Jamaica.. It Has-- one hundred and forty 
 acres of good land in good fence, whereof eighteen 
 is woodland, a good new dwelling-house with sash 
 windows, stone well, orchards yielding in bearing 
 years, ten or twelve hogsheads of cider. — Postboy.. 
 
 1759, Jan. 22. — To be sold or let, the house at 
 Jamaica, formerly belongingito Eichard E. Smith,, 
 . deceased, very convenient for a tavern or any other 
 business . — Postboy. 
 
 1759, Feb. 5. — WilliamiPedly, bom in England, 
 deserted from His Majesty's Forty-fourth Eegi- 
 ;; ment, quartered at Jamaica, ©aptain Richard Bay- 
 ly's company of Grenadiers, He had on a red 
 rugg coat, a fustian frock with plate buttons under, 
 it. — Postboy. 
 
 1759J Fel%:.2Q^ — ^For sale the dwelling^hoase of 
 the Rev. Mr. Colgan, situate near the Beaver Pond, 
 Jamaica. It has eight rooms on a floor and two- 
 good rooms up stairs, and is in good repair, with a 
 bam and sixty-sis. acres of land and an orchard oft 
 one hundred trees-^all in good fence^. The pur- 
 chaser need not advance ready money, but bondss 
 with good security will be accepted by Mary Col- 
 gan. 
 
 1759, March 1. — For invading- tBe Frenah pes- 
 sessions in Canada the quota of Queens ©ounty 
 was three handred men; of Kings, sixty-eight;, 
 of Suffolk, two hundred and eighty-nine. Captain 
 Seaman brought in a bill to compel cea:tain per- 
 sons in Queens County to enlist in the company of 
 the district or beat where they, reside.— ^s. Jow., 
 2.:r594i597. 
 
 1759, April 10. — The officers of tBeitbreecom- 
 : panies of Queen& County recruits (three hundred 
 effective men) for the French war are : : 
 
 Ist,- ©aptain, Bphrainn Morse ; First Lieuten- 
 ant, George Dunbar; Second Lieutenant, Eoeloff 
 Buryea.. 
 
 2nd.. Ca|(tain, Daniel "Wright ; First Lieuten- 
 antv James Casseday; Second Lieutenant, Isaac 
 Seaman.. 
 
 3rd.. Captain, Richard Hewlett ; First Lieuten- 
 ant, Joseph. Bedell ; Second Lieutenant, Michael 
 Weeks.^ CoL.ikZss., Vol. 87. 
 
 lfi;59; J^pril 30.— On Monday last His Excel- 
 lency Jeffery Amherst, Esq., Major-General and 
 commander of all His Majesty's forces in North 
 America, set out from New York for Jamaica, 
 where he reviewed nine companies of Colonel Fra- 
 zer's Highlanders and returned to town the same 
 night. — N. Y. Mercury. 
 
 L759, May 14. — Notice. — Joseph Burling, at " 
 Flushing, dyes and presses all sorts of broad- 
 cloths, takes out mildews, dyes and stiffens all 
 sorts of silks and stuffs, with care and- dispatch. — 
 N:- Y. Mercury. 
 
 1759, May 24. — ColonelStepHen Hicks received 
 £29 for defraying the expenses of attending and 
 keeping watch at the- beacon in Queens County, 
 from May to Oct. — Ass. Jour., 2 ::636. 
 
 1759, Oct. 7. — Taken up in the public highway, 
 at Newtown, on Sunday, a pocket book withmon- 
 ey and several gold rings in it. Apply to Mr. 
 John Moore, prove property and pay for this no- 
 tice. 
 
 1759, Nov. 5.= — We hear that* to-morrow, great 
 rejoicings are to be at Jamaica, at the success of 
 His Majesty's- army in North America. A whole 
 OS. is tabe roasted for the great multitude of peo- 
 ple expected there,- and empty hogsheads are pre- 
 pared to make punch in. At night there is to be 
 a large bonfire. The usual loyal healths will be 
 drank attended with a chorus. — N. Y. Gazette. 
 
 17t59, Nov. 5. — The inhabitants of Long Island 
 are requested to make up their accounts for keep- 
 ing: French prisoners for several months past at 
 their houses. — Postboy. 
 
 ] 1759) Nov.. 7.— The inhabitants of Flushing 
 celebrated the reduction of Quebec, that long 
 dreaded sink ot French perfidy and cruelty. An 
 elegant entertainment was provided at which the 
 principle-persons of the place were present. After 
 dinner tHe paternal, tenderness of our most gracious 
 Sovereign for these infant colonies, the patriotism 
 and integrity o£Mr. Eitt, the fortitude and activity 
 of our generals and admirals, etc., with every other 
 toast that loyalty and gratitude could dictate were 
 drank. Each toast was accompanied by a dis- 
 charge of cannon — in all above one hundred. The 
 evening was ushered in with a large bonfire and 
 illumination. The Governor has appointed a day 
 of Thanksgiviffig for the reduction of the forts at 
 Ticonderoga, Crown Point and Niagara, and the 
 victory at Quebec. — N. Y. Mercury. . 
 
 1760, Feb. 18. — T.o let the plantation or farm of 
 
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 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 the estate of Josepli Bowne, Flushing, deceased. 
 It has forty acres choice upland and meadow, good 
 fences, a -dwelling-house with nine rooms and five 
 fire-places, with a large kitchen adjoining, an orch- 
 ard trtth a variety of fruit trees, good barn, store- 
 house and other out-houses. Enquire of William 
 Lawrence, Mosqueto Cove, or Joseph Bowne, 
 Flushing. 
 
 1760, March 3.— Joseph Haviland offers for 
 sale, at Flushing landing, a new house, and lot of 
 ground two hundred and forty-four by sixty-five 
 feet, very fit for a gentleman's country seat.^ 
 
 1760, Ma,reh 31.— For sale the plantation, where 
 Mr. Colgan resided many years with his family. 
 There are seventy acres, a large dwelling-house, 
 two stories high, sash windows, eight fire places ; 
 having the beautiful prospect of a large pond be- 
 fore the door called Beaver Pond. A very suitable 
 place for a gentleman. Also, cows, horses, hogs 
 and farming utensils. Enquire of John Thompson, 
 living on the premises. 
 
 1760, March 31. — To let, a convenient and 
 commodious large dwelling house, with sash win- 
 dows and leantos, situated in the town of Jamaica, 
 now in the tenure of Mrs. Colgan. Enquire at 
 John Burnet's, Attomey-at-Law, New York. 
 
 1760, A:prU 7. — To let, the Ferry at Whitestone, 
 with a house, garden and orchard, for the term of 
 one or five years. Enquire of John Nicoll, near 
 the premises. 
 
 1760 — Will be exposed to sale, April 10th, at 
 noon, at public vendue, the now dwelling-house of 
 Daniel Duryee, in Jamaica, with forty or fifty 
 acres cleared land, in good fence and well watered. 
 Also, better than fifteen acres of woodland, which 
 lies handy. The house is new and well finished 
 in two apartments, each having a fire-place, be- 
 sides good leautos adjoining. There is a new barn 
 thirty-six by forty-eight feet, an orchard, garden, 
 stone-well and several other conveniences, pleas- 
 antly situated for a gentleman's seat. 
 
 1760, April 14. — Ran away from Bernardus 
 Ryder, Flushing, a negro man Caesar, aged twenty- 
 five, this country born, not a right black, has a lit- 
 tle of the yellowish cast, a pretty lusty fellow, 
 talks good English, if frightened stutters very 
 much, has lost one of his front teeth ; had on a 
 light colored Devonshire-kersey coat, a soldier's 
 red jacket, breeches and hat, and a pair of old 
 shoes. 40s. reward if taken on the Island ; or £3 
 if taken off the Island.— Posi&o«/. 
 
 1760.— To be sold and entered, on May 1st, the 
 farm of George Frost, deceased, two miles from 
 the town of Oysterbay landing. It has one hun- 
 dred and fifty or one hundred and sixty acres, good 
 fence, half cleared, timbered with chestnut, oak and 
 walnut, two good dwelling-houses, barn, two or- 
 chards that make one hundred ban-els of cider per 
 year, cider-mill, screw-press, grist-mill with flint- 
 stones, two bolting-mills, fulling-mill and press- 
 
 house. Apply to Benjamin Townsend, Jerico, or 
 John Underbill, Matinecock.— Posi&o^^. 
 
 1760, May 5. — Notice. — A negi-o, wandering 
 about without a pass, was taken up at Hempstead, 
 by Benjamin Stewart, schoolmaster, and put in 
 Jamaica jail, where he now awaits the order of his 
 master, who, he says, is Colonel Dyer, of Wind- 
 ham. — JV. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1760, May 12. — Run away from John Thomp- 
 son, Jamaica, Rose McBride, a servant woman, 
 bom in Ireland, lusty, well-looking, of- fair com- 
 plexion and light hair. She had on a dark calico 
 gown, and gold ear-rings fixed in her ears. A re- 
 ward of 40s. is offered, and all persons are forbid 
 entertaining or concealing her.* 
 
 1760, May 27. — To lie sold at auction, at John 
 Forbush's, near Success, a quantity of tea, pepper, 
 powder in quarter-casks, sugar in barrels, and a 
 variety of shop goods ; also, cattle, horses, slieep 
 and farming utensils, late the estate of John For- 
 bush, Jr., deceased. 
 
 1760.— The officers of the Queens County re- 
 cruits (one hundred and ten men) for the French 
 war were : 
 
 1st. Captain, Ephraim Morse ; First Lieutenant, 
 Roeloff Duryea; Second Lieutenant, Abraham 
 Remsen. 
 
 2nd. Captain, Daniel Wright ; First Lieutenant, 
 Edward Burk ; Second Lieutenant, John Dean. — 
 N. Y. Col. Mss., Vol. 88. 
 
 1760, Jull/ 28. — $5 Eewao'd. — Run away from 
 Richard Betts, Jamaica, a new negro, named Cas- 
 talio. He has several cuts in his body, his two 
 fore teeth filed and holes in both ears. He had on 
 an Ozenbrigs shirt and trowsers and cross-barred 
 red linen waistcoat. — N. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1760, Aug. 2. — Will be exposed to sale at ven- 
 due the land, one hundred and fifty acres, lately 
 possessed by Amos Morril, deceased, on Oak Neck, 
 with all the improvements thereon. It is remarka- 
 bly convenient for a ship-builder, has a good work- 
 house, blacksmith's shop, two dwelling houses, two 
 small orchards and a good quantity of timber. 
 Title given by William and Jacob Walton & Co, 
 — N. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1760. — Cow Neck, Angust 13th. Hendrick 
 Onderdonk offers ^66 reward for a runaway negro 
 named Primus, a likely, well-looking fellow, speaks 
 English and the low Dutch, plays on the violin 
 and can read and write. He had on a castor hat 
 and gray ratteen coat lined with brown camblet 
 and yellow metal buttons on it. He also carried 
 off a green everlasting jacket lined with shalloon, a 
 pair of black everlasting breeches and check trows- 
 ers, a fine linen homespun and an Osnabrig's shirt 
 and a pair of pumps. He has attended a grist-mill 
 and it is likely he will forge a pass. 
 
 *.She, probably, was one of the class of emigi-ants, called 
 JRedeinptioners, whose services, for a term of years, were 
 sold by the captain to pay her passage. 
 
ITSr (OXDEN TIMES, 
 
 33 
 
 1760. — Died, August 27th, at Jamaica, after a 
 few days illness, .Samuel Clowes, Esq., in his 
 eighty-seventh year. He was many years a noted 
 lawyer, and well skilled in mathematics, in Which 
 he was instructed 'by the famous Dr. Flamstead. 
 He left a numerous posterity and an unhlemislred 
 character. — JV. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1760, Auff. 28. — Received of Mr. Benjamin 
 Sands, of Cow Neck, the sum of £67,10, in full, 
 for a negro wench called Eve, sold and delivered 
 per me, Peter Hegeman, of Oysterbay. Witness 
 present Samuel Weeks. 
 
 1760, Oct. 19-. — Vendwe at Benjamin Hinch- 
 man's, Jamaica, of all sorts of dry goods i,(wh«le 
 pieces and remnants) lately the effects of Hart 
 Aaron and Jacob Cohen, of Flushing, Newtown, 
 Islip and Jerico. For six months credit they will 
 be sold very cheap. — iV. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1760, — Thursday, October 2Sd, was observed, 
 throughout this Province, as a day of public and 
 solemn Thanksgiving for the Divine blessing on 
 His Majesty's arms, in the reduction of Canada. — 
 N. Yl Mercury.. 
 
 1760, Nov. 20. — There are five hundred British 
 soldiers arrived, under convoy of the Devonshire, 
 who are to be quartered on Long Island. Some of 
 these transports wUl convey the French prisoners to 
 old France. 
 
 1760, Bee. 29. — For sale a pleasant and com- 
 plete farm on the north side of Hempstead Plains, 
 near the Hon. Colonel Josiah Martin's. It has 
 two hundred and twelve acres, well fenced, a large 
 young orchard of choice fruit, two mowing gi-ounds 
 producing upwards of fifty loads of best English 
 hay. The house has four rooms and fire-places on 
 a floor, coach and store-house^ also, horses, cattle 
 and plantation utensils, etc. Thomas Truxton*, 
 living on the premises, will give a good title. 
 
 1761, Feh. 19. — Thomas Braine offers for sale a 
 pleasantly situated farm, where he now lives, on 
 the road to Flatbush, within two short miles of 
 Jamaica, and a mile and a half from the water, 
 where is good fishing, fowling and pysterin-g. It 
 has one hundred acres of good land, twenty of 
 woodland, a horase, basm, orchard of sixty trees, 
 and is well watered. 
 
 1761, Feb. 24. — The total vote of Queens Coun- . 
 ty for Members of Assembly was 650. David 
 Jones had 382; Thomas Cornell, 363; Thomas 
 Hicks, 342; Zebulon Seaman, 217, and William 
 Talman, 42, Jones and Cornell were returned by 
 the Sheriff, but their election was successfully con- 
 tested by Hicks and Seaman. The Sheriff was 
 
 *He was the father of Commodore Truxton, who went 
 to Mr. Seabury's school at Hempstead, iu ]761. Colonel 
 Martin was father of Dr. Samuel Martin, of Eock Hail, 
 Kockaway, who died of a lingering sickness,^pril 19, 1806, 
 aged sixty-six, and was buried at Hempstead, iu the char- 
 eel of St. George's Church, of which he.'had'been a bent- 
 factor. 
 
 .reprimanded by the House for his undue and ille- 
 gal behaviour, and a n&fr election ordered to be 
 held April 20th and 21st, when the Sheriff made a 
 dotible return, flius.^ 
 
 Thomas Comell and David Jones. 
 
 "Thomas Cornell and Zebulon 'Seaman. 
 
 A sci-ntlny of the votes was held at Jamaica, 
 JnneDth, and a decision made in favor of Seaman,* 
 Dec. 9th.— J.SS. Jour., 2 : 648, 678, and Postboy. 
 
 1761, April 2.— The late garrison of Detroit, 
 who are now prisoners of war on Long Island, will 
 embark for France. All persons who have cm- 
 ployed them to work at a distance from Jamaica, 
 will return them to the prison there immediately. 
 The Canadians will ,go to Canada. On Monday 
 next the provision money due the inhabitants of 
 Queens County, for billeting the French prisoners 
 of 1759, will be paid to Adam Lawrence, High- 
 Sheriff, at Hempstead, for distribution. Billeting 
 for prisoners taken at Isle au Noix and Fort Lew- 
 is, in 1760, will also be paid to the Sheriff.— if. Y. 
 Postboy. 
 
 1761, April 8.— The following members of the 
 'Church of England, as by law established, at Ja- 
 maica, petation tlie G-overn'or for .a charter. — See, 
 also, Doc. His,, 3 : 324. 
 
 Betts, Ilichard,t Ogden, Jacob, Dr.,f 
 
 Betts, Thomas.t Oldfield, Joseph, 
 
 Braine, Thomas,t Oldfield, Joseph, Jr., 
 Carpenter, Benjamin, Seabury, Samuel, Jr., 
 Comes, Johnf minister. 
 
 Comes, Gilbert, Smith, John, 
 
 Cornell, Thomas, Jr., Smith, Samuel,| 
 Dunbar, George, Sherlock, William.t 
 
 Howell, Robert, Truxton, Thomas, 
 
 Hinchman, Thomas,t Troup, John,J 
 Huchins, John, Van Hook, Isaac, 
 
 Innes, John, Dr., Welling, William, 
 Lawrence, Adaim, Whithead, Benjamin,i- 
 Beside and including most of the above the 
 
 following (some being non-residents) subscribed 
 
 money for the repairs of the chureh : 
 
 Armstrong, John, Jones, Thomas, Dr., 
 Betts, William, Jauncey, John, 
 
 Betts, John, Murray, William, 
 
 Burnett, John, Polhemus, Tunis, 
 
 Colgan, Fleming, Robinson, Joseph, 
 
 Hammersly, Thomas, Smith, Samuel, Jr.,|| 
 Horsemanden, Daniel, Smith John, (Union), 
 Howard, William, Troup, Robert; 
 Hutchins & Howell, Van Cotirtland, Philip, 
 
 *Jaraes Cornell and Luke .Cummins, CJerks, who made 
 out the Poll-lists, were cited before the Committee and, on 
 the report of the Committee being made to the House, it 
 was decided that AValliam Foi'bes, Gilbert Weeks, James 
 Pearsall. John Prior, Eoelof Duiyee, Bernardus Stagg and 
 liev, Abraham Keteltas, who had purchased freeholds with- 
 in three -mouths of their time of voting, should, notwith- 
 standing, be allowed their votes, thus deciding in favor of 
 Seaman. The vote of Thomas Carman, born deaf and 
 dumb, was rejected. 
 
 tVestrymen. JChurch Wardens. 
 
 II Samuel Smith lived at Little Plains. 
 
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 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 1761, May 27.— The friends of the Church of 
 England, in Flushing, pray for ansact of ineorpora- 
 tion. They say they have-nO'inanister of tbeis 
 own, that divine service i* seldom; perfornred, as 
 there is but one pastor foe Jamaica, Newtown and 
 Flushing, that they lia^e' erected a decent church 
 and intends toi j»«vid'e for the support of a clergy- 
 man..— e6Z..il:Ks., 89^j.l29. 
 
 Mitchell, J'acamiah, 
 Marston, John, 
 Eobert, Christopher, 
 Thorn, Daniel, 
 Thorn, Jacob, 
 Tom, Nathaniel, 
 Thorn, William, 
 Thorn, Benjamin, 
 Wright, Charles, 
 Wilson, John. 
 
 Aspinwiall, John, 
 Bownef, iloseph, 
 Biowji, Francis, 
 OOrneUj Charles^, 
 Dyer, John 
 Doughty Isaac, 
 Fbwler, Benjamin, 
 Ga?enell, Thomas, 
 Bfeviland, Joseph, 
 Lewis, Foster, 
 Mbrrell, John, 
 
 liVeS, JFiS&. 1. — To be sold and entered on when 
 the purchaser pleases, *a small plantation, half a" 
 mile east of Jamaica village, on which Mr. Seabu- 
 ry. Rector of the church, now lives. It contains 
 twenty-eight acres of good land, a good dwelling- 
 house, (one end new), a genteel buildingi a dry 
 cellar under the whole house, a well of gsoo^ water, 
 new barn, hovel and smoke-house There is a fine 
 orchard that makes fifty barrels of cider ; ; also, a 
 screw-press and cider-mill of a new invention, that 
 grinds fifty bushels of apples in an hour. Also, 
 fourteen acres woodland, two miles fromtithe farm? 
 and eight acres of salt meadowj' , tba>t cuts twenty 
 loads of salt hay. Apply to the abbj^esaid Samuel 
 Seabury, Jr.,* wha will, give a.ggod title.-^~jy»_Y. 
 Mercury. 
 
 1762, Feb. IS, — CUrd'. — Benjamin Lawrence, of 
 Flushing, has declined keeping tavern, but gentle- 
 men traveling may be supplied with good victuals. 
 He also takes in young gentlemen to..board by the 
 year. — N.. l^.M^ratwy. . 
 
 1762, March 2^:.—TkeB^v:.m. Samuel Sea- 
 bury, of Hempsteadan order to enlarge his school, 
 has engaged a young gentleman as usher who is a 
 candidate for orders.. Mr. S. will entertain young 
 gentlemen at his: own house in a genteel manner, 
 at =€30 per year ; schooling, washing and wood for 
 school-fire included.— J/'. Y.Mercury. 
 
 1762, April 12.— The house of Tunis Wortman, 
 of Oysterbay, was robbed of <£6ia,in Connecticut 
 money, consisting of twenty and* forty,- shllline. 
 bills, and <£670 in bills of credit of this Colony. 
 Also, a bundle of receipts of payment.— ii''. in .., 
 Mercury.. 
 
 n62„ April 26..- William Rudge, late of Glou- 
 cester, old England, continues hjg school at Hal- 
 let's Cove, where he teaches writing in the usual 
 hands, arithmetic, book-keeping, Italian, Latin and 
 Greek. There is an opportunity of sending letters 
 and parcels from New York almast daily by the 
 
 *Mr. Seabury was afterward Bishop of Connecticut. 
 
 pettyaugerSi— The subscribers willing to continue 
 'i 8he schoolmaster (as we have found him a man of 
 elose application and sobriety, and capable of his 
 office) are now ready to take in boarders at d618 
 per annum. Jacob Blackwell, Richard Berrien, 
 John Greenoak, Jacob Rapalje, Richard Pinfold, 
 John McDannough, Thomas, Jacob, William, 
 Richard and Samuel Hallett, Jr. — N. Y. M6rcury. 
 
 1762, Sept. 2. — The rain has altered' the face of 
 the country. There has been none on Long Island 
 since corn planting. This is the third summer of 
 severe drought over all British North America. 
 Provisions are high. Butter is 2s. Wd. per pound, 
 roots, greens and fruits are higher than ever knpwn 
 before. One nian will make £5i).0 by watM-mel- 
 ons. — Postboy. 
 
 1762, Oct. 11.. — Tliere is now in Jamaica jjiil a 
 negro fellow who speaks either French or Spanish, 
 and will speak no English. He was taken ,up in 
 the woods near Jamaica, hj William Watts.^-iV. 
 Y-MercKry'., 
 
 V1&2,,Dec. 6." — Stock for shippiagr^such as sheep, 
 ihogg, etc.^ may be had.of. John.Nicoll,, White- 
 ; stone.— -JVr. Yi Mercury.. 
 
 i 1762, Ztec.-..22;'— There was killed by Thomas 
 Everitt, a cow, raised and fatted by Cblonel Ben- 
 jamin Tlfedwell-,. of Qjeat Neck, whose weight was, 
 the four quarters, , six,, ktmdred and „ sffventy-six 
 jpoaaads ;, tallow besides thfi>- kidneys, one-hiindred 
 ;andj fijuty.-fijm' ppjsads j- hide, sixty -th^ee poiinds. 
 This perhaps exceeds any killed in this Province. 
 \ — N^ Y. Mercury. 
 
 1763, Feb. 28.— Joseph Haviland, Flushing 
 bay side, offers for sale his farmt. of one hundred 
 and thirty-three acres^.,j^easantly situated by the 
 Sound, where all vessels pass in sight, one mile 
 from Whitestone, very handy to New York mar- 
 kets, where a great deaUof laeney can be made, as 
 there is aigyeat plenty, of fruits, such as sugar 
 jpears, bell pears, and sundry other sorts, chen-ies 
 ;in abundance, a larg^ oEchardof.a great variety of 
 ;'fruit. There is a stream-soifeesh watei- fora mill ; 
 
 also, fresh and salt meadow... Twenty rtwo acres 
 are woodland'.. 
 
 1763, April 11. — Thomas Dodgt? and Petrus 
 Onderdonk want a man well qualified to teach a 
 jschooli, Ml Cow Neck. He may be -settled with 
 reasonable support. — JV.. Y. Gazette. . 
 
 1763.— New York Free Masons' JPitrg©^of $100 
 to be run for, Aj)ril 25,; the best two of three heats, 
 each heat three times round Hdaver Pond, Jamaica, 
 each horse to carry nine stone weigljt and to be 
 entered with Mr. Thomas Brainecpaying.SOs. en- 
 trance. The entrance maney.to be ruaiibr next 
 day— the whole to be under feinsppction of three 
 Free Masons .^-^...j; Mereury.-. 
 
 1763; /Mwei-T-The-Revi.. Samuel Seabury, o£ 
 Hempstead^ .in his Diary, says : The ticket No<. 
 5866, in the Light-house and public Lottery of 
 New York,, drew in my favor, by the blessing of 
 
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 QUEENS COUNT! 
 
 God, ^6500 (of which I received ^56425, there being 
 a deduction of fifteen per cent^) for which I now 
 record to my posterity ray thanks and ptaise to 
 Almighty God^ the- girer of all good gifts. Amen. 
 
 1763, JmZ?/.— Whereas divers persons, without 
 any right or license so to do, have of late, with 
 sloops, boats and other craft, presumed to come 
 into Jamaica Bay and taken, destroyed and carried 
 away quantities of clams, mussels and other fish, 
 to the great damage of said town, this is to give 
 warning to all persons who have no right or liber- 
 ty that they do forbesa- to> commit any such tres- 
 pass in the bay for the future ;, otherwise they will 
 be prosecuted at law for the same by Thonms 
 Cornell, Jr., and Waters Smith. By order of the 
 town. 
 
 1763, July 14. — The wife of Benjamin Dusen- 
 bury, of Long Island^ agsd fifty-five; had for sev- 
 eral years been- afflicted, with the stone It was 
 extracted by Di". Jones, and weighed seven and a 
 half evinces, and was eight or nine inches in cir- 
 cumfernnce. 
 
 1763, Nov. 28. — Died, at Jamaica, last week, 
 John Cockefer who was born so long ago that for 
 many years past he had forgot his age. He often 
 said he was a soldier in the ffort at New York, in 
 Gov. Leisler's time ('who was here during, the civil 
 war in 1689) and had been a man growni several 
 years before he enlisted, and. that when a young 
 man he had often shot quails and squirrels on or 
 near Pot baker's *hill, in New York, which was 
 then a wilderness. [He and his wife Tryntie 
 owned a house and farm of one hundred and fifty 
 acres, at the village of Springfield.]— TFei/Jwaw's 
 N. Y. Gazette.. 
 
 1763, Dec. 5. — To be 'sold by Jean Caverly,t a 
 neck of land, near Mosquito Cove, of fifty acres, 
 with a large donble-house, two stories high, barn, 
 work-house, and orchard of over one hundred 
 trees of very good fruit, well timbered and" watered, 
 very convenient for a ship carpenter or ferry; 
 likewise fishing and fowling.— iV. Y". Mercury.- 
 
 1764, Jan. 23. — On Tuesday last Joseph and 
 Richardson Cornell, of New York, sjiop^eepers, 
 absconded, having first taken up goods from differ- 
 ent merchants to the amount of £7,000; and con- 
 verted the greater part of them, into ready cash. 
 They then went to Cow Neck and there shut 
 themselves up in a room in the house of Henry 
 Sands.. Their creditors were in pursuit of them on 
 last Friday morning, and found the outer door 
 latched, but opened it without opposition. When 
 the officer approached the room where the, Cornells 
 were they threatened him with death. He however 
 proceeded to force the door when they fired a gun 
 through it, over his head.. Timothy McOarty 
 thereupon said : Eire away, my lads, we'U have 
 
 *The hill in John street. 
 
 tin 1730 he petitions for a ferry from Caverly Island to 
 Bye. 
 
 you yet.- Another gun or two was qnickly fired, 
 by which he was killed on the spot. The Cornells 
 escaped the same day, and, it was supposed, were 
 conveyed' on board a schooner in the Souad.- The 
 Coroner's verdict was " wilful murder." ' SCcCar- 
 ty's body was carried to New York on Saturday 
 nighifcr and decently interred on Sunday evening. — 
 N.-Y. Mercury. 
 
 1764, Feb, 6. — Thomas Braine offers for sale a 
 house in the town- spot of Jamaica, now in the 
 tenUTe of the Eev. Mr. Hughs. The house is two 
 stories high, with three rooms on the lower floor ; 
 the garden is enclosed with picket-pales. Also, 
 forty-five acres of land. — iV. Y. Mercury.- 
 
 1764, Fei. 13. — Charles Crommeline, New York, 
 offers for sale a farm, pleasantly situated, bordering 
 on Hempstead Plains ;; bounded westerly by Adam 
 Lawrence's, and easterly by Gabriel and George D. 
 Ludlow's ; ninety acres of upland, twenty ot wood 
 and fifty of plains, twelve of which last is now in 
 rye. The upland is a good soil for wheat or Indi- 
 an corn, and little has been tilled for many years 
 past. A new shinglei bam forty four-feet square, 
 a new house- not quite finished, thirty-one by twen- 
 ty-three' feet, wi(Ji two fire-places on first floor. 
 Also, eighteen thousand brick, seventy cart loads 
 of Hell Gate stone, red eedar posts, and timber 
 squared for a house fifty by forty feet.- — N.- Y. 
 Mercury. 
 
 1764, March^'S,. — All persons, in town or coun- 
 try, indebted to Joseph Sacket, in New York, are 
 desired to pay off their debts, as he designs to re- 
 move to Jamaica. 
 
 1764. — John Field, Jr^ -John Thorn, J-r;, asd 
 
 1 Mary, widow of John Wilson, of Flushing, offer 
 
 for sale, April LOth, his dwelling-hous^- garden, 
 
 store-house and wharf;, also,, a' very fine boat. — N. 
 
 Y. Mercury. 
 
 1764 — To be run fbr, April 12th, on the new 
 course, on Hempstead Plains, a purse of 6650, the 
 best of three four-mile heats, each horse carrying 
 ' nine stone and paying 50s. entrance, or double at 
 the Post. On Friday a purse of <£20 and upwards, 
 free for half-bred horses only, six years old and 
 under, carrying eight stone, the best of three two- 
 mile heats. Horses to be entered with Mr^ John 
 Comes, Jamaica., Not less than three reputed 
 running horses to start, and to be subject to the 
 King's plate articles. Judges will be appointed to 
 terminate- all disputes. — JV. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1764; — John Willet, Esq., of Flushing, through 
 the earnest persuasion of his fiiend's and his desire 
 to serve his county, offers himself as candidate at 
 the ensuing election of Eepresentatives from Queens 
 County, which is to be held May 23.*— JV. F. 
 Mercury.- 
 
 1764, Jume 21. — To be sold, a plantation, with 
 the stock, at Whitestone, eighteen miles from the 
 
 * Daniel Kissam was elected over Mr. Willet. 
 
IN OLDEN -TIMES. 
 
 35 
 
 Ferry, by land, and twelve by -water. It is 
 bounded near a mile by the Sound, beginning 
 ■westward of Whitestone Point, and joining "Mr. 
 Jobn Cornell and Francis Lewis to the eastward. 
 The shore abounds in springs and shell fish. 
 There are two hundred acres, and thirteen of mea- 
 dow in Flushing Bay. The grass larifl is suitable 
 for stock of all sorts. Thereare about forty acres 
 of woodland and swamp-land, thatt has grass in 
 the driest season, tit is a ri-ch spot, if cleared,, for 
 hemp. It has a cedar fence, two orchards, an 
 abundance of fruit trees, thousands of young lo- 
 custs, black walnuts, and some Madeira nuts. It 
 has two dwelling-hoiises, .kitchens, -barns and a 
 good wharf. The wheat, rye, Indian com, oats 
 and flax are in the ground. To be entered on im- 
 mediately. Enc[uire of John Nicoll, on tlie premi- 
 ses, or Edward Nicoll, New York 
 
 • 1764, June 21-. — -'On Friday morning last, died, 
 at Hempstead, of a nervous disorder and impost- 
 hume in his side, the Rev. Mr. Samuel Seabury, 
 minister of the church there, one of the Missiona- 
 ries of the 1 Honorable Society for the propagation 
 of the Gospel. .A gentleman of an amiable exem- 
 plary character, greatly and .generally beloyed and 
 lamented. — Bestboi/. 
 
 1764, Jul^ 2. — Captain Joseph Haviland offers 
 for sale, his . farm of one hundred and fifty-three 
 acres, at Bayside. It fronts on the Sound, where 
 all the vessels pass. The house has five rooms on 
 a floor. Also, for sale, blackwalnut and mahogaipy 
 tables, desks, a pierfglass and a great jnany pic- 
 tures. ' 
 
 1764, Aug. 20. — ^Daniel Hulet, Jamaica, adver- 
 tises that he has taken up a negro man, who says his 
 master is Joseph Hendricks, and shall, put him in 
 Jamaica jail, where the owner iijay.have him, (if he 
 dont get frora said jail) he paying, for the trouble 
 and all charges. He is a young fellow, has a scar 
 on his left eye, well set, short, has & hat without 
 brims, brown coat, old stoeking-leggins, blue 
 breeches, no shoes, and speaks broken English 
 N. Y. " 
 
 1764. — On Sunday, September 2nd, Daniel 
 Youngs' : house, at Oysterbay, was broken open 
 and robbed of six silver table-spoons, marked " D. 
 C", and five tea-spoons, marked "D. H. Y." It 
 delivered or conveyed to the owner no questions 
 will be asked ; otherwise a good reward is offered 
 for apjprehending the thief so that he may be had 
 to justice. — '■![. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1764, Sept. 4.-— Daniel Kissam, elected to the 
 General Assembly in place of Thomas Cornell, 
 deceased, bi-iijgs, in a. bill to sell the arms bought 
 by the fines of the Quakers. — Ass. Jour. 
 
 1764, Sept. 24. — Tie proprietors of the new 
 woolen manufactory at Hempstead, give notice to 
 all persons in any way vested in the manufacture 
 of woo], such as wool-combers, weavers, cloathers, 
 shearers, dyers, spinners, carders, or those under- 
 standing any branch of the broadcloath, blanket. 
 
 . or Stroud manufacture, that by applying to them, 
 they will meet extraordinary encouragement. Aijy 
 
 ' gentleman, shop-keeper, or others, by sending pat- 
 terns of any color, may be supplied, on short notice, 
 with broadcloths equal to any imported, Eeady 
 money paid for pulled and sheared wool, 
 
 1764, Sept. 25.— TheTjills of the following per- 
 sons for boarding French prisoners, in 1756-7-8, 
 were ordered to be paid' by the Assembly : Oliver 
 Beesly,' Thomas Hallet, Jacob Blackwell, Corne- 
 lius Berrien, "William Sackett, tertius ; William 
 Field, John Lawrence, John Combs, Rynier Pro- 
 basco, William Lawrence, John Smith, John 
 Hoogland, Samuel Gerritse, Richard Van Dyke, 
 John Robert, Christoj^her Robert, Joseph "Grris- 
 wold, Samuel Fish, Samuel and John Townsend, 
 George Weeks, John Butler, Nathaniel Tom, Wil- 
 liam Sackett,' William 'Sackett, Jr, Thomas 
 Sackett, for furnishing medicine, 1756, and Hen- 
 drick Suydam, for transporting some aged and sick 
 neutral French. — /ow., 2': 757. 
 
 176*4, Oc^.'l.— Tunis Polhemus is now erecting 
 a fulling-mill, two miles south of Jamaica town, 
 which- wUl-'be' finished in a month. There will be 
 a person to attend who is well acquainted with all 
 the branches and business of a fuller and 'dyer. — 
 JSf. Y. Mercury. 
 
 '1764, Oct. 5. — Complaint is made to the Assem- 
 bly that indigent persons build small huts on the 
 highways and vacant lands in Queens County, and 
 therein conceal and harbor vagrants. — Jour. 
 
 ■lUeL—New Martet RAOES.—To be run for, 
 over the new course, Monda-y, October 8th, a 
 purse of d£50, free for any horse carrying nine 
 stone, the best of three two-mile heats. On Tues- 
 day a purse of cfiSO, free for any horse bred in the 
 Province of New York. Entrance at Mr. John 
 Combs', Jamaica. Certificates, under the hands of 
 the breeders, must be produced of the ages and 
 
 qualifications of the horses that ran on Tuesday. 
 
 N. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1764, Oct. 9.— Purse seSO.— Races at Newmar- 
 ket, by Mr. Smith's bay horse Hero, Mr. Thome's 
 grey horse Starling, and Mr. Leary's bay horse 
 Old England. All imported from England. Star- 
 ling gained the first and second heats with ease. 
 
 N. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1764, Oct. 15.— Very great changes have been 
 wrought on many persons of late in the neighbor- 
 ing Provinces, and especially on Long Island,' 
 caused by the preaching of the Eev. Mr. Whit- 
 field.-^2V. T. Mercury. 
 
 1764, Nov. 8.— To be sold, a plantation at 
 Whitestone, haying two acres of garden ground, 
 twenty-eight acres rich Jand, well watered, and five 
 acres of salt meadow. It has two dwelling-houses, 
 a large store-house, bam, stables, chair-house, ete. 
 Enquire of Widow Elizabeth Barker, and her 
 daughter Elizabeth Stewart, in New York. 
 
 1764, Nov. 8.— Found lately, at Jamaica, a ; 
 
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 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 small sum of money, whicli the owner may have 
 on .proving property and paying charges, by appli- 
 cation to Mr. Thomas Braine, tavern-keeper. 
 
 1764, Bee. 10. — Was "formed ' the Society ¥or 
 promoting Arts, Agriculture and Economy in the 
 Province of New York. Stated meetings the first 
 Monday of every month. I 
 
 BENJAiHilsr KlsSMi, Seeretafy. ; 
 
 1765. — Notiee. — It is requested that tlie inhabi-; 
 tants of Flushing, Newtown and Jamaica, should 
 meet at John Comes' tavern, Jamaica, January 
 1st, to agree on officers and rules to advance hus- 
 bandry and manufactures and to suppress tiVxiiiy^ 
 —N. Y. Postboy. 
 
 1765, Jan. SI. — Left his master's service, an 
 apprentice lad, William Morrell, born at Newtown, 
 aged nineteen, hair and' complexion' fair, smooth- 
 faced, and looked boyish, by trade a shoemaker, 
 speaks and laughs loud, has a lazy clumsy walk, 
 took a half- worn castor hat, light-brown wig, white 
 cloth coat without buttons,' brown sagathy double- 
 breasted jacket, leffther' breeches, check shirt .and 
 a pair of half boots ; "he speaks English and a little 
 low Dutch, is obliging and good natured. Who- 
 ever secures said lad shall receive $3 reward, and 
 chai-ges paid, byjohn Cree; — N. Y. Mercury., 
 
 1765, Feb. 25. — ^Wanted, -hj the Society for 
 promoting ARTS, &c., fifty good spinning-wheels.; 
 Apply to , Obadiah Wells, James Armstrong and. 
 John Lamb, New York. 
 
 1765, March 11.— The Society for promoting 
 Arts, offers a Premium of s£20, to the ten- women 
 who shall spin the most linen yarn in 1765, to be 
 disti-ibnted according to their respective' merits. — 
 N. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1765, March 11. — To be exposed ^to ' sale, by 
 way of public vendue, a plantation in Newtown, 
 late of Andrew Riker, deceased. It has one hun- 
 dred acres -with good improvements, a good bearing 
 orchard of one hundred and fifty apple trees, most- 
 ly grafted- Also, half of Hewlett's Island, which 
 is well timbered, and has the conveiiience of a 
 good wateringrplace. Also, salt meadow and 
 marsh, lying ia 4he Sound. The whole is very 
 convenient for fishing, fowling, etc., (where you 
 may have dams and oysters at your door all sea- 
 sons of the year.) and within ten miles of New 
 York markets. Due attendance -will be given hj 
 John B., Ateaham and Samuel Riker. — N. Y. 
 Mercury, 
 
 1765, Feb, 22. — Johannes and Petrus Eott 
 offer for sale the farm of Hendrick Lbtt, cleceased, 
 three miles -west of Jamaica, on the road to the 
 Ferry. It has a house, barn, orchard, stone well, 
 a watering place for cattle and one hundred and 
 fifty acres of land. 
 
 1765. — Will be exposed to sale, at public ven- 
 due, April • 8th, the home-lot of land in Jamaiea, 
 where Thomas Braine now lives (formerly Samuel 
 
 Clowes') consisting of' fourteen acres, having a 
 large brick house and kitchen, with a spacious brick 
 house adjoining, two stories high and three rooms 
 on a fl'6or, and cellar-kitchen', completely finished, 
 glared and ^painted. ' It has a barn covered with 
 cedS,t, and several other erections, and an orchard 
 Ot B'S-renty trees. Also, a' large' house, two stories 
 high, fronting- 'the north ' Street, 'W'ith a garden- 
 Spot."* 
 
 N. B. — Said Braine has'oiie thousand acres of 
 land? to dispose 'of -near Schenectady. 
 
 1765, April ''22. — James McCarrell, at the 
 school-house near Mr. Benjamin Waters', in New- 
 to-v^ii, encouraged by the universal approbation he 
 has inet with the past year, continues to teach 
 reading, writing, arithmetic, book-keeping, plain 
 and spheric trigonometry, surveying, guaging, 
 navigation, etc., etc. Scholars genteelly boarded 
 on reasonable terms. — N. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1765, April 22. — Sarah Betts offers for sale two 
 farms, two miles south of Jamaica, the one, Miller's 
 Neck, has two hundred and forty acres, well tim- 
 bered and watered ; the other. Old Town-neck, 
 three hundred and fifty acres, 'one hundred of 
 wood and one fiundred of salt and fresh' ftieadow, 
 the rest clear ti^iland with a young orchard of two 
 hundred apple trees. 
 
 1765. — To be let aiid entered on. May 1st, the 
 noted house, at Jamaica, 'formerly belonging to 
 Mr. Clowes, at present in possession of Thomas 
 Braine, with the new building adjoining. Both 
 houses have -twelve rooms, and a kitchen joining 
 the old house. There is a barn and other out- 
 houses and fourteen acres of choice pasture land. 
 Enquire of Lawrence Reade. 
 
 1765, Marcli 25. — To be run for round Beaver 
 Pond, at Jamaica, Thursday, May 2d, a piece of 
 plate of 6620 value, free for any horse bred in this 
 Government, carrying ten stone. The htirses to 
 start at the distance-post and run twice round ; 
 and as far as the Tree the third round, for each 
 heat — the best two of three heats. The entrance 
 money to be run for next day by all but the 
 winning and distanced horses. Entrance with 
 John Comes 8O5., or double at the Post; — N. Y. 
 
 1765, May 23. — ^Thomas Philip*, from Flush- 
 ing, intends opening a writiug-Sehool, in Horse and 
 Cart' Street, New York. Any persons choosing to 
 favor him with the tuition of their children may 
 depend on his best endeavors. Writing done at 
 the most reasonable rate, either in the merchant or 
 scrivener's way. 
 
 1765. — On Sunday evening, July 21st, the barn 
 of William Lawrence, of Newtown, was struck by 
 lightmng and totally consumed in a very few min- 
 utes, with a large quantity of hay and wheat, a ' 
 new riding chair, and many other things of value, ' 
 to the amount of £300. 
 
 *This is Dr. Stelton's corner. 
 
risr. o-'L^db:s tbsees-'- 
 
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 1765. — To be sold at vendue, August 7tli, at 
 two P. M., a pleasant, ■well-situated", house and lot, 
 containing. twelve acres, now in. pessession of the 
 Widow 06lgan, Jamaica, nearly^app«site the Eng- 
 lish and joining the Dutch churchy The house is 
 almost new and well-built, and has four rooms on^ 
 a floor, and two fire places, a good cellar, an excel-- 
 lent garden, an orchard and well of exceeding 
 good water. Eev. Benoni Bradner, at Nine Part- 
 ners, wUl give a good title. 
 
 1765, ]Sfov..li: — $3 Bernard. — ^Run. away- froroi' 
 Paul BurtuSj Newtown, a negro man slave, aged 
 thirty, of a yellowish color, and a good deal pitted 
 by the small pox about the nose. He had on a 
 : white- eloth jjicket, blue Duffils great coat much 
 faded; with white flat metal buttons, .buckskin, 
 breeches, -black and white mixed yarn stockings, 
 new shoes, and small old wool hat. 
 
 1765, Dec. 5. — Zachariah Hood, a Stamp oiHeer, 
 fled, November 28th, from Maryland to New York, 
 and took sanctuary in Port George, which Gover- 
 nor Golden had strongly fortified, but, on the arri- 
 val of Governor Moore, he retired- with Golden to. 
 Flushing, and the Port was dismantled. Volun- 
 teer parties of the Sons' of Liberty soon after went 
 to Plnshing by land and water when fifty of .them 
 surrounded Hood's lodgings and forced him to re- 
 sign. Then one hundred persons on horseback 
 and in carriages, in. regular order, escorted him to 
 Jamaica, (Mr-Bood'and'another gentleman riding, 
 in a chair in the centre)-;where he took the oafth 
 before Justice Samuel Smith. Mr. H. then thanked 
 the company for their politeness when he was 
 complimented and huzzaed and invited to an en- 
 
 ^ tertainnifint, but he excused himself in as much as 
 he was in such a frame of body and mind that he 
 should be unhappy in company. Many constitu- 
 tional toasts were drank and next morning the 
 company (except those. who lived on Lqng Island) 
 set out for New York in several divisions, cairy^n^^ 
 the flag of liberty with the words- Liberty/, Projjer- 
 tif and'no (Stowps- inscribed thereon. — iV. Y. JouTr- 
 nal. 
 
 1766, Feb. 3.— $5' Bernard:— R\m away from 
 John Polhemus, Jamaica, a negro man. Mink, a 
 well-set fello-^, of a lightish complexion, had on a 
 light colored homespun great coat with horn-but- 
 tons, a Forrest cloth jacket, blue everlasting 
 breeches. , He took also a pair of buckskin breech- 
 es with silver buttons, a pair of white and of blue 
 and white stockings, and , double-Soled half- worn 
 shoes. 
 
 1766, Feb. 20.— For sale, the house- and farm 
 pleasantly situated near the Beaver Pond, formerly 
 ;he property of the Eev. Mr..Cplgan.* The house 
 is fifty-six feet front and rear, and .has been, lately 
 newly repaired and painted, with several 'new, ad- 
 ditional buildings.. There aro about seventy-five 
 acres of good land, including an orchard, capable of 
 
 *This is the Codwise property, now owned by Mr> Lau- 
 rens Keeve. 
 
 producingisixty barrels of cider yearly. Ehquwe 
 of Dr. Charles- Al-dingj on the premises. N. B. — 
 Terms of payment ea&y.. 
 
 17e6y April 4. — Mi yendue, twelve acres of 
 land late of Richard Valentine, Jr., at Hempstead 
 Harbor, most of it mowing ground , and orchard, 
 and eight or ten acres of timber land': near. It is 
 pleasantly situated about fifty rods from a landing 
 and grist-mill, convenient for a shop-keeper, trades- 
 man or a gentlensan's country seat... Also, cattle, 
 horses and household goods, ^er WilHam® Seaman 
 and Benjamin Robins, Executors. 
 
 . 1766, July- ^li— Whereas, Elizabeth, wife of 
 John Barhite, Jr., of Hempstead, has heretofore 
 run him iii debt, these are to warn all persons not 
 to entertain or trust her,. 
 
 1766, Aug. l.-r—La.%l Thursday eveting, Mr. 
 *Tliomas Farselsji Twho lived on. and owned part of 
 Parsels' Island, is supposed to have attempted to 
 swim on horseback, across the vwet to hi'a own 
 house, as he had said, he would and could do so, 
 and the horse had often swam, over of his own 
 accord.. The saddle was found hung up near the 
 shore, but he and the horse were missing till Mon- 
 day night, when the man's body was foundifloating 
 at Hellgate.. The horse has- not been heard of 
 zm.ce.-'—Piltstboy. . 
 
 1766, Sept. ISs — Etsn away from Dow Ditmars 
 3d, Jamaica, a negro fellow, Tony, of a yellowish 
 complexion, speaks Dutch and EngUsh, had on a 
 brown camblet coat and, waiateoat, plush breeches 
 and trowsers J , 20*. reward. N.'B;— All persons 
 
 ' are forewarned not to conceal or carry away said 
 negro. 
 
 1766; See-.. 2aj— Last- Monday, Joseph An- 
 drews, mariner, on information that he was one of 
 -the villains who murdered Capt. Ruleff D&ryea, of 
 .the sloop Polly, on her passage to the West In- 
 dies, and! all. the people on board except one, was 
 apprehended at Boston. Two days after his ai-ri- 
 val there he had. has hair cut. off. so as to disguise, 
 ibis-' looks. Many of Duryea's things were found - 
 on him, particularly a medal which he w6re around 
 his neck and several shirts marked with the initials 
 of his name. A considerable sunt, of gold was 
 foundion himy and hfcshowed great signs of guilt 
 on being first apprehended but denied any knowl- 
 edge of murder and piracy.— iV. Y. Gazette.. 
 
 1767, Jaw. .1&>— Valentine H.Peters and Benja- 
 mm He-wlett, Executors, offer for sale the planta- 
 tion e-fDr. Charles Peters,, on the north, side of 
 Hempstead Plains., It contams-two hundred acres 
 clear land,, in., good fence, a large commodious 
 house, barn, out-hortses and stone well. 
 
 1767, Jb». 19.— For sale-, a grist-mill of two 
 pan- of stones, at Flushing, on a fine creek, where 
 a boat may be brought up to the side of the mill, 
 withm the run of one tide from New York, with 
 four hundred acres of laad and meadow, house, 
 bam, orchard and mowing ground. Enquire of 
 
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 QUEEN& GOUNTY 
 
 Isaac TKilJet, or David Coleda. and Jaujes Steven- 
 son, Flushing., 
 
 1767, Feb. 2^;— Thomas Wood-ward offers for sale 
 a farm, of one hundred and thirty acres, where he 
 lives, one mile from. Jamaica, on the road to 
 Flushing. It has eight acres of mowing ground, 
 some low land, just cleared and almost ready to 
 receive any sort of grass seed, and.ank orchard of 
 apples, pears and peaches.. 
 
 1767, Feb. 12.-^To be sold, eighteen acres of 
 land with barn, orchard and some woodland. The 
 house is pleasantly situated within a mile of Flush- 
 ing landing, on the road -to Jamaica. Enquire of 
 Francis Yates, on the premises, or James Parsons, 
 in New York. 
 
 1767, March 9.— For sale, the farm of William 
 and Jacob Walton & Co., at Hempstead Harbor. 
 It has a house, barn and two hundred and thirty- 
 four acres, is well timbered and' some of it set out 
 with locust trees. There are three orchards and a 
 choice collection of other fruit, all in cedar post 
 fence. 
 
 1767. — At three o'fclock, iii the thick weather of 
 the morning of April S-th, the ship Britannia- came 
 ashore on Merrick Beach, three miles south of 
 Hempstead Church. At five the top-masts were 
 cut away and the surf ran so high that no help 
 could be had from the shore. A sailor by the 
 help of a cork-iacket, swam ashore with a line, but 
 had to let go his hold in the breakers. In the 
 afternoon Eichard Williams, a free- negTO, was 
 drowned in a like attempt. The passengers and 
 crew remained in the fore-shrouds that night, but 
 in the mnrning- they m^ad© a- raft and- some got 
 ashore. The weather moderating; "the rest were 
 saved, except two seaman drowned by the over- 
 setting of a boat. oClOOO's worth of the cargo was 
 saved. 
 
 1767, April 25. — A match Race for 6650 a side, 
 round Beaver Pond, by Merry Andrew and Smoak- 
 er, two racers well known to sportsmen, the best of 
 three four-mile heats. 
 
 1767, May 7.— For sale or rent, a tract of land 
 of thirty acres, with house, barn, and orchard of 
 five acres, and.four, of woodland, now occupied, by 
 Mrs. Mary Everit, at the eastern part of Little 
 Plains, north- side of the King's road from Jamaica 
 to Hempstead. It is all in good fence. Enquire 
 of Kobert Gr. Livingston, New York. 
 
 1767, June 28; — 20s. Bewarcl- — Run awiiy from 
 John Combes, Jamaica, a negro man. Primus, 
 well set, had on blue frieze coat, leather breeches 
 and blue stockings. 
 
 1767, July 17, — The stage wagon, , kept by 
 John Rapalje, opposite the stone meeting-house, 
 runs from Jamaica to Brooklyn three times a week, 
 fare two shillings, or three, pence a mile any dis- 
 tance between. Said Rapalje keeps a civil house 
 of entertainment for civil gentlemen and ladies. — 
 N. Y. Mercury. 
 
 17.67, July 30i — Isaac- Smith ofiiers for sale- his 
 farm of two hundred, and eighty acres, under good 
 improvement and in, good fence, , in the pleasant 
 village of Hefricks., It has good, buildings, fine 
 orchard and good timber. i 
 
 1767, Sept. 21.— For sale, at William Prince's 
 nursery. Flushing, a great variety of fruit trees, 
 such as apple, plum, peach,, nectarine,, cherry, 
 apricot and pear. They may be put up so as to 
 be sent to Europe. Captains Jacamiah Mitchell 
 and Daniel Clements go to New York, in passage 
 boats, Tuesdays and Fridays. 
 
 1767. — To be run for, Cktober 1st, round Beav- 
 er Pond, Jamaica, a piece of plate worth dfi20 or 
 upward, free for any horse not more than quarter 
 blood. Mr. Comes and the judges to be satisfied 
 (on oath if required) of the pedigree. The next 
 day a purse of 665, free for any common horse 
 twice round" the Pond to a heat. Horses to start 
 each day at 2 o'dock. 
 
 1767.- On Sunday, October 18th, the house of 
 Joseph Oheeseman, north side of Hempstead 
 Plains, was entirely consumed by fire owing to a 
 foul chimney, which took fire and communicated 
 to the whole building. The neighboring men be- 
 ing all at church no assistance could he afforded to 
 extinguish the flames. The women made shift to 
 save some of the principal furniture.. It is surpris- 
 ing people will not be more careful to clean their 
 chimnies in time, when so many accidents happen 
 from foul chimneys. — N. Y. M'ercury. 
 
 1767. — To be run for at New Market, on the 
 Great Plains, October 22d, a Purse of 6620, free 
 for any horse not over three years old.j full blood 
 carrying ten stone ; half blood, eight-, stone, &c. 
 Entrance, 20s. each, with Stephen Cprnwell. 
 
 1767, A"ow. 23. — On Thursday last several men 
 having been eniployed in digging a well for Mr. 
 John Hall, of Hempstead, all but two went to din- 
 ner, who, when the rest returned, were found buried 
 in the well by the falling in of the earth, except 
 that their arms were not covered. At. the middle 
 of the afternoon one was gptout and at sunset the 
 other.. They were both alive ; whether hurt or 
 not we have- not heard. — iV. Y. Mercury. 
 
 Yt%l; Deo.. 10. — :Adam Lawrence, Sheriff, offers 
 at public vendue, all the lands and tenements of 
 Colonel William Willett, in Flushing, consisting of 
 two hundred .and. tliirty acres of clear upland, 
 eighty of salt meadow joining the upland and forty- 
 four acres of swamp. On it are two' new dwelling- 
 houses, one very large, four rooms on a floor and 
 spacious entry, with' barns, gardens, orchards and 
 mowing- grounds of Englishj hay. . Also, a grist- 
 mill with two stones, on a fine creek within the run 
 of, one tide to .New. York, with water sufficient to 
 bring a loaded boat to the side of the mill, and 
 grind one hundred bushels in twenty-four hours, 
 and make good flour. It is well situated for car- 
 rying on the grinding, bolting and bakery busi- 
 ness. 
 
 IQ. 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES, 
 
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 1767, Bee. 17. — On Monday last was brought 
 to market, a cow only six years old, whose four 
 quarters, hide and tallow weighed one thousand 
 and fifty-four pounds. 'Tis said she was. bred by 
 Mr. Samuel Cornell of Flushing. — N. T.Posfboy. 
 
 1768, Jan 1. — Card. — Eobert Wooffendale, sur- 
 geon-dentist, from London, instructed by the ope- 
 rator for the teeth to hia present Mpjesty, intends 
 residing at Jamaica, daring his stay in America, 
 but will attend at New York erery Thursday. 
 He performs all operations on the teeth, gums, 
 sockets and palate. Likewise fixes artificial teeth 
 so as to escape discernment, and without pain. — 
 N. Y. Postboy. 
 
 1768, Jan. 4. — For sale a pleasant farm of over 
 two hundred acres, on the road from the Plains to 
 Whitestone Ferry, two miles east of Flushing 
 town. There is a large dwelling-house, a hen- 
 house, smoke-house, weaver's shop, bam, etc. The 
 buildings al-e all in good repair and the orchard is 
 sufficient to make one hundred and fifty barrels of 
 cider. Also,, peaches, plums, pears and cherries, 
 abundant. Miich more may be said to recommend 
 it. I have not enumerated the half. I expect the 
 man that chooses to purchase, will first take a 
 view and satisfy himself Bernardus Ryder on 
 the premises. 
 
 1768, Jan. 11. — To let, at May-day next, a very 
 good convenient house for a small family, pleas- 
 antly situated in Jamaica. It has four rooms on a 
 floor, and a chimney in each, and a garret with two 
 good lodging rooms, with a kitchen next the house, 
 a garden well stocked with fruit trees, and coach- 
 house and stable adjoining. The house has all the 
 pecessary conveniences, a cistern for rain water, 
 and the use of the next yard and well. Apply to 
 Judge Horsmanden, at his house, Smith Street, 
 New York. 
 
 1768, Jan. 25. — Rnlef Duiye offers at vendue, 
 his farm in Springfield, near the Little Plain Hol- 
 low. It contains fifty-five acres, one third wood- 
 land, a new bam, a double house with three fire 
 places and finished with pannel-work, and a kitch- 
 en adjoining, a garden with peeked-pales around it 
 and an orchard of 100 apple trees— all in good four- 
 rail fence, convenient for a shop or tavern ; a tav- 
 ern is kept now. Also, some cattle and sundry 
 other things too tedious to mention. 
 
 1768, Feb. 22.— Benjamin Sands, Cow Neck, 
 offers for sale a farm of two hundred and fifty-six 
 acres. It has two houses, two barns, chair-house, 
 two orchards, and is well watered and timbered. 
 
 1768, Fel. 29.— To be let and entered on imme- 
 diately, an exceeding good and pleasa,nt]y situated 
 house, in Newtown, with a large garden and or- 
 chard, and seventeen acres of land. It has a well 
 of pure water and ice-house, and all manner of con- 
 veniences. Apply to Mr. George Rapelye, tavern 
 keeper. 
 
 1768, March 4.— George Weeks offers for sale 
 
 a farm of eighty acres, at the head of Hempstead 
 Harbor. The house has a chimney at each end 
 with four rooms on a floor and a pleasant view of 
 said harbor. There are two small barns, two or- 
 chards, ten acres mowing ground, and more may 
 be made — all in good fence. 
 
 1768, March 14.— To be sold by Nathaniel and 
 Lambert Woodward, Jr., a plantation of eight 
 acres ; the whole an orchard of the best fruit. It 
 has a dwelling and out-houses, pleasantly situated 
 in the centre of Newtown. 
 
 1768, March 21. — Thursday evening, a young 
 man, sou of Justice Eldert, of Queens County, 
 having been at the election there, at Jamaica, re- 
 turned home, put up his horse and went to bed, and 
 was found dead in the morning. It is supposed 
 his horse flung him on the way. 
 
 1768, March 21. — At an election for members 
 of Assembly, at Jamaica, Daniel Kissam had 673 
 votes ; Zebulon Seaman, 604 ; Thomas Hicks, 
 252 ; Rev. Abraham Keteltas, 209. 
 
 1768.— To be sold, at the Merchants' Coffee 
 House, New York, March 30th, a pleasant farm at 
 Jamaica, of eighty-six acres, of which fiftyrseven 
 is clear land, producing every sort of grain, and 
 half may be mowed, twenty-three acres of wood- 
 land, three-quarters of a mile from the house, on 
 the fine road -to the bay. A new dwelling-bouse 
 well finished, four rooms on a floor, a hall twelve 
 feet wide, a spacious piazza on the front fifty-four 
 feet long, a new barn with excellent stables, that 
 will hold fifty loads of fodder. Also, a new out- 
 kitchen, fowl-house, corn-crib, pump, etc. Thfe 
 land is in four- acre lots, greatly improved. There 
 are one hundred and seventy apple trees producing, 
 in a seasonable year, sixty barrels of cider. Also, 
 one hundred and fifty young trees chiefly grafted. 
 There are other trees lately grafted and inoculated 
 with apples, pears, cherries, plums, peaches, necta- 
 rines and apricots. The house is beautifully situ- 
 ated on an eminence fronting the Beaver Pond, a 
 quarter of a mile from the town. Apply to Philip 
 Van Cortland, on the premises, who will give the 
 
 1768, April 18.— The cold diy weather we 
 have had of late, has been attended with bad con- 
 sequences to many in the country by the loss' of 
 cattle, etc. 
 
 1768, April 25.— On Thursday morning the 
 house of the Widow, Rapalje, opposite Hell Gate, 
 was burnt by a spark on the roof from the low 
 kitchen chimney. Only three beds were saved. — 
 -A^. y. Mercury. 
 
 1768, April 25.— To let, in Newtown, a pleas- 
 ant farm of eighteen acres, formerly in possession 
 of Mr. Watkins, and since of Captain Provoost and 
 John French, Esqrs. It has a good house, barn, 
 
 *This place^js now owned and occupied by William J 
 Cogswell, Esq. 
 
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 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 and ice-house and other out-houses, with an or- 
 chard and TBowing-i^Hmnd for two horses and foar , 
 cows. John Moore, Jr., wUl show the booftse, 
 
 1768, May 9. — James Culver offers for sale, a 
 (plantation of eight acres, in the centre of Newtown. 
 It has a good haiise with four rooms and fire-places 
 on a floor, a barn and orchard ■of one hundred 
 grafted trees. It is convenient for a merchant or ■ 
 tavern-keeper. 
 
 1768. — Beaver Pond Races, Monday, May23d. , 
 £20 plate, free for any horse not over four years 
 old this grass, three times round the Pond to a 
 heat, 9s. entrance. The winning horse to pay ^1 
 for scales and straw. Three must enter or no i 
 race. Some late obstructions that tmuch impeded 
 the horses while running, kaving been removed, it , 
 is now become the naost ibeautiful place in all 
 America, for sport, and all levers of the tuif are 
 truly invited,* i 
 
 1768, Me/g -30, — #5 Jleioard. — Ran away from 
 Daniel Remsen, Jamaica, an Irish , servant lad, 
 George Adams. He sti^e a hWa Isroad-cloth coat 
 with brass buttons, a green velvet jacket, buckskin ; 
 breeches, 30s. of Jersey bills and a plain gold ring, i 
 
 1768, June 20. — 20s. Eeward. — Run away from 
 his master, Caleb Comwell, Cow Neck, a negro 
 man, Shier, marked with small pox, by trade a 
 caulker. He had on a castor hat, homespun col- 
 ored jacket and trousers, blue ribbed stockings and 
 brass buckles in his shoes. 
 
 1768, Jtcne 30. — The he-rse Bashaw staufe at 
 Stephen Van Wyck's, Little Neck. He was bred 
 by tfhe Emperor of Morocco, who sent him as a 
 present to the Dey of Algiers, and he gave him to 
 the Swedish Consul there, who presented him to 
 the Grand Duke of Tuscany, where he won the 
 plates at Sunna, Florence, Pistoia and Sprato ; 
 beating, at Florence, the famous English horse 
 Grand Diavolo, and many others of not inferior 
 note. £3 the season. Good pastoire, .2s. per 
 week. 
 
 1768, July 4. — "William Pnntiaae has set up a 
 stage wagon to ply between Jamaica and Brook- 
 lyn, at five o'clock, A. M. Fare IS pence. His 
 wagon is as good as any on the Island and very 
 commodious. — N. Y, M-errury. 
 
 1768, July 14. — John Field, Executor, offers 
 for sale a negro woman, some clocks, watches and 
 the farm of John Wrigiit, less than a mile from 
 Flushing landing. It has twenty acres of level 
 land,, part orcharding, mowed yearly. The house 
 has three rooms and fire-places on a floor, and three 
 above stairs. It has a dairy-house, cow-house, 
 chair-house and barrack. 
 
 1768, July 14. — John Rapalje has lately re- 
 paired his wagon which leaves Jamaica at six 
 
 *Only two horses appeared, Captain Anthony Eutgers' 
 Queen Kate and Mr. Heard's Lady Legs. A thousand 
 persons were disappointed. 
 
 o'clock, A. M. Children under three years of age 
 gratis. 
 
 1768, Aug. 8. — Went away from Christopher 
 Heysham, Flushing, by persuasion of some evil- 
 minded person, a hired servant man, John Brown, 
 a Swiss, who speaks French and broken English. 
 He had on buckskin breeches, check shirt and an 
 old hat with a brass button, and a piece of old hat 
 tied round the tops of his shoes. He is addicted 
 to liquor and is, perhaps, ashamed to return. All 
 persons will please persuade him to his interest. 
 
 1768, Aug^ 22, — Last Sunday week, the wife of 
 Ezeldel Fnrman, of Newtown, took sick in the 
 meeting-house during divine service in the after- 
 noon, and, being carried to the house of Mr. Fish, 
 she expired a few bom-s after. — N. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1768, Aug- 29. — 20s. Beward. — Run away from 
 Williana Mott, <3rreat Neck, a young Indian servant 
 fellow, named Stephen, sometimes Pompey. He 
 had on a tow homespun shirt and trowsers, old 
 shoes, hat and a gray homespun jacket. It is sup- 
 posed he may have a pass. 
 
 17S3, Sept. '8. — All persons indebted to the es- 
 tate of Daniel Lawrence, deceased, of Flushing, 
 will make payment to Benjamin Kissam, Attorney- 
 at-Law, N«w York. Also, to be sold at Flushing, 
 October 1st, a likely negro wench. Abraham 
 Lawrence, Executor, 
 
 176'8, Sept. 12, — Run away from Abraham 
 Lawrence, Flushing, an Irish servant lad, James 
 Lawsan, pitted with the small pox, nose pretty 
 long- 40s. reward. 
 
 17S'8, Oct. 3. — Run away from George Ryerson, 
 ]^'0ster's Meadow, an indentured Irish servant man, 
 Thomas Maillin, marked with small pox. He had 
 on a short coat with small cuffs, old leather breech- ( 
 es, new felt hat. 20s. reward and charges paid. 
 
 1768, Oct. I'O. — John and Garret Vanderbilt and 
 Petrus and Hendrick Onderdonk, Executors, offer 
 for sale the farm of the late John Vanderbilt, con- 
 sisting lof one hundred and sixty acres, ot which 
 fifteen is extraordinary good, called Indian land. 
 It is pleasantly situated at the foot of the Beach, 
 (which extends nearly across Hempstead Harbor) 
 on which a great number of loads of seaweed may 
 be collected, which is very good for manure. — N. 
 Y. Mercury. 
 
 1768, Oct. 17. — For the races at New Market, 
 Oct 25th and 26th, there are no less than twelve 
 capital coursers on the sod. 
 
 1768.— New Market Races, Friday,' Oct. 21st. 
 Purse oCSO. The best of three four-mile heats, free 
 for any horse. Saturday, a purse of £60 for four 
 year old horses. 5Qs. entrance. Horses to be 
 shown and entered at the starting-post the day be- 
 fore running, in presence of the judges. Disputes 
 will be decided by a majority of the subscribers 
 present. The winning horse each day to pay 50s. 
 to put the com-se in order. No less than three re- 
 
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 puted Horses to be allowed to^ st9,rt at, twelve; 
 o'clbc^ esich daj.—N: Y: M&rcuri/. 
 
 1768, Oct. 31.— The following^ torses started at 
 New Market for one of the subscription piurses.of! 
 £50: 
 
 Northumberland, - .- 1. t, 
 Betsey Leeds. - 2 2 
 
 Old England, - -. 3 dr. 
 
 Partper, , - -. 4: dis. 
 
 The next day. fpr the other purse of dfiSO. 
 . Lath, -. - 1 
 
 Liberty, - -. - - 2, dr._. 
 Lady Legs; - dis-- 
 
 Young Sterling, , - -, dis. 
 
 To-morrow Briton and Sterling-run at New 
 Market, for >3eiOO,-the best of three four-mile heats ; 
 and next day Richmond and Dove run for <€50. — 
 N. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1768, Nov. 14.— For sale, the plantation of Ben- 
 jamin Whitehead, Jr., . at Jamaica, south side, 
 eighty-five acres. It has a two-story house with, 
 three rooms on the lower and four on the upper 
 floor, two fire-places below and one up stairs, barn, 
 stable, corn-crib, orchard, garden, and many other 
 good' accommodations ; all in good fence, 
 
 1768, Nov. 21. -^Valentine H. Peters offers for 
 sale the lands and tenements where he now lives, 
 at Hempstead. The house is large and well fin- 
 ished, with.,out.-houses, convenient for public busi- 
 ness.. There are one hundred,acres of land divided 
 into, lots cony.enient , to build upon ; all in good 
 fence. 
 
 1768, Bee. 18.--The New York Society fen pro- 
 moting Arts, adjudged a premium of =£10 to 
 Thomas Ypung, of, Oysferbay, for the largest nur- 
 sery of apple trees. It contains twenty-seven 
 thousand one hundred, and twenty-three trees.:;— 
 Game's Mereury. 
 
 176S, Dec, 2g.— The voters of Queens County 
 send instructions to their Assemblymen, Seaman 
 and Kissam." on. the subversion of the grand char- 
 acteristics of the British, Constitution, taxiation by 
 representation." They also complain that trade is 
 languishing, that specie is withdrawn from us by 
 duties, that credit is declining and the paper cur- 
 rency sunk. They wish to have a. remonstrance 
 sent ito their Sovereign iiii order to obtain a removal 
 of grievances and also a resgectful letter to the 
 Committee of Massachusetts in reply to- theirs-. 
 
 1769, Jan. 30.- To let, the noted mills and 
 farm thereto belonging, at Cold Spring, now in oc- 
 cupation of Rowland' Chambers, lately known as 
 Hawkshurst's Mills.. Enquire of Nathaniel Mars- 
 ton, New York. 
 
 1769, Jan. 30.— To. let, a place of forty.acres, 
 where George Rapelye lives, in the town-spot of 
 Newtown. It. has a double house with entry 
 through the middle, dairy room, and an orchard of 
 pippins, pearmains, Spitzenbergs and other sorts. 
 
 It will mow a good -burthen of grass, .9,nd is.sHHable 
 for a gentleman's seat, shop-keeper, or tavern,, as 
 it has been Ipiig oecupied in that way. . 
 
 1769, J^e6..,13. — Eor sale the homiB-lot of Corne- 
 lius Smith, adjpining the County Hall, Jamaica. 
 It has. a double house, with two fire places, and 
 kitchen at one end and a new shop at the other. 
 The barn is covered with cedar shingles and 
 'floored with Jersey two-inch plank. There is also 
 an orchard and chestnut timber. Also, a bark- 
 mill, tan-vats, and a good water-pit ten feet square- 
 with a- living- ■stream' I herein? three-hundred yards 
 from the door. The plaee is convenient fbr a tav- 
 ern, shop-keeper ©r tradesman, and especially for a 
 tanner and' currier. 
 
 1769, Feb. 13. — Tunis Polhemus offers for sale 
 his fulling' and grist-mill, two miles south of Ja- 
 maica, with ninety acres of land, house, barn, and 
 orchard of two hundred trees. 
 
 i769, Feb. 13. — Eor sale». the fann of David 
 Seaman, deceased,, lying, between JericD. and 
 Wheatly. It has a barn, crib and ' other out- 
 houses, two hundred and iifty acres of land, two 
 orchards, of two hundred and fifty trees, a peach 
 orchard and a plenty of cherry trees. Apply to 
 Jacob Searing, on the premises, oe to.-Zehulon, 
 William and Dav'd Seaman, or Richard Willets. 
 
 1769, Mar^i 20.— Caleb Cornwell offers for sale 
 a farm? on Cow Neck, of,' about forty acres, with 
 house, smoke-house, barn and" other small'houses, 
 an orchard, peach-orchard, plums of several sorts, 
 cherries and pears. Likewise a sloop on the- 
 stocks, tbirty-six feet by the keel, streight rabbet, 
 sisteen feet beam, with masts, rigging and sails, 
 all. fit for launching in three or four days. 
 
 1769; Axml 3.^Joseph Bowne, of Flushing, 
 offers for sale his house, garden, wharf and store- 
 house, at Flushing landing. The whartis twenty- 
 six feet wide where a boat may lay along side. 
 Also, half the vessel that Captain Jacamiah Mitch- 
 ell- follows the boating business in. 
 
 1769, April 10. — Martin Schenck offers for sale 
 his- farm of one hundred and fifty acres, two miles 
 from Jamaica, on the eastern road to Flushing. 
 
 V1Q% April 17; — Israel Hallet offers to let, near 
 the English Kills, a house with three roonis on a 
 floor, two fire-places, a large garden, and pasture 
 for several creatures, and fruit for the summer. It 
 is ijiear the water and forty rods from the landing, 
 where a gassag,e-boat constantly plies to and from 
 New York ; and most of the produce of Newtown 
 is exported from said landing. 
 
 1.769f May l.-^The Rev. Mr. Joshua Bloomer, 
 for the mission of Jamaica, came passenger from 
 Englandin .the &h\^. B.ritannia.-^N. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1769, May 18. — This morning, after a long trial 
 before a Court of Admiralty, in the City Hall, Jo- 
 seph Andrews (or Anderson, a native of Wales,) 
 was found guilty of murder and piracy and con- 
 
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 demned to be hung for liaying, ia August 1766, in 
 concert witli Nicholas Johnson, murdered Rulef 
 Duryea, of J^aica,'*, captairi, Peter, Deinilt, mate, 
 and one Cobb, a cabin-boy ; also, two passengers, 
 "Wells /Coverly and John Van Bunschoten, who 
 was going to the West Indies for his health. John- 
 son was broken on the rack, and hung at St. Eu- 
 statia. — N. Y. Gazette. 
 
 1769, May 23. — Joseph Andrews-ivtts hanged 
 on the shore of the Nbrthi-SlTer. When dead his 
 body was cut down and^suspended in chains on a 
 high gallows on the most conspicuous part of Bed- 
 low's Island. He at last confessed the^ murder 
 and that it was done for money, btitt'denied-'ibteiBg, 
 concerned' in any^jOther.^JV. Y. Journal.'- 
 
 1770, Jin. 1." — Thomas ' Brown, -fiiller, from' 
 London,-', has taken the fuyiiigqEdll of Kichard 
 Kirk, at Hempstead' iBdrbor, where all persons, 
 whatsoever, may have their cloth ddne ifl'tM 
 neatest mann^'-and on reasonable terms. — N. Y. 
 Mercury. 
 
 1Y'70,' Jan. 1. — To gentlemen farmers, etc.— A 
 manufacturer, j^ust arrived from England, has taken 
 the fulling-mill of Tunis PolhemuSj south of Ja- 
 maica, where all sorts of woollen cloth, serges, lin- 
 ceys, etC;; are'Completely dressed and colored'in the 
 English mimner ; where all possible caTe'-wdll' be 
 taken. . 
 
 n7B;'March 5. — For sale, the pleasant country 
 seat' or- farm^where the Kev. John Pierson lived, 
 on the great road from the Ferry to Hempstead. 
 Apply to Waters Smith, near the premises. 
 
 1770, March 15. — About three o'clock last Sat- 
 urday morning, a fire broke out in the house of 
 Captain Samuel Hallet, near Hellgate, which, with 
 most of the furniture, was entirely destroyed. 
 Loss, <£1,800. He and his wife were absent. A 
 villain in the aeighborhood is suspected. — N'. T. 
 JournaL- 
 
 1770, March 19. — ^A cow, raised by. Joh«AS- 
 pinwall, of Flushing, was killed aUidvaaica,, by 
 Benjamin Carpenter, butcher, Tt was nine years 
 old and weighed, in beef, hide and taUow, one 
 thousand eight hundred and eighteen poimds. — N. 
 Y. Mercury.. ■ 
 
 1770, April 16. — Carpenter's Jamaica stage, in 
 summer, must set off in the morning, between five-» 
 and -six o'clock, and not leave Brooklya fei-rytill 
 about" the sam«itime' in the evening. Foif single 
 passengers, eighteen pence. Woman with a chld- 
 two shillings. Every cwt. of sugar, &c., one shil- 
 ling. A small bundle or handkerchief, coffee, &c., 
 (if the wagoner buys them) id. to 6d. Every, let- 
 ter delivered and a return, 3c?. A basket or bunch 
 of fisbr'if iifelivered to him, 2d. ; if bought by him, 
 id. A five-g^llom k%;;.of . wine or a small trui^k,- 
 6d. ; a large trunk, one shfHing. 
 
 *Duryea was leaning his head, asleep, on a chicken coop, 
 when he received the fatal blow, and died without a groan. 
 
 1^" Passengers taken and delivered no further 
 east than Captain Barnaby Burns', and no further 
 west than Dr. Arding's, without extra pay. 
 
 1770, April, 23. — Richarf'Eirk' Mis- latelyv'set-- 
 up a fulling;imll at Hempstead Harbor, which is a^ "^ 
 well calculated as any on the''lSlandi having a 
 stock'^of the largest size, and water sufficient to 
 keep her constantly going, and no other mill on the 
 streani- to take off her water. Tlie 'ralll stands 
 within four rods of the Harbor, where a craft may 
 comer up. Any leather-dressers inclined to favor 
 me with their custom, may depend on bein^ used 
 iwell'aiid- on reasonable terms. N. B. — The names 
 of ths niastiers of the three^sloopa that attend said 
 Harbtn? are Clarke Lawreiiee, Joshua Pine and 
 ^G-ilbfert Seaman. — JV. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1770, May 28. — A dead whale, sixty feet long, 
 was driven aishore at Eockaway— ^. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1770, July 5. — A comet has, for some time, ap- 
 peared, which moves west-northerly, with great 
 velocity, but we have not been able to get a satis- 
 factory account of it. — N. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1771. — Gn-'Moisday, January 21st, four youag. 
 men riding ,on- Hempstead Plailisfnea'piMi'. Wa- 
 ters' tavern^' to' try the speed of their i horses, in a 
 frolic, set out on a race, when one of them named 
 Whitson, living a mile from that place, near the 
 village of Bethpage, stopping his horse too sudden- 
 ly it fell upon him and fractured his skuU so that 
 he died immediately. — N. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1771. — Thomas Tobias, of Oysterbay, petitions - 
 the Governor for relief. He lost a lawsuit while 
 in a gaol. His sister tore off the roof of his house 
 and, with other outrages, frightened his wife and 
 children from the homestead left him by his father, 
 which she prj^tesid».t<^«laim~— GeZ. Jlfss., Vol.97. 
 
 1771,J i^(S&. VT.-^ William .Sackett, JK; -offers for 
 sale his very beautifully situated" and convenient 
 house andiiot of ■thirty.acres, at the head of Mas- 
 peth Creek, beingi-;the public landirig, seven miles 
 from New Torkby land or water, well situated for 
 a shop or tavern, and has a right to a stream suffi- 
 dent to erect a mill with one or two pair of stones. 
 The puBIfeirflad from the-jFerry to Newtown leads 
 by the place afr a convenient distance. .The house 
 has a pretty prospect of meadows and creeks. Oys- 
 ters, fish and crabs plenty iu their season. Large 
 bam and other outhouses. 
 
 ; 1771, J'e6.''2i;-^Died, at Flushing, Friday last, 
 Sebecca, the amiable consort of Major Robert 
 B'%ard, daughter of the i Hon. Charles Apthorpe, 
 of BofetOH*,"i*iiiyersally regretted by all who had 
 the honor of her acquaintance. 
 
 1771, March 2. — On Saturday night the well 
 known Adam Smith broke into the cabin of Zebu- 
 loh .Wflitermai^'s boat, lying in Peck , Slip, New 
 York,' and took out the captain's chest, bedding, 
 wearing apparel and £6 in cash. He then went 
 with his wife to a tavern near the Slip, and having 
 
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 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 . a boodle under Ms coat it raised suspicion. Next 
 (.day," diligent search being made for him, he was 
 
 arrested and some goods found on him. ,Where- 
 ; upon he^ confessed and was ' committed. .He..was 
 
 tried, January 21st, for burglary,'and sentenced to 
 
 be hanged February .gist," 1772. In * his 'dying 
 •■■conf^'siott Smith, 'says he was born at lOysterbay, 
 
 in 17^p,.o'f poor "but honest parents, who" brought 
 i him up without learning, though they instructed 
 I him in the principles of the Christian religion. On 
 ( coming to New York he fell into bad company, and 
 • was thus" brought to ' an " uritimely end. — W. Y. 
 . Journal, March 7. 1771, and Jan. 30, 1772. 
 
 1771, March 28.^Saturday evening last, died, 
 suddenly, on the road to Jamaica, Captain Bamaby 
 Byrne. He came to town that morning with Mrs. 
 Byrne and on their return home in the evening, he 
 was taken ill on the road about a mile from his 
 own house, and being carried into Mr. Betts', oppo- 
 site the church, in Jamaica,, there expired. — N. Y. 
 ■ Journal. ' 
 
 1771, :4^riM8.— The past winter was mild till' 
 February, when it was succeeded by a cold stormy ' 
 spring with short intervals 6f warm weather,whifch 
 has retarded the springing of vegetables and grass. 
 For some'days past the wind has been high at N. 
 W., and- the air as cold as winter. On Tuesday it 
 
 isnowicdifor some hours. The wind and weather 
 
 i has, prevented. the usual supplies of wood, raising 
 the price to ithe extraordinary hight of 36s. per 
 cord for nut and 24s_for oak, the like hardly ever 
 
 .known before aX this time of the year. — N. Y. 
 
 .Journal. 
 
 1771, April 28.^-To be sold by puiblic vendue, 
 Ithe household furniture of Bamaby ^Byrne, (/de- 
 ceased, with a great variety of fashionable plate, 
 some horses, , co.ws, wagons, farming iTtensils, two 
 negro men, and one negro woman with a young 
 child. The negroes are good servants fit for city 
 or country service. "' Also, the farm of forty-three 
 acres, arable and mowiiig ground, whereon is an ex- 
 cellent house, bam, stable,"' chaise-bouse, cider- ' 
 house, cider-mill, two orchards and a gai:deri. WU- 
 liam Bayard or Terence Kerin, Executors, or Mrs^ 
 Jane Byrne, on the premises, or Mr. John Long, 
 New York. 
 
 1771, May 24.— To be sold, a pleasant farm, at 
 .Whitestone, on the Sound side of Long Island, of 
 about three hundred acres. Enquire of Francis 
 (Lewis, on the premises, who has also farmmg ne- 
 groes for sale, ■ 
 
 1771, June 3.-665 Beward and charges. — Bun 
 away froni Matthew Franklin, Flushing, a lad six- 
 teen years of age, Thomas Farrington, (inticed 
 away by his brother Daniel, as is supposed). JHe 
 had on a wool hat with a button and.foop, a_brown 
 homespun coat,'' linen'' vest,' velvet 'breeches, and 
 .shoes half worn. ' He took with .him a red and 
 svhite dog partly of the hound breefl. 
 
 1771, June 10.— John Hewlett, Ogwtefbay, of- ' 
 
 fers forty sbilliiigs areward and chatges, for a run- 
 away negro," Jack, who has big' aiicles, toes small 
 and walks stooping ; wore a, blue coat and buck- 
 skin breeches ; '' had plenty of money and may 
 forge a pass. — N. Y. Mercu^i/. 
 
 1771, July 18. — Sarah Burling offers for sale a 
 good grist and fulling-mill, 'on a good stream of 
 water, with fifty acres of laud, about a mile and a 
 half from Flushing landing. It has a house, "bam, 
 out-houses,i.dye-house, and all other conveniences 
 for carrylag oax'the clothier's business. The whole 
 in good repair. There is- a good orchard and ex- 
 traordinary' good mowing <^oaiad, and- more i may 
 be easily made. .; ■ 
 
 1771, July 23.— The creditors of Mrs! Elizabeth 
 Seabury, and of the late S. Seabury, are requested 
 to meet at Timothy Clowes', in the town-spot- of 
 Hempstead, to prove their accounts and receive 
 theii- divideiids from Richard Hewlett and S. 
 Clo-wes, ■Tiiistees.— -?r. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1771. — Benjamin Cheeseman, north side of 
 Hempstead If kins, (fEfers '4"0s. reward for a black 
 mare, stolen in^the night of July 21st. 
 
 1771, July 25.— We hear from Newtown, that 
 one Birch, an-'^Eaglishman, aged sixty, a poor man 
 who had been some years . in these parts. : and in 
 the late war had been a soldier in the Provincial 
 service, was found on Monday morning "dead in 
 the garret of the house where he lived. '^ "lie held 
 one end of a rope in his hand which he had thrown 
 over a beam. He had often tried to get to Eng- 
 land where' he' had awealthy sister, but could not 
 get naxDaey for. th-e passage.— .W. T. Journal, 
 
 1771, Auff.' 27.-^Broke from Jamaica Jail, -on 
 Sunday night last, 'Le-pi Moses and ' Theodorus 
 Benjamin, both tTews, who, have' been confined for 
 some years past. Mastei-s of vessels and others 
 are forewai-ned to carry them off at their .peril 
 Thomas Willett, Sheriff. 
 
 1771, Sept." 2.-^Beaver Pond Eace. Purse, 
 6623 for any horse ' except Whitehead Cornell's 
 Steady,' stnA'Timothj Gomell'BBichmond. Horses 
 to be'' entered with Widow Combs, Jamaica.— i^. 
 Y. Mercury. 
 
 1771, Sept. 12.— The Purse of oGlOO, by the 
 Macaroni Club, was run for at New Market, last 
 Monday, by Mr, Delancey's horse Lath, axii Mir. 
 Waters' horse Idberty, which was won'with '.great 
 ease by the former. As a field could not be made 
 the next day for the purse-bf se60, the matter was 
 postponeditHl the next. season. 
 
 17-71, Sept. 30.— These are to.infoi-m the public 
 that the manufactqiry lately carried; on by Wash- 
 ington, &,G-iants„at:Oysterbay, will still. be. carried 
 on by .Messrs.' Hunt & Chew, who have furnished 
 themselves with all manner of ingredients from 
 England,. 
 
 N. JB,— Said W. -& G. have been at immense 
 expense to procure workmen from the west of 
 
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 England and find tbem very capable,— JJT. Y. Mer- 
 cury. 
 
 1772, /aw. 30. — ^Died, some Ime since, «f putrid 
 fever, at St. Eustatia, •whsrw^e-had' lately settl(5d, 
 aged 21, Dr. BeigamMB'OiideSfdoiik,' 'eldest' Son of 
 Mr. Hendrnk-Oaderdonk, 'bf'Olioag Islatid. ^A 
 young gentleman of very amiable 'cliaiacter attd 
 much Jamented by all - the inhabitants. — N- -ST. 
 Mercutp, "' - 
 
 1?^2, Martii 5. — Zebnlon Seaman, second son 
 of Tenperance S. and Robert Seaman, second son 
 of Hannah S., daughters of John Williams, late of 
 Jerico, are allowed by the Assembly to take the 
 name' of Williams, conformable to the will of John 
 Williams who devised them lands in Oysterbayt^'^ 
 N. Y. Journal. 
 
 ni2, April 9.^— Dr. Jacob 0gden oflters for sale 
 
 his farm of forty acres, on which is a large new. 
 
 genteel house, fronting the road from Jamaica to 
 
 New ¥o!tk,- a fourth of a niile westfrbm the ta*n. 
 
 Th^«'43 alarge'-bam," Bmoke-house, and other 
 
 convenient buildin"gs,'an orchard, peach otchaJ'd, 
 
 and a large garden in^which' are three asparagus 
 
 ! beds, and all conveniences necessary for "a gentle- 
 
 ; man's seat. The pleasantness and advantages of 
 
 i the house are more easily seen on the 'spot than 
 
 ' described, standing on the road 1» "New York 
 
 market. Mutton, venison, and all sorts of poultry 
 
 in their season, wild fowl, fish, oysters and clams 
 
 may be had the- whole"^ year. 
 
 1772. — ^Kftces.-- ^The "Macaroni purse of ^eiOO, 
 at Newmarket, June 2d, was won by Captain De- 
 lahcey's BasJiaw, beating Mr. Richard Thome's 
 mare, Bainbow, and Mr. Waters' Slotich. The 
 d£50 purse,' next day, was won by Mr. Waters' 
 horse, King Herod, who beat Captain Delancey's 
 miy.—N.'Y. Gazette: 
 
 1772, June IS.^On Thursday last, two compa- 
 nies of the Royal Regiment of Artillejry, under, 
 command of Colonel James, marched from New 
 'York to encamp on Hempstead Plains for the 
 summer season,— JV. Y. Journal. 
 
 1772, Aug. 31.— Daniel Thorne and Henry 
 Woolley, Executors, offer for sale the farm of Jos- 
 eph'Corhwell, of Flushing; deceased, consisting of 
 near three hundred apres', joining Success Pond. 
 The house is two-stories with six rooms on a floor 
 and four fire-places. "There are two shi«gled- 
 barns, an orchard of apple and other 'fruit trees, 
 and timfeerland'KSonvenient «o a -boat that attends 
 twice a week. 
 
 1772, Aug. 31. ^Nicholas Van Dyck has 
 bought the fulling-mill at Flushing, late Sarah 
 ;Burlihg's, and employs Jonathan Davis, who un- 
 derstands the fulling business in all its branches, 
 and will lie obliged to the public for their business. 
 Cloth may be left* at Jacob Sharp's, Brooklyn 
 Ferry ; "Ijeffert Lefferts',"E?(i., Bedford ; William 
 Howard's 'HaJf-way house,' and William' Betts', 
 Jamaica, and it will be duly forwarded. 
 
 1772, Nov. 2. — For sale the remarkably pleas- 
 ant and well cultivated fann of John Hoogland, at 
 Flushing, in a.good 'neighborhood, within a quarter 
 of a mile of the town" and half a mile of the land- 
 ing, whence boats go to New York twice a week. 
 The h6ase'Tlag"^i|;ht rootos aiidlhree fire-places on 
 the lower florfr. " There "is a cedar-covered bam, 
 mfll-house, hen-house, and one hundred and twenty 
 acres of land in sizeable lots, a large fresh meadow 
 before tfce' dODr that cuts thirty loads of hay in a 
 season and springs within sixty yards. .There is 
 an orchard and choice fruit trees. Enq\iire of El- 
 bert Hoogland, Flushing. 
 
 ►iWa, ^a«.11.— ?I1i6taas Youtfgs, of Oysterbay, 
 has'&bofit bight hundred' handsolne apple trees to 
 dispose' of. Those ' in* want inay give in their 
 names to'Mr. John' Rapelye, Brooklyn iFerry, who 
 is to have one hundred. 'They 'will be delivered 
 there in- good order 'fof'7(^. a ttee-—N. Y. Mercury. ; 
 
 1773, i/im.-l fc=^To*'be- •sold or let, a^'farm of 
 over two hundred acres of arable land, pleasantly 
 situated north side of Hempstead Plains,-with an 
 elegant' house containing seventeen rooms and ten 
 fire-places,' a large barn and other outhouses, orch- 
 ard, etc' It is so well accomplished for a gentle- 
 man's seat, -merchant or farmer, that it, stands in 
 no need of any rhetoric to set it off. Enquire of 
 Joseph Greswold, on the premises. — N. Y. Mer- 
 
 uit, Feb. 22.— To be sold, by John<Cari, a 
 farm of one hundred and thirty acres, lying by 
 the Sound, a mile east of Whitestone, and within 
 three miles of Flushing town. It has a plenty of 
 orcharding,' a dwelling-house with five rooms on a 
 floor, a barn, and a good spring by the door, a 
 grist-mill with one pair of stones, and very conve- 
 nient to transport by water to New York from the 
 mill-tail. 
 
 1773, March 8.— Widow Keziah Comes and 
 Henry Dawson, -Executors, offer for sale the large 
 dwelling-house ' with six fire-places, late of John 
 Comes, deceased, in the town spot of Jamaica, 
 with fifty acres of land. On it are two barns, two 
 cribs, etc. It is convenient for a store or tavern. 
 Also, two pleasure sleighs,'"riding chair, etc. 
 
 1773, March 15,— For-sale,-the farm of Zebnlon 
 Frost, deceased, in Oj'sterbay, two miles from the 
 town. There are two" hundred acres with hoUse, 
 barn, a grist-mill and fulling-mill on a fine stream, 
 and is well situated for country custom. Apply to 
 Benjamin Townsend, Jerico ; Benjamin Coles, 
 Musqueto Cove, or Penn Frost, Matinecock. 
 
 1773, March 25.— Samuel Renny offers for sale 
 a pleasant situation of sixty acres, inNe'wtown. 
 On it is a two-story house with entry arid four 
 rooms, with fire-places on each floor', "a. barn, :coach- 
 house and outhouses. It was form^riy occupied 
 by Ralph Izard, Esq. Also, another house, barn 
 and riirie'acres of ground, in the toWn-|pot, suitable 
 for a tradesman or merchant. 
 
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 nV3,'April 18. — Teacher wamted.^^A.Tiy person 
 well qualified to teach school; \\f^ being welL re-- 
 commended,' may hear_of iTieiyr^fld encomragei'-, 
 ment by applying to Andriea HegesriHaai oif> Daniel 
 Kissam, Gmr Neck. — Nl\Y. Mevcury: 
 
 1773, May i'and 5^The horses -entered "for* 
 the race of New Msirfefet, Tfeeedayjcare J4'ni«s Dc- 
 lancey's bay. hrjyrae-iii*^,' Mr. Waters' bay horse 
 King Herod, and MJi.T^yhi's'h&y'karBeAmpMm.- 
 For Wednesday,'v,,.Jatnes Delancey's ■ bay- fill^ 
 Slamdken, Mf. Efeard's -bay colt Archer-, eastdL Mr. 
 Parker's bay colt Xanfhm. 
 
 VnBr.May lO.^^Tl^e ,5650 purse was run for on 
 Tuesday, by James Delancey's ba,y horse Bashaw, 
 and Israel-Waters' bay mare' JYe'Wfe; the latter, 
 winning,; , Three other. horses were entered-.but.a 
 rider light enough;-,, could not be fouaid^'for-, io/^',- 
 which occasioned none of them-ito run., . Aiid 'oai 
 Wediii^sdSjy, the plate of ^30 "was rnn for by 
 James-; Delancey's bay mare SlamaMn and Mr, 
 Heard's'-bay colt Archer; the former winning. — 
 JV. r. ^M'(^fc^«r«^..,. , 
 
 1773, May 27.— To the leather-dressers of New 
 York. There is erected an extraoFdinagry gOjOrd 
 fulling-mill oa, 6ow Neck, within a quarter of a 
 mile of the landing, very handy for leather-dress- 
 ers, plenty of .water and,.eyery thing handy for 
 . business, with b6ard="and lodging (if wanted). The 
 boats may come within a quarter of a iiile of ...the 
 mill and the subscriber* will fetch and carry the 
 skins from the boats to the mill gratis. . For par- 
 ticulars- enquire of Samuel Casey, Jr.,.,. silk-dyer 
 and skinner, opposite Trinity Church, New York. 
 — iV. Y. Mercury. '. 
 
 1773, June 3.— To be sold", the well inown 
 large and convenient mills of William and Jacobs 
 Walton feCo., .at Pembroke, thirty miles from 
 New York, with dwelling-house, bake-house and 
 stores, twenty-two acres of land, with orchard-6f 
 of best gi-afted fruit trees, large garden and -three 
 acres of meadows. - The stream affords plenty of 
 water and fine trout in the dryest season. The 
 upper mill has one pair of stones and.,water to 
 grind, the year through; the.lower, on, the same., 
 stream has two pair. A boat withione thousand 
 bushels of, wheat may^unload along.; side. ,i "Hie 
 country is healthy and pleasant, the, neighborhood 
 good. If prompt payment is not convenient, bonds 
 will be taken. — N. Y. Mercury. ,,, 
 
 1773, July 1. — John Ludlow .with his sister-in- 
 law, on their way to riushingi was so injured,, by- 
 his horse running away with the chair, near Pow-.' 
 les Hook ferry, that he died at Flushing in two oy, 
 three da^^,?, and was there buried on Sunday. , 
 
 1773, July .j5.?rrLa8t Monday morning, a Mttlei 
 before sunrise a smart shock of an earthquake was 
 felt at Newtown, Jamaica and Foster's Meadow. — 
 N. Y. Mercury. 
 
 *The subscriber forgot to add.ibisaamvbat it is supposed 
 to be Baxter. — Ed. -^ 
 
 ' iy^3,, July 26, — Wednesday last the bam of; 
 Mr. '- — — ^ — - — >- at Newtown, was burnt by light- 
 ning, with a quaintity;5of fiir^y wheat, rye, etc., to a 
 cpnpid>d'able' ainount'.'*; <'"',. 
 
 . C&'untry people oughl; to be informed to place a 
 H^Mning rod on their bams to prevent their being 
 struefei by«lightning;;: fet dry hay is ■ very apt to 
 draw it. — if. Y. Mercury. 
 
 ■ .. ■ , ' ;i). /.i : ;,- .. 
 1773, /S^ej)#;'S^-^¥esterday evening we , had a 
 
 very severe hail storm.,.. Some of the stones 
 weighed twa ottncess and'lalHwst filled a wine 
 glass.-UJJ'ji;, Gaz. 
 
 1773, Sept. 20. — Jacob Foster, Eockaway, offers 
 for sale a house and two acres of ground in the 
 town spot of Jamaica. It has an orchard of all 
 sorts of fruit, a Iferii, stable, arid a shop with a fire- 
 ■plaee~in it, fifc'fiKP-any tradesman, but would suit a 
 merchaiit, or tavern-keeper, as a tavern has been 
 kept "there many years..; 
 
 177.3, Oefetli.— The- printer of ..the New York 
 Mercury, in conjunction with t-wo of his friends, , 
 Henry Kemsen and Hendrick Onderdonk, having 
 lately, erected a paper-mill at Hempstead Harbor, 
 at >, very great expense the existence of w^ch en- 
 tirely depends on a supply of rags, which are too 
 often thrown away in the fire or swept out of doors 
 and are now much wanted ; he therefore most 
 humbly entreats the assistance of the good peopla 
 of thijso-Prbvince, and city in particular, to assistVi 
 him in this undertaking which will be^ a saving of 
 some hundreds per annum to the colony, which.. 
 has constantly been sent, out of it forp^per of all 
 sorts for the-past foftyiyears, the manufacturing of 
 which has, fat very lately originated here. The 
 highest price will be given for rags by the public's 
 servant) Hri^h, Gaine. 
 
 1773, Oct. 20.— Foi^ salei>-the farm of Joseplj „, 
 Burr, deceased, near Herricks, one hundredr'teid'-' 
 thirty-seven acres, well improved, new buildings, 
 young orchard. Also, a Potash-house, convenient 
 for cairrying on the potash business. — IT. Y. Mer- 
 cury:- 
 
 i l'^7'3, De&--20.^-All.p^sons are forbid trespass- 
 ing on the manor of Quteehs villager ®s Lloyd's or 
 Horse Neck, or fishing or gunning there as the 
 deer which the owners stocked it with are ..all 
 killed. . Henry, John, Joseph and James Lldyd, 
 
 offer £20 reward for the discovery of offenders. 
 
 N. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1773, Bee. 27.— About 10 o'clock last Thurs- 
 day morning, the houseofe^the, Hon. George Dun- 
 can Ludlow, Esq.,. .third Judge of .tha. Supreme 
 Court of this Province, at Hempstead Plains 
 [Ilyde Park]) took fire and was burnt Jto the 
 ground with almost every thing therein contained, 
 but providentially no lives were^-laat. c Mr. L, 
 had been in. New Yoirk-the dayjbefore and was 
 scaree-Mirec- Hours at homsi. before, his house was 
 all in flariies. The fire originated, as is supposed, 
 by means of some sparks that found their way 
 
TN^ OLDEN TIMES\ 
 
 41 
 
 ii 
 
 through the crack of- an old chimney arid commu- 
 nicated to the wooden work of one of the rooms 
 ahove. The loss Mr. L. sustains by this accident 
 cannot be less than £3,000, for besides the loss of 
 his furniture, plate, etc., a library worth £1,200-18 
 entirely consumed.* — iV. Y. Mercury. 
 
 VJIA, Jan. 10. — For sale, a farm -of. one hundred 
 and sixty acres, at Wheatly, late the property of 
 Robert Crooker, of Eye ; also, the corner house in 
 Oysterbay town, now in possession of Aaron Bur- 
 tis, with a bake-house and two acres of land, most- 
 ly woods. It is convenient lor any business. 
 Apply to John Monfort, Wheatly, Timothy Titus, 
 or William Crooker, of Rye. 
 
 1774, Jan. 17. — Jonathan Fish;- New York> of- 
 fers for sale a farm of one hundred acres, in New- 
 town, in tenure of.Leffert Leiferts, within a.quarter 
 of ,a mile of three churches. It has a cider-mill, 
 mill-house, orchard and sixteen acres of. hay land. 
 Also, partly adjoining the above, a farm of one 
 hundred and fifty acres, in tenure of John Voor- 
 hees, including a house and lot, in tenure of John 
 Cross. Oh. it is a nurseryof ' some thousands of 
 apple trees: Also, the noted corner-hoUse, now oc- 
 cupied by Mr. Abraham Rapelye, with seventy 
 acres of land. On it are a cider-mill, mill-house 
 and other outhouses. — JYT T. Mkreury: 
 
 1774, Jan. 17. — Matthias Va.n Dyck offers for 
 sale his valuable farm adjoining the King's road 
 leading to Jamaica, halt a mile from Flushing 
 town. It contains one himdred and thirty-five 
 acres, and will cut forty loads of hay, and has five 
 orchards that will make seventy hogsheads of ci- 
 der per year. There are three barracks, a barn, 
 coach-house, wagon-house, chair-house, smoke- 
 house, fowl-house and other outhouses too tedious 
 to mention, all under shingle roofs. — N. Y. Mer- 
 cury. 
 
 1774; Jan. 29. — As Dr. William Lawrence, of 
 Musquito Cove, was returning from New York, in a 
 sleigh, with Jordan Coles- and- the widow of 
 Thome Carpenter, in descending a long steep hill 
 near home, where a large rock^projects in the road, 
 the horses.- tookv fright andy one ran against the 
 rock and was killed, and the people thrown out of 
 the sleigh. Lawrence was but little hurt, Coles 
 considerably and Mrs. Carpenter much more, so ; 
 her eye being injured.-^iV. Y. Mercury. 
 
 nii, March lO.^-Died, on Friday last, at the 
 family seat, Mrs. Elizabeth Colden, lady of Alex- 
 ander Colden, Surveyor-General of this Province, 
 and second daughter of Richard Nicolls, Es^., of 
 this city, aged forty-nine. She was interred, in a 
 vault at Trinity Church.— .Zf.Y. Journal. 
 
 1714,,. March 14. — William Prince, at his nur- 
 sery, Flushin-g landingk offers for sale one hundred 
 and ten large Carolina magnolia flower trees, raised 
 
 *This house was rebuilt, and again, from a like cause 
 ■burnt down May 26, 1819, while in the occupancy of Wil- 
 i am Cobbet. 
 
 from the seed — the most beautiful trees that grow 
 in America — As. per tree, four feet high ; fifty 
 large catalpa flower trees, 25. per tree. They are 
 nine feet high to the under part of the top, atd 
 thick as one's leg ; thirty or forty almond trees 
 that begin to bear. Is. and 6d. each • fifty fig trees, 
 2s. each ; two thousand five hundred white, red and 
 black currant bushes, 6d. each ; gooseberry bushes, 
 6d.; Lisbon and Madeira grape vines ; five thousand 
 hautboy, chih, large English and American straw- 
 berry plants ; one thousand five hundred white and 
 one thousand black mulberry trees. Also, Barce- 
 lona filbert trees, Is.-^-N.- Y. Mercury. 
 
 1774; March 24-— Saturday last, the Hon. Cad- 
 wallader Colden, Esq., Lieutenant-Governor of this 
 Province, arrived here from his seat, at Flushing, 
 in good health. — JV. T. Journal. 
 
 1774. — The managers of the Newtown Lottery 
 assure the public that the second class will begin 
 drawing March 29th. A few tickets are yet to be 
 had of Messrs. Hallet & Hazard, Broome & Piatt, 
 John Murray, Thomas Grabb, and Berrien & 
 Fish. — N. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1Y74, March 2.8.— Waters Smith, Jamaica, of- 
 fers for sale a farm of forty acres, adjoining the 
 churcli glebe, Newtown, now in the occupation of 
 Mr. Abraham Riker, convenient for a gentleman or 
 shopkeeper, as it has long been occupied in that 
 way. 
 
 1774, March 31.— To let, the noted and pleas- 
 antly situated house, outhouses and garden, and 
 two or four acres of land, in the town spot of 
 Flushing, now in possession of Mrs. Mary Wilson. 
 It has four rooms on the lower floor and as many 
 above, and an entry above and below, and ii an 
 excellent stand for a- gentleman, merchant or tav- 
 ern-keeper. Encjuire of William Prince, at Flush- 
 ing landing. 
 
 1774,' April 11.^— The case long depending in. 
 Chancery between Mr. Bloomer, Rector of Grace 
 Church, Jamaica, and Hinchman and ■ Edsall, 
 Church Wardens, (who refused to pay his salary) 
 was decided by Governor Tryon, the Chancellor, 
 in favor of the former, each party to pay their own 
 costs. The Governor's lady, Mrs. Tryon, before 
 her departure for London, gave the- costs (£86) to 
 the losing party, to. alleviate their misfortune. 
 
 1774, Ajaril 25. — ^Last week the house of Wil- 
 liams Seaman, near Jerico, was consumed with all 
 its furniture. Mrs. S. was so badly burnt that she 
 died in conseq^uence,: — N. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1774, May 2-.— Wanted,a master to take charge 
 of , the Grammar-school, at Newtown. Any person 
 properly qualified and ■ well cecommended, will 
 meet encouragement. Apply to Mr. Benjamin 
 Moore. 
 
 1774, May 3. — By Act of Assembly, two' Fairs 
 for Queens County are to be held at Jamaica, on 
 the first Tuesday in May and third, in Octoljer ; 
 each to continue four days. 
 
 12. 
 
48 
 
 .QUEENS-COUNTY 
 
 To John Kapelye, Esq., of Jamaica, Governor 
 aji'd Superintendent of the Fairs to be held in 
 said town, 
 The humble address of the inhabitants of said 
 
 town. IT. 
 
 "We, the inhabitants iof said town, beg leave to 
 approach your worship with hearts^replfete with sin- 
 cere joy and satisfaction; ; and at the same time to 
 congratulate you on your app'ointment as Governor, 
 of said Fairs, a station (though inferior to your 
 abilities) yet we really hope may be an introduce 
 tion to one' more important; as we are fully cgn- 
 vinced of your being adequate to a more arduous 
 task ; and are fully desirous and will, as much as 
 in us lies, promote your interest in every respect. 
 
 Please to accept this tribute of our good wishes, 
 and believe us to be, with real sincerity of hearts, 
 your well wishers and sincere friends. Signed, by 
 order, EoBBET Brooks, Clerh. 
 
 Dated at Janiaica, this 4th day of May, 1774. 
 
 Gentlemen : With a heart overflowing with gra- 
 titude, I retm-n you my sincere thanks for your 
 kind address and good wishes towards me; and 
 hope my future conduct in tbe discharge of the 
 several duties incumbent on me, will always merit 
 yoiir approbation. 
 
 I am, gentlemen, with respect, your most obliged 
 and obedient servant. JOHN EAPELTE, 
 
 Jamaica, 4tli day of May, 1774. 
 
 n7i.—NewmarM Baces, May Uth— a swcep- 
 stakb of one hundred and twenty-five guineas, half 
 forfeit, by horses the property of five subscribers. 
 On the 12th a contribution .purse of £bQ, free for 
 any horse, the best of three four-mile heats. 
 Horses to be shown and entered at. the starting 
 post the day before running, A half Johannes 
 entrance. No crossing, jostling or other foul play. 
 —N'.Y. Mercury. 
 
 1774, June 13.-^$5 reward, to any one who 
 shall secure him. in any. of His Majesty's jails. 
 Eun away from Abrahaigi Lawrence, Flushing, a 
 n^egro man, George, of a : yellow complexion. He 
 had on buff colored, half worn velvet breeches, and 
 has bushy hair, which he wears tied behind,, and 
 commonly wears his hat cocked. 
 
 1774, June 13. — To be sold, by Joseph Wood- 
 ward, Newtown (for want of employ) a likely ne- 
 gro boy, ten years old, and has had the small 
 poxi 
 
 1774, July 4. — Joseph, and John Eeade and 
 Richard Yates offer for sale the corner-house and 
 lot of land of .Lawrence Eeade, deceased, situate 
 where four cross-road? ij}eet,.in Jamaica, and occu- 
 pied as a tavern a great , many, years. There are 
 fifteen acrgs,, with, two brick houses, one a double 
 house in occupation of William Betts, tavern-keep- 
 er, fifty feet front ; the other, built a few years 
 ago, is occupied by Joseph Eobinson. Tbere arc 
 two bams, garden, fruit trees* etc. 
 
 1774, JmZ«/ 18. — Ciderrvinegar, or live-stock of 
 
 any sort, for shippings supplied at reasoHa;ble rateS 
 by William Keese, who goes in. the Flushing pas- 
 sage boat, twice a week, and may be sprfken with 
 ©very Tuesday and Friday, at Beekman Slip, 
 New York/* 
 
 1774, July 18. — ^The grammar-school, at New- 
 towiiyis still continued b;^ a young genilemaii who 
 comes well recommended',' Mr, Charles Duffee; who 
 will prepare pupils for college in an easy and expe- 
 ditious manner, and will take equal care of their 
 morals and tuition. Boarding on the spot in gen- 
 teel families.— i^. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1774.— On Sunday, August 14th, Lamber,t. 
 Moore, Esq., OomptrolW of Sis Majesty's Cus- 
 toms for the port of New York, was' married to the 
 agreeable MiBS Gertrude, daughter of Mr. Hendrick 
 Onderdonk, of Hempstead Harbor.— iV. Y. Mer- 
 cufy. ' 
 
 1774, Oct. 13.— New. Market Eaces. £2(} 
 Purse to be run for by three or four yeair old hors- 
 es, (full-bloods excepted) the best of three two^tnilej 
 heats, to wiit. 20s. entrance. Certificates from, 
 the breeders to be shown. On the ,14th a saddle 
 to be run for by horses five years old or- upwards. 
 The three heats to be one mile each. 5s. entrance. 
 No horse to run that has ever started for the value 
 of 50s. 
 
 1774, Dec. 5.— Last Thursday evening as Mr, 
 Luke Eldert was going home in bis wagon from 
 Brooklyn, a mile from the Ferry, he was met with 
 by Daniel Everett, on horseback, and before they 
 could get out of the way of each other, the wagon- 
 tongue ran into Mr. Everett's body, of which 
 wound he died immediately, 
 
 1775, Feb. 20, — Two lads, one named Hamilton, 
 aged -sixteen, and the other Eoberts, aged twelve, 
 were 1-acing with their wagon and horses at New- 
 town, when by a jolt they both fell out, and, being 
 run over, were killed,— Same's Mercury. 
 
 1775, MarcJi 6.— Several of the negroes at Ja- 
 maica, we hear, were last week committed to the 
 jail there for a conspiracy to destroy the whites. 
 Most of the slaves for many miles around, 'tis said, 
 are concerned in this plot.f. — JV. Y. Mercury, 
 
 1775, Wlay 17th, wag observed as a day of Fast- 
 ing and Prayer by the congregations of the Ee- 
 formed Protestant Dutch churches, in this and the 
 Province of New Jersey. — N. Y. Journal. 
 
 1775, May 19.— Thomas Smith, John Hewlett 
 and John Townsend, Justices, of Oysterbay, hear- 
 ing of anonymous adyertiseipents being set up to 
 notify the people to appear at Jamaica, the 22d 
 inst., to choose Deputies to form a Convention to 
 carry the Eesolves' of the Continental Congress in- 
 to execution, take this method to perpetuate to 
 
 "John Yates was Captain of the other Flushing Boat..— 
 Ed. 
 
 tThls proved a false report, hut it shows how ready the 
 masters were to suspect their slaves. — Ed. 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 49 
 
 insult duriijg their coming to and returning from 
 ttis ^Congress, , 
 
 3.776, Jan. 3. — A majority of the inhabitants of 
 ■Queens County having deserted the American 
 cause, the Oontine»tal Ciongress ordered Cokael 
 Heard to take >eis!!: hundred minute men and three 
 hundred regulars and proceed to Queens -County 
 and disarm every person who voted against send- 
 ing Deputies to the Provincial Congress, and ap- 
 prehend the twenty-six principal persons named 
 above. Accordingly X3olonel Heard scoured the 
 county, imposed a test oath on four hundred and 
 seventy-one delinquents, .disarmed three hundred 
 and forty-nine others, and carried off nearly one 
 thoBsand 'muskets, some powder and lead, and 
 nineteen of the principal 'disaffected persons, seven 
 (to whose names a star is prefixed) having fled 
 from their homes. These persons were subse- 
 quently discharged on giving iDonds for their 
 peaceable deportment. 
 
 1776, Jan. 8. — To be sold at vendue, the farm 
 of Dr. John Innis, deceased, about two. miles west 
 of Jamaica, on both sides of the road leading to 
 New York ferry.. It consists of about two hundred 
 acres in a healthy dry situation, exceedingly natu- 
 ral for wheat, Indian corn and pasture. On it are 
 thi?ee orchards — part grafted with the finest fruit 
 that could he procured — Newtown pippins in 
 abund.ance, golden pippins, golden russetings, 
 spitzenberghs, bow-apples, adamites, etc. Pears, 
 peaches, plums, Madeira-nut and black-walnut 
 trees, in great plenty, two dwelling-houses, corn- 
 cribs, fowl-house, smoke-house and house «f office, 
 a large garden, with gravel walks, a quarter of 
 which yields as fine asparagus as any in the 
 Province. Peter and James Innes, Executors, 
 living on the premises will give a good title. 
 
 N. B. — About two miles due north-west from 
 the town of Hempstead, sixty-five across of as 
 good land as any belonging to the great Plains, 
 every corner of which has a stone marked with the 
 initial letter of my name 1*1. The land was sur- 
 veyed and recorded by Justice Smith, near West- 
 bury. 
 
 1776, Jan. 22. — To be let, by James Way, the 
 tenement that Jacob Hallet now lives on, at New- 
 town landing ; also a large pettiauger. The place 
 is convenient for business : First, Tor carrying pas- 
 sengers to New York.; second, for a butcher; 
 third, for a dry-goods- store ; fourth, for marketing ; 
 fifth, for buying and selling country produce for 
 the city ; sixth, for a house of entertainment. Al- 
 so, another house within twenty rods of said land- 
 ing pleasantly situated for a gentleman's country 
 seat. A variety of fish, oysters and crabs may be 
 caught in the season, within a quarter of a mile of 
 the house. Also, several other tenements to let, 
 within a mile of said landing. 
 
 1776, March 21. — Last Thursday night, at 
 twelve o'clock, the house of James Hughston, 
 merchant, at Jamaica, was burnt. The family 
 
 posterity, that they pay no regard' to any idatter 
 contrary, to the sacred oath they have taken to 
 keep the peace <£ the county, as far as they are 
 able. — Town Records. 
 
 1775. — Thursday, July 30th, 5by recommenda- 
 tion of the Contineatal Cfongress, was observed 
 with the utmost eolemnity, by Fasting, Abstinence, 
 and Devotion. In all the chui-cTies were large 
 congregations, and excellent discourses delivered • 
 from the several pulpits, expressive of the truly ca- 
 lamitous situation of this unhappy Continent.— --iV^ 
 Y. Journal. 
 
 1775, Oct. as.— Jacob Durjee and Albert Ter- 
 hunen. Executors, offer for sale the homestead of 
 Jost Duryea, near Old Neck, at Jaimaica South, ] 
 containing seventy-two acres, on which is a grist- 
 mill of one-pair of stones, mill-house, bolting-house. 
 Also a fine healthy negro boy ten years old. 
 
 1775, Nov.. 3Q. — To Idc sold, a house and lot of 
 land of five acres, with bam and good bearing ap- 
 ple orchard, in the mo^t popalous igart of the town 
 of Oysterbay, opposite iJhe Church, and half a mile 
 from the landing, where boats attend weekly from 
 New York — convenient for a merchant, mechanic 
 or tavern. Apply to Beigamin Underbill, New 
 York, or Silvanus Townsend, Cedar Swamp. 
 
 IK PEOTINCIAL COWGKESg. 
 
 ' New York, Dec. 12, 1775. 
 Whereas, this Congress has received undoubted 
 information, that a number of disaffected persons 
 ■in Queen's County, haye been supplied with arms 
 and ammunition, from on board the Asia ship of 
 war, and are ai-raying themselves in military man- 
 ner to oppose the measures taking by ii*e United 
 Colonies, for the defence of their just rights and 
 privileges Oj-dered that, of 
 
 Hempstead Township. 
 Just. GUbert Van Wyck, 
 Daniel Kissam, Esq., 
 
 Cowneck, 
 Captain Jacob Mott, 
 *Thos. Cornell, of Eoek- 
 
 away, 
 Gaferiel <?r. Ladlow, 
 *Richard Hewlet, 
 Captain Charles Hicks, 
 Doctor Samuel Martin, 
 Justice Samuel Clowes. 
 
 Oyster Bay. 
 Justice Tho. Smith, Hog 
 
 Island. 
 * Justice John Hewlet, 
 Captain George Weeks, 
 Doctor David Brooks, 
 Justice John Townsend. 
 
 Jamaica Township. 
 
 Captain Benjamin White- 
 head, 
 *Chai-Ies Ardin, 
 Joseph French, Esq., 
 Johannes Polhemus, 
 
 'Newtown. 
 
 Nath. Moore, 
 *John Moore, senior, 
 Captain Samuel Hallet, 
 ♦John Moore, junior, 
 William Weyman, 
 Captain John Shoals, 
 Jeromus Eapalye. 
 
 Flushing Township. 
 *JohnWillet. . 
 
 being charged as principal men among the disaf- 
 fected in said county, do attend this Congress, at 
 ten o'clock, Tuesday morning next, the 19th inst., 
 to give satisfaction to this Congress in the premi- 
 ses, and that they be protected from any injury or 
 
50 
 
 QUEENS COUNT.Y 
 
 were in bed at the time, and nothing was saved 
 but two bede, a drislc,- chest and trunk. The con- 
 tents of his store, consisting of West India and 
 dry goods and dfilOO in .bills, were entirely con- 
 sumed. Loss, ^2,000, 01. 6£i3.000.,r— Holt's JSf.Y. 
 Journal. . 
 
 In Committee for the district of OowNeek, etc., 
 March 27th, 1776 :— Whereas, sundry disaffected 
 persons Jiaye moved into this neighborhood, where- 
 by the district instead of an asylum for the good 
 and virtuous, is become a- nest to those noxious 
 vermin; it has become the part of prudence, and 
 in its • effects, of necessity, to put an end to such 
 proceedings for the future, by the most speedy and 
 effectual measures for thb public good. Be it 
 therefore Besolved, That no manner of person pre- 
 sume to move into this District after the first of 
 April, without a certificate from the Chairman of 
 the Committee of the District whence he removed, 
 that he is friendly to the cause of his- bleeding 
 country. By order, 
 
 Benj'n. Sands, Chairman. 
 
 A Card. — An inhabitant of Cow Neck presents 
 his respectful compliments to Mr. Sands, Chairman 
 of the Committees and begs- he will rectify -an 
 omission he has been guilty of, by not mentioning- 
 the names at large of-: those disaffected persons 
 whom he styles " noxious vermiti,"'in the Com- 
 mittee's Eesolve published last week. — N. Y. 
 Packet, April Uh, 1776. 
 
 To the Printer. — In Committee for the District 
 of Cow Neck, &c., April 8th, 1776 :— SiK : 
 Whereas a Card has lately made its appearance in 
 yoiir paper requesting the ijames of those disaffect- 
 ed persons cialled " noxious vermin," in the Cdna.- 
 mittee's Resolve of 27th March' last. Althougji it, 
 is inexpedient to compl;^ with thi^ request,, yet if; 
 the anonymous author' appjies to this Committee, 
 he shall have satisfaction "with regard to' liimself. 
 By order, Benj'w. SAWDS, Chairman. 
 
 nl&,. April \S.—,To the. Provincial Congress, 
 New Yorh:—We, the subscribers, inhabitants 
 of Jamaica, have lately been plundered" of our 
 cattle and effects by order of Captain Ephraiin 
 Bailey, for not appearing in arms at. military drill 
 to answer to our names, when it is known we have 
 been deprived of them by Colonel Heard. We 
 therefore pray that you will give us such relief,, as - 
 you may think necessary. 
 
 Nathaniel Mills, Jgseph Oldfield,, 
 
 Jabez Woodi-uff, Samuel Mills, 
 
 Joshua Mills, John Remsen,. 
 
 jQhij Lambertson, Dirck Bergen, 
 
 Nicholas Ludlam, 
 Abrahani Colyer, 
 
 Peter Mills, 
 Jacob Dean. 
 
 1776, June 5. — The Provincial Congress re- 
 solved that, Wliereas, a hostile armament is ex- 
 pected here, the following persons in Queens 
 County be brought before a committee of this body 
 to show cause why they should be considered 
 fi-iends to the American cause, viz : 
 
 Dr. Charles Arden,f 
 David Brooks,!'' 
 David B(3atty,t < 
 David Cbld6n,f 
 Richard Colden,! 
 Samuel Doughty.jr' 
 George EoHiot,f. 
 Archibald Hamilton,^ 
 Whitehead HickB,J 
 Charles Hicks,! 
 Samuel Hallet,|" 
 Daniel Kissam,f 
 Gabriel G. Ludlow, f ' 
 Benjamin Lester,| 
 Samuel Martin,f 
 John Polhemus,! 
 John Shoals,!. 
 .Gilbert Van Wyck,! 
 John Willet,!' 
 
 Joseph Beagle,* 
 John Bowdin,* 
 SamuM Clowes,! 
 John .Cliave,* 
 Thomas Cornwell,'* 
 Isaac Denton,* 
 Thomas HJcks,t 
 • Richard Hewlett,* 
 Stephen^ Hewlett,* 
 John Hewlett,* 
 Thomas Jones,!: 
 John Kendal,* 
 George D. Ludlow,f 
 Nathaniel Moore,! 
 John Moore, senior,! 
 Thomas Smith,! 
 John Townsend,1: 
 Benjamin Whitehead,^ 
 William Weyman.i:§ 
 
 1776, J"MMe.9,i--Some of the disaffected people 
 of Hempstead having armed and hid themselves in 
 a swamp, at the head, of what was then, Demott's 
 mill-pond. Gen. Green, commanding- on Long Is- 
 land, sent a party, of .soldiers there who, after a 
 skirmish, arrested, the following persons and deliv-' 
 ered them,, with a descriptive list, to General 
 Greene ;.. 
 
 Joseph Dorlon and John Hutchings, from Ja- 
 maica jail. 
 
 John Carman. HS received powder and ab- 
 sconded in^ the woods. 
 
 Andrew Allen. A disaffected person, taken in 
 the woods. 
 
 Jacob Lambertson. Found with his gun charged. 
 
 Beniamin Pettit. He was in the swamp, in the 
 fight, and had powder from the Asia, man-of-war. 
 
 Ezekiel Rainer. In the woods, hid. 
 
 Richard Smith. In the swamp battle, and had 
 powder froin the Asia. 
 
 Jeremiah Bedel. A.disaffpcted person. 
 
 Daniel .Smith. In the swamp battle. 
 
 Elijah Rainesr., Hid in the swamp,. 
 
 Joseph Bedle. Same— a disaffected person. 
 
 Nathan Smith. Received powder from the Asia, 
 absconded in the woods, and ' appears to know 
 much of the scheme. 
 
 Townsend Weeks. A d— d rascal and the 
 greatest Tory. 
 
 William McCoun, Thomas Eleet, Peter Wheel- 
 er, Samuel Townsend, and John Fleet, declared 
 they would sooner fight for the King than the-Gon- 
 gress, and totally deny the authority of thafr body. 
 
 James Cogswell. A gun-stealer or informer, 
 from Newport. 
 
 *T!x be an-ested, as iaimical to the American cause who 
 probably would not appear, but secrete themselves. 
 
 tTo be summoned before Congress. 
 
 tHolditig office from the King of Great Britain, and to 
 be summoned or arrested. 
 
 . ^He wa-s from We^tchfester, and had been put in prison 
 in New York, for somg on board the Asia, man-of-war, and 
 shipping a load of pork for the British army. 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 51 
 
 Henry Durland said Washington was more con- 
 cerned in the conspiracy* than any one. 
 
 1776, May 28. — There was an Academy at 
 Newtown where Thomas Walton, Mr. Le Roy, 
 Thomas White, Mr. Mathews, and other Loyalists, 
 of New York, sent about seventeen boys. Some 
 of these boarded with Mr. John Moore, Jr., and, 
 on a Fast day, they got of a lad named Moore, 
 from New York, a large flag in imitation of the 
 King's standard, which they hoisted on a hig-h 
 pole in Mr. Moore's door-yard. For allowing this 
 insult to the Whigs of Newtown, Mr. Moore was 
 arrested and detained a prisoner on parole in New 
 •York. The Committee of Newtown received the 
 thanks of Congress for. their vigilance, — Jour., 
 464. 
 
 1776, June 21. — The following list of fourteen 
 disaffected persons at Jamaica, was sent to the 
 Provincial Congress :- 
 
 1. Dr. Charles' Arden. He was the person who 
 instigated tlie Tories to sign against having a 
 Congress or a Committee. He also wrote the affi- 
 davit of Rulef Duryea about Parson Keteltas, and 
 carried Justice French to Duryea's for that pur- 
 pose. 
 
 The witnesses are Benjamin Smith, son of Samuel ; Kob- 
 art Hinchman ; Thomas Smith, son of Thomas, whom he 
 threatened to hang if he would not sign a paper, and Isaac 
 Lefferts, who bought Widow Betts' farm. 
 
 2. Captain Benjamin Whitehead, late Supervi- 
 sor, who repeatedly refused to communicate to the 
 town of Jamaica certain letters that he had re- 
 ceived from the General Committee of New York, 
 requesting the town to be called together to elect 
 members of a Committee or Congress. 
 
 The witness of this is Waters Smith, or either of the per- 
 sons above named, or Captain Jacob Wright. 
 
 3. Alexander Wallace, merchant, of New York, 
 but now resides at Jamaica, in Waters Smith's 
 house. 
 
 4. George Bethune, formerly of Boston, now at 
 Jamaica. He maintains an intimacy with Benja- 
 min Whitehead and Dr. Arden. 
 
 5. Martin, from Antigua. He dwells in 
 
 Obadiah Mills' house, opposite the Meeting-house, 
 at a high rent. He associates chiefly with James 
 Depeyster. 
 
 6. Charles McEvers. He resides in John 
 Troup's house — was formerly a Stamp-ofiicer. 
 
 7 and &. Thomas and Fleming Colgan fre- 
 quently go- to Creed's Ml to look out for the Brit- 
 ish fleet. The two Dunbars, John William Liv- 
 ingston, Jr., and one of the Oolgans- were there 
 lately looking out for a fleet. 
 
 10 and 11.. John and William Dunbar shut 
 themselves up, and refuse to train, or pay their 
 fines. 
 
 12. George FoUiot, raerchant, fromi New York. 
 
 *Eeferring to a plot, got up by Governor Tiyon, to poison 
 Washington and bum New York. 
 
 He lives with Jaqutes Johnson at Fresh Meadows, 
 about one and a half miles from Jamaica. 
 
 13. Theophilact Bache, of Flatbush. He comes 
 to Jamaica to Alexander Wallace's. 
 
 14. James Depeyster. He lives next to Wil- 
 liam Betts'. He is said to be a dangerous Tory. 
 His son has been pursued several times, but can't 
 be taken. 
 
 In Committee, Queens County, July l, 1Y76. — 
 The Committee took into consideration a resolve 
 of the Convention of the State of New York, rela- 
 tive to removing cattle from the south side of this 
 county ;: and £ts many difficulties appear, they ap- 
 pointed Colonel Eemsen, Colonel Robinson and 
 Samuel Riker to make a representation thereof to 
 the Convention and general ofiicers of the Conti- 
 nental army, and of the defenceless state of this 
 comity, and request such a force as shall be able, 
 with the assistance of the County Militia, to pre- 
 vent our being plundered by the Ministerial troops ; 
 and also to apply for 66200 for the use of this 
 county. 
 
 1776, July 21.— George Townsend, Chairman 
 of Queens County, sends to Congress a copy of 
 Howe's Declaration, which had been posted in the 
 several towns, by Thomas Willett, Sheriff. Where- 
 upon his arrest was ordered, together with his 
 brother Edward Willett, Edward Willett, Sr., one 
 Lawson, a schoolmaster at Flushing, who acted' as 
 scribe, and Thomas Hicks, attorney-at-law. — 
 Jour., 552-572. 
 
 [This paper appears to have been conveyed 
 from Governor Tryon, through the hands of Colo- 
 nel Josiah, father of Dr. Samuel .Martin, to Eliza- 
 beth Hicks, a young lady of Roekaway, who gave 
 it, on a Fast day, to Joshua; Mills, at Jamaica, ' 
 and he- took it to Sheriff Willett, at Flushing, who 
 consulted with Thomas Hicks, and by his advice 
 pubhshed it. It offered paj-don to all repentant 
 rebels.] — Ed. 
 
 1776, Aug. 9.:— One Bragaw, from Long Island, 
 informs Congress that John Greenoak, Jr., Samuel 
 Ryder, Captain Samuel Hallet, his son Joseph, 
 and his negro, went from Vanderveer's mill to Bar- 
 ren Island, and thence escaped to the enemy, on 
 Staten Island.. 
 
 1776, Aug. 12.— The following disaffected per- 
 sons were arrested in Queens County, by order of 
 General Washington, and sent in a boat to Nor- 
 wich and Middletown, Cbnneeticnt, where they 
 gave their parole and were permitted to walk about 
 the streets. They were allowed to go home, De- 
 cember 9th, on giving their parole to return when 
 sent for : 
 
 David Beatty, 
 Samuel Burling, 
 Dr. David Brooks, 
 Richard Betts, 
 John Ohave, 
 Isaac Oorsa, 
 
 Charles Hicks, 
 Thomas Jones, 
 Daniel Kissam, Jr., 
 Charles Nicolls, 
 Adam Seabury, 
 Isaac Smith, " 
 
 13 '^ 
 
52 
 
 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 Whitehead Oomwell, William Thome, 
 Joseph Griswold, -Augustus Van^HoiTO, 
 Benjamin Hewlett, John Willet, • 
 George Hewlett, , Benj amin .Whitehead, 
 
 1776, Aug. 18.— The British fleet having ap- 
 peared off our coast, the disaffected supplied the 
 enrany with fresh provisions.-vegetables, etc. Some 
 also tried to escape on boai-d the fleet for protec- 
 tion, .as appears by the following examination of 
 some fugitives captured on Rockaway beach, who 
 intended to join the enemy— held at Widow Fos- 
 ter's Inn, before Colonel Eobinson and Oaptam 
 Lambert Suydam, who made the capture : 
 
 Matthias Van Brockle. Lives on the Beach. 
 He says two men knocked at his door and he let 
 them in out of the rain. 
 
 William Newton, of New York. He left for 
 fear of drafting. 
 
 Pe3,rson Langdon. He says tTie boat is Isaac 
 Denton's, and came out of Mott's creek. He 
 wanted to keep out of ftie way, while men were 
 drafting. 
 
 Jonathan Smith. He escaped from the troop. 
 
 Abraham Probasco. Says he went with Van 
 Brockle from Jamaica yesterday afternoon, and 
 knows none of the present company but Peter 
 Mills. 
 
 ■ Dickenson. He says he belongs to Duch- 
 
 ess County, and is a trader. He has relatives at 
 Oysterbay. He owned one of the bundles o± 
 clothes. 
 
 Peter Mills. He says his mother, hearing half 
 the Militia was to be drafted, made him keep out 
 of the way, and that he went to show Mr. Lewis 
 the Beach. 
 
 Lewis. .Says he lives in Westchester,- and 
 
 came ovqr to Long Island for a legacy.. He met 
 Mills at Uncle Mott's, and .desired to .see the 
 Beach, which he had not seen for many years. • 
 
 1.776, Aug. .20.— .General Greene received an 
 express from Hog Island Inlet stating that five 
 small British vessels had appeared at the mouth of 
 the creek with some troops on board,; and that 
 two periauguas were at Oysterbay South— the 
 whole supposed to be after live stock. Greene 
 sent a party of horse and two hundred and twenty 
 men to reconnoitre. 
 
 1776, Aug. 27, was appointed, by Congress, as 
 a day of Fasting, Hiimiliation and Prayer to Al- 
 mighty God for imploring his divine assistance in 
 organizing and establishing a form of Government, 
 and to supplicate his further protection in the war 
 now raging throughout America.* — Jour., 554. 
 
 *The battle pf J5rooklyn .tadk place on the same day. So 
 the day may not haxe heejn ^observed. Qn- a previous Fast 
 day, Kev. Mr. Froeligh, at Jamaica, took 'his text from 
 Joel 2 : 20, " But I will remove far off from you the north- 
 em army, and will drive him into a land barren and deso- 
 late." 
 
 1776, u4.M^.'28.— Sir William Erskine, the day 
 after the battle of Brooklyn, was detached with 
 the .Seventeenth Regiment of Light Dragoons and 
 the Seventy-first Re^ment of foot, in pursuit of 
 General WoodhuU's corps of cavalry, collected at 
 Jamaica, which they defeated, and took Wopdhull 
 and many prisoners .^.BniisA Mil. Calendar, 1 : 
 106. 
 
 [General Woodhnll had been ordered, by Con- 
 gress, to drive off the cattle and other live stock 
 from the south and west parts of Long Island to- 
 wards Hempst(?ad Plains, in order to prevent their 
 falling into the hands of the enemy, wio were in 
 need of fresh provisions. It was -during -the 'per- 
 formance of this, duty, that he was captured by4he 
 British, and received those wounds that terminated 
 in his..death. We give another of the various ver- 
 sions ,of his capture. William Hunt in his biogra- 
 phy of Woodhull, page 377-8, says : '_' He sent 
 his troops four miles eastward of Jamaica, "while 
 he remaiiaed in the village till the afternoon, and 
 dined tiiere with Whitehead "Hicks, late Mayor of 
 New York. Then, with one or two companions, .he 
 set out to join his troop. While at .'Carpenter's, 
 Inn, the British horse and infantry, piloted by 
 John Cornwell, a tory, approached the tavern. 
 The inmates fled and concealed themselves in a 
 corn field and under the barn. Woodhull sprang 
 for his horse, under the shed, and, while unhitching^ 
 the bridle, was taken by a Lieutenant Huzzy, of 
 the .dragoons. He at once .gave up hi§ s.word 
 when the officer roughly bid Mm say ' God save 
 the King,' which not doing to his satisfaction, the 
 Lieutenant :Cut him and would ha^«e slain him, had 
 it not been for JOaptain Oliver Delancey," What 
 became of the .cattle .or the troop is not clear — 
 whether the latter had a skirmish Avith the enemy, 
 or sought safety, in fllg'ht. Perhaps the .cattle 
 were ,l^t on the. Plains, and the ,troop_ withdrew to 
 Suffolk County and were disbanded.] — Ed. 
 
 1776. — The Rev. Joshua Bloomer, writing froni 
 Jamaica, says : twenty of his and Mr. Cutting's' 
 congregation were carried off by Col.- Heard, and 
 that he was afterwards ordered to omit the prayers 
 for the King. Rather than do v/hich, -by advice 
 of -his Vesti-y, he -closed his church for five Sun- 
 .days. 
 
 '1776; Sejil.— Mr. Tredwell, a Member of Con- 
 gress, who went from New Rochelle to Long Is- 
 land, reports it to be healthy. Howe's Head- 
 quarters were at Newtown. Seven hundred High- 
 landers had marched from Flushing — ^plenty of 
 fres'h provisions- — a party of JBritish liorse had 
 gone to Suffolk County and seized bread? flour and 
 salt, in store there. Jacob Wykoff was their chief 
 pilot at Flatlands. The British are raising^ one 
 thousand five hundred men on Long Island, and, 
 if sufficient numbers cannot be enlisted voluntarily, 
 then they are to be drafted. Colonel Ludlow was 
 to' command and Captain Dunbar and Mr. Woolley 
 had warrants to enlist men. 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 53 
 
 ■' 1777, April. — Morris Hazard, who had fled from 
 Long Island, had leave from the British authorities 
 to remove his three children from Newtown to 
 Peekskill. — Thomas Lawrence, who also made a 
 precipitate flight from Long Island, wished, Octo- 
 her 10, 1776, to revisit his family, at Newto'^vn. — 
 Cor. of Provincial Congress, 416, 350. 
 
 1^777, May 2S.—Iiichard Thomas formerly lived 
 on Long Island, and retnrned there to take care of 
 his private affairs! when he was captured by the 
 British and confined in the -Provost, at New York. 
 
 1777, Auff. 28.-^-Stephen Eider, of Queens 
 County, ~was taken tip there and lodged in the 
 Provost prison m New York, being charged with 
 not taking the benefit of the King's Proclamation 
 of painlon. 
 
 1777, Sept 1. — "We have the pleasure to ac- 
 quaint the people that the little town of Jamaica 
 has contributed to the encouragement of the New 
 Corps (Fanning's) raised in this Province, at the 
 request of Governor Tryon, £219, delivered by 
 Capt. Joseph French.^iV". Y". Mercury. 
 STJBSCEIBEES' NAMES. 
 
 Nicholas AmlaeTmaii, 
 Isaac Amberman, 
 Paul Amberman, 
 Derrick Amberman, 
 John Ambenuan, 
 Charles Arding,' Dr., 
 George Bates, 
 Daniel Baylis, 
 Ephraim Baylis, 
 Isaac Baylis, 
 John Bennet, 
 Cornelius Bennet, 
 Isaac Bennet, 
 Derick Bergen, 
 Tunis Bergen, 
 John Bergen," 
 Jacob Bergen, 
 Abram Bergan, 
 Johannis Bergen, 
 Luke Bergen, 
 John Bremner, 
 Capt. Eichard Betts, 
 Eev. Jo.sh. Blpomer, 
 Aury Boernm, 
 Nathaniel Box, 
 Joseph Burling, ' 
 Nehemiah CaiTpenter, 
 J^acob Cai-penter, 
 Benjamin Carpenter, 
 John Charlton, Dr., 
 Abraham Collier, 
 Samuel Comwell, 
 William Comwell, 
 Tunis Covert, 
 Cornelius Creed, 
 William preed, Jr., 
 Benjamin Creed, 
 Jacob Deane, 
 Timothy Denton, 
 Amos Denton, Jr., 
 Garret Ditmars, 
 Mary, widow of Dow 
 
 Ditmars; 
 John Ditmars, 
 Isaac Ditmars, 
 Abram Ditmars, 
 Dow Ditmars, 
 
 s. 
 
 8 
 
 8 ■ 
 
 16 
 
 8 
 
 17.4 
 
 16 
 
 8 
 
 2a 
 
 10 
 
 4 
 
 16 
 
 10 
 
 Dow Ditmars, Jv., 
 Samuel Doughty; Sr 
 Samuel Doughty, 
 John Doughty, 
 John] Dunbar, 
 John Duryea, Jr., 
 Kalef Duryea, 
 (jarret Dorland, 
 Samuel-Elder t, 
 Hendrick EMert, 
 Luke Eldert, 
 Hendrick Emmons, 
 DanielEveritt, 
 Nitikolas -Everitt, 
 Benjamin Everitt, 
 James Everitt, 
 GeoTgeFolliot, N. Y. 
 William Forbus, 
 Jonas Frederick, 
 Joseph French, Esq'. 
 ThTimas Furman, 
 JohnGlene, ■ 
 William Golder, 
 Josepji Golder, 
 Capt. Thos. Harriot, 
 Isaac Hendrickson, 
 Bem'd. Hendrickson 
 Wm. Hendrickson, 
 Hend'k Hendrickson 
 Abram Hendrickson, 
 Whiteh'd. Hicks, Esq 
 Thomas Higbie, 
 Stephen Higbie, 
 Daniel Higbie, 
 Henry Higbie, 
 Nathaniel Higbie, 
 Obadiah Hinchman, 
 John Hinchmpn. 
 Robart Hinchman, 
 Martin Johnson; 
 Nicholas Jones, 
 Bernard. Lamberson, 
 John Lamberson, 
 Cornelius Lamberson 
 David Lamberson, 
 Tunis Lamberson, 
 Waters Lamberson, 
 
 £(8 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 16 
 10 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 16 
 16 
 16 
 
 4 
 
 lfl7.4 
 12 
 16 
 16 
 16 
 
 10 
 
 10 
 
 12 
 
 16 
 
 10 
 
 Nicholas Lamberson, 
 Simoji Lamberson, 
 Isaac Lefferts, 
 Agnes, wife of Isaac 
 
 Leflferts, 
 William Lewis, 
 John Livingston, 
 John Losee, 
 Cornelius Losee, 
 Stephen Lott, 
 John H. Lott, 
 Abram Lott, 
 Eichard Loxham, 
 William Lu-dlum 
 Daniel Ludlum, 
 Capt. Nich. Ludlum, 
 Nehemiah'Ludlum, 
 John M-essenger, 
 Charles McEvers, 
 James Mills, 
 Hope Mills, 
 Joshua Mills, 
 John Mills, 
 'Isaac Slills, 
 Samuel Mills, 
 •Nathaniel Mills, 
 Peter Mills, 
 John Nostrand, 
 Garret Nostrand, 
 Andrew Oakley, 
 Joseph Oldfield, 
 Dr. Jaftotf'Ogden, 
 Isaac Pettit, 
 ■John Pettit, 
 John Polheraus, Lt. 
 Aury Eemsen, 
 yacob Eemsen, 
 John Eemsen, 
 Eem Eemsen, 
 Daniel Eemsen, 
 ITrias Eider, 
 Bernardus Eider, 
 Christopher Eider, 
 John Eoades, 
 Eichard Eoades, 
 Samuel Simmons, 
 John Slddmore, 
 Whitehead Skidmore 
 Benjamin Smith, 
 
 Daniel Smith, 
 Christopher Smith, 
 John Smith (Pond), 
 John Smith (flag), 
 Piatt Smith, 
 William' Smith, 
 Nathaniel Smith, 
 Samuel Smith, 
 Waters Smith, 
 Garret Snedeker, 
 Johannes Sngdeker, 
 Abram -Snedeli;er, 
 Eem Snedeker, 
 John Snedeker, 
 William Stead, 
 Nathaniel To-wnsend. 
 John I. Troup, 
 Daniel Tuttle, 
 John Van Brunt, 
 Joost Van Brunt, 
 Nicholas Van Dam, 
 Jno. VanLiew(pond) 
 John Van Liew, Sr. 
 Peter Van Nostrand, 
 Abm. Van Arsdale, 
 Isaac Van Arsdale, 
 Johan's VanWicklen 
 Garret Van Wicklen 
 Evert VanWicklen, 
 .Jacob Valentine, 
 Jacamiah Valentine, 
 George Valentine, 
 William Valentine, 
 John Voorhies, 
 Charles Welling, 
 John Wm. Welling 
 William AVeUing, 
 Samuel Welling, 
 Thomas Welling. 
 Daniel AVhitchead, 
 Benjamin Whitehead 
 Benjamin WigginS; 
 Thomas Wiggins, 
 Henry Wiggins, 
 Eichard Wiggins, 
 Mary, widow of John 
 
 Williamson, 
 John Williamson, 
 Jacob Wyckoff, 
 
 10 
 
 18 
 
 8.3 
 7.6 
 
 8 
 
 17.4 
 
 8 
 16 
 10 
 11.4 
 
 4 
 
 
 
 16 
 
 8 
 
 13.4 
 12 
 
 1777, Oct. §.— ^Oliver Thorne is master of the 
 Flushing freight and passenger boat, which lies 
 near the Ferry stairs, New-York. 
 
 '1'7Y7, Nov. 11. — (general Putnam sends a flag to 
 General Jones, at New York, reque.?ting him to 
 give a permit to the family of Thomas Mitchell, on 
 Long Island, to come out of the British lines. 
 
 1777, Nov. 16. — A scow sunk in the East Eiver, 
 in crossiug from Horn's Hook to JIallet's Cove, 
 and three negroes, the property of Captain Hallet, 
 werQ drowned. A ■\vhite man was saved by tak- 
 ing to a horse in the scow. 
 
 1778. — Benjamin Birdsall is kept a prisoner in 
 New York, by the British, as a hostage for David 
 Eice. He was taken by the enemy, while he was 
 going, under a flag of truce, to bring off two fami- 
 lies from Long Island, before January 6tll^ 
 
 1778, Jan. 13. — Zeffs PMt, afi unfortunate 
 American prisoner, was pilfered of cash, from his 
 pocket, while in the British gua.ud-house, at New- 
 
54 
 
 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 town. General Delancey offers two guineas re- 
 ward for tlie detection of the thief. 
 
 1778, Jan. 17.— Ebenezer Brown, formerly of 
 Eye, went to the enemy twelve months ago. He 
 was Captain of a wood sloop, from Oysterfeay to 
 New York, when he was captared. William 
 Buckler and Eobert Wilson, of Oysterbay, were 
 taken in a sloop, on Monday night last. Samuel 
 Birdsa,ll (brother of Benjamin, who is in Dubois' 
 Regiment,) was also taken. He says the militia 
 at. Oysterbay, and for thirty iniles east, have 
 been all armed for three months past, and turn out 
 on an alarm; and some are obliged to mount guard 
 every day. All the above were taken by the 
 Americans in, one sloop, going to New York. — 
 Clinton Papers. 
 
 1778, Ilarch 27.— Ebenezer Holmes and John 
 Down, British soldiers, are tried for robbing Jos- 
 eph: Russel and other inhabitants of Long Island, 
 and' are sentenced by the Court Martial to receive 
 one thousand lashes on the bare back. The Brit- 
 ish General remits five hundred lashes. — Delan- 
 cey' s Orderly Book. 
 
 1778> May 17.— The British commanding offi- 
 cer at Newtown, offers $5 reward for the discov- 
 ery of the soldiers who robbed Mr. Wilkins' smoke- 
 house,, on Friday night last, of smoked bacon and 
 beef. 
 
 1778, July 24.— Was buried in the yard of 
 Grace Church, Jamaica, the Eev. William Drum- 
 mond, a refugee front Connecticut. 
 
 1778, Oct. — Thomas Kelly complains that Col- 
 onel Archibald Hamilton came into a house at 
 Flushing, where he was, and because he did not 
 puir off his hat, he beat him with the butt-end of 
 his horsewhip and cut through his hat into his 
 head ;. and repeated the offence in December. 
 
 1778, Oct. 30.— John WiUet, of Flushing, says 
 that seeing, a negro driving a load of raUs from off 
 his farm, by order of Colonel Hamilton, he asked 
 the Colonel why he did sos. Thereupon the Colo- 
 nel got off his horse- and ran at him with a cutlass 
 in one hand and a dangerous uncomanon cane in 
 the other, Willet defended himself with a stick, ' 
 he accidently found. He followed Willet into the 
 cow-yard and dropping oa his knees called God to 
 witness that he would cut to pieces any one who. 
 should oppose him. On the evening of the same 
 day he cut with his sword James Morrel, and al- 
 most killed him, and struck' Willet, who came to 
 Morrel's assistance, and thrust a burning candle in 
 his face, and then ran about the room like a mad- 
 man with a gun in one han.4 m.^ a wtlass in the 
 other, insisting that Willet should take the g^n 
 and he would get another. 
 
 Walter Dalton swears that he Was, in October, 
 1777, brought before Colonel- Hamilton as a pris- 
 oner, (for no offence,) who knocked him down 
 twice with a heavy weapon, and after sending him 
 off, under a guard, followed him out of his gate, 
 
 and, on the King's high, road, beat him with about 
 thirty blows,, which disabled him from- labor for 
 some weeks. . • 
 
 fTwelye affidavits of the abodes tenor, from the 
 people of Flushing, were sent to Governor Tryon, 
 who- ordered David Golden to investigate the mat- 
 ter and make report.- The result is not known. 
 Colonel Hamilton set sail for England, December 
 31st, 1783.— ^Ed 
 
 l77&i Nov. 23. — Died, on Saturday last, at his 
 seat at Eockaway, tlje Hon. Josiah Martin, aged 
 seventy-nine.. — N. Y. Mercury.. 
 
 1778, Dec. 25. — In a correspondence between 
 Clinton and Putnam, Clinton complains that the 
 Whigs on Long Island suffer equally with, the To- 
 ries from the depredations of the Connecticut 
 
 whale boats.. 
 
 » 
 
 1778.— Scheme of a Lottery for raising the sum 
 of £780, for the benefit of the established church 
 in the parish of Jainaica,. on Nassau Island, toward 
 ' purchasing a' Glebe near said parish church. 
 
 The Lottery will be drawn uncter the inspection 
 of a number of persons of character, who are ap- 
 pointed for that purpose. 
 
 Adventurers in the first class are desired to re- 
 new their tickets within ten days after drawing 
 each class, otherwise they will be excluded. Very 
 '■ little more than two blanks to a prize. The whole 
 subject to a deduction of fifteen per cent.* 
 1st class,, a,000 tickets at 4s., - $1,000 
 2nd " 2,000 " 8s., - 2,000 
 
 3rd " 2.000 " 16s., 4,000 
 
 4th " 2,0Qfl' " 24s., - - 6,000 
 
 1772, Feh.. 11.— The Jamaica Church Glebe 
 Lottery, third class, was drawn. The prizes were 
 One of - - .^ ^ $400 
 
 One of - - 150 
 
 Two of - - - - 75 
 
 Four of - - 40 
 
 Eight of - - - 20 
 
 Twenty- of - - - . IQ 
 
 Fifty of ... 8 
 
 Five hundred of - 4 
 
 Total amount of prizes in the third class, $3,620. 
 
 1779, Feb. 16. — Position of enemy's troops on 
 Long Island.f 
 
 No. Cantonment. 
 
 Seventeenth Dragoons, 300, Long Island. 
 
 New Levies, 50, " 
 
 Grenadiers, 700, Jamaica. 
 
 Light Infantry, 700, Southampton. 
 
 300, Bedford. 
 
 Highlanders, 750, " 
 
 Hessian Chasseurs, 350, .Flushing. 
 
 William Creed's farm, of seventy acres, nearly a mile 
 westward of the village, -was purchased for a parsonage, 
 with the proceeds of the above Lottery.— id. " 
 
 tWashingtorf used to say that he had better information, 
 by his spies, of the situation and numbers of the enemy's 
 forces on Long Island, than in any other place,— £d 
 
IN OLDEISTTIMES, 
 
 55 
 
 Hereditary, 
 
 350, 
 
 Brooklyn. . 
 
 Prince, 
 
 350V 
 
 (( 
 
 Simcoe's Kangers, 
 
 250, 
 
 LoBglsland. 
 
 Ludlow's Battalion, 
 
 150,. 
 
 Lloyd's Neck 
 
 KiNGSBRiD(3E,-, March 7tli, 1779. 
 To Colonel Sdmilion .- 
 
 Sir : — As the armed ships in the South bay are 
 a sufficient security from any insult of the enemy 
 on the south side of Long Island, and as the whale 
 boats from the Gonnecticut coast are continually 
 committing depredations on the north side, the du- 
 ty of the militia must be directed to that quarter. 
 And, whereas, the hiring of guards has been found 
 not only an indulgence to the inhabitants, but the 
 most effectual method to protect the necessary 
 posts — I do hereby order that all persons in Queens 
 County do bear a proportion of the expense of such 
 duty, according to the value of their estate). real or 
 personal, although exempted from.military duty by 
 age or office. I am your ob't.. servant, 
 
 Wm. TktojST, Governor. 
 
 Colonel Hamilton orders Major Kissam to put 
 the above order in force immediately in hi&district. 
 
 Newtown, MarcK 9,. 1779. 
 To Captain Israel Youngs, Cold Spring ; Jarms Coles 
 Miisquito Cove ; Daniel Youngs, Oysterbay ; Tftomas 
 Van Wyck, Eastwoods ; Atraham Van- Wyek, Wolver- 
 liollow : 
 
 Gentlemen :- Colonel 'Hamilton orders that 
 the troops and companies under your respective 
 commands be duly warned of. a general . review in 
 the first week, in April next, the day, &c.,.tbat 
 may be fixed on, you will be timely informed of. 
 As they have long, since been ordered to equip 
 fully,.it is expected they will appear so, and with 
 their arms, &c., in good order, as delinquents will 
 be noticed and punished for their neglect of proper 
 attention to_^orders, JAMBS LONG-, 
 
 Adj. Queens Co. Mil. 
 
 1779, April 16. — Return of Captain Youngs' 
 Troop of Horse : — Israel Youngs, Captain ; Eldred 
 Van Wyck, Corporal ; Townsend Hewlett, Lieu- 
 tenant ; William McCoun, Quartermaster ; Philip 
 Youngs, Clerk ; John Walters, S.ergeant ; . Penn 
 Weeks, Sergeant ;. Van Acly Eoben, Sergeant ; 
 WUliam Wright, Sergeant. 
 
 Privates. — Benjamin Birdsall,, Isaac Burr,, rob- 
 bed by rebels, no arms, Samuel Birdsall, Daniel 
 Cock, Zebulon Doty, George Duryea; Fulkert 
 Duryea, Stephen Hendrickson, William- Hopkins, 
 John " Hawkshurst, miller, John Jones, Daniel 
 Latten, Adam Lefford, James Lefford, Titus Lef- 
 ford, James Place, Thomas Place, Isaac Robinson, 
 Isaac Smith, Daniel Van Velser, Nathaniel Weeks, 
 Isaac Wood, John Williams, John Wright, Lem- 
 uel Weeks, 
 
 1779, April 17. — One Guinea Bernard \b offered 
 by John Deacon for the apprehension of a mulatto 
 girl Isabella, who ran away from Jacobus Lint, at 
 Nigwtown, in man's clothes. 
 
 1779, May 20. — Gov. Clinton, at Pokeepsie, 
 
 writes that Benjamin Sands, late of Cow Neck for 
 his attachment to the American cause was tried bfy 
 the enemies' court martial, and banished, with 
 marks of ignominy, without their lines. He 
 (Sands) desires to obtain his family and effects 
 thence, to be exchanged for Samuel Mabbet, of 
 New York. 
 
 [Benjamin Sands was Chairman of the. Whig Committee 
 of Cow Neck, Great Neck, &c., at the outbreak of the 
 Eevolution. As soon as the enemy gofpossession of the 
 Island, they imprisoned him and made free with his prop- 
 erty. He has left the foUowingrstatement of his losses : 
 
 An Inventory (made Oct. 27) of stock taken from Ben- 
 jamin Sands, on Monday, September .16, 1776, by Captain 
 Williams, and said' to be by order oflDol Eogers : 
 
 d. 
 
 Two oxen, ... 
 
 One cow, - - 
 
 One bull and 2 heifers. 
 
 Two yearlings,, - - 
 
 One horse, . - . - - . 
 
 Taken by a- party of Light-horse, October 14th, 
 
 two mares, ... 
 
 The hire of two men as a bounty, . 
 
 Board .in jail from September 23d, to October 5th, 19 10 
 Board in getting men, ■ - - 11 4 
 
 The Ordinary expenses (suppose), - 
 Cash plundered by a party of said Company, 
 Two pocket-books, • - 
 A jacket, - - 
 
 Provisions and sundries. 
 Plundered from George, cash, (suppose) 
 Two jackets, - - - 
 
 One calf s skin. 
 Sundries (suppose), 
 George's stock, 
 Caty's cow,. - - 
 
 £1 
 
 s. 
 
 14 
 
 
 6 
 
 
 12 
 
 
 4 
 
 10 
 
 10 
 
 
 28 
 
 
 28 
 
 8 
 
 
 19 
 
 
 11 
 
 2 
 
 
 2 
 
 6 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 16 
 
 5 
 
 
 12 
 
 
 1 
 
 10 
 
 
 10 
 
 2 
 
 
 29 
 
 
 4 
 
 10 
 
 Total, - 
 One cow left. 
 
 £162,5,3. 
 
 Mr. Sands, to obtain release from his imprisonment, 
 probably took the oath of allegiance to the British crown ; 
 but, perhaps, having loyalty on his lips but rebellion in his 
 heart he was, for some cause not now known, exiled by the 
 enemy from the Island, Jan. 17th, 1779, when he carried 
 with him £8,6,8, in coin, and £150 in paper, equal to £15 
 in specie. At length, we may suppose, he made his peace 
 with the enemy, was allowed to retui-n. home, and settled 
 quietly down on his farm at Sands Point ; and by selling 
 the produce of his farm to the British, accumulated large 
 sums of gold and silver, which, for fear of being robbed,"Ee 
 buried in his. cellar.. Having occasion to take it up to invest 
 in some adventm-e, he made the following memorandum of 
 it: 
 
 Taken up in the little cellar, fortyrfive guineas, fourteen 
 half-joes, $280, five half-joes, onepjstole, change, 6s. 
 
 Taken up March, 1783, £63,12.. 
 
 Taken up in the cellar entry, £310,6,8. 
 
 Taken up in the tankard, £128,19. 
 
 Taken up in the tobacco-box, £75,4. 
 . Total sum taken up, £838,1,8. 
 
 Captain Sands died October 14, 1823, after a short and 
 severe illuess, aged eighty-nine.-:— jEd.. 
 
 1779, July 3. — Captain Cornwell delivered to 
 Governor Clinton ■ the following, tories, taken pris- 
 oners on Long Island,, viz. : William Sutton, 
 (whose sons are Whigs) Daniel Haynes and Wil- 
 liam Smith.'.. 
 
 ' 1779, July 29.— Israel Youngs is allowed by 
 Lorihg, the British Commissary of Prisoners, to be 
 exchanged for Johannes Snedeker, but this not 
 being done, Youngs is paroled at Poughkeepsie, 
 Nov. 24th. 
 
 13 
 
 I 
 
56 
 
 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 1779, Aug. 24.— The Eev. Henry Van Dyke is 
 at Norwalk, and wants to go to Long Island with' 
 his family. 
 
 No- (fcfe.— While the British army lay, during 
 the winter, in and about New York, hay and straw 
 were needed for the army. The mode of gathering 
 it may be inferred from : 
 
 A list of persons to be employed in collecting' 
 hay, and to give directions to the Collectors, of 
 Forage, who ought to h?,ave with the farmers only 
 as much as will be needed to support their stock 
 of cattle. 
 
 KINGS COXJNTT. 
 
 Colonel Axtcll, Major Vanderbelt, of the Militia, 
 Mr. Polhemus. ■ 
 
 QtJEEKS COTJM-TT. 
 
 Neictown. — Capt. John Shoals,* Justice Alsop, 
 Oliver. Waters, James Long, 
 
 Flushing.— Judge WiU.et, Philip Piatt, Judge 
 Hicks, r- Talman, 
 
 Jamaica. — Justice French, Captain Betts, Cap- 
 tain Ludlam, 
 
 Hempstead. — ^^Justice Clowes. 
 
 Cow JVecfc.-JDaniel Kissartt. 
 
 Hempstead- Plains. — Judge Ludlow, 
 
 Herrichs. — Justice Smith, 
 
 East Woods. — Justice Hewlett, Captain Thomas 
 Van Wyck, 
 
 Wolver Hollow. — Captain Abraham Van Wyck. 
 
 ^Mc/cram.^Thomas Cock. 
 
 MusJceto' Cove.— John Underbill. 
 
 Jerico — Thomas Jackson. 
 
 Jerusalem. — Captain Seaman, Hewlett. 
 
 JTort iViscZe,^^ Judge Jones,* 
 
 eUFPOLK COUNTY, 
 
 Cold Spring. — Captain Israel Youngs, 
 Huntington. — John Ireland, Shubael Smith. 
 
 Setauket. — Nathan WoodhuU, Bayley. 
 
 Bichs Hills. — Capttpin Conkliu, Captain. Carle. 
 
 1779, Nov. 23.— Captain Mitchell's wife came 
 out of the British lines to him, at Peekskill, under 
 a flag, with Major Skidmore as the bearer of a let- 
 ter. 
 
 1779, Dec. 4.— Uriah Mitchell, at Newburgh, 
 petitions for a permit for the wife and children of 
 Joseph Bowne> his Clerk, to come out from New 
 York, 
 
 The winter of 1779-80 was remarkably dry 
 ajid unitormly. cold, The snow was deep and 
 drifted, and the springs low. It was called " the 
 Canada winter." 
 
 1780, Feb. 1.— Lieutenant-Colonel Birdsall is 
 serving in Colonel James Vanderburgh's regiment. 
 
 1780, Maif g2,™c£5 JJeward— Ean away from 
 his master, Dayid , .Colden, a negro, Bg,med- Kelso. 
 He had eight dajrs, leave of a^senpe to find a pur- 
 
 *Erasea in the origipal, wbich may, be ,seeu in tie Libra- 
 ry of the Long Island Historical goc&ty. 
 
 chaser, He speaks English. only and wore apple- 
 tree buttons.-ou- his coat. 
 
 1780, Jime 30. — General Silliman reports, that 
 Mrs. Hicks, of Long -Island, sister to Captain 
 Tom's wife, now in the Continental service, has 
 come out of the British lines to live among the 
 Whigs. 
 
 ,1780, July 9. — A British, officer, was drowned 
 while bathing in Success Pond. A slab may be 
 seen in the yard of Grace Church, Jamaica, thus 
 inscribed : 
 
 In memory of the many good and amiable qualities of 
 Captain William Dickson, a native of Glasgow, late of 
 Port Eoyal, in Virginia, merchant, an honest man and a 
 truly loyal subject. The Fourth Company of Volunteers, 
 of New York, under his command, at his death, 9th July, 
 1780, have placed this stone on his gi-ave in testimony of 
 their esteem. 
 
 1780, Aug. 7.— The crops of wheat in most 
 parts of the continent, this summer, have been ex- 
 tremely thin but very well headed. On the whole 
 not quite half the quantity they had last season. 
 
 1780, Sept. 22. — Mabel, wife of Benjamin 
 Whitehead at Lloyd's Neck, is allowed to go from 
 the American lines to Long Island, with her two 
 young] sons. He had left his wife in poor circuni- 
 stances, and been four years with the British. — 
 TrumbuU Papers, 
 
 1780, Sept.— John Smith asks of Gov.Trambull 
 a pass for Joseph Blackwell, (who flted when New 
 York was approached by the British) now at 
 Worthington, to visit his aged and infirm father, 
 (who suffered greatly by the British) at Hallett's 
 Cove, and to return with Mrs. Smith. 
 
 1780, Nov. 27.-Married, at Flushing, by the 
 Eev. Mr. Bloomer, Captain Jarvis Dobbs, of the 
 sloop Abigail, to Miss Hetty Wortman ; Captain 
 Heymen Clarke, of the Industry, to Annatie 
 Wortman; and Captain Matthew Farrington, of 
 the Nancy, to Phebe McCullum. The amiable ac- 
 complishments of the young ladies presage the 
 most perfect happiness that the marriage state can 
 afford. • ^ . 
 
 1781, March 21.— To bo sold at vendue, at nine 
 in the morning, at the house of Mr. James Duryea, 
 at Fort Neck, all tlie stock of Thomas Jones, Esq., 
 consisting of working osen, cows, caives, a numb^ 
 of young cattl^, a parcel, of horses, most of them 
 young and some full blooded, a number of sheep, 
 and a parcel of pigs, with all kinds of farming- 
 utensils and implements of husbandry.* ^ 
 
 . 1781.— Major Fitch says: "pursuant to orders 
 from Governor Trumbull, I landed on Long Island, 
 June 30th, and made prisoner of Major KiSsatn„hJs 
 brother and tvo others, brought them to Stamford, 
 
 _ t^'i^^e Jones was appointed Cleiik of Queens County, 
 J^ejj. 8, 1757, which office he resigned March 13, 1781 nre- 
 paratory to his departure for England, where he died, July 
 23, 1792, aged sixty-oue. In the wall of the church at Eox- 
 bourn, is a tablet, comiDemorating his virtues. • - 
 
IN OLDEN TIME 
 
 57 
 
 paroled the Major for twenty clays for' Lira to ef- 
 fect his exchange for Colonel St. John (who had 
 been kept in the Provost, in New York, on bread 
 and water, and refused an exchange), bnt the Ma- 
 jor returned without effecting any thing. The 
 other prisoners were exchanged at once. The 
 Major then went to "Wethersfield to see the Depu- 
 ty Oommissary of prisoners." 
 
 1781, June. — Joseph Hallet, of Newtown, and 
 Nathaniel Hazard, now living on the Main, and 
 a refugee from Long Island, met at the east end of 
 the Island, by mutual agreement to settle some 
 private business. 
 
 1781, Aiig. 7. — Congress desires Governor 
 Trumbull to revoke his commissions to seize 
 British goods in the Sound when they are exported 
 into Connecticut from Long Island, 
 
 1781, Oct. 5.— Major Thomas Tredwell Jack- 
 son, at Peekskill, petitions G-overnor Clinton for a 
 permit for his brother to remove from Queens 
 County within the American lines, 
 
 1782, Jan. 22. — Clinton, in reply to Parson 
 Keteltas' letter, of 19th, on his being classed to 
 raise men for the Continental army, says that min- 
 isters of the gospel are not obliged to contribute to 
 that service. 
 
 1782, Jan. 2G. — Thomas Lawrence, at West 
 Point, a nephew of Captain Jonathan Lawrence, 
 was obliged to fly the enemy at Morrisania, on ac- 
 count of his attachment to American liberty. He 
 wants a flag to visit his wife. 
 
 1782, Jan. 29. — Benjamin Birdsall, with Edward 
 Wheeler, crossed from Stamford to Lloyd's Neck, 
 where he got a permit from Colonel Upham to go 
 to the dwelling house of John Hewlett, Esq., and 
 thence to Oysterbay South, if said Hewlett will 
 accompany him, and to return in ten days. Feb. 
 12th, Captain Jones (South) is desired to attend 
 Birdsall to Lloyd's Neck because Hewlett was 
 obliged to go to New York. Feb. 19th, Birdsall 
 had permit from Upham to take his two sons and 
 some eflTects to Connecticut, Feb. gist, E. Lock- 
 wood, at Norwalk, received from Birdsall, 668,17, 
 (New York money) to be paid to Captain' Church, 
 commander of the flag from Lloyd's Neck. ' Feb. 
 21st, Miss Roof and four children and Joseph 
 Mabbet, landed at Norwalk, and had permit from 
 Ebenezer Lockwood to go to Duchess county. 
 
 1782, Feb. 23-. —Colonel Thomas Gilbert, Cap- 
 tain John Cochran, Joshua Chandler, Esq., and 
 Malcolm Morrison, Esq., sign an address of thanks, 
 in the name of their associates, to Lieutenant-Colo- 
 nel Upham, Deputy Inspector General of Refugees 
 at Lloyd's Neck, who distributed provisions, &c., 
 among th.e loyal refugees' living thereabouts.— iV. 
 Y. Mercury. 
 
 1783, Feb, 29.— B. Birdsall, at Dover, writes to 
 Clinton-: "I effepted a four weeks' disagreeable 
 journey— was sixteen days on the Island, during 
 seven of which I was in camp on Lloyd's Neck. 
 
 The fare in the camp is hard. It is the wickedest 
 place I ever met with. There was no restraint, I 
 noticed every thing. The large farmers and trad- 
 ers do well, others are worn out. There were thir- 
 ty wood vessels at Huntington Harbor convoyed 
 by three small privateers called the ' Lloyd's 
 Neck fleet,' A tun of hay cost the King £30." 
 
 1782, Aug. 26. — The crops of corn and wheat 
 are very indifferent in many parts of the country. 
 Long Island has experienced the effects of a very 
 dry summer. 
 
 1782, Sept. 4. — ^Died, Tuesday sennight, at his 
 house, at Great Neck, in the eightieth year of his 
 age. Colonel Benjamin Tredwell, a gentleman who 
 ever supported an imblemished character and was 
 remarkable for his hospitality, cheerfulness and af- 
 fability. 
 
 1782, Nov. 10.— Henry Allen, of Great Neck, 
 swears that after ransoming his sloop for XldsO, 
 he was robbed, above high-water mark, of the fol- 
 lowing articles, about a year and a half ago, by 
 one Samuel Lockwood, Captain of a whale-boat : 
 A piece of Jane, - - £5, 
 
 " lining, - - 7, 
 
 Two bags of shot, - 1, 8 
 
 Gross of shirt buttons, 0, 5 
 
 Silk bandana handkerchief, 0,12 
 
 Pair of plush breeches, ' - 2,16 
 
 Five silver tea-spoons, .- 1,10 
 
 Two guns and powder, - 1,10 
 
 Fourteen dollars, 5,12 
 
 Henry Allen further swears, that about two 
 months ago he was robbed, above high-water mark, 
 by James Brown, captain of a' whale-boat, of 
 black cloth for a suit of clothes, the property of 
 George Hewlett, and of the following articles taken 
 from the mill : 
 
 Three and a half bushels of salt, £2, 2 
 Barrel of pfjrk;'- - - . 9,10 
 A five-gallon keg of rum, 2,18 
 
 A small sail, - - 0, 4 
 
 Two deer skins, - 3,12 
 
 Seventeen yards duck, 2, 2 
 
 Smoothing-irons, - - 0,12 
 
 A gallon-jug of molasses, and cloth and lining 
 for a suit of clothes/ 
 
 1782. — List of articles belonging to Hendrick 
 Onderdonk, taken out of Mr. Allen's mill. Great 
 Neck, by Mr. Brown or some hands belonging to 
 his whale-boat, value at a moderate computation, 
 £16: 
 
 Seven ruffled shirts. One pair sheets. 
 One cotton do.. Sis pair stockings, 
 One night-cap. Three cambrick stocks. 
 
 Two pillow-cases, Four handkerchiefs. 
 Two waistcoats, 
 
 1782. — List of Lsmbert Moore's articles, taken 
 as above, value, £6,5 : 
 
 Six shirts. One lb. powdered sago. 
 
 One handkerchief, Two pair stockings. 
 
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 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 Oiie pillow-case, 
 One night-cap, 
 
 One pair sheets, 
 Some Jesuits' bark. 
 
 1782. — Martin Schenck, Jr., swears, that on the 
 night of September 25th, about nine o'clock, a par- 
 ty of armed men, with their faces black, came to 
 his dwelling-house and took forcibly from him, 
 about =£60 New York money. He supposed said 
 party to belong to some Connecticut whale-boats ; 
 and that, in endeavoring to escape from:them,.he 
 was barbarously wounded.* 
 
 3 782. — Peter Storms swears, that being, afc Jo- 
 seph Pearsall's, on Cow Neck, on the night of Sep- 
 tember 26th, a party of armed men came to the 
 house and broka open the door and ribbed Pear- 
 sail of some money, plate and other articles and 
 threatened and abused him much. Next morning 
 he tracked said armed party to and from the shore, 
 and supposes they mnst'hav-o come by "water. 
 
 1782. — Richard Hewlett [NorthsideJ being 
 sworn, says, that on .the night of September 28th, 
 a party of armed men came to his house, forced it 
 and robbed him of cash and clothing to the value 
 of about £50, and beat him much and otherwise 
 • abused him. 
 
 1782. — Emory Hewlett [Northside] swears, that 
 on the night of September 28th, a party of armed 
 men came to his house, forcibly entered it and 
 robbed him of cash and other articles to the amount 
 of £50 or upwards, beat him and otherwise much 
 abused him-. He suspected and, from information, 
 supposes said party came over in a boat from some 
 part, of Connecticut. A few days afterward I set 
 out, with intent to go over to Stamford to endeavor 
 to recover my effepts, when I met one Obadiah 
 Valentine and several othera at Oaverly or Butler's 
 Island, where I saw said Valentine have on a, coat 
 whicjti I :well,knew to have belonged to m.y .brother 
 Richard. He threatened to shoot me and..Lbelieve 
 he wpuld have put his threat into, execution if he 
 had not .been prevented. I'-perfectly recollect the 
 faoe^ of. several men I saw there, being the same 
 that robbed me. I was told their names by ai per- 
 son who, well knew them, viz. : Joseph Sackett, 
 Captain Nathaniel Sackett, John Devore, Nathan- 
 iel Palmer and William Riley. 
 
 1782.— Ebenezer Brown swears, that on Sep- 
 tember 29th, in the night, sundry armed men came 
 to his house, forced the door and robbed him of 
 cash and other articles to the value of about £3,10. 
 
 1782.— Joseph Smith, John Colder, Jr., and 
 Nathaniel Lawi'ence, swear, that on September 
 30th, they went from- Butler'S' or Caverly Island 
 to Greenwich, in a boat of Avery.Lewis, with six 
 armed men, of- whom- were- Obadiah Vitlentine, 
 Captain Joseph Sackett, Nathaniel Sackett, John 
 p^vore, Nathaniel Palmer and,, William .RUey.i 
 They had a handkerchief tied up with sundty' 
 
 *Adam Mott, east sido, of Cow Neck, was twice robbed ■ ' 
 once of a great deal of clotKiEg. ' 
 
 nankeen jackets and breeches. Valentine had on 
 a red broadcloth coat, turned', up with blue.. De- 
 vore had a fine silver-mounted gtm with gold 
 touch. They saw three pistols with ""E". H;" on 
 two and "E. H." on one.. The crew said they had 
 beeiLvery mnch. drove all niglit by refugees and 
 horse.. 
 
 1782. — David Jarvis' swears, thait about eight 
 o'clock on the evening of October 9th, a party of 
 armed men came to<the house of John Burtis [now 
 Dr„Puidy's], on Cow Neck, and demanded admit- 
 tance or they would break the door open. There- 
 upon Burtis went to the garret and fired a gua out 
 of the window to alarm the neighbors. On that 
 they tried to break the door down. He (Jarvis) 
 bid them be gone, when one presented his gun at 
 him which missed fire. Then Jarvis fired at and 
 wounded him. 
 
 1782.— Charles Mitchell affirms, that, on Octo- 
 ber 9th, at eight o'clock in the evening, he was at 
 James Burr's when a party of armed men came 
 into the house in a very abrupt manner-and- ordered 
 him and Burr's family uader guards and demanded 
 all the fire-arms to be delivered up, which was 
 done by Buit. Soon after tire deliverya firing 
 was heard on which the men left Burr's house, 
 first ordering us not to quit the house on pain of - 
 death. 
 
 [They intended to rob Burr'^store, (since the tan- 
 yards- in Maahasset Valley) but the wounding of 
 James Brown, the ringleader, by Jarvis prevented 
 their earrying-their, wicked scheme into execution. 
 Brown .was a native of New York, but had "Gover- 
 nor. Tfumbull!s Commission.., Ho lay at Stamford 
 October 21st, 17§2. John Thompson, late of Long 
 Island, but now in Stamford, ought to.be taken up, 
 say-B AspinwaJl Cornwell.] — UcL 
 
 1782. — John Burtis, blaebstaith, aud David Jar- 
 vifl, .his apprentice, swear, that about one o'clock 
 itt the morning of October 25frh, about twenty 
 a*med men came to Burtis's house, ordered the 
 door opened or they would break it down, or set 
 the house afire, as they were determined to have 
 them dead or alive, as they had wounded Captain 
 Brown, of the other shore, who was now lying on 
 his death-bed. On their refusing to open the door, 
 they fired several shots into the house, and one of 
 them called out to force the house, on which B. and 
 J. returned the fire and several shots were ex- 
 changed. At the same time several .of .said party 
 went over to James Burr's store (ten rods distant) 
 when we heard considerable firing, and some time 
 after, the party. returned with a considerable quan- 
 tity of goods. . We still kepI up a Ahb at thenn aud 
 kdled one Stephen M.a,rtjn, of Stratford, who had a 
 commission in his pocket signed by John Hancock. 
 By which it appeared that, he commanded an 
 armed boat the 'Eochester. We believe the party 
 ca,me, over from, Stainford in two whale boats-the 
 evenmg before. After the party went from Burtis's 
 house we went to Bfirr's store and found it broke 
 
in: OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 59-' 
 
 open, and Jatnes lying on the floor dead from a 
 shot he received through thebody. 
 
 : ITSS/^^James Hewletf[of OdwNefck] 'sWeiars, 
 that -in the eyeniBg- of ^'October 27th, abont ten 
 o'clock, a party of 'armed men came to his house 
 and''brokft a window, then came in and robbed him 
 of .'about £400 (New York currency) and many 
 
 , articles of.plate and clothing, and committed many 
 outrages by threatening him and snapping a piece 
 at- him 'to make -him discover where his moneys 
 were. He knew none of them. 
 
 1T82.— William Mott, Jr., of Great Neck says, 
 that at midnight, November 9th, a number of 
 armed men came to my door and immediately 
 broke in and came to my bedside, where we lay, 
 and demanded d6500. We, suppos.iag them to be 
 ' these infernal crew of robbers, immediately gave up 
 all the money we had in the house, <£35 or 6640, 
 but that did not satisfy them, they still demanded 
 more. We honestly told them we had no more, 
 [even] if they took our lives — we had not a farth- 
 ing more in the house. On which, in a most terri- 
 fying and abusive language, they swore they would 
 have more. On which they took my father, Wil- 
 liam, aged seventy-three, out a little distance from 
 the house and then fell to beating, him with the 
 breeches of -their guns, till at. length th©y struck 
 him on the 4iead with- the-breech of' a gun. He 
 perceiving the blow coming, cla'p'ped up his hands 
 on his head which saved his head from the ex- 
 tremity of the blow, otliei'ways the Doctor judged 
 it would imdoubtedly have finished him. Then 
 they dragged him -to the door. We then got him 
 to the bed. ', Th'ey then left him. Then they took 
 me and beat me-.tUl I am as black as the-chimney- 
 back from aiyt. shoulders to my elbows', and further 
 down; also, mysides and back.' They .did this 
 until they had .almost finished me^smdeavoririg to 
 extract more meney AoHt me, whielr it -was not in 
 my power to givjBj - Ifcey finally desistfed and then 
 went to plundering the house of clothing and bed- 
 ding and sundry, articles as nearly as we can esti- 
 mate4o the «moKBt of £80. They then solemnly 
 -declared' they would shortly pay us another visit 
 and take our lives, if they did not find a sum of 
 -money. Which usage has terrified us to leave 
 our habitation with a large family in the utmost 
 difficulty.,-. Some of us. not having a, second gar- 
 ment to' put on-. I Wifl can't call the namee of these 
 robbers though- we' have seen several of them sun- 
 dry times, 
 
 1782, Nov. 10. — George Elwyn swears, that he 
 was lately taken prisoner by Eutgert Bleeker, 
 captain of a whale boat, on which I gave my pa- 
 role to appear soon after, at Stainford, where I 
 went, accordingly, and delivered myself up to 
 Colonel Campfield, when I saw said B., who en- 
 quired of me whether any accident had happened 
 'on Long Island, and whether James Burr was 
 i,,killed or not. I said he was. B. then said what 
 has become ot Martin, whom Burtis or his appren- 
 
 tice had killed ? I informed B. that Martin was 
 buried very decently. B. informed me that a gun- 
 boat would be brought up before Burtis's house 
 and blow it to atoins, or burn it, or that he (B.) 
 would burn the house of any other person ofi Long 
 Island who should offer to defend it. 
 
 1782. — Nathaniel Pearsall makes oath, that on 
 the night of October 2oth, a party of armed men 
 came to the house of Israel Pearsall,* and were 
 breaking in when I opened the door, and they took 
 away cash and other articles to the value of ri£30. 
 They abused me much.' and flashed a pistol-at me 
 to make me discover w^er'fe Israel kept his money 
 — he being absent — until an alarm being made 
 they went off. Soon -after I ^ saw a boat going 
 away in which; I sirppose they came." 
 
 I7S2. — Examination of 'Barent Hasten, Decem- 
 ber 3rd, late from Long Islatfd : " I left Beekman 
 Precinct in July, 1780,. went to Long Island, and 
 worked for farmers there ; left Long Island six 
 weeks ago ; landed at Stamford and remained 
 there five weeks ;. joined a whale boat crew, under 
 John Jackson, of Long Island, consisting of John 
 Thompson, of Long Island ; Townsend Hutchings, 
 of Cow Neck ; and a man from Stamford ; I went 
 one'trip with John Devore and six men; landed 
 at Matinecock, at the house of Avery Lewis ; he 
 was at home ; we got liquor ; there was no plund- 
 ering." 
 
 17S2, Bee. 1.^— The whale boat expeditions from 
 Connecticut across the Sound to Long Island, had 
 now (sbmewhat like our modern guerilla warfare) 
 degenerated into a downright robbery of friend 
 and foe, without distinction. The Whigs, in what 
 is now called North Hempstead, collected all the 
 -eviderce they could of these outrages and forward- 
 ed the pirsceding depositions to Governor Clinton, 
 by Co'oBel John Sands. This put a check to the 
 career of many an outlaw; Here follow some of 
 4heir names. — JEd, z - 
 
 Kutger Bleecker. He robbed and hung Eichard 
 Thorn.t'' 
 
 James Bfowir's' crew, now, living at Stamford, 
 but lately from 'Cow Neck — all refugees, viz. : 
 
 William Roe, Barent Masten, 
 
 1 John Jackson, John Devore, 
 
 ' John Thompson, Townsend Hutchings. 
 , James Bentley, a refugee, at Stamford. He 
 and Valentine Rider robbed Samuel Seaman and 
 Luke Elect. 
 
 Jabez Ferris, a refugee, Benjamin Howell, Na- 
 thaniel Sa'cket, of Bedford, Obadiah Valentine, 
 and Patrick Stout, robbed William Cock. 
 
 Thomas Sniffin, a refugee, and Nehemiah Lyon 
 robbed Cock and Burr. John Wilkinson was 
 Captain of the boat. 
 
 James Brown was a refugee from Rye to Long 
 
 Since Mrs. Cairns', Hempstead Harbor. 
 , tThis hamging was to torture Major Thome into a dis- 
 closure of his hidden treasures. 
 
 14,. 
 
leo 
 
 •Q UE E N S C OXf-NT ¥ 
 
 Island, and now a refugee ' from Long Island.; a 
 very bad character — aitEief and a robber. 
 
 Richard Valentine, a refugee from Long Island. 
 
 Robert Simmons, of Westchester, A warrant 
 is issued for his arrest. 
 
 Joseph Willets, of Westbmy, was robbed of ^3D 
 or ^£'40, by some soldiers, who lay at Jericho. 
 They maltreated him with a view of extorting 
 more money, till his sister Sarah rushed in to avert 
 the blows from her brother, saying, yon will not 
 strike an unarmed woman. On his making com- 
 plaint to the authorities, the soldiers were drawn 
 up in two rows, and he was ordered to walk be- 
 tween and point out the robbers, but the conscien- 
 tious and humane Quaker relented and told the 
 officers he could not identify them with sufficient 
 accuracy to have them punished. So they were 
 let off.* 
 
 During the latter part of the Revolutionary war 
 a party of men and women sailed out from the 
 head of Oow Bay, on a Sunday pleasure excursion 
 up the Sound, in a market boat. On their return, 
 being heated with liquor, they became reckless 
 and overloaded the small boat that was to land .the 
 passengers. It upset off the fishing rock, near 
 what is now Charles H. Willet's, west side of Man- 
 hasset, and thirteen persons were drowned. A man 
 on shore, who saw them struggling in the water, 
 supposed they were in sport. Among the lost 
 were the names of Avery, Judkins and Hutchings. 
 They were buried in an old burying ground, on 
 iland now of William Hewlett, north of his mill 
 pond. 
 
 [The following extracts are taken A-om an imita- 
 tion amtique, entitled : " Personal Recollections of 
 the American Revolution," edited under the pseu- 
 donym of Sidney Barclay^ the real writer beitig L. 
 M. P. The scene -and chief characters 'are mythi- 
 cal, but the book being a neat patch'work of 
 " Revolutionary Incidents," is readable if not relia- 
 ble.]— ^c?. 
 
 Robert Lester, an active lory, was awakened, at mid- 
 night, by a loud crash from sn. immense stone thrown 
 ■ against his front door. The whale boat men ordered him 
 to di-ess instantly. He was carried blind-fold to the Har- 
 bor and rowed over to the Main,* — jPcj-. Hec. 77. 
 
 James Parker, a farmer, was driving home from market 
 late m the evening. As he passed a large tree by the road 
 side, he was hailed, but disregarding the order to stop, he 
 was shot. The horses tooki fraght and ran three miles to. 
 Carpenter's mn, where they stopped under the shed, and 
 stood tiU -morning. The goods in the wagon were un- 
 touehed.— Per. Eec. 80. 
 
 T J'^«;,^™"ers appeared in the night around the house of 
 John Eawlitis, uear'Westtown and were discovered when 
 about to force the front door. Bawlius sent his negro up 
 stau'stb fire at the robbe-rs, >while he thrust a broom.stick 
 through a broken pane of glass into a robber',s face, who 
 supposed it to be a loaded gun, and cried for merey, when 
 they all scampered off, under the' negro's &re.—Per. Eec. i 
 
 The Eunners came over from the Main-shore to attack 
 
 *This is one versidnof the story; we give another else- 
 where. — Ed. -^ o 
 
 the house »ef 'Sttephen Willetts, a Quaker preacher. He 
 threw open the door and said : " ,Walk in friends and warm 
 yourselves, it JscMlly, this eveniag." He tiirew wood on the 
 fire, and kept talking so fluently, that the men had not time 
 to say a word. He then called his servant to get a good 
 supper of bread, meat, mince-pies and 'cideij. Aftey they 
 5iad-done supper lie told them their beds were ready. They 
 were- so overcome by his kindness that they were unable 
 to begin their work of plunder, but excused themselves by 
 saying they had some distance farther to go : and as they 
 walked out, they could but ill conceal the knives and pis- 
 tols they bore about them.— Per. Sec. 128. 
 
 Hugh Jarvis, a Tory from Jersey, was hard on the peo- 
 ple, especially the non-resisting Quakers. He ordered 
 John Perkins to go out with his"'boys and take their scythes 
 and cut the grass off their own meadow-land, which they 
 had counted on" as winter-feed for their own creatures. 
 After the war this Tory became a consistent Quaker and 
 offered restitution. — Per. Rec. 151. 
 
 Four persons came over from the Main-land and sur- 
 rounded the house of-Eichard Albertson, a wealthy farm- 
 er. They knocked at the door, and he knowing it to' be 
 useless to resist, opened it. They demanded all his money. 
 He said he had but little. They swore furiously and rum- 
 maged the drawers and closets, and even lifted up the 
 hearth-stone, which they knew to be a favorite hiding place 
 for money. They then put the bed-cord . around-his neck 
 and tied his hands behind him, threatening to hang him. 
 The wife and children fell on their knees and begged for 
 his life. She then offered them all her silver spoons and 
 f 20 in money. This they rudely clutched, but violently 
 demanded more, They next began to abuse his son Wil- 
 liam, aged 14. This failing to extort any more money, 
 they struck at the father with their sabres, knocking him 
 down and then standing him up and cutting him dreadful- 
 ly, his wife meanwhile lay fainting on tlie floor. This 
 went on till day-dawn, when they left, threatening to bum 
 the house over his head. An association, of which Eichard 
 Thompson was leader, was formed to ride about all night, 
 on horserba'ck, to guard the neighborhood, twelve to go out 
 at a time. — Per. Sec. 153. 
 
 ■ Three men, with black masks, and well ai-med with cut- ^ 
 lasses and silver-mounted pistols, entered the house of Jo- 
 seph Willetts, an ageid, man. They told him not to be 
 ■alarmed as they only wanted his money. What he gave 
 did not satisfy their rapacity, so he reluctantly offered fliem 
 a_ watch' he had worn fifty years. ' They now threatened 
 him, and one let fall his cutlass on hig head, but as he 
 stooped to avoid the blow, his cheek received a dreadful 
 wound. He fell and his daughter ran up to her venerable 
 parent and cried out " Oh, God ! they have killed him " The 
 villains then, cut up the chairs, destroyed the furniture and 
 broke the looking^rfasses, and then left. Complaint was 
 made to a British officer at Jerico, who had his men drawn 
 up, and Mr. Willetts' sister recognized two of them, who 
 were "picketed," much against the will of the iniured 
 Quaker.— Per. Sec. 157, 162. 
 
 The house of Fxj Willis, of Jerico, was entered by way 
 of the kitchen,, where a young man and woman were sitting 
 over the fire. The "robbers fired off a gun to obtain a light. 
 They then set a guard over each bed and searched in the 
 cabinets -and desks, for money and valuables, which they 
 took to a considerable amount. The man servant " a war- 
 rior,"' attempted to run for his sword, but was held back. 
 His money-being concealed under a drawer escaped their 
 notice.*— Per. Sec, 163. 
 
 John Searing was observed by the enemy to be carting 
 pork. Counting upon his having received the money for it 
 they went to his house and demanded it. On refusing he 
 was seiaedandhis head placed on a block and a man stood 
 over him with -an axe, bringing it down every moment, as 
 if to sever his head from his body.. His wife then placed 
 
 *Some of these narratives are taken from the lips of 
 Thomas Willis', then a boy, sleeping in his trundle-bed. 
 He -died-, near Jericho,- September 14th, 1864, aged ninety- 
 three. 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 61 
 
 all the moBay they had, about £40, at their feet and rushed 
 to save her husband by placing her arm across his neck. — 
 At the sight of the money they desisted. "Quaker John 
 Searing," as he was called for distinction, was comman- 
 ded by a British officer to go with his team to the Harbor 
 to Cfl,rt liquor. He was in his own wagon on the road driv- 
 ing, and refused the request, when a sword was brandished 
 over his head. Searing said : " If thou seest any thing in 
 me worthy of death, then take my life." The arm of the 
 oflBcer fell powerless, but he carried Searing prisoner to the 
 Colonel who had respect to his religious scruples, and dis- 
 charged him. — Per Rec. 164. 
 
 Some robbers on entering the house of John Willis were 
 so exasperated at finding no booty that they tied the hands 
 of all the family behind them, as well as those of Jos. Dela- 
 plaine* who was their guest at the time. They dragged Mrs. 
 Willis by the hair about the room and then left after set- 
 ting fire to the house. The flames were now kindling and 
 curling up the wooden jambs beside the fire-place, when a 
 young woman, Phebe PoweU, by dint of powerful efforts 
 loosened one of her h.inds and succeeded in extinguishing 
 the flames before releasing the rest fi-om their thongs.^— 
 Per. Rcc. 166. 
 
 Isaac Hendrickson was tied to abe d-post and robbed. 
 Samuel Skidmore, Black Stump, was shot through a 
 window. . 
 
 1782, Oct. 12. — For sale, the pleasant and heal- 
 thy situated fiu-m of Joseph French, Esq.,t con- 
 taining twenty-six and a half acres, a quarter of a 
 mile east ot Jamaica, on the main road, where the 
 market wagons pass the door. The house is two 
 stories high and fifty-two feet long, with piazzas in 
 front and rear. The well never fails in the dryest 
 summer. There is a neat laid garden with a vari- 
 ety of English and this country fruit, a grafted or- 
 chard fourteen years old, cider-mill, harn and other 
 outhouses. View the premises and agree with said 
 French. Also, to be sold, the horses, cows, hogs, 
 wagons, cart and all the farming utensils and 
 household furniture, a negro man, girl, and woman 
 who is an excellent cook. 
 
 1783, Jan. 1. — Sarah Bolton Loftus, intending 
 for England very soon, offers to let for three years 
 (if she should live so long) the pleasant and con- 
 venient house and farm at Hallet's Cove, near the 
 East Eiver, called Loftus Hall. 
 
 1783, Feb. 8. — Samuel and Elizabeth Cornell, 
 Joseph Lawrence and Jacob Suydam, Executors, 
 offer for sale the valuable and pleasant farm of 
 Samuel and Comfort Cornell, lately deceased, three 
 miles east of Flushing, on the road to the Plairts, 
 and a few rods from a grist-mill, containing two 
 hundred acres of clear and woodland, sixteen acres 
 of salt meadow, a two- story house, out-house, wood 
 for fence and fael, two orchards, a well at the 
 house, and a pond of standing water at the north 
 and south ends of the farm. 
 
 1783, Feb. 24. — A French Academy will be 
 
 *Joseph Delaplaine died in New York, Dec. 25, 1782, 
 and was interred in the Friends' buiying gi-ound, when 
 David Sands delivered a suitable discom-se. — Ed. 
 
 tCaptain French was one of the Loyalists who thought 
 it best to leave the Island. This farm was sold in June, 
 1783,' to James Jarvis, merchant, of Boston. It was once 
 occupied by Bishop Seabury, afterwards by Captain Byrne, 
 and now by Walter Nichols. — Ed. 
 
 opeted at No. 38 William Street, near the Swamp 
 Church, by John Henry Hentz, who formerly 
 taught the French language at Hempstead, and 
 for several years since in this city. — N. Y. Mer- 
 curi/. 
 
 1783, Feb. 27.— Died, at Newtown, Friday last, 
 Mrs. Anne, wife of William Weynman, aged twen- 
 ty-six, of a lingering disorder, a lady universally 
 regretted by all her acquaintance. 
 
 1783. — Public Auction. — To be sold, March 
 21st, at twelve o'clock, (if fair weather ; if not the 
 next fair day) at the office of Police,* Jamaica, a 
 quantity of household furniture [the property of 
 George Duncan Ludlow], consisting of mahogany 
 tables and chairs, beds and bedsteads, a very ele- 
 gant eight-day clock, glass, china, earthen and 
 pewter ware, and some plate, with a variety of 
 kitchen utensils. Also, a likely negro wench with 
 her male child, and a riding mare four years old. 
 
 1783, March 17. — Sale, by public auction, of 
 the whole stock of Hart & Ohaloner, at their store, 
 Jamaica, consisting of a good assortment of sea- 
 sonable dry goods, china and earthenware, some 
 groceries, etc., well worth the attention of shop- 
 keepers. Also, their household furniture. Kobert 
 Service, Hugh Henderson and David Knox, Trus- 
 tees. 
 
 1783, March 31. — The partnership of Ctmning- 
 ham, Scott & Co., Jamaica, is dissolved. All per- 
 sons indebted will please pay Charles Cunningham, 
 who will dispose" of the remaining stock on very 
 reasonable terms. 
 
 To His Excellency George Clinton, Esq., Gover- 
 nor of the State of New York : 
 
 Hempstead Harbor, April 10th, 1783. 
 We, the subscribers, being a Committee appoint- 
 ed by sundry persons of Flushing, Hempstead and 
 Oysterbay, in Queens County, to congratulate 
 your Excellency on the return of peace and the 
 Independence of the United States of America, 
 and at the same time to express to your Excellen- 
 cy our apprehensions of the dangerous situation we 
 shall be in, before civil Government takes place. 
 We wish ' to have your Excellency's advice in 
 what manner we are to proceed. The election of 
 a Governor for this state we are informed is ap- 
 proaching, and as we think ourselves entitled to a 
 voice with our fellow citizens of the State we beg 
 to have your Excellency's opinii)n and advice and 
 the bearer, Mr. Andrew Onderdonk, has directions 
 to explain our intentions and wishes more at large. 
 SAMUEL TOWKSEND, 
 IlENDEICK ONDBEDONK, 
 
 Joseph Lawuence. 
 
 1783, April 14.— Joseph Burrows offers to let, 
 from May 1st, a very convenient house with stable, 
 barn, orchard and garden, within a few rods of the 
 church, in the centre of Newtown, whore Mr. Bon- 
 ney now lives. 
 
 *Now,Mr. John N. JJrinckerhoff's. 
 
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 QEIEENS COUNTY 
 
 • 1783, April 14.^^ John Lewis, Newtown- landkgy 
 Cautions aid persons against trustiBg-aay perso» of 
 his family. 
 
 1783, April 14.— James Way,*" at Newtown 
 landing, offers to let the place that HendriCk Si; 
 Lot and J onatban Husted lived on last yeau) con- 
 taining ten acres, and salt meadow within twenty 
 rods of said Igjiding,-- andrtoiother place- withia ten 
 rods of it, where -John Cane nowvlives and keeps a 
 considerable, store.. It is ..well situated for a gentle- 
 man's, country seat. Also, twenty-two acres on 
 which is a good house, orchard, garden and spring 
 of water one hundred and five yards from the door. 
 It is one and a half miles from said landing, and 
 from Captain Eapelye's, John Way's and the pub- 
 lic road. Also, part of the place said Way lives 
 on. A.lso, pne hundred acres, witli a house of five 
 rooms, and^three fii;e-pjaces,,.the barn not finished, 
 one mile from said landing with ten acres of or- 
 chard. 
 
 1783, April 21. — At vendue and immediate pos- 
 session given, the farm belonging to the late Major 
 John Lynch, in Southwoods, (formerly belonging 
 to Mr. Magey Wigans) on the great road leading 
 from Hempstead to Eockaway, consisting of sev- 
 enty-six acres of arable and woodland, a good 
 house, orchard, new paled'-in garden and good well, 
 convenient for a store or tavern. There is a grist- 
 and saw-mill close' by. Fish and wild-fowl- are 
 plenty within three miles. 
 
 1783, April 28.— To let, from. May 1st, the 
 large coiiimodioiis dwelling-house at Jamaica, 
 where Michael Price now keeps ' store, with barn, 
 stable and garden. Apply to Anthony Moore, on 
 the premises, or said Price, in Wall S-treet,. New 
 York. 
 
 1783, Mat/ 12. — To let, the farm now occupied 
 by Mr. John Walters, within two miles from- Ja,'- 
 maica, on the main road from New York, consisting 
 of one hundred acres, a great part meadow-- and 
 mowing ground, two orchards, and wood for tw« 
 fires, with sufficient timber for the repairs of -tlie 
 farm. The houseris pretty good, bam and .:w»ll j-a 
 very good order. Apply to Christopher - Smith 
 and Gary Ludlow, near Jamaica, or-E.^jN-.-Auch- 
 muty. New York. 
 
 1783, Map 19. — House and ^arifea in-Jamaica i! 
 to let, on the Flushing road, .oppoftitcthje Church, 
 lately occupied by the WidQw„Harris. . 
 
 1783',. June..i. — Last .we&k^^his Excellency 
 George Clinton,, Esq., was declared duly, eleeted, 
 for the three yoai-s, ensuiHg, Governor of New 
 York. The follb-wiag.i? a view of the Poll : 
 
 George Clinton^, -- - . 3,584. ) 
 
 Philip Schjiyler, - -. 643 ^-legal Totes. 
 
 Ephraim Payne, - - 520 ) 
 
 . * James Way was, if we may trust "the Assessment Roll of 
 1786, the "richest man in Newtown. He was nearly twice 
 as rich as Simon Eemseu or Thomas Lawi-ence, who weie 
 fated nearly twice as high as either Eibhard Alsop, William 
 Sackett, William Lawrence or Heridrick Suydam. 
 
 N.-B.-T^Tett'precinots gave in their ballots con- 
 trary tath6.,fotms/ of law, and were rejected by 
 the Inspectors. The majority for Clinton in those 
 precincts was gBOportiO'nate to the above numbers. 
 
 H83, Jjfwe-'ff; — • Johnr /Mottr- -of . Long,-. Ifelamd, 
 moved'- to New York four year*- ago and<''kept a 
 timber, yard two years. He , never bore ar'ms ex- 
 cept in the militia.. He sent his man Adam and 
 horses into John Delg,acey's woods last Decenibpr, 
 which were captured, by . some Americans. He 
 calls Clinton- the common father of the State and 
 prays that they may be restored. His negro cost 
 him 66103, and was sold for cflS'into Connecticut, 
 horses cost $100 and harness d£6. 
 
 1783, June 10. — Daniel Hitchcock, (wishing to 
 avoid the imputation of having been a Tory) writes 
 to Governor Clinton, that he formerly resided in 
 New York city, but now at Flushing, and was a 
 soldier in Colonel Smith's Regiment in 1776. He 
 had a wife in Flushing, where he then resided-, 
 and so was compelled to" stay- in the British lines, 
 where he supported his decrepi-t father, :who fled 
 thither from Fredericksburgh. 
 
 1783, Jime- 9. — Michael. Price shortly intends 
 going to Europe, and will dispose, at prime cost 
 of the remainder of his stock at his store in Jamai- 
 ca, by wholesale or retail.' The goods are wCll 
 chosen for a country store where busmess has been 
 done two years past to a considerable amount ; it 
 being the first stand for business within the British 
 lines, excegt New York., .ThS large and commodi- 
 oufi honse in-' which the store, is Jtep't,. being rented 
 for a year from May 1,- with ■'thd" barn, stable and 
 garden, together witfi the good's.is a desirable ob- 
 ject for a trader. Immediate possession given for 
 eash OSS-bills of exohangs. -.. 
 
 W83, Jm^- 7.— Peter Berton,* at .the. Queen's 
 Hekd Taveriu Newtown lainding, offers for sale his 
 ikna of twenty-two acres. TJbe cultivated ground 
 is already sowed, planted dnd manured. The ina;- 
 ium-in* the ibarn yard; rand the crops may be had 
 baiteasy ternss. Ten guineas earnest money is re- 
 quired. Full possession given on November 1st. 
 Until which time he will pay sSlO for rent. 
 
 1783, July 28.^If John Deakin who married a 
 farmer's daughter on Long Island, and has not 
 been heard of these three years, is living, and will 
 dpply to the printer, he will hear of something to 
 Iiis advantage. Within six! years past he sailed 
 from Portsmouth-, England^ in a man-of-war, was 
 in the attack on Sullivan's Island, afterwards was 
 in the Fhenix, and then in the Hospital at New 
 York.t 
 
 1783, Aug, 4. — Taken from Eemsen's landing, 
 south side of Long Island, a fishing boat, well 
 
 *Captain Berton. mariner, went to New Brunswick and 
 became a Judge. — Ed. 
 
 t John Deakin was married to Jane Berrien, of Newtown, 
 January 8th, 1778, by the Rev. Mr. Bloomer, of Jamaica. 
 
laS OLDEN TIMES, 
 
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 built, of white oak, with D. D. imprinted in her 
 bows and J. S., 1776, (the year she was made) in 
 her stern. .. $10 reward and charges will be paid 
 by Johannis Snediker, , at Jamaica, or Thomas 
 Langdon, at.Eockaway Beach. 
 
 V7S3; Aug. 18;"— Captain Charles Hicks,* Far 
 Rockaway, offers for sale his valuable farm of four 
 hundred' acres; including- a fourth of HogTsland. 
 There are - twenty acres of Indian corn in great 
 perfection. Also, all the stock on the plantation, 
 consisting of cattle, horses, sheep, hogs, a quantity 
 of wheat and rye by the bushel. Also, all sorts 
 of farming and dairy utensils too tedious here to 
 mention. A good title given. 
 
 1783, Aug. 25. — Agent for Small Graffs Office, 
 New York. — Wanted, immediately, for the purpose 
 of conveying Loyalists to Nova Scotia, a number 
 of sloops, schooners, or brigs, of from, fifty to one 
 hundred and twenty tons burthen. 
 
 1783, -March 1. — To be sold or let, the pleasant- 
 and valuable farm of Captain Edward Allison, con^ 
 taining one hundred and thirty acres, at Foster's 
 - MeECdow, four miles from Jamaica, on the main 
 road to Hempstead. It has a large double house 
 with court yard, Dutch barn, two orchards, two' 
 ga,rdens, and is most oommodiously situated for a 
 gentleman's seat, or merchant, tradesman or tav- 
 ern. Proposals received by Captain Allison,! at 
 Flushing. 
 
 " 1783, April 12: — For sale or to let, and imme- 
 diate po^ession given, a farm in Herricks, sixteen 
 acres of woodland and fourteen of cultivated land. 
 It is excellently situated for a store or tavern, be- ' 
 ing occupied in that line for twenty years past. — 
 There is an excellent house, outhouses, orchards, 
 etc. Enquire qf John Jl'Intosh, on the premises. 
 
 1783, Sept. 8. — The cold weather last week, we 
 hear, has done great damage to the buckwheat, in 
 many parts of the country. The Indian corn has 
 also suffered. — N. T. Mercury. 
 
 1783, Sept. 29. — The fleet for Nova Scotia, of 
 thirty sail, put to sea yesterday morning with a fair 
 wind. — Hi v. Gaz. \ 
 
 1783, Sept. 29. — A good cook wanted immedi- 
 ately, by Edward Barden, Jamaica, who will give 
 suitable encouragement to a sober, person qualified 
 for that business., 
 
 1783, Oct. 13. — $S-' Betoard and cJiargeSi — Ean 
 away from Isaac Cornell, Newtown Landing, a 
 negro wench, aged about seventeen. Masters of 
 vessels and others are cautioned against. harboring 
 her. 
 
 nS2, Oct. 27.— Major Charles McNeil,! at New, 
 York, a half-pay officer of the British army, re- 
 quests permission of Governor Clinton to remain 
 
 *H3 was probably preparing to quit the country. — Ed. 
 tHe went into exile and died at New Brunswick. 
 tMajor McNeil subsequently- resided jn Jamaica, and his 
 descendants are yet in Queens Coimty. 
 
 six months in the State of New- York, as he has 
 no money, in. America, Europe- being. his native 
 place. . 
 
 1783* Nov. 19;--David Golden, of Spring Hill, 
 Flushing, writes to Governor Clinton and entreats 
 his protection. He relies on the faith of the Unit- 
 ed States, means to stay on his farm* and will pe- 
 tition His Excellency and the Legislature for re- 
 lief. 
 
 1783, Nov. 18i— As, Colonel Archibald Hamil- 
 ton, t of Flushing, has advertised his farm, for sale, 
 these are to give notice to any person who shall 
 purchase- the same that £822, 4s., 6d., New York 
 currency, are due by mortgage to Henry. Davies, 
 Esq., late of New York. David Jones, Attorney. 
 
 1783, Nov. 25:— Ode on tlie arrival of their Ex- 
 cellencies General Washington and Governor Clin- 
 ton in New York, on Evacuation day : 
 
 TviS-E—" He Cdmes ! He Comes !'' 
 They come ! They come ! the heroes come ! 
 With sounding fife and thundering drum. 
 Their ranks advance in bright array. 
 The Heroes of America ! 
 He comes ! 'tis mighty WASHINGTON ! 
 Words fail to tell all he has done ; 
 Our Hero, Guardian, Father, Friend ! 
 His fame can never, never end : 
 He comes ! He comes ! 'tis CLINTON comes i 
 Jusfice her ancient seat resumes. 
 From shore to shore let shouts resound. 
 For Justice comes with Freedom crowned ; 
 She comes the white robed Vh'gin, Peace, 
 And bids grim War his horrors cease ; 
 Oh ! bloomirg Virgin with us stay. 
 And bless, oh 1 bless America. 
 Now Freedom has our wishes crowned. 
 Let flowing goblets pass around : 
 We'll drink to Freedom's favorite son, 
 Health, Peace and Joy to WASHINGTON. 
 
 1783, Dec. ,2.^— Samuel Townsend, Hendrick 
 Onderdonk', John Sands, Daniel Whitehead Kis- 
 sam and Prior Townsend, in behalf of the people 
 of Queens Coimty, crave the interposition of the 
 Council of State, and say, that Richard Barack, 
 Joseph Alexander and Joseph Lockwood, whale- 
 boat men, have been-appreh'ended and confined in 
 North Hempstead, chargedwith robbery; . At pres- 
 ent they are guarded by Queens County Militia, 
 at coasiderable expense, there being no jail in the 
 county. — Clinton Papers. 
 
 1783. — Last Thursday, December 11, being ap- 
 pointed by His Excellencey Governor Clinton, on 
 the recommendation of Congress, as a day of pub- 
 lie Thanksgiving for the final establishment of 
 American Independence and the long desired re- 
 storation of civil Government in the blessings of an 
 honorable peace, was observed -with the greatest 
 deference to His Excellency's Proclamation. Ser- 
 
 .*His farm was confiscated, and Mr Golden died in Eng 
 land, July 10. 1784. His widow Ann,- residing in Queens 
 County, petitioned the Legislature, Nov. 15, 1784, for the 
 use of her husband's property, btit it was not granted. — Ed. 
 
 tColonel Hamilton sailed for England, December 31, 
 and died at Edinburgh, 1795. His farm was once owned 
 by John Hoogland, and afterwards by Henry Mitchell. — Ed. 
 
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64 
 
 QUEEl^S COUNTY 
 
 mons were preached at St. Paul's by the Rev. Mr. 
 Moore,? from Zech. 8 : 10, 11, 12 ; at Bt. George's 
 Chapel by the Eev. Dr. Eog'era, from Ps. 126 : 3 ; 
 and in the old Dutch Church by the Eev. Dr, Liv- 
 ingston, from Jer, 33 : 37-40. The congregations 
 were numerous in other churches also, the people 
 refraining from worldly labor £|.B.d recreation,—^ 
 Biv: Gag. , , 
 
 1783, Bee. 8. — Uriah Mitchell jJetitions the 
 Council of Appointment for leave to take posses- 
 sion of Gr. D; Ludlow's estate,f on such ternjs as 
 may seem good. He. had cut off Mitchell's wood 
 during the war, who had abandoned his farm and 
 with his famUy fled to the upper part of the State, 
 on the evacuation of the city, in 1176.— Clinton 
 Fa/pers. 
 
 ' 1783, Dec. 15. — The Council of State have ap- 
 pointed William Boerum, of Kings County, and 
 Eobert Hinchman,| of Queens, to take charge of 
 the public Escdrds, till Clerks be duly appointed. 
 — JRiv. 
 
 1783, Dec. 24. — Next Monday comes on the 
 election of Senators and Members of Assembly, 
 who are to meet in the City Hall, New York, Jan- 
 uary 6th. 
 
 1783, Dec. 31. — For sale, that most beautiful 
 :place called Beaver Hall, situated at the Beaver 
 Pond, Jamaica, containing fifty acres ' of choice 
 land all cleared, with a good barn, an excellent 
 house two-stories high, four rooms on a floor with 
 fire places, a large hall and most coioniodious cel- 
 lars. Enquire of the printer, 
 
 *Bisliop Benjamin Moore was a native of Newtown, 
 where he taught school for a time, In 1778, he married 
 Charity Clarke, which inspired the following rhymeg : 
 
 The good Parson deserves a good Ciaric; 
 
 Such happiness had in store : 
 'Twas Cliarity blew up the sparjc. 
 And fix'd the brigh't flame in one Moore. 
 On the.retujn of the exasperated Whigs to the city, Mr. 
 Moore felt "shy of appearjing in public for fear of insult. — 
 Hamilton called oii him one jnorhing and invited him to 
 take a walk, They went arm ini arm through the most 
 public places ; and as Hamilton escorted the minister back 
 to his" door, he took leave, saying, " now, Mr. Moore, you 
 need fear no trouble. They see you are my friend."— £d. 
 fWhen the exiled "WJiigs returned to their homes they 
 thirsted for vengeance. It was fear for their persons and 
 property that constrained many Loyalists to abandon their 
 'hoiaes and seelt refuge in the King's Dominions — that King 
 who had left them to their fate !' ■ Some," however, ventured 
 to remain, and by feeing able lawyers succeeded in savin'^ 
 their property from con;Bscation. Hence the foUowing lines 
 by an angry Jersey "Whig : 
 
 Contractors and lawyers do vow, swear and, protest, 
 . That Tories in Yorls State, may live at their rest ; ' 
 Tories' guineas willsavS 'em from justice and law, 
 If 6 bold man of Committee dare on 'em lay paw, 
 tHinchman had been a Church-Warden, at Jamaica, be^ 
 fore the war, and had invested £1Q0 of the cjiuvcb money, 
 which was paid back to him in Continental hills, in 1776 ; 
 but, in 1780, t]ie British Police obliged him to pay this 
 ^money with interest, (£130) jn specie, to ;th& Eev. Mr. 
 Bloomer. On petition of his widow, Joanna, the Legisla- 
 ture, m 1790, refunded the s.Taovjit.— Assembly Jonmal. 
 
 Billeting Soldiers: — During the summer the 
 British troops were off'- the Island in active service, 
 or if a few remained here they abode under tents ; 
 but in winter they were hutted on the sunny side- 
 of a hill, or else distributed in farmer's houses. 
 
 A British officer accompanied by a Justice of 
 the Peace, or some proniinent Loyalist as a guide, 
 rode around the county and, from actual inspeC' 
 tion decided how many soldiers each house could 
 receive, and this number was chalked on the door. 
 The only notification was : " Madam, we have 
 come to take a billet on your house," If a house 
 had but one fire-place, it was passed by, as the 
 soldiers were not intended to form part of the fami- 
 ly^ A double house for the officers, or single 
 house with a kitchen for privates, was just the 
 thing. The Soldiers were q[uartered in the kitchs 
 en, and the inner door nailed up so that the sol- 
 diers could not intrude on the household.* They, 
 however, often became intimate with ' the family 
 and sometimes intermarried. The Hessians were 
 more sociable than the English soldiers, and often 
 made little baskets and other toys for the children, 
 taught them German and amused them in various 
 ways, sometimes corrupting them by their vile 
 language and manners. The Hessians are repre- 
 sented as filthy and lazy, lounging about all day 
 long, smoking and sleeping, often filling up their 
 rooms with chests, liq[ijor-casks, hammocks, bird- 
 cages, guns, boots and powder-flasks. They usu- 
 ally went once a month for their rations including 
 spirits "~(sc72«a|3ps). Then for some days they 
 would be noisy enough— brawls, drumming, fifing 
 and dancing, card and dice playing, with 'a large 
 fire blazing away all night long. So that it be- 
 hoved the farmer to keep his big wood pile con- 
 stantly replenished, or his rails and fences would 
 be at once cut up by the Hessians who were pro- 
 verbially handy with their hatchets. They roasted 
 peas of which they malde their coffee. 
 
 Any misconduct of the soldiers might be report- 
 ed to their commanding ofilcer, who usually did 
 justice; but some offences could not always be 
 proven, such as night-stealing, damage done the 
 house or to other property. 
 
 As the soldiers received their pay in coin they 
 were flush and paid liberally for what they bought, 
 such as vegetables, milk, or what they could not 
 draw with their rations. 
 
 These soldiers were a safe-guard against robbers 
 and iw^ialeboatmen. Some had their wives with 
 |;hem who acted as washer-women, and sometiines 
 in meaner capacities.— ^^d. 
 
 From a perusal of the Orderly book of General 
 Delancey, it appears thalt he used every means to 
 proteqt^the persons and property of the inhabitants 
 of Long Island froiji the outrages of Britisji soldiers. 
 They were pot allowed -to go over half aniile from 
 camp at day-time, (and for this purpose the roll was 
 called sever5,l times diiring the day) nor leave it 
 under any pretex;t after sundown, without a pass. 
 But now and then they would slip, out and rob. On 
 the 11th of June, 1778, Mr. John Willet, of Flush- 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
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 ing, was assaulted at tis own touse, at 11 o'clock 
 at night, by persons unknown, but supposed to be 
 soldiers from having bayonets and red clothes, who 
 threatened his life and to burn his house. The Gen- 
 eral offered a reward of $10 to the person who 
 should first make the discovery to Major Waller, 
 and a like reward for the discovery of the person 
 who robbed Mr. Willet, on the 9th of June, of two 
 sheei>, a calf and some poultry, as he is determined 
 to inflict exemplary punishment and put a stop to 
 practices so dishonorable to the King's service. — 
 Again, March 9th, 1778, Mrs. Hazard, of Newtown, 
 having copiplained that the soldiers of the guard 
 pulled down and burnt up her fence that was near 
 the guard-house, the General at once issued an or- 
 der to the officer that he should hold him answer- 
 able thereafter, for any damage done the fences. — 
 So too if a soldier milks the farmers' eows, he shall 
 be punished without mercy ; nor shall he go in the 
 hay-field and gather up some new-mown grass to 
 make his bed of. Generally the farmers were hon- 
 estly paid tor whatever they sold. For instance, 
 April 23d, 1778, they were notified to call on Mr. 
 Ochiltree, T)eputy-Comm'issary of Forage, at Flush- 
 ing, with proper certificates and get payment for 
 their hay. — Ed. 
 
 So many British soldiers and refugees being 
 scattered over the Island during the Revolution, 
 many matrimonial alliances took place. We give 
 a few : 
 
 MARRIAGES BY THE REV, MR. CUTTING, HEMPSTEAD. 
 
 i:77, Jan. 7. — Major Joseph Greene, New York Volun- 
 teers, to Hannah Townsend, Oysterbay. 
 
 1777, Jan. 14.— Thomas Elms* to Freelove Ellison, 
 Hempstead. 
 
 1777, April 20. — Captain Jacob Smith, Delancey's Eri 
 gade, to Martha Birdsall. 
 
 1778, Oct. 23.— Captain J. F. S. Smith to Abigail Lef- 
 ferts, Hempstead. 
 
 1779, Jan. 29.— Ichabod Smith, Lieutenant, Delaneey's 
 Brigade, to Susan Marvin, Hempstead. 
 
 1779, Jan. 31 — Michael I>rice,t New York, merchant, to 
 Helena Cornell, Hempstead, 
 
 1779, May 11.— Captain Edward Allison, Delancey's 
 Third Battalion, to Saiah Clowes, Hempstead. 
 
 ■ 1779, May 11.— Captain Elijah Miles, Third Battalion of 
 Delancey's Brigade, to Frances Cwnwell, Hempstead. 
 
 1779, May 13. — ^Francis Armstrong, Eefugee, to Sarah 
 liuyster, Oysterbay. 
 
 1779, Nov. 11. — Benjamin Hilton, late of Albany, attonv 
 ey-at-law, to Susanna Greswpld, Hempstead. 
 
 1780, Jug. 10.— William Curtis, Vokinteer in His Majes- 
 ty's New Hampshire Kegiment, to Sarah Bedell, Hemp- 
 stead. 
 
 1781, March 29. — James Powell, Refugee, to Elizabeth 
 Smith, Hempstead. 
 
 17S1, May 17.— James Hume, Second-Lieutenant in His 
 ■ Majesty's army, to Patty Eemsen. Oysterbay. 
 
 1781, ^aff. 20.— Thomas Carpenter, Ensign and Adjul 
 
 *Elms was a paper-maker in 1775, at Hempstead Har- 
 bor ; and.-during- the war. kept tavern in New York and 
 Brooklyn under the firm of Loosley & Elms. He went 
 to New Brunswick, where his wife was drowned by the 
 lipsettihg of a sailboat. 
 
 tMr. Price, March 3d, 1787. petitioned the Legislature 
 for leave to return and reside in this state. 
 
 taut. Third BattaUon Delancey's Brigade, to Luoretia Quin- . 
 tard, late of Connecticut, now of Suffolk County. 
 
 1781, Sept. 14. — Thomas Cummings, of Genjral Went- 
 worth's Volunteers, to Widow Lucy Porter, of Suffolk 
 County. 
 
 1782, March 24.— Noah Selleck, Ensign, Delancey's Third 
 Battalion, to Phebe Denton, Huntington. 
 
 1782, May 28. — Freda-ick Dibble,* Eefugee from Connec- 
 ticut, now in Queens 'County, to Nancy Brush, of AVest 
 Hills. 
 
 1783, Fel). 28.— Josiah Burgess, Lloyd's Neck, to Widow 
 Margaret Verity, Hempstead. 
 
 1783, Jpril 30.— Lieutenant Thomas Coffield.t North Ca- 
 rolina Volunteers, to Martha Carman, Hempstead. , 
 
 1783, June 16. — Lieutenant Henry Holland, Queen's 
 Eangers, to Jane Bailey, spinster, Jamaica. 
 
 1783, July 22. — Nicholas Van Hoesen, now of Queens 
 County, to Jane Everitt, of Albany County. 
 
 1783, July 24.— William Chisholm, Twenty-Third Regi- 
 ment, to Ann Verity. 
 
 1783, Aug. 16. — John Henry Augustus Fricke, Sixtieth 
 Eegiment, to Alethea Gildersleeve, Hempstead. 
 
 1783, Sept. 2.— Captain John Althouse, New York Vol- 
 unteers, to Jane Jackson, Jerusalem. 
 
 1783, Sept. 8. — Lieutenant Enoch Plummer, Third Bat- 
 talion, Sixtieth Eegiment of British troops, to Abigail 
 Batty, Hempstead. 
 
 Wo finte. — Eobert Brown, Seventeenth Eegiment British 
 Light Dragoons, to Mary Ehoads, Hempstead. 
 
 MARRIAGES, MOSTLY BY THE REV. MR. BLOOMER, JA- 
 MAICA. 
 
 1776, Dec. 17.' — Lieutenaut-Colonel Thomas James to 
 Margaret Depeyster. 
 
 1777, May 4. — Lieutenant George Brown, to Mary 
 French. 
 
 ]773, Jan. 26. — At Flushing, Beverly Epbinson, Jr., 
 Esq., Lieutenant-Colonel of the Eoyal American Eegiment, 
 to the accomphshed JMiss Nancy Barclay. 
 
 1780, June 11. — Captain John Meredith to Gertrud* 
 Skinner, a young lady whose mental and personal accom- 
 plishments promise the most perma;ne,nt felicity. 
 
 1782, June 9. — Charles Saltmarsh, Sergeant, Seventieth 
 Eegiment, to Mary Adams, Jamaica. 
 
 1782, Dec. 14. — Lieutenant James' Smith, Seventy-ninth 
 Eegiment, to Mary Daine t of Queens County. 
 
 1782, Dec. 14.— Peter Ball, Clerk of the Hospital, New 
 York, to the simiable and accomplished Charity Lott, of 
 Flatbush. 
 
 1783, March 16.— James M'Euen, soldier. Third Battal- 
 ion, Delancey's Brigade, to -v-. — Seaman, Flushing. 
 
 1783, March 26. — Joshua Garret, Ensign, King's Florida 
 Eangers, to widow Vashti C,"rr, or Kerr, Oysterbay. 
 
 1783, May 4.— Abraham JEeade, soldier in Colone.l Eob- 
 inson's Eegiment, to Mary CJay, Flushing. \ 
 
 1783, Sept. \i. — ^James Cotter, .soldier, pifty-seventh 
 Eegiment, to Margaret McLean.. 
 
 1783, Nov. 3. — Thomas Martin Palmer, Lieutenant to 
 AdmiraJ Digby, to Catharine McEvers, Jamaica. 
 
 1784, Sept. 30.— David Purdy, Ensign, King's American 
 Eegiment, to Mary Eapelye, Newtowij. 
 
 1785, Sept. 22.— Davidl Chapman, of jinnapolis. Nova 
 Scotia, to Elizabeth j)o.ughty, Jamaica,. 
 
 17Q8, April 10, — Monson Hoyt, late Lieutenant, Prince 
 of Wales' Voltyateers, to Lucretja Hammersly, Jamaica. 
 
 Most of the above went at the peace to New 
 Brunswick .or Nova^cotia, where many obtained 
 
 "The Eev, .Mr. .Dibble became,Eectorof achurchin New 
 
 Brunswick. ..,....-, 
 
 tLieutenfint-Coffield had to advertise for his wife, whom 
 her mother had kept concealed from him that she might 
 not go with her loving husband to Nova Scotia. 
 
66 
 
 QUEENS' COUNTY 
 
 office under the Britisli Government, .and th« offin- 
 cgrs .retired on half-pay. .Some account of them' 
 may be found ia. Sabiae's-Xiisres of .the Loyalist&.=^— 
 Ed. ■ 
 
 nM,Feb. 5.— Charlotte, widow of Whitehead 
 Hicks, offers to let his house and farm at Flushing, 
 now in tenure of John Thurman,- 
 
 1784, Feh. 16. — Uriah Mitchell ia appointed 
 Sheriff, and Abraham. Skinner, Clerk of Queens 
 County;- 
 
 1784, March II. — Samuel, Melancton,. Benjamin 
 and Israel Smith, Executors, offer for sale the farm 
 of Samuel Smith, Esq., deceased, half a mile east 
 of Jamaica, containing two hundred acres. 
 
 1784, March 16. — Benjamin Akerly and other 
 inhabitants of the north side of Hempstead, petition 
 the Legislature for a division of said town. 
 
 1784, March 15. — John Luyster arid other in- 
 habitants of. Queens County petiti'on the Legisla- 
 ture for a Court House and Jail, to be erected at 
 the west end of Hempstead Plains. Joseph Kob- 
 iiison and others, of Jamaica and Flushing, pray 
 that any future Court House may be in Jamaica, 
 at or near the old site. 
 
 17Si, March' r6,-^Mr. Robert Maharg and his 
 , sister Margaret are desired .to call on William 
 Howard," Newtown, Executor to the estate of their 
 brother, Alexander, to receive, the charge commit- 
 ted to Lis care, which will reward themibr their 
 trouble. ' ' 
 
 1784, April 16. — Richard Sands - petitions for 
 the exclusive light of a ferry from iCow Neck to.. 
 •New Eochelle. The Committee report that. -a.^w*]l 
 regulated Ferry is necessary. . 
 
 _ 1784, ^pnZ' 29.— Uriah -Mitchell, Sheriff,- peti-' 
 tions the Legiskture for. the use of G-. D.. Ludlow's 
 house for a County Jail, till the Court House and 
 Jail be erected. .Granted, provide.d. the Sheriff 
 reside .there from the 1st of May.., 
 
 1784, Mffy '6.-For sale, .thte ffCrm of" Jacob 
 Sharpe, Jamaica, on the main road, nine miles 
 from Brooklyn, ferry, containing, two hundred, 
 acres. 
 
 1784, Mai/ 13.— A ricgro man, Frank, yellow 
 complexion, aged, forty five, is now at Newtown.. 
 He says he once belongcd^to Coventan Simpkins, 
 Virginia. The owner, by^ proving property and 
 applying. to. John S. Waldron, can have him.-ae'ain. 
 —N. Y. Journal ^ 
 
 ^ 1784, May 17.— EbtjOATION.— I'he Rev..Mat- 
 tliias Burnet begs leave to inform the respectable 
 public that he will undertake the instruction of a 
 small number of youth (not exceeding twelve or 
 fourteen] in the Latin and Greek languages ; and 
 to render his plan more extensively useful, he ,has 
 cngiged. a person to attend a part of every day to 
 instruct (.sucji as may desire it) in writing, vulo'ar 
 arithmetic and book-keeping. Those who shall 
 
 please to >coiiiMrit the education of their children to 
 his care may depend' upon the strictest attention to 
 tlieiB learning ..and mioral's.. 
 
 l'T84. — One guinea reward? and charges.. Ran 
 away, Sunday, June 27thi> from Sarah (.widcw of 
 Garret) Latting;- Jamaica, a "likely riegrw boy, Tdin, 
 aged sixteen, a great talker, -tdlks English arid 
 Dutch ; pretends to be a fiddler aad took one- witli" 
 him. He wore a bfeaver hat, brown linen jacket 
 with "silver bu-ttonS'. He has no known mark. — 
 Bill-,, a boy of same age and size went with him. — 
 ^Loudon's N. Y. Pdcl(£t. 
 
 1784, June 30.— The utility of public advertis". 
 ing will appear froni the following instance. A 
 few days ago the house of Mr. Thorne . was 
 broken into by a despfirate set of banditti,- after 
 much expense and loss of time, Mr. .T; was advised 
 
 to advertise ; and one Mr. ■; a silversihitli in 
 
 New, Slip, on reading the advertisement recollected 
 that "Sn indigpnt person had left 'a tankard for sale 
 at his shop, the preceding day. In' a fewminutes 
 after the man entered .the .shop and being secured, 
 was carried before a magistrate, where he con- 
 fessed, and was admitted state's evidence. In 
 consequence of which two of his confederates were 
 apprehended, the fourth, the most active and des- 
 perate, is still at large, but as he is well known 
 and was lately seen in. the. city, it is likely he will 
 soon be taken..-^iV. Y. Gas. 
 
 On Tuesday ■ morning, November 2d, William 
 Guthrie and Joseph Alexander, pursuant to sen- 
 tence, were hanged at Beaver Pond, for robbery 
 and burglary, at the house of- Thomas Thorne, 
 eas,t. side of , Caw Neck.,. Janies, Bam.age, who 
 turned '• state's evidence was pardoned, , October 
 28th, as was also'-Osgood Brown,., wbose father, in 
 Massachusetts, had interest enough with Governor 
 Hancock tQ. get him to intercede in his behalf. — 
 N. Y. Faclcet and Booh of Commissions, CATbami) 
 D. &,p. 250. 
 
 1783., July, 28. — The following persone were in- 
 dicted in Albany and Duchess Counties for ad- 
 hering to the enemies of this state, and notified 
 to, appear at the next term of the Supreme Court 
 to - traverse the indictments, and show cause why 
 their property sho.uld not be forfeited to the people 
 of this state : 
 
 Of-New York— Henry Peters, Michael Price, 
 msrchants; Lambert Moore, Esq., John Moore, 
 ;gentleman. Of ,. Oysterbay — Israel and Isaac 
 Youngs, millers ; Penn Weeks," Joha'nnis Barnet, 
 TiMmas Place, Jr., yeomen ,-, Johig. Hewlett, Esq. 
 Of Hempstead— John Kissam, Joseph, Stephen 
 and Thomas Thornoj Stephen Hewlett, Hewlett 
 Townsend, yeomen. Of- Newtown— Jacob and 
 John Moore, Lieutenant James Marr, Captain 
 Dow Van Dyne. Of Jamaica— J ohanni,^ Polhe- 
 mus, innkeeper. Of Huntington — Arthur Din-' 
 gey.— ii;d f 
 
 __ 1783, Oct. 22. — The'Suprenje Court opened at 
 Albany with a charge to the jury by 'Robert Yates, 
 
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 67 
 
 Esq., one of the puisne jxidges, ■when a great num- 
 ber of persons from very distant abodes appeared> 
 to traverse indictjnents preferred against them on 
 the charge of a,dhering to the enemies of this state ; 
 all of whom were treated with the utmost hospitali- 
 ty a$d good humor by the worthy inhabitants of 
 ^lia,t city. — Biv.-Ga^ 
 
 Previous to this the Legislature had, October 
 23d, i779,' forfeited the .property of the following, 
 among other persons; and bdjhished them forever 
 from the state, viz: .. "William Axtell, John Rapelye 
 and Miles Sherbrook, of Kings County ; George 
 Duncan and (jabriel G. Ludlow, Thomas Jones, 
 George Folliot, David Golden, Daniel Kissam,. the 
 elder,, and' Henry Lloyd of Queens County; 
 George Muirson, Parker Wickham and Richard 
 Floyd, of Suffolk Qomiij.—Ed. 
 
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 1784, July 22.— The Rev. John Bowden, Ja- 
 maica, offers a reasonable reward and charges for 
 his^ negro boy. Bill aged 't-sfenty* who ran away, 
 and had on a short olive-colored coat, double- 
 breasted waistcoat and striped trowsers. 
 
 1784, Aug. 12. — Strayed from Elderd Van 
 Wyck, East Woods, a black mare ; if stolen, two 
 half Joes reward for securing and bringing the 
 thief to justice. — N. ¥. Journal. 
 
 1784, 8,ept. 7.—- At nine o'clock, en Friday 
 evening, as Major Hendrisk Hendrickson, of Long 
 Island, was travelling on the road to Stonington 
 Pointn-he was struck on the head with a sword and 
 robbed, by three persons on horseback, of one 
 hundred and fifty half-j.bes, forty-one guineas, and , 
 twenty half-guineas. He succeeded in crawling to 
 the house of R. Cheeseborough, where his w'ounds 
 were dressed, and he is now doing well. 
 
 1784* — To be sold, Septeinber 17th, at the inn 
 of Joseph Betts, Jamaica, the household furniture, 
 farming utensils, riding chair, horses and cows, 
 seized and attached as the property of Joseph 
 French, gentleman, for the benefit of his creditors. 
 
 1784. — Run away from Isaac Hasbrouck, at 
 iOysterbay, October 20th, a negro man Isaac, who 
 has lived there a year, aaid passed himself as free. 
 He is very ragged, has a C9at patched of different 
 colors, pock-marked-, speaks' quick and stammers. 
 Whoever delivers him to John Townsend shall 
 have $5 and charges. 
 
 1.784, Nov. 25.— Robert G. Livingston, New 
 York, offers for sale, the farm on Little Plains, 
 formerly occupied by James Everitt, on the south 
 side of the road from Jamaica to Hempstead. 
 Also, a farm of twenty acres; north side of the 
 great plains, formerly occupied by David Valen- 
 tine.T-iV^. E. Journall 
 
 1785, Jan. 27. — I)aniel Clements offers for sale, 
 his fferm of one hundred and sixty acres, one mile 
 from Flushing landing, on a very public roa^ ; a 
 good stand for business. It has a large orchard 
 which makes excellent cider> a peach orBhard and 
 various other trees. On it is a house, bam, out- 
 houses and .mill-house, ■ 
 
 1785, Feb. 26.— John Allen and others, Benja- 
 min Coles and others, Hendrick Onderdonk and 
 others, Henry Allen and others, William Simon- 
 i son ajid others, William McCoun and others, peti- 
 tion the Legislature for a law to raise money for a 
 Court House and Jail in Queens County. 
 
 1785, Mavdi 7. — For sale, the fan& of Benjamin 
 North deceased, containing forty-two acres, one 
 mile from Newtown, on the road to Jamaica. 
 
 1785, -March 9-;^— Willett. Skidmore and others, 
 of Flushing ; Simon Horton and others, of New- 
 town, petition the Legislature for a Court House 
 at Jamaica. James Cebra, of Jamaica, and Silva- 
 nus Beedle, of Hempstead,' also present petitions 
 respecting the most convenient and advantageous 
 situation for erecting, a Court House and Jail. — 
 Ass. Jaw. 
 
 1785, Marcli 10. — Henry Stocker and John 
 WooUey, petition the Legislature for right of ferry 
 across the Sound, from Great Neck to the Main. 
 
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 .[,1785, March 17,.— Eoi-sale, tke farm of-^Jolm 
 Parsells, near Hallett's Qove, adjoining the widow 
 Blackwell. - .It; lim two stone c[uames. .--■ 
 
 17B:^, March 31. — Thirty Loyalists (among 
 thqia Mr. Moore, of Newtown,) have returned to 
 New York fi*om Nova- Scotia. - ; - 
 
 , 1785, March 31. — An.Act was passed requiiing 
 the Supervisors of Queeus County to raise <£2,000 
 to build a Ooiirt House and Jail at or near Benja- 
 min Cheeseman's, in North Hempstea^, The 
 Judges of the Oommon Pleas are authorized to su- 
 perintend a,nd direct the^ building of the sarae with 
 good economy; and.'^ till it be finished, to hold 
 their courts at Jamaica. 
 
 1785, April 11. — W^illi^m Valentine held an in- 
 q^uest on the body ofr Niah Smith who lived 
 where Elbert Arthur since did, at fierricks. Bmith 
 had sold a yake of oxen and as he returned horae 
 to the barn to put up his horse, the report of a gun 
 was heard, wheii his wife exclaimed to her servant : 
 " There ! your master is shot," and so it proved to 
 be; but he was not robbed, for on .searching- for 
 him he was found lying dead with his dog guard- 
 ing his body and the price of the oxen in his pock- 
 et. No clue was ever found to his mysterious 
 death, though suspicion was fixed on a certain per- 
 son,— .Ed 
 
 1784, Jwae 3.— On Saturday, Mr. John Way, 
 of Newtown, a person of ease and affluence, who 
 had been very c^erfial- all the morning, went hi 
 his kitchen, and said^ " Girls, you must take care 
 of yourselves, I am done for." He then .went in 
 an adjoining room where he was, not long after, 
 found dead. He left an only daughter. — iV. Y. 
 Journal. 
 
 1785, Oct. 19. — Last Friday were the sweep- 
 stakes over Beaver Pond, Jamaica. Heats one 
 mile by 
 
 The black horse Ariel, - 1 1 
 
 Bay mare Matchless, . -32 
 
 w The gelding Sloven, - - - 4 3 
 
 The horse Brilliant,' -_ - 2 4 -, 
 
 The second heat .was admirably disputed and 
 won by a neck, from the mare, which was. the 
 proud winner a few months ago.. 
 
 1786, Jaw. 2. — One gumea reward. — Ran away 
 from Johannes Polhemiis, living at Jamaica, a ne- 
 gro man. Brock, commonly known by the name of 
 Tom, and pitted with the small-pox ; supposed to 
 be lurking somewhere in, New York tUl he can get 
 a passage to. Nova. S.cotia, as he was seen to ,pass 
 Long Island ferry. Masters of vessels are forbid 
 carrying him away. — N. Y. P.acJcet. ■ 
 
 1786, JoM. 9.— Esther Townsend, Oysterhay, 
 offers to let two grist-mills, always supplied with 
 water, and a farm of two hw&di'ed and fifty acres, 
 eligibly situated. On, it are two houses, outhop-Ses 
 and orchard. It commands a view of the Sonud 
 and fronts the harboj, which aboujads in fish, and 
 
 fowl in their season. It will be let at the house of 
 Nicholas" "Weeks, adjoining. — Dadly. Advertiser, 
 
 17'8G, Jan. 16. — Samuel and Josiah Blackwell 
 offer for sale the farin of Jacob Blackwell, deceased, 
 6f Newtown, on the East Eiver, containing one 
 hundred and six acres, with house, kitchen, 
 bake-house, milk-hoiase,„ cider mill-house, fowl- 
 house, large barn and two orchards of six hundred 
 trees. • ^ 
 
 1786.^- January 19,th, at sunrise, the mercury 
 B.tpod at tw^enty-four degrees below zero, which is 
 two degrees colder than it was in 178D and 1784. 
 it was extremely cold all day. — N. T. Journal. 
 
 1786, Jan. 23. — Gregory Richie, of Hempstead 
 Harbor, petitions the Legislature for aid in erecting 
 a paper mill. 
 
 1786, Jan. 26. — Anthony and Benjariain Beft's 
 offer for sale the farm of William Bette, deceased, 
 two miles from Newtown landing, containing one 
 hundred and seven acres, and cuts twenty Ipads 
 of hay, and isj convenient to the New York market. 
 On it are a honse cider-mill,- wagon-house, work- 
 shop, barn, and two orchards of ISTewtown pippins, 
 far. preferabtei for bearing to any in the place, and a 
 thriying peach-orchard. There is a large quantity 
 of iMj/, which in a few years will be very valuable. 
 On it is a spring of water convenient for watering 
 cattle. - 
 
 1786, Feb. 1. — Charles Roach and others peti- 
 tion the Legislature for leave to open a ditch 
 thrtiugh -the' wet tract, of meadow, near the middle 
 of Newtown, as it is prejudicial to health and the 
 interest of the land owners ; the ditch to run from 
 0. Roach's to a division line between Abraham 
 Rapelyea and Ann Fish, and the owners of the 
 meadow to. choose the managers. — Ass. Journal. 
 
 1786, Feb. 2.— Thomas Bowne, New York, of- 
 fers for sale the farm of Jacob Bowne, deceased. 
 Mill Neck, Oysterbay, containing two hundred 
 acres, with salt meadow and marsh adjoining. On 
 it are a large house, barn, out-houses, fi'^ hundred 
 apple trees and other fruit. 
 
 1786, Feb. 2.— Ambrose and Samuel Fish, Ex- 
 ecutors, offer for sale the farni of Nathan f-Smith, 
 deceased, one and a half miles from Flushing land- 
 ing, on the road- to Jamaica, -eontaining one hun- 
 dred and thirty acres. The house has eight rooms 
 on a floor, with two 'kitchens. ■ On it are a store- 
 house, bam, outhouses, orchard, a brook, spring 
 and well near the house. It is an excellent stand 
 for any! public business, or a' gentleman's country 
 seat. ' ^ 
 
 1786, Feb'. 9. — For sale, the farm t)elonging to 
 the Episcopal church, Jamaiea, pleasantly situated, 
 a mile west of' the village. ; It contains seventy 
 acres, (six of which are wood).!good for pasture^ or 
 tillage, a house, bairn i and young orchard, with a 
 variety of other fruiL Entjuire; of Christopher 
 Smith, Jamaica ; Daniel 'iKiasaini, Flushing Fly, 
 or Rev. Mr. Bloomer^ Newtownii -I/' .J ' 
 
IN OLDEN T.IMES. 
 
 69 
 
 - 1786, Feb.. 20. — ^At an election for Representa- 
 tives to th^ Legislature, in 1785, South Hempstead 
 gave 127 votes ; North Hempstead, 42 ; Newtown, 
 32; "Flushing, 25; Jamaica, 56; and Oysterbay, 
 67. -That out of 359 votes, 127 were from South 
 Hempstead, that most obnoxious part of the coun- 
 ty, is with other circumstances extremely mortify- 
 ing, and demands the early attention of every vir- 
 tuous citizen, and the aid of the Legislature who 
 should turn their attention to Queens County and 
 pass laws suitable to their peculiar situation, so 
 that peace may be restored, and a remedy provided 
 for those citizens whose estates are withheld by 
 fraudulent conveyances. The virtuous suffering 
 citizens demand their rights. The door is locked 
 against them and the key withheld. Those who 
 have sacrificed their fortunes and spent the prime 
 of their lives in defence of the American cause 
 should have redress. — N. Y. PacTiet. 
 
 1786, Feb. 20. — Jeseph and David Eoe, Execu- 
 tors, offer for sale the farm of David Roe, deceased, 
 one and a half mUes from Flushing, on the main 
 road to Whitest-one fa-ry. It contains one hundred 
 and forty acres, with s'alt meadow, is well watered, 
 has two orchai-ds, a peach Orchard and other fruits. 
 The house has six fire-places on the lower floor 
 and two above. There is a kitchen, store-house 
 and other out buildings. There is a well bj the 
 door and a boiling spring a short distance from the 
 house. 
 
 1786, Feb. 27. — John Howes ofifei-s for sale a 
 small farm, lying in Newtown bounds, containing 
 sixteen acres, upland and mefidow and fifty apple 
 trees. It is conveniently situated for a gentleman's 
 country seat, adjoining the East River, opposite 
 the lower end of Blaekwell's Island and Turtle Bay. 
 
 1786, Feb. 27. — Abraham Lawrence offers for 
 sale the south part of his Neck that makes the 
 east side of Flushing Bay, containing a house, 
 bam and two hundred and fifty acres of land, as 
 good as any on Long Island, where forty loads of 
 hay may i)0 cut. There- is a small orchai-d and 
 plenty of wood for the use of the place. It is well 
 watered and in good fence. Adjoining the upland 
 are sevenl^ acres of salt meadow. Fish and fowl 
 to be had in great abundance the season round. 
 
 1786, March 9. — Walter Franklin's widow offers 
 to let the farm at the head of Newtown Creek, two 
 miles &om the church. On it is a double house, 
 baim, stable, coach-house and other buildings, an 
 orchard and kitchen-garden. It contains twenty- 
 nine acres fit for pasture or tillage, and is a desi- 
 rable retreat for a gentleman's family. Boats go 
 to market daily, within a few rods of the door. 
 
 1786, March 13. — For sale or to let, the house, 
 barn and eight or ten acres of land, whereon David 
 Lamberson lately, lived, near the main road in Ja- 
 maica. It is a beautiful situation, and would suit 
 any person for pleasure or profit, being very handy 
 for water. Also, a stone-house in the main street, 
 where M. Lewis formerly lived. 
 
 1786, A^ifil 3. — Stephen Rapelye offers fiJr sale 
 a lot, forty, by fifty feet, on which, at present, a 
 stable is erected on the south-oast corner of the 
 road facing the Presbyterian church, Jamaica. 
 
 . 1786, A2)ril 13. — Thomas Lambert Moore, Epis- 
 copal Minister at South HecipStead, takes this 
 method of informing the, public that, with the help 
 of a proper assistant, he still continues his school, 
 where the English, Latin and Greek languages, 
 with various branches of mathematics, are faithful- 
 ly taught, and the greatest attention paid to the 
 morals, manners and edilcation of the youth in- 
 trusted to his management and tuition. 
 
 1786, May 4.— ,35 Rewqrd.-^'Ran away from 
 Allen Jlitchell, Great Neck, a mulatto slave, Isaac, 
 uncoiamonly large honed, six feet four inches high. 
 He had on a bear-skin coat, reddish velvet waist- 
 coat, tow shirt and trowsers, thin shoes, and wears 
 a watch. He had buckskin breeches. 
 
 1786, June 11. — Newberry Davenport offers for 
 sale the farm that Joseph Hicks now lives on, at 
 Far 'Rockaway. It has three hundred acres ; the 
 buildings in good repair. 'Ehas Hicks, - Stephen 
 Hicks and Jacob WiUiams, Trustees. 
 
 1786, Jitly 10. — Daniel and Altie Rapalje for 
 £i, sell a burying-ground, at Flower Hill, to 
 Adrian, Peter and Hendrick Onderdonk, ilartiu 
 Schenck, Ann Rapalje, Thomas Dodge, Andries 
 Hegeman, Sr. and Jr., and Elbert Hegeman, Sr. 
 and Jr. 
 
 1786, Julu 20. — The insect- that has destroyed 
 the wheat, many years past, continues to spread, 
 but it has no effect on tlie white-bearded wheat 
 raised on Long Island. This wheat was brought 
 here from the Southward during the war, and a 
 few bushels sown by ji Flushing farmer grew well 
 £nd afforded a fine crop. He kept on and has 
 supplied his neighbors. It grows Twenty bushels 
 to the acre and weighs over sixty pounds. It is of - 
 a bright yellow color and makes fine flour. The 
 straw is harder and resists the poison of the fly, and 
 supports the grain, while bearded and hald wheat 
 were cut off.— JV. Y. Packet. 
 
 1786, July 27. — Samuel Townseiid and Lewis 
 Cornell, Loan officers of Queehs County inform 
 the inhabitants thereof that they v/ill give their at- 
 tendance at the County House; or some other con- 
 venient house near it, on -Monday, 3 1st iust., to 
 receive the names of ^11 that incline to borrow any 
 of the new raouey. 
 
 1786, Aiie/. 3.— -SIO Beivard.-^'Run afray from 
 Charles Arding, a short, well-made negro man, 
 Flummery, but is supposed to have changed his 
 name. He is well known about Jamaica and oth- 
 er places on Long Island. He had permission for 
 a few days to look for another master. 
 
 1-786, Artg. 7. — For sale, a fine farm on Little 
 Plains, leading on the right to Foster's Meadow. 
 It is in good fence all round the laud. A vevy 
 good stand for a tavern or shop-keeper. Thg 
 
70 
 
 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 louse can be repaired with little expense. It is 
 now occupied by Mr. Benjamin Dorland, and will 
 be sold very reasonable. Enquire of Thomas 
 Betts, within four miles west of Jamaica. 
 
 1786, Aug. 21. — The wife of Jacob Dbxey, at 
 Westbury, a few> days ago, was delivered of three 
 children at a birth — two boys and a girl ; all like 
 to do well. , 
 
 1786.^-Jbr EocMwap.Baces, Wednesday, Sep- 
 tember 6th, at 3 P. M., on, that convenient and 
 spacious ground (a mile course) near Jacob Hicks' 
 Inn. £20 Purse — the best three of. two laile 
 heats. The next day a .f-lO Purse— best three of 
 one mile heats. No crossing, jostling or foul play 
 countenanced ; or if detected, the rider will be 
 pronounced distanced. J. H., from- a wish to 
 gratify a number of ,geatlemen who visit his house, 
 particularly sportsmen, is indttced to set on foot so 
 noble and manly a diversion, and wishes the same 
 principle may excite gentlemen. : to contribnie to 
 the purses. 
 
 1786, Oct. 2. — Last Monday, died, at Jtinsaica, 
 aged thirty-two. Major Stephen McDougal, son of 
 the late Major-General McDougal. 
 
 1786, Oct. 12.— Died, at Moorfields, Mushing, 
 on Sunday evening, aged thirty-four, Mrs. Ger- 
 trude Onderdonk, the amiable consort of Lambert 
 Moore, Esq., formerly Comptroller of His Majesty's 
 customs, after a pairrful illness of three years, af- 
 fording the followers of her sacred Master an exam- 
 ple worthy of imitation. She commemoraited the 
 suffering of Christ a fe«,days before her death. The 
 sermon at her interment, by her nephew, Bev.T. L. 
 Moore, deeply affected the hearts of every attend- 
 ant by its just representation of her chaxacter.— iV. 
 T. Packet. 
 
 1786, iVbi;?30.— Yesterday, and the day before,., 
 were uncommonly cold. Yesterday morning it 
 was nineteen degrees. Bee. 14,— "Wood has lisen 
 to an extravagant price since the late bad weather 
 commenced, and, sells l6s. per load.— iV. Y. Jour- 
 nal. 
 
 1787, Feb. 3.— For sale, the beautifnl and 
 pleasant house in the town spot of Jamaica ^,form- 
 erly the property of Chief- Justice Horsemanden, 
 with an excellent barn and other out-houses, and 
 one acre of land.. Apply to- Daniel Lawrence, at 
 Hell-Gate Neck. . 
 
 1787, Feb. 8.— The Sheriff of Queens County 
 petitions the Legislature for an Act to remo'S'e the 
 prisoners from,.the jail in..New York to the jail just' 
 completed in Queens County. — Ass. Journal. 
 
 1787,— ■Vyilliam. Valentine .held aji, inquest on 
 the body of Ann,, a little daughter of Eichard kirk, 
 who was accidentally drowned by falling through 
 the ice of her father's mill-pond, (now William- C. 
 Bryant's. , ■ ■ ■ ' i „iii, ,, 
 
 17S7,;"April 4. — Jerbmus Hoogland'g-"'farm, 
 Flushing, one hundred and twenty-five acres, at 
 
 present in occupation of Mic. Van Pelt, is to be sol^ 
 at auction, at the Inn of John Holroyd. 
 
 ,1787, A^vil 4i^J.am!es Cebra has taken a large 
 and convenient house in the pleasant town of Ja- 
 maica, and proposes to keep a boarding house for 
 gentlemen choosing to reside in the-6ountry during 
 the summer season, and for children yho may be 
 sent thither for education, there being a very good 
 Latin and English school next door. The stage 
 will go every day to and from Brooklyn ferry, 
 from May 1st. 
 
 1787, April 5. — Israel Wells, Goshen, offers for 
 sale that valuable plantation of near four bundled 
 acres, situatedl near the Great Plains, on Nassau 
 Island, late the seat of Judge Ludlow. On it is 
 jan elegant two-story house and every other build- 
 ing necessary for a farmer or gentleman, and a 
 great variety of fruit trees' in their matiirity. The 
 place is so well known that, a detail, of its escellen- 
 ^cies is needless, neither can it. add to the salubrity 
 iand'beautifulness of its situation. Its (japital im- 
 Iprovempnts and contiguity to New York, and Ja- 
 maica greatly augment its value, and render it the 
 most deliglitsom,e and valuable place in the State. 
 Enquire pf Uriah Mitchell, near the premises. 
 
 ' 178T, April 5:— The Hessian fly appeared on 
 the west end of Long Island, 'three years before ' 
 the close of. the Revolutionary war, from German 
 wheat as is supposed. The p^per white-beai-d'ed 
 ^ wheat may be had of Mr. Ubderhill, miller. Flush- 
 ing, .who sells- it for the good of the commtmity. 
 The fly seems to be retiring from Long Island. 
 The last of September or beginning of October is 
 the best time for sowing, as the mornings aiid. even- 
 ings being, frosty benumb; the Ausieci. — N. Y. 
 ', Journal. , .^ ^_ 
 
 178-7, April 9.— SeaJy & Furman, coach and 
 chair makers,- Brooklyn, will ran a daily stage 
 _from Waldron's to Bardiri's Inn, Jamaica. Fare 
 2s. 6d. 
 
 1787, May,, 2,— Nicholas Fish offer#ffer sale a 
 farm, of one hundred aei-es, at Newtown, where 
 Jonathan Underbill now lives, being pai-t of the 
 estate of Jonathan Fish, deceased. 
 
 1787, m^/ 10.— Of a State tax of .^50,000 the 
 quota by counties was : Queens, 664,500 ; Suffolk, 
 <^,300-^; Kings, <£4,500., 
 
 1787, July 6.— $10, M6ward.—B.an away from 
 William .Ustick, Flushing, a German man servant, 
 John Nicholas Mathers. He had on leather 
 breeches or Osnabrig trowsers. 
 
 17S7, Aug. 10.— John Talman, Administrator 
 ot Oliver Talman, Flushing, issued process against 
 Archibald Hamilton in an action, oft trespass, in 
 cutting down and carrying away divers quantities 
 of spruce trees to liis damage, ,562,000. Judgment 
 rendered for the plaintiff by default.— iV. Y.Dailn 
 Advertiser. • 
 
 1787, Aug. 24.— A large jaw-bone was dug up 
 
IN OLDEN' TIMES, 
 
 71 
 
 at Great Neck which Dr. S. L.-Mitohell thinks to 
 be that of a sea-cow. 
 
 17S4, Mui/ iT. — Civil officers of Queens. Coun- 
 ty : 
 
 ■ Judges. — ■■Timothy Smith, Prior Townsend and 
 Benjamin Coe. 
 
 'Justices of the Peace. — Henry Allen, Isaac 
 Cornwell, Caleb Cornell, Abraham DitmarS, Ben- 
 jamin Everit, Wilham Lawrence, John- Luyster, 
 Jordan Seaman, John Schenck, Samuel T-alman, 
 Richard Valentine, John Way, Samuel Waldronj 
 Samuel Youngs, Wm. Cornwell. 
 
 Supervisors. — Oysterbay, Georgfi Townsend,". 
 Hempstead, Adrian Onderdonk j' Flushing, Steph- 
 en Van "VYyck ; J-amaica, Nicholas Everitt ; New- 
 town, Samuel Rikfer. 
 
 Constables and Collectors. — Oysterbay, Samuej 
 Burr ; Hempstfejid, John Burtis (and John Sear- 
 ing, , constable only) ; Flushing, Samuel Clement ; , 
 Janiaica, Plat Smith ; Newtown, John ^osline.; 
 
 1784, Z)ec. 28. — ^Por sale, the farm- of Richard 
 Lawrence, deceased, Newtown, formerly Samuel 
 Renne's, containing sixty-fouTj acres. On it are a 
 house with eight -rooms and iire-places, with an 
 entry on each story, in suitable repair to receive 
 any gentleman, and a large body of pipe-clay, said 
 to be suitable for the China factory, and ec[ual toj 
 any in America. ^ , , J 
 
 1786, Feb. 13.-:-For sale, the house, aad fsirm 
 lately belonging tO< Dr. Arding, near Jamaica. 
 The stock and farmkig-utensils will also fie sold at 
 a moderate price. i- 
 
 1787, April 26. — At the approa6li of every 
 election the iU feeling against the Loyalists w^as 
 
 . apfpealed to, as the fbHowing electioaeering song 
 will testify :—i;d 
 
 Electors, attend, pray deliver your votear- 
 Beware of- those lists that aise made by turncoats ; 
 Base Tories we call 'em, a pitiful crew, , i , 
 
 Who every vile measure and plan will pursue. 
 
 PeiTtiit me to hold up for consideration 
 
 Four persons'Ho serve in the next Legislation,' 
 
 They're men whom the WBigsiave fixed fer your- choice'. 
 
 So choose one and all with an audible voice. - 
 
 Let farmers, mechanics, good' Whigs, all agree i 
 To put in such men as are honest, and free ; ^ 
 Now join hand in hand in defence of our laws, > 
 And unite in support of fair fiiberty's- cause. 
 
 — N. Y.JmmMl. 
 
 1787, May 3. — Sealy & Furman, ^ coach; and 
 chair makers, Brooklyn, have provided themspli^egi 
 with an elegant stage-eoach, hung upon steel 
 springs, with a capital pasir of horses and carefulv 
 driver, which will set off 'daily, at half-past eight, 
 from Mrs. Waldron's, at the ferry, for Mrs. Bar- 
 din's, Jamaica ;-;and retuntpat four P. M., for the 
 trifling sum of 2s. %d. a passenger. Letters taken, 
 if 2d. is left with each, at the stage-house. - 
 
 1787, Dec^ 10. — Governor Clinton, from*New 
 York city, issues awarranttlrough William, Lash-; 
 er, Collector of the Port, to.4he Sheriff of Queens 
 County to seize a vessel in Hempstead Bay or 
 
 Harbor, for selling dutiable goods there without 
 haiving entered them and ■ secured tie payment o^^ 
 duties. — Clinton papers, 
 
 1788, March 22. — Lucern grass is recently in- 
 troduced and highly praised. It can be mowed 
 iive times in one season, and cuts eight loads of 
 hay per acre. Cows feeding on it give larger 
 messes of mUk, and the butter is of better quality. 
 Horses are sustained by it as on grain, in then- 
 baldest labor. 
 
 1788, May 9.— William-- Warne, si^ of the 
 , stage-wag'on, Jamaica, haS taken that noted house 
 and beautiful garden^, lately occupied by Edward 
 Bardin, for the accommodation of ladies and gen- 
 itlemen.' He intends keeping, a, genteel stage- wag- 
 on to T-tm to Mr. Waldron'S} Brooklyn ferry, leav- 
 ing. Jamaica daily, except Sundays, at half-past 
 six, and return at half-past 'four. Fare 2S. and 6d. 
 Letters and biaggage attended to. Each letter 3d., 
 and baggage in proporti(}fl. 
 
 1788,,-May 27,. — Canvass of votes in Queens 
 , County fpr .fpur Members of Assembly : 
 
 •.'Oy^rlDay, ■ 
 ; North Hempstead, 
 South Hempstead, 
 Jamaica, - - • - 
 -Flushing, - - - 
 Newtown, 
 
 Cb 2 
 
 CO ^ 
 
 •*£. 
 
 75 
 
 84 
 303 
 
 14 
 9' 
 
 23 
 
 
 pg 
 
 48 
 
 
 ig- i.n gs 
 
 
 
 82 47 
 219 147 
 
 13 
 
 9 
 6 
 
 69 
 56 
 52 
 
 To- 
 gs 
 
 123 
 14 
 10 
 23 
 
 42 22 
 
 80 49 
 
 25 33 
 
 2T^ 76. ■ 
 
 65 72 
 
 82 60 
 
 44 
 50 
 8 
 75 
 57 
 57 
 
 ' ,408 377 371 338 321 312 291 
 
 *1788, Feb. 20. — Samuel Jones, by the address of'Gever- 
 ?nor Clinton, is made his active tool to serve the interests wf-' 
 his own pairty. — N. Y. Adv. 
 
 1788, May 30.— Vote of Queens Gouhty foi 
 >,four Delegates to the State ©snTehtion to adopt 
 the Constitution of -the United States : - 
 
 - .'HP 
 
 ° S 
 B P 
 
 Oysterbay, - 105 
 N.Hempstead, 108 
 S. Hempstead, 233 
 Jamaica, --23, 
 Flushing, .- 13 
 (Ne'wtown,' ■- -36 
 
 fe-e-i 
 
 CD O 
 
 £.1=' 
 
 102 
 
 113 
 
 2»1"' 
 
 23 
 
 13 
 
 36 
 
 87 
 106 
 338 
 
 32 
 
 13 
 
 10^ 
 
 88 
 108 
 214 
 23 
 13 
 38 
 
 
 °f 
 
 m5^ 
 
 
 2 S 
 
 
 ^ B. 
 
 2 o' 
 
 ?-g- 
 
 B W, 
 
 29 
 
 36 
 
 70 
 
 68 
 
 21 
 
 22 
 
 107 
 
 106 
 
 no. 
 
 101 
 
 79" 
 
 78 
 
 43 22 
 
 65 68 
 23 18 
 
 108 108 
 99 104 
 
 7?" 81 
 
 .557 518 484 476 -416 411 4i5 401 
 
 • ,1788,- JW(3 11.— The Synod of the Reformed ' 
 jDii,tch:Ghurch set apart this day as a day of Fast- 
 jing, Humiliation £tnd Prayer, that the members of 
 (the State Convention may^fefe irispfeed with wisdom 
 from! on High, and' thfttrtlifeir deeisionff-^ay per- 
 ipetuate our cr^'ind^eligfetiff^rivllegeB. 
 
 lJSE','-JiMy S.^^Last Friday the Anniversary of 
 our National-Independence was celebrated in the. 
 following manner at Jamaica: The ringing- of 
 bells and thirteen .discharges of musfeetry an- 
 nounced the auspicious day.': . An. elegant dinner 
 
 17. 
 
72 
 
 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 was provided, at wlilcE a" very respectable; number 
 of- gentlemen (mostly Fed.e'ralists) were present. 
 The general satisfaction felt, was too conspicuous 
 in the countenances and conduct of each persbn 
 present, to pass unnoticed. iT-he utmost friendship 
 and haj-mony .Bubsistedi ■After'; dinner, Francis 
 Lewis, Jr., in the chair, the following toasts, ac- 
 companied with thirteen volleys of ^maill arm-s, v/ere 
 given. ■ The toasts. ' were ..drank with additional 
 relish, on the neiys olithe all-important and ha^py 
 event of the accession of ten States to the^ue^y 
 , Federal Government. : 
 
 .1. The- Congress' of 'the United States. 
 
 2. Washington. v' 
 
 3. The memoiy of Montgomery- and those He- 
 roes who fell in defence of American liberty. 
 
 4. His mos.t Christian Majesty and our Allies. 
 
 5. May agriculture, commerce and manufactures, 
 flourish in the United States. 
 
 6. The members of the late general Conven- 
 tion. 
 
 7. The ten adopting States of the new Constitu- 
 tion. " 
 
 8. Our fellow-citizens of the Cincinnati, may 
 their virtues in private life be conspicuous as their 
 valor in the field. ' 
 
 ■9. May wisdom and -msignanjiiiity pervade- tbe 
 councils of the United; States. 
 
 10. May dur new GrOvemment.eHSure-peaee and 
 tranquility at hcane,^ credit an.d respectability 
 abroad. -- , 
 
 11. May the spirit of industiy and econopiy be 
 diffused, in the Unitedi-States. 
 
 12. May the citizens- pf America consider tjiem- 
 selves as a band of brothers and ever nouvish Fed- 
 eral sentiments. ';■ 
 
 13. The Day'.— iV. F. Dqili/ Advertiser: 
 
 •l'788, Aug. 13.— On the. 8th-inst. the adoption 
 of the new; Constitution was celebrated at Flush- 
 ing, by persons collected from different parts of 
 the county. At day-break, a salute was fired from 
 the park, of artillery, in front of a .beautiful and 
 spleadid colonnade erected pn the G-reen, in the cen- 
 tre of the town, which consisted of a- variety of pil- 
 lars .covered with sprigs of fir and yew trees, arched 
 between, and .ingeniously ornamented, on the top 
 with borders? of the same, supporting standards of 
 the different states who have adopted the new 
 Constitution.' . At the least, end .was a .canopy, of 
 white linen, £he curtains of which were festooned 
 with blue ribbons and i^-xMbited this: inscription : 
 "Federal Constitution, Sept., -^1731^" Under the 
 , canopy was, the President'.s chair,' on. an elevated 
 platform, and covered ,. with a rich carpet, the whole 
 forming an elegant and pleasai^jt appearance. At 
 three o'clock the discharge of guns announced thait 
 dmner was ,. served under tlie xolonnade. The 
 president, Cot.-'Wm.S. Smith, was conducted to 
 the chaiiT, and /the! ^gentlemen set down with that 
 hilarity usual on such, an occasiop. After dinner 
 the following toasts .were; drank, with di'sohaii-ges of 
 elevengnns to each fi-om the Park:- " ' . 
 
 1. The 'United States and. Union in,, their Coun- 
 cils. ' '* 
 ,2. The illustrious Washington. 
 
 3. Our Allies and all.friendiy Pawer^. 
 
 4. May the citizens of America have spirit to 
 defend what the wisdom o'f her councils have 
 framed. 
 
 5. The Eleven -States -wlio adopted tbe New 
 Constitution. • . - , 
 
 . 6. The memory of those Anierican Heroes who 
 fell. in, the late/glorious.struggle'for their liberties. 
 
 7. May our interests., as .a .nation be supported 
 by honesty and industry. ■ '' 
 
 8. May the liberty of the ?P-r€se- be preserved 
 and its licentiousness punished. 
 
 9. Ms^y the industrious farmer reap Ae. fruit of 
 his labor. 
 
 10. The Cincinnati. 
 
 IL /rjie American Fair. 
 
 An oration was then 'delivered '^foy Mr. John 
 Mulligan, a student of Columbia College. This 
 unexpected e^ibition to, the auditory, the graceful 
 manlier and interesting subject, excited the admira- 
 tion of the hearers and commanded loud plaudits 
 to the yquthful Orator. 
 
 The conviviality -was heightened by the arrival, 
 from New York, of gentlemen who participated at 
 the entertainment and landed with a discharge of 
 artillery which was answered by the Park. — N. Y. 
 Daily Adv. 
 
 1788, Aug. 29.— Isaac Underbill, Miller , at 
 Flushing, bought some wheat from a ship in New 
 York, in 1780 or 81, and had not the fly in his 
 next crop.-p^iV. Y. PacJcet, 
 
 1788.-T Before September 3d, James Cornwell 
 fell in a creek.:, in South Hempstead and was 
 drowned. 
 
 1788. — Before -September 3d, Mary, a negro 
 child, the property of Charles and Catharine John- 
 son, Newtown, died of wounds it had received Jn 
 the head. An indictment being, preferred .against 
 Johnson by the Attorney-.General, the, Grand Jury 
 return on it ignoramus, and Johnson was dis- 
 charged. 
 
 i 1788, .Sept. lO.^-Taken up, a negro man, James, 
 who says he belongs to Kev. John Bowden, Ja- 
 maica, Long' Island, aged about twenty, and had 
 on around wool hat. The owner will prove prop- 
 erty and pay charges to, David Copki- near Wall 
 Kill, Ulster County ; otherwise, in sixty days he 
 will be sold according tp. law. / 
 
 17S8i'iV^o«.l.— Michael, a 'negro man slave of 
 John 'Allen, Flushing, died by' chance-medley and 
 misadventure from a correction he appeatied .to 
 have from some person unknowp J ■ '' ' 
 
 [Allen hE.-d lost inoney. and severely flogged the 
 negro, but coiild nSt extort' a coiifession.J~.Ed 
 
 1788, Nov. 10.— John. Greene; for stealing a 
 hotee of Silas Pearsall, is sentenced to receive thir- 
 ty-nine lashes on his naked back this afternoon, 
 
IN OLDEN TIME-S. 
 
 73 
 
 and thirty-nine morei to-morrow morning; ajid 
 then depart the county. — Court Minutes. ..>■ 
 
 Till the close of the Revolution all voting in 
 Qiaeens County was done with an atidible voice. 
 The first law passed by our Legislature in relation 
 to elections introduced the practice of voting hy 
 secret ballot for Governor and Lieutenant-Gover- 
 nor only ; the old practice of voting viva vece~for 
 Senators and Assemblymen was continued till 
 1787. All County elections were held at one 
 pluee, JatQai(ia,,trIM799, when the practice of vot- 
 ing in the separate townships of the county was 
 adopted. The p6iis were kept opx;n •several days. 
 —Ed. 
 
 -1789, JinfW. 24. — Jacob Marvin, and one hundred 
 and nine other inhabitants pray' 'the''Legislature 
 that North and South Hcmpstead'may be re-iinit- 
 ed. William Thorno and one bundled' and cloven 
 others, -Hendpick Onderdonk and ninety-seven 
 otlicrs,'and* Richard' Wleutine and sixty-si-x others, 
 all inhabitants of North Hempstead, petition against 
 a re-union, and pray to remain separate. 
 
 1789. — Wednesday, January 28th, is to be'ob- 
 served. as a day of Humiliation, Fasting and 
 PraycTiby all theDufcch and Presbyterian church- 
 es in New York and ?New Jersey, that God would 
 put a stop to the -progress of the destroying insect, 
 which is cutting'off-.'tHe finaits of the earth in the 
 Middle States, for the establishment of wise effi- 
 cient, united-and^permanent civil Government, &c. 
 
 l7S0,'Fe'b.'9. — R. G. Livingston., New York, of- 
 fers for sale a- farm of sixty- two acres at Little 
 Plains,- on the right hand of the road to Hempstead, 
 now occupied by Joseph Seely. It is in good re- 
 ; pair aad suitable fbr a merchant or tavern-keeper. 
 
 ' 1789, Feh. IS.— For sale, the farm of Israel 
 Hallet, deceased, Newtown Landing, containing 
 fifty or sixty acres, suitable for marketing, a coun- 
 try seat or joerchant. -There is a wharf eight rods 
 froratlie house where several small vessels^ may 
 lay alongside, or a ferry to New York may be kept. 
 Any quantity of turf may be cut from it, aliKOst 
 equal to coal for burning. -^ 
 
 1789, Feb. 9. — Joseph Robinson was Chairman 
 of a meeting, at Jaroaica, of electors, from North 
 Hempstead, Jamaica.Flushing and Newt9wn,,who 
 nbmin.ated Robert Yates for Governor — present, 
 Drs. Ledyard and Minema, Robert Furman, James 
 Depcyster, F. Lewis, Jr., Dr. Wm. Lawton, An- 
 drew Onderdonk and J. M. Smith. 
 
 178Q, Marcli 3.— rAbraham and Daniel Lent of- 
 fer for sale the farm of Jacobus Lent, deceased, 
 Newtown, consisting of one hundred and fifty 
 acres, on the Bowery Bay, where shell an4 scale 
 ; : fish may be caught a small distance from the -door. 
 Fifty or sixty barrels of cider may be made yearly, 
 and forty or fifty Itoads^f salt hay may be cut. 
 In the rear is a ,turf meadoAy, which will afford, fuel 
 aad manure for several generations to. come. 
 
 Il89, March 21. — For sale, the pleasant and 
 
 valuable farm of Lambert Moore, three miles eust 
 of Fhishiiig, on the road to Hempstead Plains, 
 consisting of two , hundred acres, on which are a 
 house, " barn, two barracks, crib, court-yard »nd 
 garden in neat pale fence, an orchard and other 
 improvements,. It is well watered and v/ithin a 
 few rods of a grist-niill. Apply to John Moore, 
 on the '.premises. 
 
 1789, Mmj 4. — William Warne and John Van 
 Nostrand's stage is in complete repair and runs 
 daily (Sundays excepted) from Jamaica to Brook- 
 lyn, leaving at half-past six and returning from 
 Mr. Alien's, Brooklyn ferry, at half-past four. 
 Fare, 2s. -Qcl, and 3cl. for each letter forwarded by 
 the, stage. 
 
 1789, Mcty 11.— At the April term of the Su- 
 prenie -Court, New York, several persons were 
 tried for the forgery of an obligation appearing to 
 bear date December, 1779, with warrant of attorn- 
 ey to confess judgiiaent for the payment of £1,000 
 with interest. Abraham Morehouse, for felony in 
 knowingly attcring and publishing said forged ob - 
 ligation, Israel Youijgs^ and- Sarnucl' Waters for 
 wilfully acting and assisting in publishing the 
 same, severally received sentence of death. 
 
 1789, May 26. — Canvass of votes ia Queens 
 County for four Member-s of Assembly : 
 
 Samuel Clowes, - - 426 
 
 Stephen Carman, - - 309 
 
 Samuel Jones, 'f - 365 
 
 Whitehead Cornwell, - - 373 
 
 Richard Thome, - 268 
 
 John Schenck, 217' 
 
 Benjamin Coe, - - 226 
 
 Prior Townsend, - - 170 ^ 
 
 Lewis Cornwall, - „ 114 ,^ 
 
 1789, May 28.,— Vote of, Queens County for 
 Governor :t , ,,,, ■ 
 
 Geo. Cliuoii.- Eobt. Yatos. 
 OysterToay, -' - 80 11 
 
 South Hempstead, - 181 S 
 
 Jamaica, - - 37 33 
 
 ., North Hcmpstea^, , , 56 36 
 
 Newtown, . lOl r> 
 
 ■ Flushing, - :- - 27,,, , 31 
 
 482 
 
 124 
 
 *June 6th, Youngs v/as -respited by the Governor. After 
 his conviction, one of .-his Breditors-petitiouod the Logisla--, 
 tuvc for tlie sum of £180,tiiat had been talten froin 'Youngs/ 
 in J776, -'.rhen ho was ah-ested for counterfeiting 'tlie Conti- 
 nental currdtcy,— .4i-s.-.-/o!(r., iifaj 11,' JTlSO. - 
 
 tThi? able lawyer iind useful legislator '(Iseing first anti- 
 federal and then federal) was aqcused of trimming in poli- 
 tics.' Judge Spencer once a,sl'i:ed'hiin: "Kowis this, Mr. 
 Jones, the majority in the ''Southern District frequently 
 changes — at one tim-O-federal aiid then repubhcan — but yoia . 
 ■always get your election?" ''Why!" replied Jones, "to 
 tell y&u are truth.'whcn my h-oops wont' follow me I follow 
 them." — Hammond's Hist. N. Y., 1 ;-75. 
 
 {The entire vote of the State (which then contained only 
 .20,ftOO electors) wa,s for Clinton, 6,391,; for Yates. 5,8G2, 
 leaving Clinton , a majority of. 429, 'Although he was 
 elected his friends on the .sovaal tickets Vere mostly de- ' 
 feated. 
 
74 
 
 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 1789) 4&«/ 2S, — ^A fassjtl,,tcK),tli .fcwspd on Long^ 
 Island and supposed so be one of the, Manani, was 
 
 presented to Peale's Museum iby Dr. S. L. Mifch- 
 
 Qllfi-N.Y.BaUt/Aav. - ' '■ v 
 
 1789. — Last Satitrdiij, the- Anniversary p| Ame- 
 rican Independence was celebrated at Jamaica, 
 
 1789, Oct. 10'. — -Wasliington says, in Iiis Diary : 
 "1 set off from New Yarfe.'aWiit, nine o'clock,; in 
 .my barge to visit Mr. Prince''s fnmt gardens apcC 
 shrubberies; at Flushing. The Vice-President, 
 Governor, Mr. Izard, Colonel Smith, ai^d Major 
 Jackson, accompanied me. These: gardens, except 
 in the number of young fruit trees, did not 'answer- 
 my expectations. The shrubs were trifling and 
 the flowers not numerous. The inhabitants of the 
 place showed us what respect they cotsld by mak- 
 ing the best use of one cannon to salute." 
 
 1789.— On Friday, October 22d, the- dwelling- 
 house of Jeremiah Vanderbilt, Esq., Flushing,, was, 
 entirely consumed by fire togetlier with all his fur-, 
 uiture, cite., and the records of the to-wnship, which 
 were in his possession. It has been discovered 
 that it was set on fire by a young negro wench who 
 lived inthefafnily f being suspected, :.she was taken 
 before a mragistrate toarexaminatioti, when sire con- 
 fessed the nefarious act. She has since been com- 
 mitted to the jail of. Qiieisas Gojmty.... &bfe^ con- 
 fessed that she had severaisiaccompliices ; that the 
 original design was to have poisoned and destroyed 
 the family, but not being, able, .to execute this dia- 
 bolical scheme as soon as they wished, in &e 
 height of her impatience, »hh set fire to the- house 
 in the absence of her master, which together with 
 the property therein contained, was entiaely de- 
 stroyed.^ — GfeenieaffSfN.^Y. Journal. ' ' 
 
 [Nelly, a, slave of Captain Danie'l Bi4merwas 
 indicted, Noremlaer Iftth, 1789, and tried, Septem- 
 ber 8, 1790, and convicted of arson as principal, 
 and Sarah, a slave of Mr. Vanderbilt, as accessary 
 before the fact. They, both plead guilty, and hav- 
 ing nothing said whyivj-adginentofeideath should 
 not pass on theas^ion motipa-jof Aaian Burr, At- 
 torney -General, they were -sentenced/' by Judge 
 Kobert Yates, to be hanged 'by. the nack,_Oe!tfOber 
 14th, at some public place in the nei^borhotodof 
 the Coui't House, till they be respeetiveljr.tdaadj. 
 Sai-ah; on accaunt'of hta: yoith was- reprieiced and. 
 sent away. Nelly had been hired to work in MK 
 Vanderbilt's family, who were abseht (m a visit at 
 the. time of the fire. The.. prisoners -were fifty 
 weeks in jail-], — Ed. 
 
 1789, Bee.-, 17.— Nathaniel ^W,fieksi of Oystelr-' 
 bay, died by occasion «rf a fall.lriim-iis horse be- 
 tween Huntington and Oysteifbay. . 
 
 178a^amaiea Races, October 29th. A.pv!rs6 
 of £20 will, be run' for round Beaser-Pond ,' the 
 best two itttia-ee twa-mile heats» ,^ EnjMijiee with 
 William Warne, 20s. The next-day^ genteel sad- 
 dle, bridle and whip, for a race twice r&und the 
 , pond at a heat, carrying ^ .catch. 
 
 ' 1789, JVo y...l#.^ On ; F.ridayj !g(iod'' fresh' :beet 
 
 sold at twO' and .:a )lifli« to tharee-iamd -a half pencd 
 
 , per pound, and- other ;&.rticles in proportioli.' . ■• * i - ■ 
 
 ■1789'.'— The Pfesidfent ordered.. Thui-sday,'No- 
 ' vember 26th, to be obseryed throtigliout the Uiiited 
 States as -a day of Thanksgiving to' ^(j&d' for' 'his 
 m^a-ny singulal' n:.OTcic&'. THo day was .stortiiy aild' 
 there Hvas but a thin aiitendahce in'tliig city.— -iV. 
 7.- Jour. - ■';. '"'■ ^ "■ - , ■•'"' 
 
 ,1789', -Dec. i2f.^ One, Timothy Jaekspu or Sax_:. 
 on, pn pji'etenqe, of arresting, Lawrence, McDermot, 
 ot Livingston, ,for , an, alleged vjijiespasa, on , his. fa- 
 ther's Iannis, on Long. Islanflj during the Ret^plu-. 
 'tiona'ry war, robbed biiiM For thisi offence. he. was 
 tried and .sentenced in Columbia Couiiity. — 'Daily 
 Adv. ,. - . • ,, , 
 
 ,.- 1790, Fe6v 4.— Samuel Talman, ExecutPi^ of 
 William Talman, deceased, offers for sale his farm' 
 of -three hundred" acres, within half a mile of two 
 grist-mills, 'and a 'mile of' Little Neck Bay, froni 
 which ntay be had oysters, fish and elam,*. Oil it 
 are a' house, barn, chair-house, gt-aiiarJ/'^crib, bar- 
 xack, twP wells and three orchards. ' '' ■" 
 
 1790, March 4. — During the present, winter .fgev-,, 
 eral vessels have come from Irela.Ujd with'emi- 
 gi-antSk .They say that one-third of. the poorer 
 sort would , leave, w-ere it not for their, poverty.. — 
 N. Y.jQy,r. 
 
 17S0, March 4.— jNot withstanding the apparent 
 scarcity «fi.-Corn and wheat, we are told, there are 
 great' quantities in, every part of the' country, wliickj 
 eorfd not be brought to maa'ket on account of the 
 bad traveling during the winter season, there hav- 
 ing been no snow. The price'will soon be reduced 
 as the river is not obstructed by ice. — Ni Y. Jour. 
 
 ,, Vrm, ilfajt ,-21.— Vote.of Long Island for, a, 
 memrber of Congress : 
 
 Suffolk. Qiieensi Kings. 
 
 James Townsend,*' 5 " 58t ' . 6 
 
 John Vanderbilt, - - — ; 64 %Q9- ■ 
 
 William Floyd, Ifid . 47 83 i ' 
 
 Thomas Tredwell, 232 45 7 
 
 Ezra L'Hommedieu," - 7 139 x.,, 
 
 • 1790, Ma;y 25.— Vote of Queens County for four 
 
 Members of Assembly : 
 
 I Samuel, Clowes,. . - - ■ - •485> 
 
 Jdhn jSch^Hck, - - - 397 ' 
 
 SaittUfil L. Mitchell, , - , ,-. 386 
 
 1 Nathaniel LawremaSj - j 383 
 
 i' Whitehead Colmoll, - \ 353 
 
 Timothy Cornell, - - - 324 ' 
 Stiphen Cai-man, - - 322 
 
 Lewis Cornwall, - -- 313 ,, 
 
 William Cook, - - 213 
 
 J^m-iHewlett, - - , - ,-.125 '. ' " 
 
 : *1790, Ma^ 28.— Died, Tflesctay last, after a idiig illness, 
 at Jericho, James Townsend, Esq., returned by the can- 
 vassers, as electacl:to Congress from .Long. Island. — N. Y. 
 
 Jour. '.''■' I ;. 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 75 
 
 1790. — Washingtoii, in his diary, says: Tues- 
 day, April 20th, about eight o'clock, having previ- 
 ously sent over my servants, horses and carriage, I 
 ' crossed [from New York] to Brooklyn and pro- 
 ceeded to Flathush i thence to New Utrecht, where 
 we dined at the house of Mr. Barre, the man oblig- 
 ing, but little- else to , recomiaen^ it ; thence to 
 Gravesend, thence ta Jamaica, Trhere we lodged 
 at a tavern kept by one Warne; a pretty goad and 
 decant house. Left Jamaica at eight o'clock for 
 Hempstead, where we baited at the house of one 
 Simonsoh, formerly a tavern, now of private enter- 
 tainment for money. Following the south road 
 we dined at Ketcham's, which had also been a 
 public house but now a private one — ^received pay 
 for what it furnished, very neat and decent. After 
 dinner we proceeded to a Sq^uire Thompson's such 
 a house as the last. About eight o'clock, Thurs- 
 day, we left Mr. Thompson's and halted awhile at 
 one Green's, distant eleven miles, and dined at 
 Hart's tavern, in Brookhaven, five miles further. 
 From Hart's we struck across the Island, passing 
 the east end of the Brushy Plains and Coram, 
 thence to Setauket to the house of Captain Roe, 
 which is tolerably decent with obliging people in 
 it. At eight o'clock, Friday, we left Roe's and 
 baited the horses at a widow BlydenbH!rgh''s, 
 Smithtown, a decent house.. Thence to Hunting- 
 ton, where we dined at the liouse of a widow Piatt, 
 which was tolerably good.. Afterwards proceeded 
 to Oysterbay, to the house of a Mr. Youngs, pri- 
 vate and very neat and decent, where *e lodged. 
 Left Mr. Youngs' before sis o'clock on Sattirday, 
 and passing Musqpitp Cove breakfasted at a Mr. 
 Oaiderdonk's, at the head of a little bay, [Hemp- 
 stead Harbor] where 'we were kindly received and 
 Tyrell entertained* . This gentleman works a grist 
 and two paper-mills, the last of which he seems to 
 carry on with spirit and to profit. Hence to 
 Flushing where we dined ; thence through New- 
 town to Brooklyn, the road very fine and the 
 country in a high state of cultivation. Before 
 sundown we .had crossed the ferry and were at 
 home.* 
 
 1790. — ^DJed, Wednesday, June 23d, univer- 
 sally regretted, the Rev. Mr. BIoomer,f Rector of 
 the Episcopal Church, Jamaica, aged 'fifty -five 
 years. 
 
 1790, June 1. — ^Vegetation was never in a more 
 flourishing state. There is a prospect of exube- 
 rant harvests of fruit and wheat. Industry and 
 
 *ror a more full account, and the observations of 'V^^!^sh- 
 ington on the agriculture of Loug Island, see Ms diary, 
 edited by B.. J.,Lossing, New York, 1861. 
 
 +Mr, Bloomer was a most excellent man. He had once 
 . failed in bmsiness in New York, and when, in after yfears,, 
 he received some money he devoted it to the payment- of 
 his debts. Hayjng. once married a couple where a large 
 feemigbt have been expected, he was asked, n^t day, the' 
 amount of it. " Oh, I had forgotten all about it," he re- 
 plied. " It must be in my other pocket." On searching 
 for it. two or three guineas were found wrapped in a paper. ' 
 He was buried in the chajicel of the cbaxfikt^^d. 
 
 agrictiltural skill continue characteristic of our yeo- 
 manry; atid Heaven smiled on theii: labors. Ame- 
 ricans will annually deposit abundant stores of the 
 staples of life for the supply of distant climes, ad- 
 vancing with strides imperceptible, the riches of 
 this rising Enlpire. — N. Y. Journal. 
 
 1790, Sept. 3*— The dysentery is very prevalent 
 in several parts of Long Island, and particularly at 
 and near Jamaica, where it has proved fatal in 
 many instances, several families having been de- 
 prived of their beloved ofispring in a few days, A 
 number of adults have also died with it. It seems 
 to be epidemreal. September 17th. It has sub- 
 sided entirely. — N. Y. Journal. 
 
 1790, Sept. 28. — Died, at Jamaica, in the prime 
 of life, to the inexpressible grief of an affectionate 
 husband and relatives, and of all who had the 
 pleasure of her acquaintance, Mrs. Mary, the ami- 
 able consort of Dr. Jacob Qgden and daughter of 
 Janies Depeyster, Esq., of that place. — N. Y. 
 Journal. 
 
 1790, Oct. 29. — Died, on Tuesday, aged eighty- 
 seven, William Hawkshurst, merchant of New 
 York. He was interred in the family bitrying- 
 groaud', Oysterbay. 
 
 1790, Nov. 8. — David Devore, for stealing a 
 horse of Stephen Robbins, worth t£5, is sentenced to 
 receive, immediately, thirty-nine lashes on his bare 
 back, and the like every forty-eight hours until he 
 shall have received one hundrfed and fitty-six lash- 
 es, and then to depart Queens County. — Court 
 Becords, 
 
 1790, Nov. 24. — Died, at Oysterbay, at an ad- 
 vanced age, after a long and painful illness, Samuel 
 Townsend, Senator of this State. 
 
 1790, Dec 9. — Winter has set in with great se-- 
 verity. The North River is fast bound with ice 
 to the city of Hudson. Repine not at the early 
 frost, we have had a fruitful season. December 13. 
 We have had rain, amfi since Friday it is as mild 
 as May. — N. Y. Journal. 
 
 1790, Dec. 11.— Mr. Gilbert Seaman, of Flush- 
 ing,'fell overboard of Captain Thorflas H. Smith's 
 passage boat a little above Hellgate, and 'fras 
 drowned. 
 
 1790 — $50 "Reward for thief and money. Stolen 
 from David Lamberson, Jamaica, on the night of 
 December 17th, a silver watch, .£70 in crowns, 
 dollars and snlall silver and as much moire in bank- 
 notes and York paper. Also, a number of notes 
 and bonds, a worsted -pocket-book, a red morocco 
 pocket-book with an alros^nac bound in it and a 
 parchment pocket-book, dated r776, and marked, 
 , "i). L."* 
 
 1791, Jan. 3.-^The old year has gone out like a 
 
 *The robber was William Talman, of New Jersey. He 
 was for a time in Queens County jail; but was executed at 
 Woodbridge, July 23d, 1791, for bijrglary and" horse steal- 
 ing — I>auy Advertiser. 
 
 18 
 
76 
 
 QUEEJvTS COUNTY 
 
 roaring lion and the new one is ushered iil by fierce 
 north -wiiids. , The cold has been eixtretoe for som& 
 days past, witli sbme.snow and floating ice. Jarii 
 naiy 6th, there is' a prospect of a January thaV 
 that will 'doubtless open the wood sluices, and ren- 
 der it tolerably cheap in a few days. Hickoty is 
 £.i per cord J other woqd, £3. January 10th. 
 Since our/last the weather is propitious aiid wood 
 h^s fallen 20s. and 24s> in the cord — N. Y. Joiir-' 
 ml. ' ' ' ■ '' -' 
 
 1791, Jan: 24. — For sale, the pleasantly situated 
 farm of near 300 acres, on the country road, from, 
 Brooklyn to Jamaica, now occupied by Eicliarcli 
 and Samuel Betts, eleven m,iles , from New Xorlifi , 
 There a,re thirty acres of mea,dow which constitutes 
 an inexhaustible source of manure for the upland; 
 also, a' large commodious house, spacious ISiutch 
 bam and other out-biiildings, an orchard ot the fin- 
 est fruit, and suflicient woodland. Apply to Nich- 
 olas Fish, who' will give title, 
 
 1791, Fei. 19. — Silas Hicks, Eockaway, peti- 
 tions the Legislature for a re-imburseTOent of £60 
 paid by him, in 1782, to Frederick Philips for a 
 negro man slave. 
 
 For tJte New York Journal. 
 Mr. GeeenleaP : By inserting the enclosed 
 in the next Journal, you will much oblige ' / , - 
 A Constant Eeadee. 
 
 Poetical Epistle to the Electors of Bejpresentative. 
 
 ' ' ClRCUtAR. , 
 
 Throughout the laud, Dear Sir, 'tis saidi 
 
 That Jemmy TowiisBnd"s surely dead ; 
 
 A man whom much, the people loved 
 . Is from this wicked world removed : 
 
 Has landed on that unknown shore ' 
 
 'Whence mortals can return no merei 
 
 And changed his' seat in Congress liere 
 
 For one among the Spirits there. 
 
 Biit though a loss the public shared 
 
 I hope this loss can be repaired. 
 
 Since men as good as he are found 
 
 Zn various parts the country round : 
 
 Therefore we ought no' more to mourn 
 
 The dead ; hut to the living tuni. 
 
 And seek a man of talents, meet. 
 
 To fill th' aforesaid vacant seat. 
 
 My fi'iends who search with keenest -view 
 
 'The Southisrri Distiict, thjongh and through; 
 
 J5eolare upon their .word, they, spy ,, 
 
 No person' half so fit as I. ' 
 
 How true they speak ! I well revolved 
 
 The whole affair, and then resolved, 
 
 "With view to benefit the State, 
 
 To be an open Candidate ; 
 
 And to the world in firmest tone, ' 
 
 To make' my grand intentions known. ' i ! , . 
 Now, Sh, for fear that I should miss it. 
 
 These modest lines are to sohcit 
 
 Your vote, your interest, and your friends, • ' 
 
 To aid my patriotic ends, 
 ' And place me safe, where, sense like mine, 
 
 May in the Federal councils shine ; 
 
 That so South Hempstead, charming town, 
 
 Possessed of .wonderful, renown, 
 - — In sly election's cunning ways, ' , 
 
 Since Jones'. and Cornwell's glorious days. 
 
 May still keep up her ancient name, ' - ' ' ' ' 
 
 And fix, beyond dispute, her claim 
 
 To Mvle the District by the means 
 
 So long employed to manage -Queens: 
 
 . Ifear'the'votes dispersed will bo-; >i'^ k .t 
 
 Butlestt»«ifew;shoiiii4cl;faU to me .i,( .1, ;> 
 
 I ,furthfij; |hop!5 aud , -^vish you'd strive 
 
 ■To keep election-zeal alive ; 
 
 And make IhbW fevfery riother's son ■'' ' ■ 
 
 Or vot*for meij'or vote for'notie, , !■ < 'i 
 
 Sorrie folks,,,rm told, are war,ni t',espouse,i ■, , 
 
 The cause of grave old Daddy Clowes, 
 
 "Whoi'wh^n We m'bVeS -iMthiu the Sphere' : 
 
 ■ Of Justi'cet ■ oriof^SedSfenfer, mi • . . i . - 1 , : . 
 
 Boss,pretty.wflll,-,,b.ut.W!hen^hg creatju'a , 
 
 Affefits a 5pat in Legislature, 
 ,' He. brings to niind, as' Esop jokes, , ' '' 
 
 The ffdg who swelled tb be aii ox. i ~ ' 
 
 There's -Ledyardj tod, whiosa hjgh-iprelence i 
 
 To, be a mafl;of ■^vondjous^scflse, , ,.,| , 
 
 Betrays, at firs*, TOwary heartS: 
 
 To tbih^ he's got UrlcOmmon' parts ; '" 
 
 Btit .Soon, I kiidw, the' 'curiou's eye' " 
 
 Can deep, deception .ftereidesfwy,. . , 
 I Whicjf i iHrJf.?; ])enMfh,thp iflfU-pfjlawn, . 
 
 That'^ o'er hisfghajlow sense.?' drawn; 
 
 Likfe' Moloch, rects he iiot a curse, ■'"' ^i ' 
 
 OfGod, 'or Hell, or what not worse. , , , \ i , , , , - 
 They say,that wJjiiHing, Carman tpo '| 
 
 Displays hiros,Glf .to public view ' ' ■ 
 
 And vainly hopes his coui'teous mien ' 
 
 Will coax the folks to put him in : 
 
 -r-,Ahi, Stephen ! Stephen !4o»v^r, thy pride,: , ,,, 
 
 And .past thy pohtics aside J, , , . , , 
 
 JTor since- thy influence is grown ' 
 
 ■So small beyond thy wative town,, 
 
 'T.willbeimpossibletojget ,, 
 
 'Mong Representatives a seat, 
 
 Uutil the clams, and horsefeet, each 
 
 Inhabiting the. bays and' beach - 
 
 Shall gain a vote' ; . and to contetilt them ■ , - 
 
 Thyself be sent to represent them. 
 
 Much .interest, -no doiibt, '-s employed. 
 
 For Tredwell, Vanderbiit and Floyd, 
 
 Whose names each warm elector rings 
 
 Through Richmond, Suffolk and in Kings.;' V 
 
 But here, sir, note the regular plan ; 
 
 Since Suffolk first supplied ithe niaji, 
 
 'Tis naw the time -for-Queer" to choose, .,,,, 
 
 Or else, by George, her choice she'll lose, j ■• 
 
 'Tis,'therefore, wise that all agi-pe , ,,1, • ,i " ; 
 
 On some owe man, and 74c Ac. ' ' .■ i ,, . ! 
 
 Last nig'h'fc 1 ,4reamed, (ftnd dreams yoii kfflow. 
 
 Do sometimes mighty matters show,) --. ■ ,' 
 
 That when the canvassing was o'er, 
 
 " Young Mitchell beat me, ten to four." 
 
 I started, waked and told my spouse ' 
 
 'Twastime I' instantly should rouse, • 
 
 Drive on to York with swiftest pace, 
 
 To Mother Shoulders state my case, 
 
 And hear 'till I no more could doubt .it. 
 
 The Beldapie tell me all about it. 
 
 My mind was in a woful qualm ; 
 
 The groping witch explored my palm ; ,,' 
 
 Then viewed my cards ; and with a look , ^ r, 
 
 That chilled my soul, this riddle spoke ; , .... t 
 
 "A chosen youth,' whose virtues sleep 
 
 Liko DhdW's. when he' kept the sheep. 
 
 Shall gUard with care'each peaceful town 
 
 And knock the huge Goliah do,wn." 
 Although this, prophecy is bad. 
 
 And makes me feel severely sad; ' 
 
 Yet still I'll persevere to court " >;;' •■': 
 
 The people all to grant support; 
 
 If, Sir, you pan Affordl me your's, 
 
 I'll love you while ray life en^ljires. 
 
 And be the gratefulest of creatures, 
 . Your Friend aad Servant, Harry Peters.* 
 
 *This poetical effusion though purporting to be written 
 by Harry Peters, candidate for Congress was probably the 
 sportive effusion of Dr. S. L. Mitchell, who was himself a 
 candidate for the Assembly. — Ed. 
 
IN lOLDEN TIMES. 
 
 77 
 
 17.91, Feb..2fi. — For sale, a farm of eighty acres, 
 in good fence, witli fresh and salt meadow, at Far 
 Rockaway, pleasantly situated, one mile from the 
 Beach. On it- ,9.1:0. a hofjse and barn, with a well 
 at the door. Apply to John Hothing, near the 
 premises;' who will give the title. 
 
 1791. — At. a meeting of a number of the inhajbi- 
 tants of Jamaica and Flushing, March 1st, at the 
 house of Mrs. Joanna Hinchman, in -Jamaica, for 
 the purpose of carrying into effect the .building of 
 an Academy in Jamaica, the Rev. Ryuier Van 
 Nest in the chair, and Eliphalot Wickes, clerk, it 
 was resolved that twelve persons be appointed for 
 the purpose of getting subscriptions, viz. : Nathan 
 Wobdliull, William Hammel, Francis Lcwis,'i John 
 Hicks, Abraham Ditmars, Daniel Minemn, George 
 Faitoute, Janies Foster, Samuel Brownjohn, John 
 Smith, Daniel' Ki§sam and Charles Roach.* 
 
 1791, MarcJi 7.— Lawrence Roe offers for sale, 
 his farm of t*o hundi-.ed and forty acres, at 
 Whitestone, on the Tsanks of the East River, fifteen 
 miles from New York, by water, and twenty by 
 land. The situation is charming, the soil essrcellient . 
 and the huildings m perfect rejpair. ''' 
 
 Queens County, April 4th, 1791. 
 
 Mr. G-REENLEAl? : The spirit of electioneering 
 increases rapidly in many parts of this county, 
 as the following curious notification (which was 
 taken verbatiia frOHi an advertisement posted in 
 several parts of South Hempstead) will evince. 
 
 A CUSTOaiEE. 
 
 1. I beg leaf.to j-etiuai jjny sansear thanks to the J?.ubIio 
 ingeneral for their iime'past favors, ^at I have Kec'd from 
 time to time. ' ' 
 
 ■ 3. I am sorry and a shamed that any man should offer to 
 come.into our .neighborhood to by mir freedom for a drinls; 
 of grog. ■ . s _ 
 
 3. As for my part I deelairJ-am not intrusted in the mat- 
 tei'. I d0iuot,w."ntj?ost nor Profit theirby. 
 
 4. I thnife it the duty of evciy Good man to keep up the 
 Credit of his Countrey, or the place wair he lives. 
 
 5. -I do think it our duty to resent every, evil that 
 should be offered in- our neighborhood' that -skjuld Engor 
 the Credit of our place. 
 
 6. I have provided one barrel of Eum ; ard two. if want- 
 ed. All those that will favor me with their Compeney on 
 Saterday aftel-noon, the 2-flay of April, I shall estcam their 
 compeney as a favor. 
 
 7. This Eum is given Grattis, no favor is Ee Quired. 
 Pray dont fail. From vour friend Living in south hemp- 
 stead. " i C D N. 
 
 March 2S, 1791. 
 ' A true copy verbatim. 
 
 N. E. The candidate for whose interest thi=i treat 
 is intended,, is supposed to bcS — -:-n n. 
 
 1,791, April 14. — $5 Eewanl and charges. Ran 
 av,'ay from William, Levcrich, Newtown, a negro 
 boy, Mingo, aged fifteen, pitted with the small-pox. 
 
 For the Dailt; Aducrtiser. 
 
 Jamaica, April 19, 1791. 
 Mess. Printeks : As the county of Queens 
 
 has for some time past b^.en destitute of a Senator, 
 and as this part of the county has );iever aspired to 
 the) honor of nominating one, theyflatter them- 
 selves (on the principle of rotfTtion) that their claim 
 is well founded, and the person chosen will merit 
 tlie suffrages of his fellow citizens. 
 
 At a meeting of the freehbldcr's and electors of 
 Newtown, Flushing and .Jamaica, held at. Jamaica, 
 Beiijamin 'Coe in the chair ; it was resolved that 
 Dr. Isaac Ledyard be held up as a Representative 
 in Congress, and that Fran«is Lewis, Jr., Esq., 
 be held up a-s a State Senastor and that the clerk 
 transmit cbpifes' of these resolutions to the sheriff of 
 the different c'ounties -of the District with a request 
 that he communicate' the same to the several town- 
 ships. ' ' 
 
 1791. — ^Yoto for member of Congress (in place 
 of Dr. James Townsend, deceased,) on the last 
 Tuesday in April. 
 
 
 
 
 h-l 
 
 f 
 
 
 
 
 H 
 
 < 
 
 » 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 23 
 ■5-5 
 
 11 
 
 
 << 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 1" 
 
 Eichmond, , 
 
 . , ■ 
 
 166 
 
 77 
 
 9 
 
 
 
 
 Kings -- 
 
 - 26 
 
 255 
 
 21 
 
 33 
 
 21 
 
 29 
 
 Queens, - 
 
 - 206 
 
 60 
 
 268 
 
 30 
 
 338 
 
 272 
 
 Suffolk.- - 
 
 '- 434 
 
 
 3 
 
 289 
 
 1 
 
 — 
 
 Total, - 660 481 369 361 360 301 
 
 Vote (in part) for two Senators of the Southern 
 District ■: 
 
 5-1 CQ- Mi. 
 
 5.^ 
 
 a -' 
 
 Eichmond, 
 Kings, - 
 Queens, 
 Suffolk, - 
 
 129 
 
 77 
 353 
 404 
 
 *» 
 
 353 
 
 300 
 
 2S2 
 51 
 
 CO 
 
 ^^ 
 
 2 
 65 
 
 403 
 279 
 
 46 
 
 45 
 
 7 
 
 53 
 
 y «• 
 
 1 
 
 68 
 
 234 
 
 *Subscription lists were circulated in .Jamaica, Flushing, 
 Newtown and New York ; and when £800, the sum in- 
 tended to be subsiribed, was made up, .janics .Mackerel 
 was requested to report a, plan 'of 'the Academy, wliich l\e 
 did, and was thereupon appointed liiastor builder.— ;EfZ. 
 
 Total, - 963 786 749 151 303. 
 
 Vote of Queens Goutitj for three members of 
 Assembly : 
 
 Whitehead Cornell,* 721 
 
 Samuel Clowes,'* - 715 
 
 Nathaniel Lawrence,* - - 451 
 Richard ThdrnQ, - ■ - 384 
 
 Isaac Lefferts, - 345 
 
 S. L. Mitchell, - - 254 
 
 1791, April 30.— Died, Thursday night, at his 
 seat near Flushing, Robert ■Crommelin, aged sev- 
 enty-five, a much respected itdiabitant , of that 
 place.— Dae'?^ Advertiser. 
 
 1791', May 10. — $20 Beward. — Ran away from 
 Flushing, two negro men, one Aaron, the property 
 of Jeremiah Vandcrbilt, who- had on a fustian 
 trowsers and wool hat, and is a good boatnian ; the 
 other, Polydore, the property of Francis Lewis, 
 who wore a blue cloth jacket and breeches, woolen 
 stockings and wool hat. They stole a moses-built 
 
 *Elected. 
 
78 
 
 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 boat and w^nt ui3^the Sound, as is suggosed.— 
 Daily Advertiser. 
 
 1791, June ^.—£b, Beward.—'Ran away from 
 Obadiali Valentine, Oysterbay, a remarkably black 
 negro man. Bob, aged twenty-two.. He had on a 
 brown coat with green lining, yellow vest aaii old 
 boots. He has grey lia>ij; on his neck. 
 
 1791, June T.— John Van Nostrand respectfully 
 informs the public that the Jamaica Stage will run 
 Monday, Thursday and Saturday, starting from 
 Mrs. Hinchman's at 7 o'clock in the morning, and 
 from Mr. Allen's,. Brooklyn Ferry, at half-past four 
 in the afternoon. Fare, 2s. 6d. Letters and bag- 
 gage cErefully attended to. 
 
 N. B. He has a new and easy carriage, and for 
 the convenience of those who wisR to go further, he 
 has one at Jamaica. 3d. for each letter, and none 
 forwarded unless the money bef leit with. it. 
 
 17.9,1, June 15. ^To the puMc.—Easy convey- 
 ance. — Jacob and Stephen Hicks have, for the 
 convenience of parties of pleasure, provided a light 
 stage-wagon to run with two good genteel horses 
 with a careful driver, from John Hicks', Brooklyn 
 Fen-y stairs, to Far Rockaway, every Tliesday, at 
 eight o'clock, and every Saturday, at oneo'clock ■- 
 stop at Jamaica for refreshment and go through 
 the same day ; and return Monday and Friday af- 
 ternoons. S'fi.ats, 25. 6d. to Jamaica, and 5s. to 
 Far Eockaway. 14 lbs. baggage gratis ;, 150- lbs. 
 the same as a passenger. 
 
 1791. — At day-break, on the 4th of July, the 
 bells of the churches in Jamaica, and thirteen pla- 
 toons from an, active and well disciplined, company 
 of Light Jnfantey, announced the joyous day. At 
 twelve o'clock the company assembled at Mrs. 
 Hinchman's long room, (which was decorated in a 
 style emblematical of the union of these States, 
 with- branches of- the ;gine tree, and a pleasing dis- 
 tribution of the ilowers of the season) proceeded to 
 the Presbyterian church, where an eloquent oration 
 was delivered by the Eev. Mr. Faitoute. After 
 which the company returned to an elegant dinner, 
 where the utmost conviviality and good humor per- 
 vaded every bteast, and where, aniidst the heart 
 enlivening song and warlike sound of musketry, 
 the following toasts were drank. The company 
 broke up in good season and. in. the greatest hila- 
 rity a«dj good hnnior :■. 
 
 1. The ¥nited States- of America— may their 
 virtues and w.isdom. be conspicuous among the na- 
 tions of the earth.. 
 
 2. The President. 
 
 3. The Congress of the United States. 
 
 4. The Government of the State of New York. 
 , 5. The late American Army, and memory of 
 
 those Heroes who gallantly fell, contending for the 
 independence, of our country. 
 
 6. The King of the Frenchmen and the National 
 Assembly of I'rance. 
 
 7; Aris, Science and Manufactories — may they 
 beconie the never-failing source of wealth and hon- 
 or to our country .^^ 
 
 8. The promoters of Commerce — may it flourish 
 throughout the United. Statesv. 
 9.. The Cincinnati.. 
 IC TheTaKfliany Saeiety on Columbian- Order. 
 
 11. The- Military o£ Anierica«— may their merit 
 dways findHtB truB-reward.- 
 
 12. The jiidustrious husbandmen — may their 
 honest labors be crowned with plenty and success. 
 
 13. The American flag — ^may it be the emble- 
 matic banner of liberfy in every qxiarter of the 
 globe. 
 
 ,, 14. The author of the "Rights of Man," and 
 the Patriotic Societies in Great Britain. ' 
 
 15. The- glorious 4th of July, 1776.* 
 1791, July i2.— For sale, the country retreat of 
 Robert Crorumelin, Esq., deceased, containing fifty 
 acres, lying contiguoiis to Flushing Landing. 
 .1791, July 23.^ Jacob Cheeseman, of. North 
 Hempstead, being on the Marsh, in South Hemp- 
 stead, and undertaking to swim across a certain 
 creek v/as drowned. 
 
 1791, Aitg. 7. — Henry Ludlam, returning from 
 Oysterbay to his boat, along Mill-neck shore, 
 stumbled in getting his boat and unfortunately fell 
 ! and was drowned. 
 
 1791, Sept. 7. — ^0. Jfefrarf^and charges. Ran 
 away from John Luyster, Cedar Swamp, a negro 
 fellow, Zeb, aged twenty, stout, large-boned and 
 niiddling black. 
 
 1791, Oc#. 13.— Beaver Pbnd'EUccs. First day> 
 a pUrse of c€20 ; second day, a genteel saddle, bri- 
 dle and whip to be run for. — Daily Advertiser. 
 
 ' Vr%-h, Oct.. 17. — Died, at North Hempstead, 
 Timothy Smith, at an advanced age ; for many 
 yeai's first Judge of Queens County. In him the 
 public have lost a valuable citizen, the widow an 
 afiectionate and Igving husband-, and the children a 
 tender andJk^ina fiither. —Da% Advertiser. 
 
 1791, Dec. 21.— The season is mild ; nut-wood 
 sells from. 10s. 6d. to lis., and oak, 7s. Qd. to 8s. 
 per load". 1 
 
 1792, Jan. 23; — Harry Peters offers for sale his 
 highly manured farm, of one hundred and fifty 
 acres, which cuts fifty loads of hay annually, situ- 
 ated in South Hempstead, within forty rods of two 
 churches.. On it are a large house, barn and other 
 necessary owt-tionses^ and an orchard. Its pleas- 
 ant, salubrious and public situation, with the great 
 privilege of commonage in the plains and marshes, 
 (enabling, the proprietor to keep what stock he 
 pleases)^ make it an object worth the attention of 
 the farmer, trader or private gpstleman. 
 
 *Th6 Aiimver.sary- of American Independence -was cele- 
 brated at Jamaica, in 1789, by the ringing of bells, the dis- 
 play of the United States flag and repeated discharges from 
 a piece of artillery. An oi-ation was delivered by Isaac 
 Ledyard, who presided at the festival, where the usual 
 toasts were drank. Joseph Robinson, Abraham Ditmars 
 and William Lawrence, Ksq., requested a copy tf^the ora- 
 tion, which was printed in the New Ytr'i U'eekly Museum, 
 No. 61— £f/. 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 79 
 
 -,1 ;1792, Jaw.-^OgJbmel "William trndOairy Ludlo-w 
 offer for sale the farm, mow in occupationof Oliver 
 Templeton,* consisting of two hundred and eighty 
 ^cres, forty pif which is„wood-land and thirty salt- 
 ipieEido-jY;. . ; Ow?i hwdred loads of, . ssJt . hay f ^nd 
 ihiriy of timothy and clover may tp cut in comm,on 
 seasons. It is , iii a pleasant part of the country, 
 three miles from Jamaica, fox3,Tf from Newtown, six 
 from Flatbush and' nine fteim Erootlyn ferry, ^.nd 
 in the neighborhood of th6 heat fishing and. fowling, 
 where great supplies may he procured with little 
 trouble., ,,, .y ,; ■ ' • i , '. , • - "" 
 
 1792, Jfe?*, , 6.-*rJoseph Pearsall offers for sale 
 his highly manured plantation of one hundred 
 acres, twenty of which is woodland, pleasantly 
 situated on the east side of Opw Bay. It has a 
 variety of excellent fruit. The house is commodi- 
 ous, an-d has seven rooms on a floor, and an even 
 kitchen with a pufnp of good water in it, and milk- 
 roQiQ adjoining. There are from two thousand five 
 hundred to three thousand locust trees of from 
 twelve to eighteen year's growth, Whifh, in a few 
 yeg,rs, wjll be profitable for ship btdlding, 
 
 1792, Feb. &.— Albert HoOgland, Flushing, of- 
 fers for sale cheap, for no fault but only for want 
 of employ, a negro wench, aged thirty, who under- 
 stands all kinds of oountey house-work, with her 
 two children, a. girl aged eighteen, and boy aged 
 six. — Daily Advertiser. ' - 
 
 1792, Feb. 15. — JohnDudley,t during the Eevo- 
 hrtipnary war, bought, for 061,200, the' housC; of 
 George FoUiot, Jamaica, which had been confis- 
 cated to the State. He is now old and lame, and 
 as he can get nothing from Folliot, he petitions the 
 Senate of New York for reliefi— Co?. Ms's., 102. 
 
 1792, JFe&. 16. — For sale, the farm of Jonathan 
 "Wright, deceased, Flushing, one mile froia , the 
 town-landing, containing one hundred and sixty 
 acres, with an orchai'd of apples and pippins, 
 young growing. woodland, and fresh and salt inea- 
 dow. 
 
 1792. — To be sold, at private sale, on or before 
 February, 22d, a LARGE OX, between six and 
 seven feet high, and better than eight feet six 
 inches in circumference, and is now fat and fit for 
 butchering: Any person who would wish to pur- 
 chase may enquire at Hinchman's tavern, or to 
 Daniel Ludlam, the owner, one and a, half miles 
 east of Jamaica. — Daily Advertiser. 
 -1792, Feb. 22.— Siah, a negro, and Anthony, a 
 slave of Lawrence Hewlett, were frozen in South 
 Hempstead by the inclement Weather. 
 
 1792, Feb. 29'.^-For sale, the farm of, Jacob, 
 Moore, Newtown, on' the road to Jamaica, within 
 half a miles of David Titus' mill on the preek lead- 
 ing to. Flushing Bay, containing forty^five acres. 
 Sedee drifts on it. ■ - . ■ 
 
 *He wag an auctioneer and stock broker in New York.- 
 
 Ed..'-i{i.-'' •■ ■ ■■ ■ ■ ' 
 
 tDudley kept a bakery where Kemsen's hotel now is.- 
 
 Ed..,.., ./I ' •■■• ' ' ' ■ ' 
 
 1792.— John and Peter Hendricksoii, Foster's 
 Meadow, offer for sale, at vendue/ May 1st, the 
 valuable farm of Isaac Hendrickson, lately de- 
 ceased, containing one hundred and iifty acres, a 
 good house, barn, and bearing orchard. 
 
 ■ 'ME. GfiEElN-LEAP : On Tuesday, May 1st, 
 1792, the Academy, in Jamaica, called Union Hall, 
 pursuant to an advertisement in your paper, was 
 opened for the reception of students. I was pres- 
 ent and participated in all that satisfaction which 
 generally arises from the establishment of SHch in- 
 institutions, and was highly pleased with the cere- 
 mony observed on the occasion, by the trustees of 
 the seminary. By inserting the following you will 
 oblige a ■ CXJSTOiCEE. 
 
 About twelve lO'clock the Trustees moved in 
 procession from Hinchman's Inn, Jamaica, to the 
 Hall, the Secretary being in front and bearing tlie 
 charter granted by the Regents. On arriving at 
 the Academy, they were conducted by the master 
 buUder to the Hall. The company then being 
 seated, a Psalm was sung by a number of young 
 ladies and gentlemen, selected for the purpose. An 
 oration was delivered by Abraham Skinner, Esq., 
 to a very numerous and respectable audience, and 
 an ode (compossd by the Rev. George Faitoute, 
 suited to the occasion) being chanted, concluded 
 the business. 
 
 The Trustees then returned to the inn, and be- 
 ing honored with the company of several strange 
 gentlemen, as well as others of the village, diiled 
 together. After dinner a number of well adapted 
 toasts and sentiments were drank ; the whole was 
 conducted with the greatest harmony, and good 
 humor. 
 
 N. B. Attendance will be given at Union Hall, 
 on Monday morning the 21st of May, by Mr. 
 Maltby Gelston, a gentleman of approved charac- 
 ter and abilities. The prices for which ttiition may 
 be had are : for the Latin and Greek languages, 
 mathematics, &c., <£6 per annum ; writing, arith- 
 metic and English grammar, 664 ; reading, writing 
 and arithmetic, 663.4 ; reading and. writing, ^2,8 ; 
 reading only =62, Board laay be had on very 
 reasonable terms. , 
 
 Subscribers for building an Academy at Jamai- 
 ca: 
 
 John Allen, £3 
 John Amberman, 
 
 William Ballard, 3 
 
 Bobert Benson, 2 
 
 Eichard Betts, 1 
 
 Barnet Beunet, 4 
 
 JJEhraim Bayles, 2 
 
 ipanielBayles, ■ „3 
 
 Leonard Bleeker, '5 
 
 Edward Bardin, 10 
 
 Joseph Beesley, 1 
 
 Cornelius I. Bogert, ^ 
 
 Awry Boerum, . 1 
 
 ■Wiliiain Buckle, - 5 
 
 James Burling, ; 3 
 
 Jacqb Beadle, , , 1 
 
 Samuel Brownjohn, 10 
 
 Benjamin Carpenter, £3.4 
 
 2 William Carpenter, 1 
 
 Whitehead CornBll, 3 
 
 Lewis Cornwall, - 3 
 
 Thomas Comw'ell, 1 
 
 Cornelius Creed, 2 
 
 William Creed, 3d, 2 
 
 Benjamin Coe, 2 
 
 ■^iiliani Cree3, Jr.; 5 
 
 Charles Crommehn, 5 
 
 Sylvester CornBll, 1 
 
 M:,atth6w M. Clarkson, 10 
 
 Governor Clinton, 10 
 
 Eobert Crommelin, 10 
 
 'James Cumniing, ■ 2 
 
 James Depeyster; 30 
 
 Abraham Ditmars, Jr., 5 
 
 19 
 
80 
 
 'iQ"[Ji:3E'N:S COtTN'Ty 
 
 Samuel Denton, 
 James Denton, , 
 John Dewint, 
 John Dixon, " \ 
 Henry Dawsen, 
 Abraham Ditmars, 
 Jarvis ,Doh,bSi, 
 Thomas Durie, 
 Jdlm Durye, 
 Aaron Duryfi, 
 John Dudley, , 
 John Eyeys, 
 Samuel Eldert, 
 Henclrick Eldert, 
 NicholaB Everitt, 
 WiUlam Edgar, 
 
 ,3 
 
 ■8 
 -5' . 
 1 
 2 
 5 
 3 
 2 
 2 
 1 
 3 
 
 1 
 1 
 
 10 
 20 
 
 Eev. George Faitoute, 10 
 Robert Furman, 5 
 
 Seth Fairchild, 3 
 
 William Forbes, 4 
 
 Thomas Fairchild, 1 
 
 James Foster, 35 
 
 Samuel Forbes, 5 
 
 Waters Forbes,' 2 
 
 Luke Fleet, 30 
 
 John Faulkner, ' ■ ' 2 
 Matthe-vv Farrington, 1. '4 
 James Herriman, 30 
 
 Stephen Heniman, 25 
 Joanna Hinchman, 20 
 Richard Holland, 2 
 
 Jonah Hallet, 3 
 
 John Hinchman, . 4 
 
 Bernardus Hend;:ickson, 5 
 John B. Hicks, ' 4 
 
 Eev. William Hammell, 4. 5 
 Henry Higbie, 1 
 
 Daniel Higbie, 2 
 
 Hendrick Hehdrickson, 5 
 William Hendrickson, 1 
 Richard Harrison, 2 
 
 Albert Hoogland, 
 
 3 loads timber., 
 Jonathan Jones, 1 
 
 Martin Johnson, 5 
 
 John Jay, 5 
 
 Daniel Kissam 5 
 
 Dr. William Lawton, 2 
 Isaac LeiFerts, Jr., .5 
 
 Dr. Isaac Ledyard, 3 
 
 David Lamberson, 30 
 Waters Lamberson, 3 
 Nathaniel Lawrence, 5 
 William Lewis, 1 
 
 Bernardus Lamberson, 10 
 Hendrick Lott, 1 
 
 Francis Lewis, Jr., 4 
 
 William Ludlam, 3 
 
 Nicholas Ludlum, 3 
 
 Dr. Daniel Minema, 10 
 James Mqrrell, .2 
 
 Dr. Samuel L. Mitchell, 3 
 ■Uriah Mitchell, 2 
 
 Lambert Moore, 2 
 
 James Maekrel, 40 
 
 Nathaniel Mills, 10 
 
 Jacob Morton, 4 
 
 Alexander McComb, 5. 4 
 
 i^atrick MacDavitt, 1 
 
 John Murray, 2 
 
 Dr. Jacob Ogden, 10 
 
 Richard Piatt, 10. • 
 
 William PiT,nce, , 8! '; 
 
 Jpseph Robinson, 10, 
 
 James Eenvrick, 3 
 
 Michael Ritter, Jr., 1 
 
 Nathaniel Ehoades , 2 ' 
 
 AbLathar Ehoades, 15 
 
 James Smith, 5 
 
 Christopher. Sinitji, 15 
 
 Abraham, Skinner, ,' 10,, 
 Melanoton Smith, 5 
 
 James Southard, 3 
 
 Mary Smith, 2 
 
 Rem Snedeker, „ , 1 
 
 Femetie Suydam, 2 
 
 John Smith', Sr,i ' ,5 
 
 Daniel Smith, 2,, 
 
 John Smith, Jr., 3 
 
 Silvester Smith', , 3 
 
 J(jhti I. Skidmore, 2 
 
 Joshua Sands, .5 
 Eliphalet Sti-atton, ' 5 
 
 Thomas H. Smith, ■ i; 4 
 
 Captain John Smith, 2 
 
 Nicholas Smi,th, 3 
 
 bthniel Smith, 10 
 
 Abigail Skidmore, 1 
 David Sprang, 5 
 
 Jacob Smith, 10 
 
 Platt Smith, Jr., 10 
 
 John Troup, 10 
 
 Ebbert Troup, 2 
 
 Joseph Totten, 6 
 
 Eichard Thorne. ' 1.13 
 
 David Titus, 2 
 
 Benjamin Thurston, 5 
 
 John Th'atford, 3 
 
 Daniel Tuthill, 5 ■ 
 
 AbjahamTuthill, .4 
 
 James Van Lew, 10 
 
 Eichard Van Dam, 5 
 Eev. Eynier Van Nest, 5 
 
 John Van Lew, 1 
 
 Jost Van Brunt, 3 
 Abraham Van Arsdale, 2 
 
 John Vantobilt, 2 
 
 Samuel Vail, 5 
 
 John Van Lew, 5 
 John Van Dyne, 10 
 
 Eliphalet Wickes, . 10 
 
 John Williamson, 10 
 
 Samuel Welling, 3 
 
 Thomas Willet, 3 
 
 James Willet. 2 
 
 Lawrence Willet, 2 
 
 James WoodhuU, 3 
 
 James Waters, 20 
 
 William Warne, 5 
 
 William Waters, 10 
 
 Thomas Welling, 3 
 
 John Wykoff, 4 
 
 William WiUdns, 1. 4 
 
 Stephen Wright, 3 
 
 Ou the completion of the Academy a principal 
 was fought for, and letters sent to the Eev. Cave 
 Jones, Gerghom Williams, William Green and 
 Maltby Gelston. The last was appointed, receiv- 
 ing for his compepsation the profits arising from 
 the tuition of the scholars. The following text 
 books were adopted by the Trustees ; ' - ' 
 
 English. — 1. The Monitor — to be read daily as 
 the last lesson. 
 
 .2. Webster's Grammar — to be read, or repeated 
 by memory. ■ 
 
 3. The Testament or Bible— to be read by infe- 
 rior scholars, and once a day by aU. 
 ,.;Latm, — 1. EiMs', E.uddiman% or John Holmes' 
 (jj-rammar. 
 
 2. ColloquiaGorderii, Erasmus, Selectee VeteHs-, 
 Selectse profanis, Nepos, ^sop's fables, Floras, 
 Mair's Introduction, Gsssar, Virgil, Cicero's Ora- 
 tions and De Oratore, Hm-aee. ' 
 
 'Cfreelc.— -Moore's Grammar, Testaihetit, Lucian's 
 Dialogues, 'the OyropBedia, Longinus, the Iliad. 
 
 Mhetoric. — Blair's Belles Lettres. 
 
 Geogr(vp}iy.—:G:\i&.n<i'a or Salmon's grammar. 
 
 IIq,tliematie.s. — Stone's Euclid, Martin's Trigor 
 poinetry, or liVarden's Ma,thematics. 
 
 .Among. the Rules were the following : 
 
 3d. Every scholar when the tutor, or any gen- 
 tleman, comes in or goes out, shall i-ise up with a 
 respectful' bow. 
 
 7th. Ev^y scholar shall be particularly careftil 
 to treat all men, and especially known superiors, 
 with the greatest modesty and respect.' 
 
 The motto of the seal was : 
 
 SigillMmAulm Unitatii. Semper luceat scientice' 
 scH.. Within : Hie lux et-veritatis. 
 
 In English : The seal of Union Hall. May the 
 sun of scieace always shine. Here be light and 
 truth.]— JEc?. 
 
 1792, May 18. — Uriah Pearsall begs leave to ac- 
 quaint the public that he has erected a stage-wagon,, 
 calculated for the convenience of passengers from 
 Rockaway and Brooklyn for the summer season. 
 It will leave William Pearsall's tavern, Near 
 Rockaway, Monday and Friday, at twelve o'clock, 
 and return, Tuesday and Saturday, at eight pre- 
 cisely, at the moderate price of 5s. each passenger. 
 — Daily Ad/o, 
 
 1792, June- 2. — Died, at Jamaica, on Saturday 
 last, sincerely regretted by all who knew him, Mr. 
 Stephen Herriman. He was unfortunately thrown 
 from a chair, on the 18th ult., and fractured his 
 leg, of which he died. — Neio Yorjo Weekly Muse- 
 um. 
 
 1792, June 6. — Vote of Queens County': 
 Governor. Senators. 
 
 P 
 
 O 5-1 
 
 „ :•:. "'. ^- 
 
 Oysterbay, - - - 85 58 
 
 Soutli Hempstead,' 155 84 
 
 North Hempstead, - 68 60 
 
 Newtown, - - - J12 39 
 
 Flushing, .... 53 23 
 
 Jamaica, 60 
 
 
 g, 
 
 a<3 
 
 34 
 
 16 
 10 
 49 
 
 X 
 
 1 9 
 38 20 
 
 83 107 
 — 209 
 11 139 
 
 44 
 53 
 
 >^ 
 
 6 
 
 i 
 
 20 
 
 48 
 1? 
 
 17 
 113 
 
 15 
 134 
 
 18 
 
 21 
 
 Total, 
 
 - 533 " 288 115 71 620 • 92 318 
 
 'Elected. 
 
IN OLDEN TIME 
 
 1792, JvXy 5. — Eichard Betts, Newtown, wliile 
 riding on the axle-tree of a bark-mill, wliere Peter 
 Seaman was grinding bark with a Tiorse, fell from 
 it, and tbe wieei passed over and killed him. 
 
 l79S, Sti^t. 6. — $8 Beward and charges. — :Ean 
 aWay from Abraham Polhemus, Newtown, a mu- 
 latto fellow. Jack, aged sixteen, who had on a fus- 
 tian coat rather small for him, and wears his hair 
 tied. 
 
 1792. — ^Died, August 28th, at Whea-tly, Jacob- 
 Titus, aged ninety. He lived to see the fifth gen- 
 eration of his descendants, and has left surviving 
 children, grand-cMldren and great grand-children, 
 &c., upwards of 25Q, — Daily Adn. 
 
 1792. — The Beaver Pond Races iDegin October 
 18th, (if fair weather) at half-past one o'clock. A 
 purse of 6620 — the best of three two-mile heats. 
 Entrance with William Warne, 20s. The next 
 day a saddle, bridle and whip to be run for -(free 
 for any hcrrse ftiat did not run the first day) the 
 best of three one-mile heats. $1,00 entrance. 
 
 P, S. Not less than three reputable horses to 
 start. 
 
 1792, Nov. 1. — Fox Hu/nting. — The hunt will 
 be on Long Island, Friday next. The dogs will 
 be cast off at sun-rise that morning, in Mr. Dough- 
 ty's woods, south- of Jamaica. 
 
 MAESff, Huntsman. 
 
 1792, Dec. 11. — Leonard Lawrence offers for 
 sale his farm of two hundred and fifty acres,- with 
 twenty of salt-meadow, two and a half miles from 
 Flushing Landing. It is well timbered with abun- 
 •danc« of young locust and other trees. On it are a 
 barn, two hovels, new granary, crib, and €hair- 
 house. 
 
 1792, Dec. 15. — Amos Mills offers for sale his 
 farm of one hundred and forty acres, at tbe east 
 end of Jamaica. It has a stone wel^, and cuts fif- 
 ty loads of timothy and clover. 
 
 1793, Jan. 5- — A Long Island Twg equal to a 
 Connecticut wonder. — A FACT. — Mr. John Hutch- 
 ings Smith, near Flushing, a few days ago killed a 
 hog, of his own raising, which weighed, when 
 dressed, six hundred aixd thirty-one pounds. 
 
 1793, Jan. 9. — David Underbill, Flushing, of- 
 fers for sale bis farm of one hundred acres, ten of, 
 salt meadow awd ,ten of young timber, two and a 
 half miles from the town. On it is a grist-mill 
 with two run of stones, and plenty of water for a 
 sloop to come along side for burthen. 
 
 .1793, Jan. 11. — John Siwonson, Westbury, of- 
 fers for sale his farm of one hundred and ten acres, 
 thirty, of which is woodland, three-quarters of a 
 mile from the Meeting-house, and twenty -two from 
 Brooklyn ferry, on the main road to Huntington. 
 .On it are a crib, bam, smoke-house, chair-house, 
 &c. 
 
 1793, Jan. 11.-^ James Barling, Flushing, offers 
 
 for sale his farm, of over one hundred acres, in ex- 
 cellent fence, one and a half miles from the land- 
 ing. It has a large pond in the centre for cattle, a 
 variety of fruits, sucli as apples, pears, plums, 
 cherries, peaches and apricots. There is a swamp 
 ■of thrifty wood affording sufBcient firing for the 
 place, also fresh and salt meadow producing suffi- 
 cient hay for the farm. 
 
 1793, Jan. 11.— $5 Beward and charges. — Ean 
 away from Thomas Lawrence, Newtown, a negro 
 boy, Harry, a^ged eighteen, of remarkably dark 
 complexion. He had on a dark blue coating jack- 
 et, checkered, light striped elastic vest, and dark 
 mixed serge overalls. 
 
 1793, Jan. 19. — For sale, a farm of one hundred 
 and sixty-five acres, occupied by Creed & Mills, 
 on which is a stone house, four miles west of Ja- 
 maica and eight from Brooklyn ferry. 
 
 1793, Jan. 24. — Judith Townsend, Oysterbdy, 
 offers for . sale the farm of Esther Townsend, de- 
 ceased, containing twenty-nine acres. It is a con- 
 venient stand at the junction of three most public 
 roads leading from different parts of the town to 
 the town mills and public landing. 'It has an ex- 
 cellent land and water prospect, and would suit a 
 private family, a tradesman, a store or tavern- 
 keeper. The black grass and meadow are in full 
 view of the house. 
 
 1793, Jan. 26. — Caroline Bowne offers for sale 
 a valuable farm in Flushing, two miles from the 
 landing, on the main road to the east end of the 
 Island, and sixteen miles from New York. It 
 contains one hundred and seventy acres, fifty of 
 which is woodland with a large quantity of timber 
 on it, and twenty acres of salt rueadow. A large 
 quantity of fresh grass may be cut almost any 
 year. On it are three orchards, a large barn, and 
 work-shop with granary above. The stock and 
 farming utensils, such as wagons, chairs, sleighs, 
 plows, &c., will be sold at the same time. 
 
 1793, Jan. 23. — Died, Martin Schenck, Treasu- 
 rer of Queens. County. John M. Smith was ap- 
 pointed in his stead. 
 
 1793, Feb. 18.— To let, the pleasant and eligible 
 house and farm of two hundred acres, and salt 
 meadow, at Flushing, Bay side, at present in the 
 tenure of William Ouvet and John Peck. It has • 
 a prospect of the Sound and all vessels passing. 
 The house is very large and two hundred yards 
 from the river which is plentifully stocked with a 
 variety of fish, that with a net can be drawn up 
 on the beach in large quantities. Enquire of Eli- 
 jah Pell, N. Y. 
 
 1793.— Died, at Halifax, Feb. 16, Elizabeth, 
 the amiable consort of Lawrence Hartshorne, mer- 
 chant of that place, and daughter of Mr. William 
 Ustick, of Flushing. — Daily Adv. 
 
 1793. — To the electors of Queens County, At 
 a respectable meeting of the electors of Newtown, 
 
82 
 
 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 \ 
 
 at Abraham Rapelye's, February 27tli, Colonel 
 Daniel Lawrence in the chair, it was requested 
 that a correspondence should be entered into with 
 the other towns of this county to fi.x on a proper 
 person to represent them in the Legislature ; 
 
 Besolved, That Isaac Corsa, John Lawrence and 
 Robert Moore, Esq^rs., be a committee fcir that pur- 
 pose ; „ r . • i 
 
 Besolved, That it is the intent of this meeting to 
 support Samuel Riker for Assembly. 
 
 1793, Feb. 20. — Vote of Long Island for a mem- 
 ber of Congress : 
 
 Newtown, 
 
 Jamaica, . - - - 
 
 Flushing, 
 
 South Hempstead, 
 
 Kbrth Hempstead, - 
 
 Oysterhay, - ■ - - 
 
 Suffolk- CouAty, 
 
 Kings Coan^, - 
 
 Total, - - - 769 673 1446 
 
 1793, Feb. 28.— George Townsend offers for 
 sale the farm of Benjamin Townsend, deceased, at 
 Jericho. It is not inferior to any and contains 
 one hundred and sixty acres, forty of which is 
 timbered. On it are a plenty of fruit trees, crib, 
 smoke-house and chair-house. Near the farm is a 
 one hundred acre lot of- the Plains in gooid fence. 
 
 Wo 
 
 Is- 
 
 It 
 
 
 V P 
 
 
 
 39 
 
 7 
 
 74 
 
 31 
 
 23 
 
 76 
 
 76 
 
 20 
 
 15 
 
 27 
 
 431 
 
 16 
 
 23 
 
 82 
 
 31 
 
 lft4 
 
 45 
 
 153 
 
 44 
 
 30 
 
 1069 
 
 425 
 
 1 35 
 
 12 
 
 1793. — At a numerous and respectable meeting ; 
 of the electors of Flushing, Newtown and Jamaica, 
 at Mrs. Hinchman's, Jamaica, March 2d, Major 
 Lewis Cornwall in the chair and Eliphalet Wickes, 
 Clerk ; it was voted and agreed, by a large majo- 
 rity, that Pr. Isaac Ledyard and John B. Hicks, 
 be held up as proper persons to' represent this 
 county in the Assembly. ' 
 
 1793.;^Siineon DeWitt, Surveyor-General, ad- 
 vertises for sale, March 5 th, at the house of Dan- 
 iel Monfort, Norwich, all the right and title of the 
 people of the State of New York to the lands 
 deemed to be forfeited by the attainder of Thomas 
 Jones, viz : all the meadow, fresh and'salt, lying 
 on the south side of Long Island, joining to the 
 Beach^ between, the gut called Massapage, west, 
 or thereabout, and the west gut, called Merrick 
 gut, and Ijhe hammocks and broken meadow lying 
 between Oysterbay Ineadow and the beach, with 
 the privilege pf the beach, to the' salt sea. Deed 
 given without warrantec^-iV. Y. Journal. 
 
 1793, March 11.— Samael Underbill, Flushings 
 offers for sale that pleasant and advantageously 
 situated place, of seventy acres of upland and four- 
 teen of salt meadow, near the landing, and adjoin- 
 ing the place formerly of Robert Crommelin. On 
 it is an orchard of apples, peaches, plums, &c. 
 
 *Electea. 
 
 vm, March 23.— Dr. S. L. Mitchell advises 
 the farmers, as fencing stuff is becoraing scarce, to 
 plant hedges of the white mulberry* whose leaves 
 would also yield food for the silk-worm.— Uai?2/' 
 Advertiser. 
 
 1793, March 26. — Samuel Jackson offers- for 
 sale his farm, at Oysterbay, thirty-four miles from 
 New York, near Cbld Spring, a,nd. within one mile 
 of the landing, whence sloopK attend the New 
 York market weekly. It contains three hundred 
 acres, of which two hundred is timber land,- theje- 
 mainder arable. 
 
 • 1793, Marek 2S.— Takea up. a swimjubing, at ; 
 Hell-Gate, by Caleb Schuyler, a horse, which _ is 
 now on Barn Island. The owner may have him 
 by paying all costs and charges accruing. If not 
 claimed in two months, he will be sold to defray 
 expenses. — Daik/ Adv. ' 
 
 1793, Juhj 6.— William Warne informs the 
 public in general and his former cnstomers that he 
 has furnished himself with an elegant coachse- stif- 
 ficiently large to casrj six passengers.. It will 
 run daily, except Suaidays, from his horaaei Jamai- 
 ca, at 7, and return from Mr. Allen's, Brooklyn 
 fei;ry, at 4, at the moderate price of 25. 6af. Let^ 
 ters and newspapers for customers carried gratis. 
 
 1793, Sept. 18. — Beaver Pond Baces.—A. purse 
 of c=e20 — entrance with William Warne, 20s. The 
 next day a race for a saddle, bridle and whip.. 
 Nat less than, thxee reputable horses to start. 
 
 1793, Sept 24.— Edmund Ludlow, of New 
 York, gentleman, was indicted in Queens- Ctuoty- 
 for an assaiult on Elizabeth: Keteltas, of Jamaica. 
 He gave bail for his appearanqe at trial in the 
 sum of £2,000— Carey and Gabriel W. Ludlow, 
 £1000 each J but he failed to appear and the 
 .Court ordered that their recognizances be estreat- 
 eA.^— Court Minutes'. 
 
 1793. — Absalom, otherwise called Bob, a negro, 
 was tried, Septemher 24th, before Judge Lansing, 
 for robbery and assault on Elizabeth Mercier, 
 Newtown, and sentenced to be hanged, October 
 25th, at the usual place of execution. The wit- 
 nesses were Jonah Hallet, John D. Mercier and 
 William Lawrence. He was twenty-one weeks in 
 jail. 
 
 1793. Dee. 2. — Charles Gallifar, . schoolmaster, 
 going from Hog Island to Oak Neck, being intoxi- 
 cated with liquor, fell into the bay and was 
 drowned instantly. 
 
 17Q3, Dea. 31. — $15 2?e««fflf c?.-T-|Ean away from 
 Samuel Fish, Newtown, a negro man, Pompey, 
 aged thirty. He has a down look when spoken 
 to and had his shoses tied 'with strings. 
 
 *Instead of prim formerly used, but killed by frost in 
 1779-80.— E«[. 
 
 tMiss Keteltas, March 12, 1798, petiticmed the X^egislature 
 tor a grant of the money thus forfeited. 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 83 
 
 1793, Dec. 25,— Charles Doughty, Flushing; of- 
 fers for sale the farm of Benjamin Dusenbury, de- 
 ceased, at Foster's Meadow, on the road from Ja- 
 maica to Hempstead, containing one hundred and 
 forty acrosi. It is a good stand for a shopkeeper, 
 as a shop has been k,ept there many years. It has 
 an apple orchai'd,, and other trees., 
 
 1794, Jan. 11.— $10 Bewai-d. — Ran away from 
 John Rapelye, Newtown, a negro boy, Joo^.aged 
 twenty, who speaks plain Englisla. He had on a 
 blue, long coat, drab overallsj shoes tied and a felt 
 hat. 
 
 1794, Jan. 6. — Jonah Hallet, Esq;, offers for 
 sale two farm,s, occupied by Ixjln, in the centre of 
 the pleasant and salubrious town of NeSvtowh. 
 There are seventy -five acres, ten of whicliis mea- 
 dow, producing forty loads ot English* li&,y, one 
 two-story double house,, and a stone house and 
 kitchen. 
 
 1794., Jan. 6. — James Lloyd, of Bostoh,offers 
 for sale the house, barn, and farm of six hundred 
 acres, on the east end of Lloyd's Neck, so well 
 known for its convenient situation and other valu^ 
 able properties. 
 
 1794, Jan. 11.- — ^10 Beivard. — Han away from 
 John Rapelye, Newtown, a negro boy, Joe, aged 
 twenty, who speaks plain English. He had on a 
 blue long coat, drab overalls, shoes tied and a felt 
 hat. 
 
 1794, Jan. 18. — Died, on Monday, at Newtown, 
 "William Lawrence, Esq., aged sixty-five.. His re- 
 mains were interred in the family bui'yiiiig ground, 
 attended by a large colleoti&n of relations and 
 friends. In Mm, his wife is bereft of an affection- 
 ate husband, his children of a loving and indulgent 
 pareilt, Ms-relations of a worthy and- sincere friend, 
 and the-publicof a-useful, benevolent and.valuable 
 man. — Daily Adv._ 
 
 1794, Jan. 22. — Jbsiah Blaekwell, Nfewtown, 
 offers for sale half of Blackwell^s Island, consisting 
 of fifty-nine acres, with house, two orchards and a 
 number of ^quarries of the best, gray stone, which 
 are an inexhaustible source of profit. 
 
 l'794.__Died, Jan. 25, after a very short illness, 
 Ee\!. Leonard Cutting, aged sixty-nine, formerly 
 professor of Greek and Latin at Columbia Collie, 
 then rector of St. George's Church, Hempstead, 
 and late- of- Christ Church, Newbern, N. C. For 
 learning, probity, unaffected piety and a generous 
 spirit of. independence, he was respected, esteemed 
 and beloved equally by his pupils, parishioners 
 and friends.— J)m7y A dv. 
 
 1794; Jem. 28.— Charles Farrington offdrs fOr 
 sale his farm, of fortj acres, two njiles from New- 
 town landing. 
 
 1794, Feb. 9 .-^tS . Bewar^.^-^&n away from 
 Abraham Polhemus, Newtown, a negro man, Jack, 
 who wore a jacket with sleeve.s, an(i his haur tied 
 couped at the ears,. 
 
 1794, Feb. 10. — For sale, the plantation, late of 
 Townsend Dickenson," deceased, at Cedar Swamp, 
 containing two hundred and thirty acres, forty of 
 which is timbered with oak, hickory and chestnut. 
 The farm is natural for grais and grain, and lies 
 two miles from a landing. Enquire of Isaac Un- 
 derbill, -Flushing jA'mos Underhill, on the premi- 
 ses, or David Underbill, New York. 
 
 1794, Feb 12. — Dr. Daniel Menema, Jamaica, is 
 appointed Sheriff of Queens County, 
 
 1794, Feb. IS.^Ran away from Henry Prior, 
 Oysterbay, Jacob Tobias, a white boy, aged four- 
 teen. H-o-had on a mixed colored coatee, jacket, 
 breeches, and old hat. Is. Q>d. reward. 
 
 1794,;J'e&. 21.— For sale, the farm, of William 
 Lawrence, deceased, Newtown, qontaiuing two 
 hundred and thirty acres of arable, timber and 
 meadow land, fenced principally with stone, one 
 inile from Hallett's Cove. It "has a delightful and 
 singularly extensive prospect. On it are a barn 
 with shelters ou each side, a granary with a cider- 
 iuill under it, a stone smoke-house, barrack, crib, 
 &e., four orchards, producing one thousand barrels 
 of pippins and two hundred barrels of cider. 
 There is an excellent stone-quarry and an acre of 
 ■'turf-meadow.,' 
 
 1794, Feb. 22.^-Daniel Lawrence; John B. 
 Hicks and Thomas Cornwell, offer for sale the 
 farm of John Talman, deceased, two miles from 
 Bayside landing, where a great variety of fish are 
 ' oaiight, and shad in their season. It is' one and a 
 half miles from two'grist-mills-.. On it are a double 
 two-story house with two- kitehens, two barns, & 
 granary, wagon-house and crib. • 
 
 1794) March 4.— Abiathar 'Rhode's offers, on 
 generous terms, his beautiful ikoA. pleasant farm of 
 three , hundred and seventy acres,, with woodlapd 
 
 , aod salt and fresh meadow, at Jamaica South.. 
 On it are anew house with four-xooms on the first 
 and second floors, a large apple orchard of grafted 
 fruit. It is convenient for getting sedge off the 
 marsh, and; has- an extensive prospect, bounded 
 only by the extremity of the watery distance, the 
 
 ; bay and sea lying before tjie house. 
 
 1794i March 12. — Abraham , Eolhemus, Sr., 
 Dutch Kills, offers for sale his farm, of sixty or 
 seventy acres, on which, are an,, orchard, weave- 
 shop, &c. 
 
 1794, Jfarc/j 15.— Abraham Skinner, Jamaica, 
 offers for salg his farm, of forty acres, six of mea- 
 dow and eight, of w.oodland. , It would suit a gen- 
 tleman or farmer, and, has every, conveniency. 
 The house has seven roibms, a pantry,-with kitchen 
 adjoining, and a well near th.e kitchen- door. 
 
 1794, -Marc^. 14.:— To let,, the house and farm, 
 where William Peavsall now.-lives, at Near Bocka^ 
 way, within twenty rods of Dorlqn's mill, where 
 vessels go and come from New York, every week 
 during summer, and wher.Q mfiy be had a grea^. 
 plenty of' fish and fowl in t&ir season. Th 
 
 20 
 
84 
 
 QUEENS' ebUNTY 
 
 pleasantness of the place (as "it ig so well kn6wn( 
 needs no further recommeadation. 
 
 n 9 4:, April 21. — ^^Beaver'iPoiid ^ae;es, on Mon- 
 day. Purse, ^£30. Entrance,' 2'Qs„ the Saturday 
 before. j4.ny "horse that has won dfiSO must carry 
 ^x lbs. extraviweigjht. Next day a race for an ele- 
 gant saddle. 
 
 l'79i,, April 2.— $10 MeiiJard.^-Jla.n away from 
 Charles Hewtett, 'Eastw&ois, a negro man, aged 
 twenty-five, named Spry or Zenas. 
 
 1794, April' 8:— John B. Hicks offers for sale 
 .iis. farm., of two h!un;dred and forty-five acres, west 
 side of Little Neck Bay commonly called Bayside. 
 On it is a good dwelling-house, with an adjoining 
 one for an overseer, a 'spring of water before the 
 door, and a large orchard of winter and cider ap- 
 ples. 
 
 1794;, June 18. — EDUOATION.~An Academy 
 is just opened at the pleasant and healthy town of 
 South Hempstead, wherein the Greek, Latin, 
 Trench and English languages will be faithfully 
 taught, and the morals and manners of the youth 
 diligently inspected and carefully regulated. The 
 laws made for the government of the Institution, 
 and terms on which board and tuition can be ob- 
 tained, may be known by applying to the printer. 
 
 By, order of the Trustees, ~ • 
 
 John Lepfeets, Secretary/. 
 
 1794, Oct. 8. — The Beaver Pond Eaces took 
 place on Tuesday last, • Six horses -ran for the 
 Purse of ^eiOO. Polydme, of New York, took the 
 first and second he.atand pjirs?. On Wednesday, 
 a purse of £bO was run far iby seven Jiprses, and 
 takea by Young Messenger, from, New Jersey, .over 
 Gold Toes, of New Yprk, -who" won the first heat. 
 On Thursday, a purse of .£47 10s. was run for by 
 six horses, and taken by Bed Bird. There were 
 between two and three thousand spectators and no 
 accident happened. — N. Y, Journal. 
 
 Names of persons who contributed to the repairs 
 and support of of the Episcopal Church, in Jamai- 
 ca., at various times, from 1,786 .to 1794 : 
 
 Mackerel,. James 1793 
 
 .McNeil, Charles 1793 
 
 Morrei, James 1793 
 
 Moulton, Charles 1793 
 
 Ogden, Jacob 1793 
 
 Ogdeu, Peter 1784 
 
 Pettit, Isaac 1793 
 
 Skinner, Abraham ■.1786 
 
 Smith, Christopher 1786 
 
 Thatford, John 1793 
 
 Troup, John 1786 
 Troup, JKobert 
 
 Van Nostrand, Aaron 1784 
 
 ■Van Nostraud, John, 1793 
 
 Waiters,- William 1786 
 
 Watersy John I. 1786 
 
 Welling, Thomas 1786 
 
 M^'elling, Samuel 1786 
 
 1795.— -Jan Cth was observed as a d?iy of Hu- 
 
 Bardiu, Edward 
 
 1786 
 
 Battin, John 
 
 1.793 
 
 Bedel Jacob. Clerk 
 
 1786 
 
 Betts, Thomas 
 
 1786 
 
 Brownjohu, Samuel 
 
 1786 
 
 Carpenter, Benjamin 
 
 1793 
 
 Charlton, John 
 
 1786 
 
 Clarkson, Levinus* ■ 
 
 1793 
 
 Colgan, Thomas 
 
 1786 
 
 CrommeUn, Robert 
 
 1793 
 
 Depeyster, .Tames 
 
 1786 
 
 Dudley, John 
 
 il793 
 
 Dunn, John 
 
 1794 
 
 Edgar, William 
 
 1786 
 
 Eldert, Samuel 
 
 1786 
 
 Fleming, .Samson, , 
 
 1786 
 
 Hinchman, John 
 
 1794 
 
 Kissam; JD'^niel 
 
 1786 
 
 Ed. 
 
 He died at Jamaica, jMay 24, 1798, ^ed fifty-eight.— 
 
 iiiiliation and Prayer, throughout the State's of 
 New York ariS -New Jersey. 
 
 1795. — Canvass of the vote of Queens Ciounty : 
 
 Congress. 
 
 
 
 
 If 
 
 ll 
 
 CD ri 
 
 CO w, 
 
 ll 
 
 W 
 
 * 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 Oysterbay, ' - - 
 
 - 55 
 
 59 
 
 15 
 
 64 
 
 ' 4 
 
 18 
 
 South Hempstead,- 
 
 - 23 
 
 ai4 
 
 304 
 
 36 
 
 6 
 
 1 
 
 North Hempstead, 
 
 - 42 
 
 86 
 
 30 
 
 51 
 
 19 
 
 J8 
 
 Flushing, - - - 
 
 - 34 
 
 5a 
 
 1 
 
 54 
 
 2 
 
 4 
 
 Jamaica, - 
 
 - 75 
 
 23 
 
 26 
 
 35 
 
 17 
 
 7 
 
 Newtown, 
 
 - 77 
 
 48 
 
 
 
 37 
 
 26 
 
 3 
 
 Total, 306 482 376 277 74 ,61 
 
 . 1795. — During a severe snow storm the ancient 
 family of Stites, Hempstead, became extinct. The 
 father, William, and his .sons, all went into the b^ 
 and a snow storm suddenly coming up.'tliey were 
 unable to rea,ch any human abode. The next 
 morning they were found frozen to' death, in a 
 boat-house near their boat. 
 
 1795, A2ml 8. — James Lawrence, Flushing, of- 
 fers for sale his farm, of one hundred and thirty- 
 five acres. It is three miles from Jamaica. 
 
 1795, April 8.— Jacob Hicks, Far Rockaway, 
 ofi'ers.i'or sale his farm, of four hundred acres, on 
 the road to the sea-shore. It has' a view, of the 
 sea half a mile distant. 
 
 1795, June 28. — Sarah Lawrence^^a girl, by ac- 
 -cident, fell in the mill-j)ond, .called the Alley, and 
 was drowned. 
 
 1795. — A number of the inhalbitants of North 
 Hempstead met to celebrate the jFaurth .of July, 
 on the spot where they raised the.Standard of Lib- 
 erty, in 1775.. The day was spent with great 
 harmony, and decorum, and the following toasts 
 were drank : 
 
 1. The Fourth of July, may it ever be respected, 
 and never abused. 
 
 2. The United States of America. 
 
 3. The President of th^ United States. 
 
 4. The State of .New York. 
 
 5. The Governor .of tliis State. 
 
 6. The Congress of the United States. 
 
 7. Agriculture, Commerce and Manufactures. 
 
 8. The Republic of France. ' 
 
 9. The Republic of Holland. 
 
 10. A general peace in Europe, favorable to Re- 
 publics 
 
 .11. He whose country is the world, and whose 
 religion is to do good. 
 
 12. May the citizens of the United States, in 
 their prosperity, never forget industry, economy 
 and Justice. 
 
 13. The" Rights of Man. Three cheers. 
 
 14. May each return of the daj-, bring to our 
 country an increase of happiness.' ' ' ' ■ ■ ' ' 
 
 '•Elected;, : : . , , ;,, , ' , 
 
 tYates ran twice for Governor; first on the Federal, and 
 then on the Eepublican ticket, but was never elected.— £</! 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 85 
 
 12. The American Fair. Three' eMers. 
 
 1795, Sept 23.— I'or sale, the tarfn of 3ohn 
 Troup, consisting- of eighteen acres, within half a 
 mile of the centre of the village of ■ Jamaica. It 
 would Btiit a gentlemg-n in biisinessor retired.. 
 The garden is in cedar-paled fence, and has apri- 
 cots, nectarines, &c. 
 
 1795, Oct. 31. — At the New Market- Csurge, on 
 Wednesday last, was a match ra-ce for $500 hj 
 Mr. Seahury's horse, P-olydore, and Mr. Allen's 
 mare, Virginia Nell. The latter won. They ran 
 the two- four-mile heats. The funning '"was equal, 
 if not superior, to any before. ^(Polydore had trav- 
 elled two much of late.— iV, Y. Journal. 
 
 1795. — Joseph Crispin died in a fit, in a piece 
 of woodland, in North Hempstead, some time in 
 the first part of November. 
 
 1796, Jam. 2. — For sale, a farm of one htmdred 
 acres, two miles south of Jamaica, and one mile 
 from the landing, where there is good fishing. On 
 it are apple, peach, pear, plum ' and cherry trees. 
 Apply to Charles Welling, on the premises, or 
 Chai-les Welling, Jr., New York. 
 
 1796, Jam,: 18. — The name of South Hempstead 
 was altered to Hempstead. — Ass. Jour. 
 
 1796, Feb. 2. — For sale, the two-story house 
 and lot of David Lamberson, in the double street, 
 Jamaica, next door to Mrs. Hinchman's tavern. 
 It has the necessary out-houses, cistern,, gai-den 
 and small orchard. It has been occupied fifty 
 years as a store'. 
 
 1796, Feb. 9. — Thomas Denton offers for sale 
 his house and three-quarters of an acre 6i land, on 
 which is a hatter's shop, with tools, opposite the 
 Academy, Jamaica. 
 
 1796, Marcli 7.— David Doty, Richard Sands 
 and Samuel Woolley, petition the Legislature for 
 the exclusive light of a ferry on the East Eiver, 
 from Queens .to "Westchester .County. — Ass. Jour. 
 
 1796, Marcli 29. — To (he Electors of Queens 
 County: ~M.a.\'mg been prevented by -public du- 
 ties, for some years past, from attending to my 
 private concerns, I must decline a nomination for 
 Eepresentative to Congress, i 'beg my fellow- 
 citizens to- acxsept my grateftil acknowledgements 
 for the confidence they have been pleased to re- 
 pose in me, by honoring me with their suftages on 
 so many occasions. 
 
 Nathaniel Lawkence. 
 
 1796, April 5. — For sale, that beautiful and ele- 
 gant seat called Hyde Park, north side of Hemp- 
 stead Plains, containing four hundred and seventy 
 acres, of which three hundred and fifty is in fence. 
 It has two .orchards of the choicest fruits, eighty 
 acres of woodland, a spacious dwelling-house in a 
 grove, having prospects through six delightful ave- 
 nues, a barn, hog-sty, out-ofiices, two farm-houses, 
 and a gi-een-house well furnished with tropical 
 plants. It is well calculated for a family of taste 
 
 afld-&rtune, being in a centre of country abounding 
 in gaiQe df all sorts. Apply to John H. Thompson, 
 New York, 'or Charles Moulton. — J>aily Advertiser. 
 
 1796.-^The widow Gilzian will sell at auction, 
 Ajril' 8th, h'6r house, barn, farming utensils, and 
 farm of twenty-two acres of homestead, chiefly 
 orcharding of peaches, pears, &c., one mile from 
 Newtown, on the stage-road, a quarter of a mile 
 from a landing and- nine from Brooklyn. Also, a 
 number of medicines and shop-furniture for an 
 apothecary. 
 
 1796, April 12. — An Academy, under the sole 
 direction of the Rev. T. L. Moore, will be opened 
 at South Hempstead, April 17th. Able teachers 
 will be provided in the different sciences, and par- 
 ticular attention paid to the education, morals and 
 manners of the youth committed to his care. 
 
 1796, May 1. — John Battin wishes to inform 
 his fellow-citizens that he has taken the house 
 formerly occupied by William Warne, Jamaica, 
 where he intends to keep a genteel house of-enter- 
 tainment. He has laid in an assortment of the 
 best LiqxjokS, and flatters himself to be enabled 
 to give general satisfaction to the public— Z>aiJy 
 Adv. 
 
 1796, May 7. — Mr. St. Mary, late proprietor, 
 offers for sale, a farm of three hundred acres, south 
 side of Jamaica, commanding a beautiful prospect. 
 On it are an orchard of two hundred trees, and a 
 garden in perfect order. 'It is all sown and well 
 calculated for an early crop to market. The farm 
 abounds -with "game, fish.Mbwl,- oysters, "clams, &c. 
 Eight acres are sown with oats, "rye, 'grass, clover, 
 timothy 'and lucerne. Eleven bushels of rye were 
 sown last fall. There are tWo hundred loads of 
 mantire for corn. Also, twelve milch cows well 
 chosen. — Daily Adv. 
 
 1796, May 20. — For •sa;le, the house, lot and 
 well-manured garden of Mr. St, Mary, in Jamaica 
 village. He and his elephant are about leaving 
 New York. — N. Y. Diary. 
 
 * 1796. — A school will be opened in Newtown, 
 the first Monday in May, in which will be taught, 
 by an able instructor, reading writing, arithmetic, 
 geography, English grammar, Latin, Greek and 
 
 .French. Manners and morals will be attended to. 
 Board for either sex may be had in respectable 
 families. Further particulars may be had of Rev. 
 Nathan Woodhull.— iV. Y. Journal. 
 
 1796, May 24.— The Latin and Greek lan- 
 guages, and sciences, are taught at Union Hall* 
 Academy, Jamaica, under the care of the Rev. 
 George Faitoute. A room is devoted to the in- 
 struction of young ladies in the refinements of the 
 needle.— JV. Y. Journal, 
 
 1796, June 3. — Vote of Queens County, for 
 four Senators of the Southern District : 
 
 "Called Union Hall from being built by a union of the 
 three towns of Jamaica, Flushing and Newtown. — Ed. 
 
86 
 
 QTJEE.NSyCOUiISrTY 
 
 Republican. 
 Aaron Burr, 
 John Schenck,. 
 John Smitli, 
 AbBl Smith, - 
 
 I FederaL 
 
 223 James Watson,* 
 .-. ■29SAjOnderclonk,'^- 
 
 213SaBineI,Haight,* 
 - 19l|iSelah SU-ong-,*^! 
 
 4S5 
 1507 
 440 
 459 
 
 1796, Jime Q. — Jeremfali VaniierjDgt, J\-., Far 
 Eockaway, tlianks his friends for past favors, ,aii,d 
 informs them'tliat ]i& is npy furnished with large 
 airy rooms for parties, and lias erected a new bon- 
 veriient stage,' to run. Monday and- -Friday, 'at one 
 P. M., from Ms house to 'Brooklyn ferry, Stop a lit- 
 tle timS'at Jamaica; and r«turn fi-om Jacob Hicks', 
 Brooklyn, Tuesday and Saturday, at 'Wo 'P. I\I. 
 Each passenger, 8s. ; one hundred atid fifty pounds 
 baggage equal to a-passeliger; 3c?. a lctter.^-i\r.. Y. 
 Diary. _ •• i i' 
 
 1796, July 19'. — Raa' away from James Smitli, 
 Jamaica, an apprentice boy, George Ludluin, aged 
 nineteen, a. shoemaker. He had on a striped na>n- 
 keen coaf, coatse jean- waistcoat, plain, nankeen 
 breeohe's with 'ferret stiings at the knees. He is 
 very _ impudent and forward in ' company. Who 
 ever puts him in jail, &e., shall receive ^10 re- 
 ward. 
 
 1795, July 19. — Last week the vegetable world 
 lias been: refreshed by pleiitebus libations from the 
 celestial water-pots, and all nature seems revived. 
 The- season hae been, favorable to the early harvest, 
 and exuberant crops are taking in.. 
 
 n9Q,Aug. 1. — Died, atNewtov/n, aged twenty- 
 six, Mr. Philip Skinnei-, formedy of New Jersey, 
 after five_ hours illness. His parents, are- deprived 
 of a dutiful, child, and an extensive circle of ac- 
 quaintances of a. verj agreeable companion.— ./V^. 
 Y. Journal. 
 
 1796, Aug. 6. — Sarah, widow, of William/Wood, 
 offers for sale, a, pleasant situation near. Jamaica, 
 containing forty- five acres, a two-story house, barn, 
 hovel and other out-buildings, an orchard and gar- 
 den in full bearing— all in goodience.— Da% Adv. 
 
 1-796, Aug, 16:— For 'sate, the farm of Wiliiam 
 Wood, deceased; containing three hundred and 
 seventy acres, three miles from Jamaica, and 'half 
 a mile from the. road leading thereto, and nine' 
 from Brooklyn. It is manured with ashes and laid 
 down with different kinds of grass seed. N-inety 
 loads of hay mj y be cut -yeairly. The house has a 
 piazza m front, a portal and entry, with two par- 
 lors and; three bed-rooms. ' The rooms are .papered 
 and, fit for the reception ' of a genteel family. 
 There is a cider-mill, smoke-house, fowl-house' 
 milk-house paved with brick, with a well in the 
 middle, to which water is communicated by spouts 
 from a pump. There is an Orchard of three hiin- 
 dred trees, two gardens,, six asparagus-beds, -hot- 
 beds, pear.s, peaches, nectarines, plums, strawber- 
 ries and cherries. On the other side of the road is 
 an eminence commanding a view of Jamaica bay, 
 the hills and adjacent country, and containing sixty 
 acres, with two houses, one for an. overseer. It is 
 
 *Eleoted.. 
 
 two miles fr,o)ii: t\vo good Ip,ndings,. The bay, af- 
 fords damn, fish and oysters. , In. winter there is 
 good fowlingj and a, trput streaiB' ,1| miles distajiit, 
 ,En,quh:e of ,Sarah."\yopd,,on tlie pBeniJses.— :.2?fli??^ 
 
 Adv. ,, , , , , ' ' ' r \ 
 
 J,, 179-3, Aug. 18;— TliomaaWbolley- offers for 
 sale his farm of" one hunrlred, acre^, of' good Mnd 
 land, fronting the East Eiver, and sixteen aci^es of 
 approved, turf TJ^ttonij" eqaal t>' any in. ,Euir6p,e, 
 having been cut do-wn . fifteenj' fise't mid growing 
 better. Shell, and scale-fish may be, taken-, every- 
 day.^ Woodcock, quail and other 's,mali gaiice? in 
 plenty. Passag© aad liiarket boat's,, pass-- daaiFj-, 
 with the pleasing, prdspecrt' of all the sliijoping- to 
 and, from New York... A-lso, iSitcx^s , and. farming 
 iitcnsils. Dated at, Gioat Neck..'' 
 
 »i,ll'J96, Aug. as.— Willlaitt.Crossweir, i,., ,M-.',„ lat-e 
 master ofthe Acadeinyat Jaujaicaj. has opened a 
 school in Liberty Street, New York, ^ 
 
 -0 179S, Sept. 2. -^Thomas Arden, at the- head o-f 
 Newto-Hfn Creek, iOffierSj for sale his farm of -one 
 hundred and seventy acres, naost o£ wJaich is ready 
 for the acy,tlie or plow. 
 
 1796, Sept. 5.— Died, -at-; Flushing, Sunday, 
 se'nnight,-Gerard G.-Beek-maTi/Esq., aged seventy- 
 seven, a citizen of New York, whose hospitality 
 and good, old wine endeared him to many friends. 
 I H'e bad', retired from business to pass the remainder 
 of his life in "^uiet, and enjoy those rational amuse- 
 ments which the delightful plains of Long Island 
 afforded, him,; — Jf,. Y.Jour. .„ , , 
 
 _i79Q,'0ct. 6;— Stephen Stilwell offers for sale 
 his farm, (where a store .is now kept) containing 
 twenty acres, ;and half an acre of turf for fuel, ,in;a 
 pleasant and healthy situation, betveen tvv.o road's, 
 one froT4.Ne>vtpwn to Hell-.Gate, ferry and' the oth- 
 er to Flushing Bay. It is convenient fora gentle- 
 man retired fiV)mr,.b.fiBinees,. as doing businegs.-ki the 
 city. On it are orchards of app,les, pears, peaches 
 and plums. A row of black cherry-trees extends 
 fE)ilx, one end of the- farm to the other. Also, " 
 gooseberries, raspberries, cflrrants, almonds and 
 butternuts. The' house "is two-stories high, forty 
 ftet front, with piazza, and:'a beai^tiful green beforfe 
 the door. ■ , ,;, ,i ,;,,,' 
 
 1796, Oct. 31. — On the evening of a Sheep -part- 
 ing, in John Brush's work-room. North Hemp- 
 stead, Bock's Ben challenged Elias Nation, a mus- 
 tee;, to fi:ght with him. Elias at first dedined, but 
 Ben struck him and they had twa,siBuffl,es. Ezq- 
 kid Baldwin , held tlie candle ne3.r ha,lf an hour, 
 and Joseph Seaman stood by with. a, stick. Wijile 
 Beti had Elias down, a white m,an (unknown) and 
 Micah Jackspn (colored) kicked Elias in the small 
 of the back and sides, so that be died; thereof- 'So- 
 revahev 8th.— Coroner's, Jnguest. " 
 
 1796, Nov. 4,— Abiathar Rhoads, Jamaica.* of- 
 fers for. sale, the .farm.; on which he lives^ forty rods 
 from.the-EpiscopalC/hurch, on the road to Flush- 
 ing, It contains twenty-t-yvo acres, in cedsir and 
 chestnut fence, a,nd a w.ell of extraordinary water. 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 87 
 
 1796, Nov. 19. — Benjamin Coe offers for sale, 
 his farm of seventy-two acres, in a high state of 
 ciillivation, at Newtown, within half a mile of three 
 churches, and near the Academy. On it are two 
 dwelling-houseSf barn, orchards, Szc.^JDaily Adv^ 
 
 1797, FeU. 11, — James Smith offers for sale 
 the pleasant farm, formerly of Colonel Gabriel G. 
 Ludlow, containing one hundred and twelve acres 
 of arable land, improved with ashes, and thirty of 
 woodland, enclosed in chestnut and cedar rence. 
 On it are a large house and dairy, stone well, large 
 cemented cistern; two capacious barns, two apple- 
 orchards, with peaches, pears, plums and cherries 
 of alidost every description. It yields twenty to 
 thirty tons of English bay. It is four miles from 
 a landing, and sis from Jamaica. There is a 
 handsome prospect front the plains, which render 
 very good shooting in the season of plovering. — 
 DuUy Adv. 
 
 1797, Feb. 23. — For sale, the late residence of 
 widow Ann Field, deceased, Flushing. It is two 
 miles from the landing and half a mile from a 
 grist-mill, and contains one hundred acres. It has 
 a spring twenty rods from the house. Apply to 
 John Bowne, or Walter Farrington, near by. — 
 Dailij Adv. 
 
 1797, March 8.— The Sev. George . Faitoute, 
 Jamaica, has removed his school from the Acade- 
 my to bis own house, where he continues to teach 
 the Latin and Greek languages, sciences, &c. 
 The school has been and still is in a flourishing 
 condition.. Board may be had in genteel families. 
 
 1797, March 17.— N. Moore and J. Suydam, 
 Trustees, want a person, with good recommenda- 
 tion, caJDable to instruct children in reading, writing 
 and arithmetic, in a School at Newtown. — Daily 
 Adv. 
 
 1797, March 25. — James TVaters and others, of 
 Jamaica, owners of an engine, petition for an Act 
 for the better extinguishing of fires'. — Ass. Jour. 
 
 1797, April 1. — The proprietors of a fire engine 
 in Jamaica, are authorized by the Legislature to- 
 form an organization, of from three to five Trus- 
 tees, who are to choose thirteen firemen (volun- 
 teers) who are to be exempt from- military duty. — 
 Ass. Jour. 
 
 1797, April 4. — ■Voted, in Town Meeting, that 
 a cage be erected in the town of Jamaica, the ex- 
 pense to be paid by tlie Overseers of the poor. 
 
 1797, June 14. — $20 Beward. — ^Ran away from- 
 Abraham Sehenck, Great Neck, a negro man, 
 Jake, much addicted to liquor, very impertinent 
 when intoxicated, wore a high-crowned ha,t,. hair 
 shortish and tied behind. He is something of a 
 fiddler, very active, and values himself much on 
 jumping over fences.. 
 
 1797, June 21. — On Friday last, a gentleman 
 traveling on horseback, from Brooklyn ferry to 
 Jamaica, very narrowly escaped being killed by a 
 flash of lightning, which carried away the skirts of- 
 
 his coat. He never, discovered it till he got to Ja- 
 maica. He had in his pocket two horse-shoes, 
 which he supposed must have attracted the light- 
 ning.— JV. r. Mer. Adv. ' 
 
 1797, June 30. — For sale, M. Gauffreau's farm, 
 of one hundred and fifteen acres, near Van Brunt's 
 mill, and close to Jamaica 'Bay.— Daily Adv. 
 
 1797. — l)ied, at Hempstead, July 5th, Nathan- 
 iel Lawrence, Esq., aged thirty-six, for three years 
 Attorney-General of this State, much and deserv- 
 edly lamented.. He was buried in the Episcopal 
 church-yard there, attended by a numerous train of 
 sorrowing relatives and friends. He had a mind 
 of great fertility and energy ; and was too honest 
 to be a complete politician and too independent to 
 become the dupe of any party. He was exempla- 
 ry as a son, husband, father, brother, friend and 
 master, and died a professing disciple of the Lord 
 Jesus. He was never deistical in his ideas and 
 bad too much understanding to be enthusiastical. — 
 N. Y. Journal. 
 
 INDEI'ENDEITCB. — At a recent meeting of a 
 number of Republicans at ludependent Town, on 
 Cow Neck, (formerly called Stoning Town) on the 
 4th of July, to celebrate the Anniversary of Ame- 
 rican Independence, at the place where the stand- 
 ard of liberty was erected in the year 1776, after 
 firing sixteen guns to celebrate each of the United 
 States, they spent the afternoon in good humor, 
 mirth, and decorum, and drank the following 
 toasts : 
 
 1. The 4feh of July — may it beheld in venera- 
 tion by all true sons of liberty. Four cheers. 
 
 2. George Washington— may his services never 
 be forgotten. Six cheers. 
 
 3... George Clinton, late Governor of the State of 
 New York — may his patriotism ever be in remem- 
 brance. Three cheers. 
 
 4. John Jay, our present Governor — may his 
 services be equal to the confidence reposed in him. 
 Three cheers. 
 
 5. John Adams, President of the United States — 
 may he keep checks and balances even. Three 
 cheers. 
 
 6. The Congress- of the United States — may 
 they act in unison for the public good. Three 
 cheers. 
 
 , 7. The Legislature of New York. — may her ftt- 
 fure wisdom exceed all her former. Eight cheers. 
 
 8. May th? Sun of Liberty shine throughout the 
 universe. Four cheers. 
 
 9. The united Eepttblics of France and Bata- 
 via^-may justice and liberty crown their exertions. 
 Six cheers. 
 
 10. The Militia of the United States— may it 
 always command respect. Three cheers. 
 
 11.' May our navy and fortifications protect us 
 from all insult. Three cheers. 
 
 12. May these be a stop put to the spoliation of 
 our Commerce. Three cheers. 
 
 13. May our agriculture and commerce flourish 
 unrivalled.. Three eheers. 
 
 21 
 
88 
 
 QUEENS CO'lTFTY 
 
 14. May the companies of our lock navigation 
 succeed in their patriotic undertaking. Three 
 cheers. 
 
 15. May Arts and Sciences flourish through the 
 United States.' Three cheers. 
 
 16. May all wars arid discord cease. Three 
 cheers. 
 
 Volunt:efir: ■ ' \ ^ 
 May the Fair of America cherish none but the 
 forms of Liberty.' Six cheers. ; , ' , 
 
 1797, Sept. 1. — Ran away from Eichard Beadle, 
 Hempstead, an apprentice, William Webb. He 
 has thick lips, bold fcountenance, and wore a large 
 crowned hat. Whoever returns him shall be well 
 rewarded. — Daily Adv. 
 
 1797. — Abraham Schenck and Cornelius Van 
 Brunt, Executors, will sell at vendue, Sept. 27th, 
 the well cultivated farm of Jacob Adriance, de- 
 ceased, near Success, containing one hundred and 
 fourteen acres, with two never-failing ponds in dif- 
 ferent parts, a house with two , fire-places and 
 kitchen, a spacious Dutch barn with shingle-roof 
 and board-floor, a large hovel, granary, wagon- 
 house with a corn-crib under it, an orchard of one 
 hundred and fifty grafted trees and other choice 
 fruit. — Z>a% Adv. 
 
 1797, Sept. IT.— Richard Smith, New York, 
 offers for sale, a lot in the centre of Flushing, on 
 which are a two-story house of six rooms, a garden 
 and blacksmith's shop. It is the first situation in 
 the place for a store or taviern, or for a private 
 family, as passage-boats ply every other day to 
 the city; and the bay abounds in sea and shell 
 fish. — Baily Adv, ■ < 
 
 1797,' Sept. SO.^Died, on Satiirday evening, at 
 Brooklyn, Andrew Onderdonk, Esq., one of the 
 Senators of the Southern District and Member of 
 the Council of Appointment, a man in whotti 'were 
 centered the endearing qualities Of a good' 'citizen, 
 the teiider and affectionate husbapd; the dutiful 
 son, the h-onest man and the Christian. 
 
 1797. Nov. 9.— While Mr. and ,|irs.^ ".Qflslwe 
 were riding from Newtown to. Brooklyn ferry, the 
 horse took fright nearly opposite to the Methodist 
 church, and, after running a short Hig|4Tice.''ti^St!t 
 the chair, by which means Mrs. Gpslirie" rec&ivM 
 considerable injury, having been mtich bruised in 
 several places, but from the timely aid and benevo- 
 lent exertions of D. Coleman and other inh'abitants 
 who came to her assistance, hopes are entertained 
 that the consequences will not prove ffatalj not- 
 withstanding her situation, is peculiarly delicate 
 and precarious. — JV. Y. Journal. ■■- 
 
 1798, Ufarcli 6.— =£200 is ordered to be raised in 
 Queens County, for the repair of jjh,© pi^urt, House. 
 ^r-J.SS._JjaME.„_ -,.., . _ '_,--. 1.^ 
 
 1798, March 24. — Nathaniel Coles is appeiated 
 Brigadier-General of the Militia-of Kings and 
 Queens Counties, in place of Matthew 'Clarkson, 
 promoted to be Major-General. — N, Y. Jo-ittnal. 
 
 1798,- March 31. — Newtown' 8tage.~-A. tieat 
 light, airy coachee, hung upon steel springS) will 
 start from Mr. Abraham Rapelye's Newtown, for 
 Brooklyn, on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday, 
 at six, and leave Mr. Van Nostrand's, Brooklyn, 
 at five P. M., during the summer. Fare, 3s. ; I'aMd 
 for way-passengers, - 5d T per milei- To; prevent 
 being discommoded only seven pASsengp-g will be , 
 taken,.at a time. 
 
 , : , EDWAED HoWAED ,&; pQ.^yi 
 
 1798, June 2 — Vote of Queens O.oilinty in part .■ 
 Governor. Senatars., 
 
 n 
 
 
 ti 
 b 
 
 r 
 
 South Hempstead, 214 41 163 140 41' ■ 21 135 
 
 North Hempstead, ■ 69 -47 36 33 41 41 80 
 
 Oysterbay;, ... 107 26 63 63, 12. 18 40 
 
 Newtown, .... 36 77 26 27 77 75 83 
 
 Jamaica, - - - 26 100 19 10 98 98 111 
 
 Flushing, - - . - 53 26 70 48 21 18 25 
 
 Total, - 
 
 .507 317 377 321 290 271 474 
 
 1798; Jtme ID. — Jamaica Stage. — John Van ■ 
 Nostra,nd and Caleb Mills, ;driv6 separate stages, 
 alternate' days, except Saturday, and Monday^ 
 when both stages go, leaving Jamaica at seven 
 o'clock, and Mrs. Horton's, Brooklyn, at half-past "" 
 four. Any article npt cumbersome or disagreeable 
 to passengers freely admitted. - 
 
 1798, June 28. — John BreVort offers: to run his 
 horse, Moyalist, against Eclipse and Baronet, for 
 $500, on the New Market Course. The best 'two ' 
 
 in three. four-mile heats. — N. Y.^Jour.' ' t ' 
 
 i, , ...... ,,. ,-, 
 
 1798 — Aug. 9th, the thermometer stpod at ^,6;° in 
 the shadejiand 1M° in the sun.-irJT-. Y- Jour. 
 
 1798, Aug. 15.— We learn.that iri,the teru'^^st,: : 
 on Saturday, a sloop, on the Long Island shore, 
 was strucljj, and, the flash killed brie, yoiitig man 
 and severely wounded an other. At Hempstead, a 
 barn was str,uck and .instantly burnt to the ground'.. , 
 —N.T.Jour. ' " " ■' . , /'■ ' 
 
 1798, Aug. 15.4-4,£lO.SewarS.-^^-B,vB,WiB-J,irom 
 Jacob Foster, Jamaica, ■ a negrOj^Newportj who 
 plays, bri a Violin, Arid SoriieMmfes %- addicted to ; 
 liquor.,,,,.,, ,^ ,,-_ ,, , ]i..l.], 'ii'^^,,- '~ ' ■ •' 
 
 1798, Sept. 17.— E'zetiel Pfe'a"te(S'i€ffasifo^' Salie, '" 
 his farm 'W'f^seVdnty-one' ^ises^JitworcniBiiJeB #pm ; 
 Flushing landing, ofl the: main road fionWi^eiGiilat I 
 Plains to Wh'itesitoneiferry, ■■ Orii it? anei two' small 
 houses, 'tw&'barn^ji two weltevr.siji4,rappileyj^8aii i 
 peach, cherry^nd ' j)lum trees. "lEtr is iuitabjleMcff ; 
 dividing into thiSee'or' fouri 'parts ,^f<ir;buildiing?Tr• j 
 ^-^©att^-dr^-- — — .-^'' — ; 
 
 ' "1798, /Sepif.il,— Nathaniel R'enM'6'^.bffersff6i4sale, 
 the, estate of James Henne, ,^f^|e^y'^occjapieid'' by 
 
 ■•' ■ •■■' '^'■' ■ ""' ; '—^ ft—-! — " ' i ',' ■ — — 
 
IN OLiDEN TIMES-. 
 
 89 
 
 Samuel Renne, _ deceased, at Newtown, one mile 
 from the public lamdingv and dglit from Brooklyn, 
 oa the stage-road. It conttiins eighty a'cres in a 
 high state of improvement, with a house, tivo-story 
 shop, barn, 'coach-houSe, and twelve acres of or- 
 chard. 
 
 1798, Sept. 21. — Aiin BrownjoTan offers for sale 
 her beautiful country seat, on the -main road, at the 
 entrance of the much admiredtown of Jamaica. 
 The mansion has four rooms on the first and sec- 
 ond floors, a .new •court-yard in front ornamented 
 with poplar and other trees. There are fifty-six 
 and a half acres fit for the scythe or plough. 
 There is an opportunity of f»urchasing provisions 
 fix>m the market-wagons which pass daily. It 
 wSuld suit any one who wishes to partake of the 
 enjoyments of rural life. — DaMp Adv. 
 
 1798, Oct. 16.— $4 Reward and charges-^^B-sm 
 away, without hat or shoes, from Edward Dufiel, 
 Jataaica ^outh, a dark mulatto boy, George, aged 
 twelve. He was brought from South Carolina last 
 year, — JDail^ Adv, 
 
 1798, Nov. 6. — Por sale, the farm of John 
 Lawrence, Newtowai, above Hellgate, containing 
 sixty acres. It has a beautiful prospect. Excel- 
 lent fish are taken in front of -the land on the East 
 River. — Daily Adv, 
 
 1798, Dec. 10. — For sale, ten thousand . Lom- 
 baidy poplar trees,* from ten to seventeen feet iu 
 heigh-t, by William Prince, Flushing. 
 
 1718, Dec. 26. — ^At a general and lange meeting 
 of the freeholders and inhabitants of Newtown, at 
 the- Court House, Mr, Johannis De^itt was called 
 to the chair,;. jwhen. it was unanimously resolved 
 .that>tbeAiien and Sedition laws ought to be re- 
 jpealed^' and that a Committee be appointed, to 
 •collect the sense-of the towns inJ the county and to 
 address Congress respecting , the, repeal ftf spd 
 laws ; and that said Committee consist of Isaac 
 Ledyard, Benjamin Coe, David Moore, John Law- 
 rence, Jacob Field, Cornelius Luyster, Samuel 
 Eiker, Thomas Lawi-ence, Jr., and Robert Funaan ; 
 and that they be authorized to correspond with the 
 other towns. 
 
 [The above rtsolnSoiis were s^-to iH 
 Town Clerk of Flushing, reqiiestkig Mtf to call a meettog, to 
 endorse the same, ssiA also to attend aCounty meeting, at 
 the Court Honse, January 15th, 1799 ; but tie people of 
 Flushing came out strongly against theBi, as appears by 
 th_eloUowiBg proceedingp:^£dJ:!" , , ,;^ r. - . 
 
 : At a numerons and respeetable meeting, of the 
 inhabitants of Flashing* 'convened in pursuance of 
 public notice* at, the' haii«e of John Bratdwell, inn- 
 keeper, Lewis Cornwall was appointed Ofaairman, 
 and David Gardner, Clerk., i Tbfi preceding reso- 
 lutions from New4ois?n spere read. 
 
 *The , poplar w^e, l<»? a tim^. yf ry extensively planted. 
 Long rpws of it were tb be seen almost everywhere on the 
 Island.' Its leaves were Cliilinei to fee asg.ood a*liay for 
 fodder. In lS06"it was«aid to pearish^iwisonous worm. 
 See ifew York, Eeeniwg Post, July 1, Ih-^Pd. 
 
 Whereas, the inhabitants of Flushing haye been 
 oalled together to obtain from Congress a repeal of 
 the Alien and Sedition acts, and as we are citizens 
 of the United States, and pejiceable apd w^l dis- 
 posed men and men of veracity, and therefore we 
 have nothing to fear from those laws,; therefore, 
 
 Besolved, That we place the utmost confidence 
 in the wisdom, patriotism and integrity of the 
 President of the United States and both houses of 
 Congress, and cannot believe they would pass an 
 act centrary to the Constitution or interest of 
 iSiese States; - : 
 
 That in our opinion, , the seditious practices of 
 many citizens of our country and the unprincipled 
 conduct of many foreigners, made those laws highly 
 necessary and proper ; 
 
 That we will use our utmost endeavors to assist 
 the Government in the execution of these laws 
 and all others which the constituted authorities 
 may deem necessary to promote its welfare ; 
 
 That Eichai'd Morrell and David Gardner be 
 appointed with the Chairman to' answer the circu- 
 lar lettar from Newtown, and publish these pro- 
 ceedings in two daily papers of New York. 
 
 .1799, Jan. 29. — Cadwallader D. Colden, As- 
 Assistant Attorney-General, writes to Governor 
 Jay that the Court of Queens County is at all 
 times the least orderly of any he ever was in, that 
 the entiy of the Court House is lined, on Court 
 days, vith the stalls of dram-sellers, and filled 
 with drunken people so as to be almost impassa- 
 ble. — N..^. American Citiseh. , ' ';;. 
 
 1799, Jan. 12. — ^Edward Bardin^^-pffersM for sale 
 Beaver Hall,* a beautiful country seat, containing 
 fifty acres, a quarter of a mile west of Jamaica. 
 It.ha3,a cistern holding twenty^oar hogsheads of 
 water, asparagus-beds, a " bandaoDie gravel walk 
 leading up tp, the honge. AlsQ,, an eight-acre lot 
 adjoining, on the corner of two roads, at present 
 occupied by Alexander Jpnes. It has an orchard 
 of apples,, plums, cherries, peaches and walnuts. 
 Also four able Esopus horses, nine cows, two able 
 farjjj negroes, two wagons and harness, two large 
 and one single corn-harrow, &c. ' 
 
 1799, J'e6. 6. — John Battjnt o£e.ra- for sale his 
 house, pleasantly, aituatfediu the village of Jamai- 
 ca, (a healthy ride, of twelve miles from the ferry) 
 well calculated for a gentleman's retreat, or a pub- 
 lic house,. as which it has been occupied a number 
 of years, I]t,ha,s four rooms on the first floor and 
 foj,ur above. ,,. ,_■ ' 
 
 1199, March 6. — Jacob ■ Foster, Crow Hill, 
 Jamaica, offers for sale his farm of, sixty-five acres. 
 On it is a fine yiew of Rockaw'ay.-, It cuts timo- 
 thy and clover. There is, also j bed of turf. 
 
 1799, March 18. — On Thursday last the dwell- 
 
 *Now Judge Oo^aweU's. — Ed. 
 
 tJohn Battin died in New York, 1852, aged over one 
 hundred years. He was a British, soldier in the Revolu- 
 tion, but remained here and became a publican — Ed. 
 
90 
 
 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 inff-house of tlie late Eev. Williatfl Eeteltas, at 
 Jamaica, took fire by accident and was entirely 
 consumed- ' The hotee was old and out of repair 
 and of no great value but tbe loss is principally 
 felt m lisconimoding a large family at a season of 
 the' year not easy to procure a habitation. 
 
 1799, May 5.— Job Merrit, a fisherman, at 
 Lloyd's Neck, while walking to ^hi's usual fishing- 
 placfe on a ridge of slippery rocks tEaf lay on the 
 bore and bare at low water, feU on said rocks and 
 wounded his right temple, whereof he die^. 
 
 1799, 3Iai/ 10.— E. Duffel offers for sale his 
 farm of one hundred and thirteen acres opposite- 
 Van Brunt's mill, two miles^ south of Jamaica, 
 calciilatcd for a gentleman's seat, or rfarm for cul- 
 tivation. It is in a pleasant airy and healthy situ- 
 ation close to Jamaica- Bay whence fish, oysters 
 and clams are easily procured. 
 
 1799, Map 16,— A traveller, in passing througb 
 Long Island, observed a number of liberty poles. 
 On asking the reason he was told the formers 
 erected them to show their disapprobation of cer- 
 tain laws of Congress, the land tax, &zc.—Dail>/ 
 Adv. 
 
 1799, Aug. 9.— $25 Eeward.—Ra.n away from 
 William Smith, Great 'Neck, a yellow negro- man, 
 Peter, aged twenty-eight, slender and neat built. 
 He has bushy hair but wears it tied. 
 
 1799, Aug,. 13.— John, son of William Pearsall, 
 of Hempstead, mariner, sailed from New York, 
 July 7th, 1,798, and was ca;ptuTed by a French 
 Privateer, July, 28th j and four days thereafter 
 was. put on board aii Am'erican vessel ; bat,' Au- 
 gust 17th, he, with eight others was impressed by 
 the Captain of the British ship Hannibal, who 
 would |aot condescend to look at his protection. 
 He escaped, November 18th;' while in the harbor 
 of Kingston, W. I., by swimming ashore in the 
 night, and took passage for the United States. — 
 JV. y. Journal 
 
 1799, Oct. a4. — Eichard Seamaii, who was in 
 company with Eichard Soper, in Hempstead Bay, 
 fell overboard of a skiff and was drowned. 
 
 1800. — Jamaica, February 2Si. — This day was 
 commemorated in honor of the virtues and talents 
 of George Washington, agreeable to the recom 
 mendatiori of Congress, by. the united congrega- 
 tions of the Presbyterian, Dutch Eeformed and 
 Episcopal churches' of Jamaica and Flushing. 
 The morning was ushered in by the solemn sound 
 of muiSed bells. • A procession ' was fofnied in 
 front ,of the Episcopal Church, in the following 
 order : 
 
 The Infantry and company of Artillery with 
 arms reversed, their order inverted, colors in mourn- 
 ing, and. drums muffled. 
 
 Masonic brethren. 
 
 Students of the Academy. 
 
 Trusses. 
 
 Citizens. 
 
 Strangers. 
 
 Officers of the Militia in tmiform. 
 
 Officers of the different churches. 
 , Committee of arrangements. 
 
 Clergy. 
 
 Orator. '-'■- 
 
 From tli8 Episcopal Church the, ' procession 
 moved to the Presbyterian Church whete the ranks 
 opened, right and left, the military leaning on' 
 their arms reversed, the orator followed by thfe 
 clergy and tke rest of the proeeMOBi advanced 
 through their ranks and, entering the ehttreh, were 
 received mih solemn xsmsic at tte' entrance fey a 
 band of singers, who, in perfection and skill, 
 seemed to. vie.with each other in honoring the day. 
 The pulpit, desk and galle-ry were all shrouded in 
 black. Tbe sojemnnities were introduced with 
 prayer by the Eev. Mr, Eattoone, aiiS sin ode, 
 composed by the Eev. Mr, Faitoute, was sung. 
 Then an oration was delivered by Mr. Eigenbrodt,- 
 in which, with classical elegance and all the integ- 
 rity of a faithful historian, he depicted the charac- 
 ter of our illustrious chief. After the oration 
 another ode was sung, composed ,by Mr. Faitoute, 
 who then dismissed the assembly with a suitable 
 prayer and blessing. : 
 
 Thus ended this. day in whieh all parties, sects 
 and distinctions ^'ost cordially united. Never did 
 we see a greater concourse of our fellow-citizens, 
 and one general sentiment seemed to pervade the 
 •,vliole — ^to pay the highest honor to the illustrious 
 Washington. 
 
 1800, Feb'. 28. — The curious are invited to a 
 sight of one of the most astonishing productions'in 
 nature; a large ox raised by Mr. George Hewlett, 
 of Hempstead. (His dam is but' a -small cow.) 
 He is to be seen at Mrs. Delouf 's, Flymarket, ad- 
 mittance one shilling. To give an idea of this ox 
 it need only be mentioned that he is nineteen hands 
 high, seventeen and a half feet in length and nine 
 feet in girth, forming a tremendous mass. ef anima- 
 tion. Not to view him as he now stands argues 
 the want of that curiosity which tends to enlarge 
 the mind. 
 
 1800, AjJril 17. — At a very respectable meeting 
 of the electors of Queens County, at Benjamin 
 Cheeseman's, North Hempstead, Jprdan Seaman, 
 Esci., Chairman, End William iB'urling, Seci-etary, 
 it was resolved unanimously that this meeting will 
 support General John Smith as Eepresentative to 
 Congress ; and Benjamin Hunttihg, of Suffolk ; 
 William Den-ning, of New York, and Ebenezer 
 Pttrdy, of Westchester, as Senators of the South- 
 ern District ; and" Joha I. Skidmore, Jonah Hal- 
 lett, Joseph Pettit and Abrabam Monfort, as rep- 
 resentatives in Asaeinbly. 
 
 1800, April 19. — Wanted io take charge of an 
 Academy at Newtown, a person well recommend- 
 ed. Apply to Dr. Lawrence or Jacob Moore. 
 
 1800, June 9. — Jeremiah Vanderbilt, Jr., has 
 taken Henry Mptt into partnership in ,the Far 
 
IN 
 
 OiiDE^ 
 
 TIMte's. 
 
 91 
 
 Rockaway St^^,,-y^hjlch, will,, sjtart Monday and 
 Friday, at one P, jM. for Brooklyn fqrry, 8l;pj) s,,iit- 
 tlef'-tinie at Jamaica, and^^etm^ from J^cpt), pick's, 
 Brooklyn, Tuesday- and Sat^i'day^, at two ;lp'',iM:v ■ 
 Fare one dollar. 
 
 His lipjise, ia ;0ow open, Jog; tlie reception ; of 
 bc^rders; "^ A, carriage ■will be, rettdy «very morning 
 and evening to convey boarderS; (jrwiis to tlie,,se3: 
 sliore, whpre a, place fyith , ^^oj- apjaytjcjaentS is pro- 
 vidpd for bathers. ., . iSj^,- a^vaixtages of i >;liis .:sp£(;- 
 ba,tk in. point i of i.teilt^ an^ cures yearly e3;per,i- 
 enceAiare well known. ,,, ,,^ i, j". 
 
 1801, Jan. 2.-^Garret Nostrand, overseer offche 
 faj-m called Hyde Park, returned^, home from,.a 
 sleigh-ride in the evening^and%nt6rrB'^.theroomof ' 
 widows Elizabeth Betts, the hbuBekeeper of OharleS 
 Mbulton, an altereatioit-arofe, during Whifrh he re- 
 ceivied a s-wordieiifc on the left" sidS'of his head, of 
 whicBi!-.he died, next day. Mrs. Betts with the ser- 
 vant, OatharHW<Haggerty, was kept in jail twenty-, 
 three weeks, during which time she Was taken be- 
 fbre a judge, in New York, on a writ of habeas cor- 
 pus. At a Court of Oyer and Terminer, June 
 ieth; the Orand Jury endorsed on the bill of in^ 
 dictment Ignoramus, and the prisoners were dis- 
 charged by proclamation. — Court tMXnutes. 
 
 1801, Feb^. 8. — Late at night an. earthquake was 
 perceived at Stoningtown, on Goyf Neck- 
 
 1801, March 2.— -The body of William.. Miller, 
 who was drowned in a mill-pond,' at Musqueto 
 Cove,. was found floating, by Henry Bennett, who 
 with the assistance, of Daniel Wright got itashore. 
 
 ISOli MAfdi 4J — Boarding-schbol'kt"HSmpstead. 
 The Rev_Seth Hart, rector of St. George's chuich,* 
 is disposed to take six or eight boys to .board*%iiad 
 lodge in his family and.be instructed Hn reading, 
 writing-,- arithmetic, geograghjj^, English grammar 
 and*iife- Latin and Greek . Mnguages. ' Due atten- 
 tion will be paid to- 'the morals of youth intnisted 
 to. Ms earc. . The situation is healthy, pleasant 
 and convenient, bfeing twenty- two 'mile^ from New 
 York, and 'a-iregular stage runs -every Monday and 
 Friday, and retttrns Tuesday and Saturday. 
 
 l&Qi, March 10. — Nine hundred and thirty-four 
 freeholders of Queens 'County petition the Legisla- 
 ture for a-tumjliifce from Jamaica to Brooklyn.}-^ 
 Ass. Jour.^y ' ' ' 
 
 ,18,0l> June 1 &'<r-M * CpWil pf 'Oyejt; and Termi- 
 ner and, Gaol DelLyery,holden by ■|fefgai).^Jjewis, 
 Esq., at ,J;he Cou»t.;,House, '^altej: Punlevy, an 
 Irish \schoolHia,st,i5r>i;.(:who, pn the evening of. De- 
 cember 2d l?ist,, at Jphn Burtis* tavern, in, Foster's 
 
 *1793 Jan. 20.— TKe peititiGH*t)f Timothy Bedell and oth- 
 ers, of Hempstead, to the-ttgislatuiff&paii Act to enable 
 them to raise by Lottery^50e;i'(rr,the benefit of their 
 chiirch, and to support the Minister of the.. Gospel -waS' 
 rejected. — Ass. Jour. ' ■•-■'<■'■ 
 
 t^t this tinie, the, main strast' of'VJamaicf^ wres Bc^-Jiftlei 
 travelled that grasf grew on the nan-ow,^dge in t^& middle 
 of the road, between the tiribks' rtiW^'by a team of, horses. 
 —Ed. 
 
 Mpii^qy, had I a scuffte , -with 33enj^min Fish, a 
 faxmer, ,pf Trimming Square, Hefnpstead, iti -yvhich 
 the latter lost his life next day, by blows on the 
 hiBa,d, ne.ck sind iiip,ntb,fi;o,m a billet of -yrood) was^ 
 convicted on an, ,) indictment for manslaug^iter. 
 Upon the hearing of witnesses and viewing thte'"cn!-- 
 cinmStalitesof the ' case, the Sentence aSvardted by 
 the Coilrt Wf.s fourteen ■ years solitary confinement 
 at haM kbor in thie'Stafe's 'Prison. 
 " [Willet Lawrence, tJhde>Sheirifif, says "that on 
 Sunday, Jan. 18'th; two arihed men, between' two 
 and three in , the miorning, came to the Court 
 Housej entered undiscovered, and came to his bed, 
 ordeired him to -keep silence at his peril, and de- 
 nianded the key pf the room that Dunlevy was 
 coniuied in and ordered him ito get up immediately 
 and unlock the door^. which he did. They then 
 took tlne^prisoner out and locke^-'liim' in and threw 
 away tjie keys." Dunlevy was conveyed to Npw 
 York, and engaged. pp,ssage, to Europe; but just 
 on the eve of the vessel's sailing, the Captain acci- 
 dentally heardfJthe report of the rescue, and jjidged 
 frppa. the description that the passenger on Ship- 
 board waS' the. fft^tive. Dunlevy was at once 
 identified and ' committed to Bridewell. He -ivas 
 theife kept from January 24th till June ICth, the 
 morning of his trial, when he was escorted -to the 
 Court House, in Qtieens Gdnntj.y^jEd. 
 
 l&6i::-^Th'e fourth of July was celebrated by 
 the Republican citizens of the township of Oyster- 
 bay, before whom an oration was delivered by 
 Adrian.iHegeman. 
 
 1802.— The new Academy, at, Oysterbay, will 
 be opened April 1st, under , the care pf the Rev. 
 ,Marmaduke Earl, A. M., where the different 
 branches of lit^atpce willbe taught in, the best 
 'manner, -viz, ;.r Spelling, reading,- writing, arithme- 
 tic, b®pk-keeping, English gra,mn|iar, composition, 
 oratory, logic, ichronology, geogrp,phy, trigonometry 
 in its application to surveying and navigation, the 
 Latin and, Greek languages. 
 
 The situation of Oysterbay as respects salubrity 
 of air, excellence of Water, abundance and variety 
 of fruits, scale and- shell-fish, easy and regular 
 cotamuhication .■with' New York by water, and vi- 
 cinity tO' a place of public worship, is not exceeded^ 
 perhaps niJt equalled in the State: - ' ■ 
 
 jy Boarding in good families on reasonable 
 terms. ' 
 
 ■ *^ * For particulars call on Mr. John Townsend, 
 or Soloman Townsend, New York, or James Far- 
 ley or' William' Townsend, Oysterbay, 
 
 By order of the Trustees,* ' 
 
 John Fleet, Clerli. 
 
 1802, April 14.^William B. Warren was found 
 
 *The otlier Trustees Tvere "William Sutler, Joshua Haia- 
 taoiid, Nathaniel Coles,-- Jr., Thgmas Cock, Jr., Thomas 
 Youngs, Charles Gockj ,Stephen Underbill, Justus Storrs, 
 ■ Saiiiuel Youngs, William Ludlam, Townsend Cock, Paniel 
 ■Underbill, Jr., William Jones, Jr., Silas Lalting, David E.. 
 F. Jones, Isaac Yan IStos^trapdl, John , Ludlam, ZebuloBJ) 
 Frost, William McCoun, and, Coles Wortman. 
 
 22.. 
 
92 
 
 QlJE'El^S, COUNTY 
 
 lying on his face dead,, haviiig been run over by a 
 wagon loaded with stone -which he was carting 
 from a lot for Edmund'^tlnderhill, Mushing. 
 
 ISOg, April' ^S. — A country seat for sale in 
 Flushing, on the road from Jamaica, containing one 
 hundred and ten acres. On itis a new hcjuse forty- 
 four by thirty feet, with a kitchen and bed room 
 for servants in the basement, and six bed-rooms on 
 the second story. It is. on a lofty emincince .with 
 • ai-vi^^ of Newtown, Flushing and its bay, the 
 Sound, "Westchester and the "Jersey shore. The 
 ground slopes from the house )vhich overlooks the 
 farm, and is approached by avenues of butternut 
 and poplar trees. It has pear and cherry trees, and 
 one thousand two hundred peach trees transplanted 
 from Prince's nursery. Enquire of Eev. Dr. 
 Beach, New York, or Eev. Mr. Kattoone on the 
 premises. 
 
 1802, Ifay 26. — Jacob Savanah was drowned 
 on a 'back in Hog Island inlet, south side of 
 Hempstead. 
 
 1802, June 29. — A handsome coachee, with 
 steel springs and four horses, will leave Jacob 
 Hicks', Brooklyn, at two P. M., Tuesdays and 
 Saturdays, stop to refresh at Hewlett Creed's,' Ja- 
 maica, and arrive early in the evening at .White- . 
 head Cornwell's, Far Eockaway. It will return ,. 
 on Mondays at six A. M., and Friday's at one .P. 
 M. Fare IDs. 
 
 N.B. — W. C. has fitted up his house forpsiyatef 
 parties and single gentlemen. -^ 
 
 1802, July 5. — Jeremiah Vanderbilt a,nd ll!enry 
 Mott run a neat- coachee with steel springs, and ^ 
 four horses, from Far Eockaway, on Monday, at .. 
 six A. M., and Fridays at one P. M., for Brooklyn 
 fen-y, stop to refresh at Creed & Mills' tavern Ja- 
 maica ; and return from Selah, Smith's, Tuesdays ' 
 and Saturdays, at ""two p. M. After August 1st 
 the stages- will run three times a- week. 
 
 J. V.'s house is now open for the reception of ' 
 boarders. 
 
 1802, Aug. 10.— WilmDt.Sffiith was accidentally „ 
 drowned in Jamaica Bay. 
 
 ■ 1802, Aug. 38.— ^There was a severe 'thHnder 
 gUst in the -west .part of Queens County. The^ 
 barns of widow J^nson,' at Jamaica, and of Heze- 
 kiah Field, Newtown, were strsck and consumed. 
 The barn, wagon-house and two wagons of widow 
 VanJ>uyn, of New Utrecht, were also destroyed. 
 
 1302, Oct^--Bernardus Bloom drives the Flijsh- 
 ing stage three times a yeek to Brooklyn. Fare 
 fifty, .cents. . Leaves John Bradwell's at eight 
 o'clock, A. M., and Jacob Hicks', Brooklyn, at 
 three P. M. "A hag for letters is hiirig up at Abra- 
 ham Duryea's, 167 Flymarket, New York. ' 
 
 1803, March 25,— John Hudson, of Flushing, 
 was accidentally drowned, as it seemed. 
 
 1803, April 14. — Yesterday morning, at eleven 
 o'clock, the bam of Mr. John Moorej at Hempstead, 
 
 wa^discovered to be on fire, from a cask of .un- 
 slacked lime. The wind, blowing very fresh from 
 the southward it communicated to the barn of Mr. 
 Abraham Bedell, and, thence to |;hp Presbyterian 
 church, all which were entirely consumed tc)gether 
 -ff-ith two of Mr. Mqore/s horses'.— Mer. Adv.] 
 
 1803, June 10. — Benj. Tredwell, of Hempstead, 
 while cros'sing.' a mill-flue, fell in and being' alone 
 was drowned,. 
 
 1803, June 18.— Samuel Hanley,' of "HempsteJid, 
 was accidentally dro-w-ned' while fi'shirig with an 
 eel-net in the South Bay. ' 
 
 1804, Jan. 1'8,^'For sale, a middle-aged negro 
 woman, brought up in the country, who . is of an 
 uncommonly .fine temper for one of her color. 
 Having lately 'become dfeco^tented with, her pres- 
 ent situation is the sole cause of her being offered 
 for sale. Apply to Creorge-Cedwiaes, Jr., Jamaica. 
 
 J.80J:, Ja,n. 27 .^Several. mad "dogs ''liave .been 
 seen during the last seven days in the neighbor- , 
 hood of Musg,ueto .O.ov,e an,d Cedar,, S wamp, w.hjch 
 hay^ 'bitten .one -or two , . parsons an^ a number of 
 cattle, hogs, &c. Some of which have died of hy- 
 drophobia; others, are killed and it,,is suspected 
 brought to the .New York inarket.foi; sale.-— j/t;e. 
 Post, " "' 
 
 1804, March 2. — Susan 33rackett, Hempstead, 
 "Was frozen to death while going across the bay in 
 a 'boat, , 
 
 180"4, JuMe .16. — James Mott, of Hempstead, by 
 accident fell in Jamaica bay and was drowne'd. 
 
 JS04, April 14.^-At an adjourned meeting of 
 Eepublican delegates from all the towns of Queens 
 County, at the Court -House, Judge Sclienck, 
 Chairman, and Isaac T. Eeeve, Secretary, Morgan 
 Lewis, was nominated for Grovernor and Samuel 
 Eiker for Congress. Isaac T. Eeeve, Col. Jacob 
 S. Jackson, Jacob Carpenter and James Mitchell 
 were appointed;to communicate the proceedings to 
 Sufolk county and.to st^nd as a committee of said 
 county. The meek and unostentatious Gary Dunn 
 appeared in the. interest of, Col, Burr but he and 
 his associates were requested to withdraw — Amer. 
 Citizen. 
 
 1804, April 14.^J. Pi Utten offers, for sale his 
 farm of four hundred and thirty-one acres, called 
 Hyde Park, for many ■ years the residence of 
 Charles M(Julto"n. The grounds are laid out in an 
 unusual style of beauty and elegance, and it has 
 more the appearance of an European seat than aqy 
 in this country. There is' an abundance of com- 
 mon game and it is contiguous te the plover, and' 
 not very distant from the grouse and deer grounds. 
 On it is a house fifty-two by thirty-six feet; a 
 green-house with orange trees, and various other 
 exotics', a sumioer-hqilise, .two farm-houses, a barn, 
 two hay-barracks, stabling for twenty ihorses and 
 cattle, a cattle-shed, .coach-house, pig. and fowl- 
 house, cider-house and press, a garden, asparagus- 
 beds, fr-uit trees and flowers r6otS, fifteen or twenty 
 
IN" OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 93 
 
 acres of orcharding of peaches," cherries, apples, 
 pears and every other fruit selected from Europe, 
 and the' best nurseries here. — Eve. Post. 
 
 1804, July 2. — Jeremiah Vanderbiit and Thom- 
 as Cornell run a neat cwacli^ee with steel springs 
 and four horses, from Far Rockaway to Brooklyn;, 
 ferry. J. Vi thanks his citetomers for the very' 
 liberal favors conferred on him ft'om yeai- to year, 
 which have iadnced Wm to make stULfardieram- 
 provenients. His house iu. a. pleasant and hqakhy 
 situation, is one hundred ieet in fcont, with apart- 
 ments for separate lodgings, aiid an airy dinipgj 
 room twenty by thirty-six feet, with six large 
 window^ He hasdaid 'io. -a good stods ef ■ liquors 
 of the first quality, , 
 
 1804, Sept. 17.— rDiedi<'eaSiy; Shis ^morhing, the. 
 Rev. Henry Vau'Dyck, aged sixty, one of the 
 clergy of the Protestant Episcopal church, and 
 formerly rector of St. James church, "Newtown. 
 He was possessed of an affectionate'^heart strM. ■bk- 
 cellent understanding. Heidischarged 'with"-zeal, 
 fidelity and ability^ die dtifesftf his'«alling. In 
 private life he .was'esteem-ed4)y all to whom he 
 was known. Fimeral this afternoon, at five , 
 o'clock, from his house,".N"o.t4- Cedar Street, J^Tew ■ 
 York, where his friends and acquaintance are in- ; 
 vited to attend. — Ei'e. -JP^t 
 
 1804, Sept.^W. — Joshua Sands and James 
 Cornwall offer for sale the farm of the late Colonel 
 Lewis '■Cornwall, contaiming 'three hundred acres, 
 called-'SpriHg Hill, at the .head of Flushing Bay, 
 with' fine timber, fresh and salt meadow. The 
 mansion has a- -view of the bay and sound.-;— .Efe. 
 Post. 
 
 ISQ'ii'iSept. 25. — For sale, by Benjamin Prince, 
 
 Flushing, one hundred harrels of choice NewtoTvn 
 
 pippin apples now fit to be put up so as to be sent 
 
 -with safety to the Southern States, West Indies or 
 
 Europe. . Warranted .sound and unbruised. 
 
 1802 April 20. — At a Republican meeting of 
 the committees from the different towns of Queens 
 county, at the Court House, Benj. Coe, Chairman, 
 and Wm. I. Vrfedenburgh, Secretary, it was agreed 
 that Gen. John Spiith should be supported for 
 Congress, John Schcnck for the Senate and Robt. 
 Moore,* Abm. Monfort and Henry 0. Seaman for 
 the Assembly. — ^Micn CiiJ^ew.. 
 
 1804, Dec. 24. — About four o'clock this morning 
 the house of Jeffrey Smith,- Braver Pon;d,i.Jawaipa, 
 took fire accidentally (by a spark from fhe'hearth 
 as is supposed) and spread so rapidly b^ore it , was 
 discovered that the house was enveloped in flames 
 before any soul had made their escape. , A little 
 boy and girl, however, had jiist time^ to- escape by 
 leaping through the smokc'lrom a window and ran 
 to \, neighbor's. .Before assistance could come all 
 
 *Maior MoQre of Ngwtown, w.as defeated by Stephen 
 Carman, who was' a standing candidate for the Assembly 
 . from Hempstead from 1788 to ]819Hand. was elected twen- 
 tyrone times. — Ed. ' ■ ,■ 
 
 was over. Mrs, S,>with three- children, who all 
 slept in the same bed with her, was burnt to death 
 and lay buried in the ruins. The husband and 
 father of the woman had left homo the preceding 
 evening to'he early in Fly Market. 
 
 ! ISOS, July 1-, — Jahn Mott and Jeremiah Van- 
 derbilt* have erected a new stage, with four horses, 
 which will, accommodate eleven passengers. It 
 will run "twice a week from Far Rockaway to 
 Brooklyn. Their respective houses, which are 
 laige and airy, command a beautiful prospect of 
 the ocean, and' are now r-eady for company. 
 
 '1805, Nov,.'&. — Elisha Blossom launched a ship 
 fromiiis ship-yasd inside of Plum Beach, Manhas- 
 set, where Wafe^r Gornwell now hves. — JEd. 
 
 1800-06. — The Auroran Association of North 
 Hempstead- met at the school-house, Flower Hill, 
 Saturday evenings for mutual improvement, by 
 reading-.and debating. The President was John 
 KissaTu and the Secretary Singleton Mitchell. — 
 The other members were : 
 
 Peter Onderdonk, 
 Minne Onderdbnk, 
 Lott Onderdonk, 
 Joseph Ouderdonk, 
 Daniel Eapelye, 
 Benj. Sands,, 
 Win. Sands, 
 Geo. G. Sands, 
 Kay Sands, 
 Obadiah Sands. 
 Geo. Seaman, 
 John W. Seaman, 
 Minne Sehenck, 
 Morris Salt, 
 John M. Smith, 
 John B. Thorp. 
 
 Geo. Baker, 
 Isaac Bogart, 
 John Burtis, 
 Ab ni . Briuckerhoff, 
 Eichardson Cornell, 
 Isaac Dodge, 
 Wra. Dodge, 
 Obadiah Demilt, 
 Harry I)emilt, 
 Peter Demilt, 
 Lewis S. Hewlett, 
 James Hewlett, 
 Daniel Hoogland, 
 Andr.ies Hegeman, jr. 
 Peter Hegeman, 
 Elbert Hegeman, 
 James Mitchell, 
 
 1806, Jan. 9.^— One day this week, Thome's 
 Mills at Musquito Cove, took fire bythe friction of 
 the machinery and were totally consumed tegether 
 with a vessel lying at the Mills. Ten thousand 
 bushels of grain and a large cpiautity of .flour were 
 destroyed. — N. Y. Paper, 
 
 To whom it may cojwcrw .^Wliercas application 
 hath this day been made to us, Benjamin Tredwell 
 and Lott Oiiderdonk/ Overseers of the poor of the 
 town of North Hempstead," by Joseph Onderdonk,. 
 of the same place to have his negro slave named 
 MS■:e>'ffl3allumitt6d^a^xl set free, Ave'da hereby certi- 
 fy tli^t jve have made«p.quiry in the premises and 
 believe the said slave is under the age of fifty 
 years and of taifficient ability to provide for him- 
 self and .we appro^ve thiBJt^he- be manumitted and 
 set free. >iTi -witness whereof we have hereunto 
 set our hands this;a-7th day of March in the year 
 of our Lord ISOS. .Benjamin Tread well,, Lott On- 
 derdonk, Overseers of the poor. 
 
 This is to certify that I manumit arid set free 
 my male slave named Mike, as the statute of this 
 state requires. JOSEPH ONDEKDOIMK. 
 
 *Mr. Vanderbilt died May '4, 1807. 
 
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 1806, ifcfaj/ 10.— Vote of Queens county for SeW- 
 ators and Members of Assembly: 
 
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 Senate, ?' ? ^ . 
 
 Benj. Coe, Eep* - 18 107 106 lis 
 John D. Ditmis Eep.t 38 79 & 21 
 SarauelJones, Fed. - 64 44 36 164 
 
 Ass. Rep. 
 John AV. -Seaman* - 109 123 127 73 74 118 624 
 Isaac Loffei-ts, - 56 142 127 141 58 72 596 
 WUliamMott,*. - -- 10 119 123 250 58 "70 630 
 
 Ass: Eed. 
 Stephen, Qarwan,* 77 59 37 342 70 42 627 
 Wm. Townsp^id, - 83 17 29 157 188 44 517 
 
 'Elected. 
 
 tThis was a second republican nomination. 1*he party 
 was split by the dissensions of Gffvei-nor Lewis and l)e- 
 Witt Clinton.— ffammo^'s New York, I. 235. 
 
 18Q6, June 9.— Hamilton Hal!, situated at the 
 pleasant and healthy village of Elushiiig. In tbisi- 
 academy are taught, the Greek, Latin, French and 
 English languages; and German and Hebrew, if. 
 required, also the variotis branches of Mathematics, 
 Eeading,. Writing, Arithnietic, English grammar, 
 Book-keeping agreeable to the newest priiiciples. 
 Geography, and use of ,jbhe globe*. The most ap- 
 proved plans of education g,re pursued under the 
 direction of a capable and approved teacher. The 
 trustees visit and examine the school at stated 
 times. Board and tuition reasonable. Commni;^-^- 
 cation with New York daily by stage and sloop. — 
 Attention paid to the health and morals of young 
 persons sent. fo;; .education. Eoreigners, who wish 
 their children taught English, will bei well satisfied 
 with t]\e Principal, wh.o ha^ .beeajiegisikrly. educa- 
 ted in the university of Gottingen. The trustees 
 are William Prince, Thomas Philips, David Gar- 
 dener, Samuel H. Van Wyck and Bsaiel.BIood- 
 SQod. 
 
 180G„ Aug. 12.— Yesterday a match for 
 was made :ou, two, gentlemen against time to walk 
 from Betts' tavern in Jamaica to.IJ^ier's at Eock- 
 away, a distance of eighteen miles, aiicliijEon with 
 ease. ' They perform^, it in three hours, forty 
 minutes, beipg twenty minutes within time. — JE-stii^ 
 Post. 
 
 1806, Oct l.-^At a meeting of the practitioners 
 of Physic and .-Surgery at the Court House, Henry 
 Matt Chairman and Thomas Cock, Secretary, the 
 following officers were chosen by ballot: Daniel 
 Menema, President: Heniy Mott, Vice President : r 
 Thomas Cock, Seerefarj^j,,_Jsimes Searing, Treas- 
 urer : Gilbert Smitfe, Isaiai^^traw, Nathan Shel- 
 ton, Austin Chapman and Ebenezer Lockwood, 
 Censors : Henry Mott, D&egate. The Annual 
 meeting will be held the first Monday in June. 
 Drs. Smith, Shelton and Straw were appointed a 
 committee to form by-k^^ to. bfe produced at the 
 next meeting. 
 
 1806, Oct. 10.— Died at Plandome, agedMiffof 
 
 srh apwpleetic fit, Sary Latham relict of the late 
 Eobert Mitcbdl sitd mother of Dr. S. L. Mite&eli, 
 Senator to the United States. She was an, excel- 
 lent parent, and was interred in the Fi-iends' brtrial 
 ground at Cow Neck, near her venerable grand- 
 fatfi'eiv Joseph Latham, who near a century ago 
 gave the land for tfee pT!i!F|»!»8e «f a Meeting houses 
 , and cemetery to that Soeiety. 
 
 lS(X5,'iV(w;30*— Elizabeth Dennis, Oystferbay, 
 ' "was accidentally shot in the h&iii hy a, gun irt the 
 hands of Mr, Still, who was in her eoraipiany, at 
 Samuel Minor's, whereof she died instantly. 
 
 1807, Feb. 23.— On Friday at five P. M. a large 
 boat of the old ferry Brooklyn, laden with flo.ur, 
 which was stowed too much in her bows stink in 
 the middle of the river, with six persons on bc^rd 
 who were p|eked,.jip. by boats which went off 'to 
 their assistance.*'^ 
 
 1807,: March 14. '-U.' R.' Jl" J^nes ofiQue^s. 
 and Samuel Bishop, of Suffolk, are appOTBted'to' 
 laid and assist stranded vessels. 
 
 1867,j April 1, — Benjamin Barnes Mott/ a shoe- 
 maker, living at the landing, west side of Manhas- 
 set valley, in a drunken quan-el beat his wifa SsSrah 
 so that, she died April 3rt, of^fe wound on her head. 
 Peter WilMs sat by the fireside and told Benjamin, 
 he had not' gjven her half enough. Tfi^ -were 
 tried, June 25th, for manslan^ter"and sent to the 
 states prison, Benjamin for fourteen years and 
 Peter, as accessory, for three years. Barnea- was 
 pardansd May 22i>18i0'.-^i:dii^ . 
 
 1807, April 6. -r=- J a,mes Bloodgood at his nursery 
 Flushing, has for sale English and French cherry 
 tp««»5i ,pjanis, .peaciheis:. apricots, nectarines, peirs, 
 apples^ qiiineesj adt&wn^, Madeira nnts, black wal- 
 nut, Lombardy poplars, weeping willows, cuirants 
 raspberry, gooseberry, strawberry, lilac, hosaiey- 
 suckles, and roses, with an assortment of flower- 
 ing,shrubs. They will be put up so as to go to 
 any pafffc of Eiirope or America; 
 
 1807, ^j?r*r 28.— John Wood, of Flushing, w^s 
 drowned aecidcintally as it appeared. 
 
 1807, Jfa«^,3;;T-Died at Flushing, Colonel Isaae 
 Corsa, in the eightieth yeai- of his age, an old and 
 respectable inhabitant of New -Yoirk. He was 
 truly a charitable christian, and an bonest, upright 
 and benevolent man. See Eiker's Newtown.— Eti. 
 
 1807, 3Iay 22.— Joseph . Tyler respectfully in- 
 forms the public and his, friends in particular that 
 his house at Far Roekiiway is ready for their 
 j^espption and aceommo<lation. The best wines, 
 (particularly- champaign and Madeira) and other 
 liquors of the first quality. Likewise good stabling. 
 
 *John Siraonson, of Hempstead, since Sheriff was in 
 another feriy boat crossing the river at the time and when 
 he, saw the accident he seized the helm from the ferryman 
 and steered directly through the midst of the floating pas- 
 sengers and barrels and rescued among others Stniuel 
 Jackson and Newbury Hewlett from a watery grave —Ed 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 95 
 
 1807, May 2. — Vote of Queens county for Gov- 
 ernor, Senate (in part), and ABsembly, - 
 
 Governor. 
 
 } 
 
 CD 
 
 B, 
 
 1. 
 
 B 
 
 
 CHS 
 
 o 
 
 Tompkins, Eep. - 
 Lewis, -Fed.-- - -•■ 
 
 155 
 110 
 
 74. 
 82- 
 
 185 
 153 
 
 148 
 
 42 
 
 146 
 64 
 
 65 
 71 
 
 773 
 522 
 
 Senate 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 DeWitt Clinton Eep, 150 
 Samuel Jones, Fed. 103 
 
 70 ^ 
 85 
 
 160 
 167 
 
 137 
 42 
 
 128 
 67 
 
 65 
 67 
 
 710 
 531 
 
 Ass. Rep. 
 Jo]]n W. Seaman, 
 H. 0. SeSnian, - 
 Jftcobns Monfort, 
 
 ■ 189 
 
 208 
 209 
 
 112 
 95 
 
 100 
 
 120 
 280 
 140 
 
 156 
 163 
 172 
 
 170 
 168 
 169 
 
 95 842 
 94 1008 
 92 884 
 
 Ass Fed. 
 
 ■* 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 SSeplipn Cainnan, 
 AVm. Townsend; 
 
 -132 
 
 207 
 
 100 
 107 
 
 320 
 162 
 
 35 
 
 48 
 
 74 
 76 
 
 90 
 92 
 
 751 
 692 
 
 Our friends in Queens liave exceeded our expec- 
 tations. They have done themselves honor, and 
 their country great service. The Republican as- 
 sembly ticket has succeeded by an immense major- 
 itv. Carman who represented the county last year 
 in the Assembly, our friends have very properly 
 ordered to stay at home. — Amer. Gitigcn. 
 
 1807, Od. 10. — Jordan Hall, Oysterbay, fell in 
 the vrater accidentally and was drowned.' 
 
 1807, Dec. .12.^-A Mr. Erwin, at Cow Neck, 
 shot himselfl 
 
 1808, Feb. 20. — Ainos Dicketison, Oysterbay, 
 accidentally fell out of a boat and was drowned. 
 
 1808. Feb. 20. — John Banket, Cow Neck, was 
 drowned. 
 
 1808, March 19. — John Nostrand, and six hun- 
 dred others, pray the Legislature that as the Court 
 House now needs some repairs, a new one may 
 be erected in Her^pstead,. which is populous, cen- 
 tral, well-watered, and has houses of entertainment. 
 In the present situation are a scarcity of buildings 
 and a want of accommodation for- man_and beast, 
 in stormy weather.-^^ss. JoiW. 
 
 1808.^At a large and respectable meeting of the- 
 Republican electors of Queens County, at the 
 Com-tHouse, April l^th, John Schenck, Chairman, 
 and Singleton Mitchell, Secretary, John W.- Sea- 
 man was nominated far Congress ; Benjamin Ooe, 
 for Senator, and Jacobus Monfoort, William Mott 
 and Isaac Lefferts, for Assembly. ."' 
 
 The Federalists elected their members, viz : 
 Stephen Carman, Daniel Kissam and William 
 Townsend ; whereat the Republican organ, the 
 American Citizen, thus expresses- itself : -- 
 
 The 
 present, 
 
 tremely regretted by - 
 reputation is to lose everything. The cause is known an,d. 
 we are assured that the triumph of .Federalism is biit mo- 
 mentary. Divide and conquer is the motto of our oppon- 
 ents. Can it be believed that, contemning everything Fed- 
 eral, the Eepublicans of Queens and Kihgs. Counties have 
 adopted it? .They have been divided and ihgloriously 
 beaten. 
 
 1808, May 30. — Benjamin Seaman, alias Tuin, 
 a negro living near Jerusalem, being in liquor, 
 called at the house of Adam Gordon (colored), 
 while he was absent working for Jacob Mills, and 
 asked his wife to quit Adam and live with him. 
 Adam soon heard-> of this and went to Ben's to de- 
 mand an explanation. Ben rose from his seat 
 and seizing a corn-hoe, standing at the door, struck 
 Adam a blow that cut through his hat and broke 
 his skull. Adam fell, rose to grapple with his 
 assailant, and then fainted. His wife, on hearing 
 of the quarrel, went to look after her husband, 
 and found him sitting against a tree in the shade 
 and led him home. He died the next night. Ben 
 was tried, June 23d, and hanged, September 8th, 
 in a hollow on the Plains, -Bouth-ea'st of the Court 
 House. — -Fd. 
 
 1808, July 5'. — William Taylor was accidentally 
 drowned at Far Rockaway beach. His body Avas 
 taken up . there and conveyed to J amaica, where 
 an inquest was held. 
 
 1808, Aug 19. — A treasure was found in New- 
 town by a schoolboy, John, infant son of Daniel 
 Riker. It v^^as a bag of gold, valued at $'840,- 
 which had belonged to John Kearns, a schoolmas- 
 ter, and was hid during the ' Revolution. See 
 Biker's Nctvtotvn, p. 148. — Fd. 
 
 Names of persons, either pewholders or who 
 contributed to the support of Grace Church, Ja- 
 maica, from 1803 to 1809 i 
 
 Mary Austin, 
 Jacob Bedell," 
 Thomas Betts, 
 Eichard Betts, 
 Cornelius I. Bogavt, 
 Mrs. Eliza Brewer, 
 Josiah Bro"wn, 
 Samuel Carman, 
 George Codwise, jr., 
 Peter Cortelyou, 
 Aaron Cortelyou, 
 ■Creed & Mills, 
 Mr. Clarke, 
 Henry Cruger, Esq., 
 Horace Dayton, 
 Mrs. J. Depeyster, 
 Mark Dissosway,! 
 Eliza. Dunbart 
 John Dunn, 
 
 1807 
 
 1802 
 1802 
 1808 
 
 Caleb Mills, 
 Eeter Mills, 
 Mills & Creed, 
 James Morrell, 
 Joseph Morris, 
 
 1802 jDr. Daniel Menema, 
 
 1802 George Nafis, 
 Andrew Napier, 
 Timothy Nostrand, 
 Joseph Oldfield, 
 Edward Parker, 
 William Puntiue, 
 Abraham Polhemus, 
 Johannes Polhemus, 
 Frederick Polhemus, 
 Joseph Eoe, 
 Lawrence Epe, . 
 Berijamin Eowland, 
 David Eowland,' 
 
 1809 
 1802 
 1802 
 1807 
 1809 
 1806 
 1807 
 1802 
 1802 
 1802 
 1809 
 •1802 
 
 1803 
 1808 
 1802 
 1802 
 1802 
 1802 
 1808 
 1807 
 1806 
 1802 
 1807 
 1802 
 1802 
 1807 
 1809 
 1802 
 1802 
 1802 
 1802 
 
 ••Bedell was clerk of the church. 
 
 tDissos way was father and chief patron of the Methodist 
 church, Jamaica. His hospitality was unbounded. Some- 
 times nine horses at once stood in his. stable whose riders 
 (itinerant ministers) sat at his table. 
 
 tit was at the widow Dunbar's that the Eev. Timothy 
 Clowes boardedyand contracted a matrimonial engagement 
 ■ with her daughter, Mary, which was Subsequently broken 
 ) off by mutual agreement. The people would not let the 
 [Blatter drop J^hus, but took sides for and against their min- 
 ister. Mr. Clowes having allowed some disparaging re- 
 marlj;s to escape his lips, Miss Dunbar,- at the instigation of 
 her friends, brought suit against him in the -Supreme Court, 
 New York, Oct. 30th, 1810, by her i attorney, Martin S. 
 Wilkins. I'he ablest counsel were employed on both 
 sides, and the jury rendered a verdict, May 4th, 1812 
 .of $4,000 damages, and six cents costs. Meantime Mr. 
 ' Clones had accepted a call to St. Peter's Church, Albany. 
 
 23. 
 
96 
 
 ■QUEENS OO-tlN-TY 
 
 Gary Bunn, Jr., Esq., 
 L. E. A. Bigenbrodt, 
 Samuel iEldert,"* 
 Mrs. ri'Hglass, 
 Charles Paier, 
 Samuel Greenoak, 
 Archibald Gi'acie, 
 Thomas Greswold, 
 Captain Hall. 
 Mrs. Harrison, 
 Urias Hendrickson, 
 John Hewlett, jr., 
 Stephen Hicks, 
 Hinchman & Smith 
 Rachel Hinchman, 
 John H-inchman, 
 SaUy Hinchman, 
 William H. "Hitchcock, 
 'Dr.'B. M. Hitchcock, 
 Jolin Hooglaud, 
 Jonathan Jones, 
 Eufus King, 
 Daniel Kissam, 
 Benjamin T. Kissam, 
 Sarah Latting.t 
 James Lawrence, 
 Obadiah Leech, 
 Abraham Leech, 
 'M.iqov Charles McNeil, 
 Captain John Mottley,]: 
 James Mackerel, jr., 
 James Mackerel, 
 Miss Elcie Martin, 
 
 1809Mrs. Ann Scribaj 1809 
 
 1802 Joseph Seely, 1807 
 
 ISOSWilBam A. Sale, 1808 
 
 1803AuetiStusSiiok6ttj 1811 
 
 IBOSJames Sproule, 1809 
 
 1802Dr. Nathan Shelton, 1807 
 
 1809John Skidmore, 1802 
 
 ISOeWillett Skidmore, .1803 
 
 1809J-6rBmiah Simonson, 1802 
 
 1802Smith & Hinchman, 1807 
 
 1 802Christopher Smith, 1 802 
 
 lg02Hester P. Smith, 1807 
 
 1802Katharine Smith, 1807 
 
 1802John Thatiord, 1802 
 
 1802Joseph Thatford, 1802 
 
 ]803Lucretia Tihbals, 1809 
 
 1803Johu Troup, 1802 
 
 1808Mrs. Underhill, 1802 
 
 1809EichardVanDam, 1802 
 
 ] 809Mrs. Van Liew, 1803 . 
 
 1 802 John Van Liew, 1808 
 
 1 806 John Van Noatrand, 1 802 
 
 1802Aaron Van Nostrand,|| 1803 
 
 ISOajeremiah Valentine, 1802 
 
 1803Mrs. James Waters, 1802. 
 
 1802John Waters, 1808 
 
 1808Miss Woofendale,§ 1802 
 
 1808John W.- Welhng, 1802 
 
 1802Samuel Welling, 1802 
 
 1802Thomas Welling, 1802 
 
 1802Eichard Wiggins, 1802 
 
 1802Elizabeth Wilson, 1811 
 1802 
 
 1808, Bee. 29. — Nicholas Wykoff was-Chairman, 
 and Daniel Ludlum, Secretary,' of a meeting of the 
 inhabitants of Kings and Queens Counties, at the 
 house of George Carpenter, Jamaica, who were op- 
 posed to making a turnpike from Jamaica to 
 Brooklyn. 
 
 1809, March 1. — Mrs. Joanna Hinchman., Ja- 
 maica, was choked by a bone of a beef-steak, ifrom, 
 the effects of which she died. 
 
 1809, April 1. — David Plummer, while gunning 
 on Plum Beach, Manhasset, shot himself. 
 
 1809. — Brooklyn, Jamaica and Flatbush Turn- 
 pike. — Books for subscription will be opened April 
 10th, at the inn of Benjamin Smith, Brooklyn.; at 
 the inn of_ John Schoonmaker, Flatbush ; at the 
 inn of Daniel Voorhees, Bedford; at the inn of 
 Abraham Bedell, Hempstead.; at the inn of Piatt 
 Carl, Suffolk County ; at the inn of Isaac Piatt, 
 Jamaica. The Commissioners are ; William Eur- 
 man, John C. Vanderveer, Lambert Suydam, 
 George Codwise, Jr., Eliphalefr Wlickes, John D. 
 Ditmis. 
 
 1809, May.— Yote, of Queens County for three 
 Members of Assembly : 
 
 *She was widow of a sea-captain. 
 
 tOr Laton. She was born Eapelye. 
 
 tHe had teen engaged in the southern coasting trade, 
 and latterly was a merchant in New York. 
 
 II He was sexton of the church and has left a record 
 from 1773 ta 1820 of the -interments' in the church yard, 
 where he himself was buried, January 23d, 1822, at the age 
 of eighty-four. ' ' 
 
 5She kept a boarding and day school in Jamaica, but 
 removed to Brooklyn in May, 1804. 
 
 Republican. 
 
 Federal, 
 
 g 
 
 Jamaica. - - - 
 Flushing,* - - 
 Newtown, • _; 
 Oysterbay. • -~ - 
 North Hempstead, 
 Hempstead, - - - 
 
 on 
 
 a a 
 
 ^ i 
 
 156 155 f58 
 
 79 78 78 
 
 180 178. 178 
 
 181 172 176 
 129 125 131 
 164 218 246 
 
 B 
 
 1:=^ 
 
 83 
 
 85 85 
 
 92 92 
 
 93 99 96 
 335 339 341 
 163 167 165 
 421 401 395 
 
 989 926 967 1188 1183 1173 
 
 1809, June 22. — Rhoda Seaman, Oysterbay, 
 
 sued Simeon Searing, in the Queens County Court, 
 
 for a breach of promise, and recovered sis -cents 
 
 damages. Issue was joined June 12th, 1807. 
 
 1809, July 6.— Polly, daughter of John Piatt, 
 while crossing the Big Mill dam, Cowbay, fell off 
 and was drowned. 
 
 1809.-;— James Titus, of Newtown, died, August 
 24th, from a blow, received two da>ys before, on 
 the right side. Six minutes before his death, he 
 said it was by an oar in the hands of John .Harper, 
 at the South Bay landing, whither they had gone 
 to get clams. Harper had previously loosened two 
 of his teeth by );hrowing a clam-shell in his face, 
 and had also had him down in the water. 
 
 1809, Nov. 14.— Jacdb Verity, for larceny, is 
 sentenced, by the Queens County Court, to receive 
 thirty-nine lashes to-morrow, at ten o'clock,.— 
 Court Minutes. 
 
 1810, Jan. 20.— Dr. Daniel Menema, of Jamai- 
 ca, aged fifty-six, died at seven in the morning, 
 and Joseph Morris, the barber and hair-dresser, 
 (whose wife cooked and washed for the doctor) 
 died at seven in the evening. The next Sunday 
 after the. burial of the above,- and Mr. Gracy's 
 child, Daniel, the Eev. Mr. Eaitoute preached from 
 Is. 38 ; 1:: " Set thine house in order, &c." 
 
 Dr. Menema was surgeon of the Second New 
 York Eegiment in the ReYolutionary war, and a 
 member of the Cincinnati. He was a large, hand- , 
 some man and proud of his person. He was re- 
 putedan able physician and said to be kind and 
 liberal to the poor.. Dr. Shelton succeeded to his 
 practice.^-'.Et^. 
 
 1810, Feb. 5. — Between two and three o'clock, 
 
 *In Flushing the Democratic party made the greatest 
 efforts for several weeks before the election to gain the ma- 
 jority. The most base and unfair means were made iwe of 
 by their leaders. Judge Wyekoff, a French tory,' spread 
 through evei-y part of the township, the most infamous 
 handbills. Still the-Eederal party prevailed and gave their 
 candidaites a handsome majority. 
 
 It woulcT'be well if all those pretending to. ;be-" Demo- 
 ,crats" could offer so conclusive a proof of thpii;' own 
 "Democracy," as is furnished in the above official returns. 
 Unfortunately, however,, many of those exclusive, patriots 
 were at that period on the adverse party, some individuals 
 of which, actually employed an honest blacksmith to spike ' 
 a cannon, brought up to Flushing by this identical ipbn 
 Wykoff to celebrate the inaugui'atipn, of President Jeffpr- 
 son.— iV. Y. Paper. 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 97 
 
 P.m:, a fire broke out in the paper mill of Eichard 
 Kirk, of Hempstead Harbor, [now Bryant's] and, 
 notwitlistaHiling tbe exertions of the neighbors, the 
 whole building was entirely Aestvojedi.— Eve. Post. 
 
 1810, March 23. — Democratic Justice.— In 
 Queens County, a Tew weeks since, a Mr. Milne, 
 of Oysterbay, a manufacturer of woolen cloths, 
 and a Federalist ; and John Wykolf, of Flushing, 
 (one of the County Judges and a redoubtable Dem- 
 ocrat) were competitors. Although the piece ex- 
 hibited by his Honor bore no comparison with 
 Milne's, yet a majority of the,judges on some fri- 
 volous objection of the latter having been-fuUed 
 and dressed out of the county, adjudged the'bdtin- 
 ty to Wykoff, notwithstanding that his cloth was de- 
 ficient in the width -req^uired by \slvt.—N. Y. Paper. 
 
 1810, April 14.— Robert -aitchiBRoa -was foimd 
 lying dead on the east side shofe of 'Cow Neck, 
 having been accidentally drowned, as was thought. 
 
 1810, Jtme 12. — Jacob Hendrickson, for larceny, 
 is sentenced, by the County Court, to receive thir- 
 ty-nine lashes immediately, 
 
 1810, Jwie 27. — Abraham Ludlam, Newtown, 
 was accidentally drowned. 
 
 1810, Jidi/ 6.— Hendrick Goelet, Newtown, was 
 accidentally- drowned. 
 
 1810, Mig. 25.— On IWednesday, as Samuel 
 Lawren«e, of N«wtown, was coming to the city in 
 a small bqat he approached too near the Hancock 
 rock, struck the reef and was swept from his boat 
 by. the violence of the tide. He was taken up a 
 few moments after and the customary means of res- 
 toration were used without avail. His servant 
 clung to the boat and was saved. 
 
 1810, Sep>f. 3.— P. L. Turquand and Matthew 
 Chichester have taken charge of the school adjoin- 
 ing the Episcopal Church, in the village of New- 
 town, where they profess to teach the French and 
 English languages, arithmetic, mathematics, navi- 
 gation, mensuration, surveying, geography, with 
 use of globes, bookkeeping ; writing, plain and or- 
 namental. Board may be had in respectable fami- 
 lies. The Trustees are.: Eev. A. L. Clark, Timo- ■ 
 thy Eoach, John Eapelye, Aaron Furman. 
 
 1810, Dec. 25. — Increase, son of G-eorge Car- 
 penter, was kicked by a . horse so that the skull- 
 bone was laid bare about the size of a tea-cup. 
 
 1811, MarcJi 1. — Owing to the inclement days 
 ktely experienced, the price of wood is higher in 
 New York than ever known before. Hickory sells 
 from $12 to $13 a carman load, which is one third 
 of a cord.* — Eve Post 
 
 1811. — Vote of Queens County for three mem- 
 bers of Assembly, Api-il JOth : 
 
 * January 15th, 1805, hickory sold at the wood yards for' 
 $21 a cord. A countryman asked even $8 for a load ; and 
 April 2, 1807, oak wood sold at $5 per load, almost every' 
 house being without. — Eve. Post. 
 
 SReptibliciin. 
 
 Federal. 
 
 / 
 
 H 
 
 D g 
 
 H 
 
 ,0) 
 
 CD sJtj' 
 
 g n ^ n 
 V o a° 
 
 Oysterbay, - . . 
 
 Newtown, - - . 
 North Hempstead, - 
 Hempstead, - - - 
 Jamaica, 
 Flujhi'rig, - - . 
 
 165 
 183 
 113 
 195 
 163 
 74 
 
 140 
 112 
 113 
 233 
 161 
 69 
 
 139 
 112 
 
 m 
 
 214 
 163 
 
 83 
 
 Cot tj 
 
 ■ P 3 _B & g. p 
 
 324 325 324 
 
 84 84 85 
 132 137 135 
 424 411 400 
 
 85 91 
 83 93 
 
 90 
 
 87 
 
 833 828 822 1132 1141 1121 
 We are disappointed in the result of the elec- 
 tion. It is to be feared that DeWitt Clinton* is 
 destined by the fates to rule our councils with 
 greater effect than ever. We shall not, however, 
 despair of the republic. We shall persevere in our 
 exertions and not relinquish our opposition to do- 
 mestic tyranny,— iV. Y. Journal. 
 
 1810, July. 28.— The site of the first Methodist 
 Church, Jamaica, was the free gift of Israel Disos- 
 way or his sister ; at the raising of which a seri- 
 ous accident occurred. All the frame had been 
 erected except the rafters, and instead of erecting 
 these two by two, they were first all piled togeth- 
 er on the beams of the newly erected frame, which 
 broke down under the superincumbent weight and 
 severely injured Smith Hicks and Joseph Dunbar.f 
 
 1811, June 14. — Anthony Casper, a white 
 child, at Newtown, was accidentally drowned, as 
 it appeared. 
 
 1811, Dec. 23. — On Monday night there was a 
 tremendous snow storjn and ^gale. Maijy vessels 
 in the Sound were driven on the Long "Island 
 shore. 
 
 1812, — Jamaica, Jan. 24. — Yesterday morning, 
 at a quarter past nine, a shock of an earthquake 
 was severely felt in this village. Everything sus- 
 pended in my store was set "in motion -for more 
 than a minute. The motion was a steady swing- 
 ing backwards and forwards. The shock was felt 
 by my family and several of my neighbors. — Cor. 
 of N. Y. Spectator. 
 
 1812, March 28.— Peter Hegeman, Manhasset, 
 sells to Elbert Hegelnan, his half of their slave, 
 Jesse, for $32 50. 
 
 1812, April ,8. — -Lewis Hewlett, -of Queens 
 County, raised an ox which weighed, on the foot, 
 two thousand four hundred and thirty-six pounds. 
 
 1812, May 26.— Smith Hicks has taken the 
 well known stand at Jamaica, opposite the Episco- 
 pal Church, for many years kept as an inn by 
 Messrs. -Bardin, Waters, and Battin, successively. 
 
 'Clinton was chosen Lieutenant Governor. — Hammeiid, 
 I; 291. 
 
 tCaptain Thomas Webb, the principal founder of the 
 American Methodist church, came to Jamaica, where his 
 wife's kindred lived, sometime before ths Revolution, hired 
 a house and preached in it, and " twenty-four persons re- 
 ceived justifying grace." — Ste'tens' History. 
 
98 
 
 QUEENS COUNTY' 
 
 He has laid in a stock of the test li(iuors* and is 
 provided with every "article of accommodation 
 suited to the whim of the msst capricious traveler. 
 The frecjiienters of Rockaway will find here a con- 
 venient resting place for themselves and horses. 
 
 1812, May.— Vote of Queens County for g'eua- 
 tors, (in part), and three Members of Assembly .t 
 
 Federal. 
 
 ASSEMBLY. 
 
 Eepjiblican. - 
 
 B 
 K. Hempstead, 130 
 ilamaica, - 
 Fiushmg, 
 CWsterbay, 
 Il'ompsteacl, ' 
 lT:\Ytown, 
 
 S S" 
 
 pi rt 
 
 P f 
 
 ]25 
 
 87 82 
 
 105- ]01 
 
 319 316 
 
 403 419 
 
 77 77 
 
 CD 
 
 128 
 87 
 103 
 314 
 394 
 79 
 
 
 115 
 123 
 
 63 
 
 95 
 
 181 
 
 105 
 
 If 
 Pe 
 107 
 123 
 67 
 96 
 207 
 103 
 
 CO g 
 
 ^■■^ 
 103 
 127 
 69 
 97 
 214 
 105 
 
 SENATE. 
 Fed. Rep. 
 
 O H o O; 
 P ■ O '^ 
 
 en MH CD 2. 
 
 101 
 
 66 
 
 72 
 
 176 
 
 306 
 
 70 
 
 63 
 2 
 
 n 
 
 42 
 
 1121 1120 1105 637 SOS 715 791 153 
 
 1812, Nov. 1.— A meeting v.'as.' held at William 
 and Dobsen Allen's inn, Manhasset, to consider 
 the propriety of erecting:.a Eeformed Dutch church, 
 and subscription papers were handed around. 
 The church was dedicated Christmas, 1816, by 
 the Rev. D. S. Bogart. 
 
 1812, Z)ec. l: — Benjamin Sands sells his grist- 
 mill, at Jlanh asset, to Andrew Onderdonk and 
 Daniel Hoogland, for the purpose of a cotton-fac- 
 tory. 
 
 1S12, June 13, — Rockaway Stages.-^— Thomas, 
 Barwise, Brooklyn, will run a new line, with four 
 horses. Fare, ,^1 25. 
 
 1812. — Selah Smith, of Brooklyn, and Smith 
 Hicks, will, start, August 3d, a new Ihie of stages 
 from Brooklyn to Rockaway and back, the same 
 day, performing the- whole in the short r-pace of 
 thirteen hours. Breakfast on the table .at Smith 
 Hicks', Jamaica, while the horses are changing, 
 and dinner at Silas Hicks', Rockaway. Pare, $\. 
 
 1812, Oct. 13.— The market-boat Little Trim- 
 mer, Captain Abraham -Briuckorhoff, from,, Kew 
 York to Cow Bay, being too heavily loaded v.'ith 
 brick, as she v.^as putting about; run under water 
 and. sunk, off Plum Beach; The passengers- and 
 creviT escaped in the long boat to Great Neck, ex- 
 cept one who swam ashore to Cow Neck. Catha- 
 rine Onderdonk lost S-SO worth of clothing. 
 
 1813. — The dwelling-house of Nathaniel Lud-' 
 lum, Bog Lots, near Jamaica, was burnt on Thurs- 
 
 *It vras customnry -vrlien a publican got in a new hogs- 
 head of rum to invito all his customers to try it. After 
 thay had tasted, interchanged opinions and pronotmced it 
 good (as they usually did) that hogshead liad a ready sale. 
 —Ed. 
 
 jThere was a split in th« Ilepublicsin party, and Major 
 Moore, of Newtown, was nominated by the' " Quids" or 
 Martling Junto, who held a meeting at the Court IIouso, 
 April 6th, .John Schenck being Chairman, and liobert 
 Townsend, Secretary. Andrew Onderdonk was sent as 
 messenger with the nomination to Suffolk County. — Ed. 
 
 day nigte; Jannstry 7th, with its contents. The 
 family bEerely escaped. — L. I. Star. 
 
 1813.— rThey 'began to pnll down the old stone 
 .church that stood in the middle of the Main Street, 
 jjamaica, May 2'4th. After the rubbish was re- 
 'moYed'the ground under the church, and especially 
 in front' of "tht pulpit, was dug up and the remains 
 of those who had beeti buried there, were gathered 
 up, put in a box and conveyed, in procession, 
 headed by the sexton, Jeffrey Smith, to the town 
 cemetery, where they were re-interred. 
 
 In olden times it was not unusual to bury the 
 clergy beneath the pulpit, and people of conse- 
 quence under their pews, while the inferior class 
 was buried without the church. Hence the old 
 epitaph : 
 
 Here I lie outside the church door, 
 
 Here I lie because I'm poor ; 
 
 The further in, the more they pay ; 
 
 But here I lie as snug as they. 
 
 The Rev. Mr. Poyer in his -sei-mon, in this 
 church, May 10th, 1719, on the death of his wife, 
 Frances, in allusion to burials in the church, says : 
 " and even here, in this church, where we now are, 
 the graves on which some of your feet are, should 
 put us all in mind what we must expect." 
 
 A burial in the yard of -.Grace church cost 12s.j 
 but in the church it was much dea:rcr. Dr. Field, 
 1781, paid for laying his wife in church, £5 ; for the 
 grave, ==£] 4s.; taking np the floor 12s,; for four 
 carriers,, oEl, 12s.; funeral bell, 3s.; pall,. 4s. ; in- 
 viting, etc., 18s.. 
 
 1813". — Caleb" MilTs, stage driver, Jamaica, was 
 adjusting the head stall on one of his horses, when 
 they started and struck him on the back of the 
 neck v>'ith the carriage-tongue, causing a paralysis 
 of the spinal column, whereof he died, September 
 10th, notwithstanding the skill of Dr. Post,, who 
 was sent for from New York. — Ed. 
 
 - 1813, Sept. 11.— T,he flotilla of gunboats, thirty 
 m number, nnder Commodore Le-wis, ' passed 
 through Hellgate,'^on Thursday,* to Sands' Point,f 
 in quest of the- British armed vessels that were 
 cruising in Long Island Sound, and- annoying our 
 commerce After maneuvering against a strong 
 tide, they commenced -firing at-tvr-o and--a half 
 miles- distance. A British frigate,-supposedto be 
 the Acasta, then drew out. with the apparent in- 
 tention of bringing the United. States' flotilla to 
 close action, which the gunboats wore obliged to 
 avoid, owing to the wind being too high to admit 
 of fighting ^to advantage. After exchanging twen-- 
 ty or thirty shots; the flotilla came to anchor, and 
 the frigate joined her -consorts. The latest ac- 
 
 '"Thuraday was appointsd as a -Fast, day by ths Presi- 
 dent. 
 
 IBenjamin He-ri'latt sold the Government, July 15, 1808, 
 five acres of land at Watch or Sands' Point, for ,a light- 
 house, which was built by Noah Mason. 'Kie lantern was 
 ready for the oil by November, 1809, when a festival was 
 held there by the neighbors who were addressed by Dr. S. 
 L. Mitchell. 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES, 
 
 99 
 
 counts say the enemy have returned to the east- 
 ■ward4 — N. Y. Museum. 
 
 1813 April. — ^^^ote of Queens county>for Gov- 
 ernor and Assembly : 
 
 Governor. 
 Fid. Rep. 
 
 ASSEMBLY. 
 Federal. Repidilican. 
 
 3 tJ ^ 
 
 
 CDs. 
 
 CD r* 
 
 80 
 172 
 
 
 Flushing, - - 56 77 85 
 
 Newtown, - - 151 78 173 
 
 Jamaica, - - 129 83 ]53 153 
 
 N. Hempstead, 75 120 127 126 
 
 Hempstead, - 124 404 184 ' 201 
 
 Oysterbay, - 136 221 201 201 
 
 ^ 1-1 
 
 85 106 103 101 
 
 176 87 86 87 
 
 153 100 99 99 
 
 128 154 351 155 
 
 183 522 520 514 
 
 203 375 373 372 
 
 671 983 923 938 928 1344 1332 1328 
 
 1813, 17'ov. 10. — Long Island Sound was de- 
 clared by the Admiral of the. British sc[uadroa to 
 be in a state of blockade. . 
 
 1813, Dec. 9: — Long Island barley soldan New 
 Tork, at §1,60 per bushel. 
 
 1814. — Those inhabitants of Newtown who pre- 
 fer the interests of their families and country to 
 the'paltry schemes of speculators are req[uested to 
 meet at Bernard Bloom's Inn, on Friday the 9th 
 of January, to consider the expediency of denying 
 themselves the use of tea and sugar, till the exor- 
 bitant prices are reduced.! — i. I. Star. 
 
 i814, Jan. 12. — Died at Oysterbay after a short 
 illness John Fleet Esq., Member of Assembly, 
 distinguisljed.for his understanding, integrity and 
 usefulness. . 
 
 1814,_Jaw. 14. — A majority of the judges of the 
 court of' Common Pleas of Queens county, award- 
 ed Joseph Onderdonk of Manhasset, a premium of 
 $35, for the best piece of woolen cloth made in the 
 county, being twenty-five yards in length and 
 three-quarters wide. But as it was made in the 
 factory of Messrs. Jones, Cold Spring, the Legis- 
 lature by special enactment withheld the a,ward.t 
 — Ass. Jour. 
 
 1814, Jan. 18. — StaSIPS, from- five cents to five 
 dollars, for notes to be discounted, may be had at 
 the office of B. F. Thompson, Deputy Collector of 
 Internal Revenue, at Jamaica. 
 
 1814, March 8. — At a meeting of delegates from 
 five towns of Queens county at the Court House, 
 Hon. Cary Dunn jr.. Chairman and S. Sherman, 
 Secretary, it was resolved unanimously that John 
 Hazard of Jamaica, James Lent of Newtown and 
 Elbert Hfegeman, of Oysterbay, represent Queens at 
 Tammany Hall, on the 16th inst., for nominating 
 a Senator and Member of Congress. — L. I. Star. 
 
 1814. — At a meeting of Republican delegates of 
 the different towns of Queens county, at the Court 
 House, April 13th, William Mott, Chairman and 
 Micajah Townsend, Secretary; it was resolved 
 unanimously that Daniel Bedell of Hempstead, 
 Singleton Mitchell of North Hempstead, and Sam- 
 uel Sherman of Oysterbay, be nominated as candi- 
 dates for the Assembly, *and George Townsend for 
 Congress. 
 
 1814, May 14* — Abpiuwall Cornell part owner 
 of the sloop Amelia, took six hundredor seven hun- 
 dred bushels of rye on freight to Rhode Island. — 
 John Hegeman (who had just removed to New 
 York from Manhasset) sent also five hundred bush- 
 els of rye, and went himself, being out of business. 
 Mark Lynch went as a passenger gratuitously. — 
 Robert G. Cornell and two hands were also on 
 board. As they entered the race, May 16, the tide 
 ebbed and earned them toward Block Island when, 
 they were boarded by a British barge of the Bul- 
 wark-, ship of war. Beside the rye, there were ten 
 barrels of pork and eighty barrels of flour under 
 the rye. The passengers A. Cornell, Hegeman 
 and Lynch, were put ashore, but the vessel with 
 R. G. Cornell and two hands was sent to Halifax 
 as a prize. A. Cornell, Hegeman and Lynch were 
 arrested, August 8th, for treason and after a tedious 
 imprisonment were tried April 11, 1815, in the 
 United. States Circuit Court, before Brockholst 
 Livingston and were acquitted by the jury, without 
 leaving the box, under the charge of the judge, for 
 lack of proof by the prosecution and they were not 
 fallowed to enter on a defence. — N.'Y. Commercial. 
 
 tNumbers of the people on Cow Neck and vicinity went 
 to Sands' Point to see the action. Captain Mason,' keeper 
 of the light-house, told them to scatter themselves, for fear 
 the enemy, mistaking them for a body of armed men, might 
 throw a shot among them. — Ed. 
 
 tCoffee sold at 23 cents -ppr pound ; Hyson tea $1 94 ; 
 Souchong $1 50 ;-Sugar $22 50-per hundred. The news of 
 peace with Great Britain wad received in New York, Feb- 
 ruary 11th, whereupon sugar fell from $25 per huudredto 
 $13. 
 
 tThe Legislature in 1811 authorized the judges of the 
 court of Common Pleas in each county of the state to 
 award premiums (fr6m a ftind provided by the state) for 
 the best specimrais of woolen cloth made in the family. — 
 This was continued. for several years.— £</. 
 
 18li. Aug. 3. — There were one hundred and 
 twenty loads of fascines (twenty-five bundles each) 
 brought from Jamaica to Brooklyn to aid in the 
 construction of fort Greene. The Rev. Jacob 
 Schoonmaker headed the pBOcession, Mr. Eigen- 
 brodt and the pupils of the Academy assisted the 
 people in cutting the fescines. 
 
 1814,- Aug. 16.— -The boats of the blockading 
 squadron chased a small schooner ashore at Rock- 
 away and set her on fire. Several gentlemen who 
 were there on parmes of pleasure, after the boats 
 had left the beach' extinguished the fire. Previous 
 to firing her a gentleman went down from the Bath- 
 house with a white flag to ransom the vessel, but 
 was refused. After the enemy left the beach, they 
 fired a number of shots at the- persons who were 
 exfrnguiehing the flames. — N. T. Gazette. 
 
 *The Federal candidates, Stephen Carman, Daniel Kis- 
 sam and Sol, Wooden were elected to the Assembly, as also 
 was Townsend to Congress.;.. 
 
 24j 
 
100 
 
 QUEENS OOTJNTT 
 
 1814, Sept. 7. — Thfire are one tbousand two hun- 
 dred of General Jolmsori''s brigade of infantry, 
 from Kings and 'Queens counties* now encamped 
 on Port Greene, Brooklyn. 
 
 1814, Oct. 26. — The committee of defence under- 
 standing that a number of citizens on Long Island 
 are desirous of evincing their devotion to their 
 count:i:y,. inform them thatBeveral thousand fascines 
 are wanted for the construction of Eort Greene, 
 and that patterns are left at Creed's tavern, Jamai- 
 ca, and at Bloom's, .Newtown. 
 
 1815, Jan. 4.— The hogs of Mr. Peter Hegeman, 
 Cow Neck, lately rooted up a large quantity of 
 gold and silver, at least $220, -which had been 
 buried in the ground since the Re%'olution, ancl for- 
 gotten. — L. /- Star. 
 
 1815, i^e&.— Samuel Youngs of Oysterbay offers 
 for sale a stout able bodied slave, twenty-six years 
 old, now confined in jail for absenting himself from 
 his master's service. 
 
 1815, Fel). 8.— The elegant house of the late 
 Isaac T. Reeve at Plainville, formerly the proper- 
 ty of Colonel Ludlow and anciently the residence 
 of Governor Dongan was burnt on Sunday morning 
 last. The fire caught from an opening of the bricks 
 of the chimney which had just been burned. 
 
 1815, Feb. 22. — The news of peace was celebra- 
 ted at Hempstead harbor by firing volleys of musk- 
 etry at seven A. M. The flags waved all day from 
 the paper mills, factory and shoe-shop of Mr. Dan- 
 iel Bogart. At noon and evening, salutes were 
 fired by pistols. In the evening the houses were 
 illuminated and appropriate toasts drank at the 
 house of the Rev. David S. Bogart. Jamaica, 
 Flushing and other principal villages on Long Is- 
 land, were also illuminated. 
 
 1815 ,March 6. — E. H. Jones resigns his seat m 
 the Senate. He labors under a stricture of the 
 breast and finds the air of Albany injurious to him. 
 
 1815, ilfarcTj 25.— Last week Francis Baldwin of 
 Hempstead, fell from the window of the house 
 ■where he slept in Brooklyn (likely in his sleep) 
 and was killed. 
 
 1815, Jffly.— Vote of Queens County : 
 
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 Senate. p 
 
 Leffert Lefferts, Eep. 60 
 Jacob Barker, Dem. 115 
 
 Assembly. 
 Stephen Carman Fed 74 
 Daniel Kiasam, Fed. 75 
 "William Jones, Fed. 77 
 Joseph Pettit. Dem. 146 
 JohnD.Ditmis,Dem. 152 
 Sam'l Sherman, Dem. 147 
 
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 66 317 
 
 111 117 
 
 70 418 
 
 70 424 
 
 71 418- 
 127 175 
 
 126 163 
 
 127 156 
 
 
 
 
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 61 103 
 
 44 52 
 
 81 113 
 83 114 
 
 82 112 
 
 60 80 
 
 61 80 
 61 80 
 
 P - S5 
 
 ■ ^ r^ 
 
 183 790 
 
 105 544 
 
 290 1046 
 293 1059 
 297 1057 
 165 753 
 165 747 
 161 732 
 
 'The Jamaica militia marched to Brooklyn September 2 
 
 1815, F^. 16.— Long Island sound was frozen 
 over at Sand's Point. 
 
 1815, June'29. — At a meeting of the Clergy and 
 Laity of the Protestant Episcopal Church at Grace 
 Church, Jamaica, for the purpose of forming a. 
 society to distribute the Bible, and common prayer 
 book, after morning prayers, the Rev. Seth Hart 
 ■was appointed Chairman and F. C. Tucker,, Secre- 
 tary. The following officers were elected : Joshua 
 Sands, President, Stephen Carman and William 
 Jayne, Vice Presidents ; Rev. E. M. Johnson, Sec- 
 retary and John H. Moore, Treasurer. The man- 
 agers were Judge Selah Strong, John Van Nos- 
 trand, Thomas Marston, Timothy Roach, Abra;ham 
 Snediker, Benjamin Hewlett, F. 0. Tucker. 
 
 1815. — At a meeting of some of the inhaTaitants 
 of Long Island, of different religious denomina- 
 tions, held August 1st, pursuant to public notice, 
 at the Court House, for the purpose of formin'g a 
 Bible Society, Adrain "Van Sinderen was appoirit- 
 ed Chairman and James Lent Secretary, John Bas- 
 set, William Boardman, -Evan M. Johnson, Jesse 
 Lev'erich and Charles Wright were appointed a 
 committee to report a constitution, which was 
 agreed to. Revs. Dr. Basset, Amos Bingham, D. 
 S. Bogart, E. M. Johnson, Gilbert H. Sayres, Jacob 
 Schoonmaker ; and Messrs. Daniel Bogart, Daniel 
 Brinckerhoff, Joseph Dodge Jr., L. E. A. Eigen- 
 brodt, Thomas F. Fisli, Valentine Hicks, Dr. D. 
 M. Hitchcock, Edward Howard, Thomas Law- 
 rence, Jr., James Lent, Jesse Levericli, William 
 Leverich, Edward Leverich, Peter Messerole, Dr. 
 Nathan Shelton, John E. Tompkins, A. Van Sin- 
 deren, Eliphalet Wickes and Charles W^ght were 
 appointed a committee to solicit subscriptions, and 
 report at a meeting to be held the third Wednes- 
 day of September. 
 
 1815, Aug. 23. — A society to suppress vice and 
 intemperance -^vas organized at Oysterbay, July 1st 
 they met at the school house in Jericho,, when 
 'Charles Jackson was appointed Chairman and 
 Samuel Sherman, Secretary. The Committee to 
 draft a coiistitution were : Selah S. Carll, Jarvis 
 Frost, Elbert Hegeman, James Hegeipan, Valen- 
 tine Hicks, William Jones, Jesse Merrit, Samuel 
 Sherman, Isaac Smith and Sol. Wooden. 
 
 1815, Sept. 5. — Unfortunate , Accident. — This 
 morning, a small Market^boat, in attempting to 
 come to tlie city from Newtown ■with ten persons 
 aboard,- five women and five men, run athwart a 
 cable of a brig lying at anchor in the stream, up- 
 set, and went down ; by which accident, one man, 
 Mr. Paul Burtis, and four women, viz : Mrs. Betsey! 
 Gray, Mrs. Lane, Miss Snediker and Miss Wade, 
 about 12 years of age, were drowned, Mr. Edsell, 
 the owner of the boat, Mr. Collier, Mrs. Rapelye, 
 and two coloced men, were saved, by clinging, some 
 to the cable, and ^ome to the ropes of the brig, till 
 they were taken off. Mrs. Rapelye was so much 
 exhausted that her recovery is doubtful. 
 
 1815, /S'epi;. 17.— Died, at Jamaica, aged 73 years, 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 101 
 
 Colonel Joseph Eobinson, a patriot of tlie Revolu- 
 tion and for tiiirty years Surrogate of Qtieens 
 county, 
 
 1816,*i^e&. 2'6.— On Thursday morning last, be- 
 tween one and two o'clock, the house of widow 
 Lawrence at Flushing, M'a.s discovei'ed to be on fire. 
 The family made their escape, but the flames when 
 discovered had made such progress that a small 
 portion of the furniture only was saved, 
 
 1816, April 22.— Eleven o'clock last night a fire 
 broke out in the barn of Mr. Fm-man in Newtown, 
 Long Island, which destroyed all his outhouses 
 with their contents, a large quantity of hay, gsain, 
 &c., two horses, one cow and two calves were con- 
 sumed, 
 
 1816.— The Trustees ot Union Hall Academy, 
 Jamaica, purpose to open a female academy. May 
 20 th, in a building that will accommodate from 
 thirty- to forty boarders. They have engaged two 
 ladies of approved talents' anfl experience, Mrs. 
 Elizabeth 'JBartlette and Miss Laura Barnum by 
 whom young ladies will be instructed in all the 
 branches ©f a polite and well finishx^d education. 
 
 1816, June 11.— A fine large Gkeen Turtle 
 will be dressed on Saturday and Sunday next, at 
 Tyla'r's Boarding House, Far JRockaway, Dinner 
 on the' table at two o'clock. 
 
 1816, lull/ 20,-^Dr. Mitchell' and Captain Pat- 
 ridge ascertained by. lie barometer that the height 
 of the Harbor Hills was three hundred and nine- 
 teen feet.* They also foHnd the Mill-stone rock, 
 a granite block on land of Judge Schenek, south of 
 Manhasset, to contain two thousand four hundred 
 cubic feet above the surface of the earth in which 
 it was emti'edded. 
 
 1816, Aug. 7. — Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Cap- 
 tain Carberi-y, of New York, aged fourteen years, 
 and two servant-girls (one was Jane McPherson.) 
 were swept o£f by the undertow at Eockaway 
 beach, while bathing in the surf. They were 
 washed up fifteen minutes after but life was ex- 
 tinct. 
 
 1816, Aug. 16— Walter and Gilbert Covert (fa- 
 ther and son) were put ia Queens county jail for 
 setting fire to the barn of Obadiah Jack-gon, Jeri- 
 cho, and subsequently removed to Bridewell for 
 fear of their breaking jail. They were tried, No- 
 vember 12th, Walter was acquitted and Gilbert 
 sent to the State's Prison for ten years. 
 
 1816,Atfg. 16.-^The coldest and dryest season 
 ever known, corn injured by .the grub or cut worm. 
 Farmers had to purchase salt hay for winter fodder. 
 
 1816, Sept. 26. — The Williamsburgh turnpike 
 which has -been making for the last two years, is ' 
 now finished. . It curtails the distance between 
 New York and Newtown one half. The route to 
 
 *The water commissioners from Williamsburgh, after- 
 wards made the elevation to be three hundred and eighty 
 feet. 
 
 Rockaway formerly exceeded twenty-eight miles> 
 but is now diminished to fifteen. The number of 
 horses in the team-boat has been doubled to afford 
 facilities to travellers by the new route. 
 
 1816, Nov. 12.— Stei^hen Hicks was fined $50 
 for .^ssault on Cesar Lowe, a negro. (In the spring 
 of 1815 Cesar was behaving disorderly in Hicks' 
 bar-room, at Success, and on refusing to leave the 
 house when ordei'ed, Hicks forciby ejected and 
 kicked him, of which he diied).— Court and Super- 
 visors' minutes. ^ 
 
 1816, Dec. 4. — James Ditmars of Jamaica killed 
 a pig, eight -months old, which weighed when 
 dressed three hundred and sixty-two pounds. 
 
 . _ TS16, Dec. 18.— William Smith, of Flushing, 
 killed a two year old hog which weighed one thou- 
 sand, one hundred and twenty pounds. — Star. 
 
 1816, Dec. 18, — A radish was produced the past 
 season from the garden of a gentleman in New- 
 town whose length including the top was 'five feet, 
 ten inches, length of body two feet nine inches 
 circumference two feet three inches, weight twen- 
 ty-one pounds". — Star. 
 
 1817. Jan. 15.— Flour sells in New York, for $15 
 per barrel, and a further advance is apprehended. 
 
 1817. — Tbe night of February 14, was the cold- 
 est one of many years. At sunrise the Mercury 
 was seven degrees below zero. 
 
 1817, May_ 5.— William Cobbet landed in New 
 York, and hired Hyde Park, where he planted in 
 ridges seven acres of turnips (ruta-bagas), aud gave 
 a great impulse to their culture by Lotig Island 
 farmers. 
 
 1817, May 21. — Late Election, — ^From a. staite of 
 high excitement the people seem to have fallen into 
 a very blamable apathy. Very few ■votes Ave 
 understand were given in the towns of Long Is- 
 land. In Queens county no nomination of Assem- 
 blymen was made from any party ; ■ but the old 
 members (Messrs. Carman, Jones, and Kissam) 
 are said to be elected. For Governor DeWitt 
 Clinton received two hundred aud eighty-three 
 votes and Peter B. Porter, thirteea,-^i. I. Star. 
 
 1817, Jmie 15^ — Tbe 'store of Lowerre and 
 Wines, Flushing was broken open in the night by 
 some men from New York, (who came up in a 
 coach) and robbed of #1,000 worth of goods, a part 
 of which was found on the wharf and part carried 
 off in a yawl which is now-missing. 
 
 1817, June 18. — Eatables -have been high but 
 the prospects now are that the crops will be abun- 
 dant. — Star. 
 
 1817, June 27.— The barn' of' George Vander- 
 verg,- Flushing, was consumed by lightning during 
 the thunder storm of Saturday evening. 
 
 ■'1817, July 15.— The store of John W. Messen- 
 ger, one mile east of Jamaica, was broken open 
 and robbed on the night of July 7th. The whole 
 
102 
 
 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 of the goods will be givou as a rewaad for the dis- 
 covery of the villains. — Star. 
 
 1817, ^MJ?. 6.— sally- Edsall, Newtown, sued 
 Thomas and . Margaret Divine for slander. The 
 trial lasted.; three days and forty witnesses were 
 examined. The jury rendered a verdict of $800.- 
 L. I. Star. 
 
 1817, Aug. 18. — Mr. Spragg, of Hempstead hav- 
 ing his gun on full cock while snipe shooting, lost 
 his thumb and three fingers by a discharge of the 
 ramrod. The hand was arapiitated above the 
 wrist. 
 
 1817, Aug. 21. — James Davis, a mason, James 
 Muttee and Piatt Sammis were conimitted to jail 
 for using violence under aggravating circumstances 
 to Maria Dodge, whom they left on the Plats in 
 Hempstead Harbor, to be drdwned by the rising 
 tide, but her cries brought timely succor. Davis 
 broke jail December 4, but was retaken June 10, 
 1818. The others also escaped June 20 1818. — 
 Supervisors' minutes. 
 
 1817, Aug. 24. — Died at Tyler's, at Eockaway, 
 Mr. Holman, play actor, late of Lon-don. 
 
 1817. — At a meeting of a number of gentlemen 
 farmers and agriculturists of Queens county, at the 
 Court House, November 11th, for the purpose of 
 taking into consideration^ the propriety of forming 
 an Agricultural Society, in order to improve the 
 method of farming as well as to improve the stock 
 and rural economy of said county in general, Lewis 
 S, Hewlett was called to the chair and John I. 
 Cromwell was appointed Secretary.. 
 
 After a few prefatory rerharks on the impor- 
 tance to our country of .die subject, it was resolved 
 that the forniatioa of an agricultural society is 
 highly necessary aad that a general meeting of the 
 farmers and agriculturists of Queens county, be 
 held at the Court House, December 8tli, at 10 A. M. ; 
 and that Lewis S.„Hewlett, Garret Laton, Major 
 William Jones, John I. .Cj-omwell, Esq., Lewis 
 Hewlett and Henry 0. Seaman form a committee 
 of arrangenients ; and that the objects of this meet- 
 ing may become generally known that these pro- 
 ceedings be published in the newspapers and hand- 
 bills.— i. I. Star. 
 
 1817, Nov. 12. — Dr. Keemer'who resided a mile 
 west of Jamaica was hurjed in the cemetery of 
 Grace church. . 
 
 1818, Match 7v— Daniel Dowmrig,;a young man 
 who could not speak, was driving his father's team 
 down a hill east side of Manhasset, when the load 
 slid on the horses wjiich istartedand.he;,wjts..thr.own 
 out and killed. , 
 
 1818, March 16.^— A'^meeting was held at AilenV 
 inn, Manhg,s,set, to ,cor!.?ider the gubject of buildjn'g , 
 an Academy. , Christ chui'ch academy.vfas opened, 
 October following,* 
 
 *1S02, Dec. 7. — George 8Q|p^arab Onclerdonk sell over 
 two acres of ground, at the Head ef iGow Neck, for the site 
 of Christ church. 
 
 1818, April. — Daniel Kissam, Stephen Carman, 
 and John A. King were elected to the Assembly 
 over the Tammany candidates, 
 
 1818, May 22. — James Mori-el, of 'Newtown, was 
 drowned while in his berth, on. board a small ma- 
 nure schooner which sunk at Fly market wharf,- 
 New York, in conse(3[uenco of her prow catching 
 on the ferry stairs. 
 
 1818, Augi 19. — During the' thunder storm of 
 Thursday afternoon, the barn of Daniel Everett, 
 near Jardaica, was struck and entirely consumed, 
 loss $600 or $700. 
 
 1818, Sept. — Governor Clinton and suite, consist- 
 ing of Dr. S. L. Mitchell, Dr. Townsend, Gurdon 
 S. Mumford and Judge EiSngham Lawrence at- 
 tended the Reformed Dutch church, Manhasset, on 
 Sunday, and dined at Judge. Mitchell's. The 
 Governor held, his levee at Allen's inn.-r-JSfL. 
 
 1818, Oct. 28.— Major Thorne of OysteAay.waa 
 thrown from his gig by two runaway horses com- 
 ing in contact and killed. 
 
 . 1819, Aprih7. — To the Editor of the Long Island 
 ySto.! — I;pres«me it is not. generally known that a 
 few men have undertaken to manage for the people 
 ^and kindly dictate for whom they shall vote. — 
 They have lately -sent.delegates to Tairimany Hall 
 to nominate Senators. In Queens connty, the bu- 
 siness was done by a county meeting of less than 
 thirty persons, called by private letters sent to the 
 Martling* men of, the county only. This was 
 called'ithfi sense of the county of Queens ! ! 
 
 1819, May 5.^^ Vote of Queens county, for As 
 
 sembly : _■ 
 
 
 
 
 ! Federal: 
 
 
 Tammany. 
 
 
 JohliA. King., - - 
 
 - 698 
 
 Samuel Sherman, - 
 
 425 
 
 ■William i Jones,,- • 
 
 .- 752 
 
 Stephen , Carman, 
 
 - 210 
 
 Thomas Tredwell, - 
 
 -715 
 
 William Mott, - 
 
 - - 483 
 
 1819. — ^Mrs. and Miss Dawson's' boarding school, 
 Jamaica, will re-opfin May 10th, Music, French, 
 Italian and Engjishlangiiages regularly taught. 
 
 18l9,:;ifa^ 12.—BUr)glary.—T\e,^ovLiQ of Mr. 
 Isaac Lefferts near Jamaica, Long Island, was bro- 
 ken open on the night of the 8th inst., and robbed 
 of, a small chest, containing jifteen hundred dollars 
 in Bank bills, three hundred and fifty dollars in 
 silver, twenty eagles, a gold watch, cha,in, key and 
 seals, and a number of valuable papers, Two 
 hundred dollars reward ia offered for the detection 
 iof the robber and the recoveiy of the property. 
 
 1819. — The. summer term of Nassau Academy, 
 Hempstead, under the care of the Eev. Timothy 
 Clowes, A. M., with an able assistant, will com- 
 Wnce May 25th. Board and tuition $83 for twen- 
 ty-three weeks... French, Washing and bedding a 
 separate chargev- 
 
 The Female" Academy under the care of Mrs. C. 
 A. Taylor will open the same day. 
 
 *So called fron^ meeting in Martling'a long room, Tam- 
 many Hall. — Ed. 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 103 
 
 181.9',' June 23. — Some damage was done by the 
 hail Btorm in Queens county, on Saturday last, — 
 At Jamaica the glass windows were broken. At 
 Newtown, Elushing, Hempstead and elsewhere, 
 the grass and grain were beat down, and Indian 
 corn alnibst destroyed. 
 
 1819, July 28. — An aged woman at Hempstead, 
 known as " Aunt Ibbey" Carman, while walking on 
 the swamp road leading to Joseph Dorlon's Mill, 
 was struck and killed by the pole of a runaway 
 wagon. — Star. 
 
 1819, Sept. 15; — The dysentery prevails in sev- 
 eral parts of Long Island.- In Hempstead and the 
 east part of Huntington many are sick and num- 
 bers of deaths have occurred. — i. I. -Star. 
 
 1819.— The Queens County Society for the pro- 
 motion of Agriculture and Domestic manufactures, 
 was organized at a public meeting of a number of 
 the freeholders and inhabitants, at the Court House, 
 on the 21st day of June. The oificers were Eufus 
 King, President ; Effingham Lawrence, Singleton 
 Mitchell and "VYilliam Jones, Vice-Presidents ; 
 Rev. David S. Bog-art, Corresponding Secretary ; 
 ThomaB Philips, Recording Secretary ; Daniel 
 Kissam, Treasurer. 
 
 MANAGEES. 
 
 Lewis Hevirlett, Townsend Cock, John B. Coles, 
 Jr., Nelson Lloyd, of Oysterbay ; John I. Schenck, 
 Benjamin Tredwell, Benjamin Piatt, Joseph Dodge, 
 Jr., of North Hempstead ; Abraham Cock, Thom- 
 as Powell. Richard, Cornell, James Lawrence, of 
 Flushing ; Colonel Edward Leverich, Colonel 
 G-eorge Gibbs, Timothy Roach, Rev. E. M. John- 
 son, of Newtown; Nicholas Wyckoif,: Timothy 
 Nostrand, John A. King, Lawrence Roe, of Jamai- 
 ca ; Rev. Seth Hart, Jacob S. Jackson, Thomas 
 Tredwell, Oliver Hewlett, of Hempstead. 
 
 The -managers met July 26th, and agreed on a 
 list of premiums to be offered at the. first exhibition 
 at the Court House, on the first Tuesday of, No- 
 vember. 
 
 The premiums were awarded to the following 
 -persons : 
 
 John Hitler, Jamaica, Indian Corn: - $20 
 
 Judere Lawrence, Flushing, ncre-of Potatoes, - 10 
 
 do do. half acre Rata Bagas, 10 
 
 Thomas Jenkins, Oysterbay, Woolen Cloth, 10 
 
 do. do. Flannel, - - - 10 
 
 Lewis Hewlett, Oysterbay, Linen Djaper, - - - 5 
 Stephen Sell, N. Hempstead, Lmen for Shirts or hheets, o 
 
 Colonel Gibbs, Newtown, Bull, - ■ " ?° 
 
 Lewis. Hewlett, Hempstead, Workmg Oxen, - 10 
 
 Lawrence Eoe, Jamaica, Cow, ^0 
 
 Benjamin Penny, Flushing, Cow, - JO 
 
 Lewis Hewlett, Oysterbay, Bullock, Jj> 
 
 Colonel Gibbs, Merino Bam, - , - -f^ 
 
 Judee Lawrence, Merino Ewe. - - - ° 
 
 Wynant Van Zandt, Flnshing, Bam, not menno, - 10 
 
 James Lent, Newtown, Ewe, not merino, - & 
 
 Colonel Gibbs, Boar, - - - " ° 
 
 Lewis Hewlett, Oysterbay, Sow, - - » 
 
 Thomas Jones, Oysterbay, foui- year GeWmg, -^io 
 
 300 
 No imported Horse, Bull or Cow, were exhibited. 
 
 1819, Aug. 11.— The fields on Long Island, are 
 parched up by the long drought. 
 
 1820, Jan. 12. — Silas Roe, of Jamaica, has 
 raised and fatted a hog twenty-one months old, 
 which when killed on the 4th inst., weighed seven 
 hundred and twenty-two pounds. — Star. 
 
 1820, Feb. 14. — At a numerous and respectable 
 meeting at the Court House, of the electors of 
 Queens county, friendly to the state administration. 
 Jacobus Monfort, Chairman and Jonathan How- 
 ard, Secretary, DcWitt Clinton was nominated 
 for Governor, and a committee of four from each 
 town appointed to forward the objects of the meet- 
 ing, viz : 
 
 • JAMAICA. 
 
 Nicholas Wyckoff, 
 Charles Hendrickson. 
 
 James Denton, Esq. 
 Evert Van Wicklen, 
 
 ELUSHING. 
 
 Abraham Lowerre, 
 William Roe. 
 
 Eifingham Lawrence, 
 Captain John Strong, 
 
 OYSTEBBAT 
 Benjamin Ellison, Esq., 
 John I. Cromwell Esq., 
 
 NORTH HEMPSTEAD. 
 Singleton Mitchell, Esq., 
 Garret Laton, Esq., 
 
 Isaac Smith, Esq., 
 Silas T. Vandewater. 
 
 Henry S. Hicks, 
 Josepli Dodge, Jr. 
 HEMPSTEAD. 
 Samuel Nicolls, - I John Clowes, 
 
 Elias Hicks, | Henry Covert. 
 
 : NEWTOWN. 
 
 William Palmer, Martin Way, 
 
 Isaac Morrell, John I. Rapelye. 
 
 ; 1820. Feb. 23. — The woolen factory (of John 
 Bird at the Alley) near Flushing, was burnt on 
 Thursday night, with all its machinery and stock. 
 The loss is about ^10,000. It is supposed the fire 
 originated from the stove pipe. — i. I. Star. 
 
 1820, April. — Vote of Queens county, for Gov- 
 ernor and Assembly : 
 
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 Hempstead, - 277 167 34.5 364 420 332 315 341 
 
 N.Hempstead, 54 95 55 56 41 109 133 124 
 
 Oysterbay 160 96 246 249 239 98 97 101 
 
 Flushing, - 57 53 53 .57 43 106 122 102 
 
 Newtown, 69 130 94 94 94 144 145 94 
 
 Jamaica, 58 113 42 44 42 183 189 ISO 
 
 675 653 835 866 878 973 1001 943 
 
 1820, March 7. — At a meeting of Repitbliean 
 delegates from the several towns of Queens county, 
 at the Court House, Captain John Hazard, Chair- 
 man, and James Lent, Secretary, Daniel D, Tomp- 
 kins vras nominated for Governor ; and it was re- 
 
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104 
 
 QUEEN* OOtJNTY 
 
 solved that Elbert Hegeman, Joseph Pettit, aTohn 
 W. Seaman, and Lawrence Roe, be delegates to 
 the senatorial convention at Tammany Hall, on 
 29th inst. ; and that James Hegeman, of Oyster- 
 bay, J. Allen, of North Hempstead, Nathaniel 
 Seaman of Hempstead, John W. Seaman of Flush- 
 ing, Silas Roe, of Jamaica, and James Lent, of 
 Newtown, be a committee to draft resolutions and 
 an address to the electors of this county .-^i. I. 
 Star. 
 
 1820, July 1.— The New York. County Agricul- 
 tural Society awarded Mrs. Cornelius E. Eemsen,, 
 of Newtown, for the best butter in market, a silver 
 cream pitcher. The other exhibitors (whose but- 
 ter was excellent) were Peter Luyster, Daniel 
 Moore, Henry Barclay and Mrs. Moore, of New- 
 town ; David Rhodes, of Jamaica, and John 
 Hoogland of Elushing. 
 
 1820, July 12. — The corner stone of the new 
 Academy at Jamaica, was laid on Wednesday. — 
 There was a procession by -the Trustees, teachers, 
 and scholars of Union Hall from' the present acad- 
 emy to the spot chosen for the new edifice, where 
 the corner stone was laid in presence of numerous 
 spectators, after which an excellent , prayer by the 
 Rev. Jacob Sohoonmaker, President of the Trus- 
 tees. The new edifice will afford spacious rooms 
 for the Principal and his five assistants, and for 
 the library and philosophical apparatus. 
 
 1820, Oct. 11. — Isaac Hewlett's Laurel Grrave 
 Woolen factory, head of Cold -Spring, is now in 
 
 operation. — Star. 
 
 1820, Nov. 2.— The Queens County Cattle Show 
 and Pair took place at the Court House. There 
 were more people assembled than was ever before 
 witnessed iii "the county on any occasion, A pre- 
 mium was awarded the owner of the celebrated 
 horse, Duroc, and to Hon.'Rufus King for the best 
 milch cow. We have not been favored with any 
 other particulars.* — Star. 
 
 1820, Nov. 7.— The New York County Agri- 
 cultural Society awarded the following premiums 
 to residents of Queens county : 
 
 Gen. Nathaniel Coles, Dosoris, best Biood Mare, - $30 00 
 Townsend Cock, Oysterbay, Horse Duroc, - 20 00 
 
 General Nathaniel Coles, Mare, - - 10 00 
 
 Lewis Hewlett, second best Fat Oxen, - - 40 00 
 
 James Lent, two best Bucks, - - - - 15 00 
 Edward Leverich, Newtown, best litter of Pigs, - 12 00 
 Andrew Cock, Flushing. Corn planting Machine, 7 50 
 Mr. A. L. Schuyler of Newtown exhibited fine hogs. 
 
 1820, Nov. 11.— On Saturday night there was a 
 snow storm — the snow fell twelve inches deep. — 
 On Monday there was sleighing. The farmers 
 had not all yet gathered their potatoes, apples and 
 
 * Joseph Onderdonk received the premium for the best 
 rata bagas. Governor King, one of the judges, used to say, 
 it was' the first time he had seen turnips sown ia ridges, 
 and that it was the finest crop he ever saw, either before or 
 since. — Ed. 
 
 1-821. — The Long Island Farmer was com- 
 menced by Henry C. Sleight, Thursday, January 
 4 th. 
 
 1821.— 'An auxiliary to the United Foreign 
 Missionary Society, was organized in the Reformed 
 Dutch church, Jamaica, on the evening of Janu- 
 ary '1st. Its object is to civilize and evangelize 
 our Western Indians. One hundred and fifty mem- 
 bers have been 'obtained. The officers are Rev. 
 Jacob Schoonmaker, -President-; Rev. Henry R. 
 Weed, Eliphalet Wickes, John Rennet, Michael 
 Skidmore,Vice Presidents-; General V. W. Wickes, 
 Treasurer.;' Dr. Nathan Shelton, .Secretary. The 
 managers are Abraham Burtis, Abraham Heudrick- 
 son, Daniel Ludlum, Esq., James Hendrickson, 
 John Rider, WaiteS. Everett, Johanis Lo'tt, Amoa 
 Denton, Jr, 
 
 A similar society was also formed in Newtown. 
 —^JFarmer. 
 
 ".1821, Jan.'lO, — John Yan Nostrand and John 
 Sutphin run one or two stages to Brooklyn from 
 ^Hewlett' Creed's .Inn,.Jamaica, daily at 8 o'clock. 
 
 1821, Mareh 17. —John and David Bedell start 
 aJPost .coach, every morning, from Smith Hicks' 
 Jlotel, Jamaica, to Brooklyn. Fare fifty cents. 
 
 1821, April 14.^Singleton Mitchell, Plandome, 
 offers for sale two thousand inoculated peach trees 
 of three .seasons' growth. 
 
 a 821, April 17.— The Rev. Dr. Bletsoe, has 
 been appointed Principal of the Academy at Oys- 
 terbay, and it is intended by the trustees to appro- 
 priate a part of Edmund Hall to the purposes of 
 an Episcopal church, in which Divine service will 
 be performed regularly by Dr. Bletsoe. — Star. 
 
 1821, April. — Vote of Queens county for As- 
 sembly. 
 
 Indepeitdent RtpMican. 
 or Republican.* or Bucktail.\ 
 
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 Oysterbay, - 
 
 - 397 
 
 390 377 
 
 179 
 
 178 
 
 173 
 
 Hempstead, 
 
 488 
 
 496 503 
 
 350 
 
 327 
 
 343 
 
 N. Hempstead, 
 
 87 
 
 90 74 
 
 96 
 
 111 
 
 101 
 
 Jamaica, - 
 
 123 
 
 146 114 
 
 128 
 
 133 
 
 123 
 
 Flushing, 
 
 89 
 
 93 85 
 
 91 
 
 97 
 
 92 
 
 Newtown, - 
 
 - 134 
 
 140 133 
 
 174 
 
 183 
 
 183 
 
 Total, - 
 
 1318 1355 1286 1018 1029 1015 
 
 1821. — St. George's church. Flushing, was con- 
 secrated May 25th, by Bishop Hobart. — Post. 
 
 1821, June 7.— On Thursday evening last, be- 
 tweeii eight and nine o'clock, the large new barn 
 
 - : 
 
 *They were Clintonians and " opposed to the dominant 
 party in the present Legislature.'' Lewis S. Hewlett was 
 Chairman and Ebenezer Seely, Secretaiy, of the meeting 
 that pominated ibem.^Fd. 
 
 tThey were " opposed to the Executive of this state." — 
 Ed. 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 105 
 
 and hovel of Valentine Hicks, Jerielio, was struck 
 with lightning and consumed with a quantity of 
 com, a heavy shower of rain prevented injm-y to 
 other buildings, though it was surrounded by seve- 
 ral dwelling houses and barns. — L. I. Farmer. 
 
 1821, June 7. — At the late meeting of the Agri- 
 cultural Society, held £ t the Court House, after the 
 business for which they had convened was finished 
 they thought it advisable to recommend without 
 the bias of party, Rufus King, Elbert H. Jones 
 and Joseph Dodge, Jr., as suitable persons to rep- 
 resent the county in the convention. — L. I. Far- 
 mer. 
 
 1821. — At a Republican meeting, June 8th, of 
 committees from the different towns of Queens coun- 
 ty, at the Court House, agreeably to public notice, 
 Benjamin Allen, Chairman and Adam L. Allen, 
 Secretary, Rufus King, of Jamaica, George Town- 
 send, of Oysterbay and Nathaniel Seaman, of 
 Hempstead, were nominated as candidates for the 
 ensuing convention.* 
 
 1821, June. — The New York County Agricul- 
 tural Society awarded Mrs. Stewart, of Jamaica, 
 the first premium for eighteen pounds of butter, a 
 silver cream pitcher, and a discretionary premium 
 to Mrs. Moore, of Newtown. 
 
 1821, June. — Vote of Queens county for Dele- 
 gates to the Convention to revise the Constitution 
 of this State : 
 
 Pi ^ ^ 9 P 
 
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 Oysterbay, - - 248 213 J 68 34 32 .48 
 
 N. Hempstead, - 108 72 135 .]35 126 33 
 
 Hempstead, - - 307 248 33 83 298 2 
 
 Jamaica, - - - 157 90 91 67 63 
 
 Flushing, - - - 203 MS 108 M6 106 
 
 Newtown, - - - 110 83 83 23 23 
 
 1138 .814 597 448 648 83 
 
 1821, Juy 11.— William Roe, Umbrella and 
 Parasol manufacturer, in Jamaica, adjoining Joseph 
 Roe's tavern. — L. I. Farmer,. 
 
 1821, Aug. 9. — Mr. Jesse Wright, of Jamaica, 
 while bathing at the three mile mill was drowned 
 on Saturday evening last. — i. I. Farmer. 
 
 1821, Aug. 9. — The weather is now cool, after 
 excessive heat for near a fortnight past. The 
 Thermometer ranged from eighty to ninety-two 
 degrees, in the shade. Vegetation is droopiqg 
 for lack -of rain.— i. J. Farmer. " 
 
 1821, Aug. 9.— On Sunday afternoon, while the 
 families of Abraham Burtis and his father, Hen- 
 drick, of Foster's Meadow, were attending Divine 
 service, a mile and a hp,lf from»home, the house of 
 
 *The BuCktails not satisfied with the excellent, indepen- 
 dent nomination have taken one of the candidates.'Eufus 
 ICing and nominated with him, George 'To wnsend and Na- 
 thaniel Seaman. — Columbian. 
 
 Abraham was discovered to be on fire and the 
 flames commvmicated to the barn and out-houses 
 of Hendrick. The furniture was mostly saved, 
 but the grain and hay were lost. Only a servant 
 girl was -in the house who cannot account for the 
 fire. Mr. Abraham Burtis is much involved and 
 will thankfully accept any donations. — L. I. Far- 
 mer. 
 
 1821, Sept. 3. — During the great gale the barn 
 of David Lamberson, at .Jamaica, was blown down, 
 in the night, and his black man, George, killed by 
 the fall. 
 
 1821, Oc^.— The New York County Agricultu- 
 ral Society awarded- premiums to residents of 
 Queens county as follows : 
 
 John Tredwell, Hempstead, pair of Oxen, $10- 
 
 John L. Lloyd, a colt Zterac, - - ... . 10 
 John H. and W. E. Jones, 2d best, Cassimere, - - 10 
 do -best pair Woolen Blankets, 10 
 
 James "Lent, six best Enghsh Wethers, - - 10 
 
 Effingham Lawrence, six best Merino Ewes, - 10 
 
 1821. — The annual exhibition of the Queens 
 County Agricultural Society, took place, at the 
 Court House, Wednesday, November 7th, when 
 premiums were awarded to the following persons : 
 
 Effingham Lawrence, acre of Potatoes, - - $8 00 
 .Singleton Mitchell, half acre Euta Bagas, - 8 00 
 James Lent, do. do. do. - . - 5 00 
 Cornelius S. Bogart, two acres Wheat, 1 5 00 
 Singleton Mitchell, do. do. - - 10 00 
 Singleton Mitcbell, two acres Eye, - - 10 00 
 Daniel Kissam, do. 5 00 
 Daniel Kissam, acre oiFlam, - - 10 00 
 Singleton Mitchell, -do. 5 00 
 Singleton Mitchell, two acres .Barley, - - - 10 00 
 Edward Leverich, do. do. - 5 00 
 Singleton Mitchell, do. Spring Wheat, - 5 00 
 Henry Covert, best Agricultural Machines, viz : Gar- 
 den Pk)ugh, machines for planting bsana and sow- 
 ing turnip seed, - - - - 10 00 
 Uriah Piatt, Carpet. - - - 10 '00 
 Daniel Youngs, Linen Diapei', - 8 00 
 Eulef Schenck, Linen Shirting, - - - - 8 00 
 Garret Laton, Woolen Mittens, ... . l 00 
 Uriah Piatt, do. ... 75 
 Peter Luyster, Woolen Stockings, - - - 2 00 
 do do. - 1 50 
 Uriah Piatt, do. - 1 00 
 Peter Luyster, Linen Stockings, - - - - 2 00 
 Peter Luyster, Cotton Stockings, - - 2 GO 
 Garret Laton most cloth made in one family, viz : 
 
 Woolen, 202 yards ; Linen, 363 .yards, - - 10 00 
 
 J. N. Lloyd, Brood Mare, . - ■ .. 15 00 
 
 do. do. - 8 00 
 
 Thomas Mott, Stud Horse, - - 20 00 
 
 Thomas Jones, do. - - - 10 00 
 
 Garret Laton. Gelding, - - - 1 00 
 
 T. Hewlett, Jr., Yearling Ctolt, - ■- - - 10 00 
 
 John Tredwell,- Sow, . . , 8 00 
 
 Lawrecce Roe, Sow, - - 6 00 
 
 Roe Haviland, Boar, - 8 00 
 
 John Titus, twoShoats, -. - - 6 00 
 
 John 1. Schenck, do. - - - - 5 00 
 JohnTredwell, Fat Bullock, - - -10 00 
 
 Hewlett Townseud, do., - - 5 00 
 
 John Titus, Working, Cattle, , . . . 10 00 
 
 Benjamin Piatt, do ... 5 OO 
 
 Singleton Mitchell, Milch Cow, - 10 00 
 Benjamin Tredwell, do,, - - - 6 00 
 
 John Titus, Bull, - - - - - 10 00 
 
 Singleton Mitchell, do., . - - - 5 60 
 
 James Lent, English Buck, - 8 00 
 
106 
 
 QUEENS QOtF-I\^T'Y 
 
 James Lent; English Ewe, - ... 5 00 
 
 James Scott, MHriiio Buck,' - - - '" 8 0'0 
 
 Singleton Mitchell, do. ■ • - .■•■•-■- - 5 '00 
 
 EfSiigham Lawrence, Four Merino Ewes, - - 8 00 
 Edmund Farriiigton, do. - ,, 6 pO 
 
 NoahlMason, Oalf, - .' . . 5 00 
 
 Isaac E. Conkliu, two years growth of Locust from the , 
 
 seed, • ■ , • ■ . - , 5 00 
 
 RufuH Weed, Fat Pig under seven months, - 3 00 
 
 The premiums '*}ien ovsr $5, consisted of a piece of sil- 
 ver plato, such as a pitcher or cup. — Ed. 
 
 1821, Nov. 21.— Adrian Van Sinderen, Abra- 
 liam Eemseii, John Ebbits, Aaron Eurman, and 
 James M. Halsey, intend applying to tte Legisla- 
 ture for the incorporation of " the Newto'wn Female 
 Academy." — i. I. Farmer. 
 
 1821, Nov. 29. — A young Ehode Island green- 
 ing tree of James Scott, Flushing, was stripped of 
 its leaves in the September gale, but afterwards 
 put forth new foliage and has produced apples of 
 the second growth' about the size of walnuts. — N. 
 T. Journal. 
 
 1821, Dec. 37.— Mr. Seymour, Oysterbay, had 
 his barns, span of horses, hay and grain, burnt by 
 his negro boy. 
 
 1822, Feb. 28.— Great Flood.— The mail carrier 
 informs us that the damage done by the recent 
 heavy rains and swollen streams on Long Island 
 has been very great. On the north side of the 
 island all the mill-dams are carried away except 
 one at Oysterbay- owned by W. Townsend/ This 
 destruction includes three dams at Smithtowii. — 
 The dam of General Jackson,'at Oysterbay South, 
 is carried away. The roads are greatly injured, 
 and some small bridges are carried a-way. 
 
 1822, Marcli.-^'Nevr York. Provision Market, 
 corrected by E. Frost, weekly, for the the. JLong 
 Island Farmer • 
 
 Beef, three to ten cents per pound ; by the hun- 
 dred weight $i .to $8; Pork, five to six cents per 
 pound,; by hundred weight $4 to $6 ; Veal, four to 
 nine cents;- Mutton, four to six cents ;.. Butter, 
 (fresh) twenty to twenty-five cents, (in firkins) 
 twelve and half to sixteen cents; Potatoes, thirty- 
 seven to forty-four cents per bushel ; Turnips, twen- 
 ty-five to thirty-seven cents; Beets, Carrots, Pars 
 nips, about fifty cents per bushel ; Cabbages, $,3 to 
 $4 per hundred, threeto six.cents per head ; Geese, 
 thirty-seven to fifty cents each ; Turkeys, seventy- 
 fivecents to $1 ; Fowls, per pair, fifty cents to $1 ; 
 Apples, per barrel, $1,75 to $2,50 ; Eggs, per dozen, 
 twelve cents. . 
 
 1822, March 15.— The district school house at 
 Hempstead was broke open at night and robbed of 
 about sixty volumes of school books. 
 
 . 1822, April. — Silas Roe's Bakery and flour store, 
 Jamaica. His bake-wagon goes to Flushing and 
 Whitestone,- Success, Great Neck, Cow Neck, 
 Hempstead harbor, and returns through Foster'^ 
 Meadow by the head of Springfield. June 1st, 
 
 the wagon will run to Far Rockaway and return 
 through Springfield. , 
 
 1822, April 24. — James Elraes and William 
 Fricke, coach makers, in the shop late of Joseph 
 Messenger, on the Main street, Jamaica, next the 
 hay-sca.les, by the Dutch Chnreli. 
 
 1822, ilfa^.— 'John Welling, tailor, Jamaica, 
 in the house lately occupied by Isaac Skirm, shoe- 
 maker, opposite Mrs. Bartlette's Female Academy. 
 
 1822, May 27.— The Jamaica Auxiliary Society, 
 for meliorating the condition of the Jews, was 
 formed. The audience were addressed by a con- 
 verted Je^y, Rev. Mr. Frey, and Mr. Jadownisky. 
 ■"'"■ were subscribed. 
 
 1822, Hay 9. — We are credibly informed that a 
 short time since in excavating a canal at Jerusai- 
 lem South for conveying water from a pond to a 
 flouring mill, a nurhber of Indian skeltons was dis- 
 interred, and at the head of each, was found a bottle 
 of rum, a kettle, tomahawk, &c. ' The rum- was 
 of good flavor and supposed to be over a centiiry 
 old. — i. I. Farmer. 
 
 1822, May 31.— Elizabeth Demott sued Samuek 
 L. Smith for breach of promise of marriage, after 
 nine years courtship, and. got a,, verdict of $2,000; > 
 
 1822, June 8.— At the- last Qourt of Oyer ancl 
 Terminer, Thomas Spears, a aegro boy, twelve 
 years old, was.; sent to the states prison for three 
 years, for burning',,the barn of William W. Town- 
 send. — Farmer. 
 
 1822,. June 8.— Eleven pounds of well washed 
 wool was sheared, a few days since, from James 
 Scott's merino buck, at Jamaica. — Farmer. 
 
 l'&22,June 20. — Wbeat and Rye will be short 
 owing, to -the variable weather JastJ winter; the 
 slight covering. of snow and the present. uncommon 
 drought. Oats and Flax will be indifferent with- 
 out timely rain. Hay is very light. 
 
 1822.— The Long Island Forum will be opened 
 at Mr. Eldert's hotel, Jamaica, June 27th.' The 
 Rev. D. S. Bogart will preside. Tickets twenty- 
 five cents. The proceeds will be devoted to chari- 
 table purposes. — L. I. Farmer. 
 
 1822.— June 29.th, will.besold.at auction at the 
 house lately occupied by the Kev. Henry R. 
 Weed, Jamaica, a quantity of household furniture, 
 horse, gig, cow, a few hives of bees, &c. 
 
 1822. — The Long Island Forum will celebrate 
 the 4th of July. The procession will form at 
 Eldert's Hotel and proceed to the Methodist 
 church, where the Declaration will be read by 
 Lewis Bixby and an Oration delivered by Oliver 
 A. Shaw, with music, interspersed. , Dinner at Mr. 
 Eldert's. — L. I. Farmer. 
 
 1822. — A young man. Frost Carpenter, was 
 killed and several others wounded, on the evening 
 of July 4th,, by the bursting of a cannon at Mus- 
 quito Cove. It is said that in the night tliey got 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES, 
 
 107: 
 
 possession of the cannon, charged it heavily and 
 forced a stone into its mouth and then fired it.— i. 
 I. Farmer. 
 
 W22.— ■Grace Church.— Tim neat and elegant 
 church in Jamaica, just finished, was consecrated, 
 July 15th, by Bishop Hobart. The house was 
 crowded to overflowing. The text was "Take 
 heed how ye hear." — larmer. 
 
 1821, March 8.— Subscriptions for rebuilding 
 Grace Church. — Farmer. 
 
 Cornelius I. Bogart, - $150 
 
 Mai-y Codwise, - 'l50 
 
 L. E. A. Eigeubrodt, 300 
 
 Nancy Gracie, - - 500 
 
 Mrs. Harvey, - " 20 
 
 Mrs. Hyler, - ~ 20 
 
 Bufus King, - . 500 
 
 John A. King, - . 200 
 
 B. T. Kissam, — - 100 
 
 Timothy Nostrand, -.. 300 
 Nathaniel Prime, - - 50 
 
 Ei-ime, Ward & Sanda, J 00 
 
 Abiathar Rhodes, - .. 55 
 
 Silas Eoe, - - - - $50 
 Joseph Roe, - - - ,. - „ 40 
 Gilbert Roe, - - . 35 
 Benjamin Rowland, - 50 
 John Skidmore, - 50 
 
 GUbett H. Sayres,* - 25 
 Joseph Thatford, - 10 
 Anne Vandervoort, - 25 
 John Van Nostrand, „.- 25 
 Adrian Van Sinderenj.. --- 20 
 Samuel Ward, Sr., - 50 
 Hannah Wiolcham, 25 
 
 John Titus, 
 Mrs. Tapp, 
 Thos. S. Townsend, 
 
 ^,..^.„, Mrs. Tfoup, 
 
 Fred'k. PolhemuSr . Jeremiah Valentine, 
 William Puntine, Jas. Valentine, Sr. 
 and Jr., 
 Samuel Ward, Jr., 
 Nancy Welling, 
 Samuel Welling, 
 
 Besides the above, the folio J^5^ng,.werfl pewhold 
 ers from July 3rd», 1822,^to 1825 :- 
 
 Mrs. Brewer; Henry ICueeland, John Thatford, 
 
 John. J3- Codwise, ._ Mr. Lyde, "" " 
 
 L-awrenee Benton,. Charles McNeil, 
 Cornelius Duryea, William McKay, 
 Miss Dawson, Andrew Napier, 
 
 Mrs. Dyson, ""' ~ "' 
 
 Mrs. Forbes, . . „„„„ ^ ., 
 
 Samuel Greenoak, John B. Roe, 
 Smith Hicks, Lawrence Roa, 
 
 John Hooglaud, Ida Rowland. 
 
 Mrs. Hicks, James Smith,' 
 
 Mrs. Jackson, Jeremiah Sim<jnson,Ji)hji Welling. 
 
 John T. Jones, , Josepji Sealy, 
 Benjamin Kissam, John ^roals, 
 
 m22,.,Aug. l.-r-The house of John Van Nos- 
 trand, Foster's Meadow, was struck and consider- 
 ably-injured by lightning on Sunday evening last. 
 None of the inmates were injured.— i. I. Farmer.. 
 
 1822, Oc^.— The Union Benevolent Society of 
 Jamaica, has sevfiraUartioles of ladies' fancy work 
 for sale at D. &..O.Xamberson's store, the proceeds 
 of- which will, be devoted to Missions.— i^ I. 
 Farmer. 
 
 1822, Oct. —Jonathan Howard, of Newtown, 
 had a summer pippin which was. fifteen inches 
 round and weighed one pound three ounces. 
 
 1822, Oct.,&4'.— The Queens County Fair was 
 numerously attended. There were many ladies 
 though the day was cold, specimens of cotton were 
 exhibited by Colonel Leverich, of Newtown, and 
 Dr. M. M. Rogers, of Jericho. Tunis D. Covert, 
 of Jamaica South, raised sixty hills of cotton, and 
 Daniel C. Coles, of Oysterbay, raised, the last year, 
 cotton suiScient to make twenty yards of muslin. 
 The Address was delivered by the Vice-President, 
 Effingham Lawrence, and was printed in the Long 
 Island Farmer of December 5ih. This was the 
 
 *The Rev. Gilbert H. Sayres, S. T. D., was Rector of 
 the church from May 1st, 1810, to May 1st, 1830 ; when he 
 was succeeded by theEev. William Luptou Johnson, D.l). 
 
 last meeting of the Society, owing to the apathy 
 of the farmers and falling off of subscriptions. Pre- 
 miums were, distributed to the following persons : 
 
 JosephDodge, Jr., best two acres of Wheat, -- f 12 00. 
 John T. Lawrepce, Newtown, second best, - - 6 00 
 John A. King,, .Jamaica, best two acres of Rye, 10 00 
 
 Singleton Mitchell, North Hempstead, second best, 6 00 
 Edward Leverich, Newtown, best two acres Spring 
 
 Barley ; and best acre of FJax, each $8, - . 16 00 
 John, I. Schenck, North Hempstead, best half acre 
 ,i of Ruta Bagas, (475 bushels per acre at fifty cents 
 •' per,jbushel),' - - . . . g qq 
 
 WilljaHi. Smith, North Hempstead, best two acres 
 , of Indiian Corn (105 bushels per acre), - -. 12 00 
 James T. Talman, Flushing, second best two acres 
 , of Indian- Com,.(101f bushels per acre), 6 00 
 
 Singleton. Mitchell, best acre of Potatoes, Kidneys 
 
 (350 bushels per acre),;. - - . - - 8 00 
 Garret Layton, North Hemg|tead, most cloth made 
 
 m the family, (445 yards^,. lo 00 
 
 Daniel Toungs,' Oysterbay, best Woolen Cloth, 10 00 
 Richard Cornell, Flushing, second best do. - 6 00 
 
 William Allen, N. Hempstead, best Linen Shirting, 8 00 
 Miss Springsteen, Newtown, best and second best 
 
 pair of Woolen Stockings, ... 3 50 
 
 Daniel Xoungs, best pair of Woolen Mittens, - 1 00 
 Miss Pettit, Hempstead, two pieces of Linen Cloth, 2 00 
 George Tappan, Oysterbay, best Stud Horse, - 15 00 
 Samuel Willis, North Hempstead, best yearling Colt, 10 00 
 Butler Coles, Oysterbay, best Brood Mara, - 12 00 
 
 Benjamin Piatt, North Hempstead, bast pair of. 
 
 Working Oxen, - - - - - 10 00 
 
 Daniel Youngs, best Bull, - - . . - 10 00 
 Jackson Lawrence, Flushing, best Bullock, . 10 00 
 Benjamin Tredwell, N. Hempstead, best Calf, - 6 00 
 Smith Hicks, Jamaica,, best Milch Cow, - JO 00 
 
 Singleton Mitchell, best Merino Buck, . . - 8 00 
 Effing'm. Lawrence, Flushing, best feur Merino Ewes, 8 00 
 James Lent. iNewtown, best Buck, not merino, $8 ; 
 
 best four Ewes, not merino, $8, - - ' - 16 00 
 
 Roe Haviland, N. Hempstead, best Boar, - -- 8 00 
 
 John I. Schenck, best Sow, - - - . - 8 00 
 
 John Holland, Jamaica, best two Shoats, - - 8 00 
 
 Joseph Bodge, Jr., Secretary. 
 
 1822, iVoj;,— Vote of Queens County under the 
 new Constitution. 
 
 ^ M ^ . 
 
 a ^ 
 
 o 
 
 I 
 
 B 
 •n 
 
 5- 
 
 5 
 
 Senators. 
 
 Walter Bowne, - 235 334 
 
 Jasper Ward, 236 332 
 
 John Lefferts, 236 334 
 
 John A. King, - - 117 155 
 
 
 
 Abel Huntington 
 
 Congress. 
 John P. Osbom, 
 Silas Wood, - - 
 
 Assembly^ 
 B. T. Kissam, - 141 143 
 John D. Hicks, 145 165 
 William Jones, - - 181 242 
 Thomas Tredwell, 170 254 
 
 Sheriff. 
 Samupl Mott, - 269 2^^ 
 Richard Cornell,, -. 83. 177 
 
 County Clerjf^. 
 Samuel Shermaiji --297r 140 
 Edward Parker, - 63 262 
 
 139 207 149 115 1179 
 
 139 204 148 112 1171 
 
 139 207 149 115 1180 
 
 *9 154 108 66 609 
 
 44 179 130 57 19 56 485 
 
 83 137 102 134 
 257 226 48 72 
 
 96, 
 
 81 
 
 75 
 
 54 
 
 627 
 732 
 
 63_ 140 .139 78 703 
 
 64 136 127 78 715 
 
 48 68 65 49 653 
 
 28 66. 49 49 616 
 
 125 
 38 
 
 130 
 
 28 
 
 132 
 
 81 
 
 125 
 
 87 
 
 126 
 
 104 
 
 78 
 51 
 
 78 
 50 
 
 952 
 
 498 
 
 874 
 578 
 
 *T}iia falling off was owing to the personal pique of a po- 
 litical .cUcj,u6.-, 60V. King knew the names of these nine vot- 
 ers, one of whom was the father of the writer of this note. 
 
 36 
 
108 
 
 iQfF.-E EN S' ^ C^O U N T'. Y 
 
 1822.— iVo^ioe.— Mr. Edward Mitchell, UniVer- 
 salist, will preach at Mr. Eldert's Hotel, Jamaica, 
 on Wednesday evening, August 21st ; and at the 
 Court House, August 82d, at 3 P. M. 
 
 1822.— Samuel Mott,''Bheri!ff, offers UO reward 
 for the apprehension of Jesse Powell, committed 
 for passing' counterfeit money.'wlio broke jail an 
 the night of November 16th. 
 
 1822, ITov.''2S. — John --Holland, of Jamaica, 
 killed two shoats, not qiiite nine months old, which 
 weighed four hundred and thirty-five, and three 
 hundred and ninety-five pounds respectively-; and 
 Dr. Blatchford killed two which .were ^fourteen 
 months tfld and ■weighed, 't"he largest four hundred 
 and fifty-eight pounds, and the. other Jour hundred 
 and thirty-seven pounds.^i'Vwler, 
 
 1822, -Dec. 5. — In and abaat Jamaica are great 
 numbers of colored people growing up in ignorance 
 of the Bible and everything that belongs to civili- 
 ization, and who have nowKere to look for instruc- 
 tion but to Sabbath-schools. The teachers having 
 obtained permission, have opened a school for them 
 in the Presbyterian Church' and have already gath- 
 ered in aboufety. One or two persons have evip- 
 " plied the money, and. now the. influence of others is 
 needed to constrain every colored person to attend 
 the school which commences at 3 o'clock every 
 Sabbath. The teachers attend at half past one to 
 give catechetical and other religious instruction to 
 all white children who wish to avail themselves of 
 it. — Farmer. \ 
 
 1822,- Dec. 19. — John Barnes Mott and Samuel ,' 
 Pettitwere killed by the caving in of a well at ^ 
 Hempstead. They have left large families behind j 
 them.^ — L. I. Star. , , ; 
 
 1823, Jan 1. — Dr. Giimi's office is'on the Main 
 Street, Jamaica, opposite John B. Roe's store. 
 
 1823, Jan. 2. — William Bemsen, Jr., has raised 
 the past year a sweet potatoe whose weight was 
 upwards of seven pounds. 
 
 1823, Jan. 29.— Miriam, Ann Simonson intends \ 
 to open a Eemale School at the house lately occu-, 
 pied by Mrs. Bartlette and Miss Barnum,' Jamaica. 
 
 1823. — Daniel Smith was Chairman, and John 
 Highie, Clerk of a meeting held February 15th, \ 
 which voted by a majority of twenty-seven to | 
 build a new church "in" Spi'ingfield, with school- i 
 rooms on the upper floor. Anson Higbie, Daniel i 
 Gracy, Richard Hendrickson, Michael Golder and ' 
 John Higbie, were a committee to get subscrip- 
 tior.s. ,,,,.'■' 
 
 1823, Feb. 28. — On Friday afternoon, about four 
 o'clock, a fire broke out in the house of William 
 Crooker, Wheatly, which was consumed with most 
 of its contents, All the family were absent. The 
 flames were carried by a northwest wind to David 
 Laton's barn, which, witli all the fodder was also 
 destroyed,. , , ^ ',, "\ .'" ' '.'!'', 
 
 1823.-v-'On the morning of Mai-cli 2d, between 
 
 two and three o'clock, the house of Zebulon 'Sea- 
 man, «J©FUsaleii, witltitS' 'Contents was destroyed 
 by fire from a stove-pipe. A black, boy, eight 
 .years old, perished -in the flames. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Sedman escaped with difficulty, and their son 
 leaped .from, a second story window, and a black 
 girl threw herself from the garret on the frozen 
 ground and was little injured. 
 
 1823, March 12. — Lewis S. Hewlett and Curtis 
 !Peck intend. applying to the Legislature for an act 
 to Ibrm a road arid bridge over the meadow and 
 creek at the head of Little Neck Bay, 
 
 1823, March 27. — The iwOolen factory of John 
 Seaman & Son, Hempstead Harbor, was consumed 
 by fire onTuesday night with the machinery and 
 all its contents. The factory had made much cloth 
 very creditable to our country. — Star. 
 
 1823, April 3. — The morning of last Sabbath 
 was cloudy. At nine it commenced raining, which 
 shortly turned to snow and the wind increased to a 
 gale, with such quantities of snow as to darken the 
 sky. r Two or three barns were blown down in 
 Springfield. Our streets were deserted and all 
 took refuge in their houses.™ Next, morning the 
 snow was twelve or eighteen inches deep, and. in 
 some parts; of the county the roads were banked 
 up five feet. — L. I. Farmer. ! 
 
 1823, May,!. — Henry Mitchell, of Mushing, 
 gathered, last fall, fi'om one tree, eight barrels of 
 apples, six of which were sent: to Liverpool and re- 
 alized thirty British .sovereigns, (equal to $133 22) 
 exclusive of freight and commissions.^/Stetes»w«M. 
 
 1823, May ^5. — John Remsen, Sr., of Jamaica 
 South, wasi crh M6iiday last, knocked overboard by 
 the jibing of the boom 'of the vessel' off Fro^% 
 Neck, and drowned. ' '■ ■ ' i' 
 
 1823, June 8. — ^Jlose... leaves distilled , bj, '!Pr. 
 Na,than Shgltbn, ifaniaica. ■ . .. - , . 
 
 1823, Jwwe 5'.^^A11 those ladies 'and. gentlemen 
 who feel desirous to contribute to the erection of: a 
 Lecture-room in the village 'of Jamaica 'are' re- 
 quested to meet in the Presbyterian Church, this 
 afternoon at 3, o'clock... There will soon be no 
 place to accommodate, tte^ Sabbp,th-scliool/and ^'^ 
 convenient place for cveriiiag meetings. — Farmer. 
 
 ' 1823,, July 2i. — The whejlt and rye harvofst is 
 generally fine, and hay of a great product. Corn 
 crops promise well. 
 
 1823, July 2^.— The barn of Samuel andAdo- 
 nijah Underbill, Jericho, \vas struck by Bghiiiing 
 on Friday mbroiiig, at, sunrise; aid consumed. I,t 
 'was filled with hay. ' .!:':;'. 
 
 •'■■.■' -■' i; .-7/ 
 
 1823, Aug. 14.— On Sunday night,]ast the.^hpe- 
 slioji of Isaac Skirm was broken open and robbed 
 of ,^100 SVorth of shofes, ftlddtS" and leather. '< A.ffew i 
 weeks since th(^' st£ibl6' of General Van Wyck 
 Wiekes was robbed^ of a military saddle, bridle 
 martingai, and a plated gig haniess. ^iH ;!/• 
 
IN OLD JEN TIMES. 
 
 109 
 
 282=3, .4«^. 28.— Wijhelmus Duryea, of Jamai- 
 ca, aged and hard of hearing, fell from his wagon, 
 on the Jamaica turnpike, the wheel passing over 
 him. He was conveyed to BettB '& Sned^ker's 
 stere, but died in .seven days. 
 
 1823, Sept. —A. -grey owl, -measuring four feet six 
 'inches irom the tip end of each extended wing, 
 and twenty inches in height, was -shot in the 
 neighborhood of Jamaica. 
 
 1823, Oct. 31r— The N^w Yoi-k County Agri- 
 cultural Society awarded a premium of $7 50 to 
 James Scott, of Jamaica, for a buck and ifour 
 ewes ; and $10 to J. H. & W. H. Jones, of Cold 
 Spring, for the best flannel ; and to Thomas & 
 'W. R. Jones $10, for two pair of woolen blankets. 
 Two pieces of their broadcloth, and 'of satinet, 
 were highly praised. . . 
 
 1823, Nov. 3-'6,— Vote 
 
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 ueens county 
 
 for 
 
 Assembly : 
 
 
 12! 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 "2 1 
 
 3 
 
 &'■ 
 
 a 
 
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 terba 
 
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 a 
 
 
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 ti 
 
 >— ' 
 
 William Jones, - 
 
 226 283 
 
 27 
 
 75 
 
 30 
 
 28 
 
 669 
 
 Thomas Tredwell, 
 
 191 305 
 
 17 
 
 '60 
 
 16 
 
 27 
 
 616 
 
 James Hegeman, - 
 
 119 82 
 
 112 
 
 66 
 
 55 
 
 6g 
 
 499 
 
 Robert Moore, - 
 
 92 71 
 
 107 
 
 55 
 
 5« 
 
 65 
 
 446 
 
 1833, Nov. 14. — James Entwistle, late a mei-- 
 chant of New Yoi-k,, was drowned , at, Oysterhay, 
 by slipping frofm the bowsprit fsf, a. small, sail-boat, 
 .while fixing the jib. The wind blowing very fresh, 
 it wstB impossible to save him, 
 
 1823,. i*70«. i 27. — Singleton MitchelU Le-jivis, S. 
 -Hewlett,, Curtis, Peck, Roe Haviland, Robert, ,B. 
 Van Zandt and Joseph Bloodgood intend applying 
 to the Legislature for an act *o incorporate the Lit- 
 tle Neck Road and Bridge Company," -with a capi- 
 tal of $10,000, to make a road from near the house 
 of Henry Lawrence across the creek anrd meadows 
 (by a. draw-bridge,) easterly till it reaches ^E^iza- 
 beth Mitchell's mill-dam, Manbasset Yalley.— 
 Farmer. 
 
 1824, Jan. 25. — The woollen factory of William 
 H. Jones & €o., Cold^ Spring, was fired by an ap- 
 prentice boy Samuel-Shaw, aged 1.7, who confessed 
 iejia^fpo motive or thought of the deed till the 
 very moment. The fire was-extiriguished.— ^-Hmw- 
 
 tington JEagle. '• ..- 
 
 -,■ 1824, March, 34. — Female Academy, Jamaica- 
 — 3ilr. aiu4, JI>«., italliivorth* will be, ready to* re- 
 ceive, Ijoardera and day -scholars by the 5th of May. 
 Heferences : General V. W. Wicjies, Eliplialet 
 Wickes, Rev. S. P. iFunck, Dr. T. W. Blatchford, 
 Henry C!' Sleight. ' '""' ' / ' 
 
 '1824, JfarcA 11.— On Saturday aftejrnofln last, 
 Jesse Leverich's barn, at Newtown, with all the 
 
 *Mrs. Hallworth died' in April. 
 
 out-hoiises, three valuable horses, grain, hay and 
 all his fodder, was burnt by the pipe of ai blackman 
 pressing flax in4he baru. 
 
 1824, April 21.— William White, from London, 
 will open a Boarding Academy, at Jamaica. — 
 Terms, $160 per year.— Post 
 
 1824, April 29. — An old fox and foiTr cubs were, 
 a. few days since, taken from their burrow directly 
 under the Williamsburgli turnpike, two miles from 
 Jamaica. Tlie old one was shot. 
 
 1824, May 4. — Samuel Legget, President,- has 
 put a teamboat on the Whitestone ferry. 
 
 1824, June 3. — At the second anniversary of 
 the Jamaica Auxiliary Society for meliorating the 
 condition of the Jews, the following officers were 
 chosen : Dr. N. Shelton, President ; Revs. Gr. H. 
 Sayres, S. P. Funck and J. Schoonmaker, Vice 
 Presidents; General V. W. -Wickes, Treasurer 
 and Dr. T. W. Blatchford, Secretary. Directors— 
 Eliphalet Wickes, H. 0. Sleight, Othniel Everitt, 
 Abraham Burtis, John Rider. Assistant Female 
 Managers— Miss H. Wickham, Miss Eliza M. 
 Wickes, Miss Sarah B. Titus, Mrs. Ann Scriba, 
 Mrs. Thomas Baylis, Mrs. Ann 'flackett, Mrs. 
 Othniel Everett, Mtb. Sajuuel Mills. 
 ' Owing to the. inclemency of the weather the 
 speakers from the <;ity 'did not arrive. The Rev. 
 Mr. Sayres dismissed the assembly by reading the 
 'fifty-third chapter of Isaiah. 
 
 1824, June 26.— The New Yoidj; -County Agri- 
 cultural Society awarded afpremiu-m of $9 to Mrs. 
 Jacob Polhemiis, of -Newtown, for the best but- 
 ter. 
 
 1824, July 29. — Jacob ^Lawrence's barn, Rock- 
 away, was struck by-^ightningon Friday and con- 
 sumed with fifteen; loads of hay, wheat and rye, a 
 wagon and slcjgh. Loss, -$350. 
 
 . 1824, :4m^. 11.-^ James Kent Bailey of New 
 .York, aged fourteen, was drowned in Success Pond 
 by falling over the boat in which he was fishing. — 
 Farmer. 
 
 1824, itfov.^ — Yote of Queens County for Con- 
 gress, and Assfimbly ;• _ 
 
 Congress. Assembly. 
 
 Hempstead, - 
 N. Hempstead 
 Jamaica, - , - 
 Flushing. 
 Ne-wtown, 
 Oysterbay, - 
 
 
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 no 
 
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 * 
 
 11 
 
 * 
 
 a o 
 
 13 
 
 1 
 PI 
 
 408 
 
 82 
 
 400 
 
 430 
 
 143 
 
 164 
 
 72 
 
 128 
 
 70 
 
 60 
 
 112 
 
 119 
 
 98 
 
 114 
 
 95 
 
 81 
 
 83 
 
 81 
 
 no 
 
 81 
 
 93 
 
 63 
 
 159 
 
 75 
 
 7) 
 
 104 
 
 78 
 
 65 
 
 112 
 
 100 
 
 220 
 
 82 
 
 193 
 
 186 
 
 99 
 
 100 
 
 979 619 923 885 708 649 
 
 -"Opposed to caucus nominations and in favor of Presi- 
 dential electors being ehosen by the people, not by the 
 rLegislatur'e.— 4Id. ;,' 
 
110 
 
 QUEEKS COUNTY 
 
 1824, Auff. 12.— The bavn of John L. Riker, 
 Newtown, was struck bj lightning on Sunday eve- 
 ning, and burned to ■ the ground, with the h&j, 
 grain, etc. 
 
 1824. — The examination and exhibition of the 
 classical school -at Newtown will take place Octo- 
 ber 19th. 
 
 1824,' JSfov. 25. — James Kolyer, of Newtown, 
 raised three bushels of clean flax seed from three 
 quarts sown. 
 
 1824, Dec. 10.— As William Bowne, Flushing, 
 was. returning home his horses took fright and run 
 against 'thie gate post of his residence and threw 
 him out. He survived but a few hours. He was 
 much esteemed. . 
 
 1824, Dec. 30.— A horse of Mr. Van Buren was 
 trotted from the twelve mile stone, to the six mile 
 stone, on the Brooklyn and Jamaica turnpike?- be- 
 fore a light wagon, without collar or traces, for a 
 bet of IIQO. The time allowed was thirty-four 
 minutes, but was performed in twenty^-eight, and 
 the horse not tired. — Farmer. 
 
 1825.^Rufus King writes from Washington, 
 January 7th, to Jones and Tredwell, Members of 
 Assembly, for Queens County, that he is not a 
 candidate for re-election to the United States Sen- 
 ate, believing it to be proper and expedient that 
 the remainder of his life should be devoted to the 
 duties of a private citizen. 
 
 1825, Jan. S7.— The western mills at Dosoris 
 owned by John B. Coles, was destroyed by fire, 
 about three o'clock, on Friday morning. Seven 
 thousand bushels of .wheat, three hundred barrels of 
 floui;, and a large quantity of feed were destroyed. 
 He was insured fer $20,000. — Farmer. 
 
 1825, Feb. 3.— Benjamin Allen, Sr., of Great 
 Neck, raised some very fine fat cattle for the New- 
 York market. The kr^st would weigh one thou- 
 sand five hundred to one thousand eight hundred 
 — Star. 
 
 1825, March 3.— The Long>IsIand" Farmer was 
 merged m the Star, for a year or so, and published 
 at Brooklyn and Jamaica.— i't?. 
 
 1825, ilfarc^ 12.._Governor Clinton tliarrks 
 Messrs. Jones .of , Cold-Spring, for a piece of flan- 
 ■nel,,made of'Lon^-IsIand wool and by American 
 skfll, which he pronounces very creditable to the 
 county. 
 
 I825y April 14.~ Simon Marston,,, Jamiiica, felP 
 in his well accidentally, on Tuesd&y morning and 
 instantly expired, - fa " 
 
 ^^^fv.-^^^ 20.-Thomas C. Pinckney. has 
 ope.ned his office near Smith's Mills and the Meth- 
 odist church. Near Eockaway. Deeds, mortgages, 
 
 and'pSr;:.""''^ '''"'^'^' "^-y.Focuid 
 1825. -Mr. and Mrs. Kingsbury and Mrs. 
 
 Boardman's Female Academy at Jamaica, under a 
 board of trustees, will open Ma.j 20th. 
 
 1825, June 18.— The New York County Agri- 
 cultural Society awarded a premium of a dozen 
 silver spoons (worth $15) ts^Mr. Thonias Lawrence, 
 and another dozen (worttf $12) to Mrs. -William-. 
 Bragaw, both of Newtown, for second^ and third 
 best butter. 
 
 1825, July 21. — The heat continues excessive, . 
 ninety-three degrees in our office. The field* are 
 burnt up.-^-Farmer. 
 
 1825, Juli^ 28. — Long l8land.snffera&om-5evere, 
 drought and heat. - 
 
 1825, Aug. 4. — Judge Effingham Lawrence, of 
 Bayside, gave $340 for a Saxony Buck. 
 
 1825. — Mrs. Bruce and Miss Ledyard's Young 
 Ladies'. Academy, at .Newtown, .will re-open No- 
 vember Ist. 
 
 1^5, Nov. 3.— Self-nomination. — Daniel "Smith, 
 ofiers himself as candidate for Coroner, for the 
 town of HeiHp.«tead, and asks the support of his 
 friends and the puMiei'generally at.the ensuing 
 election. 
 
 B^" Every Dutchman, Scot, and Yankee," 
 
 Give me your votes and.IUl humbly thank ye. 
 
 1825, Nov.— Vote of ''Qrueena County : 
 
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 ^ 9 I I I 
 
 ■O 
 
 43 
 
 a 
 
 - _ , 'E 
 
 60 77 163 148 88 579 
 96 159 376 51 193 944 
 
 
 
 40 47 138 158 150 184 747 
 
 40 77 101 243 131 141 733 
 
 71 99 141 378 66 210 965 
 
 71 78 105 437 48 156 895 
 
 43 124 101 224 108 215 815 
 
 69 46 128 398 98 16©- 905 
 
 42 63 74 200 249 354 982 
 
 73 120 172 425 5 53 848 
 
 Senate. . 
 Joshua Smith/? = — 
 Nicholas Wykoffft:.- 
 
 " Assevibly. 
 .Silas Eoe,* - - 
 jWilliam Pine,* - 
 'WllUam Jones.t - 
 Thoinas Tredwell.t 
 ' Sfteriff, 
 John Curtis,*.- - 
 John Simonson,+ 
 
 Clerk. 
 Samuel Sherman,* 
 Edward Parker,t 
 
 1825, Nov. n.—TaJce^Notice.—Eiward Parker, 
 Jamaica, though not successful, feels gratefully 
 pteaaed fbr the generous support of Newtown, 
 i lushing, Jamaiea and Hempstead. The stipport 
 also of those few friends iu North Hempstead and 
 Oysterbay, he will ever remember with a grateful 
 
 1825, Nov. 19.— There was a great change in 
 the weather yesterday morning, when a violent 
 
 *Nominated at a Eepufflican meeting of which Daniel 
 Smith, was Chairman and Jakemiah Allen, Secretary — 
 Silas Eoe was nominated in place of H. V. Jones, declined, 
 at a meeting of which William Mott, was Chairman, and 
 John I. Schenck, Secretary. 
 
 tNominated by a meeting ■' friendly to the rights of the 
 people, of.whicl«J^dge Mitchell, was Chairman and John 
 Thomas Jones, of Jamaica, Secretary. 
 
INOLDEK TIMES', 
 
 111 
 
 wind came- from the north-west. Before night ice 
 was foi-med in the streets and thii bows of vessels 
 were hung .with icicles. — N. Y; Paper. ■ 
 
 1826, 'March 27.— rjoshua and EachJel- timber's 
 Boarding School for girls, Flushing. • 
 
 1S26, • JUaiy.— Rev. Chaiies W. Carpenter's 
 Boarding School, for young.gentlemen, at Flushing. 
 
 ISSfr; ^a?^26.^— So dry a May is not common, 
 wind • easterly, but no rain. Jime 3d. — To the 
 drought of the past month a delicious thunder 
 sbower-has succeeded. 
 
 1826, June 20. — Over nine inches of rain fell at 
 Jamaica,*' in twa days. 
 
 1826, Alt;;. 10-12.— The heavy rains have 
 caused great jBoods. All the miU-danis at Mua- 
 queto Cove are broken, and Ivirk's saw-mill is car- 
 ried away. Two dams at Hempstead Harbor are 
 carried away. The two factories at Cold Spring 
 are greatly injured. — Star. 
 
 1826, Feb. 16. — Rev. Asahel Nettleton preached 
 his first sermon in Jamaica. After a short time 
 one hundred and twenty persons were the subjects 
 of a Ttviya.l.^-F'armer. 
 
 1826, All ff. 10, 15. — In six days, as appears by 
 the rain-guage of Union Hall Academy, nearly 
 fourteen inches of rain have fallen. The freshet 
 was so great that many mills, dams, etc., have been 
 destroyed. At Cow Neck the mills and dam of 
 widow Elizabeth Mitchell, and a mill-dam of Judge 
 Mitchell were swept away, as,- also, one vat Mus- 
 quito Cove. 
 
 1826, Aug. 26. — At a meeting of Republican 
 electors, at the Court House — Robert Townsend, 
 Chairman, and H. C. Sleight, Secretary— Single- 
 ton Mitchell and John T. Jones were appointed 
 delegates tO- the Utica Convention ito nominate a 
 Governor. 
 
 ^^ No delegates appeared "from Queens at. the 
 Herkimer (Bucktail) Oon'vention. , 
 
 1826, Oct. 7. — Singleton Mitchell was Chair- 
 man, and R., Benson JVan-Zandt, Secretary of a 
 mee:ting, at the Court House, to suppress all bank 
 bills under |5.., 
 
 1826, Oct. 20. — At a meeting of Republican 
 delegates friendly to "the rights of the people," at 
 the Court House— William H. Jones, Chairman, 
 and Dr. M. M. Rogers, Secretary— Heilry F. 
 Jones was nominated for Assembly. They also 
 resolved to counteract the intrigues of pretended 
 friends, who desire to make conflicting nomina- 
 tions. They approve of DeWitt Clinton for Gov- 
 ernorr-' — Ed. ' 
 
 1826, Nov. 2. — At a meeting of delegates at the 
 Court House — Micajah Townsend, Chairman, and 
 James Rider, Secretary^-Silas Roe was nominated 
 for Assembly. 
 
 *D'r. O'Callaghan derives Ja;maica from an Indian word 
 Amikque, signifying a beaver. 
 
 1826, Nov)- 6, 7, 8.— Vote of Queens County for 
 Assembly :' 
 
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 25 
 
 460 
 
 25 
 
 44 
 
 25 
 
 2 
 
 581 
 
 ■79 
 
 93 
 
 59 
 
 J 38 
 
 38 
 
 m 
 
 464 
 
 161 
 
 52 
 
 36 
 
 24 
 
 77 
 
 38 
 
 388 
 
 Thomas Tredwell",* 
 Silas Eoe, - 
 Henry F. Jones, 
 
 1826, N'ov. 9.— John V. Hewlett, of Eastwoods, 
 had a pumpkin vine, the length of one branch was 
 forty-five feet; of the second, thirty-five feet, and 
 of the other six branches, one hundred and seven- 
 ty feet — making two hundred and fifty feet of 
 branches in all. It bore twenty-four pumpkins, 
 nine of which weighed one hundred and eighty 
 pounds, and the whole twenty-four weighed four 
 hundred pounds. 
 
 1827, Jan.l. — Joseph' Tuthill offers for sale his 
 house and seven acres of land, east side of Beaver 
 Pond. It has a fine spring and is very suitable 
 for a tanner and currier, there being none in this 
 vicinity. — Farmer. 
 
 1827, Jan. 17.-^Application will be made to 
 the Legislature for leave to increase the Jamaica 
 fire company from eighteen to twenty-four mem- 
 bers. — Farmer^ 
 
 1827. — A meeting will be held, Monday, Janu- 
 ary 29th, at Alexander R-ogers' inn, to adopt 
 measures to obtain donations from the citizens of 
 Jamaica, in aid of the suffering Greeks.f 
 
 1827^ Feh. 1. — School in Jamaica. — William P. 
 Robertson thanks those who have patronized him 
 over two years. He has improved his fixtures 
 and employed an assistant. — Farmer. 
 
 1827, Feb. 21.f^S.B. Nicoll, Jr., and his associ- 
 ates, will apply to the Legislature for an act to in- 
 corporate the Christian Institute, at Flushing, for 
 literary purposes, with a capital of $13,000. — 
 Farmer: 
 
 1827, March 10. — John H. Jones, Oliver Coles, 
 George D. Coles, Walter R. Jones, Robert W. 
 Mott, will apply to the Legislature for an act to 
 incorporate the Cold Spring Steamboat Company, 
 with a capital not exceeding $30,000.. 
 
 1827, June 9. — The jail pi .Queens County was 
 broken open and Alfred Verity, with William Be- 
 dell, convicted of stealing a horse of William 
 Smith, Great Neck, escaped. Verity was confined 
 on Suspicioti of murdering Jeffrey Hubbs, a negro, 
 of Flushing, on the. 10th of January last.f 
 
 ■- — ' ■ I. ' • ' — ■ ' ' 
 
 *Abandoned by both parties, hs ran on bis own book. 
 tThe following, among otber sums, were contributed 
 
 from Queens County : Jamaica, $303 ; Students of Union 
 
 Hall,-f 32 75 ; Newtown, $620 ; North Hempstead, $210 ; 
 
 Ef H. Jones, $10. 
 ^Verity was re-arrested, and convicted'Of ioanslaughter 
 
 in the third degree, October 3d, 1831, and sent to the 
 
 State's Prison for 4 years; 
 
 27. 
 
112 
 
 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 1827, June 14.— Pliebe W., wife of Sidney 
 Seaman, of North Hempstead, Bprung out of a wa- 
 gon while the hoffieswas restive, with a child in 
 her arms, and died itt a few hours after. 
 
 1827, June 16.— The stores of 3. T. Jones and 
 Co., and of rGharles Hewlett, Cold Spring, were 
 robbed. Eight n-egroes are now in jail, arrested on 
 information of one 6i the gang. The goods were 
 recovered. 
 
 .1827. — July 4th was celebrated at the head of 
 Cow Neck. The company formed at two P. M., 
 with Captain Henry Morrell's'; troop of horse, and 
 marched to the Dutch Church," where the Declara- 
 tion was read by Dr. G. ^. Purdy, and the oration 
 by B. F. Thompson. The company then marched 
 back to William Allen's inn and partook of a 
 sumptuous repast. Twenty-four toasf were drank 
 with discharges of cannon. Judge Mitchell presi- 
 ded. 
 
 1827, July 12.— At a meeting of wool-growers 
 and friends of the American system, .held at the 
 Court House, Singleton Mitchell was appointed 
 Chairman and John H. Jones, Secretary, and Ef- 
 fingham Lawrence, Jones and Mitchell sent as 
 delegates to the State Convention to be held at 
 Albany, July 16th.' 
 
 1827, Aug. 23. — The corner-stone of the Flush- 
 ing Institute was laid, containing a Greek Testa- 
 ment, newspapers,, names of county officers, etc. - 
 
 1827, Nov,-^Yote of Queens County. 
 
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 , 35 351 
 
 - - 48 -430 
 
 - 175 141 
 
 Senate. 
 John D. Ditmis 
 Peter Shavpe, - 
 Jacob' Tyson, 
 John I. Schenck,t ^96 -73 206 
 
 16 
 63 
 
 97 
 
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 I: 
 
 05 
 
 74 
 81 
 66 
 76 
 
 J8 15 509 
 
 56 15 693 
 
 29 64 572 
 
 74 64 688 
 
 Thomas Tredwell, - 20 473 81 81 61 12 668 
 
 H F. Jones.t -' - 258 154 91 11 45 56 628 
 
 WilUam Pine, 2 74 21 65 12 2 176 
 
 The Jackson phrensy carried the State. The 
 Clintonians were neutral.— (S'tar. 
 
 1828, May 22.— .Samuel J- Underbill, Jacob 
 Jackson, Jacob Willis, Ezra Smith, and others, 
 from Jericho, detected a gang of villains who stole 
 Snedeker's .horses. New Lots, three horses from 
 Cold Spring, a horae and mare from Lewis Hew- 
 lett, JEaat Woods, and sold them in Philadelphia. 
 One Nash and' Norman Baker were in this gang. 
 Baker -.eonfessed that he broke open a tailor's shop 
 and the store of Charles Peck, Flushing ; Schoon- 
 maker's store, Flatbush; Hewlett's store and 
 Jones' store, at Cold Spring, and Phineas Carll's 
 store, at Huntington. 
 
 *In place of James Foster declined from.ill health. This 
 was the regular Republican nomination at Tammany Hall. 
 
 tNominated at a meeting of which General Daniel Be- 
 dell was Chairman, and Thomas C. Pinokney, Secretary. 
 
 1828, June 12. — As Eichard Ehodes and wife, 
 Near Rockaway, wer^ going to market, in a one- 
 horse wagon, the horse got frightened, in|Brooklyn, 
 and dashed them out against a building. She was 
 killed and he sorely bruised. She left six children. 
 
 1828, Jiily 18.— The fall of rain has been so 
 great and frequent within a few days that few 
 farmers hereabouts will be able to get in their hay 
 in merchantable order, and a large portion will be 
 entirely spoiled. Rye and wheat promises well, 
 corn looks unusually fine. — Farmer. 
 
 1828, Aug. 2S. — It is sickly on Long Island, 
 especially at Jamaica, North Hempstead, New- 
 town, Flushing and New Utrecht. There is also' 
 a disease among horses, the blind etaggers- 
 
 Oct. :9. — The sickness continues, but is not gen- 
 erally fatal, except with the, aged. There is great 
 mortality among horses.. 
 
 1828, Sept. 4. — Died, on -Saturday afternoon, at 
 Jamaica, L. E. A. Eigenbrbdt, L.L.D., aged fifty- 
 four years, Princij)al of Union Hall Academy thir- 
 ty-one jeaxa,— Farmer^ 
 
 1828, Oct. 16, — The dwelling-house, occupied 
 by John Byrd, on the road from Jamaica to Flush- 
 ing, and owned by Nathan Sanford, Esq., was con- 
 sumed by fire that took from the chimney, on 
 Monday \a,st.— Farmer. 
 
 1828, Nov. 20. — Vote of Queens County, 
 
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 Congress. 
 James Lent,* 
 Silas 'Wood,'!- - 
 
 Assembly. 
 Thomas Tredwelljt 
 H. F. Jones,* - - 
 
 Sheriff. 
 Eichard Cornell,+ - 175 
 Samuel Mott,* - 435 
 
 Clerk. 
 John Simonson,t - 132 
 Samuel Sherman 
 
 314 
 291 
 
 163 
 436 
 
 B- 
 
 225 
 
 627 
 
 623 
 
 285 
 
 470 
 433 
 
 629 
 
 304 
 
 S 
 
 200 
 125 
 
 81 
 250 
 
 94 
 244 
 
 68 
 297 
 
 5h 
 
 B 
 
 122 
 112 
 
 98 
 142 
 
 82 
 168 
 
 116 
 132 
 
 en 
 
 ■a 
 aq 
 
 102 
 
 108 
 
 107 
 93 
 
 87 
 125 
 
 93 
 123 
 
 2. 
 
 o" 
 
 P 
 
 192 
 
 85 
 
 82 
 194 
 
 87 
 195 
 
 161 
 
 120 
 
 1155 
 
 1348 
 
 1154 
 1400 
 
 995 
 1600 
 
 1199 
 1499 
 
 50 
 20 
 12 
 50 
 
 Flushing, - 
 Oysterbay, 
 Glen Cove, 
 Jericho, - 
 Cow Neck, - 
 
 38 
 31 
 20 
 36 
 
 523 
 
 1828. — Revenue of Post Offices in Queens 
 County : 
 
 Jamaica, 
 Hempstead, 
 North Hempstead, 
 South Oysterbay, 
 Cold Spring, 
 
 1829, Feb. — A week or two since a hog raised 
 by B. Lowerre, Flushing, four years old,' was 
 killed and weighed, wh-en dressed, seven hundred 
 and sevelity-seven pounds. 
 
 1829, Feb. — An ewe of Joseph Dfiiiton, North 
 Hempstead, has this season no less. than six lambs. 
 
 1829, April 23. — The house of the widow Law- 
 *Jackson. tAdministratio». , 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES, 
 
 113 
 
 rence, Flushing:, was destroyed by fire on Friday 
 last. It is supposed to have originated from the 
 chimney, as the roof was on fire when first discov- 
 ered. 
 
 1829. — -The friends of Sunday-schools are re- 
 quested to meet, May 4th, at Union Hall Academy, 
 Jamaica, to form a County Sunday-School Union. 
 — Farmer. 
 
 1829, June 25.— The dwelling-house of the toll- 
 gatherer on the Eockaway Turnpike was burnt, 
 about 11 o'clock on Saturday evening last. 
 
 1829, Aug. 4. — ^Pursuant to public notice from 
 the pulpit, a temperance meeting was held in the 
 school-house, Hempstead. ;RevB. Webjter and 
 Hall made addresses. The officers of the Society 
 are John LefFerts, President; John -Davidson, 
 Secretary, and Eldred Piatt, Treasurer. 
 
 1829.: — At a meeting of the people of Jamaica, 
 in the Lecture-room of the Presbyterian Church, at 
 five P. M., Sept. Vth, Timothy Nostrand, Chairman, 
 and S. L. iamberson, Secretary, it was moved by 
 V. W. Wickes, and seconded by D. Lamberson, ■ 
 that a society be formed for the suppression of in- 
 temperance. Bishop Mellvain was present. 
 
 1829, Dec. 3.— (areorge Ellis Kyerson was ar- 
 rested at John Collier's, on the Williamsburgh 
 turnpike, while offericg for sale some prayer-books 
 he had stolen (asulso altar decorations and chancel 
 carpet) from Grrace Church, Jamaica™ He had 
 broken open the late Major Liefferts' house and the 
 summer residence of A. L, Molyneaux, He was 
 committed to jail by John Rhodes, ^iq.— Farmer. 
 
 1829, Nov — ^Vote of Queens County for As- 
 sembly. 
 
 
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 Thomas Tredwell, 
 
 - 38 
 
 70 
 
 100 
 
 ' 49 
 
 631 
 
 12 
 
 891 
 
 H. F. Jones',* - - 
 
 84 
 
 b-6 
 
 87 
 
 117 
 
 168 
 
 38U 
 
 889 
 
 1829. — The barn of Henry Stoothoff, Newtown, 
 was burnt on Wednesday night, Dec. 16th, by J. 
 J. Quackenboss, a miserable looking object, who 
 had worked for him.t 
 
 1829, Dec. 17.— At Pond Hollow woods, Oys- 
 terbay, two boys, in search for rabbits, fotind, un- 
 der an old stump, no less than one hundred and 
 thirty black snakes, some six feet in length, all 
 which were killed.— i^arwen 
 
 1829. — At a meeting of the Physicians a;nd 
 Surgeons of Queens County, at the Court House, 
 December 17th, Dr. Gustavus Baylies, of New- 
 town, was appointed Chairman, and Dr. Town- 
 send, of Oysterbay, Secretary. It was then re- 
 solved to form a Medical Society. '^'^- -«— " 
 
 The officers 
 
 *The election was contested and the seat given to Jones. 
 IHe was sent to the State Prison for seven years. 
 
 elected were; Dr. N. Shelton, Presicfemi ,• Dr. Lu- 
 cius Kellog, Vice-President ; Dr. Townsend, Sec- 
 retary ; Dr. Austin Chapman, Treasurer ; Drs. 
 George B. Purdy, Purcel Cook, John Davidson, 
 WilHam W. -Kissam and J. C. Townsend, Censors. 
 Drs.Shelton, Kissam and Johnson were appointed 
 to draft by-laws and rules. Adjourned to meet 
 the last Tuesday in May, 1830. 
 
 Besides the above, Drs. James and Gideon N. 
 Searing, Edwin Webb, William Wheeler, Morris 
 Snedeker and Richard Seaman were present. 
 
 1830.:^-A large temperance meeting of different 
 denominations was held, February 8th, in the 
 Episcopal'Church, Flushing, which was addressed 
 by "the Revs; Messrs. Mellvain and Goldsmith. 
 An approving letter from Rev. Dr. Milnor was 
 read. Over thirty signed the pledge. — Farmer. 
 
 1830.— Elias Hicks, Jericho, while writing a 
 letter, February 14th, was attacked with paralysis, 
 which nearly depri-ved him of the use of his left 
 side and the power of speech. He died on the 
 evening of the 2'7th, aged nearly eighty4wo.* 
 
 1830. — A meeting, to form a Temperance Socie- 
 ty will be held in the Presbyterian Church, New- 
 town, at eleven A. M., February I5th. Addresses 
 will be made by Revs, Mr. Mellvain, and Drs. 
 Cox and Dewitt. 
 
 1'830, March 25. — The Legislature authorized 
 North Hempstead to sell their Common lands. 
 
 1830, April. — Weight of five oxen, of the late 
 David Allen, of Great Neck ; 
 
 First, alive, - - 2,456 lbs. Dressed(qiiarters) 1,534 lbs. 
 Second, " - - 2,296 " "... 1,392 " 
 
 Third, " - - 2,352 " " - - - 1,472 " 
 
 Fourth, " - - - 2,240 " " . ^ - 1,302 " 
 
 Fifth, " (steer) 2,232 -" " - . 1,300 " 
 
 1830, May 6,— William Kelly, a foreigner, aged 
 twenty, was sent to the States Prison, two years, 
 for robbing Peter Luyster's store, Cedar Swamp, 
 of $40 worth of coin. 
 
 1830, May -6.— The Lmtg Island Telegraph 
 (since the Inquirer) was commenced at Hempstead 
 by Lefevre &c Hutchinson. 
 
 1830, May 25.^— At an adjourned- meeting of 
 the Queens County Medical Society, at the Court 
 House, Nathan Shelton, Chairman and James C. 
 Townsend, Secretary, Drs. Thomas Garvie, M. M. 
 Rogers, Selah S. Oarll, William L. Mitchell and 
 Asa Spalding were received as members. Drs. 
 Shelton, William J. Johnson and William W. 
 Kissam, were appointed a publishing committee 
 and to draft a code of medical ethics. A code of 
 by-laws was adopted. 
 
 1839, Ji% 1. — Moses Searing, aged thirty-five, 
 a highly respected member of the Methodist con- 
 nexion, received a fatal kick from a horse in the 
 
 *S. E. Clements, from Brooklyn, secretly opened the 
 grave, at inidnig ht, raised the coffin lid and took a plaster 
 cast of Hicks, from which several busts were made by 
 Brower. 
 
114 
 
 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 pit of the stomach. He leaves a wife, two children ^ 
 and dependent mother. 
 
 1830 Stages to Neio Tor/i;.— Curtis & Mervin's 
 stage leaves David Bedell's, Hempstead, Monday, 
 .Wednesday and Friday. 
 
 Curtis & Lowerre's stage loaves Benjamin 
 Lowerre's and Curtis Peck's, EJushing, and B. 
 Bloom's, Newtown, twice a- day. 
 
 0. & J. Sutphin's stage leaves Hunter s hotel, 
 
 Jamaica, daily. ^ ^i n 
 
 P. &. S. Vandewater's stage, leaves bouth Uys- 
 
 terbay, Tuesdays. 
 
 John Jackson's stage leaves Jerusalem, ± ridays. 
 Coe S. Downing &^- Co.'s' stage leaves T. Par- 
 ish's, Oysterbay, Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 
 via. Norwich, and calls at William P.-,Wright's 
 and J. P. Searing's, Jericho. 
 
 John R. Schenck's stage leaves Hempstead 
 Harbor, via. Cow Neck, Success and Jamaica, 
 Monday, Wednesday and Eriday. 
 
 1830.— The 4th' of July was celebrated in the 
 Methodist Church, Hempstead. The Declaration 
 was read by Dr. Clowes, and the oration delivered 
 by Dr. Edwin Webb. — Inquirer. 
 
 1830, July 5.— The first number of th.6 School 
 Master was published at Hempstead, by Timothy 
 Clowes, L.L.D. 
 
 1830, July 21. — The late rains have done very 
 little injury to the crops, excep.t-to the oats, which 
 being heavy was beaten, down. The wheat and 
 rye have yielded great returns. The corn looks 
 finely. The fruit-trees- look promising, notwith- 
 standing the late frosts. — Stair. 
 
 1830, July 23. — Mr. Lefevre will deliver a dis- 
 course on the second death, next Sunday afternoon, 
 at David DeMott's, Near Rockaway. 
 
 1830, July 28. — The weather the present month 
 has been warm without precedent. The thermome- 
 ter, at Jamaica, stood at 100° on the ISth.-^/Sfay. 
 
 1830. — Zion Church, Little Neck, was consecraiK 
 ed on Friday, July 30th, by Bishop Hobart. The 
 church, with the glebe, organ and other furniture, 
 was given, tft,the.yestry by Wynant Van Zandt. 
 
 1830/ JvLly 31."— On Tuesday night the barn of 
 Richard'-Way, on the Jamaica turnpike, three 
 miles and a half from -the Williamsburg ferry, was 
 burnt, w-ith-its conteats> his. whole stock of grain 
 and a fine -horse. 
 
 1830, "Jm?«/:^ J. &Wr Hunter's stage runs from 
 Flushing, - on -the arrival , of the steamboat there 
 from New York;' via. Jamaica to Rockaway and 
 back. Fare£fty cents. . 
 
 1830, tTwZy'.^-AS. Mrs. Cornelius Remsen, of 
 Newtown was returning home from sitting up with 
 a sick neighbor, the horse took'fright and overturned 
 the wagon, thereby causing her death. 
 
 1830. — On Thursday aftei^noon, August 5th, the 
 Jightning ■ struck the bam of William Remsen, 
 
 Great Neck, killing his son, aged seventeen, and 
 rendering his companion insensible. The barn, 
 with its contents of hay, grain, wagon, sleigh, etc., 
 was consumed. Loss, SI, 500. 
 
 1830, Oct. 5. — At a Republican Convention, at 
 the Court House, of which James Hegeman was 
 Chairman, and Henry Allen Secretary, Silas Roe, 
 of Jamaica, was nominated for the Assembly, and- 
 the nomination. of Enos T, Thsoop,-£or Grovernor, 
 approved. 
 
 1830, Ool!...9.— Samuel H. Van Wyck, aged fifty- 
 five, a. wealthy and respectable inhabitant. of Law- 
 rence's Neffk, was drowned by being, precipitated ' 
 from: a boat into the water. 
 
 1830, Oct. 9.— At a meeting of -IndependenteR'er 
 publican eleetors, at James Psoole's N.Q3:th..Hempr, . 
 stead, Eliphalet Wickes, Chairman, A-nd.M,. -M.- 
 Rogers, Secretary, Thomas Tredwell was .nominat- 
 ed for the Assembly, and the nomination, of Exari- 
 cisG-ranger, for Governor,, approved. . 
 
 1830, Oct.— On Thursday,; Benjamin. Smith, a 
 boy of fourteen, was thrown .from a horse, in New- 
 town, and, falling on his head, died a few hours after- 
 
 1830, Nov. — A young man named Eldert, about 
 fifteen, at Hallett's Cove, ^while riding on horseback 
 was strudi in his ^ide-by -the shaft' of a passing 
 chaise, whjch caused his death next day. 
 
 1830, 'JVot^.-T-Vote ,of Queens County : 
 
 Cangress. 
 
 Jolin A, King,* - 
 Jamei Lent, , - - 
 
 Silas Eoe, ■ - - 
 Thomas Tredwell,* 
 
 a 
 
 .87 
 160 
 
 154 
 
 79 
 
 O 
 
 "? 
 164 
 221 
 
 230 
 137 
 
 W 
 
 CD 
 
 B 
 
 633 
 260 
 
 ■223 
 
 ,700 
 
 e-i 
 B 
 
 226 
 117 
 
 238 
 94 
 
 I 
 
 B 
 
 94 
 91 
 
 68 
 110 
 
 CD 
 
 2- 
 O 
 
 P 
 
 71 
 169 
 
 173 
 
 "62 
 
 1275 
 1018 
 
 J 086 
 1182 
 
 1830. — Barter prices at the Hempstead stores 
 
 Butter, per lb., 18 cts. 
 
 Lard,' "- - - 10 " 
 Hams, " - 9 a 10 '• 
 
 Eye, per bushel, - 75 cts. 
 OatB, " - 38 " 
 
 Cora, " - 63 " 
 
 Potatoes, " 37 a 50 " 
 
 Onions, " - 50 " 
 
 Candles,. " n 
 
 Honey, "^ - - 10 
 
 1830.— Posi Offices and Fost Masters in Queens 
 County. — Flushing, . Curtis Peck ; Hempstead, E. 
 A. Clowes ; Head ot Cow Neck, William Allen ; 
 Jamaica, E. Wickes ; Little Neck, E. Lawrence ; 
 Newtown, B. Bloom ; North Hempstead, James 
 Poole ; Oysterbay, James Colvell ; ,,- Oysterbay 
 South, Timothy Carman ; Buckram, James Cock ; 
 Cedar Swamp, P. Layster. 
 
 1830, Dec— Royal Mbllineaux^ a miller, a mile 
 and a half below Hfempstead, killed a hbg scarcely 
 eighteen months old, which weighed six hundred 
 and twenty -three pounds. 
 
 1831, Jan. 17.^- We have had a snow storm of 
 *Anti- Jackson. ,„;; 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 115 
 
 about twenty incbes, unequalled in violence and 
 duration since 1820-1. 
 
 1831, Jan. 18. — At a meeting of the inhabitants 
 of Jamaica, at Hewlett Creed's, -ElipHalet Wickes, 
 Ollairman and Dr. N. Siielton, Secretary, it was 
 deemed expedient to have a Railroad from Jamaica 
 to Brooklyn, and that John A. King, Ool. John 
 Rhodes, Jr., Silas Roe, Jam®s Herriman, and Wil- 
 liam R. Gracie, be a committee to confer with a 
 like committee from Brooklyn. 
 
 1831, Jan. 22. — On Saturday evening, at ten 
 o'clock, the wagon shpp of Langdon Wright, Near 
 Rockaway, with its contents, was consumed by fire. 
 Loss, ^800. On Monday following, at four A. M., 
 the house and store of Anthony Davidson, same 
 place, were entirely consumed by unextinguished 
 coals in an ash barrel. Nothing was saved but 
 the account-books. The family had merely time 
 to escape from the flames. Loss, $3,000. — Star. 
 
 1831, Feb. — Mr. Tappen, of Norwich, slaught- 
 ered a hog, twenty months old, which weighed, 
 when dressed, eight hundred and twenty-two 
 pounds. 
 
 1831, March 2. — On Thursday morning, Martin 
 Way, of Newtown, aged about forty-five, lost his 
 life by his horses running away and throwing him 
 out of the wagon. 
 
 1831, March 30. — On Thursday morning about 
 four o'clock, the capacious dining-hall of Peck's 
 hotel, Flushing was burnt. 
 
 I83li March 31. — The editor of the Inquirer 
 will preach next Sunday, at three P.M., at Ooe D. 
 Jackson's, Jerusalem South. 
 
 1831, April 15. — Much injury has been done 
 by the late severe gale. At Jericho, two barns 
 and a hovel were prostrated, killing a cow, etc. A 
 house, near Musquito Cove, was moved several 
 inches from its foundation. 
 
 1831, June 18. — The new^. barn of the wid- 
 ow of Tjpwnsend Hauxhurst, North Hempstead, 
 took fire from a red-hot staple that a carpenter had 
 driven in one of the timbers. 
 
 1831.— Drowned, July 24th, off Coney Island 
 beach, Thomas Carman, Captain, and James Aker- 
 ly, Mate of the schooner Speculator, of Hemp- 
 stead.- . They left th« schooner in the long-boat, 
 with three others, who narrowly escaped, one be- 
 ing picked up by a smack, and the other two 
 swimming back to" the schooner. The Captain 
 left .a wife and ten children.— JF'armer. 
 
 1831, Aug. 4. — On Sunday, Jamaica was visit- 
 ed by a violent squall, from the south-west, with 
 tonents of rain. It continued an hour and con- 
 siderably damaged fruit and other trees. 
 
 1831, Aug. 13. — At a numerous meeting of 
 teachers and others, friendly to the cause of litera- 
 ture, at T. Parish's, Oysterbay. Dr. Townsend, 
 Chairman, and G. B. Docharty, Secretary it was 
 
 resolved to form a County Lyceum, and that a 
 meeting be called, at the Court House, September 
 24th, at one P. M. 
 
 1831, Jan. — Samuel Mott, Sheriff, writes that 
 the jail of Queens County, for the third time during 
 his term of office, is free of prisoners for debt or 
 crime. 
 
 1831, Jan. — The first number of the Union 
 Hall Gazette, Jamaica, appeared. It was a semi- 
 monthly, edited by the ^students of the Academy. 
 
 1831, Jan. 27. — The snow is two feet deep in 
 the fields, and twice that depth in the roads. 
 Since last Saturday week there has been no com- 
 munication with New York by the turnpike. We 
 cannot visit a friend in Jamaica without going 
 across lots.* — Hempstead Paper. 
 
 1831. — During the thunder storm, August 26th, 
 the house of David Springsteen, Newtown, was 
 struck and injured slightly. A person at work in 
 the garden was knocked down and remained in- 
 sensible some time. A boy sleeping in the house 
 was not hurt. 
 
 1831, Aug. — J. J. Hewlett, Eastwoods, raised 
 good white grapes of a very pleasant odor and fla- 
 vor from a native vine of our woods. 
 
 1831, Nov. — Caleb Wright, Oysterbay, took 
 from, one vine in his garden, ten pumpkins weigh- 
 ing, in all, two hundred and nineteen pounds. — 
 Star.- 
 
 1831, Nov. 5. — At a meeting of the Oysterbay 
 Lyceum,. the following officers were chosen : G-eorge 
 D. Coles, President; William M. Hewlett, Augus- 
 tus R. Griffin and Charles H. Eglee, Vice-Presi- 
 dents ; G. B. Docharty, Secretary, and John J. 
 Weeks, Treasurer. 
 
 1831.— Vote of Queens County Nov. 7, 8, 9 : 
 
 Assemhly. 
 John A. King, - 1,359 | Samuel Mott, - - 1077 
 
 Sheriff. 
 John Simonson, - - 1567 | John Curtis, - - 899 
 
 Clerk. 
 Samuel Sherman, - - 2469 | 
 
 Coroners. 
 
 M. M. Eogers, - - 
 Benjamin Lowerre, 
 Elijah Seaman, Jr., 
 Daniel Mott, 
 
 ■ ]298 
 J 294 
 1316 
 3351 
 
 3022 
 1006 
 3021 
 
 Andrew C. Hegeman, 
 Henry Allen, - - ■ 
 Elias Hicks, - - - - 
 Hend. A. Hendrickson, 987 
 
 1831, Nov, 10. — As Abraham Pine, of Hemp- 
 stead, was returning home, on Tuesday, with a 
 load of lime and lumber, he fell off the wagon and 
 both wheels passed over his thighs. 
 
 1831, Bee. 13. — Dr. Townsend was Chairinan, 
 and John D. Peeks, Secretary, of a meeting, at 
 Oysterbay, to aid in suppressing the use of ardent 
 spirits, when a Temperance Society was formed 
 and the following officers chosen : Arnold Fleet, 
 
 *Wood was so scarce in New York that the lumber yards 
 •were sold out for fire wood. A farmer asked $15 for a 
 sleigh load of wood. 
 
 28. 
 
116 
 
 QUEENS COUNTY/ 
 
 Presidents/ Asxon Degrauw; Tfe'-Pjrmc^ewf/ Dr. 
 Townsend, Secretary; Isaac Townsend, Ambrose 
 Parish, Dianielf. Cock, and Alfred EiiAe,xExecutive 
 Committee. 
 
 1831, Z)eCi— David' Bedell, fempstead, slaught- 
 ered a pig, about nine months old, which weighed, 
 when dressed, four hundred and twelve pounds. 
 Daniel Combs killed another which weighed four 
 hundred and one ponnds. 
 
 1831, D«c.— John and OoeD. Jackson, Jerusa- 
 lem South, killed a hog which weigTied eight hun- 
 dred and thirty^hree pounds. 
 
 1831, Dec.^Greorge Hewlett, Merrick, has a 
 cornstalk on which grew thirteen perfect ears. 
 Seven are large and full, the others wdl filled but 
 not 80 large. 
 
 1831, Dec: — Elias Higbie, Westbury, raised an 
 ear of corn containing twenty perfect rows, well 
 filled and of.good size.* 
 
 1831, Bee. 29.— The Queens County Temper- 
 ance ' Society was formed. The officers were : - 
 Van Wyck Wickes, President; Rev. M. Earle, 
 John Lefferts, David Lamberson, Isaac Peck, 
 William Bragaw and James- M. Onderdonk, Vice- 
 Prfisjdents ; Eev. E. D. Hall, Corresponding Secre- 
 tary ; Dr. William J. Johnson, TreaSMre^y Revs. 
 E. W. Crane, John Goldsmith, George A. Shelton, 
 William H. Lewis', Charles Webster and Mr. John 
 D. Eeeks, ^Executive Committee; Dr. J. C. Town- 
 send, Becording Secretary. 
 
 1832, Jan. 3.— A meeting was held in the Re- 
 formed Dutch Church, North Hempstead, Rev. 
 James Otterson, Chairman, and James M. Onder- 
 donk, Secretary, when it was resolved to form a 
 society to aid in the reformation going on in our 
 country, from intemperance. Addresses were made 
 by Dr. Townsend and Revs, Hall, Webster and 
 Crane. 
 
 1832. — Ahout January ilh, Henry Hewlett, 
 Eastwoods, had an ox -bit by a strange dqg, which 
 died January 17th. Since then Lewis Hewlett 
 has lost three cows, and John J. Hewlett a hog. 
 Stephen Robbing' dog was also bit. After being 
 chained nine days aikd showing no signs of hydro- 
 phobia he was let loose, when he ran off south to 
 Hardscrabble, then turned ba,ck, passing through 
 Eastwoods to 'Cold Spring, "where he attacked a 
 colored woman. He then ^crossed to Babylon and 
 Islip where he was killed, on the 19th, having first 
 bitten many dogs. Many people go about .their 
 ordinary business armed with .clubs. Small pox 
 and measles have also prevailed. — Cor. of Star. 
 
 1832, i^efc.— A promising son of Oliver McGin- 
 nis, of -North Hempsteadr was drowned- by falling 
 in a ■pond wtile skating. , ,. ■ ,.-,„,, ^j, , .. 
 
 1832, March 1.— Seaman, son of David Ajleni 
 
 "~ - ■ ""MTrrr-TT-T!— — r^ r~ ^ , ,, , ■ 
 
 *Mr.. Hicks, of Eockaway has- an ear of corn dn©roW 
 
 ahead of the Westbury ear. 
 
 of North Hempstead, was killed by the accideatal 
 discharge of his gun. 
 
 1832.-^Tlie, schooner Increase, Captain H. B. 
 tearsall, of Mott Bedell's Norfolk line of packets, 
 came ashore, in the gale last Sunday night, March 
 6th, near New Inlet. Four or five passengers were 
 washed overboard and drowned. The rest were 
 rescued by General Daniel Bedell, Commissioner 
 of Wrecks, and his neighbors, David and Tredwell 
 Bedell, T^homas Poster, Horton Homan, John Morr 
 gan, Richard and William Rhodes, Benjamin, 
 Jdtoes and Zachariah Story, Nelson.Shaw, Thom- 
 as Sopers, Thomas Southard, Isaiah Thomas, Wil- 
 liam Tredwell and Joseph Wood, at the risk of^ 
 their lives. — Inquirer. 
 
 1832.-^$ip, Setvard.-r On the night of Ma^eh 
 11th, some villain entered, the Methodist chureh, 
 Hempstead, and wantonly destroyed the books, and 
 brokte the windows of the Episcopal church, and 
 did other acts of mischief in various parts' of the 
 village of Hempstead. ' ' ' 
 
 1832. — The annual Fair of the Fragment Socie- 
 ty of the Reformed Dutch Church, Jamaica, will 
 take place April 19th, at one P.M., at John Hunt- 
 er's Hotel, and continue in the evening; 
 
 1832, May 2.— The new gt,Qre l^ept by J, &,E. 
 Drew, and owned by Daniel Rhodes, near the east 
 toll-gate, Jamaica, was burnt, with its contents, on 
 Tuesday night. Loss, $4,000.* '<'<■ 
 
 1832.^At a Tneefing of the Queens County 
 Medical Society, at the Court House, May 29th, 
 were present-; Drs. .Searing, Sr.'and Jr.,' Shelton, 
 Josiah Bloodgood, Garvie, Kellog, Chapman, Rog- 
 ers, Carll, Purdy, Davidson, A. R. Griffin, Mitch- 
 ell, Spalding, Townsend, Cook, Webb, Wheeler, 
 Johnson, Kissam, S. L. Condict, Tredwell and 
 Snedeker. Absent — Baylies and Woodhull. Drs. 
 R. T. Horsfield and.,N.. W,,Condict were rexjejiYed 
 as inemTDers. T)r. Purdy gave an interesting lec- 
 ture on intermittent, remittent and bilious fevers 
 that -prevailed in North Hempstead in 1820, '29, 
 '30 and '-31. The Temperence resolutions were 
 indefinitely postponed. — Farmer; :■ .ii 
 
 1832, May l2.— The Queens County Lyceum 
 met at the 'Court 'House, Dr. Townsend, Preslfient, 
 arid T. Clowes* Secretary. A lecture on education 
 was given by W. Hutchinson ; On asfci'okiomy, by 
 G, B. Docharty, and on- human intelKgehcfet-bv 
 W.M.Hewlett. -...J 
 
 1832. — A subscription book for the- stock 'ot the 
 Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad" will' be ojrenetli 
 May 21st, at Hewfett Creed's, Jamaica. - "' ' ■ 
 
 1832.-^The siibscnj^Soft book % tlie Hallett'^ 
 Cove Railway, and /orcuttin,^ a '^hipi'can^l'ajd^i'^ 
 the cove, will "be opened 'May ' SOth.' 'Ol^M 
 #l6O,-©O0i<. ■ > bf.: . r~ ■: r,,.^ .££8.1 
 
 ' 1832, June 4.-^ThB Super'vi'soi-s'res6lyed'&''lo- 
 tfie'iEtD«S'i«SiBisvi*afl*&>OeWi8iyoa bom-io'fe;; ,!■,:-;;, i 
 
IF OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 117 
 
 cate the County Clerk's Office in Jamaica, on the 
 lot between Dr. W. W. Kissam and Silas Roe, 
 deceased. The building is to be of brick, and fire 
 proof. Jarvis J«itckaon and JohnO. Smith are to 
 issue proposals fer buildirtg. — Farmer. 
 
 'l832,-'jM«e 1'8. — About six A. iii„ duriug a se- 
 vere thunder stoiia, the bam of John Skidmore, in 
 the village of Jamaica, was struck, and, in a few 
 minutes, the whole building was in flames, and a 
 quantity of goods and a valuable horse were lost. 
 No insurance.— if'arwer. 
 
 1832, June 18.— Two lads, Griffin and Eobinson, 
 whose parents reside in Flushing were drowned 
 by the upsetting of a sail-boat in a squall.— J'arm- 
 er. 
 
 1839, June S©.— The Asiatic cholera made its 
 appearance in New York. 
 
 1832, June 21.— John Lott and others, of Hieks' 
 Neck, one day last week, cal^ht, at -one 'haul, 
 eighty thousand bony fi&h,'wlHch areused for ma- 
 ntire, 
 
 ;: 1832. — Charles Jenkins, family and friends, 
 thank, Smith Cornell and Robert Greenwood for 
 bringing ashore, at the risk of their own lives, Ja- 
 cob Valentine, who fell from a boat in Jamaica 
 Bay, on Saturday, June' '3D th, 
 
 , ■18.32,,'J'mJ^ 4. —The "Female Missionary Associ- 
 ation of Grace Church, held a Fair at Hunter's 
 Hotel, Jamaica. At three P. M., the corner-stone 
 of the Rieformed Dutch Church was laid; and at 
 five a respectable audience assembled in the exhi- 
 bition-room of Union Hall, to listen to the ad- 
 dresses of the Literary Society. 
 
 1S32, July 4. — At Hempstead, William J. 
 Clowes delivered the oration. Dr. Webb read the 
 Declaration and Henry F. Jones acted as Marshal. 
 
 183?, Juli/ 11. — The surveyors of the railroad 
 are expected on the ground next week. This delay 
 is caused by the illniess of the surveyor.— ^fflrmc?». 
 
 • 1832; — Thursday, July 26.th, was set apart by 
 the Episcopal and Reformed Dutch Churches of 
 Jamaica and Newtown, as a Fast day, on account 
 of the cholera in New York and vicinity. — Farmer. 
 
 1832, Juli/ 30. — The barn of Jqhn and Jacob 
 Bergen, three miles east of Jamaica, was, with it« 
 contents, destroyed by [lightiliftg, on Monday even- 
 ing. Loss $800. . ' ,', 
 
 1833, Aug. 1.— On Tuesdaiy -evening, a stopiu tf I 
 rain and hail, coming from the west.yisite'd Jamai- ' 
 ca and Hempstead, where some hail stones ftll as 
 larger as, white walnuts, bresiking upwards of five ' 
 hundred, panea of glass. "^ 
 -_j 1 — „iJ„„ jU„„ 'en. 
 
 The corn was much torn 
 
 '•'l- 
 
 p,i)d broken, dpwn.—6'f(W^. 
 
 r832, Aug. 23. — Money and clothing* to the 
 amquntofl ,^150^. hg,ye been comtributed _tp tlie poor 
 of New" York' suffering 'by stagnation in business, 
 caused by ehqleraf iff.pm, the , iPresbyterian and 
 Dutch Reformed coagregationSjof Jamaica. Con- 
 
 tributions were also sentfroin Hempatead, — Far- 
 mer. 
 
 1832, Ai^^.—t88 ■S'O have been collected in 
 Grace' Church, Jamaica, for the sufferers by chole- 
 ra in New York.* 
 
 1832, iS'i^fc^^-^Jos^'h-'Gol-sline, raised a squash 
 weighing twenty-four pounds, and measuring thir- 
 ty-fivB inches aro'und. 
 
 1832, Oct. 18.— The examination of the Female 
 Department of Union Hall Academy, under Miss 
 M'aryHanna, took place on Wednesday last, and 
 was -closed with a musical entertainment in the 
 evening. On Thursday the young gentlemen in 
 the classical and elementary rooms.were examined, 
 and, as usual, it was highly satisfactory. In the 
 evening the exhibition took place. The room was 
 crowded, three-fourths of the seats being occupied 
 by the ladies. Mr. Ondei'donkt has been elected 
 to the office of Principal, and the session will open 
 on the first Monday of November. — Farmer. 
 
 'lS32,'Nov. — Vote of Queens County : 
 
 Governor. 
 William L. Marcy, 1G02 | Francis Granger, - - 1429 
 
 Assembly. 
 Thomas B. Jackson, - 1801 | John A. King, ■* - 1331 
 
 1832. —On the night of November 6th th'e store 
 of .James Rider & Co., Jamaica, 'was robbed of 
 goods and money to the value of f 20. 
 
 1832, Dec. 3. — Application will be made to the 
 Legislature for an act authorizing the Supervisors 
 to raise, by tax, $700 to -pay the osrpeuses of build- 
 ing a 'fire-proof office for the County Clerk and 
 Surrogate. — Farmer. 
 
 1-832, Z>ec. 17. — Application will be made to the 
 Legislature to grant a charter for a bank at Flush- 
 ing, with a capital of f 100,000. 
 
 1832, Dec. 12.— H. M. Western 'has found Tt 
 necessary to open a branch of his law office in Ja- 
 maica, at the Clerk's Office, where communications 
 mfjy 'be a.d dressed 4o P. Potter. 
 
 ,1832, Dec. — It is said Richard Seaman, of Jeri- 
 cho, has a cow that had two calves in 1830 ; in 
 the early part of 1832 she again ;had twins, and 
 about the close of -the .year she had three more. — 
 Farmer. 
 
 1832, Dec. — ^We have seen two hogs of the 
 grass-breed raised by Mrs. Rapelye, Newtown, 
 froih stock imported by Judge Strong, of Flushing. 
 They are two years and five months old. One 
 weighs one thousand three hundred .pouiidjS, :the 
 other a little less. — Star. 
 
 ..1832, Z>ec. — Joseph B. ■Shotwell, Flushing, 
 
 *Althongh Board.? of Health were organized in'(^ueei6i 
 County., ther,e, were scattering cases of oholei'a in every 
 town. ■'' ' '" 
 
 tMr. J." N. Brinckei'lioff, Principal, and Henry Onder- 
 donk, Jr., classical teacher, retired from the Aoadeni}-, April, 
 1865. 
 
118 
 
 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 raised an ox which weighed, alive, two thousand 
 ■ five hundred and sixty pounds. 
 
 1801, Aufj. 85, 2-6, 27.— Vote for four members 
 of a Convention to fix the nuinbgr of the Senate 
 and Assembly"* and to give the membersof the 
 Council of Appointment equal power of nominating 
 with the Governor : 
 
 James Eayner, - 
 Pewitt Clintou, - 
 
 Ed. 
 
 John "W. Seaman, 
 John Schenck, - - 
 
 319 I 
 -320 
 
 - 307 
 . 315 
 
 There was no opposition. 
 
 1832, July. 7..— The Board of Health of North 
 Hempstead intends to create no expense, it has no 
 nuisances to remove, and as the inhabitants are ag- 
 riculturalists on, a large scale, it advises them to 
 stick closely to their farming from early dawn till 
 evening, that the energies of their minds may have 
 full play J and then the subject of cholera will not 
 enter their thoughts. Dr. Chapman is appointed 
 Health Officer. 
 
 1832, Jnlij 9. — The Hempstead Board of Health 
 order that no stage-driver, boatman, or other person 
 shall bring i^to the town any emigrant or other pcr- 
 son^upposed to be sick of choler;. or any other in- 
 fectious disease ; and that no fish (for manure) 
 shall be leYt near 'any road or dwelling.; >nd that all 
 persons coming from infected districts shall be^sub- 
 ject to such examination and quarantine, as the 
 Board may think proper. 
 
 1832, July 18. — The Oysterbay Board of Health 
 forbid the Methodists holdihg tbeir. usual Camp- 
 meeting' in the town. They also order one or more 
 hospitals to be provided for those who may be sick 
 of cholera or other infectious diseases. . 
 
 1832, Jiilu 23. — The Jamaica Board of Health 
 order that no dead body be brought into the town 
 for interment within two months, without consent 
 of the Board. 
 
 Sept. 24. — No street manure shall be landed or 
 broiight. within the bounds of the town under pen- 
 alty of $50. —Farmer. 
 
 1789. — Examination of a negro woman, Nell, 
 (referred to on page 74), taken at Jamaica, Octo- 
 ber 27th, by William Ludlum, Justice : - 
 
 Nell said, on Monday, the 12th inst., Sarah 
 asked her where she could get a wasp's nest. I 
 . told her no, I did not know.. That Jack asked 
 her if she could get poison-root. I told him, I could 
 not, and that he was as bad as the man that killed 
 his wife and children by poisoning of them wi,th 
 two bowls of punch, one he put rats bane in and 
 the other he did not. She also said that Nan 
 asked her if she was a going to get rats bane, and 
 she replied yes, with a smile, and that she then 
 told Nan that Sarah wanted a wasp's nest to put 
 it in the bed of her master and mistress, to sting 
 them to death. Nell said further that on Friday, 
 the 23d inst., when her master and mistrfiss were 
 
 *Tbe number of Assemblymen from Queens was reduced 
 from four to three.'— £(/. 
 
 out, Sarah was a sifting meal up stairs, she then 
 went up. Sarah said to her " what a loss it would 
 be for her master and mistress to lose their house." 
 She said that she replied yes, it would. Sarah 
 then told her to take a coal of fire and set fire to 
 the tow in the upper garret, and it would burn 
 like tindei but Nell said she replied no, but* that 
 she w&uld put fire in the closet up stairs inyoung 
 master's room. Sarah then asked her where thfere, 
 She told her upon the papers, that she did accord- 
 ingly get a coal of fire out of the kitchen, put it in a 
 clam-shell, convey it to the aforesaid closet, laid 
 the coal of fire upon the papers, doutiled the paper 
 over the coal of fire, and that it did begin to burn 
 before she left the room, -but not blaze,- that the 
 paper had kindled about the bigness of the inside 
 of a plate when she left the room, and when she 
 went down stairs, she met Sarah at the cellar-door, 
 and told her that, she had done it. . It was -about 
 six in the afternoan.-^ (7oz<rif Eecords: . 
 
 EREATA. - 
 
 Page 5, for Cos read Toe. 
 
 Page 9, for William Leete read Samuel Leete. 
 
 Page 10, for 1677, July 22, read 1667, July 22. 
 
 Page 43. for 1778 read 1770. 
 
 Page 51 , for one Bragaw read Isaac Bragaw. - 
 
 Page 56, for Duryea read Bayea or Bayeu. 
 
 Page 66, under -1783, July 28th, insert Thomas Betts, ' 
 
 Queens County. ] 
 
 Page 67, erase Quaker lot. ; 
 
 Page 70, for through thrice of; read in ; and- the.date.&hoaldi 
 
 be June 17. 
 Page 74, for Oct. 14th, read Oct. 15th. . 
 Page 77, for Eothing read Eothery. 
 Page 79, for Cornelius I. Bogart^read Cornelius Bbgart. 
 Page 80, for John B. Hicks read "John Hicks. 
 Page'95, for daughter resiS niece. 
 Page 98, for William Mjtch^l. read William Nichols. ^ 
 PagQ ,107, for Tappan- read Tappea. i ■ i 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Abramse, 13. 
 
 Adams, 41, 65, 87. 
 
 Adriauce, 30, 88. 
 
 Agens, 30. 
 
 Akerlj, 30, 66, 115. 
 
 Albertson, 13, 18, 23, 60, 
 
 Albertus, 7. 
 
 Alexander, 63, 66. 
 
 Algeo, 26, 27, 30. 
 
 Allen. 13, 27, 50, 57, 67, 71, 
 
 72, 73. 78,79, 82, 85, 9S, 
 
 102.104,105,107.110,112, 
 
 113, 114, 115, 116. 
 Allison, 13, 30, 63, 65. 
 Alsop, 21, 56,62. 
 Althouse, 65. 
 Amberman, 15, 53, 79. 
 Andrews. 38, 42. 
 Andros, 8,11, 12. 
 Annely, 25, 27. 
 Appleby, 7, 9. 
 Apr^,-1]. 
 Apthorpe, 43. 
 Arden, 38, 43, 49, 50, 51, 53, 
 
 69, 71, 86. 
 Armstrong, 33, 37, 65, 
 Arthnr,.68. 
 Aspinwall, 34, 43. 
 Austin, 95. 
 Avery, 60. 
 Axtell, 56, 67. 
 Bacbe, 51 . 
 Bagley, 18. 
 Bailey, 31, 50, 109. 
 Baker, 18, 93, 112. 
 Ball, 65. 
 
 Baldwin, 18, 21, 22, 86, 100. 
 Ballard, 79. 
 Balsey, 20. 
 Banbury, 7. 
 Barack, 63. 
 Barclay. 60. 65, 104, 
 Bardin, 63, 70, 71, 79, 84, 89, 
 
 97. 
 Barbite, 38. 
 Barker, 8, 36, 100, 
 Barnes, 94, 
 Barnet, 66. 
 Barnum, JOl, 108. 
 Barrington, 24. 
 Barre, 75. 
 
 Bartlette, 101, 106, 108, 
 Barwise, 98, 
 Basset, 100, 
 Bates, 13, 53. 
 Battin, 84, 85, 89, 97. 
 Baxter, 4, 46. 
 Bayard, 18, 43, 44, 
 ?Bayea or Bayeu, James, 56, 
 Baylis, 5, 17, 53, 56, 65, 79, 
 
 109,113,116. 
 Beatty, 50, 51, 65. 
 
 Bedell, 13, 31, 50, 65, 67, 79, 
 84, 88, 91. 92,:,.95, 96, 99," 
 104,111,112,114, 116.. 
 
 Beekman, 86. 
 
 Beesly, 36, 79. 
 
 Bellbtmont, 6, 13. 
 
 Benedict, 5, 6. 
 
 Beunet, 53. 79, 91,95, 104. 
 
 Benson, 79, 
 
 Beutley, 59, 
 
 Bergen, 50, 53, 117, 
 
 Berrien, 17, 34, 36, 47, 62, 67, 
 
 Berton, 62. 
 
 Bethune, 51, 
 
 Betts, 5, 6, 17,21, 24, 28, 30, 
 31, 32, 33, 37,44, 45, 48, 
 51, 53, 56, 67, 68, 70, 76, 
 79, 81, 84, 91, 94, 95, 109. 
 
 Bingham, 100, 
 
 Birch, 44, , 
 
 Bird, 103, 112, 
 
 Birdsall, 25, 53. 54, 55, 56, 
 57, 65, 
 
 Bishop, 6, 94. 
 
 Bixby, 106. 
 
 Blackwell, 24, 34, 36,- 56, 68, 
 69, 83, 
 
 Blackwood, 30. 
 
 Blatchford. 108, 109. 
 
 Bleeker, 59, 79, 
 
 Bletsoe, i04. 
 
 Bloodgood, 8, 20, 94, 109, 
 116. 
 
 Bloom, 92, 99, 100, 114, 
 
 Bloomer, 42, 47, 52, 53, 56, 
 62, 64, 65, 68, 75. 
 
 Blossom, 93. 
 
 Blydenburg, 75, 
 
 Boardman, 100, 110, 
 
 Boerum, 53, 64, 79. 
 
 Bogart, 79, 93, 95, 98, 100, 
 103, 105, 106, 107. 
 
 Bonnin, 24. 
 
 Bonney, 61. 
 
 Borden, 29. 
 
 Bowden, 50, 67, 72, 
 
 Bowne, 9, ]2,'20, 23, 32, 34, 
 42, 56, 57, 59, 81, 87, 107, 
 130, 
 
 Box, 53. 
 
 Bracket, 92. 
 
 Brad/ord, 15. 
 
 Bradhurst, 13, 
 
 Bradley, 18, 
 
 Bradner, 38, 
 
 Bradwell, 89, 92. 
 
 Bragaw, 51, 110, 116, 
 
 Braine, 25, 33, 34,35, 37,74. 
 
 Brainerd,^3. _ 
 
 Bremner, 53, " 
 
 Breteau, 11, 
 
 Brevoort, 88. 
 
 Brewer, 95, 107, 
 
 Bridges, 21 , 
 
 Briiickerhoff, 23, 61, 93, 98, 
 
 100,117, 
 Brooks, 23, 30, 48. 49, 50. 57 
 Brown. 23, 30, 34, 41; 43,' 54 
 
 57, 58, 59, 65, 66, 68, 95. 
 Brownjohn, 77, 79, 84, 89. 
 Bruce, 110. 
 Brush, 65, 86. 
 Bryant, 70, 97, 
 Buckhout, 2T, 
 Buckle, 79. 
 Buckler, 54. 
 Bull, 18, 
 Burgess, 8. 65, 
 Burk, 32. ' . 
 Burling. 23, 31, 44,45,51,53, 
 
 79.81,90,. • 
 Burnet, 32, 33, 66, 
 Burns, 43, 44, 61, 
 Burr, 46, 55, 58, 59, 71, 74, 
 
 86, 92, 
 Burroughs, 5, 8, 20, 61 . 
 Burti,s, 38-47, 58, 59, 71, 91, 
 
 93, 100, 104, 105, 109. 
 Butler. 36, 58, 91. 
 Bj'vanck, 20, 
 Cairnes, 59, 
 Campbell,"22, 
 Campfield, 59, 
 Cane, 62, 
 Carberry, 101, 
 Cardale, 16, 20. 
 Carll, 5, 14, 16, 45. 56. 96, 
 
 100, 112, 113, 116... 
 Carman, 8, 16, 18, 33, 50, 65, 
 
 71, 73, 74, 76, 77, 93, 94, 
 
 95,96,97,98,99, 100.101, 
 
 101,102,103,114,115, 
 i Carpenter, 5, 6, 8, 11, 13, 18, 
 
 23, 28, 33, 43, 47,52,53, 
 
 60, 65, 79, 84, 92, 96, 97, 
 
 106, 111. 
 Carr, 65. . 
 Carter,,5. 
 Case, 8, 9,- 11, 15, 
 Casey, 46: 
 Casper, 97. 
 Cassidy, 30, 31. 
 Caverly, 35, 43, 58. 
 Oebra, 67, 70. 
 Chaloner, 61 . 
 Chambers,- 42. 
 
 Champion, 8, ' 
 
 Chanders, 18, 
 Chandler,' 57, 
 Chapman, 65, 94, 113, 116, 
 
 118. 
 Charlton, 7. 53, 84. 
 Chaye, 50, 51. 
 Cheeseborough, 67. 
 
 Cheeseman, 39, 44, 68, 78, 90, 
 
 Chew, 44, 
 
 Chichester, 97. 
 
 Chisholm, 65. 
 
 Christie, 5. 
 
 Church, 57. 
 
 Clap, 12. 
 
 Clarke, 21, 56, 64, 95, 97. 
 
 Clarkson, 79, 84, 88. 
 
 Clay, 8, 65. 
 
 Clements. 17, 20, 39, 67, 71. 
 
 Clinton, 27, ,"54, 55, 57, 59, 61, 
 63, 63, 71, 73, 79, 80,- 87, 
 88, 94, 95, 97-, 101, 102, 
 103,110,111,118. 
 
 Clowes, 13, 16, 18, 20, 21, 23, 
 33, 37, 44, 49, 50. 56, 65, 
 73, 74, 76, 77, 95, 102, 103, 
 114, 116. 117. 
 
 Cobb, 43. ■ 
 
 Cobbet, 47, 101, 
 
 Cochran, 57. 
 
 Cock, 3, 55, 56, 59, 91, 94, 
 
 103, 104, 114, 116. 
 Cockefer, 35. 
 Cockram, 6. 
 
 Codwise, 22, 38, 92, 95, 96, 
 
 107. . 
 Coe, 5, 6, 7, 12, 13,71,73, 
 
 77,79,87,89,93,94,95.- 
 Coerten, 8. 
 Coffield, 65. 
 Cogswell, 40, 50, 89. 
 Cohen, 33, 
 ? Coleman, 88, 
 Colden, 38, 39, 47, 50, 54, 
 
 56, 63, 67, 89. 
 Coles, 6, 15, 16, 22, 23, 45, ' 
 
 47, 55, 67, 88, 91, 103, 
 
 104, 107, 111, 115, 
 Coley, 8, 9, 107, 110. 
 Colgan.20,21,26,31,32,33, 
 
 38, 5],8'4, 
 
 Collier, 50, 53, 100, 113, 
 
 Col well, 114, 
 
 Combs, 18, 22, 29, 30, 33, 
 35, 36, 37, 39, 44, 45, 116. 
 
 Condict, 116. 
 
 Conklin, 9, 56, 106. 
 
 Conner, 30, 
 
 Cook, 20, 72, 74, 113, 114, 
 116, 
 
 Cooper, 9. 
 
 Cornbury, 15, 16, 20, 
 
 Cornwell, 9, 11, 20, 21, 24, 
 25, 26, 28, 29, 31, 33, 34, 
 35, 36, 39, 40, 41, 42, 44, 
 45, 49, 50, 52, 53, 55, 58, 
 61, 63, 65, 67, 69, 71, 72, 
 73, 74, 76, 77, 79, 82, 83, 
 84, 88, 89, 92, 93,93,99, 
 103, 107, 112, 117, 
 
 29. 
 
120 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 ^ 
 
 Corsa,51, 82, 94.'- 
 Qoi-telyou; 95. . 
 Cosby, 20. i 
 
 Cotter, 65. ' 
 
 Covert, 53, 101, 103, 105, 
 
 107. 
 Crane, 116. 
 Cranell, 18. 
 Cree, 37. • 
 
 Creed, 11, 51, 53, 54, 79, 81, 
 92, 95,-100,104,115,116. 
 
 Crispin, 85, 
 
 Cromwell, 102, 103. 
 
 Crommelin, 35, 77, 78, 79, 
 82,84. 
 
 Crocker, 47, 108. 
 
 Cross, 47.. - 
 
 C'rosv^Ell, 86. • 
 
 Cruger, 95. 
 
 Calver, 41. 
 
 Cummings, 33, 65, 79. 
 
 Cunningham, 61. 
 
 Curtis, 65, 110, 114, 11§. 
 
 Cutting, 52, 83. 
 
 Daine 1 65. 
 
 Dalton, 54. 
 ' Davenport, 69. 
 
 Davidson, 113, 115, 116. 
 
 Davis, Davies, 5, 63, 102. 
 
 Dawson, 45, 80, 102, 107. 
 
 Dayton, 95. 
 
 Deacon 55, 62. 
 
 Deanrll, 32, 50, 53. 
 
 Dearing, 5. 
 
 Degrauw, 116. 
 
 Delaneey, 44, 45, 46, 52, 54, 
 
 62, 64. 
 TDelaplaine, 61. . 
 
 Demilt, 43, 93. 
 
 Demott, 50, 106, 114. 
 
 Dennis, 9, 94. 
 
 Denton, 4, 5, 15, 16, 18, 28, 
 29, 30, 50, 52, 53, 65, 77, 
 80, 85, 103j 104, 107, 112. 
 
 Depeyster, 51, 65, 73, 75, 79, 
 
 84, 95. 
 Devore, 58, 59, 75; 
 Devries, 3. 
 Dewint, 80. 
 
 'De Witk, 82, 89, 113. 
 
 Dibble, 65. 
 
 Dickinson, 15, 52, 83, 95. 
 
 Dickson, 56, 80. 
 
 Dingey, 66. 
 
 Disosway, 95; 97. 
 
 Ditmars, 30, 38, 53, 63, 71, 
 
 77, 78, 79, 80, 94, 96, 100, 
 
 101,112. 
 Divine, 102. 
 Docharty, 115, IIG. 
 Dobbs, 56, 80. 
 Dodge, 34, 69, 93, 100, 102, 
 
 105, 107. 
 Dongan, 12, 100. 
 Dorlaud, 22, 25, 50, 51, 53, 
 
 70, 83, 103. 
 Doughty, 3, 5, 6, 9, 15< 16, 
 
 85, 26, -84, 50, 53, 55, 65, 
 81,83,85. 
 
 Downing, 102, iU. 
 Doxey, 70. 
 Drew, 116. 
 Drisiiis, 4, 5. 
 Drummond, 64. 
 Dudley, 79, 80, 84. 
 Duffee,; 48. 
 Duffel, 89, 90. 
 
 Dunbar, 30, 31, 33, 51, 52, 
 53, 95, 97. 
 
 Dunlevy, 91. 
 
 Dunn, 84, 93, 95, %, 99. ' 
 
 Diiriei 80V 
 
 DurVe, 31,-32,33,'38,40, 43, 
 
 49, 51, 53. 55,56,80,92, 
 
 107, 109. 
 Dusenbury, 35, 83. 
 Dyer, 32, 34. 
 Dyson, 107. 
 Earle, 91,116. 
 Bbbits, 106. 
 Edes, 9. 
 Edgar, 80, 84. 
 Edsall, 12; 47, 100, 102. 
 Eglee, 115: 
 E-fgenbrodt, 90, 93, 99, 100, 
 
 107, 112. 
 Elce, 6. " ' 
 
 Eldert, 40, 48, 53, 80, 84, 
 
 93, 103, 108, 114: 
 Elms, 65, 106. 
 Ellison, 5, 25, 05, 103. 
 Elwyn,.59^ 
 Emmons, 53. 
 EntWistle, 109. 
 Erskine, 53. 
 Erwin, 95. 
 Everitt, 17, 34, 39, 48, 53, 
 
 65, 67, 71, 80, 102, 104, 
 
 109. , ■ 
 
 Evers, 80. * 
 
 Faier 98. 
 Fairchild, 80.. 
 Faitonte, 77, 78, 79,80,85, 
 
 87,90,98. " ■ 
 
 Falconer, Faulkner, 31, 80, 
 Panning, 23, 53. 
 Farley', 9l. 
 Farmer, 20. 
 Farrington, 44, 56, 80, 83, 
 
 87, 106, ' 
 Feeks, 5, 7, 115, 116. 
 Fei'i'ls 59 
 Field,'35,'3S, 41, 87, 89, 92, 
 
 98. 
 Finch, 30. 
 Finglass, 96. 
 
 Fish, 28, 36, 41, 47, 68, 70, 
 ■ 76,82,91,100. 
 Fitch, 56. 
 Fleet, 50, 59, SO, 91, 97, 98,' 
 
 99, 115. 
 Flemming, 84. 
 Floy, 13. 
 Floyd, 67, 74, 76. 
 Folliot, 50, 51, 53, 67, 79. 
 Forbes, Forhush, 32, 33, 53, 
 
 80, 107. 
 Force,. 13. 
 Ford, 67." . 
 Fordham, 3, 4,. 5. 
 Foster, li, 21, 25, 30, 4\ 52, 
 ' 77, 80, 88, 89, 112, lib. 
 Fowler, 37, 34. 
 Foxeroft, 19. 
 Franklin, 23, 41, 69, 
 Frederick, 53. 
 French, 40,-49, 51, 53, 53, 
 
 61, 65, 67. 
 Fricke, 65, 106. 
 Froeligh, 52. 
 Frost, 23, 32, 45, 91, 100, 
 
 106. 
 Funck, 109. 
 Furman, 6, 8, 18, 31, 24, 41, 
 
 53, 70, 71, 73, 80, 89, 96, 
 
 97, 101, 106. 
 Gale, 13, 15, 18. ' ^ 
 Gailifar, 82. 
 
 Gants, 44. 
 Gardener, 89, 94. 
 Garret, 65. 
 Garvie, 113, 116. , 
 Gauffreau, 87. 
 Gelston, 79, 80„ 88. 
 Gerraoii, 21. ^ 
 Gevritse, 3, 33. 
 ■Gibbs, 14, 103. 
 Gilbert, 57. .- 
 Gilzian, ,85. 
 Gildersleeve, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 
 
 10, 14, 16, 21, 65. 
 •Glene, 53. 
 Goelet, 97. 
 Golder, 53, 58, 108. 
 Goldsmith, 113, 116. 
 Gordon, 14, 19. 
 Gorsline, 71, 88, 117. 
 Gracie, 96, 107, 108, 115. 
 Gray, 1.00. 
 
 Greene, 50, 52, 65, 72, 75, 80. 
 Greenteaf, 74; 76, 77, 79. 
 Greenoak, 34, 51, 96, 107. 
 Greeflwood, 117. 
 Grenell, 34. 
 
 Greswokl, 38, 45, 52, 65, 96: 
 Griffin, 6, 116,116, 117. 
 Gryce, 17. 
 Gup.non, 11. 
 
 Gnnu, 108. , 
 
 Guthrie, 66. 
 
 Hackett, 109. [ 
 
 Hadderly, 7. 
 
 Haff, 22, . . 
 
 Haggerty, 91. 
 Hall, 13,39,96,113,116. 
 Hallworth, 109. 
 Halsey, 106. 
 Halstead, 13, 20, 21. 
 Hallott, 4, 5, 6, 7, 13; Ifi, 17, 
 
 39, 34, 36, 42, 43, 47, 49, 
 
 50, 51, 53, '57, 73, 80, 82, 
 
 83, 90. 
 Halton, 30. 
 Hammell, V-7, 80. 
 Hammond, 73, 91, 94,-«7. 
 Hampton, 16. 
 Hamilton, 48, 50, 54, 55, 63, 
 
 64, 70. 
 Hammersly, 33, 65. 
 Haaicook, 58, 66. 
 Hauley, 92. 
 Hanna, 117. 
 Hanse, 11. 12. 
 Hardenburgh, 22. 
 Harman, 18. 
 Harper, 96. 
 Harriot, 53. 
 Harris, 62. 
 Harrison, 7, 80, 93. 
 Hart, 61, 75, 91, 100,103. 
 Hartshorne,-81. 
 Hai-vey, 107.. 
 Harper, 96. 
 Hasbronck, 67. 
 Hascock, 11. 
 Havens, 84. 
 
 Haviland, 15, 32, 34„33, 105, 
 ■ 107, 109. , ■■ 
 Hawkshurst, 23, 24, 26, 42, 
 
 55, 75, 116. 
 Haynes, 55. 
 Hayt, 65. 
 
 Hazard, 53, 57, 65, 90, 103. 
 Heard, 41, 46, 49, 50, ,52. 
 Hedger, 6, 7. 
 
 Heeded, 5. , , 
 
 Hegeman, 11, 33, 46, 69, 91, 
 
 93, 97, 99, 100, 104, 109, 
 
 114, 115. 
 Hendrickson, 53, 55, 61, 67, 
 
 79, 80, 96, 97, 103, 104, 
 
 108, 115. 
 Hentz, 61. 
 Herriraain, SO, 115. 
 Hewtett, 21, 30, 31, 36,37,. 
 
 38, 44, 48, 49. 50, 52, 55, 
 
 56, 57, 58, 69, 60, 68, 74, ; 
 
 79, 84, 90, 93, 94, 93, 97, . 
 98, 100, 103, 103, 104, 105, 
 MB,. 109, 111, 112, 115, 
 
 lie. 
 
 Hey sham, 41. 
 
 Hieks, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,11,13, 
 14, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 
 
 29, 31, 33, 40, 49,50,51, 
 53, 53, 56, 63, 66, 69, 70, 
 76, 77, 78, 80, 83, 83, 84, ■ 
 86,91,92,96,97,98,100, 
 101, -103, 104, 105, 107,- 
 113,115,116.; , 
 
 Higfiie, '53, 80, 108,116. 
 
 Higham, 11,-'13. 
 
 Hill, 30. 
 
 Hilton, 65. 
 
 Hinchman, 8, 22, 25, 37, 29, 
 
 30, 33, 47, 51, 53, 64, 77, 
 78, 79, 80, 82, 84, 85, 96. 
 
 Hinton, 20 
 
 Hire, 13. 
 
 Hitchoocl^ 62, 98, 100. 
 
 Hobbs, 6, 7, 12. 
 
 Hobart, 11. 13, 104,!l07, 114. 
 
 Holdren, 6. 
 
 Holland, 65, 80, 107, 108. 
 
 Holman, 102. 
 
 Homan, 116. 
 
 Holroyd, 70. 
 
 Honeyman, 19, 20. , '- 
 
 Hood, 38. 
 
 Hoogland, 36, 45, 63, 70,79, 
 
 80, 93, 96, 98, 104, 107-. 
 Hopkins, 55. ,, -. ^ 
 Horsemanden, 33, 40, 70. . 
 Horsefield, 23, 116. ■ 
 Horton, 67, 88'. - 
 Howard, 29, 33, 45, 66, 88, 
 
 99,100,103,107. 
 
 Howe, 51, 53. 
 
 Howell, 14, 31, 2S, 33, 59. 
 
 Howes, 69. 
 
 Hubbard, 6, 7, 10, 16. 
 
 Hudson, 92. 
 
 Hughs, 35. 
 
 Hugins, 21. 
 
 Hughston, 49. 
 
 Hume, 65. 
 
 Humphreys, 19. 
 
 Hunt, 5, SO, 44, 53. 
 
 Hunter, 17, 114, 116, 117. 
 
 Huntington, 107. 
 
 Huntting, 90. 
 
 Husted, 62. . 1 ' 
 
 Hutchings, 36, 33, 50, 59, 60. 
 
 Hutchinson, 97, 113, 116. 
 
 Huwitt, 5. 
 
 Huzzy, 52. ' 
 
 Hyler, 107. 
 
 Innes, 33, 49. 
 
 Ireland, 53. 
 
 Isaacs, 30. 
 
 Izzard, 45, 74. 
 
 Jackson, 7, 12, 13, 14, 17, 
 20, 58, 57, 59, 65, 74, 82, 
 86, 92, 94, 100, 101, 103, 
 106, 107, 112, 114, 115, 
 116,117. 
 
INDEX, 
 
 181 
 
 Jackson, 7. 12, 13, 14 17,20, 
 56, 57, 59, 65, ii, 82, 86, 
 93, 94, 100, 101, 103. 106, 
 107,112,114,115,116,117. 
 James, 45, 65.- 
 Jarvis, 58, 60, 61. 
 Jauncey, 33. 
 Jay, 80, 84, 87, 88, 89. 
 Jayne 100. 
 Jecocks. 8. 
 Jenkins, 103, 117. 
 Jennings, 8. 
 Jenny, 20, 21. 
 
 Johnson, 15, 18, 23. 30, 43, 
 51, 53,72, 80,92,94,100, 
 103, 107, 113. 116. 
 Janes, 9, 11, 12, 15,16, 17, 
 21, 32, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 
 31, 33, 35, 50, 51,53, 55, 
 56, 57, 63, 67, 71, 73, 76. 
 77, 80. 8-3. 84, 89, 91,94; 
 95, 96, 93, 99, 100, 101, 
 102, 103, 104, 105, 107, 
 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 
 117. 
 Jndkinsr6Q-^__^ 
 KeaiDS, 95. 
 Keemer, 102. 
 Keese, 25, 43. 
 Keith, 14. 
 Kelldg, 113,116. 
 Kelly, 54, 113. 
 Kendal. 50. 
 
 Keteltas, 33, 40, 51, 57, 82, 90. 
 Ketcliam, 75. 
 Kimber, 111. 
 
 LeLsler, 12, 13, 11, 15, 35. 
 Lent, 55. 73, 93, 100, 103, 
 104, 105, 100, 107, 109, 
 112, 114. 
 Lester, -50, 60'. 
 Levei-ich, 4, 5, 9, 10, 25..77, 
 300,103,104,1.05,107,109. 
 TLema, 21, 34, 36, 44, 52, 53, 
 58, 5;), 62. 69, 71, 72, 73, 
 77, 80, 92, 95, 98, 116. 
 L'Honamedieii, 77, 80. 
 Livingston, 51, 5:5. 99. 
 Lloyd, 25, 46, 67, 83, 103, 
 
 105. 
 Lockwood, 57, 63, 88. 
 Loftas, 61. 
 Lokeison, 6, 10, 17. 
 Long, 6, 44, 55, 56. 
 Longstreet, 15. 
 Loquart, 18. 
 Losee, 18, 30, 53. 
 Lott, 37, 53, 62, 65, 80, 104, 
 
 117. 
 Loweree, 101, 103, 112, 114, 
 
 115. 
 Loxham, 53. 
 
 iLudlow,.-35, 43, 49, 50, 52, 
 55, 56, -61, 62, 64, 63,' 67, 
 70,.79, 82, 87, 100. . 
 / Audlum. 18, 50, 53, 56, 78, 
 •^ '79, 80, 88, 91, 96, 97, 98, 
 104, 118. 
 Luff, 16, 18, 21. 
 Luyster, 65, 66, 71, 78, 89, 
 
 104, 105,113, 114. 
 Lyde, 107 
 
 King, 20, 96, 102, 103, 104, Lynch, 62, 99 
 
 -x' 
 
 105,107,110,114,115,117. 
 
 Kinffsberry, 110. 
 
 Kirk, 43, 70, 97, 111. 
 
 Kirby, 23. 
 
 Kissam, 6, 15, 26, 28, 35, 36, 
 37, 40, 41, 42, 46, 49, 50. 
 51, 55, 56, 63, 66, 67, G8, 
 77, 80,: 84, 93, 95, 96, 97, 
 98,99,100, 101, 102,103, 
 104,105,107,113,116,117. 
 
 Knedand, 107. 
 
 Kolyw, 110. 
 
 LaiBberson. 50, 53, 69, 75, 
 80, 85, 105, 107, 113, 116. 
 
 Lane, 100. 
 
 Langdon, 5 9,21,28;S2,63. 
 
 Larrabee, 30. 
 
 Laton, 96, 98, 102, 103, 105, 
 . 107,108. 
 
 LaUing,7,23 55 66,91. 
 Lawrence, 6, 7, 13, 15, 16, 17, 
 20, 21, 23, 24, 27, 30, 3=!, 
 33 34.35, 36,37,39.4], 
 43 47 48, 53, 57,58,61, 
 , 62, 69; 70; 71, 74, 77, 78, 
 80 81, 82, 83, 84, 8o, 87, 
 89 90,91,96,97,100,-101. 
 ^ 102, 103, 105, 106, 107, 
 .109,110,113,114. 
 Lawsta, 41, 51. 
 Lawton, 73, 89. 
 Leech. 96. 
 LSete.-Samuel, 9. 
 Ledyard, 67, 71,73,76,77, 
 
 ' 78, 80, 82, 89, 110. 
 
 ties, 21. 
 
 Lefevre, 113, 114. . 
 
 Lefferts, 45, 47,, 51, 5.?, 65, 
 77 'SO, 84, 94, 95, 100, 102, 
 107., 113, 116. ,;, 
 
 Leffotd, 55. '•■--■ 
 
 Legget,, 109. i'. 
 
 Lyustead, 18. 
 
 Lyon, 59. 
 
 McCarty, 35. 
 
 McCarrol, 37. 
 
 McComb, 80. 
 
 McCoun, 50,55, 67, 9L' " 
 
 McCuUum, 58. 
 
 McDannaugh, 34. 
 
 McDavitt, 80. 
 
 McDermpt, 74. 
 
 "McDougal, 70. 
 
 jVIcEuen,.65. - 
 
 McEvers, 51, 53, 65. 
 
 McFarren,-67. 
 
 McGrinnis, 116. 
 
 McHarg, 63. 
 I Mcintosh, 63. 
 
 McKay, 107. 
 
 McICnight, 67. 
 
 McLean, 65. 
 
 McNeil, 63, 84, 93, 107. ' 
 
 McNi.b, 13. 
 
 Mackerel, 77, 80, SI, 93. 
 
 Makemie, 16. 
 
 Man-, 30, 63. ., , 
 
 Marston, 34,42,59,100,110. 
 
 Martin, 13, 26, 27, 33, 49, 50, 
 51, 54, 5§, 59, 80, 93. 
 
 Mar,9b, 16, 81. 
 
 Marvin, 5, 21,65,73,114. 
 
 Mason, 13, 98, 99, 108, 
 
 Mayo, 4. 
 
 Meacock, ll-' „„ ^, 
 
 Menema, 73, 77, 80, 83, 94, 
 95, 96. 
 
 Mercier, 83. 
 
 Meredith, 65. 
 
 Merrill, 90, 100, 
 
 Mess'snger, .53, 101, 108. 
 
 Mefeserole, 22, 100. 
 
 Miles, 20, 65. 
 
 Millikin,19. , 
 
 Miller, 91. 
 
 Milne,97. 
 
 Mills, 16, 17, 18, 19, 50, 51, 
 52, 53, 80, tJ, 38, 92,95, 
 98, 109. 
 
 Minor, 04, 
 
 Mitchell, 21, 34, 39; 42, 53, 
 56, 58, 63, 64, 66, 69, 70, 
 71,74,76,77,80,82,92,93, 
 94, 95, 93, 99, 101, 102, 
 111;!, K)4, 105. 103, 107, 
 103, 1(19, 110, 111, 112, 
 113, 116. 
 
 Mol!ineu.x, 113, 114.- 
 
 Moufort, 47, 8^, 90, 93, 95, 
 93, 99, 103. 
 
 Moon, 23. 
 
 Moore, 4, 5, 23, 30, 31, 38, 
 41, 47, 48, 43, 50, 51, 57, 
 62, 64, 63, 63, 69, 70, 73, 
 79, 80, 82, 83, 87, 89, 90, 
 
 93, 98, 100, 104, 105, 109. 
 Morgan, 113. 
 Morrel, 25, 32, 34, 37, 54, 80, 
 
 84,89,92,95,102,103,112. 
 Morris, 29, 77, 95, 93. 
 Morrison, 57. - 
 Morse, 30, 31, 32. 
 Morton, 3U. 
 Mott, 7, 9, 21, 28, 30, 41,49, 
 
 52, 58, 59, 62, 90, 92, 93, 
 
 94, 93, 99, 102, 105, 107, 
 108,110,-111, 112, 115. 
 
 Mottley, 96. 
 
 Moulton, 84, 85, 91, 92. . 
 
 Mudge, 8. 
 
 Muirson, 67. 
 
 Mulligan, 72. 
 
 Murray, 33,47,80. ,,. 
 
 Mattee, 102., 
 
 Nafis, 95.' i 
 
 Nush, 1J2. , , 
 
 Napier; 107, 
 
 Nettleton, 111. 
 
 Newton, 52. 
 
 Nichols, 6, 13, 29, 32. 3-1, S3 
 
 47,51,61,98, 103, 111. 
 Noble, 5, 6. 
 North, 67. 
 'Nost,rand;..53,-91, 95, 103, 
 
 104, 107, ,113. 
 Oakley, 53.' 
 Oo-deu, 23, 28, 33, 45, 53, 75, 
 
 80, 84. 
 Oldfield, 8, 17, 18, 19, 33, 50, 
 53 95. 
 ■ Onderdonk,„S2,.34, 41, 45, 
 46; 48, 57, 61, 63,67,69, 
 70, 71, 73, 75, 8J, 88, 93, 
 98,99, 102, 104, 11 3, 117. 
 Orton, 12. 
 Osborn, 7, 12, 107. 
 Otterson, 116. 
 Ouvet, 81. 
 
 Palmer, 30, 58, 65, 103. 
 Parish, 114, 115, 113. 
 Parker, 46, 60, 95, 107, 110. 
 Pannyter, 21 , 22. 
 Parsell, 5, 13. 38,63. 
 Patrick, 8. 
 Pearce, 88. 
 
 Pearsall. 5, 6. 9, 12, 13, 22, 
 33, 58, 59, 72, 7'J, 80, 83, 
 90, 116. 
 Peat, 13. 
 Peck. 81, 103, 109, 112, 114; 
 
 115,116, 
 .pedJy, 10, 31, 
 + eSny, 103. 
 
 Perkins, 60. 
 
 Peters, 21, 38, 42, 66, 76, 77, 
 
 78, 32. 
 Pettit, 13, 20, 50, 53, 84, 90, 
 96, 98, 100, 304. 107,108. 
 Philips, 37,76,94, 303. 
 Pierson, 43. 
 Pinckney, 110,132. 
 Pine, 5,7, 8, 15, 21, ,43, 110, 
 
 312, 115. 
 PiufoiJ, 30, 31. 
 Pi.ii1]«Hse, l3. 
 Place, 55, 63, 
 Piatt, 47, 53, 53, 75, 80, 96, 
 
 103, 105, 107, 113, 
 Plummer, 65, 93, 
 Polhemus, 33, 33, 38, 42, 43, 
 49, 50, 53, 58, 63, 68, 81, 
 83, 95, 107, 109. 
 Poole, 114. 
 Porter, 65, 1.01. 
 Posf, 60, 98. 
 Potter, 13, 27, 137. 
 Powell, 61, 65, 103, 108. 
 Poyer, 17, 19,20,21,98. 
 Price, 62, 65, 66. •'' 
 Prime, 107. 
 Prince, 20, 39, 47, 74, 80, 83, 
 
 92, 93, 94. 
 Prior, 10, 33, 83. 
 Probasco, 36, 52, 
 Provoo.st, 40, " 
 Pantine, 41, 95, 107. 
 Purdy, 58, 65, 90,112, 113, 
 
 116. 
 Quackenbos, 133. 
 Qniiitard, 65. 
 Eainor, 33,23, 50, 118. 
 Rarnagc, 63. 
 Ramsden, 5, 
 
 Eapelye, J3, 34, 39, '40, 42, 
 45, 47, 48, 49, 62, 65, 67, 
 63, 69, 82, 83, 88, 93, 98, 
 97, 300, 1.03, 117, 
 Rattoone, 90, 92. 
 Rawlins, 69. 
 Roade, 37. 48, 65. 
 Keeve, 38, 92. 10;J. 
 Rcmsen,'24, 33, 41, 46. 50, 
 , 51,53,62,63,79,104,106, 
 
 108, 114. 
 Eemiy, 45, 71, 88, 89. 
 Kcnwick, 80. 
 Reynolds, 20,21, 23. 
 Rhodes, 19, 24, 30, 5.1, 65, 
 60, 83, 86, 104, 307, 112, 
 113, 115, 136, 
 Eichbell, 5, 6, 
 Eider, 53, 59, 103, 104, 109, 
 
 111, 117, 
 Riker, L7, 47, 51, 71, 82, 89, 
 
 92, 94, 95, 110, 
 Kiley, 53, 
 Kitthie, 68, 
 Ritter, 80. 
 
 Roach, 63, 77, 97, 100, 103. 
 Roberts, 13, 25, 28, 34, 33, 48. 
 Robertson, 111. 
 Eobbins, 11, 30, 38, 55, 75, 
 
 116. 
 
 Robinson, 12, 33, 48, 51, 52, 
 
 55, 6,3, 66, 73, 78, 80, lOJ , 
 
 117, 
 
 Rob, 21, 59, C9, 75, 77, 95, 
 
 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 
 
 110,111,114,115,117,318, 
 
 Rogers, 9, 24, 55, 64, 107, 
 
 111,113,114,115,116, 
 Roof, 57. 
 
122 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Eothery, 77. 
 
 ^Bowlswld,.95,.l•07. 
 
 Eudge, 34. 
 
 Eusnmore,^, ,6, 9, 10. 
 
 Busspl, 54. 
 
 Eyder, 20, 27, 32, 40, 51. 
 
 Eyerson, 41, ]13. 
 
 Sackett, 13, 30, 35, 36, 43, 
 
 58, 59, 62, 96. 
 Sadler, 6. 
 
 St. Mary, 85. 
 
 Sale, 96. 
 
 Salier, 25. 
 
 Salsbee, ,5. 
 
 Salisbury; '6. 
 
 Salt, 93. 
 
 Salter, 5. 
 
 Saltmarsh, 65. 
 
 Sammis, 102. 
 
 Sanford, 9, 112. 
 
 Sands, 13, 30, 33, 35, 40, 50, 
 55, 59, 61, 63, 66, 77, 80, 
 82, 85, 93, 98, 100, 107. 
 
 Sawyer, 21. 
 
 Sayres, 100, '107, 109. 
 
 Scadding, 5. 
 
 Schenck, 42, 58, 69, 7] , 73, 
 74, 77, 80, 81 , 86, 87, 88, 
 93,93,95,98,101,103,105, 
 107,110, J 12, 114, 118. 
 
 Sehoonmaker, 96, 99,. ]00, 
 
 104, 109, ]12. 
 Schuyler, 13, 62, 82, 104. 
 Scott, 61, 106, 109. 
 ScrJba, 93, 109. 
 Scuddcr, 8, 9. 
 
 Seabury, 33, 34, 36, 44, 51, 
 
 61, 8,5. 
 Seaman, 5,6, 10, 24, 31, 33, 
 
 3.8, 40, 42,. 43, 45, 47, 56, 
 
 59, 65, 71, 81, 86,90,93, 
 94, 95, 96, 97, 99, 102, 104, 
 
 105, 108, 109, 112, 113, 
 115, 117, 118. 
 
 Searing, 7, 8, 9, 14. 16, 42, 
 
 60, 61, 71, 75, 94, 96, 113, 
 114, 116. 
 
 Seely, 70,71, 73, 96, 104, 107. 
 Sell, 103. ■ 
 ■ Selleek, 65 
 Seniiss, 19. 
 Semple, 29. 
 Seymour, IQS. 
 Shadbolt, 16. 
 Sharpe, 45 66, 112. 
 Shaw, 106, 109, 116. 
 Shelton, 25, 37. 94, 93, 100. 
 
 104,108,109,113,115,116, 
 Sherbrook, 67. 
 Sherlock, 33 
 Sherman, 99, 100, 102, 107, 
 
 110, 112,115. 
 Shoals, 49, 50, 56. 
 Shotwell, 117. 
 Simcoe, 55. 
 Simmons, 53, 60. 
 Simoneon, 67, 75, 81, 94, 96, 
 
 107,108,110,112,115. 
 Skidmore, 8, 13, 53, '56, 61, 
 
 67,80,90,96,104,107,117. 
 Skinner, 65, 66, 67, 79, 80, 
 
 83, 84, 86. 
 Skirm, 106, 108. 
 Sleight, 104, 109, HI. 
 ? Slot, Hendrick, 62. 
 iSmitB, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 
 
 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 20, 21, 
 
 22, 25, 29, 30, 31, 33, -35, 
 
 36, 38, 39, 42, 43, 47, 48, 
 
 49, 50, 51 52, 53, 55, 56, 
 58, 62. 65, 66, 67, 68, 71, 
 72,- 73, 74. 75, 77, 78, 80, 
 81, 84, 86, 87, 88, 90, 92, 
 93, 94, 96, 98, 100. 101, 
 103, 1Q6, 107. 108, 110, 
 HI, 112, 114, 117. 
 Snedeker, 53, 55,63,80,100, 
 
 109, 113, 113, 116. 
 Sniffin, 59. 
 Soper, 90, 116. 
 Southard, 30, 80, 116. 
 Spalding, 113, 116. 
 Speucer, 73, 116. 
 Spragg, 11, 12, 102. 
 Springsteen, 107, 115. 
 Sprong, 80, 103. 
 Sproule, 96, 107. 
 Stagg, 33. 
 Starr, 6. 
 Stead, 53. 
 Steed. 21. 
 Steele, 30. 
 ;Stevens, 7, 9, 97. 
 Stevenson, 39. 
 Stewart, 13, 32, 36, 105. 
 Stickling, 20. 
 Still, 94. ■ 
 Stilhvell, 25. 83. 
 Stites, 84. 
 Stocker, 67. 
 Stoothotf, 113. 
 Storms, 58. 
 Story, 116. 
 Stout, 59. 
 Stratton, 80. 
 Straw, 94. 
 Stringham, 38. 
 Strong, 80,86, 100, 103, 117. 
 Storrs, 91. 
 
 Stuyyesant, 4, 5. 6, 30. 
 Sutphin, 104, 114. 
 Sutton, 7, 13, 21, 55. 
 Suydara, 36, 52, 61, 62, 80, 
 
 87, 96. 
 Sweezy, 12. 
 Talbot, 14. 
 Talman, 14, 17, 33, 56, 70, 
 
 71, 74, 75, 83, 107. 
 Tapp, 107. 
 Tappen, 107, 115. 
 Taylor, S,,9, 16, 21, 46, 95, 
 
 102. 
 Templeton, 79. 
 Terhune, 49. 
 Terry, 5. 
 
 Thatford, 46. 80, 84, 96, 107. 
 Thickstou, 13. 
 Thomas, 13, 15, 53, 110. 
 Thompson, 11, 33, 58, 59, 60v 
 
 75, 85, 99, 112. 
 Thorne, 5, 6, 21, 23, 24, 25, 27, 
 30, 34, 35, 36, 45, 52, 53, 
 59, 66, 73, 77, 80, 93, 102. 
 Thorp, 93. 
 Thurmau, 66. 
 Thurston, 18, 80. 
 Tibbals, 96. 
 Tillier. 23. 
 Tippets, 6 
 Titus, 5, 13, 24, 30, 47, 79, 
 
 80, 81, 96, 105. 107, 109. 
 Tobias, 43, 83. 
 Toe, Samuel, 5, 
 Tom, 27, 34, 36, 56. 
 Tompkins, 100, 103. 
 Totten, 13, 30, 80. 
 Townsend, 8, 9, 13, 15, 17 
 28, 33, 36, 45, 48, 49, 50' 
 
 51, 53, 61, 63, 65, 66, 67, 
 68, 69, 7), 73, 74,75,76, 
 77, 81, 82, 91, 94, 95, 96, 
 97, 98, 99. 102. 105, 106, 
 107, 111, 113, 115, 116. 
 Tredwell, 6, 12, 16, 20, 27, 
 34, 52, 57, 74, 76, 77, 82, 
 
 • 92, 93, 102, 103, 104, 105, 
 '107, 109, HO, 111, 112, 
 113, 114, 116. 
 Tronp, 33, 51, 53, 80, 84, 85, 
 96, 107. 
 
 Trumbull, 56, 57,-58. 
 
 Ti'u-xtpn, 33. 
 
 Tryon, 47, 51, 53, 54, 55. 
 
 Tucker, 100. 
 
 Tunissen, H. 
 
 Turner, 30. 
 
 Turquand, 97. 
 
 Tuthill, 53, 80, 111. 
 
 Tyler, 94, 101, 102. 
 
 Underhill, 3, 6, 10, 16, 32, 
 49, 56, 70, 72,-81, 82. 83 
 91,96,108,112. 
 
 Upham, 57. 
 
 Urquhart, 16, 19. 
 
 Ustick, 70, 81, 92. 
 
 Utten, 92. 
 
 Valentine, 13. 23, 33, 53, 58, 
 59, 60, 67, 68, 70, 71, 73, 
 78, 96, 107, 117. 
 
 Vail, 80. 
 
 Van Arsdale, 53, 80. 
 
 Van Benschot«n, 43. 
 
 Van Buren, 110. 
 
 Van Brocklc, 52. 
 
 Van Brunt, 53, 80, 87, 88,"90. 
 
 Van Courtlaud, 33, 40. 
 
 Van Dam, 53, 80, 96. 
 
 Vanderbllt, 41, 56, 74, 76, 77, 
 80, 86, 90, 92, 93. 
 
 Vauderveor, 51, 96. 
 
 Vandervoort, 88, 107. 
 
 Vanderverg, 101. 
 
 Vandewater, 103, 114. 
 
 Van Duyn, 66, 80. 
 
 Van Dyke, 36, 45, 47, 56, 93. 
 
 Van Hoesen, 65. 
 
 Van Hook, 21, -33. 
 
 Van Home, 52. 
 
 Van Lew, 53, 80, 96. 
 
 Van Nest, 77, 8(i. 
 
 Van Nostrand, 19, 53, 73, 78, 
 84,88,91,96,100,104,107. 
 
 Van Pelt, 70. 
 
 Van Velser, 55. 
 
 Van Wicklen, 53, 103. 
 
 Van Wyck, 22, 24, 41. 49, 50, 
 55, 56, 67, 71, 94, 114. 
 
 Van Sinderen, 100, 106, 107. 
 
 Van Zandt, 103, 109, 111,114. 
 
 Verity, 65, 96, 111. 
 
 Verplank, 30. 
 
 Vesey, 14. 
 
 Voorhies, 47, 53, 96. 
 
 Vredenburgh, 93. 
 
 Wade, XOO. 
 
 Waldron, 66, 70, 71. 
 
 Walker, 5, 65. 
 
 Wall, 7. 
 
 Wallace, 19, 51. 
 
 Waller, 65. 
 
 Walton, 19, 22, 23, 27, 32, 
 39, 46, 51. 
 
 Walters, 55, 62. 
 
 Wasiser, 27, 28. 
 
 Ward, 107. 
 
 Warne, 71, 73,74,75,80,81, 
 82, 85. . 
 
 Warren, 91. 
 
 Washington, 44, 54, 74, 75, 
 
 90. 
 Waters, 5,6, 15, 17, 19, 21, 
 
 22, 25, 29, 30, 37»-43, '44, 
 
 46, 55, 56; 73, 80, 84, 87, 
 
 96, 97. 
 Watkins, 40. 
 Watts, 34. 
 Way, 49, 62, 68, 71, 103, 
 
 114, 115. 
 
 Webb, 88, 97, 113,1.14,116, 
 
 117. 
 Webster, 113, 116. 
 Weed, 104, 106. 
 Weeks, 20, 21, 31, 33, 36, 40, 
 
 49, 50, 55, 66, 68, 74, 115. 
 Weller, 5. - 
 
 Welling, 21, 33, 53, 80, 84,- 
 
 85, 96, 106, 107. 
 Wells,-^37, 67, 70. 
 Wentworth, 27, 28. 
 West, 11. 
 Western, 117. 
 Weynmaii, 49, 50, 61. 
 Whealton, 30. 
 Wheeler; 50, 57, 113, 116. 
 White, 14, 51, 109. 
 Whitefield, 3j. 
 Whitehead, 7, 12, 13, 14, 16, 
 
 17, 20, 21, 24, 33, 42, 49, 
 
 50, 51,52,53,56. 
 Whitson, 43. 
 Wickendam, 4. 
 
 Wickes, 77, 80, 82, 93, 100, 
 
 104, 108, 109, 113, 114, 
 
 115, 116. 
 •Wickham, 67, 107, 109. 
 
 Wiggrins, 21, 53. 62, 96. 
 WiUdns, 6, 54, 80, 95. 
 Wilkinson, 59. 
 Willets, 7, 11,13, 14, 17, 18, 
 21, 22, 27, 39, 35, 39, 42, 
 
 44, 49, 50, 51, 53, 54, 56, 
 60,64,65,67,80. 
 
 Willis, 15, 17, 60, Bl, 94, 107, 
 
 Williams, 21, 25, 27, 28, 30, 
 
 45, 55, 56, S9, 80. 
 Williamson, 53, 80. 
 WUmot, 29. 
 
 Wilson, 19, 26, 29, 30, 34, 
 
 35, 47, 54, 96. 
 Wiltse, 15. 
 Wines, 101. 
 Witney, 5. 
 Wood, 5, 8, 11, 13, 16," 55, 
 
 86, 94, 107, 109, 112, 116. 
 Wooden,, 99, 100. 
 Woodhull,"52, 56, 77, 80, 85, 
 
 116. 
 Woodi-uff, 50. 
 Woodward, 39, 40, 48. 
 Woofendale, 40, 96. 
 Woolley, 7, 27, 45, 52, 67, 
 
 85, 86. '^«^vj^Ss, 
 Woolsey, 20. ' "^ 
 Wortraan, 34, 56, 91. 
 Wraxhall, 23. 
 Wright, 6, 15, 17,21,30,31, 
 
 32, 34, 41, 51, 55, 79, 80, 
 
 91,100,105,114,115. 
 Wykofif, 59, 53, 80, 96, 97, 
 
 103, 110. 
 Yates, 5, 39, 48, 73, 74 
 Yeomans, 10. 
 Youngs, 21; 36, 42„ 45, 55, 
 
 56, 66,71,73,75,91,100. 
 
 105, 107. 
 
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