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This is an agreement between Daniel Osborn [spelled Osorne here]'s agreement with a Montauk Indian named Pappasaquan and his squaw to indenture their daughter Margaret [s [...]
June 9, 1691 |
Indentures |
Long Island Collection|Item of the Week |
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Letter from Rev. Samuel Buell to Capt. Elisha Pitkin at Hartford, "New England," favor of Mr. Miller; East Hampton, N.Y., April 25, 1783. Letter discussing the death of h [...]
1738 |
Letters |
Long Island Collection|Item of the Week |
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Account book recording shoe sales and repairs by Daniel Hedges between 1765 and 1771. The book lists names of purchasers, including enslaved people. Arrangment is by date [...]
1765-1771 |
Account Books |
Long Island Collection|Item of the Week |
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Thomas Dering farmed and managed Sylvester Manor plantation on Shelter Island. This inventory records his personal possessions prior to the Revolution.
1765-07-12 |
Inventories |
Long Island Collection|Item of the Week |
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This is an inventory of the weapons carried by the men in Captain Hulbert's company. It notes the man's name and the monetary value of the gun he carries. An additional n [...]
1775 |
Lists |
Long Island Collection|Item of the Week |
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Mrs. Molly Corwithe was probably a member of the Corwith (also spelled Corwithe, Corwithee, etc.) Family from Southampton Town. The family were early settlers of the Brid [...]
1776; 1838 |
Manuscripts |
Long Island Collection|Item of the Week |
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Correspondence from brothers Solomon and Robert Townsend, merchants of New York, N.Y. and Oyster Bay, N.Y., to merchants Lushington & Kirk, at Charleston, South Carol [...]
1787 |
Letters |
Long Island Collection|Item of the Week |
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Last Will and Testament of James Loper, Executor Isaac Edwards, Witness by Thomas Tredwell, April 2, 1790. This item is part of the Isaac Edwards Deed Collection, donated [...]
1790-04-02 |
Wills |
Long Island Collection|Item of the Week |
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Bequathments of chattel, money, and lands to various members of his family; lands include east end of dwelling house and 1 acre of home lot adjoining Samuel Dayton, in Ea [...]
1802 |
Wills |
Long Island Collection|Item of the Week |
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Account between Matilda, a free black woman, and Henry P. , for years 1803-1818, Shelter Island, N.Y., 1818. Matilda (a free black woman as of 1795), had entered into a c [...]
1803 |
Indentures |
Long Island Collection|Item of the Week |
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A letter between John Lyon Gardiner and David Gardiner of Flushing on July 07, 1803. John Lyon updates David on farm news and provides advice about David's house.
July 07, 1803 |
Letters |
Long Island Collection|Item of the Week |
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Letter from Joseph H. Hand, at Montauk Point, N.Y., to Nathaniel Huntting, at East Hampton Township, N.Y., alerting him to the activity of British war ships off Montauk P [...]
1813 |
Letters |
Long Island Collection|Item of the Week |
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This diary, written by Eliza Packer Gardiner, contains transcriptions of religious poems, transcriptions of newspaper and magazine articles, and original poetry and prose [...]
circa 1817-1824 |
Diaries |
Long Island Collection|Item of the Week |
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Letter to Henry P. announcing the wreck of a brig off Montauk, Sept. 27, 1815 / from Abraham M. Smith. This is the brig Orion. See Rattray, Ship Ashore, p. 201. Original [...]
September 27, 1815 |
Letters |
Long Island Collection|Item of the Week |
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Letter from B.S. to Henry P. [father], January 23, 1822.
January 23, 1822 |
Letters |
Long Island Collection|Item of the Week |
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Letter from John Howard Payne to Joann Miller, whose family Payne kept in regular correspondence with after he used to board with in East Hampton. Discusses Corbett's Lif [...]
1834-09-18 |
Letters |
Long Island Collection|Item of the Week |
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This is a diplomatic purse used by John Howard Payne during his time as Ambassador to Tunis. This purse enclosed his letter of introduction for his Consul appointment to [...]
1841?-1852? |
Artifacts |
Home Sweet Home Museum Archive|Item of the Week |
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This is a letter written by Alexander Gardiner (1818-1851) to his mother, Juliana Gardiner (1799-1864) in July 1842.
1842-07 |
Letters|Letters |
Gardiner Family Collection|Item of the Week |
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President John Tyler writes Juliana McLachlan Gardiner with his condolences after the death of her husband, David Gardiner (1784-1844) onboard the U.S.S. Princeton after [...]
1844-03-01 |
Letters |
Long Island Collection|Item of the Week |
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Account kept by ship's carpenter Joseph Redfield. Complete account kept aboard the ship Josephine, on a voyage from Sag Harbor to the Pacific, 15 October 1846 - 28 August [...]
1846-1849 |
Whaling Logs |
Long Island Collection|Item of the Week |
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Letter from John Howard Payne to Joann Miller, whose family he used to board with them in East Hampton. Payne references his lack of funds and discusses Judge Miller and [...]
1849-04-30 |
Letters |
Long Island Collection|Item of the Week |
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This brief note from Maria Slate informs her husband Shamgar, who is somewhere near San Francisco for work, of the premature birth and subsequent death of their infant so [...]
1850-03-09 |
Letters |
Long Island Collection|Item of the Week |
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Page's 1-6: record of whale bone bought of natives, list of whale oil "stowed in the hole," list of sperm oil shipped home from Hobertown; pp.'s 7-108: incomplete account [...]
1851-1855 |
Whaling Logs |
Long Island Collection|Item of the Week |
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Lodowick King, the reverse notes he served with the 15th New Jersey Volunteers, presumably in the Civil War. Lodowick was born in 1844 and died in 1904. King appears to b [...]
1861?-1865? |
Photographs |
Amagansett Historical Association|Item of the Week |
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This is a published work of the sermon given by Stephen L. Mershon in the Presbyterian Chruch on November 28th, 1961. It was dedicated to local East Hampton men who were [...]
1861 |
Books|Sermons |
Long Island Collection|Item of the Week |
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