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One of the earliest maps to include that part of North America, colonized by the Dutch. It is the first printed map showing Indian canoes and several kinds of North Ameri [...]
1635 |
Maps |
Long Island Collection |
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This 1637 map of North America shows the region from the present-day Carolinas through Nova Scotia. It is drawn from Johannes De Laet's map of 1630 , which was created an [...]
1637 |
Maps |
Long Island Collection |
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This is a facsimilie of a deed from Lord Stirling to Lion Gardiner, is for the land known as Gardiner's Island. The deed is dated March 10, 1639.
1639-03-10 |
Deeds |
Long Island Collection |
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Original purchase of Shelter Island, sold by James Farrett, [deputy to William Alexander, Earl of Stirling], to Stephen Goodyear, May 18, 1641
1641 |
Deeds |
Long Island Collection |
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Last will and testament of John Aliston, dated March 15, 1648 in the presence of Thomas Mayle and John Freborne. [Maplested, County of Essex, England: 1648]
1648 |
Wills |
Long Island Collection |
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Broadside and photstat of original document: Sale of West Beach, in Southampton, N.Y., from Wyandanch, Sachem, to Lion Gardiner, Southampton, N.Y., June 10, 1658. Include [...]
1658 |
Deeds |
Long Island Collection |
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Account book of Shelter Island Township, N.Y., circa 1658-1758 [intermittent]. Accounts begin inside both covers of the book. First side of book dated 1658-1768. Second s [...]
circa 1658-1758 |
Account Books |
Long Island Collection |
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Last will and testament of Ralph Dayton, of East Hampton Township, N.Y., July 25, 1658. Bequathments of lands in Southold Township, N.Y., and Northampton (North Sea, in S [...]
1658 |
Wills |
Long Island Collection |
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This is an early manuscript copy of an agreement between the Town of East Hampton and the Sachem of the Montaukett Indians was signed by Lion Gardiner [spelled Lyon here] [...]
1658-05-22 |
Contracts |
Long Island Collection |
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The deposition of one "Rachell Akers of East Hampton on Long Island in ye Colloney of Connecticut" accepting the guardianship and conveying power of attorney to Anthony W [...]
1659 |
Legal Documents |
Long Island Collection |
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Thomas Osborne was one of the first settlers of East Hampton. In this church covenant, he writes about his faith, his shortcomings, and his religious beliefs. This docume [...]
1660?-1745? |
Long Island Collection |
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A deed for land sold by John Osborn to Lion Gardiner, described as the fourth lot, in 1661. The land is bounded by Thomas Chatfield's land and Hook Pond.
1661-01-10 |
Deeds |
Long Island Collection |
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Osborne's lot number 4 "lying between the south end and the [Great] Swamp [Division]" for Gardiner's parcel of meadow "lying at the east end of the Hook Pond, bounded on [...]
1661-01-10 |
Deeds |
Long Island Collection |
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Distribution of estate of Richard Chasmore/ late of Jamaica, N.Y., March 25, 1663. Henry Townsend, formerly of Rusdorp (Jamaica) N.Y., lately of Oyster Bay, N.Y. (both st [...]
1663 |
Wills |
Long Island Collection |
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Photocopy: Nathaniel Sylvester's land agreement with John Nicholls of Oyster Bay, 1664, Samuel Edsall, witness.
1664 |
Deeds |
Long Island Collection |
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First patent issued for tract of land called East Hampton (present day East Hampton Township, N.Y.), by New York Colony Governor Richard Nicolls; recorded by New York Col [...]
March 13, 1666 |
Patents |
Long Island Collection |
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[Sale of a numerous parcels of land and rights of commonage, all in East Hampton Township, N.Y., including arable land, a woodlot, salt marshes, and rights of commonage i [...]
1666-12-18 |
Deeds |
Long Island Collection |
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Court proceedings at the New York Colony Court of Assizes in the boundary dispute between Southampton Township, N.Y., plaintiff, and Southold Township, N.Y., defendant, o [...]
1667 |
Deeds |
Long Island Collection |
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Photocopy: Deposition of Thomas James concerning the bounds of the Shinnecock Indians, of Southampton, N.Y., with the Montauk Indians, in East Hampton, N.Y., East Hampton [...]
1669 |
Deeds |
Long Island Collection |
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This deed was copied in 1670 by Thomas Talmage or Tallmage. It records an agreement reached between English settlers Robert Bond, John Mulford, John Hand, Lion Gardiner, [...]
1670 |
Deeds |
Long Island Collection |
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Sale of parcel, with stone house, [etc.], in New London, Connecticut, by Samuel Rogers, of New London, Connecticut, to Christopher Christophers, of same; April 8, 1673. " [...]
1673 |
Deeds |
Long Island Collection |
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This hand-bound volume of notes on scriptures has no dates, but Nathaniel Huntting was alive from 1675-1753.
1675?-1753? |
Sermons |
Long Island Collection |
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This 9 cm x 15 cm book is hand-bound, with several torn pages. It contains notes on sermons and scripture, including readings from the book of Isaiah. While there are no [...]
1675?-1753? |
Sermons |
Long Island Collection |
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A note with this vellum covered bound volume identifies the book as "Killaen Van Rensselaer's diary, First Lord of the Manor of Rensselaerswyck." Entries are written in D [...]
1675-1758? |
Diaries |
Long Island Collection |
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One of the earliest maps of the Northeast, which fully registers the dramatic shift from Dutch to English dominance in the region in the latter part of the seventeenth ce [...]
1676 |
Maps |
Long Island Collection |
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