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QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 IN 
 
 OLDEN TIMES: 
 
 BEING 
 
 A SUPPLEMENT 
 
 TO THE 
 
 (SEVERAL HISTORIES THEREOF. 
 
 BY 
 
 HENRY ONDERDONK, JR., L 31. 
 
 AUTHOE OF KEVOLUTIONARY INCIDENTS ■ OF LONG ISLAND, AND BRITISH PRISONS 
 
 AND -PRISON SHIPS AT NEW YORK. 
 
 • JAMAICA, K Y;: 
 
 CHARLES WELLING. 
 
 1865. 
 
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FREFACE. 
 
 k^ f' 
 
 This work does not pretend to be ^- complete history of Queens County, hut 
 rather a contribution thereto. It contains scarcely anything that has hitherto ap- 
 peared in any of oru" local histories. 
 
 Since the appearance of Mr. Thompson's history, the indefatigable and sagacious 
 Dr. O'Callaghan has gathered up from the damp and dusty garrets 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 oi-der 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 ditferent offices, but be placed in some convenient room 
 under the eye of an obliging and intelligent custodian. 
 
 Besides bis History of New Netherland, Dr. O'Callaghan has edited the Docu- 
 mentary and Colonial History of New York, the Minutes of the Governor and 
 Council, an Index of Marriages, and of Land Papers, the New Netherland Kegister, 
 etc. Long may 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 and 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. 
 
 In the basement of the City Hall, New York, is a rich flacer well worth 
 working. It consists of court minutes, rcugh 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 Revolution. 
 
 Much of the 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 Eeligious, 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 R. Stiles, M. D., is Librarian, 
 for safe preservation and easy reference. 
 
 Although the history of Queens County remains to be written, the following, 
 among other publications, show that the towns have not been altogether neglected. 
 
Denton's Biiof Description, Kiker's Newtown, Mandeville's Flnsliiug, JIacJonald's 
 Presbyterian Church, Jamaica, the Townsend Memorial, Woodbridge's rresbvtirian 
 Church, IJempstead, Carmichael's History of St. George's Church, Garretson's His- 
 tory of the Dutch Cliurchcs, Prince's Agiicultural History, the Journals of travell- 
 ing i)reachers such as Bownas, Chalkey, Hicks and others. The Gazetteers of Spof- 
 ford and French arc worth consulting ; the latter especially, as it contains most val- 
 uable statistics of our county. Our historians have hitherto paid little attention to 
 the industrial pursuits of our county, such as farming, gardening, manufactures and 
 fishing, nor to our various and i)eculiar sports and amusements, modes of life, usa- 
 ges, customs, manners, jirogrcss of rcligiim, morals, education, etc. 
 
 One sad chapter in any future history of Queens County must be consecrated to 
 the memory of her sons who have sacrificed their lives in maintaining the integrity 
 of the Union. 
 
 The public will be ])leased to hear that Aldex J. Spoon er has issued pro- 
 posals for another History of our Island. 
 
 Many thanks are due Mr. Charles Welling and his assistant, 31r. Joseph "Man- 
 waring, for their patience and care in passing these sheets through the jiress. A 
 few errata are noted at the end of tht; volume. 
 
 Every name in this book appears in the index, where all the variations of 
 spelling are reduced to one. Some names occur so frequently that .it was not easy 
 •to note every jiage. 
 
 The second series of this work will contain Sufloik and Kings Counties in "olden 
 times," with the bibliography of Long Island, and annals of tlic Keformed Protes- 
 tant Dutch Church in Queens County. 
 
 J.\MAic.\, L. I , April, 18C5. 
 
QUEENS COUNTY IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 1639, Jan. 1.3.— The Eockaway Indian.'^ .=ol(l to 
 the Dutch AVest India Co. a tract of land embra- 
 cing Hempstead, reserving to themselves the right 
 of fishing, planting maize and himting. . 
 
 1C40, May 10. — Some emigrants ftom- Lynn 
 ■\\-eut over to the head of Co^w l^ay 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 
 information of the tr>;.spass;, whereupon a force of 
 2o."soldiers wa.s dispatched by ->vater from N. Y. 
 who carried off the trespassers and thus broke up 
 the settlement. — Colonial History, 2 : 145. 
 
 164.3, Oct. 24. — Long Island is destitute of inhab- 
 itants and stock, except a few insignificant places 
 over against the JLain, which are about to be aban- 
 doned. . The Snglish have not escaped, . They 
 too, except one place, are all murdered and burnt, 
 by the Indians.— C'oL His., 1 : 190. 
 
 1643, liar. 4. — The season of hunting, fishing 
 and planting being now at hand, the Indians were 
 anxious for jieace. The great Sachem of the Ca- 
 narsee, tribe, Penawitz sent to enquire of the Dutch 
 why they had murdered his people who had never 
 injured them. Jacob Olferz and Jacob I'eterze 
 De A'ries went to KockaMay and arrived at the 
 wigwam of the one-eyed chief who entertained them 
 with ovsters and fish. His residence was some 
 miles from the shore surrounded by 200 or 300 
 warriors, the owners of 30 houses. A 2)eace was 
 made. — Be Tries, p.ll2. 
 
 1641, April. — Seven savages were an-ested at 
 Hempstead (where an English clergyman, Mr, 
 Pordham, was governor) on. a, charge of killing two 
 or three pigs, though it was afterwards discovered 
 that some Englishmen had done it. Fordliam sent 
 word to Gov. Kieft at New York, of the arrest &ud 
 that he had the Indians confined in a cellar. Kieft 
 sent Underbill and Opdyk, with 15 or 16 soldiers 
 wlio killed 3 of the 7 Indians in. the cellar. They 
 took the other 4 witli tiitni ia c. sailing boat, 2 of 
 whom were towed along by a string, around their 
 nocks till they were di-owned, while the 2 survivors 
 were detafncd prisoners at the Fort till they were 
 delivered to the soldiers who soon dispatched them 
 ■B-ith knives. The savages desired to dance the 
 Kintc-Kacy",, a religio-ua observance among them 
 before death.--- Doc. His., 4 : 105. 
 
 (Another version of apparently the same affair, 
 the precediug^being imtteu by an opponent of the 
 governor.) 
 
 " We were advised that Penawitz was secretly 
 waging war against us with his tribe who killed some 
 of our people and set their houses on fire. It was 
 resolved to send thither a troop of 120 men — the 
 Bvu-ghers under their company, the English imder 
 C'apt. Jflhn L'nderhill, the old soldiers under Peter 
 Cock — all commanded by Mr. LaMontagn^, to piro- 
 ceed from N. Y. in 3 yacht.s, 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 
 themselve& in 2 di\-isons, UuderhiU with 14 English 
 toward, the smaller, and 80 men toward the lar- 
 ger -s-illage named Matsepe.* Both were success- 
 ful, killing about 120 Indians. One of ours re- 
 mained on the field and 3 were wounded." — Col. 
 His,. 1 : 186. 
 
 1645, J/«^ 24. — The Sachem of Mockgonnekouck 
 with 47 armed ravages appeared at, the Fort in N.. 
 Y. to offer their services 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 foiuid. 
 Aft 3r which he must destroy them and return from 
 Long Island to the Fort for liis recompence. 
 
 1645, June 10. — Wm. Gerritse sings libelous 
 songs against the Eev. Francis Doughty, for which 
 he is sentenced to be tied Jto<the May-pole. — Albany 
 liccords. . 
 
 1647, Atig. 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 \-illage. The Secretarj' is ordered to 
 go there in a yacht, and aseertam from the Indians 
 if the report be true and take with him a piece of 
 cloth and some trifles for the chief and ofi'er a re- 
 newal of friendship. 
 
 1651, Sej}. 14. — The Indians on the Main pro- 
 cuiing tire-arms from the whites came over to L. I., 
 
 'The great river called Massepe between Jamaica and 
 Hempstead. — Jam. Record, 1 : 4. 
 
QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 Blau^htcrid aud drove oft' tlic cattle of tlic Hemp- 
 stead pcojilc. Tlio daiuajies are more than 1,000 
 guilders. — Col His., 2 : 157. 
 
 1G51, Sep. 25. — Ilenipstcad produce.^ from the 
 proceeds of their servants' labor, com, beef, pork, 
 butter, tobacco and .^tave:*, -wliich they exchange 
 for liquors aud merchandise.— C'oi. //t'a-., -2 : 158. 
 
 1653.— .Sam'I. Jlayo's ve^^scl (of Banistable) 
 employed in coiiveyin<r the goods of the IJev. ilr. 
 Lcvcrich from .Sandwich to Oysferbay, was seized 
 at Hempstead Harbor, by Baxter, under the au- 
 thorities of Rhode Island. [JIayo died at Oyster- 
 bay.] 
 
 1G55, Aj)!'!! 2. — 'Wni. Leverieh and other Eng- 
 lish settlers at Oysterb.ij-, are warned off the Dutch 
 ten-itorics. — Col. Uis., 2 : ICO. 
 
 1655, Mdi/ IS. — Daily strange reports about 
 the ludiaus are recei\ed at (Jravesend, from Hemp- 
 stead, Newtown, aud elsewhere on L. I., that they 
 intend to rout out the Dutch, and that tiie house 
 and plantation of AVm. Hallet, west of Hellgate, 
 has been laid waste. Hence it behoves the Eng- 
 lish to separate from the Dutch. Stuyvcsant ad- 
 vises the Dutch and English of Gravesend to re- 
 main together and keep good watch. He will 
 spare them some soldiers if thej' need thcjii. 
 
 1655, May 28. — The planters at Oysterl)ay, 
 through 3Ir. Leverieh, desire- to be annexed to 
 New Haven Colony. — Hwulhi, 2 : 141. 
 
 1655, I\or. 27. — Tackapousha, in the name of 
 the L. I. Indians, appears at the Fort (N. Y,") and 
 proflfcrs 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 Neiv Amsterdam. 
 
 1G5G, Jan. 8. — John Smith, who had, by his 
 own confession, stolen pigs at Newtown, is con- 
 ducted to the place where justice U administered, 
 and beaten severely \\\\\\ rods, then marked, aud 
 banished forever, as an example to others. 
 
 165G, Jan. 15. — Domincs Drisius and Jlegapo- 
 lensis, write to Holland for a minister to supply the 
 place of More, who has left Newtown. 
 
 1656, Mar. 12. — In the articles of peace with 
 the Indians, it is agreed that all shall be forgotten 
 since 1015. — Hempstead lleeonls, p. 22. 
 
 1656. — "\Vm. AVickcndani,* a cobbler, from 
 Kliodc Island, came to Flushing and began to 
 preach, and went with the peojde into the river and 
 dipped them. I^'or this he was fined t^lOO and or- 
 dered to be banished. As he was poor and had a 
 family the fine was remitted. Hallet, the Sherift", 
 had dared to collect conventicles in his house, and 
 had jierniitted "Wiekendam to preach and adminis- 
 ter the sacraments, though not called tin reto by 
 any ecclesiastical authority. For this he wai re- 
 moved from oilice and fined £oO. 
 
 •He died Feb. 3d, 1C70, and left three dauglittrs. 
 
 1657. — "At Flushing they have heretofore had 
 ii I're.-liyterian jaeaclier who conformed to the 
 Dutch Clinreh, but many of the people became en- 
 dowed with divei-s opinions and al)seuted them- 
 selves from ju-eaching, nor woidd jiay the preacher 
 his promised stii)end, so that he was obligc-d to 
 leave, and went to Virginia. Now they have been 
 some j-cars without a minister. Ijist Vear one 
 AVickendam, a fomenter of error, canu; there and 
 stated that he was couunissioued by Christ. He 
 began to preach and then went with the people into 
 the river and dli)]ied them. This becomin^r known 
 to the (iovenior, the Fiscaal ])roceeded to Flushing 
 and brought him alonj;. He was banished the 
 I'rovince.*' — Hoc. His., '.i : 106. 
 
 1657. — '■ At Hempstead there are some Indepen- 
 dents ; also many of the Dutch persuasion and 
 Presbytei-ians. They ha\e a I'resbyterian preach- 
 er, Richard Denton, an honest, pious and learned 
 man, who has in all things confonued to the Dutch 
 cluu-ch. The Independents listen attentively to 
 his preaching, but when he begins to baptize the 
 children of parents who are not members of the 
 church, they sometimes burst out of the chiu'ch." 
 — Dm. His., 3 : 107. 
 
 1G57. — "At Newtown the people are mostly 
 Indcjiendents, and have .lohaniU'S More, who 
 preaches well but administers no sacraments, and 
 has thus continued many years. There arc also 
 many IVesbyterians, hut are not able to maintain a 
 minister." — Doe. His., 3 : 107. 
 
 1657, Mar. 8. — The ship Prince Mmirice, with 
 GO soldiers and a cargo of Dutch goods aud emi- 
 grants, (180 souls in all) w;is wrecked on a cold, 
 snowy night oft' Fire Island. All were saved, aud 
 by the friendlv aid of the Indians, reached N. Y, 
 by \imd.—Cof. His., 3 : 3 15. 
 
 1657, Jail/ 17. — Got. Stuyvcsant, at his house 
 in Fort Amsterdam, writes to the Magistrate of 
 Hempstead as follows : Lo\ing Vriends : — lieforc 
 my departure from you I was in liqp<'s of a good 
 act among you, both in settling of Mr. Denton's 
 continuance among you according to afO'eement, 
 aud of the tenths for the ju-eseut year. But being 
 in haste back and ready for my retm-n, both were 
 broken oft" by -some tmlmlent spirits, if in the 
 name of the whole town or any one I am yet igno- 
 rant, but uot satisfied. Therefore you may be 
 pleased to tinderstand that we as yet expect the 
 tenths "upon the -field for the year present, and (ac- 
 cording to the vnliu' of them) for the year past. — 
 This therefore is ordered, that before the gathering 
 of the crop you shall give timely notice, so that we 
 may send a man for what is the I'atron's due and 
 for the mhiister. You nil do know that 5Ir. Robt. 
 Fordham, sometime minister 'of Hempstead, did 
 leave the place, and also the exercise of the minis- 
 try, without our wish or knowledge, and for little 
 or no reason. 'I'herefoi-e wc cannot admit him in 
 such a rr.aufler of 'coming again. 
 
 1657, JttJi/ 25.— Rich. G ildcrsleeve, in behalf of 
 
IX OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 the town of HempstfaA, replied to tlie preceding : 
 llielit Worsliipfnl — Yours of the 17th we hnvc 
 received wherein we understand you are not satis- 
 fied; lieamig speeclies from some private persons 
 not emplovcd Viy the town. The town does not 
 o■n^l what tliey have said. "Wo hope according to 
 the agreement made for 100 skcepels of \\-lieat for 
 the tenths, you will be content. The which the 
 town agreed" with you and are willing to perfonn. 
 Our desires are to embrace 'Mv. Denton's ministry, 
 if God be pleased to continue him among us. As 
 for yourself we have had sufficient experience of 
 j'our willingness, and doubt not you are the same 
 by your late free and noble proifer. Wc hope you 
 wUl not take exceptions against the whole of us for 
 the extravagant speeches of some individuals, for 
 so it sometimes will fall out where a general vote 
 is had. "We have sent Mr. Seaman, the bearer 
 hereof, who shall further inform yonr Worship. 
 
 16.37, Jnli/ 29. — C4ov. Stnyvesant reiilies to the 
 preceding as follows : Loving Friends — Your let- 
 ter, by Mr. Seaman and hi« information, have-given 
 us full satisfaction. About the continuance of ilr. 
 Denton among- you, we shall use all the endeavors 
 ■vve can. If he cannot bo' persuaded you must look 
 for another able and godly man whereunto we 
 shall contribute what is in our power. Doc. IlJs., 
 3 : 189. 
 
 16.5S, Jiili/ 10.— At a ToAvn meeting, Hemp- 
 stead, it is agreed that Eich. tvildersleeve shall go 
 to Manhattans to a^ree'with the Gov. concerning 
 tithes, not to exceed 100 schepels of wheat, and to 
 be delivered (if required) at the Tov,-n harbor. — 
 Town Itccords, p. 32. 
 
 16.58, Oct 3, was Ilumiliation day, new style. — 
 Hempstead Records. 
 
 165S.— Ten shillings is voted those who helped 
 to quench the fire when the to-mi (Hempstead) v^■as 
 endangered. Itccords, 
 
 16.59. — Thos Langdon, Hempstead, killed 10 
 wolves, and in 1661, he killed 10 more. 
 
 1661, Jan. S. — ^Do. Drisius preached at Jamaica 
 to correct the irregularities of the itinerant Quakers 
 and other fouatics. 
 
 1061, Feb. 18. — Kobt. Hobbs purchased of Wm. 
 Hallet a house, garden, orchard and 2 acres of land 
 in Flushing, but he refused to give a deed and yet 
 sued for the money, now Tobias Feeks claimed the 
 laud, yet the magistrates of Flushing, gave judge- 
 ment against Hobbs who ajipealed to the Director. 
 
 1661, 3Iaij. — Randolph Huwitt's wife 'having 
 been banished from Xew Amsterdam on acc-onnt of 
 her disorderly conduct, resided with her husband 
 at Flushing fonr years, when they returned and 
 petitioned to be allowed to carry on their former 
 business of Tavern keeping. Petition rejected. 
 
 1061, JhIi) -1. — Thos. Terry and Saif.'l. Dearing 
 petition for leave for themselves to settle 7 families 
 and Hempstead 10, at ilatiiiecock. Grnnted, but 
 
 they are to bring in no Quakers or such like opin- 
 iouists. — Becords, B.p. 16. 
 
 16G2, April. — fry.sbert Opdyek, an old servant 
 of the compauv, jietifions to be appointed Sheriff 
 of Flushing, Middleborgli and Rnstdorp. 
 
 1662, Ji(hj'Z2. — Gonnectieut orders ~SU: .Jno. 
 Ei2:ebell to be <'hosen constable of Ovsterbav. — 
 TnimhuU Bcc, 1 : 390. 
 
 16G2, Oct. 5.— Jamaica, Flushing, Hempstead, 
 Xewtown and Gi'avesend, are a,nnexed to Conncc- 
 ticiat. 
 
 -1663. — ^The little heek or point of land east of 
 Matta Garrett's bay, commonly called 3Iad Xan's 
 Xeek, is granted by Iiemps-ts"ad to Thos. Hicks, 
 John and-Thos. EUison, in lieu of their dividend. — 
 Itccords. 
 
 1063, Jr«)T7('lO.— Thos. llushmore, constable, 
 of Hempstead, opposes the government of Con- 
 necticut. He should be removed.* — Truml/idl, 
 1 : 424. 
 
 1663, Nov. 7.— Anthony Waters and John Coe, 
 miller of Xewtown, raised a force of near 300 men 
 and marched through the English to\ms on the 
 west of L. I., convoked the people, told them they 
 should no longer pay customs or taxes, removed 
 the magistrates, and liually tlu-eatened the Dutch 
 towns, if they did not also pronounce in favor of 
 the English King. 
 
 1664, Jan. 4. — Hempstead. Xewtown, Jamaica, 
 Oysterbay and Flushing, combine to govern their 
 own afl'airs irrespective of Connecticut. 
 
 1664, March 3. — Gov. Stujvesant \'isit3 Heinp- 
 
 stead, escorted by 10 soldiers.—' 'Co?.".??/.?., 2 : 468. | 
 
 I 
 1664, 2I(uj 12.— The following residents of Ja- | 
 
 maica, were made freemen of Connecticut : Thos. 
 
 Benedict, .J(is. Smith, ]\Ir. Walker, Dan'l. Denton, ; 
 
 Hemy Widicv, .Tolui 13aylis, Wm. Smith, Fulk , 
 
 IhwiL—Trumlndl Itcc, 1 : 429. I 
 
 1064, 2Iai/-12. — Inhabitants of Hempstead made 
 freemen of Conn. : Richard Gildersleeve, Sr. and ] 
 .Jr., Thos. Hicks, Jer. Wood, John Carpenter, 
 John Smith, Jr., Mr. Fordham, Henry Pearsall, 
 Edward Titus, Wm. Scadding, Jas. Pine, Wm. 
 Yeates, Thos. Carle, Eobt. Marvin, John Smith, 
 'S-Mu—TruiiibiiU Itcc, 1 : 429. 
 
 1664, 3Iai/ 12. — Inhabitants of Xewtown made 
 freemen of Conn., if they accept it : Mr. Leveridge, 
 Rich. Betts, "Sam'l Coe, Caleb Leveridge, Ralph 
 Hunt, Jno. Burrows, Jno. Eamsden, Xich. Carter, 
 Gershoir. Moore, Jas. Christie. 
 
 Of Flushing: Wm. Xoblc, Ellas Doughty, 
 Walter Salter, Eich. Weller, Jno. Thorne, Xich. 
 
 Persell, Thos. , Jona , Wm. Salsbee, 
 
 Jno. Heeded.— T/-(H«;;. Itcc, 1 : 430. 
 
 1064, Jlay 12. — The Court of Conn, appointed 
 
 *By ortler of the court at Hartfoul, )ie was. put in jail 
 Sept. G, 1619, for ilisordcr in the meeting-house ou tlie Sab- 
 batli. He then lived in Connecticut. 
 
QU.EEN,S COUNTY 
 
 Coinmis.sioncrs : fur .Taimiica, llobt. Coo, Tllo.'*. 
 Benedict ; Ilcmiistond, Jiio. Ifick'», lUtli. GUder- 
 f lopvc ; Fln.-iliiii;!, Wm. H:illct, TVrn. Nowtc; Oys- 
 ter Hay, Jiio. Itirklxdl, I{i)l>t. l''criuaii ; Nrwtowii, 
 Ca])t. Jiio. Coc, Hicli. IJftti* ; Gravrsond, .las. Hub- 
 bard, AVui. AVilkiii.-". — TntiiihuU, Jicc. 1 ( riao. 
 
 1005, Oct. 1. Di'iiiiis lloldrcii* and wife Xova, 
 ffparate in consequence of an ill correspondence 
 between tliem and divide tlieir estate ciiually, un- 
 der the ej-e of the magistrate oi' ilusliin^. — Vol. 1, 
 Order and ^'urrants. 
 
 166;). — Xora Iloldren and Jolni Lockersnn, lier 
 son, (of Flusliinp:) petition lo liave possession of an 
 e.statu of .C.>0 sterlinj^ now in tlie bands ot ^\i\tony 
 Waters, of Jamaica, and .loliu C^>vkrnni of Xew- 
 town, as overseer of said John Ijockerson.t who 
 will Jje of age iu July ncxt.-rOrdcrs, Vol. 11, 226, 
 
 16GG, Jan. 1. — A Sofisfous house and pri.son is 
 to be built in Jamajcij, and f 100 to be levied on 
 the towns iu the North £iding of Yorkshire. 
 
 IGfiC. — Mr. Francis Doughty was nJui.-tcr at 
 Flusliing, at 100 guilders a year. His contract 
 for .salary was iiunit.one year liefore trial l)y Wni. 
 Lawrence's wife, who put it uiulera pye in an oven. 
 Doughty's son sued John Hicks, Capt. John Un- 
 derbill, and Capt. 'Win. l.^wrence, for back salary. 
 Underbill had ordered the clnn'cb door sliut up be- 
 cause Doughty preached again.-^t the (ioveriinient. 
 Thereafter Doughty was discharged. His son re- 
 covered (iOO guil<h'rs ; each party to pay their own 
 cost». U'he defence was, that Gov. ^ tuy vesant, by 
 calling each person into his room se])arately, had 
 forced the town to sign a call to said Do\ighty. 
 
 IGGG, March 1 1. — Capt. Underbill begs to be 
 excused from military service on account of his 
 age. He and 7 other faniilic* have farms at Ma- 
 tinecock, and are on good tenii.s with the Indians 
 there. 
 
 IGGG. March :iG. — The people of Jamaica agiX'C 
 to keep the Sessions House in repair for 21 years, 
 on condition of being alloweil to Wf>r-liip in it. It 
 cost .flOO. Flushing withheld her part of the 
 contriliutiiiu and wa.s cited, for neglect thereof, be- 
 fore the Court of .Sessions, at .Jamaica. 
 
 16G6, June. — As Tackajmusha is dissatisfied 
 with the sale of hia hinds, the Governor renuests 
 the town of Hempstead I'o give the Indians a gra- 
 tuity for peace's sake. 
 
 IGGG, Jtd>i .3. — Ciroat drought. Ileiiee no wlieat 
 or wheat-nu'al to be exported fromN. Y. 
 
 1(!GG, Ike. IS. — AVm. Lawrence, of Flushing, 
 for seditioiH words, i.s fined Xll, and to make an 
 apology to the court. 
 
 •Dcunis IloIJrpn and ,S«r«h AVilkins, widow, of Flush- 
 injf, Imd license ofumrrinpe, July 2S, 166!). 
 
 tAncostor of the Kissams. lie ninrricd SusHunn Tliome, 
 of Jamaica, July ID, lUti7. 
 
 \W>1, March G. — .lolin Tredwell raamcd Kliza- 
 bcth Store of Uenipstead. 
 
 1667, AprU G.-r-.Io8. Carpenter pn^wses to 
 build ii saw and fulling iiiill at JInsketo Cove. 
 He petitions for land on each side of the river or 
 cove. Hem])8tead, he says, clearly can't own it. 
 [He .and Xatb'l Coles were the first two settlers of 
 tliat pLoutatiou.J 
 
 1GG7, JtiJii 2;j. — AVeekopp, KIcjnbear. , and . 
 Watawitt, Mahicander and Ifiver Indi.ms, have 
 leave to go to h. I. to dr\- clams and oysters. 
 
 ICiQl, Aug. ^2. — AVm. Bisliop, .John Elce, Aaron 
 Formaii, Kd. (iriflin, Jo.seph Iledger, Rich. Long, 
 AVm. Noble, Nich. Pearsall, 'I'hos. Sadler, George 
 Tippus, .Jos. Thorn, .John Thorn, Gx>orgc AVright, 
 and cjoua. AVriglit, of Fhisliing, present themselves- 
 to the Governor and give in their names to be ready 
 to serve His 3Iajesty under his honorable com- 
 mand, and on all occasions. — Vol. I, Orders, p. 180. 
 
 1CG8. Fch. 24. — Tne inhabitants of IMathjecock 
 and Killingworth, tbrongli Capt. Underbill, i]eti- 
 tion the Governor to be made an inde|)endent town 
 from Hempstead. — Vol. 1, Orders, Warrants. 
 
 1668, JVov. — Great sickness in N. Y., and over 
 the land iu general. Some are daily g^vppt away 
 and many more are lying on their languipm'lig 
 beds, expecting,' t:;u;L liyur their dissolution. Ada}' 
 of hmuiliation is ordered b}- the (iovenior, who 
 com|dains of swearing, an intenn>erate way of 
 drinking and all manner of impieties as prevailing. 
 —Orders, Vol. 2, 294. 
 
 1669, March .^L— To his Exeellency, the Karl 
 of Bellomont, Capt. Gen. and ({ov. of the I'ro- 
 vince of N. Y., &c. The luui,ble petition of Sam'l 
 Clowes showeth, that your Fxcellency's petitioner 
 being very desirous to be some way servinwble to 
 His ^Majesty and ,your Kxcv Uency iu this I'rovincQj 
 doth 'i(,veby bmubly otfer himself •■nul request your 
 Excellency would graciously please to invest him 
 with the ezijiloy of < 'on\plr,il)ef or Surveyor of the 
 customs, or any other post your Excellency shall 
 think him qualified for; and yonr Excelli'ncy's 
 petitioner shall (as iu duty aud gi'atitude bound) 
 ever pray, &c. 
 
 16G0. — Gov. Lovelace appoints a liorse race to 
 take place iu ^lay. Subscriptions to be taken for 
 a crown in silvi'r or the value iu good wheat ; the 
 list of subscribers to be sent to Ca])t. Salisbury. 
 [Gov. Nicolls had appointed a rac(^ the year before ; 
 not so nuich, he says, for tlie divertisement of 
 youth as for the encouragement of the bettering of 
 the breed of horses, ■>\lii).'h throiijji gi'cat negh'ct is 
 impaired.] — Vol. 1, Orders. 
 
 IGiiO, ^fay IG. — .John Tredwell had liLs shoul- 
 der dislocated. The (iovenior therefin'e excuses 
 bia^from the present general .'vnd town trainings. 
 
 1600, May. — '['hom.-ig ihtshmore is ordered to 
 give up to Capt. Seaman, the military colors which 
 he got of the Governor. 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 1(309. — David "Whitehead vfnti shot in the thigh 
 {■before June) and lost the use of one hand from 
 the wilful shot of "\Ym. Afljertus ;■ aTiJ still eudiu-es 
 great misery, and can do no scr\'ice for himself, but 
 is partly supported By a fine he got of Albertus. 
 Thomas Stevens distrained Whitehead, got his 
 clothes, (fee, but, on his petitioning the Governor, 
 he was declared free from all arrest. — Vol.2, Or- 
 ders. 
 
 1669', Sept. S.— Thos. Haddersly, gviilty of a 
 lireach of promise in N. Y.. after the bans had 
 been three times published, went to Flushing and 
 pretended marriage to a daughter of one liedger. 
 A warrant was issued agamst him. — Vol. 2, Orders, 
 p. 525. 
 
 1669, Oct. 6.— Jamaica offers Mr. Hubbard, of 
 Gravesend, a lot to encourage him in setting up a 
 mill in the towu. — Ilec. p. 50. 
 
 1669, Nov. 5. — "\Vm. Hallet not performing his 
 contract to build" a complete Sessions House, at 
 Jamaica, the court decided that it must be done By 
 next Christmas day, or he be fined <i£10. 
 
 1670, Jan. 20. — The towu of Jamaica agrees to 
 bvrild a good dam fur a mill, to be erected byBenj. 
 Ooe. 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. — lice, p. 51. 
 
 1670, April 4. — Jamaica votes that Nic_holas, 
 the coojier, shall have half an acre of laud by the 
 Beaver Pond, to build a house on, to supply the 
 town with i-v£\\ cooper's work as they shall stand 
 iu need of. — Ilecord.. 
 
 1670,. Majf, 1. — If the schoolmaster comes, Gil- 
 dersleeve is to give Up to him. — Hemp. Ecc. 
 
 1670. The- people of Jamaica petition the 
 Governor against a certain witch, Katharine Hari- 
 son's settling there. Petition granted. [She had 
 lived 19 years in Wethersfield, and been 12 
 mouths in prison at Hartford, and was released on 
 her promise to remove elsewhere — Tnimhidl liCC. 
 2 : 132., 
 
 1670, Aiirf. 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. 
 
 lC70i,Z>ec. 29. The libeLs of Hempstead, Flush- 
 ing imd Jamaica, wore ordered to be publickly 
 ,)jurnt 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 ror^uirc it.] — - 
 2'own Bccords, 1 : 55. 
 
 1071, April 25. — The jwopleof Hempstead are 
 not to plow or break up land for the Indians nor 
 assist them therein. All Indians at Eocltaway, 
 except actual residents, are to be forewarned to de- 
 part. Ten tamilies there, are to have 10 acres of 
 land for corn. — L'ecords. 
 
 1671. — [Jonah] Sutton at MadNan's Neck is 
 
 appointed trumpeter to the volunteers under Thos- 
 Willcts, who are ordered out May 22. The offi- 
 cers are to give him a suit of imiform clothes. 
 
 1671. — Hempstead is ordered to pay Richard 
 Charlton, schoolmaster. They have refused, or 
 too long delayed the fulfillment of their contract. 
 — Gen. Entries, A:in . 
 
 1671, Jidy 23.^Tobias Feeks of Flushing 7 
 years ago, deserted, his wife, Mary and her child- 
 reu, and went to Holland, leaving also a son by a 
 former wife. She paid some of his debts and peti- 
 tions the G~overnor for leave to remain on her 
 small fiirm and be exempt from paying any more 
 debts. — Vol. 4, orders. 
 
 1671, Sept. 21. — Ben. Coe agrees with the Town 
 of Jamaica to set uj) 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.^ — Bccords, p. 61. 
 
 1671, Oct. 4. — John Hubbs sues Wm. Hubbs 
 for hog-stealing. John Woolley and Edward 
 Banbury are witnesses. The sentence of the Com-t 
 is Mi fine or 10 stripes. 
 
 1672. — Andries, a negro slave of Capt. Wm. 
 Lawrence was whipped 39 stripes and branded on 
 the forehead with a hot iron, for theft and larceny 
 of some linen, etc. at Jamaica. 
 
 1672. — Rich. Lattin of Oystcrbay being inform- 
 ed against by Loren Mott, was fined o£50 for sedi- 
 tious words and to be imprisoned during the Gov- 
 ernor's pleasure. He was excused fi-om corporal 
 punishmeut by reason of his age. [He at first fled 
 but returned home on theissue of a proclamation 
 for the confiscation of his estate if he did ^lot 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 from MadNan's Neck, who have 
 small parcels of laud and have no relation to the 
 town equal to the ancient inhabitants — some piar- 
 cels being divided into several sh.ares. The Court 
 decide that the people of MadNan's Neck may 
 vote, if freeholders, and that they cannot, be set 
 ofl' 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 
 Council. 
 
 1673, Jan. 7. — Thos. Appleby married Elizabeth 
 Osborn, both of MadNan's Neck. 
 
 1673.— The house of Ellen Wall, for 23 years a 
 resident 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 
 
8 
 
 QUEERS COUNTY 
 
 the magistrate!?, and putitions the Governor for re- 
 lief. — See also hiker's Neictoivn, p. 47. 
 
 1674, Jan. 1-5. — John Jcnniii°;s, a sojoiinier at 
 Hempstead, on comphiint mado Ipy tlii' wifV of one 
 Skuddcr of Maapeth Kills, that he carried off his 
 brother's indentures, is sentenced to be put in 
 prison in the Hole and on liis release to be put in 
 the stocks at Hempstead — there to sit two hnm-s 
 with a paper on his breast signifying his crime, 
 and to pay all charges. 
 
 1674, Feb. 9.— The Court of Flushing send a 
 dangerous fellow, under charge of two men, to the 
 Governor, at New Orange, with a request that he 
 be imjirisoned tliere, as they liave no jail or lock- 
 up at Flushing.— Co?. 3Iss., 23 : 30 1. 
 
 1674, April 18. — Samuel Furaian of Oysterbay, 
 went about the streets of New York making a 
 great noise and 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. Jlis. 2 : 705. 
 
 1G74, Xov. 30. — Thos. Cham])ion, Rich. Gilder- 
 sleeve, Wm. Jecocks, .James Pine, Simnii Searing 
 and Jer. "Wood of Ileni])stead, in behalf of some 
 others, request Gov. Andros (as being fathor of 
 this Commonwealth) to install such autlionty among 
 them as may be a means under tiod fur iijiliolding 
 and maintaining the ministry and worship of God 
 " among us," that his honor may be promoted and 
 his sabbaths obser\ed, for the good of themselves 
 and their posteritj'. 
 
 1C74.— Thos. Case of Newtown, is ordered liy 
 the Court tliere not to entertain the wife- of Wm. 
 Smith without his consent.*— j;. 501, Hinmaii's 
 Conn. 
 
 1G74, Not'. 16. — .John BuiTou.slis of Newtown, 
 is sentenced to be imprisoned till Monday, and 
 then to be fastened to the whijiping post before 
 the City Hall at New York, and tliere stand one 
 hour with a i)lacard on his breast, denoting that he 
 h;ul addressed seditiuus letters to the (iovemor 
 and Council, (which he pretended to be in the name 
 of the town) anil to be incapable hereafter of bear- 
 ing any office or trust, 
 
 1674, Nov. 21. — Daniel Patrick* and Francis 
 Coley of Flushing, for contenii)tuously working on 
 Thaidcsgiving Day, and giving reproachful lan- 
 ■lia'^-e to the magistrates tliat questioned them for 
 it, are sent to the New York Sessions by Justice 
 Cornell and Mr. llinchman. 
 
 1675, Jan. 1.— Chancy,' an Indian, bomul for two 
 years to Moses kludge of Jlusketo Cove, and since 
 become his servant for debt, has run away and 
 is supposed to be with the Sequetanck Indians. 
 
 •Tlioa. Case of Fairfield roniovcil to the Dutch in 1664, 
 was afli-rwanls inii)risoiieJ, rcjiTtiil tlio inward light and 
 died l(i'.l2, cliildW'ss.— *V/r«t'f, Cai. Diet. 
 
 tOnc! Capt. D.iuiel I'atrick was kilUd iu !=tninf.ird.— 
 thadln 1, 127. 
 
 1675, Jan. 24. — The Indians on I.<ong 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 
 (!ate, are to be collected on account of the Indian 
 disturbances at the eastward. No intercourse is to 
 he allowed with the Indians ou the Main, and 
 those at Pell's must go to winter within Hell Gate 
 on Long Island. 
 
 1675, Feb. 24. — .Jamaica votes that a committee 
 be fully empowered to treat with and (if tluy see 
 cause) consummate an agreement with 3Ir. .Joseph 
 Carpenter, of JIusketo Co\-e, and Caleb Carman, 
 of Jamaica, for building a corn and saw mill where 
 the old mill stands. — Kvconh, p. 75. 
 
 1675, Feb. 29. — Tackaponsha from Rockaway, 
 sends to Gov. Andros at Niw York, two Indians 
 bearing an Indian scalp >\ith the hair on. 
 
 1675, June 10. — Francis Bloodgood .and Myn- 
 dert Coerteu of Flnshuig, are bound over on a 
 complaint of Dr. Taylor against Cocrten for sedi- 
 tious words ; but no one appearing ag.iinst them, 
 they are dismissed. 
 
 1675, Jiili/ 22. — John, son of John .and Su.*au- 
 na Skidmiire, while playing at the house of .Sam- 
 uel and Naomi Barker at Jamaica, one Smiday (a 
 difference arising, as was alledged between them) 
 took up and cocked a loaded gun (in the absence 
 of the parents) fired and sliot his son Thomas Bar- 
 ker through the body with a brace of bullets, so 
 that he died next day. As the neiglil)ors 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 ( )ldfield 
 and Richard Burgess, lads, who wen- not p\it to 
 their oath by reason of their age. It appeared that 
 tlie deceased f'orj;ave the lad. Verdict of the jury ; 
 chance medley, whereupon the prisoner Avas cli'areil 
 by proclamation of the Court. 
 
 1675, Sep. 15. — Capt. Thom.is Townsend of 
 Oj'sterbay, complains to the Governor that the 
 Quakei-s wcm't keep watch. It is ordered that all 
 must obey the laws. 
 
 1675, Ocl. 21. — A block house nnist be erected 
 forthwith on JladNan's neck. Tiie jxMiple have 
 neglected former orders and did not help Hemp- 
 steiid cither, .and arc to be punished for conteinpt 
 if further delayed. 
 
 1675, Oct. 27. — The Indians have in friendship ' 
 brought in their .arms to Hicks. " You may lend 
 them, says the (iovernor, as many back as you 
 judge projK'r for their present hunting, i^ee, liow- 
 ev('r, that the peopli- of Ili'injistead omit not .<eud- 
 ing daily to see them according to order." 
 
 1675. — Thomas Case while preaching at Matin- 
 ecock is arrested by the Constable of Oysterbay. 
 He had also preached at Humphrey Clay's.* 
 
 •Clay lived iu Hushwick iu IG98.— Doc. Hit. 3, 135. 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES, 
 
 lG7o, Ocf. — Jlaiy Case is fined .€5 for iiiternipt- 
 iuo- 3Ir. Lcvericli while preacliing, aucl saying; to 
 him : " Come down, tlioii whited wall, tliou that 
 feedest thyself aud starvest the people." The Con- 
 stable led her out of the meeting. Samuel Scud- 
 der is fined cCG or go to jail for sending a long and 
 " scandalous letter to Mr. Leverich. Francis Coely 
 submits and is dismissed. Elizabeth Appleby dis- 
 turbed the Court of Sessions aud is committed. 
 Thomas Case is fined cC20 for preaching and ma- 
 king a disturbance before John Bowu's door at 
 Flushing. 
 
 1675, Nov. 23.— Conibury or Little MadXan's 
 Neck hitherto supposed to be in Fhishing (the line 
 having been i-un) is annexed to Hempstead. Hicks 
 who lives there has au interest also and office ia 
 Hempstead. 
 
 1676. — Thomas Case of Newtown, deluded 
 women by his teaching. He pursued extravagant 
 and illegal courses to the scandal and disturb:ince 
 of the Colonj^. He has deluded and drawn away 
 Ann, wife of John Rogers, and Susanna, daughter 
 of John To^\^lSc^d, notwithstanding the demands 
 aud endeavors of the husband and father, he de- 
 tains them from their duty: aud utters from place 
 to place many unfit gestures and words against tlic 
 laws of God aud the authority of this Government. 
 
 1676, Jan. 12. — Too many persons \-isit Thos. 
 Case in prison. None hereafter to be admitted. 
 
 ' 1676, Jan. — The Constable aud Overseers of Ja- 
 maica grant liberty to Richard Jones 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- 
 hig and keep it decent and clean on Saturday 
 nights against the Lord's Day, aud have the seats 
 placed in order. — Town Records, p. SO. 
 
 1676, May 12. — John Rogers had complained 
 to the Governor, of Ann, his -wife, being drawn 
 away by Thomas Case, in whose house and com- 
 pany at Maspeth Kills, he found her after 1 4 days 
 absence, but could not get her to come home with 
 him. Ann was lu-ought before the Governor at 
 Oysterba}-, and after sundry extravagant expres- 
 sions, she promised to return home and comport 
 herself according to the duty of a wife, without 
 rambling aliroad, particularly after Case ; but next 
 morning she presumed to come into the house "f 
 Geo. Deunis where the Governor ivas lodging, in 
 a dancing, quaking manner, with silly insignificant 
 discourse to the disturbance and scandal of the 
 house, and in derision of authoritj^ for which she 
 was sent to New York, to be kept in close custody. 
 
 1676, May 17. — Three pieces of land one mile 
 square eack are bought of the Matinccock Indians 
 about iluskcto Cove, of which the people already 
 have the herbage and trees, The Indians at first 
 asked au extravagant rate, but at last consented to 
 take 600 guilders,^seawant. 
 
 1676, July 24.— Richard Jones of Jamaica is 
 
 sent prisoner to New York, on infonnation 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- 
 ter.? ou Cow Neck. 
 
 1676, Oct. 3. — The Governor grants, ou petition, 
 100 acres of land, improveable and not yet appro- 
 priated, on the west side of Cow Neck, with mea- 
 dow proportionable, to Johu 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 gi'ant, proceeded 
 to build thereon. Hempstead then voted (Oct. 14) 
 that all holders of rights ou Cow Neck should go 
 aud pull down the building that Cornell had set 
 up. Whereupon the clauuauts 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 jn'oceedings then took 
 place, at a Special Court of A,ssize : the indictment 
 was read and the jury called over. The prisoners 
 at the bar, Thos. Rnshmore, Nath'l. Pearsall, Adam 
 Mott, Abm. Smith, and Jos. Langdou, excepted to 
 Elias Doughty, Dr. Taylor and Thomas Stevens, 
 in whose places wera put John Cooper, Johu Couk- 
 lin aud Nicholas ijdes. A question then arose 
 whether the prisoners should hold up their hands for 
 a riot or not. The Coiu't decided in the negati^-e. 
 A paper signed, Sept. 19, by Rnshmore, " with 
 many hands of combination," was produced aud 
 read. These 37 signers bound themselves to as- 
 sert their rights in Hempstead, 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 au uula^\'- 
 ful assembly a riot, according to law. All arc with- 
 drawn but the Coui-t. Tlie Court decided to pro- 
 ceed according to the indictment, and that the rest 
 be called over who set their hands to the jiaperaud 
 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, signed 
 by Searing, Pearsall and Richard GUdersleeve, 
 which is the beginning of the " combination." He 
 acknowledges it and submits to the Court. Richard 
 Cornell, one of the bench, being asked his knowl- 
 edge, taxes Pearsall to be the first man that begun. 
 There were to be 2.5 men but he counted only 22. 
 
 The prisoner ofiers 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 danuige done, and as 
 to the agreement under their hands, called a " com- 
 bination ;" and hi.' thinks (3) that their endeavors 
 to defend their title legally not to be a riot ; as he 
 had no arms, gave no threatening words nor heard 
 
 *\Vas this Win, Leete, Dep. G«v. of New Haveu? 
 
10 
 
 QUEENS CO'UNTY 
 
 the fi)ri\vaniiiiij; of C'onifU in His Maji-.^fy's namt. 
 Saiidt'ord riMil from Daltou'rf JiiBtic", that to re- 
 move a common uuisancc any nunihcr of persons 
 may meet and remove it to another ])hiee. The 
 jury without parting from Court deliver in their 
 verdict that Pearsiill is guilt}' hy jiroof and confes- 
 f-ion. The prisoner is withdrawn and 'i'liomas 
 Ihi.-^hmore l)roiif,'ht to tlie hur. He said he nieddhd 
 with nothin;; but what was his own, and that Cor- 
 nell called them " wolves and Indians." Christo- 
 pher Yeomans being sworu s:iy3, he was stripping 
 off gome tobacco in his house, at Great Neck, and 
 heard a great noise of people, and alVcrward saw 
 some horsemen and Lieut. Mott come up, who 
 asked him if he would go with him, and borrowed 
 his ciinoc. So they got in and rowed over to Cow 
 Neck, where he saw Kichard Cornell and near 
 twenty llempste.td men, among whom wa.** the 
 prisoner at the bar, Thomas Itushniore, v.-lio (Mr. 
 Cornell saith) was the first who hiid hold of and 
 .struck at the building which they quietly i>ulled 
 dovni. Mr. Cornell first spoke to Yeoman.s but he 
 replied: "I am none of them." Then Cornell 
 said: "bear witness what ye see done." Kogcr 
 Pedly testified as above, and also that Rushmore 
 said : " Come let us do what we came about." 
 Whereupon he laid hands upon a ])ole 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 tiud all guilty. The senteucc 
 is as ibllows :■ 
 
 Nathaniel Peai-sall, Clerk of Hempstead, who 
 first signed the paper is fined ^£20 and to give 
 bond for his good biha^ ior. Thomas llushmoic; 
 who stands in his justification, is liiied .£40 and six 
 mouths' imprisonuieiif, then to come ont on giving 
 security for his good beha^•ior to the next Court of 
 Assizes. Adam Mott (wlio pleads he was not in 
 the " combination " nor knew of the CJovcrnor's 
 special wan-ant, nor did anything to withstand au- 
 thority, but went to defend his own concerns upon 
 the land) on his submission and good Ixhavior is 
 fined <£5. Abm. Smith acknowledges his hand — 
 was emjiloyed by the town" to warn oft' J'ohn Cor- 
 nell, and was the last tiiac 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 building, he would do 
 well to take them out. IJe is fined .£10 and to 
 give secm-ity for his good behavior. Joseph Lang- 
 don confessed that he was one of the riotei's and' 
 heljjed to pull down the house, and owns his hand 
 to the paper. He- is fined £10 and to give securi- 
 ty for his good behavior. — Vol. 2iJ, Assises. 
 
 All the rest are to be summonetl to tlie next 
 Court of Sessions, at Jamnicai when the Court arc 
 to examine into the business and (as they see 
 cause) to acquit the fine or bnid them to their good 
 behavior and to appear at the Court of Assize; 
 and the agreementis declared to be illegal, and who- 
 ever acts thereby is to be declared criminal. It is 
 the judgment of the Court that Mr. Cornell has 
 
 Jibeity to settle at Cow Neck apiin, wh(Te he was : 
 and if the land shall apjxar to belong to the Ileinp- 
 ptead niM'.i they shall be jiaid for it as much as 
 they can ))rove it to be -worth. — To?. 3 : 127, Coun- 
 cil Minutes. 
 
 IGTG.'i — Hempstead^ -was cited before the Gover- 
 nor to show a particular sm-vey for all their Indian 
 purchases. IJoth sides were- to jdead their owu 
 cause. Captain Seauuin came v/ith Hushmore 
 from Hempstead to speak to the Gu^■enlor, 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. 
 
 1G7G ? — AVilliani Leverich is s-ued for saving 
 that the Dutdi, at Albjiny, su])plied powder to the 
 Indians. He is fined twenty beavers for not being 
 able to make good his assertion, and to give bonds 
 in tlie sum of £1 00 fur hi.s gT)od behavior for the 
 ne.xt six month.^. 
 
 1G77, Marcii l.J. — The Pequod Indians liavc 
 been over to see Mouiiguamy, the Eockaway Sa- 
 chem. The Governor orders llimpstead to settle 
 with the Indians for the land they have bought. 
 
 1G77, Jiili/ 22. — Gildersleevc, aged 73, and his 
 wife, testify that Tackapousha has been paid for 
 his Itmdi*. 
 
 l'G7S-. — John GRcson, (Kissam) buys of John 
 Smith, Hock, two lots, of ninety-nine acres, at 3Iad 
 Nan's Neck, for .£ilO, to be paid in good mciThant- 
 able blade tobacco, in casks — to be delivered at 
 the weigh-hoHse, Now York, at price current, equiv- 
 alent to good merchantalile ])ork, wheat, beaver, 
 seawant, in four payments, 1079, '80, 'SI and 'S2. 
 — Coiintij Jtecords. 
 
 IGGO? — The man-iage of John Underbill, Jr., 
 and .Mary Prior, of Oysterbay, is pronounced null, 
 and they are fined by the Sessions, in June, =£5 
 ajiiece, for a breach and contempt of the law ; and 
 to j)ay £10 more if they shall not be legally uiiir- 
 ried before the holding of the next Court of A,ssizes, 
 wliicli being neglected, they are fined .Cl-0 each and 
 the judgment of. th« Coiu't below, atlirmed. 
 
 1678, Jan. 21. — ^.V warrant is granted to Cap 
 tain James Hubbard to siuwey and make a map of 
 Great or Cow Neck. 
 
 l«7e,- Dec. 11.— The Constable of Flushing 
 c/jm])lains that John Prior and Elizabeth Ijown 
 live tofrether uidawfully, under pretence of mar- 
 riage in '^iiftker meeting. 
 
 1G7!), 3hiii 19. — Thomas Hushmore has license 
 to erect a grist and saw mill, on a stream on the 
 west side of JIad Nan's Neck, on laiul not yet 
 taken up or improved, and to tut timber uot ap- 
 propriated, for his saw mill. 
 
 1 070, Dec. 10. — Tackapousha, Avho claimed half 
 of Cow Neck, lias liberty from the Court of Ses- 
 sions to settle on the east side, but he is to admit 
 no strange Indians. 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 11 
 
 1664. — Hcndrick Thompson, Cow-keeper of Ja- 
 maica, is cliarged with using scandalous words 
 against the King. 
 
 1665, Aprii 21. — Thomas Case and Mary Mea- 
 cock, have not been hxwfully 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, Bee. i. — Petition from the people of Ja- 
 maica, praying for a representative form of govern- 
 ment.— Co?, ilss., 24 : 25. 
 
 1675, Kov. 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 imlawful 
 meetings, nor to have any at home. — CoL Mss., 
 25 : 1. 
 
 1677, Jan. 7. — Hempstead voted, bj- a majority, 
 to build a Meeting House, 30 feet long, 21 feet 
 wide and 12 feet stud between the joints, with a 
 lean-to on each side. The builder was Joseph Car- 
 penter. — 2'own Eecords, B, p. 123, 128. 
 
 1680. — .lean Guenon, Frs. Bretcau and Jean 
 Apr6, three Frenchmen, of Flushing, petition for 
 more land. They have lived there over twenty 
 years. — Vol. I, p. 170, Land Papers. 
 
 1680, May 12.— The old Meeting House and 
 Fort, at Hempstead, were sold at outcry, for £2, 
 12s., in meeting house jjay — th.at part of the Fort 
 excepted that stands iu Jeremy Wood's lot. — 
 Records, 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. In August, 1683, he was superseded by 
 John Spragg, as Provincial Secretary. In 1684 he 
 married the daughter of Thomas Eudyaitl. On the 
 return of Andros to power he accompanied him to 
 Boston. West was seized on Andros' overthrow 
 and immiu-ed in the castle at Boston. — Cot. His., 
 3 : 657. 
 
 1681, Feb. 14.— Christopher Dean and Tliomas 
 Kobbins had a warrant to seize a ketch riding m 
 Cornbury bay, and loaded with wheat, grain and 
 flour, unbolted. They applied to Thomas Willcts, 
 Thomas Hicks and Eiehard Cornell, to assist them, 
 who refused till they had consulted Major Thomas 
 Willets. Dean and Eobbins, iu a mad, hare- 
 brained and preposterous manner, went on board 
 Mr. Ilascock's sloop, took a gun and threateijed to 
 fire into the said Ketch, 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 had on board. — Vol. 30, Albany 
 Beeords. Also, Col. His., 5 : 57 ; 6 : 461. 
 
 1681, March 13. — John Hanse, John Tunesen 
 
 and Jerome Ilapelye get land, at Rockaway, of 
 the Indians. — Hempstead Records, p. 125. 
 
 1681, Sept. 22. — Jamaica appoints Wm. Creed 
 to go to Himtington to confer with the other dele- 
 gates about grievances and the pri%-ilege8 of the 
 county, etc. — Records. 
 
 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. 
 
 1682. — AVamassomman, an Indian, killed two 
 wolves, for which the Constable of Hempstead 
 gave him two Indian coats, five shillings and a 
 quart of rum. — Records. 
 
 1682, May 6. — Rev. Jeremiah Hobart, called to 
 Hempstead, by major vote. Salary =£70 and fire- 
 wood. Some dissented. — Ree., 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 
 K^^ng 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 tliey 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 M'as or- 
 dered, by the Govenror, to preach there once a 
 month. — Doc. His., 3 : 346. 
 
 1682, June. — Hempstead, sensible of the ill 
 neighborhood of Taekapousha, -with his Indians, on 
 Cow Neck, (which is iu 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, when no Indians appeared, but West 
 plead for them. Hempstead finding no bill brought 
 iu by the Indians eight days befoi-e trial, neglected 
 to bring their former judgment confirmed. The 
 Court insisted on going on with the trial and 
 Hempstead depended on the minutes of the previ- 
 ous Court in West's possession, but he did not or 
 would not produce them, and so the town was cast. 
 But it did redound well to the Clerk's advant- 
 age hj 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 bound by 
 it, neither should Hempstead be. Petition grant- 
 ed. — Albany Becords, 31. 
 
 1682, Oct. — 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, Dec. 8. — The to^vn of Hempstead pleads 
 agamst Hanse and his associates settling at Rocka- 
 •^yay.— Land Papers, Vol. 2 : 3. Becords, p. 29. 
 
 1683, Oct. 3.— Thomas Higham, tailor, sells a 
 
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 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 negro slave who has lost all the fingers on the right 
 haud, and thumb ou the Itft. -^Ilenipsieatl Itec, C. 
 p. 24. 
 
 1G84, Jan. 3. — The inhahitants of Mad Nun's 
 Neck petition the (jovenior tor riglit of conunou- 
 age, to have the privileges of the township, to have 
 the minister come over among tliem to instruct 
 their children in the dirties of Christianity, and to 
 have the right of \oting at town meetings. — AUnniy 
 Itccords, 31. 
 
 1G84, March. — Flushing votes to Governor Don- 
 gan 400 acres of land, extending soulii of Success 
 pond to the edge of Hempstead Plains, lli inp- 
 Btcad also grants him 200 acres, adjoining. 
 
 i685, Feb. 18. — Morgan Jones, late minister of 
 Newtown, pclitions the Governor, lie came, he 
 say.s, from JIarvland to New York, !Marcli 9, 1070, 
 and Governor Andros ordered him to go to New- 
 town to- be tlieir minister. The Constuhle and 
 Overseers agreed to give him £50 a year (mer- 
 chant's pay) and fifty acres of land and huild a 
 house for him. They are now cflOO in arrears 
 and won't pay. — Albany Itccords, .32. 
 
 1G8.5, March 17.— .Jamaica %'otes that benjamin 
 Coe and .Jolni Hansen shall have liberty to set up 
 a com and fulling mill, ou Foster's River, "in our 
 bounds "—giving them the privilege of stream; 
 they engaging to maintain a good mill, .-md grind 
 for the town for the twelfth part. — Records. 
 
 l:68o. — Roscobel, a tract of 280 acre?, on the 
 80\ith side of Hempstead Plains, was laid out for 
 J'ohn Spragg, the Governor's Secretary. It was 
 bought of Elias Orty aud others. — lAtnd Papers, 
 Vol. 2. Town Ilccord, p. o8. 
 
 1<;86, Dec. 1;). — John Smith complains to the 
 Governor that the Indians pitch their wigwams on 
 land on the north side of H<ni])8tead, granted hiin 
 twenty years ago. 
 
 1G87, June 12. — Ordered in f'onneil, that ^lad 
 Nan's Neck ])ay all arrears to Ilobart, and that 
 they be separateil frfmi Hempstead hereafter, and 
 that Morgan Jones be inducted as their minister. 
 
 1G8S, March 27.— William Smith and .lolm 
 Foster, of Foster's Sleadow, and Samuel Sweezy, 
 took (by warrant from Daniel Wliit<liead) several 
 marked horses from Southold, but afterward gave 
 tiiem up and repented. 
 
 1689, Mai/ 15. — All the old Magistrates and 
 militarv oflicers are put out of office, in Suffolk and 
 Queens counties, l)y the people, who choose others 
 in tlieir stead. A' great part of tin- militia have 
 marrhed from their homes, and are now at or near 
 Jamaica. Tlieir intention is to seize the fort at 
 New York, and to keep oft' Popery, French inva- 
 sion and slavery. 
 
 1G90, Jan. 10. — The officers of the milit.iry 
 company, on Mad Nan's Neck, are Uichard Os- 
 born. Captain ; .John llobbs, Licntenant, and Jo- 
 nah Sutton, Ensign. 
 
 1690, ^l;)ri7 22. — Nathaniel I'ears.-ill, chosen to 
 the Assembly from Queens County, refuses to sit 
 and act as Kepre.-entative. — JJoc. His., 2 : 2!>2. 
 
 1690, Nov. 7.— Capt. Jbhn Clap, in behalf of 
 104 citizens of Newtown, Flushing, Hempstead 
 and Jamaica, complains to the King of Leislcr's 
 usurpation, and that .Jacob Milburn and Samuel 
 Edsall have been selling, seizin? aTid confiscating 
 their property, for refusing obedience to iiim. They 
 even strii»j)ed their wives and daughtei-s of their 
 wearing- apjiarel, and shot and wounded divers 
 poor Englishmen, and then sccjuestered and sold 
 their estates. 
 
 ICOD, Dec. 4. — Rev. .T. Ilobart has an order 
 from the Court of ( )yer and Terminer, to compel 
 Hempstead to pay the arrenrs of his salary. — Toirn 
 Jtecords, p. GG. 
 
 1G91, March 2'). — .John Jackson received 38 .«. 
 and d. fur li.iy and oats that he fuiTiished to 
 twenty-seven horses of the Hempstead troop, that 
 were marched to Brooklyn ferry. 
 
 1G91, Mati •!■. — .Tames Sackett, of Newtown, ap- 
 pointed, against his own wish. Collector of Taxes, 
 in Leisler's time, pray 8/ relief of the (iovemor, as 
 the people now demand their money back. 
 
 1G91. — .John Bowne and Nathaniel IVarsall, 
 elected to the As.-<embly, fnmi Queens County, 
 were dismissed the House, for refusing to taki' the 
 oath. Five days after, John JaeksDU, Sin riff of 
 Queens County, returned Captain D.iniel White- 
 head and .Tohn Tredwell, as members, but Tred- 
 well was seized on some charge, by the Slurifl of 
 New York, and the Assemldy, on due investiga- 
 tion, " find the allegations against him so scandal- 
 ous that he can't serve as member." Seven days 
 after the Sheriff relnnis the name of .John Robin- 
 son, to supply TreiiweH's place. — Asscmhbi Jour- 
 nal. 
 
 1C91, Jnhl :',. — .Jer. Ilobart petitions the Gover-' 
 nor. H.e has been minister of Hempstead eight 
 years and his salary is not paid. — .Uhamj JUc, 
 Vol. 37. 
 
 1G91, July 11. — To the projirietors and free- 
 holders of the town of IIemi)Stead : — The request 
 of John Stuard humbly showeth, that inasmuch as 
 it has pleased God to make me a master of a fami- 
 ly, 1 finding it a necessity to settle myself, I am 
 wiliing to settle among you, to follow the trade of 
 a sooper, as also to ]iractice the art of surgery. 1 
 do therefore request that you be pleased to givo 
 me a right of 1-8 or 20 acres of land that is tillable, 
 a little east of tlie I'ine Point, near the Plain Edge. 
 It is the bit of that hollow, called the jiloody H(d- 
 low, for which I shall be very tliaiikl'nl, and also 
 ready and willing to serve you in either of the 
 arts "aforesaid, so far iis I have understanding. — 
 Jierords Cn p. 06. 
 
 [81 persons joined in the aliove petition.] 
 
 109 1 ]— 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 arc 
 eight, ten, and some fifteen miles asunder. They 
 wish to send their grain (for taxes) to New York, 
 direct, by water. — Albany Eccords, Vol. 37. 
 
 1692, March 6. — Daniel Lawrence, laborer, is 
 cited to New York, for misdemeanor in damning 
 the blood of the Justices. 
 
 1692, JiOK 17.— In the list of Captain Teter 
 Schuyler's company, among other names, are : 
 John Allison, Matthew Bedell, .Joseph Bates, .Juhu 
 Gaile, Thomas Higgom, William. Hall, Pr. Mason, 
 Vincent Martin, Eichard Potter, .James Pinhouse 
 (for J. Pettit), William Parcell, William Kobard, 
 Amos Smith, Samuel Skidmore, John Thomas (for 
 Samuel Allyn) and Jeremy Thiekston. Queens 
 County contributed 16 men; liings, 14; Suffolk, 
 16. 
 
 1692. — To Captain Bradhurst's company, Suf- 
 folk contributed 1-5 men ; Kiug,s, 2 ; and Qiteeus, 
 3, viz : Barnaby Floy, Clerk ; Thomas Force, Ser- 
 geant, and William Albertson. 
 
 1692, Sc}). 9. — John Coo petitions to be set free. 
 He has been fifteen months in jail ou the suit of 
 Thomas Hire for ^£230. He was arrested by Hire 
 April 20, 1691, for having brought him to Now 
 York on Leisler*^s wanant. 
 
 1692, Sejpf. 9. — William Lawrence and John 
 Coe were eleven months in jail for treasonable 
 crimes, in Leisler's time, (April, 1691) and were 
 indicted in October followmg. 
 
 1694, lEarcli 1. — Yoris Abrahamse, of Newtown, 
 was pitched on for Collector of the Count}' rate, 
 but he petitions the Governor to be released fi-om 
 the ofiice, 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 said rates, not behig 
 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 praj's he may not be 
 compelled to serve iu both capacities^ 
 
 1692-4. — Thomas Willet cut down two acres of 
 corn of William Peat, at Cow Neek. 
 
 1696, March 17.— The trees ol Thomas Willet, 
 at Cow Neck, were cast down with axes, staves 
 and knives, and evils threatened to him by Timo- 
 thy Halstead, Jr., Wilham Peat, George Pearsall, 
 Samuel Ilainer, Jer. and Israel Smith, Peter Tot- 
 ten, Epliraim "\'alentine, laborers, and other evil 
 doers. A wan-ant was issued, by Thomas Hicks 
 and Daniel Whitehead, to arrest and caiTy them to 
 the next jail. They were fined =£2 each, where- 
 upon they petitioned the Governor for relief, saying 
 that they went ignorantly to cut their wood, ou 
 Cow Neck, by permission of the town of Hemp- 
 stead. 
 
 1698, Sepi. — Daniel and John Lawrence were 
 fined .£3 each, for burning a hovel or small house, 
 valued at £\2, 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 unsuc^ 
 cessfidly contested by Content Titus, Jonas Wood, 
 William Lawrence, Hope Carpenter, and John 
 Coe.: — Assemhhj Journal. 
 
 1699, March 31. — The petition of Samuel 
 Clowes, to be appointed Comptroller of the Cus- 
 toms, (ciToneously dated 1669, on page 6) was re- 
 jected. 
 
 1699, Mail 6. — Governor Bellomont writes that 
 " Captain Whitehead, who is one of the members 
 that serve for Queens Count}', kceps-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 peojile 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 1 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, 
 but of a quite different temper and principle, the 
 balance is, as I am told, ten Williamites for one 
 Jacobite." — Col. His., 4 : 508. 
 
 1699. — A third part of the goods imported into 
 the Colony of New York were ridi mto the four 
 ports on Long Island, viz. : Setauket, Oysterbay, 
 Musketo Cove and Southold. John Townsend, of 
 Oysterbay, was apjiointed by the Governor, Sur- 
 veyor of the Custom^s, with a salary of <£30 per 
 year and one third of the seizm-es, but beiug abused 
 by the inhabitants, he soon resigned his office 
 " through fear of being knocked on the head " by 
 some of the smugglers. — Journal of AssemhJy. 
 
 No date. — Mercy, an Indian woman, of Cow 
 Neck, says that Penuis, an Indian, the Sagamore's 
 son, belonging to Block Island, enquired 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 oft' the English. Upon which 
 Massecue wished to know whether they would be 
 kuid to them. But answer was made 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 \ipon discovery upon Great Mad 
 Nan's Neck,* Cow Neck and Littleworth, and pla- 
 
 "Great Neck was originally called Mad Nan's Neek. 
 
14 
 
 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 CC8 tliprfal)r)iitr<, who afterwards made liis boasts 
 that he would destroy these jihices like notliiiifj ; 
 and this I'eiiuis was designed to fjo into the Mo- 
 hawk country and raise a party of Indians to land 
 in the ni^ht and fop^gy days, by small numbers at a 
 time, and so keep them private in the woods until 
 he hud his number on Long Island to aecomplish 
 his design ; and further the French are to mcret by 
 water and so fall on and destroy all together, for 
 Leisler's sake. Further, Penuis said, if this Iiuli- 
 an woman would keep his counsel, that after he 
 had conquered the Island and destroyed the Eng- 
 lish, he would make her his (jueen, and he set a 
 mark on her arm as a demonstration of bis fidelity. 
 
 Jo.'icph Hunt, an Indian belonging to Itye, and 
 landing on Cow Neck, the lUli inst., declared of 
 six stray Indians seen in the woods on the JIain, 
 who liaii their faces blacked and their eyes red — a 
 token of war. On AVeduesday last there came a 
 strange Indian into a wigwam on Cow Neck, who 
 had a new coat, gun, hatchet and two knives, one 
 in each garter of his stockings, who enquired if 
 there were any more houses thereabouts. The In- 
 dian girl being afraid said there were more. He 
 then asked whether this was Tackajmu-slia's coun- 
 try. Being afraid she answered he was dead, and 
 his country was further southward ; and so the 
 Indian went away, and nothing further was heard 
 of him. 
 
 Captain Sands' Indian was much aftVighted at 
 the news, but after some private conference be- 
 tween Joseph Hunt and Captain Sands' Indians, 
 they were all reconciled and ijuiet in their minds 
 and went all cheerfully about his business. And 
 all the Indians repaired to that Indian house at 
 night where the strange Indian was seen, and the 
 Indiau seems ever since to be much encouraged. 
 
 A further relation fnmi 31 r. Sands, which he had 
 from an Indian boy, that this I'enuis would liave 
 an Indian, called Charles, to go up to Albany, for 
 they did intend (5 or 6,000 of them) to get into 
 Albany, under pretence of going to take Canada. 
 Under this pretence the Dutch and English will 
 be kind and open hearted, and in the bight of their 
 frolic we will cut off the town. — Col. Bins., Vol.3~. 
 
 1701. — Jackson and Whitehead were expelled 
 the House of Assembly, for absenting themselves 
 and refusing to serve. They left the House, as 
 they said, because non-residents were not allowed 
 to sit, but refused to give their reason to the House. 
 Colonel Thomas Willet and John Tahnan 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 summons 
 to attend the House, wheri\ipun they too were ex- 
 pelled. The offensive pai>er that caused this ex- 
 pulsion closed in these words : " till you giv us 
 furder satisfaktiun nud the sjieaker (Gonverneur) 
 clere hiuie'elf from being an uliane, we cannot acic 
 with you, to sit an<l sj)end ower tyme and the 
 countie's mouy to macke actes that will be voyd in 
 
 themselves — and we consider you no house." Cap- 
 tain Thomas Hicks and Jonathan Smith were 
 elected in place of the expelled members. — Ass. 
 Journal. 
 
 1701, Mil;/ 3. — John Searing, John Carle, and 
 Thom:is (lildeiTfleeve, are chosen at Town Electing 
 to repair the Meeting House, on the town's charge. 
 — Ilempstciid liceords D, j). 94. 
 
 1702. — The Rev. George Keith, in his Journal, 
 
 says : '■ I arrived at Boston from England, June 
 11th, with Ilev. Patrick Oordon, who died about 
 six M'eeks after, at Jamaica, of a violent fever then 
 frequent at New York, where he first had it a.s is 
 thought. The Quakers have their greatest meet- 
 ings at Flushing and Oysterbay. These I have 
 attended several times. Sept. 1.5th, we (Talbot 
 and Keith) hired a sloop to carry ns from New 
 London to Oysteqwnds, Long Island. After that, 
 we came on horseback twenty-four miles, and 
 lodged at Mr. Howell's, an inn-keeper. Ne.\t day 
 we travelled forty-five miles to Seatalket, and 
 lodged at Mr. Gibs's, inn-keeper. Next day trav- 
 elled thirty -two_ miles to Oysterbay, whire we 
 were kindly received and hospitably entertained by 
 Edward White, at his bouse, on free cost, for sev- 
 eral days, where 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 
 come off from tlieni. Sept. ::iOth, (Sunday) at the 
 request of Mr. AVliite aiul some neigldiors, having 
 »ised the church prayers, 1 preached from Titus, 
 2:11, 12, and that day Jlr. Talbot baptized a 
 child, at the request of the mother, the husband 
 being from home. Sept. 24th, 1 went to the 
 Quakers' meeting, at Flushing, accompanied by 
 Jlr. Talbot and 3Ir. Vesey, and divers other per- 
 sons from Jamaica, well affected to the Church of 
 England. After some time of silence I began to 
 speak, standing up in the gallc*-, Avhere thehr 
 speakers use to stand when they speak ; but 1 was 
 so much intermpted by the clamor aiul noise that 
 several of the Quakers made, forbidding me to 
 S])eak, that I could not proceed. After this one 
 of their speakers began to speak, and continued 
 about an lumr. The whole was a ramble of non- 
 sense and perversion of Scripture with gross reflec- 
 tions on the chinch and government there. He 
 said vice was set iqi (which was a reflection on the 
 goveniment there) because some were lately made 
 Justices of the Peace on Long Island, Avho were 
 not greatly affected to (^•uakerism, etc., 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 u]( again to speak but they made a 
 new hilerniption, and threatened me with being 
 guilty of a breach of the "Act of toleration," ana 
 thereby had put myself .£20 in the Queen's debt. 
 I rcidied that I was silent while their preacher wiis 
 sjjeaking, but that they broke the Act by inter- 
 rujjting me. They said I had no right to speak in 
 their meeting house, which they had paid for, and 
 1 had contributed nothing. One was .«o hot that 
 
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 IN OLDEN TIMES, 
 
 15 
 
 lie comniandod me to go out of the liouse. I said 
 that it was not )iis, and that all who have a mind 
 to come in at mccting^ime may come, and ye are 
 bound to k<>ep your doors open, etc., etc. Sept. 
 30th, I preached from James, 5 : 13, at the weekly 
 Fast, appointed by the Governor, by reason of the 
 great mortality then in New York, where above 
 500 died in the space of a few weeks, and that 
 very week, 70. My Lord Cornbury was very kind 
 to- us. At his invitation we did eat at his table 
 both Sundays and otlier times. Sept. 27 (Sunday), 
 I preached at Hempstead in the afternoon, from 
 Luke, 10 : 42, where was such a multitude that the 
 church could not hold them so that many stood 
 without, at the doors and window-s, to hear, who 
 were generally well affected and greatly desned 
 that a Church of England minister should be set- 
 tled among them. Mr. John Thomas is now their 
 minister. Nov. 26, (Thursday) I preached at 
 Hempstead, on Acts, 26 : 18. Nov. 29, preached 
 again there, on Heb., 8 : 10, 11, 12. Dec. 3, I 
 again visited the Quaker meeting, at Flusliing, 
 having obtained a letter from My Lord Cornbury 
 to two Justices of the Peace to go along with me, 
 
 ' to sec that the Quakers should not interrupt me , 
 but they did, and took no notice of jMy Lord Corn- 
 bury's letter, which v/as read to them 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 
 Louses nor their preachers as the Act requires. 
 We staid and heard three speakers utter nonsense 
 £tnd perversions of scripture. The chief speaker, a 
 Hiost ignorant person, said : " Balak [Cornbury] 
 Mad sent Balaam [Keith] to curse the jseople of 
 tlod." ASter they had done, and generally gone 
 fiway, (speakers and others) many who were not 
 Quakers staid and heard me detect the perversions 
 they had made of the scriptures, etc. Dec. G, I 
 preached at Oysterbay, in the Town House, on 
 Jlom., 10 : 7, 8, 9, and we were kindly entertained 
 l^y Edward White. 1703, Nor. 14.— (Sunday) I 
 preached at Jamaica, on Heb. 8:9, 10. Nov. 17, 
 
 1 preached at Oysterbay, ( Wednesda}-) on Jude., 
 20, 21 ; and Nov. 19, I baptized the wife of Cap- 
 tain Jones and the wife of Edward White and all 
 liis children, thi'ee sons and five daughters. (lie 
 and his wife were fonnerly Quaker^ but are come 
 Over to the churcli). Nov. 20, (Saturday) I bap- 
 Jiized John Townseud, Justice of the I'eace and his 
 three children and Mr. Nathaniel Cole, his wife and 
 three children. There had scarce been any pro- 
 fession of the Christian , rc4igion among -tlie people 
 of that town. They had scarce any notion of re- 
 ligion but Quakerism. The Quakers had formerly 
 (I meeting there but many of them became follow- 
 "fers of Thomas Chase [Case] 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 cliurch, on 1 Peter, 
 
 2 : 9, and lodged at Isaac Smith's, four miles from 
 the church, where I baptized ^l young woman of 
 his family, and a boy and girl of his relations and a 
 
 neighbor's child, a boy. This Smith had formerly 
 been a Quaker, a.nd was scarce then fidly 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].— foZ. His., 4 : 972, 1004. 
 
 1702, Oct. — Foiu- horse-carts and sixteen wag- 
 ons were hired to go fromJamaica to Brooklyn 
 Ferry for the transportation of Governor Coru- 
 bury's effects, a horse for the trumpeter and a 
 horse for Antony Walters. 
 
 1T02, Nov.-Vy. — The town of Hempstead votes 
 one hundred acres of land, with conveniences of 
 watering near the East Meadow Point, for a free 
 school ; also timber for building, fencing and fire- 
 wood, with other conveniences. — Ass. Jounial, 1 : 
 150.. 
 
 1703, Jan. 12. — At a general town meeting are 
 chosen for Church AVarden, John Pine ; for Ves- 
 trymen, Jona. Smith, Samuel Denton, Daniel Kis- 
 
 sarn, John Haviland, and . These for 
 
 Hempstead. For Oysterbay — Thomas Jones, 
 Churchwarden; Edmmid Wright, Isaac Dough- 
 ty, Samrxel Dickinson, Eichard Willis and Na- 
 thaniel Coles, Vestrjinen.* — Bccords D, p. 114. 
 
 1703, Nov. 8. — William Lawrence met Jacob 
 Wiltse, of Newtown, on the highway, near the late 
 Thomas LaT\Teuce'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 tlie pain and bruises of which he now 
 languishes. But Ljiwrence being of His Majesty's 
 Council, Wiltse can get no satisfaction unless he 
 presents him to the Council. — Col. Mss., Vol. 48. 
 
 1704, April 1. — Jamaica grants liberty to John 
 Gale to set up a grist mill, being a tide mill near 
 to or upon the great hamoc, or upon the old town 
 neck, for grinding well tlie town's com (before 
 strangers') at all seasonable times, fit for either 
 sifting or boltmg, and for the 12th part ; and at 
 all times to use his best skiU 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, Mai/ 8. — A good fulling mill to be sold at 
 Oysterbay, as also a plantation having on it, a large 
 new brick house, barn, stable, etc., a young orchard 
 and twenty acres clear land. Enquu-e of William 
 Bradford, printer. New Y'^ork, and know further. — 
 Boston News Letter. 
 
 1704, Mmj 31.— -Tunis Johnson, Derick John- 
 son Amberman and Derick Longstreet, fishermen, 
 of Flatlauds, were brotight prisoners to Jamaica 
 for trespassing in Jamaica Bay by fishing with 
 
 *Oysterbay and Hempstead, by act of Assembly, were 
 constituted one parish. 
 
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 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 nets witliDUt consent fii" the fit-clioljors. Tliry 
 were let oft' on their ;;iving a liond for ^£100 not to 
 do so affiiin. lUit in May^ 1707, Ciovenior Corn- 
 Ijury ordered tlieju to attend liim at IJockaway 
 lieaeli, witli tlieir boats and nets, and l)id tliem, 
 ■when ihciv, to lisl^ and draw tlieir net.*. After 
 Cornbury was out of office (May, 1709) the people 
 of Jamaica pued the fishermen for the jienalty of 
 their bond wliich they had forfeited. The prison- 
 ers petition for a relea-se from their bond. — Col. 
 Mss., 49 and 53. 
 
 1704, June IG. — AiTivcd in Xew York, the 
 Ew. Mr. Urquhart, Slinister of .lamaica. He 
 eamc from En<;hind in the Faulkland, rnan-of-war, 
 in consequence of the gea being infested with 
 French and Spanish privateers. 
 
 1704. — Samuel Clowes, at Jam.iica, is fined .C5 
 fur selling rum by the .omall measure, contrary to 
 law, to JIary Denton, who conveyed it to Samuel 
 Mills' tavern.— Cw/. Mss., 49. 
 
 1704, Ocf. 17.— :^ra)or Daniel ■\yiiitehcad dies, 
 and Jona. AVliiteluad, his son, is elected to tiic 
 Assembh- in his stead. • 
 
 170.'), April 0. — Hard frost last night. It 
 blows hard and cold from the north-west, which, 
 we fear, will do great damage. 
 
 170.), Ajtril 2.3. — On Wednesday last was tried 
 in Jamaica, by a special commission of Oyer and 
 Terminer and Delivery, before Ifoger Mompesson, 
 Esq., Chief Justice of New Y«rk and NeV Jersey, 
 on(; Samuel Wood, late of Conn(?cticut Colony, for 
 Stealing money and goods from Jolin .Marsh, lie 
 was i'ouml guilty and sentenced to lie burnt in the 
 left cheek near the no.sc with the letter T. — Cor- 
 rcspmulent of the Boston News Letter. 
 
 170.'), 3[a>/ .30.— John Searing, Sr., John Carle 
 and Thomas Gildersleeve, are chosen by major 
 vote, in answer to an order from the (Jovernor, to 
 repair the I'arsonage house and home lot, and 
 fence the Parsonage meadow, so that th(\y may be 
 tcnantalile, at the town's cost and charge, and to 
 repair the church and what is needful about them 
 all. — llcmpstcail Jiccords D, p. IGO. 
 
 1705, Oct. 11. — Jamaica, on Friday, 5th inst., 
 died here the lUv. 5Ir. John Hubbard, Pastor of 
 the church in this jilace, aged 28 years and 9 
 months wanting foin- days. lie was buried on 
 the 7th. 
 
 1705, July 17. — Governor Conibury says wool- 
 en manufactures are setting up, and he lias seen 
 pcrge made on J^oiig Island, that any man might 
 wear. 
 
 1705, Oet. 20. — " Mr. Urquhart is well chosen 
 for the people of Jamaica, and indeed, 1 liiink, 
 none litter tliau tlir Scotch Episcopal to deal with 
 Whigs and fanatics of all sorts. II;ul 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 h;ud by and will 
 
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 not j)ay Mr. Urquliart what is allowed by law. 
 tiiough My Lord Conibury has given orders for 
 it " — Talbot in Keitli's Joitnud. 
 
 1705, Dec. 12.— "William, John, Daniel, and 
 Jona. Lawrence, cut down the fence of AVilliam 
 Hallet, Newtown, with axes. 
 
 1706, Jan. 5. — Thanksgiving day for the suc- 
 cess of His Majesty'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. 
 
 170C, Jan. 21. — Extraordinary warm weather 
 for twelve day.s past. 
 
 1700, Jiili/ 20. — Eiiibnrgo laid on shipiiiiig in 
 New York for .«ixty days ; shoj)s shut, uo ordinary 
 work to be doiirs Viut all must turn out and work 
 on thc^ fortiiications. 15esides those in tlic Fort, 
 one hundred cannon ai-e mounted. — Boston KeifS 
 Letter. 
 
 1706, Oct. 14. — Great rains and mighty floods 
 in and about New York. 
 
 1707, Jan. 14. — At a general town meeting 
 held in Hempstead, according to Act of Assembly, 
 by major vote of the peojde, John .'^earing, Cap- 
 tain John Carman, .lohii I'readwell, Jr., Isaac 
 Doty, Sr., Abraham I'nderhill, Morris .Shadbolt/' 
 and Nathaniel Coles, are chosen Vestrymen fui'', 
 the present j'ear. ; and ]\lr. Thomas Jones .and 
 Thomas Gildei'sleevc, Church ^Vardcns. — Itecor(l\ 
 B, p. 193. 
 
 1707, Jan. 29. — So mild a winter never known' 
 All this month, except a day or two, was lik 
 March or Ai)ril. 
 
 1707, Jan. 20. — ^At a meeting of the JusticesJ 
 Church "Wardens and ^'estry, the Assessors arcA 
 ordered to assess every free-holder and sojounieri 
 in Hempstead and the bounds thereof, to raise" th 
 sum of U.'40 for the minister, £5 for the poor, aiK 
 .=€2, 5s. for the Collector's salary. — Ilccoids B, jO.' 
 194. 
 
 1707. — Dr. Henry Taylor, of Flushing had his' 
 barn burnt. — Col. A[ss., 'r,2. 
 
 1707, Jan. 23.— The Rev. John Hami)ton, a 
 itinerant minister, preached on Sunday, January 
 20th, in the Presbyterian church, Newtown, with 
 out having fir.-^t jirocured a license from Governor 
 Cornbury and also gave notice that Kev. Francii 
 Makemie would ofliciatc there on AVednesday, 
 lint Cornbury anticipating them, had them both 
 aiTCsted, as soon as they reached Newtown, by 
 Thomas Cardahs'lligh SheriiVof Queens county,' 
 and Stephen LiilV, I'luler Sherift'. They wereV 
 kept as prisoners on parole, at the houses of two 
 of the neighbors that night. The next day they 
 were led otf in a sort of triumph to Jamaica, seven 
 or eight miles out of the direct road, and there kept 
 all day and night. (Jn the 2:id, at noon, they got 
 to the Fort in NeM''York. After vexatious delays 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 17 
 
 they ^•cre ti'ied for dit'semiuatinp; doctrines " to 
 the great disturbance of the clnuxh as by law es- 
 tablished." The jury .acquitted them but the Gov- 
 ernor had a heavy bill of cost.«i imjiosed on them, 
 ^S3, Vs., 6d., which they had to pay before they 
 were set free. — Narrative of Iinprisonmmf. 
 
 1707, Jan. 26. — On Saturday night, William 
 Hallet, Jr., Esq., of Newto\\ni, his wife and five 
 children, were all. inhumanlj- murdered by an In- 
 dian man and negro ^^'oman, 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, Jlonday, Febiaiary 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 tins without discovery. 
 Febniary 10. — On Saturday last two negro men 
 were also executed at Jamaica, as accessaries to 
 this barbarous murdci-, and several otliers are in 
 ciTstody. Oiu- ChiefJustice, Judges and Attorney- 
 General, are indefatigable in the discovery of the 
 negro plot and Vjloody murder, and are still sitting 
 at Jamaica iu prosecution thereof. — Boston News 
 Letter. 
 
 1707, Juhj 7.^A convenient farm between 
 1|^ Huntington and Oysterbay, of 3,000 or 4,000 
 
 acres, on a neck called Queens Village alkts Horse 
 Neck— good meadow:, well wooded and watered. 
 iTon or twelve rods of fence will enclose the whole, 
 ive hundred acres, more or less, are to hire. — Bos- 
 ton Ncics Letter. 
 
 1708, Sept, 2. — Divers of the principal inhabi- 
 ftants of Queens County petition the Assembly for 
 
 i a law to repair or build anew the County Hall and 
 \common jail. Granted. — Ass. Jour., 1 : 221. 
 
 1709, A2iril 5. — John Talman and John Town- 
 send arc elected to the Assembly. The return of 
 
 jtlie latter is unsuccessfully contested by William 
 j Lawrence and Thomas AVaters. Cornelius Willet, 
 High Shei-iff, prays to be re-imbursed his great ex- 
 penses iu defending himself against the groundless 
 complaint of said Lawrence and Water.s. — Ass. 
 Jour., 1 : 241. 
 
 1709, Koi: 10. — A writ is issued for electing two 
 
 I 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 of John, 
 Sheriff of Queens Coimty, was in New York, at 
 the house of Mr. Cure, victualler, when a ditference 
 
 i happened between Everett and one John Harold, 
 a saUor, who violently beat and disfigured Everett 
 so that he came home sick and died on tlic 16th. 
 Verdict of the Coroner's Jury that he was mur- 
 dered by Harold, who iu the mean time had fled 
 on board one of His Maj«sty's ships. — Col. Mss., 
 Vol 51. 
 
 1710, Sejif. 12.— James Clements, William Wil- 
 
 lis, Thomas Jones, Peter Ben-ian, and Zachariah 
 Mills, Supervisors of Queens County, pray that a 
 bill may be brought in the Assembly to confirm the 
 piu-eliase of a Comity Hall and Jail, and to sell the 
 old hall and two jails, and the land between the 
 old and new builduigs — the land to run back till it 
 meets the Parsenage lot. — Ass. Journal, 1 : 274. 
 
 1710, Sejit. 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 be supjiorted iu their property of the lands on 
 which the gaols and sessions house stood, and the 
 lands between them. — Ass. Jour., 1 : 275-7. 
 
 1711, Juli/ 9. — The Governor requires the peo- 
 ple's houses in Jamaica to be inspected for pork, 
 bacon and other provisions, by Richard Oldfield, 
 who reports 13,615 lbs. wheat flour, 622 bushels 
 wheat and 5,583 lbs. salt meat. — Cot.Mss., Yol.oo. 
 
 1711, July IC. — Thomas Whitehead was Cap- 
 tain of a company of Queens County militia, to go 
 on an expedition to Canada. J ohu Lokison was 
 in Captain Jackson's companj' to go to Albany. — 
 Col. Mss., 5.5. 
 
 1711, July IS. — Several inhabitants of Queens 
 County petition the Assembly that if their appren- 
 ticss be compelled to go on the Expedition to 
 Canada, their masters may reap the benefit. — Ass. 
 Jour., 4 : 293. 
 
 1712, Kov. 4. — Samuel Baylis, Esq., and other 
 inhabitants of Q,ueens County, petition the Assem- 
 bly to lessen the rewards for killing squirrels, 
 crows or blackbirds and their young ones. — Ass. 
 Jour., 1 : 328. 
 
 1716, Auy. 31. — A bill was brought iu the As- 
 sembly to encourage the destroj-ing of foxes and 
 wild cats on Long Island. — Ass. Jour., 1 : 389. 
 
 1712. — Two depositions are sent to Governor 
 Hunter against Jona. Wright, for not paying the 
 " listing " money for the late expedition and using 
 contemptuous language. 
 
 1712, May 21, (Wednesday) was Thanksgiving 
 day for deliverance from the negro plot. ]\Ir. 
 Poyer preached at Jamaica from Psalms, 5:11. 
 
 1713, Nov. 20.— Was buried at the Kills, New- 
 town, Iiichard Betts, aged 113 years. — Foyer's 
 Eccords. 
 
 1714, May 10. — Sheep-parting at Isaac Smith's, 
 Herricks, for washing and shearing ; and ou the 
 first Monday iu October, when they are to be 
 driven oS the Flaius.— Town liecords. 
 
 1714, Dec. 20. — On Friday, Deborah Grycc 
 was hanged at Jamaica for murdering her child. 
 After conviction she confessed die fact. — Cor. of 
 Boston Kcus Letter. 
 
 1715, Jan. 3. — On Friday, a free negro woman 
 was hanged at Jamaica for murdering her child. — 
 
 Boston Xcws Letter. 
 
IS 
 
 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 1718, Svpl. 2S. — Richard Combo.", Deputy Con- 
 etalje, baviug received a warrant with an ar'sess- 
 nient annexed, to levy the ministers rate, went to 
 the hou.«e of Daniel Bull, Jamaica, and demanded 
 his proportion thereof. Bull said he woiikl pay 
 nothing, on which the Constable said he must di.s- 
 train. Bull immediately took up an axe and 
 Bwinginj; it over the constable's head said, in verj- 
 great haste, he \voukl split his brains if he touched 
 any thuig there. Trcsently Jacamiah Denton 
 came to the window, whom the constable com- 
 manded, in the l-ung's name, to assist him, but he 
 laughed and refused to obey. Combes then went 
 up and do%vn town and mustered sixteen or sev- 
 enteen people, but when he returned he found Bidl, 
 William Carman, Samuel and Henry Ludlum, 
 Robert and Htzekiah Denton, and Ephraim Smith, 
 Btanding before the door with great clubs in their 
 hands, and stripped to their waistcoats, who lifting 
 up their clubs, bid him come if he durst, and gave 
 him a great deal of scurrilous language. Bull then 
 advanced two or three steps from his companv to- 
 wards tlic constable, and told him if he came" 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. It aj)pears that when the constable or- 
 dered Robert Deuton, Thomas Thurston, Adam 
 Smith and three or four others to aid and assist 
 Lim, George JIcNish, the I'resbyterian minister, 
 told them not to mind or obey him. The rioters 
 apologized December ISth, and were let off with a 
 fine of d£2C 10s.]— Doc. His., 3, 287. 
 
 1720, Feb. 12.— Tim Bagley has license to 
 manufacture oil from whales driven ashore on the 
 south coast of Long Island. 
 
 1720, Oct. 28. — A bill was brought in the Asscm- 
 bly to empower the Justices of (Queens County to 
 sell then- County IIou.*e and Jail, in Jamaica, and 
 build another where they shall think most conve- 
 nient, in said county. — Ass. Jour., 1 : 44J. 
 
 1721, Fcl. 24.— This day there was a famous 
 Lorse race run for ^£60, between the inhabitants of 
 Queens County and Samuel Ba^'ard, merchant, of 
 New York, where the latter gained but little. 
 
 1721, Sept. 11. — The distemper among horses 
 continues and spreads on Long Island, and not 
 only horses, but also many ueat cattle and hogs 
 are dead. 
 
 1722, Sept. 20.— John Clhanders is tried for 
 forgerj' in chi-ating Moses Funnan. His bonds- 
 men were Robert Cranell and Eolkert Uarman. 
 
 1722, Sept. 20. — Andrew Gale, Jamaica, ii tried 
 for mnrdcr. Verdict, not guilty. ^Vitnesses for 
 the King — Phebc Carpenter, Conielius Loesic, 
 AVilliani Johnston, John Mills, Samuel Clowes, 
 Richard Oldfield and Nehemiah .'^mith ; for the 
 prisoner — John Carpenter, Gabriel Luff, Daniel 
 Smith, Thoniis Thurston, and Abigail Gale.— 
 Jmljc Jiljjrris's JLiiiutes. 
 
 1722. — Before November 12th, James Loquar^' 
 school-m:u?ter, of Jamaica, had died. His effect* 
 were under XOO. Rev. George McXish, as chief 
 creditor, was appointed administrator. — County 
 Hccords. 
 
 1722, Nor. 29.— Ran away from Kzekiel Bald- 
 win, of Hempstead, one Indian rmm. slave, named 
 Dick, of middle stature, and of a sniiHng counten- 
 ance. He speaks English pretty^ well and no other 
 language, and can read, lie has a big nose and | 
 ha.s white scratches on his anns and a blue spot on I 
 the inside of one of his wrists, a little above his I 
 shirt wristbands. He ran away about the begin- 
 ning of September, and luid on a -jomespun shirt 
 and a dark colored druggi-t coat. • AVe have been 
 informed that he intended to get into Indian 
 habit. Others tell that he has said he would go 
 toward New London and Rhode Island and so to 
 sea. AVhoever can take up said Indian man and 
 secure him, and give notice t» his ma.ster, so that 
 he can be had again, shall have three pounds re- 
 ward, besides reasonable charges. — Amer. Weekly 
 Mercury, I'hila. 
 
 1723, April 2. — John Baker is chosen whipper 
 for Hempstead and the bomids thereof. — Bcconls, 
 I), p. 330. 
 
 1723, 2Iay 3,-:- Thomas Lynstead, bom in Eng- 
 land, and of loose religious principles, had taught , 
 school at Oysterbay two years, when l>oing di-tect- 1 
 ed by 5Irs. Alberfsou in having false money bills, \ 
 of the denomination of 20a\, in his possession, in; 
 a stocking, he hung himself in a stable, at Hemp 
 stead. A large jiarcel of these bills, suppo.-ed to 
 be printed in Ireland, were afterward found in a 
 hollow tree near Jamaica, and burnt, by order of the 
 Assembly. — Col. Mss., 65, and Ass. jour., 1 : C40, 
 
 1723, June 2.5. — Tim Bagley has a commission 
 as ranger in the Island of Nassau in place of 
 Hicks. 
 
 1723, July 5. — The Jhstioes of the Peace in 
 Queens County are authorized to repair the gaols 
 and Court House. — Ass. Journal, 1 : 409. 
 
 1724, May 20. — By order of the Supreme Court, 
 Richard Bradley, Attomoy-General, prosecuted 
 Colonel Isaac Hicks and Colonel Thomas AVillet, 
 Representatives of Queens County, together with 
 all the other Justices of the Peace, for the insuffi- 
 ciency of the County Jail. The House vote it a 
 breach of privilege. Hicks and Willet have leave 
 to go home a few days on extraordinary business. — 
 Ass. Jour., 1 : 501 >. 
 
 1724, June ll»-T-A'bill was brought in the As- 
 si'mbly to enable the Justices of the Peace, in 
 (Queens County, to finish and complete the gaol and 
 Court Uoufie already erected. — Ass. Jour., 1 : 504. 
 
 1725, Sejjh. 13. — Mr. Benjamin Hicks is elected 
 to the Assembly, in room of Colonel Thomas Wil- 
 let, deceased. — Ass. Jour., 1 : 516. 
 
 1725, Dec. 10. — The house occupied by the 
 
 I 
 
IX OLDEN TIMES, 
 
 19 
 
 T\-idow Helena Semiss, at Flushing', was acciden- 
 tally set on fire and all. her snhstance burnt.; Loss 
 ^'60, exclusive of the house, which was uot hers. 
 She being aged, petitions the Governor for a li- 
 cense to solicit donations. — Col. Mss.,.VoI. 67. 
 
 17i(5i, Dec.' 20. — Samuel, a colored mrm, of 
 Flushing, was executed, at Jamaica, for burglary 
 in that place. 
 
 1727, 3farcJi 10. — Died, Samuel MlUs, yeomac, 
 of Jamaica, aged 9-5 years. Ho was bom in 
 Americn, and always a very laborious, honest man 
 of ver}' temperate life, and able to do a good day's 
 work but a icv,- days before he died. He left be- 
 hind him nine children, eighty grand-childred, fifty- 
 four great granj-chtldrcu ; and several of the last 
 are ijai-riageaUlei His wife was delivered of a 
 chikl when she was 51 j"ears old. He lived sixty- 
 eight years with her, and she is still alive, and has 
 had sixteen children. — JV. Y. Gazette. 
 
 1727, Oct 30. — Last night, between the hours 
 of ten and eleven, we had a small shock of an 
 earthquake, which awaked some people out of 
 their sleep. The same night there were two 
 shocks on Long I.^land. 
 
 1727. — At a Court in XewYork, December 4th, 
 David Wallace and David WUson, convicted of a 
 cheat, in passing.some counterfeit bUl.s of credit, of 
 Xew Jersey, are sentenced to stand in the Pillory, 
 on the 12th inst., between the hom-s of ten and 
 eleven ; and then placed in a cart, so as to be 
 publicly seen, with a halter about their necks, and 
 brought to the publick whipping post, and there 
 to receive, the former thuty-nine, and the latter, 
 twenty-eight, stinpes ; then, after a convenient time, 
 to be taken to the Ferry, and, on the 3d Tuesday 
 in January-, to be set in the Pillory, at Flatbush,* 
 and be whipped as before ; then to-b(^ conveyed to 
 Jamaica,* and, on the 4th Tuesda}' in Februar}-, to 
 stand OQ the Pillory and be whipped as before ; 
 then to be served the same in ^^estehester,* on the 
 4th Tuesday in March ; after all which Wallace is 
 to be imprisoned six months, and Wilson three 
 months, and then discharged on paying their fees. 
 —Smd/ord's -Y. Y. Gazette. 
 
 1728. — The Jamaica Fair opens Tuesday, May 
 6th, and continues four days, when there -tt-ill be 
 exposed to sale a variety of goods, merchandize 
 and several fine horses. It is expected the LIOX 
 will be there to be seen. — A\ Y. Gas., Xo. 131. 
 
 1728, Atiff. 9.— Josiah MUlikin, of Mnsketo / 
 Cove, periwig maker, denies that he gave any in- 
 formation to the Custom House officers, whereby 
 they were enabled to discover and seize several 
 casks, of imported brandy and wine concealed in 
 Captain Walton's cellar. — N. Y. Gazette, Xo. 146. 
 
 1728, Dec. 28.— The pleurisy has raged pretty 
 much in these p.orts and several have died thereof. 
 
 •These being the places where they had passed the 
 counterfeit bills. 
 
 1730, Aug. 6. — We hear from Long Island that 
 they have haxi sneh very dry weather there that 
 all their grass -is biu-nt up so that they have been 
 forced to fodder their cattle with their first ci-on of 
 hay. — Arner. Moreury. 
 
 n32,Jctn. 9. — In and about Jamaica, one hun- 
 di-ed and sixty persons have been inocidated for 
 the small pox, and none have died but Foster Wa- 
 ter's, who had taken the infection before and fell 
 sick the day after he was inoculatvHl. On the 
 other hand one-half died of those who took it in 
 the natural way. — X. Y. Gazette. 
 
 1732, March 27.— Last week the wife of William 
 Humphreys, of Hempstead, was brought to bed of 
 a daughter, which child's grandfather hath a grand 
 mother yet li\'iug, being of that age that she can 
 say : " Grandson, send me your granddaughter, 
 that I may have the pleasure to see of my issue 
 one of the fifth generation." — X. Y. Gazette. 
 
 1732, Mai/ 1. — Xotice. — All persons who have 
 any demands on tht estate of the Eev. Mr. Thomas 
 Poycr, deceased, late rector of the church at Ja- 
 maica, are dei-ned to send then- accoimts to his 
 widow in order for their being satisfied. Those 
 persons v.-ho have boiTowed any books of Mr. Poy- 
 cr, are desired to retm-n them immediately.— jV. Y. 
 Gazette. 
 
 1732. — 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 at public vendue, to the highest bidders, on 
 Monday, the 30th day of 3Iay next. [Mr. Poyer, 
 a native of Wales, was over twenty years rector of 
 the church, most of which time was spent in vexa- 
 tious litigation, either for the salary or possession 
 of tlie church and parsonage. The church and 
 parsonage cases were finally decided against him. 
 He left a record of his baptisms, marriages and bmi- 
 als. On his voyage. to this country he, with his 
 wife Frances, was wrecked on Long Island, about 
 one himdred miles east of Jam:uca. His second 
 wife is said to have been a widow Foxcroft, from 
 Boston. His thnd -s^-ife was Miss Sarah Oldfield, of 
 Jagiaica, whom he left a widow in destitute circum- 
 stances, -svith several children, of whom little is 
 known, except that his son Daniel went to Eng- 
 land, Thomas, a cordwainer, mitrried Margaret 
 Hicks, of Rockawa}-, and removed to FishkOl, 
 John married Mary KlMads, of Jamaica, and re- 
 /iuovcd to Xew Jersey, Joseph died at the ao-e 
 'of five years,- and his daughter Sarah married 
 Aaron Van Xootrand. There were many difficul- 
 ties attendant on settUng the early mmisters of 
 the Church of England, in this town, as they 
 all came. from the old country. The first sent 
 over was the Eev. Patrick Gordon, in 1702, who 
 was taken suddenly ill of a fever he caught in Xew 
 York,, and died in July, at Jamaica, on the very 
 night before the Sunday on which he was to offici- 
 ate. Mr. James Houeyman, the first Missionary 
 established here for a short time, says : " We have 
 
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 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 a cliurcli Imt ntitlior bible nor prayer book, and 
 no clotlu'S for tlic piiljiit or altar. Mr. I'rquihart, 
 tlic first rector here wui? inducted iuAugiist, 1704. 
 He married, at Janiaica, Mary, dai^;liter of Daniel 
 Wliitcliead, and widow of Thoma.s liun-ou'^li.*, and 
 died in 1709. It was his widow (whcse daughter 
 Abifrail, by a former husband, married the Rev. 
 Benjamin Woolsey, of Oysterbay,) that t-urren- 
 dered the parsonage to the I're.^byterians. Mr. 
 I'oyer was inducted here July ISth, 1710 aud 
 died January 15th, 1732. j 
 
 Govenior Cornbury writes to Thomas Cardale, 
 High Sheriff of (Queens County : " You are hereby 
 re(|uired to pay unto !Mr. James Iloneyman out of 
 the money made of the corn 'by you collected for 
 the maintenance of the minister of Jamaica, jn-o- 
 portionably for the time he has been at Jamaica, 
 according to the allowance made by act of Cieneral 
 Assembly; and hereof you arc not to fail. Given 
 under mv hand and seal at Fort Aunc, in ^^e^v 
 York, Ju'ly 19th, 1704." 
 
 [Tlie minister's rate was often paid in the pro- 
 duce of the farm which was stored, till sold, in a 
 building erected for the purpose, called the town- 
 bam.] 
 
 1733, Srpt, 4. — James Halstead, tried for burn- 
 ing a barn. Verdict, not guilty. 
 
 1733. — On .Saturday last, Sejit. l-Jth, was exe- 
 cuted at Jamaica, one Edward King, a tinker, as 
 we hear, for the murder of AVilliam Smith, on the 
 highway, near l-'hishing, 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 utiles, Helena 
 Balsey, and Christopher Farmer; for the King, 
 .Sarali Hyvank, Adam Lawrence, Jacob Ryder, 
 John Ityder, Jr., Justice Clements, George Reyn- 
 olds, Edmund Stickling, Samuel IVince, John 
 liowne, Jr. and Sr., Francis liloodgood, ]Iugh Ry- 
 der, James Ilalstcad and IMary Cook.— Court 
 Minutes. 
 
 1733, Oct. 31. — Rhode Island having a boun- 
 dary dispute with JIassachusctts, chose Colonel 
 Isaac Hicks, of Hempstead, and James JackscDi, 
 of Flushing, r(iere<'S, and was so pleased with their 
 conduct therein that the colony voted each of them 
 a silver tankard of the value of JIM, with the arms 
 of the colony handsomely engraved thereon, as an 
 acknowledgement of their assistance in endeavor- 
 ing to reconcile aud put an end to thi' dispute be- 
 tween the two goverumcuts. — Arnold's Jlist. lihode 
 Island, 2 : 112. 
 
 1734, April 8. — On Friday last the new erected 
 church, at Jamaica, was opened by the name of 
 Grace Churcii, and divines service performed there- 
 in, for the tirst time. The minister of the parish, 
 the Rev. Mr. Thomas Colgan, preached a sermon 
 upon the occasion, from Genesis, 28 : KJ, 17. His 
 Excellency the Governor [CosbyJ, 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 contrilmtion for the finishing and com- 
 pleting so good a work — a work dedicated to the 
 service of God. The militia was under ai-ms to 
 attend His Excellency, aud so great a concourse of 
 I)eoiile met, that the church was not near able to 
 contain the number. After the sermon was ended 
 His Excellency and family, and several gentlemen, 
 ladies and clergy, Mere very splendidly entertained 
 at the house of JIi'. Sannnl Clowes, a tavern, in 
 the same town, bv the members of the said cbui-cb. 
 —Bradford's X. 'l'. Guzittc. 
 
 1734, Sept. 14. — Henry Uinton, Jamaica, is 
 indicted for accidentally shooting Ezekiel Weeks. 
 The Grand Jury return: "We don't know." 
 Whereupon he was discharged. — Court Minutes. 
 
 1734, JJce. 19. — At Newtown, a nepo man 
 slave, named Joe, belonging to William I'ettit, 
 cordwaiuer, and one Jonathan Hunt, was killed by 
 said I'ettit. The jury of inijuist found by e.\ami- 
 nation that I'ettit, with his fist and feet, beat, 
 woiHuled, kicked aud brui.sed the negro on his 
 head, breast and other parts of his body to that 
 degree that he instantly died thereof, for which 
 I'ettit is now iu Jamaica j.iil. 
 
 1734, Kor. 1. — At a town meeting it was put t" 
 vote, as concerning the moving of the seats out of 
 the old church into the new church ; and b}' the 
 major vote they are to be moved into the new 
 church. — Ucmpstead Hccords, D,]i. 417. 
 
 173j_On Tuesday, April 22d, His E.\celleucy 
 our Governor, with his lady and family, attiiuled 
 by a great many of the yirincipal merchants and 
 gentlemen of the city of New York, set out for 
 Hem))stead, to be present at the •consecratiim of 
 the church lately erected there.* About si.x miles 
 west of Jamaica he was met by the troops of 
 horse, who escorted him to Jamaica, where a hand- 
 some dinner was provided for all the cmnpany. 
 In the afternoon he proceeded to Hempstead, es- 
 corted as before, where he an-ived in the evening, 
 and was entertained in a verj- handsome manner 
 l)y the Rev. Robert Jenny, minister of tliat place. 
 The next day being St. CJeorgc's day, the regiment 
 of militia and troop being drawn up on either side 
 from Mr. Jenny's house to the fhurch. His Ex- 
 cellency, attended by the most considerable gentle- 1 
 men of the county, walked to the church where a 
 very excellent sermon was preached on the occa- 
 sion, before a most crowded audieiu-e, by the Rev. 
 Jlv. Jeiuiy, from I's. 84 : 1, 2 : " How amiable arc 
 thy tabernacles," etc. After divine service His 
 I'^xcellency reviewed the regiment of militia and 
 troops standing under arms, and expresed a jiarticu- 
 lar satisfaction on the appearance both of the olH- 
 ccrs and men. His Excellency was afterwards 
 
 *17:r), June ST.— rolitiim for cli:iiter of J-it. (icurge's 
 C'liuicli, 1 leinpstcail, read aud approved. — Cut. Mss., I o/. 70. 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
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 entertaiued in a pplciidicl manner bj' Colonel 
 Trcdwell, commander of the regiment, and in tlic 
 evening by Colonel Cornwell, at IJockaway, in 
 the same manner. The next day lie returned and 
 arrived in town in good health, pleaijed ^vith the 
 reception he everywhere met with from all ranks, 
 with the extraordinary concourse of people from 
 all parts, on the occasion, and wth the handsome 
 appearance of the miUtia both horse and foot. — X. 
 Y. Gazette. 
 
 17.35, Jtme 27. — Petitioners for a Patent of In- 
 corporation of the cluirch at Hempstead. — Col. 
 Mss., 70 : 131. 
 
 Balden, George, Marvin, Robert, 
 
 Clowes, Gerhardus, Mitchell, Jacataiah, 
 
 Cornell, "WiUiam, Jr., Jlott, Joseph, 
 
 Cornell, 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, 
 
 Gildei-sleeve, George, Smith, Jacob, 
 
 Hewlett, Daniel, Smith, Joseph, 
 
 Hngins, James, Smith, Titus, 
 
 Jcnuey, Robert, Rev., Sutton, Robert, 
 
 Langdon, Joseph, Thorn, Joseph, 
 
 Lee, Thomas, AVilliams, Thomas, 
 Langdon, William, 
 
 173.5, Scjit. 2.— S;unuel TTeeks, Sr. and Jr., of 
 Oysterbay, are indicted for pulling down and rob- 
 bing the house of James Halstead. 
 
 173-3, Sejit. 2. — Jacob Lewis, of Oysterbay, is 
 tried for altering the mark and stealing steers off 
 the Common. 
 
 173-5, Koi: 7. — 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 laud in Queens County, 
 in a great measure, to the long continuance of the 
 Assembly. That body vote the charge to be both 
 unjust and audacious. — Ass. Journal, 1 : 6S7. 
 
 1736, March 8. — Last Thursday night, about 
 ten or elcA'en o'clock, the house of Benjamin Lawr- 
 ence, of Flushing, was burnt to the ground, and 
 nothing of his goods saved. The man and ■\\'oman 
 had been abroad about their aftairs, and at that 
 time, the man coming home saw the house all in a 
 flame and ran iu and pulled his four small children 
 out of their bed and threiv them naked upon the 
 snow, and attempted to fetch out some of his goods, 
 but the fire was so far advanced tliat 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 eight cows. — 
 N. Y. Gazette. 
 
 1736, Murcli 31.— The widow of Thomas Par- 
 myter, ofi'crs for sale her farm, with pleasant gar- 
 den, at "Whitestone, opposite Frog's Point. It has 
 
 twenty acres of clay gi'ound fit for makuig tobacco 
 jnpes. For sale, also, two negro slaves, with uten- 
 sils and other conveniences for carrj-iug ou that 
 business.— jy. Y. Gazette. 
 
 1736, Sept. 27.— Ou the 6th inst., the house, 
 warehouse, and all the gjoods and merchandizes of 
 ilr. John Foster, at Flushing, at midnight, were 
 consumed to ashes, and little or nothing saved but 
 his books and papers and the scriptorc which they 
 were in. ^Loss computed at =£2,000. It is feared 
 it was done by some malicious person. — N. Y. 
 Gazette. 
 
 1737. — -Pcw-holders in Grace Church, Jamaica : 
 Betts, Richard, Richard, Jr. ; Bridges, Timothy ; 
 Clark, Andrew ; Clowes, Samuel, Samuel, Jr. ; 
 Colgan, Thomas ; Furman, Robert ; Howell, Rob- 
 ert ; Luft', Gabriel ; Poyer, Sarah, c/ratis ; Reyn- 
 olds, George; Sawj-er, Daniel; Smith, Samuel ; 
 Steed, William ; Taylor, Benjamin ; Thome Ben- 
 jamin ; Van Hook, Isaac ; Waters, Anthony ; 
 Welling, William ; Whitehead, Benjamin and 
 Daniel; WiUet, Edward; Willets, John; Wig- 
 gins, William and Silas ; AVright Henry ; Young, 
 Guy. Also see Doc. His., 3 : 32i, for twenty-one 
 petitioners for a charter. 
 
 1737, Ajiril 2-5. — 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. AYe 
 hear from 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. 
 
 173-7, June 2. — At an election in Queens County, 
 for two members of the General Assembly, held 
 at Jamaica, the candidates and votes were as 
 follows : Colonel Isaac Hicks, 432 ; David Jones, 
 Esq., 390 ; Cajitain Benjamin Hicks, 342, and 
 Thomas 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, Avho 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 said these two 
 old ladies will be chosen constables for the next 
 yeai-. 
 
 1737, Bee. 12,— Dorcas, alias Tabitha, wife of 
 Peter Buckhout, of Newtown, is eloped from her 
 husband's bed and board. Merchants, shopkeep- 
 ers and others ai-e deshed not to trust her. — Zen- 
 rjer. 
 
 1738.- Saturday, July 19th, then broke out of 
 Jamaica Gaol, William Wiggins, 50 years old, of a 
 long visage, and short gray 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, aged 30, who had on an old 
 gray worsted coat, double breasted camblet jacket, 
 snuff-colored, old leather breeches, gray homespun 
 
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 QUEE.N&i COUXTY 
 
 stocking.=, tlng-skiu shoes, and a narrow .lirijnijjed 
 boavcr liat, halt" -worn. .£J0 rt-ward an4 <'l\.a''g<'* 
 for the forincr, and £3 for the hitter, aro offered \>y 
 George Ecjuolds, Under Sheriff. — N, Y. Gazette. 
 
 173S.-.-.Jamo8 Jones offers at public vendue, 
 July 2Gth, to the highe.<t hiddcri', a fanu, at 
 Wliitcstone, (late Parrayfer':<) of fifteen acres, with 
 garden and orchard, a pleasant seat on the Sound 
 for a gentleman, or a store ; also, a largi' quantity 
 of pipe-maker's clay, tools for making pii)es, some 
 I negroes, a new chaise and a good horse to draw it, 
 I a pleasure boat well fitted, household goods aud 
 other things. — N. Y. Gasetlc. 
 
 nSB, Dec. 12.— On Wednesday, at 11 o'clock 
 at night, wc felt an r.-irth quake. Tiie first sense 
 was like a strong gale of wind, whiirli increased till 
 it resinibled the noise of coaches swiftly driven. 
 "We had one single shock, and after a few seconds 
 a violent tremor of upwards of a minnt^'. It 
 moved from west to east. Some houses on Ijong 
 Island were somewhat damaged, but as yejt wc 
 have beard of no considerable damage. 
 
 1 740, June 23. — There are to be raised in Amc 
 rica, three thousand men, to form thirty companies, 
 of one luuidrid men each. The captains, second- 
 lieutenants and ensigns of which, are to be appoint- 
 ed by the Governors of the several Provinces, but 
 the first-licutcnants are to come from England. 
 The general rendezvous is appointed by His Ma- 
 jesty to be on lldnpstcad Plains, where they arc 
 to encamp. These forces arc destined for the ex- 
 pedition against the territories of the Catholic King, 
 in the West Indies. — Boston Ncivs Letter. 
 
 1740, Sept. 2. — Samuel Baldwin, of Hempstead, 
 is presented to the Grand Jm-y for offering money 
 to the Sheriff to get such a jury as he should name, 
 for Urias Haff, of Oysterbay. 
 
 1740, Oct. 13. — Richard Combs was hanged for 
 felony and burglary. The Court ordered the 
 money and stolen goods to be returned to Benja- 
 min liinchman, Jamaica. [WitnC'Sses (for the 
 King) Benjamin lliiichiuan, .\jithony Walters, 
 George Ifeynolds, Itiduud Cole, Thom^is WaJton 
 and Joseph Smith.; , 
 
 1741, Feb. .0. — There is a gre.^t scarcity in Bos- 
 ton. JIaryland and Long Island wheat is offered 
 for sale at" the Boston Jlills, at 22s. per bushel, for 
 bills of credit of any currency except Manufactory 
 or Land Bank liLlls. 
 
 174], Fch. 23. — By our accounts from the coun- 
 try, the people herealwuts are in so great want of 
 fodder for tlieir cattle in several places that foiw 
 cow.^ are given to have one returned in ifay,-and 
 that the cold has been so severe that even deer, 
 squirrels and birds, have been found irozen to 
 death. Great quantities of sheep have perished. 
 Wood sold this day for 40s. per cord. — N. Y. Ga- 
 zette. 
 
 ' 1741, Jidi/ 29.— Charles Campbell (now of Ja- 
 I maica) offers for sale the plantation late of Tluo- 
 
 i: 
 
 donis V. Wyck, at the head of Great Neck, close 
 by the ri\-er or sound, twenty miles from New 
 York, and a mile from )h<j landing. It contains 
 two hundred and seven acres (of which fifty is 
 wooded), bears wheat and cuts sixty loads of hay, 
 and is M-ell watered with brooks aud springs. (Jn 
 it is a house, three stories high, milk-housv ajid two 
 large orchards. — X. Y. Gazette. 
 
 1741, Sept. 1. — The negro slaves in New York 
 were suspected of a plot to set fire to the city aud 
 kill the whitos, 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 Xew York, and some aiTcsts were made. 
 Among others, Johannes Ilardeuburgh's 11'///, 
 .Justice Willet's llijliin, aud John Dorland's Jack — 
 all of Jamaica. The evidence against them 
 amonnted only to this, that M'ill said to Itobin 
 " AVhat think you of Corlears Hook or the plot ?" 
 " D — u it," replied Itiibi)}, " I'll liave nothing to do 
 with it or to say to it. If they (the slaves) will 
 put their fingers in the fire they mui=t feel the 
 pain ; let them go on and prosper." For this 
 their masters were obliged to enter- into recogni- 
 zances for their appearance at the Queens County 
 ( )yer and Terminer, ^vhen they were discharged. 
 In Kings County, Christopher Codwise's J((ch 
 and Cunibriilno, and .Israel Ilorsefield's Cesar, and 
 Timothy Ilorsefield's Guise were ahiOAnvsted on 
 a diarge of conspiracy. C'csnr was sentenced to 
 be transported to Cape Francois, and Guise to St. 
 Thomas, jioctor Hurry, a negro slave fif ^Fr. J. 
 !Mescrole, was sentenced to be burnt to death, on 
 the ISth of July. 
 
 1741, Oct. 14. — Joseph Smith and Xath.anicl 
 Pearsall having lain in Jamaica jail several years, 
 for debt, jietition the Assembl\- for relief. Tliey 
 alledge that their creditors are inexorable, although 
 they have offered to give up all their property. — 
 Ass. Journal, 1 : 814. 
 
 1741, Xov. 13.— The ferry boat of Major Thomas 
 Jones, of Oysterbay, was overset in the Sound, 
 and himself, his. negro, three men and one woman, 
 who were passengers, with six horses, were all 
 drowned. 
 
 1743, Fch. 21.— At Musketo Cove, a sheep was 
 killed last week which weighed one hundred and 
 fifty-two pounds. Fine mutton doubtless ! 
 
 1743, June 20. — We are here very nnu-h infest- 
 ed with caterpillars and worms of an uncdunnou 
 kind, which liave done abundance of ini.-ichiif about 
 Xew York, in one farm cspeciaify, where they have 
 destroyed a field of barley upwards of a mile in 
 leufrth. AN'hat ilio. issue of it will be, God only 
 knows ; for we hear they arc numerous in several 
 parts of the country. 
 
 1744, Jan. 0. — A comet was seen the beginning 
 of last week in the west, and may be seen from 
 sutiset till midnight. Feb. 27. — The comet, so 
 nuich talked of lately, is now got, to oiu- appear- 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 S3 
 
 ancera small distance before the sun, and appears 
 i-cry bright at its rising. On Saturday it vras, seen 
 here almost all day. — N. Y. Postboy. 
 
 1744, Jiote 11. — The earthquake at Boston, 
 Sunday, 3d iust., was felt by many persons in 
 New York and on Long Island, but nothing so 
 violent as 'twas said to be there. — N. Y. Postboy. 
 
 1744, July 2.— A Proclamation of "War against 
 Erauee was published in New York. 
 
 174-3, May G. — To be sold, the corner honse 
 where Samuel Clowes now lives, in Jamaica, with 
 several out-houses, a garden of an acre of gTouud, 
 together with about ninety acres of very good land 
 near adjoining ; being a place very convenii'ntly 
 situated for any public business. — Postboy. 
 
 1745, May, 2J).-^Twenty shillings and charges. 
 Run away, April 30th, from Joseph Hawkshurst, 
 Oystcrbay, a negro man Tom, aged twenty-sis, 
 middle stature and pock-fretten. He had art old 
 beaver hat, red duffils jacket, ozcnbrigs shirt and 
 blue breeches. He is much given to drink. — Post- 
 boy. 
 
 174.5, Nov. 13.— At night tlie horse of the Eev. 
 David Brainerd, the Indian Missionary, who was 
 attending . Presbytery, at Newto^^^l, was stolen 
 froJU him.— Journal. 
 
 174G, March 5. — The .small ^o-s. is said to pre- 
 vail in the country about Jamaica. 
 
 174G, April 25. — In the act for raising the sum 
 of c£13.000, for fm-thor fortityiug the colony of 
 New Yorki and for cancelling the Bills of Credit, 
 the Quota of Queens, was c£487,9,5 ; of Kings, 
 .,£254,18 ; of Suffolk, ..£433,6,8, yearly for three 
 years. — Ass. Jour-., 2 : 109. 
 
 1746 June — Jona. La'WTcnce, of Queens Coun- 
 ty, and James Panning, of Suffolk, have liberty to 
 raise recruits for the war in Canada. In July 
 Fanning had one hundred men mustered, of whom 
 Hempstead sent seventy-eight, and Jamaica twen- 
 ty-two, imder Capt. Wraxall. 
 
 1746, Jiiiic 9. — Embargo ou shipping from New 
 York. 
 
 1746, Jnly 31. — A day of solemn Thanksgiving 
 for the late victory by His M.ajcsty's arms,- under 
 the conduct of the Duke of Cumberland over the 
 rebels, near Cullodcn, in North Britain. — Post Hoy. 
 
 1746, Aitg. 11.- — 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 ou theix way to the 
 place of reudczvousf. 
 
 174G, Oct. 22.— Richard Brown [Oysterbay ?}- 
 tried for murder. Verdict, not guilty. '] Witnesses 
 (for the King) JIary Frost, Sarah and Mary Til- 
 lier, Dcrick Albertson and Benjamin Carijcnter ; 
 (for the prisoner) Joseph Coles, Jacob Valentino, 
 "Wright Frost, Thomas Kirby and Richard Lattin.] 
 
 1746, Nov. 29.— The account of Adam Lawr- 
 ence, Sheriff of Queens County, for receiving, 
 lodging .and attending eight French prisoners, from 
 tlune 3d to July 14th, was ^£22,19,3. — Ass. Jour., 
 2 : 140. 
 
 1747, Feb. 2:— On Thesday last, at Miisketo 
 Cove, Dennis Lawrence, a young man of fair char- 
 acter, an apprentice to Captain Walton of New 
 York, and Thomas Brooks, a laborer, were both 
 unhappily poisoned b}- taking a spoonful of rats- 
 banc by mistake, for Hour of brimstone, to cure the 
 itch.— iV. Y^Postboy. 
 
 1747, Feb. ?.• — We have had a long scries of 
 cold, freezing weather — rivers full of ice. Wood 
 is scarce aud dear, as was never equalled before ; 
 40.S. to 58S. per cord, and half the inhabitants in 
 want. A good turkey brings 5.s ; (former price was 
 3s. 6d.) a fat fowl. Is. 6d.; butter, 14(7. What 
 must our poor suffer ! — N. Y. Postboy. 
 
 1747, Oct 2G.— John Bowno and Jlatthcw 
 Franklin offer for sale the whole estate of Benja- 
 min Burling, deceased. A gi-ist 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 English and salt hay. — Postboy. 
 
 1747. — The Jamaica Lottery will be dra'mi 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 give their trouble gratis. There 
 are one thousand three himdred tickets, at 85. each, 
 equal to c£520. From each prize 12i per cent. 
 vrill be deducted for purchasing a bell for Grace 
 Church.— iV. Y. Postboy. 
 
 17-17, Noi: 16. — Derick BrhickcrhofT offers for 
 sale, a very good plantation of two hundred aud 
 forty acres, on the road from Flushing to Jamaica, 
 three miles from Flushing town landing, and two 
 miles from Jamaica. The house has two rooms on 
 the floor, with a leauto and kitchen thereto an- 
 nexed, a new barn, cedar shingled, wagon-house, 
 sheep-house, a good' orchard of two hundred and 
 fiftj' trees of divers sorts of fruits, pretty garden 
 spot — all in stone fence. A spot of ground in the 
 rear produces forty loads of hay. — Postboy. 
 
 1747, Kor. 17. — The account of Lieutenant 
 James Thorn, of Colonel Hicks' Regiment for 
 Queens County, for forty-four days service of him- 
 self and men, in the fort at Schenectady, was 
 .=£113,19,6.— J.S5. Jour., 2 : 200. 
 
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 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 1747, Nov. 17.— The bill of the Shtriff of '^''cBt- 
 
 . chciitcr County for lod^riiig ami victualling some 
 
 militia from Queens and Suffolk' Coiuity, in May 
 
 and June, 1740, when on their way to Albany, 
 
 was c£43,l4. — Ass. Jour,, 2 : 200. 
 
 1747, Nov. 17. — The account of Adam Lawr- 
 ence, late Sheriff of Queens County, for lodging 
 and victualluig twenty-eight French prisoners, 
 from September 2ith, 1740, to I'cbraary 6th, was 
 =£122,14,6.— ^SS. Join:, 2 : 200. 
 
 1748, Mai/ 16.— John Thome, at the TThite- 
 Btonc, offers for sale a convenient situation for 
 trade, vlicrc the Ferry is now kept, one hundred 
 and thi-ec acres of land, a good orchard of six 
 acres, two acres of interval laud cleared for mow- 
 ing, dwolling-liDUse forty by twenty feet, with 
 stone cellar, and a barn and bolting-house together. 
 — Postboy. 
 
 1748, June 10. — Timiti/ sliiTlhifjs rcirard. — Tvan 
 away from William lingers, Oysterbaj-, an Irish 
 servant lad, Henry McQueede, eleven years old 
 and niucli frecklid ; had on a blue jacket, check 
 shirt and leather breeches. — Postboi/. 
 
 174S-0. — Nicholas ]?arrington>-Tvas schoolmas- 
 ter at .Flower llill [ManlmssetJ ; but in 17;j7 lie 
 was in New A'ork where he taught ycmth to write 
 the usual hands, arithmetic in both kinds, with the 
 extraction of the roots, as, also, ua\ngation and 
 merchants' accounts, after the Italian manner. He 
 also performed wriaugs for gentlemen. — N. Y. 
 Mcrcwii. 
 
 1749, Jan, 2G.-^SoiriC time ago died in Hemp- 
 stead, Colonel Thomas Hicks, aged ninety years, 
 who left behind him, of his own offspring, above 
 three huiulred children, grand children, great-grand 
 children and great-grcat-grand children. Also, at 
 Newtown, Jacob Blackwell, aged fifiy-two years. 
 He was six feet two inches high and weighed, 
 three years beftn-e his death, four hundred and 
 thirty-nine pounds, and by all apiiearance in- 
 creased much more before he died. How nnich is 
 not known, because, though often solicited, he 
 would not consent to be weighed a second time. — 
 N. Y. Postboi/. 
 
 1749, Feb. 25. — xVbout twelve o'clock last night, 
 was heard at Jamaica, two or three terrible and 
 most surprising claps of thunder, which seemed to 
 shake the earth and territied some women so much 
 that they fainted away. The lightning fired the 
 barn of Jonah Kliodes, which was soon consumed to 
 ashes, and with it certain (quantities of English hay, 
 wheat, rye, flax, six >hoats, twenty-six ewes, and 
 lambs, a fine marc and many utensils of husbandry. 
 Loss c£80. Three barns built on the same spot 
 liavc beea burned within a few years, one by acci- 
 dent and two by lightning. — N. Y. Postboy. 
 
 1749, March S. — The common topics of dis- 
 course at Jamaica, since the coming of Mr. John 
 IJonnin, are entirely changed. Instead of the 
 common chat nothing is scarce mentioned now but 
 
 the most entertaining p.arts of Europe, which are 
 represented so vividly in Mr. Bunnin's curious 
 Prospects. He proj)Osed to tiirry there but one 
 week, but his lectures and views have been so eat 
 isfactory tliat crowded concourses of people arc 
 daily spectators. He tarries another week but de- 
 signs for Flushing on S;in>rday next, and Hemp- 
 stead on Satiu-day after. — JV. Y. Postboy. 
 
 1749, June 19.— Next Thursday will be a pub- 
 lic Thanksgiving in this colony for tho latc-glori- 
 ous peace. — Postboy. 
 
 1719, July 3, — Pea.<<vii(ihk rrirards. — Uun away 
 from William and lienjamin Ilawkshurst, Oyster- 
 bay, a negro man, Tom, a middle size yellow fel- 
 low, pretty well clothed, and took a horse. — Post- 
 boy. 
 
 1749, 14(/(/. 21. — Fitllina, dyeing, shearing and 
 pressing of homespun cloth, taking spots and stains 
 out of broad cloth, druggets, silks, etc., is done at 
 Whitehead's mill, (so called) at Jamaica, by an 
 cxecllcjit worknuiu lately from Europe. Cloth 
 may be left at Derrick Remseu's, Flatlands ; Wil- 
 liam Furman's, Newtown, and Kichard Titus's, 
 north side of the great Hempstead I'laius. — N. Y. 
 Postboy. 
 
 1749, Sept. 2'i. — .C:5 Tlnnird and charfies. — Ran 
 awaj^ from .John Belts, Jamaica, a mulatto fellow, 
 Isaac, aged 24, had on a very good head ot hair, 
 felt hat, brown coat, linen vest and breeches, bl«c 
 yam 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 
 best order for shipping. Enquire of the printer 
 hereof — X. Y. Postboy. 
 
 1750, Jinic 4. — On Friday last there was a 
 great horse race on Hempstead Plains, which en- 
 gaged the attention of so many of the city of New 
 York that upwards of sorenty chairs and chaises 
 were carried over Brooklyn i'vrry the day before, 
 besides a far greater number of horses. 'J'he num- 
 ber of horses on the plain-^, it ■>vas thought, far ex- 
 ceeded one thousand. ^A'^. Y, Postboy. 
 
 1750, Scj)t. 3. — On Monday last, came on the 
 election of members of Assembly for Queens Coun- 
 ty. .I'poii the close of the poll the vote stood, for 
 !Mr. Jones, (late speaker) 452 ; Thomas Cornell, 
 477 ; Judge Hicks, 293 ; David Seaman, 2SS. — 
 Postboy. 
 
 1750, Sept. 2S. — The account of John Van 
 Wyck, Sheriff of Quei-ns County for receiving, lodg- 
 ing and victualling sixty-three French and Spanish 
 l)risoners of war, from June Hth, 174^, to July 
 10th; and f>r transporting them from Flu.^hiug to 
 New York, July 11th, was ci'94,-1.— .(Is5. Journal, 
 2 : 300. 
 
 1750, T>ce. 10. — On Tuesday last were brouglit 
 to New York market, fom- quarters of a calf, eight 
 months old, which weighed four hundred and sev- 
 enteen pounds neat. .Skiu and tallow, one liun- 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES 
 
 25 
 
 dred aiid two pounds neat. ItWas raised by Ben- 
 jamin Water.-?, of Neivtbwn.— JV.- Y. Cfazctte. 
 
 . 1'751, Blay 13.— ^Ahy person designs, may be 
 supplied with vaseS, nms, tibwer-pots, etc., to adorn 
 gardens sikI tops of bouses ; or any other onia- 
 ment made of elaj-, by Edmoud Annely, at Wbite- 
 stonciie having set up the potter's -bnsiness by 
 •KcaDS of- a' German fiimily that he bought, who are 
 supposed by their work to be the most ingenious 
 that ever arrived in America. He has clay capa- 
 ble of making eight difi'erent sorts of ware. 
 
 1752, i^e&. lo. — '< Yesterday came on our elec- 
 tion, at Jamaica, for Representatives, when, not- 
 withstanding the utmost efforts of the Court party 
 in meetings and entertainments in all corners of 
 Queens County, assisted by Tom Plain, Zachariah 
 and the rest of the hireling tribe, our two late 
 members, Jones and Cornell, carried the election 
 by a very great majorit}', and thus I am persuaded 
 it will be, should we have an election cverj'- month 
 in the year, for we are determined not to be wor- 
 ried out, and we know our interest too well to be 
 deceived either by paper or parchment." — Post- 
 hoy. 
 
 17.j2, Nov. 20. — Last Thursday morning Na- 
 thaniel Lloj'd, a young gentleman of Long Island, 
 with two other young men from Boston, going m a 
 i boat to his brother's, at Long Island, overset and 
 all were drowned. 
 
 1752, Dee. 1S,-^^A11 persons in Oysterbay hav- 
 ing a right in Hempstead Plains will please make 
 it appear unto John Dorlon, .John Birdsall, John 
 Foster, Jacob Smith, Esq., Itichard Ellison, Jr., 
 arid John Williams, who are a conimittee to lay it 
 owt.-^Posthoy. 
 
 1753, Ma^"7.— On Thursday last as Samuel 
 Doughty, of Flushing, was riding on horseback 
 near "Westchester, his horse casually stumViled and 
 bniised him so dan^-erousl}- by falling ou him that 
 his Ufe was then despaired of. 
 
 '1753, May 30. — The General Assembly met at 
 tlic Court House, in Jamaica, as being free from 
 small pox, which then prevailed in New York, but 
 finding it an inconvenient place tn sit in, they ad- 
 journed to Benjamin Hiucliman's. The Governor 
 and Council sat at the Widow Stillwdl's and 
 Thomas Brainc's [now Dr. Sheltou's]. 
 
 1753, June 23. — Sundry people of Queens 
 County complain of the extravagant demands of 
 the Excise officers and of their common custom of 
 selling the excise to many persons unable and unfit 
 to keep public houses of eutertaiiuoient.-'— .dss. 
 Jour, 2 : 345. 
 
 1753, July 2. — Was paid Benjamin Iliflchman 
 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, j£10.4. — Jour., 
 2 : 349. 
 
 175?. — The people of Hempstead complain that 
 persons rake up and destroy their clams for the 
 sake of the shells to make merchandize of.* — i?e- 
 cords E., ]). 21S, 219. 
 
 1754, Jan. 27. — Last Monday ' morning, the 
 weather being uncommonly pleasant and warm, 
 many people were induced to go into Jamaica Bay 
 for Oysters, clams, etc. ; but about noon such a se- 
 vere gale of wind arose from the nortlnvest with a 
 sudden change from warm to cold as was scarce 
 ever known here, when all the small craft put off 
 to gain the shore in the best mamier they could. 
 A number of canoes and petty augers came on 
 shore at a point of meadow south of Jamaica, and, 
 with the utmost diffieidty, the people belonging to 
 them traveled up to a house two Eiiles from the 
 place of landing. • All got safe to the house though 
 much bcnximbed and several speechless, except 
 Daniel Smith, a young man, who perished on the 
 meadows, half a mile from the house. His com- 
 panions r.ot being able to help him any further, 
 having dragged him a mUe after he lost the use of 
 his feet. The same day the crews of two canoes, 
 in Jamaica Bay, 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, 
 when one canoe was found di'iven ou an island of 
 sedge in which were found the bodies of Samuel 
 Leveridge, Amos Koberts, William Salier and 
 Thomas ]Morrel, alias Salier — all frozen to death ; 
 the steersman sitting in an erect posture at the 
 helm. The three former M'ere married men leaving 
 distressed families behind them. To-day mother 
 canoe was seen but could not be come at by reason 
 of the ice, in which, it is supposed, Jire the other 
 four missing persons — one white '■man scr\-ant 
 and three valuable negroes. ' Several people h.ave 
 also been miserably frozen at Hempstead South, 
 who were out the same aight but ■h'c can't learu 
 that any have died though some are thought to be 
 in great danger.-^ JV. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1754, Fcl}. 4. — Last week a small whale, twenty . 
 feet long, was towed up to New York by a sand 
 boat from Rockaway, where it was found floating 
 near the shore by some clammers. This, and one 
 much larger, was killed by some whalers off Sandy 
 Hook a fortnight ago but were driven to sea by 
 hard weather. A year ago two whales were 
 struck south of the Highlands. — N. Y. Mercury. 
 
 '17.34, March 18. — Last week was broVight to 
 New York and killed, two young steers of but five 
 ■years old, raised and fatted by Itichard Thorne of 
 Hempstead bounds. Tlicy 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 weighing 
 with the tallow, 1,224 lbs. — Postboy. 
 
 1754, May 7. — At Flushing, and Several other 
 » IV-iLaps the shells were burnt for lime. 
 
2» 
 
 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 places on Lung l.^land, a very hard ^'llc)\V(•r of hail 
 fell which did iucrrdiijle damage, ^[any fields of 
 rye wtrc ruiued and au abundance of glasa windows 
 broke. The hail stones were ae large as pigcoD^' 
 egg.s. — JV. y. Gazette. 
 
 1754. — On the evening of ihc 4th September, a 
 negro man, Tom, middle .stature, ])Ofk-l)roken, he- 
 longing to Benjamin IIa^vk^*hur.<t, Cold Spring, was 
 discovered canyiug away from his master's mills, 
 a bag of Indian meal to sell it. AVheupou he left. 
 It i^ supposed he has been instrnmontal to wrong 
 his master to a considerable value. Whoever takes 
 him up miy depend on being well rewarded. lie 
 was brouglit up in the city and can work at the 
 baking business. — Postboy. 
 
 1755. — Samuel Rodman had a ferry from Pel- 
 ham to Hempstead llarbor and to Mattagarision's 
 bay. — Gaz. of N. Y. 
 
 1755, Fcl). 11. — For putting the colony in ,a 
 state of defence, the quota of (^>ueens was o£500 ; 
 of Kings, .€240 ; of Suffolk, ^^l.iO.—Ass. Jour., 
 2 : 435. 
 
 1755, Feb. 20. — Josiali ^[artin, of ITempstead 
 township, [Hyde Park ?] complained to the Gover- 
 nor that Justice Joseph Kissam had entertained a 
 complaint made by IJcnjamin Doughty, that Qua- 
 niina, a negro slnrve of said Martin, had some time 
 last spring broken in Ricliard Coniell's smoke- 
 house [Success ?J and stolen some of his gammons. 
 Tho negro was, however, acquitted, but brought 
 up a second time on a charge 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 h.aving threatened the wtness who swore 
 against liim, Kissam ordered twenty-fi\e lashes to be 
 inilicted on his bare back. AVilliam Algeo's store, 
 having been robbed of sundry goods, linens, sitgar 
 and mm, ho su.-»p<'cted some idle disorderly persons 
 there and got out a searcli ^> aiTant, biit found no- 
 thing. Quamina, being an old convicted thief, waa 
 among the su.spectcd, and his masters house. ('u 
 his absence) searched. Quamina, on being again 
 seized and threatened, attempted suicide. Kissam 
 presented to the Governor several numerously 
 signed certificates, embracing most of flu; liouse- 
 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 kijown throughout the 
 English part of this continent. The crop of wheat 
 and rye is well nigh jicrished and cannot exceed 
 half a crop. There is not flax enough to produce 
 the seed sown, llaj', oats Indian corn, and all 
 other fruits 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 govenimcnts have set aside 
 days of fasting and prayer that Heaven may avert 
 the impending danger. — N. Y. Gazette. 
 
 1755, Aiif). 18. — 'William Keese, boatman, of 
 Flushing, offers to pu])ply persona in New York 
 with live stock. — X. Y. Mercury. 
 
 niJi, Sept. 21. — This day one thousand and fif- 
 teen sheej), collect-'d in three daj-s )h Queens 
 County, were deliver(.d at New York fenyU> b« 
 sent to Albany by water, which were cheerfully 
 given for the use of the army, now at or near Crown 
 Point. While their husbands, at Great Neck, were 
 employed in getting sheep, the good mothers in 
 that neighborhood, in a few hom's, collected nearly 
 seventy good large cheeses and sent, them to New 
 York to be forwarded with the sheep to tlic army. 
 The people of Kings Countj' projjose to raise mon- 
 ey to defray the e.vpenses of transporting these 
 sheep and cheese to Albany.* — 2s. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1755, Oct. 10. — General William Johnson writes 
 to ^Ics.^rs. Jones and Cornell, Eepresentatives of 
 Queens County : " A few days ago I received a 
 letter from Schuyler and Depeyster, at Albany, 
 acqmunting nu- that you ]iiid.s"»ut .to them sixty- 
 nine cheeses and two hundred sheep, being part gf 
 one thousand raised in Queens County as a pres- 
 ent to this anny, and which thej- have forwarded 
 to me. This letter was read at a council of war, 
 consisting of all the field officers in this camp. The 
 most equitable division hath been made of this gen- 
 erous and public sjiiritcd present, which we could 
 follow. Tliough cattle and a few sheep had been 
 sent iiy some of the Provinces to their troops, yet 
 your sheep were very seasijnable and highly b<'ne- 
 ficial to the i\ni\y in general. Your cheeses were 
 highly acceptable and reviving, for unh'ss among 
 some of the officers it was food scarcely known 
 among us. Tiiis generous humanity of (Queens 
 County is unanimously and gratefully applauded 
 by all here. We pray that your benevolence may 
 be' returned to you by the Great Shejdierd of hu- 
 man kind a hundred fold; and may those a:uiablc 
 housewives, to whose skill we owe the refreshing 
 cheeses long continue to shine in their \iset'ul and 
 endearing stations. I beg, gentlemen, that yon 
 will acee])t of and convey to your generous county 
 my grateful and respectful salutations for their sea- 
 sonable beneficence to the amiy under my com- 
 mi\nd." 
 
 1755, Kor.2i. — On Tuesday morning last, at 
 four o'clock, au earthquake of three minutoe was 
 sensibly felt by the inhabitants of Oysierbay, 
 Newtown, Jamaica and Flushing. — N. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1755, Dec. 15. — From .Tamaica we hear ad- 
 vice of the death of Kcv. Tiionias Colgan, Rector 
 of the church, a gentleman much esteemed by his 
 acquaintance. — N. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1755, Dee. 29. — James AVilson, dyer, NCw York, 
 offers fi)r sale two good houses in. a ]>leasant, heal- 
 thy situation, in the town spot of Flushing, oppo- 
 site the English church, with garden barn, stable, 
 
 *jC57.C,7 were paiJ for the freight of these sliecp to Al- 
 bany. 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 27 
 
 ovcliarcl and tliirteeu acVcs of lauTl.. Eiif|uirc of 
 Nathaniel Tom, living nigh.— X 1'. 2Icicunj. 
 
 1756, Jan. 26. — Thomas Thome, Moi?quito 
 Oovc, offers for sale, a dwelliug, st^bl'? and orchard, 
 with ten acres of laud and swamji, and a J3arcel of 
 fine locust trees, opposite Captain Walton's. There 
 is a spring before the door. It is convenient for a 
 tavern keeaer or tradesman. — N. Y. Mcrcurij. 
 
 ndC,J/fn. 2G. — David Algeo offers for sale his 
 plantation of over two hundred acres, cleared and 
 all iu good fence, four miles from Hempstead, ou 
 the north side of the plaius and about two miles ou 
 said plain.' It has a fine young bearing orchard of 
 above two hundred apple trees, a house with fun- 
 rooms and fire-places on a floor, smoke-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.— iN''. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1756, Fch. 16.— Mrs. Frances "Willctt offers for 
 sale her farm of one hundred and eighty acres, nortli 
 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, 
 kitcheii and dairy, two flower and a kitchen gar- 
 dens, two shingled barns, smoke-house, corn crib 
 and hovel for cattle. 
 
 The above said Mrs. "Willctt has for sale at her 
 store, Wall street, New York, good St. Kitts rum, 
 by the hogshead, at the lowest market price. — 
 I'ostbo'j. 
 
 175C. — Euu away from his bail, Benjamin 
 Ilawkshurst, at 05'sterbay, March 16th, John Col- 
 lins, middle size, tawny, of Indian breed, an inden- 
 tured servant as sccuritj* for a .t'lO debf . He was 
 enlisted in Capt. Higgius' company of battoe men, 
 but discharged, and now secretes himself. 20s. 
 reward if taken in New Ytirk, and t±'3 if taken as 
 far as Albany. — Postboij. 
 
 11b'3, Jttnc 3. — Sundry inhabitants of Oyster- 
 bay,' of the Church of England, have by voluntary 
 contributions and charitable assistance of others, 
 erected a church there, but being few they are un- 
 able to finish it, and pi'ay the Assembly to be al- 
 lowed to raise t:£.50O by Lottery to complete it and 
 buy a bell. — Ass. Jour., 2 : 338. 
 
 1753, June 4. — Gov. Clinton resided during the 
 summer at Flushing on account of the small pox 
 being in the city. 
 
 1753, June 18. — Edmond Aunely offers for sale 
 his place, at Whitestonc. It has a stone house, 
 wharf, garden, gravelled walks, asparagus-beds, 
 flowering shrubs, etc. — Vosthorj. 
 
 1754, Aug 12. — John Woolley petitions for the 
 j)ri\-ilege, across the Sound to AVestchester, of "a 
 ferry from the head of Hempstead Harbor to Jf ata- 
 garisous Bay. 
 
 1756, April 5. — A steer, of the age of two 
 years, eight months and a half, bred by Colonel 
 Benjamin Trcadwell, of Great Neck, was killed 
 
 three weeks ago, in this city, whose four quarters 
 weighed eight hundred and Mij pounds, and the 
 fat, exchisive of the kidneys, one hundred and 
 twenty -three pounds. — N. Y. Mcrcunj. 
 
 1756, May 1. — A Proclamation for a fast on ac- 
 count of earthquakes throughout the colonies. — 
 CoL Mss., Vol. 82. 
 
 1756, May 17. — Captaiu Hugh Wcntworth sells 
 linseed oil at 5s. a gallon by the cask, at his Mills, 
 Flushing. 
 
 11^:6. — Friday, May 21, is to bo religiously ob- 
 served in this Province as a day=of public Fast 
 and Humiliation. — N. Y. Guzette. 
 
 1756, 3Iay 24. — In the hard gust we had yes- 
 terday sennit, a boat, with three negroes, who had 
 been fishing in Flushing Bay, and n<?ar the Two 
 Brothers, overset, and two negroes were drowned ; 
 one the property of BamarduS Eyder, the- other of 
 Bcnja-min Fowler. The third saved his life by 
 holdhig to the mast till he was taken off by a boat 
 that v.-cnt to him. — N. Y. Mercury.' ■ 
 
 1756, May 34. — On Satm-day last, Captain 
 AA'illiams, of Oysterbay, came to New York, on 
 bis way to the North, with a company of stout 
 men who will be reviewed this day by our Gover- 
 nor. — iV. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1756, June 28. — Ran away from Henry Allen 
 Great Neck, Licum, a mulatto fellow, walks stoop- 
 ing, hr s a down look,' blaclr curled hair, well set ; 
 had a fell-" hat, brown tow shirt and trowsers, 
 brown jacket with blue worsted lining, one shirt of 
 Ii-ish linen, broad cloth breeches. Forty shillings 
 and charges will be paid to any one who shall se- 
 cure him in His Mnjesty's jails. — Postboy. 
 
 1756, — =£21 Reward.— Deserted, June 28th, 
 from Captain Gilbert Potter's company, Chester 
 Wanser, aged thkty-one, of a surly countenance, 
 round shouldered, heavy gait ; John Bnmbus, an 
 Indian fellow, aged twenty -seven ; and Samuel 
 Lang, a negro, aged twenty-fom- — all of (_)yster- 
 \)Ay. Also, Charles Puewage'n, an Indian, of 
 Brookha^•en. They all had on New York regi- 
 mentals and carried off four of the King's arms 
 with bayonets and ca'rtouCh boxes,^ — Postboy. 
 
 1756, July 1. — The Justices of Kingus, Queens 
 and Suffolk Counties are empowered to bind out 
 the neutral French from Nova Scotia, who are dis- 
 tributed in said counties. — Ass. Jour., 2 : 494. 
 
 1756. — " Jamaica, July 7tb. ' About six o'clock 
 last Sunday afternoon, wo- had the most 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 com'se 
 across the Island to the south, being about fifteen 
 miles iu length, and not exceeding eighty rods iu 
 breadth, making inoredible havoc, destroying al- 
 most every thing in its way. The largest oak and 
 hickory trees were not able to withstand its vio- 
 lence, but were surprisingly torn up by the roots 
 
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 QUEENS COrNTrT 
 
 split into iiniumcraljlc piec«8 and many larjrc Hmbs 
 of gcvoral hundrcil wpiglit, carried into ojxni fiuldsi 
 near lialf a inileV di.-itaucf f'ro^i tlie wxods. .Sev- 
 eral houses are damaged, six bams destroyed, up- 
 wards of eight hundred beaiing apple trees blown 
 down, near eighty acres of excellent timber (a 
 scarce article, of lat<;, aoioug us) entirely ruined, 
 and several lengths of fence blown down and 
 broken. A grind stone, near Captain Laiigdon's 
 in Newtown, of upwards of one hundred and fifty 
 pounds weight, was removed by the force of the 
 wind, with the frapie it was fiyed on, twelve or 
 fifteen feet, and tlivivnTi inliO liis garden. An iron 
 chimney-back was also removed several feet from 
 the place it stood on. Captain Laiigdon's barn 
 was shattered into innnmerabh' ])ieccs. !Many 
 large timbers and boards were carried to an incredi- 
 ble distance. Tlie iron hinges of the doors, weigh- 
 ing several pounds, were found a quarter of a mile 
 from the place where the bivru ■.had stood. Largt; 
 showers of limbs of trees, shingles, leaves, etc., fell 
 in some places near a mile from the course of the 
 wind, 'i'wo apple trees were removed whole, with 
 a great quantity of earth sticking to their roots, 
 upwards of thirty rods. The utmost extent of the 
 hurricane's duration did not exceed half a minute. 
 Captain Betts, at Jamaica, is thouglit to be the 
 greatest sufferer, having lost near two hundred 
 choice apple trees, one barn entirely gone and 
 another nuieh damaged, near fifteen acres of good 
 timber land laid waste, besides fences, etc., com- 
 puted at /C300. The whole damage, at a moderate 
 computation, amounts to between it:i,OUU and 
 c£3,000. 
 
 Doidjtless some persons will be surprised, and 
 others ridicide this relation, esjiecially the .iccount 
 of the grind stone and chimney-back ; but it is to be 
 hoped such will suspend their judgnniits until they 
 arc certified of tlii^ truth thereof, Ijv persons of the 
 greatest veracity who >vci;e eye-witnesses to the 
 above facts, and many more as surprising, but too 
 tedious to be here enumerated." — Cor. of JY. Y. 
 Mcrcurij. 
 
 175G, Jnly 19.— .•£3 Keward and charges.-^ 
 Deserted from Captain Thomas Williams' conipa- 
 ny, in the service of the I'rovinee of New York, an 
 Indian man, lleuben, a down-looking fellow, short 
 hair, thick set, born in Queens County, lie had 
 on New York regimentals and cjirried.off his fire- 
 lock.— Pos/toy. 
 
 175G. — .£.5 Reward and charges, if secured in 
 any jail. — Deserted from Captain Thomas Wil- 
 liams' company, July lOtli, Solomon Kainer, tall 
 and dfwu-lookt. lie took his tlnlock No. 18, and 
 branded N, i'. in the bn'cch, and had on his regi- 
 mentals ; llarper AVanscr, Jr., middling tall and 
 down look ; also, Thomas Stringham, tall, well .■'et, 
 goes stooping and is round shouldered. 
 
 IT-OQ, Aug. IG. — .£3 Reward and charges. — 
 Run away from AV. Mott, (ireat Neck, a negro 
 man slave, Joe, a well set likely fellow, full-faced 
 and black. Born iicrc and speaks good I'.nglish, 
 
 lie bad on a gray liomespun coat with pewter bu^- 
 tons, while linen Jacket, and homespun linen shirtt 
 a epccklcd liw n handkercliief around his neck, felt 
 hat, tow trowsers, oldpiucjis with buckles. Com- 
 manded of vessels are forbid carryuig him otV. — 
 Postboy. 
 
 ■175G, Sept. 20.— The estate of Thomas Moon, 
 iu the town-spot of Flushing is offered for sale by 
 his widow, Elizabeth, a good large dwelling-houBC, 
 seven acres of land, orchard, farming utensils and 
 cattle, also shop goods. — N. Y. Mercury. 
 
 175G, Oct. 2.J.— Cajitain "Wentworth, of I'ltlsli- I 
 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 mounted with 
 great gims, put to sea iu jiursuit (jf a French Pri- 
 vateer cniising off the harhor and chasing New 
 Y'ork vessels. Rut the privateer thought fit to dis- 
 apjiear. — Pn.stboy. 
 
 17'jG, Xor. 1. — To be sold, the jdeas^nt and 
 noted place in the town sjmt qf. Jamaica, called 
 Sjiriiif/ Giirdrii, being in sight of (lie (County 
 House, Duleli, English and Presbyterian churches, 
 and retired from all. It coutaiiis twelve acres 
 clear land, twelve of woodland, enough to supply 
 two fires, two orchards, a cider inill, green-house, 
 lowland that can be made to ruow twenty loads. of 
 Eugli.sh hay. Apply to John Ilutchings or Rob- 
 ert Howell,* on the premise;. — N, Y. Mercury. 
 
 il.'iCy, Xor. 1.5. — The name or abode of the per- 
 son who gave infurmation of the landing, clandes- 
 tinely, of some Duteh jijoods near Lloyd's Neck, 
 being unknown to the Collector of Jlis Majisty's 
 customs, he is desired to come and receive his 
 share, or send directions how it may be disposed 
 oL-TT^Postboy. 
 
 17-56, Nov. 19. — The sum of ^£.j,l;j was j)aid 
 Nchemiah Carpenter, for building a watch-house 
 near the Beacon, at Rockaway, and .£1G were paid 
 Thomas Cornell, Esq., for two months' service of 
 two proper persons to attend and watch the Beacon 
 and alarm gun. — Ass. Jour., 2, 517, 5 IS. 
 
 1756, Kov. I9.r-Thc following bills were paid 
 by order of file (leneral Assembly, for sujiiiorting 
 the neutral French brought here in Jlay last and 
 sent to the ^Magistrates of (^>ueens County : 
 Christopher Robert, Flushing, nine men, £ 4, 2, 1 
 .Samuel Fish Jr., Newtown, ten " 21, 7, 
 .Tose])li Kissam, llemjistcad, eight " 10, 5, 7 
 Hani'LTownsend,*(>ysterbay,ninc " 10,13, 
 James Denton, Jamaica, ten " 12,14,11 
 
 1757, Jan. 10. — To be P(dd a house ami lot in 
 tenure and occupation of Dr. Jacob Ogdcn, oppo- 
 
 *Dicd Nov. 177G. 
 
 tile sent an iiisultitip: litter to tip /•.sM.\iilily, on llio cini- 
 diut i.f till- llim.sc ill iispirt In tlie iiiaiiiteuinicr (if tlie neu- 
 tral riiiuli. lie wjis lin'U}rlit iHtViie tic lIoii.se by tli" 
 Seivre!Uit-at-.\nns, and on his snluniii;Uon, was roprinianUed 
 and tlieu di.sniissud. — Jour., 'i : 554. 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES, 
 
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 site the PresLytcrian moetiug-lioiisc, Jamaica. It 
 contains two and a half acres, good barn, garden 
 and orchard — all in good fence. Apply to ilrs. 
 Rebecca Semple, at her house, next to Itichard 11. 
 Smith's, sehnolmaster. New York. Said Scrapie 
 has impoi-tcd from Bristol the best Scotch smvff, to 
 be sold cheap for ready money or short credit. All 
 persons indebted for snuff above a fcy.elve month 
 are requested to pay forthwith, &■". they would pre-, 
 vent trouble. — N. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1757, Jan. 27. — A inimber of the King's soldiers, 
 of the Twenty-second Keginient, was sent to Ja- 
 maica to be billeted there. Nehemiah Denton and 
 Thomas Hinchmau were appointed by the town to 
 supply them with \\-ood and other necessaries that 
 the to\\-n is obliged to, theyfee(fj;i»g an account of 
 their disbursements. — Town Hecorils. 
 
 1757, Feb. 2S. — For sale, the plantation of 
 Abraham "Willett, of Flushing, deceased, contain- 
 ing one hundred «nd sixty acres of lti.nd and mea- 
 dow, well watered by divers living springs. It 
 ]>».'; 'ft -tw^-story dwelling, ■with five fire-places, a 
 new barn, and considiirable orcharding. Apjily to 
 Abraham and Charles "Willett, Executors. — N. Y. 
 Mcreunj. 
 
 1757, Mm'ch"/. — Governor Hardy, in a Procla- 
 mation dated <it Flatbusli, orders all deserters from 
 the forc-es in the pay of the Province, or those on 
 furlougli . on Long Island, to repair to Newtown. 
 The deserters will not be proceeded against as such 
 if the}- return to duty. — Postboy. 
 
 rM'fl7, Ilarcli 9.— To the French and Indian 
 war. Queens County sends thirty-eight men ; Suf- 
 .folk, thirty-eight ; Kings, eight. 
 
 1757, April 11. — Between seven and eight 
 o'clock, on Fi-iday night last, the boat of John 
 Wilson, of Flushing, Ij'ing in New York harbor 
 was robbed of cash to the amount of £15. — Mer- 
 cury. 
 
 1757, May IG.— 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 IG. — To be let, the farm, house, ice, 
 at Whitestone, now in possession of Daniel ^Vaters, 
 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-si.^ of pasture land. Apply to John 
 or Edward Nicoll, New York; Joseph Wilmot, 
 Jamaica, or John Cornell, near the premises. — 
 Postboy. 
 
 1757. May 25. — Gov. Hardy notifies boatmen 
 and marketmeu from the country bringing to New 
 York provisions or other necessaries for tlie King's 
 ships, that they shall not be impressed. — Postboy. 
 
 1757. — Baecs at Jamaica, Monday, June ;6tli. 
 The New York Purse by four j-ear olds, subject 
 to articles to be seen at time of entry at John 
 Com'is'. Next dav, the stakes to be run for bv 
 
 the same horses, except the winner and those dis- . 
 tanced.— A^. 1'. Mercury. 
 
 Viol, June 13. — The New York subscription 
 plate, rnn for at Jamaica, was won by Lewis J\Ior- 
 ris, Jr.'s,.horse,. American Childers. — JV. Y. Mer- 
 cury. 
 
 1151, June 27. — The embargo at New York is 
 taken off all outward bound vessels. 
 
 1757. — Two Pistoles 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-'ivay house, 
 betwixt Jamaica and the Fcn-y, 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. Thej 
 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 implore 
 the Divine blessing on His Majesty's arras, by sea 
 and land, and especially for the security of these 
 Colonies. 
 
 1757, Any. S. — Samuel Bcrdeu, en account of 
 his advanced age, is. leaving off trade, and offers to 
 let a merchant shop in the town of Flushing, con- 
 veni(;nth' 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. 13. — Of the "Qieens -County militia, 
 six hundred are ordered to xVlbany, and the Suf- 
 folk militia are to^mai-chrinto Queens County. 
 
 1757, Aug 14. — Colonel Hicks writes to the 
 Governor that the militia of Queens County are 
 poorly armed, and as there is danger of an invasion 
 by the French, he requests £130, which is in the 
 treasury of tlie county from Quaker fines, to buy 
 arms with. 
 
 1757, Aug. 15. — ^David Jones, of Fort Neck, 
 writes to the Hon. A. Kennedy : " It has be(m 
 represented to mo that there has been of late ob- 
 served too great an intimacy between the negro 
 -slavOiS and the people called neutral French. This 
 it is apprehended tends to stir up the negroes to in- 
 surrection, when such numbers of oin- best men 
 are gone from us. His Majesty's Council will 
 doubtless think it expedient to give immediate or- 
 der to ece the laws against slaves duly executed ; 
 and that all officers, civil and military, have a 
 .watchful eye over the neutral French." 
 
 1757, Sept. 2. — On the receipt of the news of 
 
30 
 
 QUEENS COUXTt 
 
 the siirniiilcrol Fort AVilliam Henry to tlio Frfiu-li, 
 six liuiidrcd men were ordered to march I'riiiii 
 Queens County toward Alliany. Tliey ■mutinied 
 •\vben uenr Albany and left the army. 
 
 17o7. — "Will be nin for AVcdnosday, Nov. 23, 
 the New York subiJcription I'nr^e, by any horse 
 carryiug ten stone, the best of tliree heats, each 
 lieat twice round Jamaica Pond. Horses to be en- 
 tered with Mr. J(din Combs, paying 5^2 the day 
 before the race, or at the post S4. — I'osthui/. 
 
 1758, Fib. 20. — SMciij — Mr. L»aac Isaac."!, Ja- 
 maica, oflcrs ten shillings reward for a large silver 
 spoon marked " I. I. I'l" If offered to a silver- 
 smiili, or other, they are desired to stoji it and se- 
 cure the thief — N. Y. Jlcrcin'y. • 
 
 1758, Fch. 27.— Last Tuesday night three lads, 
 eight or ten years old, were playing beside a pond, 
 at Newtown, near tlic house of Kdward Titus (one 
 of whom w^iis bis only son,) who being missed in 
 the evening, were sought for, and at twelve at 
 uight were found drowned, one of their hats lying 
 on the ice, and the. ice broken iieju- it. — X. Y. Mir- 
 citri/. 
 
 1758. — This is to give notice that there is to be 
 sold by way of vendue, March 101 h, at ten o'clock, 
 on tlic premises, the farm tliat formerly belonged 
 to Samuel Sands, at the bottom of Cow Neck, now 
 in j)osscss?on of Samuel Smith. It has 217 acres 
 of upland, meadow and marsh, ten acres of English 
 mowing ground, twenty of salt uieadow, a good 
 house, orchard, and baru twenty -six by twenty- 
 eight feet. — rustboi/. 
 
 1758, March 21. — The Assembly adjourn so 
 that the uiembcrs may return home to expedite 
 and forward the levies in their respective couutics. 
 — Jour., 2 : 555. 
 
 1758. — To be sold at public vendue, ilouday, 
 March 27, the neat, commodious and improved 
 farm of Elbert Adriance, with a good house and 
 barn, at Fresh Jleadows, two miles from Jamaica, 
 ou the upper road to Flushing. It has one hun- 
 dred and tifty acres, part timber laud. — Posiboij. 
 
 1758, Blfirch 28. — For the ensuing campaign 
 the quota of (Jyeens Coimty is two hundred and 
 ninety men ; Suffallc, two -hundred and eighty- 
 nine; and Kings, sixty-three. — A'. Y. Jlcrcitr;/. 
 
 1758. ^ro be sold at public vendue, Wednes- 
 day, April 5th, at the dwelling-house of Daniel 
 Lawrence, deceased, household furniture, horses, 
 cattle and a parcel of young negroes ; also, a dwel- 
 ling-house aud lot, on Flushing creek, with a good 
 store-house and dock. 
 
 1758, A}tyil 18. — List of the officers of the three 
 companies of iiinel)--rivc recruits in Queens County, 
 iu the pay of the I'roviuce : 
 
 1st. Captain, Thomas "Williams ; First Lieuten- 
 ant, Daniel Wright ; Second Lieutenant, ^Villiam 
 Algco ; Sergeants — John Alli.*on, Joscidi Cassi- 
 dy. James I'almcr ; Corporals — Daniel Southard, 
 
 4 office 
 
 rs, .C38,3 
 
 2 • " 
 
 7,0 
 
 2 
 
 10,2 
 
 4 
 
 18 
 
 4 
 
 IG 
 
 G 
 
 18,18 
 
 2 " 
 
 8,10 
 
 :i 
 
 4,10 
 
 2 " 
 
 23,10 
 
 2 
 
 24,00 
 
 Cooper Urouks, John HiUton ; Dttrmmor, Benja- 
 min Agi-ns. 
 
 2d. Capt.'iin, Uichard 'Hewlett ; First Lieuten- 
 ant, Ejihraim 3lor.-e ; Second Lieutenant, Dow 
 Ditmai-s ; .Sergeants — Saumel Brown, Nicholas 
 Wilson, Timothy liTll : Corporals' — John Larrabee, 
 Isaac Totten, .James Itrown. 
 
 3rd. Cai)tain, I'etrus Stuyvesant; First Lieu- 
 tenant, David Jones; Second Lieutenant, Morris 
 Smith; .Sergeants— Simeon f^iliitb, George Dun- 
 bar, James ilarr, Cornelius TiiriKT ; Corporals — 
 JeT«iaiah Finch, John "Walters, Matthew Kobius. 
 — Cul. Mss., Vol. 85. 
 
 1758, Mill/ 31. — The following bills for lodging 
 and victualling French officers, iu 1757 and 1758," 
 at 7s. per week, were ordered to be paid by the 
 Assembly, — Jour., 2 : 558. 
 
 'I'tioinas Ilinthman, f 
 
 AVilliam Sackott, 
 
 John Losie," 
 
 .lohu Foster, 
 
 AVilliam Denton, 
 
 Jonah Iiliodes, 
 
 Josejih Hetts. 
 
 Jose[ih Lawrence, 
 
 Itichard I'infold, 
 
 Nathaniel Jloure, 
 
 Benjamin Waters, for transporting them from 
 Jamaica to Newtown, August, 1757, XI, 10. 
 
 Adam Lawrence, for trouble, time and expense, 
 in fetching and boarding out all the aforesaid 
 French prisoners, scut to tjueens County, ..£3,00. 
 
 1758.— Hun away, June 24th, from Jamaica, 
 James Thorn, a CiU'penter, red liair, freckled sandy 
 complexion, a musket ball scav on his rii^hl leg. 
 He had on a blue great coat, red jilusli wai.slcoat 
 without sleeves, an ordinary hat with ii;wtow silver 
 lace ou it, and a cut wig^ ■ Ifc took a horse with a 
 snip on the nose and a brand ; also, a Ifussel 
 hunting saddle with green worsted girt, without 
 housing or saddle cloth, a snaffic bridle with buckle 
 at the bits. Forty shillings reward for man and 
 horse or-20». for titlier, ami charges paid by Caleb 
 AVkealton. 
 
 1758, Jiili/ 17. — iOs. i,V((Yr;v/.— Deserted from 
 Captain Hewlett's company, AVilliam Steele, aged 
 twenty-five, dark complexion, English born; John 
 Conner, Irish born, aged thirty, fair complexion ; 
 Hamilton Blackwood, Irish, a mariner, brown 
 complexion, aged twenty-niue — all eidisted iu 
 Queens - County ; .aiul, from Captnki A'erplank's 
 company, Benjamin Akerly, Long Island born, 
 .aged tweuty-tlnee,' ruddy complexion ; William 
 Johnson, aged twenty-four, red hair; John Wil- 
 liams, aged thirty-four, black hair. — I'oslbui/. 
 
 1758. — To be sold nt public vendue, Saturday, 
 July 2Pth, at. the late dwelling of lUchbcU Mott, 
 deceased, ou. Cow Neck, one hundred acres of good 
 land on the west side of bis farm, well watered and 
 timbered, good fences and a grove of locust timber. 
 Heury Sands, John Mott, Deborah Mott, Executors. 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
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 175S, Nor. 20. — A purse of <£ 10 is to be run for 
 at NeM'town, ou December 5th, the best of three 
 licats, one mile each. Entrance, one dollar, to be 
 paid the day before the race to Daniel Betts.r— Js-^.. 
 Y. Mercury. 
 
 17.58, Dec. 5. — The people of Jamaica and 
 Newtown petition the A.*semblv- to be relieved of 
 the heavy and unequal burthens they labor under 
 by having His JIajesty's regular troops quartered 
 among them. — Ass. Jour., 2 : blii 
 
 1758, Dec. — At a warmly contested election 
 Hicks, a partisan of Clovernor Clinton, and his col- 
 league, Zebulon Seaman, were elected over Mr. 
 Justice Jones and Cornell, who were of the Liv- 
 ingston party,. 
 
 1759, Jan. 1. — Captain Falconer offers $-3 re- 
 ward, and the allowance for apprehending desert- 
 ers, for John Smith, a deserter from His Majesty's 
 Forty-fourth Regiment, now quartered at Hemp- 
 stead. He has a short nose, round fece, a little 
 thick-lipt, speaks English with a German accent.- — 
 N. Y. Mercurij. 
 
 1759, Jan 1. — "William Betts'' farm- for sale, 
 pleasantly situated at the west end of the Slain 
 Street, Jamaica.. li has one hundred and forty 
 acres of good land in good fence, whereof eighteen 
 is woodland, a good new dwelling-house with sash 
 wmdows, 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 belonging-to Richard R. Smith, 
 deceased, very convenient for a tavern or any other 
 business. — Postboy. 
 
 1759, Feb. 5. — 'William Pedly, born in England, 
 deserted from His Majesty's Forty-fourth Regi- 
 ment, quartered at Jamaica, Captain Richard Bay- 
 ly's company of Grenadiers, He had on a red 
 rugg coat, a fustian frock with plate buttons under 
 it. — Postboy. 
 
 17-59, Feb. 26. — For sale the dwellingJiorise of 
 the Rev. Mr. Colg.au, 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 
 barn and sixty-six acres of land and an orchard of 
 one hundred trees — all in good fence. The pui-- 
 chaser need not advance ready money, but bonds 
 with good security will be accepted by Mary Col- 
 gan. 
 
 17-59, March 1. — For invading the French pos- 
 sessions in Canada the quota of Queens County 
 was three hmidred men ; of Kings, sixtj'-eight ;: 
 of Suffolk, two hundred and eighty-nine. Captain 
 Seaman brought in a bill to compel certain per- 
 sons in Queens County to enlist in the company of 
 the district or beat where they reside. — As^. Jour., 
 2 : .594, 597. 
 
 1759, AjiriJ 10. — The officers of the three com- 
 panies of Queens County recruits (three hundred 
 effective men) for the French war are : 
 
 1st. Captain, Ephraim Morse; First Lieuten- 
 ant, George Dunbar;, Second Lieutenant, Eoeloff 
 Duryea.. 
 
 2ud., Captain, Daniel "Wright ; First Lieuten- 
 ant, James Casseday ; Second Lieutenant, Isaac 
 Seaman. 
 
 3rd. Captain, Richard Hewlett ; First Lieuten- 
 ant, Joseph Bedell ; Second Lieutenant, Michael 
 "Weeks.— Co/. Mss., Vol. 87. 
 
 1759, A^ml 30.— Ou Monday last His Excel- 
 lency Jeffery Amherst, Esq., Major-General and 
 commander of all His Majesty's forces in North 
 Amei'ica, set out from New York for Jamaica, 
 where he reviewed nine companies of Colonel Fra- 
 zcr's Highlanders and retiu-ned to town the same 
 night. — N. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1759, May 14. — Notiee.^3os,e^\i Burling, at 
 Flushing, dyes and pi-esses 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, — Colonel Stephen 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 ujj in the public highway, 
 at Newtown, on Sundaj-, a pocket book with mon- 
 ey and several gold rings in it. Apply to Mr. 
 John Moore, prove property and pay for this no- 
 tice. 
 
 1759, Nor. 5. — "We hear that, to-morrow, gTcat 
 rejoicings ai-e to be at Jamaica, at the success of 
 His Majesty's army in North America. A whole 
 ox is to be 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. 
 
 1759, Xor. 5. — ^I'hc 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, Nor. 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 
 dhiner the paternal tenderness of our most gracious 
 Sovereign for these infant colonies, the patriotism 
 and integi'ity of Mr. Pitt, the fortitude and activity 
 of our generals and admirals, etc., with everj' other 
 toast that loj'alty and gratitude could dictate were 
 drank. Each toast was accompanied by a dis- 
 charge of cannon — in all above one hundred. The 
 evening was iishered in with a large bonfire and 
 illumination. The Governor has ajipoiuted a day 
 of. Thanksgiving for the reduction of the forts at 
 Ticonderoga, Crown Point and Niagara, and the 
 victory at Quebec. — X. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1760, Feb. 18.— To let the plantation or flirm of 
 
32 
 
 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 the estate of Joseph Bowne, Flusliing, deceased. 
 It has forty acres choice u](laiul and meadow, f^ood 
 fencer, n dweilin^-house witli nine njoiiis and five 
 fire-places, with a large kitchen adjoining, an orch- 
 ard i\-ith a variety of fniit trees, good b»m, store- 
 house aTrdx)riier ont-houses. Enquire of William 
 Lawrence, Moscjueto Cove, or Joseph Bownc, 
 Flushing. 
 
 17C0, March 3. — .Toseph Haviland offers for 
 sale, at Flushing landing, a new house, and lot of 
 ground two hundred and fort3--foin- hy sixty-five 
 feet, very fit for a gentlemau's country seat. 
 
 1760, Murch 31. — For sale the plantation, where 
 Mr. Colgan resided many years with his family. 
 There arc seventy acres, a large dwelling-liouse, 
 two stories high, sash windows, eight fire places ; 
 having the beautiful prospect of a large pimd be- 
 fore the door called Beaver I'oud. A very suitable 
 place for a gentleman. Also, cows, horses, liogs 
 and farming uteur^ils. F.uimirc of John 'J'hompson, 
 living on the premises. 
 
 17G0, March 31. — To let, a convenient aiul 
 commodious large dwellitig hoiise, with sash win- 
 dows and leantos, situated in the town of Jam.iica, 
 now in the teniire of Mrs. Colgan. Enquire at 
 John Burnet's, Attorney -at-Law, New York. 
 
 17C0, Ajn-il 7.— To let, the Ferrj- at Whitestone, 
 •with a house, garden and orchard, for the term of 
 one or five years. Enquire of John Xieoll, near 
 the premises. 
 
 1760~Will be exposed to sale, April lOtb, at 
 noon, at public vendue, the now dwelling-house of 
 Daniel Duryce, in Jamaica, with i'orty or fifty 
 acres cleared land, in good fence and well watered. 
 Also, better than fifteen acres of woodland, which 
 lies hand}'. The house is new and well linished 
 in two apartments, each having a fire-place, be- 
 sides good leautos adjoining. There is a luw barn 
 thirty-six by forty -eight feet, an orchard, garden, 
 8tonc-well and several other conveniences, pleas- 
 antly situated for a gentleman's seat. 
 
 17G0, April 14.— Ran away from Bernardus 
 Bydcr, Flushing, a negro man Ciesar, aged twenty- 
 five, this country born, not a right black, has a lit- 
 tle of the yellowish cast, a prett}' lusty fellow, 
 talks good Etiglish, if frightened stutters very 
 much, has lost one of his front t((th ; had on a 
 light colored Devonshire-kersey coat, a soldier's 
 red jacket, breeches and hat, aiul a jiair of old 
 shoes. 40s. reward if taken on the Island ; or X'.'i 
 if taken off the Island. — rosihotj. 
 
 1760.— To be sold and entered, on May 1st, the 
 farm of George Frost, deceased, two miles from 
 the town of (lysterbay landing. It has one hun- 
 dred and fifty or one hundred and sixty acres, good 
 fence, half cleared, timbered with chestiuit, oak and 
 walnut, two good dwelliug-lionscs, barn, two or- 
 chards that make one hundred IimitcIs of cider per 
 year, cider-mill, screw-jiress, grist-mill with liint- 
 Btoiics, two boiling-mills, fulling-mill and press- 
 
 house. Apply to Benjamin Townsend, Jerico, or 
 John Underbill, Matinecock. — I'ustboy. 
 
 17C0, May 5. — Notice. — A negro, wandering 
 about without a pass, was taken up at IIeni])stead, 
 by Benjamin Stewart, schoolmaster, and jiut in 
 Jamaica Jail, where he now awaits the order of his 
 master, who, he says, is Colonel Dyer, of Wind-, 
 ham. — X. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1760, May 12. — Bun away from John Thomp- 
 son, Jamaica, Rose JIc Bride, 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 J'e- 
 ward of Ws. is ofl'ered, and all persons arc forbid 
 entertaining or concealing her.* 
 
 1700, May 27. — To be 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, sheep 
 and farming utensils, late the estate of John For- 
 busli, Jr., deceased. 
 
 1760.— The oftieers of the Queens Cotnity re- 
 cruits (one hundred and ten men) for the French 
 war were : 
 
 1st. Captain, Ephraim Morse ; First Lieutenant, 
 Roeloff Duryea ; Second Lieutenant, Abraham 
 Ilemscn. 
 
 2nd. Captain, Daniel AVright ; First Lieutenant, 
 Edward Burk ; Second Lieutenant, John Dean. — 
 A', y. Col. Mss., Vol. 88. 
 
 1700, JiiJy 28. — $5 Heward. — Iiun awny from 
 Richard Betts, Jamaica, a new negro, named Cas- 
 talio. lie 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-banvd 
 red linen waistcoat. — X. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1700, Auy. 2. — Will be exposed to sale at ven- 
 due the land, one hundred and fifty acres, lately 
 ])Ossesscd liv Amos Morril, deceased, on Oak Neck, 
 with all the inijirovenieuts thereon. It is nnnarka- 
 bly convenient for a ship-builder, has a good work- 
 house, blacksmith's shop, two dwelling liouses, two 
 small orchards and a good quantity of timber. 
 Title given by AVilliam and Jacob A\'altou & Co. 
 — N. Y. Mercury. 
 
 17(50. — Cow Neck, August 13th. Ilendrick 
 ( )ndenloiik oilers ri'G reward for a runaway negro 
 n.iinid I'rinius, a likely, well-looking fellow, speaks 
 English and the low Duteii, jilays on the violin 
 and can read and write. He had on a castor hat 
 and grav ratteen coat lined with brown caiublet 
 and vellow metal Imttons on it. He also carried 
 ort' a green everlasting Jacket lined with shalloon, a 
 j)air of black evei lasting breeches aiul cheik trows- 
 ers, a fine linen homespun and an ( )snabrig"s .•^liirt 
 and a pair of pnmiis. He has attended a grist-mill 
 and it is likely he will forgt; a pass. 
 
 ".Slie, prolialily, w.is one of tlie class of cniigrauts, cnllcj 
 I!iiiini|ilioiiiMs,\vli()so sfTvices, fur (i term ot years, were 
 sulil liy tlio t-aptiiiu to i>ay her passage. 
 
llSr OLDEl^^ TIMES. 
 
 33 
 
 17(30. — Died, August 27th, at Jamaica, after a 
 few days illness, Samuel Clowes, Esq., in his 
 eighty-seventh year. He was manj' years a noted 
 lawyer, and well skilled in mathematics, in which 
 he was instructed by th(> famous Dr. Flamstead. 
 He left a numerous posterity and an Hnblemishcd 
 character. — N. Y. Mctriirtj. 
 
 1760, Aug^ 28. — Received of Mr. Benjamin 
 Sands, of Cow Neck, the sum of £07,10, in full, 
 for a negro wench called Eve, sold and delivered 
 per me, I'ctfT Hegeman, of Oj'sterbay, Witness 
 present Samuel Wec^s, 
 
 1760, Oct. 19, — Vendue at Beiyamin Hincli- 
 miu's, Jamaica, of all sorts of dry goods (whole 
 pieces and remnants) lately the effects of Hart 
 Aaron and Jacob Cohen, of Flushing, N-ewtown, 
 Islip and Jerico. For six months credit they will 
 he sold very cheap. — N. Y. 3Icrcury. 
 
 1760. — Thursda}-, October 23d, was observed, 
 throughout this I'roviuce, as a daj' of public and 
 solemn Tiianksgiving for the Divine blessing on 
 His Majesty's arms, in the reduction of Canada. — 
 N. Y. Mcrciirj/, 
 
 17G0, Xov. 20.— There arc five hundred British 
 soldiers arrived, under convoy of the Devonshire, 
 who arc to be c[uartered on Long Island. Some of 
 these transports will eou^-ey the French prisoners to 
 old France. 
 
 1760, Dec. 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 groinids 
 [iroducing upwards of fifty loads of best English 
 hay. Tiie 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, FcL 19.— Thomas Brain/- offers for sale a 
 pleasantly situated fariK, where he now lives, on 
 the road to Flatbush, within tw® short miles of 
 Jamaica, and a mile and a half from the water, 
 where is good fishing, fowJing and ovstering. It 
 has one hundred acres of good land, tvventv of 
 woodland, a house, barn, orchard of sixty trees, 
 and is well watered- 
 
 1761, Feb. 24. — The total vote of Queens Coun- 
 ty for Members of Assembly was 6.50. David 
 Jones had 382; Thomas Cornell, 363; Thomas 
 Hicks, 312; Zebulon Seaman, 217, and William 
 Talmau, 42. Jones and Cornell were returned by 
 the Sheritt'. but their election was successfullv con- 
 tested by Hicks and Seaman. The Sheriii' was 
 
 *He was the father of Commodore Truxton, who went 
 to Mr. Se.abury's school at Hempstead, in 171)1. Colonel 
 Martin was father of Dr. Samuel Martin, of Kock Hall, 
 Koekaway, who died of a lingering sickness, April 19, 180ti, 
 aged sixty-six, and was buried at Heniiistead, in the chai - 
 eel of St. Cieorge's Church, of which he had been a bent- 
 factor. 
 
 reprimanded by the House for his undue and ille- 
 g;il behaviour, and a new election ordered to be 
 held April '20th and Slst, 'when the Shcrifi' made a 
 'double rcl'nrn, thus-. 
 
 Thoimas Cornell atid David Jones. 
 
 Thomas Cornell and Zebulon Seaman. 
 
 A scrutiny of the votes was held at Jamaica, 
 June'Sth, and a decision made in favor of Seaman,* 
 Dec. 9th.— ^S5. JoHi:, 2 : 648, 678, ami I'vstboi/. 
 
 1761, Aprii 2.— The late garrison of Detroit, 
 who are now prisoners of war on Long Island, will 
 embark for France. All persons who have em- 
 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 L.awrence. High- 
 Sheriif, at Hempstead, for distributiou. Billeting 
 for prisoners taken at Isle au Noix and Fort Lew- 
 is, in 1760, will also be paid to the Sheriff. — X. Y. 
 ■Posihoij. 
 
 1761, April 8. — The following members of the 
 Church of England, as fey law established, at Ja- 
 maica, petition the Governor for a charter. — See, 
 also. Doc. His., 3 : 324. 
 
 Betts, Richard,} Ogden, Jacob, Dr.,f 
 
 Betts, Thomas,t Dldfield, Joseph, 
 
 Braine, Thomas,!' Oldfield, Joseph, .Ir., 
 
 Carpenter, Benjamin, Scabury, Samuel, Jr., 
 Come-s, Jolint minister. 
 
 Comes, Gilbert, Smith, John, 
 
 Cornell, Thomas, Jr., Smith, Samuel, t 
 
 Sherlock, William, t 
 Truxton, Thomas, 
 Troup, Jolin,| 
 Van Hook, Isaac, 
 Welling, William, 
 Whitliead, Beiijamin,t 
 
 Dunbar, George, 
 Howell, Robert, 
 Ilinchman, Thomas, t 
 Huchins. John, 
 Inues, John, Dr., 
 Iia^^■re.l^ce, Adam, 
 
 Beside and including most of the above the 
 following (some being non-residents) subscribed 
 isoiiey fbr the repairs of the •clnirch : 
 
 Armstrong, John, 
 Betts, William, 
 Betts, John, 
 Burnett, John, 
 Colgan, Fleming, 
 Hanmiersl}-, Thomas, 
 ilcirsemaiulen, Daniel 
 Howard, AN'illiain, 
 Hutehins & Howell, 
 
 Jones, Thomas, Dr., 
 Jauncey, John, 
 Murray, AVilliam, 
 Folhemus, Tunis, 
 Robinson, .Joseph, 
 Smith, Samuel, Jr.,|| 
 Smith John, (Union), 
 Troup, Robert, 
 Van Courtland, Philip, 
 
 * James Cornell and Luke Cummins, Clerks, 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 th.it AVibiam Forbes, Giibei't Week.s, James 
 Pearsnll. Jolin Prior, Roelof Duryee. Bernardus Stagg and 
 Key. Abrali.'ini Kete',tis,\vho had purchased tVeeliolds with- 
 in three moiitlis of tlicir time of voting, sliould, notwith- 
 standing, be allowed tlK'ir votes, tlms deciding in favor of 
 Seaman. The vote of Thomas Carman, born deaf and 
 dumb, was rejected. 
 
 tVestrymen. tCbnrcli Wardens. 
 
 USamuel Smith lived at Little Plains. 
 
34 
 
 Q I ■ E E N S CO U X T V 
 
 1701. Man 27. — The friend* of the Church of 
 England, in Flushing, praj- for an act of incorpora- 
 tion.. They say they have no minister of their 
 own, that divine sri:>-ice- is seldom performed, a.s 
 then' is- but one jua-tor for Jamaica, Newtown and 
 I'lushingt that they have erected a decent church 
 and. iutend to. ]>rovide for the support of a clergy- 
 man.— €()/. Mss., S9 : 129. 
 
 Aspiuwall, John, Mitchell, Jacamiali, 
 
 5[arstou, John, 
 Robert, Chri:JtoplK.-r, 
 Thorn, Daniel, 
 Tlioni, Jacob, 
 Tom, Nathaniel, 
 Thorn, William, 
 Thorn, Benjamin, 
 AVright, Charles, 
 Wilson, John. 
 
 IJownc, Josejili, 
 ISrowu, Franc!.-*, 
 Cornell, Chiirles, 
 Dyer, John 
 Doughty Isaac, 
 Fowler, Benjamin, 
 Grcnell, Thomas, 
 Ilaviland, Joseph, 
 Lewis, Foster, 
 Morrell, John, 
 
 17G2, Feb. 1. — To be sold and entered on when 
 the purchaser plea-^es, a small plantation, half a 
 mile e;i*t of Jamaica village, on which Mr. 8eabu- 
 ry. Rector of the church, now lives. It contains 
 twenty-eight acres of good land, a good dwelling- 
 house, (one end new), a gputecl building, a dry 
 cellar under the whole house, a well of good water, 
 new barn, hovel and smoke-house. There is a fine 
 orchard that make? 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 acre.* woodland, two miles from the fiirm, 
 and eight acres of salt meadow, that cuts twenty 
 loads of salt hay. Apply to the abovesaid Samuel 
 Scabury, Jr.,* who will give a good title.^A'"..y., 
 JleiTiiri/. 
 
 1762, Feb. 1.5, — Card. — Benjamin Lawrenc*,- of 
 Flushing, has declined keeping tiivem, but gentle- 
 men traveling may be supplied with good tidiiah. 
 lie also takes in young gentlemen to board by the 
 year. — iV. V. Mciciiri/.. 
 
 1102, 3IaiTh 27.— The F-cv. Mr. Samuel Sea- 
 bury, of Uemj)Stead, in order to enlarge his school, 
 has engaged a young gentleman as usher who is a 
 candidate for orders. Mr. S. will entertain yomig 
 gentlemen at his own house in a genteel manner, 
 at r£30 per year ; schooling, washing and wood for 
 school-fire included. — X. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1762, April 12. — The house of Tunis Wortman, 
 of ()ysterb.iy, was robbed of XiV-i in Connecticut 
 money, consisting of twenty and forty shillin<r 
 bills, and ^£670 in bills of credit of this Colony. 
 Also, a bundle of receipts of payment. — X. >-, . 
 Mcrcurif. 
 
 1762, April 26.— William Rudgc, late of Glou- 
 cester, old England, coBtinues his school at llal- 
 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 almost daily by the 
 
 •Mr. Seabory was afterward Bishop of Connecticut. 
 
 pettyaugers. — The subscribers willing to continue 
 the schoolmaster (as ^wc have found him a man oi 
 close application and scrLriety, and capable of his 
 otfice) are now ready to take in boarders at €18 
 ]>er annum: Jacob Blackwfll, Richard Berrien, 
 John (ireenoak, Jacob Rapalje, Richard Pinfold, 
 .John McDannough, Tliomas, Jacob, William, 
 Richard and Samuel IIallett,.Jr. — X. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1762, Sepi. 2. — The rain has altered the face of 
 the country.. There has been none on Long Island 
 siuce com planting. This is the third summer of 
 severe drought over all British North America. 
 Prorisions arc high.. Butter is 2:s. UW. per pound, 
 roots, greens and fruits are higher than ever known 
 before. One man will make JESOO by water-mi-l- 
 ous. — Postboy. 
 
 1762, Oct. IL — There is now in Jamaici jail a 
 negro fellow who si)eaks either French or Spanish, 
 and will speak no English, lie was taken up in 
 the woods near Jam lica, by William Watts. — X. 
 Y. Mercury. 
 
 1762, Ikc.G. — Stock for shipping, such as .sheep, 
 hogs, etc., may be had of John Nicoll, White- 
 stone. — N. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1762, Bee. 22. — There was killt^ by Thorass 
 Everitt, a cow, raised and fatted by Colonel Ben- 
 jamin Trcdwell. of Great Neck, whose weight was, 
 the fo'a: quarters, six. hundred and seventy-six 
 pounds ; tiUlow besides tht kidneys, one hundred 
 and forty-fjiu- pounds ; hide, si.xty-three pounds. 
 This perhaps exceeds any killed iu this Province. 
 — X . Y.. Mercury. 
 
 1763, Feb. 28. — Joseph Ilaviland, Flushing 
 bav side, offers for sale his fann of one hundred 
 and thirty-three arres, pleasantly situated by the 
 Sound, where all vessels pass in sight, one mile 
 from Whitestone, verj' handy to New York mar- 
 kets, where a great deal of money can be made, Jis 
 there Is a great plenty of fruits, such as sugar 
 pears, bell pears, and sundry other sorts, cherries 
 in abundance, a large orchard of a great variety of 
 fruit. There is a stream of fresh water for a mill ; 
 also, fresh and salt meadow. Twenty-two acres 
 arc woodbind. 
 
 1763, April 11. — Thomas Dodge and I'etras 
 Onderdonk want a man well qualified to teach a 
 school on Cow Neck. IL; muy be settled with 
 reasonable support. — X. Y. Gazette.. 
 
 1763.— New York Free Ma.->ons' Ctlrse of SI 00 
 to be run for, April 'iii, the lies* two of three heats, 
 each heat tlarce tiiues round Ikaver Pond, Jamaica, 
 each horse to carry nine stone weight and to be 
 entered with 5Ir. Thomas Braine. paying 30*-. en- 
 trance. The entrance money to lie run for next 
 dav — the whole to be under the inspection of three 
 Free Masons. — X.Y.JIer'Mry. . 
 
 1763, June. — The Rev. Samuel Seabur)-, of 
 Hempstead, in his Diary, says: The ticket No. 
 5866, in the Light-house and public Lottery of 
 New Y'ork, drew in my favor, by the blessing of 
 
QUEENS COUXTY 
 
 God, j£500 (of -VN-Iiicli I received c€425, there being 
 a deduction of fifteen per cent.,) for -n-liich I now 
 record to my posterity ni}'' thanks and praise to 
 Almighty God, the giver of all good gifts. Amen. 
 
 1763, July. — Whereas divers persons, without 
 any right or license so to do, have of late, with 
 sloojis, 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 to'mi, this is to give 
 warning to all persons who have no right or liber- 
 ty that they do forbear to commit any such tres- 
 pass in the bay for the futme ; other\\'ise they will 
 be prosecuted at law for the same by Thomas 
 Cornell, Jr., and Waters Smith.. By order of the 
 town. 
 
 17G3, J nil) 14. — The wife of Benjamin Dusen- 
 bnr}-, of Long Island, aged fifty-five, had for sev- 
 eral years been afflicted with the stone. It was 
 extracted by Dr. Jones, and weighed seven and a 
 half ounces, and was eight or nine inches in cir- 
 ciimfcrnnee. 
 
 1763, :Xov. 28. — Died, at Jamaica, last week, 
 John Cockefer who was bom so long ago that for 
 many years past he had forgot his Ifge. He often 
 said he was a soldier in the Fort at Xew York, in 
 Gov. Leisler's time (who was here during. the civil 
 war in 1689) and had been a man gi-owu 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 Xew York, which was 
 then a ■<.\-ildei-ness. [He and his wife Tryntie, 
 ©■nned a house and farm of one hundred and fifty 
 acres, at the village of Springfield.] — Weymmi's 
 N. Y. Gazette. 
 
 1763, Bee. 5.— To be sold by Jean Caverly,t a 
 neck of land, near Mosquito Cove, of fifty acres, 
 with a large double-hou-e, two stories high, barn, 
 work-house, and orchard of over one himdred 
 trees of very good fruit, well timbered and watered, 
 very convenient for a ship carpenter or ferry ; 
 likewise fishing and fowling. — N. Y. Mcrciny. 
 
 1764, Jan. 23. — On Tuesday last Joseph, and 
 Richardson Cornell, of New York, shop-keepers, 
 absconded, hai-iug first taken up goods fi-om ditYer- 
 eut merchants to the amoimt of £7,000, and con- 
 verted the gi'cater 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 fomid tlie 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 the}^ fired a gun 
 through it, over his head. Timothy ^SlcCarty 
 thereupon said : Fu-e away, my ladsi! we'll have 
 
 *The liill in Jobn street. 
 
 tin 1730 he petitions for a fenT fi-om Caverly Island to 
 Eye. 
 
 you yet. Another gun or two was quickly fired, 
 by which he was killed on the spot. The Cornells 
 escaped the same day, and, it was siapposed, were 
 conveyed on board a schooner in the Sound. The 
 Coroner's verdict was "wilful murder." McCar- 
 ty's body was carried to New York on Saturday 
 night, and decently interred on Simday evening. — 
 iV. Y. Merc ur If. 
 
 I7fi4, Fcl). 6. — Thomas Braine offers for sale a 
 house in the town-spot of Jamaica, now in the 
 tenure of the Rev. 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. — N. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1764, Fch. 13. — Charles Crommelinc, 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 com, and little has been tilled for many years 
 past. A new shingled barn forty four-feet square, 
 a new house not quite finished, thu-ty-oue by twen- 
 ty-three feet, with two fire-places on first floor. 
 Also, eighteen thousand brick, seventy cart loads 
 of Hell Gate stone, red cedar posts, and timber 
 squared for a house fifty by forty feet. — N. Y. 
 Mercury.. 
 
 1764, ilff(>-c7(2S.— 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, Jr., and 
 Mary, ividow of John Wilson, of Flushing, offer 
 for sale, April 10th, his dwelling-house, garden, 
 store-house and wharf ; also, a very fine boat. — N. 
 Y. Mercury. 
 
 1764. — To be ran for, April 12th, on the new 
 course, on Hempstead Plains, a purse of =€50, the 
 best of three four-mile heats, each horse caiTviuo- 
 nine stone and paying 50s. entrance, or double at 
 the Post. On I'riday a purse of c€20 and upwards, 
 free for half-bred horses only, six years old and 
 under, canying. eight stone, the best of three two- 
 mile heats. Horses to be entered with Mr. John 
 Comes, Jamaica. Not less than three re2)uted 
 running horses to start, and to be subject to the 
 King's plate articles. Judges will be ajipointed to 
 terminate all disputes. — N. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1764. — John WiEot, Esq., of Flushing, through 
 the earnest persuasion of his friends andhis desire 
 to serve his county, offers himself as candidate at 
 the ensumg election of Representatives from Queens 
 County, which is to be hold May 23.*— iV. Y. 
 Mercury. 
 
 1764, June 21. — To be sold, a iilantatiou, with 
 the stock, at Whitestone, eighteen miles from the 
 
 *Daiiiel Kissam was elected over Mr. Willet. 
 
I N L D E N TI -AI E S . 
 
 36 
 
 Ferry, by laud, and twelve by water. It is 
 bounded near a luilc by the Sound, beginning 
 westward of 'Whitestone Point, and joining 5ir. 
 John Cornell aud Francis Lewis to tlie eastward. 
 The shore abounds in sj)ring3 and shell fish. 
 There arc two hundred acres, aud thirteen of mea- 
 dow in Flushing Bay. The grass land is suitable 
 for stock of all sorts. There are about forty acres 
 of woodland aud swamp-land, that has grass in 
 the driest season. It is a rich spot, if cleared, for 
 hemp. It has a cedar fence, two orchards, an 
 abundance of fruit trees, thousands of jxiung lo- 
 custs, black walnuts, and some Aladeira nuts. It 
 has two dwelling-houses, kitchens, barns and a 
 good wharf. The wlieat, rye, Indian corn, oats 
 aud flax are in the grouud. To be entered on im- 
 mediately. Enquire of John XicoU, on the premi- 
 ses, or Edward Nicoll, Xew York 
 
 1764, June 21. — On Friday morning last, died, 
 at Hempste.ad, of a nervous disorder aud inipost- 
 hume in his side, the Itev. Mr. Samuel Seabury, 
 minister of the church there, one of the Alissiona- 
 ries of the Honorable Society for the pvojiiigation 
 of the Gospel. A gentleman of an amiable exem- 
 plary character, greatly and generally beloved aild 
 lamented. — Foslloi/. 
 
 1764, Jitli/ 2. — Captain Joseph IIa\-iland offers 
 for sale, hi>5 farm of one hundred and Hfty-three 
 acres, at Bayside. It fronts on the Sound, where 
 all the vessels pass. The house has live rooms on 
 a floor. Also, for sale, blackwalnut aud mahogany 
 tables, desks, a pier-glass and a great many pic- 
 tures. 
 
 1764, Atiff. 20. — Daniel Ilulct, Jamaica, adver- 
 tises that he has taken up a negro man, who says liis 
 master is Joseph Hendricks, aud shall put him in 
 Jamaica Jail, where the owner may have him, (if he 
 dont get from said jail) he paying for the trouble 
 and all charges. lie is a young fellow, has a scar 
 on his left eye, well set, short, has n hat without 
 brims, brown coat, old stocking-leggins, blue 
 breeches, no shoes, and speaks broken English. — 
 K. Y. Mercury. 
 
 27G4. — On Sunday, September 2nd, Daniel 
 Youngs' house, at Oystcrbay, was broken open 
 and robbed of six silver table-spoons, marked " D. 
 C", and five tea-spoons, marked " D. 11. Y." It 
 delivered or conveyed to the owner uo ((uestions 
 •will be asked ; otherwise a good reward is oft'cred 
 for apprehending the thief bo that he may be had 
 to justice.— iV. y. Mercury. 
 
 1764, Sept. 4. — Daniel Kissam, elected to the 
 General Assembly in jdace of Thomas Cornell, 
 deceased, brings in a bill to sell the arms bought 
 by the fines of the Quakers. — Ass. Jour. 
 
 1764, Sqyf. 24. — The proprietors of the new 
 woolen manufactory at Hempstead, give notice to 
 all persons in any way vested iu the manufacture 
 of wool, such as wool-combers, weavers, doathers, 
 shearers, dyers, spinners, carders, or those under- 
 standing any branch of the broadcloath,i blanket. 
 
 or Stroud manufacture, that by aj)plyiug to them, 
 they will meet extraordinary- encouragement. Any 
 gentleman, shop-ki'eper, or others, by seuding pat- 
 teras of any color, may be supplied, on short notice, 
 with broadcloths ef|ual to any imported. Heady 
 money paid for jmlled aud sheared wool. 
 
 1764, Sept. 25. — The bills of the following per- 
 sons for boarding Frendi jirisoners, iu 1756-7-8, 
 were ordered to In- paid bv the Ass<'mbly : Oliver 
 Beesly, Thomas Hallet, Jacob Blackwell, Corne- 
 lius Berrien, AVilliam Sackett, tertius ; AYilliam 
 Field, John Lawrence, John Combs, Bynier Pro- 
 basco, AVilliam Lawrence, John Smith, John 
 Hoogland, Samuel Gerritse, Bk-hard Van Dyke, 
 John Bobert, Christopher Bobert, Joseph Gris- 
 wold, Samuel Fish, SanuicI and John Townsend, 
 Cieorge Weeks, Ji>hu Butler, Nafhani(.-1 Tom, Wil- 
 liam Sackett, William -Sackett, Jr. Thomas 
 Sackett, for furnishing medicine, 1750, and Hen- 
 drick Suydam, for transporting some aged and sick 
 neutral French. — Joitr., 2 : 757. 
 
 1764, Oct. 1. — ^Tunis I'ollicmus is now erecting 
 a fulling-mill, two miles south of Jamaica town, 
 which will be finished in a month. There will bo 
 n person to attend who is well acquainted with all 
 the branches an* business of a fuller and dyer. — 
 N. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1704, Oct. 5. — Complaint is made to the Assem- 
 bly that indigent persons build small huts on the 
 liighways and vacant lauds in Queens County, and 
 therein conceal and harbor vagnuits. — Jour. 
 
 .# 1764.— iVejf MarJcet RACES.— -To bemn for, 
 over the new course, Monday, October Sth, a 
 purse of r£50, free for any horse carrying nine 
 stone, the best of three two-mile heats. On Tues- 
 day a purse of ^£20, free for any horse bred in the 
 Province of New York. Entrance at !Mr. John 
 Combs', Jamaica. Certificates, luider the hands of 
 the breeders, must be produced of the ages and 
 qualifications of the horses that ruu on Tuesday. — 
 N. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1764, Oct. 0.— Purse .£.50. — Baces at Newmar- 
 ket, by Mr. Smith's bay horse Hero, Mr. Thome's 
 grey horse Starling, and ]\lr. Leary's bay horse 
 Old England. All imported fmm England. Star- 
 ling gained the first and second heats with case. — 
 X. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1764, Oct. l-O. — Very great cliangos have been 
 wrought on many persons of late iu the neighbor- 
 ing Provinces, and especially on Long Island, 
 caused by the preaching of the Bev. Mr. Whit- 
 field.— A'. 1'. 3Icrcury. 
 
 17G4, Xor. 6. — To be sold, a plantation at 
 Whitestone, having two acres of garden ground, 
 Iwcntv-eight acres rich laiul, well watered, and five 
 acres "of salt meadow. It has two dwelling-honscs, 
 a large store-house, l)arn, stables, chair-house, etc. 
 Enquire of Widow Elizabeth Barker, and her 
 daughter Elizabeth Stewart, in New York. 
 
 1764, Nov. 8. — Foimd lately, at Jamaica, a 
 
QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 small sum of money, which the owner may have 
 ou provmg^iroperty and paying charges, by appli- 
 cation to Mr. Thomas Braiue, tavern-keeper. 
 
 1764, Bee. 10. — "Was formed the Society for 
 promoting Arts, Agriculture and Economy iu the 
 Province of New York. Statfed meetings the first 
 Monday of every mouth. 
 
 BESJA3IIN KiSSAJi, Secretary. 
 
 1765. — Xotiee. — It is requested that the inhabi- 
 tants of Tfhii'hing, Newtown and Jamaica, should 
 meet at John Comes' tavern, Jamaica, January 
 1st, to agree on officers aud rules to advance hus- 
 bandry and manufactm-es and to suppress liixuiy. 
 — iV. Y. Posthoij. 
 
 176.5, Jan. 21. — Left his master's service, aa 
 apprentice lad, "William Morrell, born at Newtown, 
 aged nineteen, hair and complexion "fair, smooth- 
 faced, and looked boyish, -by ti'ade a shoemaker, 
 speaks and laughs loud, has a lazy clumsy walk, 
 took a hali-v,-oru castor hat, light-brown wig, white 
 cloth coat without buttons, brown " sagathy double- 
 breasted jacket, leather breeches, check shirt and 
 a pair of half boots ; he speaks English aud a little 
 low Dutch, is obliging and good natured. AVho- 
 ever secures said lad shall receive S.3 reward, and 
 charges paid, by John Crcc. — N. Y. Mereury. 
 
 176.5, Feb. 2-5.— Wanted, by the Sociefy f^.r 
 jiromoting AETS, &:-c,, fifty good spinning-wheels. 
 Apply to Obadiah AYells, James Armstrong aud 
 John Lamb, New York. 
 
 176-5, MarcJi 11. — The Society for promoting 
 Arts, offers a Premium of £20, to the ten women 
 who shall spin the most linen yarn in 1765, to be 
 distributed according to their resj^iectivo merits. — 
 N. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1765, March 11.^— To be exposed "o' sale, by 
 way of public vendue, a plantation in Newtown, 
 late of Andrew Eiker, deceased. It -has one hun- 
 dred acres with good improvements, a- good bearing 
 orchard of one lumdred and fifty apple trees, most- 
 ly grafted. A Iso, half of Hewlett's Island, which 
 is well timbered, and. has tlto convenience of a 
 good watei'iug-place. Also, salt meadow and 
 marsh, lying in the Sound. The whole is very 
 convenient for fishing, fowling, etc., (where you 
 may have clams and 03'sters at your door all sea- 
 sons of the year) and within ten miles of New 
 York markets. Due attendance will be given by 
 John C, Abraham aud Samuel Riker. — N. Y. 
 Mercury. 
 
 1765, F(^j. 22. — Johannes aud Petrns Loft 
 offer for sale the fiirm of Hendrick Lott, deceased, 
 three miles west of Jamaica, on the road to the 
 Ferry. It has a house, barn, orchard, stoue well, 
 a watering place for cattle aud one humlrcd aud 
 fifty acres of laud. 
 
 17-6.5. — Will be exposed to sale, at puliHc ven- 
 due, April Stli, the home-lot of land in Jamaica, 
 where Thomas Braiue now lives (formerly Samuel 
 
 Clowes') consisting of fourteen acres, having a 
 large brick hoBse and kitchen, with a spacious brick 
 house adjoining, ivr-o stories high and three rooms 
 on a flftor, and cellar-kitchen, completely finished, 
 glazed arid painted. It has a barn covered with 
 cedar, and several other erections, and an orchard 
 of seventy trees. Also, a large house, two stories 
 high, fronting the north street, with a garden- 
 spot.^ 
 
 N. B. — Said Braine has one thousand acres of 
 Isnd to dispose of near Schenectady. 
 
 176-5, April 22. — James McCan-cll, at the 
 school-house near 'Six. Benjamin Waters', in New- 
 town, encouraged by the universal approbation lie 
 has met with the past year, continues to teach 
 reading, writing, arithmetic, book-keeping, plain 
 and enhci-ic trigonometry, survejiug, guaging, 
 navigation, etc., etc. Scholars genteelly boarded 
 on reasonable terms.-^-A^ Y. Mercury, 
 
 1765, April 22. — Sarah Betts offers for sale two 
 faiTOS, two iiiilcs south of Jamaica, the one, T>[iller's 
 Neck, has two hundred aud forty acres, well tim- 
 bered and watered ; the other, Old Town-neck, 
 three hundred and fifty acres, one hundred of 
 wood and one hundred of salt and fresh meadow, 
 the rest clear upland -with a young orchard of two 
 Imndred apple trees. 
 
 1765. — To be let and entered on. May 1st, the 
 noted hoiise, at Jamaica, formerly belougiug to 
 Mr. Clowes, at present m 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 aud other out- 
 houses and fourteen acres of choice pasture land. 
 Enquire of Lawrence Eeade. 
 
 1765, March 25. — To be run for round Beaver 
 Pond, at Jamaica, Thursday, May gd, a piece of 
 plate of c£20 value, free for auj- horse bred in this 
 Government, carrying ten stout*. The horses to 
 start at the distance-post aud run twice round ; 
 and as fixr 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 205,, or double at the tost. — N. Y. 
 Mercury. 
 
 1765, May 23.— Thomas Philips, from Flush- 
 ing, intends opening a writing-school, 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. 
 
 17G5. — On Sunday evening-, July 21st, the bam 
 of William Lawrence, -of Newtown, was struck by 
 lightniug 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. 
 
 *TLis is Dr. Shelton's coi-ner. 
 
IN OLDEN TLMES. 
 
 . l/Go. — To be solil at vondiu-, August 7tli, at 
 two P. M., .1 pleasant, woll-^iituatcd lnni.-c and lot, 
 containing twelvf aci'ps, now in j)o.--hcs.-*iun of the 
 Widow Colfpin, Jamaica, nearly oppo.^itc tlie Eng- 
 li:']] and joining tlic Dntdi cliurcli. TJic house is 
 almost new and wfU-hnilt, and ha'; four rooms ou 
 a floor, and two lire jilacos, a good cellar, an excel- 
 lent gardc'H, an orchard and well of exceeding 
 good water, llev. Benoni Braduer, at Nine I'art- 
 uers, will give a good title. 
 
 17C5, Xoi'. 14. — 63 Reicaiil.—Unn away from 
 Pari BurttL", Newtown, a ne^rro man nlave, aged 
 thirty, of a yellowish color, and a good dcid pitted 
 by the .small pox about the no.-e. lie had ou a 
 vhitc cloth jacket, blue Dnllils great coat much 
 faded, ■nitli 'white flat metal buttons, buckskin 
 breeches, black and white mixed yarn stockings, 
 new .shocfi, and .small old wool hat. 
 
 17Go, Dcc.b. — Zaehariah Hood, a Stamp oflicer, 
 fled, November iiSth, from Jfaryl.md tn New York, 
 and took sanctuary in Fort Cicoi'ge, which tiover- 
 uor Colden had strongly fortified, but, on the arri- 
 val of (iovernor Jloore, he retired with Colden to 
 Flushing, and the Fort was distuantled. A'(dun- 
 tecr parties of the .'^ons of Liberty soon after went 
 to Flushing by land and water when fifty of them 
 surrounded Hood's lodgings and forced him to re- 
 sign. Tlien one hinidred persons on horseback 
 and in carriages, in regular order, escorted him to 
 Jamaica, (!Mr. IFood and. auothcr gentleman riding 
 in a chair in the centi-e) where he took the o.ath 
 before Justice Samuel Smith. !Mr. H. then thanked 
 the company for their politeness when he was 
 complimented and huzzaed and invited to an en- 
 tertainment, but he excused himself in as much as 
 lie was in such a franu^ of body and mind that he 
 should be unhappy in company. Jlan}- constitu- 
 tional toasts were drunk and next morning the 
 company (except those who lived on ]>ong Lsland) 
 1 set out for Xew York in several divisions, carrying^ 
 ' the flag of liberty with the words Libeiii/, I'nqicr- 
 tij and no Stumj}s inscribed thereon. — -N. Y. Jouv- 
 vul. 
 
 1766, Feb. 3. — $5 Itcivard. — Run away from 
 John Polhemus, Jamaica, a negro man, Mink, a 
 well-set fellow, of a lightish complexion, had on a 
 light colored homespun great coat with horn-but- 
 tons, a Forrest cloth jacket, blue everlasting 
 breeches, lie took also a pair of buek.'^kin breech- 
 es ■with silver buttons, a pair of white and of blue 
 and white stockings, and double-soled half-woni 
 shoos. 
 
 1766, Jt'&. .^O. — For sale, the house and farm 
 pleasantly situated near the Beaver Pond, formerly 
 ihe property of the Ecv. Mr. Colgan.* The honsc 
 is fifty-six feet front and rear, ,mu1 has been lately 
 uewly repaired and painted, with several new ad- 
 ditional buildings. There aro about seventy-five 
 acres of good land, including an orchard cajiable of 
 
 "Tliis is the CoGw'isc propcrtj-, now owucJ by Mr. Lau- 
 rens licevc. 
 
 producing- sixty barrels of ciikr yearly. Enquire 
 of Dr. Charle.- Arding, ou the premises. N. B.— 
 Terms of paymont easy. 
 
 17G6, April A. — At vendue, twelve acres of 
 land late of Richard 'N'alentiuc, Jr., at Heiupsteiul 
 Harbor, most of it mowing p^round and orchard, 
 and eight or ten acres of tindjer land near. . It is 
 pleasantly situatwl aliout fifty rods from a landing 
 and grist-mill, con^ en'Kiit for a .shop-keeper, tradea- 
 laan or a gentleman's eonntry seat. Also, cattle, 
 horses and household goods, jm' Williams Seaman 
 and Benjamin Robins, Executors. 
 
 17G6, Jidi) 31.— Whereas, Elizabeth, wife of 
 John Barhite, Jr., of Hempstead, has heretofore 
 run him in debt, these are to warn all persons not 
 to entertain or trust her. 
 
 176C, Ang. 7. — Last Thursday evening, Jtr. 
 Thomas Parsels, who lived ou and owned part of 
 Piusels' Island, is supposed to have attempted to 
 swim on horseback across the river to liia own 
 house, as he had said he would and could do so, 
 and the horec had often swam over of his own 
 accord. The saddle wtu; found bung up near the 
 shore, but he and the horse were missing till Mon- 
 day night, when the man's body was found floating [ 
 at llellgate. The horse has not been heard of 
 since. — Fostboi/. 
 
 17GG, iSc2>t. IS. — Run away from Dow Ditmara 
 3d, Jamaica, a negro fellow, Tony, of a yellowish 
 complexion, speaks Dutch and English, had on a 
 brown camblet coat and waistcoat, plush breeches 
 and trowsers ; 205. reward. N. B.— All persons 
 are forewarned not to conceal or carry away said 
 negro. 
 
 17GG, Drr. 20.— Last ]\ronday, Joscjdi An- 
 drews, mariner, on information that he was one of 
 the villains wln) murdered Capt. Rulcii' Duryca, of 
 the sloop Polly, ou her pa^s;lgo to the West lu- 
 dicSr-andall tlie people ou board except one, was 
 appreheiuled at Boston. Two days after his am- 
 val there hcj had his hair cut. off so as to disguise 
 his looks. Many of Duryca's things were found 
 on him, particular!}' a m(;dal which he wore around 
 his neck and several shirts marked with the initials 
 of his name. A considerable sum of gold was 
 found on him, and he showid great signs of guilt 
 ou being first ajiprehended hut denied any knowl- 
 edge of murder and piracy-. — iV. Y. Gazette. 
 
 17G7, J<(n. 10.— Valentine H. Peters and Benja- 
 min Hewlett, E.xecutors, ofl'er for sale the planta- 
 tion of Dr. Charles I'etcrs, on the north side of 
 Hempstead Plains. It contains two hundred acres 
 clear hind in good fence, a large commodious 
 house, bai-n, out-honses and stone well. 
 
 17G7, Jan. 10. — For sale, a grist-mill of two 
 pair of stones, at Flushing, ou a fine creek, where 
 u boat may be brought up to the side of the mill, 
 within the run of one tide from New York, with 
 four huiulred acres of land and meadow, house, 
 bam, orchard and mowing groimd. Enquire of 
 
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 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 Isaac Willet, oc David Coleda aud James Steven- 
 son, riiishujg. 
 
 1767, Feb. 2.— Thomas Woodward offi-rsfor sale 
 a farm of one hundred and thirty acres, where he 
 lives, one mile from Jamaica, on the road to 
 riusliing. It has eight acres of mowing ground, 
 some low laud just cleared aud almost ready to 
 receive any sort of grass seed, and an orchard of 
 apples, pears aud peaches- 
 
 17G7, Feb. 12. — To be sold, eighteen acres of 
 land with barn, orchard and some v.'oodland. The 
 house is pleasantly situated within a mile cif Flush- 
 ing landing, on th« road to Jamaica. Enquire of 
 Francis Yates,, on the premises, or James P;u-oOus, 
 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 thnty- 
 four acres, is well timbered and some of it set out 
 with Iocu.st trees. There are three orchavds and a 
 choice collection of otlior fruit, all in cedar post 
 fence. 
 
 17C7. — At three o'clock, in the thick weather of 
 the morning of April Sth, the ship Britannia came 
 ashore on Merrick Beach, three miles south of 
 Hempstead Church. At live 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-jacket, swam ashore with a line, but 
 had to let go his hold in the breakers. In the 
 afternoon Richard Williams, a free negro, was 
 drowned in a like attempt. The passengers and 
 crew remained in the fore-sliroirds that night, but 
 in the morning they made a raft and some got 
 ashore. The weatKer moderating, the rest were 
 saved, except two seaman drowned by the over- 
 setting of a boat. jfilOOO's worth of the cargo was 
 saved. 
 
 17G7, Aivil 25.— A match Race for .£50 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, 31'!)/ 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 Robert G. Li^^ngston, New York. 
 
 1767, June 28. — 20s. Hcwarcl. — Rim away from 
 John Combes, Jamaica, a negro man. Primus, 
 well set, had on blue frieze coat, leather breeches 
 and blue stockings. 
 
 17C7, Jidij 17.^The stage wagon, kept by 
 Jolin Ilapalje, opposite the stone meeting-house, 
 runs from .Jamaica to Brookhm 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. 
 
 1767, July 30. — Isaac Smith offers for sale his 
 farm of tw-o hundred and eighty acres, under good 
 improvement and in good fence, in the pleasant 
 village of Ilerricks. It has good buildings, fine 
 orchard and good timber. 
 
 1767, Sept. 21'.— For sale, at William Prince's 
 nursery. Flushing, a great variety of fruit trees, 
 such as apple, plum, peach, nectarine, cheny, 
 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, October 1st, round Beav- 
 er Pond, Jamaica, a piece of plate worth 0620 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 pedigyee. The next 
 day a purse of £b, free for any common horse 
 twice roimd the Pond to a heat. Horses to start 
 each day at 2 o'clock. 
 
 1767. — On Sunday, October ISth, the house of 
 Joseph Cheeseman, north side of Hempstead 
 Plaius, was entirely consumed by fire owing to a 
 foul chimney, which took fire aud communicated 
 to the whole building. The neighboring men be- 
 ing all at church no assistance could be 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. Mercury. 
 
 1767. — To be run for at New Market, on the 
 Great Plains, October 22d, a Purse of c£20, free 
 for any horse not over three j'ears old ; full blood 
 carrying ten stone ; half blood, eight stone, &c. 
 Entrance, 20s. each, with Stephen Cornwell. 
 
 1767, Nor. 23. — On Thursday last several men 
 having been employed 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 eartli, except 
 that their arms were not covered. At the middle 
 of the afternoon one was got out and at sunset the 
 other. They were both alive ; whether hurt or 
 not we have not heard. — N. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1767, Dec. 10. — Adam Lawrence, SheriflF, offers 
 at public vendue, all the lands aud tenements of 
 Colonel William Willett, in Flushing, consisting of 
 two luiudrcd and thirty acres of clear upland, 
 eighty of salt meadow joining the upland and forty- 
 four acres of swamp. On it are two new dwelliuf- 
 houses, one very large, four rooms on a floor and 
 spacious entry, with barns, gardens, orchards and 
 mowing grounds of English 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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 17G7, Dec. 17. — On Jlontlay last was Ijroiifrlit 
 to market, a cow only pix ycarx old, wliosc four 
 quarters, liide and tallow wei<rlied one thousand 
 and fifty-ibur pounds. 'Tifi said »lie was bred by 
 3Ir. Samuel Cornell of Flushing. — N. Y. Posihoy. 
 
 17GS, Jan l.— CW>y/.— Robert Wooffend.alc, pur- 
 geon-dentist, from London, in.^tructed by the ope- 
 rator for the teeth to his jirescnt Mrjesty, intends 
 residing at Jamaica, during his stay in America, 
 but will attend at New York every Thursday. 
 He perfonns all operations on the teeth, gums, 
 sockets and palate. Likewise fixes artiiicial teeth 
 so as to escape disccniment, and without paiu. — 
 lY. Y. Postboi/. 
 
 17G8, -Tan. 4. — For sale a pleasant farm of over 
 two hundred acres, on the road from tlie ] Mains to 
 "Wliitestone Feny, two miles east of Flushing 
 town. 'I'herc is a large dwelling-house, a hen- 
 house, smoke-house, weaver's shop, bam, etc. The 
 buildings arc all in good repair and the orchard is 
 sufficient to make one hundred and lifty barrels of 
 eider. Also, peaches, plums, pears and cherries, 
 abundant. Much more may be said to recommend 
 it. I have not enumerated the half. I expect the 
 man that chooses to purcha.?e, will first take a 
 view and satisfy hiuiself. Bernardus llyder ou 
 the premises. 
 
 1768, Ja)L 11.— To let, at May-day next, a very 
 good convoni(;nt house for a small family, pleas- 
 antly situated in .Jamaica. It has four rooms on a 
 floor, and a ehinniey in each, and a garret with two 
 good lodging rooms, with a kitchen next the house, 
 a garden well stocked with finit trees, and coach- 
 house and stable adjoining. The house has all the 
 necessary conveniences, a cistcni for rain water, 
 and the use of the next j'ard and well. Apply to 
 Judge llorsmanden, at his house, Smith Street, 
 New York. 
 
 17C8, Jfin. 2-'). — Rulef Durye ofl'ers at vendue, 
 his farm in Springfield, near the Little I'lain Hol- 
 low. It contains fifty-five acres, on(; third wood- 
 laud, a new barn, a double house with three fire 
 places and finished with iiannel-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, convcMiient 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 Xeck, 
 offers for sale a farm of two hundred and (ifty-six 
 acres. It has two houses, two barns, chair-house, 
 two orchards, and is well watered and timbered. 
 
 1768, Feb. 20. — To be U't and entered on imme- 
 diately, an exceeding good and pleasantly situated 
 house, in Newtown, with a largo garden and or- 
 chard, and seventeen acres of land. It has a well 
 of pure water and ice-house, and all maimer of con- 
 veniences. Apply to Mr. CJeorge Rape lye, 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 chinmey at e.icli end 
 with four rooms on a floor and a pleasant view of 
 said h.-irbor. There are two small barns, two or- 
 cliards, 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, ple.isantly situated 
 in the centre of Newtown. 
 
 1768, March 21. — Thursday evening, a young 
 man, son of Justice Kldert, of Queens County, 
 having been at the election there, at .Jamaica, re- 
 turned home, put U)i 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 G73 
 votes ; Zebulon Seaman, G04 ; Thomas Ilicks, 
 2,52 ; Rev. Abraham Keteltas, 209. 
 
 1768.— To be sold, at the Merchants' Coffee 
 IIou.-5e, New York, Slarcli .10th, a pleasant farm at 
 .Jamaica, of eighty-six acres, of which fifty-seven 
 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-honsc 
 well finished, four rooms on a floor, a hall twelve 
 feet wide, a spaciotis ])iazza 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. The 
 land is in four .acre lots, greatly improved. There 
 arc 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 ap|)les, pears, cherries, jilums, peaches, necta- 
 rines and apricots. The house is beautit'ullj- situ- 
 ated on an eminence fronting the Beaver Fond, a 
 quarter of a mile from the town. Apply to I'hilip 
 Van Cortland, ou the premises, who will give the 
 title.* 
 
 1768, April 18. — The cold dry weather we 
 have had of Lite, has been attended with bad con- 
 sequences to many in the country- by the loss of 
 cattle, etc. 
 
 1768, April 2.'>. — f)n Thursday morning the 
 house of the Widow, Rapalje, opposite Hell (Jate, 
 was lairnt bv a spark on the roof from the low 
 kitchen chinmey. ( >nly three beds were saved. — 
 X. Y. Mcrciiri/. 
 
 176S, April 2'). — To let, in Newtown, a pleas- 
 ant farm of eighteen acres, formerly in possession 
 of Mr. AVatkins, and since of Captain I'rovoost and 
 John French, Esqrs. It lias a good house, bam. 
 
 •Tills place is now owneil anJ occupied by William J. 
 Cogswell, Esq. 
 
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 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 and ice-house and other out-houscs, with an or- 
 chard and mowing-ground for two liorses and four 
 cows. John lilooie, Jr., will show the house. 
 
 I7G8, May 9. — James Culver offers for sale, a 
 plantation of eight acres, in the centre of Newtown. 
 It has a good house 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. 
 
 17GS. — Beaver Pond Races, Monday, May 23d. 
 £20 plate, free for any horse not over four j-ear.s 
 old this grass, three timo=i round the Pond to a 
 lieat, Ss. entrance. The winning horse to pay SI 
 for scales and straw. Three must enter or no 
 race. Some late obstructions that much impeded 
 the horses while running, having been removed, it 
 is now become the most beautiful place iu all 
 America, for sport, and all lovers of the tarf ai'e 
 truly invited.* 
 
 1768, Mag 30. — $,i Beivard. — Ran away from 
 Da,niel Remsen, Jamaica, an Irish sci-vant lad, 
 George Adams. lie stole a blue broad-cloth coat 
 with brass buttons, a green velvet jacket, buckskin 
 breeches, 30s. of Jcrsej' bills and a plain gold ring. 
 
 1708, June 20.— 20.s. Ttetcanl — Run away from 
 his master, Caleb Cornwell, Cow Neck, a negro 
 man. Shier, marked with small pox, by trade a 
 caulker. lie had on a castor hat, linmesjivui col- 
 ored jacket and trousers, blue ribbed stockings and 
 brass buckles in his shoes. 
 
 1768, June 30. — The horse Bashaw stands at 
 Stephen Van Wyck's, Little Neck. He was bred 
 bj' the 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, tlie famous English horse 
 Grand Diavolo, and many others of not inferior 
 note. <£3 the season. Good pasture, 2s. per 
 week. 
 
 1768, JxiJi/ 4. — "William Puntinc has set up a 
 stage wagon to ply between Jamaica and Brook- 
 lyn, at five o'clock, A. M. Fare 18 pence. His 
 wagon is as good as any on the Island and very 
 commodious. — X. Y. Jlercuri/. 
 
 17G8, Jul;/ 11. — John Field, Executor, offer); 
 for sale a negro woman, some clocks, watches and 
 the farm of John Wright, 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, JuJ^f 14. — John Rapalje has lately re- 
 paired his wagon which leaves Jamaica at six 
 
 *Only two horses appeared. Captain Antliony Rutgers' 
 Queen Kate and Mr. Jleard's Lady Legs. A" thousand 
 persons were disappointed. 
 
 o'clock, A. M. Children under three years of age 
 t/raiis. 
 
 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 rpeaks French and broken English. 
 He had on buckskin breeches, cheek 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 
 Ezekiel Furnsan, of Newtown, took sick in the 
 meeting-house during divine service in the after- 
 noon, and, being carried to the house of 3Ir. Fish, 
 .she expired a few hours after. — N. Y. Mercury. 
 
 176S, Aug. 29. — 20s. Eetrard. — Run away from 
 "William Mott, Great Neck, a young Indian servant 
 fellow, named Stephen, sometimes Pompey. He 
 had on a tow homespun shirt and trowsers, okl 
 shoes, hat and a gi'ay homespun jacket. It is sup- 
 posed he may have a pass. 
 
 1768, Scjit. 8. — All persons indebted to the es- 
 tate of Daniel Lawrence, decea.sed, of Flushing, 
 will make payment to Benjamin Kissam, Attoruey- 
 at-Law, New Yorli. Also, to be sold at Flushing, 
 October 1st, a likely negro wench. Abraham 
 Lawrence, Executor. 
 
 1768, <SVjjf. 12. — Run away from Abraham 
 LawKiK'e, Flushing, an Irish servant lad, James 
 Lawson, pitted with the small pox, nose pretty 
 long. 40s. reward. 
 
 1768, Oct. 3. — Run away from George Ryerson, 
 Foster's Meadow, an indentured Irish servant man, 
 Thomas Mnllin, marked with small pox. He had 
 on a short coat with small cuff's, old leather breech- 
 es, new felt hat. 20s. reward and charges paid. 
 
 1768, Oct. 10. — John and Garret "\'anderbilt and 
 Pctrus and Hendrick Onderdonk, Executors, offer 
 for sale the farm of the late John "\'anderbilt, con- 
 sisting of one hundred and sixtj- acres, ot which 
 fiftecu 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. — X. 
 Y. Mercury. 
 
 176S, 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 =£50. The best of three four-mile heats, free 
 for any horse. Saturday, a purse of d£nO for four 
 year old horses. 50s. 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 tfie subscribers 
 present. The winning horse each day to pay 50s. 
 to put the course in order. No less than three re- 
 
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 putcd liorees to bo allowed to start at twelve 
 o'clock each day. — N. Y. Mfrcuri/. 
 
 1708, Oct. 31. — Thf f'.illowiiif; lior.T.-< stinted at 
 
 New Market for one of the snlji-ciiption pursi'S of 
 JE50: 
 
 Nortliunibcilaiid, - - 1 I 
 
 Hotkey Leeds. - - - 2 2 
 
 r)ld England, - - 3 dr. 
 
 Partner, - - - - 1 dis. 
 
 The next day for the other purse of 4'^0. 
 L.ith, - - - 1 
 
 Liberty, - - - - 2 dr.. 
 
 Lady Leg.', - . - dis. 
 Young Sterling, - - - dis. 
 
 To-moiTOw Britou and Sterling run at Now 
 Market, for .£100, the lie.st of tliree four-mile heats ;* 
 and next day Richmond and 1 )uvc run for t-iO. — 
 N. Y. 3Ierciiri/. 
 
 1768, Xov. 14. — For sale, the jdnutation of Ben- 
 jamin Whitehead, Jr., at Jamaica, south l^ide, 
 eight3--five acres. It has a two-story house with 
 three rooms on the lower and four on the upper 
 floor, two fire-jdaees below and o)ie uj) stairs, barn, 
 stable, corn-crib, oixhard, garden, and many other 
 good accommodations; all in good ivnce. 
 
 17G8, Nov. 21. — ^'alentiue H. IVtore 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 convenient to build upon ; .ill in good 
 fence. 
 
 1768, Dec. IS. — The New York Society for jm)- 
 raoting Arts, adjudged a premium of .CIO to 
 Thomas Young, of Oysterbay, ftr the largest nur- 
 sery of apple trees. It contains twenty-seven 
 thousand one hundred and twcnty-tlircc trees. — 
 Game's Mercury. 
 
 1768, Dec. 22.— The voters of Queens County 
 send instructions to tlieir Asseniblyraen, Seaman 
 and Kissam "on the subversion of tli(; grand char- 
 acteristics of the Bl'itisli Con-titution, ta.xation by 
 repj-esentation." Tliey also complain that trade is 
 languishing, that specie is withdrawn from us by 
 duties, that credit is declining and the paper cm-- 
 rcncy sunk. They wish to linvc a iTmonstrancc; 
 sent to their Sovereign in order to obtain a removal 
 of grievances and also a respectful letter to the 
 Committee of Massacliu.'sctts in reply to theirs. 
 
 1760, Jan. 30. — To let, the noted mills and 
 farm thereto belonging, at ('did Spring, now in oc- 
 cupation of Rowland Chambers, lately known as 
 Ilawkshurst's Mills. Enquire of Xallianiel ifeirs- 
 tou. New York. 
 
 1769, Jan. 30.— To let, a jdace of forty acres, 
 where George Rapelye lives, in the town-spot of 
 Newtown. It has a double Iiouse with entry 
 through the middle, dairy room, and an orchard of 
 pippins, pcarmains, Spitzenbergs ■■md other sorts. 
 
 It will mow a good burthen of gntss, and is suitable 
 for IX gentleman's seat, shop-keeper, or tavern, as 
 it hiis beeu long occupied in that way. 
 
 1700, T\h. 13. — For sale the home-lot of Corne- 
 lius Smith, adjoining the County Hall, Jamaica. 
 It has a double house ^nth 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 plant. There is also 
 an orrh.ard and chestnut timber. Also, a bark- 
 mill, tan-vats, and a good' watur-pit' ten feet square 
 with a living stream i herein, tlrrec hinidred yards 
 from the door. The place is convenient for a tav- 
 ern, shop-keeper or tradesman, and capeoialiy for a 
 tiinner and currier. 
 
 1'7(J0, Feb. 13: — Tunis Polliemus offers for sale 
 his fulling and irrist-mill, two miles south of Ja- 
 m'lica, with ninety acres of laud, house, barn, and 
 orchard of two hundred trees. 
 
 1700, Fch. 13.— For sale, the farm of David 
 i^eainan, deceased, lying between Jerico and 
 AVheatly. It has a barn, crib and other out- 
 houses, two IiuikIk d ami fifty acres of land, two 
 orchards, of t«o hundred and fifty trees, a peach 
 orchard and a plenty of cherry trees. Apply to 
 Jacob Searing, on the premises, or to Zebulon, 
 William and Davd Seaman, or Richard Willets. 
 
 1769, 3[(ircli 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, jieach-orchard, jdums of several sorts, 
 cherries and jiears. Likewise a sloop on the 
 stocks, thirty-si.x feet by the keel, sireight rabbet, 
 sixteen feet beam, with masts, rigging and sails, 
 all fit for launching in three or four days.. 
 
 1700, April 3. — Joseph Bownc, of Flushing, 
 offers for sale his house, garden, wharf and store- 
 house, at Flushing landing. The wharf is twenty- 
 six feet wide where a boat may l.iy along side. 
 Also, half the vessel that Captain Jacamiah -Mitch- 
 ell follows the boating business in. 
 
 1700, April 10. — ilartin Schenck offers for sale 
 his farm of one hundred and fifty acres, two miles 
 from Jamaica, on the eastern road to Fhtshiiig. 
 
 17G9, April 17.— Israel llallet offers to let, near 
 the English Kills, a house with three rooms on a 
 floor, two fire-places, a large garden, and pasture 
 for ."everal creatures, and fruit for the summer. It 
 is near the water and forty rods from the landing, 
 where a passage-boat constantly plies to and from 
 New York.; and most, ot^ the produce of Newtown 
 is exported fromi said landing. 
 
 L.70n, M(i>i \.: — ^The Rev. Mr. Joshua Bloomer, 
 for the mission of .Jamaica, came passenger from 
 England in the ship Britannia. — X. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1700, Mai/ 18. — This morning, after a long trial 
 before a Court of Admiralty, in the City ll.iil, .Jo- 
 seph Andrews (or Andirson, a native of ^Vall•s.) 
 was found guilty of murder and pirac}* and con- 
 
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 cJe-iuBcd to be hung for having, iu August 17GG, in 
 concert with Mieholas Johnson, murdered llulef 
 Duryea, of Jamaica,* captaiu, Peter Demilt, mate, 
 and one Cobb, a cabin-boy ; also, two passengers, 
 AVells Coverly and John Van Bunschoten, who 
 was going to the West Indies for liis health. John- 
 sou was broken on the rack, and huug.at St. Eu- 
 statia. — iV. y. Gaxeitc. 
 
 17G9, Mmj 23. — Joseph Andrews was hanged 
 on the shore of the Ncrth River. When dead his 
 body was cut down and suspended in chains on a 
 high gallows on the most- conspicuous part of Bed- 
 low's Islnnd. Ho nt last coufessc-i the murder 
 and that it was done for money, but denied b'-ing 
 eancornfl in. any other. — X. Y. Journal. 
 
 1770, Jan. 1. — Thomns Brown, fuller, from- 
 London, has taken the fulling-mill of Richard 
 Kirk, at Hempstead Harbor, where all persons, 
 whatsoever, may have their cloth done in the 
 neatest manner and on reasonable tcrms.-^iV. Y. 
 Mercury. 
 
 1770, Jan. 1.— To [/cnflemcn fanners, etc.— A 
 manufacturer, just arrived from England, has taken 
 the fulling-mill of Tunis Polhemu.s, south of Ja- 
 maica, where all sorts of woollen cloth, serges, liu- 
 ceys, etc., are completely dressed and colored in the 
 English manner ; where ail possible care will be 
 taken. 
 
 177§, Ularcli 5.- — For sale; the pleasant countrj' 
 seat »r f;irm>< where the Res'. John I'ierson 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 iu the house of 
 Captain Samuel Hallet, near Ilellgate, which, with 
 most of the furniture, was entirely destroyed. 
 Loss, c£l,SOO. He and his wife were absent. A 
 villain in the neighborhood is suspected. — N. Y. 
 Journal. 
 
 17i70, March 19.' — A cow, raised by John As- 
 pinwall, of Flushing, was killed at/- Jamaica, by 
 Benjamin Carpenter, butcher. It-was nine j'ears 
 old and weighed, in beef, hide and tallow, one 
 thousand eight hundred and eighteen. pounds. — N. 
 Y.. 3L:rcurij. 
 
 1770, April IG. — Carpenter's Jamaica stage, in 
 summer, must set off iu the morning between five 
 and si.x o'clock, and not leave Brooklyn ferry till 
 about the same time in the eveuinc:. For shia'le 
 passengers, eighteen pence. "Woman with a cliikl 
 two shillings. Every cwt. of sv.giir, &c., one shil- 
 ling. A small bundle or handkerchief, coffee, i&c, 
 (if the wagoner buys them) 4f?. ta QiV. Every let- 
 ter delivered and a return, 3(?. A basket or bunch 
 offish, if delivered to him, 2d.; if bought by hiui, 
 4f/. A five-gallon keg of wine or a small trunk, 
 6d. ; a large trunk, one shilling. 
 
 •Durjea was leauing liis head, asU'eji, on a chicken coop 
 when he receiveil the fatal blow, and died without a "roan. 
 
 11 
 
 Passengers taken and delivered no further 
 east than Captain Bamaby Bums', and no further 
 west than Dr. Arding's, without extra pay. 
 
 1770, April 23. — Richard Kirk has lately set 
 up a fulling mill iit neinpstead Harbor, which is as 
 well calculated as any on the Island, having a 
 stock of the largest size, ami water sufficient to 
 keep her. constantly going, and no other mill on the 
 stre.am to take off her water. The mill stands 
 within four rods of the IFarbor, where a craft may 
 come up. Any leather-dressers inclined to favor 
 me with their custom, may depend on being used 
 well and on reasonable terms. N.B. — The names 
 of the masters of the three sloops that attend said 
 Harbor are Clarke Lawrence, Joshua I'iue ami 
 Gilbert Seaman. — N. Y. Mercury. - 
 
 1770, May 2S. — A dead whale, sixty feet long, 
 was driven ashore at Rockaway — N. 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- 
 fiictory account of it. — N-. Y. Mercury.: 
 
 1771. — On Monday, January 21st, four young 
 men riding on Hempstead Plains, near Mr. "Wa- 
 ters' tavern, to try the speed of their horses, iu 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 skull so that 
 he died iuHnediately. — X. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1771. — Thomas I'oblas, of Oysterbay, petitions 
 the Governor for relief. He lost a lawsuit ■while 
 in a gaol. His sister tore oft' thc'TOof of his house 
 and, with other outrages, frightened his •.'•"ifi;' r.m^ 
 children from the homestead left him by his father, 
 which she pretends to claim Col. Mss., Yd. 97. 
 
 1771, Feb. 7.— "William Sackett, Jr., offers for 
 sale his very beautifully situated and convenient 
 house and lot of thirty acres, at the head of Mas- 
 peth Creek, being the public landing, seven miles 
 from New I'ork by land or water, well situated for 
 a shop or tavern, and has a right to a stream suffi- 
 cient to erect. a mill with one or two pair of stones. 
 The public road from the Ferry to Newtown leads 
 by the place at a convenient distance. The house 
 hasTi pretty prospect of meadows and creeks. Oys- 
 ters, fish and crabs plenty iu their season. Large 
 barn and other onthonses. 
 
 1771, Feb. 21.— Died, at Flushing, Friday last, 
 Rebecca, the amiable consort of Major Robert 
 Bayard, daughter of the Hon. Charles Apthorpe, 
 of Boston,' universally regretted by all ^\ho had 
 the honor of her acf[uaintance. 
 
 1771, March 2.— On Saturday night the well 
 known Adam Smith broke into the cabin of Zcbu- 
 lon Waterman's boat, lying in I'eck Slip, New 
 York, and took out the captain's chest, bedding, 
 wearing apparel and £G m cash. He then went 
 with his wife to a tavern near the Slip, and having 
 
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 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 a IjuikIIc uuder his coat it raised suspicion. Next 
 day, dili-rt'iit search being made lor him, lie was 
 arrested and some goods totmd on liim. Where- 
 upon he] coniesaud and was committed. He was 
 tried, January 2 1st, for burglary, and sentenced to 
 be hanged February SLst, 1772. lu his dying 
 confession Smitli says he was bora at Oj-stcrbaj', 
 in 1750, of poor but honest parents, who brought 
 liim up without learning, tiiough they instructed 
 him in the ])rinciples of the Christian religion. On 
 coming to New York lie fell into bad company, and 
 was thus brought to an untimely enil. — X. 3'. 
 JournuJ, March 7. 1771, and Jan. 30, 1772. 
 
 1771, March 28. — Saturday evening l.xst, died, 
 suddenly, on the road to Jamaica, Captain Haniaby 
 Byrne. He came to town that morniug with Mrs. 
 Byrne and on their return home in the evening, he 
 was taken ill on the rond about a mile from his 
 own bouse, and being carried into ^[r. Belts', oppo- 
 site the church, in Jamaica, there expired. — ^'. Y. 
 Joitrual. 
 
 1771, April IS. — The past winter was mild till 
 February, when it was succeeded bv a cold stormy 
 spring with short intervals of warm weather, which 
 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 Tuesd.ij' it 
 snowed for some hours. The wind and weather 
 has prevented the usual SHpjilics of wood, raising 
 the price to th(; extraordinary bight of 'Ms. per 
 cord fur nut and 24.S. for oak, tlie like hardly ever 
 known before at this time of the year. — iV. Y. 
 Jiiurmil. 
 
 1771, April 28. — To be sold by public vendue, 
 the household furniture of Barnaby Byrne, de- 
 ceased, with a great variety of fashionable plate, 
 some horses, cows, wagons, fanning utensils, 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 f.rty-throe 
 acres, arable and mowing ground, whereon is an ex- 
 cellent house, liarn, stable, chaise-house, cider- 
 house, eider-mill, two orchards and a garden. AVil- 
 liam Bayard or Terence Kerin, Kxeeulors, or J[rs. 
 Jane Byrne, on the premises, or Mr. .John Long, 
 New York. 
 
 1771, May 24. — To be sold, a pleasant farm, at 
 AVhitestone, on the Sound side of I.ong Island, of 
 about three hundred acres, Kiujuire of Francis 
 Lewis, on the premises, who has also farming ne- 
 groes for sale. 
 
 1771, June 3. — >€5 Iteward and charges.— Uim 
 away from Matthew Franklin, Flushing, a lad six- 
 teen vcars of age, Thduias Farringtun, (iiiticed 
 away by his brother Daniel, as is supposed). He 
 had on a wool hat with a button and loop, a brown 
 bonv'spun coat, linen vest, velvet breeches, ,'ind 
 shoes half worn. He took with him a red and 
 ■wliitc dog partly of the hound breed. 
 
 1771, June 10. — John Ilewlett, Oysterbay, of- 
 
 fers forty shillings reward and charges, for a run- 
 away negro. Jack) who has big ancles, toi-s small 
 and walks stooping; wore a blue coat and buck- 
 skin breeches ; had plenty of money and may 
 forge a pass. — ^Y. Y. Meivuri/. 
 
 1771, Jufi/ IS.— Sarah Burling offers for sale a 
 good grist and fulliiig-niill, on a good stream of 
 w.iter, « itli til'ty aei<s of land, about a mile and a 
 half from Flushing landing. It has a house, barn, 
 out-houses, dye-house, and .ill other conveniences 
 for carrying on the clothier's business. The whole 
 in good re[iair. There is a good orchard and ex- 
 traordinary good mowing ground, and more may 
 be easily made. 
 
 1771, Jiih/ 2:5.— The creditors of Mrs. Klizabeth 
 Seabury, and of the late .S. Se.ibury, are n'ljucsted 
 to meet at Timothy Clowes', in the town-spot of 
 llcmpste.id, to prove their accounts and receive 
 their dividends from JUchard Ilewlett and S. 
 Clowes, Trustees. — X. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1771. — Benjamin Cheeseman, north side of 
 Hempstead Plains, offers 40.>". reward for a black 
 mire, stolen in the night of July 21st. 
 
 1771, July 25.— AVe hear from Newtown, tli.it 
 one Birch, an Knglishman, aged si.xty, a poor man 
 who had been Some ytars in these parts ; and in 
 the bite war had been a soldier in the I'rovincial 
 service, was found on ^londay morning dead in 
 the garret of the house where he lived. He held 
 one end of a i-ope in his hand which he had thrown 
 over a beam. He had often tried to get to Eng- 
 land where lie had a wealthy sister, but could not 
 get money for the passage. — N. Y. Journal. 
 
 1771, Au(i. 27. — Broke from Jamaica .Jail, on 
 Sunday night last, Levi Mo.ses and Theodorus 
 Benjamin, both .Tews, who have been coiilined for 
 sonic years past. Mastei-s of vessels and others 
 are forewarned to carry them off at tlicir peril. 
 Thomas ^\^llett, Slieritl'. 
 
 1771, Sept' 2. — Beaver Pond Race. Pui-se, 
 tC2.5 for any horse except Whitehead Cornell's 
 Steady, and Timothy Cornell's Itirlimniid. Horses 
 to be entered with Widow Combs, Jamaica. — N. 
 Y. Mercury. 
 
 1771, Sept. 12.— The Purse of .£100, by the 
 JIac.ai'oni Club, was run for at New JIarket, last 
 Alonday, by Mr, Del.incey's horse Ijath. and Mr. 
 "Waters' horse Liberty, which was won ^^•ith great 
 ease by the former. As a field couhl not be made 
 the next day for the jiurse of -^.50, the matter was 
 postponed till the next season. 
 
 1771, Sept. oO. — These are to inform the public 
 that the manufactory lately carried on by Wash- 
 ington & (iants, at Oysterbay, will still be carried 
 on by ilessrs. Hunt & Chew, who have furnished 
 themselves with all manner of ingredients from 
 Kngland. 
 
 N. B.— Said W. & (1. Ii.avc been at immense 
 expense to procure workmen from the west of 
 
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 England aud find tbem very capable. — X. Y. Mor- 
 cury. 
 
 1772, Jan. 30. — Died, some time since, of putrid 
 fever, at St. Eustatia, wlieve be had lately settled, 
 aged 21, Dr. Benjamin Ondeixlonk, eldest son 'of 
 Mr. Hcndriek Ouderdonk, of Long Island. A 
 young gentleman of very amiable character and 
 much lamented by ail the inhabitants. — N. Y. 
 Merc ur If. 
 
 1772, March 5. — Zebnlcn Searaan, second son 
 of Tenperance S. and Eobert Seaman, second son 
 of Hannah S., daughters of John "Williams, late of 
 Jerico, arc allowed by the Assembly to take the 
 name of Williams, conformable to the will of John 
 Williams who devised theia lands in ( >ysterbay. — 
 N. Y. JournaL 
 
 1772, April 9. — Dr. Jacob Ogdcn offers for sale 
 bis farm of forty acres, on which is a large new 
 genteel house, fronting the road from Jamaica to 
 No>v York, a tourth of a mile west from the town. 
 There is a large barn, smoke-house, aud other 
 convenient buildings, an orchard, peach orcbard, 
 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 
 the bouse are more easily seen on the spot than 
 described, standing on the road to 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. — Eaces. — The Macaroni purse of <£]00, 
 at Newmarket. June 2d, was won by Captain De- 
 lanccy's BasJiatr, beating Jlr. llichard Thome's 
 mare, liaiubow, and Mr. Waters' Slouch. The 
 c£50 pvu-se, next day, was won by Mr, AYaters' 
 horse, Kiiif/ Herod, who beat Captain Dclancey's 
 filly.— iV. V. Gasetfe. 
 
 1772, June 18. — On Thursday last, two coMpa- 
 nies of the Eoyal Regiafficnt of Artillery, tinder 
 command of Colonel Jaiaes, marched from New 
 Y'ork to encamp on Hempstead Plains for the 
 summer season. — X. Y. JinirnaL 
 
 1772, Aug. Si.— Daniel Thofnc and Henry 
 Woolley, Executors, offer for sale the farai of Jos- 
 eph Cornwell, of Flushing-, deceased, consisting of 
 near three bundrwl acres, joining iSacccss I'ond. 
 The bouse is two-stories with six rooms ©n a floor 
 and four fire-places. There are two shingled- 
 barns, an orchard of apple and other fruit trees, 
 and timberlaud convenient to a bos.t that attends 
 twice a week. 
 
 1772, Aug. 3L — Nicholas Van Dj-ck bas 
 bought the fulling-mill at Flushing, late Sarah 
 Burling's, and employs Jonathan Davis, who un- 
 derstands the fulling business in all its branches, 
 and will be obliged to the public for their business. 
 Cloth may be left at Jacob Sharp's, Brooklyn 
 Ferry ; Leffert Lefferts', Esq,, Bedford ; AYilliam 
 Howard's Half-way house, and William Letts', 
 Jamaica, and it Mill be dulv forwarded. 
 
 1772, Nor. 2, — For sale the remarkably pleas- 
 ant and well cultivated farm of John Hoogland, at 
 Flushing, in a good neighborhood, within a quarter 
 of a mile of the town aud half a mile ctf the land- 
 ing, whence boats go to New York twice a week. 
 The boinse has eight rooms and three fire-jjlaces on 
 the lower floor. There is a cedar-coVered barn, 
 mill-bouse, hen-house, and one hundred and twenty 
 acres of land in sizeable lots, a large fresh meadow 
 before the door that cuts thirty loads of hay in a 
 season and springs within sixty yards. There is 
 an orcbard and choice fruit trees. Enquire of El- 
 bert Hoogland, Flushing. 
 
 1773, Jan. 11. — Thomas Yoimgs, of Oysterbay, 
 bas about eight hundred handsome apple trees to 
 disjjosc of. Those in want may give in their 
 names to Mr. John Rapelye, Brooklyn Ferry, who 
 is to have one hundred. They will be delivered 
 there in good order for 7d. a tree- — N. Y. Mercurg. 
 
 1773, Jan. 11. — To be sold or let, a farm of 
 over two hundred acres of arable land, pleasantly 
 situated north side of Hempstead Plains, Ttith an 
 elegant bouse containing seventeen rooms and ten 
 fire-i^laces, 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 oft'. Enquire of 
 Joseph Greswold, on the premises. — N. Y. Mer- 
 cury. 
 
 1773, Feb. 22.— To be sold, by Jobn Carl, a 
 farm of one hundred and thirty aci-es, lying by 
 the Sound, a mile cast of AVhitestone, aud within 
 three miles of Flushing town. It has a jilenty of 
 orcharding, a dwelling-bouse with five rooms on a 
 floor, a bam, 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.— AVidow Keziab Comes and 
 Hcnr}' Dawson, Executors, offer for sale the lai'ge 
 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 st«re or tavern. 
 Also, two pleasure sleigbs, riding chair, etc. 
 
 1773, March 15^. — For sale, the farm of Zebulon 
 Frost, deceased, in Oj'sterbay, two miles from the 
 town. There arc two hundred acres with house, 
 barn, a grist-mill and fulling-mill on a fine stream, 
 and is well situated for country custom. Ap])ly to 
 Benjamin Townsend, Jerico ; Benjamin Coles, • 
 Alusqueto Cove, or Pcnn Frost, Matinecock. 
 
 1773, March 25.— Samuel Benny offers for sale 
 a jjlcasaut situation of sixty acres, in Newtown. 
 On it is a two-story house with entry and four 
 rooms, with fire-places on each floor, a barn, coach- 
 house and outhouses. It was formerly occupied 
 by Ealph Izard, Esq. Also, another bouse, bam 
 and nine acres of ground, in the town spot, suitable 
 for a tradesman or merchant. 
 
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 QUEENS- COUNTY 
 
 177:i, April 18. — Tciulicr inuilcd.-^Aiiy por-iou 
 well qualified to teach school, by being well re- 
 coimueiiiled, may licar of very good encourage- 
 uient by applying to Audrk-s llpgem:iu orX)aniel 
 Kissani, Cow "iicckti—N.' Y.- Jilercury. 
 
 1773, Mai/ 4 ninl 5.-^Tlic horsea entered for 
 the race of Xew Market, Tile.sday, are .Tames De- 
 lancey'rt bay horse L'llli, Mr. WatiMs' bay liorse 
 Kin;/ Herod, and ^ff. Taylor'.-* bay hor^e Anipliinii. 
 For Wednpsday, James Delaucey's bay filly 
 Sldiiiahcn, Mr. Heard's bay colt Archer, and Mr. 
 Parker's 'bay colt Xauthiis. 
 
 1773, 3fa>j 10. — The ^£.50 purse wa.-5 run for on 
 'Tuesday, by James Delancey's l)ay horse Haghaiv, 
 and Israel 'Waters' bay iu;irc Nettle : the latter 
 wiiDiing. Three other horses were entered but a 
 rider light enough could not be found for Lut/i, 
 which occasioned none .of them to run. And on 
 AVednesday, the plate of oC30 was run for by 
 James Delancey's bay mare Slaitialiit anil, Mr. 
 Heard's bay colt Archer ; the former wiuuing.^- 
 iV. l'» Mcreiirij. 
 
 1773, May 27.— To the leather-dressers of New 
 York. There is erected an extraordinary good 
 fulling-mill on Cow Neck, within a quarter of a 
 mile of the landing, very handy for leather-dress- 
 ers, plenty of water and every thing handv for, 
 business, with boarfl and lodging (if wanlvd). The 
 boats may come within a quarter of a mile 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 C.isey, Jr., silk-dyer 
 and skinner, opposite Trinity Cliundi, New Vofk., 
 — N. Y. Mercury. , 
 
 1773, JlOK 3.— To be sohl, the well known 
 large and convenient mills of William and .Jacob 
 Walton & Co;, at Pembroke, thirty miles from 
 New York, with dwelling-house, bake-liou.se and 
 stores, twonty-two .".c;es of Iai»<l,.witJi. orchard of 
 of best grafted fruit trc'cs, large garden and three 
 acres of meadows. The stream aft'ords plenty of 
 water .and fine trout in the drycst season. The 
 upper mill has one ])air of stones and water to 
 grind the year through ; the lower, on thp saciP 
 stream has two pair. A boat with one thousand 
 bushels of wheat may unload along side. The 
 country is healthy and pleasant, the neighborhood 
 good. If prompt payment is not convenient, bonds 
 will be taken. — N. V. Mercury. 
 
 1773, July 1. — John I.,udlow with his sister-Lu- 
 law, on their way to I'lu.-ihing, was so injure<l. by 
 his horse running away with the chair, ne.ir Pow- 
 les Hook ferry, that he died at Flushing in two or 
 three days, and was ther« buried on SutKlny. 
 
 1773, July 5. — Last Jlonday mor,ning, a little 
 before sunrise a smart shock of an earthquake was 
 felt at Newtowu, Jaimiica and Foster's Meadow. — 
 K. Y. Mercury. 
 
 "Tlie subscriber forgot to add bis iiaiue, but it is supposed 
 to be Baxter. — Ed. 
 
 1773, July 2G. — Wednesday last tho bftrn of 
 
 Jlr. , at Newtown, was burnt by liglrt- 
 
 ning, with a quantity of hay, Avhoat, rye, etc.to a 
 considerable amount. 
 
 Country people nught to be informed to phice a 
 lightning rod on their barns to prevent their being 
 struck by lightning, for dry hay is very apt to 
 draw it. — X. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1773, Sejjf. 2. — Yesterday evening wc had a 
 very severe luiil storm .Some of the stones 
 weighed two ..ouucei, end almQ.st filled a wine 
 glass. — Hiv. Gas,:,. 
 
 1773, f)e])t. 20.— Jacob Foster, Rocka.way, ofl'ers 
 for -s.ile a house and two acres of ground in the 
 town spot of Jamaica. It has an orchard of all 
 sorts of fruit, a barn, stable, and a shop with a fire- 
 place in it, fit lor any tradesmau. but would suit a 
 merchant, or.,tavern,-keeper, as a tavern has been 
 kept there .uiauy years. 
 
 1773, Oct. 11.— Thf- printer of the New York 
 Mercury, in coiijunctiini with two of his friends, 
 Henry Ifemsen and Hendrick tiiuufdonk, having 
 lately erected a paper-mill at Heiiipslead flalbor, 
 at very great cxiiense the existence of which en- 
 tirely de|iends on a supply of rags, which are too 
 oftiyi thfown away in the fire or swept out of doors 
 and are now much wanted ; he therefore most 
 humbly entreats the assistance of the good people 
 of this I'rovince, and city in j)articular, to assist 
 him in this undertaking which will be a saving of 
 .souMi hundreds per annuiu to the colony, which 
 li;is constantly, been sent .cut oi. it for p.aper of all 
 sorts for tlic past forty y»?ars, the manufacturing of 
 wkicli has but-very laloly originated here. The 
 higlu*t price will be given for rags by the public's 
 servant, Hugh (iaine. 
 
 1773, Oct. 20. — Fur sal.', tho firm of Joseph 
 llurr, deceased, jiiear Herrieks, one hundred and 
 thirty-seven acfet?, well improved, new buildings, 
 young- orcb.aiiJ. AUo, a I'tilaah-liouse, convenient 
 ibr carrying on the jwt-adh kH*-iB»»ss. — X. Y. Mer- 
 cury. 
 
 1773, Dec. 20. — All persons are forbid trespass- 
 ing oa the manor of (Queens village, on Lloyd's or 
 Hor.se Neck, or fishing or ginining there as the 
 d(-er which the owners stocked it with are all 
 killed. Henry, John, Joseph and James Lloyd, 
 ofier £20 reward for the discovery of oilenders. — 
 JY. Y. Mtreury. 
 
 1773, Bee. 21. — About 10 o'clock last Thurs- 
 day morning, the house of the Hon. (u-orge Dun- 
 can L1K.II0W, K.-([., third Judge of the .Sujjremc 
 Court of this I'nrtince, at Henipsti-ad Plains 
 [Hyde Park], took fne and was burnt to the 
 ground with almost every thing therein contained, 
 but providentially no lives were lost. Mr. L. 
 had been in New York the day before and was 
 scarce three hours at home before his house was 
 all in flames. The fire originated, as is supposed, 
 by means of some sparks that found their way 
 
IN OLDEN- TIMES'. 
 
 47 
 
 tbrougli tlie crack of an old chimuey aucl commu- 
 nicated to the wooden work of one of the room>5 
 above.- The loss Mr. L. sustahis bj' this accident 
 cannot be less than £3,000, for besides the loss of 
 his furniture, plate, etc., a library worth £.1,200 is 
 entirely consumed.* — iV. Y. Mcvcwtj. 
 
 1774, Jan. 10. — For sale, a ferm.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, M'ith a bake-house and two acres of laud, most- 
 ly woods. It is convenient tor any business. 
 Ap])ly to John Jlonfurt, "Wheatly, Timothy Titus, 
 or William- Crooker, of Rye. 
 
 1774, Jan. 17. — Jonathan Fish, New York, of- 
 fers for sale a farm of one hiuidred acres, in New- 
 town, in tenure of LefFcrt Lcflcrts, within a quarter 
 of, a mile of three churches. It has a cider-mill, 
 mill-house, orchard and sixteen acres of hay laud. 
 Also, partly adjoining the above, a farm of one 
 hundred and fifty acres, ia tenure of J'ohn Yoor- 
 hees, including- a house and lot, in tenure of John 
 Cross. On it is. a nursery of some tiiousauds of 
 apple trees. Also, the noted corner-house, now oc- 
 cupied' by Mr. Abraham Rapclye, with seventy 
 acres of laud. On it .arc a cider-mill, mill-house 
 and other outhouses. — N. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1774, Jan. 17.— Mattliiis Van Dyck. offers for 
 sale his valuable fai-m adjoining the King's road 
 leading to Jamaica, halt a mile from Flushing 
 town. It contains one hundred 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-bouse, 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 
 Thorue Carpenter, in descending a long steep hill 
 near homo, where a large rock projects in the road, 
 the horses took fright and one ran against the 
 rock and was killed, and the people thrown out of 
 the sleigl). Lawrence was but little hurt. Coles 
 considerably and Jlrs. Carpenter much more so ; 
 her eye being injured. — N. Y. llcrcuri/. 
 
 1774, March 10. — Died, on Friday last, at the 
 family seat, Mrs. Elizabeth Coldeu, lady of Alex- 
 ander Colden, Surveyor-General of this Province, 
 and second' daughter of Richard Nicolls, Esq., of 
 this city, aged forty-nine. She was interred in a 
 vault at Trinity Church. — N. Y. Journal. 
 
 1774, Ilarch 14. — William Prince, at his nur- 
 sery, Flushing landing, offers for sale one hundred 
 and ten large Carolina magnolia flower trees, raised 
 
 *This house was rebuilt, anil again, from a like cause 
 burnt down ilaj- 20, Irfl'J, while iu the occupancy of WJl- 
 iam Cobliet. 
 
 from the seed — the most beautiful trees that grow 
 iu America — is. per tree, four feet high ;• fifty 
 large catalpa flower trees, 25. per tree. They are 
 nine feet high to the uuder part of the top, and 
 thick as one's leg ; thirty or forty almond trees 
 that begin to beai-. Is. and Gd. each ; fifty fig trees, 
 2s. each ;_ two thousand five hundred white, red and 
 black currant bushes, Qd. each ; gooseberry bushes, 
 Gd.; Lisbon and Madeira grape vines ; five thousand 
 hautboy, chili, large English and American straw- 
 berry plants ; one thousand five hundred white and 
 one thousand black mulberry trees. Also, Barce- 
 lona filbert trees. Is. — iY. 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.— iV. Y. Jmmial. 
 
 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 Jlessrs: Hallet & Hazard, Broome & Piatt, 
 John Murray, Thomas Crabb, and Berrien & 
 Fish. — N. Y. Mercttry. 
 
 1774, March 28. — Waters Smith, Jamaica, of- 
 fers for sale a farm of forty acres, adjoining the 
 church 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 abovo and below, and is an 
 excellent stand for a' gentleman, merchant or tav- 
 ern-keeper. Enquire of William Prince, at Flush- 
 ing landing. 
 
 1774', April 11. — The case long depending iu 
 Chancery between Mr. Bloomer, Rector of Grace 
 Church, Jamaica, and Ilinchman and Edsall, 
 Church AYardens, (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 (£80) to 
 the losing party, to alleviate their misfortune. 
 
 1774, April 25.— Last week the house of Wil- 
 liams Seaman, near Jerico, was consumed with all 
 its furniture. JLs. S. was so badly burnt that she 
 died in consequence.^-oY. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1774, ]\ilay 2.^ Wanted, a master to take charge 
 of the Grammar-school, at Newtown. Any person 
 properly qualified and well recommended, will 
 meet encouragement. Apply, to Mr. Benjamin 
 Moore. 
 
 1774, Maij 3.— By Act of Assembly, two Fairs 
 for Queens County are to bo held at Jamaica, ou 
 the first Tuesday iu May and third, iu October; 
 each to continue four days. 
 
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48 
 
 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 To John Rapelyc, Esq., of Jamaica, Governor 
 
 and .Supcriuteudeut of the Fairs to Le held in 
 
 said towu. 
 
 The humble address of the inhabitants of said 
 town. 
 
 Wc, the inhabitants of said town, beg leave to 
 approach yourM-orship with hcarts_rpj)k'tc with .sin- 
 cere joj' and paticfaction ; and at the same time to 
 conirratulatc you on your appointment as Governor 
 of said Fairs, a station (tliongli inferior to your 
 abilities) }-et wc really hope may be an introduc- 
 tion to one more important ; as we are fully con- 
 vinced of your being; ado (juate to a more anluons 
 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, RoiJEHT HuooiCS, Clcrl. 
 
 Dated at Jamaica, this Ith day of May, 1774. 
 
 Gentlemen : With a heart overflowing with gra- 
 titude, I return you my sincere thanks for your 
 kind address and good wishes towards me ; and 
 hope my future conduct in the discharge of the 
 .several duties incumbent on me, will alwaj's merit 
 your approbation. 
 
 I am, gentlemen, with respect, your most obliged 
 and obedient servant. JOUN liAPELYE. 
 
 Jamaica, 4tli day of M.ay, 1774. 
 
 1774. — Neicmarlict Jlaces, May lltli — ,i sweep- 
 stake of one hundred and twenty-five guineas, half 
 forfeit, by horses the projierty of Hve subscribers. 
 On the 12th a contribution purse of ,i".50, 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 Johanues 
 entrance. No crossing, jostling or other foul play. 
 —N.Y. Mercurij. 
 
 1774, June 13.— -SS reward to any (piie who 
 shall secure him in any of His ^Majesty's jails. 
 Run away from Abraham Lawrence, Flushing, a 
 negro man, (reorge, of a yellow complexion. He 
 had on bulY colored, half worn velvet breeches, and 
 has bushy hair which he wears tied behind, and 
 commonly wc;irs Ids hat cocked. 
 
 1774, Jtoie 1.3. — To be sold, by Joseph "Wood- 
 ward, Newtown (for want of employ) a likely ne- 
 gro boy, ten years old, and lias had the small 
 pox. 
 
 1774, July 4. — Joseph and John Eeade and 
 Eichard Yates offer for sale the corner-lK)Use and 
 lot of land of I^awrenec Keade, deceased, situate 
 where four cross-roads meet, in Jamaica, and occu- 
 pied as a tavern a great many years. 'I'here are 
 tifteen acres, with two brick houses, one a double 
 house in occupation of William lietts, tavern-keep- 
 er, fifty fiM.t front ; the other, liuilt a few years 
 ago, is occupied by .Joseph llobinson. There are 
 two barns, garden, tiiiit trees, etc, 
 
 1774, July 18. — Cider-vinegar, or live-stock of 
 
 any sort, for shipping, supplied at rpa.'onable rates 
 by William Kcese, who goes in the Flushing pas- 
 sage boat, twice a week, and may be spoken with 
 every 'I'uesday and Friday, at Beekuian Slip, 
 New York,* 
 
 1774, Jidy 18. — The grammar-school, at New- 
 town, is still continued liy a young gentleman who 
 comes well rcconiminded, ^fr. Charles DuiVee, who 
 will prepare pupils fur college in an easy and expe- 
 ditious m.annor, and will take equal care of their 
 morals and tuition. Boaixling on the sjiot in gen- 
 teel families. — N. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1774. — On Sunday, August 14th, Lambert 
 !Moore, Esq., Comptroller of His 5Lajesty's Cus- 
 toms for the port of New York, was married to the 
 agreeable Miss Gertrude, daughter of Mr. Hendrick 
 ' MidiTdonk, of Hempstead Harbor. — N. Y. Mer- 
 cury. 
 
 1774. Oct. 13. — New :\rarket Kaces. £20 
 Purse to be run for by three or four year old hors- 
 es, (full-bloods excepted) the best of three two-mile 
 heats, to win. 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 oOs. 
 
 1774, Dec. 5. — Last Thursday evening as Mr. 
 Lrdve Eldert was going home in his wagon from 
 Brooklj'n, .a mile from the Ferry, he was met with 
 by Daniel Everett, on horseback, and before they 
 coidd get out of the way of each other, the wagon- 
 tongue ran into Mr. Everett's body, of which 
 wound he died immediately. 
 
 177.5, Teh. 20. — Two Luis, one named Hamilton, 
 aged sixteen, and the other Roberts, aged twelve, 
 were racing with their wag(jii and horses at New- 
 town, when b\' a Jolt ihey both fell out, and, being 
 run over, were killed. — Gainc's Mercury. 
 
 Ill a, March G. — 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 th(^ slaves for many miles around, 'tis said, 
 are concerned in this plot.f — X. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1775, May 17th, was observed as a day of Fast- 
 ing and I'rayer by the congregations of the Re- 
 formed I'rotestant Dutch churches, in this and the 
 Province of New Jersey. — A\ Y. Journal. 
 
 177."), May 19. — Thomas Smith, John Hewlett 
 aiul John Townsend, Justices, of ( )ysterbay, hear- 
 ing of anonymous advertisements hiring set up to 
 notify the people to appear at Jamaica, the 22d 
 inst., to choose Deputies to form a Convention to 
 carry the Resolves of the Continental Congress in- 
 to execution, take this method to perpetuate to 
 
 Moliii Yates was C'a])tain of tlie other Fliufiing I5oaf.— 
 
 tTliis ])VOVoJl a false report, l>ut it shows bow rcaily the 
 masters wore to sus]ieit their slaves. — AV. 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 49 
 
 posterity, that they pay uo regard to any "matter 
 contrary to the sacred oath they have takea to 
 keep tlie peace of the 'couuty, as far as they are 
 able. — Town Becords. 
 
 1775. — Thursday, July SOth, -by recommenda- 
 tiou of the CoiitiuentaJ •Oongi-ess, was observed 
 with the utmost solemnity, Ijy OFasting, Abstinence, 
 and Devotion. In all the churclies were large 
 congregations, and cscellent discourses delivered 
 from the several pulpits, e'spressive of the truly ca- 
 lamitous situation of this unhappy 'Continent, — N. 
 Y. Journal. 
 
 1775, Oct 16.— .Jacob Duryee and Albert Ter- 
 huuen. Executors, ofi'er for sale the homestead of 
 Jost Duryea, near Old Neck, at Jamaica 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. 
 
 177.5, Nov.. 30. — To be sold, a house and lot of 
 laud of live acres, with barn and good bearing ap- 
 ple orchard, in the most po,j)ulous part of tilie town 
 of Oysterbay, opposite the Church, and half a mile 
 from the landing, where boats attend weekl}- from 
 New York — convenient for a merchant, mechanic 
 or tavern. Apply ■to Beiyamin Underbill, New 
 York, or Silvanus Townsend, Cedar Swamp. 
 
 IN PEOVINCIAL CONGRESS. 
 
 New York, Dec. 12, 1775. 
 Whereas, this CougTcss has received undoubted 
 information, that a number of disaffected pwsons 
 in Queen's County, have been supplied with arms 
 and ammunition, from on board the Asia ship of 
 war, and are arraying themselves in military man- 
 ner to oppose the measures taking Tjy the United 
 Colonies, for the defence of their just rights and 
 privileges Ordered that, of 
 
 Hempstead Totcnsh'q). 
 Just. GObert Van Wyck, 
 Daniel Kissaua, Esq., 
 
 Cowneck, J 
 
 Captain Jacob Mott, 
 *Thos. Cornell, of Eock- 
 
 away, 
 Gabritj -Ci. Ludlow, 
 *Ivichard ITewlet, 
 Captain Charles Hicks, 
 Doctor Samuel ]\Iartin, ■ 
 Justice Samuel Clowes. 
 
 Oyster Bay. 
 J-nstice Tho. Smith, Hog 
 
 Island. 
 *Justice John Hewlet, 
 Captain George Weeks, 
 Doctor David Brooks, 
 Justice John Townsend. 
 being charged as principal men a-mong the disaf- 
 fected in said county, do attend this Congress, at 
 ten o'clock, Tuesday morning next, the 19th insf., 
 to give satisfaction to this Congress in the premi- 
 ses, and that they ibe protected froiai any injury or 
 
 Jamaica Township. 
 
 Captain Benjamin White- 
 head, 
 *Charles Ardin, 
 Joseph French, Esq., 
 Johannes PoUiemus, 
 
 Neiotown. 
 
 Nath. Moore, 
 *John IMoore, senior, 
 Captain Samuel Ilallet, 
 *John Moore, junior,' 
 Willi.'im Wcyman, 
 Captain John Shoals, 
 Jeromus Eapalye. 
 
 Flusliing Township 
 *John Willet. 
 
 insult during their coming to and returning from 
 
 this Congress, 
 
 177G, Jan. 3, — A majority of the inhabitants of 
 
 Queens County having deserted tlic American 
 cause, the Continental -Congress ordered Colonel 
 Heard t« 4ake six hundred minute men and three 
 hundred regulars and proceed to Queens Couuty 
 and disaiin every person who voted against send- 
 ing Deputies to the Provincial Congress, and ap- 
 prehend the twenty-six principal persons named 
 above. Accordingly XI!olouel Heard scoured the 
 county, imposed a test oath on four hiiudred and 
 seventy-one delinquents, disarmed three hundred 
 and forty-nine otncrs, and carried off nearly one 
 thoMsand Tnuskets, some powder and lead, and 
 nineteen of the principal disaft'eeted persons, seven 
 (to whose names a star is prefixed) having fled 
 from their homes. These persons were subse- 
 queutly discharged on giving Ijonds for their 
 peaceable deportment. 
 
 177G, Jan. 8. — To be sold at vendue, the farm 
 of Dr. John Innis, deceased, aljout two miles west 
 of Jamaica, on both sides of the road leading to 
 New Y-erk 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 
 three orehards — ji^i"' grafted with the finest fruit 
 that could 1)6 procured — Ne^^•town pippins in 
 abundance, golden pippins, golden russetings, 
 spitzenberghs, bow-apples, adamites, etc. Pears, 
 peaches, plums, Jladeira-nut and black-walnut 
 tree^, in great plenty, two dwelling-houses, corn- 
 cribs, fowl-house, smoke-house and Louse 'of ofiice, 
 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 to"?™ of Hempstead, sixty-five acress of as 
 good land as any belonging to the great Plains, 
 every corner of which has a stone marked with the 
 mitial letter of lay 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, tho 
 tenement that Jacob Ilallet now lives on, at New- 
 . town landing ; also a large pettiauger. The place 
 is convenient for business : First, for carrying pas- 
 sengers to New York ; second, for a butcher; 
 third, for a dry -goods store ; foiu'th, 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 laudiu"'. 
 
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 1776, March 21. — Last Thursday night, at 
 twelve o'clock, the house of James Hughston, 
 merchant, at Jamaica, was biu'ut. The family 
 
50 
 
 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 were in bed at tin' time, auil notliing was saved 
 but two bed:*, a desk, chest and trunk. The con- 
 tenta of his store, consistuif; of West India and 
 dry goods and ^£100 in bilfs, were entirely con- 
 sumed. Loss, .£2,000 or .£3.000.— Holt's N. Y. 
 Journal. 
 
 In Committee for the district of Cow Xcck, etc., 
 March 27th, 1776 : — AVhcrcas, sundry disaffected 
 persons have moved into this ncighborliood, where- 
 W 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 futun-, by the most speedy and 
 effectual measures for the public good. He it 
 theretbrc licsolfCil, That no manner of jierson pre- 
 sume to move into this District after the first of 
 April, without a certificate from, the Chainnau of 
 tlic Committee of the District whence he removed, 
 that he is friendly to the cause of his bleeding 
 country. l?y order, 
 
 Bexj'N. Bakds, Chairman. 
 
 A Card. — An inhabitant of Cow Neck presents 
 his respect I 111 compliments to 'Mr. Sands, Chairman 
 of the Coiumitlee, and begs lie will rectify an 
 omission he has been guilty of, by not mentioning 
 the names at large of those disaffected persons 
 whom he styles " noxious vermin," in the Com- 
 mittee's Resolve published last wxek. — N. Y. 
 Packet, Ajiril Uh, 177G. 
 
 To the Printer. — In Committee for the District 
 of Cow Neck, &c., April 8th, 1776 :— SlR : 
 Whereas a Card has lately made its appearance in 
 your paper requesting the names of those disaffect- 
 ed persons called "noxious vermin," in the C<iin- 
 niittec's llcsolve of 27th IMarch lust. Although it 
 is inex|)edient to comply with this reqiu'St, yet if 
 the anonymous author applies to this Committee, 
 he shall have satisfaction with regard to himsplf. 
 liy order, TjEXJ'N. SAN1>H, Cluiirnmn. 
 
 1776, Ajyril 13. — To the Provineial Congress, 
 New Yorlc : — We, flu; subscribers, inhabitants 
 of Jamaica, have lately been jihiiulend of our 
 cuttle and effects by order of Captain Epliraim 
 liailev, for not appearing in arms at military drill 
 to answer to our names, when it is known we have 
 been deprivctl of them by Colonel Heard. A\^e 
 therefore pray that you will give iw .such relief, as 
 you may think necessary. 
 
 Nathaniel :\Iills, .Joseph Oldfield, 
 
 Jabez Woodruff, Samuiil 3Iills, 
 
 .Joshua !Mills, .Tohn Itemseij, 
 
 John Lambertson, Dirck Hergcn, 
 Nicholas Ludlani, I'eter :Mills, 
 
 Abraham Colyor, Jacob Dean. 
 
 177G, June .0. — The Provincial Congress re- 
 solved that. Whereas, a hostile armament is ex- 
 pected here, the following persons in (Jueens 
 County be brought before a committee of this body 
 to show cause why they should be coiwidered 
 friends to the American cause, viz ; 
 
 Dr. Charles Arden,f 
 David IJrooks.J. 
 David Iiealty,+ 
 David Colden.| 
 llichard ('olden.t. 
 Samuel Doughty,! 
 (Jeorge Fi)!liot,| 
 
 .Joseph Beagle,* 
 John liowdin,* 
 Sanuiel Clowes.J 
 .John Chave,* 
 'J'liomas Cornwell,' 
 Isaac Denton,* 
 'J'lioma-' Ilicks,t 
 
 Archibald llamilton.t liichard Hewlett,* 
 AVhitehead llicks,j Stephen Hewlett,* 
 
 Charles IIicks,t 
 Samuel Hallet.t 
 Daniel Kissam.J 
 (iabriel G. Ludlow,! 
 Benjauun I^ester.f 
 Samuel ^lartin.J 
 John I'olhemus,} 
 .John Shosils4 
 (iilliert Van Wyck,! 
 John AVillet,! 
 
 Jnhn Hewlett,* 
 Thomas Jonps,f 
 Jolni Kendal,* 
 (Jeorge D. Ludlow,| 
 Nathaniel Moere,J 
 .John Moore, senior,t 
 'J'homas Smith, 1^ 
 .John Town?=end.t 
 Benjamin Whitehead, t 
 'William Weyman.t§ 
 
 a descriptive list, to (ieneral 
 and John Ilutehings, from Ja- 
 
 1776; June 9. — Some of the disaffected i)Oople 
 of Hempstead having armed and hid themselves in 
 a swamp, a-t the liead, of what was then, Demott's 
 mill-pond, Gfen. Green, corainanding on Long Is- 
 land, sent a party of soldiers there who, after a 
 skirmish; ;a-rested the following persons and deliv- 
 ered them, with 
 Greene : 
 
 .Joseph Dorlon 
 mat ca jail. 
 
 .Tohn Carman, lie received powder and ab- 
 sconded in the woods. 
 
 Andrew Allen. A disaffected person, taken in 
 the woods. 
 
 .Jacob Lambertson. Found with his gun charged. 
 
 Benjamin I'ettit. H(! was in the swamp, in the 
 fight, and had powder from the Asia, man-of-war. 
 
 Kzekiel Rainer. In the woods, hid. 
 
 Richard Smith. In the swamp battle, and had 
 powder from the Asia. 
 
 .Jeremiah ]5edel. A di.s.affected person. 
 
 ])nniel Smith. In the swamp battle. 
 
 Elijah Rainer. Hid in the swamp. 
 
 .Joseph Bedle. Same— a disafteeted person. 
 
 Nathan Smith. Received powdi'rfr.im the Asia, 
 abscnmded in the woods, and appears to know 
 much of the scheme. 
 
 Townsend Weeks. A d — d rascal and the 
 greatest Tory. 
 
 William MbConn, Thomas Fleet, Peter Wheel- 
 er, Samuel Townsend, and..J<ilin Fleet, declared 
 thev would sooner fight for the King than the Con- 
 gress, and totall}' deny the authority "f that body. 
 
 James Cogswell. A gun-stealer or informer, 
 from Newport. 
 
 "To lie aiTostod, as inimical to tlip .\nirrican f.iuse, wbo 
 prob.'ilily would not ajipear, but secrete tbcmselves. 
 
 tTo be sumnioneil bil'nre Congros."!. 
 
 JlloUlini; otiice from tlie King of Great Britain, and to 
 bo suninioni'd or arrested. 
 
 ^Ur «as from 'Wcstilicstor, and bad been pnt in jirison, 
 in X<'w York, for Roing on board the Asia, man-of-war, and 
 sliipping a load of pork for the Britisli nrmy. 
 
IN OLDEN- TIMES. 
 
 61 
 
 Henry Durland said Wasliington was more eon- 
 cerned in the conspiracy* than any one. 
 
 1776, Ma/j 28. — Tliere was an Academy at 
 Newtown wlioro Thomas Walton, Mr. Lc lloy, 
 Thomas Wliite, Mr. JlathewS, and otlicr Loyalists, 
 of New York, scut about seventeen boys. Some 
 of those boarded with Sir. .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 ou a high 
 pole in Mr. Moore's door-yard. For allowing this 
 insnlt to the AYhigs 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.— J<9Mr., 
 4C4. 
 
 1776, June 21. — Tlie following li^t of fourteen 
 disaffected persons at .Jamaica, was scut to the 
 Provincial Congress : 
 
 1. Dr. Charles Arden. lie was the person vrho 
 iustigated the Tories to sign against having a 
 Congress or a Committee. lie also wrote the afli- 
 davit of Eulef Dnryca about Parson Ketcltas, and 
 carried Justice French to Duryea's for that pm'- 
 pose. , 
 
 The witnesses are Bcnjarnin Smith, son of Sarouel ; Rob- 
 art Hinchman ; Thomas Smith, sou of Tliomas, whom he 
 thrc.nteued to hang if lie wonkl not sign a paper, and Isaac 
 Loiferts, who bought Widow Betts' farm. 
 
 2. Captain Benjamin Whitehead, late Supeiwi- 
 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 Smitli, 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, formerlj- 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 ]\reeting-housc, 
 at a high rent, lie associates chiefly with James 
 Depej-stcr. 
 
 G. Charles McEvers. He resides in John 
 Troup's house — v.-as formerly a Stamp-officer. 
 
 7 and S. Thomas and Fleming Colgan fre- 
 quently go to Creed's hill to look out for the Brit- 
 ish fleet. The two Duubars, John William Liv- 
 ingston, Ji-., and one of the Colgans were there 
 lately looking out for a fleet. 
 
 10 and 11. John and William Dimbar shut 
 themselves up and refuse to train, or pay their 
 fines. 
 
 12. George Folliot, merchant 
 
 pay 
 
 from New York. 
 
 •Referring to a plot, got up by Governor Tryon, to poison 
 Washington and burn New York. 
 
 lie lives with Jaqucs Johnson at Fresh Meadows, 
 about one and a half miles from Jamaica. 
 
 13. Thcophilact Bache, of Flatbusli. 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 Counfi/, Jidij 1, 177G. — 
 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 as many difficulties appear, they ap- 
 pointed Colonel Kemsen, Colonel Robinson and 
 Samuel Biker to make a representation thereof to 
 the Convention and general officers of the Conti- 
 nental army, and of the defenceless state of this 
 count}', 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 ,€200 for the use of this 
 county. 
 
 1776, July 21. — George Townscnd, Chairman 
 of Queens County, sends to Congress a copy of 
 Howe's Declaration, which had been posted in the 
 several towns, by Thomas Willctt, Sherift'. Where- 
 upon his arrest was ordered, together with his 
 brother Edward Willett, Edward Willctt, Sr., one 
 Lawson, a schoolmaster at Flushing, who acted as 
 scribe, and Thomas Ilicks, attorucy-at-law — 
 Jour., 552-572. 
 
 [This paper appears to have been conveyed 
 from Governor Tryon, through the hands of Colo- 
 nel Jasiah, father of Dr. Samuel M.artin, to Eliza- 
 beth Hicks, a young lady of Ilockaway, who gave 
 it, on a Fast d.ay, to Joslnia Mills, 'at Jamaica, 
 and he took it to Sheriff" Willett, at Flushing, who 
 consulted with Thomas Hicks, and by his advice 
 published it. It offered pardon to all repentant 
 rebels.] — J'aI. 
 
 llia.Aiiri. 9.— One Bragaw, from Long Island, 
 informs Congress that John Greenoak, Jr.," Samuel 
 Bydei-, Captain Samuel Ilallet, his son Joseph, 
 and his negro, went from Vanderveer's mill to Bar- 
 ren Island, and thence escaped to the enemy, on 
 Stateu Island. 
 
 1776, Ami. 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, Connecticut, where they 
 gave their parole and were permitted to walk abotit 
 the streets. They were allowed to go homo, De- 
 cember 9th, ou giving their parole to return when 
 sent for : 
 
 David Beafty, 
 Samuel liurling. 
 Dr. David Brooks, 
 Iiichard Belts, 
 John Chave, 
 Isaac Corsa, 
 
 Charles Ilicks, 
 Thomas .Jones, 
 Daniel Kissam, Jr., 
 Charles Nicolls, 
 Adam Seabury, 
 Isaac Smith, 
 
 13 
 
52 
 
 QUEENS COUXTY 
 
 Wliitebcad Coniwcll, AVilliam Thome, 
 
 Joscpli Griswold, Augustus Vau Home, 
 
 Benjamin Hewlett, John Wilht, 
 
 George Hewlett, Benjamin Whitehead, 
 
 1776, Aug. 18. — The British fleet having ap- 
 peared oft' our coast, the disaftcctcd sujiplied the 
 enemy with fresh provisionf?, vegetables, etc. Some 
 also tried to escape on boawl the fleet for protec- 
 tion, as appcar-s by the following examination of 
 gome fugitives captured on Rockaway beach, who 
 intended to join the enemy — held at Widow Fo.s- 
 ter's Inn, before Colonel Robinson and Captain 
 Lambert Suydam, who made the capture : 
 
 Mattliia.'s Van Brockle. Lives on the Beach. 
 He says two men knocked at his door and lie let 
 them in out of the rain. 
 
 William Newton, of New York. He left for 
 fear of drafting. 
 
 Pearson Langdon. He say.s the boat is Isaac 
 Denton's, and came out of 3[ott's creek. He 
 wanted to keep out of the way, while men were 
 drafting. 
 
 Jonathan Smith. Jle escaped from the troop. 
 
 Abraham Probasco. Saj's he went with ^'an 
 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 
 Oystcrbay. He owned one of the bundles ot 
 clothes. 
 
 Peter Mills. Ho 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. S.ays he lives in Westchester, and 
 
 came over to Long island for a legacy. He met 
 Mills at Uncle 5Iott's, and desired to sec the 
 Beach, which he had not .seen for many years. 
 
 177G, Aug. 20.— General Greene received an 
 express from Hog Island Inlet stating that five 
 small British vessels bad 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 hundrc.'d and twenty 
 men to reconnoitre. • 
 
 1776, Aug. 27, was apjiointed, by Congress, as 
 a day of Fasting, Humiliation and I'rayer to Al- 
 mighty God for imploring bis divine assistance in 
 or"anizin" and establishing a form of Crovernment, 
 and to supplicate his further protection iu the war 
 now rasrinK throughout America.* — Jour., b5i. 
 
 *The battle of Brooklyn took place on the same day. So 
 tlip dnv may nut liajc iic©n obsen-ed. On n orevious Fast 
 day, kev. "Mr. Froeligh, at J.inmicn, took iiis to.\t iViiin 
 Joel 2 : '-20, " Uiit I will remove far oil' from you the north- 
 ern nnny, and will drive him into a laud barren and de.'^o- 
 latc." 
 
 1776, Aug. 2S. — Sir AVilliam Erskine, the day 
 after the battle of Brooklyn, was detached with 
 the Seventeenth Itegiment of Light Dragoons and 
 the Seventy-first Regiment of foot, in pursuit of 
 General Woodlnill's cor])s of cavalry, collecte<l at 
 Jamaica, which they defeated, and took WoodhuU ' 
 and many prisoners. — British Mil. CakiiiUir, 1 : 
 lOG. 
 
 [General Woodhull had been ordered, by Coa- 
 gress, to drive oft" the cattle and other live stock 
 from tlie south and west jjarts of Long Island to- 
 wards Hempstead Plains, in order to i)revent their 
 falling into the hands of the enemy, who were in 
 need of fresh provision.^. It was during the per- 
 formance of this duty, that he was captun.'d bj' the 
 Hritish, and received those wounds that terminated 
 in his deatli- We give another of the various ver- 
 sions of his capture. William Hunt in his biogra- 
 phy of AYoodhull. page 377-S, .«ays : "He sent 
 his troops four miles eastward of Jamaica, while 
 he remained in the vill.igo till the afternoon, and 
 dined there 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 liorse and intantry, piloted by 
 John Cornwell, a tory, appruaclied the tavern. 
 The inmates Hcd and concealed themselves in a 
 corn field and under the barn. WoodhuU sprang 
 for his horse, under the shed, and, while unhitching 
 the bridle, was taken hy a Lieutenant Huzzy, of 
 the dragoons. He at once gave up his sword 
 when the officer roughly bid him say ' God save 
 the King,' which not doing to his satisfaction, the 
 Lieutenant cut him and would have slain him, had 
 it not been for Captain Oliver Delancey." What 
 became of the cattle or the troop is not clear-:- 
 whether the latter had a skirmish with the enemy, 
 or sought safety in flight. Perhaps the cattle 
 were left on the Plains, and the trofip withdrew to 
 Suftblk County and were disbanded.] — i."(/. 
 
 1776. — The Rev. Joshua Bloomer, writing from 
 Jamaica, saj-s : twenty of his and Jlr. Cutting's 
 congregation were carried oft" by Col. Heard, and 
 that he was afterwards ordered to omit the prayers 
 for the King. Rather than do which, by advice 
 of his Vestry, he closed his church for five Sun- 
 days. 
 
 177G, Scjit.—'M.r. Tredwell, a IMember 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 — jilenty of 
 fresh provisions — a party of British horse had 
 f'one to Suftblk County and seized Im ad, flour and 
 salt, in store there. Jacob Wykuff was their chief 
 pilot at Flatlands. The British are raising onfi 
 thousand five hundred men on Long Island, and, 
 if suflicient numbers cannot be enlisted vohintaiily, 
 then they are to be drafted. Colonel I.udh^w was 
 to comiu.and and Captain Dunbar and ^Ir. Woolley 
 had warrants to enlist men. 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 53 
 
 1777, ApriJ.^-Mm-i-is Hazard, wLo liad fled from 
 Long Island, had leave from tbe British authorities 
 to remove his three children from Newtown to 
 Peekskill. — Thomas Lawrence, who also made a 
 precipitate flight 'from Long Island, wished, Octo- 
 ber 10, 1776, to revisit his family, at Newtown. — 
 Cor. of Provincial Congress, 416, 350. 
 
 1777, May 28. — Richard Thomas formerly lived 
 on Long Island, and returned there to take care of 
 his private afl'airs, when he was captured by the 
 British and confined in the Provost, at New York. 
 
 1777, Aug. 28. — Stephen Rider, of Queens 
 County, was taken up there and lodged in the 
 Provost prison in New York, being charged with 
 not taking the benefit of the King's Proclamation 
 of j)ardon. 
 
 1777, Scjd. 1. — We have the pleasure to ac- 
 quaint the people that the little town of Jamaica 
 has contributed to the encouragement of tlie New- 
 Corps (Fauuiug's) raised in this Province, at the 
 rec|uest of Governor TrA-on, £219, delivered by 
 Capt. Joseph French. — N. Y. Mercury. 
 SUBSCEIBEKS' NAJIES. 
 
 Nicholas Amberman, 
 Isaac Arabernian, 
 Paul Amberman, 
 Derrick Amberman, 
 Jobn Amberman, 
 Charles Ardiug, Dr., 
 George Bates, 
 Daniel Baylis, 
 Ephraim Baylis, 
 Isaac Baylis, 
 John Beuuet, 
 CorneUiis Bennet, 
 Isaac Bennet, 
 DericU Bergen, 
 Tunis Bergen, 
 John Bergen, 
 Jacob Bergen, 
 Abrara Bergen, 
 Johannis Bergen, 
 Luke Bergen, 
 Jobn Breraner, 
 Capt. Richard Betts, 
 Rev. Josh. Bloomer, 
 Aury Boerum, 
 Nathaniel Box, 
 Joseph Burhng, 
 Nehemiah Carpenter, 
 Jacob Carpenter, 
 Benjamin Carpenter, 
 Jolni Charlton, Dr., 
 Abraham Collier, 
 Sanniel Comwell, 
 William Comwell, 
 Tunis Covert, 
 Cornelius Creed, 
 William Creed, 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, 
 
 8 
 8 
 
 16 
 
 8 
 
 17.4 
 
 Dow Ditmars, .Jr., 
 Samuel Doughty, Sr. 
 Samuel Doughty, 
 John Doughty, 
 Jolm] Dunbar, 
 John Duryea, Jr., 
 Rulef Duryea, 
 Garret Dorlaud, 
 iSamuel Eldert, 
 Hendrick Eldert, 
 Luke Eldert, 
 Hendrick Emmons, 
 Daniel Everitt, 
 Nicholas Everitt, 
 Benjamin Everitt, 
 James Everitt, 
 George Folliot, N. Y. 
 William Forbus, 
 Jonas Frederick, 
 Joseph Freneli, Esq. 
 Thomas Furman, 
 John Glene, 
 William Golder, 
 Joseph Golder, 
 Ca]it. Thos. Han-iot, 
 Isaac HendricksoB, 
 Bern'd. Hendrickson 
 Wni. HendricJtson 
 Hend'k Hendrickson 
 Alu-am Hendrick.son, 
 Wbiteh'd. Hicks, Esq 
 Thomas Higbie, 
 Stephen Higbie, 
 Daniel Higbie, 
 Henry Higbie, 
 Nathaniel Higbie, 
 Obadiah Hinchman, 
 Jolm Hinchm?n, 
 Robart Hinchman, 
 Martin Johnson, 
 Nicholas Jones, 
 Bernard. Laniberson, 
 John Lamberson 
 Cornelius Lamberson 
 David Lamberson, 
 Tunis Lamberson, 
 Waters Lamberson, 
 
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 16 
 
 
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 Nicholas Lamberson, 
 Simon Lamberson, 
 Isaac Letlerts, 
 Agnes, wife of Isaac 
 
 Lofferts, 
 William Lewis, 
 John Livingston, 
 John Losec, 
 Cornelius Losee, 
 iStephen Lott, 
 John H. Lott, 
 Abram Lott, 
 Richard Lo.xham, 
 William Ludlum 
 Daniel Ludlum, 
 Capt. Nich. Ludlum, 
 Nehemiah Ludlum, 
 John Messenger, 
 Charles McEvers, 
 James Mills, 
 Hope Mills, 
 Joshua Mills, 
 John Mills, 
 Lsaac Mills, 
 Samuel Mills, 
 Nathaniel Mills, 
 Peter Mills, 
 John Nostrand, 
 Garret Nostrand, 
 Andrew Oaklev, 
 Joseph Oldfield, 
 Dr. Jacob Ogden, 
 Isaac Pettit, 
 John Pettit, 
 John Polhemus, Lt. 
 Aury Rcmsen, 
 Jacob Remsen, 
 .John Remsen, 
 Rem Remsen, 
 1 laniel Remsen, 
 l^rias Rider, 
 Bernardus Rider, 
 Christopher Rider, 
 John Roades, 
 Richard Roades, 
 Samuel Simmons, 
 .John Skidmore, 
 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 Snedeker, 
 Abram Snedeker, 
 Rem Snedeker, 
 John Snedeker, 
 William Stead, 
 Nathaniel Townseud 
 John I. Troup, 
 Daniel Tattle, 
 John Van Brunt, 
 Joost Van Brunt, 
 Nicholas Van Dam, 
 Jno. VauLiew(pond) 
 John Van Liew, Sr., 
 Peter Van Nostrand, 
 Abm. Van Arsdale, 
 Isaac Van Arsdale, 
 .Johr.u's VanWicklen 
 Garret Van Wicklen, 
 Evert A'an Wicklen, 
 Jacob Valentine, 
 Jacamiah Valentine, 
 George Valentine, 
 William A'^alcntine, 
 John Voorhies, 
 Charles Welling, 
 John Wm. Welling, 
 William Welling, 
 Sauiuel Welling, 
 Thomas Welling. 
 Daniel AVhitehead, 
 Benjamin Whitehead 
 Benjamin Wiggins, 
 Thomas Wiggins, 
 Henry Wiggins, 
 Richard AViggius, 
 Mary, widow of John 
 
 Williamson, 
 John Williamson 
 Jacob Wvckolif, 
 
 18 
 
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 16 
 10 
 11.4 
 
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 1777, Oct. 6.— Oliver Thornc is master of the 
 Flushing freight and passenger boat, which lies 
 near the Ferry stairs. New York. 
 
 1777, Nov. 11. — General Pntnara sends a flag to 
 General Jones, at New York, requesting him to 
 give a permit to the fiimily of Thomas Mitchell, ou 
 Long Island, to come out of the Briti'^h lines. 
 
 1777, Xor. 10. — A scow sunk iu the East River, 
 in crossing from Horn's Hook to Hallet's Cove, 
 and three negroes, the property of Captain Hallet, 
 were drowned. A white 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 
 Rice. He was taken by the enemy, wiiile he was 
 going, under a flag of truce, to bring off two fami- 
 lies from Long Island, before January 6th. 
 
 177S, Jan. 1.3.— Zeffs Piatt, an unfortunate 
 American prisoner, was pilfered of cash, from his 
 pocket, while in the British guard-house, at New- 
 
r,i 
 
 QUEENS COrXTY 
 
 iovm. Gonoral Dclaiicey ofFers two guineas re- 
 ward for the detection of the thief. 
 
 1778, Jan. 17. — Ebenezer Brown, formerly of 
 Rye, wont to the enemy twelve months ago. He 
 was Captain of a wood sloop, from Oystcrbay to 
 Xew York, when he was captured. AViifiara 
 Unckler and Eobert AYilson, of Oysterbaj-, were 
 taken in a sloop, on !Monday night last. Saranel 
 Birdsall (brother of Benjamin, who is in Dubois' 
 Regiment,) was also taken. lie says tlie militia 
 at Oysterbay, and for thirty miles east, have 
 been all armed for three months past, and turn out 
 on an alarm ; and some arc obliged to mount guard 
 every day. All the above were taken by the 
 Americans in one sloop, going to- New York. — 
 Clinton Papers. 
 
 17TS, JfarcJi 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 Gene;-al remits five hundred lashes. — JJdan- 
 cci/'s Ordcrli/ Boole. 
 
 1TT8, May 17. — Tlie British commanding ofu- 
 cer at Newtown, offers §5 reward for tlic discov- 
 ery of the soldiers who robbed ilr. 'Wilkiiis' smoke- 
 house, on Friday night last, of tmoked bacon and 
 beef. 
 
 1778, Jitly 24. — Was buried in the yard of 
 Grace Church, Jamaica, the Ilev. AVilliani Drum- 
 mond, a refugee from Connecticut. 
 
 1778, Od. — Thomis Kelly complains that Col- 
 onel Archibald Hamilton came into .a house at 
 Flushing, where he was, and because he did not 
 pull off hi.s h.at, he beat him with the butt-end of 
 his horsewhip and cut through his hat into his 
 liead ; and repeated the offence in ]>ecember. 
 
 1778, Od. 30.— John "\Villet, of Flushing, says 
 that seeing a negro driving a lo:td of rails from off 
 his farm, by order of Colonel Hamilton, he asked 
 the Colonel why he did so. Thereupon the Colo- 
 nel got off his horse and r.an at him with a cutlass 
 in one hand and a dangerous uncommon cane in 
 the other, Willct defended himself with a stick, 
 he nccidently found. He followed AVillet into the 
 cow-yard and dropping on his knees called Cod to 
 witness that he would cut to pieces any one who 
 should oppose him. On the evening of the same 
 da}' he cut with his sword James Jlorrel, and al- 
 most killed him, and stnick AViiiet, who came to 
 Jlorrel'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 hand and a cutlass in the 
 other, insisting that AVillet should take the gun 
 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, iiuder a guard, followed him out of his gate, 
 
 and, on the King's high road, beat him with abou* 
 thirty blows, which disabled him liom hiliur for 
 eonie weeks. 
 
 [Twelve affidavits of the above tenor, rrom the 
 people of Flushing, were sent to (Jovcnior Tryon, 
 wlio ordered David Colden to investigate" thi' mat- 
 ter and make rejiort. The result is not known. 
 Colonel Hamilton set sail for England, December 
 31st, 1783.— £■(/. 
 
 1-778, Kor. 23. — Died, on Saturday last, at Lis 
 scat .at Rockaway, the Hon. Josiah ilartiii, aged 
 seventy-nine. — N. Y. Mercury. 
 
 1(78, T)nc. 25. — In a coiTespondence between 
 Clinton .and Putnam, Clinton complains that the 
 Whigs on Long Island suffer equally with the To- 
 ries i'rom the dc;incLilions of the ('iniiirclicut 
 whale boats. 
 
 1778. — Scheme ol a J.,ottcry iior raiting tiie sum 
 of £780, for the benefit of the established church 
 in the parish of .Jamaica, on Nassau Island, toward 
 I)urcbasing a Glebe near said parish church. 
 
 The Lotterj- will be drawn under the inspection 
 of a number of persons of character, who are ap- 
 pointed for that jiurpose. 
 
 Adventurers in the first class are desired to re- 
 new their tickets witliin 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 tifteen per cent.* 
 1st class, 2,00a ticKctU at 4s., - Sl.OOO 
 2nd " 2,000 " 85., - - 2,000 
 
 :inl " 2.000 " IGs., - 4,000 
 
 4th " 2,000 " 2\s., - - G.OOO 
 
 1772, Feb. 11. — The Jamaica Clnu-ch Glebe 
 Lottery, third class, was drawn. The prizes were 
 
 One of S400 
 
 One of .... 150 
 
 I'wo of ----- 75 
 Fo\ir of ... - .10, 
 
 Eight of - - - - - 20 
 Twenty of - - - - 10 • 
 
 Fifty of ----- 8 
 Five hundred of - - - 4 
 
 Total amount of prizes in thethird class, S3,620. 
 
 1770, P(7). 10. — Position of enemy's troops on 
 Long Island. f 
 
 No. 
 .Seventeenth Dragoons, 300, 
 50, 
 700, 
 700, 
 300, 
 750, 
 3.50, 
 
 New Levies, 
 Grenadiers, 
 Light Infantry, 
 
 Highlanders, 
 Hessian Chasseurs, 
 
 Cantonment. 
 
 Long Island. 
 
 It 
 
 Jamaica. 
 
 Southampton. 
 
 Bedford. 
 
 Flushin'r. 
 
 "William Creed's farm, of seventy acres, nearly n niilo 
 westward of the village, was puri-liaseJ for a pnrsoungo, 
 with the proceeds of the above Lottery.— £</. 
 
 tWasirmffton used to say that he had liottpr information, 
 liy his spies, of the situation and nunihprs of tho pneniy's 
 forces ou Long Island, than in any other place. — Ed 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 55 
 
 Hereditary, 350, 
 
 Prince, 350, 
 
 Siincoe's Rangers, 250, 
 
 Ludlow's Battalion, 150, 
 
 Brooklyn. 
 
 Long Island. 
 
 Lloyd's Neck. 
 
 March 7th, 1779. 
 
 KlNGSBRroCE, 
 
 To Colonel HamiUon: 
 
 Sir : — As the armed ships in the South hay are 
 a sufficient security from any insult of the enemy 
 on the south side of Long Island, and as the whale 
 boats from the Connecticut coast are continually 
 committing depredations ou 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 cfiectual 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. Teyon, Governor. 
 
 Colonel Hamilton orders Jlajor Kissam to put 
 the above order in force immediately in his.district. 
 
 Newtown, March 9, 1779. 
 To Captain Israel Youngs, Cold Spring ; Jarvis Coles 
 Mn^quito Core; Daniel Youngs, Oystcrhay ; Thomas 
 Van ll'yck, Etisttcooih; Ahr«ham Van ll'ycli, ll'olrcr- 
 hollow : 
 
 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., that 
 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 ueglect of proper 
 attention to_^ordcrs. JAMES LONG-,, 
 
 Adj. Queens- Co. Mil. 
 
 1779, Ajn-il IG. — Hcturn of Capfain Yoimgs' 
 Troop of Horse : — Israel Youngs, C^aptain ; Eldred 
 Van Wyck, Corporal ; Townsend Ilewlett, Lieu- 
 tenant ; William McCoun, Quarterm.aster ; Philip 
 Youngs, Clerk ; John Walters, Sergeant ; Peun 
 Weeks, Sergeant ; Van Acly Eoben, Sergeant ; 
 AVilliam Wright, Sergeant. 
 
 Privates. — Benjamin Birdsall, Isaac Burr, rob- 
 bed by rebels, uo arms, Samuel Birdsall, Daniel 
 Cock, Zebulon Doty, Geoi-ge Dnryea, Eulkert 
 Duryea, Stephen Hendricksou, William Hopkins, 
 John Hawkshurst, miller, John Jones, Daniel 
 Latten, Adam Lcflord, James Lcftbrd, Titus Lcf- 
 ford, James Place, Tlioin.as Place, Isaac Robinson, 
 Isaac Smith, Daniel Van Velser, Nathaniel Weeks, 
 Isaac Wood, John Williams, John Wright, Lem- 
 uel Weeks. 
 
 1779, April 17. — One Guinea Reward is offered 
 by John Deacon for the apprehension of a mulatto 
 gu-1 Isabella, ^vho ran away from Jacobus Lint, at 
 Newtown, 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 by 
 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 
 Revolution. As soon as the enemy got podsessiou of the 
 Island, they imprisoned him and made free with his prop- 
 erty. He has left the following statement of his losses : 
 
 An Inventory (made Oct. 27) of stock taken from Ben- 
 jamin Sands, on Monday, September 16, 1776, by Captain 
 WiUiams, and said te be by order of Col Rogers : 
 
 d. 
 Two oxen, . . - 
 One cow, . - - 
 One bull and 2 heifers, - 
 Two yearliuo-j^, - 
 One horse. - - - 
 Tiiken 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, 
 Board in getting men, . - - - . 
 The Ordinary expenses (suppose), - - - 
 Cash pluudoi-ed 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, - - - - - -- _. 
 
 £ 
 
 s. 
 
 14 
 
 
 6 
 
 
 12 
 
 
 4 
 
 10 
 
 10 
 
 
 28 
 
 
 28 
 
 8 
 
 
 19 
 
 
 11 
 
 2 
 
 
 2 
 
 6 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 16 
 
 5 
 
 
 12 
 
 
 1 
 
 ]0 
 
 
 10 
 
 2 
 
 
 29 
 
 
 4 
 
 10 
 
 Total, - 
 One cow left. 
 
 £162,5,2 
 
 Mr. Sands, to obtain release from his imprisonment, 
 probably took the oath of allegiance to the British crown ; 
 but, perhaps, having loyalty on his ]i]is 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 £8,0,8, in coin, and £150 in paper, equal to £15 
 in s]iecie. At length, we may suppose, he made his peace 
 with theenemy, was allowed to return home, and settled 
 quietly down ou 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, he 
 buried in his cellar. Having occasion to take it up to invest 
 in some adveutiue, he made the following memorandum of 
 it: 
 
 Taken up in the httle cellar, forty-Bve guineas, fourteen 
 half-joes, .$280, five h,alf-joes, one pistole, change, 6s. 
 
 Taken up March, 1783, £63,12. 
 
 Taken U]) 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 illness, aged eighty-nine. — Ed. 
 
 1779, Jidi/ 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, JkJi/ 29. — Israel Youngs is allowed by 
 Loring, the British Commissary of Prisoners, to be 
 exchanged for Johanires Snedeker, but this not 
 being done. Youngs is paroled at Poughkeepsie, 
 Nov. 24th. 
 
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56 
 
 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 177;), Auff. 24.— Thu Rev. Henry Van Dyke is 
 at Xorwalk, and wauU to go to Long iHlaud with 
 his family. 
 
 No dale. — AVliilc tlie l-!ritis<li army lay, during 
 the winter, in and about New York, hay and .straw 
 wort? needed for the army. The mode of gathering 
 it may he inferred from : 
 
 A li.«t of persons to be emidoycd in collecting 
 hay, and to give direction!! to the Collectors of 
 Forage, who ought to leave witli the i'aruiers only 
 a.-* much as will be needed to suppoi't their stock 
 of cattle. 
 
 KINGS COUNTY. 
 
 Colonel Axtell, Major Vanderbclt, of the Militia, 
 Mr. Polhemus. 
 
 QITEENS COUNTY. 
 
 Ifcwfowti. — Capt. John Shoals,* Justice Alsop, 
 Oliver AVaters, James Long. 
 
 Flushing. — Judge Willet, Philip Piatt, Judge 
 Ilicks, Talman. 
 
 Jaiiuiica. — Justice French, Captain Betts, Cap- 
 tain Ludlam. 
 
 llcmpshiul. — Justice Clowes. 
 
 Cow Keck. — Daniel Kissam. 
 
 TIempsicad Plains. — Judge Ludlow. 
 
 IIcrricLs. — Justice Smith. 
 
 Ua.'tt Woods. — Justice llewlett, Captain Thomas 
 Van AVyck. 
 
 Wohcr Hollow. — Captain Abraham Van Wyck. 
 
 Buelram. — Thomas Cock. 
 
 Mitsl'cto CoiT.— John Underbill. 
 
 Jerico — Thomas Jackson. 
 
 Jcnisalcni.—L':i\^\:\m Seaman, llewlett. 
 
 Fort Ned: — J udgc Jones.* 
 
 SUTFOLK COUNTY. 
 
 Cold Spring. — Captain Israel Youngs. 
 
 Hitntiiiijton. — .Tohn Trelanil, Shubai'l Smith. 
 
 Sctaiilct. — Xatliaii Woodliull, Baylcy. 
 
 Dicks Hills. — Captain Conklin, Captain Carle. 
 
 1779, Nov. 2.3. — Captain Mitehell's wife came 
 out of the British lines to him, at I'eekskill, vnider 
 a fla", with Mniur Skiduion' as the bearer of a let- 
 ter. 
 
 1779, Dec. 4.— Uriah 5[itcbell, at Xewburgh, 
 petitions for a permit for the wife and children of 
 Joseph Bowne, his Clerk, to come out from New 
 York. 
 
 The winter of 1779-SO was remarkably dry 
 and iniitormly cold. The snow was deep and 
 drifted, and llie springs low. It was called " the 
 Canada winter." 
 
 1780, Feb. 1. — Lieutenant-Colonel Birdsall is 
 * serving in Colonel James Vanderlnngh's regiment. 
 
 1780, May 22. — c£5 PiCward.—Uixn away from 
 his master, David Colden, a negro named Kelso. 
 He had eight days leave of absence to fmd a pur- 
 
 •Erascd in the oripinnl, which may be seen in the Libra- 
 ry of the Long Island Historical Society. 
 
 chaser. He speaks English oulj- and wore apple- 
 tree buttons on his coat. 
 
 1780, June 30. — General SilHman reports, that 
 ^[rs. Hicks, of Long Island, sister to Captain 
 Tom's wife, now in tiie Continental service, has 
 come out of the British lines to live among the 
 AVhigs. 
 
 1780, Jid;/ 9. — A British officer, was drowned 
 while bathing in Success I'ond.. A slab may be 
 seen in the yard of Grace Church, Jamaica, thus 
 inscribed : 
 
 In memory of tlic many pood and ami.iWe qualities of 
 C'.i|>tJiin Wiiliam Dicksun. a native of (Jla'pow, late of 
 l*ort Koval, in A'irj^iiiia. incR-Ii;uit, an honest man ami a 
 truly loyal suljjott. The Fmirth Company of Vulnntecrs, 
 of N'fw York, umU-r liis cominanil, at his death, 9tli .July, 
 1780, have placed this .stone on his pravo 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 lieaded. On the whole 
 not quite half the quantity they had last season. 
 
 1780, Sfpf. 22. — ;Mabel, wife of Benjamin 
 ■\Yliitebead at Lloyd's Neck, is .-dlowed to go from 
 the American lines to Long Isl.ind, with ber two 
 young' sons. He had left his wife in poor circum- 
 stances, and been four yeai-g with the British. — 
 Trumbull Papers. 
 
 1780, Sept. — John Smith asks of Gov. Trumbull 
 n pass for Joseph Blaekwell, (who fled when New 
 York was approached by the British) now at 
 "Wortliington, to visit his aged and infirm fither, 
 (who suiiercd greatly by X\\£ British) at llallett's 
 Cove, and to return with Mrs. Smith. 
 
 1780, Xov. 27.— Man-iod, at Flushing, by the 
 Eev. !Mr. Bloomer, Capt;iin Jarvis Dobbs, of the 
 Aim]\ Abigail, to Miss Hetty AYortman ; Captain 
 Ileymen Clarke, of the Iiiduslri/, to Annatie 
 Wortman ; and Captain Jlattbew Farrington, of 
 the Xanei/, to I'liel]e JfeCulIum. The amiable ac- 
 complisliments of the young ladies presage the 
 most perfect happiness that the marriage state can 
 afford. 
 
 1781, March 21. — To be sold at vendue, at nine 
 in the morning, at tlie house of ]\[r. James Duryea, 
 at Fort Neck, all the stock of Tliomas Jones, Esq., 
 consisting of working oxen, cows, calves, a iiinnber 
 of young cattle, a parcel of horses, most of them 
 young and some full blooded, a number of slieep, 
 and a parcel of pigs, with all kinds of farming 
 utensils and implements of husbandry.* 
 
 1781. — ^I.ajor Fitch says: "pursuant to orders 
 from Governor Trumbull, I landed on Long Island, 
 .lune 30th, and made inisoner of ^lajor Kissam, his 
 brother and two others, brought them to Stamford, 
 
 •.Tnd"-o .Tones was appointed Clerk of Queens County, 
 Teh. S,*!?;"!?, which oftiee he resi^rned March 13, J7HI, (ire- 
 paratiiry to his de]>ailiire for Kojiland, wlieie he died, .Inly 
 •j:!, 17!»"2, aged sixly.<>ne. In the wall of the ehnreh at IJox- 
 bourn, is a tablet, commemorating his vu-tucs. 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 57 
 
 paroled the M;ijor for twenty days for Lim to ef- 
 fect his exchange for Colonel St. John (who had 
 been kept iu the Provost, in New York, on bread 
 and water, and refused an exchange), but the Ma- 
 jor returned without effecting any thing. The 
 other prisoners were exchanged at once. The 
 3Iajor then went to Wethersfield to see the Depu- 
 ty Commissary of prisoners." 
 
 1781, June. — Josepli 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, Aug. 7. — Congress desires Governor 
 Trumbull to revoke hia 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 Peckskill, petitions C4overnor Clinton for a 
 permit for Via, brother to remova from Queens 
 County within the American lines. 
 
 1782, Jan. 22. — Clinton, in reply to Parson- 
 Keteltas' letter, of 19 th, on his being classed to 
 rai.se men for the Continental army, saj-s that min- 
 isters of the gospel are not obliged to contribute to 
 that service. 
 
 1782, Jan. 26. — Thomas Lawrence, at West 
 Point, a nejdiew of Captain Jonathan Lawrence, 
 was obliged to fly the enemy at ]\Iorrisauia, on ac- 
 count of his attachment to American liberty. Lie 
 wants a flag to visit his wife. 
 
 1782, Jan. 29. — Benjamin Birdsall, witli Edward 
 TVheelei', crossed from Stamford to Lloj-d's Neck, 
 where be got a permit from Colonel L^jiham 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 
 bad permit from L'pham to take his two sous and 
 some effects to Connecticut. Feb. 21st, E. Lock- 
 wood, at Norwalk, received from Birdsall, c£'8,l7, 
 (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 
 Mabbct, landed at Norwalk, and had permit from 
 Ebcnezer Lockwood to go to Duchess county. 
 
 1782, Fclh 2.3.— Colonel Thomas Gilbert, Cap- 
 tain John Cochran, Josliua Chandler, Esq., and 
 Malcolm Morrison, Esq., sign an address of thanks, 
 iu the name of their associates, to Lieutenant-Colo- 
 nel Upham, Deputy Inspector General of Refugees 
 at Lloj'd's Neck, who distributed provisions, &c., 
 among the loyal refugees living thereabouts. — N. 
 Y. Mercunj. 
 
 1782, Fch. 29.— B. Birdsall, at Dover, writes to 
 Clinton : " I effected a fovu- weeks' disagreeable 
 journey — was sixteen days on the Island, during 
 seven of which I was in camp on Lloyd's Neck. 
 
 The fare iu the camp is hard. It is the wickedest 
 place I ever met with. There was no restraint, I 
 noticed every thing. The large fiirmers 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, ^Mfl'. 26. — The crops of corn and wheat 
 are very indifferent in many parts of the coimtrj-. 
 Long Island has experienced the effects of a very 
 dry summer. 
 
 1782, Sept. 4. — Died, Tuesdaj- sennigbt, at his 
 house, at Great Neck, in the eightieth year of his 
 age. Colonel Benjamin Tredwell, a gentleman who 
 ever supported an unblemished character and was 
 remarkable for his hospitality, cheerfulness and af- 
 fiibility. 
 
 1782, Nov. 10.— Henry Allen, of Great Neck, 
 swears that after ransoming his sloop for .X'160, 
 he was robbed, above high-water mark, of the fol- 
 lowing articles, about a year and a half ago, by 
 one Samuel Lockwood, Cajitaiu of a whale-boat : 
 A piece of Jane, . - . ^-£5, o 
 " 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 gnus 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 pork, - - . 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, 
 j£16: 
 
 Seven ruffled shirts. One pair sheets, 
 One cotton do.. Six pair stockings. 
 One night-cap. Three cambrick stocks, 
 
 Two pillow-cases, Four haudkerchiefs. 
 Two waistcoats, 
 
 1782. — List of Lambert Moore's articles, taken 
 as above, value, £0,5 : 
 
 Six shirts. One lb. powdered sago. 
 
 One handkerchief. Two pair stockings. 
 
5S 
 
 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 One pillow-case, 
 Oue uiglit-cap. 
 
 One pair sheets, 
 Some Jesuits' bark. 
 
 1782. — Martin Schenck, Jr., swears, tliat on the 
 nij];ht of Scptemher 2 Jtli, about nine o'clock, a par- 
 ty of armed men, with their faces black, came to 
 his il«'e!lin;;-liouse and took forcibly trom him, 
 about >f()0 Xew York money, lie sujjposcd said 
 party to bclon": to some Connecticut whale-boats ; 
 and that, in endeavoring to escape from them, he 
 was barbarously wounded.* 
 
 17S2. — Peter Storms swears, tliat being at Jo- 
 seph Pearsall's, on Cow Neck, on the night of Sep- 
 tember 2Gth, a party of armed men came to the 
 house and broko open tlie door and robbed I'ear- 
 sall of some money, jdatc and other articles and 
 threatened and abused him much. Ne.xt morning 
 he tracked said armed party to and from the shore, 
 and supposes they must have come by water. 
 
 1782. — llichard Hewlett [Northside] being 
 sworn, .=ays, that on the night of Sej)teraber 28th, 
 a party of anued men came to Iiis house, forced it 
 and robbed him of cash and clothing to the valnc 
 of about £oO, and beat him much and otherwise 
 abused him. 
 
 17S2. — Emory Hewlett [Xorthside] swears, that 
 on the night of September 2Sth, a party of armed 
 men came to his house, forcibly entered it and 
 robbed him of cash and other article.-? to the amount 
 of £50 or upwards, beat him and otherwise much 
 abused him. lie suspected and, from information, 
 supposes said party came over in a boat from some 
 part of Connecticut. A few da3's afterward I set 
 out with intent to go over to Stamford to endeavor 
 to recover my eifects, when I met one Obadiali 
 Valentine and several others, at Caverly or Butler's 
 Island, where I saw said \'aleutinc have on a coat 
 which I well knew to h.ave belonged to my brother 
 Richard, lie threatened to shoot mo and I believe 
 he would have put lii.s threat into execution it he 
 had not been prevented. I jierfectly recollect the 
 faces of several men I saw there, being the same 
 that robbed me. I was told their names by a per- 
 son who well knew them, viz. : Joseph Sackett, 
 Captain Nathaniel Sackett, John Ucvorc, Nathan- 
 iel Palmer and William Riley. 
 
 17S2. — Ebenezer Brown swears, that on Sep- 
 tember 20th, in the night, sundry armed nu'n came 
 to his house, forced the door and robbed him of 
 casli and other articles to the value of about £3,10. 
 
 17S2. — Jose])h Smith, .John Colder, Jr., and 
 Nathaniel Lawrence, swe.ir, that on September 
 3()lh, they went from P.utler's or Caverly Island 
 to (Greenwich, in a boat of Avery Lewis, with six 
 armcid men, of whom were Obadiali Valentine, 
 Captain Josci)h ."^ackntt, Nathaniel Sackett, .John 
 13evore, Natliani<l Palmer and AVilliani Riley. 
 They had a handkerchief tied up with sundry 
 
 •A'6ani Mot*, onst side of Cow Neck, was twice robbed ; 
 onco of a groat deal of clotllicg. 
 
 nankeen jackets and breeches. Valentine had on 
 a red broadcloth coat turned up with blue. De- 
 von* had a tine silver-mounted gun with gold 
 touch. Tli'V saw three pistols with " R. II." on 
 two and "E. 11." on one. The crew said they had 
 been very much drove all night by refugees and 
 horse. 
 
 1782. — David Jai-vis swears, that .about eight 
 o'clock on the evening of October f)lh, a ]iarty of 
 armed men came to the house of .lohn IJurtis [now 
 Dr. Purdy's], on Cow Neek, and demanded ;idmit- 
 tance or they would break the door open. There 
 upon liurtis went to the garret and fired a gun out 
 of the window to alarm the neiglibors. On that 
 Ihey tried to break the door down. He (.Jarvis) 
 bid them bo gone, when one presented his gun at 
 him which missed fire. Then Jarvis fired at ami 
 wounded him. 
 
 1782.— Charles Jlilchell afTirras, that,' on Octo- 
 ber 9lh, at eiglit o'clock in the evening, he was at 
 James Rurr's when a i)arly of armed men came 
 into the house in a very abrupt manner and ordered 
 liim and Burr's family inider guard, and demanded 
 all the fire-arms to be delivered up, which was 
 done by Burr. .Soon after the delivery a firing 
 was heard on whicli the men left Buit's house, 
 first ordering us not to rjuit the house on pain of 
 death. 
 
 [They intended to r.'>b Burr's store, (since the tan- 
 yards in !Manhasset Valley) but the wounding of 
 .James Brown, the ringleader, by Jarvis prevented 
 the'r carrying their wicked scheme into execution. 
 Brown was jv native of New York, Init had CJovcr- 
 nor Trnmbull's Commission. He laj- at iStamford 
 October 21st, 17S2. .John Thomjisou, late of Long 
 Island, but now in Stamford, ought to be taken up. 
 says Aspinwall Cornwell.] — Ed. 
 
 1782. — Jolin Bnrtis, blacksmith, and David Jar- 
 vis, his apprentice, swear, that about one o'clock 
 in the morning of C)ctober 2-3tli, about twenty 
 armed men came to Burtis's house, ordered the 
 door opened or they would break it down, or set 
 the hou.^e afire, as they were determined to have 
 them dead or alive, as they had woiuided Captain 
 Brown, of the other shore, who wa.? 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 tn/urce the house, on which B. and 
 J. rctinncd the fire aiul 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. AVe still kept up a fire at them and 
 killed one .Stephen ^lartin, of Stratford, who had a 
 commission in iiis pncket sigiu'd by John Hancock. 
 By which it appeared that he connnanded an 
 armed boat the Jiochcs'er. "We believe the parly 
 came over from ."Stamford in two whale boats the 
 evening before. After the j)arty went from liurlis's 
 house we went to I'urr's store and fi.und it broke 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 59 
 
 open, and James lying on the floor dead from a 
 shot he received through the body, 
 
 17S2. — James Hewlett [of Cow Neck] swears, 
 that in the evening of October 2.7th, about ten 
 o'clock, a party of ai-nied mon came to his bouse 
 and broke a window, then earn© 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- Ivim discover where his moneys 
 were. He knew- none of them.- 
 
 17S2.— TTilliara Jloft, .Ti-., of Great Neck says, 
 that at midnight, November 9th, a number of 
 armed men cama to my door and immediately 
 broke- in and came to my bedside, where ice lay, 
 and demanded cCoOO. We, supposing them to be 
 these infernal crew of robbers, immediately g-xve up 
 all the money we had in the house, <£S6 or cC40, 
 but that did not satisfy them, they still demanded 
 more. Wo honestly told thccxwe had no more, 
 [even] if they took our lives — we had iiot a farth- 
 ing more iu the house. On wliich, in a m.ost tcjii- 
 fying and abusive language, they swore they would 
 have laorc. On which they took my fither, 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 iit length they struck 
 him on the hcad-.with the bpoech of a gun. Ho 
 perceiving the blow coming, clapped up his hands 
 on his head which saved his head from the ex- 
 tremity x)f the blow.othiei-ways the Doctor judged 
 it would undoubtedly have finished him. Then 
 they- dragged him to the door. We then got him 
 tOr thebecU They then left him. Then they took 
 me and beat me till I am as black as the chimney- 
 back from my shoulders to my elbows, and further 
 down ; also, my sides and back. They did this 
 until they had almost fiuished me, endeavoring to 
 extract nmre money from me, which it was not in 
 my power to give. They tinally desisted and then 
 Aveat to plundering the house of clothing and bed- 
 ding and sundrj- articles as nearly as we can esti- 
 mate to the amount of £S0. 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 
 difScnlty. Some of -us' not having a second gar- 
 ment to' put on. We can't call the names of these 
 robbers though- ".ve have seca several of them sun- 
 dry times. 
 
 1782, Nov. 10. — George Elwyn swears, tluit 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 Stamford, 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 
 kiHed or not. I said he was. B. then said what 
 basbc£Qine)Ot Martin, whom Bnrtis or his appren- 
 
 tice had killed ? I informed B. that Miirtin was 
 buried very decently. B. informed mo that a gim- 
 boat would be brought up before Burtis's house 
 and blow it toutoms; or buffi it, or that he (B.) 
 would burn the house of any other person on Long 
 Island who slmnld-ofior to defend it. 
 
 1782. — Nathan'el Pearsall makes oath, that on 
 the night T)f- October 2.3tb, 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 c€.30. 
 They abused me much and flashed a pistorafm'6 
 to make me discover where Israel kept his money 
 — he being absent — until an plarm being made 
 they went off. Soon after I saw a boat going 
 away in which, I suppose they came. 
 
 1782. — Examination of Barent Masten, Decem- 
 ber .3rd, late from Long Island : " I left Beekman 
 Precinct in Jul}', 1790, 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, imder 
 .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 Matinceock, at the house of Avery Lewis ; he 
 was at home ; we got lirpior ; there was no plund- 
 ering." 
 
 17S2, Dec. 1.- — Tlie whale boat expeditions from 
 Connecticut across the Sound to Long Island, had 
 now (somewhat 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 
 evidei.ce they could of these outr.ages and forward- 
 ed the pr.'ceding depositions to Governor Clinton, 
 by Co ouei John Sands. This put a check to the 
 career of^ many an outlaw. Here follow some of 
 their names. — Ed. : 
 
 Eutger Blcecker. He robbed and hung Eichaid 
 Thorn. r ■' 
 
 James Brown's crew, now living at Stamford, 
 but lately from Cow Neck— all refugees, viz. : 
 William Eoe, Barent Masten, 
 
 John .Jackson, John Devore, 
 
 John Thompson, Towusend Hutchings. 
 
 James Bentlej-, a refugee, at Stamford. He 
 and Valentine Eider robbed Samuel Seaman and 
 Luke Fleet.- 
 
 Jabez Ferris, a refugee, Benjamin Howell, Na- 
 thaniel Sacket, 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 Eye to Long 
 
 Since Mrs. Cairns', llcnipsteaJ Ilarbur. 
 tThis hanging was to torture Major Tliome into a dis- ■ 
 closure of his hidden treasures. 
 
 14 
 
60 
 
 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 I«laii(l, and now a refugee from Long Island ; a 
 verj' li.id cliiiractcr — atbief and a robber. 
 
 Kicbard Valentine, a refugee from Long Island. 
 
 Robert Sinimous, of Westebester, A waiTani 
 is isBucd for bis arrest. 
 
 Joseph Willets, of Westbury, was robbed of oC30 
 or .£10, by some soldiers, who lay at Jerieho. 
 They maltreated him witli a \-icw of extorting 
 more money, till his sister Sarah rushed in to avert 
 the blows from her brother, saying, you will not 
 strike an unaruaed woman. On his making com- 
 plaint to the authorities, the soldiers were drawn 
 up in two rows, and lie 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 suflieieut 
 accuracy to have them punished. So thcv were 
 let off.* 
 
 During the latter part of tlie Revolutionary war 
 a party of men and women sailed out fmm the 
 head of Cow Bay, on a .Sunday pleasure excursion 
 up the Sound, in a market boat. (.)n their return, 
 being heated with liquor, they became reckless 
 and overloaded the small boat that was to land the 
 passengers, Jt upset off the fishing rock, near 
 what is now Charles II. 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 Averj', Judkins and llutcbings. 
 They were buried in an old burying ground, on 
 land now of William Hewlett, north of his mill 
 pond. 
 
 [The following extracts are taken from an imila- 
 tion antique, entitled ; " Personal Recollections of 
 the American Revolution," edited under the pseu- 
 don3-m of Sidney Barclaj', the real writer being Jj. 
 M. I'. The scene and chief characters are mythi- 
 cal, but tho bonk being a neat jiatch-work of 
 " Revolutionary Incidents," is readable if not lelia- 
 h\c.]— Ed. 
 
 Robert Lester, wa activo Torj', was awakened, at mid- 
 nifflit, by a loud cra.sh from an iniimnisu stone tlirowu 
 ag^ainst his front door. Tlie wbalc boat nn'n ordered biin 
 to dress instantly, lie was e.irricd lilind-fcild to the Har- 
 bor nnd rowed over to the Main.' — Per. Ilcc. 77. 
 
 James Parker, a farmer, was drivinp; home from market 
 late in the eveninff, As he jjiwsed a lar^'c tree by the road 
 side, he was hailed, but dikrogardinij the order to stop, he 
 was sliot. The liorses toofi fright and ran three mile.s to 
 Carpenter's inn, where they stopped under tho shed, and 
 stood till morning. Tl»e goods in the wagou were uu- 
 touehetl.— /'cr. Ilcc. HO. 
 
 The Uunncrs appeared in the night around the house of 
 John Kawlins, near AVisttown and were disco>ered when 
 abnnt to lore<' the front door. Hawlins sunt his negro iip 
 stairs to fire at the robbei'S, while he thrust a broom-stiek 
 through a broken luuic of glass into a robber's face, who 
 suppo.sed it to be a loaded gim, and eried for merey, when 
 tliey all scampered otV, tuider tho negro's &rc. —J'tr. l!ec. 
 
 Tbo Runners came over from tho Maimshoro to attack 
 
 "This is one vor.ion of tho story : wc give another else- 
 where. — Ed. 
 
 the house of Stejihen Willetta, a Quaker preacher. He 
 threw open the door and said : " Walk in friends and warm 
 yourselves, it is chilly, this evening." He threw wwid on the 
 tire, and kept talking so fluently, that the men had not time 
 to say a word. He then called his ser\anl to get a good 
 bn|)pej- .of bread, meat, niince-i)ie» and cideij Alley they 
 had done supper he told them their beds were ready. ' They 
 were so overcome by liis 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 thoy 
 w alked out, thev could but ill conceal the knives and pis- 
 tols they bore about them. — Per. Ktc. 128. 
 
 Hugh Jar%i*, a Torj- from .Jersey, was hard on the peo- 
 ple, especially the non-resisting Quakers. He ordered 
 John Perkins to go out with his boys nnd take their .scythes 
 and cut the grass ofl^ their own meadow-land, which they 
 had coimted on as winter-feed for their own creatures. 
 After the war this Tory became a consistent Quaker and 
 ottered restitution. — Per. Itec. 151. 
 
 Four persojii came over from the Main-land nnd sur- 
 rounded the hoii.se of Iticluird AlberLson, a wealthy farm- 
 er. They knocked at the duor, and he knowing it to be 
 useless to resist, opened it. They demanded all his money. 
 He said he had but little. Tliey swore fuiioiisly nnd rum- 
 maged the drawers and closets, and even lifted up the 
 hearth-stone, w hieh they knew to be a favorite hiding place 
 for money. They then i)ut the bed-<ord around his neck 
 and tied his hands behind him, thnalening to bang him. 
 The wife and children fell on tbiir knees and begged for 
 his life. ,She then offered tlwm all her silver spoons and 
 $'M in money. This they rudely clutched, but violently 
 demanded more, They next beg.-iu 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 )iim dreadful- 
 ly, his wife meanwhile lay fainting on the lloor. This 
 went on till da3--«lawn, when tlicy hft, threatening to br.m 
 the house over his head. An association, of which Richard 
 Tliiimpson w as leader, was formed to ride about all night, 
 on horse-back, to guard the neighborhooti, twelve to go out 
 at a time. — /'< r. lire. i7>'.i. 
 
 Three men, with black ni.isks, and well armed with cut- 
 lasses nnd silver-mounted pistols, entered the house of Jo- 
 seph Willetts, an aged man. They told him not to be 
 alarmed as they oidy wanted his ini>ney. What he gave 
 did not s,itisfy their rapacity, so he reluctantly ottered them 
 :i watch he hatl \vorn tifty vears. They now threatened 
 him, and one let fall his cntla.s3 on his head, but as ho 
 stoopexl to avoid the blow, his cheek received a dreadful 
 wound. He fell and his daughter ran up to her veni rable 
 parent and cried out " (")h, (jlod ! they have killed him " Tho 
 villains then cut up the ch.airs, destroyed the furniture nnd 
 broke the lookiog-glas.s.es, and then left, (.'omplaint was 
 made to a lirilish officer at Jerico, w ho had his men drawn 
 up, and Mr. Willett.s' sister recognized two of them, who 
 were "picketed,"' much against the will of the injured 
 Quaker.— Per. Kcc. 157, 162. 
 
 The house of Try Willis, of Jerico, was entered by way 
 of the kitchen, where a young man and w om.an were sitting 
 over the lire, The robbers fired off a gun to (ditain a light. 
 They th(*ai set a guard over each bed and searched in the 
 cabinets and desks for money nnd valuables, w bicb they 
 took to a consiilerable amount. The nn»n servant " a war- 
 rior,'' attempted to nm tor his sword, but was held back. 
 His money being concealed uuder a drawer escaped their 
 notice." — Per. Itcc. 103. 
 
 John Searing was observed by tlie enemy to bo carting 
 pork. Counting npcm his having received the money for it 
 thcv went to his house and demanded it. On refn.sing he 
 was sei/.cil nnd his head placed on a block nnd a mnn stood 
 over him w ilh hii axe, bringing it down every moment, as 
 if to sever his licad from his body, His wife theu placed 
 
 •.*onio of tliese narratives are taken from the lips of 
 Thomas Willis, then a boy, sleeping in his tnindh-lied. 
 He diw], pear Jericho, September I4th, IKH, aged ninety- 
 three. 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 Gl 
 
 all the niouf.v they had, about £40, at their feet anil rushed 
 to save her liusbaud by placing her ami 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 cart 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 aiTii of the 
 «fficcr fell powerless, but he can-ied Searing prisoner to the 
 Colonel who had respect to his religious scruples, and dis- 
 charged him. — Per Rcc. 164. 
 
 Some roTjbers on entering the house of John Willis were 
 so exasperated at tinding no tooty that they tied the hands 
 of all the family behind them, a,s well as those of Jos. Dfla- 
 plaine* who ivas 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 Powell, by dint of powerful efforts 
 loosened one of her hands and succeeded in e.xtirguishing 
 the flames before releasing the rest from theu- thongs. — 
 Per. Rec. 166. 
 
 Isaac Hendrickson was tied to abe d-post and robbed. 
 Samuel Skidmore, Black Stump, was shot through a 
 window. 
 
 17S2, Oct 12.— For sale, the pleasant ami lical- 
 thy situated farm of Joseph Freuch, Esq.,f con- 
 taining twentj'-six and a half acrei?, a quartta- of a 
 mile east ot Jamaica, vm tlie main road, where the 
 market wagons pass the door. The house is two 
 stories high and fift3'-two feet long, with piazzas in 
 front and rear. The well never tails in tlie drycst 
 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, barn and other 
 outhouses. View the premises and agree with said 
 French. Also, to be sold, the horses, £owSi hogs, 
 wagons, cart and all the farming utensils and 
 household furniture, a negro man, girl, and woman 
 who is an excellent cook. 
 
 178-3, 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 River, called Loftus Hall. 
 
 1783, Feb. 8. — Samuel and Elizabeth Cornell, 
 Joseph Lawrence and Jacob Suydam, Executors, 
 offer for sale the valaaJJe and pleasant tarm of 
 -Samuel and Comfort Cornell, lateh' deceased, three 
 miles east of Flushing, on the road to the Plains, 
 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-hQ^se, wood 
 for fence and fuel, two orchai'ds, 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 
 
 *Josepli Delaplaine died in Xew York, Dec. "2.5, I7S2, 
 and was interred iu the Friends' burying ground, when 
 David Sands delivered a suitable discourse. — Eil. 
 
 tCaptain Freuch was one of the Loyalists \\ho thought 
 it best to leave the Island. "This farm was sold in Jiiue, 
 1783, to James Jarvis, merchant, of postou. It was onca 
 occupied by Bishop Seabury, aftonvards by Captain Bvrnc, 
 and now by Walter Nichols. — Ed. 
 
 opened 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- 
 cury. 
 
 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, wdth a \-ariety of 
 kitchen utensils. Also, a likely negro wench with 
 her male child, and a riduig mare four years old. 
 
 1783, March 17.— Sale, by public auction, of 
 the whole stuck of Hart & Chaloncr, 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. Robert 
 Service, Hugh Henderson aad David Knox, Trus- 
 tees. 
 
 1783, March 31. — The partnership of Cunning- 
 ham, Scott & Co., Jamaica, is dissolved. All per-/ 
 sons indebted will please pay Charles Cunningham, 
 who will dispose of the remaining stccrk on very 
 reasonable terms. 
 
 To His Excellency George Clinton, Esq., Gover- 
 nor of the State of New York : 
 
 Hempstead Harbou, April 10th, 1783. 
 We, the subscribers, being a Committee appoint- 
 ed by simdry 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 wo 
 shall be iu, before civil Governiscnt 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 Exceljency's opinion and advice and 
 the bearer, 3Ir. Andrew Ouderdorik, has directions 
 to explain our intentions and wishes more at large. 
 Samuel Tow^"SE^'P, 
 Hexdrick Oxdekdoxk, 
 Joseph Lawrence. 
 
 1783, Axiril 14. — Joseph Burrows offers to let, 
 from May 1st, a very convenient house with stable, 
 barn, orchard and garden, v,-ithin a few rods of the 
 church, in the centre of Newtown^ where Mr. Bou- 
 ncy now lives. 
 
 *Now Mr. John N. JJrinckerhoff's. 
 
62 
 
 QUEENS COUXTY 
 
 IISS, April 11. — Jolin Lewi.-', Xc-wtown l.iiiding, 
 cautions all persons again.st trusting any jxwson o£ 
 his family. 
 
 17S3, April I-t.--.Janic.'? Way,* at Nrwtown 
 landing:, ofFow to let the place, tliat Ht-ndric-k S. 
 Lot and JouatLan llnstcil lived on Ia.<t year, con- 
 taining: ten acrciJ, and salt meadow mtliin twenty 
 rods of said landinjr; and anotlicr place witiiin ten 
 rods of it, where Joliu Cane now live* and keeps a 
 considerable store. It is well situated for a pcntlc- 
 inan's coiuitry seat. Also, twenty-two acres on 
 wliicli is a good lioiL<e, orchard, garden and spring 
 of water one hundred and five yards from t!ie door. 
 It is one and a half niih'S from said landing, and 
 from Captain Uapeiye's, John Way's and the pub- 
 lic road. Also, part of the place said Way lives 
 on. Also, one hundred acres, with a house of five 
 rooms and three fire-places, the barn not liuishcd, 
 one mile from said landing with tea acres of or- 
 chard. 
 
 17S3, A2)ril 21. — At ve;;due and immediate pos- 
 session given, the f.irm belonging to the late Major 
 John Lynch, in Houthwoods, (formerly belonging 
 to Mr. JIagey Wigan?) on the great road leading 
 from Uempstead to Kockaway, 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- 
 aixl saw-mill close bj-. Fish and wihl-fowl arc 
 plenty within three miles. 
 
 17S3, Ajn-il 28.— To let, from :JIay 1st, the 
 large commodiou.^ dwelling-house at Jamaica, 
 wliei-e ^Michael Price now keens store, with barn, 
 stable and garden. A]iply to AnIIiOny Jloore, on 
 the premises, or said I'rice, in Wall Street, New 
 York. 
 
 1783, 3Iai/ 12. — To let, the farm now occupied 
 by Mr. John AValt^rs, within two miles from. J* 
 maiea, on the main road from New York, consisting 
 of one haadrud acres, a great part meadow and 
 mowing ground, Imuj orchards, and wood for tv/o 
 fires, with sufficient timber t;)r tlh' rej>airs of the 
 farm. The house is pretty good, barn and well in 
 very good order. ApjJy to C'hristoi)her .Smith 
 and Gary Ludlow, near Jamaica, or U. N. Auch- 
 muty, New York. 
 
 1783, May 19. — Hou.se mid garden in Jamaica 
 to let, on the Flushing road, opposite the Church, 
 litcly occupied by the Widow Harris. 
 
 1783, June 4. — Last week liis Excel'.i*«fy, 
 George Clinton, Esq., was declared duly elected, 
 for the tlucc .ycjirs ensuing, Covernor of New 
 York. The follo>v.ing is a view of the I'oll : 
 
 George Clinton, - - 3,r)Si ^ 
 
 Philiji Schuyler, - - G13 > legal votes. 
 
 Ejjliraim I'ayne, - - 520 ) ' 
 
 N. h. — Ten precincts gave in their ballots con- 
 trarv* to the forms of law, and were rejected by 
 the Inspectora. The majority for Clinton in those 
 precincts was proportionate to the above numbers. 
 — Iiii\Giu:. . 
 
 17SS,. Ju»e 9. — I<jhn Mott, of rx>Tig Island, 
 moved to New York f<»ur ^-cars ago and kept a 
 timber yard two yews. He never bore arms ex- 
 cept in the militia. He sent his wan Adam and 
 hor.ses into John Delaucey's woods last December, 
 wlueU were citpKired by some Americans. He 
 ca!U CUuton the common Cithcrof 4he State and 
 prays that they may be restored. His negro cost 
 him .£103, and was sold for cC15 into Couuccticut, 
 horses cost SlOO and harness d.6. 
 
 1783, June 10. — Daniel Hitclicock, (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 Flur^liing, and was a 
 soldier in Colonel Smil,h's Iiegiment in 177G. He 
 had a wife in Flusliing, where he then resided, 
 and so was compelled to stay in the British lines, 
 where he supported his decrepit father, wlio fled . 
 thither from Fiederick:?bargh. 
 
 1783, June 9. — ^Michael Price shortly intends 
 going to Europe, and will dispose .at prime cost 
 of the rem.iinder of his stock at his store in Jam.ii- 
 ca, by whylesalo or retail. The goods arc well 
 chosen for a country store where business has been 
 done two years past to a considerable amount ; it 
 being the iirst stiuid for business within the liriti.sh 
 lines, except New York. The large and commodi- 
 ous house in which the store is kept, being rented 
 for a year from May. 1, with the barn, stable and 
 garden, together with the goods, is a desirable ob- 
 ject for a trader. Immediate po.ssession given for 
 cash or bills of exchange. 
 
 1783, Jahj 7.— Peter J3crton,* at X\ia Qnccn'8 
 Head Tavern, Newtown landing, offers for s;de his 
 farm of twenty-two acrJ-j> The cultivated gri)uud 
 is already sowed, pfau'/jd and maniued. The ma- 
 nure in the barn yard and tlie i-ryps uiiy be had 
 on .easy term.'., 'ipn giiiiJcas earnest money is iv- 
 (inired. Full possession given on November .1st. 
 Until which time he will pay c£10 for rent: 
 
 1783, Jiihi 28. — If John J»c:alvin ^ylto married a 
 farmi'r's daughter on Long Island, and harf not 
 been heard of these three years, is ]is:ing, and will 
 apply to the printer, he will hear of something to 
 his advantage. AVilhiu six y'iars past lie sailed 
 from Portsmouth. England, iu a mau-of-war, '.uis 
 in the attack on Sullivan's L-hmd. after'Viu l^was 
 in the I'hcnix, and theu iu the Hospital at New 
 York, t- - 
 
 17S3, Auff. 4. — Taken from Remsen's landing, 
 south side of Long Island, a fishing boat, well 
 
 •Captain Bcrton. niafiner, went to New Brunswick an J 
 bocamc .1 .(lulge. — F.il. 
 
 t.Joliu Dcaliiu was inirripil to Jane Berrien, of Xewtown , 
 January tilli, 177«, by llie Uev. Sir. Bloomer, of Jamaica. 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
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 built, of wliitc oak, with D. D. imprinted in her 
 bows and J. S., 1770, (the year she was made) in 
 her stern. SIO reward and charges will be paid 
 by Johannis Sucdikcr, at Jamaica, or Thomas 
 Langdou, at Rockaway Beach. 
 
 1783, Ah^. 18. — Captain Charles Hicks,* Far 
 ■ Rockawaj, offers for sale his valnaLlc farm (jf four 
 hundred acres, including a fourth of Hog Island. 
 There arc twenty acres of Indian corn iu 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 
 mDntion. A good title given. 
 
 1753, Auff. 25.— Agent jor Small Craft's Office, 
 New Yorlc. — 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, MnrcJt 1. — To be sold or let, the pleasant 
 and valuable farm of Captain Edward Allison, con- 
 taiuing one hundred and thirty acres, at Foster's 
 Meadow, four miles from Jamaica, on the main 
 road to Hempstead. It has a large -double house 
 with court yard, Dutch barn, tv.n orchards, two 
 gardens, and is most commodiously situated for a 
 gentleman's seat, or merchant, tradesman or tav- 
 ern. I'ropasals received -by Captain Allison, f at 
 Flushing. _ 
 
 1783, Ajivil 12. — For sale or to let, and imme- 
 diate possession given, a farm in Ilcrricks, sixteen 
 acres of v/oodland and fourteen of cultivated land. 
 It is excellently situated for a store or tavern, be- 
 ing occupied in that line for twenty years past. — 
 Tliere is an excellent house, outhouses, orchards, 
 etc. Enqiure of John M'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. — X. Y. Mcrcu)>/. 
 
 1783, Scpf. 20.— The fleet for Nova Scotia, of 
 thirty sail, put to sea yesterday morning with a fair 
 wind. — Eiv: G-az.. 
 
 17S3, Sept. 29. — A good cook vrantcd immedi- 
 ately, by Edward Barden, Jamaica, who will give 
 suitable encouragement to a sober person qualilied 
 for that business. . 
 
 1783, Ott. 13.— $.5 licward and clMiycs.—T.an 
 away from Isaac Corucll, NcAvtown Landing, a 
 negi'o wench, aged about seventeen. Masters of 
 vessels and (Jtlicrs arc cautioned against harboring 
 her. 
 
 17S3, Od. iT. — ^trajor Charles McNeil, f at Xev- 
 York, a half-pay officer of the British army, re- 
 quests permission of Governor Clinton to remain 
 
 I *H3 was probably jjrep.iring fo (juit tho conntry. — Eil. 
 • tHe went into oxile anil dieit .it New Bnuiswiolc. 
 '. tMaJor McNoil .'Julisoiiiiently rosijej in J.imhica, nnd big 
 desccndauls are yet iu Queens Cotmty. 
 
 six months in the State of New York, as he has 
 no" money iu America, Europe being - his native 
 place. 
 
 1783, Nor. 19.— David Colden, of Spring Hill, 
 Flushing, writes to Governor Clinton and entreats 
 his protection, ilo relies on the faith of the Unit- 
 ed States, means to stay on Ids farm* and will pe- 
 tition His Excellency and. the Ijcgislature for re- 
 lief. 
 
 1783, N'ov. IS. — As Colonel Archibald Hamil- 
 ton, t of Flushing, has advertised his firrm for sale, 
 these are to give notice to any person who shall 
 pvu'chase the same that £§22, 4.S., 6d., New York 
 currency, are due bj' mortgage to Henry Davies, 
 Esq., late of New York. David Jones, Attorney. 
 
 1783, Nov. 25.— Ode on the arrival of tJicir Ex- 
 cellencies Gcncrcd Washington and Governor Clin- 
 ton in New York, on Evacuation day : 
 
 Tl'NE — " He Comes ! He Comes .'' 
 They come ! Tliey come I the heroes come ! 
 With sounding life and thundering drum, 
 Tlieir ranks advance in briglit array, 
 Tlie Heroes of America ! 
 He cojues ! 'tis mighty WASHINGTON ! 
 AVords fail to tell all he has done ; 
 Our Hero, Guardian, Father, Friend ! 
 His. feme o,an never, never end ; 
 He comes I He comes ! 'tis CLINTON comes ; 
 .Justice her ancient seat resumes. 
 From shore to shore let shouts resound. 
 For Justice comes ivith Freedom crowned ; 
 She comes the v>'hite robed Virgin, Peace, 
 And bids grim War his horrors cease ; 
 Oh ! blooniirg Virgin with us stay. 
 And bless, oh I bless America. 
 Now Freedom has our wishes crowned. 
 Let flowing goblets pass around : 
 We'll driulv to Freedom's favorite son, 
 Uoalth, Peace and Joy to WASHINGTON. 
 
 1783, Dec. 2. — Samuel Towriscnd, Hendrick 
 Ouderdonk, John Sands, Daniel Whitehead Kis- 
 sam and Prior Townsend, in behalf of the people 
 of Queens County, crave the interposition of the 
 Council of State, and say, that Richard Barack, 
 Joseph Alexander and Joseph Lockwood, whale- 
 boat men, h.ave been apprehended and confined in 
 North Hempstead, chargedwith robbery. At pres- 
 ent they are guarded by Queens County Jlilitia, 
 at considerable expense, there being no jail in the 
 county. — Clinton Papers. 
 
 1783. — Last Thursday, December ] 1, being ap- 
 pointed by His Excellencey Governor Clinton, on 
 the recommendation of Congress, as a day of pub- 
 lic Thanksgiving for the final establishment of | 
 American Independence and the long desired re- 
 storation of civil Government iu the blessings of an 
 honorable peace, was observed with the greatest 
 
 deference to His Excellency's Proclamation. Ser- 
 
 i i : 
 
 ■ *His faiTn was confiscated, and Mr Colden died in Eng 
 land, July 10. 1784: His widow Ann, residing in Queens 
 County, petitioned the Legislature, Nor. 15, 1784, for tho 
 use of her husband's property, but it was not granted. — Eil. 
 tCoIoucl Ilamiltou sailed for England, December 31, 
 and died at Edinburgh. 179.5. His fju'm was once owned 
 by John Hoogland, and afterwards by Ilemy Mitchell.— £(/. 
 
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64 
 
 QUEENS COUNT Y 
 
 montj were prcaclicd at St. Paul's by the llcv. Sir, 
 Moore,* from Zecli. 8 : 10, 11, 12; at St. George's 
 Cliapel l.y the Uev. Dr. Rogers, from IV. 126 : 3 ; 
 and in the old Dutch Cliurcli by the Rev. Dr, Liv- 
 ingston, from Jcr. 32 : .'i7-40. The congregations 
 were numeroii.s in other churche.'i also, the people 
 refraining from worldly laljor and recreation. — 
 Miv. Qaz. 
 
 1783, Dec. S. — Uriah JlitchcU petitions the 
 Council of Appointment for leave to take posscs- 
 siou of G. D. Ludlow's estate, f on such terms as 
 ma^' seem good, lie had cut oft' Jlitchell's wood 
 during tlic war, who liad ahandoucd his farm and 
 with his family fled to the upper part of the State, 
 on the evacuation of the city, in 177G. — Clinton 
 Papers. 
 
 1783, Bee. 1.5.— TJie Council of State have ap- 
 pointed William Boerum, of Kings County, and 
 Robert llinchman,| of (^hieens, to take chargi; of 
 the public Record.s, till Clerks be duly appointed. 
 —lUv. 
 
 1783, Bee. 91. — Next Monday comes ou the 
 election of .Senators and Jlerabers of Assembly, 
 who are to meet in the City Hall, New York, Jan- 
 uary 6 th. 
 
 1783, Bee. 31. — For sale, that most beautiful 
 place called Beaver Hall, situated at the BiNiver 
 Pond, Jamaica, containing fifty acres of choice 
 laud all cleared, with a good barn, an excellent 
 house two-stories high, four rooms ou a lloor with 
 fire places, a large hall and most commodious cel- 
 lars. Enquire of the printer. 
 
 •Bisliop Hcnjaiiiin Moore was a native of Newtown, 
 where lu; taught school for a thne. In 177H, he inarricd 
 Chanty t'lavUo, which hispireU tlic t'ullowiiip; rliynios : 
 
 The pood Parsun deserves a good Clarlic; 
 
 Sucli liai)|iiiiess had in store : 
 'Twns Chiirily l)lew up the spark, 
 Aud H.\'J the brigh't Hame iu one Moon. 
 On the return of tlie e.\aspprated Whigs to the city, Mr. 
 Moore felt shy of a])i)eariiig in jiublie for fear of insult. — 
 HaTuiltou railed on liiui one nioniing and iuviti-d hiui to 
 tiiUe a walk. They went arm iu arui ihruugh the most 
 public places; and 'as Hamilton escorted the minister b.ick 
 to his door, lie took leave, saying, "now, Mr. Moore, you 
 need fear no trouble. They see you are my friend." — F.d. 
 tWhin the exiled Whigs returned to their homes they 
 thirsted for vengeance. It was fe.ar for their per.-ons and 
 property that constrained many Loyalists to ab.-iudou their 
 homes aud seek refuge in the King's Domiuiims — Ihnt King 
 who had left them to their fate ! Some, however, ventured 
 to remain, and by feeing able lawyers succeeded iu saving 
 their proi)erty from eonliseation. "lleuee the following lines 
 by an angry Jersey Whig: 
 
 Contractors and lawyers do vow, swear and protest, 
 Tliat Tories in York" (State, may live at their rest ; 
 Tories' guineas will save 'em from justice aud law. 
 No bold man of Committee dare on 'em lay )iaw. 
 tlliuchmiui liad been a Church-Warden, at .(amaica, be- 
 fore the war, aud had invested £1(1(1 of the ehurcli miMH^y, 
 which was paid back to him in Continental bills, in 177(j ; 
 but, in 17t<(l, the Itritish Police obliged him to pay this 
 money with interest, (£120) in specie, to the l!ev. Jlr. 
 Bloomer. Ou jietition of his widow, .Joanna, the Legisla- 
 ture, iu 1790, refunded the amoimt.— >tsscmWy Journal. 
 
 BiUedng Soldiers. — During the summer the 
 British troops were oft' the Island in active service, 
 or if a few remained lu're tliey .abode under tents ; 
 but in winter they were hutted on the sunny side 
 of a hill, or else distrilutted in farmer's houses. 
 
 A British ofticer accompanied by a Justice of 
 the Peace, or some j)romiiient Loyalist as a guide, 
 rode around the county and, from actual inspec- 
 tion decided how many .soldiers each house could 
 receive, and this number wa.s chalked on the door. 
 The oidy notification was : " JIadam, we h ive 
 come to take a billet on your house." If a house 
 liad 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 ofticers, or single 
 house with a kitchen for privates, was jnst the 
 thing. The soldiers were quartered in the kitch- 
 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 
 aud sometimes intermarried. Tiie Hessians were 
 more sociable than the English soldiers, and often 
 made little baskets and other toys for the ciiildren, 
 taught them Germ.in and amused them in various 
 ways, sometimes corrupting them by their vile 
 langnage 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 cliests, liquor-casks, hammocks, bird- 
 cages, guns, boots and powder-flasks. They usu- 
 ally went once a month for their rations including 
 spirits [sehnapps). 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 made their coffee. 
 
 Any misconduct of the soldiers might be report- 
 ed to" their commanding ofticer, who usually did 
 justice ; but some offences coidd not always be 
 proven, such as night-stealing, damage done the 
 house or to other property. 
 
 As the soldiers received their Jiay in coin they 
 were flush and jiaid liberally I'm- what they bought, 
 such as vegetables, milk, or what they could not 
 draw with their rations. 
 
 These soldiers were a safi'-gnard against robbers 
 and whaleboatmen. Some had their wives with 
 them who acted as washer-women, and sometimes 
 in meaner capacities. — Kd. 
 
 From a perusal of the Orderly book of General 
 Delaucey, it appears that he used every means to 
 protect the persons and property of tlu^ inhabitants 
 of Long Island from the outrages of British soldier.'. 
 Tliey were not allowed to go over halt a mile from 
 camp at day-time, (and for this purpose the roll was 
 called several times during the day) nor leave it 
 under any pretext 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. 
 
 65 
 
 ing, was assaulted at liis owu bouse, at 11 o'clock 
 at uiglit, by persons unkuowu, but supposed to be 
 soldiers from baviug bayonets and red clothes, who 
 threatened his life and to bum 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. Willct, on the 9th of June, of two 
 sheep, a calf and some poultry, as he is determined 
 to inflict exemplary puni.shment and put a stop to 
 practices so di.shouorable to the King's service. — 
 Again, March 9th, 1778, Mrs. Hazard, of Newtown, 
 having complained that the soldiers of the guard 
 pulled do\s'u and bui'nt 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' cows, ho shall 
 be puni-ihed without mercy ; nor .shall he go in the 
 hay-field and gather up some new-mown grass to 
 make fcis bed of. Generally the farmers were hon- 
 estly paid tor whatever they sold. For iustauce, 
 April 23d, 1778, they were notified to call on Mr. 
 Ochiltree, Deputy-Commissary of Forage, at Flush- 
 ing, with proper certificates and get payment for 
 their hay. — i'f?. 
 
 So many British soldiers and refugees being 
 scattered over the Island during the Revolution, 
 many matrimonial alliances took place. Wc give 
 a few : 
 
 MARRIAGES BY THE REV, MR. CUTTING, HEMPSTEAD, 
 
 1^77, JiDi. 7. — Major Joseph Greene, New York Volun- 
 teers, to Ilauuali Townsend, Oy.stevljay. 
 
 1777, Jan. 14. — Thomas Ehn.s* to Froelove EUison, 
 Hempstead. 
 
 1777, April 20.— Captain Jacob Smith, Delauecy's Bri 
 gade, to M.artha Uirdsall. 
 
 1778, Oct. 23.— Captain J. F. S. Smith to Abigail Lef- 
 ferts, Hempstead. 
 
 1779, Jan. 29. — Ichabod Smith, Lieutenant, Delancey's 
 Brigade, to Susan Marvin, Hempstead. 
 
 1779, Jan. 31 — Michael Price^t New York, merchant, to 
 Helena Cornell, Hempstead. 
 
 1779, May 11. — Captain Edward Allison, Delancey's 
 Third Battalion, to Sarah Clowes, Hempstead. 
 
 1779, Mnij n.— Captain Elijah Miles, Third Battalion of 
 Delancey's Brigade, to Frances Connvell, Hempstead. 
 
 1779, May 13. — Francis Armstrong, Refugee, to Sarah 
 Luyster, Oysterbay. 
 
 1779, Nor. 11. — Benjamin Hilton, late of Albany, attorn^ 
 ey-at-law, to Susanna Greswold, Uemi)stead. 
 
 1780, Aug. 10. — William Curtis, Volunteer in His M.njes- 
 ty's New Hampshire Regiment, to Sarah Bedell, Hemp- 
 stead. 
 
 1781, March 29.— James Powell, Refugee, to Elizabeth 
 Smith, Hempstead. 
 
 I7tl, May 17.— James Hume, Second-Lieutenant in His 
 Majesty's army, to Patty Remsen. Oysterbay. 
 
 1781, ^tto-. 20. — Thomas Carpenter, Ensigu and Adju] 
 
 *Elms w.is 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 
 upsetting of a sailboat. 
 
 tMr. Price, March 3d, 1787. petitioned the Legislature 
 for leave to return and reside in this state. 
 
 tant, Third Batt.iliou Delancey's Brigade, to Lncretia Qnin- 
 tard, late of Connecticut, now of Suffolk County. 
 
 1781, Sept. 14. — Thomas Cummiugs, of General Went- 
 worth's Volunteers, to Widow Lucy Porter, ot Suti'olk 
 County. 
 
 1782, March 24. — Noah Selleck, Ensign, Delancey's Third 
 Battalion, to Phebo Denton, Huntington. 
 
 1782, ilf«;/ 28. — Frederick Dibble,* Refugee from Connec- 
 ticut, now in Queens County, to Nancy Brush, of West 
 Hills. 
 
 1783, Fell. 28. — Josiah Burgess, Lloyd's Neck, to Widow 
 Margaret Verity, Hempstead. 
 
 1783, April 30. — Lieutenant Thomas Coffield,t North Ca- 
 rolina ^^olunteers, to Slartha Carman, Hempstead. 
 
 1783, June 16. — Lieutenant Henry Holland, Queen's 
 Rangers, to Jane Bailey, spinster, Jamaica. 
 
 1783, July 22. — Nicholas Van Hoesen, now of Queens 
 County, to Jane Everitt, of Albany County. 
 
 1783, Jnlij 24. — William Chisholm, Twenty-Third Regi- 
 ment, to Ann Verity. 
 
 ]7i*3, Aug. It). — John Henry Augustus Fricke, Sixtieth 
 Regimeut, to Aletliea Gildersleeve, Hempstead. 
 
 1783, Sept. 2. — Captain John Althouse, New Y'ork Vol- 
 unteers, to Jane Jackson, Jerusalem. 
 
 1783, Sept. 8.— Lieutenant Enoch Plummer, Third Bat- 
 talion, Sixtieth Regiment of British troops, to Abigail 
 Batty, Hempstead. 
 
 No licit''. — Robert Brown, Seventeenth Regimeut British 
 Light Dragoons, to Mary Rhoads, Hempstead. 
 
 MARRIAGES, MO.STLY BY THE REV. MR. BLOOMER, JA- 
 MAICA. 
 
 I77G, Dec. 17. — Lieutenaut-Colonel Thomas James to 
 Margaret Depeyster. 
 
 1777, May 4.— ^Lieutenant George Brown, to Mary 
 French. 
 
 1778, Jan. 23. — At Flushing, Beverly Robinson, Jr., 
 Esq., Lieutenaut-Colonel of the Royal American Regiment, 
 to the accomplishe<l Miss Nancy Barclay. 
 
 1780, June 11.— Captain John Meredith to Gertrude 
 Skinner, a young lady whose mental and personal accom- 
 plishments promise the most permanent felicity. 
 
 1782, June 9. — Charles iSaltmarsh, Sergeant, Seventieth 
 Regiment, to Mary Adams, Jamaica. 
 
 1782, Dec. 14. — Lieutenant James Smith, Seventy-ninth 
 Regimeut, to Mary Dainc > of Queens County. 
 
 1782, Dec. 14.— Peter Ball, Clerk of the Hospital, New 
 York, to the amiable aud accomplished Charity Lott, of 
 Flatbush. 
 
 1783, March 16.- James M'Euen, soldier. Third Battal- 
 ion, Delancey's Brigade, to .>— — Seaman, Flushing. 
 
 1783, March 26. — .loshna Gan-et, Ensign, King's Florida 
 Rangers, to widow Vashti C."rr, or Kerr, Oysterbay. 
 
 1783, May 4. — Abraham Reade, soldier in Colonel Rob- 
 inson's Regiment, to Mary Ql ay, Flushing, 
 
 1783, Sept. 14. — Jaanes Coiter, soldier, Fifty-seventh 
 Regiment, to Margaret McLean. 
 
 1783, Nov. 3. — Thomas Martin Palmer, Lieutenant to 
 Admiral Digby, to Catharine McEvers, Jamaica. 
 
 1784, Sept. 30. — David Purdy, Ensign, King's American 
 Regiment, to Mary Rapelye, Newtown. 
 
 1785, Sept. 22. — David; Chapman, of Annapolis, Nova 
 Scotia, to Elizabeth Doughty, Jamaica. 
 
 1792, April lO.rrc^^Oja^on {i<>yt, late Lieutenant, Prince 
 of Wales' Volunteers, to Lucretia Hammersly, Jam,ijca. 
 
 Slost of the above went at the peace to New 
 
 Brunswjfk or Nova Scotia, where many obtained 
 
 *The Rev. Mr. Dibble became Reotor of a church in New 
 
 Brunswick. 
 
 ILieuten&at.Coffield h.ad 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. 
 
G6 
 
 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 office iindoi- the British Government, anJ tlio offi- 
 cers retired on half-pay. Some account of tiicm 
 may he found in Sabine's Lives of tlic Loj-alists. — 
 Ed. 
 
 1784, FcJ. 5. — Charlotte, widow of Whiteliead 
 IIick<, oflfers to let his house and fanuat Flushing, 
 now in tenure of John Thurman. 
 
 17S4, Fd). IG. — Uriah Jlitcliell Is appointcj- 
 Sherift", and Abraliani, -Skinner, Clerk of tjucena 
 County. 
 
 17S4, 2[arcJt 1].— :-Samucl, Melancton, Benjamin 
 and Israel Smith, Executors, oiler for sale the farm 
 of Samuel Smith, Esq., deceased, half a mile cast 
 of Jamaicn.'eontaiuing two hundred acres. 
 
 nSi, March 15. — Ijcnjamin Akerh' .'knd other 
 inhabitants of the north side of llempslcad, petition 
 the Legislature for a division of said town. 
 
 17S4,. March 15. — John Lu\-ster and other in- 
 h.abitants of Queens County petition the Lcgi.=la- 
 turc for a Court House and Jail, to be erecrcd at 
 flic west end of Hempstead i*lains. Joseph Rob- 
 inson and others, of Jamaica and Flui'hing, pray 
 that any f-Hturo Court IIou.<c may be iu Jamaica, 
 at or near the old site. 
 
 178 4, March IG,— Mr. Robert JUliarg and his 
 sister j\[ar«-aret are de.=ircd to call on William 
 Howard, Newtown, Executor to the estate of their 
 brother, Alexander, to receive, the charge commit- 
 ted to his care, which will reward them for their 
 trouble. 
 
 1784, A2)ril 16. — Richard Sands petitions for 
 the excl'ij=ive right of a ferry from Cow Neck to 
 Xew Rochelle. The Committee report that a well 
 regulatod Ferry is necessary. 
 
 1784, April 29. — Uriah Mitchell, Sheriff, peti- 
 tions the Legisb ture for the use of G. D. Ludlow's 
 house for a County .Jail, till the Court Hou^^e and 
 Jail be (vccted.. Granted, provided the Sheriff 
 reside there from the 1st of JIay. 
 
 1784, M(i!/ 6. — For sale, the farm of Jacob. 
 Sharpe, Jamaica, on the main road, nine miles 
 from Urooklyu fcrr\', containing two hundred 
 acre.:. 
 
 1781, May 1.1. — A negro man, Frank, yellow 
 complexion, aged forty five, is now at Newtown. 
 He says he once belonged to Coventan Simpkins, 
 Virginia. The owner, by proving property and 
 applying to John S. ^Valdron, can have him again. 
 —N. Y. Journal. 
 
 17S1, May 17.— I'iui-CATIOX.— The Rev.:\[iit. 
 thia^ Burnet begs leave to inform- the respectable 
 public that Uci. will. undcrtnko- the in.-traction of .a 
 smiU immbci ot!, youth (not exceeding, twelve or 
 IburtL-en; iu the Lulin and Greek languages ; and 
 to rcuderUiis plan mojc extensively usefitl, Iio has 
 engigod a person to attend a part of every day to 
 instruct (such as may desire it) iii writing, vulgar 
 arithmetic and book-keeping. Those who aliall 
 
 please to commit the education of their children to 
 his care may d(i)end upon the strictest attention to 
 their learning and morals. . 
 
 1784.- — One guinea reward and charges. Ran 
 away, Sunday, June 27*lb,. from .S'arah (widow of 
 Garret) Latting, Jamaica, a likely negro boy, Tom, 
 aged sixleeu,. a great talker, t.alks Eiiglisft' and 
 Dutch ; pretends to be a fiddler and took one with 
 him. He wore a beaver hat, brown linen jacket 
 witii'sih-er buirons. He has no known mark. — 
 Bill, a boy 8f same age and .size went with him. — 
 Loudon's' N. Y. Packet. 
 
 17Si, June 30. — The utility of public -advertis- 
 ing will appear from the following instance. A 
 few days ago the house of Jlr. Thorne waa 
 broken iuto by a desperate setof banditti ; after 
 much expense and loss of time, 3Jr. T. was advised 
 
 to advertise ; and one Mr. , a silversmith iu 
 
 Xew Slip, on reading the advertisement rucollccted 
 that an indigent person had left a tivnkard for sale 
 at his shop, the preceding day. In a few minutes 
 after the min entered the shop and being secured, 
 was carried bcl'orc a magistrate, where he con- 
 fessed, and was admitted staie's evidence. In 
 consequence of which two of hi.-! confederates were 
 apprehended, I he fourth, the most active and des- 
 perate, is still at large, but as, ho is well known 
 and was hitely seen in the city, it is likely lie will 
 soon be taken. — N. Y. Gaz. 
 
 On Tuesday morning, November 2d, AVilliam j 
 Guthrie and Joseph Alexander, pursuant to sen- 
 tence, were h.anged at Beaver I'ond, for robbery 
 and burglary, .at the liouse of Thomas Thorne, 
 east side of Cow Neck. James Itamago, who 
 turned state's evidence w.as pardoned. October 
 28ih, a-s was a!;"0 Osgood Brown, whose father, in ' 
 ilassaciiusetts, bad interest enough with Ciovernor 
 Hancock to g?'t liiin to intercede iu his behalf. — 
 X. Y. Piiclxt and Hook of Commissions, (AlbaytyJ i 
 n. C,j>. 2.;(\ I 
 
 1783, J«/// 28. — The following pei-sons were in- 
 dicted in Al'oany and Duchess Counties for ad- 
 hering to the enemies of this .state, and notified 
 to appear at the next term of the Supreme Ci,urt 
 to traverse the indictments, and show cause why 
 their property should not be fori'citcd to the people 
 of this state : • 
 
 Of New "^'ork — Henry Peters, Michael Piico, i 
 merchants ; Lambert iloore, E/jq., .John Jfooiv, ; 
 gentleman. Of Oysterbay — I.-^rael and Isaac 
 Voung.s, loiHcis; Pcnii Week?, Jolmnnis Bxrnet, 
 Thorn IS I'l.ice, Jr., yeomen ; John Hewlett, Esq. 
 Of llempptead — John Kissani, Joseph, .Stephen i 
 and Thomas Thoruoi .Stephen Hewlett, Hewlett, 
 Town.'end, j-cr.meu. Of Newlown — Jacob and ! 
 .lohu Moore, Lieutenant James ^[arr. Captain 
 Dow Van Dyue. Of Je.maica — Joluiuuis Polbe- i 
 mu8, innkeeper. Of Huntington — Arthur Mm- 
 gey.— AV/. ! 
 
 1783, Oct, 22. — The Supreme Court opened at 
 Albany with a charge to the jury by Robert Yates, ' 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 67 
 
 Esq., one of the puisne judges, wlien a great uum- 
 ber of persons from very distant abodes appeared, 
 to traverse indictments prefeiTcd against them on 
 the charge of adliering to the enemies of this state ; 
 all of wliom were treated with the utmost hospitali- 
 ty and good liunior by the worthy inhabitants of 
 ^hat city. — Biv. Gaz. 
 
 Previous to this the Legislature had, October 
 23d, 1779, forfeited the property of the following, 
 among other persons, and banished them forever 
 from the state, viz. . William Axtell, John Rapelye 
 and Miles Sherbrook, of Kings County ; George 
 Duncan and Gabriel G. Ludlow, Thomas Jones, 
 George Folliot, David Coldeu, Daniel Kissam, the 
 elder, and Henry Lloyd of Queens County ; 
 George Mnirson, Parker 'Wickham and Richard 
 Floyd, of Suffolk County. — Ed. 
 
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 17S-1, Jiili/ 22.— The Rev. John Bowdeu, Ja- 
 maica, offers a reasonable reward and charges for 
 his'5 negro boy. Bill aged twenty, who ran away, 
 and had on a short olive-colored coat, double- 
 breasted waistcoat and stripedjtrowsers. 
 
 17S4, Aug. 12. — Strayed from Elderd Van 
 Wyck, East Woods, a black mar^ ; if stolen, two 
 half Joes reward for securing and bringing the 
 thief to justice. — N. Y. Journal. 
 
 1784, Sejit. 7. — At nine o'clock, on Friday 
 evening, as Major Hcudrick Hendrickson, of Long 
 Island, was travelling on the road to Stonington 
 Point, he was strack on the head with a sword and 
 robbed, by three persons on horseback, of one 
 hundred and fifty half-joes, forty-one guineas, and 
 twenty half-guineas. He succeeded in crawling to 
 the house of R. Cheeseborough, where his wounds 
 were dressed, and he is now doing well. 
 
 1784. — To be sold, September 17th, at the inu 
 of Joseph Betts, Jamaic^p 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 Hasbrouek, at 
 Oysterbay, October 20tb, a negro man Isaac, who 
 has lived there a year, and passed himself as free. 
 He is very ragged, has a coat patched of different 
 colors, pock-marked, speaks quick and stammers. 
 Whoever delivers him to John Townsend shall 
 have $5 and charges. 
 
 1784, 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. — N. y. Journal. 
 
 178.5, Jan. 27. — Daniel Clements offers for sale, 
 his farm of one hundred and sixty acres, one mile 
 from Flushing landing, on a very public road ; a 
 good stand for business. It has a large orchard 
 which makes excellent cider, a peach orcliard and 
 various other trees. On it is a house, barn, 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- 
 sou and others, William McCoun and others, peti- 
 tion the Legislature for a law to raise money far a 
 Court House and Jail in Queens County. 
 
 1785, March 7. — For sale, the farm of Benjamin 
 North deceased, containing forty-two acres, one 
 mile from Newtown, on the road to Jamaica. 
 
 1785, lilarcli 9.— Willett Skidmore and others, 
 of Flushing ; Simon Hortou 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. Jour. 
 
 1785, March 10.— Henry Stocker and John ' 
 Woolley, petition the Legislature for right of ferry- 
 across the Sound, from Great Neck to the Main. 
 
 1§ 
 
t-S 
 
 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 175."), March 17. — For sale, the farm of Joliu 
 Parsells, near ItaUett's Cove, adjoining the widow 
 Blackwell. It lia.s two stone quan'ies. 
 
 17S.5, March 31. — Thirty Loyalists (among 
 tlu-m Mr. Moore, of Newtown,) have retumcd to 
 New York from Nova Scotia. 
 
 17S5, March 31..^An Act was pa-'scd requiring 
 the Supervi.wris of Queens County to raise £2,000 
 to build a Court House and Jail at or near Benja- 
 min Checsemau's, in North Hempstead. The 
 Judges of the Common Pleas are authorized to su- 
 perintend and direct the building of the same with 
 good economy; and till it be finished, to hold 
 their courts at Jamaica. 
 
 178-5, Axn-il 11. — Wilnara Valentine held an in- 
 quest on the body of Niah Smith who lived 
 wliere Elbert Arthur since did, at Herricks. Smith 
 had sold a yoke of oxen and as he returned home 
 to the barn to put up his horse, the report of a gun 
 was heard, when 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 tor 
 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 suspiciou was fixed on a certain per- 
 son. — Ed. 
 
 1784, June 3. — On Saturday, Mr. John "Way, 
 of Newtown, a person of ease and affluence, who 
 had been very cheerful all the morning, went in 
 his kitchen, and said : " Girls, you must take care 
 of yourselves, I am done for." He tlien went in 
 an adjoining room where he was, not long after, 
 found dead. He left an only daughter. — N. 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 
 liay mare Jlatchless, - - 3 2 
 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 mouths ago. 
 
 1786, Jan. 2. — One guinea reward. — Ran away 
 from Johannes Polhcmus, 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 till ho can get 
 a passage to Nova Scotia, as he was seen to pass 
 Long Island ferry. Masters of vessels arc ibrbid 
 carrying him away. — N. Y. Packet. 
 
 1786, Jan. 9.— Esther Townscnd, Oystcrbay, 
 offers to let two grist-mills, always supplied with 
 water, and a farm of two hundred and fifty acres, 
 eligibly situated. On it are two houses, outhouses 
 and orchard. It commands a view of the Sonnd 
 and frouts the harbor, which abounds in fish and 
 
 fowl in their season. It will bo lei at the house of 
 Nicholas Weeks, adjoining.— Z»«i7y Advertiser. 
 
 1786, Jan. 16.— Samuel and Josiah Blackwell 
 offer for sale the farm of Jacob Blackwell, deceased, 
 of Newtown, on the East River, containing one 
 hundred and .six acres, yith house, kitchen, 
 bake-house, milk-house, cider mill-house, fowl- 
 house, large bam and two orchards of sis hundred 
 trees. 
 
 1786. — January 19th, at sunri.se, the mercmy 
 stood at twenty-four degrees belov/ zero, which is 
 two degrees colder than it was in 1780 and 17S4. 
 It was extremely cold all day. — X. V. Journal. 
 
 1786, Jan. 23. — Gregoi-y Richie, of Hempstead 
 Harbor, petitions the Legislature for aid in erecting 
 a paper mill. 
 
 1786, Jan. 26. — Anthony and Benjamin Betts 
 offer for sale the farm of William Bett^s, deceased, j 
 two miles from Newtown lauding, containing one 
 hundred and seven acrcis and cuts twenty loads 
 of hay, and is convenient to the New York market. 
 On it are a house cider-mill, wagou-house, work- 
 shop, barn, and two orchards of Newtown pippins, 
 far preferable for bearing to any in the place, and a 
 thriving peach-orchard. There is a laigc quantity 
 of turf, 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 
 through the wet ti'act of meadow, near the middle 
 of Newtown, as it is prejudicial to health and the 
 interest of the laud owners ; the ditch to nm from 
 C. 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 Sivle the farm of Jacob Bowne, deceased. 
 Mill Neck, Oysterbay, containing two hundred 
 acres, wth salt meadow and marsh adjoining. On 
 it arc a large house, bam, out- houses, five hundred 
 apple trees and other fruit. 
 
 1786, Feb. 2.— Ambrose and Samuel Fish, Ex- 
 ecutors, offer for sale the farm of Nathan Smithj 
 deceased, one and a half miles from Flushing land- 
 ing, on the road to Jamaica, containing one hun- 
 dred and thirty acres. The house has eight rooms 
 on a floor, with two kitchens. t)n it arc a store- 
 house, barn, 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. 
 
 17SG, Feb. 9. — For sale, the farm belonging to 
 the Episcopal church, Jamaica, pleasantly situated, 
 a mile west of the village. It contains seventy 
 acres, (six of which are wood) good for pasture or 
 tillage, a house, barn and y(jung orchard, with a 
 variety of other fruit. Enquire of Christopher 
 Smith, Jamaica ; Daniel Ki^sam, Flushing Fly, 
 or Kev. Mr. Bloomer, Newtown. 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 09 
 
 17S6, Feh. 20. — At <iu election for Ecpresenta- 
 tivcs to the Legislature, iu 1785, South Hempstead 
 cave 127 votes ; North Hempstead, 42 ; Nevv'town, 
 32 ; Flushing, 25 ; Jamaica, 56 ; and Oysterbay, 
 57. That out of 3.59 votes, 127 -were from South 
 Hempstead, that most obnoxious part of the coun- 
 ty, is v.-ith 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 sniiering 
 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 Amencan cause 
 should have redress. — N. Y. Paclvt 
 
 1786, Fel). 20.— Joseph and David Koe, Execu- 
 tors, offer for sale the farm of David Itoe, deceased, 
 cue and a half miles from Flushing, on the main 
 road to Whitestone feny. It contains one hundred 
 and forty acres, with salt meadow, is well watered, 
 has two orchards, 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 lay the 
 door and a boiling spring a short distance from the 
 house. 
 
 1786, Feb. 27. — John Howes offers for sale a 
 small fann, lying in Newtown bounds, containing 
 sixteen acres, upland and meadow and fifty apple 
 trees. It is conveniently situated for a gentleman's 
 country seat, adjoining the East River, opposite 
 the lower end of Blackwell's Island and Turtle Bay. 
 
 1786, Feh. 27. — Abraham Lawrence offers for 
 sale the south part of his Neck that makes the 
 east side of Flushing Bay, containing a house, 
 barn and two hundred end fifty acres of land, as 
 good as any ou Long Island, where forty loads of 
 hay may be cut. There is a small orchard and 
 plenty of wood for the use of the place. It is well 
 watered and in good fence. Adjoining the upland 
 are seventy acres of salt meadow. Fish and fowl 
 to be had in great abtindance the season roimd. 
 
 1786, 3Iarch 9. — ^Walter Franklin's widow offers 
 to let the farm at the head of Newtown Creek, two 
 miles from the church. Ou it is a double house, 
 barn, 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 iu Ja- 
 maica. It is a beautiful situation, and would suit 
 any person for pleasure or profit, being very liandy 
 for water. Also, a stone-house in the main street, 
 ■where M. Lewis formerly lived. 
 
 1786, A2ml 3. — Stephen Rapelye offers for sale 
 a lot, forty by fifty feet, ou which, at present, a 
 stable is erected on the south-cast corner of the 
 road fiicing the Presbyterian church, Jamaica. 
 
 1786, Aiiril 13. — Thomas Lambert lloore, Epis- 
 copal Minister at South Hempstead, 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 
 morale, manners and education of the youth, in- 
 trusted to his management and tuition. 
 
 I7S6, Mai/ 4.— §5 JRcward. — Ran away from 
 Allen Jlitchcll, Great Neck, a mulatto slave, Isaac, 
 uncommonly large boned, 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. Ho had buckskin breeches. 
 
 1786, June 14. — Newberry Davenport offers for 
 sale the farm that Joseph Hicks now lives on, at 
 Far Kockaway. It has three hundred acres ; the 
 buildings in good repair. Elias Hicks, Stephen 
 Hicks and Jacob "Williams, Trustees. 
 
 1786, Jul>i 10.— Daniel and Altie Kapalje for 
 d£4, sell a burying-gi-ound, s,t Flower Hill, to 
 Adrian, Peter and Hendrick Ouderdonk, Martin 
 Sehenck, Ann Rapalje, Thomas Dodge, Andries 
 Hegeman, Sr. and Jr., and Elbert Hegeman, Sr. 
 and Jr. 
 
 1786, Jid)j 20. — The insect that has destroyed 
 the wheat, many years past, continues to spread, 
 but it Las no efi'cct on the white-bearded wheat 
 raised on Long Island. This wheat was brought 
 here from the Southward during the war, and a 
 few bushels sown by a Flushing farmer grew well 
 End aflbrded a fine crop. He kept ou and has 
 supphed 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 bald v/heat 
 were cut off. — iV. Y. Packet. 
 
 17S6, July 27. — Samuel Townsend and Lewis 
 Cornell, Loan officers of Queens County inform 
 the inhabitants thereof that they will give their at- 
 tendance at the County House, or some other con- 
 venient honsc near it, on Monday, 31st iust., to 
 receive tfec names of all that incline to borrow any 
 of the ntvf money. 
 
 1786, Aug. 3.— SIO Bcimrd. — Run away from 
 Charles Arding, a short, well-made negro man. 
 Flummery, but is supposed to have changed his 
 name. He is well known aliout Jamaica and oth- 
 er places on Long Island. He had permission for 
 a few days to look for another master. 
 
 1'7S6, Aug. 7. — For sale, a fine fann on Little 
 Plains, leading on the right to Foster's Meadow. 
 It is iu good fence all round the land. A very 
 good stand for a tavern or shop-keeper. The 
 
'id 
 
 Q U E E N S C O l' X T Y 
 
 Louse cau Lc rciniiicil with little cxi>cnso. It is 
 now occupied by Jlr. Benjamin Dorland, and will 
 l>e Kold very re.isouable. Enquire of Thomas 
 Dctts, witLiu four miles west of Jamaica. 
 
 17SC, Aug. 21. — The wife of Jacob Doxcy, at 
 "\Ye.=tbury, a few days n^o, was delivered of three 
 chikU-cu at a birth — two boys and a girl ; all like 
 to do well. 
 
 17SG. — Far Iiockmcaij liaccs, Wednesday, Sep- 
 • tember Gtb, at 3 P. SI., on that convenient and 
 Fpacious ground (a mile course) near Jacob Hicks' 
 luu. £20 Purse — the best thrco of two mile 
 heats. The next day a ,f 10 Purse — best three of 
 one mile Jieats. No crossing, jo.stling or foul \ilay 
 countenanced ; or if detected, the rider will be 
 pronounced distanced. J. II., from a wish to 
 gratify a number of gcatlemen who visit hU house, 
 ji.irticuhirly sportsmen, is induced to set on foot so 
 i.oUe and manly a divereion, and wishes the same 
 principle may excite gentlemen to contribute to 
 the purses. 
 
 17S6, Oct. 2. — Last Jlnnday, died, at Jam.aica, 
 iigcd.thirt}--two. Major Stephen Mcl)ougak sou of 
 the late Major-General lIcDougal. 
 
 17S6, Oct. 12. — Died, at Moorfields, Flushing, 
 on Sunday evening, aged thirty-four, Mrs. Ger- 
 trude Onderdouk, the amiable consort of Lambert 
 Moore, Esq., formerly Comptroller of Ilis Majesty's 
 customs, alter a painful illness of three years, af- 
 foruiuii the followers of her sacred Master an exam- 
 
 { 
 
 Moore, deeply affected the hearts of every attend- 
 ing t by its just representation of her character.— iV. 
 r. Fuclct. 
 
 1786, Kov. 30.— Yesterday, .-md the day before, 
 were uncommonly cold. Yesterd.ay morning it 
 was nineteen degrees. Dec. 14. — "Wood has ri.sen 
 to an extravagant price since the late bad weather 
 commenced, and sells IGs. per load.— iV. Y. low- 
 r,al. 
 
 17S7, Fch. 3. — For sale, the bcantifd. and 
 pleasant house in the town spot of Jamaica, form- 
 erly the property of Chief-Justice llorsemanden, 
 Aviih an excclUnl barn and otlier outhouses, and 
 one acre of land. Apply to Danigl Lawrence, at 
 Hell-Gate Keck. 
 
 17S7, Fch. S. — The Sheriff of Queens County 
 petitions the Lcgi-slatun- for an Act to remove the 
 prisoners from tlie jail in New York to the jail just 
 completed in Queens County. — Ass. Jotamil 
 
 17S", — "William Valentine held .an inquest on 
 the body of Ann, a' lit tie dauglilcr of Kichard Kirk, 
 who was accidentally drowned by falling' through 
 tiie ice of her father's mill-pond, (now William C 
 Bryant's. 
 
 17S7, April 4. — Jeromtis Iloogland's farm. 
 Flushing, one hundred and twenty-five acres, at 
 
 present in occnpatiim of 3Ir. V»n I'eh, is to be sol^ 
 at auction, at the lun of John Ilolroyd. 
 
 17S7, April 4.— James Cebra has taken a large 
 and convenient house in tlvc pleasant town of Ja- 
 maica, tftid proposes to keep a lx).arding house for 
 gentlemen choosing to reside in the country during 
 the summer season, and for children who m.ay 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. 
 
 17S7, April 5. — l8r.<iel Wells, Goshen, offers for 
 sale that valuable plantation of near ftmr Inmdred 
 acres, situiited near the Great Plains, on Nassau 
 Island, late the seat of Judge Ludlow. Uu it is 
 an elegant twrnstory house and every other build- 
 ing nccessaiy for a farmer or gentleman, and a 
 great variety of fruit trees in their maturity. The 
 place is so well known that a detail of its excellen- 
 cies is needless, neither can it add to the s.alubrity 
 and beautifulness of its situation. Its capital im- 
 provcnunits and contiguity to New York and Ja- 
 maica greatly augment its v.alue, .and render it the 
 most delightsome and valuable place in the State. 
 Enquire of Uriah Mitchell, near the premises. 
 
 17S7, April 5. — The Ilcssi.an tty appeared on 
 the west end of Long Island, three years before 
 the close of the Kevolntionary war, from German 
 wheat as is supposed. The proper white-bearded 
 wheat may be Iiad of Jlr. Underbill, miller. Flush- 
 ing, who sells it for the good of the community. 
 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 and even- 
 ings being frosty benumb the insect. — N. Y. 
 Journal. 
 
 1787, A2)ril 9. — Sealy Jc Funuan, coach and 
 chair makers, Brooklyn, will run a daily stage 
 from Waldron's to Bardin's Inn, Jamaica. Fare 
 
 2s. Gd. 
 
 17S7, 31(11/ 2.— Nicholas Fish offers for sale a 
 farm of one hundred .acres, at Newtown, where 
 Jonathan Underbill now lives, being part of the 
 estate of Jouathau Fish, deceased. 
 
 17S7, Maij 10.— Of a State tax of =£50,000 the 
 quota by counties was : Queens, d£4,o00 ; Suffolk, 
 1-2,300 ; Kings, .£4,500. 
 
 17.S7, JiiJif 6. — SIO Jieuard. — Ran away from 
 "William I'.>^tick, Flushing, a German m.an servant, 
 John Nicholas IMathers. He had on leather 
 breeches or Osnabrig trowsers. 
 
 1787, Aiiff. 10. — John Talnian, Administrator 
 of Oliver Talmnn, Fliisiiing, issued proce.-;3 against 
 Archil)ald Hamilton in an .action of trespass?, in 
 cutting down and carrying away divers qu.iutities 
 of spruce trees to his damage, ,£r2,0l)0. Judgment 
 rendered for the plaintifl' by default. — N. Y. l)(tihj 
 Advertiser. 
 
 1787, Aug. 24. — A large jaw-bone was dug up 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 71 
 
 at Grecit Neck wliicli Dr. S. L. Mitchell thinks to 
 be that of a sea-cow. 
 
 1784, 3Iay 17. — Civil officers of Quecus Coun- 
 ty : 
 
 Judges. — Timothy Smith, Prior Townseud aud 
 Benjamin Coe. 
 
 Justices of the Peace. — Henry Allen, Isaac 
 Cornwcll, Caleb Cornell, Abraham Ditmars, Ben- 
 jamin Everit, William Lawrence, John Luy.ster, 
 Jordan Seaman, John Schenck, Samuel Talman, 
 Richard Valentino, John Way, Samuel Waldrou, 
 Samuel Youngs, Wm. Coruwell. 
 
 Siqjcrvisors. — Oysterbay, George Townsend ; 
 Hempstead, Adrian Onderdonk ; Flushing, Steph- 
 en Van Wyck ; Jamaica, Nicholas Everitt ; New- 
 town, Samuel Kikcr. 
 
 Constables and Collectors. — Oysterbay, Samuel 
 Burr ; Hempstead, Jolm Burtis (and John Sear- 
 ing, constable only) ; Flushing, Samuel Clement ; 
 Jamaica, Plat Smith ; Newtown, John Gosline. 
 
 1784, Dec. 28. — For sale, the fann of Richard 
 • Lawrence, deceased, Newtown, formerly Samuel 
 Renne's, containing sixty-four acres. On it are a 
 house with eight rooms and fire-places, with an 
 entry on each story, iu suitable repair to receive 
 any gentleman, and a large body of pipe-clay, said 
 to be suitable for the China factory, and equal to 
 any in America. 
 
 1786, Feb. 13. — For sale, the house and farm 
 lately belonging to Dr. Arding, near Jamaica. 
 The stock and farming-utensils will also be sold at 
 a moderate price. 
 
 1787, April 26. — At the approach of every 
 election the ill feeling against the Loyalists was 
 appealed to, as the following electioneering song 
 will testify : — Ed. 
 
 Electors, attend, pray deliver your votes, 
 Beware of those lists tbat are made by turncoats ; 
 Base Tories we call 'em, a pitifnl crew. 
 Who every vile measure and plan will piirsue. 
 
 Permit me to hold up for consideration 
 
 Four persons to serve iu the next Legislation, 
 
 They're men whom the Whigs have fixed for your choice. 
 
 So choose one and all with an audible voice. 
 
 Let farmers, mechanics, good Whigs, all agree 
 To put in such men as are honest and free ; 
 Now join hand iu hand in defence of our laws. 
 And unite in support of fair Liberty's cause. 
 
 — iV. I'. Journal. 
 
 1787, Mat/ 3. — Sealy & Furman, coach and 
 chair makers, Brooklyn, have provided themselves 
 with an elegant stage-coach, hung upon steel 
 springs, with a capital pair of horses and careful 
 driver, which will set ofi' daily, at half-past eight, 
 from Mrs. Waldron's, at the feny, for Mrs. Bar- 
 din's, Jamaica ; and retm-n at four P. M., for the 
 trifling sum of 2s. 6c?. a passenger. Letters taken, 
 if 2d. is left with each, at the stage-house. 
 
 1787, Dec. 10. — Governor Clinton, from New 
 York city, issues a warrant through William Lash- 
 er, Collector of the Port, to the Sheriff of Queens 
 County to seize a vessel iu Hempstead Bay or 
 
 Harbor, for selling dutiable goods there without 
 having entered them aud secured the payment o' 
 duties. — Clintmi papers. 
 
 1788, March 22. — Lucern grass is recently in- 
 troduced and highly praised. It can be mowed 
 five times in one season, and cuts eight loads of 
 hay per acre. Cows feeding on it give larger 
 messes of milk, and the butter is of better quality. 
 Horses are sustained by it as on gram, iu their 
 hardest labor. 
 
 1788, Mcnj 9. — William Warne, sign of the 
 stage-wagon, Jamaica, has taken that noted house 
 and beautiful gardens, lately occupied by Edward 
 Bardin, for the accommodation of ladies and gen- 
 tlemen. He intends keeping a genteel stage-wag- 
 on to run to Mr. Waldron's, Brooklyn ferry, leav- 
 ing Jamaica daily, except Sundays, at half-past 
 sis, and return at half-past four. Fare 2s. and Qd. 
 Letters and*baggage attended to. Each letter 2d., 
 and baggage in proportion. 
 
 1788, Maij 27. — Canvass of votes in Queens 
 County for four Members of Assembly : 
 
 O? ro coi2! 
 
 
 gg it Is §§- ii i-'i 2 2 
 
 "a pg =^1. p-= ?! ^g- p' 
 
 Oysterbay, - - - 75 48 :jO 42 22 44 
 
 North Hempstead, 84 82 47 98 80 49 50 
 
 South Hempstead. 203 219 147 123 25 33 ' 8 
 
 Jamaica, . ... 14 13 69 14 27 76 75 
 
 Flushing, - - - 9 9 56 10 65 72 57 
 
 Newtown, - - - 23 6 52 23 82 60 57 
 
 408 377 371 338 321 312 291 
 
 *1783, Fch. 20. — Samuel Jones, by the address of Gover- 
 nor CUnton, is made his active tool to serve the interests of 
 his own party. — N. V. Adv. 
 
 1788, May 30.— Vote of Queens County for 
 four Delegates to the State Convention to adopt 
 the Constitution of the United States : 
 
 ^g' 
 
 CO 
 
 
 9'^ 
 
 mS 
 
 2 ? 
 
 13 
 
 
 S3 
 
 en o 
 
 2.0 
 
 is. 
 
 PI 
 
 2 3 
 
 2.g 
 ? 5- 
 
 2 S 
 
 
 1" 
 
 Oysterbay, - 105 
 
 io2 
 
 88 
 
 87 
 
 29 
 
 36 
 
 43 
 
 22 
 
 N. Hempstead, 108 
 
 113 
 
 108 
 
 106 
 
 70 
 
 68 
 
 65 
 
 68 
 
 S. Hempstead, 232 
 
 231 
 
 214 
 
 238 
 
 21 
 
 22 
 
 23 
 
 18 
 
 Jamaica, - 23 
 
 23 
 
 23 
 
 22 
 
 107 
 
 106 
 
 108 
 
 \m 
 
 Flushing, - 13 
 
 13 
 
 13 
 
 13 
 
 110 
 
 101 
 
 99 
 
 104 
 
 Newtown, - 36 
 
 36 
 
 38 
 
 10 
 
 79 
 
 78 
 
 77 
 
 61 
 
 517 518 484 476 416 411 415 401 
 
 1788, June 11.— The Synod of the Reformed 
 Dutch Cliurch set apart this day as a day of Fast- 
 ing, Humiliation aud Prayer, that the members of 
 the State Convention may be inspired with wisdom 
 from on High, and that their decisions may per- 
 petuate our civil and religious privileges. 
 
 1788, July 8. — Last Friday the Anniversary of 
 our National Independence was celebrated in the 
 following manner at Jamaica : The ringing of 
 bells and thu'tceu discharges of musketry an- 
 nounced the au.spicious day. An elegant dinner 
 
 17 
 
72 
 
 f » U E E X S C U N T Y 
 
 was provided, at wliicli a very respectable number 
 of gentlemen (mostly Eederalists) were present. 
 The general satisfaction felt, was too conspicuous 
 in the countenances and conduct of each jjcrson 
 present, to pass unnoticed. The utmost friendship 
 and hai-mony subsisted. After dinner, Francis 
 Lewis, Jr., in the chair, the following toasts, ac- 
 companied with thirteen volleys of small arms, were 
 given. The toasts were drank with additional 
 relish, on the news of the all-important and liapjiy 
 event of the accession of ten Btatcs to the new 
 Federal Government : 
 
 1. The Congress of tlie United States. 
 
 2. Washington. 
 
 3. The memory of Jlontgomeiy and those Ile- 
 roes who fell in defence of American liberty. 
 
 4. His most Christian Majesty and our Allies. 
 
 5. Jlay agriculture, commerce and manufactures, 
 flourish in the United States. 
 
 G. The mtmbers of the late general Conven- 
 tion. 
 
 7. The ten adopting States of the new Constitu- 
 tion. 
 
 8. Our fellow-citizens of the Cincinnati, may 
 tlicii- virtues in ]n-ivate life be conspicuous as their 
 valor in the field. 
 
 9. I^Iay wisdom and magnanimity pervade the 
 councils of the United States. 
 
 10. May om- new Government ensure peace and 
 tranquility at Lome, credit and respectability 
 abroad. 
 
 11. May the spirit of industry and economy be 
 diffused in the United States. 
 
 12. May the citizens of America consider them- 
 selves as a band of brothers and ever nourish Fed- 
 eral sentiments. 
 
 13. The Day.— iV. F. Baihj Advertiser. 
 
 17SS, Azig. 13.— On the Sth 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 i)ark of artillery, in front of a beautiful and 
 splendid colonnade erected on the Green, in the cen- 
 tre of tlic town, wliicli 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 cast end was a canopy of 
 white linen, the curtains of which were festooned 
 with blue ribbons and exhibited this inscription : 
 '■Federal Conslitulio)i, Sept., 17S7." Under the 
 canopy was the President's chair on an elevated 
 platform, and covered with a rich carpet, the whole 
 ibrmiug an elegant and pleasant appearance. At 
 three o'clock the discharge of guns announced that 
 dinner was served under the colonnade. The 
 president, Col. Wm. S. Smith, was conducted to 
 the chair, and the gentlemen set down with that 
 hilarity usual on such an occasion. After dinner 
 the following toasts were drank, with discharges of 
 eleven guns to each from the Park : 
 
 1. The United States and Union in their Coun- 
 cils. 
 
 2. The illustrious Waahington. 
 
 3. Our Allies and all friendly Powers. 
 
 4. May the citizens of America have spirit to 
 defend what the wisdom of her councils Lave 
 framed. 
 
 5. The Eleven States who adopted the New 
 Constitution. 
 
 C. The memory of those American Heroes who 
 fell in the late glorious stniggle for their liberties. 
 
 7. May our interests as a nation be supported 
 by honesty and industry. 
 
 S. May the liberty of the Press be preserved 
 and its licentiousness jmuished. 
 
 9. May the industrious farmer reap tlic fruit of 
 his labor. 
 
 10. The Cincinnati. 
 
 11. The American Fair. * 
 
 An oration was tlien delivered by Mr. Jolm 
 Mulligan, a student of Columbia College. This 
 unexpected exhibition to the auditory, the graceful 
 manner and interesting subject, excited the admira- 
 tion of the hearers and commanded loud plaudits 
 to the youthful orator. 
 
 The convis'iality was heightened by tlic arrival, 
 from New York, of gentleJiien who participated at 
 the entertainment anil 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 froni a ship in New 
 York, in 1780 or 81, and had not the fly in his 
 next crop. — JV. Y. Pachct, 
 
 1788.— Before September 3d, James Coniwell 
 fell in a creek in South Hempstead and was 
 drowned. 
 
 1788. — Before September 3d, Mary, a negro 
 child, the properly of Charles and Catharine John- 
 eon, Newtown, died of wounds it had received in 
 the head. An indictment being preferred against 
 Johnson by the Attorney-General, the Grand Jury 
 return on it ignoramus, and Johnson was dis- 
 charged. 
 
 1788, Sept. 10. — Taken up, a negro man, James, 
 who says he belongs to Ilev. 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 Cook, near Wall 
 Kill, Ulster County ; otherwise, iu sixty days he 
 will be sold according to law. 
 
 1788. Nov. 1.— Micliacl, a negro man slave of 
 John Allen, Flushing, died by chance-medley and 
 misadventure from a correction he appeared to 
 have from some person iniknown. 
 
 [Allen lu'.d lost money and severely flogged tlio 
 negro, but could not extort a confession.] — JEd. 
 
 1788, Nov. 10.— John Greene, for stealing a 
 horse of Silas Pearsall, is sentenced to receive thir- 
 ty-nine lashes on his naked back this afternoon. 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 and thirty-nine • more to-morrow morning ; and 
 then depart the county. — Court Minutes. 
 
 Till the close of the Revohition all voting iu 
 Queens County was done with an audible voice. 
 The first law passed by our Legislature iu relation 
 to elections introduced the practice of voting by 
 secret ballot for Governor and Lieutenant-Gover- 
 nor only ; the old practice of voting viva voce for 
 Senators and Assemblymen was continued till 
 17S7. All County elections were held at one 
 place, Jamaica, till 1799, when the practice of vot- 
 ing in the separate townships of the county was 
 ad'opted. The polls were kept open several days. 
 —Ed. 
 
 1789, Jan. 24. — Jacob Marvin, and one hundred 
 and nine other inhabitants pray the Legislature 
 that North and South Hempstead may be re-imit- 
 ed. William Thoruc and one hundred and eleven 
 others, Heudrick Onderdonk and ninety-seven 
 others, and Richard Valentine .and sixty-six others, 
 all inhabitants of North Hempstead, petition against 
 a re-union, and pray to remain sejjarate. 
 
 1789. — Wednesday, January 28th, is to be ob- 
 served as a day of Humiliation, Fastmg and 
 Prayer, by all the Dutch 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 fiiiits of the earth in the 
 Middle States, for the establishment of wise effi- 
 cient, united' and permanent civil Government, &c. 
 
 17S9, Feb. 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 and suitable for a merchant or tavern-keeper. 
 
 17 S9, Feb. IS.— For sale, the fai-m of Israel 
 Hallet, deceased, Newtown Landing, contrdning 
 fifty or sixty acres, suitable'for marketing, a coun- 
 try seat or merchant. There is a wharf eight rods 
 from the house where several small vessels may 
 lay alongside, or a ferry to New York may be kept. 
 Any quantity of turf may be <;ut from it, almost 
 equal to coal for burning. 
 
 1789, Feb. 9. — Jo.seph Robinson was Chairman 
 of a meeting, at Jam.aica, of electors from North 
 Hempstead, Jamaica, Flushing and Newtown, who 
 nominated Robert Y.'^es for Governor — present, 
 Drs. Ledyard and Minema, Robert Furman, James 
 Depeyster, F. Lewis, Jr., Dr. Wm. Lawton, An- 
 'drew Onderdonk and J. M. Smith. 
 
 1789, March 3. — Abraham 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 and scale 
 fish may be caught a small distance from the door. 
 Fifty or sixty ban-els of cider may be made yearly, 
 and forty or fifty loads of salt hay may be cut. 
 In the rear is a turf meadow, which will afford fuel 
 and manure for several generations to come. 
 
 1789, March 21. — For sale, the pleasant and 
 
 valuable farm of Lambert Moore, three miles east 
 of Flushing, on the road to Hempstead Plains, 
 consisting of two hundred acres, on v;hich are a 
 house, barn, two barracks, crib, court-yard and 
 garden in neat pale fence, au orchard and other 
 improvements. It is well watered and within a 
 few i-ods of a grist-mill. Apply to John Moore, 
 on the premises. 
 
 178S, Mai/ A. — William Warne and John Van 
 Nostrand's stage is in complete repair and rims 
 daily (Sundays excepted) from Jamaica to Brook- 
 lyn, leaving at half-past six and returning from 
 Mr. Allen's, Brooklyn ferry, at half-past four. 
 Fare, 2s. 6f?., and 3f?. for each letter forwarded by 
 the stage. 
 
 1789, May 11. — At the April term of the Su- 
 preme 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 judgment for the payment of £1,000 
 with interest. Abraham Morehouse, for felony in 
 knowingly uttering and publishing said forged ob- 
 ligation, Israel Youngs* and Samuel Waters for 
 wilfully acting and assisting in publishing the 
 same, severally received sentence of death. 
 
 1789, Ma>j 26. — Canvass of votes in Queens 
 County for four Members of Assembly : 
 
 Samuel Clowes, - - - 426 
 Stephen Carman, - - - 309 
 
 Samuel Joues.f ... 365 
 Whitehead Cornwell, - - - 373 
 Richard Thornc, - - - 268 . 
 
 John Schenck, .... 217 
 Benjamin Coe, - - - 226 
 
 Prior Townsend, - - - 170 
 
 Lewis Cornwall, - - - 114 
 1789, iUf/^ 28.— Vote of Queens County for 
 Governor 4 
 
 Geo. Cliuon. Robt. Yates. 
 Oysterbay, - - - 80 11 
 
 South Hempstead, - 181 8 
 
 Jamaica, - - - 37 33 
 
 North Hempstead, - 56 3G 
 
 Newtown, - - - 101 .'") 
 
 Flushing, - - - 27 31 
 
 482 
 
 124 
 
 *Jiine 6tb, Youugs was respited by tbe CTOvernor. After 
 bis conviction, ouo of bis creditors petitioned tbe Legisla- 
 ture for tlio sum of £120 tliat bad been taken from Y'oiings 
 in ]77G, wbeu be was aiTested for counterfeiting tbe Conti- 
 nental currency, — Ass. J<mr., Nay 11, 1790. 
 
 tTbis able lawyer and useful legislator (being first anti- 
 federal and tben federal) was accused of trimming in poli- 
 tics. Judge Spencer once asked bim : " How is tbis, Mr. 
 Jones, the majority in tbe Soutlicm District fref|uently 
 cbanges — at one time federal and tben republican — but you 
 always get your election?" ''Wby!" rejilied .Tones, "to 
 tell you the truth, when my troops wont follow me I follow 
 them." — Hammond's Hist. N. )'., 1 ; 75. 
 
 {The entire vote of tbe State (wbicli then contained only 
 20,000 electors) was for Clinton, 6,391 ; for Yates. 5,902, 
 leaving Clinton a majority of 429. Although he was 
 elected, his friends on the several tickets were mostly de- 
 feated. 
 
7-i 
 
 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 17S9, May 28, — A fossil tooth found ou Lon|^ 
 Island aud supposed so be one of the Mauaui, Avas 
 
 presented to Peale's JIuscum by Dr. S. L. Mitch- 
 ell.— iV. Y. BaiJif Adc. 
 
 1789. — Last Saturday, the Anniversai-y of Afac- 
 rican Independence was celebrated at Jamaica. 
 
 1739, Off. 10. — Washington says, in his Diary : 
 " I set off from New York, about nine o'clock, in 
 my barge to visit Mr. Prince's fimit gardens aud 
 shrubberies, at Flushing. The Vicc-1'resident, 
 Governor, Mr. Izard, Colonel Smith aud 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 mhabitants of the 
 place sliowed us what respect they could by mak- 
 ing the best use of one cannon to salute." 
 
 1789.— On Friday, October 22d, the dwelling- 
 house of Jeremiah Vanderbilt, Es(j[., Flushing, was 
 entii'ely consumed by fire together with all his fiu-- 
 uiturc, etc., aud the records of the township, which 
 were in his possession. It has been discovered 
 that it was set on fire by a young negro wench who 
 lived in the family ; being suspected, she was taken 
 before a magistrate tor examination, when she con- 
 fessed the ucl'arious act. She has since been com- 
 mitted to the jail of Queens County. She con- 
 fessed that she had several accomplices ; 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 the 
 height of her impatience, she set fire to the house 
 in the absence of her master, which together with 
 the property tlicrcin contained, was outLiely de- 
 stroyed. — Grccnica/'s iV. Y. Journal. 
 
 [Nelly, a slave of Captain Daniel Braine, was 
 indicted, November 10th, 1789, aud tried, Septem- 
 ber 8, 1790, aud convicted of arson as principal, 
 and Sar-ih, a slave of Mr. Vanderbilt, as accessary 
 before the fact. They both plead guilty, and hav- 
 ing nothing said why judgment of death should 
 not pa.<3S ou them, on motion of Aarou Liurr, At- 
 torney-General, they were sentenced, by Judge 
 Robert Yates, to be hanged bj' the neck, October 
 14th, at some public iilaec in the neighborhood of 
 the Court House, till tliey be respectively dead. 
 Sarah, on account of her youth was reprieved aud 
 sent away. Nelly had been hired to work in Mr. 
 Vauderbilt's family, who wore absent on a visit at 
 the time of the fire. The prisoners were fifty 
 weeks in jail'] — Ed. 
 
 1789, Dec. 17.— Nathaniel "Weeks, of Oyster- 
 bay, died by occasion of a fall from his horse be- 
 tween Huntington and Oysterbay. 
 
 1789. — Jamaica Races, October 29th. A purse 
 of £20 will be. run for rouud Beaver Pond ; the 
 best two in three two-mile heats. Entrance with 
 ■\Villiam Warne, 20s. The next day, a genteel sad- 
 dle, bridle and whip, for a race twice round the 
 pond at a heat, carrying a catch. 
 
 1789, Nuv. 19.— (Jn Friday, good fresh beet 
 sold at two and a half to three aud a half pence 
 jier pound, aud other articles in projwrtiou. 
 
 1789.— The President ordered Thursday, No- 
 vember 26th, to be observed throughout the United 
 States as a day of Thanksgiving to God for his 
 many singular mercies. The day was stormy aud 
 
 there was but a thiu attendance in this city. N 
 
 Y. Jour. 
 
 17S9, Dec. 21.— One Timothy Jackson or Sax- 
 on, on pi-etence of arresting Lawrence McDermot, 
 of Livingston, for an alleged trespass on his fa- 
 ther's lands, on Long Island, during the Revolu- 
 tionary war, robbed him. For this oiTence he was 
 tried and eeutcnced in Columbia Countv. — Dailii 
 A(h: 
 
 1790, Feb. 4. — Samuel Talman, Executor of 
 William Talman, deceased, offers for sale his farm 
 of three hundred acres, within half a mile of two 
 giist-mills, and a mile of Little Neck Bay, from 
 which may be had oysters, fish and clams. On it 
 are a house, barn, chair-house, granary, crib, bar- 
 rack, two wells and three orchards. 
 
 1790, March 4. — During the present winter sev- 
 eral vessels have come from Ireland with emi- 
 grants. They say that one-third of the poorer 
 sort would leave, were "it not for their poverty. — 
 .¥. r. Jotir. 
 
 1790, March 4. — Notwithstanding tlie apparent 
 scarcity of corn and wheat, we are told, there are 
 great quantities iu every p;vrt of the country, which 
 could not be brought to market 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. — N. Y. Jour. 
 
 1790, Maij 21.— Vote of Long Island for a 
 member of Congress : 
 
 
 Suffolk. 
 
 Queens. Kin^s. 
 
 James Town.scnd,* 
 
 5 
 
 581 
 
 6 
 
 John Vanderbilt, 
 
 - — 
 
 64 
 
 209 
 
 William Floyd, - 
 
 106 
 
 47 
 
 S3 
 
 Thomas Trodwell, - 
 
 - 232 
 
 4-5 
 
 7 
 
 Ezra L'llommcdieu, 
 
 7 
 
 139 
 
 I 
 
 1790, Maij 2o.— Vote of Queens 
 
 County for four 
 
 Members of Assembly : 
 
 
 
 
 Samuel Clowes, 
 
 . 
 
 , 
 
 485 
 
 John Schenek, - 
 
 . 
 
 . 
 
 397 
 
 Samuel L. Mitchell, 
 
 . 
 
 . 
 
 386 
 
 Nathaniel Lawrence, 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 383 
 
 Whitehead Cornell, 
 
 - 
 
 1 
 
 353 
 
 Timothy Cornell, 
 
 - 
 
 
 324 
 
 Stephen Carman, 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 322 
 
 Lewis Coniwall, - 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 313 
 
 William Cook, 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 213 
 
 John Hewlett, - 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 125 
 
 "]7!K), May &■?. — DieO, TuesJay last, after a long illness, 
 !it Jcricbo, James Towaseiid, Ksq., returned by tlic can- 
 vassers na elected to Congress from Long Island. — A'. 1'. 
 Jour, 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 75 
 
 X790. — AVasliiup;toii, in liis diary, says : Tues- 
 day, AjKil 20tli, 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 Flatbush ; thence to New Utrecht, where 
 ■we dined at the house of Mr. Barro,- the mnn oblig- 
 ing, but littlo' else to recommend it ; thence to 
 Gravesend, thence to Jamaica, where wc lodged 
 at a tavern kept by one Warnc, a pretty good and 
 decent house. Left Jamaica at eight o'clock for 
 Hempstead, where we baited at the house of one 
 Simonson, formerly a tavern, now of private enter- 
 tainment for money. Following the south road 
 we dined at Ketcham's, which had also been a 
 ])ublic honse but now a private one — received pay 
 for what it furnished, very neat and decent. After 
 dinner wo proceeded to a Squire Thompson's such 
 a house as the last. About eight o'clock, Thurs- 
 da}', 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 Harfs we struck across the Island, passing 
 the east end of the Brushy Plains and Corum, 
 thence to Setauket to the house of Captain Ivoe, 
 which is tolerably decent with obliging jK'oplc in 
 it. At eight o'clock, Friday, we left Ko(;?s and 
 baited the horses, at a widow Blydenburgh's, 
 Smithtown, a decent house. Thence to Hunting- 
 ton, where we dined at the bouse of a widow Piatt, 
 which was tolerably good. . Afterwards proceeded 
 to Oj'stqrbay, to the house of a Mr. Youngs, pri- 
 vate and very neat and decent, where wo lodged. 
 Left Mr. Youngs' before six o'clock on Saturday, 
 and passing Musquito Cove breakfasted at a Mr. 
 Ouderdonk's, at the head of a little bay, [Hemp- 
 stead Harbor] '■where wc were kindly received and 
 well entertained. This gentleman worits 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 Brooklj-n, the road very fine and the 
 country in a high state of cultivation. Before 
 sundown we had crossed the ferry and were at 
 home.* 
 
 1700. — Died, "Wednesday, June 23d, univer- 
 sally regretted, the Rev. Mr. Bloomcr.t Kector of 
 the Episcopal Church, Jamaica, aged fifty-five 
 years. 
 
 1790, Jime 1. — Vegetation was never iii a more 
 flourishing state. There is a prospect of exube- 
 rant harvests of fruit and wheat. Industry and 
 
 'For a more full accoimt. aud the observations of Wash- 
 ington on the agricultuie of. Long Islauil, see his diary, 
 edited by B. .J. Lossing, New York, ]dGl. 
 
 tMr. Blcfonicr was a most excellent man. . He had once 
 failed in business in New York, and when, in after years, 
 he received some mon<-y he devoted it to the payment of, 
 his dfbts. Having once married a- couple where a largo 
 - fee might have been expected, he was asli-ed.next day, the 
 amount of it. " Oh,. I. had foj-gotten. all about it," he re- 
 plied. " It must be in my otlier pocket.'.' On searcliin"- 
 for it, two or three guineas were found wrapped in a paper! 
 He was buried in the chaacel of the chm-ch. — Ed. 
 
 18 
 
 agricultural skill continue characteristic of our yeo- 
 manry, and Heaven smiles on their 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 Empire. — N. Y.. Journal. 
 
 1790, Sept. 3. — The dysentery is very prevalent 
 in several parts of Long Island, and particularly at 
 and near Jamaica, whero it has proved fatal in 
 many instances, several firmilics having been de- 
 prived of their beloved ofl'spring in a few days. A 
 number of adults have also died with it. It seems 
 to be epidemical. SejJtember 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 
 hiuiband. and relatives, and of all who had the 
 pleasure of her acquaintance, Mrs. JIary, the ami- 
 able consort of Dr. Jacob Ogden and daughter of 
 James Depeyster, Esq., of that place. — K. Y. 
 Joifrnah 
 
 1790, Oct. 29.— Died, ou Tuesday, aged eighty- 
 seven, William Hawkshurst, merchant of New 
 York. He was interred in the family burying- 
 grouiid, Oysterbay. 
 
 1790, Nov. 8. — David Devore, for stealing a 
 horse of Stephen Bobbins, worth ,£5, is sentenced to 
 receive, immediately', thirty-nine lashes ou his bare 
 back, and the like every forty-eight hours until he 
 shall have received one hundred and fitty-six lash- 
 es, and then to depart Queens County. — Court 
 liecords. 
 
 1790, Nov. 2i.— Bled, at Oysterbay, at an ad- 
 vanced age, aftea- a long and painful illness, Samuel 
 Towuseud, Senator of this State. 
 
 1790, Dec. 9. — "Winter has set in with great se- 
 verity. The North Eiver is fast bound with ice 
 to the city of Hudson: Repine not at the early 
 frost, we have had.a fruitftil season. December 13. 
 "We have had rain, and since Friday it is as mild 
 as May. — N. Y. Journal. 
 
 1190, Dec. 11.— Mr. Gilbert Seaman, of Flush- 
 ing, felPoverboard of Captain Thomas H. Smith's 
 passage boat a little above UcUgate, and was 
 drowned. 
 
 1790— $.59 i?«rarfrfor thief and money. Stolon 
 from David Lambcrson, Jamaica, on the night of 
 December 17th, a silver watch, ^£70 in crowns, 
 dollars and small silvcr.and. as much more in bank- 
 notes and York paper. Also, a number of notes 
 and bonds, a worsted pocket-book, a red morocco 
 pocket-book with an almanac bound in it and a 
 parchment poeket-book, dated 1776, and marked, 
 " D. 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 jai! ; hut was executed at 
 Woodbridge, July d3d, 1791, for burglary and horse steal- 
 ing — Daily AiheTther. 
 
 y 
 
76 
 
 Q U E E N S CO U X T Y 
 
 roaring lion and tlic new one is ushered in by fierce 
 north wind.". The cold has been extreme for some 
 day.^ past, ■with some snow and floating ice. Jan- 
 uary Gth, there is a prospect of a January thaw 
 that will doubtless open the wood sluices, and ren- 
 der it tolerably ciicap in a few days. Hickory is 
 d£i per cord ; other wood, £.3. January 10th. 
 Siucc our last the weather is propitious and wood 
 Las fallou 205. and 245. in the cord — X. Y. Jour- 
 nal. 
 
 1791, Jan. 24. — For sale, the pleasantly situated 
 farm of near 300 acres, ou the coiuitry road from 
 Brooklyn to Jamaica, now occupied by Eiehard 
 and Samuel lietts, eleven miles .from New York. 
 There arc thirty acres of meadow which constitutes 
 an inexhaustible source of manure for the upland ; 
 also, a large commodious house, spacious Dutch 
 barn and otlier out-buildings, an orchard ot the fin- 
 est fruit, and sufficient woodland. Apply to Nich- 
 olas Fish, who will give title. 
 
 1791, Feb. 19.— Silas llicks, Ilockaway, peti- 
 tions the Legislature for a re-imbursement of £00 
 paid by him, in 1782, to Frederick Philips for a 
 negro man slave. 
 
 For the A'cic Yurk Journal. 
 
 Mr. GREEXLEAF : By inserting the enclosed 
 ill the next Journal, you will much oblige 
 
 A Constant Keadek. 
 
 Podicul Ejiislle to the Electors qf Rein-csentutifC. 
 cinr;i;L.\B. 
 Throughout the laiul, Dear 8ir, 'tis .said. 
 That Jemmy Towii.seiid'.s surely (lend ; 
 A mail whom much, the people loved 
 I.s from this wicked world removed : 
 Ha.s lauded on that unknowu shore 
 Whence mortals can return no more : 
 And changed his seat in Congress hero 
 l-'or one among the Spirits there, 
 liut though a loss the public shared 
 I hope this lo.ss can lie rcjiaired, 
 .Since men as good as he are found 
 in varioUK part.? the country round : 
 Therefore we ought no more to mourn 
 The dead ; hut to the living turn, 
 And seek a mau of talents meet 
 To till tir aforesaid vacant seat. 
 
 My friend.s who search with keenest view 
 The Southei* District, through and througli. 
 Declare upon their word, they si)y 
 No person half so fit as I. 
 ] low true thi'y speak ! I well revolved 
 The whole allair, and then resolved, 
 With view to benefit tin' .State, 
 To be an open Candidate ; 
 And to the world in tinuest tone. 
 To make my grand intentions known. 
 
 Now, Sir, for fear that I should miss it. 
 These modest lines arc to solicit 
 Your vote, your interest, and your friends, 
 To aid my patriotic ends. 
 And place mo safe, where sense like aiino, 
 Mav in the Federal councils shine ; 
 Thiit so South Hempstead, charming town, 
 Possessed of wouderfid renown. 
 In sly election's cunning ways. 
 Since Jones' and Cornwell's glorious days. 
 May still keep np her ancient name. 
 And fix, beyond dispute, her claim 
 To Rule, the District by the means 
 So long employed to manage Queens. 
 
 I fear the votes dispersed will be : 
 But lest too few shoHJd fall to nie 
 I further hope and wish you'd strive 
 To keep election-zeal alive ; 
 And make them every mother's son 
 Or vote for mc, or vote for none. 
 
 Some folks, I'm told, are warm t' espouse 
 The cause of grave old Daitihj Chiircs, 
 Who, when he moves within the sphere 
 Of Justice, or of Scrivener, 
 Does pretty well ; but when the creature 
 Afl'ect.s a seat in Legislature, 
 He brings to miud, as E.sop jokes, 
 The frog who swelled to be an ox. 
 
 There's Ledyanl too, whose high pretence 
 To be a man of wondrous sense, 
 Uetrays at first unwary hearts 
 To think he's got uncummon parts ; 
 Hut soon, I know, the curious eye 
 Can deep deception tlierc descry. 
 Which lurks bene.ith the film of lawn 
 That's o'er his shallow senses drawn ; 
 Like Moloch, recks he not .a curse. 
 Of (lod, or Hell, or what not w-or^e. 
 
 They say that whittling Carman too 
 Displays himself to public view 
 Ami vainly hoi>es his courteous mien 
 Will coax the folks to put him iu : 
 — Ah, Stephen .' .'Stephen ! lower thy pride. 
 And cast thy politics aside ; 
 For since tlij- influence is grown 
 So small beyoml thy native town, 
 'T will be impossible to get 
 'Mong Kepresentatives a sent, 
 Until the clams, and horsefeot, each 
 Inhabiting the bays and beach 
 Shall pain a vote ; and to content them 
 Thyself be sent to represent them. 
 
 Much interi'st. no doubt, 's employed. 
 For Tredwell, Vanderbilt and Floyd, 
 W hose names each warm elector rings 
 Through Kichmond, SutVolk and iu Kings; 
 15ut here, sir, note the reg'lar plan ; 
 Since Suffolk first su]iplied the man, 
 'Tis now the time for (Queens to choose. 
 Or else, by George, her choice she'll lose, 
 'Tis, therefore, wise that all agree 
 On some otie man, and / he he. 
 
 Last night I dreamed, (and dreams you know. 
 Do sometimes mighty matters show,) 
 That when the canvassing w.as o'er, 
 " Youus MiichiH bent me, ten to four.** 
 I started, waked and told my sjiouso 
 'Twas time I instantly should ronse, 
 Drive on to York with swiftest pace. 
 To Mother Shoulilrrs state my case. 
 And hear 'till I no more coiihl doubt it, 
 The lioldamo tell me all .about it. 
 My mind was in a woful (pialm ; 
 The gro])iug witch explored my palm ; 
 Then viewed my cards ; and with a look 
 That chilled my soul, this riddle spoke ; 
 " A chosen youth, whose virtues sleep 
 Like Diiriil's when he Icept the sheep. 
 Shall guard w ith care each |)caccful town 
 And knock the huge Goliah down.'' 
 
 Although this pmiihecy is bad, 
 And m;ikes me feel severely sad. 
 Vet still I'll iiersevere to eiiiirt 
 The people all to grant sujiporf ; 
 If, Sir, you can atl'ord me your's, 
 I'll love you while my life endures, 
 And be the gratefulest of creatures. 
 Your Friend and Sen-ant, H.titiiY Peters.* 
 
 "This poetical effusion though purjiortlng to be written 
 bv llarrv Peters, caiidid.-ite for C'cpiigress was probably the 
 sportive ■cllusion of Dr. S. L. Jlitchell, who was himself a. 
 candidate for the Assembly. — Ed. 
 
 /I 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES, 
 
 77 
 
 1791, Feb. 2."<. — For sak", a farm of eighty acres, 
 in good fcucc, -with fresli and salt meadow, at Far 
 Kockawa_y, pleasantly sitnated, one mile from the 
 Eeacli. On it arc a house and barn, with a ^^•ell 
 at -the door. Apply to John Rothing, ucar tlie 
 pi-emises, who will give the title. 
 
 1791. — At a meeting of a number of the inhabi- 
 tants of Jamaica and Flushing, March 1st, at the 
 house of Mrs. Joainia Hiuchmau, in Jamaica, for 
 the pui-jjosc of carrying into effect the building of 
 au Academy in Jamaica, the Rev. Rynier Van 
 Nest in the chair, and Eliphalet "Wickes, clerk, it 
 was resolved that twelve persons be appointed for 
 tlie purpose of getting subscriptions, viz. : Xatlnm 
 "Woodhull, William Ilammel, Francis Lewis, John 
 Hicks, Abraham Ditmars, Daniel Miuema, iSeorge 
 Faitoute, James Foster, Samuel Brownjohn, Joiiu 
 Smith, Daniel Kissani and Charles Roach.* 
 
 1791, March 7. — Lawrence Roe offers for sale, 
 his farm of two hundred aud forty acres, at 
 Whitestonc, on the banks of the East River, fifteen 
 miles from New York, by water, aud twenty by 
 laud. The situation is charming, the soil excellent 
 aud the buildings in perfect repair. 
 
 QUF.EX.S County, April H\i, 1791. 
 
 Mr. GueenleAF : The spirit of electioneering 
 increases rapidly iu many parts of this county, 
 as the following curious notification (which v/as 
 taken verbatim from au advertisement posted in 
 several parts of South Hempstead) will evince. 
 
 A Customer. 
 
 1. 1 beg leaf to retiu'ii my sensear thanks to the Public 
 intjeneral for their time past tiwors, tliat I have Eec'd from 
 time to thne. 
 
 2. I am sorry atul a shamed that any man shouUl offiT to 
 come into our neighborhood to by our freedoiu for a Jriuk 
 of grog-. 
 
 3. As for my part I deelair I am not iutrnsted in tlie mat- 
 ter. I do not wfint Post nor Profit theirby. 
 
 4. I think it the duty of evei-y Good man to keep up the 
 Credit of his Counfrcy, or the place wair he lives. 
 
 5. I do tliink it our duty to resent every evil tliat 
 should be aft'ered in our neig-liborhood that should Engor 
 the Credit of our jilace. 
 
 6. I have provided «ue b.arrcl of Rum : and two. if want- 
 ed. AU those that will favor me with their Componey on 
 Saterday afternoon, the 2 day of April, I shall esteam their 
 compeney as a favor. 
 
 7. This Rum is given Grattig^ no favor is IJe Quired. 
 Pray dont fail. From your friend Living in south hemp- 
 stead. I- c D X. 
 
 March 2(i,.179]. 
 
 A true copy verhatim. 
 
 . N. B. The candidate for wliose interest this treat 
 is intended, is supposed to be jS n C u. 
 
 1791, April 14. — $5 Bewarcl and charges. Ran 
 away from William Levericli, Newtown, a negro 
 boy, Mingo, aged fifteen, pitted with the small-pox. 
 
 I'or the Bailij Adccrfiscr. 
 
 Jamaica, April 19, 1791. 
 Mess. Printer.^ : A? the county of Queens 
 
 "Subscription lists were circulated in Jamaica, Flushing, 
 Newtown and New Yoi-k ; and wlieu £.-'i)0, the sum in- 
 tended to be subscribed, was made U]), James Mackerel 
 was requested to report a plan of the Academy, « liich he 
 did, and was thereupou appointed master builder. — Ed. 
 
 has for some time ]iast been destitute of a Senator, 
 and as this part of the county has never aspired to 
 the honor of nominating one, they flatter them- 
 selves (on the principle of rotation) that their claim 
 is well foaudeil, and tire person chosen will merit 
 the suffrages of his fellow citizens. 
 
 At a meeting of the freeholders and electors ef 
 Newtown, Flushing and Jamaica, held at .Jamaica, 
 Benjamin Coe in the chair ; it was resolved that 
 Dr. Isaac Ledyard be held up as a Representative 
 in Congress, and that Francis Lewis, Jr., Escp, 
 be held up as a State Senator and that the clerk 
 transmit copies of these resolutions to the sheriff' of 
 the different counties of the District with a rcc[ue3t 
 tliat he communicate the Same to the several town- 
 ships. 
 
 17'01.— Vote for member of Congress (in place 
 of Dr. James Townsend, deceased,) on the last 
 Tuesday in April. 
 
 t? < ^ t 
 
 Richmond, IGG 
 
 Kings - - - 2o 2.'>5 
 
 Queens, - - 2t)6 CO 
 
 Suffolk. - - - 434 — 
 
 Total, - - G6G 4ril 3G9 361 300 301 
 
 Vote (in part) for tivo Senators of the Southern 
 District .: 
 
 
 
 ?2 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 S 1" 
 
 " 
 
 i} 
 
 77 
 
 9 
 
 
 
 
 21 
 
 33 
 
 21 
 
 29 
 
 208 
 
 30 
 
 338 
 
 272 
 
 3 
 
 2r:9 
 
 1 
 
 — 
 
 
 c ;j 
 
 •.2. 
 
 ' * 5 
 
 
 
 
 Ri/.-lmioud, 
 
 - 129 
 
 15.? 
 
 2 
 
 46 
 
 1 
 
 KiUgl!, - 
 
 77 
 
 300 
 
 65 
 
 45 
 
 68 
 
 Queens, 
 
 - - 353 
 
 282 
 
 403 
 
 7 
 
 234 
 
 Suffolk, - 
 
 - 404 
 
 51 
 
 279 
 
 5o 
 
 
 Total, - - - 9G3 786 749 151 303 
 
 Vote of Queens County for three members of 
 Assembly : 
 
 Whitehead Cornell,* - - 721 
 
 Samuel Clowes,'* - - - 71.5 
 
 Nathaniel Lawrence,* - - 4-51 
 
 Richard Tlwrne, - - - 384 
 
 Isaa« Leffer-ts, - . . 34.5 
 
 S. L. Mitchell, - - - . 254 
 
 1791, Ajvil 30.— Died, Thursday night, at his 
 seat near Flushing, Robert Crommelin, aged sev- 
 entj--five, a much respected inhabitaut of that 
 place. — Du ihj Adv-crtiscr. 
 
 1791, 2[.i>j 10.— $20 Reieard.—Vixw away from 
 Flushing, two negro men, one Aaron, the property 
 of Jeremiah Vauderbilt, who had on a fustian 
 trowsers and wool hat, aud is a good boatman ; the 
 other, Polydore, the proiierty of Francis Lewis, 
 who wore a blue cloth jacket and breeches, woolen 
 stockings aud wool hat. They stole a moses-built 
 
 •Elected. 
 
78 
 
 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 boat and -wont up the Sound, as is supposed. — 
 DaiJij Athcrtlscr. 
 
 1791, Jinie 2. — c^ Ji&icar(I:—Jti\n away from 
 Obiuliali Valnntinc, Oj'sttn-bay, a remarkiibly black 
 negro mm. Bob, aged twenty-two.. JI'c had on a 
 browu coat with green lining, yellow vest and old 
 boots, lie lias grey liair on liis neck. 
 
 1791, June 7. — John Van No.-;trand vcspectfiilly 
 informs the public that the .Taniaica Stagt,' will nm 
 Jlonda}', 'I'lnu-.^day and Saturday, starling from 
 Mrs. Hinchniau's at 7. o'clock in the morning, aud 
 from 3Ir. Allen's, Brooklyn I'erry, at haU'-pa-t four 
 in the aftenio.in. Fare, 2s. Oil. Letters and bag- 
 gage C! refully attended io. 
 
 N. B. Ho has a new and casj- carriage, and for 
 the convenience of those who wish to go turther, he 
 has one at Jamaica. 3d. for each letter, and none 
 forwarded unless the money be left with it. 
 
 1791, June 15. — To the jxihlic. — Etisij- convey- 
 ance. — Jacob and Stephou Ilieks have, for the 
 convenience of parties of ple;isun% )irovided a light 
 etage- wagon to run with two good genteel horses 
 ■with a careful driver, from John IJiiks', Brooklyn 
 Ferry .=tairs, to F.ir IJoekaway, evj-y Tuesday, at 
 fight o'clock, aud every Saturday, at one o'clock ; 
 Stop at Jamaica fur refreshment and go through 
 the same day ; aud return ^Monday and Friday af- 
 ternoons. Seats, 25. (Jd. to Jamaica, and Us. to 
 Ear Rockaway. Idilbs. baggage gratis ; 150 Jbs. 
 the same as a passenger. 
 
 1791. — At day-break, on the 4th of July, the 
 bells of tlie ehurehes in J.-iiuaica, aud lliirt<'eu pla- 
 toons from an active aad well di.'iei[)liiu'il coiupaiiy 
 of ]j'ght Infantry, announced the joj'ous day. At; 
 twelve o'clock the company a.ssembled- at Jlrs. 
 lliuchman's long room, (which was decorated in a 
 Style emblematical- of the union of tliese States, 
 ■with branches of tlie pine tree, and a pleasing dis- 
 tribution of the flowers of the season) proceeded to 
 the I'resbyterian church, where an eloquent oration 
 was delivered by the llcv. Mi-. Faitoute. After 
 which the comjjany returned to an elegant dinner, 
 where the utmost conviviality and gntHl liHHior per- 
 vaded every breast, and whii*,- amidst th^^ heart 
 enlivening song aud warlike sound ot musketry, 
 the following toasts were drank. 'J'lie company 
 broke up in good season and in the greate.*t hila- 
 rity ruul good humor: 
 
 1. The United States of America — may their 
 virtues aud wisdom be eouspiyiious among the na- 
 tions of the earth. 
 
 2. The President. 
 
 o. The Congress of the United States. 
 
 4.. The Government of the State of New York. 
 
 5. The late American Army, and uK-mory of 
 those Heroes who gallantly fell, contending for the 
 indejiendciice of our country. 
 
 (i. 'J'iie Kin;.; of the Freuehmeu aud the National 
 Assembly of France. 
 
 7. Arts, Science aud ^lanufactories — m ly they 
 become the never-liiiling source of wealth and hon- 
 or to our country. 
 
 S. The ]iromoters of Commerce — may it flourish 
 throughout the United States. 
 
 0. The Cincinnati; 
 
 10. 'i'he Tamimmy Society or Columbian Order. 
 
 Ih The Military of- America— may their merit 
 f Iways find its true reward. 
 
 12. The industrious husbandmen — may their 
 honest labors be crowned with plenty and success. 
 
 13. The Am-rican flag — miy it be the emble- 
 matic banner of liberty iu every quarter of the 
 globe. 
 
 14. The cauthor of the"Ilights of Man," aud 
 the Patriotic Societies in Great Britain. 
 
 Ij. The glorious 4ih of July, 177G.* 
 
 1791, Jitli/ 12. — For sale, the country retreat of 
 Robert Crommeliu, Esq., deceased, contaiuiug fifty 
 acres, Ij'iug contiguous to Flushing Landing. 
 
 1791, Juli/ 23. — Jacob Chceseman, of North 
 H^lnpstead, being cjn the Marsh, iu .South Hemp- 
 st(-ad, and undertaking to swim across a certain 
 creek was drowned. 
 
 1791, Aug. 7. — Henry Ludlam, returning from 
 Oysterbay to his boat, along Mill-neek shore, 
 stumbled in getting his boat and unfortunately fell 
 and was drowned. 
 
 1701 , Sitpt: 7.— SIO. JlcKftnl and eli.-ages. Ran 
 away from John Luyster, Cedar Swamp, a negro 
 fellow, Zel), aged twenty, stout, large-boned and 
 middling black. 
 
 1791, Of-<. 13>-Beaver Pond Races. First day, 
 a jmrse ni £20 ; sifoud day, a genteel saddle, bri- 
 dle and'^\-liip to be run for. — Dail// Adrerliscr. 
 
 1791, Ocf. 17.— Died, at North Hemi>strad, 
 Timothy Smith, at an advanced age ; for many 
 years first Judge. of Queens Couuty. Ivi hiui the 
 ])ublic have lost a valuable citizen, the widow an 
 atl(,t'ti/i)n,ii* and loving husband, aud the children a 
 teuiU-r and kind Uthcv.—Uail>/ Adrciiiscr. 
 
 1791, Ik'c. 21. — The season is mild ; nut-wood 
 sells from 106'. 0(/. to 11a'., aud oak, 7s. 6d. to 8s. 
 per load. 
 
 1792, Jiin. ^.^.--^ Harrj- Peters offers for sale Lis 
 highly uiiinnred farm, of one hundred aud fifty 
 iiuvv/, which cuts hfty loads of hay annually, situ- 
 ated in Soivt-li -Hempstead, within forty rods of two 
 ehinehes.. i>n it are a large house, barn and other 
 necessarv out-houses, and an. orchard. Its {deas- 
 ant, salubrious aud public situation, with the great 
 privilege of comuinnage in tlicj)lains and marshes, 
 (enabling tlie ])r()priil.ir to keep what stock he 
 pleaM.^) make it an object worth the attention of. 
 the farmer, trader or private gentleman. 
 
 "Tlio Anniversary of. Amcricnn Imtppeudcnce was cele- 
 bniteil at .Jjuiiaiin, in ITf'.t. by tlic ringing of bolls, the dis- 
 jilnvof till' t'nili'il State.s tliifj mul rppeatoti di.sclinrp.? from 
 11 |"iicc-<; iif artillci-v. Au oratimi w.ns dcliverpd by Is.iac 
 lAdvard, who jiresidcd at tlio IVstiv.il, wliirc the ii.siinl 
 fi.asts wcTC .bank. ,Jii.seiih Kobinson, Abraham Ditinars 
 and William Lawruiicr, i:.si|., rc(jiie.sted n copy ( f ih • ora- 
 tion, which was printed iu the >cw Yirk llcUy Museum, 
 No. CI— £</. 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 79 
 
 1792, Jan. — Gabriel "William and Gary Liicllow 
 ofier for sale the farm, now in occnpatiou of Oliver 
 Templeton,* consisting of two liundrod and eighty 
 acres, forty of which is wood-land and thirty salt- 
 meadow. One hundred loads of salt hay and 
 thirty of timothy and clover may be cut in common 
 seasons. It is in a pleasant part of the country, 
 three miles from Jamaica, four from Newtown, six 
 from Flatbush and nine from Brooklyn ferry, and 
 iu the neighborhood of the best fishing and fowling, 
 where great supplies may be procured with little 
 trouble. 
 
 1792, Fed. 6. — Joseph Pearsall offers for sale 
 his highly manured plantation of one hundred 
 acres, twenty of which is woodland, pleasantly 
 situated on the cast side of Cow Bay. It has a 
 variety of excellent fruit. The house is commodi- 
 ous, and has seven rooms ou a floor, and an even 
 kitchen with a pump of good water iu it, and milk- 
 room adjoining-. There are from two thousand five 
 hundred to three thousand locust trees of from 
 twelve to eighteen years growth, which, in a few 
 years, will be profitable for ship building. 
 
 1792, Feb. 6. — Albert Hoogland, Flushing, of- 
 fers for sale cheap, for no fault but only for want 
 of eniploj', a negro wench, aged thirty, who under- 
 stands all kinds of country house-work, with her 
 two children, a girl aged eighteen, and boy aged 
 six. — Bii'dij Advertiser. 
 
 1792, Fei. 1-5. — John Dudley,! during the Revo- 
 lutionary war, bought, for .£1,200, the house of 
 George Folliot, 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 relief.— CoZ. Mss., 102. 
 
 1792, Feb. 16. — For sale, the farm of Jonathan 
 bright, deceased, Fhishing, one mile from the 
 town-landiug, containing one huudrcd and sixty 
 acres, with an orchard of apples and pippins, 
 young growing woodland, and fresh and salt mea- 
 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. Anj^ person who would wish to pur- 
 chase may enquire at Hincliman's tavern, or to 
 Daniel Lndlam, the' owner, ono and a half miles 
 cast of Jamaica. — BaUij Advertiser. 
 
 1793, 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, ou the road to Jamaica, within 
 half a mile of David Titus' mill on the creek lead- 
 ing to Flushing Bay, containing forty-five acres. 
 Sedge drifts ou it. 
 
 *He was an auctioueer and stock broker in New York. — 
 Ed. 
 
 tDuclIey kept a bakery where Remseu's hotel now is. — 
 Ed. 
 
 1792. — John and Peter Hendricksou, Foster's 
 Meadow, oifer for sale, at vendue. May 1st, the 
 valuable form of Isaac Heudrickson, lately de- 
 ceased, containing one hundred and fifty acres, a 
 good house, barn, and bearing orchard. 
 
 Mr. GreENLEAF : On Tuesday, May 1st, 
 1792, the Academy, in Jamaica, called Union Hall, 
 pursuant to an advertisement in your poaper, was 
 opened for the reception of students. I was pres- 
 ent and participated iu all that satisfaction which 
 generally arises from the establishment of such 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 CUSTOMER. 
 
 About twelve o'clock the Trustees moved in 
 procession from Hincliman's Inn, Jamaica, to the 
 Hall, the Secretary being in front and bearing the 
 charter granted by the Regents. On arriving at 
 the Academy, they were conducted by the master 
 builder to the Hall. The company then being 
 seated, a Psalm was sung by a number of j-oung 
 ladies and gentlemen, selected for the purpose. An 
 oration was delivered by Abraham Skinner, Esq., 
 to a verj' 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, dined 
 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 cliarac- 
 ter and abilities. The prices for which tuition may 
 be had are : for the Latin and Greek languages, 
 mathematics, &c., <£6 per annum ; writing, arith- 
 metic and English grammar, ^£4 ; reading, writing 
 and arithmetic, c€3.4 ; reading and writing, ,£2,S ; 
 reading only c£2. 13oard may be had on very 
 reasonable terms. 
 
 Subscribers for building an Academy at Jamai- 
 
 John Allen, 
 
 £3 
 
 .Toliu Amliorman, 
 
 2 
 
 William Ballard, 
 
 3 
 
 Robert Benson, 
 
 2 
 
 Richard Betts, 
 
 1 
 
 Baruet Bennet, 
 
 4 
 
 Epliraim Bayles, 
 
 2 
 
 Daniel Bnyles, 
 
 .S 
 
 Leonard Blocker, 
 
 .5 
 
 Edward Bardin, 
 
 10 
 
 Joseph Beeslej', 
 
 ] 
 
 Cornelius J. Bogert, 
 
 a 
 
 Aury Boenmi, 
 
 ] 
 
 William Buckle, 
 
 5 
 
 James Burling, 
 
 ?, 
 
 .Tacob Beadle, 
 
 1 
 
 Samuel Brownjohn, 
 
 10 
 
 Benjamin Carpenter, 
 William C'aqienter, 
 iWhitehead Cornell, 
 Lewis Cornwall, 
 jThomas Comwell, 
 jCornelius Cre^d, 
 William Creed, 3d, 
 'Benjamin Coe, 
 ;William Creed, Jr., 
 Charles C'romnielin, 
 .Sylvester Cornell, 
 Slatthew M. Clarkson, 
 Governor Clinton, 
 Robert C'rommelin, 
 James Cummin<^, 
 .James Depeyster, 
 Abraham Ditmars, Jr., 
 
 £3.4 
 1 
 3 
 3 
 1 
 2 
 
 2 
 2 
 
 1 
 
 10 
 
 10 
 
 10 
 
 o 
 
 30 
 
 -19 
 
so 
 
 (;t u E E X s c u X T y 
 
 /'' 
 
 bamuol Deuton, 3 
 
 James Denton, 8 
 
 John Dcwiut, 5 
 
 John Dixon, 1 
 
 Ilcnry Dawson, . 2 
 Abraham Ditniors, 5 
 
 Jarvis Dobljs, 3 
 
 Thomas Durie, 2 
 
 John Duryc, 2 
 
 Aaron Diirje, 1 
 
 John Dudley, 3 
 
 John Evcrs, 2 
 
 Samuel Eldcrt, 1 
 
 Heudiiek Eldcrt, 1 
 
 Nicholas Everitt, 10 
 
 WiUiani Edgar, 20 
 
 Rev. George Fiiitoute, 10 
 Robert I'uriuan, 5 
 
 Seth Fairehild, 3 
 
 William Forbes, 4 
 
 Thomas Faireliild, 1 
 
 James Foster, 25 
 
 Samuel Forbes, 5 
 
 ■\Vaters Forbes, 2 
 
 Luke Fleet, 10 
 
 .John Faulkner, 2 
 
 Matthew Farriugton, 1. 4 
 James Ilerriuian, 30 
 
 StL])beu llerriman, 35 
 Joanna llinehmau, 20 
 Richard Holland, 2 
 
 Jonah Uallet. 3 
 
 John Hinchman, 4 
 
 Bernardus llendrlckson, 5 
 John J5. Hicks, 4 
 
 Rev. t\'illiani liammcll, 4. 5 
 Henry Higbie, 1 
 
 Daniel Higbie, 2 
 
 Hcndrick Jicndrickson, 5 
 William Hendrickson, 1 
 Richard Harrison, 2 
 
 Albert Hoogland, 
 
 3 loads timber. 
 1 
 5 
 5 
 5 
 2 
 
 jUcxander SIcComb, 
 Patrick MacDavitt, 
 John Jlnrray, 
 Dr. Jaeiib Ogdon, 
 Richard Piatt, 
 AVilliam Prince, 
 Jo.sejih Robinson, 
 James Renwick, 
 Michael Ritter, Jr., 
 XatLaniol Rhoades, 
 Abiathar Rhoades, 
 ■lames Smith, 
 Christopher Smith, 
 Abraham Skinner, 
 ilel.incton Smith, 
 James Southard, 
 Mary Smith, 
 Rem Sncdeker, 
 Femctie Snydnm, 
 John Smith, Sr., 
 Daniel Smith, 
 Jolm .Sn»ith, .Jr., 
 Silvester Smith, 
 John I. Skidmoro, 
 Joshna Sands, 
 ICliphalet Stratton, 
 Thomas H. Smith, 
 Ca]itain John Smith, 
 Nichola.s Smith, 
 Olhniel Smith, 
 Abigail Skidmore, 
 David Sproug, 
 Jacob Smith, 
 Piatt Smith, Jr., 
 John Trouji, 
 Roliert Troup, 
 Joseph Totten, 
 Richard Thoruo, 
 David Titus, 
 lienjamin Tlnirston, 
 John Thatford, 
 Daniel Tuthill, 
 Abraham Tuthill, 
 
 6. 
 1 
 2 
 
 10 
 
 10 
 
 2 
 
 10 
 
 3 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 15 
 
 5 
 
 15 
 
 10 
 
 5 
 
 3 
 
 2 
 
 1 
 
 2 
 
 G 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 2 
 
 I. 
 
 a 
 
 3 
 10 
 
 1 
 
 5 
 
 10 
 
 10 
 
 10 
 
 2 
 
 1.12 
 
 4 
 10 
 
 Jonathan Jones, 1 James Van Lew, 
 
 Martin Johnson, 5 Richard Van Dam, 5 
 
 John Jav, 5 Rev. Ryuicr Van Nest, 5 
 
 Daniel Kissam 5 John Van Lew.- 1 
 
 Dr. William Lawton, 2 Jost Van Brunt, 3 
 
 Isaac Leli'erts, Jr., 5 Abraham \i\n Arsdalc, 2 
 
 Dr. Lsiunc LeJyard, 2 John A'anderbilt, 2 
 
 Da-i-iJ Lamberson, 30 Samuel Vail, 5 
 
 Waters Lamberson, 3 John Van Low, 
 
 Nathaniel La\vreu';c, 5 John Van D>-nc, 10 
 
 William Lewis, 1 Eliiihalet Wickes, 10 
 
 Beniavdus Lamberson, 10 .John Williamson, 10 
 
 Hendriek Lotf, 1 Samuel Welling, 3 
 
 Fr.oucis Lewi.s, Jr., 4 Thomas Willet, 2 
 
 AVilliam Ludlam, 3 James Willet. 2 
 
 Nicholas Lndlum, 3 Lawrence Willet, 2 
 
 Dr. Daniel Miuema, 10 James WoodhuU, 2 
 
 James MorrcU, 2 .lames Waters, 20 
 
 Dr. Samuel L. Mitchell, 3 William Warne, .''■ 
 
 Uriah Mitchell, 2 William Waters, 10 
 
 Lambert Moore, 2 Thomas Welling, 2 
 
 James Mackrcl, 40 John WykolV, 4 
 
 N.ath.aniel Mills, 10 Williiim Wilkin.s, 1.4 
 
 Jacob Morton, 4 IStejihen Wnght, 3 
 
 On the completion of the Academy a principal 
 •was sotiglit for, aiul lotter.s sent to the llcv. Cave 
 Jones,, (ieivlioni Williams, AVilliam Circcn and 
 jM.altby Gclston. Tlie last Avas .appointed, receiv- 
 ing for liis compensation the prolil^• nrising from 
 the tuition of the scholais. The following text 
 books were adopted by the Trustees : 
 
 English.— I. 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 bo read by infe- 
 rior scholars, and once a day by all. 
 
 Latin. — 1. lloss', Kiiddiman's, or John Holmes' 
 Grammar. 
 
 2. Colloquia Corderii, Erasmus, Selectae Vetcris, 
 Selectaj profanis, Nepos, /Esop's fables, Florus, 
 Hair's Introduction, Caesar, Virgil, Cicero's Ora- 
 tions and De Oratore, Horace. 
 
 Greek. — Moore's Grammar, Testament, Lucian's 
 Dialogues, the Cyropajdia, Louginus, the Iliad. 
 
 Ilheforic. — Blair's Belles Lcttres. 
 
 Geograplitj. — Guthrie's or Salmon's grammar. 
 
 JIdtJicmalics. — Stone's Euclid, Martin's Trigo- 
 nometry, or Warden's ^Mathematics. 
 
 Among the Rules were the following : 
 
 3d. Every scholar when the tutor, or any gen- 
 tleman, comes in or goes out, shall rise up with a 
 respectful bow. 
 
 Tth. Every scholar shall be particularly careful 
 to treat all men, and especially known superiors, 
 with the greatest modesty and respect. 
 
 The motto of tlie seal was : 
 
 SiffiUum Aid(C Unilatis. Semper hiecat scieniiee 
 sol. Within : Jlic lu.v et veritalis. 
 
 In English : The se.al of Union Ilall. ^lay the 
 sun of science always shine. Here be light and 
 truth.]— iU 
 
 1702, 2Iai) 18. — Uriah Pearsall begs leave to ac- 
 quaint the public that he has erected a stage-wagon, 
 calculated for tlic convenience of passengers from 
 Kockaway and Brooklyn for the summer season. 
 It will leave William Pearsall's tavern, Near 
 Kockaway, Monday and Friday, at twelve o'clock, 
 and return, Tuesday and Saturday, at eight pre- 
 cisely, at the moderate price of 5s. each passenger. 
 — Dady Adv. 
 
 1792, June 2. — Died, at Jamaica, on Saturday 
 last, sincerely regretted by all who knew him, 5Ir. 
 Stephen llerriman. He was unfortuuately thrown 
 from a chair, on the ISlli ult., and fractured his 
 leg, of which he died. — Kcw York Wccldi/ Muse- 
 um. 
 
 1792, June 6. — Vote of Queens County : 
 
 Corcnior. Sentilors. 
 
 O 
 
 a 
 
 a 
 
 72 
 
 
 
 Oysterl.av, - - - 65 58 IG 23 107 6 17 
 
 South H'empstead, 155 84 10 — 201) 1 113 
 
 North Hemnstcad, - 68 GO 40 11 11!) 20 15 
 
 Newtown, - - - 112 3S) 1 8 88 - 134 
 
 Flushing, - - - - r,2 23 1 9 44 48 18 
 
 Jamaica, 00 24 38 20 53 17 2! 
 
 Total, 
 
 - 532 288 115 71 620 92 318 
 
 •Elected. 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES, 
 
 81 
 
 1792, Jitli) 5. — liieliard Belts, Newtown, wliile 
 riding on the axle-tree of a bark-mill, where Peter 
 Seaman was grinding bark with a horse, fell from 
 it, and the wheel passed over and killed him. 
 
 1792, Scj)t. 6. — $8 Rcivarcl and cJiarges. — Ran 
 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 2Sth, at Whcatlj, Jacob 
 Titus, aged ninety. He lived to see the fifth gen- 
 eration of his descendants, and has left surviving 
 children, grand-children and great grand-children, 
 &c., upwards of 250. — Daili/ Adv. 
 
 1792. — The Beaver Pond Races begin October 
 18th, (if fair weather) at half-past one o'clock. A 
 purse of =£20 — the best of three two-mile heats. 
 Entrance with William Warue, 205. The nest 
 day a saddle, bridle and whip to be run for (free 
 for any horse that did not run the first day) the 
 best of three one-mile heats. SI, 00 entrance. 
 
 P. S. Not less than three reputable horses to 
 start. 
 
 1792, Nov. 1. — Fox Hunting. — The hunt will 
 be on Long Island, Friday next. The dogs will 
 be cast ofi' at sun-rise that morning, in Mr. Dough- 
 ty's woods, south of Jamaica. 
 
 MARSH, 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- 
 dance of young locust and other trees. On it are a 
 barn, two hovels, new granary, crib, and chair- 
 house. 
 
 1792, Dec. 15.— Amos Mills offers for sale his 
 farm of one hundred and forty, acres, at the east 
 end of Jamaica. It has a stone well, and cuts fif- 
 ty loads of timothy and clover. 
 
 1793, tFan. 5. — A Long Island Iwr/ 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 and thirty-one pounds. 
 
 1793, Jan. 9.— David Undorhill, Flushing, of- 
 fers for sale his farm of one hundred acres, ten of 
 salt meadow and ten of young timber, two and a 
 half miles from the town. Ou 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 Simonson, 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, ou the main road to Huntington. 
 Ou it are a crib, barn, smoke-house, chair-house, 
 &c. , 
 
 1793, Jan. 11. — James Burling, 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 iu the centre for cattle, a 
 variety of fruits, such as apples, pears, plums, 
 cherries, peaches and apricots. There is a swamp, 
 of thrifty wood affording suflicient firing for the 
 place, also fresh and salt meadow producing suffi- 
 cient hay for the farm. 
 
 1793, Jan. 11.— S5 Iteivard and charges. — Ran 
 away from Thomas Lawrence, Newtown, a negro 
 boy, Harry, aged 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, Oysterbay, 
 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 pai'ts 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 
 lauding, ou 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 ot timber 
 on it, and twenty acres of salt meadow. A large 
 quantity of fresh gTass 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, Fel. 12.— To lot, the pleasant and eligible 
 house and farm of two hundred acres, and salt 
 meadow, at Flushing, Bayside, at present in the 
 tenure of William Ouvet and John Peck. It has 
 a prospect of the Sound and ail 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 tlie beach in large quantities. Enquire of Eli- 
 jah Pell, N. Y. 
 
 1793.— Died, at Halifax, Feb. 16, Elizabeth, 
 the amiable consort of Lawrence Hartshorue, 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, 
 
s-^ 
 
 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 at Abraham Rapclyc'.s, February 27th, Coloucl 
 Daniel Lawrence iu the chair, it was requested 
 that a correspondence should be entered into with 
 the other towns of this county to fix ou a proper 
 person to represent them iu the Legislature ; 
 
 Ttcsdlvcd, That Isaac Corsa, John liawrcncc and 
 Robert Moore, Esqrs., be a committee for that pur- 
 pose ; 
 
 llcsdlveil, That it is the intent of this meeting to 
 support Samuel Eiker for Assembly. 
 
 1793, Feb. 20. — Vote of Long Island for a mem- 
 ber of Congress : 
 
 
 
 
 £ '^ 
 
 
 o:^ 
 
 H- ' ^_^ 
 
 
 
 II 
 
 
 M 
 
 Newlown, 
 
 39 
 
 7 
 
 74 
 
 Janiiiiea. 
 
 - 31 
 
 £3 
 
 76 
 
 Flnsliing', 
 
 76 
 
 yo 
 
 1j 
 
 Soutli Ilemiistcail, 
 
 - 27 
 
 431 
 
 16 
 
 Koilh HeiiiiKtc.id, - 
 
 23 
 
 f2 
 
 31 
 
 Ovotfib.iv, - 
 
 - 104 
 
 45 
 
 153 
 
 Suffolk County, 
 
 44 
 
 30 
 
 1069 
 
 Kin<,'s County, - 
 
 - 4-25 
 
 ; 35 
 
 12 
 
 Totnl, .... 709 C73 1446 
 
 1793, Fd). 2S. — George Townsend offers for 
 sale the farm of Benjamin Townsend, deceased, at 
 Jericho. It is not ini'erior to anj' 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 Plain.? in good fence. 
 
 1703. — At a numerous and respectable meeting 
 of the electors of I'lusliing, Newtown and Jamaica, 
 at 3Irs. Ilinclimau's, Jamaica, ^farcli 2d, JIajor 
 Lewis Cornwall in the chair and Eliplialct Wickes, 
 C'lerk ; it was voted and agreed, by a large majo- 
 rity, that Dr. Isaac Lcdyard and John 1!. llicks, 
 be held u]> as proper persons to represent this 
 county in the Assembly. 
 
 1793. — Simeon DeWilt, Surveyor-General, ad- 
 vertises for sale, March .5th, at the house of Dan- 
 iel Monfort, Norwidi, all the right and title of the 
 people of the Stale of New York to the lands 
 deemed to be forfeited by the attainder of Thomas 
 Jones, viz: all the meadow, fresh and salt, Ij'ing 
 ou the south side of Long Island, juining to the 
 Beach, between the gut called JIassapage, west, 
 or thereabout, and the west gut, called Jlerrick 
 gut, and the hammocks and broken meadow lying 
 between Oystcrbay meadow and the beach, with 
 the privilege of the beach, to the salt sea. Deed 
 given without warrantee. — iV. Y. Journal. 
 
 1793, March 11. — Samuel Uuderhill, Flushing, 
 ofi'ers for sale that jdcasant and advantageously 
 situated jdace, of seventy acres of upland and four- 
 teen of salt meadow, near the lauding, and adjoin- 
 ing the place formerly of Robert Crommelin. On 
 it is an orchard of apples, peaches, plums, &c. 
 
 •Elected. 
 
 1793, March 23.— Dr. S. L. Mitchell advises 
 the farmers, a.s fencing stuff is becoming scarce, to 
 plant hedges of the wliite mulbeiry* whose leaves 
 would also yield food for the silk-worm.— 2)a% 
 A ihertiscr. 
 
 1793, March 2G.— Samuel Jackson offera for 
 sale his farm, at Oysterbay, thirty-four miles from 
 New York, near Cold Spring, and witliin oue mile 
 of the landing, whence sloops attend the New 
 York market weekly. It contains three hundred 
 acres, of which two himdred is timber laud, the re- 
 mainder ai'able. 
 
 1793, March 2G. — Taken np a swimming, at 
 Ilell-Gratc, by Caleb Schuyler, a horse, which is 
 now on Barn Island. The owner may have him 
 by paying all costs and charges accniing. If not 
 claimed in two months, he will be sold to defray 
 expenses. — Dailif Adv. 
 
 1793, Jul;/ G.— William "\Varne informs the 
 public in general and his former customers that he 
 has furnisiicd himself with an elegant coachee suf- 
 ficiently large to carry six passengers. It will 
 run daily, except Sundays, from his house, Jamai- 
 ca, at 7, and return from Mr. Allen's, Brooklyn 
 ferrv, at 4, at the moderate iince of 2.s\ G(7. Let- 
 ters and newspapers for customers earned gratis. 
 
 1793, Sept. 18. — Bcnvcr Poiul Eaccs.—A purse 
 of c£20 — entrance with "William "Warne, 20.?. The 
 next day a race for a saddle, bridle and whip. 
 Not less th.an three reputable horses to start.. 
 
 1793, Sept. 24. — Edmund Ludlow, of New 
 York, gentleman, was indicted in (.Queens County 
 for an assault on Elizabeth Kcteltas, of Jamaica. 
 He gave bail for his appear.auce at trial in the 
 sum of jC2, 000— Carey and Gabriel AV. Ludlow, 
 £1000 each; but he failed to appear and the 
 Court ordered tliat their recognizances be estrcat- 
 cd.t — Court Minutes. 
 
 1793. — Absalom, otherwise called Bob, a negro, 
 was tried, .September 21th, before Judge Lansing, 
 for robbery and as.sault on Elizabetli ^lercier, 
 Newtown, and sentenced to bo h.angcd, October 
 2i)th, at the usual jdace of execution. The wit- 
 nesses were Jonah Ilallet, John D. ]\rcrcier and 
 AVilliam Lawrence. He was twenty-one weeks in 
 jail. 
 
 1793. Dec. 2. — Ch.arles Gallifar, schoolmaster, 
 going from Hog Island to Oak Neck, being intoxi- 
 cated with liquor, fell into the bay and was 
 drowned instantly. 
 
 1793, Dec. 21. — Slo Eetcard. — Ran away from 
 Samuel Fish> Newtown, a negro man, I'ompcy, 
 aged thirty, lie has a down look when spoken 
 to and had his shoes tied witli strings. 
 
 Tnstcail of prim formerly used, but killed liy fro.«t in 
 1779-fn.— K(/. 
 
 tMis.s Kelcllas, Maifli 12, 1703, petitioned the Legislature 
 tor a grant of the money thus forfeited. 
 
\ 
 
 IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 S3 
 
 1793, I)cc. 2.5. — Charles Doughty, Flushing; of- 
 fers for sale the farm of Bciijamia Duseubury, de- 
 
 ' ceased, at Foster's Meadow, on the road from Ja- 
 maica to Hemp.=tead, containing one hundred and 
 forty acres. It is a good stand for a shopkeeper, 
 as a shop has been kept there many years. It has 
 an apple orchard, aud other trees. 
 
 1794, Jan. 11.— $10 Txcicard. — Ean away from 
 John Eapclye, Newtown, a negro boy, Joe, aged 
 twenty, who speaks plain English. He had on a 
 blue, long coat, di-ab overalls^ shoes tied and a felt 
 hat. 
 
 1794, Jan. 6.— Jonah Hallet, Esq., offers for 
 sale twft farms, occupied by him, in the centre of 
 the pleasant and salubrious town of Newtown. 
 There are seventy-fiye acres, ten of which is mea- 
 dow, producing forty loads ot English hay, one 
 two-story double house, aad a stone house and 
 kitchen. 
 
 ^ 1794, Jan. 6.— Jamos Lloyd, of Boston, offei's 
 for sale the house, barn, aud farm of six hundred 
 acres, on the east end of Lloyd's Neck, so well 
 known for its convenieut situation aud other yalu- 
 
 , able properties. 
 
 1794, Jan. 11. — $10 Beward. — liato away from 
 
 John Itapelye, Newtown, a negro boy, Joe, aged 
 
 twenty, who speaks plain English. . Tie had on a 
 
 blue long coat, drab oyeralls, shoes tied and a felt 
 
 ■ hat. . 
 
 ' 1794, Jan. IS.— Died, on Monday, at Newtown, 
 ■* "William Lawrence, Esq., aged sixty-five. His re- 
 mains wei'e interred in the family burjnng ground, 
 attended by a large collection of relations and 
 friends. In him, his wife is bereft of an affection- 
 ate husband, his children of a loving and indulgent 
 parent, his relations of a worthy and sincere friend, 
 and the public of a useful, benevolent and valuable 
 man. — Daih/ Adv. 
 
 1794, Jan. 22. — Josiah Blackwell, Newtown, 
 offers for sale half of BlackwcU's Island, consisting 
 of fifty-nine aci'cs, with house, two orchards and a 
 number of [quarries of the best gray stone, which 
 are an inexhaustible source of profit. 
 
 1794. — Died, Jan. 25, after a very short illness, 
 Eev. Leonard Cutting, aged sixtj'-nine, formerly 
 professor of Greek and Latin at Columbia College, 
 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 fJ-iends.~--Z'rti7^ Adv. 
 
 l"{ii,i Jan. 28.— Charles Fan-iugton offers for 
 Bale his farm, of forty acres, two miles from New- 
 town landing. . 
 
 1794, Feb. 9.— §5 Beivard.—Vvan away from 
 Abraham Polhcmus, Newtown, a negro man. Jack, 
 who wore a jacket with sleeves, and his hair tied 
 couped at the ears. 
 
 1794, Feh. 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 asd chestnut. - 
 The farm is natural for grass aud grain, and lies 
 two miles from a landing. Enquire of Isaac Un- 
 derhill. Flushing ; Amos Uuderhill, on the premi- 
 ses, or David, Underbill, New York. 
 
 1794, Fch 12. — Dr. Daniel Meuema, Jamaica, is 
 appointed Sheriff of Queens County. 
 
 1794, Feb. 12. — Ran away from Henry Prior, 
 Oysterbay, Jacob Tobias, a white boy, aged four- 
 teen. He had on a mixed colored coatee, jacket, 
 breeches, and old hat. Is. 6d. reward. 
 
 1794, Feb. 21.— For sale, the farm of William- 
 Lawrence, deceased, Newtown, containing two 
 hundred and thirty acres or firable, timber and 
 meadow land, fenced principally with stone, one _ 
 mile from Hallett's Cove. It has a delightful aud 
 singuhu'ly extensive prospect. On it are a barn 
 witli shelters on each side, a granary with a cider- 
 mill under it, a stone smoke-house, barrack, crib, 
 &c., four orchards, producing one thousand barrels 
 of pippins aud two hundred barrels of cider. 
 There is an excellent stone-quarry and an acre of 
 tm-f-meadow. 
 
 1794, Feb. 22. — Daniel Lawrence, John B. 
 Hicks aud Thomas Corn well, offer for sale the 
 farm of John Talman, deceased, two miles from 
 Bayside landing, where a great variety of fish are 
 caught, 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- kitchens, two barns, a 
 granary, wagon-house and crib. 
 
 1794, March 4.— Abiathar Rhodes offers, on 
 generous terms, his beautiful and pleasant farm of 
 three himdred and seventy acres, with woodland 
 and salt and fresh meadow, at Jamaica South. 
 On it are a new house with four rooms 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 the house. 
 
 1794, March 12. — Abraham Polhemus, Sr., 
 Dutch Kills, offers for sale his farm, of sixty or 
 seventy acres, on wbieh 'are an orchard, weava- 
 shop, &c. 
 
 1794, March lo,-T-Abraham Skinner, Jamaica, 
 oners for sale his farm, of forty acres, six of mea- 
 dow and eight of woodland. It would suit a gen- 
 tleman or farmer, and has every conveniencv. 
 The, house has seven rooms, a pantry, with kitchen 
 cdj.oining, and & well near the kitchen door. 
 
 1794, March 14.— To let, the bouse and farm, 
 where William Poarsall now lives, afc-Near Rocka- 
 way, within twenty rods of Dorlon's mill, where 
 vessels go and come from New York every week 
 during summer, and where may be had a great 
 plenty of fish and fowl in their season. Th 
 
 29- 
 
84 
 
 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 pleasantness of the jilace (as it is so well kuown^ 
 needs no liirtlier recommendation. 
 
 1794, A2))il 21. — BeAvcr I'ond Races, on JJou- 
 day. Purse, jC20. Entrance, 20s., the Saturday 
 before. Any horse that has won ^£20 must carry 
 six lbs. extra weight. Next day a race for au ele- 
 gant saddle. 
 
 1794, April 2. — -SIO iLCicard. — Ran away from 
 Charles Ilewlelt, Eastwoods, a ucgro man, ageJ 
 tweuty-ftve, named Spry or Zenas. 
 
 1794, April S. — John 13. llieks oEfurs for sale 
 his farm, of l«'o hundred and forty-five acre.s, west 
 side of J.,ittlc Neck Haj' commonly called liayside. 
 On it is a good dwelling-house, with au 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. — EDUCATION.— An Academy 
 is ju.*t o])ened at the pleasant and healtliy town of 
 South Hempstead, wherein the Greek, Latin, 
 French and English languages will be faithfully 
 taught, and the morals and manuers of the youth 
 diligently inspected and carefully regulated. The 
 law.s made i'or the government of the Institution, 
 and terms on which board and tuition can be ob- ; 
 taincd, ma)- be known by applying to the printer. 
 
 By order of the Trustees, : 
 
 JOHX Leffeets, Sccretarij. 
 
 1794, Oct. S. — The Beaver Pond Races took 
 place on Tuesday last. Six horses ran for the 
 Purse of .£100. rolijdorc, of New York, took the 
 first and second heat and purse. On Wednesday, 
 a purse of .£50 was run for by seven horses, and 
 take.i l)y Young Messenger, from New Jersey, over 
 Gold Toes, of N'cw York, who won the first heat. 
 On Thur.-'day, a purse of .£47 lO.s. was run for by 
 six horses, aud taken by lied Bird. There were 
 between two and three thousand s])ectators aud no 
 accident happened.— iV^. Y. Jottrmd. 
 
 Names of persons who contributed to the repairs 
 and support of of the Episcopal Chiueli, in Jamai- 
 ca, at various times, from 17SG to 1794 : 
 
 178fi;Maekerel, .lames I7!)3 
 
 179:! MeXeil, Cliailes 17!):! 
 
 ]7S()lMonel, Janios 179:! 
 
 I7.-J0 Moiiltou, Charles 1793 
 
 ]7riG Ogilui), Jacob 1793 
 
 1793,05rJon, IVltr 17S4 
 
 ]78() I'ettit, Is.i.ac 1793 
 
 ]793i!5kinutr, Abraham 1786 
 
 ]78(i>!mitb, Christ(ii)her 17SG 
 
 ]7il3Thattbrcl, Jolni 3793 
 
 ]7rtriTron]i, ,Ji.bn 178() 
 ]793 Trou)), Kobert 
 
 17'.I4 Van Nostraiid, Aaron 1784 
 
 1781) Van NostianJ, John, 1793 
 
 nf^t) Waters, William 17815 
 
 17^(1 Waters, John 1. 178f) 
 
 1791, Welling, Thmiias 1786 
 
 178G|Welliu<r, .Samuel 178G 
 
 1795. — Jan Cth was observed as a day of IIu- 
 
 *He died at Jamaica, May 24, 1798, aged fifty-ciglit. — 
 Ed. 
 
 Bariliii, KchvarJ 
 Battiii, John 
 Bedel Jacob. Ckrh 
 Belts, Tlioma.s 
 Brownjohn, Samuel 
 Carpenter, Benjamin 
 Charlton, John 
 Claikson, Lcvinus* 
 Colgan, Thomas 
 Crommelin, Kobert 
 iJopcyster, James 
 Budley, John 
 Dunn, Jolni 
 Eiljjar, William 
 Elclert, Samuel 
 I'lcminpr, Samson 
 Hinelimaii, John 
 Kissam, Daniel 
 
 inillation and Pr.iycr, tliroughout the States of 
 New York and New Jersey. 
 
 1795. — Canvass of the vote of Queens County : 
 
 Consrefs. 
 
 
 
 
 u 
 
 y^ 
 
 5r-<- 
 
 \ 
 
 
 h^ 
 
 Ch 
 
 %^ 
 
 
 I 
 
 
 
 II 
 
 r-3 
 
 1^ 
 
 Ovsterbar, - - 
 
 - r,.-> 
 
 r.9 
 
 1.-. 
 
 C4 
 
 4 
 
 18 
 
 South Menipstend, 
 
 - 2! 
 
 214 
 
 304 
 
 3G 
 
 G 
 
 1 
 
 North Hempstead, 
 
 - ii 
 
 SO 
 
 30 
 
 51 
 
 19 
 
 is 
 
 Klnshing, - - - 
 
 ■ 34 
 
 r.2 
 
 1 
 
 54 
 
 o 
 
 4 
 
 Jamaica, - - - 
 
 - 75 
 
 23 
 
 2G 
 
 X, 
 
 17 
 
 7 
 
 Newtown, - - 
 
 - 77 
 
 48 
 
 
 
 37 
 
 26 
 
 3 
 
 Total, - - 30G 482 370 277 74 Gl 
 
 1795. — During a severe snow storm the ancient 
 family of Stites, Hempstead, became extinct. The 
 father, William, aud his sons, .all went into the bay 
 and a snow storm suddenly coming up, they were 
 unable to reach any human abode. The next 
 morning they were found frozen to death, in a 
 boat-house near their boat. 
 
 1795, April S. — 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 Ilicks, Far Rockaw.ay, 
 .offers for sale his farm, of four hundred acres, ou 
 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-pond, called the Alley, and 
 was drowned. 
 
 1795. — A number of the inhabitants of North 
 Hempstead met to celebrate the Fourth 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. Tlie President of the United States. 
 
 4. The State of New York. 
 
 5. The Governor of this State. 
 
 6. The Congress of the United States. 
 
 7. xVgricultnre, Commerce aud JIamifactures. 
 
 8. The Republic of France. 
 
 9. The Rej.ublic of Holland. 
 
 10. A general peace in Europe, favorable to Re- 
 publics 
 
 11. He whose country is the world, aiul whose 
 religion is to do good. 
 
 12. ]^Iay the citizens of the United States, in 
 their ])rosperity, never forget industry, economy 
 and Justice. 
 
 13. The Rights of Man. Three cheers. 
 
 1 1. ;May each return of the day, bring to our 
 country an increase of happiness. 
 
 •Elected. , , 
 
 tVates ran twice for Governor; first on tlie Federal, and 
 then ou the Itepublicau ticket, but was never clectc^d.— AV/. 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 85 
 
 12. Tbc Americau Fair. Three cheers. 
 
 170-5, Sept. 23.— For sale, the farm of John 
 Troup, consi.stiug of eighteen acres, withiu lialf a 
 mile of the centre of the village of Jamaica. It 
 TTOuld suit a gentleman in business or retired. 
 The garden is iu cedar-paled fence, and has apri- 
 cots, nectarines, &c. 
 
 1795, Oct. .31. — At the New JMarkct Course, on 
 Wednesday last, was a match race for 8-'>00 by 
 Mr. Seabury's horse, Poli/dore, and Mr. Allen's 
 mare, Virf/iitia XcU. The latter won. They ran 
 the two four-mile heats. The running was equal, 
 if not superior, to any before. Pohjdorc had trav- 
 elled two much of late. — N, Y. Journal. 
 
 1795. — Joseph Crispin died in a fit, in a piece 
 of woodland, in Nortli Hempstead, some time in 
 the first part of November. 
 
 1796, Jan. 2. — For sale, a farm of one hundred 
 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 cheny trees. 
 Apply to Charles ^Yelling, on the premises, or 
 Charles Welling, Jr., New York. 
 
 1796, Jan. IS. — The name of South Hempstead 
 ■was altered to Hempstead. — Ass. Jour. 
 
 1796, Fch. 2. — For sale, the two-story house 
 and lot of David Lamberson, in the double street, 
 Jamaica, next door to Sirs. Ilinchman's tavern. 
 It has the necessary out-houses, cistern, garden 
 and small orchard. It has been occupied fifty 
 years as a store. 
 
 1796, Fch. 9.— Thomas Denton offers for sale 
 his house and three-quarters of an acre of land, on 
 which is a hatter's shop, with tools, ojiposite the 
 Academy, Jamaica. 
 
 1796, March 7.— David Doty, Richard Sands 
 and Samuel Woolley, petition the Legislature for 
 the exclusive right of a ferry on the East River, 
 from Queens to Westchester County. — Ass. Jour. 
 
 1796, March 29. — To tJi£ Electors of Queens 
 County: — Having been prevented by public du- 
 ties, for some years past, from attending to my 
 private concerns, I must decline a nomination for 
 Representative to Congress. I beg mj fellow- 
 citizens to accept my grateful acknowledgements 
 for the confidence they have been pleased to re- 
 pose in me, by honoring me with their suffrages on 
 so many occasions. 
 
 Nathaniel Laweence. 
 
 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-oifices, two farm-houses, 
 and a green-house well furnished with tropical 
 plants. It is well calculated for a family of taste 
 
 and fortune, being in a centre of country abounding 
 in game of all sorts. Apply to John 11. Thompson, 
 New York, or Charles Moultou^ — Bailij Advertiser. 
 
 1796. — The widow Gilzian will sell at auction, 
 April Sth, her house, barn, farming utensils, and 
 farm of twentj'-two acres of homestead, chiefly 
 orcharding of peaches, pears, &c., one mile from 
 Newtown, on the stage-road, a r[uarter 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, uuder the solo 
 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 Wame, Jamaica, 
 where he intends to keep a genteel house of enter- 
 tainment. He has laid in an assortment of the 
 best Liquors, and flatters himself to be enabled 
 to give general satisfaction to the public. — Daily 
 Adv. 
 
 1T9G, May 7. — Mr. St. Marj', late proprietor, 
 oft'ers for sale, a form of three himdred 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, fowl, 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 
 manure for corn. Also, twelve milch cows well 
 chosen. — Daily Adv. 
 
 1796, May 20. — For sale, the house, lot and 
 well manured garden of Mr. St. Mary, in Jamaica 
 village. He and his elephant are about leaving 
 New York. — iV. 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 gi-ammar, Latin, Greek and 
 French. Manners and morals will be attended to. 
 Board for either sex may be had in respectable 
 families. Further particulai-s may be had of Rev. 
 Nathan Woodhull. — N. Y. Journal. 
 
 1796, 3Iay 24.— The Latin and Greek lan- 
 guages, and sciences, are taught at Union Hall* 
 Academ}^ 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. — N. Y. Journal. 
 
 1796, June 3. — Vote of Queens County, for 
 four Senators of the Southern District : 
 
 ^Called Union HiiU from being built by a. union of the 
 thi-ee towns of Jamaica, Flushing and Newtown. — Ed. 
 
86 
 
 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 Republican. i Federal. 
 
 Anriin l!iin-. - - 223 Jjynrs Watson," - 455 
 
 Jolm .^iliPiitk, - - 2;i3 A. Otnlorcliink,* - - S07 
 
 Jolm Smith, - - 212 Snm.icl Ilai^rl't.* - 440 
 
 Abtl Smith, - - - 11*] Sclah Strong," - - 459 
 
 17 96, June 6. — Teiemiali \'amlribilt, Jr., Far 
 RocUan-.ay, tlianks liis friends for past favoiv, and 
 informs them that he is now furnished wiili large 
 airy rooms for parties, jiud has erected a ucw con- 
 venient stage, to run Monday and Friday, at one 
 P. M., from his house to Brooklyn ferry, stop a lit- 
 tle time. at Jamaica, and return from Jacob Uicks', 
 Brooklyn, .Tuesday and Saturday, at two P. M. 
 Each passenger, 8»\ ; one hundred and fifty pounds 
 b.nggage equal to a p.tssengcr ; 3(/. a letter. — X. Y. 
 Bhry. 
 
 179G, July 19. — Ii.au away from James Smith, 
 Jamaica, an apprentice boy, George Ludiuni, aged 
 nineteen, a shoemaker, lie had on a striped nan- 
 keen coat, coarse jean waistcoat, plain nankeen 
 brecehea with ferret strings at the knees. lie is 
 very impudent and forward in company. "Who 
 ever puts him iu jail, &c., shall receive 810 re- 
 ward. 
 
 179G, Julij 19. — Last week the vegetable world 
 ha.s been refreshed by plcnteou.s libations from the 
 celestial water-pots, and all n.ature seems revived. 
 The season has been favorable to the early harvest, 
 and exuberant crops ai-e taking in. 
 
 1796, Aug. 1. — Died, at Newtown, aged twenty- 
 six, Mr. Philip SUimicr, formerly of IS'ew Jersi'y, 
 after five hours illness, llis jiarents are deprived 
 of a dutiful child, and an eiLtensivo circle of ac- 
 quaintances of :i very agreeable companion. — N. 
 Y. Journal. 
 
 179G, Auf/. 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 otlier out-buildings, an orchard and gar- 
 den in full bearing— all in good fence. — Daily Adv. 
 
 170C, Aug, 16.— For sale, the farm of William 
 Wood, deceased, containing three bmidred 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 diH'erent kinds of grass seed. Ninety 
 loads of hay mr y be cut yearly. The house has a 
 piazza in front, a portal and entry, with two par- 
 lors and three bed-rooms. The rooms are papered. 
 and fit for the reception of n. 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 communioated by spouts 
 from a pump. There is an orchard of three hun- 
 dred trees, two gardens, six asparagus-beds, hot- 
 beds, pears, poaches, nectarines, j)Imii3, strawber- 
 ries and cherries. On the other side of the road is 
 an eminence commanding u. view of Jamaica bay, 
 the hills and adjaceut countiy, and containing sixty 
 acres, with two houses, one for an overseer. It js 
 
 •Elected. 
 
 two miles from two good landing". The bay af- 
 fords clam-i, fish and oysters. In winter there is 
 good fowling, and a trout stream U miles distant. 
 Enfiuire of Sarah Wood, on the premises. — Uailij 
 Aih: 
 
 1793, Aug. 18.— Thomas Woolley offers for 
 sale his farm of one hiindi-cd acres of good kind 
 land, fronting the East Iliver, and sixteen acres of 
 ap])roved turf bottom, cqnal to any in Europe, 
 having been cut down fifteen feet and growing 
 better. Shell and scale-fish may be t.iken every 
 day. AVoodeock, quail and other small gaiijc iu 
 plenty. I'assage and m irket boats p.iss daily, 
 with the ple.ising prospect of all the shipping "to 
 and from New York. Also, stock and favniing 
 utensils. Dated at (ireat Neck. 
 
 1796, Aug. aS.-William CrosswcU, A. M., late 
 master of the Academy at Jamaica, has opened a 
 school in Liberty Street, New York. 
 
 1796, Sept. 2. —Thomas Ardcn, at the head of 
 Newtown Creek, otters for sale bis farxu- of one 
 hundred and aevcntj- acres, moat of which is ready 
 for the scythe or plow. 
 
 1796. Sc2)t. 5.— Died, at Flushing, Sund.ay, 
 se'nuight, Ger.ird G. Beekman, Esq., aged seventy- 
 seven, a citizen , of New York, whose hospitality 
 and good old wine endeared hira to many friends. 
 He had retired from business to pass the remainder 
 of his life in quiet, and enjoy those rational amuse- 
 ments i^hieli, the (lolightful phiius of Long Island 
 afibrded him. — 2[. Y. Jour. 
 
 1<T;6, Oct. C.-T.rStephen Stilwcll o(r<M-s for sale 
 his farm, (where a store is now kept) containing 
 tv/cnty acres, and half an acre of turf for fuel, in a 
 pleasant and healthy situation, between two roads, 
 one from Newtown to Hell-Gate ferry and the oth- 
 er to I'lr^biug Bay. It ia convenient for a gentle- 
 man retired from business, or doing business in the 
 city. On it are orchards of apples, pears, peaches 
 and plums. A row of black cherry-trees extends 
 from one end of the farm to the . other. Also, 
 gooseberries, raspberries, currants, almonds and 
 butternuta. The liouse is two-stories high, forty 
 feet front, with piazza and a beautiful green before 
 the door. 
 
 1796, Oct. 31. — On the evening of a .Sheep-p.art- 
 ing, iu Jolm Brush's work-room, North Kemp- 
 stead, Rock's Ben cluilleiiged Elias Nation, a inus- 
 tec, 10 fight with him. Elias at first declined, but 
 Ben struck him atiu they had two scuffles. lOze- 
 kiel Baldwin held the candle near half an liour, 
 and .Josejih Seaman .stood by with a slick. While 
 Ben had Eli;us down, a white man (unknown) and 
 Micah Jackson (colored) kicked Elias in the small 
 of the back and sidcji, so that he died thereof No- 
 vember 8th.— Coroner's Inquest. 
 
 1796, Nov. 'i.-^Abiatliar Rlionds, Jamaica, of- 
 fers for sale, the farm on which he lives, forty rods 
 from the Episcopal riiureb, on the roa^ to ITtLsh- 
 ing. It contains twenty-two acres, in cedar and 
 chestnut fence, and a well of extraordinary water. 
 
 V 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 S7 
 
 179G, Nov. 19. — Benjauiin Coe offers for sale, 
 liis form of seventy-two acres, in a bigli state of 
 cultivation, at Xewtowu, witliia half a mile of three 
 churches, and near the Academy. On it arc two 
 dwelling-houses, bam, orchards, &c. — Dail>/ Ado. 
 
 1797, Fch. 11. — James Smith offers for sale 
 the pleasant farm, formerly of Colonel Gabriel Gr. 
 Ludlow, containing one hundred and twelve acres 
 of arable land, impro^-ed with ashes, and thirty of 
 ■woodland, enclosed iu cbestmit and cedar fence. 
 On it are a large hou=c and dairy, stone v.'elJ, lai'ge 
 cemented cistern, two capacious barns, two apple- 
 orchards, with peaclies, pears, plums and cherries 
 of almost everj' description. It yields twenty to 
 thirty tons of English hay. It is four miles from 
 a landing, and six from Jamaica. There is a 
 handsome prospect from the plains, which render 
 very good shooting iu the season of plovering. — 
 Ball]) Adv. 
 
 1797, Feb. 23. — For sale, the late residence of 
 widow Ann Field, deceased. Flushing. It is two 
 miles from the lauding 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 Eowne, or Walter Farrington, near by. — 
 Daily Adv. 
 
 1797, March 8.— The Eev. George Faitoute, 
 Jamaica, has removed his school from the Acade- 
 my to his own house, where he continues to teach 
 the Latin and Greek languages, sciences, &c. 
 TlTc 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, capable to instruct children in reading, writing 
 and arithmetic, iu a school at Nev.'towu. — Daili/ 
 Adv. 
 
 1797, March 2-5.— James Waters 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 
 iu Jamaica, are authorized by the Legislature to 
 form au organization, of 'rom three to five Trus- 
 tees, who are to choose !birtei.j firemen (volun- 
 teers) who are to be exeiupt from military duty. — 
 Ass. Jour. 
 
 1797, A2)ril 4. — Voted, in Town Meeting, that 
 ■ a cage be erected in the town of Jamaica, the ex- 
 pense to be paid by the Overseers of the poor. 
 
 1797, June 14. — §20 Beward. — Ran away from 
 Abraham Schenck, Great Neck, a negro man, 
 Jake, much addicted to liquor, very impertinent 
 when intoxicated, wore a high-crowned hat, hair 
 shortish and tied behind. He is something of a 
 fiddler, very active, and values himself much on 
 lumping over fences. 
 
 1797, Jtine 21.— On Friday last, a gentleman 
 traveling on horseback, from Brooklyn ferry to 
 Jamaica, very narrowly escaped being killed by a 
 flash of lightuing, which carried away the skirts of 
 
 his coat. He never discovered it till he got to Ja- 
 maica. He had iu his pocket two horse-shoes, 
 which he supposed must have attracted the light- 
 uing. — N. Y. 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. — Baihj Adv. 
 
 1797. — Died, at Hempstead, July oth, 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 
 chm-ch-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 
 had too much understanding to beenthusiastical. — 
 N. Y. Journal. 
 
 Independence. — At a recent meeting of a 
 number of Republicans at Independent 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 4th of July — maj^ it be held 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 S<ate 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 ho keep checks and balances even. Three 
 cheers. 
 
 C The Congress of the United States — may 
 they act iu unison for the public good. Three 
 cheers. 
 
 7. The Legislature of New York — may her fu- 
 ture wisdom exceed all her former. Eight cheers. 
 
 S. May the Sun of Liberty shine throughout the 
 universe. Four cheers. 
 
 9. The united Republics 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. 
 
 IS. May there be a stop put to the spoliation of 
 our Commerce. Three cheers. 
 
 13. May our agricultm-e and commerce flourish 
 nniivalled. Three ehoers. 
 
 21 
 
88 
 
 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 14. May tlic companies- of our lock navi'jation 
 Buccced iu tlicir patriotic undertaking. Three 
 clieer». 
 
 i.'j. May Arts and Sciences flourish through the 
 United States. Three cheers. 
 
 IG. May all wars and di.scord cease. Three 
 cheers. 
 
 Vol loi Iter. 
 
 May the Fair of America cherish none but the 
 forms of Liberty. Six cheers. 
 
 1797, St'j)f. 1. — Ean away from llichard Beadle, 
 Hempstead, an apprentice, 'William "Webb, lie 
 has tliick lips, bold countenance, and wore a largo 
 crowned hat. Whoever returns him shall be well 
 rewarded. — Daili/ Adc. 
 
 ]707. — Abraham Schenck and (l'orn{.iius Van 
 Bi-unt, Executors, will .^ell at vendue, Sept. 27tli, 
 the ■well cultivated farm of Jacob Adri.ince, de- 
 ceased, near Success, containing one hundred and 
 fourteen acres, with two nevcr-iailing ponds in dif- 
 ferent parts, a house with two iirc-jilaccs and 
 kitchen, a spacious Dutch barn with sliingle-rouf 
 and board-floor, a large hovel, granary, wagon- 
 house with a corn-crib under it, an orchard of one 
 liundred and fifty grafted trees and other choice 
 fruit. — Bci'tly Adv. 
 
 1797, Sept. 17.— 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 tavci'n, or for a ])rivate 
 family, a.s passage-boats ply every other day to 
 the city, and the bay abounds in sea and shell 
 fish. — Dailii Adv. 
 
 1797, Sept. 30. — Died, on Saturday evenin;;, at 
 Brooklyn, Andrew C)nderd<)nk, Esq., one of the 
 Senators of the Southern District and Member of 
 the Council of Appointment, a man in whom were 
 centered the endearing rjuidities of a good citizrn, 
 the tender and aflectionatc husband, the dutiful 
 son, the lionest man and the Christian. 
 
 1797. Kov. 9.— "While Mr. and Mrs. Goslinc 
 •were riding from Newtown to Brooklyn feny, the 
 horse took fright nearly opjiosile to the Jletliodist 
 church, and, after running a short distance, upset 
 the chair, by which means Jlrs. Gosline received 
 considerable injury, having been mucli bruised in 
 several places, "but fmni the timely aid and benevo- 
 lent exertions of D. Coleman and other inhabitants 
 who came to her assistance, hopes are entertained 
 that the consequences ■will not prove fatal, not- 
 withstanding her situatiou is peculiarly delicate 
 and precarious,— i\'. 1'. Journal. 
 
 179S, March (j.^-XiQO is ordered to be raised in 
 Queens County, for the repair of the Court House. 
 — Ass. Jour. 
 
 1798, March 24. — Nathaniel Coles is ai)])ointed 
 Brigadier-General of the Jlilitia of Kings and 
 Queens Counties, in place of Matthew Clarkson, 
 promoted to be Major-Geueral. — N. Y. Journal. 
 
 1798, March 31.— Newtown Stage.— X nc.at 
 light, airy coachee, hung upon steel springs, will 
 start from ^Ir. Abraham Bapelye's Newtown, for 
 Brooklyn, on Jlonday, Wednesday and Saturdaj', 
 at six, and leave Mr. Van Nostrand's, Brooklyn, 
 at five r. M., during the summer. Fare, 3s. ; and 
 for waj--j)asseugers, 5rf. per mile. To prevent 
 being discommoded only seven passengers will be 
 taken at a time. 
 
 Edward IIowaed & Co. 
 
 1798, June 2 — A'ote of Queens County in part ; 
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 1798, June 10. — Jainaica Stage.— John Van 
 Nostrand and Caleb Mills, drive separate stages, 
 alternate days, except Saturday and ^londay, 
 when both stages go, leaving Jamaica at seven 
 o'clock, and Mrs. llorton's, Brooklyn, at half-past 
 four. Any article not cumbersome or disagrceaiile 
 to passengers freely admitted. 
 
 1798, June 28. — John l^cvort offers to run his 
 horse, Jloi/alist, against Eclipse and Baronet, for 
 •S'lOO, on the New JIarket Coiu-sc. The best two 
 in three four-mile heats. — JV. Y. Jour. 
 
 179S — Aug. 9th, the thermometer stood .at 96= in 
 the ahadc, and loT iu the sun.— A'. Y. Jour. 
 
 1798, Aug. la. — We learn that in the tempest, 
 on Saturday, a sloop, on the T.ong Island shore, 
 was struck, and the flash killed one young man 
 and severely wounded an other. At Hempstead, a 
 barn was struck and instantiv burnt to the ground. 
 —.V. r. Jour. 
 
 1798, Aug. 1-3. — CIO Iicward.— Jinn away from 
 Jacob Foster, Jamaica, a negro, Newpmt, who 
 ]ilays on a violin, and sometimes is addicted to 
 liquor. 
 
 1798, Sept. 17.— I-^zekiel Fcarce offers for sale, 
 his farm of seventy-one acres, two miU» from 
 Flushing landing, on the main road from the (ireat 
 I'lains to Wliitestone ferry. ( )u it arc two small 
 houses, two barns, two "wells, and apple, pear, 
 peach, cherry and plum trees. It is suitable for 
 dividing into three or four parts for building. — 
 — JJdih/ Adv. 
 
 1798, Sejif. 21. — Nathaniel llenne offers for sale, 
 the estate of James llcuue, lately occupied by 
 
 •Elected. 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 S9 
 
 Samuel Rcuiie, deceased, at Newtown, one mile 
 from the public lauding, and eight from Brooklyn, 
 ou the stage-road. It contains eighty acres in a 
 high state of improvement, with a house, two-story 
 shop, barn, coach-house, and twelve acres of or- 
 chard. 
 
 1798, Sept. 21. — Ann Brownjohn offers for sale 
 her beautiful country seat, ou the main road, at the 
 entrance of the much admired town 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 arc tifly-six 
 and a half acres fit for the scythe or plough. 
 There is an opportunity of purchasing provisions 
 from the market-wagons which pass daily. It 
 would suit anj' one who wishes to partake of the 
 enjoyments of rural life. — Dudy Adv. 
 
 1798, Oct. IG. — 64 Reward and charges. — Ran 
 away, without hat or shoes, from Edward Duffel, 
 Jamaica South, a dark mulatto boy, George, aged 
 twelve. lie was brought from South Carolina last 
 year. — Dadj Adc. 
 
 1798, Nov. 6.— For sale, the form of John 
 Lawrence, Newtown, above Hellgate, containing 
 sixty acres. It has a beautiful prospect. Excel- 
 lent fish are taken in front of the laud ou the East 
 River. — Dady Adv. 
 
 1798, Dec. 10.— For sale, ten thousand Lom- 
 bard j' poplar trees,* from ten to seventeen feet in 
 height, by William Prince, Flushing. 
 
 1798, Dec. 26. — At a general and large meeting 
 of the freeholders and inhabitants of Newtown, at 
 the Court House, Mr. Johannis DeWitt was called 
 to the chair ; when it was uvauimously resolved 
 that the Alien and Sedition laws ought to be re- 
 pealed ; and that a committee be appointed to 
 collect the sense of the towns iu the county and to 
 address Congress respecting the repeal of said 
 laws ; and that said committee consist of Isaac 
 Ledyard, Benjamin Coe, David Moore, John Law- 
 rence. Jacob Field, Cornelius Luystor, Samuel 
 Riker, Thomas Lawrence, Jr., and Robert Furman ; 
 and that they be authorized to correspond with the 
 other towns. 
 
 [Tlie above resolutions were sent to t]io Supor\isor or 
 Town Clerk of Flusliing;, requesting him to call a meeting to 
 endorse the same, and also to attend a County meeting, at 
 tlie Court House. January 15th, 1799; but the people of 
 Flushing- came out strongly against them, as appears by 
 the following proceedings : — £</.] 
 
 At a numerous and respectable meeting of the 
 inhabitants of Flushing, convened in pursuance of 
 public notice, at the house of John Bradwell, inn- 
 keeper, Lewis Cornwall was appointed Chairman, 
 and David Gardner, Clerk. The preceding reso- 
 lutions irom Newtown were read. 
 
 *Tlie poplar was, for a time, vei-y extensively planted. 
 Long rows of it were to be seen almost everywlicre on tlie 
 Island. Its leaves wore claimed to be as good as hay for 
 fodder. In ]>()6 it was .said to nourish a poisonous worm. 
 See New York, Evening Post, July 1, 15. — Ed. 
 
 Whereas, the inhabitants of Flushing Iiave been 
 called together to obtain from Congress a repeal of 
 the Alien and Sedition acts, and as we arc citizens 
 of the United States, and peaceable and well dis- 
 posed men and men of veracity, and therefore wc 
 have nothing to fear from those laws ; therefore, 
 
 liesolvcd, 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 contrary to the Constitution or interest of 
 these 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 jjroper ; 
 
 That wc 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 welfere ; 
 
 That Richard Morrell and David Gardner be 
 appointed with the Chairman to answer the circu- 
 lar letter from Newtown, and publish these pro- 
 ceedings in two daily papers of New York. 
 
 1799, Jan. 29.— Cadwallader D. Golden, As- 
 Assistant xittorney-Gencral, 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 entry of the Court House is lined, on Court 
 days, with the stalls of dj-am-sellers, and filled 
 with drunken people so as to be almost impassa^ 
 ble. — N. Y. American CdLscii. 
 
 1799, Jan. 12.— Edward Bardin offers for sale 
 Beaver Hall,* a beautiful country seat, containing 
 fifty acres, a quarter of a mile west of Jamaica. 
 It has a cistern holding twenty-four hogsheads of 
 water, asparagus-beds, a handsome gravel walk 
 leading up to the house. Also, an eight-acre lot 
 adjoining, on the corner of two roads, at present 
 occupied by Alexander Jones. It has an orchard 
 of ajiples, plums, cherries, peaches and walnuts. 
 Also four able Esopus horses, nine cows, two able 
 farm negroes, tv,'o wagons and harness, two large 
 and one single corn-harrow, j!tc. . 
 
 1799, Feb. 6.— John Battint offers for sale his 
 house, pleasantly situated in tlic 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 occujiied a number 
 of years. It has four rooms ou tlie first floor and 
 four above. 
 
 1799, March C, — Jacob Foster, Crow Hill, 
 Jamaica, offers for sale his farm of sixty-five acres. 
 On it is a fine view of Rockaway. It cuts timo- 
 thy and clover. There is also a bed of turf. 
 
 1799, March IS.— On Thursday last the dwell- 
 
 *Now Judge Cogswell's. — Ed. 
 
 tJohn Battin died in New York, ]?52, aged over one 
 liundrcd years. He was a British soldier in the Revolu- 
 tion, but remained here and became a publican — Ed. 
 
90 
 
 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 ing-liousc of the lute Kev. William Kclullas, at 
 Jiimaica, took lire by accido'ut and was entirely 
 cousumed. The liouse \va.s old and out of rep^iir 
 r.nd of no great value Lut tlie loss is pviiicii)ally 
 f(jlt in discommoding a large family at a season of 
 tlie year not easy to procure a habitation. 
 
 1799, Iday 5. — Job Jlerrit, a fibhcnnau, at 
 Lloyd's Neck, while walking to his usual fishing- 
 place on a ridge of elippcry rocks that lay on the 
 horc and bare at low water, fell on said rocks and 
 \/ou;ided his right temple, whereof he died. 
 
 1799, Mat) 16.— E. DufTel offers for eale liis 
 : irm of one hundred and thirteen acres oppo.sito 
 ',',iu Brunt's mill, two miles south of Jamaica, 
 , ilculatcd for a gentleman's scat, or farm for cul- 
 ; 'vation. It is in a pleasant airy and healthy situ- 
 c.tion close to Jamaica Bay whence fish, oysters 
 and clams are easily procured. 
 
 1799, Jilaii IG. — A traveller, in passing through 
 1, rag Island, observed a number of liberty poles. 
 I 'n a.aking the reason bo was told the farmers 
 (.iccted them to show their disapprobation of cer- 
 tain laws of Congress, the land tax, &ic.-^iuly 
 Adc. 
 
 1799, Aiiri. 9. — 825 Reward. — Ran away from 
 William Smith, Great Neck, a yellow uegvo man, 
 Peter, aged twenty-eight, slender and neat built. 
 He has bushy hair but wears it tied. 
 
 1799, Ai(^. 13. — John, son of William Pearsall, 
 of Hempstead, mariner, sailed from New York, 
 July 7tli, 179S, and was captured by a French 
 I'rivateer. July, 2Sth ; and four days thereafter 
 was put on board an American vessel ; but, Au- 
 gust ITtli, ho, with eight others was impressed by 
 the Captain of the British ship Hmiiulnd, who 
 would -not condescend to look at his protection. 
 He escaped, November 12tli, while in the harbor 
 of Kingston, \f. I., by swimming ashore hi the 
 uight, and took passage for the United States. — 
 i\'. 1'. Jourticd. 
 
 1799, Oct. 24. — Richard Seaman, who was in 
 company with Richard Sojier, ia Hempstead Bay, 
 fell overboard of a skiff and was drowned. 
 
 ISOO. — Jamaica, February 22d. — This day was 
 commemorated in honor of the virtues and talents 
 of Geoi-gc ^Vashington, agreeable to the recom 
 incudation of Congress, by the united congrega- 
 tions of the Presbyterian, Dutch Reformed and 
 Episcopal churches of Jamaica and Flushing, 
 'i'lie morning was ushered in by the solemn sound 
 of muffled bells. A procession was formed in 
 front ^of the Episcopal Chiu-ch, iu the following 
 order : 
 
 The Infantry .and comp.any of Artillery with 
 arms revcised, their order inverted, colors in mourn- 
 ing, and drums muffled. 
 
 JIasonic brethren. 
 
 Students of the Academy. 
 
 Trustees. 
 
 Citizens. 
 
 Strangers. I 
 
 Olliccrs of the Militia in uniform. ] 
 
 Ofiiccrs of the different churches. 
 
 Committee of arrangements. I 
 
 Clergy. ' | 
 
 Orator. 
 
 From the Episcopal Church the prncession 
 moved to the Presbyterian Church where the ranks 
 opened, right and left, the military leaning on 
 their arms reversed, the orator followed by the 
 clergy and the rest of the proccsion advanced 
 through their ranks and, entering the church, were 
 received with solemn music at the entrance by a 
 band of singers, who, in perfection and tkill, 
 seemed to vie with each other in honoring the day. 
 The pulpit, desk aud gallery were all shrouded in 
 black. The solemnuities were introduced with 
 pr.aycr by the Rev. Mr. Rattoone, and an ode, 
 composed by the Rev. ilr. I'aitoute, 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. Faitoutc, 
 \^'ho then dismissed the assembly with a suitable 
 prayer and blessing. 
 
 Thus ended this d.ay in which all parties, sects 
 and distinctions most cordially united. Never did 
 we see a greater concourse of our fellow-citizens, 
 and one general sentiment seemeil to pervade the 
 whole — 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 iu 
 nature, a largo ox raised by 3[r. George Hewlett, 
 of Hempstead. (His dam is but a small cow.) 
 He is to be seen .at "iMrs. Ueluuf's, Fl^-markct, ad- 
 mittance one shilling. To give an idea of this ox 
 it need only be mentioned that he is nineteen hands 
 higi), seventeen aud a half feet in length and nine 
 feet in girth, forming a tremendous mass of anima- 
 tion. Not to view him as he now stands arguca 
 the want of that cui-iosity which tends to enlarge 
 the mind. 
 
 1800, Ajn-U 17. — At a very respectable meeting 
 of the electors of Queens County, at Benjamin 
 Chceseman's, North Hempstead, Jordan Seaman, 
 Esq., Chairman, j nd William Burling, Secretary, 
 it was resolved un.animously that this meeting will 
 support General John .Smith as Rcprescutalivc to 
 Congress ; and Benjamin Huntting, of Suffolk ; 
 William Henning, of New York, and Ebonezer 
 Purdy, of Westchester, as Senators of the South- 
 ern District ; and John I. Skidmorc, Jonah H:il- 
 lett, Joseph Pettit and Abraham Moufort, as rep- 
 resentatives in Assembly. 
 
 1800, A2>yd 10. — Wanted to take charge of an 
 Academy at Newtown, a person well recommend- 
 ed. Apply to Dr. Lawrence or Jacob Moore. 
 
 1800, June 0. — Jeremiah Vanderbilt, Jr., has 
 taken Henry Jlott into partnership iu the Far 
 
 K 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 91 
 
 Rflck.away Stage, which will start Mouday and 
 Friday, at one P. M. for Brooklyn ferry, stop a lit- 
 tle time at Jamaica, and return from Jacob Hick's, 
 Brooklyn, Tuesday and Saturday, at two P- M. 
 Fare one dollar. 
 
 His house is now open lor the reception of 
 boarders. A carriage will be ready every morning 
 and evening to convey boarders gratis to the sea- 
 shore, where a place with two apartments is pro- 
 vided for bathers. The advantages of this sea- 
 batll in point oP lnnxltb and cnires yearly experi- 
 enced are well' known. 
 
 1801, Jan. 2. — Garret Nostrand, overseer of the 
 farm called Hyde Park, returned home from- a 
 sleigli-ride in the evening; and entering-: the room of 
 widow Elizabeth Betts, the housekeeper of Charles 
 Moulton, an altercation arose during wliicii he re- 
 ceived a sword-citt on the left side of his head, of 
 which be died next day. Mrs. Betts with the ser- 
 vant, Catharine H-iiggerty, was kept in jail twenty- 
 three weck.s, -during which time she was taken be- 
 fore a judge, in New York, on a writ of habeas cor- 
 pus. At a Court of Oyer and Terminer, June 
 
 , 16th, the Grand Jury endorsed on the bill of iu- 
 ^dictment Ignoramus, and the prisoners were dis- 
 
 i charged by proclamation. — Court Minutes. 
 
 1801, Fch. 8. — Late at niglit au earthquake was 
 perceived at Stoningtown, on Cow Neck. 
 
 j 1801, March 2.— The body of "William. Miller, 
 
 I who was drowned in" a mill-pond, at JIusqueto 
 
 1 Cove, was found floating, by Henry Bennett, who 
 
 with the assistance of Daniel Wright got it asho're. 
 
 i 1801, March i: — Boarding-scnool'at Hempstead. 
 
 The Rev. St^th Hart, rector of St. George's church,* 
 
 is disjjoscd to take six or eight boys to board and 
 
 I lodge in his family and be instructed iu* reading, 
 
 writinK,' arithmetic, geograp!»y, English grammar 
 
 and 'the Latin and Greek languages. Due atten- 
 
 I tion will be paid to ■ the morals of youth intrusted 
 
 to l:»i? cnre.-- The situation is healthy, pleasant 
 
 I and convenient, being twentj'-two miles from New 
 
 1 York, and -c 'regular stage runs every Monday and 
 
 j Fi-iday, and returns Tuesday and Saturday-. 
 
 j 1801, March 10. — Nine hundred and thirty-four 
 freeholders of Queens County petition the Legisla- 
 ture fdr a turnpike from Jamaica to Brooklyn.} — 
 Ass. Jour. 
 
 1801, June ]6.— At a Court of Oyer and Termi- 
 ner and Gaol Delivery, holden bj" Morgan Lewis, 
 Esq., at the Court House, Walter Duulevy, an 
 Irish schooIiBastor; (who, on the evening of De- 
 cember 2d lastrat John Burtis' tavern, in Foster's 
 
 *]792 Jan.20.— ThB-j)ot'tioii.of Tiniiitliy IJedell and oth- 
 ers, of Hcnip6te«J, to tlio IJfjriflahire li*r nu Act to enable 
 thum to raise by Lottery £.'')On''Kir the benefit of their 
 cliurch. and ti> sujiport the Miuistcr of the Gospel was 
 rejected. — Ass. Jour. 
 
 tAt this time the main street of J.'iniaica wa.Tf.o-ii-ttle 
 travelled that grass <^rew on the narrow ridge iu the middle 
 of the road, between the tracks made by a team of horses. 
 —Ed. 
 
 Meadow, had a scuffle with Benjamin Fish, a 
 farmer, of Trimming Square, Hempstead, in which 
 the latter lost his life next day, by blows on the 
 head, neck and mouth from a billet of wood) was 
 convicted on an indictment for manslaughter. 
 Upon the hearing of witnesses and viewing the cir- 
 cumstances of the case, the sentence awarded by 
 the Court wrs fourteen years solitary confinement 
 at hard labor in the State's Prison. 
 
 [Willet Lawrence, Under-Sheriff", says "that on 
 Sunday, Jan. ISth, two armed men, between two 
 and three in tile morning, came to the Court 
 House, entered undiscovered, and came to his bed, 
 ordered liim to keep silence at his peril, and de- 
 manded the key of the room that Dunlevy was 
 confined iu and ordered him to get up immediately 
 and unlock the door, which he did. They then 
 took the prisonet out and locked him! in and threw 
 away the kej's." Dunlevy was conveyed to New 
 York, and engaged passage to Europe ; but just 
 on the eve of the vessel's sailing, the Captain acci- 
 dentally heard the report of the rescue, and judged 
 from the description that the passenger on ship- 
 board was the fugitive. Dunlevy was at once 
 identified and committed to Bridewell. He was 
 there kept from Janu.ary 24th till June ICth, the 
 morning of his trial, when he was escorted to the 
 Court House, in Queens County .]-r--E(?. 
 
 ISei; — The fourth of July was celebrated by 
 flie Republican citizens of the township of Oyster- 
 bay, before whom an oration was delivered by 
 Adrian Hegcman. 
 
 1802.— The new Academy, at Oysterbay, will 
 be opened April 1st, under ^the care of the Rev. 
 Blarmaduke Earl, A. M., where the diff'erent 
 branches of literature will be taught in the best 
 manner, viz, : Spelling, reading, writing, arithme- 
 tic, book-keeping, English grammar, composition, 
 oratory, logic, chronology, geography, trigonometry 
 in its a^jplication 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 
 communication with' New Y'ork by water, and vi- 
 cinity to a place of public worship, is not exceeded, 
 perhaps not equalled in the State. 
 
 E^^ Boarding in good families on reasonable 
 terms. 
 
 *^* For particulars call on Mr. John Townsend, 
 or Soloman Townsend, New Y'ork, or James Far- 
 le}' or William Townsend, Oysterbay. 
 
 By order of the Trustees,* 
 
 John Fleet, Clerk. 
 
 1802, April 14. — William B. Warren was found 
 
 'The other Trustees were "\VlIliam Rutler, Joshua Ham- 
 mond, Nathaniel Coles, Jr., Thomas Cock, Jr., Thomas 
 Youngs, Charles Cock, Stephen Underbill, Justus Storrs, 
 Samuel Yoinigs.AVilliam Ludlani, Townsend Cock, Daniel 
 Underbill, Jr., Wi'liam Jones, Jr., Silas Latting, Uavid R. 
 F. Jone,«, Isaac Yan Nostrand, John Ludlam, Zebulon 
 Frost, William McCoun, and. Coles ^Vortman. 
 
 28., 
 
92 
 
 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 lyiug on Lis face fkad, Jiaving been run over by a 
 wagon loaded with stone -vvliicli he was carting 
 from a lot for Edmund Uuderhill, Flushiusr. 
 
 _ 1802, Ajml 23.— A country scat for sale in 
 Flushing, on the road from Jamaica, containing one 
 hundred and ten acres. On it i.s a new house forty- 
 four by thirty. feet, with a kitdicn an<:i bed room 
 for PcrN'ants in the basement, and six bed-rooms on 
 the second story. It is on a lofty eminence with 
 a view of Newtown, Kiusliing and its bay, the 
 Sound, "Westciiestcr and the jersey shore.' Tlic 
 ground slopes from the house which overlooks the 
 farm, and is approached by avenues of butternut 
 and poplar trees. It has pear and cherry trees, and 
 one thousand two hundred jx-.icli trees transplanted 
 from Prince's nursery. Enquire of Kev. Dr. 
 Beach, New York, or Eev. ^Jlr. Kattoonc on the 
 premises. 
 
 1802, Mai/ 2G. — Jacob Savanah was drowned 
 on a back iu Hog Island inlet, south side of 
 Hempstodd. 
 
 1802, Jiuic 29. — A handsome coacliec, wiili 
 steel springs and four horses, will kvave Jacob 
 Hicks', Brooklyn, at two P. 51., Tuesdays and 
 Saturdays, stop to refresh at Hewlett Creed's, Ja- 
 maica, and arrive early in the evening at AVhile- 
 head C'oruwell's, Far Ilockaway. It will return 
 on Slondays at six A. M., aud Friday's at one P. 
 M. Farelo*. 
 
 X. B. — AY. C. has fitted up his house for ptivate 
 parties and single gentlemen. 
 
 1802, July 5. — Jeremiah A'anderbilt and Uenry 
 jrott run a neat coachee with steel .springs, aud 
 four horses, from Far Kockaway, on Jfonday, at 
 six A. 31., and Fridays at one P. M., for Brookh'u 
 ferry, stoj) to refresh at Creed & Mills' tavern Ja- 
 maica ; aud return from Selah Smith's, Tuesdays 
 and Saturdays, at two P. M. After August Ist 
 the st.ages will run three times a week. 
 
 J. V.'s Louse is now open for the reception of 
 boarders. 
 
 1S02, Au{/. 10. — Wilniot Smith was accidentally 
 drowned in Jamaica Bay. 
 
 1S02, Aug. 28.— There was a severe thunder 
 gust in the west part of Queens County. The 
 barus of widow Johnson, at Jamaica, and of Heze- 
 kiah Field, Newtown, were struck aud consumed. 
 The barn, wagon-house and two wagons of widow 
 Van I)uyn, of New Utrecht, were also destroyed. 
 
 1802, Oct. — Bernardus Bloom drives the Flush- 
 .ing stage three times a week to Brooklyn. Fare 
 iif'ty cents. Leaves John Bradwell's at eight 
 o'clock A. M., and Jacob Hicks', Brooklyn, at 
 three I'.M. A bag for letters is hung up at Abra- 
 ham Duryea's, 107 Flymarket, New York. 
 
 1803, March 25. — Johu Hudson, of Flashing, 
 was accidctUally di'owned, as it seemed. 
 
 1803, Aj)ri:l 14. — Yesterday morning, at eleven 
 o'clock, the bam of Mr. John Moore, at Hempstead, 
 
 was discovered to be on fire from a cask of un- 
 slacked lime. The wind blowing vcrv fresh from 
 the southward it communicated to thebarn of Mr. 
 Abraham Bedell, and thence to the Presbvteriau 
 church, all which were entirely consumed together 
 with two of Mr. Moore's horses. — Mer. Adi\ 
 
 1803, June 10.— Benj. Ti-edwell, of Hempstead, 
 while crossing a mill-flue, fell in and beiug alone* 
 was drowned. 
 
 1803, June 18. — Samuel llanley, of Hempstead, 
 was accidentally drowned while fishing with an 
 eel-net iu the South Bay. 
 
 1801, J(i}i. 18. — For sale, a middle-aged negro 
 woman, brought up in the country, who is of an 
 uncomm<inly fine temper for one of her color. 
 Having lately become discontented with her pres- 
 ent situation is the sole cause uf her being ofiered 
 for sale. Apply to George Codwisc, Jr., Jamaica. 
 
 1604, Jan. 27. — Several mad dogs Lave been 
 seen during the last seven daj's in the neighlior- 
 hood of Musqueto Cx)vc and Cadar Swamp, which 
 have bitten one or two pei-sons and 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 market for sale. — i'fC. 
 l>Ost. 
 
 1804, March 2.— Susan Brackett, Kenipstcad, 
 was frozen to death while going across the bay in 
 a boat. 
 
 1804, J««e IG. — James 3Iott,of Hempstead, by 
 accident fell iu Jamaica bay and was drowned. 
 
 ISOJ, April 14. — At an adjourned meeting of 
 Eepublican delegates from all the towns of (jjueens 
 County, at the Court House, Judge Sclienck, 
 Chairman, and Isaac T. Keeve, Secretary, Alorgan 
 Lewis, was nominated for Governor and Samuel 
 Biker for Congress. Isaac T. Beeve, Col. Jacob 
 S. Jackson, Jacob Carpenter and .James Jlitchcll 
 were appointed to communicate the proceedings to 
 Suflblk county and to stand as a committee of said 
 county. The meek and unostentatious Cary Duun 
 appeared iu the interest of Col. Burr but he and 
 his associates were requested to withdraw — Amer. 
 Citizen. 
 
 1804, April 14. — J. V. Uttrn offers for sale his 
 farm of four hundred and thirty-one acres, called 
 H3-de I'ark, for many years the residence of 
 Charles ifoulton. The grounds are laid out in an 
 unusual style of beauty and elegance, and it has 
 more the appearance of an European seat than any 
 iu this countr}-. There is an abundance of com- 
 mon game and it is contiguous to the plover, and 
 not very distant from the grouse and deer grounds. 
 On it is a house fifty-two by thirty-six feet, a 
 grccn-housc with orange trees and various other 
 e.xotics, a suBimer-house, two farm-houses, a barn, 
 two hay-barracks, stabling for twenty horses and 
 cattle, a cattle-shed, coach-house, pig and fowl- 
 house, cider-house and press, a garden, a.sj)aragus- 
 beds, fruit trees and flowers roots, fifteen or twenty 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES, 
 
 93 
 
 acres t)f orcharding of peaches, clierries, apples, 
 pears and every other fruit selected from Europe, 
 and the best nurseries here. — i're, PcisL 
 
 1S04, July 2. — Jeremiah Vrmderhilt and Thom- 
 as Cornell run a neat coachce with steel springs 
 and four horses, from Far Rockaway to l^rooklyu 
 ferry. J. Y. thanks his customers for iho very 
 liberal favors conferred on him from year to j'car, 
 which have induced liitn to make still further fca- 
 provemcuts. His house iu a pleasant lUiA healthy 
 situation, is one hundred feet in frojt, with apart- 
 ments for separate lodgings, and an air}- dining 
 room twenty by thirty-six feet, with six large 
 windows. He has laid iu a good stock of li(iUors 
 of tlic first quality. ^ 
 
 1804, Sejjf. 17.— ^Die^d, early this -morning, 'the 
 Rev. Henry Van .Dyck, aged sixt}-, one of the 
 clergy of the Protestant Episcopal church, and 
 formerly rector of St. James church, Newtown. 
 He was possessed of an affectionate heart and ex- 
 cellent understanding. He :discharge<l with zeal, 
 fidelitj^and ability,-Llic duties ofiiis calling. Iu 
 private life ' he ■ was esteemed by all to whom he 
 was known. Euneral this afternoon, at five 
 o'clock, fromliis house. No. 4 Cedar^ Street, New 
 York, wJjerc his friends and acquaiatauce are in- 
 vited to attend. — ErcPett. 
 
 ISOi, Sept. ' 19. — Joshua Sands and .James 
 CoriTvi'alt offer for sale the farm of the'late Colonel 
 Lewis ■ Cornwall, containing three hundred acres, 
 callcdSpriug Kill, at the head of Flushing Bay, 
 with fine timber, fresh and salt meadow. The 
 mansion lias a^viGW of the bay and sound. — £ic. 
 I'ost. 
 
 1804, Scpi. 35.- — For sale, by Benjamin Prince, 
 Flushing, one hundred barrels of choice Newtown 
 pippin apples now fit to he put up so as to be sent 
 with safety to the Southern States, West Indies or 
 Europe. Warranted sotmd and uubruiscd. 
 
 1802 April 20. — At a Republican meeting of 
 the committees from the different towns of Queens 
 count}', at the Court House, Benj. Coc, Chairman, 
 and Wm. L Vredenburgh, Secretaiy, it was agreed 
 that Gen. John Smith should bo supported for 
 Congress, John Schonck for the Senate and Robt. 
 Moore,* Abm. Moufort and Henry 0. Seaman for 
 the Assembly. — yl;«(?r. CitUcn. 
 
 1804, Dec. 24. — About four o'clock this morning 
 the house of Jeffrey Smith, Beaver I'ond, JaKiaicn, 
 took fire aceidentally (by a spark from the hearth 
 as is supposed) and spread so rapidly before it .was 
 discovered that the house was enveloped in flames 
 before any soul had made their cscapp. A little 
 boy and girl, however, had jast-tHne to escape bj' 
 leaping through the smoke from a window and ran 
 to a neighbor's. Before assistance could come all 
 
 *Majiir iloorc of Xcwtown, wns dcfcitod by Stephen 
 C.innaii, whu was a standing candidate for tlie Assembly 
 from Hempstead from 17t--i to ]!^I9, and was elected twen- 
 ty-one times. — Ed. 
 
 was over. Mrs. •■§. ifith three cfeiildren, who all 
 slept in the .same bed 'Vi'ith her, was burnt to death 
 and lay buried in the ruins. The husband and 
 father of the woman had left home the preceding 
 
 evening to be early in Fly Market. 
 « 
 1805, July 1. — John Mott and Jeremiah Yan- 
 derbilt* have erected a new stage, with four horses, 
 which will accommodate eleven passengers. It 
 will Tun twice a week from Far Rockaway to 
 Brooklyn. Their respective houses, which are 
 large and aiiy, . command a beautiful prospect of 
 the occau, aiud arc now ready for companj-. 
 
 "180.5, Nor. 6. — Elisha Blossom launched a ship 
 from his shiii-y^itl inside of Plum Beach, Manhas- 
 sot, where Walter Csruwell now lives. — EtL 
 
 1800-06. — The Aurorau Association of North 
 Hempstead met at the school-house, Flower Hill, 
 Saturday eveniwgs for mutual improvement, by 
 reading and debating. The President was John 
 Kissam and the Secretary Singleton Mitchell. — 
 The other members were : 
 
 Gea Baker, 
 Isaac Bogarf, 
 John Biutis, 
 Abni. Brinckcrboff, 
 Eiebardson Cornell, 
 Isaac l*odjj:e, 
 ^\'nl. Dodee, 
 Obadiali Uemilt, 
 Han-y Demilt, 
 Peter Demilt, 
 Lewis S. Hewlett, 
 James Hewlett, 
 Daniel Hoogland, 
 Andries Hea:eman, jr. 
 Peter Hej^'eman, 
 Elbert Hcfreman, 
 James Mitchell, 
 
 Peter OndcrJonk, 
 Minne Onderdonk, 
 Lott Onderdonk, 
 Joseph Onderdonk, 
 Daniel Rapelye, -^ 
 Benj. Sands, 
 Wni. Sands, 
 Geo. G. Sands, 
 Kay Sands, 
 Obadiah Sands. 
 Geo. Seaman, 
 John W. Seaman, 
 Minne Schenck, 
 Monis Salt, 
 John M. Smith. 
 John B. Thorp. 
 
 1806, Jan. 9. — One daj' this week, Thome's 
 Mills at Musquito Cove, took-fire-by the friction of 
 the machinery and were totally cowsumed together 
 with a vessel lying at the Jlill?. Ten thousand 
 bushels of gi'aiu and a large quantity of flour were 
 destroyed. — X. Y. Paper. 
 
 To whom it nini/ coneenl.—^Xh(Jreaii application 
 hath this day been made to us, Benjamin Trcdwell 
 and Lott Onderdonk, Overseci's of the poor of the 
 town of NortlrHerapstead, by' Joseph Onderdonk, 
 of the same place to have his negro slave named 
 Jf ike manumitted and set free, we do hereby certi- 
 fy that v.e have made enquiry in the 'premises and 
 believe 'the said slave is under the age of fifty 
 years and of snfficient ability to provide for him- 
 self and we approve that he be manumitted and 
 set free. In witness whereof wc have hereunto 
 set our hands this 27th day of March in the year 
 of ov.r Lord 180G. Eenjnn.in Treadwell, Lott (_)n- 
 derdoiri^, Overseers of the poor. 
 
 This is to certify tliat I manumit and set free 
 my male slave Uitmed Mike, as the statute of this 
 state requires. JOSEPH ONDERDONK. 
 
 •Mr. Vanderbilt died >i;iv 4, If-'OT. 
 
94 
 
 QUEENS COUNTY' 
 
 ISoiJ, May 10. — Vote of Queens couuty for ^ly- 
 ator.-i and ^Icmbera of Aascmbly: 
 
 Senate. 
 
 S 
 
 s. 
 
 1 
 
 3- 
 
 a 
 
 3 
 S" 
 
 O 
 
 3- 
 
 3"-- 
 1 
 
 E3 
 
 orj ■ 
 
 1 
 
 RenJ. Coc, Rep * - 
 Jobn 1). Ditmis Ri>p 
 Samuel Jones, I'cd. 
 
 Id 
 t 38 
 - 64 
 
 107 
 7'.>. 
 44 
 
 106 
 
 • 5 
 
 3C 
 
 115 
 
 21 
 
 164 
 
 61 
 
 11 
 itH 
 
 47 
 
 9 
 
 27 
 
 444 
 
 163 
 436 
 
 A»S. Urp. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 John W. Scaiimu* - 
 Isani- LiffcrU, - - 
 Williani Mott,' - - 
 
 109 
 
 r>f; 
 
 10 
 
 )-23 
 )4a 
 119 
 
 li7 
 123 
 
 73 
 141 
 
 250 
 
 74 
 
 5C! 
 5tJ 
 
 llfl 
 72 
 70 
 
 021 
 
 596 
 030 
 
 Ass. tr,l. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Stephen Cariiian," - 
 Win. TownsenJ, - 
 
 77 
 82 
 
 59 
 17 
 
 37 
 29 
 
 342 
 157 
 
 70 
 
 18a 
 
 42 
 44 
 
 627 
 
 517 
 
 'Elected. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tTliis was a pccund repubKcnn Domiiiatidn. TTie party 
 was split Ijj til'- (iisscnsions «.►£ (loviTiior Li.-wis ana Ue- 
 Witt L'liutun. — Hammond's Snr Yink, I. 'J!!.'). 
 
 18GG, Jttne 9.— Hamilton Ilnll, situated at tlie 
 plea.«ant and healtliy village of Flusliiii;^- In this 
 academy arc; tani^ht, the (ireek, Latin, i'rcucli and 
 Enjfli.ili laiiijua-jes ; and (ieiinan and Hebrew, if 
 rcfjuired, also the various branehos of Matlieniaties, 
 Reading, Writing, Arillimetic, English griimniar, 
 Hook-keeping agreeable to the newest i)rineii)ies, 
 Geograpli}' and use of the globeji. 'J'he niopt ap- 
 proved plans of education are pursued under the 
 direction of a capable and ajiprovcd teacher. The 
 tru.stee:i visit and examine the school at stated 
 time.-*. Board and tuition reasonable. ConinHini- 
 cation with Xcw York daily liy stage and sloop. — 
 Attention i)aid to the health and morals of young 
 persons sent for education. Foreigners, wlio wisii 
 their children taught Knglish, will be well satisiied 
 with the Principal, who has been reguhtrly, educa- 
 ted in the university of (Jottingen. The tru.steos 
 are AVilliani I'rince, 'J'homa,'* J'hilips. U.ivid Gar- 
 dener, Samuel H. ^'an Wyck and 1 i;(i>iol Jilood- 
 good. 
 
 ]80r,, Aii'^. 1-2.— Yesterday a mitch for -SoOO 
 was made on two genth.-men against time to walk 
 from Belts' tavern in Jamaica to 'J'yli'r's at Kock-' 
 away, a distance of eighteen inile.s, and ;wiin with 
 case. They performed-. it in tla-ce hours, forty 
 tuinutcs, being twenty minutes within time. — Kve^ 
 Post. 
 
 180G, Oct. 1. — At a meeting of the practitioners 
 of I'hysic and Singery at the Court House, Henry 
 Mott C'hairm in and Thomas Cock, Secretary; the 
 following otlicers were chosen by ballot: Daniel 
 ^lenemi, I'nsidoit : Henry ^lott, Vicr J'rci:i(l()it : 
 Thoinris Cock, Sccrdart/ : James Searing, Tniis- 
 urcr : Gilbert Smi!l'.,i Isaial^.Straw, Nathan Shel- 
 ton, Austin Ch.ii)ni:Ui and Ebenezer Lockwoud, 
 Censors: Henry Mott, Jkhijutc. The Annual 
 meeting Avill be held the first Monday in Jinie. 
 Drs. Smith, Shelton and Straw were ai)pointed a 
 committee to form by-law»-4o.be produced at the 
 next •meeting. 
 
 180C, Oct. 10.— Died at riandome, aged C9, ei" 
 
 ;i« <>poT))eetie fif, itary Ivatham relict of the late 
 llobert 5iftcfr'eH '! nd in-.ther of Dr. -S. L. Mitcliell, 
 Semitor to the United .States. .She was an excel- 
 lent parent, and was- interred in the Friends' burial 
 j5round at Cow Xeck, Dear her venerable grand- 
 iathur, Josejih r>,itb:r!flv wUo near a century ago 
 gave the land for the pui'pof'c of a Meeting house 
 and cemetery to that Society. 
 
 ISOG, iWr. ."iO.— Elizabeth Dennis, ( lyslerbay, 
 was accidentally shot in the head bv.a gun in the 
 hands of Mr. Still, Vho w.i* in her cor.ip.'iny} at)' 
 Saojuel Minor's, wheieof she died instantly. 
 
 1807, Feb. 23.— Oil Friday at five r. 31. a large ! 
 boat of the old ferry Brooklyn, laden with ilonr, ' 
 which was stowed too much in Iier bows sunk in 
 the middle of the river, with six persons on bo;ird 
 who were picked up by boats which went olT to 
 their •assistance.* | 
 
 1807, ^Tmrli ll.-D. V.. F.' Jones of Queens-' 
 and .Sanuiel Bishop, of .Sutl'olk, are appointed to ' 
 aid and assist stranded vessels. 
 
 1807/ Aprd 1, — Benjaiuin Banies MotI, a shoe- 
 maker, living at the landing, west side of Manilas- ; 
 set valley, in a drunken quarrel heat his wile I^nrali I 
 so that ai.e died Al>ril 3rd, of a wonnd on her head. 
 I'eter Willis sat l>y the fireside and told Benjamin I 
 he had not given her half enough. Tliey were , 
 tried, June 2.>th, for manslangnfewr and sent to the ' 
 states prisoiv, Jieiijamin for fourteen years and 
 Peter, as accessory,. Jbr three years. Burnos was. 
 pardonod 3Iay 22, \i>lO.—Ed'.' i 
 
 1807, .4j)»'(76.-— James Bloodgood at his nursery 
 Flushing, has for rsle Englisli and French cherry , 
 trees', pluius, jieaohcs. apricots, nectarines, pears, ; 
 apples, fjninces, aiiiionds. Madeira nuts, black wal- 
 nut, Lombardy poi)lars, weeping willows, currants 
 raspberry, gooseberry, strawberry, lilac, honey, 
 suckk*. and roses, with an assortment of flower- 
 ing shrubs. They will be imt up so as to go to 
 any part of Europe or America. 
 
 1807, April 28. — J«hn Wood, of Fluslun^ vrA» 
 drowned accidentally as it appeared. 
 
 1S07, ^Iiitf ^. — l)ied at Flnsliing, Colonel Isaac 
 Corsa, in the eighti(-th year of his age, an old and 
 respectable inhabitant of New York. He was 
 trulv a charit.ible christi.an, and an honest, upright 
 and benevolent man. See Hiker's Newtown. — Ed. 
 
 1S07, Ma>j 22. — .Joseph Tyler respectfully in- 
 forms the public and liia friends in particular that 
 his honau at , Far Bockaw.iy i.s ready for their 
 reeejition and accommodation. The best wines, 
 (particularly champaign and Madeira) and other 
 liquors of the first qualitj'. Likewise good stabling. 
 
 ly 
 
 ".lolm Simonson, of Hompsteail, sinco Sliariflf was in 
 ntiothcr ferry hnat crossinfj tin- river ,it the time and when 
 1m> %iivi tile ai-(*ident lie srize.l tho helm tVeni tlie IVrrynian, 
 and steered directly tliron^'h the midst of the flontinp pft.s- 
 senjrers and harrels and resinod aniim); (ither.t Sanniel 
 JacktDU and Newhiiry Hewlett t'runi a watery prave.— A'l/. 
 
liSr OLDEN TIMES, 
 
 95 
 
 1807, May 2. — Vote of Queens couuty for Gov- 
 ernor, Senate (in part), and Assembly. 
 
 S!- 
 
 Governor. 
 
 1 
 
 g 
 t 
 
 o 
 p 
 
 O 
 
 p 
 
 B 
 
 S2| 
 
 O 
 
 1 
 
 c 
 
 Tompkins, Ee]i. 
 Lewis, Fed. - - 
 
 155 
 
 no 
 
 74 
 
 82 
 
 ISo 
 153 
 
 148 
 42 
 
 146 
 64 
 
 65 
 71 
 
 773 
 522 
 
 Stnate 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 EeWitt Clinton Eep 
 Samuel Joues, Fed. 
 
 150 
 
 70 
 S5. 
 
 169 
 .107 
 
 137 
 42 
 
 123 
 C7 
 
 65 
 
 67 
 
 710 
 531 
 
 Ass. Hep. 
 John \V. Scaniau, 
 H. 0. Seaman, - - 
 Jacobus Jloulbrt, ■ 
 
 1?9 
 
 SOS 
 209 
 
 112 
 95 
 
 100 
 
 120 
 
 280 
 140 
 
 156 
 103 
 172 
 
 170 
 168 
 109 
 
 95 
 94 
 92 
 
 842 
 
 1008 
 
 884 
 
 Ass Fed. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Stciiiicn Carman, 
 AVni. Touiisoud, 
 
 132 
 
 207 
 
 100 
 107 
 
 320 
 162 
 
 35 
 
 48 
 
 74 
 ■ 76 
 
 90 
 92 
 
 751 
 632 
 
 Our friends in Queens have exceeded our expec- 
 tations. Tliey have done themselves honor, and 
 their country great service. The Eepublicau as- 
 •scmbly ticket has succeeded by an immense ma,ior- 
 ity. Carman who represented the connty last year 
 in the Assembly, oiir friends have very properly 
 ordered to stay at home. — Amer. Cilis:en. 
 
 1507, Oct 10.— Jordan Hall, Oysterbay, fell in 
 the water <accideutally and was drowned. 
 
 1807, Dec. 12.— A Mr. Erwin, at Cow Neck, 
 shot himself. 
 
 1808, Feb. 20.— Amos Dickenson, Oysterbay, 
 accidentally fell out of a boat and was drowned. 
 
 1808. Fel). 20.— John Bennet, Cow Neck, was 
 drowned. 
 
 1508, Jilarch 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 Hempstead, which is populous, cen- 
 tral, well-watered, and has houses of entertainment. 
 lu the present situation are a scarcity of buildings 
 and a want of accommodation for man and beast, 
 in stormy weather. — Ass. Jour. 
 
 1808. — At a large and respectable meeting of the 
 Republican electors of Queens County, al; the 
 Court Plouse, April 19th, John Schenck, Chairman, 
 and Singleton Mitchell, Secretary, John AV. Sea- 
 man was nominated tor Congress ; Benjamin Coe, 
 for Senator, and Jacobus Monfoort, William ilott 
 and Isaac Leiferts, for Assembly. - 
 
 The Federalists elected their members, viz : 
 Stephen Carman, Daniel Kissam and William 
 Townsend ; whereat the Ilepublicau organ, the 
 Amciiccm Citizen, thus expresses itself: 
 
 The counties of Kings and Queens are gone — for the 
 present, defunct. This aberration from the cause is ex- 
 tremely regretted by its friends in New York. To lose 
 reputation is to lose everything. The cause is kuo^vn and 
 we arc assured that the triumph of FederaUsm is but mo- 
 mentary. Divide and conc|uer is the motto of our oppon- 
 ents. Can it be believed that, contemning everytliing Fed- 
 eral, the IJepublicaus of Queens and Kings Counties have 
 adopted it t They have been divided and ingloriously 
 beaten. 
 
 1808, Ilcaj 30. — Benjamin Seaman, (dias 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 au 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 
 hia 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 ag.ainst a tree in the shade 
 and led him home. He died the next night. Ben. 
 was tried, June 23d, and hanged, September Sth, 
 in a hollow on the Plains, south-east of the Court 
 House. — Ed. 
 
 1808, July 5. — William Taylor was accidentally 
 drowned at Far Eockaway beach. His body was 
 taken up there and conveyed to Jamaica, where 
 an inquest was held. 
 
 1808, Au;) 19. — A treasure was found iu New- 
 town by a schoolboy, John, infant son of Daniel 
 Riker. It was 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 Keidoicn, p. 148. — Ed. 
 
 Names of persons, either pewholders or who 
 contributed to the support of Grace Church, Ja- 
 maica, from 1803 to 1809 : 
 
 1803 
 
 1808 
 1802 
 1802 
 1802 
 1802 
 1808 
 1807 
 1806 
 1802 
 1807 
 1802 
 18(^2 
 1807 
 1809 
 1802 
 1802 
 1802 
 1802 
 
 Jlary Austin, 
 Jacob Bedell,* 
 Thomas Betts, 
 Richard Betts, 
 Cornelius I. Bogart, 
 iSIrs. Eliza Brewer, 
 Josiah Brown, 
 Samuel Carman, 
 George Codwise, jr., 
 Peter Cortelyou, 
 Aaron Cortelyou, 
 Creed & Mills, 
 Mr. Clarke, 
 Henry Cruger, Esq., 
 Horace Dayton, 
 Jlrs. J. Depeyster, 
 Mark Diesosway,t 
 Eliza.Dunbart 
 John Dunn, 
 
 1807|Caleb Mills, 
 IPeter Mills, 
 1802lMills &. Creed, 
 1802: James Mon-ell, 
 1808 Joseph Morris, 
 1802|Dr. Daniel Mcnema, 
 1 802 1 George Nafis, 
 1809)Andrew- Napier, 
 1802 Timothv Nostrand, 
 Joseph'Oldfield, 
 Edward Parker, 
 William Puntine, 
 1806 Abraham Polhemus, 
 1807|Johannes Polhemus, 
 1802 Frederick Polhemus, 
 
 1802 
 1807 
 1809 
 
 1802 
 1802 
 1809 
 1602 
 
 Joseph Eoe, 
 Lawrfnce Koc, 
 Benjamin Rowland, 
 David Rowland, 
 
 y 
 
 *Bedell was clerk of the church. 
 
 tDissosway was father and chief patron of the Methodist 
 church, Jamaica. His hospitality wa? unbounded. Som&- 
 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 Kev. Timothy 
 Clowes boarded, and contracted a matrimonial engagement 
 with her cta»»lrter, Mary, which was subsequently broken 
 off by mutual agreement. The people would not let the 
 matter drop thus, but took sides for and against their min- 
 ister. Mr. Clowes having allowed some disparaging re- 
 marks to escape his lips, Miss Dunbar, at the instigation of 
 her friends, brought suit against him in the Supreme Coiut, 
 New York, Oct. 30thj 1810, by her attorney, Martin S. 
 Wilkius. The ablest counsel were employed on both 
 sides, and the jury rendered a verdict, M.ay 4th, 1812 
 of .1f4,00o damages, and six cents costs. Meantime Mr. 
 Clowes had accejited a call to St. Peter's Church, Albany. 
 
 23 
 
9C 
 
 QUEENS COT-NTY 
 
 \ 
 
 Carv liiniii, Jr., Ksc)., 
 L. K. A. ^.iJ.^•nl)^oJt, 
 .Samuel JKIdert,* 
 Mrs. F!D);lfls3, 
 I Clmrles Fiiiur, 
 .Samuel Orcenonk, 
 Archibald Cirac-ic, 
 Thomas Greswold, 
 Captain Hall. 
 Mrs. Harrison, 
 Urias Hendrickson, 
 John Huwlett, jr., 
 Stephen Hicks, 
 Hinclinian «.V: Smith 
 Rachel llinchmau, 
 John Hinehnian, 
 Sally Hinchman, 
 William H. Hitchcock, 
 Dr. 1). M. Hitchcock, 
 John Hoofrland, 
 Jonathan Jones, 
 Ilnfus King, 
 Daniel Kissam, 
 Benjamin T. Kissam, 
 Sarah Latting.t 
 James Lawrence, 
 Obadiali Leech, 
 Abraham Leech, 
 Major Charles McNeil, 
 Captain John Miittley,} 
 JamoE Mackerel, jr., 
 James 5Iackerel, 
 Miss Elcie Martin, 
 
 l-iili.\Irs. Ann .'<iriba, J-ilII 
 
 IKK.'.IoMepliSeelT, ti^in 
 
 IfWWilliam A. Sale, If^OS 
 
 lt?02Augustus Sackett, ]8I ] 
 
 18(l.-^.Iames Spronle, iHO'.t 
 
 l-ii-JDr. Xath.-m Shulton, J-07 
 
 i-i'IMnhn Skiilnioro, ]-ti-2 
 
 li~U(;\Villctt SUidmore, I'^ffi 
 
 180i)Joremiali Siiiionsnn, If('3 
 
 If'U-i.'^mith & Hinchmau, ]rii7 
 
 18i)-.>Chri.sto|iher Smith, Jfed'i 
 
 l.-(CJIIe«ter P. Smith, ]!r07 
 
 l.-(h>Kathi\rine Smith, l.-d* 
 
 l-i(K'J..hn Thatlord, ]^•02 
 
 l.-0-.>.lose])h Thatford, l^&i 
 
 l-^N:jLiRretia Tibbals, Id'iit 
 
 ISrti.Iuhu Troup. 1.^(12 
 
 l.-^ll-.Mrs. I'udorhill, L-JOi 
 
 ISOltlviih.ml Van Dam, liUfi 
 
 |.-01)Mrs. \:m Liew, iSm 
 
 l)*(K.Kihn Van Liew, JrdS 
 
 ISOd.Iohn Van Xostrand, L-W 
 
 l-rO-JAaron Van Nustraud,|| ].-i(lH 
 
 l!-fl2.Ieremiah Val-ntine, If^OiJ 
 
 ISa.Mrs. James W.aters, I"^<ni 
 
 l.-'OiJ.Iohn Wat.rs, ]H(W 
 
 ISDHiliss Woolendale.J 1802 
 
 18l)HJohn W. Welling, L-02 
 
 If^OSSanniel Wrlling, 1;^02 
 
 l.-02Thomas Welling, }!^(I2 
 
 lC(»2Richard Wiggin.i, lf-02 
 
 IHOaKlizabclh Wilson, 18J1 
 
 m>2 
 
 180S, Dec. 29.— Xicliolas Wykoff w.ais Cliairman, 
 and Daniel Lmllura, Secretary, of a meeting of tlio 
 inliabitaiits of Kings and Queens Counties, .it tlic 
 hou?e of George Carpenter, Jamaica, who were op- 
 posed to making a turnpike from Jamaica to 
 Brooklyn, 
 
 1809, March 1. — Mrs. Joanna llincbman, Ja- 
 maica, was clicked by a bone of a bccf-stcak, from 
 the efiects of wLich sbe died. 
 
 ISOd, April 1, — David Plummer, wbilc gunning 
 ou rium Beach, Manbassct, shot biiuself. 
 
 1S09. — Brooklyn, Jamaica and I'latbusli Turn- 
 pike. — Books for subscription will bo opened April 
 lOtli, at the inn of Benjauiin Sniilb, Brooklyn; at 
 the inn of Joliu Scboonniaker, I'latbusli; at the 
 inn of Daniel Voorlices, Bedford ; at the inn of 
 Abrali.im Bedell, Hempstead ; at tbo inn of Plutt 
 Carl, .Suffolk Count}' ; at tlic inn of Isaac I'latt, 
 Jamaica. The Commissioners are ; 'William I'ur- 
 man, John C. Vaudervecr, Lambert .Suydani, 
 George Cod wise, Jr., Eliphalet ^Vickcs, Jolm D. 
 Ditmis, 
 
 1809, 3Iai/. — Vote of Queens County for three 
 Members of Assembly : 
 
 '.She was widow of a sea-captain. 
 
 tOr Laton. She was born Ifapelye. 
 
 }Hc had been engaged in the sonthern coasting tr.iJe, 
 and latterly was a merchant in Ne\v Vorl;. 
 
 ||Hc was sexton of the church and h.is left a record 
 from 177;! to ]t*2(tof the interments in the church yard, 
 where he himself was buried, January M'M, ll?22, at the age 
 of eighty-fonr. 
 
 fShe kept n boarding .ind day school in Jamaica, but 
 aemoved to Brooklyn in May, 1S(I4. 
 
 lUpubliciin. 
 
 I'ldcral. 
 
 P-. ^ 
 
 150 
 
 1.55 
 
 15-S 
 
 85 
 
 65 
 
 t*3 
 
 7'J 
 
 78 
 
 78 
 
 92 
 
 W 
 
 £3 
 
 I-U 
 
 17!i 
 
 178 
 
 i>-3 
 
 99 
 
 96 
 
 Itl 
 
 172 
 
 170 
 
 3:15 
 
 339 
 
 341 
 
 1-2'J 
 
 125 
 
 lai 
 
 102 
 
 107 
 
 105 
 
 I(i4 
 
 SIrf 
 
 240 
 
 421 
 
 4i.ll 
 
 395 
 
 Jamaica. - - - 
 Flushing,* - - - 
 Newtown, - - - 
 Oysterb.iy. - - - 
 North Hrmpslcad, 
 Ucuipntcad, • ■ - 
 
 9«y 920 907 ll.?8 llt:3 1173 
 
 1809, June 2-2. — Rhoda .Seaman, Oysterbay, 
 
 sued Simeon Searing, in the Quceus Coun'ty Court, 
 
 for a breach of promise, and recovered six cents 
 
 damages. Issue was joined June 12tb, 1807. 
 
 1809, Jidi/ C.-Polly, daughter of John Piatt, 
 wliile crossing the Big Mill dam, Cowbay, fell otV 
 and was drowned. 
 
 1809. — Jiuncs Titus, of Newtown, died, August 
 24th, from a blow, received two days before, ou 
 tlie right side. .Si.K minutes before his dealii, ho 
 said it was by an oar in the hands of John Harper, 
 at the South B.ay landing, whither the}- had gone 
 to get clams. Harper hud previously loosened two 
 of ins teetli by tbrowing a clam-shell in his face, 
 and had also had him down in the water. 
 
 1809, J\"o!'. 14.— Jacob Verity, for larceny, is 
 sentenced, by tlio Queens County Court, to -jeceivc 
 thirt^'-iiine lashes to-morrow, at ten o'clock. — 
 Court Minutes. 
 
 1810, Jan. 20. — Dr. Daniel Mcneraa, of Jamai- 
 ca, aged fifty-si.K, died at seven in the morning, 
 and Josejih ^lorris, the barber and hair-dresser, 
 (whose wife cooked and washed fur the doctor) 
 died at seven in the evening. The nest .Sunday 
 after the burial of the above, and Mr. Grucy's 
 child, Daniel, the llev. Jlr. Faitoute preached from 
 Is. 38 ; 1 : " .Set thine house in order. Sec." 
 
 Dr. Jlencma was surgeon of the .Second New 
 York Ik'gimeut in the licvolulionaiy war, and a 
 memlier of the Cincinnati. He was a large, har.d- 
 some man and jiroud of his person. He was rc- 
 jmted an able pliysiciau and said to be kind and 
 liberal to the poor. Dr. Sheltou succeeded to his 
 practice. — Ed. 
 
 1810, Fell. 5. — Between two and three o'clock, 
 
 "In riushing the Democratic party made the greatest 
 cft'iirts for several weeks before the election to gain the ma- 
 jority. The most base and unfair means were made use of 
 by tlieir leaders. Judge WyckofT. a I'leucli tory, sjiread 
 through every part of the township, the most infamous 
 haiulliills. Still the I'cderal party jirevailed and gave their 
 candidates a handsome majority. 
 
 It would be well if all those protending to be "Demo- 
 crats '' could olVer so eonclusive a proof of th.oir own 
 " Democracy," as is furnished in the above ollicial relnrus. 
 Unfortunately, however, many of those exclusive patriots 
 were at that period on the adverse party, some individuals 
 of which actually emi>loyed an honest bl.acksniilh to sjiik ■ 
 n cannon, brought up to Flushing by this identical Jolu 
 Wykotf to celebr.ttc the inauguration of President Jelie 
 sou. — .V. J'. I'liper. 
 
 ilm 
 
 •r- 
 
 Y 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 97 
 
 P. M., a fire broke out iu the paper mill of Richard 
 Kirk, of Iletupptead Harbor, [now Bryaut'i?] aud, 
 notwithstanding the exertions of the neighbors, the 
 whole buikling was entirely destroyed.— iJfC.Po-sY. 
 
 1810, March 22. — Democratic Jit-^licc. — In 
 Queens County, a few weeks since, a Jlr. Milne, 
 of Oysterbay, a manufacturer of woolen cloths, 
 and a Federalist; and John Wykoif, of Flushing, 
 (one of the County Judges and a redoubtable Dem- 
 ocrat) were conii>etitors. Although the piece ex- 
 hibited by his Honor bore no comparisovi with 
 Milne's, yet a majority of the judges on some fri- 
 volous objection of the latter having been fulled 
 and dressed out of tlie county, adjudged the bomi- 
 ty toWykoff, notwithstanding that his cloth was de- 
 ficient iu the width recjuired by law. — J\^. Y. PajjCr. 
 
 1510, April 14. — Robert Hutchinson was foimd 
 lying dead on the east side shore of Cow Neck, 
 having been accidentally drowned, asTv'as thought. 
 
 IS'IO, June 12. — Jacob Hendrickson, fiir larceny, 
 is sentenced, by the County CV)urt, to receive thir- 
 ty-nine lashes immediately. 
 
 1810, June 27. — Abraham Ludlam, Newtown, 
 was accidentally drowned. 
 
 1810, Jrdi/ 6. — Headrick Goelet, Newtown, was 
 accidentally drowned. 
 
 1810, A tic/. 23. — On ^Wednesday, as Samuel 
 Lawrence, of Ncwto'^^■n, was coming to the city iu 
 a small boat he approached too near the Hancock 
 rock, struck the reef aud was swept from his boat 
 by the violence of the tide. He was taken up a 
 .few moments after aud the customary means of res- 
 toration were used without avail. His servant 
 clung to the boat aud was saved. 
 
 1810, Sc2)f. 3. — P. L. Turcpand and iMatthcAv 
 Chichester have taken charge of the school adjoin- 
 ing the Episcopal Church, in the village of _New- 
 town, where they profess to teaeli the French and 
 English languages, arithmetic, matliemafics, uavi- 
 •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 : Rev. A. L. Clark, Timo- 
 tliy Roach, John Rapelyc, Aaron Furman. 
 
 1810, Dec. 25. — Increase, son of George Car- 
 penter, was kicked by a horse so that the skuU- 
 uone was laid bare about the size of a tea-cup. 
 
 1511, March 1. — Owing to the inclement daj'S 
 lately experienced, the price of wood is higher in 
 New York than ever known before. Hickory sells 
 from $12 to $13 a carman load, wliich is one third 
 of a cord.* — Eve Post. 
 
 1811. — Vote of Queens County for tln-ee mem- 
 bers of Assembly, April 30th: 
 
 * January 15th, 1S0.">, hickory scikl at the \vooJ yarjs for 
 §21 a cord. A conQtryraan asked even .$S for a load ; and 
 April 2, ]::^07, oak wood sold at .$5 per load, aluiost every 
 house beins without.— £re. Post. 
 
 liepiihlican. 
 
 Fcdcyul. 
 
 Oysterbay, - - 
 Neivtowu, . - - 
 North Hempstead, 
 Hempstead, - - 
 Jamaica, - - - ■ 
 Flush'mg, - - - 
 
 1^ 
 
 165 
 12:j 
 ]]3 
 
 195 
 
 103 
 
 74 
 
 f= -4 "-; 2, 
 
 £ b ^2- 
 
 P • j^i^ 
 
 140 139 
 
 112 112 
 
 113 111 
 233 214 
 161 103 
 
 69 83 
 
 if 
 
 324 
 S4 
 132 
 424 
 85 
 S3 
 
 C:3 
 
 O) S3 
 
 325 
 
 84 
 
 137 
 
 411 
 
 91 
 
 93 
 
 324 
 
 85 
 135 
 
 400 
 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 iu our 
 exertions and not relinquish our opposition to do- 
 mestic tyranny. — N'. Y. Journal. 
 
 1810, Jiili/. 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. AU the frame had been 
 erected except tlie rafters, aud instead of erecting 
 these tv.'o by two, they were first all jiiled togeth- 
 er on the beams of the newly erected frame, which 
 broke down under the superincumbent weight and 
 severely injiu-ed Smitli 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 uight there was a 
 tremendous snow storm and gale. Many vessels 
 in the Sound were driven on the Long Island 
 shore. 
 
 1812. — Jamaica, Jan. 24. — I'esterday 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 sliock was felt 
 by my family aud several of my ucighlDors. — Cor. 
 of N. Y. Spectator. 
 
 1812, March 28.— Peter liegeman, JIanhasset, 
 sells to Elbert liegeman, his half of their slave, 
 Jesse, for 632 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 2C. — Smith Hicks has taken the 
 well known stand at Jamaica, opposite the Episco- 
 p.al Church, for many years kept as an inn ty 
 Messrs. Bardin, Waters, and Battiu, successively. 
 
 *C'liutoii was chosen Lieutenant Governor. — Hammond, 
 1;291. 
 
 tCaptain Thomas Webb, the principal founder of the 
 American Jletliodist church, came to Jamaica, where hia 
 wife's kindred lived, some time before thi Kevolution, hired 
 a house and preached in it, and ■' twenty-four persons re- 
 ceived justifying grace." — Stevens' History. 
 
98 
 
 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 He l)a.« laid in a stock of tlie Lc^t liquors* and is 
 provided with every article of accommodation 
 Biiitcd to the whim of the most capricious traveler. 
 The frequfuters of llockaway vill find hero a con- 
 venient re.«ting place for themselves and horses. 
 
 1812, M(t)/. — Vote of Queens County for Sena- 
 tors (in part), and three Members of Assembly.! 
 
 
 ASSEMBLY. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Federal 
 
 
 liepullican. 
 
 Sr.NATE. 
 
 
 
 
 
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 I'eil. Hep. 
 
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 1- 
 
 
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 E 3 B 
 
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 rV-3_ 
 
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 N. Hempstead 
 
 , 130 125 
 
 128 
 
 115 
 
 107 
 
 103 
 
 101 C3 
 
 Jnmaicn, - 
 
 - 87 83 
 
 87 
 
 123 
 
 12.S 
 
 127 
 
 66 2 
 
 I'lusliing, 
 
 105 101 
 
 103 
 
 08 
 
 67 
 
 Oil 
 
 72 11 
 
 Ovstcrbav, 
 
 319 316 
 
 314 
 
 95 
 
 r« 
 
 »7 
 
 176 42 
 
 lI(>nipstcad,S- 
 
 403 419 
 
 3U4 
 
 IKl 
 
 207 
 
 214 
 
 306 — 
 
 X.v.tuwii, - 
 
 - 77 77 
 
 79 
 
 105 
 
 103 
 
 105 
 
 70 35 
 
 
 1121 1120 
 
 1105 
 
 GST 
 
 908 
 
 715 
 
 791 153 
 
 1812, Nov. 1. — A meeting was held at AVilliam 
 and Dobson Allen's inn, Manhn.'spt, to con.=idcr 
 the propriety of erecting a Reformed Dutch church, 
 and subscription papers were handed around. 
 The church was dedicated Christmas, 1S16, by 
 tlie Rev. D. S. 13ogart. 
 
 181S, Dec. 1. — 15cnj.imin Sands sells his grist- 
 mill, at JIanha.'iset, to Andrew Onderdonk and 
 Daniel Ilooglaud, for the purpose of a cotton-fac- 
 tory. 
 
 1812, June 13. — Rochaway Slarjes. — Thomas 
 Barwise, Brooklyn, will run a new line, with four 
 horses. Fare, 81 2ii. 
 
 1812.— Sehih Smith, of Brooklyn, and Smith 
 Hicks, will stTirt, August 3d, a new line of stages 
 from Brooklyn to Kockaway and back, the same 
 day, performing the whole in the short space of 
 thirteen hours. Breakfast on the table at Smith 
 Hicks', Jamaica, while the horses arc changing, 
 and dinner at Silas Hicks', Rockaway. I'are, tfl. 
 
 1812, Oct. 13.— The market-boat Little Trim- 
 mer, Captain Abraham BrinckerhotT, from New 
 York to Cow Bay, being too heavily loaded with 
 brick, as she was putting about, run under water 
 and sunk, off Plum Beach. 'J'lic passengers and 
 crew escaped in the long boat to Great Neck, ex- 
 cept one who swam ashore to Cow Xeck. Catha- 
 rine Onderdonk lost SSO worth of clothing. 
 
 18K 
 
 -The dwelling-house of Nathaniel Lud- 
 
 liim. Bog Lots, near Jamaica^ was burnt ou Thurs- 
 
 *It was cu.stomary when a publican got in a new liops- 
 heail of run) to invito all liis customcrii to try it. After 
 tlity li»il tasteil, intorcliaDped opinions ami pronounced it 
 good (as they usually did) that hogshead had a ix-udy sale. 
 —Ed. 
 
 tTliere was a split in the Eepuhlican jiarty, and Major 
 Moore, of Newtown, was nominated by the " Qnida" or 
 Jlurtlinpr Junto, who hold a meeting at tho Court House, 
 April 6th. .lohn t^ehcuek bflinf,' Chairman, .-.ud Kuhort 
 'I'ownseud, l^een.tary. Andrew (liiderdouk wa.'i .'<eiit as 
 messenger with the nomination to SutYolk County. — Ld. 
 
 day night, January 7th, with its contents. The 
 family barely escaped. — L. I. Star. 
 
 1813. — They began to pull down the old stone 
 church that .«tood in the middle of the 5laiii Street, 
 Jamaica, ^May 21tli. After the rubbish yaxn re- 
 moved the ground under the church, anil especially 
 in front of the judpit, was dug up and the remain's 
 of those who had been 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-iuterr(<l. 
 
 In olden times it was not unusual to bury the 
 clergy beneath the ])ulpit, and people 6f 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 ; 
 iJut here I lie as snug as they. 
 
 The Rev. 5Ir. Poyer in liis sermon, in this 
 church, ilay 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 mu.st expect." 
 
 A burial in the yard of Grace church cost 12s. ; 
 but in the church it was much doiirer. Dr. Field, 
 17S1, paid fi)r laying his wife in church, ^'.0 ; for the 
 grave, ci'l 4s.; taking up the floor 12*.; for four 
 carriers, .£1, 12s.; funeral bell, 3s.; pall, 4s. ; in- 
 viting, etc., 18s. 
 
 ■ 1813. — Caleb Mills, stage driver, Jamaica, was 
 adjusting the head stall on one of his horses, when 
 they started and struck him on the baek of the 
 neck with the carriagc-totigue, causing a paralysis 
 of the spinal column, whereof he died, September 
 lOlh, notwithstanding tho skill of Dr. Post, who 
 was sent for from New York. — Ed. 
 
 1813, Sept. 11.— Tlie flotilla of gunboats, thirty 
 in number, under Commodore Lewis, passed 
 through Hellgatc,|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 maneuveriug against a strong 
 tide, they cominonc(.'d firing at two and a half 
 miles distance. A British frigate, supposed to be 
 the Acasta, then drew out with the ajiparent in- 
 tention of bringing the United States' flotilla to 
 close action, which the gunboats were 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 con»orts. The latest ac- 
 
 "Thursday wai appointed ag a Fast day by the Presi- 
 dent. 
 
 tlieujamin llewlatt sold the Government, July 15, 1808, 
 five acres of land at Wulch or Sands' I'oint. for a lipht- 
 houso, whieh was built by Xo.ih Mason. The lantern was 
 ready for tho oil by Xovember, ISO!), when a festival was 
 held there by the uei(;hbors v.ho were addressed bv Dr. S. 
 L. Mitchell. 
 
IX OLDElSr TIMES. 
 
 99 
 
 counts say tlie enemy have returned to the east- 
 wards—A^, r. Museum. 
 
 1813- April. — Vote of Queens county for Gov- 
 ernor and Assembh" : 
 
 oovr.nxoR. 
 Fed. niji. 
 
 .1SSEMBLY. 
 Fakriil. UejntUUan. 
 
 Flus'.iiD'", -.-.56 77 85 SO 85 106 103 ]01 
 
 Newtown, - - 151 73 J73 172 176 87 86 87 
 
 Jamaica, - - I'iD 83 153 153 153 100 99 99 
 
 N. Hempstcail, 75 120 1-27 126 123 1.'54 151 1.55 
 
 Ilcmpstead, - 124 404 134 SOI 183 522 520 514 
 
 Oysterbav, - 130 221 201 201 203 375 373 372 
 
 071 983 923 933 923 1344 1332 1323 
 
 1813, N'ov. 10.— Long Island Sound was de- 
 clared by the Admiral of the British srjuadrou to 
 be in a state of blockade. 
 
 18.13, Dec. 9. — Long Lsland barley sold in Xcv/ 
 York, at .$1,60 per bu-shcl. 
 
 1814. — Those inhabitants of Xcwtown who pre- 
 fer the interests of their families and coiratry to 
 the paltrj' schemes of speculators are requested to 
 meet at Bernard Bloom's Inn, on Friday the 9th 
 of Januarj', to consider the expediency of denying 
 themselves the use of tea and sugar, till the exor- 
 bitant prices are reduccd.t — L. I. Star. 
 
 1S14, Jan. 12. — Died at Oysterbay after a short 
 illness John Fleet Esq., ^Member of Assembly, 
 distinguished for his luidcrstandiug, integrity and 
 usefulness. 
 
 ISH, Jan. 14. — A majority of the judges of the 
 cotirt of Common Pleas of Queens county, award- 
 ed Joseph Onderdonk of Manhasset, a premium of 
 63-j, for the best piece of woolen cloth made in the 
 coanty, 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 award .+ 
 — Ass. Jour. 
 
 1814, Jan. IS. — Sta^IPS, from five cents to five 
 dollars, for notes to be di.scountcd, may be had at 
 the office of B. F. Thompson, Deputy Collector of 
 Internal Revenue, at Jamaica. 
 
 tXumbers of the people on Cow Neck and vicinity went 
 to Sands' Point to see tlie action. Captain Mason, keeper 
 of the light-house, told them to scatter themselves, for fear 
 the enemy, niistalting them for a body of armed men, might 
 throw a shot among them. — Ed. 
 
 tCoftee sold ,at 23 cents per pound; Hj-son tea .tl 94 ; 
 ►Souchong .$1 50 ; Sugar f 22 50 per hundred. The news of 
 peace with Great Britain was received in New York, Feb- 
 ruary 11th, whereupon sugar fell from $25 per hundred to 
 $13. 
 
 tThe Legislature in 1811 authorized the judges of the 
 court of C^inunon -Pleas in each county of the state to 
 award premiums "^from a fund provided by the state) for 
 
 the best specimens of woolen cloth made in the family. 
 
 This was continued for several years. — Ed. 
 
 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. Siicrraan, 
 Secretary, it was resolved unanimously that John 
 Hazard of Jamaica, .James Lent of Newtown and 
 Elbert liegeman, of Oysterbay, represent Queens at 
 Tammany Hall, on the ICth inst., for nominating 
 a Senator and Member of Congress. — L. I. Star. 
 
 1814. — At a meeting of Repitbhcan delegates of 
 the ditt'erent towns of Queens county, at the Court 
 House, April 13th, "William Mott, Chairman and 
 Micajah Townsend, Secretary; it Avas resolved 
 unanimously that Daniel BedcU of Hempstead, 
 Singleton JMitchell of North Hempstead, and Sam- 
 uel Sherman of Oysterbay, be nominated as candi- 
 dates for the Assembly,*and George Townsend for 
 Congress. 
 
 lSl4:,-3Iai/ 14. — Aspinwall Cornell part ov/ner 
 of the sloop ximdia, took six hundred or seven hun- 
 dred bushels of rye on freiglit to Rhode Island. — 
 John liegeman (who had just removed to New 
 Yoik from Manhasset) sent also five hundred bush- 
 els of rj'e, and wont himself, being out of business. 
 Jlnrk Jjynch went as a passenger gratuitously. — 
 Robert G. Cornell and two hands wore also ' on 
 board. As they entered the race, jMay 16, the tide 
 ■ ebbed and carried 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, Hegemau 
 and Lynch, were put ashore, but the vessel with 
 R. G. Cornell and two hands was sent to Halifax 
 as a prize. A. Cornell, Hegcman and Lynch were 
 arrested, August 8th, for treason and after a tedious 
 imprisonment were tried April 11, 181.5, 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 
 allowed to enter on a defence. — N^'Y. Commercial. 
 
 1814 Aug. 3. — There were one hundred and 
 twenty loads of fascines (twenty-five bundles eacli) 
 brought from Jamaica to Brooklyn to aid in the 
 construction of fort Greene. The Rev. Jacob 
 Schoonmaker headed the procession, Mr. Eigeu- 
 brodt and the pupils of the Academy assistcd-^tho 
 people in cutting the fascines. 
 
 1814, Aug. 16.— The boati? of the blockading 
 squadron chased a small schooner ashore at Rock- 
 aw'ay and set her on fire. Several gentlemen who 
 were there on parties of pleasure, after the boats 
 h.-id left the beach extinguisliedthc fire. Previous 
 to firing her a gentlein.an 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 
 extinguishing the flames. — N. Y. Gazette. 
 
 *Th6 Federal candidates, Stephen Carman, Daniel Kis- 
 sani and Sol. Wooden were elected to the Assembly, as also 
 was Townsend to Congress. 
 
 24 
 
100 
 
 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 1814, Si'pf.7. — There are one tliousniid two hun- 
 dred of General Johnson's hrigadc of iiifmtrv, 
 from Kings and Queens countici* now oncaunjcd 
 on Fort Greene, Urooklyn. 
 
 1S14, Oct. 2G. — The committee of defence under- 
 standing that a number of citizena on Long I?hind 
 arc desirous of evincing their devotion to their 
 country, inform them tliat several thou.«and fa.jciues 
 are wanted for the construction of Fort Greene, 
 and that patterns arc left at Crced'n tavern, Jamai- 
 ca, and at Bloom's, Xcwtowu. 
 
 181-3, Jan. 4. — The liogs of Mr. Peter ITcgcman, 
 Cow Nock, lately rooted up a' largo rjuantity of 
 gold and silver, at least S220, whicli had been 
 buried in the ground since the llcvolution, and for- 
 gotten. — L. I. Slttr. 
 
 ISlo, Feb. — Samuel Youngs of Oystcrbay ofTors 
 for sale a stout able bodied slave, twcnty-si.v 3'ears 
 old, now confined in jail for absenting himself from 
 his master's service. 
 
 1815, Feb. 8.— The elegant house of tlie late 
 Isaac T. lieevo at I'lainville, formerly the iivojier- 
 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 whicli bad just been burned. 
 
 1SI'>, Feb. .'22.-T-T!ie news of peace was celebra- 
 ted at Hempstead harbor by firing volleys of musk- 
 etry at seven A. :\r. The flags waved all day from 
 the paper mills, factory and shoe-shop of Mr. Dan- 
 iel liogart. At noon and evening, salutes were 
 fired by pistols. la the evening tlic housvs were 
 illuminated and appropriate toasts drank at the 
 house of the llev. JJavid S. ]5ogart. Jamaica, 
 Flushing and other principal villag<'S on Long Is- 
 land, were also illuuiiuated. 
 
 1815 .March G. — K. 11. Jones resigns liis s^jat in 
 the Senate. lie labors under a stricture of the 
 breast and finds the air of Albany injurious to him. 
 
 1815, March 25. — Last week Francis Baldwin of 
 Hempstead, fell from the window of the house 
 where he slept in Brooklyn (likely iu his sleep) 
 and was killed. 
 
 181-3, laiui/. — Vote of Queens County : 
 
 Senate. 
 
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 P 
 
 
 
 a 
 
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 1 
 9- 
 
 5 
 
 1 
 
 1-5 
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 Lcffurt Lcffcits, Rep. 
 
 GO 
 
 6fl 
 
 317 
 
 Gl 
 
 103 
 
 1(?3 
 
 7S)0 
 
 Jacob Harjcer, Deiu. 
 
 115 
 
 111 
 
 117 
 
 44 
 
 52 
 
 105 
 
 544 
 
 Assemlily. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Stephen Carman FoJ 
 
 74 
 
 70 
 
 4 IS 
 
 81 
 
 113 
 
 2fl0 
 
 1046 
 
 Daniel Kissani, Fed. 
 
 /•> 
 
 7U 
 
 424 
 
 811 
 
 114 
 
 293 
 
 IO.VJ 
 
 AVilli.ini Jones, Fed. 
 
 4 i 
 
 71 
 
 4 IS 
 
 m 
 
 112 
 
 2'.>7 
 
 10.37 
 
 Joseph I'eitit. Dent. 
 
 ]4(> 
 
 127 
 
 175 
 
 (>U 
 
 to- 
 
 Hi5 
 
 753 
 
 John D.DilMiis.Deni. 
 
 IW 
 
 ]-i() 
 
 VJi 
 
 Gl 
 
 eo 
 
 lCi5 
 
 747 
 
 Sani'l 8hcrniau, Dem 
 
 147 
 
 127 
 
 loG 
 
 Gl 
 
 so 
 
 IGl 
 
 732 
 
 "Tbo Jamaica militia marched to B 
 
 •ooklj 
 
 n Bcptombcr 2. 
 
 1815, Feb. IG. — Long Island sound was frozen 
 over at Sand's Point. 
 
 1815, Jtinc'2^. — At a meeting of the Clergy and 
 Laity of the Protestant Episcopal Church at (Mace 
 Church, Jamaica, for the purpose of forming a 
 society to distribute the Bible and common prayer 
 book, after morning praj-ers, the lie v. Solh Ilart 
 was appointed Chairman and F. C. Tucker, Secre- 
 tary. The following officers were elected : Joshua 
 Sands, President, Stephen Carman and AVilliam 
 Jayue, Vice Presidents ; Kcv. E.3I. Johnson, .Sec- 
 retfry and John 11. Jloore, Treasurer. The man- 
 agers wore Judge .Selali Strong, John Van Nos- 
 trand, Thomas ilarston, Timothy Roach, Abraham 
 Sncdiker, Benjamin Hewlett, F. C. Tucker. 
 
 1S15. — At a meeting of some of the iidinbitants 
 of Long Island, of dilfcrent religious denomina- 
 tions, hold August 1st, pursuant to public notice, 
 at the Court House, for the jmrpose of forming a 
 13ible Society, Adrain Van Sinderen was ai)point- 
 ed Cli.iirman and James Lent Secretary, John Bas- 
 set, William Boardman, Evan M. Johnson, Jesse 
 Levcrich and Charles Wright were appointed a 
 committee to report a constitution, which was 
 agreed to. Itevs. Dr. Basset, Amos Bingliam, D. 
 S. Bogart, E. 31. Johnson, Gilbert 11. .Sayres, Jacob 
 Schoonmakor; and Jlcssrs. Daniel Bogart, Daniel 
 Brinckorliolf, Joseph Dodge Jr., L. E. A. Eigen- 
 brodt, Thomas F. Fish, \'alontine Ilicks, Dr. D. 
 M. Hitchcock, Edward Howard, Thomas Law- 
 rence, Jr., James Lent, Jesse Lc^erich, William 
 Lcverich, Edward Leverich, Peter JLesserole, Dr. 
 Nathan Shelton, .Tohn E. Tompkins, A. Van Sin- 
 deren, Eliidialet Wickes and Charles AVriglit were 
 appointed a committee to solicit subscriptions, and 
 report at a meeting to be held the third Wednes- 
 day of Soptember. 
 
 1815, Aug. 23. — A society to suppress vice and 
 intemperance was organized at Oystorbay, July 1st 
 they met at the school house in Jericho, when 
 Charles Jackson was appointed Cliainnan and 
 Samuel Sherman, Secretary. The Committee to 
 draft a constitution were : .Sel.ah S. Carll, Jarvis 
 Frost, Elbert liegeman, James liegeman, A'alcu- 
 tine Hicks, William Jones, Jesse Merrit, Samuel 
 Sherman, Isaac ,Smith and Sol. Wooden. 
 
 1S15, Sept. 5. — J.'n/ortiiiKitc Aechknl. — This 
 morning, a small Alarkct-boat, in attempting to 
 come to the city from Newtown with ten persons 
 aboard, five women and five men, run athwart a 
 cable of a brig lying at anchor in the etreani, up- 
 set, and went down ; by which .accident, one man, 
 Mr. Paul Burtis, and four women, viz : Mrs. Betsey 
 Gray, Air.'. Lane, Miss Snedikor and Aliss AVadc, 
 about 12 years of age, were drowned, Air. Edaell, 
 the owner of the boat. Air. Collier, Airs. Kapelye, 
 and two colored men, were saved, by clinging, some 
 to the cable, and some to the ropes of the brig, *''! 
 they were taker, off. Airs. Ilspelyc was so much 
 exhausted that her recovery is doubtful. 
 
 1815, Sqil.n. — Died, at Jamaica, aged 73 years. 
 
 i^ 
 
 L^ 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 101 
 
 ci 
 
 Colonel Joseph Eobiusoii, a patriot of tlio Revolu- 
 tion aud for thirty years Surrogate of Queens 
 county. 
 
 ISlG'Feb. 26. — On Thursday morning; last, be- 
 tween one and two o'clock, the house of widow 
 Lawrence at Flushing, was discovered to be "On tire. 
 Tiie family made their escape, but the flames when 
 discovered had made such progress that a small 
 portion of the fiuniture only was saved. 
 
 ISlC^iJrrt 22.— Eleven o'clock last night a fire 
 broke out in the barn of Mr. Furman iu Newtown, 
 Long Island, which destroyed all his outhouses 
 with their contents, a large quantity of hay, grain, 
 &c., two horses, one cow and two calves were con- 
 sumed. 
 
 1816.— The Trustees ot Union Hall Academy, 
 Jamaica, pui-pose to open a female academy. May 
 20th, in a building that will accommodate from 
 thirt^y to forty boarders. -They have engaged two 
 ladies of approved talents and experience, Mrs. 
 Elizabeth ISartlette and Miss Laura Barnum by 
 whom young -ladies will be instructed in all the 
 branches of .a poljte and well finished education. 
 
 1816, June 11. — A fine large GREEN TURTLE 
 ■will be dressed on Saturday and Sunday next, at 
 Tyler's Boarding House, Far Kockaway. Dinner 
 on the table at two o'clock. 
 
 1816, Jidi/ 20.— Dr. Jlitchell and Captain Pat- 
 ridge ascertained by the barometer that the height 
 of the Harbor Hills was three hundred aud nine- 
 teen feet.* They also found the 51 ill-stone rock, 
 a granite block on laud of Judge Scheuck, south of 
 Manhasset, to contain two thousand four hundred 
 cubic feet above the surface of the earth iu which 
 it was embedded. 
 
 1816, ^J((7. 7.— Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Cap- 
 tain Carberry, of NoTi' York, aged fourteen years, 
 aud two servant girls (one was Jane McPhersou.) 
 were swept off by the undertow at llockaway 
 bsach, while bathing in the surf. They were 
 washed up fifteen minutes after but life was ex- 
 tinct. 
 
 1810, Auff. 16— Walter ar.d Gilbert Covert (fa- 
 ther and sou) were put in Queens county jail for 
 setting fire to the barn of Obadiah Jackson, Jeri- 
 cho, and subsequently removed to Bridewell for 
 fear of their breaking jail. They were tried, No- 
 vember 12th. Walter was acquitted aud Gilbert 
 sent to the State's Prison for ten years. 
 
 1816, Aug. 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 comnnissioners from Williamsburgh, after- 
 wards made the elevation to be three hundred aud eighty 
 feet. 
 
 Rockaway formerly exceeded twenty-eight miles, 
 but is now diminished to fifteen. The number of 
 horses iu the team-boat has been doubled to afford 
 facilities to travellers bj' the new route. 
 
 1816, Noi\ 12.— Stephen Hicks was fined $50 
 for assault on Cesar Lowe, a negro. (In the spring 
 of 181;3 Cesar was beJiaving disorderly in Hicks' 
 bar-room, at Success, and on refusing to leave the 
 house when ordered, Hicks forciby ejected and 
 kicked him, of which he died).— Court and Si(2ycr- 
 visors' minutes. 
 
 1816, Bee. 4. — James Ditmars of Jamaica killed 
 a pig, eight months okl, which weighed when 
 dressed three hundred and sixty-two pounds. 
 
 1816, Bee. 18.— AVilliam Smith, of Flushing, 
 killed a two j'car old hog which weighed one thou- 
 sand, one hundred and twenty pounds. — Star. 
 
 1816, Bee. 18, — A radish was produced the past 
 seasjan 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, Man 5.— William Gobbet landed in New 
 York, aud hired Hyde Park, where he planted iu 
 ridges seven acres of turnips (ruta-bagas), and gave 
 a great impulse to their culture by Long Island 
 farmers. 
 
 1817, Hay 21. — Late Election, — From a state of 
 high excitement the people seem to have flillen into 
 a very blamable apathy. Very few votes we 
 understand were given iu 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 tiro hundred and eighty-three 
 votes and Peter B. Porter, thirteen. — Jj. J. Star. 
 
 1817, June 15. — Tbe store of Lowerre and 
 Wines, Flushing was broken open iu the night by 
 some men from New York, (who came np in a 
 coach) and rubbed 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, Ji(7>c 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 hj' lightning during 
 the thunder storm of Saturday eveuiug. 
 
 1817, July 15.— The store of John W. Messen- 
 ger, one mile east of Jamaica, was broken open 
 aud robbed on the night of July 7th. The whole 
 
102 
 
 Q r E E N S CO V X T Y 
 
 of tlic goods will lie given as a rewaail for the dis- 
 covery of the villains.— 57((r. 
 
 IS 17. A)if/. 0. — Sally Edsall, Nf«town, sncd 
 Thomas aud Margaret T'iviiio for slaudor. The 
 trial lasted three daj's nnd forty witiiesses were 
 examined. The jury i-fiulri-fMl a vi-vlu-t n|'.'''io.- 
 L. I. Star. 
 
 1S17, Aliff. IS. — Mi: opragg, ul Hemp.-tcail hav- 
 ing hid guu on fnll cock whde snipe shooting, lost 
 liis tlinnib and three fingers by a discharge of the 
 ramrod. The hand was amjiutatcd above the 
 wrist. 
 
 1817, Aiiff. 21. — James Davis, a mason, James 
 Muttcc aud Piatt Sammis were committed to jiil 
 for n?ing violcucc under aggr.avating circumstaiicos 
 to Maria Dodge, whonx they left on the Flats in 
 Ilemjjstead Haibor, to be drowned by the rising 
 tide, but her cries brought timely succor. Davis 
 broke jail December 4, but was ri'takcn Juno 10, 
 ISIS. The others also escaped June 20 1818.— 
 SiqK'rvisors' mimitcs. 
 
 1S17, Atir/. 24.— Died at Tyler's, at Kockaway, 
 ilr. llolman, play actor, late of London. 
 
 1817. — At a meeting of a number of gentlemen 
 farmers and agriculturists of Queens county, at the 
 Court House, November lltli, for the purpose of 
 taking into consideration the propriety of forming 
 an A;/iicii1tiiral Socic/i/, in order to improve the 
 ni.?thod of farming as well as to improve the stock 
 
 I aud rural economy of said county in general, Lewis 
 S. Hewlett was called to the chair aud John I. 
 
 I Cromwell was appointed Secretary. 
 
 After a few prefatory remarks on the impor- 
 tance to our country of the subjt?ct, it wa.'j resolved 
 that the formation of an agriculfnral society is 
 highly necessary and that a general meeting of the 
 
 ' fanners and agrlenlturists of Queens county, be 
 
 : held at the Court House, December 8th, at 10 A. 5r. ; 
 
 I and that Lewis S. Hewlett, Carret Laton, M.ijnv 
 ■\ViIliatn Jones, John I. Cromwell, Esfj., Ix'wis 
 Hewlett and Henry O. Seaman form a coiumittee 
 of arrangements ; and that the objects of tliis meet- 
 ing may become generally known that these pro- 
 ceedings be published in the newspapers and hand- 
 lAU.—L. I. Star. 
 
 1817, Nov. 12. — Dr. Keener who resided a mile 
 west of Jamaica was buried in the cemetery of 
 Grace church. 
 
 1818, March 7. —Daniel Downing, a young man 
 who could not speak, was driving his fatiirr'.s team 
 down a hill cast side of ^Manhasset, when the load 
 slid on the horses which started and he was thrown 
 out and killed. 
 
 1S18, March \ G. — A meeting was held at Allen's 
 inn, Manhasset, to consider the subject of building 
 an Academy. Christ churcii academywas opened, 
 October following.* 
 
 1818, April. — Daniel Kissaui, Steidien Carman, 
 and John A. King were elected to the Assembly 
 over the Tammany candidates. 
 
 1818, Mivj 22. — James Morrel, of Xewtown, was 
 drowned while in his berth, on board a small ma- 
 nure schooner which sunk at Fly market wharf, 
 New York, in conscqucuco of her prow catching 
 on the ferry stairs. 
 
 ISIB, Aug. 10. — During the thunder storm of 
 Thursday afternoon, the barn of Danii'l Everett, 
 near .Jamaica, was struck and entirely consumed, 
 loss SGOO or .S700. 
 
 \S\.Q, Sept. — Governor (_'linton nnd suite, consist- I ^ 
 ing of Dr. S. L. Jlitchell, Dr. Townscnd, Gurdon Ay 
 S. Mumford and Judj^e J^llingham Lawrence at- 
 tended the lleformod L>ulch church, Manhasset, on 
 Sund.ay, and dined at Judge JlitchdU's. The 
 Governor held his levee at Allen's inn. — JEd. 
 
 1818, Oc/. 28. —^lajor Thorne of Oysterbay was 
 tlirown from his gig by two rtmaway horses com- 
 ing in contact and killed. 
 
 \Sl^, April!. — Tothe EJilor Qf the Loiiff Idmul 
 Star. — I presume it is not generally known that a 
 few men h::ve undertaken to manage for the people 
 and kindly dictate for whom they shall vote. — 
 They have lately sent delegates to Tammany Hal! 
 to nominate Senators. In {Queens county, 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 
 culled the sense of. the county of Queens ! I 
 
 1819, iI/«^ 'S.'— Vote of Queens county, far As 
 sembly : 
 
 Feihral. Tummany. 
 
 Jolin A. Kin<^, - - 
 William .Joiies, - 
 Tluiai.is TreJwiiU, 
 
 75-2 
 715 
 
 Samuel .*<lierDian, - - 42.') 
 Rte]ilieu Ciriiixii, - - 210 
 AVilliam Jlott, - - ■ iSi 
 
 *1H(I2, Dec. 7. — fleorpo find Sar.ili Ond-rJonk sell over 
 two acres iif piouiul, at tlio lleaJ of Cow Xock, for the site 
 of Christ church. 
 
 1819. — Jlrs. and Jliss Dawson's boarding school, 
 Jamaica, will reopen May 10th, Music, French, 
 Italian and English languages regularly taught. 
 
 1819, .Ifrt^ 12.— 7?«r'7?«;-y.— Thellouse of :Mr. 
 Isaac Lcfferts near .Jamaica, Long Island, was bro- 
 ken open on the night of the 8lh inst., and robbed 
 of a small chest, containing fifteen hundred dollars 
 in I'.ink bills, three hundred and fifty dollars in 
 silver, twenty eagles, a gold watch, chain, key and 
 seals, and a number of valuable 2'-ipP''*' Two 
 hundred dollars reward is olfered for the defection 
 of the robber and the recovery of the property. 
 
 1819'. — The simimor term of Nassau Academy, 
 Hempstead, under the care of the Rev. Timothy 
 Clowes, A. M., with an able assistant, will com- 
 mence ilay 2jtli. Hoard (iiul tuition .§83 for twen- 
 ty-three weeks. French, "Washing and bedding a 
 separate charge. 
 
 The Female Academy under the care of Mrs. C. 
 A. Taylor will open the same day. 
 
 *.So c.iUed from meeting iu Martling's long room, Tam- 
 many Hall. — Ed. 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 103 
 
 1819, June 23. — Some damage was doue by the 
 hail storm in Queens county, on Saturday last, — 
 At J.-imaica the glass windows were broken. At 
 Newtown, Flushing, Hempstead and elsewhere, 
 the grass and grain were beat down, and Indian 
 corn almost destroyed. 
 
 1819, Juli) 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 L-^land. In Hempstead and the 
 east part of Hnntington many are sick and num- 
 bers of deaths have occurred. — L. I. Star. 
 
 1819. — The Queens County Society for the pro- 
 motion of x\griculture and Domestic manufactures, 
 was organized at a public meeting of a number of 
 the freeholders and inhabitants, at the Court Hou.?e, 
 on the 21st day of June. The officers were Rufus 
 King. President ; Effingham Lawrence, Singleton 
 Mitchell " and "William. Jones, Vice-Presidents ; 
 Rev. David S. Bognrt, Corresponding Secretary; 
 Thomas Philips, Recording Secretary ; Daniel 
 Kissam, Treasurer. 
 
 3IANAGEES. 
 
 Lewis Hewlett, Townsend Cock, John B. Coles, 
 Jr., Nelson Lloyd, of O^'sterbay ; John I. Schenck, 
 Benjamin Tred well, Benjamin I'latt, Joseph Dodge, 
 Jr., of Nortli Hempstead ; Abraham Cock, Thom- 
 as Powell, Richard Cornell, James Lawi'ence, of 
 Flushing ; Colonel Edward Leverich, Colonel 
 George Gibbs, Timothy Roach, Rev. E. M. John- 
 son, of Newtown ; Nicholas Wyckoff, 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 ])remiums to be ofl'ered at the first exhibition 
 at the Oovirt House, on the first Tuesday of No- 
 vember. 
 
 The premiums were awarded to the following 
 persons : 
 
 John Ekler, Jamaica, Indian Corn. - - . $20 
 Judge Lawrence, Flushing, acre of Potatoes, - - 10 
 do do. half acre Kuta Bagas, 10 
 
 Thomas Jenkins, Oj'sferbay, Woolen Cloth, - . ]0 
 do. do. Flannel, - - - 10 
 
 Lewis Hewlett, Oysterbay, Linen Diaper, - - - 5 
 Stephen .Sell, N. Hempstead, Lineu for Shirts or Sheets, 5 
 Colonel Gibbs, Newtou'u, Bull, - - . 
 Lewis Hewlett, Hempstead, Working Oxen, 
 Lawrence lloe, Jamaica, Cow, ... 
 Benjamin Penny, Flushing, Cow. 
 Lewis Hewlett, Oysterbay, Bullock, 
 Colonel tiibbs. Merino Ram, .... 
 Judge Lawrence, Merino Fwe. 
 Wynaiit Van Zandt, Flushing, Ram, not merino, 
 James Lout, Newtown, Ewe, not merino. 
 
 Colonel Gibbs, Boar, 
 
 Lewis Hewlett, Oysterbay, Sow, ... 
 Thomas. Jones, Oysterbay, fom- year Gelding, 
 
 20 
 10 
 20 
 10 
 1.5 
 10 
 5 
 10 
 
 No miported Horse, Bull or Cow, were exhibited. 
 
 - ij 
 .5 
 
 - 15 
 
 200 
 
 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, DeWitt Clinton was nominated 
 for Governor, and a committee of four from each 
 town appointed to forward the objects of the meet- 
 iusr, viz : 
 
 JAMAICA. 
 
 James Denton, Esq. 
 Evert Van Wickleu, 
 
 Nicholas TVyckoff, 
 Charles Ilcndrickson. 
 
 FLUSHING. 
 Effingham Lawrence, I Abraham Lowerre, 
 Captain John Strong, | William Roe. 
 
 OYSTERBAY. 
 Benjamin Ellison, Esq., I Isaac Smith, Esq., 
 John I. Cromwell Esq., j Silas T. Vandewater. 
 NORTH HEMPSTEAD. 
 
 Singleton Mitchell, Esq., 
 Garret Laton, Esq., 
 
 Henry S. Hicks, 
 Joseph Dodge, Jr. 
 HEMPSTEAD. 
 
 John Clowes, 
 Henry Covert. 
 NEWTOWN. 
 
 Martin Way, 
 John I. Rapelye. 
 
 The woolen factory {of John 
 Bird at the Alley) near Flushing, was burnt on 
 Thursday night, with all its machinery and stack. 
 The loss is about 810,000. It is supposed the fire 
 originated from the stove pipe. — L. I. Star. 
 
 1820, ^j)ri7.— Vote of Queens county, for Gov- 
 ernor and Assembly : 
 
 Samuel Nicolls, 
 Elias Hicks, 
 
 William Palmer, 
 Isaac Morrell, 
 
 1820. Feb. 23.- 
 
 GOVERXOR. 
 
 ASSEMBLY. 
 CUntonian. Ojrposition. 
 
 H O ^ H I 
 
 Q 3 W ^ ? > 
 
 I I i' g I 3 
 
 P S g g - 3 
 
 Hempstead, - 277 167 34.5 364 420 332 
 
 N. Hempstead, 54 95 55 56 41 109 
 
 Oysterbay - 160 96 246 249 239 98 
 
 Flushing, - 57 53 53 57 43 106 
 
 Newtown, . 69 130 94 94 94 144 
 
 Jamaica, 
 
 5S 112 43 44 42 183 
 
 td 
 
 B 
 315 
 133 
 
 97 
 123 
 145 
 189 
 
 341 
 124 
 101 
 102 
 94 
 180 
 
 675 653 835 866 878 972 1001 942 
 
 1820, March 7. — At a meeting of Republican 
 delegates from the several towns of Queens countj% 
 at the Court House, Captain John Hazard, Chafr- 
 man, and James Lent, Secretary, D'auiel D. Tomp. 
 kins was nominated for Governor ; and it was re- 
 
 25 > 
 
104 
 
 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 solved that Elbert Hegcmaii, Joseph Pettit, John 
 W. Seaman, and Lawrence Roe, be delcjrates to 
 the senatorial convention at Tammany ]Iall, on 
 29tli inst.; and that James Ilrgiman, of Oyster- 
 bay, J. Allen, of North llcni|)stcad, Nathaniel 
 Seaman of Hempstead, John W. Seaman of Eliish- 
 iug, Silas Hoc, of Jamaica, and James I^ent, of 
 Newtown, be a committee to draft resolutions and 
 an address to the electors of this countv. — L. I. 
 Star. 
 
 1820, Jiili/ 1.— The New York County Agricul- 
 tural Society awarded Mrs. Cornelius 11. liemscn, 
 of Newtown, for the best butter in market, a silver 
 cream pitcher. The other exhibitors (wliosc but 
 tor was excellent) were Teter Luy."ter, Daniel 
 Jloorc, Henry Barclay and 5Irs. 31oore, of New- 
 town ; David Rhodes, of Jamaica, and John 
 Hoogland of Flushing. 
 
 1S20, Jul// 12. — The corner stone of the new 
 Academy at Jamaica, was laid on AVedncsday. — 
 There was a procession by the Trustees, teachers, 
 and scholars of Union Hall from llie ])rcsent acad- 
 emy to the .«pot chosen for the new edifice, wlicre 
 the corner stone was laid in presence of numerous 
 spectators, after which an excellent prayer by the 
 Rev. Jacob Schoonmaker, President of the Trus- 
 tees. The new edifice will afl'ord spacious rooms 
 for the Principal and his live assistants, and for 
 the library and philosophical ajiparatus. 
 
 1820, Oct. 11.— Isaac Hewlett's Laurel Grove 
 "Woolen factory, head of Cold S2)riug, is now in 
 operation. — Star. 
 
 1820, Nov. 2. — The Queens County Cattle Show 
 and Pair took place at the Court llouee. There 
 were more people assembled than was CAer before 
 witnessed iu the county on any occasion. A pre- 
 mium was awarded the owner of the celebrated 
 horse, Duroc, and to lion. Riifus King for the best 
 uiilch cow. We have not been favored with any 
 other particulars.' — Star. 
 
 1S20, Xov. 7. — The New York County Agri- 
 cultural Society awarded the following premiiuus 
 to residents of Queens county : 
 
 Gen. Xallinniel C'ulcs, Dosoris, best lirooJ Slarc, - $'M (10 
 Towuscuil IVick, t)ystei'bay, Horse Duroc, - - i!(l 00 
 Gcufral Xatlianiel Coles, Mare, - - - - JU 00 
 Lewis llewk'tt. sccoud best Fat Oxen, - - - 40 Wl 
 James hent^ two best Hacks, - . . . ]", (id 
 Edward I.everkh, Xew tow u, best littfr of I'ijrs, - 12 00 
 Aadrew Cock, riusliinp, Coru [ilaiitiii}; Slaehiiie. - 7 CO 
 Mr. A. L. Schuyler of Newtown exhibited liue liogs. 
 
 1820, Kov. 11. — Ou 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 
 corn. 
 
 'Joseph Omlcrdonk received the ]ireiiiiuin for the best 
 rut.l bapas. (ioveruor Kiu^, one of the Judjjes, tised to say, 
 it was the lirst time he had seen tuniips sowu iu ridges, 
 and that it was the lincst crop he ever saw, either before or 
 Binee. — Ld. 
 
 1821. — The Loii(/ Island Farmer was com- 
 menced by Henry C. Sleight, Thursday, January 
 4th. 
 
 1821. — An auxiliary to the United Poreign 
 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. Tlie officers are Rev. 
 Jacob Schoonmaker, President; Rev. Hein-y R. 
 AVeed, Eliphalet AVickes, John Reiimt, A'ichael 
 Skidmore, "S'lce Presidents; GcLcral \. AV. AVickes, 
 Treasurer ; Dr. Nathan Shelton, Secretary. The 
 managers are Abraham liurtis, Abraham IKndrick- 
 son, Daniel Ludluin, Estp, James Hendrickson, 
 John Itider, AA'aite S.Everett, Johauis Lott, Amos 
 Denton, Jr. 
 
 A similar society was also formed in Newtown. 
 — Farmer. 
 
 1821, Jan. 10. — John Tan Nosfrand and John 
 Sutphin run one or two stages to Brooklyn from 
 Hewlett Creed's Inn, Jamaica, daily at 8 o'clock. 
 
 1821, March 7.— John and David Bedell start 
 a Post coach, every morning, from Smith Hicks' 
 Hotel, Jamaica, to Brooklyn. Pare fifty cents. 
 
 1821, Ajnil 14. — Singleton ^litchell, IMandome, 
 offers for sale two thousand inoculated peach trees 
 of three seasons' growth. 
 
 1821, AjJril 17.— The Rev. Dr. Bktsoe, has 
 been appointed Principal of tlie Academy at Oys- 
 terbay, and it is intended by tiie trustees to appro- 
 priate a part of Ediuund Hall to the purposes of 
 an E])iscopal church, in which Divine service will 
 be performed regularly by Dr. Bletsoe. — Star. 
 
 ] S'21, A}>riL — A'ote of Queens county for As- 
 sembly. 
 
 Independent liepnbliciin 
 or liepublicnn.* or liufUuil.'l 
 
 
 r: 
 
 
 ^ 
 
 e« 
 
 -. 
 
 "V 
 
 
 
 ■J. 
 
 ;^d 
 
 
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 y 
 
 
 c 
 
 c - 
 
 
 ">■ 
 
 ~ 
 
 S 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 = « 
 
 o? 
 
 IS 
 
 5 
 
 ■A 
 
 Ovsterl)av, 
 
 - 397 
 
 ;«)o 
 
 377 
 
 179 
 
 178 
 
 173 
 
 llenipstoaO, 
 
 i'iS 
 
 4iMi 
 
 503 
 
 3.^0 
 
 3-J7 
 
 343 
 
 N. liempstead, 
 
 - b~ 
 
 90 
 
 74 
 
 9G 
 
 Hi 
 
 101 
 
 Jamaica, - 
 
 1-23 
 
 146 
 
 114 
 
 las 
 
 i;« 
 
 123 
 
 l-'lushiiifj, 
 
 «) 
 
 93 
 
 8o 
 
 91 
 
 97 
 
 92 
 
 XewtowD, - 
 
 - 134 
 
 140 
 
 133 
 
 174 
 
 183 
 
 1S3 
 
 Total, 
 
 - 1318 1355 126C 1018 1029 1015 
 
 1821. — St. George's church, Plnshing, was con- 
 secrated 3Iay 25th, by Bishop Hubart. — Post. 
 
 1821, June 7.— On Thursday evening last, be- 
 tween eight and nine o'clock, the large new barn 
 
 * They were Clintouinns and ■' opposed to tlie dominant 
 ]iarty in the prosput Lepislatiire." Li'wis S. Hewlett was 
 Clminiiiin and KbciKzer .Secly, Secretary, of the lucotiiip 
 that uoiiiinated thciii. — Ed. 
 
 tThey were " ojiposed to the Executive of this state." — 
 iV. 
 
IX OLDEN TIMES, 
 
 105 
 
 and hovel of Valeiitiuc Hicks, Jericlio, was struck 
 with linbtuiiig and cousnuied with a quantity of 
 corn, .-Theavy shower of rain prevented injury 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 recommcjid without 
 the bias of part}', Eufus King, Elbert H. Jones 
 and Joseph Dodge, Jr., as suitable persons to rep- 
 resent the county in the convention. — L. I. Far- 
 mer. 
 
 1S21. — At a Rcpuldican meeting, June 8th, of 
 committees from the diiferent towns of Queens coun- 
 t}', at the Court House, agreeably to public notice, 
 Benjamin Allen, Chairman and Adam L. Allen, 
 Secretary, llufus King, of Jamaica, ticorge Town- 
 send, of Oysterbay and Xatlianiel Seaman, of 
 Hempstead, were nominated as candidates for the 
 ensuing convention.* 
 
 1821, June. — The Xew York County Agricul- 
 tural Society awarded Jlrs. 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 : 
 
 ;^ o 
 
 k-. ^ 
 
 K 
 
 o 
 
 Oysterbay, - 
 N. Hem]istead, 
 Hempstead, 
 Jamaica, 
 Flushing;, - 
 Newtown, 
 
 248 213 ]68 34 32 48 
 
 - 108 72 115 135 126 33 
 307 248 33 83 298 2 
 
 - 157 90 91 67 63 
 
 203 303 W8 106 106 
 
 - no 83 83 23 23 
 
 1138 gJ4 597 448 648 83 
 
 1821, Jidtj 11.— William Roe, Umbrella and 
 Parasol manufacturer, in Jamaica, adjoining Joseph 
 Eoc's tavern.. — L. 1. Farmer. 
 
 1821, Aug. 9. — Mr. Jesse Wright, of Jamaica, 
 wliile bathing at the three mile mill was drowned 
 on Saturdaj"- evening last. — L. I. Farmer. 
 
 1S21, 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 drooping 
 for lack of rain. — L. I. Farmer. 
 
 1821, Aug. 9.— On Sunday afternoon, while the 
 
 families of Abraham Burtis and his father, Hen- 
 
 j drick, of Foster's Meadow, were attending Divine 
 
 service, a mile and a half from home, the house of 
 
 *Tlie Bucktails not satisfied with the excellent, iudepen- 
 deut nomination h.nve taken one of the c.-jndidates, Kufus 
 King and nominated with him, GeorgcTowuseud and Xa- 
 thaniel Seaman. — Columbian. 
 
 Abraham was discovered to be on fire and the 
 flames communicated to the barn and Mit-houscs 
 of Heudrick. 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 baru 
 of David Lamberson, at Jamaica, was blown down, 
 in the night, and his black man, George, killed by 
 the fall. 
 
 1821, Oc^— The Xew 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 Duroe, _10 
 
 John H. ami AV. K- Jones, 2d best, Cassimcre, - - 10 
 
 do best pair AVoolen Blankets, 10 
 
 James Lent, six best English Wethers, - - - 10 
 
 EtHngham Lawrence, six best Merino Ewes, - - 10 
 
 1821. — The annual exhibition of the Queens 
 County Agricultural Society, took jjlace, at the 
 Court House, AVednesday, November 7th, when 
 premiums were awarded to the following persons : 
 
 Effingham Lawrence, acre of Potatoes, 
 
 Singleton Mitchell, half acre Euta B.ngas, - 
 
 James Lent, do. do. do. 
 
 Cornelius S. Bogart, two acres Wheat, 
 
 Singleton Mitchell, do. do. 
 
 Singleton Mitchell, two acres Eye, ... 
 
 Daniel Kissam, do. ... 
 
 Daniel Kissam, «cre of Flax, . . - . 
 
 .Singleton Mitchell, do. . - . - 
 
 .Singleton Mitchell, two acres Barley, - . - 
 
 Edward Leverich, do. do. - 
 
 Singleton Mitchell, do. Spring Wheat, - 
 
 Henry Covert, best Agricultural JIachiuos, ^■iz : Gar- 
 den Plough, machines for planting beans and sow- 
 ing tiu'nip seed, - - - - 
 
 I'riah Piatt, Carpet. - - - - 
 
 Daniel Youngs, Linen Diaper, ... - 
 
 Rulef Schcuck, Linen Shirting, .... 
 
 Garret Laton, Woolen Mittens, ... 
 
 LTriah Piatt, do. .... 
 
 Peter Luyster, Woolen Stockings, 
 
 do do. .... 
 
 Friah Piatt, do. .... 
 
 Peter Luyster, Linen jStoekings, - - - . 
 
 Peter Luyster, Cotton Stockings, ... 
 
 Garret Laton most cloth made in one family, viz : 
 Woolen, 202 yards : Linen, 363 yards, 
 
 J. X. Lloj-d, Brood Mare, 
 
 do. do. ... 
 
 Tliomas Mott, Stud Horse, 
 
 Thomas Jones. do. 
 
 Garret Laton. Geldins, 
 
 T. Hewlett, Jr., Yearling Colt, .... 
 
 John Trodwell, .Sow, 
 
 Lawrence Roe. Sow, ...... 
 
 Roe Haviland, Buar, 
 
 Jolm I'itus, two Slioats, ------ 
 
 JoliG I. Schenck, do. .-...- 
 
 Johnlredwell.Fal Bullock, 
 
 Hewlett Townseiid, do., - - - . - 
 
 Jcihn Titus, Working Cattle, 
 
 Benjamin Piatt, do . . . - 
 
 Singleton Mitchell. Milch Cow, . - . . 
 
 Benjamin Tredwell, do., - - . . . 
 
 John Titus, Bull, • 
 
 Singleton Mitchell, do.. 
 
 James Lent, English Buck, ... - - 
 
 $8 00 
 
 8 00 
 
 5 00 
 
 J5 00 
 
 30 00 
 
 10 00 
 
 5 00 
 
 30 00 
 
 5 00 
 
 10 00 
 
 5 00 
 
 5 00 
 
 10 00 
 
 10 00 
 
 8 00 
 
 8 00 
 
 1 00 
 75 
 
 2 10 
 1 ."0 
 
 1 00 
 
 2 UO 
 2 (>0 
 
 30 00 
 35 00 
 
 8 00 
 20 00 
 30 00 
 30 00 
 10 00 
 
 8 00 
 
 5 00 
 8 00 
 
 6 00 
 5 00 
 
 10 00 
 5 00 
 
 10 00 
 5 00 
 
 10 00 
 5 00 
 
 10 00 
 60 
 S 00 
 
I 106 
 
 QUEEXS COUNTY 
 
 JaiiK-s Lent, Kiiirliah Kwi', - • 5 00 
 
 James Scoii, iKiino liuck, - - • s 00 
 
 Singleton .M.l.liell, do. 00 
 
 EHii)j;h:iiii Lawrence, Four Merino Ewes, - 8 00 
 
 £(lmuiiil Farrington, do. 5 00 
 
 Noah ilmoa. Call', ..... 5 00 
 
 Isaac K. Cuiiklin, two years growth of Locust from the 
 
 peed, 5 00 
 
 Hufus Weed, Fat Pig under seven moirthg, . 3 00 
 
 The premiums when ov«r $5, consistod of a pieco of sil- 
 ver plato, such as a pitcher or cup. — Eit. 
 
 1S21, Kov. 21. — Adrian Van Sindcren, Abra- 
 liam Keniscn, John Ebbit?, Aaron Furraaii, and 
 James Jf. llalscy, intend applying to tlic Lcgisla- 
 tiu'c for the incorjioration of " the Newtown Female 
 Academy." ~L. I. Farmer. 
 
 1S21, Nov. 29. — A young Rhode I.sland green- 
 ing tree of James Scott, Flushing, was stripped of 
 ita leaves in the September gale, but afierw-irds 
 put forth new foliage and has produced apples of 
 the second growth about the size of walnuts. — N. 
 Y. Journal. 
 
 1821, Dec. 27.— Mr. Seymour, Oyatcrbay, had 
 his barn|, tfpau of horses, hay and grain, burnt Ijy 
 Lis negro boy. 
 
 1822, Feb. 2%.— Great Flood— The mail carrier 
 informs us that the damage done by the recent 
 heavy rains and swollen streams ou Long Island 
 has been very great. On the north side of the 
 island all the mill-dams arc carried away except 
 one at Oystcrbay- owned by W. Townsend. This 
 destruction includes thvpc dams at Smitlitown. — 
 The dam of Cicneral Jackson, at Oysterbay South, 
 is carried away. The roads are greatly injm-cd, 
 and some small bridges are carried away. 
 
 1822, March. — Now York Provision Market, 
 corrected by E. Frost, weekly, for the the Lon(/ 
 Island Farmer : 
 
 Beef, three to ten cents per pound ; by the lum- 
 dred weight St to -SS ; Pork, iive to six cents per 
 pound ; by hundred weight SI to SG ; 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, S3 to 
 ^1 per hundred, three to six cents per head ; Geese, 
 thirty-seven to fifty cents each ; Turkeys, sevcnty- 
 fivecents to $1 ; Fowls, per pair, fifty cents to Si ; 
 Apples, per.barrel, Sl,75 to 82,50 ; Eggs, per dozen, 
 twelve cents. . 
 
 1822, 3Iarch 1-3. — The district school house at 
 Ilcmpste.ad was broke open at night and robbed of 
 about sixty volumes of school books. 
 
 1822, A2vil. — Silas Roe's Bakery and flour store, 
 Jamaica, llis bake-wagon goes to Flushing and 
 Wliitcstonc, Success, CJreat Neck, Cow Neck, 
 Hempstead harbor, and returns through Foster's 
 Meadow by the head of Springfield. June 1st, 
 
 the wagon will run to Far Rockaway and return 
 through Springfield. 
 
 1822, Ajiril 24. — James Elmes and ATilliara 
 Fricke, coach makers, in the shop late of Joseph 
 Messenger, ou the JIaiu street, Jamaica, next the 
 hay -scales, by the Dutch Church. 
 
 1822, 31(11/. — John 'Welling, tailor, Jamaica, 
 in the house lately occupied by Isaac Skirm, shoe- 
 maker, oj)posite Mrs. Bartlctte'a Female Academy. 
 
 1822, Ma;/ 27. — The Jamaica Auxiliary Society, 
 for meliorating the condition of the Jews, wa.i 
 formed. The audience were addressed by a cou- 
 vcrted Jew, Rev. Jlr. Frey, and Mr. Jadowuisky. 
 S1G4 were subscribed. 
 
 1822, May 9. — 'We are credibly informed that a 
 short time since in excavating a canal at Jerusa- 
 lem South for conveying water from a pond to a 
 fiouring mill, a number 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 bo over a ccutmy 
 old. — L. I. Farmer. 
 
 1822, May 31.— Elizabeth iJeinott sued Samuel 
 L. Smith for breach of promise of inaiTi.Tge, after 
 nine years courtship, and got a verdict of S2,000. 
 
 1822, June 8. — At the last Court of Oyer and 
 Terminer, Thomas Spears, a negro boy, twelve 
 years old, was sent to the states prison for three 
 years, for burning the barn of AVilliam W. Town- 
 send. — Farmer. 
 
 1822, Jutie 8. — Eleven pounds of well washed 
 wool was sheared, a few daj's since, from James 
 Scott's merino buck, at Jamaica. — Farmer. 
 
 1822, June 20. — "Wheat and Rye will be short 
 owing to the variable weather last winter ; the 
 slight covering of snow and the present uncommon 
 drought. Oats and Flax w'ill bo indifferent with- 
 out timely rain. Ilay is very light. 
 
 1822. — The Long Island Forum will be opened 
 at !Mr. Eldert's hotel, Jamaica, June 27tli. 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 29th, will be sold at auction at the 
 house lately occupied by the Rev. Henry R. 
 Weed, Jamaica, a fpiantity of household fm-nitiwc, 
 horse, gig, cow, a few Lives of bees, &c. 
 
 1S22. — The Long Island Forum will celebrate 
 the 4th of July. The procession will form at 
 Eldert's Hotel and proceed to the ilelhodist 
 church, where the Declaration will be read by 
 Lewis Bixby and an Oration delivorod by Oliver 
 A. Shaw, with music interspersed. Dinner at Mr. 
 Eldert's. — L. I. Farmer. 
 
 1S22. — A young man. Frost Carpenter, was 
 killed and several others wounded, on the evening 
 of July 4th, by the bursting of a caimon at Mus- 
 fpiito Cove. It is said that in the uight they got 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 107 
 
 possession of tbe cannon, charged it heavily and 
 forced a stone into its month and then fired it. — L. 
 I. Farmer. 
 
 1822. — GrafC Church. — The neat and elegant 
 church in Jamaica, just finished, was consecrated, 
 Jul}' 1.5th, by Bishop Hobart. The house was 
 crowded to overflowing. The text was " Take 
 heed how ye hear." — larmcr. 
 
 1821, March 8. — Subscriptions for rebuilding 
 Grace Church. — Farmer. 
 
 Cornelius I. Bog.irt, 
 Mary C'udwise, 
 L. E. A. Eigeubrodt, ■ 
 Nancy Gracie, - 
 Mrs. Harvey, 
 Mrs. Hyler," - 
 Riifus King, 
 ■John A. King, - 
 B. T. Kissaui, 
 Timothy NostranJ, - 
 Nathaniel Prime, - 
 Prime. Ward & Sands 
 Abiathar Rhodes, 
 
 - $150, .Silas Roe, - 
 ]50 Joseph Roe, - 
 
 - 300iGilbert Roe, 
 .'SOOlBeujamin Rowland, 
 
 20!John Skidmore, 
 aOjGilbert H. .'jayres,* 
 
 - 500 Joseph Thatford, 
 200 Anne Vandorvoart, 
 
 - Klu|jolin Van Nostraud, - 
 300|Adrian Van Sinderen, 
 
 50|Samuel Ward, Sr., 
 ) 00 Hannah Wickham, 
 5.5 1 
 
 40 
 35 
 50 
 50 
 25 
 10 
 25 
 25 
 20 
 50 
 25 
 
 Mrs. Hicks 
 Mrs, Jackson, 
 John T. Jones, 
 Benjamin Kisaam 
 
 1822, Aug. 1.- 
 
 15e.«ides the above, the following were powhold- 
 ers from July 3rd, 1822, to 1825 : 
 
 Mrs. Brewer, Henry Kneelaud, John Thatford, 
 
 John B. Codvvise, Mr, Lyde, John Titus, 
 
 Lawrence Denton, Charles McNeil, Mrs. Tapp, 
 
 Cornelius Dnryea, William JIcKay, Thos. &."Townscnd, 
 
 Miss Dawson, Andrew Napier, Mrs. Troup, 
 
 Mrs. Dyson, Fred'k. Polhemus, Jeremiah Valentine. 
 
 Sirs. Forbes, William Puntine, Jas. A'aleutine, Sr. 
 
 Samuel Greenoak, John B. Roe, and Jr., 
 
 Smith Hicks, Lawrence Roe, Samuel Ward, Jr., 
 
 John Hoogland, Ida Rowland. Nancy Welliug, 
 
 James Smith, Samuel Welliug, 
 
 Jeremiah Simonson.John Welling. 
 
 Joseph Sealy. 
 
 Joha Sprouls, 
 
 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. — L. I. Farmer. 
 
 1822, Oct. — TJie Union Benevolent Society of 
 Jamaica, has several articles of ladies' fancy work 
 for sale .it D. & 0. Lamberson's store, tlie proceeds 
 of which will be devoted to Missions. — L. I. 
 Farmer. 
 
 1822, Oct. —Jonathan Howard, of Newtown, 
 had a summer pippin which was fifteen inches 
 round and weighed one pound three ounces. 
 
 18-22, Oct. 24. — The Queens County Fair was 
 numerously attended. There were many ladies 
 though the d.ay 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 
 Danic;! C. Coles, of Oysforbay, raised, the last year, 
 cotton sufficient 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 .3th. This was the 
 
 •The Rev. Gilbert H. Sayres, S. T. D., was Rector of 
 the church I'rom May 1st, IBl'O, to May 1st, 1830; when he 
 was succeeded by the Rev. William Lupton Johnson, D.D. 
 
 6 00 
 
 10 00 
 
 6 00 
 
 16 00 
 
 00 
 
 - 12 00 
 
 6 00 
 
 00 
 
 last meeting of the Society, owing to the apathy 
 of the farmers and falling ofi' of subscriptions. Pre- 
 miums were distributed to the following persons : 
 
 Joseph Dodge, Jr., best two acres of Wheat, - $12 00 
 John T. Lawrence. Newtown, second best, - - ' 
 John A. Kiug, .laniaica, best two acres of Rye, - 
 Singleton Mitchell, North Hempstead, second best, 
 Edward Leverich, Newtown, best two acres Spring 
 
 Barley ; and best acre of Ela.x, each $8, 
 John I. Schcnck, Nortli Hempstead, best half acre 
 
 of Ruta Bagas, (475 bushels per acre at fifty cents 
 
 per. bushel). ---.-.. 
 William Smith, North Hempstead, best two acres 
 
 of Indian Corn (105 bushels per acre), 
 James T. Talman, Flushing, second best two acres 
 
 of Indian Corn, (101 J bushels per acre), 
 Singleton Mitchell, best acre of Potatoes, Ividneys, 
 
 (350 bushels per acre), - - - - - 
 Garret Layton, North Hempstead, most cloth made 
 
 in the family, (445 yards^, .... 
 Daniel Youngs, Oystcrbay, best Woolen Cloth, - 
 Richard Cornell, Flushing, second best do. 
 William Allen, N. Hempstead, best Linen Shirting, 
 Miss Springsteen, Newtown, best and second best 
 
 pair of Woolen Stockings, . . - . 
 Daniel Youngs, best pair of Woolen Mittens, 
 Miss Pcttit. Hempstead, two pieces of Linen Cloth, 
 George Tapji^n, Oysterbay, best Stud Horse, 
 Samuel Willis, North Hempstead, best yearling Colt, 
 Butler Coles, Oysterbay, best Brood Mare, - 
 Benjamin Piatt, North Hempstead, best pair of 
 
 Working Oxen, 
 
 Daniel Youngs, best Bull, - - - . - 
 Jackson Lawrence. Flushing, best Bullock, 
 Benjamin Tredwcll, N. Hempstead, best Calf, 
 Smith Hicks, Jamaica, best Milch Cow, 
 Singletou Mitchell, best Merino Buck, - . . 
 Effing'in. Lawrence, Flushing, best f»ur Merino Ewes, 
 James Lent. .Ne^vtown, best Buck, not merino, $8 ; 
 
 best four Ewes, not merino, |,8, . . . - 
 Roe Havil.aud, N. Hempstead, best Boar, - 
 John I. Schenck. best .Sow. - - . . - 
 John Holland, Jamaica, host two Shoats, - 
 
 JO.SEPH Dodge, Jr., Secretary. 
 
 1822, Nov. — Vote of Queens County under the 
 new Constitution. 
 
 10 00 
 
 10 00 
 
 6 00 
 
 8 00 
 
 3 50 
 
 1 00 
 
 2 00 
 
 15 00 
 
 10 00 
 
 12 00 
 
 10 00 
 
 10 00 
 
 10 00 
 
 G 00 
 
 10 00 
 
 8 00 
 
 8 00 
 
 16 00 
 
 8 00 
 
 8 00 
 
 8 00 
 
 
 
 
 !2! 
 
 
 
 
 
 Seaators. 
 
 
 3 
 •a 
 
 §■ 
 
 P' 
 
 n 
 1 
 
 j» 
 
 3 
 S. 
 o* 
 p 
 
 3 
 
 
 1 
 
 Walter Bownc, - 
 
 235 
 
 334 
 
 139 
 
 207 
 
 149 
 
 115 
 
 1179 
 
 Jasper Ward, - 
 
 236 
 
 332 
 
 139 
 
 204 
 
 148 
 
 112 
 
 1171 
 
 John Letl'erts, 
 
 236 
 
 334 
 
 139 
 
 207 
 
 149 
 
 115 
 
 1180 
 
 John A. King, - - 
 
 1)7 
 
 155 
 
 *9 
 
 1.54 
 
 108 
 
 66 
 
 609 
 
 Abel Huntington, 
 
 44 
 
 179 
 
 130 
 
 57 
 
 19 
 
 56 
 
 485 
 
 Congress. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 John P. Osborn, 
 
 83 
 
 137 
 
 102 
 
 134 
 
 96 
 
 75 
 
 627 
 
 Sil.asWood, - - 
 
 257 
 
 226 
 
 48 
 
 72 
 
 81 
 
 54 
 
 732 
 
 Assembly. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 B. T. Kissam, - 
 
 141 
 
 143 
 
 62 
 
 140 
 
 139 
 
 78 
 
 703 
 
 John D. Hicks, - 
 
 145 
 
 165 
 
 64 
 
 130 
 
 127 
 
 78 
 
 715 
 
 William Jones, - - 
 
 isl 
 
 242 
 
 48 
 
 68 
 
 65 
 
 49 
 
 653 
 
 Thomas Tredwell, 
 
 170 
 
 254 
 
 28 
 
 66 
 
 49 
 
 49 
 
 616 
 
 .Sheriff. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Samuel Mott, - 
 
 2G9 
 
 222 
 
 125 
 
 132 
 
 126 
 
 78 
 
 952 
 
 Richard Cornell, -- 
 
 83 
 
 177 
 
 38 
 
 81 
 
 68 
 
 51 
 
 498 
 
 County Clerk.. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Samuel Sheruian, - 
 
 2>J7 
 
 140 
 
 130 
 
 125 
 
 104 
 
 78 
 
 874 
 
 Edward Parker, - 
 
 63 
 
 262 
 
 28 
 
 87 
 
 88 
 
 50 
 
 578 
 
 "This fallLng off w.os owing to the personal pique of a po- 
 litical clique. Gov. King knew the names of these nine vot- 
 ers, one of whom was the father of the writer of this note. 
 
 26 
 
108 
 
 •iQUEEXS OOUXTY 
 
 1S22. — Xnticc. — Jfr. Edward Mitclirll, J'nivcr- 
 Bali."!, will preach at Jlr. Eldert's Hotel, Jaiuiiica, 
 on Wednesday eveniiifr. August illst; and at tlic 
 Court II0U8C, August aSd^at 3 r. JI. 
 
 1822.— Samuel Mott, SlicrJfT, offers SIO reward 
 for the npprelicnsiou of Jesse Powell, committed 
 for passint; connterftit money, wlio hroke jail on 
 the night of November lOtli. 
 
 1822, Nov. 26. — Jolin- Holland, of Jamaica, 
 killed two shoats, not quite nine months old, which 
 weighed four hundred and thirty-five, and three 
 hundred and ninety-five pounds rc^jcctively ; and 
 Dr. BlatcliCord killed two whicli w<n-e fourteen 
 months old and weighed, the largest four hundred 
 and fifty-eight pounds, and the other four hundred 
 and thirty-seven pounds.— JVovHcr. 
 
 1822, Dec. .'). — In and alxnt Jamaica are great 
 numbers of colored people growing up in ignorance 
 of the Bible and everything that belongs to civili- 
 zation, and who have nowhere to look for instruc- 
 tion but to Sabbath-schools. The teachers having 
 obtained permission, have opened a .school for them 
 in the I'rtsbytcrian Church and have already gath- 
 ered in about fifty. One or two person.s have sup- 
 plied the money, .and now the ir.fluence of others is 
 needed to constrain every colored person to attend 
 the school which commences at .'! o'clock every 
 Sabb.ath. The teachers attend at lialf past one to 
 give catechetical and other religious instruction to 
 all white children who wish to avail themselves of 
 it. — Farmer. 
 
 1822, I)cc. 19. — .Tolin Barnes Mott and Samuel 
 Pettit wore killed by the caving in of a well at 
 Henipste.ad. They "have left large families behind 
 them. — L. I. Star. 
 
 182.'J, Jan I. — Dr. Ounn's office is'ou the 3Iain 
 Street, Jamaica, opposite John B. IJoe's store. 
 
 1823, Jan. 2- — William Remsen, Jr., lias raised 
 tlic past year a sweet potatoe whose weight wae 
 upwards of scvcti pounds. 
 
 1823, JV(H. 29. — !llirinm Ann Simonson intends 
 to open a Female School at the house lately occu- 
 pied by Mrs. Bartlette and Jliss Barnum, Jamaica. 
 
 ]J503. — Daniel Smith was Chairman., and John 
 Higbie, Clerk of a meeting held February l5tli, 
 which voted by a majority of twenty-seven to 
 build a new church in Springfield, with school- 
 rooms on the u]i|ier iioor. Anson Higbie, J )aniel 
 Gracv, IJichard llendriikson, Michael (J'Jder and 
 John' Higbie, were a couiinittee to get subscrip- 
 tions. 
 
 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. AH the family were absent. The 
 flames wore carried by a uortbwest wind to David 
 Laton's barn, which, willi all tlir fodder was also 
 destroyed. 
 
 1823. — On the lUQruing .of March 2d, between 
 
 two and three o'clock, the houfo of Zebulon Se.a- 
 ma»v .Jerusalem, with its. contents was destroyed 
 by fire from a stove-pipe. A black boy. eight 
 yearj? old, pcrislied in tlie fl.imcs. !Mr. and 3Irs. 
 Seaman escaped with difficulty, and their son 
 leajjcd from a second story window, and a black 
 girl threw herself from the garret on the frozen 
 ground and was little injured. 
 
 182.'i, ^fan■h 12.— Lewis S. Hewlett and Curtis 
 Peck intend applying to the Legislature for an act 
 to form a road and bridge over the meadow and 
 creek at the lie.ad of Little Neck Bay. 
 
 1823, 3[arcJi 27.— The woolen factory of John 
 .Seaman & j^du, Hempstead Harbor, was consumed 
 by fire on Tuesday night with the machinery and 
 ail its contents. The factory liad made much cloth 
 very credit; ble to our country. — Star. 
 
 182.", April :>. — The morning of last Sabbath 
 was cloudy. At nine it commenced raining, which 
 shortly turned to snow and the wind increased to .1 
 gale, with such fjuanlilies of snow as to darken the 
 sky. Two or three barns were blown <lown in 
 Springfield. Our streets were deserted and all 
 took reliige 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. Fannrr. 
 
 1823, Mai/ 1.— Henry Jlitchell, of Flushing, 
 gathered, last fall, from one tree, eight barrels of 
 apples, six of which were .se.nt to Liverpool and re- 
 alized thirty British sovereigns, (equal to Sl.'l.'i 22) 
 exclusive of freight and commissions. — Statesman. 
 
 182."., May 1'). — John Ixemsen, Sr.. of Jamaica 
 .South, was, OM Monday last, knocked overboard by 
 the jibing of the boimi of the vessel off Frog's 
 Neck, and drownetl. 
 
 1823, Jioie 8. — ^Tlose leaves distilled by Dr. 
 X.ithan ..Slieiton, Jamaica. 
 
 1823. June 5.. — All those ladies and gentlemen 
 who feel desiroits to contribute to the erection of a 
 Leclure-room in the village of .Jamaica are re- 
 quested to meet in the Presbyterian Church, this 
 at'tcrnoou at 3 o'clock. There will soon be no 
 phtco to accommodate the Sabbath-school and no 
 conv<'nient place for evening meetings.— J ij/wcr. 
 
 1823, Jiili/ 21. — The wheat and rye harvest is 
 generally fine, and h.ay of a great product. Corn 
 crops promise well. 
 
 J823, Jidp gD. — The barn of Samuel and Ado- 
 nijah I'mV-rbill, Jericho, was struck by lightning 
 on Friday morning, at sunrise, and consumed. It 
 was filled with hay. 
 
 1623, Aug. 14.— On Smiday night last the shoe- 
 shop of Isaac Skirm was bmkcn ojien and robbed 
 of tflOO worth of sb.ies. boots and leather. A few 
 weeks since the stable of (ieneral Van Wyck 
 Wickes was robbed of a military saddle, bridle 
 martingal, and a plated gig Imruess. 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES, 
 
 109 
 
 1823, Auff. 28. — WiUiohmis 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 Bctts & Snedekcr's 
 
 store, but died in seven day.?, 
 
 1823, Sept. — A grey owl, measuring four feet six 
 inches from the tip end of eacli extended wing, 
 and twenty inches in height, was shot in tJie 
 ucighborhood of Jamaica. 
 
 1S23, Oa. 31;— The New York Comity Agri- 
 cultural Society awarded a premium of S7 50 to 
 James Scott, of Jamaica, for a bjick and four 
 ewes ; and $10 to J. H. & W. E. Jones, of Cold 
 Spring, for the best Hannel ; and to Thomas & 
 AV. R. Jones $10, for two pair of "v.-oolen blanket.'?. 
 Two pieces of their broadcloth, aiid of satinet, 
 were highly praised. 
 
 1823, Kov. 3-6. — Vote of Queens county for 
 Assembly : 
 
 
 1" 
 
 ft 
 
 
 3 
 
 c 
 
 5< 
 
 
 "William Jone.s. - 
 
 22fi 
 
 283 
 
 27 
 
 75 
 
 30 
 
 2S 
 
 669 
 
 Thonia.s Trcdwell, 
 
 191 
 
 305 
 
 17 
 
 60 
 
 16 
 
 27 
 
 616 
 
 James Hegeman, - 
 
 119 
 
 82 
 
 112 
 
 66 
 
 55 
 
 65 
 
 499 
 
 Kobert Sloorc, - 
 
 92 
 
 71 
 
 KI7 
 
 55 
 
 5tt 
 
 65 
 
 446 
 
 1823, Nov. 14. — James Entwistle, late a mer- 
 chant of New York, was drowned at r)ygterbay, 
 by slipping from the bowsprit of a small sail-boat, 
 while tixing the jib. The wind blowing very fresh, 
 it ,was impossible to save him. 
 
 1823, Kor. 27. — Singleton ]\[itchell. 'Lewis S. 
 Hewlett, Curtis Peck, Roe Ilaviland, Robert B. 
 Van Z.andt and .Joseph liloodgood iirtend apph'ing 
 
 'to the Legislature for an act to incorporate the Lit- 
 tle Neck Road and Bridge Conipf.uy, with a capi- 
 tal of $10,000, to make a road from near the house 
 of Henry Lawrence across the creek and meadows 
 (by a d»-aw-bridge,) easterly till it reaciK-s Eliza- 
 beth Jlitchell's mill-dam, Manhasset Valley. — 
 Farmer. 
 
 1824, Jan.. -25. — -Jho woollen factory of AVilliam 
 H. Jones .& Co., Cold Spring, was fired by an ap- 
 prentice boy Samuel Shaw, aged 17, who confessed 
 
 .lie had no motive or thought of the deed till the 
 very momcirt. The fire was extinguished. — Hun- 
 tington Eagle. 
 
 1824, 'March, 2i.— Female Academy, Jamaica- 
 — Mr. and Mrs. Hallworth* will be ready to re- 
 ceive boarders and day-scholars by the 5th of May. 
 References : General V. W. Wickes, Eliphalet 
 Wickes, Rev. S. P. Funck, Dr. T. W. Blatchford, 
 Henry C. Sleiglit. 
 
 1824, March 11.— On Saturday afternoon last, 
 Jesse Leverich's barn, at Newtown, with all the 
 
 "Mrs. Hallworth died in April. 
 
 out-houses, three valuable horses, grain, liay and 
 all his fodder, was burnt by the pipe-of a blackman 
 dressing lias in the barn. 
 
 1824, April 21. — William "White, from London,^ 
 will open >\ Boarding Academy, at Jamaica. — 
 Terras, $160 per, year.— ;Posf. 
 
 1824, Ajn'il 29. — An old fox and four cubs were, 
 a few days since, taken from their burrow directly 
 ■under the Williarasbuvgii turnpike, two miles from 
 Jamaica. The old one was shot, 
 
 1824, Mai/ 4. — Samuel Legget, President, has 
 put a teamboat on the "Whitestone ferry. 
 
 1824, Jimc 3. — At the second anniversary of 
 tlie Jamaica Auxiliary Society for meliorating the 
 condition of the Jews, the following officers were 
 chosen: Dr. X. Shelton, President; Revs. G. H. 
 Srt3'res, S. P. Funck and J. Schoonmaker, Vice 
 Presidents ; General Y. W. Wickes, Treasurer 
 and Dr. T. W. Blatchford, Secretary. Directors — 
 Kliph.'ilet AVickes, H. C. Sleight, Othniel Everitt, 
 Abraham Bnrtis, John Rider. Assistant Femcde 
 Managcrs—TsViiis, H. AVickham, iliss Eliza M. 
 AA'ickes, Miss Sarah B. Titus, Sirs. Ann Scriba, 
 5Ls. Thomas Baylis, Mrs. Ann Hackett, Mrs. 
 Othniel Everett, Mrs.- Samuel Mills. 
 
 C)wing to tJic inclemency of the weatlier the 
 speakers from the city did not arrive. The Rev. 
 Mr. Sav-res dismissed the assembly by reading the 
 fifty-tliiid chapter of Isaiah. 
 
 1824, June 26.— The New York County Agri- 
 cultural Society awarded a premium of S9 to Mrs. 
 Jacob -Polhemus, of 'Newtown, for the best but- 
 ter. 
 
 1S24, Jidy 29. — Jacob Lawrence's barn, Rock- 
 away, was struck by liglitning on Friday and con- 
 sumed with fifteen loads of h.ay, wheat and rj^e, a 
 wagon and sleigh. Loss, -$350. 
 
 1824, Aug. 11. — James Kent Bailey of New 
 York, aged fourteen, was drowned iu Success Pond 
 by falling over the boat in which he was fishing. — 
 Farmer. 
 
 1824, Nov. — A'ote of Queens County for Con- 
 gress and Assembly : 
 
 Congress. Assembly. 
 
 Hempstead, - 
 X. Hempstead 
 Jamaica, - - 
 Flashinp;. - ■ 
 Newtown, - - 
 Ovstertiav, - 
 
 
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 •Opposed to caucus nominatioos .nnd in favor of Presi- 
 dential electors being shosen by tbe people, not by the 
 Legislature. — Ed. 
 
110 
 
 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 1824, Aiiff. 12. — 'J'lic barn of Jolin L. Rikcr, 
 'Newtown, was struck by liglitn>n^ on Sunday cvc- 
 niiif^, <in(l burned to tlie ground, with tlio hay, 
 grain, etc. 
 
 382-1. — Tlio examination and exliibilion of tlie 
 classical scliool at Newtown will take place Octo- 
 ber I9tli. 
 
 1824, Xov. 2.J. — JamPS Kolyer, of Newtown, 
 raised three bushels of clean tlax seed from three 
 quarts sown. 
 
 1824, Dec. 10.— As 'William Bownc, Flusbing, 
 was returning home liis horses took fright and run 
 against the gate post of his residence and threw 
 him out. He survived but a few hours, He was 
 much esteemed. 
 
 1824, Dec. 30.— A horjo of Mr. Van Ruren was 
 trotted from the twelve mile stone, to tlie ?ix miie 
 stone, on the Brooklyn and Jamaica turnpike, be- 
 fore a light Tvagon, without collar or trace.s, for a 
 bet of SIOO. The time allowed was thirty-four 
 minutes, but was performed in twenty-eight, and 
 the horse not tired. — Farmer. 
 
 1825. — Rufus King writes from AVashington, 
 January 7th, to Jones and Tredwell, Jlembers 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 
 dutie? of a private citizen. 
 
 182,5, Jan. 27. — The western mills at Dosoris 
 owned by John Ji. Coles, was dc-'troyed by fiie, 
 about three o'clock on Friday morning. Seven 
 thousand buishels of wheat, three hundred barrels of 
 flour and a large quantity of feed were destroyed. 
 Ho was insured for -$20,000. — Farmer. 
 
 182-5, Feb. .'5.— Benjamin Allen, Sr., of Groat 
 Neck, raised some very fine fat cattle for the New 
 York market. The largest wouUt weigh one thou- 
 sand five hundred to one thousand eight hundred. 
 ^Sbir. 
 
 1825, March 3. — The Long I.^land Farmer was 
 merged in the Star, for a year or so, and published 
 at Brooklyn and Jamaica. — Fd. 
 
 1825. March 12. — Ouvernor Clinton thanks 
 ^Messrs. Jones of Cold Spring, for a pieces of Uan- 
 nel, made of Long Island wool and by American 
 skill, which he pronounces very creditable to the 
 county. 
 
 1825, April 1 I.— Simon Marstou, Jaranica, fell 
 in his well accidentally, on Tltesday moruing and 
 iustantly expired. 
 
 1825, April 20.— Tliomas C. Pinckney. has 
 opened his office near Smith's !Mills and the Jleth- 
 odist church. Near Uockaway. 1 )ieds, mortgagee, 
 &c., drawn, records searched, money procured 
 and put out. 
 
 1825. — :Mr. and 'SUn. Kingsbury and ]\Irs. 
 
 Boardman's Female Academy at Jamaica, under a 
 board of trustee.s, will open May 20lh. 
 
 1825, June IS. — The New York County Agri- 
 cultural Society awarded a ])rerainm of a dozen 
 silver spoons (worth -S15) to Jlr. Thomas L;iwreuce, 
 and another dozen (worth .S12) to !Mrs. William 
 Br.igaw, both of Newtown, for second and third 
 best butter. 
 
 182-5, July 21. — The heat continues cxcessire, 
 ninety-three degrees in our office. The fields are 
 burnt up. — Farmer, 
 
 1 825, Juli/ 28. — Long Island suffers from fiercro 
 drought aiul heat. 
 
 182.5, Auff. -i.- — -Judge Effingham Lawrence, of 
 Baysidc, gave S340 for a Saxony Buck. 
 
 1S25. — Mrs. Bruce and 3IJs8 Ledyard's Young 
 Ladies' Academy, at Ne'*tov;n, will je-open No- 
 vember 1st. 
 
 1825, Noi.3. — Sel/-no»iiiinfio)i. — Daniel Smitli, 
 offers hinirclf as candidate for Coroner, for the 
 town of Hempstead, and asks the support of his 
 friends and tho public generally at the ensuing, 
 election. 
 
 ry Kvcry Putclinian, Scot, .ind Vank^c, 
 
 Give luc youi votus aud I'll humbly thank yc. 
 
 1S25, Nov. — Vote of Queens County : 
 
 
 C3 
 
 3 
 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 t 
 
 I 
 
 a 
 
 lO 
 
 » 
 
 c 
 
 Cu 
 
 V) 
 
 43, 
 
 60 
 
 77 
 
 1G3 
 
 148 
 
 88 
 
 579 
 
 6U 
 
 ye 
 
 159 
 
 376 
 
 51 
 
 1U3 
 
 944 
 
 StMlU. 
 
 .Tosliua Sinil'.Li' - 
 Nicholas W.TkofF,< 
 
 As:iCJiiiiy. 
 Silas l!oo," - - 40 47 l:W 158 150 184 747 
 
 \Villi.ini I'inr," - 40 77 101 243 131 141 733 
 Willi.im .loiips.t - 71 99 141 378 66 210 965 
 
 Thomas TrcilHell,* 71 78 105 437 48 156 895 
 
 Slieriff. 
 John Curtis,* - 43 Vii lot 2-il lii8 215 815 
 
 John .^imousou.t CD 46 128 3118 98 166 9U5 
 
 Clirli. 
 S.imuel Shrniian," 42 63 74 200 249 3.')4 9S2 
 Kdwaid Parkcr.t 73 120 172 425 5 53 848 
 
 1S25, Nor. 17. — Tale Notice. — Edward Parker, 
 Jamaica, though not sncces.-f'ul, feels gratefully 
 pleased for the generous support of Newtown, 
 Fhishijig, .Jamaica and Hemjislead. The support 
 also of thoso few friends in North IFi mp.stcatl and 
 Oysterhay, he will ever remember with a grateful 
 heart. 
 
 1825, Nov. 19. — There was a great change in 
 the weather yesterday morning, when a violent 
 
 •Nominated at a Rciniblican nicctinp of wliich Daniel 
 Smith, was t'hairmnn and .I.-ikriuiah Allon, Sicri-lary. — 
 .Silas Kuc was iicimiiinliil in plq^c of H. 1". Jonrs. declined, 
 at a nicotinp of which William Mott, was Chairman, and 
 John I. Schenck, Secretary. 
 
 tNomiuatod by a iiiculinpr " friendly to the rip^hts of the 
 iir-niile,'' of which .Jiidfre Mitchell, w.-us Chairman and Johu 
 rhomas Joues, of Jamaica, .Secretary. 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES, 
 
 111 
 
 ■\viud came from the north-west. Before uiglit ico 
 was formed in the streets and tlie bows of vessels 
 were huug with icicles. — N. Y. Paper,'- 
 
 1S2G, March 27.— ^Joshua and Rachel Kimber's 
 Boarding School for girls, Flushing.. 
 
 1826, May.—Vvev. Charles "W. Carpenter's 
 Boarding School, for young, gentlemen, at Flushing. 
 
 1826, Mai/ 20. — So dry a May is not common, 
 wind easterly, but no rain. June 3d. — To the 
 drought of the past mouth a delicious thunder 
 shower has succeeded. 
 
 1826, June 20. — Over nine inches of raiu fell at 
 Jamaica,* in two days. 
 
 1826, Aug. 10-12.— The heavy rains have 
 caused great floods. All the mill-dams at SIus- 
 queto Cove are broken, and Kirk's saw-mill is car- 
 ried away. Two dams at Hempstead Harbor are 
 carri(^d away. The two factories at Cold Spring- 
 are greatly injured. — Star. 
 
 1S2G, Feb. 16.— Rev. Asahel Xettleton preached 
 his first sermon in Jamaica. After a short time 
 one hundred and twenty persons were the subjects 
 of a revival. — Farmer. 
 
 182G, At(g. 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 at Mus- 
 quito Cove. 
 
 1826, Aug. 26. — At a meeting of Republican 
 electors, at the Court House — Robert Towuseud, 
 Chairman, and H. C. Sleight, Secretary — Single- 
 ton Mitchell and John T. Jones were appointed 
 delegates to the Utica Convention to nominate a 
 Governor. 
 
 i^' No delegates appeared from Queens at the 
 Herkimer (Bucktail) Convention. 
 
 1826, Oct. 7. — Singleton Mitchell was Chair- 
 man, and R. Beusoii Van Zaudt, Secretary of a 
 meeting, at the Court House, to suppress all bank 
 bills under $5,- 
 
 1S26, Oct. 20.— At a meeting of Republican 
 delegates friendly to "the riglits of thepeople," at 
 the Court House — William H. Jones, Chairman, 
 and Dr. M. M. Rogers, Secretary — Henry F. 
 Jone.s.was nominated for Assembly. They also 
 resolved to coimteract the intrigues of pretended 
 -friends, who desire to make conflicting nomina- 
 tions. They approve of DeWitt Clinton for Gov- 
 ernor. — 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. 
 
 *Dr. O'C'.ilIagli.in derire.s Jamaica from au ludiau word 
 Amikque, siguityiiig a beaver. 
 
 1826, Nov. (?, 7, 8.- 
 Assembly : 
 
 -Vote of Queens Couuty for 
 
 .9 ^ " 
 
 =H 3 
 
 ». 5.' 1^ 
 
 •<; t- C4 » ti? a £. 
 
 Thoma.s Tredwell,* - iiS 4G0 25 44 25 2 581 
 
 Silas Roe, - - - - 79 93 59 J 38 38 57 464 
 
 Hcury F. Jones, - IGl 52 36 24 77 38 383 
 
 1826, Nov. 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 tweuty-four weighed four 
 hundred pounds. 
 
 1827, Jan. ].— 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. — I'arnier. 
 
 1827. — A meeting will be held, Monday, Janu- 
 ary 29th, at Alexander Rogers' inn, to adopt 
 measures to obtain donations from the citizens of 
 Jamaica, in aid of the suffering Greeks.f 
 
 1827, Feb. 1.— School in Jamaica.— ^Ymis^m P. 
 Robertson thanks those who have patronized him 
 over two years. He has improved his fixtures 
 and employed an assistant. — Fanner. 
 
 1827, Feb. 21.— 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. 
 
 1S27, March 10.— John H. Jones, Oliver Coles, 
 George D. Coles, Walter R. Jones, Robert W. 
 IMott, will apply to the Legislature for an act to 
 incorporate the Cold Spring Steamboat Company, 
 with a cajntal not exceeding §30,000. 
 
 1827, June 9. — The jail of Queens County was 
 broken open and Alfred Verity, i-iith "William Be- 
 dell, convicted of stealing a horse of William 
 Smith, Great Neck, escaped. Veritj' was confined 
 on suspicion of murdering Jeffrey llubbs, a negro, 
 of Flushing, on the lOtli of January last.t 
 
 *Abnndoned by ioth parties, he ran on his own hook. 
 
 tXhe following, among otlier suras, were contrilmted 
 from <,' aeeus County : Jamaica. §003; Students of Union 
 Hall, #32 75 ; Newtown, ^6-M ; North Hemiistead, .«i-.»]0 ; 
 K. II, Jones, $10. 
 
 {Verity was re-arrested, and convicted of manshuigliter 
 in the third degree, October 3d, 1831, and sent to the 
 State's Prison for 4 vears. 
 
112 
 
 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 lSv!7, Jmic M.— rin:bc "\V., Mifc of Siiliicy 
 Seaman, of North Uempsloml, tpniiij: out of a wa- 
 gon Mliile tlio horse was restive, with a cliild in 
 her arms, anil died in a few hours after. 
 
 1827, June 16.— Tlic stores of J. T. Jones and 
 Co., and of Charles Hewlett, Cold Spring, wero 
 robbed. Eight negroes are now in jnil, arrested on 
 iuformatioa of one of the gang. The goods were 
 recovered. 
 
 1827. — July 4th was eclebrated at the head of 
 Cow Neck. TiiL' company formed at two r. 31., 
 with Captain Ilem-y Miinoirs troop of horse, and 
 marclied to the Dutch Church, where the Declara- 
 tion was ro.id by Dr. G. B.l'urdv, and the oration 
 by B. F. Tliompson. 'J'hu company then marelicd 
 back to AViiliam Allen's inn and partook of a 
 sumptuous repast. Twenty-four to.ist wore drank 
 with discharges of cannon. Judge ^litchell presi- 
 ded. 
 
 1827, July 12. — At a meeting of wool-growers 
 and friends of the American s^ystcra, held at tlic 
 Court House, .Singleton Jlitchell was appointed 
 Chairman and John II. Jones, Secretary, and Ef- 
 fingham Lawrence, Jones and ^litcheil sent as 
 delegates to the State Convention to be held at 
 Albany, July 16th. 
 
 lS21,Aug. 23.— The corner-stone of the Flush- 
 ing Institute was laid, containing a Greek Testa- 
 ment, newspjipers, names of county officers, etc. 
 
 1S27, Xov. — Vote of Queens County. 
 
 Senate. 
 John D. DitniiB" 
 Peter Slmriic, - - 
 Jacob Tj'siin, - 
 John I. Sclicnck.t 
 
 Assembly 
 Tlioiiias Trcdwell, 
 H. F. Jones.t - 
 Willinni I'iue, - 
 
 O 
 
 s- 
 
 . 35 
 
 - 48 
 
 175 
 
 196 
 
 - 20 
 258 
 2 
 
 351 
 
 4:!0 
 
 141 
 
 73 
 
 473 
 
 154 
 
 74 
 
 ■3 
 
 t> 
 
 !? 
 
 16 
 
 63 
 
 97 
 
 2U6 
 
 SI 
 91 
 21 
 
 =- 2 
 
 >^ 5< 
 
 74 
 
 81 
 66 
 76 
 
 ei 
 
 H 
 65 
 
 18 
 56 
 89 
 74 
 
 CI 
 45 
 12 
 
 15 
 15 
 64 
 64 
 
 12 
 56 
 
 H 
 o 
 ? 
 
 .'•)(19 
 (•>93 
 572 
 663 
 
 663 
 623 
 170 
 
 The Jackson plirensy c«,rrjed the State. The 
 Clintouiaus were neutral. — SUtr. 
 
 1S28, May 22. — Samuel J. Underbill, J.icob 
 Jackson, Jacob Willis, Ezra Smith, and others, 
 from Jericho, detected a gang of villains wlio stole 
 Sncdeker's horses, New J^ots, three horses from 
 Cold Spring, a horse and mare from Lewis Hew- 
 lett, East Woods, and sold them in Thiladelphia. 
 One Nash and Norman l?aker were in this gang. 
 Baker confes.'ed that he broke open .1 tailor's .•■hop 
 and the store of Charles Peek, Flushing ; Schoon- 
 maker's store, Flalbush ; Hewlett's store and 
 Jones' store, at Cold Spring, and Thineas Carll's 
 Btore, at Huntington. 
 
 *In place of J.inios Fester declined from ill liealtli. This 
 jvas the rctrular Kepublicaii neiniii.iticin at Tariiiii.aiiv Hall. 
 
 tXoiiiinated at a ineotiiif; of which (Jenmul Uauiel De- 
 dell was C'hairuiau, »ud Thomas t'. I'inckuey, .Secretary. 
 
 _ \S-2% June 12.— As Richard Kliodes and wife, 
 Near Itockuway, were going to market, in a one- 
 horse wagon, the horse got frightened, in Brooklyn, 
 aiul d.ished them out against a building. She was 
 killed and he sorely bruised. She left six children. 
 
 1828, July IS.-Tbc fall of rain has been so 
 great and frequent within a few daj-g that few 
 fanners liereabouts will he able to get in their hay 
 in merchant.ible order, and a large portion will be 
 entirely spoiled. Bye and wheat promises mcH, 
 corn looks uuusuallj'-iine. — Farmer. 
 
 1828, Aug. 28.- It i.-» sickly on Long I.-land, 
 especially at Jamaica, North nempstcud, New- 
 town, Flushing and New Utrecht. There is also 
 a disease among horses, the blind staggers. 
 
 Uct. 9. — The sickness continues, but is not gen- 
 erally fatal, except with the aged. There is great 
 mortality among horses. 
 
 1S2S, Sept. 4. — I)ied, on .Saturd.ny afternoon, at 
 Jamaica, L. E. A. Eigenbrodt. L.L.D., aged tifty- 
 four years, I'rincipal of Union Hall Academy thir- 
 ty-one years. — Farmer. 
 
 1828, Oct. 16. — The dwclling-liousc, occupied 
 by John Byrd, on the roaJ from .Jamaica to Flush- 
 ing, and owned by Nathan .Sanlord, Esq., was con- 
 sumed by fire that took from tho chimney, on 
 Jlonday last. — Farmer. 
 
 1828, Xov. 20.— Vote of Queens County. 
 
 o 
 
 •-1 
 
 Congress. 
 James Lent,* 
 Silas Wood.t 
 
 Asstmlily. 
 Thomas Tredwell,t J 63 
 
 314 
 
 291 
 
 II. F. Jones 
 
 .^hcrif. 
 Richard Cornell, t 
 Samuel Molt," - 
 
 ClcrL 
 John .Sinionson.t 
 S.amuel .Sherman" 
 
 4:« 
 
 175 
 4i*5 
 
 132 
 523 
 
 225 
 
 C27 
 
 623 
 235 
 
 470 
 433 
 
 629 
 304 
 
 200 
 J 25 
 
 81 
 250 
 
 94 
 244 
 
 63 
 297 
 
 122 
 112 
 
 98 
 142 
 
 82 
 163 
 
 116 
 132 
 
 13 
 
 102 
 103 
 
 107 
 93 
 
 87 
 125 
 
 93 
 123 
 
 3! 
 
 192 
 
 85 
 
 82 
 194 
 
 87 
 195 
 
 161 
 120 
 
 1 1 55 
 1343 
 
 II. '.4 
 
 1410 
 
 995 
 1600 
 
 1199 
 1499 
 
 229 
 
 Fhnhinp, - 
 
 . 
 
 - S!.58 
 
 50 
 
 (Jvstorhay, 
 
 . 
 
 33 
 
 20 
 
 (ilen Cove, 
 
 . 
 
 - 31 
 
 12 
 
 Jericlio, - 
 
 - 
 
 20 
 
 50 
 
 Cow Neck, - 
 
 - 
 
 - 3i) 
 
 1S28. — Revenue of Post Offices in Queens 
 
 County : 
 
 Jamaica, 
 lleinpstead, 
 Norlh Hempstead, 
 Soulh Oysterhay, 
 Cold Spring, - 
 
 1829, Feb. — A week or two since a hog raised 
 by B. Lowerre, Flushing, four years ohl, was 
 killed and weighed, when dressed, seven hundred 
 and seventy-seven pounds. 
 
 1829, Fch. — An ewe of Joseph Denton, North 
 llempste.ad, has this season no less than six lambs. 
 
 1829, A2)ril 23. — The house of the widow Law- 
 "Jackson. tAdmiuistration. 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 113 
 
 reuce, Flushing, was destroyed by fire ou Friday 
 last. It is supposed to liave orif^inatcd from tlie 
 chimney, as the roof was ou fire when first discov- 
 ered. 
 
 1S29. — The friends of Sunday-schools are re- 
 quested to meet, Slay ith, at Union Hall Academy, 
 Jamaica, to form a Oouuty Sunday-School Union. 
 — Farmer. 
 
 1SS9, June 25. — The dwoning-house of the toll- 
 gatherer on the Eockaway Turnpike v.-as burnt, 
 about 11 o'clock ou Saturday evening last. 
 
 1S29, Aitcj. 4. — Pursuant to public notice from 
 the pulpit, a temperance meeting was held in the 
 school-house, Hempstead. Revs. Webster and 
 Hall made addresses. The officers of the Society 
 are John Lefferts, President ; John Davidson, 
 Secretary, and Eldred Piatt, Treasurer. 
 
 1S29. — At a meeting of the people of Jamaica, 
 in the Lecture-room of the Presbyterian Church, at 
 five P. M., Sept. 7th, Timothy Nostrand, Chairman, 
 and S, L. Lamberson, 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 Mcllvain was present. 
 
 1829, Dec. S.^George Ellis Ryerson was ar- 
 rested at John Collier's, on the Williamsburgh 
 turnpike, while oflsrir.g for sale some prayer-books 
 he had stolen (as also altar decorations and chancel 
 carpet) from Grace Church, Jamaica. He had 
 broken open the late Major Lefferts' house and the 
 summer residence of A. L. Molyneaux. He was 
 committed to jail by John Rhodes, Esq. — Farmer. 
 
 1829, Nov — Vote of Queens County for As- 
 sembly. 
 
 !2! 
 
 S h: p. s- i? ,3- c' 
 
 Thomas Tredwell, - 3^ TO IfK) 49 6:!1 12 891 
 H. F. Jones,* - - - 84 53 t-7 117 ICt! 3bO tib9 
 
 1829.— The barn of Henry Stoothoff, Newtown, 
 was burnt on Wednesday uiglit, Dec. 16th, by J, 
 J. Quackenboss, a miserable looking object, who 
 had worked fot'him.f 
 
 1829, Dec. 17.— At Pond Hollow woods, Oys- 
 terbay, two boys, in search for rabbits, found, un- 
 der an old stump, no less than one hundred and 
 thirty black snakes, some six feet in length, all 
 which were killed. — Farmer. 
 
 1829. — At a meeting of the Physicians and 
 Surgeons of Queens Coinity, at the Court House, 
 December I7th, Dr. Gustavus Baj'lies, of New- 
 town, was appointed Chairman, and Dr. Town- 
 send, of Oysterbay, Secretary. It was then re- 
 solved to form a ^Medical So'ciety. The officers 
 
 •The election was contested and the seat given to Jones. 
 tHe was sent to the State Prison for seven years. 
 
 elected were: Dr. N. Shelton, President ; Dr. Lu- 
 cius Iveliog, YiQC-FresideHt ; Dr. Townsend, Sec- 
 retary ; Dr. Austin Chapman, Treasurer ; Drs. 
 George B. Purdy, Purcel Cook, John Davidson, 
 William 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, 18.30. 
 
 Besides the above, Drs. James and Gideon N. 
 Searing, Edwin Webb, William Wheeler, Morris 
 Snedeker and Richard Seaman v,'ere present. 
 
 13-30. — A large temperance meeting of different 
 denominations was lield, February Sth, in the 
 Episcopal Church, Flushing, which was addressed 
 by the Revs. Messrs. Mcllvain and Goldsmith. 
 An approving letter from Rev. Dr. Milnor was 
 read. Over thirty signed the pledge. — Farmer. 
 
 18.30. — Elias Hicks, Jericho, while writing a 
 letter, Febniary 14th, was attacked -nith paralysis, 
 which nearly deprived him of the use of his left 
 side and the power of speech. He died on the 
 evening of the 27th, aged nearly eighty-two.* 
 
 1830.-^A meeting, to form a Temperance Socie- 
 ty will be held in the I'resbyterian Church, New- 
 town, at eleven A. 31., February 1.5th. Addresses 
 will be made by Revs, Mr. Mcllvain, and Drs. 
 Cox and Dewitt. 
 
 1830, March 25. — The Legislature authorized 
 North Hempstead to sell their Common lands. 
 
 1830, ^jjr/Z.— Weight of five oxen, of the late 
 David Allen, of GreafNeck : 
 
 First, alive, - - 2,456 lbs. Dressed (quarters)], .524 lbs. 
 
 .Second, '• - - - S.^yO " '• . . . 1,392 ■' 
 
 Third, " - - 2.3.-2 " " ... 1,472 " 
 
 Fourth, " - - - 2,-240 " "... 1,30-2 " 
 
 Fifth, •' (steer) 2,232 " " - - - 1,3U0 " 
 
 1830, May 6. — William Kelly, a foreigner, aged 
 twent}-, was sent to the States Prison, two years, 
 for robbing Peter Luyster's store. Cedar Swamp, 
 of 640 worth of coin. 
 
 1830, May 6.- The Long Island Telegraph 
 (since the ///i/^/cer) was commenced at Hempstead 
 by Lcfevre & Hutchinson. 
 
 1830, May 2-5. — 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. Carll, William L. ilitchell and 
 Asa Spalding were received as members. Drs. 
 Shelton, William J. Johnson and AVilliam W. 
 Kissam, were appointed a publishing committee 
 and to draft a code of medical ethics. A code of 
 by-laws was adopted. 
 
 1830, July 1. — Moses Searing, aged thirty-five, 
 a highly respected member of the ilcthodist con- 
 nexion, received a fatal kick from a horse in the 
 
 *S. E. Clements, from Brooklyn, secretly opened the 
 grave, at midniirht, raised the cottiu lid and took a plaster 
 cast of Hicks, from which several busts were made by 
 Brower. 
 
n 
 
 114 
 
 QUEENS COUNTY 
 
 jiit of the stomach. He leaves a wife, two childrcu 
 aud (lej)ciiilc-nt niotlicr. ' 
 
 1830. — Stii'icsU) Ncir Yofl-. — Curtis & Jlorviu's 
 stage leaves IJavid liedcli's, llunijistcad, Monday, 
 AVedncsday and Friday. 
 
 Curtis & Lowcrrc'a stage loaves Benjarain 
 Lowerre's and Curtis Peck's, FJiisliiiig, aud Ij. 
 IJloom's, Newtown, twice a day. 
 
 C. & J. iSutjdiin's stage leaves lluuter's hotel, 
 Jamaica, daily. 
 
 P. &. S. Vandewatcr's stage, leaves South Oys- 
 terbay, 'i'uesdays. 
 
 JdIiu .Jackson's .stage leaves Jernsalera, Fridays. 
 
 Coe S. Downing & Co.'s stage leaves T. I'ar- 
 isli's, Oysterhay, Jlonday, Wodn(;.''day mid Friday, 
 rin. Norwicli, aud calls at AVilliam P. AVrighl's 
 and J. P. Searing's, Jericho. 
 
 John 11. Schcnck's stage leaves lleinptead 
 lliirbiir, ri'i. Cow Neck, Success and Jamaica, 
 Monday', Wednesday and Friday. 
 
 1830. —The 4tli of July was celebrated in the 
 3Icthodist Church, IIempfit^ad. The Declaration 
 was read b}' Dr. Clowes, and the oration delivered 
 by Dr. Edwin 'Webb. — Inquirer. 
 
 1830, Jiihi 5.— 'I'he first number of the School 
 Mitsler was )mblis]ied at llem])stead, bv Timothy 
 Clowes, L.L D. 
 
 1830, July 21. — The late rains h.nve done very 
 little injury to the crops, except to the oats, whieli 
 being heavy was beaten down. The wheat and 
 rye have yielded great returns. The corn looks 
 finely. 'I'he fruit-trees look promising, not\\iih- 
 standing the late frosts.^— ,Stor. 
 
 1S30, July 23.— :Mr. I.cfevre will deliver a dis- 
 course on the second death, next Sunday afternoon, 
 .1 David DeMott's, Near llockaway. 
 
 1830, Juhi 28. — The weather the present month 
 has been warm without precedent, 'i'he thermome- 
 ter, at Jamaica, stood at 100° ou the 18th.-^6'/«r. 
 
 1S30.— Zion Church, Little Neck, was conscerat- 
 c.l on Friday, J\dy 30th, by Bishop llobart. The 
 diurch, with the glebe, organ and other furniture, 
 was given to the Vestry by Wyuant Van Zandt. 
 
 1830, Juhj 31. — On Tuesday night the barn of 
 
 llichard AVay, on the .Jainaica turnpike, three 
 
 '■ miles and a half from the Williamsburg ferry, was 
 
 ] burnt, with its contents, bis whole stock of grain 
 
 ! and a fine horse. 
 
 IS.'iO, ./«.''/. — J. & W. Hunter's stage runs from 
 Flushing, on the arrival of the steamboat there 
 from New York, ria. Jamaica to llockaway and 
 back. Fare fifty cents. 
 
 1830, Julij. — Ast Mrs. Cornelius Reniscn, of 
 Newtown was returning home from sitting up with 
 a sick neighbor, the horse took fright aud overturned 
 the wagon, thereby causing her death. 
 
 1830. — On Thursday afternoon. August .5th, the 
 lightning struck the barn of AVilliam Iiemsen, 
 
 Great Neck, killing his son, aged seventeen, and 
 rendering his companion insensible. The barn, 
 with it,-* contents of hay, grain, wagon, sleigh, etc., 
 was consumed. Loss, Sl,oOO. 
 
 18.30, Oct. 5. — At a Itepnblican Convention, at 
 the Court llou.-'e, of which James liegeman was 
 Chairman, and Henry Allen Sccrettny, .Silas Uoe, 
 of Jamaica, was nominated for tiie Assembly, and 
 the nomHiation of Enoe T. Thiioop,- for Coveruor, 
 aj)proved. 
 
 1830, Or/. 9.— Samuel H. Van Wyck, agi-d fifty- 
 five, <i we.ilthy and respectable inhabitant of J^aw- 
 rence's Neck, was drowned by being precipitated 
 from a boat into the water. 
 
 1830, Oct. 9.— At a meeting of Independent'IFe- 
 pnblican electors, at James Poole's North Heniji- 
 stead, Fliplialet Wickes, Chairman, and }>[. !JI. 
 Itogers, .Sccretaiy, Thomas Tredwell wasMiomiiuit- 
 ed for the Assembly, and the nomination of Fran- 
 cis danger, for Governor, apiJijovecL 
 
 1830, Oct. — Ou Thursday/ Benjamin Sniiih, a 
 boy of fourteen, was thrown from a horse, in New- 
 town, and, falling on his head, died a few hours after. 
 
 1830, Xov. — A young man named Eldert, about 
 fifteen, at Ifallctt's Cove, while riding on horseback 
 was struck in his side by the shall of a passing 
 chaise, which caused his death next day. 
 
 \^Z0, Nov. — Vote of Queens County : 
 
 Congress. 
 
 ,"5 
 
 3 
 
 » ■ 
 
 
 o 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 » 
 
 S 
 »^ 
 
 n' 
 
 i 
 
 c 
 09 
 
 2 c' 
 
 5- E 
 
 John A. Kiiip," 
 
 - 87 
 
 un 
 
 C33 
 
 2-26 
 
 !I4 
 
 71 1275 
 
 Jaincii Lunt, - 
 
 - 100 
 
 221 
 
 260 
 
 117 
 
 i!l 
 
 169 1018 
 
 Asscmlfty. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 I«l!.-is Kon, - - 
 
 - l.-i-l 
 
 2:!() 
 
 2-33 
 
 238 
 
 G9 
 
 173 10% 
 
 Tlionias TrL-Jwcl! 
 
 « 7a 
 
 la- 
 
 7U0 
 
 •Ji 
 
 110 
 
 62 1182 
 
 1S30.— Bart 
 
 cr prices a 
 
 t the 
 
 Hem 
 
 pstead stores : 
 
 ItiitttT, per lb.. 
 
 . - 18 
 
 cts. 
 
 Kve, 
 
 j)c'r V>e>licl, 
 
 - 75ct8. 
 
 l,;iid. 
 
 - 11) 
 
 '• 
 
 Oats, 
 
 " 
 
 
 - - 38 '• 
 
 ll.nns, " 
 
 9(1 10 
 
 '• 
 
 Corn, 
 
 " 
 
 
 - 03 *• 
 
 C':uilles, " 
 
 - 11 
 
 " 
 
 riitatois, " 
 
 
 ■j: « f.o " 
 
 Jluuuv, " 
 
 . - 10 
 
 " 
 
 Onious, '■ 
 
 
 - - 50 " 
 
 1830.— Pos; Offices and Post Masters in Queens 
 County. — Flushing, Curtis I'eck ; 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 ; tlystelbay 
 South, Timothy Carman ; Buckram, James Cock ; 
 Cedar Swamp, P. Luyster. 
 
 1830, J)(V.— Royal Mollineaux, a miller, a mile 
 and a half below Hempstead, killed a hog scMCcly 
 eighteen months old, which weighed six hundred 
 and twenty-three pounds. 
 
 1831, Jan. 17. — AVo have had a snow storm of 
 
 *Auti Jackson. 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 115 
 
 about tweutj inclies, uueqnallecl in violence and 
 duration since 1S20-1. 
 
 1831, Jan. IS. — At a meeting of tlie iuliabitants 
 of Jamaica, at Hewlett Greed's, Elipbalet Wickes, 
 Cliairmaa and Dr. N. Shelton, Secretary, it was 
 deemed expedient to have a Eailroad from Jamaica 
 to Brooklyn, and that John A. King, Col. John 
 Rhodes, Jr., Silas Koe, James Herrimau, and Wil- 
 liam E. Gracie, he a committee to confer with a 
 like committee from Brooklyn. 
 
 1831, 'Jan. 22. — On Saturday evening, at ten 
 o'clock, the wagon shop of Langdon Wright, Near 
 Eockawa_y, with its contents, was consumed by fire. 
 Loss, SSdo. On ilonday 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, FcJ). — 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 Thur.sday morning about 
 four o'clock, the capacious diuing-hall of Peck's 
 hotel. Flushing was burnt. 
 
 1831, march 31. — The editor of the Inquirer 
 ■will pi-eacli next Sunday, at three P.M., at Goo D. 
 Jackson's, Jerusalem .South. 
 
 1831, Ajiril 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 Blusquito Gove, was moved several 
 inches from its foundation. 
 
 1831, June 18. — The new barn of the wid- 
 ow of Townscud Hauxhurst, North Hempstead, 
 took five from a red-hot staple that a carpenter had 
 driven in one of the timbers. 
 
 1831.— Drowned, July 24tli, off Coney Island 
 beach, Thomas Carman, Captain, and James Aker- 
 ly, Mate of the schooner Sjicculator, of Hemp- 
 stead. Thej^ left the schooner in the long-boat, 
 with three others, who narrowly escaped, oue be- 
 ing picked njj by a smack, and the other two 
 swimming back to the schooner. The Captain 
 left a, wife and ten children. — Farmer. 
 
 1831, Artg. 4. — On Sunday, Jamaica was visit- 
 ed by a violent squall, from the south-west, with 
 torients of rain. It continued an hour and con- 
 siderably damaged fruit and other tree^. 
 
 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 (kt.retfe, Jamaica, appeared. It was a semi- 
 monthly, edited by the students of tho Academy. 
 
 1831, Jcin. 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 gai-dcu 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, JVoy.— Caleb AVright, 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 : George 
 D. Coles, President ; William M. Hewlett, Augus- 
 tus K. Griflin and Charles H. Eglee, Vice-Presi- 
 dents ; G. B. Docharty, Secretary, and John J. 
 Weeks, Treasurer. 
 
 Vote of Queens County Nov. 7, 8, 9 : 
 uAsscmhhj. 
 1,359 I Samuel Mott, - - - 1077 
 
 Slicriff. 
 1567 I John Curtis, - - - - 899 
 Cltrli. 
 
 - 2469 I 
 Coroners. 
 
 - 1298 I Andrew C. Hcgeman, lOaa 
 J294 I Hemy Allen, - - - 1006 
 
 - 13)G I EliasHicks, - - - - ]021 
 1351 I 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 ofi' the wagon and 
 both wheels passed over his thighs. 
 
 1831, Bee. 13. — Dr. Townsend was Chairman, 
 and John D. Feeks, 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 asksd $15 for a 
 sleigh load of wood. 
 
 1831. 
 
 John A. King, - 
 
 John Simonson, - 
 
 Samuel Sherman, - 
 
 jr. M. Eopjers, - - 
 Beujamiu Lowerre, 
 Elijah Seaman, Jr., 
 Daniel Mott, - - 
 
 28- 
 
116 
 
 QUEEN- S COUNTY 
 
 President; Aaron iJcgrauw, Vice-President ; Dr. 
 Towiisend, Sccrctart/ ; Isaac Townsciid, Ambrose 
 Parish, Daniel Cock and Alfred Earlc, llxecutive 
 Committee. 
 
 1831, Z)cc.— David Bedell, Ilempstend, slauglit- 
 ered a pig, about nine montlis old, which weiglied, 
 ■when dressed, four hundred and twelve pounds- 
 Daniel Combs killed another wliich weighed four 
 hundred and ouc pounds. 
 
 1831, JDcc. — John and Coe D. Jackson, Jerusa- 
 lem South, killed a hog which weighed eight hun- 
 dred and thirly-lhrec pound.^. 
 
 1831, Dfc— George Hewlett, Merrick, has a 
 cornstalk on whicli grew thirteen perfect oars. 
 Seven are large and full, the others well filled but 
 not so large. 
 
 1831, Dec. — EHas Iligbic, Westbury, raised an 
 ear of corn containing twenty perfect rows, well 
 filled and of good size.* 
 
 1831, Dec. 29. — The Q neons County Temper- 
 ance ■ Society v^as formed. The ofticors were : 
 Van Wyck Wickes, President; Rev. 31. E.irlo, 
 John Leiferts, David ]>amber»on, Isaac I'eck, 
 "William Bragaw and James M. Onderdonk, I'ice- 
 
 j Presidents; Itcv. R.D. \IM, Corresponding Secre- 
 tary ; Dr. William . J. Johnson, 2Vras(()'C>',- IJcvs. 
 E.W.Crane, John Goldsmith, George A. Shelton, 
 William H. Lewis, Charles Webster and Jlr. Jolni 
 D. Fceks, Executive Committee ; Dr. J. C. Town- 
 send, Itecording Secretary. 
 
 1832, Jcat. 3. — A meeting was held in the Re- 
 formed Dutch Church, !^orth Hempstead, Rev. 
 James Otterson, Chairman, and Jiimes JI. 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 uuide 
 by Dr. Townseud and llevs. llall, Webster and 
 Crane. 
 
 1832. — About January Ith, Ilcnry Hewlett, 
 Eastwoods, had an ox hit by a strange dog, whioh 
 died January 17th. Since then Lewis Hewlett 
 has lost three cows, and .John J. Hewlett a hog. 
 Sto])hen Robbing' dog was also bit. After being 
 chained nine days and showing no signs of hydro- 
 phobia ho was let loose, when he ran ofl" south to 
 Hardscrabble, then turned back, passing through 
 Eastwoods to Cold Spring, whore ho attacked a 
 colored woman. He then crossed to Babylon aijd 
 Islip where he was killed, on the l!)th, having first 
 bitten many dogs. Jlany people go about their 
 ordinary business armed with clubs. Small pox 
 and measles have also prevailed- — Cor. of Star. 
 
 1832, Feb.— A promising son of Oliver JfcGin- 
 nis, of North Hempstead, was drowned by falling 
 in a pond while skating. 
 
 1832, March 1. — Seaman, son of David Alleu, 
 
 *Mr. Hicks, of Rockawny has an car of corn one row 
 aheaJ of the Westbiirj- car. 
 
 of North Hempstead, was killed by the accidenUl 
 discharge of his gun. 
 
 1832.— The schooner Increas^e, Captain H. B. 
 Pcarsall, of Jloft Bedell's Norfolk line of packets, 
 came ashore, in the gale last Sunday night, March 
 Gtli, near New Inlet. Four or five passengers wore 
 washed overboard and drowned. The rest wore 
 rescKcd by General Daniel Bedell, Commissioner 
 of Wrecks, and his neighbors, David andTredwoll 
 Bedell, Thomas Foster, Horton Homan, .Tohn Mor- 
 gan, Richard and William Rhodes, Benjamin, 
 .James and Zacliariah Story, Nelson Shaw, 'Fhom- 
 as Sopers, Thomas Southard, Isaiah Thomas, Wil- 
 liam rredwell and Joseph Wood, at the risk of 
 their lives. — Inquirer. 
 
 1832.— SIO Pcivard.-Ou the night of JIarcli 
 1 1th, some villain entered the Methodi.*t church, 
 Honipstoad, and wantonly destroyed the books, and 
 broke the windows of the Episcopal church, and 
 did other acts of miscliief in various parts of the 
 village of Hempstead. 
 
 1832. — The annual Fair of the Fragment .''oeic- 
 ty of the Reformed Dutch Church, Jamaic:i, will 
 take place April 10th, at one P.M., at John Hunt- 
 er's Hotel, and continue in the evening. 
 
 1832, Mai/ 2.— The new store kept by J. & E. 
 Drew, and owned by Daniel Rhodes, near the ciU't 
 toll-gate, Jamaica, was burnt, with its contents, ou 
 Tuesday night. Loss, .$4,000.* 
 
 1832. — At a meeting of the Queeiifi Count.y 
 Medical Society, at the Court House, May 29th, 
 wore present : ])rs. .Searing, Sr. and Jr., .Shelton, 
 Josiah Bloodgood, (iarvio, Kellog, Chiipman, Rog- 
 ers, Carll, I'urdy, Davidson, A. R. GriHin, Mitch- 
 ell, S[iiilding, 'i'ownsend. Cook, >Veljb, Wheeler, 
 Johnson, Kissam, S. L. Condict, Tredwell and 
 Sncdeker. Absent — Bavlies and Woodhull. Drs. 
 II. T. Horsfield and N. W. Condict were received 
 as members. Dr. I'urdy gave an interesting lec- 
 ture on jntormittent, reniillcnt and bilious fevers 
 th.it prevailed in Nortli Hempstead in 1820, '29, 
 '30 and '31. The Tcmperence resolutions were 
 indefinitely postponed. — Farmer. 
 
 1S.'!2, Jlay 12. — The Queens County Lyceum 
 mot at the Court House, Dr. Townsend, Prosidont, 
 and T. Clowes, .*^ocrotary. A lecture on education 
 was given bv AV. Hutchinson ; on astronomy, by 
 G. B. Dochart}', and on human intelligence by 
 W. M. Hewlett. 
 
 1832. — A subscription book for the atock ot the 
 Brooklyn and .Tauiaica Railroad will be opened, 
 Jlay 2lst, at Hewlett Creed's, Jamaica. 
 
 ]832. — The subscription book fur the Hallett's 
 Cove Railway, and lor cutting a ship canal across 
 the cove, will be opened 3Iay 30th. Capital 
 •S150,000. 
 
 1832, June 4.— The Supervisors resolved to lo- 
 
 "Tlift I">rpws were nncsted for a con.<pir»ey to defraud 
 the iEtua I'ire liLsuraoce C'oiiipauy. 
 
IN OLDEN TIMES. 
 
 117 
 
 cate the County Clerk's Office in Jamaica, on the 
 lot between Dr. W. W. Kissani and Silas Roe, 
 deceased. The building is to be of brick, and fire 
 proof. Jarvis Jackson and John C. Smith are to 
 issue proposals for building. — Fanner. 
 
 1SS2, J7ine 18. — About six A. M., during a se- 
 vere thunder storm, the barn of John Skidmore, in 
 the village of Jamaica, was struck, and, in a few 
 minutes, the whole building ^yas in flames, and a 
 quantity of goods and a valuable horse were losjt. 
 No m&m-a,i.ce.— Farmer. 
 
 18.32, June 18. — Two lads, Griffin and Robinson, 
 whose parents reside in Flushing were drowned 
 bj' the upsetting of asail-boat in a stjiiall. — Farm- 
 er. 
 
 1832, June 20. — The Asi.atic cholera made its 
 appearance in New York. 
 
 1832, June 21. — John I^ott and others, ef Hicks' 
 Neck, one day last week, caught, at one haul, 
 ' eiglity thousand bony fish, -v/hick are wsed for ma- 
 nure. 
 
 1S32. — Charles Jenkins, family and friend.^, 
 thank Smith Cornell and Robert Greeinvood for 
 bringing ashore, at the risk of their own lives, Ja- 
 cob Valentine, who fell from a boat in Jamaica 
 Bay, on Saturday, June 30th. 
 
 1832, July i. — 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 Reformed 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. 
 
 1832, July 4. — At Hempstead, William J. 
 Clowes delivered the oration. Dr. Webb read the 
 Declaration and Henry F. Jones acted as Marshal. 
 
 1832, July 11. — The surveyors of the railroad 
 are expected on the ground nest week. This delay 
 is caused by the illness of the surveyor. — Farmer. 
 
 1832.— Thursday, July 2Gth, was set apart by 
 the Episcopal and Reformed Dutch Churches of 
 Jamaica and Newtown, as a Fast da^-, on account 
 of the cholera in New York and vicinity; — Farmer. 
 
 1832, July 30. — The barn of John and Jacob 
 Bergen, three miles east of Jamaica, was, with its 
 contents, destroyed by lightning, on Monday even- 
 ing. Loss S800. 
 
 1832, Aug. 1. — On Tuesday evening, a storm of 
 rain and hail, coining from the west, visited Jamai- 
 cn and Hempstead, where some hail stones fell as 
 large as white walnuts, breaking upwards of five 
 hundred panes of glass. The corn was much torn 
 and broken down. — Star. 
 
 1832, Aug. 23. — ^Money and clothing, to the 
 amount of §l.jO, have been contributed to the poor 
 of New York suffering by stagnation in business, 
 caused by cholera, from the Presbyteriitn and 
 Dutch Reformed congregations of Jamaica. Con- 
 
 tributions were also sent from Hempstead. — Far- 
 mer. 
 
 1832, Aug.—'^S% 50 have been collected in 
 Grace Church, Jamaica, for the sufferers by chole- 
 ra in New York.* 
 
 1832, Sep?. — -'Joseijli Gorsline, raised a squash 
 weighing twenty-four pounds, and measuring thir- 
 ty-five inclies around. 
 
 1832, Oct. 18. — ^The examination of the Female 
 Department of Union Hall Academy, under Miss 
 Mary HanOa, took place on Wednesday last, and 
 was closed with a musical entertainment in the 
 evening. On Thursday the young gentlemen in 
 thexlassic.'il iind 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 tlie ladies. Jlr. Onderdonkt has been elected 
 to the office of Principal, and the session will open 
 on the first Monday of November. — lYirmer. 
 
 1832, Xov. — Vote of Queens County : 
 
 Goreriior. 
 William L. Marcy, - lCO-2 | Francis Gr.iuger, - - 1429 
 
 Assemhlij. 
 Thomas B. Jackson, - 1801 | John A. Kiug, - - - 1331 
 
 1832. —On the night of November 6th the store 
 of James Rider & Co., Jamaica, was robbed of 
 goods and money to the value of S20. 
 
 1832, Dec. 3. — Application will be made to the 
 Legislature for an act authorizing the Supervisors 
 to raise, by tax, $700 to pay the ciipenses of build- 
 ing a fire-proof office for the County Clerk and 
 Surrogate. — Fanner. 
 
 1832, Dec. 17. — Application willbe made to the 
 Legislature to grant a charter for a bank at Flush- 
 ing, with a eajiital of §100,000. 
 
 18.32, Dec. 12.— IL M. Western has found It 
 necessary to open a branch of his hnv office in Ja- 
 maica, at the (Jlerk's Office, where communications 
 may be addressed to P. Potter. 
 
 1832, Dec. — It is fsaid 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 iiad three more. — 
 I'drnter, 
 
 18.32, 2)ee. — Wo have seen two hogs of the 
 grass-breed raised by Mrs. Rapelye, Newtown, 
 from stock imported by Judge Strong, of Flusliiug. 
 They are two years and live months old. One 
 weighs one thousand tliree hundred pounds, the 
 other a little less. — Star. 
 
 1832, Dec— Joseph B. Shotwell. Flushing, 
 
 *Altliougli Bo.inls of ITpalth were organized iutjupens 
 Couutv. tliero woru Bcatt'^riiig cases of cholera in every 
 town. 
 
 tMr. J. N. Bi-inckerlioff. Principal, and Henry Onder- 
 duuk, Jr., classical teacfier. retired from the Academy, A;jril, 
 18U5. 
 
118 
 
 Q U E i: X S GO U X T Y 
 
 raised an ox which weiglicil, alive, two thou^an(l 
 five huiulied and sixty poiiiKl*. 
 
 1801, Aiif/. 2o, 56, 27. — ^\'olc for four membcrg 
 of ft Couvfiidoii to iix tlio mimijcr of the .Senate 
 and Asseiolilv'* and to give the members of the 
 Council of Ajipointmcut cijual power of uomiualing 
 with the Governor : 
 
 John W. Smninn, - - 319 1 Janics Rayuer, - - 3fi7 
 Jobu ScLi-niU, - - - :{20 | Ucwilt t'lintou, - - - 3J5 
 
 Tlierc was no opposition. — liiL 
 
 1S32, July 7.— The Board of rieaItU of North 
 Ilcmpstoad iutund;$ to create no exjieniie, it has no 
 nuisances to remove, and as the inlialiitants arc 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 raaj' have 
 full play ; and then the subject of cholera will not 
 enter their thoughts. Dr. Chapman i.'j appointed 
 llealth Oflieer. 
 
 1S32, Jiili/ 9.— The Ilcrapsfead Board of Ilcnlth 
 order that no stage-driver, boatman, or other peri^on 
 .-'hall bring into the town .an}- emigrant or other por- 
 tion .supposed to be .sick of choler or any other in- 
 fcclions disease; and that no iish (for manuie) 
 shall be left near any road or dwelling; and that all 
 pcriions coming from infected districts shall be .sub- 
 ject to such .examination and quarantine, as the 
 Board may think proper. 
 
 1S32, Jiih/ 18.— 'llio Oystcrbay Bo.ard of Health 
 forbid the ifethodists holding their usual Camp- 
 meeting in the town. They also order one or mure 
 hospitals to be provided for tho.sc who may be .sick 
 of cliolcra or other infectious diseases. 
 
 1S32, Jiili/ 23.— The Jamaica Board of Health 
 order that no dead body be brought into the towu 
 for interment within two months, without consent 
 of the Board. 
 
 Sept. 24. — Xo street manure pIliII be landed oi 
 brought within the bounds of the town uiuler pen- 
 ally of $50.— Fanner. 
 
 17SD. — Examin.ation of a negro woman, Xcll, 
 (referred to on page, 71), taken at Jamaica, Octo- 
 ber 27th, by \Yilliiim Ludhim, Justice : 
 
 Xell said, on ^Monday, the 12th inst,, Sar.ih 
 asked Lor whore she could get a wasp's nest. I 
 told her no, 1 did not know. That Jack asked 
 her if she could get poison-root. 1 told him, I could 
 not, and that he was as bad as the man that killed 
 bis wife and children by poisoning of them with 
 two bowls of punch, one he put rat? bane in and 
 the other ho did not. She .also said that Xan 
 asked her if she was a going to get rats bane, and 
 she replied yes, with a smile, and that she then 
 told Xan that Sarah wanted a wasp's nest to put 
 it in the bed of her master and mistress, to sting 
 them to death. Xell said further that on Friday, 
 the 23d inst., when her master and mistress were 
 
 "The mimbcrof AsseinlilviiiL'n fi'ooi Qucciu was reduced 
 from four to three. — Eil. 
 
 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 t.ike a coal of fire and set fire to 
 the tow in the upper garret, and it would burn 
 like tindei |,nt Xell said she replied no, but that 
 she would put lire in the closet u]) stairs in young 
 master's room. Sarah then asked her where there. 
 She told her u]"m the papers, that she did accord- 
 ingly get a coal of ftreout of the kitchen, j>ut it in a 
 clam-shell, convey it to the aforesaid ch^sct, laid 
 the coal of lire njion the papers, doubled the paper 
 over the coal of luo, and that it did beg-in 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 aftcrnooi»«-r^Co!<r< J(eeoi\ls. 
 
 E II 1! A T A . 
 
 Pafc .'■>, fcir Coe read Too. 
 
 Page 9, for William Leete read .SnmncI Jjccte. 
 
 I'age 10, for lfi77, July 22, read IfiUT. July 22. 
 
 r.igc 4'i. for 1778 read 1770. 
 
 Papo 51, for one Br.ifr.nw read Isn.nc Binfran'. 
 
 Papi! 5(i, for Dliryen rend liayca or l.avrii. 
 
 Page &i, under 17*3, July 2.Slh, iiLstrt Thomas Cetts, 
 
 Queens Comity. 
 Page 67, erase Quaker lot. 
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INDEX.. 
 
 Abramse, 13. 
 Adams, 41, 65, 87. 
 Alliance, 30, 88. 
 Agens, 30. 
 Akeily, 30, 66, 115. 
 4— Albeitson, 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, 98, 
 
 102,104,105,107,110,112, 
 
 113,114, 11.5, 116. 
 AllLsou, 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^, 11. 
 Apthorpe, 43. 
 Arden, 38,"43, 49, 50, 51, 53, 
 
 69, 71, 86. 
 Armstrong, 33, 37, 65, 
 Artlmr, 68. 
 Aspinwall, 34, 43. 
 Austin, 95. 
 Avery, 60. 
 Axtell, 56, 67. 
 Bache, 51. 
 Bagley, 18. 
 ISailey, 31, 50, 109. 
 Baker, 18, 93, 112. 
 Ball, 65. 
 
 Baldwin, 18, 21, 22, 86, 100. 
 Ballard, 79. 
 Balscy, 20. 
 Banbury, '7. 
 Baraclc," 63. 
 Barclay. 60. 65, 104. 
 Bardin, 63,70, 71,79, 84,89, 
 
 97, 
 Barliitc, 38. 
 Barker, 8, 36, 100. 
 Barnes, 94. 
 Barnet, 66. 
 Barnum, 101, 108. 
 Barriugton, 24. 
 Barre, 75. 
 
 Bartlette, 101, 106, 103. 
 Barwise, 98. 
 Basset, 100. 
 Bates, 13, 53. 
 Battin, 84, 85, 89, 97. 
 Ba.xter, 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. 
 
 Bedall, 13,31,50,65,67,79, 
 84, 88,91, 92, 95,96, 99, 
 104,111,112, 114, 116. 
 
 Beekman, 86. 
 
 Beesly, 36, 79. 
 
 Bellomont, 6, 13. 
 
 Benedict, 5, 6. 
 
 Beunet, 53. 79, 91, 95, 104. 
 
 Benson, 79. 
 
 Bentley, 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, 63. 
 69, 83. 
 
 Blackwood, 30. 
 
 Blatcbford, 103. 109. 
 
 Blocker, 59, 79. 
 
 Bletsoe, 104. 
 
 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. 
 
 Boeriim, 53, 64, 79. 
 
 Bogart, 79, 93, 95, 98, 100, 
 103, 105, 106, 107. 
 
 Bonnin, 24. 
 
 Bonney, 61. 
 
 Borden, 29. 
 
 Bowdcn, 50, 67, 72. 
 
 Bowne, 9, 12, 20, 23, 32, 34, 
 42,56,57,59, 81,87,107, 
 110. 
 
 Box, 53. 
 
 Bracket, 92. 
 
 Bradford, 15. 
 
 Bradhurst, 13. 
 
 Bradley, 18. 
 
 Braduer, 38. 
 
 Bradwell, 89, 92. 
 
 Bragaw, 51, 110, 116. 
 
 Braiue, 25, 33, 34, 35, 37,74. 
 
 Brainerd, 23. 
 
 Bremner, 53. 
 
 Breteau, 11. 
 
 Brevoort, 88. 
 
 Brewer, 95, 107. 
 
 Bridges, 21. 
 
 Brinckerhoti; 23, 61, 93, 98, 
 
 100,117. 
 Brooks, 23, 30, 48. 49, 50, 51 . 
 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, 21. 
 Buckle, 79. 
 Buckler, 54. 
 Bull, 18. 
 Burgess, 8, 65. 
 Burk, 32. 
 Burling, 23, 31 , 44, 45, 51 . 53, 
 
 79.81,90. 
 YBuruet, 32, 33, 66. 
 Burns, 43,44,61. 
 Burr, 46, 55, 58, 59,71,74, 
 
 86, 92. 
 Burroughs, 5, 8, 20, 61. 
 Burtis, 38 47, 58, 59, 71, 91, 
 
 93, 100, 104, 105, 109. 
 Butler. 36, 58, 91. 
 Bj'vanok, 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. 
 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. 
 Carerly, 35, 43, 58. 
 Cebra, 67, 70. 
 Chaloner, 61 . 
 Chambers, 42. 
 Champion, 8. 
 Chanders. 18. 
 Chandler, 57. 
 Chapman, 65, 94, 113, 116, 
 
 118. 
 Charlton, 7. 53, 84. 
 Chave, 50, 51. 
 Cheeseborough, 67. 
 
 Cheeseman, 39, 44, 68, 78, 90. 
 
 Chew, 44. 
 
 Chichester, 97. 
 
 Chisholm, 65. 
 
 Christie, 5. 
 
 Cburcli, 57. 
 
 Clap, 12. 
 
 Clarke, 21,56, 64, 95, 97. 
 
 C'larkson, 79, 84, 88. 
 
 Clay, 8, 65. 
 
 Clements. 17.20,39,67,71. 
 
 Clinton, 27, 54, 55, 57, .59, 61, 
 
 62, 63, 71, 73, 79, 80, 87, 
 
 88, 94, 95, 97, 101, 102, 
 
 103, ilO, 111, 118. 
 Clowes, 13, 16. 18, 20, 21, 23, 
 
 33, 37, 44, 49, 50. .56, 65, 
 
 7.3, 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. 
 Codvvise, 22, 38, 92, 95, 96, 
 
 107. 
 Coe, 5, 6, 7, 12, 13,71,73, 
 
 77, 79, 87, 89, 93, 94, 95. 
 Coerteu, 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, 
 
 38,51,84. 
 Collier, 50, 53, 100, 113. 
 Colwell, 114. 
 Combs, 18, 22, 29, 30, 33, 
 
 35, 30, 37, 39, 44, 45, 116. 
 Condict, 116. 
 Conklin, 9, 50, 106. 
 Connor, 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 
 
 Corsn, '>l, !•■>, 01. 
 
 Curtclvoii, 95. 
 
 Ccislj/, -ill. 
 
 Colter, ()5. 
 
 Covert, 5;i, 101, 1(13, 1(15, 
 
 iut: 
 
 Crane, 116. 
 
 Cranell, 16. 
 
 Crec, 37. 
 
 Creed, 11, 51, 53, 54, 70, 8), 
 ifi, •.».■>, KUi, 104, 115, lll>. 
 
 Cri.^iMii, A"), 
 
 Croiiiwetl, KhJ, 103. 
 
 Cromnieliii, 3.5, 77, 78, 79, 
 pd, f4. 
 
 Crooker, 47, 108. 
 
 Cross, 47. 
 
 Croswell, 86. 
 
 Cnieor, 95. 
 .Culver, 41. 
 
 Cuminiiifrs, 33, <>'>, 79. 
 
 Cumiingliani, I>1. 
 
 Curtis, t)5, 11(1, 114, 115. 
 
 Cuttinp, ^r2, 83. 
 
 Daiue / 65. 
 
 Dniton, .54. 
 
 Uaveii|)(>rt, 09. 
 
 Pavids.m, 113, 115, 116. 
 
 Davis, Diivi.a, 5, 63, 102. 
 
 Dawson, 45, 80, W2, 107. 
 
 Dayton, 95. 
 
 Deacon .55, (!i. 
 
 De.m, 11, 3->, ,50, ,53. 
 
 Dearing, 5. 
 
 Degrauw, 1 16. 
 
 Dclancev, 44, 45, 46, 52, 54, 
 62, 64! 
 
 Delaplaine, 61. 
 
 Dcniilt, 43, 93. 
 
 Deinott, 511, 106, 114. 
 
 Dennis, 9, 94. 
 
 Denton, 4, 5, 1.5, 16, 18, 28, 
 29, 30, 50, 52, 53, 65, 77, 
 fO, 8,5, 103, 104, 107, 112. 
 
 Dcppvsti-r, 51 , (>5, 73, 75, 79, 
 84,'95. 
 
 Dovore, 58, 59, 75. 
 
 Devries, 3. 
 
 Dewint, 80. 
 
 De Witt. 82,89, 113. 
 
 Dibble, 1)5. 
 
 Dicliiiisou, 15, .52, 83, 95. 
 
 Dickson, fti, 80. 
 
 Dingey, (>6. 
 
 Disosway, 95, 97. 
 
 Dilnmrs, 30, :t8, ,53,63,71, 
 77, 78, 79, 80, 94, 96, 100, 
 101, 112. 
 
 Divine, 102. 
 
 Dochartv, 115, HI!. 
 
 Dobbs, 56. 8(1. 
 
 Dodge, 34, 69, 93, 100, 102, 
 105, 107. 
 
 Donpun, 12, 100. 
 
 Dorlaiid, 22, 25, 50, 51, 53, 
 
 ' 70, 83, 103. 
 ' Doughty, 3. .5, 6, 9, 15, 16, 
 ' 25, 26, 31, 50, 53, 55, 65, 
 
 HI, 83, 85. 
 , Downing, 102, IM. 
 I Do.\ey, 70. 
 i Drew, 116._ 
 
 Drisius, 4,5. 
 
 Drnniniond, 54. 
 
 J)udley, 79, 80, 84. 
 
 Duffee, 48. 
 
 DutTcl, 89, 90. 
 
 Dnubar, 30, 31, 33, 51, 52, 
 53, 95, 97. 
 
 I X 1) E X , 
 
 Iliiulevv, 91. 
 
 Dunn, 84, 92, 9.5, 96, 99. 
 
 Durio, 811. 
 
 Dnrje, 31, 32, 33, 3'^, 40, 43, 
 
 49, 51, 53. 55, 56, 80,92, 
 
 107, 1(19. 
 Duseiiburv, :!.5, 83. 
 Dver, 32, 34. 
 Itvson, 1117. 
 Karle, 91, 116. 
 Kbbits, 106. 
 Kdes, 9. 
 Edgar, 80, &1. 
 r.d.sall, 12, 47, 100, 102. 
 Kglee, 11.5. 
 Elgcnbrodt, 90, 96, 99, 100, 
 
 107, 112. 
 Elcc, 6. 
 Eldcrt, 40, 48, 53, 80, 84, 
 
 96, 106, 108. 114. 
 Elms, 65, 106. 
 Ellison, 5, 25. 65, 103. 
 Ehvyn, 59. 
 Ennnons, 53. 
 Entwistle, 109. 
 I'lrskiue, 52. 
 
 Envin, 95. 
 
 Everitt, 17, 34, 39, 48, 53, 
 
 65, 67, 71, 80, 102, 104, 
 
 109. 
 Evers, 80. 
 Faicr 96. 
 lairchild, M>. 
 Faitontc, 77, 78, 79, 80, 85, 
 
 87, 90, 96. 
 Falconer, Faulkner, 31, 80, 
 Fanning. 2it, 53. 
 Farley, 91. 
 Farmer, 2(i. 
 Farrington, 44, 56, 80, 83, 
 
 87, 1(16. 
 Feeks, ,5, 7, 115, 116. 
 Ferris, .59. 
 Field, 3.5,36,41,87,89,92, 
 
 98. 
 Finch, 30. 
 Finglass, 96. 
 Fish, 28, 36, 41, 47, i)-^, 70, 
 
 76, 82, 91, 100. 
 Fitch, 56. 
 Fleet, 50,59, 80,91,97,98, 
 
 99, 115. 
 Flemmiug, 84. 
 Floy, 13. 
 
 Floyd, 67, 74, 76. 
 Folliot, 50, 51,. 53, 67, 79. 
 Forltes, Forbnsh, ;t2, 33, 53, 
 
 80, 1(J7. 
 Force, 13. 
 Ford, 67. 
 Fordhani, 3, 4, .5. 
 Foster, 12, 21,2.5, 30,4',52, 
 
 77,8(1, s-i, «), 112, 116. 
 Fowler, 27, 34. 
 Foxcrol't, 19. 
 Franklin, 23, 44, 69. 
 Frederick, 53. 
 French, 40, 49, 51. 53, 56, 
 
 61, 65, 67. 
 Fricke, 65, 106. 
 Froeligh, 52. 
 Frost, 23, 32, 45, 91, 100, 
 
 106. 
 Funck, 109. 
 Fmman, 6, 8, 18, 21,24,41, 
 
 53, 70, 71, 73,80,89,96, 
 
 97, 101, 1(16. 
 Oalo, 13, 15, 18. 
 OnUifar, 82. 
 
 Gauts, 44. 
 
 Gardener, 89, 94. 
 
 Garret, (>.5. 
 
 Garvie, 113, 116. 
 
 GautVreau, 87. 
 
 Gelston, 79, 80, 88. 
 
 Gcriuon, 21. 
 
 Gerritsc, 3, 36. 
 
 Gibbs, 14, 103. 
 
 Gilbert, .57. 
 
 Gilzian, 85. 
 
 Gilderslccvc, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 
 
 10, 14, 16,21,65. 
 Glcno, 53. 
 Goelet, 97. 
 Golder, 53, .58, 108. 
 Goldsmith, 113, 116. 
 Gordon, 14, 19, 
 Gorsline, 71, f^, 117. 
 Gracic, 96, 107, 108, 115. 
 Gray, 1(10. 
 
 Greene, .50, .52. 65, 72, 75, 80. 
 Greeuleaf, 74, 76, 77, 79. 
 Greenoak,:!4, 51,96, 107. 
 Greenwood, 117. 
 Grencll, 34. 
 
 Greswol.l, 36, 45, 52, 65, 96. 
 Griffin, 6, 115, 116,117. 
 Oryce, 17. 
 Gucnon, 11. 
 Gunn, 108. 
 Guthrie, t)6. 
 Ilackett, 109. 
 Iladderly, 7. 
 Hatr, 22, 
 Haggerty, 91. 
 Hall, 13,39,96, 113, 116. 
 Ilalhvorth. 109. 
 Halsev, 106. 
 H.nlstead, 13,20,21. 
 Il.iUett, 4, .5, 6, 7, 13,16, 17, 
 
 29, 34, 36, 42, 43, 47, 49, 
 
 .5(1, 51,53, .57, 73, 80, 82, 
 
 83, 90. 
 Halton, 30. 
 ll.aniniell, 77, 80. 
 H.vnmoiid, 73,91,94,97. 
 Hatiiptcin, 16. 
 Uaniilton, 48, 50, 54, 55, 63, 
 
 64, 70. 
 Ilanunersly, 33, 65. 
 Hancock, 58, 66. 
 Hauley, 92. 
 
 Ilanna, 117. • 
 
 Hanse, 11, 12. 
 Hardenburgh, 22. 
 llarman, 18. 
 Hiirper, '.Hi. 
 Harriot, 33. 
 Harris, 62. 
 Harrison, 7, 80. 96. 
 H.irt, 61,7.5, 91, 100, 103. 
 Hartshorne, 81. 
 Harvey, 107. 
 Harper, 96. 
 1 l.isbionck, 67. 
 Huscock, 11. 
 Havens, 81. 
 ll.iviland, 15, 32, 34, 36, 105, 
 
 107, 109. 
 HawkKlmrst, 23, 24, 26, 42, 
 
 .5.5,75, 11.5. 
 Hnvnes, 55. 
 Ha'vt, (w. 
 
 Haiar.l, .53, 57, 0.5, 99, 103. 
 Heard, 41, 46,49,50,52. 
 Hedger, (i, 7. 
 Heeded, .5. 
 Hegcumn, U, 33,46,69,91, 
 
 93, 97, 99, 100, 104, 109, 
 
 114, 115. 
 HenUricksnn, 53, 55, 61, C7, 
 
 79, 80, 96, 97, 103, 104, 
 
 108, 115. 
 Hentz, 61. 
 Hcrriniao, 80, 11.5. 
 Hewlett, 21, :«), 31, 36, 37, 
 
 :i*, 44, 4-t, 49, .5(1, .52, .55, 
 
 56, 57, .58, .59, 60, 66, 74, 
 
 79, 84, 90, 93, 94, 96, 97, 
 
 98, 100, 102. 103, 104,105, 
 108, 109, 111, 112, 115, 
 116. 
 
 Hevsham, 41. 
 
 Hicks, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 
 14, 18, 19, 20, 21,23,24, 
 
 29, 31, 33, 40, 49, .50,51, 
 .52, .53, 56, (i3, 66, ()9, 70, 
 76, 77, 7t-, fO, 82, .>*3, 84, 
 86, 91, ifi, 9<>, 97. 98, 100, 
 101, 103, 104, 105, 107, 
 113, 115, 116. 
 
 Higbie, .53. 80. 108, 116. 
 
 Higham, 11, K. 
 
 Hill, 30. 
 
 Hilton, (t't. 
 
 llinchnian, 8,22,2.5,27, 29, 
 
 30, 33, 47, 51, .53, t!4, 77, 
 78, 79, 80, 82, 84, 85, 96. 
 
 Hinton, 20 
 
 Hire, 13. 
 
 Hitchcock, 62, 96, 100. 
 
 Hobbs, 5, 7, 12. 
 
 Holmrt, 11.12,104,107,114. 
 
 Holdren. 6. 
 
 Holland. 65. 80. 107, 108. 
 
 Holnian. 102. 
 
 Honian. 1 1(>. 
 
 Holroyil, 70. 
 
 Honevman, 19. 20. 
 
 Hood", n^. 
 
 Hoogland, -Mi, 4.5, 63, 70, 79, 
 
 80, 93. 96, 98, 104, 107. 
 Hopkins, .5.5. 
 llorscinanden, 33,40,70. 
 Horselield, 22, 116. 
 Morton, 67, 88. i 
 Howard, 29, 33, 45, 66, 83, 
 
 99, 100, 103, 107. 
 Howe, 51, 52. 
 Howell, 14,21,28,33,59. 
 Howes, (>9. 
 Hubbard, 6, 7, 10, 16. 
 Hudson, 92. 
 Hughs. 35. 
 Hugins, 21. 
 llughston, 49. 
 Hurne, (>.S. 
 Hump'irevs, 19. 
 Hnut, 5, 20, 41, .52. 
 Hunter, 17, 114, 116, 117. 
 Huntington. 107. 
 Ilinitting, 90. 
 Ilusted, (i2. 
 
 Ilutchings,28, 33, ,50, 59, CO. 
 Hutchinson, 97. 113, 116. 
 Huwilt, 5. 
 Huz/.v, .52. 
 Hvlcr, 107. 
 Innos. 33, 49. 
 Ireland, 56. 
 Isaacs, 30. 
 Izzard, 45, 71. '• 
 
 Jackson, 7, 12, 13, 14, 17, ^ 
 
 20, .56, .57, 59, 65. 74, h2, 
 86, 92, 94, 100, 101, 103, 
 106, 107, 112, III, 115, 
 116, 117. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 121 
 
 Jackson, 7. 12,13,14 17,20, 
 56, 57, 59, 65, 74, 82, fG, 
 92, 94, lUO, 101, 103. 106, 
 107,112,114,115,116,117. 
 
 .James, 45, 65. 
 
 Jarvis, 58, 60, 61. 
 
 Jaunccy, 33. 
 
 Jay, 80, 84, 87, 8S, 89. 
 
 J.xyne 100. 
 
 Jecocks. 8. 
 
 Jepl-ias, 103, 117. 
 
 Jenniugs, 8. 
 
 Jenny, 20, 21. 
 
 Jobnson, 15, IS, 2o. 30, 43, 
 51, 53,72,80,92,94, 100, 
 103, 107, 113. 116. 
 
 Jones, 9, 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 
 21 , 22, 24. 25, 26, 29, 30, 
 31, 33, 35, 50, 51, .53,55, 
 56, 57, 63, 67, 71, 73, 76. 
 77, 80. .82. 84, 89, 91, 94, 
 95, 96, 98, 99. 100, 101, 
 102, 103, 104, 105, 107, 
 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 
 117. 
 
 Judkins, 60. 
 
 Kearns, 95. 
 
 Keeniei", 102. 
 
 Keese, 96, 48. 
 
 KeUl., 14. 
 
 Kellog, 113, 116. 
 
 Kelly, .54, 113. 
 
 Kendal. 50. 
 
 Keteltas, 33, 40, 5J, 57, 82, 90. 
 
 Ketcham, 75. 
 
 Kimber, 111. 
 
 Kiuj?, 20, 96, 102, 103, 104. 
 105,107,110,114,115,117. 
 
 Kingsberry, 110. 
 
 Kirk, 43, 70, 97, 111. 
 
 Kirby, 23. 
 
 Kissani, 6, 15, 26, 28, 35, 36, 
 37, 40, 41 , 42, 46, 49, 50. 
 51, 55, 56, 63, 66, 67, 68, 
 
 77, 80, 84, 93, 95, 96. 97, 
 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 
 104,105,107,113,116,117. 
 
 Kneelaud, 107. 
 
 Kolyer, 110. 
 
 Lamberson. 50, 53, 69, TS, 
 80, ea, i-05, 107, 113, 116. 
 
 Lauo, 100. 
 
 Langdon, 5 9,21,28,52,63. 
 
 Larrabce, 30. 
 
 Laton, 96, 98, 102, 103, 105, 
 107, 108. 
 
 Latting, 7, 23, 55, 66, 91. 
 
 Lawrenee, 6, 7, 13, 15, 16, 17, 
 20, 21, 23, 24, 27, 30, 32, 
 33, 34, 35, 36, 37,39. 41, 
 43, 47, 48, .53, .57, 58, 61 , 
 62, 69, 70,71, 74, 77, 78, 
 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 87, 
 89, 90,91,96,97, 100, 101. 
 102, 103, 105, 106, 107, 
 109, 110, 1)2, 114. 
 
 Lawson, 41, 51. 
 
 Lawton, 73, 80. 
 
 Leech. 96. 
 
 Lcctc, Samuel, 9. 
 
 Ledyard, 67, 71, 73,76, 77, 
 
 78, 80, 82, 89, 110. 
 hee, 21. 
 
 Lefevre, 113, 114. 
 
 Lefferts, 45, 47, 51, 53, 65, 
 
 77, SO, 84, 94, 95, 100, 102, 
 
 107, 113, 116. 
 Lefford, 55. 
 Legget, 109. 
 
 Leisler, 12, 13, 14, 15, 35. 
 Lent, 55, 73, 99, 100, 103, 
 
 104, 105; 106, 107, 109, 
 
 112, 114. 
 
 Lester, 50, 60. 
 Leverieh, 4, 5, 9, 10. 25. 77, 
 
 100,103,104,105,107,109. 
 Lewis, 21, 34, 36, 44. 52, 53, 
 
 58, 59, 62. 69, 71, 72, 73, 
 
 77, 80, 92, 95, 98, 116. 
 L'TIoramedien, 77, 80. 
 Livingston, 51, .53,99. 
 Lloyd, 25, 46, 67, 83, 103, 
 
 105. 
 Lockwood, 57, 63, 83. 
 Loftus, 61. 
 Lokerson, 6, 10, 17. 
 Long, 6, 44, 55, 56. 
 Longstreet, 15. 
 Loquart, 18. 
 Losee, 18, 30, 53. 
 Lett, 37, 53, 62, 65, 80, 104, 
 
 117. 
 Loweree, 101, 103,112, 114, 
 
 115. 
 Lo.xhani, 53. 
 Ludlow, 35, 46, 49, 50, 52, 
 
 55, 56, 61, 6>, 64, 6o, 67, 
 
 70,79,82,87, 100. 
 Ludlum. IS. 50, 53, 56, 78, 
 
 79, SO, 86,-91, 96, 97,. 98, 
 
 104, 118. 
 Ia\S, 16, 18, 21. 
 Luvster, 65, 66, 71, 73, 89, 
 
 104, 10.5, 113, 114. 
 Lyde, 107. 
 Lynch, 62, 99. 
 Lynstead, 18. 
 Lyon, 59. 
 McCarty, 35. 
 McCarrol, 37. 
 McConib, 80. 
 McCouu, 50,55, 67, 9J. 
 MoCullum, .56. 
 McDaunaiigh, 34, 
 McDavitt, 80, 
 McDermot, 74. 
 JtcDougftl, 70. 
 McEuen, 6.5. _, 
 
 McEvers, 51, 53, C5.. 
 McFarren, 67. 
 McGinnis. 116. 
 McHarg, 66. 
 Mcintosh, 63. 
 McKay, 107. 
 McK-night, 67. 
 McLean, 65. 
 McNeil, 63, 84, 96, 107. 
 McNiiU, 18. 
 
 Mackerel, 77, 80, 84, 96. 
 Makcmie, 16. 
 Marr, 30, 66. 
 
 Marston, 34, 42, .59, 100, 110. 
 Martin, 13, 26, 27, 33, 49, 50, 
 
 51, 54, 5^, 59, 80, 9.!. 
 Marsh, 16, 81. 
 Marvin, 5, 21,65,73, 114. 
 Mason, 13, 98, 99, 106. 
 Mayo, 4. 
 Meacock, 11. 
 Menema, 73, 77, 80, 83, 94, 
 
 95, 96. 
 Mercier. 82. 
 Meredith, 65. 
 Merrit. 90, 100. 
 Messenger, 53, 101, 106. 
 Messerole, 22, 100. 
 Miles, 20, 65. 
 Millikin, 19. 
 
 Miller, 9L 
 Milne. 97. 
 Mills, 16, 17, 18, 19, 50, 51, 
 
 52, 53, 80,- 81,; 88, 92, 95. 
 
 93, 109. 
 Minor, 94. 
 
 Mitchell, 21, 34, 39, 42, 53, 
 .56, 58, 63, 64, 65, it'-J, 70, 
 71,74,76,77,80,82,92,93, 
 
 94, 95, 98, 99, 101, 102, 
 103. 104, 105, loii, 107, 
 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 
 113, 116. 
 
 Mollineux, 113. 114.- 
 
 Moufort, 47, 82. 90, 93, 95, 
 96, 99; 103. 
 
 Moon, 23. 
 
 Moore, 4, 5, 23, 30, 31, 38, 
 41,47,48, 49, .50, 51, 57, 
 62, 64, 6), 68, 69, 70, 73, 
 
 79, SO. 82, 85, 87, 89, 90, 
 
 93, 98, 100, 10 (, 105, 109. 
 Morgan, 116. 
 
 Morrel, 25, 32, 34, 37, 54, 80, 
 84,89,92,95,102,103,112. 
 Morris, 29, 77, 95, 96. 
 Morrison, 57. 
 Morse, 30. 31, 32. 
 Morton, 80." 
 
 Mott, 7, 9,21,28,30,41,49, 
 ■ 52, 58, 59, 62. 90, 92, 93, 
 
 94, 95, 99, 102, 105, 107,' 
 
 103, 110, 111, 112, 115. 
 Mottlev, 96. 
 
 MoultJn, 84, 85, 91, 92. 
 Mudgc, 8. 
 Muirson, 67. 
 ^Mulligan, 72. 
 ■Muri'.iy, 33, 47, 80. 
 Mattee, 102. 
 Nafis, 95. 
 Nasli, 112. 
 Napier, 107, 
 Nettleton, 111-.- 
 Newton, 52. 
 Nichols, 6, 13, 29, 32. 34, 36, 
 
 47,51,61,93, 103, 111. 
 Noble, 5. 6. 
 North, 67. 
 Nostraud, .53. 91, 95, 103, 
 
 104, 107, 113. 
 Oakley, 53. 
 
 Ogdcu, 23, 28, 33, 45, .53, 75, 
 
 80, 81. 
 
 Oldfie.ld, 8, 17, 18, 19,33, 50, 
 
 53, 95. 
 
 Onderdouk, 39, 34, 41, 45, 
 46, 48, 57, 61, 63, 67, 69, 
 70, 71, 73, 75, 8;i, 88, 93, 
 98, 99, 102, 104, 116, 117. 
 
 Orton, 12. 
 
 Osborn, 7, 12. 107. . 
 
 Otterson, 116. 
 
 Ouvet, 81. 
 
 Palmer, 30, 58. 65, 103. 
 
 Parish, 114. 115. 116. 
 
 Parker, 46, 60, 95, 107, 110. 
 
 I'arnivter, 2], -22. 
 
 l^nrsell. 5. 13. 38, 63. 
 
 Patrick, 8. . 
 
 Pearce, 88. 
 
 Pcarsall. 5, 6. 9, 12, 13, 22, 
 33, 58, 59, 72, 79, 80, 83, 
 90, !16. 
 
 Peat, 13. 
 
 Peck. 81, 108, 109, 112. 114, 
 115, 116. 
 edly. 10. 31. 
 
 penny, 103. 
 
 , 74, 80, 89, 
 
 Perkins, 60. 
 
 Peters, 21, 33, 42, 66, 76, 77, 
 
 73, 82. 
 Pettit, 13, 20, 50, 53, 84, 90, 
 ■ 96, 93, 100, 104. 107, lO'-i. 
 Philips, 37, 76,94, 103. 
 PIcrson, 43. 
 Piiickncv, 110, 119.. 
 Pine, 5. 7, 8, 15, 21, Hi. lid 
 
 112, 11.5. 
 Pinfold, 30, 34.- 
 Pinhouse, 13. 
 Place, .55, 66. 
 
 Piatt, 47, 53, 56, 75, 80, 96, 
 
 103, 105, 107, 113. 
 Plummer, 65, 96. 
 Polhenius, 33. 36, 38, 42, 43 
 
 49, ,50, 53,-56, 66, 68, 81, 
 
 83, 95, 107, 109. 
 Poole, 114. 
 Porter, 65, 101. 
 Post, 60, 98. 
 Potter, 13, 27, 117. 
 Powell, 61, 65, 103, 108. 
 Foyer, 17, 19,20, 21, 93. 
 Price, 62, 65, 66. 
 Prims, 107. 
 Prince, 20, 39, 47 
 
 92, 93, 94. 
 Prior, 10, 33, 83. ' 
 Probasco, 36, 52. 
 Provoost, 40. 
 Pnufine, 41, 95, 107. 
 Purdy, 53, 65, 90,112, 113, 
 
 116. 
 Quackenbos, 113. 
 Quintard, 65. 
 Rainer, 13, 28, 50, 113. 
 Kamage, 66. 
 Ramsdeu, 5. 
 Kapelye, 11, 34, 39, 40,43 
 
 45,- 47, 48, 49, 62, 65, 67, 
 
 68, 69, 8-J, 83, 8S, 9;i' 96 
 _ 97. 100, 103, 1)7. ■ 
 it.attoono, 90, 92. 
 Kawlins, 60. 
 Reade, 37, 48, 65. 
 Keove, 33, 92, 100. 
 Remsen, 24, 32, 41, 46 50 
 
 51,5:5, 62,6-5,79, 104, "loe! 
 
 108, 114. 
 Renny, 45, 71, 83, 89. 
 Rcnwick, 80. 
 Reynolds. 20, 21, 22. 
 Rhodes, 19, 24, 30, 53 65 
 
 80, S:i, 6g, 104, 107, '11-2' 
 
 113, 115, ))6. y 
 Richbell, 5. 6. 
 
 Rider, 53, 59, lfi3, 104. 109. 
 
 lll,))7. \ 
 
 Rikei, .;.7,-47,51,Vl,^-2, 89, 
 
 92, 94, 95i^ll0, 
 
 92, 94, 9^ 
 Riley, 58. / 
 Ritchie, 687 
 
 Ritter, 80." 
 
 Roach, 68, 77, 97, 100, 103 
 
 Roberts, 13, 25, 28, 34, 36, 48. 
 
 Robert.son, 111. 
 
 Bobbins, 11, 30, 38, 55,75, 
 
 116. 
 Robinson, 12,33,48,5] 53 
 
 55, 65, 66, 73, 78, 80, 10] 1 
 
 117. "^ 
 
 Roe; 21, 59, 69. 75, 77 95' 
 
 103, 104, 105, Hlfi, 107'' 
 
 110,111, 114, )I5.))7,118, 
 Rogers, 9, 94, 55, 64, 1C7' 
 
 111,113, 114, iI5, 116. ' 
 Roof, 57. 
 
ik 
 
 Rotlierv, 77. 
 
 JSiiwlaiid, y.'), 107. 
 
 Ku.k'c, ;M. 
 
 Kushiiiorc, 5, G, 9, 10. 
 
 Ku.sspI. 54. 
 
 Kvtlor, -JO, -27. na, 40, 51. 
 
 Kvcrson, 41, IKi. 
 
 Snckett, li, 30, 35, 3G, 43, 
 
 58, 5i), 6-i, 96. 
 Sadler, 6. 
 St. Man-, 85. 
 Sale, 9(i. 
 f^nUer, 25. 
 Snisbee, 5. 
 Sali-sbiirj-, 6. 
 Salt, 93. 
 Salter, 5. 
 Saltniarsli, 05. 
 •Sainniis, 10*2. 
 Saiifonl. 9, 112. 
 SaiidK, 13, 30, 33, 35, 40,50, 
 55. .")9, (II, (;3, (iCi, 77, SO, 
 82, S5, 93, 98, 100, 107. 
 Sa« vur, 21. 
 Say res, 100, 107, 109. 
 .Scadding, 5. 
 
 SilitiRk, 42, 5S, 09,71,73, 
 
 74, 77, W), 81, 8t>, 87,88, 
 
 92,93,95,98,101,103,105, 
 
 107, 110, 112, 114, 1J8. 
 
 Si'liooiiiimkir, 9(i, 99, 100, 
 
 104, 109, 112. 
 SelmvltT, 13, 02, 82, 104. 
 Scott" til, 101), J 09. 
 Scrilia, 9t), 109. 
 Scudder, 8, 9. 
 Scabury, 33, 34, 36, 44, 51, 
 
 ■61, -85. 
 Seaman, 5, fi, 10, 24, 31, 33, 1 
 38, 40, 42, 43, 45, 47, 56, | 
 59, 65, 71, 81, 86, 90, 93, ' 
 94,95, 9(>. 97, 99. 1U2, KM, ' 
 10.'), lO", 1119, 112, 113. 
 115, 117, 118. 
 Seariup, 7, 8, 9, 14. 16, 42, 
 60,61,71,75, 94,96, 113, 
 114, 116. 
 Seely, 70, 71, 73, 98, 104,107. 
 Sell, 103. 
 Sellcek, 65 
 Semisa, 19. 
 Semplc, 29. 
 Seymour, lofi. 
 Sbadbolt, 16. 
 Slmrjio, 45 66, 112. 
 Shaw, 106. 109. 116. 
 Shelton, 25, 37. 94, 9:;, 100. 
 104,108,109, 113, 11.% 116, 
 Slierbroiik. 67. 
 Slierloik, 33 
 ShLTiiian, 99, 100, 102, 107, 
 
 110, 112, 115. 
 Sboals, 49, 511, ,5(i. 
 Shotwell, 117. 
 Simcuc, 55, 
 Simmons, 53, 60. 
 Simonsoii, ()7, 75, 81, 94, 96, 
 1(»7, 108, 110, 112, 115. " 
 Skidmore, 8, 13, .53, .56,61, 
 67;80,90,96, 101, 107,117. 
 Skinner, 65, 66, 67, 79, 80, 
 
 83, 84, 8(). 
 Skirm, 106. 108. 
 Sleight, 101. 1(19, 111. 
 ?Slot, Uendrick, 62. 
 Smitli, 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. 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 49, 50, 51 52, .53, .'iS, .56, 
 58, 62. (15, m, lu.r,", 71, 
 72, 73, 74. 75, 77, 78, 80, 
 81, 84, 86, 87, 88, 90, fW, 
 93, 94, 96, 98, 100. |01, 
 103, 106, 107. 108, 110, 
 111, 112. 114, 117. 
 Sncdekor, .53. .55, 63, 80, 100, 
 
 109, 112, 113, 116. 
 Siiiffiii, .59. 
 Soper. 90, 116. 
 Southard, 3(1, .mo, 116. 
 Spnldiup, 113, 116. 
 Spciicir, 73, 116. 
 Sprap^r, 11, 12, 102. 
 Springsteen, 107, 115. 
 Spronpf, 80. 102. 
 .•^proid.'. 9(i, 107. 
 8(.-i-tr, 3.!. 
 Starr, 6. 
 Stead, 53. 
 Steed. 21. 
 Steele, 30. 
 Stoven.s, 7, 9, 97. 
 Stevenson, 39. 
 Slcw.iit, 12, 32, 36, 105. 
 Stickliiiir, 20. 
 Still, 94. 
 Siillwell, 25. 86. 
 Stites, 84. 
 Stocker, 67. 
 Stootlioir, 113. 
 Storms, 58. 
 Story, 1 K). 
 Stout. .59. 
 Stratton, 80. 
 Straw, 94. 
 Strin{;h.->ni, 28. 
 Strou),', t!0,8G, 100, 103, IIT. 
 Storrs, 91. 
 
 Stuvvesant, 4, 5. 6, 30. 
 Sntiiliin, 1(14, 114. 
 Siuton. 7, 12, 21, 55. 
 Suvdani, 36, .52, 61, 62,80, 
 • 87, 96. 
 Sweezv, 12. 
 Talbot", 14. 
 Talnian, 14, 17, 33, 56, 70, 
 
 71,74,75, 83, 107. 
 Tapp, III-. 
 Tapptii, 107, 115. 
 Taylor, 8, 9, 16, 21 , 46, 95, 
 
 102. 
 Teiiijileton. 79. 
 Terliiiiic, 49. 
 Terry, 5. 
 
 Thatford, 46. 80, 84, 96, 107. 
 Tliiek.sto«, 13. 
 TUomns, 13, 1,5, ,53, 110. 
 Tlioini)son, 11, :!2, ,58, ,59, 60j 
 
 75. 8i5, 99, 1 12. 
 Thornc, 5,6,21,23,24,2.5,27, 
 30, 34, 35, 36, 45, .52, 53, 
 59, 6(!, 73, 77, 80. 93, 102. j 
 Thorp, 93. . ' 
 
 Tliurninn, 66. "^ 
 
 Thurston, 18,80. 
 Tibbals, 96. 
 Tillier. 23. 
 Tippct.s, (i 
 Titus, .5, 13, 24, 30. 47, 79, 
 
 80,81.96, 105. 107, 109. 
 Tobias, 43, 83. 
 Toi'. Samuel, 5, 
 Tom, 27, 31, 3(i, 56. 
 Tonipkin.i, 100, 1(»3. 
 Tott.n, 13, 30,80. 
 Townsend, 8, 9, 13, 15, 17 
 28, 32, 36, 45, 48, 49, .50 
 
 51, 53, 61, 63, 65, 66,67, 
 6-<. 60, 7), 73, 74,7.5,76, 
 77, 81, ^■2, 91, 94, 9,5,96, 
 97, 'M. !<9. 1(12. 105, 106, 
 107, 111, 113, 11.5, 116. 
 Tredwell, 6, 12, 16. 20, 27, 
 34, .52, 57, 74, 76, 77, 82, 
 92,93, 102. 1(13, 104, 105, 
 1(17, 1(19, 110, 111, 112, 
 113, 114, IKJ. 
 Troupe 33, 51, 53, 80, 84, 85, 
 9<i, 107. 
 
 TnMobull, .56, 57, 58. 
 
 Tni.xton, 33. 
 
 Tryiui, 47, 51,53, .54, 55. 
 
 Tueker, 100. 
 
 Tunis.sen. 11. 
 
 Turner, 30. 
 
 Turipiand, 97. 
 
 Tuthill, .53, 80, 111. 
 
 Tyler, 94, 101, I(i2. 
 
 riidi'rbill, 3, 6, 10, 16, 32, 
 49, .56, 70, 72, 81, 82. 83 
 91,96,108,112. 
 
 l^pliam, 57. 
 
 I'rqniiart, 16, 19. 
 
 I'stiik. 70, 81, 92. 
 
 Itten, 92. 
 
 Valentine. 13. 23, 33, .53, .58, 
 59, 60, 67, (>■', 70,71,73, 
 78,96, 107, 117. 
 
 Vail, 80. 
 
 Van Arsdale. 53, 80. 
 
 Van lienselioteu, 43. 
 
 Vail Hureu, IKt. 
 
 Van Broekle, 52. 
 
 Van lb unt, 53. 80, 87, 8S, 90. 
 
 ^'a^ Courtland, 33, 40. 
 
 Van Dam, .53, 80, 96. 
 
 Vanderbilt, 41, 56, 74,76, 77, 
 80, 86, 90, 92, 93. 
 
 Vanderveer, 51, 9(>. 
 
 \'andervoort, ff>, 107. 
 
 Vaiulerverp. 101. 
 
 Vandcwaler. 103, 114. 
 
 ■Van lluyii, 6(). 80. 
 
 Van. Dyke, 36, 45, 47, 56, 93. 
 
 Van Hoescn, 65. 
 
 Van Hook, 21. 33. 
 
 Van llorue, .52. 
 
 Van Lew, .53, 80, 96. 
 
 Van Nest, 77, 80. 
 
 Van No.slrand, 19,53, 73,78, 
 84.84.91,96,100,104,107. 
 
 Van I'elt, 70. 
 
 Van Velser, 55. 
 
 Van Wieklen. 53, 103. 
 
 Van Wy ek, 22, 24, 4 1 . 49, 50, 
 55,56,67,71,94, 114. 
 
 Van Sinderen, 100, 106, 107. 
 
 VanZandt.103,'109, 111,114. 
 
 Verity, (>5, 96, 111. 
 
 Verplank, 30. 
 
 Vesev, 14. 
 
 Vooriiie.-i, 47, 53, 96. 
 
 ^'rcdenburffb, 93. 
 
 Wade. 100. 
 
 Waldron, (iO, 70, 71. 
 
 Walker, 5, 65. 
 
 Wall, 7. 
 
 Wallace, 19, 51. 
 
 Waller, ()5. 
 
 Walton, 19, -22, 23, 27, 32 
 39, 46, 51. 
 
 Wallers, 55, 02. 
 
 Waiiser. 27, 28. 
 
 Ward, 107. 
 
 Wariie,71, 73, 74,75,80,81 
 82, 85. . 
 
 Wnnen, 91. 
 
 WashinL'ton, 44, 54, 74, 75, 
 
 90. 
 Waters, 5,6, 15, 17, 19, 21, 
 
 22, 25, 29, :iO, :{7, 43, 44, 
 
 4(>, 55, 56, 73, 80, 84, 87, 
 
 96, 97. 
 Watkius, 40. 
 Watti, 34. 
 W:iy, 49, Gi, 08, 71, 103, 
 
 114, 115. 
 Webb, 88, 97, 113, 114,116, 
 
 117. 
 Webster, 113, 116. 
 Weed, 104, 106. 
 Weeks, 20, 21, 31, 33, 36, 40, 
 
 49, ,50, 55, 66, 68,74, 115. 
 Weller, 5. - 
 W.-lling, 21, 33. 53, 80,84, 
 
 85, 06, 106, Krr. 
 Well.s, 37, 67, 70. 
 Wentwortb, 27, 29. 
 West, II. 
 We.stern, 117. 
 Wevnman, 49, .50, 61. 
 Whealtoii, 30. 
 Wheeler, 50. .57, 113, 116, 
 White, 14, 51, loy. 
 Wliitetield, 3-i. 
 Whitehe.id, 7, 12, 13, 14, 16, 
 
 17,2(1, 21, 24, 33, 42, 49, 
 
 50, 51,52, 53, .56. 
 Whil.son, 43. 
 Wiekendain, 4. 
 Wiekes, 77, 80, 82, 96, 100, 
 
 104, 108, 109, 113, 114, 
 115, 116. 
 
 Wiekhain, 67, 107, 109. 
 l,Wifrjrins, 21, .53. 62, 96. 
 ♦Wilkins, 6. 54, 80, 95. 
 j Wilkinson, 59. 
 Willets, 7, II, 13, 14. 17, 18, 
 
 21, 22, 27. 29, 35, 39, 42, 
 I 44, 49, ,50, 51, .52,54,56, 
 ' 60, (i4, 65, 07, KO. 
 Willis, 15, 17, GO, 61, 94, 107, 
 
 112. 
 Williaius, 'SI, 25, 27, 28, 30, 
 
 45, 55, 5(), 69, 80 
 Williamson, 53, 80. 
 Wilmot, 29. 
 Wilson. 19, 26, 20, 30, 34, 
 
 ;i5, 47, 54, 96. 
 Willse, 15. 
 Wines, 101. 
 Witnev, 5. 
 Wood," 5, 8, 11, 13, 16, 55, 
 
 86, 94, 107, 109, 112, 116. 
 Wooden, 99,100.. 
 Woodhull, 52, 56, 77, 80, &5, 
 
 116. 
 Woodruff, 50. 
 Woodward, 39, 40; 48. 
 Wooft!n<laie, 40, '.H>. 
 Woollev, 7, 27, 45, .52, 67, 
 
 85,86. 
 Woolsey, 20. 
 Wortnian. .'14,56, 91. 
 Wraxball, 23. 
 Wright. 6, 15, 17,21,30,31, 
 
 32, 34, 41, 51, 55,79,80, 
 
 91, 100, 10.5, 114,115. 
 Wvkoff. 52, 53, 80, 96, 97, 
 
 103, 110. 
 Yates, 5, 39, 48, 73, 74 
 Ycoinans, 10. 
 Youngs. 21, 36, 42, 45, .55, 
 
 56, (Ui, 71,73, 75. 91, 100. 
 
 105, 107. 
 
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