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// Freeport History Timeline Project

// A silly old post

6/20/1630 The Winthrop Fleet carrying 700-1000 Puritans sails to the Massachusetts Bay Colony

1/1/1629 Naumkeag is renamed Salem and fortified by another 300 settlers

1/1/1628 The Massachusetts Bay Company sends 100 settlers to join Roger Conant at Naumkeag

10/1/1629 John Winthrop is elected governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

1/1/1628 The Massachusetts Bay Company acquire a land grant in New England

12/16/1620 The Mayflower drops anchor in Plymouth Harbor

12/6/1620 Pilgrims of the ship Mayflower have First Encounter with Nauset tribe of the Wampanoag Nation at Eastham, Massachusetts

11/11/1620 The Mayflower reaches Cape Cod, Pilgrims write the Mayflower Compact

4/7/1801 South Hempstead’s name is changed to Hempstead

2/2/1900 H F Crandall makes improvements on Samuel S Carmen’s former homestead

4/27/1943 Isabel T Jones dies

5/20/1954 Carol Anne Armstrong is married

2/25/1916 Fatal Burning Accident

1/9/1645 Caleb Carman is first European born in Hempstead

1/1/1674 Robert Fordham dies

1/1/1646 Robert Fordham begins preaching in Southampton

1/1/1645 First meeting house is raised in Hempstead

1/1/1648 John Carman is granted land in Hempstead

1/1/1648 Edward Raynor is granted land in Hempstead

1/1/1648 William? Washburn is granted land in Hempstead

1/1/1648 Benjamin Coe is granted land in Hempstead

1/1/1628 Benjamin Coe is born

5/29/1654 William Leveridge purchases debt from Florence (Fordham) Carman

7/31/1898 Long Island’s Turnouts,

12/26/1885 Thieves steel tools from Samuel S Carman

12/4/1911 Elizabeth Denton dies

7/20/1898 George W and Susan Bergen celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary

11/4/1631 John Carman migrates to the Massachusetts Bay Colony

8/13/1900 Severe Thunderstorm in Freeport

11/21/1950 William Banks’ yacht, The Jesting II, breaks free of its mooring

1/1/1654 Director Stuyvesent issues a patent to Anneke Jans for land in New Amsterdam

8/15/1648 Anneke Jans moves her family from Fort Amsterdam to Fort Orange

3/1/1638 Anneke Jans remarries with Domine Everardus Bogardus

1/1/1603 Roeloff Jansen is born

1/1/1606 Anneke Jans is born

1/1/1630 Roeloff Jansen and Anneke Jans emigrate to New Netherland

4/18/1623 Roeloff Jansen and Anneke Jans are married

1/1/1636 Wouter van Twiller grants land in New Amsterdam to Roeloff Jansen and his wife Anneke Jans

1/1/1641 29 Puritan families leave Wethersfield to settle Stamford

7/1/1640 Captain Nathaniel Turner of the New Haven Colony negotiates a deed for Stamford with Toquams and Shippan

4/24/1638 500 Puritan settlers arrive at the New Haven Colony

6/22/1637 Puritan Theophilus Eaton founds the New Haven Colony

10/11/1614 Adriaen Block and twelve other merchants petition the States General of the Netherlands for exclusive trading privileges in the New Netherland province

9/22/1613 Adriean Block and Hendrick Christeansen voyage to the North River area

3/20/1613 Dutch Trader Thijs Volckenz Mossel voyages to the North River area

9/22/1612 Adriaen Block voyages to the North River area

2/1/1612 Dutch trader Adriean Block voyages to the North River area

1/1/1611 Dutch trader Cornelis Rijser voyages to the North River area

1/1/2014 A Dutch ship wrecks in the North River under skipper Symen Lambertsz Mau

5/1/1916 The Dutch expedition ship Tyger is partially excavated by subway construction crews

6/30/1609 Samuel de Champlain and a group of Algonquin, Huron, and Montagnais battle a group of Mohawk Iroquois, Lake Champlain is discovered

7/3/1608 French explorer Samuel de Champlain lands at the point of Quebec City

1/1/1624 Cornelius Jacobsen Mey is Director of New Netherland

7/4/1776 The Continental Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence

9/1/1775 Settlers of Cow Neck, Great Neck and surrounding areas sign a declaration of independence from England

1/1/1606 John Carman is born

8/1/1776 The British arrive in New York Harbor

8/27/1776 The Battle of Long Island takes place in Brooklyn

6/1/1665 New Amsterdam is reincorporated under English law as New York City

8/27/1664 Peter Stuyvesant provisionally cedes New Netherland to the English

10/1/1647 Peter Stuyvesant is Director General of New Netherland

1/1/1628 The Mohawk / Mahican War ends

9/27/1647 Director General Willem Kieft and Domine Everardus Bogardus die in a shipwreck

12/31/1645 Kieft War ends

1/1/1643 Kieft War begins

1/1/1638 The Pequot War ends

1/1/1634 The Pequot War begins

10/21/1640 Puritans settle Southold, Long Island

1/1/1625 Willem Verhulst is Director of New Netherland

1/1/1926 Peter Miniut is Director of New Netherland

1/1/1632 Sebastiaen Jansen Krol is Director of New Netherland

1/1/1633 Wouter van Twiller is Director of New Netherland

1/1/1638 Willem Kieft is Director of New Netherland

5/26/1626 Director Peter Minuit negotiates the purchase of Manhattan

1/1/1625 The Dutch West India Company relocate colonists to Manhattan

5/31/1624 The Dutch West India Company builds Fort Orange near the former site of Fort Nassau

1/1/1616 Hendrick Christiaensen is murdered near Albany

1/1/1614 Hendrick Christiaensen builds Fort Nassau on the North River

1/1/1624 The Mohawk / Mahican War begins

5/1/1624 Dutch colonists arrive in New York Harbor

6/3/1621 The Dutch West India Company is founded and granted a charter by the Dutch Republic

9/6/1620–11/9/1620 Pilgrims set sail to New England on the ship Mayflower

12/23/1613 Crewman Juan Rodriguez operates a trading post for Hendrick Christiaensen in Mannahattan

1/1/1614 Adriean Block explores the Long Island Sound

9/2/1609 English navigator Henry Hudson, hired by the Dutch Republic, explores the New York Harbor and 100 miles upstream

1/1/1839 Thomas Carman and his family return to Coe’s Neck

1/1/1672–1/1/1674 John Carman’s sons John, Caleb and Joshua live in Hempstead

1/1/1690–1/1/1718 Caleb Carmen is the Hempstead Town Assessor

3/8/1855 William Poole aka Bill the Butcher dies

1/1/1919 Isabel T Jones is a contributor to the Canteen Committee

9/10/1909 Advertisement: Freeport Sanitarium For Women

2/23/1912 Clarence E Jones relocates his hardware business

1/21/1914 A film about the Excelsior Hook and Ladder Co is shown at The Plaza

7/5/1907 Clarence E Jones’ new motor boat is one of the best equipped around

1/1/1920 David T Jones has an amateur radio station in Freeport

1/1/1912 Isabel T Jones is a member of the Arts Club of Freeport

1/1/1913 Clarence E Jones is financial secretary of Truck Co No 1

4/23/1909 Advertisement: Clarence E Jones Motor Boat Supplies

9/10/1909 Advertisement: Clarence E Jones Hardware, Paints and Varnishes

9/8/1911 Advertisement: C E Jones Hardware and Paint

5/26/1911 Isabel T Jones hosts a bridge party

1/1/1916 Clarence E Jones is secretary of United Commercial Travelers of America

11/5/1909 Advertisement: Clarence E Jones Hardware, Paint and Varnishes

11/5/1909 Advertisement: Wm G Miller Builder and General Contractor

10/4/1910–10/6/1910 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt speaks at the Southern New York Firemen’s Association Convention

1/1/1916–12/31/1917 Clarence E Jones is captain of Truck no 1 of the Excelsior Hook and Ladder Company

5/5/1916 Isabel T Jones reads at a meeting of the Woman’s Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church

4/7/1916 Clarence E Jones is on the Fire Council

1/1/1909–12/31/1916 Clarence E Jones is financial secretary of the South Shore Yacht Club

3/5/1909 Isabel T Jones hosts a sale for the First Presbyterian Church

4/14/1912 Clarence E Jones rents a house for the summer

3/1/1909 Clarence E Jones to open a hardware store

1/1/1909 Clarence E Jones has an extension added to his hardware store

4/30/1929 Esther F Asplund considers building a bungalow from coral blocks

1/1/1829 Daniel Raynor purchases the saw and grist mills on Mill Road from Joseph Swezey

9/9/1911 Clarence E Jones places twice in speed boat races

10/20/1920 Advertisement: Clarence E Jones Hardware and Paints

1/1/1920 First Presbyterian Church Cemetery is condemned and relocated

5/13/1860 First Presbyterian Church is completed

1/1/1845 John J Randall is born

1/1/1893 John J Randall begins living in Freeport full time

4/13/1826 William Raynor is born

1/1/1836 Thomas Carman and Brewster Valentine found Carman & Valentine wholesale grocery firm in Brooklyn

1/1/1839 Thomas Carman and family move back to Coe’s Neck area from Brooklyn

3/20/1891 Samuel S Carman dies

9/25/1821 Samuel S Carman is born

8/14/1846 Bergen R Carman is born

6/1/1907 Harpo Marx is a piano player at the Happy Times Tavern

4/19/1912 Advertisement: Clarence E Jones Hardware installs stoves

10/14/1914 Clarence E Jones sells his hardware business

12/24/1913 William G Miller and Clarence E Jones publish calendars

7/7/1911 Advertisement: C E Jones Hardware

3/26/1909 Clarence E Jones hires Vinton Bedell for his hardware business

5/13/1914 Clarence E Jones has a new auto delivery wagon for his hardware business

1/1/1784 Washburn’s Neck becomes known as Raynor South

10/4/1659 Reuckowackys and Carnarsies massacre two Merocke families and burn their houses

1/1/1861 American Civil War Camp Winfield Scott is set up on the Hempstead Plains

1/1/1900 Census: Hempstead

1/1/1830 Census: Hempstead

1/1/1810 Census: Hempstead

1/1/1800 Census: Hempstead

4/15/1784 Hempstead splits into North and South Hempstead due to the American Revolutionary War

5/22/1711 All freeholders on the township of Hempstead are to give account of what lands they hold

11/1/1683 The New York Colony divides into 12 counties, Hempstead becomes part of Queens

1/1/1839 Naturalist J P Giraud Jr researches from George Smith’s shop

8/2/1938 A property card approximates the age of the house at 26 Cottage Court

4/10/1845 A ‘ghost’ is captured at the house in the vicinity of 26 Cottage Court

1/1/1873 A house is noted in the vicinity of 26 Cottage Court

1/1/1825 A house is built in the vicinity of 26 Cottage Court

1/1/1821 The Long Island Farmer daily newspaper is founded

1/1/1838 George W Bergen enters the firm of Carman, Valentine and Co in Brooklyn

1/1/1831 George W Bergen works for Thomas Carman as a clerk in Brooklyn

3/1/1892 Census: Freeport

1/1/1892 Carman Cornelius elected village president

1/1/1821 Carman Cornelius is born

12/21/1901 Long Island Real Estate, Wonderful Building Boom in Freeport

8/29/1924 Kidnap Freeport Druggist

5/30/1930 Nine Hurt When Auto Runs Down Carriage

3/27/1903 Samuel Noon escapes sanitarium

8/8/1919 Found Dead in Creek, Bricks Tied to Neck

12/26/1905 Wandered From His Home / Flees in Causeless Terror

7/8/1935 Jamaica Jeweler Dies While Diving

2/1/1906 Chased by Wife’s ‘Ghost’ He Ends Life in Swamp / Insane Man Drowned

1/22/1906 Escaped from Institution

11/11/1893 Carman Cornelius dies

1/1/1858 Freeport Post Office opens

1/1/1877 The stage is set for the Randall & Miller period

1/1/1889 The Brooklyn and Montauk Railroad merges with the Long Island Rail Road

1/1/1879 The Southern Railroad of Long Island reorganizes as the Brooklyn and Montauk Railroad

3/1/1876 The Southern Railroad of Long Island is leased to the Long Island Rail Road

1/1/1874 The South Side Railroad reorganizes as the Southern Railroad of Long Island

7/26/1825 Daniel M Tredwell is born in Milburn

1/1/1880 Census: Hempstead

1/1/1875 Census: Hempstead

1/1/1870 Census: Hempstead

1/1/1865 Census: Hempstead

1/1/1860 Census: Hempstead

1/1/1855 Census: Hempstead

1/1/1850 Census: Hempstead

1/1/1845 Census: Hempstead

5/11/1901 Advertisement: Shore Haven offers lots west of Randall Park

1/1/1860 The Southards build the Hillcrest house on their farm

6/29/1924 Forest Hills Auction with Freeport Sale

4/13/1915 Freeport Wild-Eyed over Sulzer Films

1/5/1846 D Wesley Pine is born in Raynor South

3/6/1931 D Wesley Pine dies

1/1/1882 Daniel Raynor cuts streets through his farm and sells it in smaller parcels

6/17/1885 The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor

6/21/1885 John J Randall purchases 100 acres of farmland

3/20/1885 John J Randall purchases a house for a summer residence

1/1/1890 John J Randall builds Woodbine estate

7/20/1814 George W Bergen is born in Brooklyn

1/1/1875 William G Miller studies architecture at Cooper Union

1/1/1870 William G Miller becomes an apprentice at a building firm in Brooklyn

2/2/1853 William G Miller is born in Brookhaven

1/1/1902 John J Randall builds The Freeport Spite House

12/7/1916 Flag Insulter Held

4/15/1904 Sends $100 to Bury Woman

4/12/1904 Woman Found Dead in Woods

8/30/1901 Woodcleft Inn again Sold

11/12/1899 New Trolley Road in Hempstead

1/3/1897 Woman Struck by a Train

11/25/1883 The Freeport Ghost Caught

10/9/1893 A Frolic that Ended in Death

7/21/1896 Saved their Lives by Jumping

8/17/1907 13 Year Old Drowns at Freeport

5/8/1907 Arrest in Justice’s Home

8/6/1883 He Soon Tired of his Wife

10/30/1881 Victim of a Quack – Identifying the Corpse Found in the Swamp

5/21/1908 Horse on a Roof

8/25/1913 Spite Sign at Freeport

10/2/1911 Express Hits Taxi – Two Dead, 3 Hurt

11/2/1908 Twice Beaten by Theives

5/21/1884 Shot at by Envious Brother

2/19/1882 Brooklyn’s Water Supply

11/27/1881 The Mystery Yet Unsolved -Was it Ella Clark’s Body Found in the Swamp?

1/15/1895 Brave Sailors Drowned

2/28/1898 Hotel at Freeport Burns

7/31/1910 Yachtsman Crushed by Bridge

7/25/1910 Freeport Traps Autoists

8/4/1899 Mate of the Schooner Hinely Lost

8/31/1909 Loses Race with Death

12/24/1906 Burglars Make Rich Haul

7/19/1909 Drowned at Freeport

7/3/1905 Shot by his Host

7/12/1902 Launch Overturned – Many Lives May be Lost

10/14/1902 Found Turtle he Marked 46 Years Ago

6/15/1914 Boys Rescues Swimmer

4/28/1913 Stop Trolley Track Laying

7/14/1913 Rescued from Water Hole

10/7/1912 Surf Swamps Boat; Two Men Drowned

9/4/1881 The Freeport Mystery – Coroner’s Inquest on the Mutilated Body Found in a Swamp

8/31/1881 The Mystery at Freeport – Efforts to Fix the Identity of the Body Found in the Swamp

7/7/1897 Development progresses markedly

7/20/1859 First Presbyterian Church begins construction

1/1/1887 John J Randall and William G Miller build matching houses

1/1/1910 Landscape; view of northern Woodcleft section

1/1/1885 Randall & Miller period begins

8/16/1925 New Home Development Underway in Southern Section of Freeport

4/6/1912 Isadore Mayer purchases Smith-Cox homestead

1/1/1889 William G Miller elected village president, 7th term

1/1/1888 William G Miller elected village president, 6th term

1/1/1897 William G Miller elected village president, 5th term

1/1/1896 William G Miller elected village president, 4th term

1/1/1895 William G Miller elected village president, 3rd term

1/1/1894 William G Miller elected village president, 2nd term

1/1/1893 William G Miller elected village president

1/1/1899 The use of house numbers is implemented

9/3/1783 The American Revolutionary War ends

4/19/1775 The American Revolutionary War begins

4/9/1865 The American Civil War ends

4/12/1861 The American Civil War begins

1/1/1820 First Freeport public school built at Church and Main Streets in Raynor South

10/8/1908 Seek Band Members as Slayers of Policeman

1/19/1935 Frank J Wetmore Jr badly hurt

4/17/1938 Clarence E Jones dies

6/5/1924 John J Randall dies

1/1/1900 John J Randall and William G Miller sell land in Freeport

3/29/1890 William G Miller purchases 200 acres of farmland from Samuel S Carman

1/1/1912 William G Miller has high aspirations

1/1/1895 Thomas Raynor purchases land on Southside Avenue

12/9/1900 East Channel digging

11/20/1901 Trolley line construction nears completion

11/13/1911 Burglary at Freeport

10/19/1916 Turk Island is no more

10/19/1902 John J Randall protests Lena Avenue extension

10/19/1897 The steamer boat Eagle suspends service from Woodcleft Canal to Point Look Out for the season

9/3/1915 Sailor Seeking Pity Tries to Kill Self

8/13/1905 A long summer anticipated for Freeport

8/5/1897 By Coach to Freeport

3/23/1900 Benedict Poor House for sale

1/26/1900 Daniel B Raynor purchases Samuel S Carman’s homestead on Fulton Street

6/3/1858 Advertisement: Carman & Raynor Lumber

3/16/1889 William G Miller purchases 18 acre farm from Captain Thomas Raynor

2/11/1878 Samuel Smith of Coe’s Neck perishes during the night

4/11/1913 Fire at Bowling Alley and Pool Room on North Main Street

1/1/1897 Daniel B Raynor purchases land from Randall & Miller

1/1/1886 Randall & Miller open Bartholdi Hall in Greenpoint, Brooklyn

8/1/1842 Millerite followers encamp at Petit Woods in Hicks’ Neck

3/15/1894 Resolution to deepen and widen Freeport Creek

3/13/1890 Funding for bridges along Atlantic Avenue to cross Emory Creek and Milburn Creek

5/10/1843 Captian Thomas Raynor makes regular runs between Raynor South and New York on the sloop Native

7/31/1884 Long Island Snakes

1/1/1903 Burglars enter William P Miller’s building site to steal tools

3/12/1890 Plans for Atlantic Avenue to continue west from Whaley’s Lane through Baldwin

1/20/1935 Frank J Wetmore Jr dies

9/21/1920 Freeport Policeman Found Unconscious

12/12/1894 Held Up Near Hempstead

10/6/1912 Has Knife Blade in Skull

8/14/1895 Gypsies on the Island

7/30/1901 Long Snake in Freeport

6/29/1903 Marosa’a Body Found in Canal at Freeport

4/20/1905 Freak Calf at Freeport

7/23/1904 Baby Drinks a Pint of Kerosene and Lives

3/7/1915 Fell Off Trestle: Drowned

7/21/1916 Shark In Woodcleft

11/20/1893 All Freeport After a Ghost

1/1/1902 William G Miller withdraws from Randall & Miller

1/2/1882 The Randall & Miller Company is established

3/3/1851 Mary E Randall (Miller) is born

11/19/1961 Marietta R (Miller) Wetmore dies

10/26/1886 Marietta R Miller (Wetmore) is born

2/27/1931 William G Miller dies

2/10/1841 Daniel Smith’s Coe’s Neck Broom factory closes

1/1/1839 Daniel Smith opens broom factory on Coe’s Neck

1/1/1686 Hempstead Township grants John Pine permission to build a grist mill on Tredwell’s land

6/9/1900 Grove Park Hotel on Rose Street begins its first season

1/1/2000 Freeport History

1/2/1837 Ship Mexico wrecks on east end of Long Beach Island, 116 freeze to death, Raynor Rock Smith of Raynor South rescues 8

1/1/1899 Queens is incorporated into New York City

1/1/1868 The South Side Railroad connects to Freeport

1/1/1885 The Bell Oaks House is moved

1/1/1795 Jacob Bedell builds the Bell Oaks house in Raynor South

1/1/1790 President George Washington visits Raynor South

1/1/1783 Daniel Raynor builds a homestead on South Main Street, opposite Mill Road

1/1/1699 The British seize the Hempstead area from the Dutch

1/1/1659 Edward Raynor settles in Washburn’s Neck

1/1/1656 Florence (Fordham) (Carman) Hicks dies

1/1/1655 Florence (Fordham) Carman remarries with John Hicks

1/1/1647 Hempstead is divided among sixty-plus original freeholders

11/16/1644 Director General William Kieft issues a patent granting John Carman and settlers rights and title for Hempstead

4/1/1644 John Carman crosses the Long Island Sound with the first thirty-plus families from Stamford to settle Hempstead

11/13/1643 John Carman and Robert Fordham negotiate sale for 64,000 acres of land on Long Island, to become Hempstead

1/1/1653 John Carman dies in Hempstead

1/1/1685 John Carman owns 180 acres of land in Hempstead

1/1/1752 John Carman purchases 85 acres from Benjamin, Richard and James Smith

1/1/1761 John Carman sells 1/3 part of 20 acres on Hick’s Neck to Thomas Tredwell and Dr Charles Peters

1/1/1756 John Carman sells right of way through meadow on Hick’s Neck to Thomas Tredwell

1/1/1752 John Carman sells 60 acres of land at Hick’s Neck to Thomas Tredwell

1/1/1698 John Carman captain of the local militia

1/1/1684 Joshua Carman dies / will

1/1/1663 John Carman is operating a mill on the northwest corner of Hicks’ Neck

1/1/1660 John and Caleb Carman and Benjamin Coe sue John Hicks

3/18/1686 John and Caleb Carman honor a bargain between their father John Carman and John Tredwell

6/14/1912 Marietta (Miller) Wetmore and Frank Wetmore build house on Southside Avenue – the street is extended from Miller Avenue to South Long Beach Avenue

7/12/1912 Marietta (Miller) Wetmore and Frank Wetmore have a daughter; Mary E Wetmore

1/1/1900 William G Miller builds house on Ocean Avenue and moves there with his family

11/3/1900 George W Bergen dies

8/11/1900 Eliza (Raynor) Carman dies

5/9/1899 Susan (Carman) Bergen dies

7/27/1890 Plans announced for Randall & Miller’s Woodcleft area

6/5/1890 Randall & Miller purchases farmland from Samuel S Carman- to become Woodcleft

5/5/1881 Sister Jo Accuses Deacon Seaman of Backsliding – Samuel S Carman is implicated

1/1/1875 Susan (Carman) Bergen erects the Elizabeth Carman Chapel

6/29/1818 Susan Carman (Bergen) is born

1/1/1899 Freeport secedes from Queens

10/18/1892 Freeport is incorporated

1/1/1898 Electric street lamps in Freeport

1/1/1897 First Telephone Service in Freeport

1/1/1898 Woodcleft Canal dug by Randall & Miller

8/22/1853 Residents vote to change name from Raynor Town, Raynor South and South Hempstead to Freeport

1/10/1911 Marietta Miller (Wetmore) marries Frank J Wetmore

6/9/1916 Marietta (Miller) Wetmore and Frank Wetmore have a daughter; Martha R Wetmore

10/27/1916 Isabel T Jones entertains bridge club at 262 Southside Avenue

1/28/1910 Georgina Wortman house moved from Central Avenue to Miller Place

5/26/1899 James Dean purchases O. W. Humphrey’s house on Ocean Avenue

9/16/1898 Plans announced for O. W. Humphrey’s Grove Park Hotel on Rose Street

8/27/1897 O. W. Humphrey begins building a house on Ocean Avenue

10/7/1910–10/7/1910 Tenants move from house of Marietta Miller (Wetmore) on Miller Place

4/4/1911 Tenants of house on Miller Place move to other house nearby owned by Marietta Miller (Wetmore)

4/7/1911 Marietta Miller (Wetmore) sells old homestead on Miller Place

12/24/1906 Burgulars Make Rich Haul – may have used chloroform

8/21/1896 Servant surprised by thieves in Randall Park

5/1/1894 Thousands Of Human Skulls

8/20/1911 Killed By Hokey Pokey

5/1/1909 President Fox’s Dyed Horse – Kindly Left by a Thief in Exchange for a Good One

8/7/1906 Burgulars Wreck Building – Blow Open Safe and Demolish Ferry Structure – Get Only $50

12/11/1908 Girl Kills Herself By Accident

7/3/1905 Shot By His Host

9/1/1896 Panther Shot Near Milburn

7/17/1905 William G Miller Ocean Avenue residence robbed

11/28/1897 Headless Body Washed Ashore

10/5/1908 Policeman Found Drowned

1/25/1908 White Caps On Long Island

2/3/1906 Beats Wife; Kills Himself

11/2/1908 Twice Beaten By Thieves

7/15/1894 Says The Baymen Are Hypnotyzed

7/11/1902 May Have Been Murdered

5/14/1907 Aged Lone Woman Murdered

7/18/1909 Aeronaut Falls 125 Feet

4/23/1904 Woman Swallowed Acid

11/19/1893 An Apparition In Freeport

1/1/1644 Battle at Fort Neck – Massapequas slaughtered

1/1/1839 Ancient Native American shell heaps noted on Tredwell farm

9/7/1838 Thomas Carman sells wood lots in Coe’s Neck

8/16/1890 Killed At A Cemetery Gate

7/15/1920 Fear Sharks Attacked Man

7/23/1914 Priest Dives To Rescue

3/17/1912 Left A Trail Of Dead Dogs – Stranger Passing Through Kills 13

1/2/1915 Masqueraders Fight Fire

8/28/1881 Mystery In Freeport – The Mutilated Body Of A Woman Found In A Swamp

10/2/1879 A Body Found In A Box

5/3/1909 Three Boys Drown In Storm

1/1/1715 The Carmans build a homestead in Coe’s Neck

7/27/1890–7/27/1890 Beauties of Freeport

1/1/1873 Map- Freeport, Millburn, Baldwins, Greenwich Point 1873

1/1/1870 Map- Freeport 1870

1/1/1859 Map- Freeport, Coe’s Neck, Millburn, Baldwinville, Christian Hook, Rockville Centre, Merrick 1859

1/1/1897–12/31/1897 C S Powell’s Woodcleft Poultry Yards in operation on Riverside Avenue

2/4/1805 Susan Carman (Bergen) is born at the Carman homestead

1/1/1872 George W. Bergen and Susan (Carman) Bergen begin living in Freeport full time

1/1/1869 George W. Bergen builds an estate in Freeport

7/19/1839 George W. Bergen marries Susan Carman (Bergen)