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

c Spring 1644

(conflict: 17 families by certain accounts)

– the first English settlement in what is presently Nassau County

– prominent families Denton, Raynor, Pettit, Wood, Smith, Thompson and Hicks are included

– Stamford, Connecticut 

– Hempstead, North Hempstead