Baldwin / Baldwins / Baldwinville / Bethel – New York – Freeport History Timeline

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

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1943 depiction commemorating Hempstead’s 300th anniversary

– With tribal representation of the Reuckowacky (Rekowake), the Merockes (Mericock), Matinecock (Matinecock), and Massapequas (Marsapeague)

– Presently Hempstead and North Hempstead

Documents Relative to the History of the Early Colonial Settlements Principally on Long Island

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

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– On behalf of the West India Company

– The English colonists swear an oath of allegiance to the Dutch Republic, and are contractually bound to increase their number to 100 families by 1649

– They are permitted to have their own church and minister, law enforcement, and court

https://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/history-and-heritage/digital-exhibitions/a-tour-of-new-netherland/long-island/heemstede/

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

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(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

Hempstead is divided among sixty-plus original freeholders

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– John Carman, Edward Raynor, William Raynor, John Hicks, Robert Coe, Joe Coe and Benjamin Coe are among the names

John Carman dies in Hempstead

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Florence (Fordham) Carman remarries with John Hicks

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– Widow to John Carman

Florence (Fordham) (Carman) Hicks dies

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– Widow to John Carman, remarried John Hicks

Reuckowackys and Carnarsies massacre two Merocke families and burn their houses

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– On an island west of Milburn Creek, north of Milburn pond (when it extended further north) and east of Hicks’ Neck Road (Milburn Avenue)

– Presently the approximate area east of Milburn Court and west of Milburn Creek, Baldwin

On April 10, 1659, local settlers are granted permission by the Town of Hempstead to arm and go to Rockaway and Canarsie to arrest the perpetrators. They make no arrests but afterwards the suspected tribes travel into Merocke territory only when they are in large numbers.

Personal Reminiscences of Men and Things on Long Island

John and Caleb Carman and Benjamin Coe sue John Hicks

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– for land on Hicks’ Neck, formerly Fordham’s Neck, on behalf of Joshua Carman

– John Carman and Florence (Fordham) (Carman) Hicks’ sons and son in law (Coe M. Abigail Carman)

– Presently areas to the south in Baldwin and to the north in Baldwin Harbor

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

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– Presently Silver Lake Park, Baldwin

– John Carman’s son

– Acting as Townsmen of Hempstead

– Later becomes Baldwin’s Mill