Coe’s Great Neck – Freeport History Timeline ../../../index.html A research project focused on the combination of different open source technologies as a way to preserve and present historical data Thu, 21 Jan 2021 01:16:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.8 John Carman and Robert Fordham negotiate sale for 64,000 acres of land on Long Island, to become Hempstead ../../../john-carman-and-robert-fordham-purchase-20000-acreas-of-land-on-long-island-to-become-hempstead-from-the-native-americans-of-masapeaque-mericock-and-rockaway/ ../../../john-carman-and-robert-fordham-purchase-20000-acreas-of-land-on-long-island-to-become-hempstead-from-the-native-americans-of-masapeaque-mericock-and-rockaway/#respond Tue, 24 Jul 2012 21:45:19 +0000 http://freeporthistory.com/?p=496
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

1644
deed
Documents Relative to the History of the Early Colonial Settlements Principally on Long Island
]]> ../../../john-carman-and-robert-fordham-purchase-20000-acreas-of-land-on-long-island-to-become-hempstead-from-the-native-americans-of-masapeaque-mericock-and-rockaway/feed/ 0 Director General William Kieft issues a patent granting John Carman and settlers rights and title for Hempstead ../../../john-carman-files-patent-for-hempstead-purchase-with-new-amsterdam/ ../../../john-carman-files-patent-for-hempstead-purchase-with-new-amsterdam/#respond Tue, 24 Jul 2012 21:49:28 +0000 http://freeporthistory.com/?p=501 – 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-files-patent-for-hempstead-purchase-with-new-amsterdam/feed/ 0 John Carman crosses the Long Island Sound with the first thirty-plus families from Stamford to settle Hempstead ../../../john-carman-crosses-the-long-island-sound-with-the-first-thirty-plus-families-from-stamford-connecticut-to-settle-hempstead/ ../../../john-carman-crosses-the-long-island-sound-with-the-first-thirty-plus-families-from-stamford-connecticut-to-settle-hempstead/#respond Tue, 24 Jul 2012 21:47:24 +0000 http://freeporthistory.com/?p=499 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

]]> ../../../john-carman-crosses-the-long-island-sound-with-the-first-thirty-plus-families-from-stamford-connecticut-to-settle-hempstead/feed/ 0 Hempstead is divided among sixty-plus original freeholders ../../../hempstead-is-divided-among-sixty-plus-original-freeholders/ ../../../hempstead-is-divided-among-sixty-plus-original-freeholders/#respond Tue, 24 Jul 2012 21:52:16 +0000 http://freeporthistory.com/?p=503 c 1647

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

]]> ../../../hempstead-is-divided-among-sixty-plus-original-freeholders/feed/ 0 Funding for bridges along Atlantic Avenue to cross Emory Creek and Milburn Creek ../../../funding-for-bridges-over-emory-creek-and-milburn-creek-along-atlantic-avenue/ ../../../funding-for-bridges-over-emory-creek-and-milburn-creek-along-atlantic-avenue/#respond Mon, 11 Mar 2013 04:26:47 +0000 http://freeporthistory.com/?p=957 ]]> ../../../funding-for-bridges-over-emory-creek-and-milburn-creek-along-atlantic-avenue/feed/ 0 William G Miller purchases 200 acres of farmland from Samuel S Carman ../../../william-g-miller-purchases-200-acre-farm-in-freeport-from-samuel-s-carman/ ../../../william-g-miller-purchases-200-acre-farm-in-freeport-from-samuel-s-carman/#respond Tue, 12 Mar 2013 03:54:24 +0000 http://freeporthistory.com/?p=1043 Newton Register 4_3_1890

Same purchase as noted Jun-Jul 1890?

]]> ../../../william-g-miller-purchases-200-acre-farm-in-freeport-from-samuel-s-carman/feed/ 0 Randall & Miller purchases farmland from Samuel S Carman- to become Woodcleft ../../../samuel-s-carman-sells-large-piece-of-land-to-randall-miller-to-become-woodcleft/ ../../../samuel-s-carman-sells-large-piece-of-land-to-randall-miller-to-become-woodcleft/#respond Mon, 23 Jul 2012 20:26:54 +0000 http://freeporthistory.com/?p=437 Total acreage varies depending on report

Presently Woodcleft area, south Freeport

 

]]> ../../../samuel-s-carman-sells-large-piece-of-land-to-randall-miller-to-become-woodcleft/feed/ 0 Plans announced for Randall & Miller’s Woodcleft area ../../../plans-announced-for-randall-millers-woodcleft-area/ ../../../plans-announced-for-randall-millers-woodcleft-area/#respond Mon, 23 Jul 2012 20:30:26 +0000 http://freeporthistory.com/?p=440 Total acreage varies depending on report

]]> ../../../plans-announced-for-randall-millers-woodcleft-area/feed/ 0 Freeport is incorporated ../../../freeport-is-incorporated/ ../../../freeport-is-incorporated/#respond Mon, 23 Jul 2012 20:06:57 +0000 http://freeporthistory.com/?p=420 ../../../freeport-is-incorporated/feed/ 0 Daniel B Raynor purchases land from Randall & Miller ../../../daniel-b-raynor-buys-a-plot-of-land-from-randall-miller-in-freeport/ ../../../daniel-b-raynor-buys-a-plot-of-land-from-randall-miller-in-freeport/#respond Tue, 12 Mar 2013 02:13:41 +0000 http://freeporthistory.com/?p=972 c 1897

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