Coe’s Little 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
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Documents Relative to the History of the Early Colonial Settlements Principally on Long Island
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– 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

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]]> ../../../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 Residents vote to change name from Raynor Town, Raynor South and South Hempstead to Freeport ../../../residents-change-name-from-raynor-town-or-raynorville-to-freeport/ ../../../residents-change-name-from-raynor-town-or-raynorville-to-freeport/#respond Mon, 23 Jul 2012 19:59:43 +0000 http://freeporthistory.com/?p=410 The western border between Freeport and Milburn runs along the middle of Coe’s Neck Road (Bayview Avenue) and then to the west of Benedict’s Poor House and farm by Fulton Street (Merrick Road) where a tidal stream, spanning from Milburn Creek separates Benedict’s property from Tredwell’s to the west.

]]> ../../../residents-change-name-from-raynor-town-or-raynorville-to-freeport/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 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 A long summer anticipated for Freeport ../../../long-summer-anticipated-for-freeport/ ../../../long-summer-anticipated-for-freeport/#respond Tue, 12 Mar 2013 03:07:07 +0000 http://freeporthistory.com/?p=1005 ]]> ../../../long-summer-anticipated-for-freeport/feed/ 0 Fell Off Trestle: Drowned ../../../fell-off-trestle-drowned/ ../../../fell-off-trestle-drowned/#respond Mon, 11 Mar 2013 03:00:54 +0000 http://freeporthistory.com/?p=903

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