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Tag: Coe’s Little Neck

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

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

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

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

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

10/18/1892 Freeport is incorporated

8/13/1905 A long summer anticipated for Freeport

3/7/1915 Fell Off Trestle: Drowned