Freeport – 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

Edward Raynor settles in Washburn’s Neck

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– Presently southeast Freeport running north towards Randall Avenue

Hempstead Township grants John Pine permission to build a grist mill on Tredwell’s land

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– Presently Milburn Pond Park, Freeport

The Carmans build a homestead in Coe’s Neck

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– Presently the south side of Merrick Road at South Long Beach Avenue in Freeport

– Brooklyn Daily Eagle reports the homestead is 175 years old in 1890

John Carman sells right of way through meadow on Hick’s Neck to Thomas Tredwell

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– John Carman’s great grandson

– Area presently in Baldwin Harbor and / or in the vicinity of Milburn Creek Park, Freeport

Daniel Raynor builds a homestead on South Main Street, opposite Mill Road

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Washburn’s Neck becomes known as Raynor South

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– Following the American Revolutionary War

– Presently southeast Freeport running north towards Randall Avenue, Freeport