Hempstead – 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 is born ../../../john-carman-is-born/ ../../../john-carman-is-born/#respond Fri, 07 Mar 2014 06:48:45 +0000 http://freeporthistory.com/?p=2541 c 1606

– in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemel_Hempstead

]]> ../../../john-carman-is-born/feed/ 0 John Carman migrates to the Massachusetts Bay Colony ../../../john-carman-arrives-at-roxbury-massachusetts-on-the-ship-lion/ Tue, 29 Jul 2014 11:09:02 +0000 http://freeporthistory.com/?p=2963 – on the ship Lyon

– from England

– with wife Florence (Fordham) Carman 

 

 

]]> 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 John Carman’s sons John, Caleb and Joshua live in Hempstead ../../../john-carmans-sons-john-caleb-and-joshua-live-in-hempstead/ ../../../john-carmans-sons-john-caleb-and-joshua-live-in-hempstead/#respond Tue, 04 Feb 2014 02:54:26 +0000 http://freeporthistory.com/?p=2116 c 1672

– “nine names lost”

– Benjamin Carman, Edward Raynor, Robert Coe, etc?

The Documentary history of the state of New-York

From The Documentary History of the State of New York, arranged under direction of the Hon. Christopher Morgan, Secretary of State, by E B O’Callaghan MD, Vol. 1, 1849

]]> ../../../john-carmans-sons-john-caleb-and-joshua-live-in-hempstead/feed/ 0 The New York Colony divides into 12 counties, Hempstead becomes part of Queens ../../../the-new-york-colony-divides-into-12-counties-hempstead-becomes-part-of-queens/ ../../../the-new-york-colony-divides-into-12-counties-hempstead-becomes-part-of-queens/#respond Thu, 11 Apr 2013 01:12:29 +0000 http://freeporthistory.com/?p=1708 Albany

Cornwall

Dukes

Dutchess

Kings

New York

Orange

Queens

Richmond

Suffolk

Ulster

Westchester

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_New_York

 

]]> ../../../the-new-york-colony-divides-into-12-counties-hempstead-becomes-part-of-queens/feed/ 0 Caleb Carmen is the Hempstead Town Assessor ../../../caleb-carmen-is-the-hempstead-town-assessor/ ../../../caleb-carmen-is-the-hempstead-town-assessor/#respond Sat, 25 Jan 2014 04:55:42 +0000 http://freeporthistory.com/?p=2109 c 1690 – c 1718

– John Carman’s son

]]> ../../../caleb-carmen-is-the-hempstead-town-assessor/feed/ 0 The British seize the Hempstead area from the Dutch ../../../the-british-sieze-the-hempstead-area-from-the-dutch/ ../../../the-british-sieze-the-hempstead-area-from-the-dutch/#respond Tue, 24 Jul 2012 21:55:42 +0000 http://freeporthistory.com/?p=511 c 1699

– Dutch rule ends

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