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1/1/1606 John Carman is born

11/4/1631 John Carman migrates to the Massachusetts Bay Colony

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

1/1/1672–1/1/1674 John Carman’s sons John, Caleb and Joshua live in Hempstead

11/1/1683 The New York Colony divides into 12 counties, Hempstead becomes part of Queens

1/1/1690–1/1/1718 Caleb Carmen is the Hempstead Town Assessor

1/1/1699 The British seize the Hempstead area from the Dutch

5/22/1711 All freeholders on the township of Hempstead are to give account of what lands they hold

9/1/1775 Settlers of Cow Neck, Great Neck and surrounding areas sign a declaration of independence from England

4/15/1784 Hempstead splits into North and South Hempstead due to the American Revolutionary War

1/1/1800 Census: Hempstead

1/1/1810 Census: Hempstead

1/1/1830 Census: Hempstead

1/1/1845 Census: Hempstead

1/1/1850 Census: Hempstead

1/1/1855 Census: Hempstead

1/1/1860 Census: Hempstead

1/1/1861 American Civil War Camp Winfield Scott is set up on the Hempstead Plains

1/1/1865 Census: Hempstead

1/1/1870 Census: Hempstead

1/1/1875 Census: Hempstead

1/1/1880 Census: Hempstead

11/12/1899 New Trolley Road in Hempstead

1/1/1900 Census: Hempstead