North 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 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

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Documents Relative to the History of the Early Colonial Settlements Principally on Long Island
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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

]]> ../../../john-carman-crosses-the-long-island-sound-with-the-first-thirty-plus-families-from-stamford-connecticut-to-settle-hempstead/feed/ 0 Settlers of Cow Neck, Great Neck and surrounding areas sign a declaration of independence from England ../../../settlers-of-cow-neck-great-neck-and-surrounding-area-sign-a-declaration-of-independence-from-england/ ../../../settlers-of-cow-neck-great-neck-and-surrounding-area-sign-a-declaration-of-independence-from-england/#respond Fri, 07 Mar 2014 06:57:50 +0000 http://freeporthistory.com/?p=2543 c September 1775

– A year before the Declaration Of Independence

– Presently Port Washington, Great Neck and other areas north of Old Country Road, North Hempstead

]]> ../../../settlers-of-cow-neck-great-neck-and-surrounding-area-sign-a-declaration-of-independence-from-england/feed/ 0 Hempstead splits into North and South Hempstead due to the American Revolutionary War ../../../hempstead-splits-into-north-and-south-hempstead-due-to-the-american-revolutionary-war/ ../../../hempstead-splits-into-north-and-south-hempstead-due-to-the-american-revolutionary-war/#respond Thu, 11 Apr 2013 01:38:59 +0000 http://freeporthistory.com/?p=1712 Leading up to the war settlers on the north shore align with the revolutionary cause and settlers on the south shore align with the British resulting in the split following the war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_of_North_Hempstead,_New_York

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