Raynor South / Raynorville / Raynor Town / Raynor’s Neck / Washburn’s Neck – 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

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

President George Washington visits Raynor South

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Presently southeast Freeport running north towards Randall Avenue, Freeport

Jacob Bedell builds the Bell Oaks house in Raynor South

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Presently Ocean and Randall Avenues, Freeport

Daniel Raynor purchases the saw and grist mills on Mill Road from Joseph Swezey

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For $5,500, this purchase also includes the pond to the north to become known as Horsefall Pond, later the site of the Freeport Recreation Center. The Raynor homestead, located opposite the mills on South Main Street, becomes a grocery store and stage coach stop as well as considered a community center.

South Shore Millers of Hempstead Town – The Indispensable Few by Clinton E Metz