Raynor – Freeport History Timeline

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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William Raynor is born

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– Son of Daniel Raynor and Mary Ann (Bedell) Raynor

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

Captian Thomas Raynor makes regular runs between Raynor South and New York on the sloop Native

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Newtown Register September 11, 1890;

A ‘ghost’ is captured at the house in the vicinity of 26 Cottage Court

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Journal entries by Daniel M Tredwell refer to much hearsay about white vapory specters that appear in this area. The gaping abandoned house stands two hundred feet to the south of Merrick Road and the cemetery is on the north side. The area is desolate and overgrown. The next houses on the way home for Tredwell at that time would be the Carman homestead south of the road near present Long Beach Avenue and then Benedict’s poor house at Coe’s Neck Road (Bayview Avenue).

After an active winter of ghost demonstrations that become so frequent and fragrant, Jim Raynor and Tom Southard lay in ambush several times before finally entrapping a simple fellow well known in the neighborhood. The man is put on exhibition in his ghost toggery upstairs at the store of Riley Raynor, where Justice Squire Smith holds court, and he is charged with disturbing the peace.

Personal Reminiscences of Men and Things on Long Island

Advertisement: Carman & Raynor Lumber

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Daniel Raynor cuts streets through his farm and sells it in smaller parcels

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– Bedell, Smith and Raynor Streets originate

William G Miller purchases 18 acre farm from Captain Thomas Raynor

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