Tredwell – Freeport History Timeline

Reuckowackys and Carnarsies massacre two Merocke families and burn their houses

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– On an island west of Milburn Creek, north of Milburn pond (when it extended further north) and east of Hicks’ Neck Road (Milburn Avenue)

– Presently the approximate area east of Milburn Court and west of Milburn Creek, Baldwin

On April 10, 1659, local settlers are granted permission by the Town of Hempstead to arm and go to Rockaway and Canarsie to arrest the perpetrators. They make no arrests but afterwards the suspected tribes travel into Merocke territory only when they are in large numbers.

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Hempstead Township grants John Pine permission to build a grist mill on Tredwell’s land

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c 1686

– Presently Milburn Pond Park, Freeport

John and Caleb Carman honor a bargain between their father John Carman and John Tredwell

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– Certain meadows lying ‘in ye Est fi” of Hick’s Neck, bounded by a creek on the east side

– At the same time in furtherance of said bargain, John Tredwell conveyed to the two Carman grantors 17 acres of meadow lands on Hick’s Neck, bounded easterly by Robert Jackson’s land and on the north by land of the said John and Caleb, also one acre off the south end of John Tredwell’s fresh meadow

-New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, vol II p379

John Carman sells 60 acres of land at Hick’s Neck to Thomas Tredwell

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c 1752

– John Carman’s great grandson

– Areas presently in Baldwin Harbor and / or in the vicinity of Milburn Creek Park, Freeport

John Carman sells right of way through meadow on Hick’s Neck to Thomas Tredwell

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c 1756

– John Carman’s great grandson

– Area presently in Baldwin Harbor and / or in the vicinity of Milburn Creek Park, Freeport

Daniel M Tredwell is born in Milburn

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Ancient Native American shell heaps noted on Tredwell farm

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– Presently south of Merrick Road east of Milburn Creek

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Naturalist J P Giraud Jr researches from George Smith’s shop

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c 1839 – c 1840

A journal entry by Daniel M Tredwell says Giraud occupies the carpenter and wheel-wright shop of George Smith of Raynortown for the purpose of collecting natural history specimens, and especially birds of Long Island. Tredwell personally supplies many of the specimens.

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– Giraud’s book, The Birds of Long Island is published in 1844

The Birds of Long Island

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.

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