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Smithtown schools collection, 1814-1976.

Title: Smithtown schools collection, 1814-1976.

Account books, reports, financial records, correspondence, memoranda, photographs, artwork, certificates, petitions, contracts, and other materials of various schools and school districts in the Town of Smithtown, including Smithtown High School, Smithtown Branch High School, Smithtown East High School, Smithtown Central School District No. 1, Union Free School District No. 1, and Nesconset Union Free School District No. 8. Records include three volumes of account books recording receipts and expenditures, and miscellaneous bills, receipts, and audits, 1920s; record of Regents examinations, 1924-1928; reports on redistricting and school closing, and reports on building needs, 1948 and 1957; Citizens' Committee Report, 1956; and "Hot Pastrami," a portfolio of student art, ca. 1975. Records of Nesconset Union Free School District No. 8 include a photocopy of the records of the Commissioners of Schools, Town of Smithtown, 1814-1894; specifications, contracts and other papers about construction of a school building, and quotes for school furniture; basketball and baseball score books for both boys' and girls' teams, 1920s and 1946; election registers; treasurers accounts; and minutes of the Board of Trustees from 1906 until 1955 when the district was dissolved and merged with the Smithtown Central School District.

ArchivalResource: ca. 3 cubic ft.

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Miscellaneous collections: family papers, "H," 1796-1974, 1796-1863 (bulk)

Title: Miscellaneous collections: family papers, "H," 1796-1974, 1796-1863 (bulk)

Letters, notes, deeds, wills, photographs, and broadsides relating to the Hallock, Hawkins, Hedges, and Huntting families, including making Henry Hallock, son of Mary Hallock, apprentice to Sylvester Smith of Brookhaven to learn "the Art, Trade and Mystery of a Shipwright," 1838; also, genealogical notes on the Hallock family. Estate papers include announcements or accounts of sales of the estates of Charles D. Hallock, 1863; Eleazar Hawkins, 1796-1811; Merrit (or Mearrot) Hawkins, 1829; Israel Hawkins, 1834; and the will of Zophar Hawkins, 1841. Also, manuscript song "Setauket," words and music by Micah Hawkins; and copy of the 1830 journal of William Huntting, schoolteacher in Smithtown.

ArchivalResource: .2 cubic ft.

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Miscellaneous collections: Town of Smithtown, 1819-1956.

Title: Miscellaneous collections: Town of Smithtown, 1819-1956.

Maps, surveys, letters, notes, receipts, typescripts, transcripts, photographs, printed material, and miscellaneous governmental documents pertaining to the Town of Smithtown and its communities. Of note are a bench mark survey of the town, with map sketches, 1956; a special insurance survey of the town, with photographs, 1941; "Land of Sweet Waters," a typescript history of Hauppauge, by Simeon Wood, with photographs of houses, woods, and ponds, 1910, with a photocopy of a 1913 revision; a copy of Norman H. O'Berry's notebook on the history of Smithtown, including grave transcriptions and a census of the community of St. James, 1892; and papers concerning the dredging of Smithtown harbor, including petitions and correspondence with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1895-1918. Town records include assessment rolls, 1819 and 1848; election records with expenses, 1895; a road warrant, 1883; and tax lists, 1934.

ArchivalResource: .4 cubic ft.

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Boy Scouts of America collection, 1913-1987.

Title: Boy Scouts of America collection, 1913-1987.

Scrapbook history of Troop 3 of Smithtown, 1913-1916, compiled by Eric Harbauer, including a typescript history of the Troop, list of scoutmasters, photographs, charter applications, letters, awards, and clippings. Another scrapbook has charters and rosters of members of Troop 3, 1939-1977, with gaps. Records of Troop 7, St. James, N.Y., 1944-1949, include minutes of Troop Committee meetings, treasurer's reports, reports of the Troop Board of Review, list of scouts and miscellaneous letters about Troop business, plus a humorous "Verbatim Record of Minutes of Troop Committee Meetings of January 25, 1945." Also, photocopies of the records of the History Committee of the Suffolk County Council, Boy Scouts of America, Phyllis Stein and Alvin J. Blake, co-chairs. Records include minutes, agendas, address lists, memoranda, letters, and other material used in preparing a history of scouting in Suffolk County, 1985-1987.

ArchivalResource: 3 v., .1 cubic ft.

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Miscellaneous collections: Town of Brookhaven, 1745-1864.

Title: Miscellaneous collections: Town of Brookhaven, 1745-1864.

Miscellaneous documents pertaining to the Town of Brookhaven, N.Y., including assessment rolls, 1834-1840 and 1852-1853; lists of grand jurors; a petition regarding cattle grazing in West Meadow; papers to the New York State legislature concerning the division of the town, 1832; letters to John M. Williamson as town supervisor, 1834-1857; and a bill of sale for a seat in the Presbyterian Meeting House, Brookhaven (Setauket) from "Cornel Henery Smith" to Samuel Davis, 1745.

ArchivalResource: .2 cubic ft.

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Photograph collection, [ca. 1860-1970]

Title: Photograph collection, [ca. 1860-1970]

Photographs in various formats including tintypes, glass plate negatives, stereopticon prints, framed and mounted photographs, showing local residents, buildings, sailboats, and ponds. Of note are two sets of 8x10 glossy photographs, reprinted from various sources, of Shinnecock and Montauk Indians of Long Island, with historical notes on the individuals depicted.

ArchivalResource: ca. 200 items.

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Records, 1828-1988, 1907-1988 (bulk)

Title: Records, 1828-1988, 1907-1988 (bulk)

Minutes, account books, deeds, correspondence, scrapbooks, microfilm, video tapes, photographs, clippings, and memorabilia of the Smithtown Library. Stock certificates from 1828 pertain to an unrelated "Library Association of Smithtown." Records of the Smithtown Library, begining 1907, include constitution and bylaws, financial reports, librarians' reports, and trustees' reports; account books, 1907-1937; receipt books, 1928-1963; accession books, 1908-1953; records of book stock and circulation records, 1907-1960; records of the Library mobile unit, 1948-1952, and the Kings Park branch, 1948-1953; and correspondence, scrapbooks, clippings and manuals of Friends of the Library. Scrapbooks, ca. 30v., contain photographs, clippings, and other printed material on Library activities, 1954-1988. Also of note are a "Code Book" (library procedures), ca. 1938,; memoranda to staff and records of staff meetings; deeds and other papers concerning the Smithtown Village Green where the Library is located; architectural drawings, plans and financial records for an addition to the building, 1967; and papers about a suit brought by a former librarian against the library trustees.

ArchivalResource: ca. 4 cubic ft., ca. 100 v.

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Miscellaneous collections: New York - colonial and revolutionary period, 1703-1886.

Title: Miscellaneous collections: New York - colonial and revolutionary period, 1703-1886.

Letters, manuscripts, broadsides, and other documents concerning the colonial and Revolutionary periods, mostly in New York. Most items are 19th century manuscript copies or 20th century photostats of documents in various British repositories. Included are copies of letters from Thomas Hassell about Indian wars in South Carolina, 1715; a transcript, 1832, of patent of John Winthrop to land on Long Island, 1680; letter of Rufus Putnam to George Washington with a plan of defensive works for Cobble Hill, Brooklyn; order of Governor Jonathan Trumbull of Connecticut to Christopher Leffingwell to evacuate inhabitants of Long Island to Connecticut, 1776; and a letter regarding prisoners of war, 1778.

ArchivalResource: .2 cubic ft.

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Miscellaneous collections: Long Island - marriages and deaths, [ca. 1900-1960].

Title: Miscellaneous collections: Long Island - marriages and deaths, [ca. 1900-1960].

Transcriptions of records from various churches and cemeteries on Long Island, including records of the Society of Friends in Oyster Bay, Flushing, and Newtown, N.Y., 1663-1766; and record of marriages at the Setauket Presbyterian Church, 1787-1848. Also, transcripts of inscriptions from cemeteries in Huntington, Setauket, Coram, Jamesport, Smithtown, Kings Park, and Hauppauge; and from the Job Smith family cemetery.

ArchivalResource: .3 cubic ft.

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Audio and video tape collection, 1984-1987.

Title: Audio and video tape collection, 1984-1987.

Oral history interview with Smithtown resident William H. Arms, 1987. Video tape tours of the Obadiah Smith house in Kings Park, N.Y., and the Harned Saw Mill in Commack. Also, video programs on Smithtown history by town historian Bradley L. Harris; and "Constitutional Minutes" with Congressman Tom Downey (Democrat-Islip).

ArchivalResource: ca. 10 items.

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Repository description.

Title: Repository description.

Papers of the Smith family Smithtown, N.Y. and their descendants from the 17th century to the present; also papers of the Arthur, Blydenburgh, Butler, Handley, Lawrence, Rockwell, Thompson, and Van Liew families. Records of the Smithtown and Port Jefferson Railroad, the Long Island Railroad, First Presbyterian Church of Smithtown, the Smithtown Library, Smithtown schools, and other organizations in Smithtown and neighboring communities. Papers on architecture and historic preservation in the town of Smithtown; materials on individuals, organizations and the history of Commack, N.Y., Hauppauge, N.Y., Suffolk County, and towns, villages, and communities throughout Long Island.

ArchivalResource: 105 cubic ft., 165 v., 555 items.

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Account books collection, 1763-1921.

Title: Account books collection, 1763-1921.

Account books, letter books, journals and diaries, mostly of individuals and businesses on Long Island. Of note are whaling logs of the ships NEPTUNE, SABINA, and NIANTIC, in one volume, 1839-1846, with entries on whales caught, and life in the South Pacific and in New Zealand ports; in the same volume are entries on voyages of the ship HAMILTON from Sag Harbor to Patagonia to collect guano, 1848-1849, and to San Francisco, 1849-1850. Account books of members of the Smith family include those of Philetus Smith, 1763-1795; Paul Theodor Smith, 1793-1810; Elias Smith, 1796-1839, and Caleb Smith II, 1819-1844. Accounts of Sarah Rogers, 1795-1796; Arthur and Richard Blydenburgh, 1792-1804; Samuel Platt, 1812-1813; Samuel Ludlow Thompson, 1839-1847; Leonard W. Lawrence, 1842-1852; and James Halliock, 1849-1876. Also, accounts of William S. McConn of Oyster Bay, N.Y., 1869-1873; accounts of Beriah Petty for shipbuilding and house building in Stony Brook and Drowned Meadow (Port Jefferson), 1801-1813; accounts for farm operations of Edward S. Gillette of Sayville, N.Y., 1903-1904; business letters of James S. Mills, New York City, 1851-1859; receipt book of the Long Island Express Freight Company, 1884-1885; and diaries and accounts of Charles H. Burtis, 1870.

ArchivalResource: 53 v.

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Miscellaneous collections: Suffolk County - military history, 1776-1864.

Title: Miscellaneous collections: Suffolk County - military history, 1776-1864.

Miscellaneous military papers, many pertaining to the 132nd Regiment and the 137th Regiment of the New York State Militia, 1826-1843. Papers include appointments to various ranks, notifications of military parades, rosters of officers, regimental orders, returns of delinquents, court martial proceedings, and letters requesting exemption from duty. Also, registration papers of alien residents of Sag Harbor, 1862; letters from or to John M. Williamson regarding bounty lands for service in the War of 1812; and letters to J. Lawrence Smith about the draft during the Civil War, several from Alfred Wagstaff, Jr., 16th New York State National Guard.

ArchivalResource: .1 cubic ft.

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Long Island railroad collection, 1857-1942.

Title: Long Island railroad collection, 1857-1942.

Annual reports to the Interstate Commerce Commission and to the Board of Railroad Commissioners, State of New York, of the Smithtown and Port Jefferson Railroad, 1889 and 1890,; title register of the Smithtown and Port Jefferson Railroad; agreement pertaining to the railroad right of way, 1871; and copies, ca. 1936, of town records pertaining to the railroad, 1869-1892. Also, a report on the Long Island Rail Road by J.G. White Engineering Corporation, four volumes, 1942, with maps showing railroad and bus routes in Kings, Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk Counties; plus a broadside advertising train/ferry service to New London, Conn., 1857.

ArchivalResource: .6 cubic ft.

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Miscellaneous collections: Long Island - industry and agriculture, 1794-1900.

Title: Miscellaneous collections: Long Island - industry and agriculture, 1794-1900.

Letters, bills, receipts, petitions, legislative and legal papers, handbills, broadsides and other material pertaining to agriculture, railroads, shipping, and whaling on Long Island. Of note are a handwritten outline for a broadside for the Third Annual Fair and Cattle Show of the western branch of the Suffolk County Agricultural Society at Commack, 1846; petitions to the Suffolk County Supreme Court regarding lands of the Long Island Rail Road in Sag Harbor, 1869; document signed by President Thomas Jefferson and Secretary of State James Madison for the safe passage of packet ship MANCHESTER under the command of Peter F. Coffin, 1806; bills of sale, enrollment papers, powers of attorney, and other documents pertaining to various sloops and schooners built at or sailing from Long Island ports, including the sloops PHEBE ANN, MAYBIRD, FERONIA, and schooners WILLIAM E. BIRD, and the URANIA, which sailed for San Francisco, 1850. Materials relating to whaling include letters, receipts, and bills to the firm of Ireland and Skillman of Greenport, Long Island, regarding the whaling ships KANAWAH, OREGON, and MONTAUK, 1856-1860. Papers concern sale of whale oil, payment for provisions and for crew wages, and sale of the bark OREGON. Correspondents include Willets & Co. of New York City, George Huntley of New London, Conn., John Dole of Boston, Thomas Parsons of East Hampton, and Robert G. Lynch of Brooklyn.

ArchivalResource: .1 cubic ft.

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Miscellaneous collections: personal names, 1729-1972.

Title: Miscellaneous collections: personal names, 1729-1972.

Letters, certificates, deeds, patents, bonds, receipts, estate papers, legal documents, sermons, wills, historical notes, photographs, postcards, and other documents of Long Island and New York State residents. Names mentioned include Ackerly, Barkeloo, Beecher, Bennett, Brown, Conkline, Cromson, Darling, Davis, Disbrow, Dunn, Furman, Haff, Hallock, Havens, Hillman, Huff, Jayne, Mills, Miller, Mowbray, Nicoll, Phillips, Pope, Powell, Reeve, Roberts, Smith, Syms, Tallmadge, Vail, Van Dam, Wilson, Williams, and Woodhull. Items of note include an order of George Clinton, Governor of the Province of New York, to Richard Bradley, H.M. Attorney General, not to prosecute a case involving the ministers and elders of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in Kings County, 1744; complaint against the Rev. Mr. James Davenport of the 5th parish in Southold, Long Island, 1742; notes on a voyage from Stony Brook to Bangor, Maine by Leonard W. Lawrence, 1848, with loose bills for dental work, 1830; letters concerning the Long Island Rail Road from members of the New York State Legislature, 1832, and a letter from Samuel R. Brooks, president of the New York and Harlem Railroad Company to George B. Fisk, Esq., president of the Long Island Rail Road, 1840.

ArchivalResource: .8 cubic ft.

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Vertical files, [ca. 1800]-1989, [ca. 1975]-1989 (bulk)

Title: Vertical files, [ca. 1800]-1989, [ca. 1975]-1989 (bulk)

Vertical files of clippings, pamphlets, programs, and miscellaneous printed materials on the history of Long Island. The bulk of the material consists of clippings and photocopies gathered since the mid-1970s, with scattered printed items and ephemera dating back to the 1800s. There are general subject files on a variety of topics; locality files dealing with specific towns, villages, hamlets, and other places in Nassau County, Suffolk County, and the town of Smithtown; name files containing genealogical and biographical materials on individuals; a picture file, mostly photocopies of photoprints from the collections of other historical societies; and copies of the Historic Sites Inventory forms for the Town of Smithtown.

ArchivalResource: ca. 65 cubic ft.

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Miscellaneous collections: genealogies, 1832-1950.

Title: Miscellaneous collections: genealogies, 1832-1950.

Letters and notes regarding the genealogies of Smithtown area families including Brewster, Cooke, Gardiner, Howell, Loper, Osborn, Psota, Underhill, and Willets. Also, a commonplace/autograph book of Sarah M. Conklin, with poems and watercolor illustrations, 1832-1855; and applications for membership in the Society of Mayflower Descendants.

ArchivalResource: .2 cubic ft.

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Miscellaneous collections: family papers, "M-P," 1741-1882.

Title: Miscellaneous collections: family papers, "M-P," 1741-1882.

Miscellaneous papers of the Mount and Phillips families. Papers of the painter William Sidney Mount consist of two notebooks, 1855 and 1867, containing names and addresses, health remedies, notes on paintings, portraits, commissions, spiritualism, politics and the weather, recipes for mixing paints, and a few sketches; also, seven letters, 1839-1868, to Abraham W. Floyd, Edw. P. Mitchell, Joshua E. Mount, and others concerning his paintings, and family and social matters; letter to John M. Williamson concerning the sinking of the steamboat LEXINGTON, 1840. Other Mount family materials include letters of John Mount to John M. Williamson concerning Mount resigning as Justice of the Peace, 1834, and papers relating to the estate of Henry S. Mount, 1841. Papers of the Phillips family include copies of the wills of George Phillips, 1741, and George S. Phillips, 1876; and letters to Mills Phillips from Congressman Eliphalet Wickes of New York and United States Senator John Smith of New York, with comments on national political affairs, including the purchase of Florida, 1806, and the nomination of DeWitt Clinton for the presidency, 1812. Also genealogical material on the Phillips and Edwards families.

ArchivalResource: .2 cubic ft.

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Miscellaneous collections: Long Island - towns and villages, 1649-[ca. 1937].

Title: Miscellaneous collections: Long Island - towns and villages, 1649-[ca. 1937].

Letters, maps, petitions, deeds, notebooks, printed matter, and other papers relating to towns, villages, and localities on Long Island, including Brooklyn, Cold Spring Harbor, East Hampton, Garden City, Gardiners Island, Huntington, Islip, Miller Place, Montauk, Patchogue, Sag Harbor, Setauket, Shelter Island, and Stony Brook. Items include a title abstract for Charles Schultz for property on 13th Street, Brooklyn, 1892; letter to Newland J. Van Riper, 1931, regarding house built by Captain Manuel Enos in Cold Spring Harbor, with manuscript map; "Rules and Regulations" of Clinton Academy in East Hampton, 1794; letter from Alfred Conkling to Henry F. Yates, 1813, regarding the landing of a British fleet on Gardiners Island during the War of 1812; copy (probably 19th century) of the third patent of the Town of Huntington, 1694; appeals and petitions of Andrew Mitchell to the Commissioners of Highways, Town of Huntington, 1861; and the cattle earmark book of David Willets of Huntington, enlarged by Thomas Treadwell, ca. 1796.

ArchivalResource: .2 cubic ft.

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Map and atlas collection, [ca. 1650]-1989.

Title: Map and atlas collection, [ca. 1650]-1989.

Atlases of Suffolk County, north shore, 1909, and south shore, 1902, 1915; Long Island, 1873; New York City (Manhattan), 1884, 1912; Brooklyn, 1912, and the Bronx, 1912. Maps include Suffolk County, and New York, Kings, Queens, and Richmond Counties, both by David H. Burr, 1829. Also, Suffolk County, 1858, by J. Chase; Sanborn maps of Smithtown Branch, 1927, and of Kings Park, 1942; Nassau County real estate map, 1923; Long Island, 1847, 1897, 1906; Long Island Rail Road, 1884, 1914; and a map of "The Country 30 Miles Round the City of New York," 1812. Historical maps, some of which may be reprints or reproductions, include maps from the 17th and 18th centuries of North America, Canada, New Netherlands, New York, New England, and other regions. There is a photostat copy of a British map of New York City, Staten Island, and part of Long Island, 1781; and a hand-colored "Representation of the Massacre of the American Prisoners in Dartmoor Prison [England], April 6, 1815," printed, 1845. Also, United States Geological Survey (USGS) topographic maps of Long Island, starting 1904; and USGS coastline surveys of the north shore of Long Island, with sounding depths, 1837 and 1886.

ArchivalResource: ca. 300 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155535773 View