Town of Gravesend record transcriptions 1646-1670

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Town of Gravesend record transcriptions 1646-1670

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/bhs/arms_1977_308_gravesend_transcriptions/arms_1977_308_gravesend_transcriptions.html

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Center for Brooklyn History (2020-)

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United States. Works Progress Administration

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Organizational History President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1935 as a part of his New Deal to curtail the Depression's effects on the United States. The WPA attempted to provide the unemployed with jobs that allowed individuals to preserve skills or talents. The Federal Writers' Project (FWP), one branch of the WPA, provided work for over 6,600 unemployed writers, journalists, edit...

Gravesend (New York, N.Y.)

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Gravesend was one of the six original towns of Kings County. Founded by religious dissenter Lady Deborah Moody and her followers in 1643, it was the only one of the original towns to be founded by English settlers. Gravesend was annexed by the City of Brooklyn in 1894. From the guide to the Town of Gravesend record transcriptions, 1646-1670, (Brooklyn Historical Society) ...