Town of Smithtown vertical file, 1688-1980.

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Town of Smithtown vertical file, 1688-1980.

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Correspondence, programs, clippings, articles, diaries, broadsides, anniversary booklets, essays, maps, reports, deeds, receipts, bills, genealogical notes, reminiscences, wills and probate papers, publications, notebooks, newsletters, certificates, and other items. Of note are the notebook of J. Lawrence Smith relating to Smithtown and the Smith family, an annotated copy of his book HISTORY OF SMITHTOWN, LONG ISLAND and copies of legal papers and documents relating to his work as attorney and surrogate judge, 1854-1885, recollections of Frank E. Brush and other Smithtown residents, 1937-1965; records of the Brooklyn Home for Children, Hauppauge, 1854-1954; manuscript and typescript "Colored in Smithtown" by William Wickham Mills III, 1956; deed and typed transcription of transfer of property from Richard and Sarah Smith to Daniel Smith, 1688. The collection contains about one-third Smith family and one-fifth Blydenburgh family material.

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Smithtown Historical Society (Smithtown, N.Y.)

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The Caleb Smith House, now the headquarters of the Smithtown Historical Society, was built in 1819 by Caleb Smith II in Commack, N.Y. and was moved to the Smithtown Village Green in 1955. Anna Blydenburgh, a descendant of Caleb Smith, provided funds for the move. From the description of Records, 1955-1977. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155535694 Collecting area: History of the Town of Smithtown, N.Y. From the description of Repository description. (Unknown). Wor...

Smith, Richard M.

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Richard Smith was a merchant of Boston, Mass. who also had an interest in an iron furnace in Salisbury, Conn. and perhaps an adjacent dry goods business. From the description of Business papers, 1761-1795. (Harvard Business School). WorldCat record id: 269600982 Richard and Gilbert Smith were furniture makers and joiners in Canaan, Ct. and later New Marlborough, Berkshire Co., Ma. From the description of Account book, 1796-1811. (Winterthur Library). WorldCat rec...

Brush, Frank E.,

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Smith, Sarah, 1947-

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Smith, Daniel L., 1955-

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Traveled from Portsmouth England to New Orleans, La. aboard the "Margaret" then up the Mississippi to Shawneetown heading for an English colony in Edwards County. Has a letter of introduction for "Mr. Flower" at Albion. From the description of Journal, Nov. 1820-March 1821. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 54901206 ...

Mills, William Wickham.

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Smith, J. Lawrence (John Lawrence)

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Brooklyn Home for Children (Hauppauge, N.Y.)

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