Long Island miscellany, 1648-[ca. 1985]

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Long Island miscellany, 1648-[ca. 1985]

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Pamphlets, photographs, progams, wills, deeds, and other miscellaneous documents pertaining to Long Island. Of note are the wills of Elias Hicks, Sr., 1829, and Robert Williams, 1682; photocopies of the patent for the Town of Oyster Bay, 1677, and an Indian deed of land to Robert Williams, 1648; apprenticeship indenture of the black child Peter to Peter Schenk, 1806; photocopy of the legal release of a slave, 1776; programs from local events, 1927-1955; and articles and pamphlets on Long Island history, 1947-ca. 1985, such as Hicksville's garment industry, doctors and the practice of medicine, artists, Long Island Railroad, and World War II.

.5 cubic ft.

Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Adelphi University. Library. Special Collections.

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Collecting area: William Cobbett, Americana, and Long Island history. From the description of Repository description. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155547777 ...

Long Island Railroad Company.

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Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830

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Schenk, Peter, 1951-....

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Williams, Robert E., 1959-....

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U. S. Congressman, 1797-1803, governor of the Mississippi Territory, 1805-1809, and adjutant general of North Carolina, ca. 1812-1814. From the description of Robert Williams papers, 1813-1814. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 164371225 ...