Reverend Jeremiah Hubbard

History of the colonial town of Huntington:

https://www.huntingtonny.gov/content/13747/99540/16487/16489/defaul...

The formal European history of Huntington dates to April 2, 1653 when three English settlers from Oyster Bay—Richard Holbrook, Robert Williams and Daniel Whitehead—secured a deed from Raseokan, Sachem (i.e. leader) of the Matinecocks for six square miles of land stretching from Cold Spring Puerto to Northport Harbor and from the Long Island Sound to what is now Old Country Road. The consideration consisted of “six coats, six howes, six kettles, six hatchets, six shirts, ten knives, six fathoms of wampum, three muxes and thirty needles.”

These early settlers were Congregationalists. They established a church in 1658, but did not construct a meetinghouse until 1665.

While the Dutch settled Manhattan and western Long Island and the English controlled New England, the first settlers in Huntington were largely outside the jurisdiction of any European authority. However, in 1660 residents voted to place the town under the jurisdiction of Connecticut to gain some protection from the Dutch.
In 1664, the English gained control of the Dutch colony of New Netherland. The Duke of York became proprietor of the area and the colony was renamed New York. The Duke’s representative, Governor Richard Nicholls, asserted control over all of Long Island and summoned representatives of each town on Long Island to meet in Hempstead early in 1665. The representatives were required to bring with them evidence of title to their land and to receive a patent from the crown affirming that title. The Hempstead Convention also adopted the “Duke’s Laws,” which regulated virtually every area of life.

During the colonial period, Huntington became an established community. Consisting mostly of farms, the community also included a school, a church, flour mills, saw mills, brickyards, tanneries, a town dock and a fort. Shipping was also an important part of the economy with vessels traveling not only to and from other ports along the Sound but also as far as the West Indies.