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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Nassau County, New York.= Official Website = Overview Nassau County is situated on western Long Island, bordering New York City's borough of Queens to the west, and Suffolk County to the east. It is the most densely populated and second-most populous county in New York State outside of New York City, with which it maintains extensive ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Suffolk County, New York. Official Website History Suffolk County was part of the Connecticut Colony before becoming an original county of the Province of New York, one of twelve created in 1683. From 1664 until 1683 it had been the East Riding of Yorkshire. Its boundaries were essentially the same as at present, with only minor c...
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Islip, Suffolk County, New York. Official Website Matthias Nicoll relocated to New York from Islip, Northamptonshire, England, in 1664. His son, William Nicoll, became a royal patentee of the east end of what is now the Town of Islip, and his domain reached from East Islip to Bayport and included Sayville, West Sayville, Oakdale, Great...
Founders of the town of Southampton Please add profiles to project for the people named in bold below, and also, hyperlink them. Southold, Southampton, and East Hampton New Netherland Institute - Eastern Long Island In 1640, a group of "straitened" English pioneers left the town of Lynn in the Massachusetts Bay colony in search of land and a better life. They thought they had found it wh...
Early settlers of the town of Southold on Long Island Please add profiles listed below to the project, and also link them in the index. Feel free to add all early town residents. Southold, Southampton, and East Hampton New Netherland Institute - Eastern Long Island In 1640, a group of "straitened" English pioneers left the town of Lynn in the Massachusetts Bay colony in search of land an...
Please add those were born, lived or died in the Town of Hempstead (historically known as South Hempstead), Nassau County, Long Island, New York. Official Website The town was first settled around 1644 following the establishment of a treaty between English colonists, John Carman and Robert Fordham, and the Lenape Indians in 1643. Although the settlers were from the English colony of Connecti...
Founders of the town of East Hampton Please add profiles to project of the people in bold below, and also, hyperlink them. Beginning in 1648 as a tiny English settlement, caught in turmoil during the American Revolution, and then languishing in splendid, self-sufficient isolation for more than a century, the Town of East Hampton became in the development-mad 20th century an international res...
Gravesend was founded in 1645 by Lady Deborah Moody who led a group of religious dissenters fleeing persecution, in the Dutch colony of New Netherland. The people from Gravesend were granted religious freedom, which was unusual for that period. Lady Moody was the only woman to found a colonial settlement in early North America. She was the first female landowner in the New World. Lady Deborah h...
Wikipedia =Hofstra University is a private, non-profit, nonsectarian institution of higher learning. Its main campus is located in the village of Hempstead, New York, United States, approximately 7 miles east of New York City. It originated in 1935 as an extension of New York University (NYU) called "Nassau College – Hofstra Memorial of New York University at Hempstead, Long Island"; in 1939, t...
Wikipedia =Long Island University (LIU) is a private, coeducational, nonsectarian institution of higher education with locations and programs spanning the New York metropolitan area, overseas, and online. The university offers more than 500 academic programs at two main campuses, LIU Post and LIU Brooklyn, as well as non-residential programs at LIU Brentwood, LIU Riverhead, and LIU Hudson at Ro...
Cedar Hill Cemetery occupies a commanding site on one of the highest hills just a little south of the Harbor of Port Jefferson. The Cedar Hill Cemetery Association was formed March 30th 1859. In April of that year thirteen acres, to be used as a cemetery, were purchased by Hubbard Gildersleeve. The first Association officers were: R. H. Wilson, President; J. B Randall, secretary; Abram Brown, t...
The Town of Oyster Bay is the easternmost of the three towns which make up Nassau County, New York , United States. Part of the New York metropolitan area, it is the only town in Nassau County to extend from the North Shore to the South Shore of Long Island. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 301,332. There are 18 villages and 18 hamlets within the town of Oyster Bay. The U.S. Posta...
Wikipedia The City University of New York School of Law (or CUNY School of Law) is an American law school with its campus located in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens in New York City. Founded in 1983, CUNY School of Law, was established as a public interest law school with a curriculum focused toward integrating clinical teaching methods within traditional legal studies. According...
Wikipedia =Long Island National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in Suffolk County, New York. Find a Grave
The Shinnecock Indian Nation is a federally recognized tribe of historically Algonquian-speaking Native Americans based at the eastern end of Long Island, New York. This tribe is headquartered in Suffolk County, on the southeastern shore. Since the mid-19th century, the tribe's landbase is the Shinnecock Reservation within the geographic boundaries of the Town of Southampton. Their name roughly...
The Montauk Tribe of Indians are the modern incarnation of an Algonquian-speaking Native American people from the eastern and central sections of Long Island, New York. Montauk Indians (meaning uncertain). A term that has been used in different senses, sometimes limited to the particular hand or tribe known by this name, but in a broader sense including most of the tribes of Long Island, exce...
This project is for those buried in Manhasset Dutch Reformed Church Cemetery, Manhasset, Nassau County, Long Island, New York. The cemetery is located on 90 Plandome Road and is also known as Community Reformed Church Cemetery , Reformed Dutch Cemetery and Rosewood Cemetery . Find a Grave
Monfort Cemetery is located 250 feet east of the intersection of Port Washington Boulevard (NY 101) and Main Street in Port Washington, New York, United States. It contains 118 graves of some of the earliest Dutch settlers of Cow Neck (as today's Port Washington was then known) and their descendants, buried from 1737 to 1892. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. Th...
Wikipedia =Farmingdale State College is an American institution of higher education located on Long Island in East Farmingdale, New York. Also known as the State University of New York at Farmingdale or SUNY Farmingdale, it is a public college of the State University of New York. The college was chartered in 1912 as a school of applied agriculture under the name of New York State School Of Agri...
The Philadelphia Tapers were an American and professional basketball team that played a partial 1962–1963 season, and traces its history to the 1950s AAU New York Tapers.When Abe Saperstein's American Basketball League was born in 1961, Tuck Tape owner Paul Cohen purchased a franchise, gave it the Tapers name, and placed it in Washington. Cohen signed Gene Conley, who had played for the Boston ...