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Add participants in the Utah War of 1857 to this project. You can visit HistoryLink to find out which projects include your ancestors. The Utah War , also known as the Utah Expedition , Utah Campaign , Buchanan's Blunder , the Mormon War , or the Mormon Rebellion was an armed confrontation between Mormon settlers in the Utah Territory and the armed forces of the United States government. The co...
In 1645, Flushing , then a town called Vlissengen , was granted a charter by the Dutch West India Company and became a part of New Netherlands . It was settled largely by English families, similar to English settlements at Gravesend, Hempstead, and Jamaica, Long Island. A respected Flushing colonist, Henry Townsend , held a Quaker meeting in his home and was fined and banished. Flushing citize...