Long Island Early Manuscripts collection
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Abstract
The collection contains correspondence, land deeds, wills, and legal and official documents, mainly related to 18th century Long Island. Includes materials related to enslaved people and Native Americans.
Biographical / Historical
This collection was likely assembled by BHS staff from multiple donations at an unknown date.
Arrangement
Materials have been grouped by subject.
Scope and Contents
This collection contains correspondence, legal and official documents, land deeds, wills, and two accounts of dreams or visions, one apocalyptic and the other martial and religious. The majority of the collection relates to late 17th through early 19th century Long Island, but a few documents concern Massachusetts during the same period. It contains documents relating to slavery (an enslaved person is included in the property bequeathed in a will and there is a bill of sale for a young enslaved Black woman) and Native Americans (multiple land deeds) and includes items of interest bearing on early LI families: Conkling of Easthampton, Hendrickson of South Hempstead, Udall of Islip, Willets of Islip, and Whitman of Huntington. Significant subjects include: Abraham Lincoln, George Clinton, and Wyandanch.
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Families
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People
Conditions Governing Access
Open to researchers without restriction.
Conditions Governing Use
All materials are in the public domain.
Preferred Citation
Identification of Item, date (if known); Early Long Island Manuscript collection, 1974.003, Box and Folder number; Brooklyn Historical Society.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Immediate source of acquisition unknown. Formally accessioned in 1974.
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Processing Information
Materials have been housed in acid free folders. Folder titles have been supplied by the archivist.
Oppressive descriptive language was remediated from subject terms, abstract, and scope and contents notes in this finding aid as part of an anti-racist descriptive language audit performed in December 2020.
