Series 3: Subject files, 1729-1895, inclusive
Scope and Contents
This series includes a variety of original historical documents such as handbills, petitions, fliers, programs, and financial records related to various Long Island communities. Queens County is especially well-represented in the series, including various original invoices for expenses related to the transportation, maintenance, and execution of prisoners in Queens County; electoral campaign materials for temperance candidate Simon Craft (1846), advertisements for James M. Huntting's English and Classical Family School (1857), a share of stock in the Jamaica Circulating Library (1861), and other matter. Documents related to Union Hall Academy of Jamaica include student petitions, a list of students (1847), an advertisement with tuition rates, rules and other information, and student exhibition programs. For present-day Nassau County, documents include the program for the laying of the cornerstone at the Cathedral of the Incarnation in Garden City (1877), a Hempstead Seminary advertisement (1837), notices for public celebratory events at Little Neck (1857) and Manhasset (1872), and a 1793 document dividing land (likely at Cow Neck) between James Hewlett and George Rapelje. The series includes genealogical research notes and correspondence for the Dodge family of Long Island, a transcription of a French and Indian War era (1758) muster roll and related notes concerning a New York battalion from a regiment commanded by Col. Oliver de Lancey, and an account from a doctor's daybook showing services rendered (1729-1731).
Arrangement
The series is arranged by subject.
Union Hall Academy, 1829-1871, inclusive
Scope and Contents
The Union Hall Academy materials include one folder of loose items and one bound volume in its own housing.
Dodge Family genealogical notes, 1878-1879, inclusive
French and Indian War, 1758
Queens County, 1791-1861, inclusive
Language of Materials
Queens County - prisoner expenses, 1783-1785, inclusive
Long Island, 1837-1872, inclusive
Long Island - churches, 1833-1881, inclusive
Notes, clippings, and ephemera, 1729-1895, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes a 1798 announcement of Robert Livingston's nomination for Governor, an 1895 notice of the sale of Virginia State Library reports, and an 1870 address from Henry A. Reeves, among other items. Two oversize items were removed to a larger box: "A Story of Olden Times" from Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, circa 1855, and the 1729-1730 doctor's daybook account mentioned in the Scope and Contents note of this series.
