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Copies of deeds and records relating to the Townsend family, page 142.
Excerpt from the Dutch records of the state of New York, March 10, 1664, noting the May 1640 attempt by English colonists to land near Manhasset Bay (here misidentified as Southampton) which was repulsed by the Dutch, and claiming that the Dutch had settled in western Long Island by 1632; and an excerpt from a 1673 letter by Matthias Harvey, town clerk, for the town of Oyster Bay, to Cornelis Evertsen and Jacob Binckes, submitting to Dutch rule following the recapture of New Netherland from the English.
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