Text Genealogy of the Townsend family, recto of leaf 99. Notes on Richard Townsend Jr.; includes three conveyances dated 1691-1694 for land in Hempstead from John Smith, Townsend's stepfather; Richard is referred to as Smith's "son in law" in the records, but this is an archaic usage. View Item
Text Genealogy of the Townsend family, recto of unnumbered leaf [17]. Notes documenting Thomas Townsend's and his family's appearances in the records of Queens County, 1712-1719, including an April 18, 1712 deed for the sale of land near Cold Spring Harbor from Seruckon, Maomy, and other Massapequa Indians to Townsend and 10 other inhabitants of Oyster Bay. View Item
Text Genealogy of the Townsend family, recto of unnumbered leaf [15]. Notes documenting Thomas Townsend's appearances and those of his son in law, Thomas Jones, in the records of Queens County, 1710-1711. View Item
Text Genealogy of the Townsend family, recto of unnumbered leaf [14]. Notes documenting Thomas Townsend's, his son John's, and son in law Thomas Jones's appearances in the records of Oyster Bay and Queens County, 1697-1708; including a July 13, 1697 Native American deed for woodland near Cold Spring to Townsend and others including his son, John, and son in law, Thomas Jones. View Item
Text Genealogy of the Townsend family, verso of unnumbered leaf [13]. Note regarding a July 13, 1697 Native American deed to Thomas Townsend and others including his son, John, and son in law, Thomas Jones, for land near Cold Spring; entire note crossed out obscuring much of the text. View Item
Text Genealogy of the Townsend family, recto of unnumbered leaf [13]. Notes regarding June 1697 documents relating to the acquisition of Fort Neck from Native Americans by inhabitants of Oyster Bay including Thomas Townsend's son John and son in law Thomas Jones, as well as the appointment of Thomas Townsend as town clerk of Oyster Bay and his son John and son in law Thomas Jones charged with assisting him. View Item
Text Genealogy of the Townsend family, verso of unnumbered leaf [12]. Notes documenting Thomas Townsend's appearances in the records of Oyster Bay, 1696-1697; includes a June 2, 1697 Native American deed to Thomas Townsend and three other residents of Oyster Bay; mentions a family tradition that Thomas Jones, husband of Thomas's daughter Freelove, had been a pirate under Captain John Avery. View Item
Text Genealogy of the Townsend family, verso of unnumbered leaf [11]. Notes documenting Thomas Townsend's appearances in the records of Oyster Bay, 1696-1697; includes a June 2, 1697 Native American deed to Thomas Townsend and three other residents of Oyster Bay; sheet formerly affixed to following leaf. View Item
Text Genealogy of the Townsend family, recto of unnumbered leaf [11]. Notes documenting an August 20, 1696 deed from Will Cheppie, Massapequa Indian, to Thomas Townsend for land at Fort Neck and acknowledgements of the deed by Will Cheppie, Seruckon, and Maomy; a sheet with notes affixed to leaf. View Item
Text Genealogy of the Townsend family, verso of unnumbered leaf [10]. Notes documenting Thomas Townsend's appearance in three 1696 deeds in the records of Oyster Bay: a June 29, 1696 deed for land in Oyster Bay from Ephraim Carpenter Jr. to Thomas Townsend: a June 30, 1696 deed from Townsend to his son, John, for properties in Oyster Bay; and a July 13, 1696 deed from Maomy and Will Cheppie, Massapequa Indians, to John Townsend for land at Fort Neck; with a slip with notes affixed to leaf. View Item
Text Genealogy of the Townsend family, recto of unnumbered leaf [10]. Notes documenting Thomas Townsend's appearance in three deeds in the records of Oyster Bay, 1694-1696: a June 1, 1694 deed from Cheppie, Maomy, and Will Cheppie, Massapequa Indians, to Thomas Townsend for land at Fort Neck; a January 13, 1696 [i.e. 1697] deed from Will Cheppie, Maomy, and Seruckon, to Townsend for additional land at Fort Neck; and June 29, 1696 deed for land at Fort Neck from Townsend to his son in law, Thomas Jones, and daughter, Freelove; with two slips with notes affixed to leaf. View Item
Text Genealogy of the Townsend family, verso of unnumbered leaf [9]. Notes documenting Thomas Townsend's appearances in the records of Oyster Bay, 1685-1694; includes a May 31, 1693 deed from Cheppie and other Massapequa Indians to Thomas Townsend for the sale of land at Fort Neck; with a slip with notes affixed to leaf. View Item
Text Genealogy of the Townsend family, verso of leaf 80. Notes documenting Henry Townsend's appearances in the records of Oyster Bay, 1683-1684; includes a July 4, 1683 deed from Suscanemon and Werah, Matinecock Indians, for the sale of a neck of land to Henry Townsend Sr. and his sons, Henry Jr. and John; sheet with notes affixed to leaf. View Item
Text Genealogy of the Townsend family, verso of unnumbered leaf [3]. Notes documenting Henry Townsend's appearances in the records of Oyster Bay, 1682-1683; includes deeds to and from Townsend; sheet with notes affixed to leaf. View Item
Image Text 2 Items Henry Case deed, June 16, 1737. Deed from Henry Case to Sylvester L'Hommedieu, both of Southold, for a small lot in Southold; witnesses unidentified. Part of upper left side torn away with loss; holes at folds affecting a few words; folded at foot affecting name of second witness. View Item
Image Text 3 Items Benjamin Moore deed, April 17, 1729. Deed from Benjamin Moore to Sylvester L'Hommedieu, both of Southold, for piece of land with a house in Southold; also signed by Moore's wife, Elizabeth Moore; witnessed by Charles Hole, Joseph Peck, Samuel Hudson; attested May 2, 1729 before Benjamin Youngs, judge; followed by a memorandum witnessed by Isaac(?) Gale and Samuel Wickham. View Item
Image Collection 22 Items Southold (N.Y.) collection, 1685-1765 Collection of documents relating to the people and land of the Town of Southold, Suffolk County, N.Y. Includes a legal brief in King vs. Josiah Raynor and William Reeve, presenting the case against them for poisoning twenty sheep belonging to Timothy Hudson of Southold. View Collection
Image Text 2 Items Joseph Addams deed, January 14, 1730. Deed from Joseph Adams, Great Egg Harbor, N.J., to Epenetus Platt, Huntington, for the sale of land near Halfway Hollow Hill in Huntington owned by Jeremiah Adams, Joseph's father, from whom he was a power of attorney to make the sale; witnessed by Uriah Platt and Samuel Smith; attested by Joseph Adams before John Wickes, justice of the peace, Suffolk County. View Item
Image Text 2 Items Augustine Moore quitclaim deed, April 24, 1758. Quitclaim deed from Augustine Moore, Newark, N.J., to Wilhelmus Wyckoff, Newtown, for a tract of land on Hellgate Neck (Astoria); witnessed by Nathaniel Moore and Martha Moore. View Item