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HISTORY OF LONG ISLAND;

CONTAINING

AN ACCOUNT

OF THE

DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENT;

WITH OTHER

IMPORTANT AND INTERESTING MATTERS

TO THE

PRESENT TIME.

BY BENJAMIN F. THOMPSONS. R. C. M

COUNSELLOR AT LAW.

GIFT

"History presents complete examples. Experience is doubly defective; we are born too late
to see the beginning, and we die too soon to see the end of many things. History supplies both
of these defects: modern history shows the causes, when experience presents the effects alone:
and ancient history enables us to guess at the effects, when experience presents the causes alone."
BOLINGBROKE.

NEW-YORK:

PUBLISHED BY E. FRENCH, 146 NASSAU STREET.
1839.

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1839, by ELI FRENCH, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New-York.

SCATCHERD AND ADAMS, PRINTERS,

To

THE HONORABLE SILAS WOOD,

LATE REPRESENTATIVE IN THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED
STATES, FROM LONG ISLAND.

SIR:

The idea of dedicating this volume to you was coexistent with the resolution to enter upon the compilation of it; and surely to no individual could it be so justly or appropriately inscribed, as to one, to whose talents, information, and indefatigable industry, the public are deeply indebted for the first attempt to perpetuate the civil and political history of Long Island. That publication has received, as it deserved, universal approbation; and it is therefore much to be regretted that your inclination for repose should have prevented you from preparing a new and enlarged edition of the "Sketch of the first Settlement of the several Towns upon Long Island," in which event the present compilation would not have been undertaken. The materials of your work have been so fully incorporated into the present, as to give it a particular claim to your favor.

With sentiments of esteem and respect, I remain, Sir, Your obt. Servant,

January 1, 1839.

BENJ. F. THOMPSON.