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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New England. (search)
ly a few years later, Hempstead, Jamaica, Flushing, Southampton, East Hampton, Brookhaven, Huntington, and Oyster Bay were settled by the English and some of them were united to Connecticut politically, until after the surrender of New Netherland to the English in 1664, when all Long Island came under the jurisdiction of New York (q. v.). In 1640 a New England captain purchased some land on the Delaware River of the Indians. Early the next spring colonists from New England, led by Robert Cogswell, sailed from the Connecticut for the Delaware in search of a warmer climate and more fertile soil. They lay for a few days at Manhattan, when they were warned not to encroach upon New Netherland territory. The English, according to De Vries, claimed everything ; and these New-Englanders went on and had no trouble in finding Indians to sell them unoccupied lands. Indeed, the Indians were ready to sell the same lands to as many people as possible. At the middle of the summer they had