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Browsing named entities in a specific section of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing). Search the whole document.
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Long Island City (New York, United States) (search for this): entry long-island
Brooklyn (New York, United States) (search for this): entry long-island
Lynn (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): entry long-island
Long Island.
Some of the inhabitants of Lynn, Mass., finding themselves straitened for land, went to Long Island in search of a plantation.
They bargained for a tract near the west end with Lord Stirling's agent and with the natives.
The jealous Dutch sent a force to take possession of the land, and set up the arms of the Prince of Orange.
Soon afterwards a dozen of the English company began to erect buildings there, and took down the Dutch arms and placed the effigy of an ugly Indian er a few days, having taken an oath of allegiance to the stadtholder.
The adventurers now moved to the east end of the island, and, to the number of forty families, settled the town of Southampton. Rev. Mr. Pierson, with several of the company at Lynn, formed a church, and all went to Southampton, where he became their pastor.
There they formed a civil government in 1640.
The same year a large tract of land on Long Island was purchased of the Indians for the Connecticut colony, and settlement
Staten Island (New York, United States) (search for this): entry long-island
Jamaica, L. I. (New York, United States) (search for this): entry long-island
Manhattan, Riley County, Kansas (Kansas, United States) (search for this): entry long-island
Orange, N. J. (New Jersey, United States) (search for this): entry long-island
Long Island.
Some of the inhabitants of Lynn, Mass., finding themselves straitened for land, went to Long Island in search of a plantation.
They bargained for a tract near the west end with Lord Stirling's agent and with the natives.
The jealous Dutch sent a force to take possession of the land, and set up the arms of the Prince of Orange.
Soon afterwards a dozen of the English company began to erect buildings there, and took down the Dutch arms and placed the effigy of an ugly Indian in its place.
The Dutch, provoked, sent some soldiers, who brought off the Englishmen and imprisoned them; but they were released after a few days, having taken an oath of allegiance to the stadtholder.
The adventurers now moved to the east end of the island, and, to the number of forty families, settled the town of Southampton. Rev. Mr. Pierson, with several of the company at Lynn, formed a church, and all went to Southampton, where he became their pastor.
There they formed a civil government
Delaware (Delaware, United States) (search for this): entry long-island
Dutch (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): entry long-island
Stamford, Conn. (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): entry long-island