A History of Long Island From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time in Three Volumes
Ross, Peter
New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1903. Complete in 3 volumes, this history of Long Island; xxiii + 796 + xiv + 686 + v + 395 pages; index for each volume, extremely useful for genealogical research; black and white illustrated throughout; with information on the topography of the island, Indians & their lands, white discovery, early settlements, political and financial relations, wampum industry, the Dutch, Peter Stuyvesant, British government, early families & settlers, Lion Gardiner & his Purchase Gardiner's Island, colonizing schemes, old families in Kings and Queens counties, Lloyds & Jones; Early laws, justice, slavery on Long Island, Congregational and Presbyterian churches, Captain Kidd, Battle of Brooklyn, British Occupation, Long Island Loyalists, Revolutionary War heroes, War of 1812 naval operations around L.I.; education; Flatlands, Flatbush, New Utrecht, Williamsburgh, Bushwick, Greenpoint, Neziah Bliss, Gravesend, Lady Moody, Coney Island, Brooklyn, era of the Civil War, street railways, libraries, cholera, extension of the city, Navy Yard, Wallabout, Flushing, Newtown, Jamaica, Long Island City, summer resorts, medical profession on Long Island, dentists in Brooklyn, freemansonry on L.I., social world, Catholic Church, Nassau County, Hempstead, North Hempstead, Oyster Bay home of President Roosevelt, Suffolk County: Huntington, Babylon, Smithtown, Islip, Brookhaven, Riverhead, Southold, Shelter Island, Southampton, East Hampton, each town with its separate chapter; Appendix with Long Island troops in the Revolutionary War; Volumes II & III are biographical studies of the prominent on Long Island; bound in the original marbled-paper covered boards, pebbled leather spine & corners; gilt titles, top edges gilt; bindings very worn and chipped, all volume boards detached as are a few leaves at front of all the volumes and all are present; backstrips lacking on volumes II & III; still, very clean copies; the original bindings for these volumes are invariably falling apart, the text block was far too heavy for the covers; there are differences copy to copy of the "Ross-Pelletreau" L.I. History in that the biographies contained are not always the same; this set is a fair to good working copies for research or for rebinding. Fair Hardcover (Item ID: 19071)
$125.00
