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Six Connecticut Bills of forty shilling each Lawfull Money. (File No. 178.)
[1805, April 23.]
At a Meeting of a respectable Number of Electors of the Western district of the County of Suffolk at the dwelling House of Elkanah Platt in Huntington on the 23rd Apl 1805 Resolved unamimously that Major Isreal
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Carll be supported as a Candidate for the Assembly of this state at the Ensuing Election in Concurrence with two other Genuine republican Candidates that may be Nomi- nated in the two other districts of the County.
Signed by order of the Meeting TIMOTHY CONKLING, Char.
MOSES BLACKLY, Secy. (File No. 324)
[1805, May 7.]
At a Meeting of the Commissioners of Excise of the Town of Huntington at the House Eliphalet Chichester for the purpose of Licencing Inns and Taverns & for Granting Licence for Retailing of Spiritous Liquors 7th May 1805.
Present Isreal Carll Supervisor. Jacamiah Brush Nathaniel Potter Justices. Charles Colyer
Resolved That Conklin Ketcham Eliphalet Chichester Epenetus Smith Jeffery Woodhul John Scudder Jacob Smith George Everitt Ezekill Wickes Platt Brush Philetus Snedecor Jonathan Titus John Person Piatt Carll Thomas Seaman Hawly Beers & Abel Brush be Licensed to keep Inns and Taverns in this Town the present year.
ISREAL CARLE, JACOMIAH BRUSH, NATHANIEL POTTER, CHARLES COLYER-Commissioners of Excise.
(File No. 325.)
[DEED .- THOMAS FLEET TO R. WOODWARD.]
[Abstract.] [1805, Aug. 15.]
Deed Thomas Fleet to Russel Woodward Consideration
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$2500. "one messuage or Tract of Land and Meadow sit- uate Lying and Being in the Town Plat of the Town of Huntington aforesaid Butted and Bounded as follows to wit begining at the North side of the highway Sixty feet westerly from the out Side of the foundation of the west side of the Presbyterian Meeting House thence running near northerly on the line parellel with the West side of said Meeting house untill it goes twenty feet more northerly than the out Side of the foundation of the North end of Said Meeting house thence near Easterly on the Line Runing parellel with the North end of Sa House untill it striks Land belonging to the Corporation of the presbyterian Congregation in Huntington now Lying in Common thence Runing nearly North as the fence now stands untill it Strikes Meadow Belonging to Benjamin Gould thence Runing Nearly westerly as the fence now stands untill it Strikes Meadow Belonging to Abel Conk- ling thence Runing Nearly Southerly as the fence now stands untill it strikes the highway Leading from the Meeting house to the Dwelling House of Timothy Wil- liams thence runing nearly Easterly by said Highway untill it Comes to the place of begining Containing thirty acres by estimation Be it more or less Bounded Easterly partly by Land belonging to the presbyterian Congrega- tion of Huntington partly by Meadow and Swamp be- longing to Jesse Buffett partly by the Land and Meadow belonging to the heir of Isreal Wood (deceased) partly by the Land of Abiel Gould Northerly partly by Meadow of Benjamin Gould and partly by the Great ditch runing between the said Benjamin Goulds Meadow and said Bargained premises Westerly partly by Meadow of Abel Conkling and partly By Meadow and Land I Bought of George Powers Southerly by the afore mentioned High- way to the place of begining" Covenant of quiet enjoy-
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ment Right of Dower assigned to purchaser. EZEKIEL CONKLING JACOMIAH BRUSH
THOMAS FLEET his
FRANCES X FLEET mark
(Deeds and Leases, Vol. I, pp. 7-10.)
[1805, September 3rd]
Whereas Gilbert Platt of the Town of Huntington in the County of Suffolk and State of New York, hath (in pursuance of the provisions of the statute of the State aforesaid in such cases made and provided) made applica- tion to us the undersigned Overseers of the Poor of the Town of Huntington aforesaid for the emancipation of A Certain negro man Slave named Cesar We have therefore examined in the State and circumstances of said Slave and find him to be under fifty years of age and in our Judge- ment and Opinion of sufficient ability to provide for and maintain himself we do therefore here by Certify that we approve of and consent to the manumition Said Slave.
In witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names this third day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and five. 1805.
THOMAS ROE Overseers of the Poor of the SAMUEL FLEET ( Town of Huntington aforesaid (File No. 326 )
[TOWN MEETING.]
[Abstract.]
[1806, April I.]
Election of Town Officers held April 1 1806 to serve for
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one year.
Town Clerk-Moses Rolph. Supervisor-Isreal Carll. President of the Trustees-Timothy Conkling Jun, and Trustees-Nathaniel Biggs Samuel Fleet, John Oakley, Samuel Scidmore, Phineas Carll, Richard Conkling Jun" Committee to assist the Trustees in Law Suit-Henry Scudder, Jacomiah Brush, Isreal Carll, Moses Blachly. Assessors-Jacomiah Brush, Nathaniel Potter, Henry Scudder, Selah Carll, Thomas Ketcham. Town Survey- ors-Charles Colyer, John Oakley, Abel Ketcham. Over- seers of the Poor-Thomas Roe, Samuel Fleet. Commis- sioners of Highways-Jacomiah Brush, Amos Platt, Silas Smith. Collector-Jacob Smith. Constables-Elkanah Platt, Jacob Smith, Peter Wickes, Platt Vail Jun' David Bryan. Pound Master-Thomas Woodward. Fence Viewers-Josiah Smith and twenty nine others. "Over- seers for the South path from Town to Daniel Pearsalls to call on any man in the Neighborhoods to mend where said overseers think Necessary on said Road Overseers for the above path, Silas Ketcham William Jervis Josiah Smith Isreal White George Everitt."
"Overseers of Highways-Thomas Rogers, David Fleet" and forty two others.
Isreal Carll, Isreal Platt and Amos Platt to take Charge of Intestate Estates in the Town.
Swine Act reenacted.
"Resolved that if any person or persons shall place any Boxes for the purpose of destroying any fowl in the south Bay him or them shall for every such offence pay the sum of five dollars to be Recovered the one half to the Com- plainant and the other for the Use of the Town."
"Recorded by Moses Rolph Town Clerk." (Town Meetings, Vol II, pp. 265-71.)
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[LEASE OF THE FERRY TO NORWALK.]
[1806, April I.]
This Indenture made between Timothy Conkling Junor. President of the Trustees of the Town of Huntington in the County of Suffolk and state of New York by and with the Consent of the other Trustees of the Town of Hun- tington and Nathan Smith and Jacob Jonson of the other part of the same place for and in Consideration of the rents and Covenants herein after Mentioned and Contained wich on the part and behalf of the said Nathan Smith and Jacob Jonson are to be paid and perform'd hath demised Granted and to farm Letten and by these presence doth demise unto the said Nathan Smith and Jacob Jonson the Ferry from the Harbour of Huntington to Norwalk in Connecticut to have and to hold the said ferry unto them the said Nathan Smith and Jacob Jonson for and during the term of five years fully to be Compleat and ended yealding and paying the sum of eight Dollars therefore yearly and every year during the said term hereby granted unto the said Timothy Conkling or his successors in office to be applyd to the Towns Use and further it is observed in this Indenture or Lease that the said Nathan Smith and Jacob Jonson doth hereby Covenant and agree to provide and keep in good repair A sufficient boat Covenent for the purpose of Carrying passengers stock and Carriges from said harbour in Huntington to Norwalk in Connecticut and further we the said Nathan Smith and Jacob Jonson do Covenant and agree to keep said Vesel or boat in said harbour of Huntington ready for passengers or stock from the first of March to the first of December in Each and every year during said Lease Except when Actually on our passage or Detained by the Weather or tide and fur- ther I the said Timothy Conklin juner Presedent of the
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Trustees do hereby Impower the said Nathan Smith and Jacob Jonson to ask and receive from every passenger they shall so Carry across said ferry the sum of fifty cents and for every hors or ox the sum of sixty two and half cents and also the sum of seventy five Cents for each and every Carriage with two wheels and for each and Every four Wheel Carriage the sum of one Dollar and further the said Nathan Smith and Jacob Jonson doth Covenant and agree to go on the passage in said Ferry at any time when weather permits for two passengers betwixt the first of March and the first of December in each and every year and further it is agreed that the said Nathan Smith and Jacob Jonson shall for one passenger in the above Limited time go on the passage by his paying the sum of one Dollar and it is agreed further that if the yearly rent or any part thereof shall be behind and unpaid for the space of thirty days the lessors to reenter.
Quietly to have hold and occopy said Ferry during the term hereby Granted without any Disturbance of him the said Timothy Conklin or of any other person Claiming or to Claim by from or under him or by from or under his successors in office in Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the Town of Huntington this first Day of April in the year of our Lord one Thousand Eight Hundred and Six.
TIMOTHY CONKLING Jr., Pd.
In the presence of CHARLES COLYER. MOSES ROLPH.
Received 15 Dollars of Jacob Johnson on the within Lease for the ferry. $15.
MOSSES ROLPH. (File No. 177.)
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[1806, May 6.]
At A Meeting of the Commissioners of Excise of the Town of Huntington at the House of Platt Carlls the 6th day of May 1806.
Isreal Carll, Supervisor.
Present
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Jaramiah Brush Charles Colyer Nathaniel Potter
Justices
Resolved that Philetus Snedecor Jonathan Titus Platt Carll George Everitt John Scudder Jacob Smith Epenetus Smith Eliphalet Chichester Jeffery A. Woodhul Ezekiel Wickes Hawly Beers Jacob Hooper Thomas Fleet Elkanah Brush Thomas Woodward John Pearsal Abel Brush & Eb- enezer Gold Be Licensed to Keep Inns and Taverns the present year.
ISREAL CARLL JARAMIAH BRUSH CHARLES COLYER NA- THANIEL POTTER, Commissioners of Excise.
( File No. 327.)
[LEASE BY TRUSTEES.]
[1806, July 5.]
To all whom it may Concern know ye that I Timothy Conkling Jun' President of the Trustees of the freeholders and Commonality of the Town of Huntington in the Coun- ty of Suffolk and State of New York by and with the Con- sent of the other Trustees of said Town and for and in Consideration of the sum of five Dollars and seventy five Cents by these presents doth Demise, Grant, and to farm Let all the Grass for this Season on the Island and Beach in the South Bay of said Town of Huntington from Cedar Island East to the Great gut or Huntington East Gut unto Samuel Vail of Smith Town the County aforesaid in Wit- ness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of
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the Trustees of said Town of Huntington the fifth Day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and six in the presence of Moses Rolph.
TIMOTHY CONKLING P. D., Trustees. (File No. 176.)
[TOWN MEETING.]
[Abstract.]
[1807, April 7.]
Election of Town officers held April 7 1807, to serve Ior one year.
Town Clerk-Moses Rolph. Supervisor-Isreal Carll. President of Trustees-Timothy Conkling. Trustees- Phineas Carll, Samuel Scidmore, Richard Conkling Jun", Solomon Ketcham, Eliphalet Chichester, Moses Blachly. Assessors-Jacomiah Brush, Thomas Ketcham, William Wickes, Nathaniel Potter, Henry Scudder Jun". Over- seers of the Poor-Thomas Roe, Samuel Fleet. Town Sur- veyors-John Oakley, Charles Colyer, Abel Ketcham. Highway Commissioners-Jacomiah Brush, Amos Platt, Silas Smith. Collector-Jacob Smith. Constables-El- kanah Platt, Jacob Smith, Peter Wickes, Platt Vail Jun". Pound Mater-Thomas Woodward.
Isreal Carll, Isreal Platt and Amos Platt were chosen to take charge of Intestate Estates in the Town.
"Resolved that any person heaping Sea weed on the Shores at the harbour in Huntington shall not give them any title to it any more than if it Lay in the Same manner the tide Left it."
"Overseers of Highways-Thomas Rogers highway Master for Santepague path up the Neck to Call on the proprietors, Abraham Van Wick Jr." and forty four others. Fence Viewers-Josiah Smith and thirty others.
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Fifteen hundred dollars Voted to be raised to defray the expense of maintain the Poor of the Town.
Recorded by Moses Rolph, Town Clerk (Town. Meetings, Vol. II, pp. 272-277.)
[1807, May 5.]
At A Meeting of the Commissioners of Excise of the Town of Huntington at the House of Eliphalet Chichester for the purpose of Granting Licence to Retailers of Spir- itous Liquors & Likewise for Inns and Taverns the 5th day of May 1807.
Present Isreal Carll, Supervisor. Jaramiah Brush Nathaniel Potter & Justices. Charles Colyer
Resolved That Eliphalet Chichester Epenetus Smith George Everitt David Ketcham Thomas Fleet Johaberd Beedler Philetus Snedecor Thomas Seaman Platt Carll, Ezekiel Wickes, Jeffery A. Woodhul John Scudder Jacob Smith Jonathan Titus Elkanah Brush Ebenezer Gould Thomas Woodward Hawly Beers Jacob Hooper Abel Brush Theodore Wickes Darlin Whitney Jesse Rogers Alexander Smith Daniel Pearsal & David Conklin Be Li cenced to Keep Inns and Taverns the present year.
ISREAL CARLL JAREMIAH BRUSH NATHANIEL POTTER, CHARLES COLYER, Commissioners of Excise.
(File No. 328.)
[SUIT BETWEEN WILLIAM NICOLL AND THE TRUSTEES OF THE TOWN.]
[1807, June I.]
IN CHANCERY-
"Isreal Howell a witness produced sworn and examined
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on Direct Interrogatories to him administered and filed in a certain cause pending in the Court of Chancery of the State of New York wherein William Nicoll, an infant, by Selah Strong and Richard Udall, his guardians are com- plainants, and the Trustees of the Freeholders of the Town of Huntington, Isaiah Jarvis, Silas Smith, and Jesse Weeks and Timothy Conklin, Phineas Carll, John Oakley, Samuel Scidmore R. Conklin and Nathaniel Briggs are Defendants, on the part of the Complainants Deposeth as follows, viz:
To the first Interrogatory this Deponent saith that he is Sixty five years of age, is a farmer and miller and resides at Islip in the County of Suffolk.
To the twenty first Interrogatory this Deponent saith that he is well acquainted with a certain Gut, Inlet or water passage from the Bay in question thro the beach into the Atlantic Ocean now commonly Called Fire Island Inlet, that he has known the same as long as he can re- member and that about fifty years ago remembers that it was called the Great Gut.
To the twenty second Interrogatory this Deponent saith that he is perfectly well acquainted with the Beach which separates the Bay on the South side of Long Island from the Sea as enquired of by the said Interrogatory, and particularly with that part of the said Beach to the East- ward adjoining and near the said Gut or Inlet commonly called Fire Island Inlet and has been acquainted with it for fifty years and upwards having been on the same oftener than he can enumerate and near the said Beach to the Eastward of the said Gut or Inlet so to observe the form thereof where it joins the Inlet on the Eastwardly part thereof and has been on and near the same as well latterly as formerly, that he has also been acquainted with the said Island called Fire Island as well and as long as with the said Beach and has frequently on and around almost every part of the said Island and particularly the
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South part thereof so as to observe the form of the same and this Deponent saith that the westermost part of the said Beach which is on the Easterly side of the said Inlet extends further to the Westward than the Westermost part of the said Fire Island. And this Deponent saith that from his own observation and Knowledge in the course of his long and familiar acquaintance with the said Island and beach last above Mentioned he is certain that for- merly and within his remembrance the Westermost end of the said beach on the Eastwardly side of the said Inlet did not extend so far Westward as at present That he remembers the time when the Southerly side of the said Fire Island lay so much exposed to the open sea thro' the said Gut or Inlet that it was dangerous to navigate near and along the said Southerly side in a hard gale on ac- count of the high and heavy surf that rolled directly in from the Ocean and broke upon the shore, but that at present owing to the increase and projection of the said Westerly part of said Beach on the Eastwardly side of said Gut or Inlet in manner aforesaid the said Southerly side of the said Fire Island is entirely protected from the surf.
To the twenty third Interrogatory this Deponent saith that it has always has been customary without any ex- ception to his Knowledge among the inhabitants and people in that part of the County when speaking of the Island before mentioned by the name of Fire Island to call the same an Island or Fire Island in the singular number as one Island and distinguishing it by name from the said other Islands lying in the same Bay, as Cap Tree Island, Oak Island and Grass Island and further that altho' the said Islands except Oak Island have small cuts or water passages thro' them yet has neither of them on that ac- count or any other to his Knowledge ever been called or mentioned in the plural number.
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To the twenty fourth Interrogatory this Deponent saith that he knows the situation of the mansion house and farm of the Complainant and which belonged to and came to him from his male ancestors situate at Islip in Suffolk County on the North side of the Bay in which the Islands called Fire Island Cap Tree Island and Oak Island etc are situated at a place called Coneticut River : and this De- ponent sayeth that the said River is farther to the East- ward than the Eastern most of the said Islands so that a line runing due South from the said River to the Beach on the outer side of the Bay would strike the said Beach a mile to the Eastward of the said Fire Island.
To the twenty fifth Interrogatory this Deponent saith that as he has already deposed he knows the inlet or water passages called Fire Island inlet ; that as long as he can remember the same has always been called Fire Island inlet or Gut, and has never within his Knowledge been called Huntington Gut.
To the twenty sixth Interrogatory this Deponent saith that he has heard his Father and Uncle and other old people say that there was formerly a long Inlet or Gut thro' the said Beach now called Sicketauge Beach into the ocean ; that it was to the Westward of all the said Islands above enumerated and from the description he has had of it, it must have been a mile to the Westward of Oak Island, that till within a few years there was a small wash or water passage not far from the place last mentioned and near Oak Island and which at times was filled up with the sand thrown in by the Ocean, and at other times again broke thro' but so as to be navigable by boats and that at present it is filled up with the sand.
To the twenty eighth Interrogatory this Deponent saith that the said Selah Strong and Richard Udall as Guardians of the Complainant have been in the practice from time to time since they have been such guardians of granting
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permission to sundry persous to cut and carry away grass. from the said Cap Tree Island, Oak Island and Grass Island, but he has never seen no written lease or per- mission for that purpose-and that in consequence of such permission a number of persons have been in the habit of Cutting grass from the said Islands.
To the twenty ninth Interrogatory this Deponent saith that as he has already related there was till within a few years past a small opening or water passage thro' the said Beach nearly opposite the westerly end of Oak Island but that the same is now filled up, and there is no water passage thro' the said Beach to the Westward of said Island till you come to Gilgo Inlet.
To the other Interrogatories this Deponent was not ex- amined and to the Last he cannot depose.
ISREALL HOWELL.
Sworn and examined this first day of June 1807 Before me ANTHONY BLEECKER, Examiner in Chancery .*
(File No. 346 " A.")
[1807, July 23.]
John Edwards a witness produced, sworn and examined.
[* This suit in Chancery was brought in behalf of William Nicoll against the Trustees of this Town in order to establish his title and recover possession of certain islands and beaches in the Great South Bay. It was the culmination of a long dis- pute and bitter contention between the parties. Several suits had already originated between persons holding leases from the respective claimants, but these suits had settled none of the issues. The Nicoll family had for many years owned and occupied an extensive tract of land adjoining the Bay, and had from a remote period claimed these islands under grants from Colonial Governors. On the other hand, Huntington claimed the premises under Indian deeds and its first grant in 1666. This suit lasted over seven years, and both sides employed distinguished counsel. It was decided in 1814, the great Amer-
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To the First Interrogatory this Deponent saith that he is in the Sixty ninth year of his age, that he resides in Islip on Long Island and is a Farmer.
To the Twenty second Interrogatory this Deponent saith that he is well acquainted with the Beach adjoining the said Gut or Inlet and has been acquainted with the same forty years and particularly with that part of it to the Eastward adjoining the said Inlet, that formerly he used to go frequently on the same and has been there with- in ten years past, that he also knows the said Fire Island and has been frequently on the Southerly side thereof so as to observe the form of the same and that the West wardly part of the said Beach which is on the Eastwardly side of the said Inlet extends at present farther to the West than the Westermost end of the said Fire Island. And this Deponent saith that according to his Judgment and belief and what he knows of the changeable nature of the said Beach, the said Western most end of said Beach adjoining the Easterly part of said Inlet did not formerly extend as far to the West as it now does by two or three miles-the said parts of the said Beach has within his remembrance increased very considerably towards the West, that he recollects the time when a very heavy surf
ican jurist, James Kent, rendering the decision of the Court. The suit was dismissed, each side paying its own costs. While this suit was a triumph by Huntington, in having determined that William Nicoll did not have title to the premises, it hardly established title in Huntington, but left the question open as to whether it was within the limits of any grant or not, and subsequently, as we shall find, the matter was settled by a compromise. The papers in this case, on file in the Town Clerk's office, are voluminous and in a good state of preserva- tion, but only a few have been selected for printing and these are given chiefly because they show the situation of the shores and beaches of the South Bay soon after the settlement of the Town, and the changes which have since taken place, occa- sioned by the wind and waves opening new inlets and closing. old ones .- C. R. S.]
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in ordinary times used to break on the Southwest end of the said Fire Island, but that at present owing to the pro- jection of the said Westerly part of said Beach as above mentioned the south West end of the said Island is no longer exposed to the surf of the Ocean except in very great storms and then only in a comparatively small de- gree-And this Deponent further saith he is inclined to think from appearances that the Westermost end of the said Beach on the Easterly side of the aforesaid Inlet was for- merly as far Eastward as the Easterly part of the said Fire Island.
To the Last Interrogatory this Deponent cannot Depose. JACOB WILLETS.
Affirmed and Examined this 23rd day of July 1807 Before me.
ANTHONY BLEECKER Examiner in Chancery.
(File No. 346 "B.")
[1807, Nov. 7.]
IN CHANCERY ----
Daniel Udall a witness produced sworn examined.
To the first Interrogatory This Deponent saith that he is in the fifty second year of his age-is a mariner and re- sides in the Town of Huntington on Long Island.
To the Twenty fifth Interrogatory this Deponent saith that he has Known the said Inlet or Gut through the Beach to the Sea now called Fire Island Inlet ever since he was a boy and that he never heard the same called Huntington Inlet, nor by any other name than he has above mentioned, but that he Knows an Inlet called Hun- tington Inlet between Oak Island and Cedar Island and running round the South side of Cedar Island and between
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