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Identifier: historyoflongisl03thom (find matches)
Title: History of Long island from its discovery and settlement to the present time
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Thompson, Benjamin Franklin, 1784-1849 Werner, Charles Jolly, 1887-
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Publisher: New York, R. H. Dodd
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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h names as had no duplicates. Ten namesof that description were submitted to be balloted for;when the name Roslyn was found to have the great-est number of votes, and was afterwards unanimouslyapproved by all who were present. We signed our namesto a paper expressing that approbation, which will nowbe submitted to the inhabitants generally for signature.I hope they will be pleased with it for we have takenmuch pains to get all the most suitable names that couldbe found from which to make a selection. And nowwhether we have made the best possible selection or notI cannot say; but it will at any rate remedy the difficultyin the Post-Office, and that was the principal thing wewanted. We had about half a dozen very good Indiannames, and I was almost sorry that one of them was notadopted. But all so far seem greatly pleased with thename Roslyn, a few, however, who seldom write let-ters, or receive them or papers from a distance, will, ofcourse, be opposed to any change. Such do not deserve
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HISTORY OF LONG ISLAND 199 to be consulted. As soon as we get our paper ready itwill be published in the County Papers. I am sorry to hear that you do not find so extensivea sale for your History of Long Island as might havebeen reasonably expected. But you know there may bevarious reasons for not purchasing a Book entirely inde-pendent of its merits or a desire to become acquaintedwith its contents. One contents himself with thinkingthat he can borrow Thompsons History of Long Islandfrom one of his neighbors, as he has often borrowedother books, and thus save two or three dollars for someother purpose, he hardly knows what;—another owns ashare in some Library where he can obtain the readingof it at any time;—another perhaps is taken up with theshilling publications of the light reading of the day,which he prefers to history, indeed to any useful read-ing, as he is enabled to get through with vast quantitieswith very little mental effort; whereas history and sciencerequire study t

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