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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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hs withconsiderable ability, but was finally abandoned for wantof patronage. By referring to the names of the early settlers of thistown, it will be seen that Richard Chasmore was amongthem; and the records show that by his last will, madein 1660, he gave most of his estate to the wife and chil-dren of his former friend, Henry Townsend of OysterBay, once a resident here, and who had also experiencedmuch illiberality as well as ill treatment, both from aportion of the inhabitants and from the government;solely, it appears, on account of his Quaker principles.Notwithstanding which, such was his benevolent feelingand temper, and so great his regard for his fellow-crea-tures, the victims of disease, poverty, and distress, in theplace which he had once inhabited, that he gave severalpieces of valuable land and meadow, with £176 inmoney, to the town as a perpetual fund, the income ofwhich was to be ever after applied for the relief ofpoor widows and children, persons blind, lamed, or aged,
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7? i=3 Q> <$ (uJj(Wj ---I: ©3 HISTORY OF LONG ISLAND 275 and such as should be unable to get a living, or any thatshould suffer by fire, and whose necessities might callfor relief. This property, presented to the town March 25, 1663,has been enjoyed more than 184 years, yet the generousdonor has been well-nigh forgotten, while the peoplehave been thus far materially relieved in the matter oftaxes. Since the fire of February 12, 1841, which consumedthe old academy buildings and others in the centre ofthe village, James Herriman, Esq., the owner, to whomthe place is much indebted for its growth and pros-perity, has erected substantial brick edifices on the samespot, which are highly creditable to him and an orna-ment to the village. A press was introduced here in 1819, and a weeklynewspaper commenced by Henry C. Sleight, entitled theLong Island Farmer, which was successively conductedby Thomas Bradlee and Isaac F. Jones, the last ofwhom, in 1840, transferred the establishment to

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