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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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gs to Captain Levy Hayden, superintend-ent of a marine railway formerly existing at HuntersPoint. As early as 1853, this individual prophesied thatthe locality would some day be a city and insisted that Long Island City, should be the name applied to it.The name was perpetuated by Thomas H. Todd, whoon Friday, October 20, 1865, issued the first number ofa newspaper which he called the Long Island City Star. The city was apportioned into five wards and a mayorand other officials elected. The city as a separate municipality existed untilJanuary 1, 1898, when it was merged into the city ofNew York as part of the Borough of Queens. On the same date, that part of Newtown not in-cluded in Long Island City, also was taken into the cityof New York as part of the Borough of Queens and theform of town government abolished. Rev. E. M. McGuffeys Historical Discourse on St.James Church and Older Newtown, and James RikersAnnals of Newtown have been consulted in the editingof the Chapter on Newtown.
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BUSHWICK Occupies the north-eastern part of Kings County ad-joining the East River and Newtown Creek, beingbounded north and east by Newtown and the channel ofthe East River, west by Williamsburgh, and south byBrooklyn, and that part of Flatbush called New Lots.It is about one mile wide and five miles long. Anteriorto March 16, 1840, Williamsburgh was included in thistown, consequently the previous history of the formermust necessarily be embraced in our account of the lat-ter. It is, however, to be regretted that so much un-certainty and confusion exists in relation to the precisetime and manner of its first settlement, the ancient rec-ords of which, being by time and accident greatly in-jured or entirely destroyed. What remains is mostly inDutch, and so abbreviated or obscurely written as to beof little assistance to the historian. It is highly probable that individuals had taken pos-session of various parts of the town at a very earlyperiod, without any view to a plantation and wit

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