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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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circumference, being surrounded bya high bank, and is altogether a romantic and beautifulobject. It was stocked with the yellow perch by the lateDr. Samuel L. Mitchill, who in the third volume of theMedical Repository says: In 1790 my uncle UriahMitchill, sheriff of Queens County, and myself, went toRonkonkoma Pond in Suffolk County, a distance of fortymiles, in a wagon, for the purpose of transporting alivesome of the yellow perch from thence to Success Pond.We took about three dozen of those least injured by thehook, ?and put all but two into Success Pond in goodcondition; and in two years thereafter they had so mul-tiplied as to be caught by the hook in every part of thepond. It covers a surface of about 75 acres, is probably70 feet deep in the centre of it, and more than 150feet above the level of tide water. If it derives itscontents from springs as active as those in many otherplaces, it might at a comparatively small expense bemade to supply the city of Brooklyn with water. On
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o E> & fZ m HISTORY OF LONG ISLAND 205 this subject no satisfactory experiment has been made,and an unfavorable opinion seems to have been formedwithout any adequate examination. A Dutch Reformed Church was located here in 1731or 1732 and the land sold for 25s. by Martin Wiltsie toAdrian Onderdonk and C. Reyerson for the use andbenefit of the Reformed Netherland Dutch Congrega-tion of Hempstead to worship the Almighty Godin. It was repaired in 1786 and finally taken down in1832, about ten years afterward the new church was builtat Manhasset, the congregation having mostly joinedthe churches at Jamaica and Manhasset. It was oneof the collegiate churches of the county and was suppliedwith pastors in like manner as the other churches of thatdenomination. It had been occupied by the enemy in1782. The county courts were held therein, while thepresent court house was finishing in 1784. Great Neck, formerly Madnans, extends from Lake-ville to the Sound, between Cow Bay, anciently Hows

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