History of Long Island From Its Discovery Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. 2

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Excerpt from History of Long Island From Its Discovery Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. 2: Revised Greatly Enlarged With Aditions and a Biography of the Author by Charles J. Werner This extensive county, embracing more than two-thirds of Long Island, was organized November 1, 1683, by an act passed in the first general assembly, and during the administration of Governor Dongan, entitled an "act to divide the province of New York into shires and counties," which see at large in a former page. This county includes all that part of Long Island to the eastward of Oyster Bay, and a line extending from the head of Cold Spring Harbor southwardly to the Atlantic Ocean, excepting Lloyd´s Neck or Queens village, which belongs to the town of Oyster Bay. The extreme length of the county (without reference to the islands in the Sound) is nearly 100 miles, and its medium breadth from the Sound to the ocean, twelve miles. Area, 1000 square miles, or 640,000 acres. It is bounded north by the Sound, east by the confluence of the Sound and ocean at Montauk Point, south by the ocean, and west by Lloyd´s Neck, Cold Spring Harbor, and the east bounds of Queens County, together with Gardiner´s, Plumb, the Great and Little Gull, and Fisher´s Islands, in the Sound, and Shelter and Robins´ Island in Peconic Bay. The county is subdivided into nine municipal corporations or towns: - Huntington, Islip, Smithtown, Brookhaven, Riverhead, Southold, Shelter Island, Southampton, and Easthampton. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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