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Sketches from Local History SKETCHES from LOCAL HISTORY WRITTEN AND COMPILED BY WILLIAMDONALDSON HALSEY BRIDGEHAMPTON, SUFFOLK COUNTY NEW YORK TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Page Foreword ............................................ 7 Stories of Ethan Halsey .......................... 149 Historical Facts Relating to Founding of the First Eng- Faith in Prayer ................................... I49 lish Colony in Xew York State ................... 9 A Temperance Story .............................. 13 First English Colony in New York State .............. In Histoq- of Southampton Township .................... 15 Some Stories of North Sea ........................... 1.51 -Area Covered by Maps ............................... 16 A Bridgehampton Episode ........................ 19 Dulce Domum ........................................ 18 A Ifan Out of Bondage .......................... I53 -%n Old Resident Dies ................................ 19 -4 Boy of the Last Century ....................... 1.54 -%n Ode to Our Forefathers ........................... 20 Several Stories of Local Interest .................. 1.54 Roads and Bridges ................................... 20 Opinion Changed By Locality ..................... 1-54 JIills and Millers ..................................... -35 Superstition and Witchcraft on Lmg Island ........... I jj School Houses and Schocl Teachers .................. 32 According to Scripture ...................... .. ... 157 Sagaponack School District KO. 10 ................ 33 Diamond Cut Diamond ........................... I# School District No. g ..........................:.. 35 Expression of Loyalty ............................ 15s School District No. S (Hay Ground) ............. 8 A Diplomat ...................................... I59 School District No. IS ............................ 39 , The Stories of Aaron Drake ...................... I59 School District No . 13 (Brick Kilns) ............. 31 . Wedding and Home Coming of a Sea Captain ...... 159 Water Mill School District ........................ 41 The Wrong Date ................................. 160 Churches and Ministers ............................... 41 A Plover Story ................................... 163 llusic in the Churches ........................... 50 A Shoemaker's Joke .............................. 161 Old Gravel-ards ....................................... 51 Stories of Luther Hildreth ........................ 162 Jlecor Graveq-ard ................................. 51 Sane Stories of Sag Harbor .......................... 162 . Poxabo-e Graveyard ............................ 51 -4 Sag Harbor Cooper ............................ 163 M'ainscatt Graveyard ............................. 52 Two Menhaden Fishermen ........................ 164 Hay Ground Graveyard ........................... 52 .\n Old Resident of Korth Haven ................. 164 Scuttle Hole Graveyard ........................... 53 A Story of Kathan Cook (Tailor) ................ 16j \Vater LIill Graveyard ............................ 54 An Old Resident af Noyack ....................... 166 Old Graveyard in Bridgehampton ................. 54 Fashions Change .................................. 136 Private Graveyards Now Discontinued ............ 5s Elbert Rose and Son Maltby ...................... 167 Old Dwelling Houses ................................. 60 Story of John Edwards ............................... 168 Mlat Became of Some Old Dwelling Houses .......... 68 Some Residents of Wainscott ......................... 168 Bridgehampton in the War of the Revolution .......... 70 An Old Time Mechanic ........................... 170 Txo Lives Span 168 Years ........................... 74 David Hedges and His Pigs ...................... 170 Abigail Howell in the Revolution ..................... 76 Daniel Talmage of Hay Ground ................... 170 John Hulburt and the First Stars and Stripes .......... 77 Same Stories of Bridgehampton ...................... 171 Long Island Troops Sail for Albany ...............78,79, 80 The Spilled Beans ................................ 172 The First Flagstaff in Bridgehamptan ................. 81 A Story on Piety ................................. 172 War of 1812 ......................................... 82 An Old Man's Charge to His Son ................. 172 The Civil War ....................................... 84 John Leek and His Dog .......................... 173 Storms, Cyclones and Earthquakes .................... 9 -4n Old Resident of the Brick Kilns ............... I73 Electrical Storn~s................................. 93 Embroidered Bed Curtains ........................ I74 Cq-clcmes .......................................... 95 A Story of the Brick Kilns ....................... I74 -another Cyclone .................................. 96 Jehial Go~daleGoes Courting ..................... 174 hrthquakes ...................................... Zachary Sandford znd His Wife .................. 175 Wrecks and Stranded Vessels ......................... A Lfarriage Contract ............................. I75 The "Money Ship," a Sequel to E. R . Shaw's "Pot z Stories of Howell Cook ........................... I75 of Gold," a Stary of Fire Island Beach .......... 98 The Moon and Dry Weather ......................... 176 Why Was the "John Milton" Wrecked? ........... 104 -4 Bedtime Stoq- ................................. 176 The Whaling Industry ................................ I07 Sto.ry of Arthur Loper ........................... 176 Libraries in Bridgehampton ........................... 11 j Israel Halsey of Hay Ground ..................... I77 Some Landmarks and Colloquialisms .................. 118 Raising Beans .......................... ... ...... I77 Items From An Old Letter ........................... 120 Women of Eastern Long Island in Early Days ......... 178 Items From Two Old Diaries ......................... 123 Hannah (Pierson) Halsey ........................ 179 Xoted Lawsuits ....................................... 123 "The Ballad of Pudding Hill" .................... 179 . -4 Jurar in the Foregoing Case .................... 128 How Phebe Saved Her Bread ..................... 180 -4nother Juror in the Same Case .................. 123 Story of Hannah H . Brown ...................... 181 -% Mutiny ........................................ 129 Mrs. Canstant Lhommedieu ....................... 181 "The Fox Case" or "Pierson vs. Post" ............ 131 Abigail (Hempstead) Moore and her Daughter Fanny 181 Another Noted Lawsuit ........................... 13 I Story of Two Shinnecock Indian Women .......... 183 1.Iecox Bay Oyster Case .......................... 132 Some of the Noted Men of This Community ........... 184 Szhedule of Votes in Suffdk County .................. 133 Chancellor Nathan Sandford ...................... I& . Items of Local Historical Interest ..................... I34 David Gelston .................................... 18j Lot Called Potash ................................ 13/J Hon . Abraham Topping Rose ..................... Picking Bayberries ................................ 130 Judge Henry Parscns Hedges ..................... 3 Stocks Built in Bridgehampton .................... I37 Deacon David Hedges ............................ 186 "The Curse of Scuttle Hole" ...................... 138 Colonel Edwin Rose .............................. 186 An Old Assessment Rall for the.Year 1805 ......... 138 Judge Hugh Halsey .............................. 186 Sketches From Koyack Hlstory ....................... 140 Bridgehampton L4en of the Medical Fraternity ......... 187 Cemeteries in Koyack ............................. 14 Dr. Stephen Halsey ............................... 187 Sketches of "Korth West" History .................... 145 Dr. Stephen Halsey (2nd) ........................ 187 Incidents in the Lives of Some Old Residents .......... 146 Dr. Kathaniei Topping ............................ 187 The Story of Silas Cook (Drum Major) .......... I47 Dr. John L . Gardiner ............................. 187 David P. Platt, An Old Time Peddler ............. 148 Dr. Levi D . Wright ............................... 187 Samuel Brown, of Butter Lane s ................... 149 Dr . Edgar B. Mulford ............................ 188 ILLUSTRATIONS E age Page -Auld Lang Syne ...................................... s Ellis Squires House. built I730 ........................ 83 North Sea Harbor and Rock 31onument ............... I3 Rev . Edward Hopper ................................. 90 Tablet on Rock Jlonurnent ........................... I3 Ocean in a Storm at llecox .......................... .91,02 British Fort, 3 orth of Canoe Place during the Revolution 14 Ice on the Ocean Shore at Water JIill, Winter 1918..... 93 Tow of Coal Barges Off Slc:ox ....................... I7 Founders' hlonument in Bridgehampton .............. .94.9j Panoramic View From Tower on John L . Gardiner Ship "Catherine" on the shore at Amagansett, August j, House ............................................ IS 18j1 .............................................. ss Toll House on Sag Harbcr-Bridgehampton Turnpike ... ..31 Brig "Jlars" wrecked at .\paquogue, IS&, photo taken Toll House on Sag Harbor-East Hampton Turnpike ... ..11 I931 ............................................ 100 Watermill, Water Jlill, built in 164-4-j ................. 27 French ship ''.Alexander Levalley," February IS, IS~Aat Spider Legged Mill, Bridgehampton, late 18th and early Miizkapogue ....................................... IOO 19th Century ...................................... 2s Schooner "Sorthcliff, " M'ainscott,
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