Contents of Brooklyn Historical Society's Journals of Long Island History Introduction From 1939-1942, 1961-1969, and 1973-1982, the Brooklyn Historical Society (known then as the Long Island Historical Society) published a periodic journal, called the Long Island Historical Society Quarterly in 1939-42 and, in the later years, The Journal of Long Island History . The journals include articles on historical topics concerning Kings, Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk counties. Many of the articles, especially in the 1939- 1942 volumes, include full or partial transcriptions of account books, correspondence, deeds, tombstone inscriptions, and other manuscripts from the BHS collection and elsewhere. Following is an inventory of the journals' contents, compiled by BHS library staff in 2010. The content descriptions are generally as found in the tables of contents, though entries for BHS publication lists, contributor biographies, and other such front and back matter were not recorded in this inventory. Indexes for the 1939-1941 quarterlies are found in issue number 4 of each year. In 1961, the new journal began again with Volume 1; an index for these volumes 1- 14 are found in Volume 15 of 1978. For articles with core content not made clear by the article title itself, keywords were added by the inventory compiler. These keywords are [bracketed]. Articles that are comprised entirely or substantially of transcribed (or translated) documents are noted with the keyword "transcription." The modern name of a neighborhood, town, or other recognizable reference point is often used as a keyword for articles that refer to names perhaps no longer used or recognized. Given the changes in nomenclature used over the course of the Journal 's life, the keyword "African-American" was used for all articles and transcriptions with significant references to African-American history. Year Vol.# Author Article Title 1939 1.1 Flick, Alexander C. Historic Long Island. [state historian introduction] 1939 1.1 Merritt, Jesse Samuel Jones. [Great Jones Street] [Long Island] [colonial period] [American Revolution] [politics] 1939 1.1 Robbins, Williams A. Inscriptions in the Tredwell burying ground, Great Neck, L.I. [transcription] 1939 1.1 Frost, Josephine C. Lady Deborah Moody's gravestone. 1939 1.1 Frost, Josephine C. Bible records: Corwin; Howell; Sands. [transcription] 1939 1.1 Unidentified Documents and letters: Francis Lewis, Jr., and others, Jamaica, Feb. 19, 1789, to the electors of Suffolk County. [transcription] [gubernatorial candidate Robert Yates] 1939 1.1 Unidentified Accessions to the library. 1939 1.2 Belknap, Reginald R. The tomb of the unknown sailors. [American Revolution] 1939 1.2 Field and Johnston Fort Greene Park in the Battle of Long Island. [Abstracts from accounts by Field and Johnston] 1939 1.2 Whitman, Walt Ode (to be sung on Fort Greene; 4th of July, 1846). 1939 1.2 Unidentified A brief history of the prison ships and the Prison Ship Martyrs' Memorial. 1939 1.2 Field, T.W. Plan of positions on the 26th and 27th of August 1776, with projections of the modern streets [1869]. 1939 1.2 Unidentified Monuments and markers commemorative of the Revolution. 1939 1.2 Unidentified Accessions to the library. 1939 1.3 Flick, Alexander C. Lady Deborah Moody, Grand Dame of Gravesend. 1 Contents of Brooklyn Historical Society's Journals of Long Island History Year Vol.# Author Article Title 1939 1.3 Huntington, Edna (comp.) Markers commemorative of the colonial period. 1939 1.3 Smith, Julia S. The old house on the hill. [Setauket] [Suffolk County] [Smith House] 1939 1.3 Cockcroft, Mrs. James D. The Smith burying ground on top of the hill, back of Miss Julia S. Smith's home, Setauket, L.I. [transcription] 1939 1.3 Murphy, Jr., Henry Cruse Memoranda taken from the tombstones in the old Dutch burying ground in Fulton Street, near Smith Street. [transcription] 1939 1.3 Frost, Josephine C. Bible records: Cronkite and Wiley; McCoun and Jackson. [transcription] 1939 1.3 Unidentified Accessions to the library. 1939 1.4 Overton, Jacqueline A Long Island artist: William Sidney Mount. [Stony Brook] [Setauket] [Suffolk County] 1939 1.4 Unidentified Lithographs of paintings by William S. Mount in the collections of the Long Island Historical Society. 1939 1.4 Cockcroft, Georgia C. Inscriptions from the old burying ground at Crabmeadow, Huntington, L.I. [transcription] 1939 1.4 Cockcroft, Georgia C. Inscriptions from the old Tilden plot in fields adjoining Selah Brush's farm in Greenlawn, Huntington, L.I. [transcription] 1939 1.4 Unidentified Bible records: Adams; Carll; Sammis. [transcription] 1939 1.4 Unidentified Accessions to the library. 1939 1.4 Unidentified Index to Volume 1 1940 2.1 Maynard, Edwin P. B. Herbert Smith. [memorial] 1940 2.1 Gager, C. Stuart The four botanic gardens of Brooklyn. 1940 2.1 Unidentified Horticultural material in the collections of The Long Island Historical Society. 1940 2.1 Walters, Mrs. Rebekah Walt Whitman. [Cold Spring] [Huntington] Velsor 1940 2.1 Robbins, Williams A. Bible records: Brush-Whitman. [transcription] 1940 2.1 Unidentified Accessions to the library. 1940 2.2 Bowdoin, W.G. Emma Toedteberg and her bookplates. 1940 2.2 Smith, Julia S. Old Setauket. 1940 2.2 Frost, Josephine C. Inscriptions from Fort Hill Cemetery at Oyster Bay, L.I. [transcription] 1940 2.2 Frost, Josephine C. Inscriptions from Wortman Cemetery on Underhill property, Oyster Bay, L.I. [transcription] 1940 2.2 Bergen, Teunis G. Inscriptions from the burying grounds of the Protestant Reformed Dutch Church of New Lots (Part 1). [transcription] 1940 2.2 Smith, Mrs. Gilbert P. Bible records: Hulse; Skillin. [transcription] 2 Contents of Brooklyn Historical Society's Journals of Long Island History Year Vol.# Author Article Title 1940 2.2 Unidentified Accessions to the library. 1940 2.3 Weld, Ralph Foster Winter evenings in old Brooklyn. 1940 2.3 Frost, Josephine C. Genealogical items from original documents. [transcription] [Stoothoff papers] 1940 2.3 Onderdonk, Jr., Henry Flushing tax lists of 1784 and 1788, copied. [transcription] 1940 2.3 Bergen, Teunis G. Inscriptions from the burying grounds of the Protestant Reformed Dutch Church of New Lots (Part 2). [transcription] 1940 2.3 Unidentified Accessions to the library. 1940 2.4 Pantle, Alberta Early American almanacs in the library of The Long Island Historical Society. 1940 2.4 Unidentified Almanacs of Long Island interest in the collection of The Long Island Historical Society. 1940 2.4 Frost, Josephine C. Three letters to Henry Onderdonk, Jr. [transcription] 1940 2.4 Bergen, Teunis G. Inscriptions from the burying grounds of the Protestant Reformed Dutch Church of New Lots (Part 3). [transcription] 1940 2.4 Unidentified Accessions to the library. 1940 2.4 Unidentified Index to Volume 2 1941 3.1 Robbins, Williams A. (ed.) Journal of a trip from Illinois back to Long Island in 1844 (Part 1). [Elizabeth Howell Blanchard] [transcription] 1941 3.1 Frost, Josephine C. (copied United States pension news. [transcription] [American by) Revolution] 1941 3.1 Bergen, Teunis G. Inscriptions from the burying grounds of the Protestant Reformed Dutch Church of New Lots (Part 4). [transcription] 1941 3.1 Cockcroft, Mrs. James D. Bible records: Tuthill. and William A. Robbins 1941 3.1 Unidentified Accessions to the library. 1941 3.2 Huntington, Edna Two swords. [American Revolution] [Pierrepont Street] [Long Island Historical Society objects] 1941 3.2 Merritt, Jesse Walt Whitman and Long Island history. 1941 3.2 Robbins, Williams A. (ed.) Journal of a trip from Illinois back to Long Island in 1844 (Part 2). [Elizabeth Howell Blanchard] [transcription] 1941 3.2 Frost, Josephine C. Letter from Bloodgood H. Cutter to Henry Onderdonk, Jr. [transcription] 1941 3.2 Frost, Josephine C. New-York and Sagg-Harbour mail stage. [transcription] 1941 3.2 Robbins, William A. and Bible records: Brush-Smith-Vail; Mott Mrs. James D. Cockcroft 1941 3.2 Unidentified Accessions to the library. 1941 3.3 Dilliard, Maud Esther The Dutch settle Long Island. 1941 3.3 Robbins, Williams A. (ed.) Journal of a trip from Illinois back to Long Island in 1844 (Part 3). [Elizabeth Howell Blanchard] [transcription] 3 Contents of Brooklyn Historical Society's Journals of Long Island History Year Vol.# Author Article Title 1941 3.3 Bergen, Teunis G. Inscriptions from the burying grounds of the Protestant Reformed Dutch Church of New Lots (Part 5). [transcription] 1941 3.3 Frost, Josephine C. Bible records: Brown; Reid; Warren. 1941 3.3 Unidentified Accessions to the library. 1941 3.4 Downs, Robert B. The Long Island Historical Society Library. 1941 3.4 Unidentified The Pierrepont collections 1941 3.4 Robbins, Williams A. (ed.) Journal of a trip from Illinois back to Long Island in 1844 (Part 4). [Elizabeth Howell Blanchard] [transcription] 1941 3.4 Unidentified Accessions to the library. 1941 3.4 Unidentified Index to Volume 3 1942 4.1 Robbins, Williams A. (ed.) Journal of a trip from Illinois back to Long Island in 1844 (Part 5). [Elizabeth Howell Blanchard] [transcription] 1942 4.1 Frost, Josephine C. Pension claim. [transcription] [American Revolution] [Suffolk County] [Henry Landon] 1942 4.1 Bergen, Teunis G. Inscriptions from the burying grounds of the Protestant Reformed Dutch Church of New Lots (Part 6). [transcription] 1942 4.1 Bergen, Teunis G. Inscriptions from the Lefferts family burying ground. [transcription] 1942 4.1 Unidentified Bible records: Baldwin; Child; Gesner; Lefferts. [transcription] 1942 4.1 Unidentified Accessions to the library. 1961 1.1 Corey, Albert B. Greetings from the state historian. 1961 1.1 North, Edgerton G. The president's message. 1961 1.1 Dilliard, Maud E. The story of the Long Island Historical Society: an informal account. 1961 1.1 Stryker-Rodda, Kenn George Washington and Long Island. 1961 1.1 Hall, Courtney R. Some impressions of Flushing. 1961 1.1 Bolman, Helen P.