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The Adams and Cunningham Correspondence........ 101 NOTES AND QUERIES.-Notes.-Singular Advertisement, Queries.-Woollen Snow, 116; The Duke's Laws, 116; A Confederacy, 116; Cosart and Horghland Families, 116; The Father of English Lexicography, 116; Authenticity of Autographs, 116; Indian Burial TO 102 115 Places, 116; Kewley on Methodism, 116; John Quincy Adams, 117; Tracts on the New Hampshire Grants, 117; New England Society Addresses...... 117 Replies.-The Wonderful History of the Morristown Ghost, 117; Greenbacks, 119; Copperheads........ 119 SOCIETIES AND THEIR PROCEEDINGS.-Maine.-Maine Historical Society.... Massachusetts.-Massachusetts Historical Society, 119 119; New England Historic Genealogical Society... 120 New Jersey.-New Jersey Historical Society.... 120 New York.-Albany Institute, 122; Buffalo Historical Society, 122; New York Historical Society..... 128 Pennsylvania.-Historical Society of Pennsylvania. 124 Vermont.-Vermont Historical Society.. NOTES ON BOOKS... MISCELLANY COLLECTORS. 125 126 127 The advertiser has duplicates of AUTOGRAPHS, BALLADS, PLACARDS, HAND-BILLS, &c., &c., issued since the commencement of the Rebellion, which he will exchange with other Collectors. Address, Box 1862, P. O., Philadelphia. GREAT SALE OF AUTOGRAPHS, AT CINCINNATI, MARCH 15, 1864, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE UNITED STATES SANITARY COMMISSION. The Committee on Autographs, etc., of the GREAT WESTERN SANITARY FAIR, will sell at auction the large collection of Autographs, Coins, Medals, and some Miscellaneous Curiosities, many of them rare and valuable, which were donated to the Fair, including the Original MS. of PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S AMNESTY PROCLAMATION, MS. Poems (some unpublished) by Whittier, Read, Bryant, "Florence Percy," French, and others; Letters from many of our Generals and Leading Public Men; Documents, etc., captured from the Rebels, etc., etc., etc. Catalogues, now ready, can be had on application to ROBERT CLARK & CO., Booksellers, Cincinnati, who will attend to purchasing without charge for persons who cannot attend the sale. T. DAY, Chairman. 1863. [No. 3. perhaps, to be at the pains to condense. within a sketch, what might be so much more attractively amplified into a volumewe beg the forbearance, and deprecate in advance the criticism, of any student, historical or antiquarian, who might complain of the very superficial and discursive nature of this essay. Though a native New-Yorker, yet, as Ir may seem almost an act of presumption the descendant of Long-Islanders, we take to attempt an historical sketch, much less a special pride and interest in the Island, a detailed account, of Long Island, topo- and all that relates to it. On this ground, graphical and statistical, within the ordinary too, we seem to feel a certain claim on limits of a lecture,-as a full consideration your kindness, and confess a desire to conof any one of the numerous topics of this nect our name, again, with the home of paper would exhaust the time and patience our fathers. of the most complaisant audience. Any- The historical importance of Long Island thing like copiousness of detail or thorough- has never been overrated. Next to the ness of treatment is, consequently, quite city of New York, it is the oldest portion out of the question. Our utmost endeavor of the State that had been visited and will be to aim at presenting a very brief, settled by Dutch and English. Previous to very rapid, and yet tolerably comprehen- the Revolution, Long Island constituted sive, sketch of the notabilia, men and the oldest and most important part of the things, of Long Island, a portion of the colony. A century ago the population of Empire State far too little known, except Long Island (says Prime) was more than to native Long-Islanders, residents of long that of the city of New York, and more standing, or those who, from business con- than one-third that of the province. At nections, social ties, or pleasure excursions, the commencement of this century, Long have become somewhat acquainted with her Island was still a most important part of varied resources and manifold attractions. the State. It is, moreover, with no affectation of modesty, that we undertake this task (a labor of love though it be), when we reflect on our avowed incompetence, compared with certain gentlemen here present, who, from birth, ampler information, and the Her history, colonial and revolutionary; nature of their researches, are far better the Indian tribes (her original proprietors); fitted to treat this subject, and yet whose the settlement of her towns; their quaint favorable suffrages we should be most anx- nomenclature; her old churches and houses; ious to gain. Since no one has, however, the manorial grants of the Suffolk and thought it expedient to present such a mere Queens County patentees; the quaint Engsummary as we propose to give-unwilling, lish reminiscences of the east end, and the To the student of political history, the antiquary, the humorist, the sportsman, the invalid, and the traveller for pleasure, Long Island holds out many and various attractions. |