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Comment by Barbara M Leydecker on September 9, 2011 at 6:45pm

Emily Zengel Steininger Russwurm died August 8, 1927 in Rochester, New York.  She was buried in Long Island, but I do not know where.  I am looking for suggestions as to the cemetery.  She may be buried next to her first husband, Caspar Steininger, who died in 1874.

Comment by James P. LaLone on July 26, 2011 at 9:17am

Discover the Van Dusens of New Amsterdam – 1627-2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/nyregion/the-story-of-the-van-dus...

Comment by Paul Caverly on May 28, 2011 at 6:23am

Caverly/Cavalier/Cavalie, Huguenots of Oyster Bay, Musketa Cove.

Peter Gerardus Cavalier (1672-1699) m Belitje Klaarhout abt 1692 and possibly was also married to Cornelia Bosch.

Peter Caverly (1694-1747) m Jane in abt 1720. Lived Mosqueta Cove, L I, New York and Oyster Bay. Children baptized in St. George Church at Hempstead, Long Island. NY Indorsed Land Records 1643-1803. 1730, Petition of Peter Caverly of Oyster Bay, in Queen's County, praying a patent for a ferry between neck of land in that town called Caverly's Island and Rye. Descendants later moved up the Hudson River to Marlborough, Ulster County, NY.

Fron author Stephen Davids - Long Island's Fort Franklin, became the centre point for the largest of all the American Revolution's refugee camps.  In September of 1776, the British had secured both New York City and Long Island as their strongholds in the Thirteen Colonies. To guard the outer frontier, the king’s army built garrisons along the northern coast of Long Island. Of all these British outposts, Fort Franklin on Lloyd’s Neck was the largest.  By the late 1770s, hundreds of loyalist refugees had fled across Long Island Sound and found sanctuary near the garrison's protective walls. Living in tents or huts, the loyalists no doubt saw their stay as a temporary situation. They would be safe, they reasoned, until the might of Great Britain utterly defeated the rebels.

While all the loyalists who sought sanctuary at Lloyd's Neck can never be completely determined, the records of the claims made to the loyalist compensation board reveal the names of some of the refugees. They include: Lyon, Bates, Hoyt, Dibblee, Hubbard, Pickett, Frost, Seely, Raymond, Fowler, Whelpley, Clarke, Whitney, Miles, Ketchum, Dickson, Chace, Roberts, Slocum, Corey, and Caswell. Most were from Connecticut, but there were loyalists from Rhode Island, New York, and Massachusetts as well. In the spring and summer of 1783, the refugees of Lloyd's Neck boarded evacuation ships and sailed north to Nova Scotia. Having created a loyalist community on Long Island, many of them decided to continue living together in the new settlements. Most of the loyalists buried in the graveyard in Kingston, New Brunswick, for example, had once sought refuge at Lloyd's Neck. 

 

Comment by Janice Bernath on May 25, 2011 at 11:40pm

Hi, I have some Hauxhursts from early days in Locust Valley. My main family name is Weeks/Weekes; major brick walls are Wansor, Bailey, Baker, Longworth. The Bailey/Baylis/Bayles family had a farm in Cedar Swamp (Brookville). Our Wansor line goes back to 1785 with the birth of John Hickman Wansor (always wondered if the middle name could have been a corruption of Hegeman), but we can't get back any further so no parents for John Hickman Wansor. John Hickman Wansor and his wife Catherine Baker lived in Lattingtown; later our line through their son John lived in Bayville. Earliest Bailey is 2x great grandmother Janette Baylis/Bailey who married Samuel Coles Weeks. A cousin and I think the Townsends and Underhills come through the Bailey line, but we're at a loss. Janette Bailey's parents might have been Samuel Bailey and Elizabeth Finch. Janette was born about 1820.

Comment by Charity Johnson on May 25, 2011 at 8:17pm

Researching mostly Quakers (Hicks, Hauxhurst/Hawxhurst, Seaman, Townsend, etc) on LI, but also searching for Egberts and a certain John Copes--who remains elusive.

Comment by Patricia Lee Allen on October 26, 2010 at 1:25pm

Hi! I am researching Cornell, Denton, Wanser and Trueman names-

Comment by Carol Peckham Poulos on July 18, 2010 at 8:46am

I want to mention a good resoucre for all researching Long Island. There is a website in which many libraries have been contributing, www.longislandmemories.org If you haven't checked it out, you should do so and check back frequently as new things are being added weekly. There are old photos, postcards, digitized newspapers, etc.

Comment by John J. Tierney on July 17, 2010 at 7:32pm

@Michael I live down the road from the Old First Church in Huntington. Have you inquired with them if they have records available?

While I live here I don't have any ancestors from the area so am not sure about records availability here in general. But I'd be glad to stop by at the church and take a look if so.

(I do know the current church was built in 1784 after the British tore down the previous one, so older records may have been destroyed at that time as well.)

Also, in case you haven't checked there are a few Woods buried in the Huntington Historic cemetery across and down the road a bit. You can find a listing on Findagrave here: http://bit.ly/bGgJFV

It is a fairly well covered cemetery on Findagrave, but I just added a few new stone photos and can look for more if needed.

You can use the messaging features here on the group to contact me if you like... Good luck!

Comment by Michael Wood on July 17, 2010 at 6:32pm

I am having a very difficult time locating any info on the parents of Joseph Wood, Born January 25th, 1755 in Long Island. Joseph Wood was Christened in March 1755 at the First Church, Huntington, Suffolk, New York, per my research and findings in "The New York genealogical and biographical record, New York Genealogical and Biographical Society."

Any Help would be greatfully appreciated!

Comment by Donna Gates-Smeall on June 25, 2010 at 9:19pm

Much of my mother's family emigrated to New York from England, Germany and Ireland. They ended up in Huntington Station, Westchester County, NY. Family name is Wessel/Wefsel/Wessells/Wessell. If anyone has any genealogical records for these family names, I would gladly trade GEDCOMs via CD ROM so we can update our genealogies.

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