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Slavery on Long Island. Black people have been an integral part of Long Island history, most arriving first as slaves before the Revolution and working both at domestic and rural trades. New York and Long Island kept slavery until laws for its gradual abolition were passed in 1799. The last slaves were freed by 1827.
t. e. Long Island is an island in southeastern New York state, constituting a significant share of the New York metropolitan area in both population and land area. The island extends from New York Harbor 118 miles (190 km) eastward into the North Atlantic Ocean with a maximum north–south width of 23 miles (37 km).
- 1,376.1 sq mi (3,564 km²)
- Atlantic Ocean
- 8,063,232 (2020)
- New York
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Wood, Silas. "The first purchase of the Indians on Long-Island that has been discovered, was in 1635, and the earliest deed for land to individuals, is a patent from Governor Van Twiller to Andries Hedden and Wolpert Garritsen, for a tract of land in Amersfoort or Flatlands, bearing the date of 6th June 1636."
In the 1670s, James, Duke of York, who owned Long Island, appointed Thomas Dongan to govern it. At a gathering of colonial representatives, the "Charter of Liberties and Privileges" was adopted (1 November 1683), establishing Suffolk county as a political entity and as one of the 12 original counties of the Province of New York, and laying the ...
When the Island was first settled by the whites it was inhabited by 13 tribes or groups of Indians. The Canarsee, Rockaway, Merrick, Marsapeague, Secatogue, and Unkechaug lived on the South Shore. On the north were the Matinecock, Nesaquake, Setalcott, and Corchaug. On the east end of the Island were the Shinnecock, Manhasset and the Montauks.
The surface of Long Island was formed at the end of the last glacial maximum, or the time of the furthest extent of the ice sheets during the last ice age, around 21,000 years ago. As the ice sheets advanced from the Arctic, they entrained, or carried along, sand, gravel, and other material which was continually supplied to and accumulated at the melting margin of the ice front, similar to a ...
The first settlement on the geographic Long Island itself was on October 21, 1640, when Southold was established by the Rev. John Youngs and settlers from New Haven, Connecticut. Peter Hallock, one of the settlers, drew the long straw and was granted the honor to step ashore first. He is considered the first New World settler on Long Island.
