Author: James Riker

Publisher:

Published: 2015-08-04

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 9781332099795

Excerpt from The Annals of Newtown, in Queens County, New York: Containing Its History From Its First Settlement, Together With Many Interesting Facts Concerning the Adjacent Towns Newtown, including the several islands known as Riker's, Berrien's, Luyster's, Yonker's Island, and the two Brothers, covers an area of twenty-six and a quarter square miles. Its valuable resources; its contiguity and important relation to the city of New-York, as well as the pleasing character of its historic reminiscences, are deemed sufficient to commend the following attempt to preserve its history. While the author, with much diffidence, submits his work to the public scrutiny, he asks leave to state that great pains have been taken to make the volume accurate and acceptable. In the collection and collation of his materials he has avoided that undue haste which is the too common error of our local annalists. During a period of several years he has made patient search in every quarter promising to yield him information; but space will allow only a brief summary of his authorities. The voluminous manuscript records in the State Department at Albany, and the lesser ones in the clerks' offices of Kings and Queens counties, as well as those existing in the surrounding town offices, have been carefully examined. The library of the New-York Historical Society has afforded a fund of valuable information, both in print and manuscript. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.