Author: Jacob Edward Mallmann
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Category : Presbyterian Church
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Historical Papers on Shelter Island and Its Presbyterian Church
Author: Jacob Edward Mallmann
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Category : Presbyterian Church
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Category : Presbyterian Church
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Genealogies and Town Histories Containing Genealogies
Author: Goodspeed's Book Shop (Boston, Mass.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Languages : en
Pages : 136
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The History of Shelter Island, 1652-1932
Author: Ralph G. Duvall
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Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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The History of Shelter Island
Author: Ralph G. Duvall
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Category : Shelter Island (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Category : Shelter Island (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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The Manor: Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island
Author: Mac Griswold
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374266298
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 482
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In 1984, the landscape historian Mac Griswold was rowing along a Long Island creek when she came upon a stately yellow house and a garden guarded by looming boxwoods. She instantly knew that boxwoods that large--twelve feet tall, fifteen feet wide--had to be hundreds of years old. So, as it happened, was the house: Sylvester Manor had been held in the same family for eleven generations. Formerly encompassing all of Shelter Island, a pearl of 8,000 acres caught between the North and South Forks of Long Island, the manor had dwindled to 243 acres. Still, its hidden vault proved to be full of revelations and treasures, including the 1666 charter for the land, and correspondence from Thomas Jefferson. Most notable was the short and steep flight of steps the family had called the "slave staircase," which would provide clues to the extensive but little-known story of Northern slavery. Alongside a team of archaeologists, Griswold began a dig that would uncover a landscape bursting with stories. Based on years of archival and field research, as well as voyages to Africa, the West Indies, and Europe, "The Manor" is at once an investigation into forgotten lives and a sweeping drama that captures our history in all its richness and suffering.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374266298
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 482
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In 1984, the landscape historian Mac Griswold was rowing along a Long Island creek when she came upon a stately yellow house and a garden guarded by looming boxwoods. She instantly knew that boxwoods that large--twelve feet tall, fifteen feet wide--had to be hundreds of years old. So, as it happened, was the house: Sylvester Manor had been held in the same family for eleven generations. Formerly encompassing all of Shelter Island, a pearl of 8,000 acres caught between the North and South Forks of Long Island, the manor had dwindled to 243 acres. Still, its hidden vault proved to be full of revelations and treasures, including the 1666 charter for the land, and correspondence from Thomas Jefferson. Most notable was the short and steep flight of steps the family had called the "slave staircase," which would provide clues to the extensive but little-known story of Northern slavery. Alongside a team of archaeologists, Griswold began a dig that would uncover a landscape bursting with stories. Based on years of archival and field research, as well as voyages to Africa, the West Indies, and Europe, "The Manor" is at once an investigation into forgotten lives and a sweeping drama that captures our history in all its richness and suffering.
Annual Report of the American Historical Association
Author: American Historical Association
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Category : Historiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1390
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Category : Historiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1390
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Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 602
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 602
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History of Southold, L.I.
Author: Epher Whitaker
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Category : Southold (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Category : Southold (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Long Island Genealogical Source Material
Author: Herbert Furman Seversmith
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Category : Long Island (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Category : Long Island (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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L'Hommedieu Genealogy
Author: William A. L'Hommedieu
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Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Languages : en
Pages : 512
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