Excerpt from Personal Reminiscences of Men and Things on Long Island This work is in no sense intended as a consecutive History of Long Island. These relations attach rather to the individual than to the locality, and are simply a collection of personal experiences of the author, with an account of the customs and traditions which have passed out of use and out of general recollection, and are related here precisely in the sequence in which they transpired, or as they were revealed to the author, and which may or may not have historical value. As stated further on and more fully, the events are selected from a personal diary kept in chronological order and extending over a period of nearly half a century, with comments and elaborations upon such events made, in some instances, many years later, as remembered by the author, and having some pertinent relations to the locality, with but little relation, maybe, to each other, and which in their detail seldom rise to the dignity of history. The first English settlement within the bounds of Queens County was at Hempstead, in 1640. The English settlers in the towns of Queens County acknowledged Dutch supremacy. The first substantial movement toward immigration was November 14, 1644, when the grant of a patent was made to some Stamford colonists. This grant extended from Long Island Sound on the North to the South Sea (Atlantic Ocean), accompanied by the condition that one hundred families should be settled thereon within five years. From this period, many English settlers came from Connecticut.

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