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Historical Periods (Brookhaven Town)

-- History -- Colonial Period, ca. 1600-1775
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-- History -- Queen Anne's War, 1702-1713 [War of the Spanish
           Succession]
-- History -- French and Indian War, 1754-1763  [Seven Years' War]

-- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783

 

---  General 

  • Brookhaven (N.Y. : Town).  Bicentennial Committee.  During the Revolution in Brookhaven Town [digital version], by Thomas R. Bayles.  [Patchogue, N.Y.]:  Brookhaven (N.Y. : Town).  Historical Advisory Committee, 1976, repr. and rev., 1977 and 1981  (Patchogue-Medford Library.  Celia M. Hastings Local History Room)
  • Part IX:  Revolutionary Brookhaven, 1775-1783 (Brookhaven @ 350 Years), comp. & ed. by Mark Rothenberg (Celia M. Hastings Local History Room) 
---  Cemeteries
  • Brookhaven (N.Y. : Town).  Bicentennial Committee.  American Revolutionary War Patriots Buried in the Town of Brookhaven [digital version], prepared by research of Harry W. Huson.  Patchogue, N.Y.:  Brookhaven (N.Y. : Town).  Historical Advisory Committee, 1976, rev. and repr., 1985 and 1987  (Patchogue-Medford Library.  Celia M. Hastings Local History Room [searchable digital edition])
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---  Signer of the Declaration of Independence
---  Committees of Correspondence
---  Secret Service

---  Purple Heart

--- Tallmadge Raid, 1781

--  History, 1783-1860

--  History -- War of 1812

  • Brookhaven (N.Y. : Town) Records of the War of 1812 (From the Declaration of War 6/1/1812 to U.S. Senate Ratification of the Treaty of Ghent, 2/16/1815) [a searchable, enlargeable, bicentennial digital edition]. (Patchogue-Medford Library.  Celia M. Hastings Local History Room Collections) 

--  History -- Civil War, 1861-1865

 

---  General

--- Biography

---  Habeas Corpus [suspension of]

  • New York (State).  Assembly.  The Usurpations of the Federal Government:  Speech of J.S. Havens, of Suffolk, on the Resolutions of Judge Dean to Raise a Select Committee to Investigate the Subject of Arbitrary Arrests and the Suspension of Habeas Corpus.  Delivered in Assembly, Feb. 17, 1863. [full text]  8 p. (Patchogue-Medford Library.  Celia M. Hastings Local History Room.  Archival Collections) -- Aside:  John Scudder Havens (owner of the store, built in 1861, that would later become Shands, and is now the Brickhouse Brewery, and owner of the former mansion at the corner of Main St. & Medford Ave., that later would be owned by Jefferson Davis' prison doctor, then the Canfield-Tuthill Family, then became the Patchogue USO, Patchogue Elks Lodge, before its demolition), was Supervisor of Brookhaven Town, Suffolk County, NY, during nearly all of the the Civil War, until his death in office.  In this speech, he rails against Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus (arbitrary seizure and jailing of enemies of the state, indefinitely, without trial), as a breach of the U.S. Constitution, and vociferously opposes Republican suport of that position, as tending toward tyranny.  He labels Lincoln (without naming him directly) "utterly incompetent", a judgement that needless to say, has not stood the test of time.  But, Lincoln, was then still very much alive, and resented for this move, which also provided verbal ammunition to his political enemies, in the Democratic Party.

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History, 1866-1929

--  History, 1870-1879 

 

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-- History -- World War, 1939-1945

 

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