Long Island Town Histories & Records

L.I. Town Histories and Records

 

(Nassau & Suffolk Counties)

 

a classified list of links to online resources

 

 

L.I. Towns - Nassau County

 

     See also the Long Island Villages - Nassau web page (for a list of villages

                                within each town, and for individual villages) 

 

-- Hempstead (N.Y. : Town)       (formerly South Hempstead)

• Annals of Hempstead, by Henry Onderdonck, Jr. (Jamaica, L.I., Je [1880?]), Courtesy of James Pearsall (Ancestry.com.  Rootsweb)
• Convention of 1665 (Ancestry.com.  Rootsweb) -- L.I.'s declaration of dependence and submission to ducal authority
• Hempstead (Town), New York  (Wikipedia)
• An Historical Sketch of Ancient Agriculture, Stockbreeding and Manufactures, in Hempstead, by Henry Onderdonck, Jr. (1867)  (Internet Archive)
• The Early History of Hempstead (Long Island), by Charles B. Moore (1879)
• National Register of Historic Places Listings in Hempstead (Town), New York (Wikipedia)
• Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y., v. 1, comp. & ed. by Samuel Hooper, Town Clerk (1896) (Internet Archive)
• Records of the Towns f North and South Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y., v. 2, ed. by Benjamin D. Hicks (1897)  (Internet Archive)
• Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y., v. 3, ed. by Benjamin D. Hicks (1898)  (Internet Archive)
• Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y., v.4, ed. by Benjamin D. Hicks (1900)  (Internet Archive)
• Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y., v.5, ed. by Benjamin D. Hicks (1901)  (Internet Archive)
• Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y., v.6, ed. by Benjamin D. Hicks (1902)  (Internet Archive)
• Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y., v.7, ed. by Benjamin D. Hicks (1903)  (Internet Archive)
• Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y., v.8, ed. by Benjamin D. Hicks (1904)  (Internet Archive)

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• Luke, Myron H., Hempstead Town Historian.  Hempstead Town in Colonial Times, 1644-1783.  [Hempstead, NY]:  Hempstead (N.Y. : Town).  Bicentennial Committee, [1976]. 
• Long Island's Prominent Families in the Town of Hempstead:  Their Estates and Their Country Homes / Raymond E. Spinzia and Judith A. Spinzia
• Roots and Heritage of Hempstead Town / ed. by Dr. Natalie A. Naylor; prepared under the auspices of Hofstra University
• Schultz, Bernice.  Colonial Hempstead, blockprints by Mary Irish Oman, photographs by Historic American Buildings Survey and Irving B. Schwartz.  Lynbrook, NY:  The Review-Star Press, 1937.
• Town of Hempstead Archives:  Repository Guide / Hempstead (N.Y. : Town).  Clerk's Office
• Town of Hempstead, Nassau County 1992 Congressional Districts / N.Y.S. Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment
• Town of Hempstead, Nassau County 1992 Assembly Districts /N.Y.S. Legislative Task force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment

-- North Hempstead (N.Y. : Town)

         See also Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead...

                           (above) 

• History of the Town of North Hempstead [pictorial presentation], by Leslie Gross, Town Clerk (North Hempstead.  Town)
• List of Town of North Hempstead Designated Landmarks, as of April 2009 (North Hempstead.  Town)
• National Register of Historic Places Listings in North Hempstead (Town), New York  (Wikipedia)
• North Hempstead:  The Cradle of Liberty?, by Vivian S. Toy (New York Times.  New York & Region, Se 18, 2005
• North Hempstead, New York  (Wikipedia)

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• Brief Account of the Indians in the Township of North Hempstead and Their Dealings with the White Settlers / H.C. Vernon Mann
• North Hempstead (N.Y. : Town).  New York Statehood Bicentennial Commission.  History of Sachem Tackapausha and Long Island Indians in Colonial North Hempstead.  Roslyn, NY:  Printed by Roslyn Savings Bank for the Commission, [1977].= 
• Town of North Hempstead, Nassau County, New York Data and Resource Guide [1982] / North Hempstead (N.Y. : Town).  Dept. of Planning, Research and Development
• Town of North Hempstead, Nassau County 1992 Congressional Districts / N.Y.S. Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment
• Town of North Hempstead, Nassau County 1992 Assembly Districts / N.Y.S.  Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment

-- Oyster Bay (N.Y. : Town)

• Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1847-1849, comp. by Town Historian, John E. Hammond (Oyster Bay.  Town)
• Designated Landmarks (Oyster Bay. Town)
• Historic Attractions in Oyster Bay (Oyster Bay.  Town)
• Historic Cemeteries of Oyster Bay:  A Guide to Their Location, and Sources of Transcription Information (Oyster Bay.  Town)
• Historical Town Photos (Oyster Bay. Town)
• Index to Register of Deaths, Town of Oyster Bay (1881-1920), comp. by John E. Hammond, Town Historian  (Oyster Bay.  Town)
• National Register of Historic Places Listings in Oyster Bay (Town), New York (Wikipedia)
• Oyster Bay Historical Society (The Society)
• Oyster Bay Town History (Oyster Bay Historical Society)
• Oyster Bay (Town), New York  (Wikipedia)
• Santvoord, Peter Luyster van.  Revolutionary Incidents of Oyster Bay Town.  Long Island Courant, 3(1) March 1967:  pp. 18-32.
• Town History (Oyster Bay. Town)

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• City of Glen Cove and Town of Oyster Bay, Nassau County 1992 Congressional Districts / N.Y.S.  Legislative Task force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment
• Index to Register of Deaths, Town of Oyster Bay (1881 to 1920), comp. by John E. Hammond, Town Historian.  Oyster Bay, NY:  Oyster Bay (N.Y. : Town), [2007]. -- Alphabetic list of names and date of death.  
• League of Women Voters of the Town of Oyster Bay, New York.  Know Your Town, Oyster Bay.  Syosset, NY:  The League, 1976.

 

 

L.I. Towns - Suffolk County

 

     See also  Long Island Villages - Suffolk, A-K

                   Long Island Villages - Suffolk County, L-Z 

                   web pages (for a list of villages within each town, and for

                   individual villages) 

• An Address Delivered Before the Suffolk County Historical Society, October 1st 1889, by Hon. H.P. Hedges (J.H. Hunt Printer, 1889)  (Internet Archive) - an attempt to settle the issue of primacy of the first English settlement on L.I., between Southampton and Southold, that only served to fan the flames

-- Babylon (N.Y. : Town) 

           (Southern portion of Huntington Town, separated in 1892)

           See also  Huntington (N.Y. : Town)

• Babylon Reminiscences (1911), by Benjamin P. Field, et al.  
• Babylon Town History (Town of Babylon)
• Babylon Town Historical Society (The Society)
• National Register of Historic Places Listings in Babylon (Town), New York (Wikipedia)

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• Babylon by the Sea / Anne Frances Pulling
• Babylon's 100 Most Influential People of the 20th Century / Babylon (N.Y. : Town).  Millenium Celebration
• Guide to Local History Material in the Public Libraries of the Town of Babylon, Suffolk County, New York / [comp. by] Carol Cagnon Simpson [1979]
• Huntington-Babylon Town History / Romanah Sammis
• Huntington / Babylon Land Deeds, 1663-1797 / Rufus B. Langhans, Huntington Town Historian;  Huntington and Babylon Town Boards
• Huntington Town Meetings:  April 1784-November 1840:  With Name Index / [comp. by] Rufus B. Langhans; Huntington (N.Y. : Town).  Historian - [includes Babylon Town]
• Huntington Town Meetings:  April 1841-April 1872:  With Name Index / [comp. by] Rufus B. Langhans;  Huntington (N.Y. : Town).  Historian - [includes Babylon Town]
• Index Huntington I Land Grant Surveys, 1697-1787 [and] II Land Grants, 1688-1802 / [comp. by] Rufus B. Langhans; Huntington (N.Y. : Town).  Office of the Historian 
• Long Island's Prominent South Shore Families:  Their Estates and Their Country Homes in the Towns of Babylon and Islip / Raymond E. and Judith A. Spinzia
• Manumission Book of the Towns of Huntington and Babylon, Long Island, New York, with Some Earlier Manumissions and Index, 1800-1824 / Huntington (N.Y. : Town).  Office of the Historian
• Personal Name Index to Huntington Town Records, Including Babylon, Long Island, New York, 1653-1873, vols. 1-3 /[comp. by] Rufus B. Langhans; Huntington (N.Y. : Town).  Historian's Office 
• Town of Babylon, 1892-1997:  The 125th Anniversary Commemorative Photo Album / Babylon (N.Y. : Town)
• Town of Huntington Highway Book[s] A-[B], 1724-[1851 and 1852-1867], with Name Index[es] / [comp.] by Rufus B. Langhans, Huntington Town Historian  - [includes Babylon Town]
• Trolley Days:  A History of Trolleys in the Town of Babylon [research packet] / Babylon (N.Y. : Town).  Historic Preservation Commission
• Vital Statistics, Marriages, Births and Deaths:  Town of Huntington (Including Babylon), Long Island, New York, 1847-1848-1849 / Huntington (N.Y. : Town).  Office of the Historian

-- Brookhaven (N.Y. : Town)

 

           See  Brookhaven Town History web page  (Patchogue-Medford

                          Library.  Celia M. Hastings Local History Room)

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-- East Hampton (N.Y. : Town)

• An Address, Delivered on the 26th of December, 1849, on the Occasion of the Celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Settlement of the Town of East-Hampton, Together with an Appendix, Containing a General History of the Town from Its First Settlement to the Year 1800, by Henry P. Hedges (Corrector Office, 1850)  (Internet Archive) 
• Excerpts from the Records of the Town of East-Hampton, v. 1, 1639-1680 (Town of East Hampton Trustees.  History) 
• History of East Hampton (East Hampton Historical Society)
• History of the Town of East Hampton, N.Y...., by Henry P. Hedges (1897) (Internet Archive)
• Indian Place-Names in the East-Hampton Town, with Their Probable Significations, Written for the East Hampton Town Records, v. 4, by William Wallace Tooker.  Sah Harbor, NY:  J.H. Hunt, Publishers, 1889. (Internet Archive)
• Little-Known Historic Facts from the East Hampton Town Crier (East Hampton.com)
• An Oral History of the Town of East Hampton in the Twentieth Century  (The History Project, Inc., A Non-Profit Corporation)
• National Register of Historic Places Listings in East Hampton (Town), New York (Wikipedia)
• Sermon, Containing a General History of the Town of East-Hampton, (L.I.), From Its First Settlement to the Present Time.  Delivered at East-Hampton, January 1, 1806, by Lyman Beecher, Pastor of the Church in that Place.  Sag Harbor, N.Y.:  Printed by Alden Spooner, 1806  (Patchogue-Medford Library.  Celia M. Hastings Local History Room) -- Lyman Beecher, nationally famous in his own right,  was the father of Henry Ward Beecher (of Beecher's Bibles ame -- guns to Kansas, sent in boxes marked Bibles -- in the late 1850's), and grandfather of Harriet Beecher Stowe (who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin)
• Stratton Genealogy of LongIsland (1901), by Sidney Vanuxem Stratton (Internet Archive)
• Text of the Dongan East Hampton Patent of 1686 (East Hampton Town Trustees.  Gallery)

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• Ancient Long Island Epitaphs from the Towns of Southold, Shelter Island and East Hampton, New York / Edward Doubleday Harris
• Awakening the Past:  The East Hampton 350th Anniversary Lecture Series, 1998 / ed. by Tom Twomey
• Discovering the Past:  The Writings of Jeannette Edwards Rattray, 1893-1974, Relating to the History of the Town of East Hampton, Suffolk County, New York / Jeannette Edwards Rattray; ; ed. by Tom Twomey
• East Hampton / John Warden Rae, East Hampton Library
• East Hampton:  A Town and Its People, 1648-1994 / Nancy Hyden Woodward
• East Hampton:  A History and Guide / Jason Epstein and Elizabeth Barlow
• East Hampton and the American Revolution / Ilse O'Sullivan; ed. by Frances Colleyand Norman Reader
• East Hampton History:  Including Genealogies of Early Families / Jeannette Edwards Rattray
• East Hampton on Long Island / Sherrill Foster
• East Hampton Town, 1850 Census / comp. by David A. Kerkhof
• Exploring the Past:  Writings from 1798 to 1896 Relating to the History of the Town of East Hampton, Suffolk County, New York / ed. by Tom Twomey
• Imagining the Past:  East Hampton Histories / T.H. Breen and Tony Kelly
• Janet and Jackie:  The Story of a Mother and Her Daughter, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis / Janice Pottker
• Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis:  A Life / Daniel Spoto
• Thomas Moran, A Search for the Scenic:  His Landscape Paintings of the American West, East Hampton, and Venice:  An Exhibition Inaugurating Guild Hall's50th Anniversary Year, Guild Hall, East Hampton, N.Y., November 29th, 1980-January 25th, 1981 / guest curator Phyllis Braff
• Walking Dunes:  East Hampton's Hidden Treasure / Ruth Formanek and Mike Bottini

 

-- Huntington (N.Y. : Town)

            See also  Babylon (N.Y. : Town) 

                                 (which was part of Huntington Town until 1872)

• Order of the Ancient and Honorable Huntington Militia:  18th Century Living History [est. 1653] (Colonial Guard of the Town of Huntington)
• Co. 274, P-99, Huntington, Long Island, New York, 1934-1938 (Civilian Conservation Corps Legacy Journal, 33[5] Se-Oc 2009)
• Find It @ Your Library:  It's Your History  (Town of Huntington, NY.  Town of Huntington's 350th Anniversary Celebration)
• Huntington Historical Society (The Society)
• Huntington, New York (Wikipedia)
• Huntington, Northport, Centreport, Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island (Illustrated America Series; American Photographic Co., 1909)  (Internet Archive)
• Huntington Town Records, Including Babylon, Long Island, N.Y., v. 1 (1887)  (Internet Archive)
• Huntington Town Records, Including Babylon, Long Island, N.Y., v. 2 (1887)  (Internet Archive)
• Huntington Town Records, Including Babylon, Long Island, N.Y., v. 3 (1887)  (Internet Archive)
• Huntington Town Records, Including Babylon, Long Island, N.Y., v. 4 (1887)  (Internet Archive)
• Huntington's 350th Anniversary Celebration (Town of Huntington)
• National Register of Historic Places Listed in Huntington (Town), New York  (Wikipedia)
• Silas Wood's Sketch of the Town of Huntington, L.I., from Its First Settlement to the End of the American Revolution, ed. with genealogical and historical notes, by William S. Pelletreau, A.M. (1898)  (Internet Archive)
• Town History (Town of Huntington) 
• Street, Charles R. and Henry C. Platt, Counsellors at Law, Huntington, L.I.  An Opinion Upon the Powers and Duties of the Trustees of the Freeholders and Commonalty of the Town of Huntington; Especially with Reference to Lands Under Tide Waters; the Oyster Fisheries, and Dock Franchises, with a Historical  Review of the Early Settlement of the Town.  New York:  Printed by John DeVries, 1872.  (Internet Archives) 

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• Colonial Huntington, 1653-1800 / Zell Morris Gould and Henrietta M. Klaber
• A Compilation of African Americans and Historic Sites in the Town of Huntington / African American Historic Designation Council
• A Detailed History of the Original Township of Huntington:  Past-Present-Future, 1653-1860, 1925-1930 / Guy E. Johnson
• Huntington:  National Register of Historic Places:  Individual Designations / Rufus B. Langhans, Huntington (N.Y. : Town).  Historian
• Huntington Book of Transcription, 1657-1745 / Rufus B. Langhans, Huntington (N.Y. : Town).  Historian
• Huntington Court Records, 1657-1700 and the Duke's Law of 1664 / Rufus B. Langhans, Huntington (N.Y. : Town).  Historian
• Huntington Historic Cemeteries / Rufus B. Langhans, Huntington (N.Y. : Town).  Historian
• Huntington Historic Markers /  Huntington (N.Y. : Town).  Office of the Historian
• Huntington at the Turn of the Century / Christopher R. Vagts; Huntington Historical Society
• Huntington-Babylon Town History / Romanah Sammis
• Huntington / Babylon Land Deeds, 1663-1797 / Rufus B. Langhans, Huntington (N.Y. : Town).  Historian; Huntington (N.Y. : Town).  Board;  Babylon (N.Y. : Town). Board
• Huntington in Our Time, 1900-1975 / Christopher R. Vagts; Huntington Historical Society
• [Huntington Land Grants] / Rufus B. Langhans, Huntington (N.Y. : Town).  Historian
• Huntington Tavern Licenses, 1783-1895 / Rufus B. Langhans, Huntington (N.Y. : Town).  Historian
• Huntington Town Meetings, April 1784-November 1840:  With Name Index / [comp. by] Rufus B. Langhans, Huntington (N.Y. : Town).  Historian
• Huntington Town Meetings, April 1841-April 1872:  With Name Index / [comp. by] Rufus B. Langhans, Huntington (N.Y. : Town).  Historian
• Huntington Town Records, Including Babylon, Long Island, N.Y. / Towns of Huntington and Babylon
• Huntington Town Records, vols. 3-5 / [comp. by] Rufus B. Langhans, Huntington (N.Y. : Town).  Historian
• Index Huntington I Land Grant Surveys, 1697-1787 [and] II Land Grants, 1688-1802 / [comp. by] Rufus B. Langhans, Huntington (N.Y. : Town).  Historian
• Index to the Long Islander, 1865-1881:  Marriages-Deaths / Robert L. Simpson; Huntington American Revolution Bicentennial Committee
• Industries Located and Operating in Huntington, New York:  List / Huntington Township Chamber of Commerce [1985-86] 
• Irony of Submission:  The British Occupation of Huntington and Long Island, 1776-1783 / Lois J. Meyer
• Manumission Book of the Towns of Huntington and Babylon, Long Island, New York, with Some Earlier Manumissions and Index, 1800-1824 / Huntington (N.Y. : Town).  Office of the Historian
• Our Town Huntington:  A Pictorial History of Huntington in Commemoration of Its Tercentenary, 1653-1953 / Huntington Tercentenary, Inc.  Brochure Committee
• Our Veterans Brave and Noble:  With Biographies of the Men Who Served in the Civil War from Huntington and Babylon Towns in Suffolk County, New York, and of Those Who Came Here Afterward, and Other Veterans Who are Interred in Our Local Cemeteries / Robert Thomas Farrell
• Our Veterans Brave and Noble:  An Index with Military and Biographical Sketches of the Civil War Soldiers, Sailors and Marines from Huntington Town, in Suffolk County, N.Y., 1861-1865:  Also Included are Those Veterans Who Later Resided Here and/or Were Interred Locally / Robert Thomas Farrell
• Personal Name Index to Huntington Town Records, Including Babylon,  Long Island, New York, 1653-1873, vols. 1-3 / [comp. by] Rufus B. Langhans, Huntington (N.Y. : Town).  Historian, et al. 
• Place Names in the Town of Huntington:  Their Location, Origin and Meaning / Rufus B. Langhans, ed.; Huntington (N.Y. : Town.  Historian
• Reaching for a Dream:  Huntington's Ethnic Heritage, August 20, 1988-March 25, 1989 / Huntington Historical Society
• Town of Huntington Highway Book[s], A-[B]: 1724-[1851 and 1852-1867] / [comp. by] Rufus B. Langhans, Huntington (N.Y. : Town).  Historian
• Town of Huntington School Trustee Annual Census Reports, 1827-1863, 2 vols. / Huntington (N.Y. : Town)
• Vignettes of Early Huntington / Huntington Historical Society.  Vignettes Committee
• Vital Statistics, Marriages, Births and Deaths:  Town of Huntington (Including Babylon), Long Island, New York, 1847-1848-1849 / Huntington (N.Y. : Town).  Office of the Historian
• Your Town Huntington:  A Citizen's Guide to Local Government [1976] / League of Women Voters of Huntington

 

-- Islip (N.Y. Town)

• Islip History (Town of Islip)
• Islip (Town), New York (Wikipedia)
• National Record of Historic Places Listings in Islip (Town), New York  (Wikipedia) 
• Islip (N.Y. : Town).  War Record of the Town of Islip, Long Island, New York, World War, 1917-1918 (1921), by Perry S. Wicks, et al.  (Internet Archive)

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• Book One of the Minutes of Town Meetings and Register of Animal Ear Marks of the Town of Islip, 1720-1851 / transciptions, annotations, and indexes by Carl Starace, Islip (N.Y. : Town).  Historian
• Brief History of the Town of Islip / Patrick J. Curran
• Central and Eastern Long Island and Its Attractions, Embracing bay Shore, Patchogue, Sayville, Bayport, Blue Point, Bayport East and Centre Moriches, Islip, Huntington, Northport, Port jefferson and Riverhead / G.W. Richardson
• East End Tricentennial Chronicle 1983:  Tricentennial, Islip Town, 1683-1983:  Bayport, Bohemia, Holbrook, Oakdale, Ronkonkoma, Sayville, West Sayville / East End Tricentennial Committee
• Evaluation of a Hard Clam Spawner Transplant Site Using a Dye Tracer Technique / D.S. Becker; State University of New York at Stony Brook.  Marine Sciences Research Center
• Government and Politics in the Town of Islip, Suffolk County, New York:  A Suburban Case Study / Thomas H. Moreland
• Happy Hunting Ground / Harry B. Hollins
• Here Comes the Garbage Barge! / Jonah Winter
• Islip Town's World War II Effort / comp. and ed. by Nathaniel R. Howell
• The Journal of Islip's Korean and Vietnam Veterans / comp. and written by Jeane M. Podhany / Islip (N.Y. : Town)
• Long Island macArthur Airport Master Plan /prepared for the Town of Islip, by Transplan, Inc.
• Long Island's Prominent South Shore Families:  Their Estates and Their Country Homes in the Towns of Babylon and Islip / Raymond E. and Judith A. Spinzia
• Report and Recommendations for the MacArthur Transportation Hub and Long Island Mass Trasportation / MacArthur Transportation Committee [1964]
• Residents, Town of Islip, 1720-1865 / Richard P. Baldwin, comp.
• Some of the Town of Islip's Early History / George Lewis Weeks, Jr.
• Tricentennial Project:  Islip Town:  1850 Census / David A. Kerkhof, comp.; Sayville Junior High School
• Town of Islip Comprehensive Plan / Islip (N.Y. : Town).Goals Advisory Committee
• Town of Islip Cookbook, circa 1895 / William K. Vanderbilt Historical Society of Dowling College
• War Record of the Town of Islip, Long Island, New York, 1917-1918 /  Perry S. Wicks, comp.

 

-- Riverhead (N.Y. : Town)

             See also  Southold (N.Y. : Town)  

             Note:  Riverhead was originally part of Southold Town, until 1792

• Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Organization of the Town of Riverhead, Suffolk County, N.Y., at Riverhead, July 4, 1892 (1894)  (Internet Archive)
• History of the Town of Riverhead, Suffolk County, N.Y., v. 1, written by Hon. George Miller, and Read by T.M. Griffing, Esq., at the [U.S.] Centennial Celebration, July 4, 1876 (Internet Archive) 
• History of the Town of Riverhead, Suffolk County, N.Y., v. 2, written by Hon. George Miller, and Read by T.M. Griffing, Esq., at the [U.S.] Centennial Celebration, July 4, 1876 (Internet Archive)
• National Register of Historic Places Listed in Roverhead (Town), New York  (Wikipedia)
• Town Historian (Town of Riverhead) - includes a brief town history and a link to a Landmarks Preservation Committee brochure

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• African American Resource Guide:  A Survey Summary of Pre-1931 African American Records Covering the Area of Riverhead Central School District for Genealogists and Other Researchers / Mary Lee Gaylor
• American Revolutionary War Soldiers' and Patriots' Graves in the Town of Riverhead, New York / researched and written by Georgette L. Case; Daughters of the American Revolution.  Suffolk Chapter
• Brief History of Early Riverhead Town / Justine Warner Wells
• Growth of Agriculture in Riverhead Town, Suffolk County, New York / Nathaniel A. Talmage
• History of Riverhead Town / Elisabeth S. lapham; Suffolk County Tercentennary Commission
• History of the Riverhead Free Library, Including a Brief History of the Town of Riverhead / Laurel Sisson
• History of the Town of Riverhead, Suffolk County, N.Y. / written by Hon. George Miller and read by T.M. Griffing, Esq., at the Centennial Celebration, July 4, 1876
• Pioneers of Riverhead Town / comp. by Virginia Wines
• Riverhead Bicentennial Album / Riverhead (N.Y. : Town).  Bicentennial Committee
• Riverhead Town Records, 1792-1886 / Arthur Channing-Downs, Jr., ed.; Riverhead (N.Y. : Town)
• Riverhead (Town) Preservation and Landmarks Society Presents a Tour of Riverhead's Architectural History, Sunday, Oct. 5, 1975, 1-5 P.M. / The Society
• Seeking the Past:  Writings from 1832-1905 Relating to the History of the Town of Riverhead, Suffolk County, New York / ed. by Tom Twomey
• Southold Town Records / copied and explanatory notes added by J. Wickham Case; Southold (N.Y. : Town); Riverhead (N.Y. : Town)

 

-- Shelter Island (N.Y. : Town)

          See also   Southold (N.Y. : Town)  

          Note:  Shelter Island was originally part of Southold Town

• Historical Papers on Shelter Island and Its Presbyterian Church, with Genealogical Tables...(1899), by Jacob Edward Mallman (Internet Archive)
• Shelter Island Historical Society (The Society)
• Island History Revisited (Shelter Island Historical Society)
• Congressional Record Statement in Honor of First Lieutenant Joseph Theinert (Congressman Tim Bishop, 6/9/10)
• 1st Lt. Joseph Theinert Buried on Shelter Island, by Martin C. Evans (Newsday.com)
• National Register of Historic Places Listings in Shelter Island (Town), New York (Wikipedia)
• The Provisioning Plantation:  1652-1693:  Slavery as the Economic Engine, by Patricia Shillingburg (Shelter Island Historical Society)
• The Sugar Connection:  Barbados and Shelter Island, Transcript of Lecture by Mac Griswold, on Thursday, October 18, 2001 at the East Hampton Library (East Hampton Library.  History Lectures @ the Library.  Past Lectures)
• Sylvester Manor Archives Now Housed at NYU Libraries, Reveal 300-Year-Old History of Northern Plantation (NYU Today, 22[4])
• Sylvester Manor Project (University of Massachusetts, Boston.  Andrew Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research)

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• Ancient Long Island Epitaphs from the Towns of Southold, Shelter Island and East Hampton, New York / Edward Doubleday Harris
• Chronicle of Shelter Island's Churches / Stewart W. Herman
• Coast of Summer:  Sailing New England Waters from Shelter Island to Cape Cod / Anthony Bailey
• God's Summer Cottage:  A History of the Union Chapel in the Grove on Shelter Island / Stewart W. Herman
• Historic Houses of the North Fork and Shelter Island / Joy Bear
• Historical Papers on Shelter Island and Its Presbyterian Church, with Genealogical Tables... / Rev. Jacob E. Mallmann
• History of Shelter Island, 1652-1932, with a Supplement, 1932-1952 / Ralph G. Duvall, supplement by Jean A. Schladermundt
• An Island Sheltered:  Sheter Island Celebrates 350 Years / Priscilla Dunhill
• Manor of Shelter Island:  An Address Read Before the Annual Meeting of the Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America on April 23, 1931 / Cornelia Horsford
• Shelter Island:  A Nostalgic Journey / Louise Tuthill Green
• Shelter Island:  300th Anniversary Celebration, 1652-1952 / Shelter Island Tercentenary Committee
• Smallest Village:  The Story of Dering Harbor, Shelter Island, New York 1874-1974 / Stewart W. Herman
• Southold-Shelter Island (New York) Register, 1910-11
• Story of Shelter Island in the Revolution / Helen Otis Lamont
• Sugar Connection [DVD]:  Holland, Barbados, and Shelter Island [on order]
• Woman Named Matilda:  And Other True Accounts of Old Shelter Island / Helen Zunser Wortis 

 

-- Smithtown (N.Y. : Town)

• Records of the Town of Smithtown, Long Island, N.Y., with Other Ancient Documents of Historic Value, transcribed from the Originals in the Town Clerk's Office, with Notes and Introduction by William S. Pelletreau (1898)  (Internet Archive)
• National Register of Historic Places Listed in Smithtown (Town), New York (Wikipedia)
• Smithtown Historical Society (The Society)  
• Smithtown Town Clerk (Town of Smithtown)
• Statue of Whisper the Bull  (Town of Smithtown)

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• Brief History of Smithtown, New York / James Edward Gonnoud
• Brief History of the Town of Smithtown / Nicholas Langhart;  Suffolk County Tercentenary Commission
• Colonel Rockwell's Scrapbook:  Short Histories, Dwellings, Mills, Churches, Taverns, Township of Smithtown, Suffolk County, Long island, N.Y. / ed. by Charlotte Adams Ganz
• Smithtown / Bradley L. Harris, Kiernan Lannon, and Joshua Ruff
• Smithtown, 1665-1965:  Tercentenary Souvenir Album and Program / Smithtown Tercentenary Corp.
• Smithtown, New York, 1660-1929:  Looking Back Through the Lens / Noel J. Gish
• Smithtown Souvenir Program:  Town Celebration, August 10th-16th, 1936 /  Smithtown (N.Y. : Town).  Office of the Supervisor
• Smithtown, Yesterday and Today / John Motta, ed.

-- Southampton (N.Y. : Town)

• Historic Record Books (Town of Southampton) -- Town Record Books, 1-8, (1639-1927), individually downloadable
• Southampton Town Cemetery Project [Burying Grounds] (Town of Southampton)
• Documents (Town of Southampton) - indian deeds, town patents, and other interesting links
• History of the Town of Southampton (East of Canoe Place), by James Truslow Adams (1918)  (Internet Archive) 
• John Scott was a Charming Charlatan:  An Outlaw at 10, John Scott Found Colonial Southampton a Fertile Field for His Dreams and His Schemes, by Mary Cummings (Southampton Patch, January 5, 2011)
• Patent of the Town of Southampton [1676, repr.] (1835)  (Internet Archive)
• The First Book of Records of the Town of Southampton, with Other Ancient Documents of Historic Value, Including All the Writings in the Town Clerk's Office from 1639 to 1660..., [comp. by] Henry P. Hedges, Wm. S. Pelletreau, & Edward H. Foster (1874) (Internet Archive)
• Patent of the Town of Southampton, published by Authority of the Town (Sag Harbor, NY:  Corrector Office, 1835)
• National Register of Historic Places Listed in Southampton (Town), New York  (Wikipedia)
• Records of the Town of Southampton, With Other Ancient Documents of Historic Value, v. 2 (1874)  (Internet Archive)
• The Third Book of Records of the Town of Southampton, Long Island, N.Y., with Other Ancient Documents of Historic Value, Including the Records from 1717 to 1807..., by Henry P. Hedges, Wm. S. Pelletreau, [and] Edward H. Foster (1878) (Internet Archive) 
• Records of the Town of Southampton, With Other Ancient Documents of Historic Value, v. 4 (1874)  (Internet Archive)
• Fifth Volume of Records of the Town of Southampton, Comprising Ancient Loose Documents in the Town Clerk's Office; Also Abstracts of the Red Book of Deeds, copied and prepared for publication by William J. Post, Town Clerk and William S. Pelletreau (1874) (Internet Archive)

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• Celebration of the Two Hundred and Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the Founding of the Town of Southampton, N.Y.:  Southampton, the First English Settlement in the State of New York, June 12, 1915.  1640-1915 / Colonial Society.  Southampton, N.Y.
• Descendants of Edward Howell, Bapt. 1584, and Frances, 1st Wife, d. 1630, and Eleanor, 2nd Wife, d. After 1655, of Buckinghamshire, England, and Southampton, L.I., New York / Emma Howell Ross
• Dirt Under My Nails:  An American Farmer and Her Changing Land / Marilee Foster
• Early History of Southampton, L.I., New York, with Genealogies / George Rogers Howell
• Eighth Volume of Records of the Town of Southampton, 1893-1927, parts 1-2 / Southampton (N.Y. : Town)
• Elias Pelletreau, 1726-1810:  Goldsmith of Southampton, Long Island, New York / Bennett W. Trupin
• Fifth Volume of Records of the Town of Southampton:  Comprising Ancient Loose Documents in the Town Clerk's Office.  Also Abstracts of the Red Book of Deeds / copied and prepared for publication by William J. Post, Town Clerk and William S. Pelletreau
• First Book of Records of the Town of Southampton, Long Island, N.Y.  with Other Ancient Documents of Historic Value.  Vol. 1, Including all the Writings in the Town Clerk's Office from 1639 to 1660 / transcribed with notes and an Introduction by Wm. S. Pelletreau
• Jane Freilicher Paintings / ed. by Robert Doty, et al.
• Long Island's Prominent Families in the Town of Southampton:  Their Estates and Their Country Homes / Raymond E. and Judith A. Spinzia
• English Ancestry of Thomas Halsey of Southampton, Long Island / Raymond David Wheeler
• History of Southampton / Robert Keene
• History of the Town of Southampton (east of Canoe Place) / James Truslow Adams
• Luce on Long Island / Charlotte Elizabeth (Wells) Jacques and Alice Walpole (Crofts) Kappenberg
• Seventh Volume of Records of the Town of Southampton:  Commenced January 1, 1871 / Southampton (N.Y. : Town)
• Sixth Volume of Records of the Town of Southampton, L.I., N.Y.:  Being of Abstracts of Vol. II of Deeds in the Town Clerk's Office, with Additional Unrecorded Deeds, with Indexes of Names and Localities / prepared and ed. by William S. Pelletreau and James A. Early, Town Clerk; Southampton (N.Y. : Town)
• Sketches from Local History / William Donaldson halsey
• Southampton / Mary Cummings
• Third Book of Records of the Town of Southampton:  With Other Ancient Documents of Historic Value / Southampton (N.Y. : Town)
• Tracing the Past:  Writings of Henry P. Hedges 1817-1911:  Relating to the History of the East End, Including East hampton, Southampton, Sag harbor, Bridgehampton, and Southold in Suffolk County, New York / Henry P. Hedges; ed. by Tom Twomey
• Trustees Records of the Town of Southampton, N.Y., 1741-1826, a Facsimile, parts 1-2 / transcribed by Harry D. Sleight
• Wetlands:  At What Cost? / David H. Gilmartin
• Will of Ellis Cook, of Southampton, Long Island (d. 1679) / Albert S. Cook

 

-- Southold (N.Y. : Town)

• Brief Account of Southold's History, by Antonia Booth, Southold Town Historian (North Fork.net)
• Griffin's Journal:  First Settlers of Southold, the Names of the Heads of Those Families, Being Only Thirteen at the Time od Their Landing; First Proprietors of Orient, Biographical Sketches (1857), by Augustus Griffin (Internet Archive)
• History of the Colony of New Haven, Before and After the Union with Connecticut. Containing a Particular Description of the Towns which Composed that Government, viz., New Haven, Milford, Guilford, Branford, Stamford, & Southold, L.I., with a Notice of the Towns which have been Set Off from the "original Six" (1838), by Edward Rodolphus Lambert (Intenet Archive) 
• History of Southold, Long Island:  Its First Century, v. 1 (1881), by Epher Whitaker (Internet Archive)
• History of Southold, Long Island:  Its First Century, v. 2 (1881), by Epher Whitaker (Internet Archive)
• King Family of Southold, Suffolk County New York, 1595-190.  Compiled from Public Records, Family Papers and the Manuscript King Genealogy of Mr. Rufus King of Yonkers, N.Y. (1901) (Internet Archive)
• National Register of Historic Places Listed in Southold (Town), New York  (Wikipedia)
• Salmon Records; A Private Register of Marriages and Deaths of the Residents of the Town of Southold, Suffolk County, N.Y. [1696-1811](1918), [comp. by] William Salmon, et al.  (Internet Archive)
• Southold Town Records, Copied, and Explanatory Notes Added, v. 2 (1882), [comp. and ed. by] J. William Case  (Internet Archive)
• Town of Southold.  Personal Index Prior to 1698, and Index of 1698.Compiled and Copied for the Purpose of Having Corrections Suggested and Greater Fullness and Accuracy Attained and Preserved, Especially as to the First or Early Settlers of the Town, Including All Named in or Prior to the List of 1698. by Charles B. Moore.  New York:  John Medole, Printer, 1868  (Cornell University.  Library.  New York Historical Literature)
• Tuthill Family of Tharston, Norfolk County, England and Southold, Suffolk County, New York, also Written Totyl, Totehill, Tuttle, Etc., 1580-1757, by Lucy Dubois Akerly.  Newburgh, N.Y.:  Privately Printed, 1898  (Internet Archive) 

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• Ancient Long Island Epitaphs from the Towns of Southold, Shelter Island and East Hampton, New York / Edward Doubleday Harris
• Augustus Griffin's Journal:  A Facsimile Reprint / Augustus Griffin
• Supplement to Augustus Griffin's Journal; with Biographical Notes and a Newly Prepared Index / Oysterponds Historical Society
• Brief History of the Town of Southold / Magdaline Goodrich; Suffolk County Tercentenary Commission
• Descendants of Captain John Prince of Southold, New York, and Their Place in Local History / comp. by Helen Wright Prince
• Descendants of Thomas Hutchinson of Southold, New York, 1666-1982:  Including the Female Lines into the Related Families of Boisseau... / Jane Errickson Hutchinson
• Dickerson and Dickenson Descendants of Philemon Dickerson of Southold, Long island, N.Y.  Also Long Island Descendants of Captain Jogn Dickinson of Oyster Bay / Wesley Logan Baker
• Epher Whitaker of Southold / pub. as a memorial by the Presbytery of Long Island
• Genealogy in Southold Town
• Genealogy of the Family of Richard Howell, of Mattituck, Southold Town, Long Island, New York to Seven Generations /comp. by Thomas H. Donnelly
• Guide to Historic Markers:  First List of Historic Markers Placed in Southold, Peconic, and Arshamomaque / Southold Historical Society
• Hallock Genealogy:  An Attempt to Tabulate and Set in Order the Numerous Descendants of Peter Hallock, Who Landed at Southold, Long Island, New York, About the Year 1640, and Settled at Aquebogue, Near Mattituck / The foundation of this work was laid by William A. Hallock, who published his Hallock ancestry in 1866.  The same being extendedby his nephew, Charles Hallock, to the year 1906.  This work is undertaken in the year of Our Lord 1926, by an interested descendant, Lucius H. Hallock
• Historical Sketch of Southold Town / [Albertson Case]
• Houses of Southold:  The First 350 Years / Southold (N.Y. : Town).  Landmarks Preservation Commission; Nicholas Langhart, et al.
• History of the Colony of New Haven to Its Absorbsion into the Colony of Connecticut / by Edward E. Atwater; with Supplementary History and Personnel of the Towns of Branford, Gilford, Milford, Stratford, Norwalk, Southold, etc.; comp. by Robert Atwater Smith, assisted by Bessie E. Beach and Lucy M. Hewitt
• Hydrology of the Shallow Ground-water Reservoir of the Town of Southold, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York / prepared by the U.S.  Geological Survey in cooperation with the New York State Water Resources Commission, Suffolk County Board of Supervisors, and the Suffolk County Water Authority
• King Family of Southold, Suffolk County, New York, 1595-1901 / comp. from public records, family papers and the manuscript King Genealogy of Mr. Rufus King of Yonkers, N.Y. / Lucy Dubois Akerly
• Luce on Long Island / Charlotte Elizabeth (Wells) Jacques and Alice Walpole (Crofts) Kappenberg
• North Fork Cemeteries / Clement Healy
• Old Southold Town's Tercentenary / Ann Hallock Currie-Bell; Southold (N.Y. : Town).  Tercentenary Committee
• Overton Genealogy:  The Overton Family of Long Island, New York, especially the Descendants of David Overton of Southold and Coram, 1640-1965 / Alvin R.L. Smith
• Pagans, Puritans, and Patriots of Yesterday's Southold / Warren J. Hall
• Rose of the Nineties / Rosalind Case Newell
• Rose Remembers / Rosalind Case Newell
• Sensational Shellfish:  The Best of the North Fork [recipe book] / Cornell Cooperative Extension.  Marine Program.  Friends of Southold Project in Aquaculture Training
• Shared Aesthetic:  Artists of Long Island's North Fork / Geoffrey K. Fleming , general ed., et al.
• Southold Connections:  Historical and Biographical Sketches of Northeastern Long Island / Judy Jacobson
• Southold Town 350th Anniversary, 1640-1990 Celebration Journal / Peggy Murphy, ed.
• Southold Town Records / copied and explanatory notes added, by J. Wickham Case; Southold (N.Y. : Town); Riverhead (N.Y. : Town)
• Southold Town Records, Vol. 1 (Libers A and B) / copied and explanatory notes added by J. Wickham Case; Southold (N.Y. : Town).  Hall of Records
• Southold Town Records, Liber "D":  1683-1856 Entry /manuscript and original handwritten booktranscribed in unabridged form by Magdaline Goodrich
• Southold Township Celebrates Suffolk County's Tercentenary, 1683-1983 / Southold (N.Y. : Town)
• Southold's Claim to Priority / Charles E. Craven
• Story of North Fork Wine:  Historical Profiles and Wine Country Recipes / John Ross
• Story of the 275th Anniversary Celebration of the Founding of Southold Town, July 21-25, 1915 / Ella Boldry Hallock
• Story of Southold's Libraries, 1797-1976 / Samuel Sander; Southold Free Library 
• Tracing the Past:  Writings of Henry P. Hedges 1817-1911:  Relating to the History of the East End, Including East Hampton, Southampton, Sag Harbor, Bridgehampton, and Southold in Suffolk County, New York / ed. by Tom Twomey
• Whitaker's Southold:  Being a Substantial Reproduction of the History of Southold, L.I., Its First Century / Epher Whitaker; ed. with additions by Charles E. Craven
• Walt Whitman at Southold / Katherine Molinoff
• Wickham Claim:  Being an Inquiry into the Attainder of Parker Wickham / Dwight Holbrook