Excerpt from Ilas Wood's Sketch of the Town of Huntington, L. I: From Its First Settlement to the End of the American Revolution His Sketch of the Early Settlements of Long Island, which has made his name famous, was the work of his leisure time for many years. He lived before the days of railroads, and his journeys in pur suit of information were made in a plain box wagon as plain as himself. In this humble vehicle he traveled throughout the Island visiting the clerks' offices of every town and county. This Sketch was ...
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Excerpt from Ilas Wood's Sketch of the Town of Huntington, L. I: From Its First Settlement to the End of the American Revolution His Sketch of the Early Settlements of Long Island, which has made his name famous, was the work of his leisure time for many years. He lived before the days of railroads, and his journeys in pur suit of information were made in a plain box wagon as plain as himself. In this humble vehicle he traveled throughout the Island visiting the clerks' offices of every town and county. This Sketch was first printed in 1824, and was a small volume of 66 pages. A second edition, containing 112 pages, was published in 1826. A third edition, of 183 pages, appeared in 1828. This last edition was printed for the sole purpose of doing honor to the memory of Gen. Nathaniel Woodhull. The first edition of this work was limited to 250 copies, While of the second and third only 100 copies were printed, and it is not strange that Copies are now scarce and command a high price. A fine reprint of the work, with a brilliantly written life of its distinguished author by his friend and admirer, Alden]. Spooner, Esq., was issued in 1865. The Sketch of the Geography of the Town of Huntington, which is here reprinted, was prepared while the author was in Congress. Of this little work only a limited edition was printed, and a large portion of that was destroyed by a fire that consumed the house of his neighbor, Moses Rolph, and Copies of the orig inal pamphlet are exceedingly rare. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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