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Major Surnames from LI History
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NEW Resources on our Records and Resources page: 
1. NEW
- St Johns Episcopal Church Records, Oakdale
2. NEW  Brookhaven Town Historians Complete ALPHA List - This list was originally compiled by Osborn Shaw, Brookhaven Town Historian, somewhere between 1938 -1939 -  Research tool for use with the Brookhaven Town Historians ALPHA List


NEW Text Available: Genealogy of the Swasey Family (Southold and Roxbury, NJ) by Benjamin Franklin Swasey, 1910, 1599-1890 LION Gardiner and his Descendants by Curtiss C Gardiner, The Kelsey Outrage:  A full, impartial and interesting account of the most cruel and remarkable crime - evidence in full, Doings of the Trial.  (Note - this is in places a bad copy.  Unfortunately it is the only one I have been able to get my hands on)
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Abrams
Ashman
Austin
B
Baker
Baldwin
Barnes
Barto/Barteau
Bayles
Bedell
Booth
Brewster
Broucard/Brokaw
Brush
Bunce

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C
Carman
Carpenter
Carter
Chichester
Clock
Clowes
Cock, Cox
Coles
Conklin(g)
Cooper
Cory/Corey
Craft
Crane

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D
Darling
Davis
Dayton
Decker
Denton
Dimon
Dodge
Dominy
Doughty
Dudley
E
Edwards

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F
Fleet
Flewelling
Floyd
Fogle
Fordham
Foster
G
Gardiner
Glover
Greene
Griffin(g)
Guenon/Genung

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H
Hallock
Halsey
Hand
Haven(s)
Hedges
Helme
Hopkins
Horton
Howell
Hudson
Hulse
Hunt
Huntting
I
Ireland
J
Jackson
Jagger (Gager)
Jarvis
Jones
K
Ketcham
King
Kissam
L
Lawrence
Lester
Loper
M
Mason
Mather
Miller
Mott
Mount
Mulford
N
Nicoll /Nichols
Norton
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O
Osborn(e)
Overton
P
Paine/Payne
Palmer
Penny
Post
Powell
Prime
Purdy
Purrier
Q
Quick
R
Randall
Raynor
Robinson
Roe
Roosevelt
S
Sanford/Sandford
Sayre
Scudder
Seaman
Searing
Smith/Smythe
Southard
Squires
Stratton
Strong
Sweezey
T
Talmadge/Talmage
Thompson
Tooker
Topping
Townsend
U
Underhill
V
Vail
Valentine
Vanderbilt
Van Scoy
Van Sise
Van Tassel
Van Velsor
Verity
W
Weeks
Whitaker
White
Willets
Williams
Willse
Wood
Woodhull
Woolley
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Additional site files related to specific surnames
Early Dutch Family Ties TERHUNE*, VAN SICKLEN*, FRELINGHUYSEN*, and Others
The Hallock Ancestry - compiled by William A. Hallock, 1940
Memoir of Johannes Schenk : the progenitor of the Bushwick, family, 1876
The DAVIS Family of Easthampton LI by Albert H Davis
"Genealogy Of East Hampton Families"   by BY HENRY P. HEDGES
Carpenter Family Heroine Escaped Indians Who Killed her Husband & Son
Long Island Surname Myths
Stratton Genealogy of Long Island , Sidney Vanuxem Stratton , 1901
The Webb Family   by Reynold Webb Wilcox
Henry Augustus Almy: his descendants & Linage from William Almy
The Moores of Southold - By Barrington S. Havens
Titus family in America :   by Dorothy M Titus 
Ancestors of Hiram Smith and his wife Sarah Jane Bull 
Rev. William Leverich (1603-1677) - an Historical Biography
Maj. Gen. Henry Wager Halleck - beside a dying President 
Raynor Rock Smith Articles & Family Information
Some Descendants of Hugh Roe : an immigrant to MA Bay Colony 1642
Grietje Jans van Groeningen, 2nd wife Jan Pieterszen van Husum/Staats 
Hendrick Rycken , progenitor of the Suydam family in America
A Peters lineage : Descendants of Dr. Charles Peters of Hempstead
Depositions of Thomas Osman & history of Hashamomuck, Southold
Genealogy of the descendants of Stephen Randall & Elizabeth Swezey
Memoranda concerning Lloyd's Neck , LI & the Lloyd family 
Thomas Langdon of Hempstead & some descendants - Henry Tredwell
The descendents of Samuel Parsons, of East Hampton, L. I 1650
From Southold, Ny to Salem, NC - The Heritage of the Hortons
The Rev. Phinehas Robinson - Chester G. Osborne
Delamater Denton - Heir to Hempstead's Spirit of 1644
Bloodgood Haviland Cutter "Long Island's Farmer Poet
Muslims in Early America Anthony and Abraham van Salee
Genealogy and Reminiscences - William Smith and Family
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