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See also:EAST See also:HAMPTON , a township of See also:Suffolk See also:county, New See also:York, in the extreme S.E. See also:part of See also:Long See also:Island, occupying the See also:peninsula of Montauk, and bounded on the S. and E. by the See also:Atlantic Ocean, and on the N. by See also:Block Island See also:Sound, See also:Gardiner's See also:Bay and Peconic Bay. Pop. (1900) 3746; (1905) 4303; (1910) 4722. The township, 25 M. long and 8 m. at its greatest width from See also:north to See also:south, has an irregular north See also:coast-See also:line and a very See also:regular south coast-line. The See also:surface is rougher to the See also:west where there are several large lakes, notably See also:Great See also:Pond, 2 M. long. The scenery is picturesque and the township is much frequented by artists. Montauk Lighthouse, on Turtle See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill, was first built in 1795. At Montauk, after the See also:Spanish-See also:American See also:War, was See also:Camp Wikoff, a large U.S. military camp. The township is served by the See also:southern See also:division of the Long Island railway, the See also:terminus of which is Montauk. Other villages of the township, all summer resorts, are: Promised See also:Land, Amagansett, East Hampton and Sag Harbor; the last named, only partly in the township, was incorporated in 1803 and had a See also:population of 1969 in 1900, and 3084 in 1910. Silverware and See also:watch cases are manufactured here. From Sag Harbor, which is a See also:port of entry, a daily steamer runs to New York See also:city. The See also:village received many gifts in 1906—1908 from Mrs See also:- RUSSELL (FAMILY)
- RUSSELL, ISRAEL COOK (1852- )
- RUSSELL, JOHN (1745-1806)
- RUSSELL, JOHN (d. 1494)
- RUSSELL, JOHN RUSSELL, 1ST EARL (1792-1878)
- RUSSELL, JOHN SCOTT (1808–1882)
- RUSSELL, LORD WILLIAM (1639–1683)
- RUSSELL, SIR WILLIAM HOWARD
- RUSSELL, THOMAS (1762-1788)
- RUSSELL, WILLIAM CLARK (1844– )
Russell See also:Sage. Most of the See also:present township was bought from the See also:Indians (Montauks, Corchaugs and Shinnecocks) in 1648 for about £30, through the See also:governors of See also:Connecticut and New Haven, by nine See also:Massachusetts freemen, mostly inhabitants of See also:Lynn, Massachusetts. With twenty other families they settled here in 1649, calling the See also:place See also:Maidstone, from the old See also:home of some of the settlers in See also:Kent; but as See also:early as 165o the name East Hampton was used in reference to the earlier See also:settlement of South Hampton. Until
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1664, when all Long Island passed to the See also:duke of York, the See also:government was by See also:town See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting, autonomous and See also:independent except for occasional appeals to Connecticut. In 1683 Gardiner's Island, settled by See also:Lion Gardiner in 1639 and so one of the first See also:English settlements in what is now New York See also:state, was made a part of Long Island and of East Hampton township. The English settlements in East Hampton were repeatedly threatened by pirates and privateers, and there are many stories of treasure buried by See also:Captain See also:Kidd on Gardiner's Island and on Montauk Point. The See also:Clinton See also:Academy, opened in East Hampton village in 1785, was long a famous school. Of the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church built here in 1653 (first Congregational and after 1747 Presbyterian in government), Lyman See also:Beecher was pastor in 1799-1810; and in East Hampton were See also:born his See also:elder See also:children. See also:Whale fishing was begun in East Hampton in 1675, when four Indians were engaged by whites in off-See also:shore whaling; but Sag Harbor, which was first settled in 1730 and was held by the See also:British after the See also:battle of Long Island as a strategic See also:naval and See also:shipping point, became the centre of the whaling business. The first successful whaling voyage was made from Sag Harbor in 1785, and although the See also:Embargo ruined the fishing for a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, it revived during 1830-1850. See also:Cod and See also:menhaden fishing, the latter for the manufacture of See also:fish-oil and See also:guano, were important for a time, but in the second See also:half of the 19th See also:century Sag Harbor lost its commercial importance.
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