FLUSHING , formerly a township and a See also:village of Queens See also:county, New See also:York, U.S.A., on See also:Long See also:Island, at the See also:head of Flushing See also:Bay, since the 1st of See also:January 1898 a See also:part of the See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough of Queens, New York See also:City. Flushing is served by the Long Island railroad and by electric lines. It was settled in 1644 by a See also:company of See also:English non-conformists who had probably been residents of Flushing in See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland, from which the new See also:place took its name. Subsequently a large number of See also:Quakers settled here, and in 1672 See also:George See also:Fox spent some 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 in the township. Before the See also:War of See also:Independence Flushing was the See also:country-seat of many See also:rich New Yorkers and colonial officials.
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