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JAMAICA , formerly a See also:village of Queens See also:county, See also:Long See also:Island, New See also:York, U.S.A., but after 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. Pop. (1890) 5361. It is served by the Long Island railroad, the lines of which from See also:Brooklyn and Manhattan meet here and then See also:separate to serve the different regions of the island.' See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King's See also:Park (about ro acres) comprises the See also:estate of See also:John See also:Alsop King (1788—1867), See also:governor of New York in 1857—1859, from whose heirs in 1897 the See also:land was See also:purchased by the village trustees. In See also:South Jamaica there is a See also:race track, at which meetings are held in the See also:spring and autumn. The headquarters of the Queens Borough See also:Department of Public See also:Works and See also:Police are in the Jamaica See also:town-See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall, and Jamaica is the seat of a city training school for teachers (until 1905 one of the New York See also:State normal See also:schools). For two guns, a coat, and a quantity of See also:powder and See also:lead, several New Englanders obtained from the See also:Indians a See also:deed for a See also:tract of land here in See also:September 1655. In See also:March 1657 they received permission from Governor See also:Stuyvesant to found a town, which was chartered in 166o and was named Rustdorp by Stuyvesant, but the See also:English called it Jamaica; it was rechartered in 1666, 1686 and 1788. The village was incorporated in 1814 and reincorporated in 1855. In 1665 it was made the seat of See also:justice of the See also:north See also:riding; in 1683—1788 it was the See also:shire town of Queens county. With Hempstead, See also:Gravesend, See also:Newtown and See also:Flushing, also towns of New See also:England origin and type, Jamaica was See also:early disaffected towards the provincial See also:government of New York. In 1669 these towns complained that they had no See also:representation in a popular See also:assembly, and in 167o they See also:pro-tested against See also:taxation without representation. The founders of Jamaica were mostly Presbyterians, and they organized one of the first Presbyterian churches in See also:America. At the beginning of the See also:War of See also:Independence Jamaica was under the See also:control of See also:Loyalists; after the defeat of the Americans in the See also:battle of Long Island (27th See also:August 1776) it was occupied by the See also:British; and until the end of the war it was the headquarters of See also:General See also:Oliver Delancey, who had command of all Long Island.
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