History of Long Island From Its Discovery Settlement to the Present Time - Revised Greatly Enlarged With Aditions and a Biography of the Author by Charles J. Werner #255920

This extensive county, embracing more than two-thirds of Long Island, was organized November I, 1683, by an act passed in the first general assembly, and during the administration of Governor Dongan, entitled an act to divide the province of New York into Shires and coun ties, which see at large in a former page.