The History of Shelter Island, 1652-1932
Author | : Ralph G. Duvall |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : New York (State) |
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Author | : Ralph G. Duvall |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : New York (State) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ralph G. Duvall |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 1997-05-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780832862380 |
Author | : Ralph G. Duvall |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 1932 |
Genre | : Shelter Island (N.Y.) |
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Author | : Ralph G. Duvall |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : New York (State) |
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Author | : Library of Congress. Copyright Office |
Publisher | : Copyright Office, Library of Congress |
Total Pages | : 886 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : Copyright |
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Includes Part 1A: Books
Author | : Ralph G. Duvall |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1932 |
Genre | : Shelter Island (N.Y.) |
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Author | : Mac Griswold |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2013-07-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0374266298 |
In 1984, the landscape historian Mac Griswold was rowing along a Long Island creek when she came upon a stately yellow house and a garden guarded by looming boxwoods. She instantly knew that boxwoods that large--twelve feet tall, fifteen feet wide--had to be hundreds of years old. So, as it happened, was the house: Sylvester Manor had been held in the same family for eleven generations. Formerly encompassing all of Shelter Island, a pearl of 8,000 acres caught between the North and South Forks of Long Island, the manor had dwindled to 243 acres. Still, its hidden vault proved to be full of revelations and treasures, including the 1666 charter for the land, and correspondence from Thomas Jefferson. Most notable was the short and steep flight of steps the family had called the "slave staircase," which would provide clues to the extensive but little-known story of Northern slavery. Alongside a team of archaeologists, Griswold began a dig that would uncover a landscape bursting with stories. Based on years of archival and field research, as well as voyages to Africa, the West Indies, and Europe, "The Manor" is at once an investigation into forgotten lives and a sweeping drama that captures our history in all its richness and suffering.
Author | : Katherine Howlett Hayes |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2014-05-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1479802220 |
The study of slavery in the Americas generally assumes a basic racial hierarchy: Africans or those of African descent are usually the slaves, and white people usually the slaveholders. In this unique interdisciplinary work of historical archaeology, anthropologist Katherine Hayes draws on years of fieldwork on Shelter Island's Sylvester Manor to demonstrate how racial identity was constructed and lived before plantation slavery was racialized by the legal codification of races. Using the historic Sylvester Manor Plantation site turned archaeological dig as a case study, Hayes draws on artifacts and extensive archival material to present a rare picture of northern slavery on one of the North's first plantations. There, white settlers, enslaved Africans, and Native Americans worked side by side. While each group played distinct roles on the Manor and in the larger plantation economy of which Shelter Island was part, their close collaboration and cohabitation was essential for the Sylvester family's economic and political power in the Atlantic Northeast. Through the lens of social memory and forgetting, this study addresses the significance of Sylvester Manor's plantation history to American attitudes about diversity, Indian land politics, slavery and Jim Crow, in tension with idealized visions of white colonial community. -- Book jacket.
Author | : Patricia and Edward Shillingburg |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2014-11-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 131270313X |
The Dering letters involve members of the family from 1733 to 1838. Henry Dering arrived in America in the mid-1600. He began as a bar keep in a small village in New Hampshire and ended up as a merchant in Boston, a business that he left to his only son, who in turn left it to his two sons. The business was lost to fire and bad credit and Thomas took his wife and child to the 1,000 acre estate on Shelter Island the wife and her sister had inherited.Three generations lived and worked there through the Revolution and the beginnings of a new nation before a tragic death caused the family to sell.