Title: ACCOUNT BOOK COLLECTION, 1814-1915.
Quantity: 30 v.
Abstract: Account books of individuals and businesses largely in
Roslyn, including Benjamin and William Rushmore,
1814-1843; William M. Johnson, 1850; Jeremiah Remsen,
carpenter, 1816-1840; Jacob M. Kirby, blacksmith,
1853-1856; Mrs. Walter Weeks' household account,
1906-1915, and order book of Walter Weeks, 1908;
workman's time book and wage records from the Long
Island Lighting Company, 1906-1908; and unidentified
dry goods stores, 1847-1848 and undated. Other
volumes include records of cargo transfers at Roslyn
wharfs, 1853-1854, and for sloops in Hempstead Harbor,
1863; and account books of the sloops RUTH T. HICKS,
1852, and GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON, 1853-1872.
see also: ROSLYN GRIST MILL

Author: BOGART FAMILY
Title: H. Bogart Seaman Papers, 1732-1930.
Quantity: 4 cubic ft.
Historical/biog note: Family of Roslyn and Oyster Bay, N.Y.
Abstract: Letters, account books, receipts, indentures, bills of
sale, legal papers, licenses, wills and estate papers,
maps, bonds, military papers, inventories, poetry
manuscripts, genealogy, and memorabilia. Persons
represented include Daniel Bogart (1787-1861), Daniel
Bogart (1820-1896), Dr. Joseph H. Bogart (1846-1926),
and Elbert H. Bogart. Letters, 1798-1913, concern
visits, family health, accounts, roads, politics,
water rights, military pensions, Joseph H. Bogart's
college career, medical matters, land transactions,
and genealogy. Account books include family accounts
(in Dutch), 1762-1773; Frederick Siminson's record of
cows and horses sold, 1775 (partly in Dutch);
assessment rolls for the Town of North Hempstead, 1801
and 1808; record of births, deaths, marriages, and
natural phenomena kept by Elizabeth and Mary Bogart,
1826-1857; record of medical notes, prescriptions, and
diagnoses kept by Dr. Joseph H. Bogart, ca. 1895, and
a scrapbook on his medical career, 1872-1918. Other
items of note include bill of sale for a slave, 1743;
poetry of Dr. John Ordronaux; and essays by Joseph H.
Bogart while at Amherst College, 1867-1869. Other
family names include Albertson, Hegeman, Onderdonk,
and Townsend.
Language: English and Dutch.
Finding aids: Unpublished finding aid.

Title: BRYANT LIBRARY RECORDS, 1878-1974.
Quantity: 22 v., 1 cubic ft.
Abstract: Minute book, 1878-1924; stock book, 1879; register of
members, 1933-1967; account book, 1879-1928; accession
books, ca. 1878-1953; architectural drawings by Henry
Titus Aspinwall and others, 1947-1968, for Library
buildings and grounds; and files of correspondence,
financial records, legal papers, newsletters,
clippings, receipts, contracts, programs, and other
items, 1931-1974, pertaining to bequests and gifts,
physical plant, legal suits, and other administrative
matters.

Author: BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN, 1794-1878.
Title: Family papers, 1824-1908.
Quantity: ca. 115 items.
Reproduction note: Bryant's letters to Abraham Lincoln are photocopies.
Historical/biog note: Poet, journalist, resident of Roslyn, N.Y.
Abstract: Papers of William C. Bryant and his daughter Julia
Bryant, and other family members, consisting of
letters, manuscripts, deeds, leases, agreements,
accounts, lists, obituaries, and genealogy. Letters
of W.C. Bryant, largely to his daughter Julia,
1840-1878, concerning Roslyn news, Bryant Library,
trips, visits, health, his wife's cemetery monument,
events at their estate Cedarmere, horses, business
matters, Civil War, landscape design at Cedarmere, and
gardening. There are photocopies of his letters to
Abraham Lincoln recommending individuals for positions
and commenting on political issues, 1860-1864; and a
copy of a letter from Thomas Cole inviting Bryant to
visit him in Catskill, 1840. Letters of Julia Bryant,
1837-1887, concern her father's affairs, visits,
travel, and social news; and other family letters,
1854-1908, concerning Roslyn news, health, and W.C.
Bryant's manuscripts.

 

Cemetary Records see ROSLYN CEMETARY

Title: CLIPPING FILE, 1852-
Quantity: 66 linear ft.
Arrangement: By subject.
Abstract: Clippings, articles, typescript text, chronologies,
pamphlets, certificates, genealogy, letters, maps,
photocopies of photographs, and other items pertaining
to Roslyn individuals and history. Subjects include
artists, authors, biography, William C. Bryant, Bryant
Library, Black community, businesses, churches, clubs,
community preservation, fire department, government,
health, Hempstead Harbor, historic houses, other
houses, Christopher Morley, organizations, paper mill,
schools, transportation, and war.

Corp/Agency author: COUNCIL FOR COMMUNITY RESERVATION
Title: Records, 1955-1968.
Quantity: ca. 3 cubic ft.
Abstract: Correspondence, memoranda, reports, clippings,
booklets, articles, flyers, petitions, photographs,
and legal documents concerning community opposition to
plans to build an incinerator and dump into Hempstead
Harbor.


Title: DIARY COLLECTION, 1849-1885.
Quantity: .5 cubic ft. Typed transcript.
Historical/biog note: Anna Onderdonk (1839-1885) and Maria Onderdonk
(1832-1883) lived in Manhasset. Rev. Samuel F.
Johnson moved to Roslyn in 1876.
Abstract: Collection includes 33 volumes kept by sisters Anna
Onderdonk, 1849-1885, and Maria Onderdonk, 1851-1858,
concerning trips to New York City, church and Sunday
School, sewing society meetings, social life, visiting
funerals, holiday entertainments, death of their
mother in 1857, hired help and domestic chores, with
long accounts by Maria of trips to Canada and Boston,
1850-1852; one volume kept by Dr. D.B. Whitney, 1869,
concerning weather and daily activities, with very
little on his medical practice; and one volume kept by
Rev. Samuel F. Johnson at Amagansett, Long Island,
1852, concerning sermons preached, pastoral duties,
visits, weather, and other daily news.

Title: DOCUMENT COLLECTION, 1636-1981.
Quantity: ca. 16 cubic ft.
Abstract: Certificates, receipts, bonds, deeds, mortgages,
accounts, letters, programs, reports, apprenticeship
indentures, architectural drawings, autograph albums,
pamphlets, bankbooks, bills, broadsides, leases,
military papers, agreements, genealogy, clippings,
wills, and estate papers pertaining to the history of
Roslyn and vicinity. Subjects include land
transactions, Jericho Plank Road Company, businesses,
local organizations, churches, cemeteries, Civil War,
commerce, shipping, fire department, local government,
mills, roads, Roslyn Harbor, and schools. Family
names include Clowes, Eastman, Godwin, Hegeman,
Hennessey, Hicks, Kirby, Remsen, Seaman, Searing,
Speedling, Tatterson, Thorn, and Wood. Items of note
include sermons and theological writings of Wallace W.
Kirby, 1859-1862, and a letter by Kirby mentioning a
school for Black children in Roslyn, 1869; Republican
canvass book for Election District No. 2, Town of
North Hempstead, 1912; and architectural drawings by
Calvert Vaux's firm of the Godwin estate in Roslyn,
1869.
Finding aids: Card index.

Corp agency: G.A.R.(Grand Army of the Republic), ELIJAH WARD POST #654.
Title: Records, 1862-1938.
Quantity: 26 items. 1 microfilm reel.
Abstract: Post formed by Roslyn veterans of the Civil War.Includes
minute books, general and special orders book, descriptive book,
membership list, applications, letters, agreement for erection
of soldier's monument in Roslyn Cemetery.

Author: HECHLER FAMILY
Title: Papers, 1897-1997
Quantity: 5.5 cubic feet
Historical/biog note: Charles H. Hechler (1881-1962) his wife, Catherine Hauhart
Hechler (1880-1976), sons Charles (1912-1995) and Ken (1914- .)
Charles H. Hechler was superintendent of "Harbor Hill," the
Roslyn estate of Clarence H. Mackay from 1907-1938. In 1931 this
section of the Roslyn area became part of the Incorporated Village
of East Hills. Son Charles remained in East Hills, son Ken moved to
West Virginia and became active in politics. In 1959 Ken was elected
to Congress and later served as Secretary of State of West
Virginia.
Abstract: Includes personal correspondence, household bills, deeds and documents
related to Roslyn Neighborhood Association, Roslyn Heights Garden Club,
and local political activities. Also includes correspondence, limited
employment and salary records, and other records relating to the operation
of the C. H. Mackay estate.
Finding Aid: Inventory available.
see also: MACKAY FAMILY

Author: MACKAY FAMILY
Title: Scrapbooks, 1898-1924, incomplete.
Quantity: 50 v.
Arrangement: Chronological.
Additional phys form: 9 microfilm reels.
Historical/biog note: The family of John William Mackay, his wife Marie
Louise Hungerford Mackay, their son Clarence H.
Mackay, and his wife Katherine Duer Mackay. The
Clarence Mackays lived on their Roslyn estate, "Harbor
Hill," designed by Stanford White. Katherine Mackay
was founder of the Equal Franchise Society.
Abstract: Newspaper clippings on the business, political, social, and
cultural lives of John William Mackay, Marie Louise
Hungerford Mackay, Clarence H. Mackay, and Katherine
Duer Mackay. Subjects include silver mining, Postal
Telegraph Company, Commercial Cable Company, new
technologies in telegraphy, labor unions, strikes,
monopolies, government control and regulation of
telegraphy business, woman suffrage, temperance,
motherhood, divorce, high society, national politics,
Roslyn, women in the work place, auto races, horse
racing, fashion, and philanthropy of the Mackays.
Finding aids: Subject index.
See Also: HECHLER FAMILY

Title: MAP COLLECTION, [ca. 1675]-1984.
Quantity: 200 items.
Reproduction note: Photocopies or facsimiles in part.
Abstract: Maps for the Town of North Hempstead, village of
Roslyn, Roslyn Harbor, Long Island, individual
estates, Nassau County, and New York City. Copied
items include a map of Long Island by Robert Ryder,
ca. 1675, map of Westbury by H.E. Hawphurst, 1760,
coast survey maps of Hempstead Harbor, 1837, and maps
depicting the Revolutionary War in New York and on
Long Island. There is also a map of the North
Hempstead & Flushing Turnpike, 1835; and atlases for
Nassau County, 1873-1965, New York State, 1919, and
New York City, 1907. Copies of Sanborn Fire Insurance
Company maps of Roslyn, 1886-1941, on 1 reel microfilm.
Finding aids: Card file index.

Author: MOGER, GEORGE, F.
Title: Papers,1907-1917.
Quantity: 1.5 cubic feet.
Historical/biog note: Edna I. Moger and George F. Moger purchased a home in
Roslyn in 1904. Active in local civic affairs, their son
Roy, was born in 1907.
Abstract: Business correspondence; personal receipts and billheads
for household purchases in Roslyn, Brooklyn & Manhattan.

Author: MORLEY, CHRISTOPHER, 1890-1957.
Title: Papers, 1906-1951.
Quantity: 2 cubic ft.
Historical/biog note: Christopher Darlington Morley was an author and
resident of Roslyn Estates, N.Y.
Abstract: Papers largely relate to his writing career and
include correspondence, manuscripts of poems and
articles, postcards, bills, receipts, sketchbook,
pamphlets, clippings of his reviews and articles, and
photographs. Correspondents include William S. Hall,
Harry Scherman, Meredith Wood, William Colescott, John
Canrad, Alfred Lee, Cyril Lewis, Ken McCormack, Rose
Modisette, and Jerry Vogel. On long term loan from Nassau County.
Finding aids: Inventory list.

Corp/Agency author: CRISTOPHER MORLEY KNOTHOLE ASSOCIATION.
Title: Records, 1960-1975.
Quantity: 2 cubic ft.
Historical/biog note: Christopher Morley (1890-1957) was a journalist and poet living in
Roslyn Estates, N.Y. His writing studio was called "Knothole."
Abstract: Minutes, correspondence, lists, articles, clippings,
programs, pamphlets, brochures, and other items
concerning the organization's work to preserve
Morley's studio in Roslyn and his memory.

Author: OAKLEY, HELEN McKELVEY.
Title: Papers, 1951-1984.
Quantity: ca. 1 cubic ft.
Historical/biog note: Author.
Abstract: Papers pertaining to her books on Christopher Morley,
THREE HOURS FOR LUNCH and CHRISTOPHER MORLEY ON LONG
ISLAND, including correspondence, drafts and a
finished manuscript, reviews, research notes, and
other miscellaneous items, including some letters from
Morley family members.

 

Newspapers see ROSLYN NEWS

Title: PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION, [ca. 1860]-1989.
Quantity: ca. 3,500 items.
Abstract: Photoprints, postcards, and glass plate negatives of
people, places, and events in Roslyn, N.Y. Subjects
include Bryant Library, businesses, churches, clubs,
estates, fire department, Hempstead Harbor, houses,
mills, organizations, schools, streets,
transportation, and other villages in the area.Includes
images by local photographer, William H. Pickering.
Includes about 250 glass plate negatives (unidentified)
by Jacob Sutton Mott, of the Roslyn area in the 18880s.
Finding aids: Index of subjects.

Title: RECORD BOOK COLLECTION, 1852-1902.
Quantity: 5 v.
Abstract: Collection includes minute book of the Roslyn Landing
Association, 1852-1893, concerning their mail and
cargo boat business between Roslyn and New York City;
minute book of the Roslyn Presbyterian Sabbath School,
1890-1891; minute book of the Ladies Aid Society of
the Roslyn Methodist Episcopal Church, 1896-1902, with
accounts and photographs; and letter press copybook of
Ralph Kirby, merchant, 1876-1897; Methodist Church of
Roslyn, Seeringtown[Searingtown],Cow Bay Charge, record
book of baptisms, marriages, probationers and list of members,
1861-1875.

Corp/Agency author: ROSLYN CEMETERY
Title: Interment records, 1861-1984.
Quantity: 5 v., 2 microfilm reels.
Reproduction note: Photocopies.
Reproduction note: Microfilm.
Location of orig/dup: Originals are at the Roslyn Cemetery.
Abstract: Notebooks containing photocopies of interment record
cards kept by the Roslyn Cemetery, 1861-1984, giving
location, plot, owner, and deceased for burials back
to 1896; and microfilm of the original record cards.

Corp/Agency author: ROSLYN GRIST MILL
Title: Records, 1850-1877.
Quantity: 30 v.
Historical/biog note: Grist mill which began operation ca. 1706.
Abstract: Daybooks, sales records, ledgers, and cashbooks from
the grist mill run by Benjamin Hicks and his brothers.

Corp/Agency author: ROSLYN GRIST MILL ASSOCIATION
Title: Records,1936-1976.
Quantity: 1 cubic foot.
Historical/biog note: In 1916 mill was given to group of trustees.It was
operated as a museum and later a tea house. Ownership
transferred to Nassau County in 1976.
Abstract: Financial records, minutes of the Board of Trustees,
correspondence, museum inventory and appraisal.

Corp/Agency author: ROSLYN HIGH SCHOOL
Title: Yearbooks, 1927--Present (incomplete)
Quantity: 6 linear feet.
Historical/biog note: High School level Regents certification began in
Roslyn in 1904. Charter received from NY State in
1907. High School Building erected in 1926 on land
donated by Clarence Mackay. First Yearbook produced
in 1927.
Abstract: Missing yearbooks: 1946,47,48; 1952,53; 1979,80;1989.

Corp/Agency author: ROSLYN NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION
Title: Records, 1914-1952.
Quantity: ca. 4 cubic ft.
Abstract: Correspondence, minutes, legal papers, financial
records, and reports pertaining to their activities on
behalf of the Roslyn community, including relief work,
road improvements, the railroad depot,
beautification projects and the War Memorial Building.

Corp/Agency author: ROSLYN NEWS
Title: Newspaper, 1878--Present (imcomplete)
Quantity: 88 microfilm reels; bound copies.
Historical/ biog. note: Roslyn News began publishing in 1878. Large gaps in all
existing holdings of this publication.
Abstract:On microfilm: 1878-1896;1898-1900;1903;1926;1929-30;
1931;1933-35; 1960-1994.
Bound/Paper copies:1952-1959; 1995-Present.


Corp/Agency author: ROSLYN VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION
Title: Records, 1914-1969.
Quantity: 1.5 cubic ft.
Historical/biog note: The Roslyn District Nursing Association was formed in
1912. It was chartered by the state in 1951 and
changed its name to Roslyn Visiting Nurse Association.
Abstract: Records include minutes, 1933-1951 and 1953-1962;
nurse reports, 1921-1964; milk fund records,
1961-1967; annual reports, 1914-1956 (incomplete), and
miscellaneous reports, 1949-1969; and two scrapbooks
of clippings and announcements, 1953-1971.

Author: SPEEDLING, STEPHEN, 1839-1922.
Title: Business papers, 1866-1923.
Quantity: 13 v.
Historical/biog note: Roslyn contractor and builder.
Abstract: Papers include statement books, account books, work
records, diaries with accounts, clippings, bills, and
photographs.
Finding Aid: Cataloged with manuscripts.

TELEPHONE DIRECTORIES
Quantity: 1942-43; 1957; 1968-Present
Historical/biog note: Roslyn area only.
Abstract: Some phone books arranged by address.


Yearbooks see ROSLYN HIGH SCHOOL

 

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