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The New York Sharks, once the flag football team from Long-Island, had a great beginning.
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The New York Sharks, once the flag football team from Long-Island, had a great beginning.
Archive 2009-06-01 Alyssa Gardina 2009
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_Long-Island_ was made by the unanimous advice of all the General
The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn Henry P. Johnston
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The shores of Long-Island and the other islands in the harbour, appeared dimly to float among the waves.
Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father Daniel Jackson
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Narrator left in Custody of Mr. ---- Gardner of Gardner's-Island, [22] near the Eastern end of Long-Island, fearing to bring it about by
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898
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This is what _I_ call sport: none of your reed-birds and meadow-larks, such as cockney sportsmen frighten away from the fields of Jersey or Long-Island.
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5 Various 1840
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She was bought by Samuel Underhill, and taken to Long-Island to wait on his
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About the year 1738, a man and his wife, named Tom and Caty, who were in bondage to Thomas Bowne, on Long-Island, had a little son whom they called Billy.
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SEVERAL persons of colour, among whom was one about nineteen years old, having been towards the south side of Long-Island on a frolic, were returning home across Hempstead Plains, on the morning of the 3d of 4th month, 1825, when there was a violent snow storm, -- and the snow being deep in many places, had drifted so as to make travelling very difficult and tiresome.
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Connecticut to Long-Island, seeing that the subject is likely to be learnedly treated by a worthy friend and contemporary historian1 whom I have furnished with particulars thereof.
Tales of a Traveller 1824
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