Other Early Families
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Members of the Hulse family
from Setauket also became settlers at an early date and they were followed
by members of the Hawkins family also from Setauket. But on a whole, the
settlement was small and continued small for a number of years. By 1790,
the Federal census taken that year, shows quite some growth and the heads
of families of Fire Place and South Haven taken together, gives the
following names: Mordecai Homan, Francis Bates, James Greenfield (a
Scotchman) (sic), Joseph Terry, John Rose (owner of the land on which this
Library building stands), Timothy Rose, Zepheniah Conklin, Margaret Jayne,
Jesse Rose, Joseph Hawkins, Isaac Overton, Henry Hulse, David Rose,
Benajah Hobart, Joseph Swezey, Jeremiah Hobart, Stephen Swezey, Thomas
Colley, Ezekiel Hand, Nathaniel Hulse, Nathan Rose, Barnabas Rider,
Abigail Hulse, Eunice Rider, Richard Hulse, William Rogers, Abigail
Woodruff, Abraham Corey, David Homan, Morris Homan, Daniel Rose, Mary Gee,
George Lambert, Thomas Ellison, Jonathan King and Samuel Carman. It is
unfortunate that the census does not give the villages in which these
listed lived, but it is fortunate that the names do not appear in
alphabetical order, but are in the order in which the persons lived along
the various streets and by some little study, it is possible to ascertain
from the census, with quite a degree of certainty, the name of the heads
of families of the villages and settlements of any town or county in the
State. It should be remembered that in 1790, South Haven was the largest
settlement on the south side of Brookhaven Town and that probably most of
the above names, were residents of that place. |
1855
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In 1855, on the map of the
county, (an enlarged copy of which may be seen in the Brookhaven Planning
Board office in Patchogue), there are given the names of property owners.
From Alfred Brown's to Snow's corner or Yaphank Ave., along the South
Country Road, there are 27 owners; 13 on Beaver Dam Road; 1 on the School
House Road, or whatever you now call it, and none on Bay Road -- evidently
an omission for we know that Capt. Augustus Hawkins lived on it at the
time. The Stump road is not given at all and none of the roads have names
on the map. |
Street Names
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In regard to the names of
your streets, in the Long Island Atlas of 1872, Beaver Dam Road appears as
"South Street", School House Road as "Beaver Street", Bay Road as
"Atlantic Avenue" and the old Fish Road running to Bellport depot from
Post's corner as "Ruland Avenue". In the 1888 atlas, the name of but one
road appears and that is Beaver Dam Road which appears as "Brookhaven
Avenue". From some of the notes left by my late uncle, Dr. Edward Shaw, I
learn that an old name of this road was "Fire Place Neck Road" and I
vaguely recall hearing it also called the "Squassucks Road" when I was a
boy. |