Antiquities of Long Island

Introduction

This volume contains tlie notes of Mr. Gabriel Furman, on " Long Island Antiquities and Early History ; with the Manners and Customs of its Inhabitants ; " " Notes Geographical and Historical, relating to the Town of Brooklyn, in Kings Ccunty, on Long Island," by the same laborious and enthusiastic collector, and a Bibliography of Long Island, by Henry Onderdonk, Jr., of Jamaica, New York.

Of the preparation of the Antiquities, with which the volume is opened, Mr. Furman has left no account. The manuscript from which it is printed is fragmentary, and seems to have been put together at odd times during the period embraced Avithin the years 1824 and 1838. It was discovered by the editor, among the gatheriv INTKODUCTION.

ings of a quaint and popular dealer in old books, j^ictures and hric-a-braG on University Place, in this city, and was tliouglit valuable enough to merit multiplication. A few errors of date, but none of judgment, have been corrected, and some obscurities made plain. Otherwise the work is given as it was left by its industrious author.

The notes relatino; to the Town of Brooklyn, by the same author, which necessarily contain some slight repetitions of material found in the Antiquities, are republished from the edition issued in 1824. The extreme scarcity of this little volume causes its reproduction here.

"^ The Bibliography of Mr. Onderdonk, to wdiom I am indebted for permission to publish, is printed from a manuscript, prepared by that historical scholar and gentleman in 1866, and presented to the New York Historical Society.

Frank Moore.

New Yokk, October, 1874.