Long Island Town Histories - Hempstead [Nassau Co.]

Hempstead (N.Y. : Town)   [Originally included North Hempstead Town; later became, and
             was formerly named, South Hempstead Town )

             Note:  Hempstead Town was part of Queens County until 1899.   During the American
                          Revolution, the northern patriot-leaning part of the town broke away from the
                           heavily loyalist-leaning southern part of the town.  In 1784, North Hempstead was
                           officially recognized by New York State as a separate town.  In 1900, Hempstead,
                          North Hempstead, and Oyster Bay Towns, having voted not to become part of
                          greater New York City, joined to form the new County of Nassau.   Nassau Island
                          had been a colonial Dutch name for Long Island.

             See also  L.I. -- County Histories web page
             See also  L.I. -- Villages -- Nassau County web page
             See also  Nassau County History web page 
             See also  Outer Islands (of L.I.)  web page
             See also  Queens County History

• Annals of Hempstead, by Henry Onderdonck, Jr. (Jamaica, L.I., Je [1880?]), Courtesy of James Pearsall (Ancestry.com.  Rootsweb)
• Convention of 1665 (Ancestry.com.  Rootsweb) -- L.I.'s declaration of dependence and submission to ducal authority
• Hempstead (Town), New York  (Wikipedia)
• Hempstead (N.Y. : Town).  Town of Hempstead  (The Town)
• An Historical Sketch of Ancient Agriculture, Stockbreeding and Manufactures, in Hempstead, by Henry Onderdonck, Jr. (1867)  (Internet Archive)
• The Early History of Hempstead (Long Island), by Charles B. Moore (1879)
• The Hempstead Plains, 1904-1913  (Cradle of Aviation Museum)
• National Register of Historic Places Listings in Hempstead (Town), New York (Wikipedia)
• Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y., v. 1, comp. & ed. by Samuel Hooper, Town Clerk (1896) (Internet Archive)
• Records of the Towns f North and South Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y., v. 2, ed. by Benjamin D. Hicks (1897)  (Internet Archive)
• Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y., v. 3, ed. by Benjamin D. Hicks (1898)  (Internet Archive)
• Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y., v.4, ed. by Benjamin D. Hicks (1900)  (Internet Archive)
• Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y., v.5, ed. by Benjamin D. Hicks (1901)  (Internet Archive)
• Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y., v.6, ed. by Benjamin D. Hicks (1902)  (Internet Archive)
• Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y., v.7, ed. by Benjamin D. Hicks (1903)  (Internet Archive)
• Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y., v.8, ed. by Benjamin D. Hicks (1904)  (Internet Archive)
• New York (State)  Department of Environmental Conservation and State University of New York .  College of Environmental Science and Forestry.  Hempstead Plains Grasslands (New York Natural Heritage Program).  [Albany?, NY:]  The Department and College, 2004-2015.
• Romar, Shari.  Guide to Using the Native Plants Found on the Hempstead Plains.  Garden City, NY:  Nassau County Community College.  Department of Biology' Friends of the Hempstead Plains, 2009.

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• Gibbs, Iris and Alonzo Gibbs.  Bethpage Bygones.  [Waldoboro, ME]:  Kinsman Publications, 1962.
• Gibbs, Iris and Alonzo Gibbs.  Harking Back:  An Account of the Bethpage Purchase and Sundry Long Island Events, Persons and Places.  Waldoboro, ME:  Kinsman Publications, 1983.
• Hempstead (N.Y. : Town).  Clerk's Office.  Town of Hempstead Archives:  Repository Guide, rev. & exp.  Daniel M. Fisher, Jr., Town Clerk.  Hempstead, NY:  The Town, 1996. 
• Luke, Myron H., Hempstead Town Historian.  Hempstead Town in Colonial Times, 1644-1783.  [Hempstead, NY]:  Hempstead (N.Y. : Town).  Bicentennial Committee, [1976]. 
• Marshall, Bernice Schultz.  Colonial Hempstead, blockprints by Mary Irish Oman, photographs by Historic American Buildings Survey and Irving B. Schwartz.  Lynbrook, NY:  The Review-Star Press, 1937.
• Metz, Clinton E.  Raynor Family History:  Descendants of Edward, Pioneer Who Came to America in 1634.  [Freeport, NY:]  Freeport Village Historian, [ca. 1970]. 
• New York (State)  Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment.  Town of Hempstead, Nassau County 1992 Congressional Districts.  New York:  The Task Force, 1992.
• New York (State)  Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment.  Town of Hempstead, Nassau County 1992 Assembly Districts  New York:  The Task Force, 1992. 
• Roots and Heritage of Hempstead Town, ed. by Dr. Natalie A. Naylor; prepared under the auspices of Hofstra University.  Interlaken, NY:  Heart of the Lakes Publishing, 1994.
• Smith, Valentine William.  The Rock Smith Family to the Tenth Generation:...An Historical Sketch and Genealogical Record of the Family, Based on the Collection of Old, Original Family Papers, Left by William Smith at the Old Homestead at Merrick, Long Island, in 1884.  Jamaica, NY:  Queens Borough Public Library, 1937. 
• Spinzia, Raymond E. and Judith A. Spinzia.  Long Island's Prominent Families in the Town of Hempstead:  Their Estates and Their Country Homes.   College Station, TX:  VirtualBookworm, 2010.
• Stoff, Joshua.  From Airship to Spacehip:  Long Island in Aviation and Space Flight.  Interlaken, NY:  Empire State Books, 1991.