Patchogue - History - 1849-1861 [Antebellum Patchogue]
See also "L.I. - Patchogue - History - 1850" vertical file
See also "L.I. - Patchogue - History - 1857" vertical file
See also "L.I. - Patchogue - History - 1859" vertical file
- "Fatal Casualty." Brooklyn Eagle, November 5, 1851: p. 3. -- Grisly, accidental beheading of James Cochrane, fireman, at John Roe's Cotton Factory, Patchogue, while oiling the cogs of the water wheel
- "Married" [James A. Kemp and Caroline A. Furman]. New York Times, July 8, 1852: p. 4.
- "Brooklyn City." New York Times, September 15, 1852: p. 3. -- First entry is about the Teacher's Association of Suffolk County meeting at Patchogue, on September 10th
- "Shipbuilding at Patchogue, L.I." (Brooklyn City). New York Times, February 10, 1853: p. 3. -- Hiram Girard boatyard, completing 2 clipper ships, Wild Pigeon and Sea Gull, for the Adams line
- "Launch at Patchogue" [schooner John A. Stanley, at Oliver Perry Smith boatyard]. New York Times, August 3, 1855: p. 8.
- Long Island Politics (Long Island). New York Times, October 18, 1856: p. 8. -- a Mr. Jennings, of Patchogue, is nominated for the 1st Congressional District by the Know-Nothing Party
- "Long Island." New York Times, January 5, 1857: p. 6 - 2nd item: arson: B. Woodhull's cotton factory burns to the ground
- "Sloop Capsizes and Two Lives Lost." New York Times, November 24, 1857: p. 4. -- oyster sloop Modesty; Capt. Canady, of Patchogue, and unnamed boy, lost
- [Smith Ruland's 12 year old daughter badly burned in school fire; life saved by William J. Horton, but girl is not expected to live.] New York Times, December 23, 1857: p. 5.
- 1857 - A Mill Town, with Plenty of Employment
- [John Donnelly stabbed by James Butler, whose house he'd invaded.] New York Times, January 3, 1859: p. 2.
- "Inundation at Patchogue, L.I." Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, April 2, 1859: pp. 278-280. 3 woodcuts, showing flood of village, when dams burst
- "Brooklyn Inteligence: Exciting Time at Patchogue: The Village Overflowed -- Great Destruction of Property." New York Times, March 16, 1859: p. 5.
- "The Patchogue Calamity Exaggerated." New York Times, March 19, 1859: p. 1.
- "The Case of James S. Williams: Visit to the Condemned -- His History -- Condition of His Family." New York Times, March 28, 1860: p. 8.
- Brookhaven (N.Y. : Town). Clerk. "Road at Patchogue Altered" Records of the Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York. New York: Burr Printing House, 1893: pp. 97-98 [p. 136, in the original records]. -- Town Board Meeting called for November 2, 1860, to discuss alteration of the Coram Road as it entered Patchogue; recorded January 23, 1861
- Brookhaven (N.Y. : Town). Clerk. "Release of Land for Foregoing Road." Records of the Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York. New York: Burr Printing House, 1893: pp. 98-99 [p. 137, in the original records]. -- At the November 2, 1860 meeting, Board approves proposed changes
- Brookhaven (N.Y. : Town). Clerk. "The part of Old Road not embraced in New discontinued see forgoing." Records of the Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York. New York: Burr Printing House, 1893: pp. 99-100 [pp. 137-138, in the original records]. -- Same, with a number of quaifications and exceptions; still part of the November 2, 1860 meeting, recorded by the Town Clerk, January 23, 1861.
- Brookhaven (N.Y. : Town). Clerk. "Resolved That Uriah Smith of Patchogue be permitted to make and keep a fence commonly called a grass or sea-weed fence extending into the Bay ten rods from high-water mark adjoining his land on the west side of the Mouth of Swan Creek for twenty years from this date" [full text of excerpt]. Records of the Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York. New York: Burr Printing House, 1893: p. 104 [p. 142, in the original records]. -- Just one of many matters affecting and resolved by the Town Trustees, at their meeting of March 5, 1861.