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Beginnings: Believed to be named for an Indian who once lived there, the area today encompassing Moriches, Center Moriches and East Moriches went through a dozen spellings after the first Europeans arrived. Take your pick: Meritche, Merquices, Maritches, Marigies, Meritces, Moritches, Muriches, Moricha and Meriches all have been spotted in historical records. Col. William (Tangier) Smith, who already owned hundreds of acres in Brookhaven known as the Manor of St. George, snagged some land in the Moriches area in patents of 1691 and 1697. But he retained little of those purchases due to competing claims from earlier settlers who had deeds with the Indians.
Beginnings: Believed to be named for an Indian who once lived there, the area today encompassing Moriches, Center Moriches and East Moriches went through a dozen spellings after the first Europeans arrived. Take your pick: Meritche, Merquices, Maritches, Marigies, Meritces, Moritches, Muriches, Moricha and Meriches all have been spotted in historical records. Col. William (Tangier) Smith, who already owned hundreds of acres in Brookhaven known as the Manor of St. George, snagged some land in the Moriches area in patents of 1691 and 1697. But he retained little of those purchases due to competing claims from earlier settlers who had deeds with the Indians.
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State: School district consolidation would cut costs
john.hildebrand@newsday.com; melissa.mansfield@newsday.comDeclaring that the state's fiscal crisis demands painful decisions, a state tax-relief commission called yesterday for dozens of cost-cutting measures, including consolidation of all school districts with fewer than 1,000 students. Nineteen districts...Tags: Long Island, Wainscott, Bridgehampton, Credit and Debt, Executive Branch
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Graduates revel in first formal ceremony at Suffolk Fire Academy
mitchell.freedman@newsday.comA long line of volunteer firefighters, most of them wearing their dress-blue Class A uniforms for the first time, marched in the bright sunshine Saturday morning in the first formal graduation ceremony held by the Suffolk County Fire Academy. More than...Tags: Setauket, Sag Harbor (East Hampton, New York), Moriches, Fires, Sayville
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Patents - 7/5/04
Staff WriterThe U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued these patents to inventors in Nassau and Suffolk. Glass break repair kit apparatus and method Patent No. 6,685,784 Inventors: Jacino; Gerald (85-19 118 St., Kew Gardens, NY 11415); Jacino; Anthony (16...Tags: Shoreham, Great Neck, Electronics, Kew Gardens, Setauket
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Patents - 3/22/04
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued these patents to inventors in Nassau and Suffolk. Wireless host with improved roustness and boot capabilities Patent No. Patent No. 6,687,774 Inventors: Milios; Ioannis (New York, NY); Wang; Wei (Forest...Tags: Shoreham, Great Neck, Electronics, Kew Gardens, Setauket
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South Shore Bird Refuge Eyed
Staff WriterBirds, and the birders who watch them, may be getting a boost along the South Shore. From Inwood to Shinnecock, 21 state-owned tidal wetland sites in Nassau and Suffolk are to be grouped into a new "bird conservation area" under a proposal designed to...Tags: Natural Resources, Westhampton, Inwood (Manhattan, New York), Wildlife, Moriches
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East Moriches
Beginnings: Believed to be named for an Indian who once lived there, the area today encompassing Moriches, Center Moriches and East Moriches went through a dozen spellings after the first Europeans arrived. Take your pick: Meritche, Merquices, Maritches,...Tags: Tangier, Long Island, Hotels and Accommodations, Moriches Bay, St. George
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New York State Life List
A "life list" is a record kept by many avid birders. It’s a tabular list of all the birds they’ve seen and identified with absolute certainty in a lifetime of serious birdwatching.
A serious birder needs to be aware of look-alike species and subspecies...Tags: Shinnecock Bay, Natural Resources, Long Island, Religious Leaders, Ridge
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Feds: Help Us
Staff WriterHigh winds and eight-foot seas shrouded the telltale remnants of TWA Flight 800 from investigators yesterday, as frustrated federal officials scoured fuzzy radar images for evidence of a missile attack and issued an unusual appeal for eyewitness...Tags: Transportation Accidents, Emergency Incidents, Police Investigations, Robert Francis, Witnesses
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Clerk's Office Records 230 Passings
Staff WriterStanley Allan has spent much of the past 15 years documenting the ordinary rituals of life: from births to marriages to deaths. The town clerk of Brookhaven believed he had seen it all, but that was before the flight of Paris-bound TWA 800 came to a fiery...Tags: Demographics, Transportation Accidents, Long Island, Family, Insurance
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Uniting to Remember Flight 800
Staff WriterIN THE SIX months since the crash of TWA Flight 800, the memorials have slowly begun to take shape: Internet tributes. Basketball tournaments. Planted trees. Musical dedications. Now, the town and the community that were the backdrop for the tragedy are...Tags: Death and Dying, Transportation Accidents, Moriches Bay, Ceremonies, Smith Point County Park
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