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When Nathaniel Sylvester, a young sugar merchant, married 16-year-old Grissell Brinley in England in early 1652 and sailed for America, neither could know the adventures ahead. Their marriage would start with a shipwreck, see them open their wilderness home to cruelly persecuted Quakers, and end with their legacy as the founders of the Town of Shelter Island.
When Nathaniel Sylvester, a young sugar merchant, married 16-year-old Grissell Brinley in England in early 1652 and sailed for America, neither could know the adventures ahead. Their marriage would start with a shipwreck, see them open their wilderness home to cruelly persecuted Quakers, and end with their legacy as the founders of the Town of Shelter Island.
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How LI voted
Based on polling place communities. Data provided by the Nassau and Suffolk boards of elections. Community; DEMOCRATS (Clinton / Obama ); REPUBLICANS (McCain / Romney / Huckabee / Paul NASSAU Albertson 68% 30% 59% 26% 6% 5% Atlantic Beach 74 25 60 27...Tags: Southampton (Suffolk, New York), Rockville Centre, East Islip, Island Park, Bodies of Water
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Relics of slavery on Shelter Island
bill.bleyer@newsday.comSlavery is an obscure aspect of Long Island's history, but there have been increased efforts in recent years to tell that story. Those efforts have included an archaeological dig at a former Colonial plantation on Shelter Island and the 2005 purchase of a...Tags: Bible, Long Island, Massachusetts, Slavery, Religious Texts
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Shelter Island
For generations, the fields of the North Fork were the most bountiful; in the 1970s, wineries emerged and today, development presents new challenges. In a week-long series, Newsday examines the region. • Search for hotels on Shelter IslandTags: North Fork
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When Hollywood comes calling it means cash for LI
Newsday Staff WriterActress Naomi Watts was on Shelter Island Thursday filming her latest flick, "Funny Games," a remake of the 1997 movie about two psychotic young men holding a family captive in a lakeside cabin. In the film, Watts plays a middle-class housewife, Anna,...Tags: Long Island, Russell Crowe, Southampton (Suffolk, New York), Suffolk County (New York), Drew Barrymore
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Counties see big bucks as Hollywood comes calling
Newsday Staff WriterActress Naomi Watts was on Shelter Island yesterday filming her latest flick, "Funny Games," a remake of the 1997 movie about two psychotic young men holding a family captive in a lakeside cabin. In the film, Watts plays a middle-class housewife, Anna,...Tags: Russell Crowe, Southampton (Suffolk, New York), Mandy Moore, Drew Barrymore, Movies
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Shelter Island known for laid-back atmosphere
Bicyclists love Shelter Island for its laid-back New England atomosphere and gently rolling, tree-shaded byways – many ending at small beaches. To avoid the long weekend ferry lines in summer, savvy day-trippers leave their car in North Haven or...Tags: North Haven (New Haven, New York), Itzhak Perlman
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Notice From The Shelter Island Bridge And Tunnel Authority
The Hartford CourantFaithful Monorail Alliance members might be interested in this exchange of correspondence with The Shelter Island (NY) Bridge and Tunnel Authority. Gentlemen: I apologize for not being aware of the SIBTA sooner, and for not more quickly making you...Tags: Long Island, West Hartford, Connecticut River, Connecticut, Boston Red Sox
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Shelter Island High School graduates
MARY ALEXANDER CARLA CADZIN DANIEL CLARK MICHAEL CLARK NICOLE CLARK MARTIN CLARKE SHAWNA DAVIGNON JOSEPH EMMETT RACHEL FEHRM MEGHAN GLEASON EMILY LARSEN EMILY NEEDHAM THOMAS PETERSEN MELISSA REICH MARY GRACE SHEPPARD JESSICA SHERMAN...Tags: Michael Clark
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Shelter Island Beaches
Beach parking restricted to Shelter Island residents, renters and hotel guests. All vehicles parked at beaches must have a sticker (free to residents, $25 per week, $50 per month or $100 per season for renters or hotel guests; fee subject to change)....Tags: Beach Vacations
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Patents - 1/12/04
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued these patents to inventors in Nassau and Suffolk. Method, apparatus and program for delivery and display of information from dynamic and static data sources Patent No. 6,647,410 Inventors: Scimone; Stephen J....Tags: Nesconset, Little Neck, Shirley, Ronkonkoma, New York
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The Great Pickle Works Wreck
Staff WriterGloom taunted the August night in 1926 even before the train crashed. Torrential lightning and rainstorms had plagued New York since at least the day before. The train was running 17 minutes late. And, if the power of superstition be respected, it was...Tags: Transportation, Family, Railway Transportation, New York Times, New York
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Dering Harbor
Beginnings: The state's tiniest incorporated village -- 28 households, 200 acres -- lies on the north side of Shelter Island facing Greenport. It rose phoenix-like in 1916 on the site where the legendary Manhanset House hotel had stood from 1874 to 1910....Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Charles Lane, Elections, Corporations, Hotel and Accommodation Industry
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