. History of Queens County, New York, with illustrations, portraits, & sketches of prominent families and individuals . the year of God one thous-and six hundred and fforty yeares, and so to it shall bee lawfull for the said Mathew to com-pound and agree with the Indians that now have the pos-session of the said necks fortheire consent and good will. In witness I have sett my hand and seale this day,beinge i8th of June 1639. Robert Turner. James Farrett. Whereas Mathew Sinderland, seaman, hath apporconof Land at Oyster Bay on Long Island from one JamesFarrett, in the name and beha
. History of Queens County, New York, with illustrations, portraits, & sketches of prominent families and individuals . the year of God one thous-and six hundred and fforty yeares, and so to it shall bee lawfull for the said Mathew to com-pound and agree with the Indians that now have the pos-session of the said necks fortheire consent and good will. In witness I have sett my hand and seale this day,beinge i8th of June 1639. Robert Turner. James Farrett. Whereas Mathew Sinderland, seaman, hath apporconof Land at Oyster Bay on Long Island from one JamesFarrett, in the name and behalfe of the Earle of Stare-linge, and the said Mathew is to pay for the said propor-tion tenn shillings a yeare to the said Earle or his dep-uty, Know you that I James ffarrett to have receivedfrom the said Mathew twenty shillings, and that for therent of the said land for the first yeare of his possession,beinge from thirty-nyne unto the fortieth, wch I reseavedand graunt the receipt thereof. Witness my hand the 4th of September 1639. James Farrett, Recorded the ist of March 1660, by me. Will: Wells, Recorder. 575. OLIVER CHARLICK. The subject of this sketch was born on Long Island,near Hempstead, Queens county, in the year 1813. Hisparents gave him a good common school education, andbeing naturally ambitious he profited to the full extent ofhis opportunities. At the age of 15 he entered asclerk the wholesale grocery house of Gardiner & Howell,New York, and at 19 he had risen to be chief clerk of animporting house in Broad street. His employers, sus-taining heavy losses, became bankrupt; and so high wasyoung Charlick held in the estimation of the mercantilecommunity for integrity and ability that at this early agehe was selected by the creditors (among whom wereVictor Bardalow, E. H. NicoU and Scribner «& Hick-cock, leading merchants) to close out the business anddivide the assets. After this he went into business on his own accountand prospered until the great fire of 1835, w
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