HISTORICAL DATA-1653:

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•  APRIL:    On April 2 of this year three men from the settlement of Oyster Bay on what is called Long Island in the Dutch colony of New Netherland in North America, named Richard Holbrook, Robert Williams, and Daniel Whitehead, obtain a property deed from the Sachem, or leader, of the local tribe of Matinecock Indians. The chief, Raseokan, grants them ownership of  six square miles of land which extends from what will become Cold Spring Harbor to the future Northport Harbor, and in a North-South direction all the way from Long Island Sound to the future site of Old Country Road. In return for the right to the land, the men give the chief a small assortment of merchandise:  six coats, six howes, six kettles, six hatchets, six shirts, but ten knives, six fathoms of wampum, three muxes, and a large quantity (30) of needles.

      Once in legal possession of the land, the three white men quickly surrender it to some Englishmen who had already settled there with their families.  (Source:  Town of Huntington The Early Years, at: https://www.huntingtonny.gov/content/13747/99540/16487/16489/default.aspx ).

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•  FULL YEAR:    All during this year in Massachusetts  Colony in North America a privately operated mint is producing small silver coins known as "pine- tree shillings". This is the first venture in the British colonies to provide a domestic metallic money.  (SOURCE:  Money and Banking-Third Edition-Raymond P. Kent, pg. 72). 

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