Suffolk - Nassau Roots

Stories and photos of early Long Island residents from Suffolk and Nassau Counties.

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Nettie Furman (Valentine), Brookhaven abt 1910

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Keziah Whitson Coles Valentine. Taken in Brookhaven circa 1880-85.  Family legend was that she hated having her photo taken, and that this was done so in secret.  As it turns out, there are at least half a dozen of her in my collection, so perhaps Keziah only turned camera shy in her later years.

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Class of 1900, Friends Academy, Locust Valley.  L-R:  Richard McCoun, Richard Powell, Alex Russel, Sherley Wysong, James Willits, Mary Seaman, Edna Valentine.

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“If you drive your old man to drink, drive him here, and enjoy shuffleboard”  -- GreenBrier matchbook cover.

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The Barteau Cemetery.  Off of South County road, have to hike through some underbrush to reach. Somebody has been generally taking care of it.  The Barteau family came to New York from Brittany in the late 17th century (Francis/Francois), and within a couple of generations a branch had settled in Fireplace (now Brookhaven) in the early 18th century.  Many of the early family members are buried here, with others in nearby Patchogue.

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Sarah Hewlett (1788-1871).  Born in Cold Spring Harbor, married John Coles Hewlett in 1805, and later Judge Singleton Mitchell in 1831.

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Matinecock Meeting House

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Jane Willets abt 1875.

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Maria Coles, Lyda Coles Raynor, Ethel Raynor (mother of) Hendrickson, Tom Coles circa 1895

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Martha Titus Valentine of Oyster Bay (1791-1880).  My great grandmother wrote of her as having blue eyes and very pretty.  One of scores of Quakers in my Long Island roots, she’s buried at Friends Burying Ground, Matinecock.

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Jennie Willets, daughter of William Willets & Mary Valentine

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Sometime around 1878, John Hampton Valentine went to the Bulkley photo studio in New York City to have his tintype portrait made.

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“Taken April 7, 1897, on my 78th Birthday.” - Divine Hewlett Coles

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Thomas Coles (and Amelia Hewlett Coles) house at Glen Cove, about 1890 or earlier.

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First cousins Mary Coles Titus Van Amburg Gunart and Jean Valentine, daughter of Joseph & Elizabeth

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Marie Barteau (1893-1980), taken about 1905 in or around Brookhaven, where she lived 82 of her 86 years.