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Excerpt from History of Long Island City, New A Record of Its Early Settlement and Corporate Progress; Sketches of the Villages That Were Absorbed in the Growth of the Present Municipality; Its Business, Finance, Manufactures, and Form of Government; With Some Notice of the Men Who Built the CityThose who first trod the soil of Newtown were such men. Their lives were inwrought as a salutary power into the fabric of a rising community for several generations.Dutch and English, Saxon, and Celt were they. What their names and deeds the following pages will attempt to tell.Not a little difficulty has been encountered in the fact that until recent years the territory of this city was a part of the town of Newtown. To draw the line sharply at the municipal confines has often been at the sacrifice of important interests, yet the definite purpose of the history imperiously so required.The olden past is a rich mine of surpassing value. Exhaustive exploration would require years of time. Such has not been the object of compiling these pages. From events, persons, and places, have been gathered the most accessible material, only for the purpose of preparing a souvenir volume historically descriptive of this city ere its individuality shall have been lost in that of Greater New York.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.