Nehemiah Whitman

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^{[no handwritten text supplied here] Whitman built the old homestead in which was born} Nehemiah Whitman, [illegible]rents [overwrite] was born at thedescended from one of the earliest English emigrants to America, was born and died on the old ^Hills homestead at West Hills—which was inherited by his son, His wife was Phebe Sarah White—

Sarah White	born about 1713
"[no handwritten text supplied here]"	died[no handwritten text supplied here]" 1801

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Jesse Whitman,	born Jan. 29, 1749
"[no handwritten text supplied here]"	died Feb. 12, 1803
Hannah Brush	born Oct. 6 1753	Married, April 22, 1775
"[no handwritten text supplied here]"	died Jan. 6, 1834

The Whitman and Brush families were among the most ardent of the the "Rebels" of '76, in Suffolk county.—See "Reminiscences."—One of the latter, Maj. Brush, was often and angrily denounced by the British ^^local proclamations, and by the loyalists of Long Island. He was confined for a time in the "Provost" in New York, under the charge of the infamous Cunningham

Jesse Whitman, jr	born June 25, 1776
[no handwritten text supplied here]	Died at Dix Hills, Sept. 8, 1845
Sarah Whitman,	born Jan. 1, 1778.
[no handwritten text supplied here]	died Feb. 2, 1852
Naomi Van Velsor	died, February 1826
Major Cornelius Van Velsor	^born 1758. died August, 1837, aged 679
[no handwritten text supplied here]	(He was son of Garret Van Velsor
Garret Van Velsor,	died 1812	parents of Major Van Velsor
Jenny Kossabon Phebe Akeley	[no handwritten text supplied here]

One of the sons of Nehemiah Whitman was a Lieutenant in Col. Josiah Smith's Regiment of the ^^{American Patriot} Army ^^{of 1776} under ^^chief command of Washington,

See 1st edition Reminiscences of Long Island, vol. 2, page 28 or vol 1, page 87

He was in the disastrous battle of Brooklyn Col. Smiths ^^the reg. having been ordered to place themselves under Gen. Greene, some days before that battle,—by Brig. Gen. Woodhull, who had charge general charge on L. I.— ^{was also President of the N. Y. Convention.—}

The L.I. regiment were hemmed in the lines

over   [begin leaf 1 verso] We moved to Brooklyn, (Front st.) in May, 1823. Moved to Cranberry st. (opposite the church,) in '24 " " Johnson st. May 1st 1825.—(Covert, the villain " Across the way, (Van Dyke's) were there 4th July 1826 " Adams st, lived there spring of '27 " To Tillary cor. Washington, (Miller's) 1st May 1827 " To own house in Nov. and lived there till Nov. 1831 Lived in Henry st. (near Cranberry,) the winter before the first cholera summer. Moved to Liberty st. Were there the firstone of cholera summers.—(The old Hardenburghs up stairs) (I was there alone in the house a while.) The miserable scoundrel Gil. Reid, and the suffering he caused us all.—Graham the old devil, that owned the house.) Moved from Liberty st. to Front st, (eastern part, and lived there in spring and early summer of 1833.—^^{mother very sick}. (Mrs. Sibley.) ^Family Moved in the country.—Lived at Norwich in 1834 ^{I remained in Brooklyn} From there to Hempstead—were there 1835–6.— Moved from Hempstead to Babylon, Aug. 1836 " to Dix Hills in May, 1840 " from Dix Hills to Brooklyn Aug. 6, 1844. I remaining in Brooklyn Moved into house in Prince st. in Dec. 1844 ^I Built the place 106 Myrtle av. in winter of 1848–9, and moved in, latter part of April '49 I BuiltSold the Myrtle av. house in May, '52, and built in Cumberland street, where we moved Sept. 1st, '52. Sold the two 3 story houses in Cumberland st. March 1853. Moved into the little 2 story house ^^{Cumberland st} April 21st, '53 (lived there just one year exactly.) Built in Skillman st, and moved there May, 1854 Moved in Ryerson st, May 1855.—Lived in Classon ^^{from May 1st} '56, '7 '8 '9 Lived in Portland av. from May 1st '59 '60 '61

Sarah White, my great grandmother Whitman, lived to be 90 years old.—She was a large, strong woman, chewed tobacco, opium &c.—petted her slaves, and had always a crowd of little niggers about her.—She would sit with her feet up before the fire, just like a man—was every way decided and masculine in behavior

The tradition of my grandfather, Jesse Whitman, was that there were four brothers, Englishmen ^^{his remote ancestors} who came over here.—One settled on Long Island—West Hills was formerly inhabited and owned very largely by Whitmans.—