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on Past and Present, which was published in the Brooklyn Standard between June 3, 1861 and November 1,
phrases contained in this manuscript were included in the thirteenth installment, which appeared on March 1,
on Past and Present, which was published in the Brooklyn Standard between June 3, 1861 and November 1,
This series was published in the Brooklyn Standard between June 3, 1861 and November 1, 1862.
Whitman George Washington Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 1 June 1862
Bushwick, and the Village and City of Williamsburgh (1867; repr., Westminster, MD: Heritage Books), 1:
Bushwick, and the Village and City of Williamsburgh (1867; repr., Westminster, MD: Heritage Books), 1:
Bushwick, and the Village and City of Williamsburgh (1867; repr., Westminster, MD: Heritage Books), 1:
Bushwick, and the Village and City of Williamsburgh (1867; repr., Westminster, MD: Heritage Books), 1:
He began publishing the Long Island Star on June 1, 1809.
The Long Island Star was first published on June 1, 1809.
resumed, the formal outset of the Brooklyn Fire Department, under the name of "Washington Company No. 1,
" which is the same identical No. 1 that has descended to the present day (Prospect street), by being
nights sleep, the next morning we came to this camp, which is on the bank of the river and about 1½
and 1862 in Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts (New York: New York University Press, 1984), 1:
the "law's delay," The phrase is from Hamlet's famous "To be or not to be" soliloquy (Act III, Scene 1)
.. 87 China.... 3 Sweden & Norway..... 80 Finland.... 2 France & Spain...... 33 Mexico.... 1
Whitman wrote about the first Dutch church in Brooklyn in " Brooklyniana No. 1 " (June 3, 1861) and again
of them have been taken by our pickets all day so that we must have some 2500 to night I have seen 1
they are, especially in the South Building) which a patient can have all to himself, for the price of $1
C., was begun in 1848, but construction halted in 1854 when about 1/4 complete.
mentions Andrew Demarest and the first Dutch Church in his articles " Brooklyniana No. 9 " (February 1,
Island: from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time (New York: Lewis Publishing Company, 1902), 1:
York and Long Island Advertiser beginning on June 26, 1799, and the Long Island Star beginning on June 1,
York and Long Island Advertiser beginning on June 26, 1799, and the Long Island Star beginning on June 1,