News 12 Long Island : Oyster Bay exhibit catalogs founding families' slave ownersh
“Slavery in the Townsend Homestead”
Over a decade of research has resulted in the identification of seventeen enslaved persons who, between the years 1755 and 1812, lived and labored in the house now known as Raynham Hall Museum.
There has yet to be discovered documentation to prove where the Townsend’s slaves resided, but smaller rooms and attics were typically used as quarters for slaves who were responsible for household tasks in northern states such as New York. This February, for the first time, an upstairs bedroom at Raynham Hall has been interpreted as slave quarters, acknowledging the lives and legacy of these occupants of the house, whose ranks far outnumber the Townsends themselves, but whose existence, until now, has been invisible to the visiting public.
In keeping with the Colonial section, the room is interpreted to coincide with the British occupation of the Queen’s Rangers, during the period between November of 1778 and May of 1779. Though it can be assumed that other slaves were quartered elsewhere; perhaps in the attic, or in buildings on the grounds, this room shows five occupants. These include an adult named Susan, a teenager named Liss, and three children between the ages of five and nine, named Lilly, Catherine and Jeffery. The death of Jeffery’s mother, named Susannah, who died from small pox in 1779, is also acknowledged.
The opening of the exhibit on February 4th included a presentation by Raynham Hall Historian, Claire Bellerjeau, who discussed details of the newly interpreted space. The talk also shared new discoveries; including the museum’s connection to Long Island’s earliest recorded manumission, a Townsend descendants fascinating recollection of an Oyster Bay man with both African American and Native American heritage, and a disturbing family connection to the brutal business of slave trading in Africa.
The exhibit includes historical documents that shed light on the lives of these residents, as well as other local Oyster Bay slaves who regularly visited the house to make purchases on behalf of their owners. While so much is unknown about the details of their everyday lives, their struggles, and whether they eventually gained their freedom, by making a place for them within the house, Raynham Hall Museum strives to educate the public and honor the lives of these members of our community whose stories have remained untold for too long.
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Long Island is a densely populated island off the East Coast of the United States, beginning at New York Harbor approximately 0.35 miles (0.56 km) from Manhattan Island and extending eastward into the Atlantic Ocean. The island comprises four counties in the U.S. state of New York. Kings and Queens Counties (the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, respectively) and Nassau County share the western third of the island, while Suffolk County occupies the eastern two-thirds. More than half of New York City's residents now live on Long Island, in Brooklyn and Queens. However, many people in the New York metropolitan area (including those in Brooklyn and Queens) colloquially use the term Long Island (or the Island) to refer exclusively to Nassau and Suffolk Counties, which are mainly suburban in character, conversely employing the term the City to mean Manhattan alone.Broadly speaking, Long Island may refer both to the main island and the surrounding outer barrier islands. North of the island is Long Island Sound, across which lie Westchester County, New York, and the state of Connecticut. Across the Block Island Sound to the northeast is the state of Rhode Island. To the west, Long Island is separated from the Bronx and the island of Manhattan by the East River. To the extreme southwest, it is separated from Staten Island and the state of New Jersey by Upper New York Bay, the Narrows, and Lower New York Bay. To the east lie Block Island—which belongs to the State of Rhode Island—and numerous smaller islands.
Both the longest and the largest island in the contiguous United States, Long Island extends 118 miles (190 km) eastward from New York Harbor to Montauk Point, with a maximum north-to-south distance of 23 miles (37 km) between Long Island Sound and the Atlantic coast. With a land area of 1,401 square miles (3,630 km2), Long Island is the 11th-largest island in the United States and the 149th-largest island in the world—larger than the 1,214 square miles (3,140 km2) of the smallest U.S. state, Rhode Island.With a Census-estimated population of 7,869,820 in 2017, constituting nearly 40% of New York State's population, Long Island is the most populated island in any U.S. state or territory, and the 18th-most populous island in the world (ahead of Ireland, Jamaica, and Hokkaidō). Its population density is 5,595.1 inhabitants per square mile (2,160.3/km2). If Long Island geographically constituted an independent metropolitan statistical area, it would rank fourth most populous in the United States; while if it were a U.S. state, Long Island would rank 13th in population and first in population density. Long Island is culturally and ethnically diverse, featuring some of the wealthiest and most expensive neighborhoods in the Western Hemisphere near the shorelines as well ...