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  • Shelter Island’s Historic Places
    Edward Shillingburg / Patricia and Edward Shillingburg / Patricia Shillingburg
    Nine historic places on Shelter Island have been registered at the National Register of Historic Places since 1978. They include the WIndmill, Union Chapel, Havens House, Shelter Island Heights District, Manhanset Chapel, Quinipet, Smith-Taylor Cabin, the Shelter Island Country Club, and Sylvester Manor. Included are the narratives and pictures from the nominations. ...
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    23,54 €

  • Six Lives
    Edward Shillingburg / Patricia and Edward Shillingburg / Patricia Shillingburg
    Six members of the extended Dering family who experienced the Revolutionary War lived ordinary lives which are shared through their letters and diaries. With their own research, the authors bring focus, detail, fact, and new insights into a distant period of American history by making these few individuals accessible through stories from their lives. The reader will laugh with ...
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    14,67 €

  • Frances Dering at Newark Academy
    Patricia and Edward Shillingburg
    Frances Mary Dering, age 12, traveled from Sag Harbor, New York, to Newark, New Jersey, to attend the Female Department at Newark Academy. She was there between November 1807 and April 1808. She wrote and received letters, and she saved her drafts and her received letters. ...
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    11,22 €

  • Women’s Words
    Edward Shillingburg / Patricia and Edward Shillingburg / Patricia Shillingburg
    In the Dering Letters which were given to the Shelter Island Library in 1916 by General Sylvester Dering, there are approximately 240 of them written by women. The men wrote about business, church business, and politics, and the women wrote about life’s events and their feelings. This is a unique collection of women’s letters never before known to scholars. ...
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    32,32 €

  • Dering Letters Volume 3
    Edward Shillingburg / Patricia and Edward Shillingburg / Patricia Shillingburg
    The Dering family of Boston moved to Shelter Island in 1762 and lived through crop failures, revolution, and the difficulties of a new nation. The three volumes consist of over 762 letters that deal with business and family matters. Over 220, or nearly 30%%, of them were written by the women of the family. ...
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    30,58 €

  • Dering Letters Volume 2
    Edward Shillingburg / Patricia and Edward Shillingburg / Patricia Shillingburg
    The Dering Family settled on Shelter Island in 1761 and endured crop failures, revolution, and the difficulties of a new nation. Throughout it all they raised their children, emphasizing good manner, civility and mostly education. These letters deal with business and family matters. ...
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    30,57 €

  • Dering Letters Volume 1
    Edward Shillingburg / Patricia and Edward Shillingburg / Patricia Shillingburg
    The Dering letters involve members of the family from 1733 to 1838. Henry Dering arrived in America in the mid-1600. He began as a bar keep in a small village in New Hampshire and ended up as a merchant in Boston, a business that he left to his only son, who in turn left it to his two sons. The business was lost to fire and bad credit and Thomas took his wife and child to the 1...
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    30,62 €

  • Nicolls of Sachem’s Neck
    Patricia and Edward Shillingburg
    Stories of the Nicoll family members who lived between 1776 and 1899. They lived on Shelter Island, Manhattan Island, Bay Side and Mastic, New York. Charlotte Anne Nicoll, who lived from 1827 to 1891, saved about 350 letters primarily to tell the story of her disastrous marriage to Solomon Townsend Nicoll. From these letters we have been able to draw happier stories. The seven ...
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    30,53 €