On 4/5/03 4:07:58 AM (MST), Nate Carter ([email protected]) asked, "Arthur Bassett, a lawyer in the 15th Ward, Brooklyn had a country residence at Cow Bay and had boats there in 1877. In Nov. 1877 he was called the "Governor of Cow Bay, L.I." . The above information is from the Brooklyn Eagle. What is now Manhassett Bay was then called Cow Bay but there must have been an area also called Cow Bay. The area now includes Port Washington, Manhassett, Great Neck and several other communities. Does anyone know where the community of Cow Bay actually was? We know he died between 1884 and 1890 probably at Cow Neck as no death certificate is filed in Brooklyn. Any assistance welcome." You might want to see if either the Port Washington or the Manhasset Public Library might be of some help. Port Washington Public Library One Library Drive Port Washington, NY 11050 Tel: 516/883-4400 Fax: 516/944-6855 eMail: [email protected] http://www.pwpl.org/ Manhasset Public Library 30 Onderdonk Avenue Manhasset, NY 11030 Tel: 516/627-2300 Fax: 516/ 627-4339 eMail: [email protected] http://www.nassaulibrary.org/manhass/index.html I hope this information is useful or, at least, interesting. Wishing all a ziessen Pesach (sweet Passover), Walter Greenspan