This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/jUB.2ACI/1084.1 Message Board Post: On 10/8/05 (11:13:45 PM MDT), in a posting to the Suffolk County Ancestry Board that was 'gatewayed' to NYSUFFOL-L@rootsweb.com, Ida Skarson McCormick (idamc@seanet.com asked, "Are the records of Setauket Presbyterian Church extant for the period 1766-1776? What is their repository? Have they been microfilmed? Availability? Looking for baptismal records and names for 3 daughters of Jehiel Weed, Sr., and Lydia (Hoyt) Weed during 1766-1776 time period at Setauket. They were Congregationalists before and after their sojourn on Long Island. Also, looking for a death record on their young son, Ira, during that time period. I have seen Edwin Adkins' book, Setauket: The First Three Hundred Years, 1655-1955, but unfortunately it is only xix + 115 pages." If you haven't otherwise done so, you may want to ask the Setauket Presbyterian Church (est. 1660) your question directly: Setauket Presbyterian Church The Village Green 5 Caroline Avenue Setauket, NY 11733 Tel: 631/941-4271 Fax: 631/941-1245 eMail: setauketpresbyterian@verizon.net http://www.setauket.presbychurch.org/ For any additional questions, you may want to contact the Emma S. Clark Memorial Library: Emma S. Clark Memorial Library 120 Main Street East Setauket, NY 11733 tel: 631/ 941-4080 fax: 631/???-???? eMail: emscref@emma.suffolk.lib.ny.us http://www.emma.suffolk.lib.ny.us/ Concomitant with the 1980 census, the Hamlets of Setauket and East Setauket were combined to form the unified Hamlet of Setauket-East Setauket. The pertinent geography: Setauket-East Setauket is a hamlet (an unincorporated area) in the northwest part of the Town of Brookhaven, in the center-north part of Suffolk County. There are 8 villages (municipal corporations) and 36 hamlets all or partly in the Town of Brookhaven. There are no cities and 10 towns in Suffolk County. There are 2 Indian reservations in Suffolk County. (I'm including after my name a NYS Geographic Glossary with the NYS definitions of county, city, town, village, hamlet and postal zone.) Beginning on the north and moving in a clockwise direction, the Hamlet of Setauket-East Setauket in the Town of Brookhaven is bordered on the north by the Villages of Old Field and Poquott; on the east by the Village of Port Jefferson and the Hamlet of Port Jefferson Station; on the south by the Hamlets of Terryville and Centereach; and, on the west by the Hamlet of Stony Brook. And, as occurs in every one of Suffolk County's 157 communities (0 cities, 31 villages and 126 hamlets), the Hamlet of Setauket-East Setauket has a different border than does the "East Setauket, NY 11733" postal zone (i.e., a place can have an East Setauket mailing address and not be in Setauket-East Setauket and a place can have other than an East Setauket mailing address and be in Setauket-East Setauket). Those places that have an "East Setauket, NY" mailing address that are not in the Hamlet of Setauket-East Setauket are in the Village of Poquott, the Village of Old Field and the Hamlet of Port Jefferson Station; and, at the same time, there are places in the Hamlet of Setauket-East Setauket with a "Stony Brook, NY 11790" mailing address. For those who have their copy of the 2004 or earlier edition of the LI Population Survey or have already downloaded the report from the Long Island Power Authority web site (eMail me directly if you need instructions on how to access and download the report), you'll find the Hamlet of Setauket-East Setauket in the Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County on pages 14 & 24 (map) and 25 (population estimate). I hope this information is useful or, at least, interesting. L'Shannah Tovah* & Happy 5766, Walter Greenspan * L'Shannah Tovah (li-SHAH-nuh TOH-vuh; li-shah-NAH toh-VAH) Hebrew. Lit. for a good year. The common greeting during Rosh ha Shannah and the Days of Awe. This is a shortening of "L'Shannah tovah tikatev v'taihatem" (or, to women, "L'Shannah tovah tikatevi v'taihatemi"), which means, "May you be inscribed and sealed for a good year." This year, Rosh ha Shannah begins at sunset on Monday, October 3 on the civil calendar. Cities, Towns, Villages, Hamlets and Postal Zones in New York State New York State is divided into counties. County A county is a municipal corporation, a subdivision of the state, created to perform state functions; a "regional" government. All counties are divided into cities, towns and Indian reservations. City A city is a unique governmental entity with its own special charter. Cities are not sub-divided, except into neighborhoods, which are informal geographic areas. Town A town is a municipal corporation and encompasses all territory within the state except that within cities or Indian reservations. Towns can be sub-divided into villages and hamlets. Village A village is a general purpose municipal corporation formed voluntarily by the residents of an area in one or more towns to provide themselves with municipal services. The pattern of village organization is similar to those of a city. A village is divided into neighborhoods, which are informal geographic areas. Hamlet A hamlet is an unincorporated area in one or more towns that is governed at-large by the town(s) it is in. A hamlet is divided into neighborhoods, which are informal geographic areas. Postal Zone "City" and "Town" A postal zone "City" and "Town" is an administrative district established by the U.S. Postal Service to deliver the mail. Postal zone "City" and "Town" may not (but are encouraged to) conform to municipal or community borders. Thus, postal zone location does not always determine city, village or hamlet location. Please be aware: In many areas of New York State, the problem of non-conforming postal zones leads to a situation where the majority of places have a different community name in their mailing address than the community where that place is actually located.