Hello, The Smithtown Library has a Room they call the Long Island Room, and it has the Handley Collection there. This is 8,000 pieces of Long Island History, as well as Genealogies of Long Island families. It sounds like a Gold Mine for any Long Island research! Is anyone going there? Anyone live near to it? If you are, may I ask you to consult the indexes there, and see if BROWER family is mentioned, the locations of Queens Co and Suffolk Co from 1800 and onward. I already know all the history of the Brooklyn Brower family, Adam Brouwer who arrived in 1642 at Manhattan. I do not need any of that, I need specifically to find the parents of Smith Brower b. 1817 in Queens Co NY. He later settled at Islip, NY and I also have all that info, do not need any Islip info, just need to find the father of Smith Brower b. 1817 Queens Co NY. It is thought that his first name, SMITH, refects his ancestry back to the Smith family of Smithtown, NY. Smith Brower b. 1817 was a fisherman, boatman, seaman, and perhaps his father also followed a life occupation envolving the SEA? Thank you for any help, and no hurry. Best regards, Lilly Martin