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From: "Howard R. Ford" <>
Subject: [DISBROW-L] Henry Disbrow and Oyster Bay
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 21:40:45 -0500

According to an article by John B. Hammond which appeared in The Oyster
Bay Guardian, Oyster Bay, NY, Vol. 101 - No. 1, the centenial issue of
that newspaper, Henry Disbrow, an ancestor of Nelson H. Disbrow, the
founder of the Oyster Bay Guardian, settled in Oyster Bay shortly after
April of 1653 when he purchased a tract of land of about four acres on
the north side of what is now West Main Street. In November of 1661,
Henry sold his house and land and right to the meadow, to Captain John
Dickindon, his neighbor just to the east. Henry then settled in what is
now Green County, NY.

Nelson H. Disbrow, the founder of The Oyster Bay Guardian, was born in
Pratsville, Green County, NY on 14 Aug 1857, the son of Joshua Disbrow
and Lucy Vandenberg. Nelson attended local public schools and after
graduating became a schoolteacher in nearby Windham and later in
Pratsville. He took an aprenticeship position, after two years of
teaching, at the PratsvilleNews. He married Emma Rosalie Shomacher of
Pratsville in April 1879. Nelson moved his family to Oyster Bay, NY in
1892 and on 10 February 1899 the first edition of the Oyster Bay
Guardian was published.

Does anyone have information on the descendants of Henry Disbrow who
lived for a short time in Oyster Bay or on the ancestors of Nelson,s
father, Joshua Disbrow? Russ Ford

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