The Earliest Volume of Staten Island Records, 1678-1813
0 ReviewsWrite review Foreword by Loring McMillen In addition to this being the earliest volume of Staten Island Records, this is also, as far as I can tell, the earliest publication written by Loring as Borough Historian. Loring authored the foreword, and was undoubtedly instrumental in getting this transcribed and created with help from the Works…
Henry Cleveland, Schoolteacher, and His Barrack Cart
Few articles in the Chronicles reveal Loring’s serendipitous approach to Staten Island’s history better than this series of investigations into the life of Henry E. Cleveland, a stern, but well-respected, Island schoolteacher. Loring begins by recounting Cleveland’s life, but quickly goes off on a fascinating tangent into a farm cart Cleveland is pictured next to…
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