Smithtown, NY


  • Type: City

The Stony Brook area (today's Nissequogue and Head of the Harbor) was settled in the seventeenth century (c 1640s) by Richard Smith, formerly of Southampton, who acquired a tract of some fifty-four square miles on Long Island's north shore and ultimately secured a royal charter that granted manorial status to his holdings. Present-day Smithtown evolved from Smith's manor, and his descendants remained prominent in the affairs of the region through succeeding generations. With his death in 1692, one-hundred-acre farms were devised to his numerous grandsons and substantial homesteads were conveyed to his surviving sons. Both Richard Smith (known as the Patentee) and his progeny first settled on extensive parcels in the northern section of the manor overlooking Stony Brook Harbor, and several of their Colonial-era dwellings were later incorporated into the nineteenth-century estates that are the subject of the Stony Brook Harbor Estates MPS theme. - NRHP, 13 October 1992


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Places

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Name Genus AsNotedIn Address Proximity Area
Beachbend
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  • NRHP
Smith Ln
Blydenburgh Park Historic District
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  • NRHP
Blydenburgh County Park
Box Hill Estate
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  • NRHP
NW of St James on Moriches Rd
By-the-Harbor
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  • NRHP
Moriches Rd
Deepwells Mansion, Smithtown
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  • NRHPc
  • PRHP
2 Tayler Ln N Country Rd
East Farm
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  • NRHP
Harbor Rd, N side, at Shep Jones Ln
First Presbyterian Church
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  • NRHP
175 E Main St
Halliock Inn
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  • NRHP
263 E Main St
Harbor House
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  • NRHP
Spring Hollow Rd
James W and Anne Smith Phyfe Estate
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  • NRHP
87 Stillwater Rd
Judge John Lawrence Smith Homestead
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205 Middle Country Rd
Kate Annette Wetherill Estate
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  • NRHP
S side Harbor Rd Harbor Hill Rd
Land of Clover
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  • NRHP
Long Beach Rd, S side
Maureen's Kitchen
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108 Terry Rd Town Commons Dr, N of Smithtown bypass (Nesconset-Port Jefferson Hwy)
Mills Pond District
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  • NRHP
NY 25A W of St James
Obadiah Smith House
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  • NRHP
853 Saint Johnland Rd
Rassapeague
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  • NRHP
Long Beach Rd, S side
Saint James District
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  • NRHP
On NY 25A
Sherrewogue
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  • PRHP
79 Harbor Rd
Shore Cottage
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  • NRHP
Harbor Rd, E side
St James Episcopal Church, Smithtown
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  • NRHPc
490 N Country Rd Northern Blvd
St James General Store
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  • PRHP
516 Moriches Rd Harbor Hill Rd
Thatch Meadow Farm
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  • PRHP
Harbor Rd, W side, opposite Bacon Rd
The Mallows
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  • NRHP
Emmet Way
Timothy House, Smithtown
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  • NRHPc
418 N Country Rd
Village of Branch Historic District
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  • NRHP
N side Middle Country Rd
William J Ryan Estate
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  • NRHP
Moriches Rd
Woodcrest
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  • NRHP
Moriches Rd
Wyandanch Club Historic District
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  • NRHP
Jericho Tnpk SW of jct with Meadow Rd

Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1665/03/03 Richard 'Bull' Smith Owner Governor Nicolls gives Richard Smythe a patent, a land grant, stipulating that Smythe is to settle ten families on the lands within three years, and his settlement is to be treated like any other Town within the colony.

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Particulars for Smithtown, NY:
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VicinageTypeAsNotedIn
Hauppauge Hamlet
Head of the Harbor Village
Kings Parks Hamlet
Nissequogue Village
St James, NY Hamlet
Village of the Branch Village

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