INTRODUCTORY. 



Mr John R. Perkins, Chairman of the Board of Supervisors was 

 elected chairman of the committee, and Mr. Chas. R. Street, Secretary. 



It was agreed that the Bi-Centennial should be celebrated at the 

 County seat on Nov. 15, 1883, and a programme proposed by Rev. Dr. 

 Whittaker was slightly amended and unanimously adopted. It contem- 

 plated several addresses, which would present the chief features of the life 

 and growth of the County during the last two centuries. The topics were 

 arranged in a logical order as follows: First, the growth of the popula- 

 tion and of their wealth and comfort; secondly, the improvement of civil 

 government, jurisprudence and the administration of justice; thirdly, the 

 increase of education, literary culture and literary productions; fourthly, 

 the progress of religion, Christian culture, and the spread of the various 

 branches of the Christian Church; fifthly, the cultivation of the soil and 

 the increase of its products; sixthly, the commerce, navigation and fisheries, 

 including the whaling and the menhaden industries. To these subjects 

 was added, seventhly, the evacuation of the county by the British forces in 



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To carry out this plan an executive committee of five persons was ap- 

 pointed viz: JohnR. Perkins, Esq., Hon. Henry A. Reeves, Hon. Brinley 

 D Sleight, Hon. James H. Tuthill and Hon. Nathan D. Petty. 



By* this committee the topics to be presented were assigned to the 

 following persons: The first to Rev. Epher Whittaker, D. D., of Southold, 

 second to Hon. Henry J. Scudder, of New York; third, to Judge John 

 R Reid of Babylon; fourth, to Rev. Samuel E. Herrick, D. D of 

 Boston; fifth, to Judge Henry R Hedges, of Bridgehampton; sixth, to 

 Hon. Henry A. Reeves, of Greenport; and seventh, to Hon. Charles K. 

 Street, of Huntington. , ' ,, . 



At a subsequent meeting of the committee the following persons were 

 appointed committees for their respective localities. 



East Hampton— Jos. S .Osborn, A. S. French, James M. Strorig J. 

 Mason SchelUnger, J. Henry Barnes, David H. Huntting, Geo. A. Miller, • 

 Wm. B. Barley, Jacob O. Hopping, Hiram Sherrill. , , -^ „ 



Shelter Island— H. H. Preston, B. C. Cartwnght, Jr., E. H. 

 Payne, N. P. Dickerson, C. H. Smith, Jr. 



Southampton— Hon. E; A. Carpenter, Benjamin Huntting, W^ W. 

 Tooker, Charles A. Parks, Samuel Thompson, Henry Squires, N. Hal- 

 lock, E. H. Foster, Oscar Howell, Henry Gardiner, M. D. Howell. 



'brookhaven— George T. Osborn, Chas. S. Havens, Henry W. Car- 

 man, Wilmot M. Smith, Chas. E. Rose, Roswell Davis, Gilbert H. Ray- 

 nor A R. Norton, Selah B. Strong, Thos. H. Saxton, Jas. E. Bayles. 



' Smithtown— Hon. J. Lawrence Smith, Jacob B. Conkhn, Coe. D. 

 Smith Herman T. Smith, Wm. Henrv Mills, Theo. W. Smith, Elias S. 

 Piatt, Robert B. Smith, Edmund N. Smith, Wallace Donaldson. 



IsLip— W. R. Suydam, John Wood, Wilson J. Terry, Chas. Z. Gil- 

 lette Hon Wm. H. Ludlow, Wm. NicoU, Dr. A. G. Thompson, James 

 H. boxsee, H. Duncan Wood, W. W. Hulse, Dr. E. S. Moore, Perry 

 Wicks, Arthur Dominy, John M. Rogers. -n • td 



Babylon— D. S. S. Sammis, Elbert Carll, John Robbms, Benj. P. 

 Field, Hon. John R. Reid, Ferdinand Beschott, Geo. A. Hooper, Stephen 

 R. Williams, Jesse Purdy, Henry A. Brown. 



Huntington— Thomas Atkin, Hon. Thomas ^ oung, Edmund Jones 

 David Carll, Jesse Carll, Edward Carll, Douglass Conkhn, W. Sanlord 



