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Receipt for payment "reckend and reseved" (reckoned and received) from Capt. John Birdsall by Mordecai Lester. The location at the top of the receipt is listed as "Hempstead." Birdsall was a resident of Jerusalem (current-day Wantagh), Town of…

Receipt for payment of nine pounds made by John Langdon to Mordecai Lester, at Hempstead, N.Y. Note: Langdon operated a mill near his house on the Mill River at Near Rockaway, N.Y.; he also probably owned a farm at Jerusalem (present-day Wantagh),…