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II—FOUR THE EAST HAMPTON STAR. EAST HAMPTON. N. Y» A P R IL 22, 1965 George L. Weeks Jr of Bay Shore, who is Suffolk County Historian, has written a 312-page, illustrated book titled \Isle of Shells” (Long Island) printed by Buys Bros., Inc., of Islip and just out. Mr. Weeks dedicates his book to his grand children, who are of the 12th gen eration on Long Island of that branch of the Weeks family — de scendants of Oyster Bay; also to families allied with the Weeks — among them the King, Miller, and Edwards families of East Hampton. Mr. Weeks' father was born in East Hampton. His grandmother was Clarissa, daughter of Wilson Vincent King and Sally Miranda King. She married George Lewis Weeks (or Wicks as it was some times spelled), who was a whaler for many years. She left her baby George (our Suffolk Historian is actually George L. Weeks III) with her husband's people in Seaford, and sailed to meet her husband in the Hawaiian Islands. She was lost at sea going around Cape Horn. The ship went down with all on board. This is not Mr. Weeks’ first book. He wrote “Some of the Town of Islip’s Early History.” W illiam G. Tyrrell of Albany, historian, has written a brief preface for this. The author gives credit to the Star, East Hampton Town Records, and books by Miss Sarah Diodati Gard iner, Morton Pennypacker, and my self in his Bibliography. Much of this material has been published in Long Island newspaper columns by Mr. Weeks. He deals with the Long Island soil and farm ing; with the changing shorelines (East Hampton, he notes, has some dunes a mile and a half inland); with the Indians — there is quite a bit about Samson Occom the Mohegan Indian who came to teach and preach at Montauk, studied with the Rev. Dr. Samuel Buell and was ordained here. Hymns composed by Occom are familiar to most of us and so is Occom’s triumphal fund - raising tour through England and Scotland which resulted in the founding of Dartmouth College. The statement that Occom was the first American Indian to visit England is, I think, are swarming N O W M & E S f PEST CONTROL SERVICE WATER MILL L- o n g I sla n d B O O K S an oversight — how about Poca hontas? There is a chapter on how the Long Island counties were divided; on the Revolution; on Washington’s tour of Long Island; on windmills and water mills; on the history of the Long Island Rail Road; on Great South Bay and the Barrier Beach, where so many ships came to grief. He mentions Arthur Dominy who was for many years Superintendent of this district for the U.S. Life Saving Service; a natural choice, Mr. Weeks comments, since Arthur Dominy was born in Fire Island Lighthouse, where his father Felix of the East Hampton family was Keeper. The book tells about clamming and fishing; about famous summer hotels; about clubs and sportsmen; of famous racing skippers and horse- racing. Manor houses (among them Gardiner’s Island manor house, Sylvester Manor on Shelter Island, Sagtikos Manor, St. George's Manor in Brookhaven Town); and early homes of special interest, are de scribed. A chapter deals with State Parks. Famous Long Islanders, such as W alt Whitman, Theodore Roosevelt, and Benjamin F. Thompson the his torian, are given brief biographical sketches. Most interesting to me, however, were some notes on whaling. Mr. Weeks quoted passages from the log of the whaleship Josephine which sailed out of Sag Harbor in 1846 and returned there in 1849. His grandfather was on board. The Cap tain was Hiram B. Hedges of East Hampton. The log was kept by Joseph Red- field of Clinton, Conn. He mentions three men named King who were on board: W illiam King of Springs who was drowned — pulled over board from a small boat by the whale; Orlando King, East Hampton, and Clark King of Amagansett. Also on board was a “Mr. Miller,” Nathan Bennett, and Lyman B. Loper, all from around here. Mr. Weeks has silver suspender buckles which his grandfather bought in Hong Kong on that voy age; they are carved with Chinese serpents. They had been up in the Southampton Hospital Volunteers Expanding Services Wainscotters Aid In April 29 Tour Architects w ill conduct a tour at the Lincoln Center for the perform ing Arts on April 29, at a benefit for the scholarship fund of the wo man’s architectural auxiliary of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Edward J. Mathews of New York and Wainscott, of the firm of Skid more, Owings & Merrill, will dis cuss the design of the new Metro politan Opera House, in the con struction area. Philip Johnson will guide visitors around the New York State Theater and Max Abramovitz around Philharmonic Hall. Representatives of firms design ing the Vivian Beaumont Theater and the Library and Museum of Performing Arts w ill discuss those buildings. 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On June 8 they were off the southern tip of Africa; then passed the Cape of Good Hope and Table Mountain. They reached St. Helena, always a whaleship’s port, on June 30, and weighed an chor for Bermuda Aug. 19. On Aug. 28, 1849 they raised Long Island ahead. At 11 a.m. they took on the pilot from the New London Boat No. 1, and at sundown anchor ed under Hedges Bank. At 1 a.m. all hands were called on deck; they got under way at 7, anchored half a mile from the Sag Harbor dock, moored the ship and furled the sails, “thus ending the voyage.” Mr. Weeks’ whaling grandfather sailed on at least nine ships. He knew my grandfather, Joshua B. Ed wards of Amagansett. They were on the same ship, the Jireh Perry of New Bedford in 1865 when the Con federate raider Shenandoah destroy ed 38 of the Yankee whaleships, eight of them by fire, in the Bering Sea and took prisoner 1,053 men of their crews. But the Jireh Perry got away. Mr. Weeks laces his stories with bits of poetry. 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