Foster's Meadow Events  1860 - 1869
Event Day	Event
Sunday, February 26, 1860	Married: By Rev. F. Bottom, Mr. David Coggelshall to Ms. Mary Kelly, of Foster's Meadow.
Monday, February 20, 1860	Married: In Jamaica, by the Rev. J. D. About, Mr. Theodore Baker to Ms. Ann Elizabeth Foster, of Springfield
Thursday, April 19, 1860	Married, at Foster's Meadow, on Tuesday last, by the Rev. L. D. Rushmore, Mr. George Tepe to Ms. Hannah Watts.
Friday, May 11, 1860	Died. At Springfield, Edward Smith, aged 49 years 11 months and 27 days.
Thursday, July 05, 1860	Died. At Astoria, Cataline Ditmars, widow of John R. Ludlum,in the 89th year of her age.
Wednesday, September 05, 1860	Died. At Foster's Meadow, Elizabeth, wife of the late John Ludlum, aged 71 years and 8 months.
Wednesday, December 05, 1860	Died. At Plainfield, Harriet Augusta, infant daughter of Daniel R. and Sarah C. Hendrickson, aged 4 months and 10 days.
Tuesday, January 29, 1861	Died. At Springfield, Samuel Mills, aged 75 years.
Saturday, February 09, 1861	Advertisement. For Sale. Two Canadian ponies 14 hands high. They are spirited, young, sound and true, in double or single harness, also orderly in pasture, will be sold separately or together. Price $210. George Leavens, Foster's Meadow.
Saturday, June 29, 1861	Court Proceedings. – The People versus Frederick Deitz. – Indicted for burglary in breaking into and entering a house at Foster's Meadow. The jury acquitted the prisoner.
Monday, July 01, 1861	Died. At Springfield, Derrick Lamberson, aged 79 years, one month and 18 days.
Tuesday, August 13, 1861	Died. Charles W., son of Richard C. and Agnes C. Freyenhagen, aged 7 years 9 months and 13 days.
Wednesday, February 25, 1863	Married. Remsen Nostrand to Rachel S., daughter of John Amberman, both of Springfield
Saturday, June 06, 1863	Runaway. – On Wednesday of last week, at Foster's Meadow, the horses of Mr. Walter Smith, frightened that the effluvia of the bone dust manure he was using in his cornfield, started off, ran over and hurt Mr. Smith, and did other injury before they were secured, which was only after a long race on the highway.
Monday, July 27, 1863	Died: at Foster's Meadow, John Oakley, aged 88 years, one month and 27 days.
Tuesday, August 04, 1863	Died. At Springfield, John Henry Higbie, aged 24 years, 11 months and 23 days.
Sunday, August 09, 1863	Died. At Springfield, Betty Watts, aged 65 years.
Thursday, December 17, 1863	Married. At Springfield by Rev. E. Sands, James R. Hendrickson to Catherine Jane, daughter of Mr. William Bayless.
Sunday, January 31, 1864	Died. At Springfield, Cornelius Amberman, age 73 years and 2 days
Monday, February 15, 1864	Died: at Springfield, the infant daughter of Philip W and Susan Ann Baylis.
Wednesday, June 08, 1864	Died. At Springfield, Mary Hester Mills, daughter of Samuel and Sarah J Mills, aged 2 years and 3 months.
Wednesday, June 08, 1864	Died. At Springfield, Stephen M Fosdick, aged 29 years 6 months and 21 days.
Friday, August 26, 1864	Died. At Foster's Meadow, infant son of George G Wilson, aged about 15 months.
Monday, October 17, 1864	Died. At Springfield, Margaret, wife of the late Charles Fosdick, aged 66 years, 5 months and 21 days.
Monday, June 26, 1865	Died. At Foster's Meadow, Thomas Wilson, aged 63 years.
Tuesday, July 18, 1865	Died. At Foster's Meadow, the eldest daughter of Anthony Wright aged 22 years.
Friday, July 28, 1865	Died. At Springfield, John Wilbur, son of Nathaniel and Elizabeth Nostrand, aged 10 months and 26 days.
Sunday, August 20, 1865	Died. At Springfield, Stephen Nostrand, aged 29 years and 2 months.
Wednesday, September 13, 1865	Married. On this day by Rev. JB Alliger, the Parsonage, Mr. Thomas D Smith of Jamaica South, to Miss Kate Freyenhagem of Foster's Meadow.
Saturday, September 30, 1865	The population of the town of Hempstead is 11,814. In the 5th election district, it is 1,408 according to the recent New York Census of 1865.
Wednesday, September 27, 1865	Died. At Springfield, John S, son of the late Stephen and Sarah Ann Nostrand, aged 7 years, 4 months and 23 days.
Saturday, February 10, 1866	Died. At Springfield, on Saturday, Henry Mills, aged 55 years, 9 months and 24 days.
Sunday, April 01, 1866	Died. At Springfield,John I. Stoothoof, aged 87 years, 9 months and 10 days.
Wednesday, April 11, 1866	The East NY Methodist Conference appointed T.M. Terry as preacher for Foster's Meadow.
Sunday, September 09, 1866	Died. At Foster's Meadow, Mary Watts, aged 89 years.
Thursday, September 20, 1866	Died. At Springfield, Elizabeth, wife of Nathaniel Carpenter, aged 67 years, one month and 8 days.
Saturday, October 27, 1866	Mr. Nicholas Everitt, of Springfield, has had some 15 or 20 fowls carried off recently.
Wednesday, December 19, 1866	Married. At Springfield, by Rev. T. M. Terry, William E. Smith to Lizzie, daughter of Mr. Thomas Foster.
Thursday, December 20, 1866	One day last week, Jennie (aged about 3 years), child of Jacob Foster, at Springfield, Jamaica, was severely burned by its clothes taking fire, that it died on Saturday. We have not learned how the child got on fire, but it is supposed she must have come into close contact with the hot stove.
Wednesday, January 16, 1867	The heaviest fall of snow since 1856 commenced Wednesday night until about 3 o'clock on Thursday afternoon; about 18 inches on the level ground. Sunday another storm with wind and snow filled up the roads and paths again. No eastern mails in a week and only two western mails since the 19th. Mail sent to New York by private conveyance instead of L. I. R. The stage sleigh runs regularly now to and from Brooklyn.
Tuesday, January 29, 1867	Died. At Foster's Meadow, John Van Nostrand aged 94 years and 19 days. Friends and relatives are respectfully invited to attend his funeral as late residence.
Tuesday, January 29, 1867	And old citizen gone. – John Van Nostrand, of Foster's Meadow, died on Tuesday last January 29 in his 95th year. He was born January 10, 1773. He remembered the Revolutionary war. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. He was a man of uniformly correct habits – just and kind in all dealings with his fellow man, and from early life a devout man. He was for 40 years and elder in the reformed Dutch Church of this place. – Jamaica Farmer.
Monday, September 09, 1867	Robberies. On Monday last, Justice Sutphin, of Jamaica, sentenced one George Restine to 4 months imprisonment and County jail for stealing a quantity of clothing from his late employer, Mr. and. Knowwhenbrocker,of Foster's Meadow. – Farmer.
Thursday, January 30, 1868	Died. At Springfield, on Thursday, Ann, wife of Isaac Higbie, aged 53 years 7 months and 15 days.
Monday, February 03, 1868	Died. At the residence of her son-in-law, Mark Wightman, at Springfield, Margaret McPherson, aged 80 years.
Friday, April 10, 1868	The East NY Methodist Conference appointed C.P. Corner as preacher for Foster's Meadow.
Sunday, May 16, 1869	At night, Charles Lumas had his barn robbed of a young horse and a light buggy. Later, the nearby stable of James Dyer of Valley Stream had a set of harness stolen.
Thursday, May 28, 1868	Died. At Springfield, Lavinia Van Nostrand, aged 38 years,? Months, and 2 days.
Saturday, July 25, 1868	Smith Stringham of Central Ave. (n.b. 1/2 mile east FM Road) Foster's Meadow lost his barn after it was struck by lightning.
Friday, January 08, 1869	Thirty-one persons recently united with the Foster's Meadow Methodist Church.
Monday, April 26, 1869	The buildings of Charles Newman at Foster's Meadow were destroyed by fire on Monday morning last. In drawing water from the well to extinguish the fire, the body of Mrs. Newman was found. It is supposed that in her efforts to extinguish the flames, her clothing caught fire and that she threw herself into the well to extinguish the flames
Tuesday, May 11, 1869	Rev. Corner of Foster's Meadow has left for Canada.
Sunday, May 16, 1869	Married. By Rev. S. Rushmore, Joseph H. Watts, of Foster's Meadow, and Delcena Gritman, of Bloomfield.
Friday, June 25, 1869	Died: at Franklin Square, on Saturday, June 26; Mrs. Rose Lauer, aged 39 years and 3 months.
Wednesday, August 04, 1869	Andrew Graster was arrested in New York for robbing Foster Meadow farmer Simon Krumenacher of $40 on Friday, July 30th. He was arraigned before Justice Snedecker and remanded to jail for trial.
Monday, August 16, 1869	Died: at Foster's Meadow, August 17, Ms. Ann Whaley, in the 78th year of her age.
Thursday, September 30, 1869	List of Pettit Jurors: drawn at the clerk's office on the 22nd instant, from Jamaica, Simon Krummenacher, William W. Stoothoff.
Tuesday, September 28, 1869	C. Clackett, of Foster's Meadow, was awarded prizes for farm wagons made in the County, and for a wagon hay rack.
Sunday, October 24, 1869	Court Proceedings, October term: Andrew Rutter, indicted for Grand Larceny in stealing property to the amount of $40 from Simon Krummenacher of Foster's Meadow, on 30 July last. State prison 1 year and 6 months.
Thursday, October 28, 1869	Goldsmith's Hotel at Foster's Meadow had Valentine Strants of Brooklyn collapse and die when rising from the table after eating a hearty meal at about 3:00 PM. He had been on a hunting excursion.
Monday, November 01, 1869	The new German church of St. Boniface of Foster's Meadow was dedicated by Vicar General Turner of Brooklyn. He was assisted by the Revs. Huber of College Point, and Farley and Hubbard.
Wednesday, November 10, 1869	A soldier from a Foster's Meadow family stationed at Governor's Island fell from the platform of the rear car of a moving train at Springfield. He was taken severely injured from the Springfield station to his family residence.