Item of the Week: Payment by the Yard, 1794
This weaver’s account book was kept by Benjamin Parsons, who began recording business transactions in 1794. His father was one of 49 weavers in East Hampton who signed the 1778 Loyalty Oath to the British.
Recorded Deeds 11.13.25
More moves hereabouts, realty-wise.
The Way It Was for November 13, 2025
In 1975, the head of the county’s Migrant Affairs Council said his life had been threatened, his wife possibly shot at, and a bounty offered for “doing him in” following raids on East End migrant worker camps. And more, of not quite such drama, ripped from our past pages.
Nancy Scheerer
Nancy Pardue Scheerer, who grew up in East Hampton and summered on West End Road in the village from childhood until 2023, died on Oct. 31 in Duxbury, Mass. She was 96.