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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 1064 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TOMPKINSVILLE  , a former

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village of
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Richmond
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county, New
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York, U.S.A., since 1898 a
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part of the
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borough of Richmond, New York
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City . It is on the N.E.
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shore of Staten
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Island in New York
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Bay, about 5z m . S. by W. of the
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southern extremity of Manhattan Island, and is a residential
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district of New York City . Tompkinsville was laid out in 1814–1815 upon a
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tract of about 700 acres, most of which was owned by
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Daniel D .
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Tompkins . It was chartered as a village in 1823, but because of legal flaws the
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charter was revoked soon after Tompkins's
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death (in 1825), and thereafter the village was gradually absorbed by New
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Brighton and Edgewater (both incorporated in 1866), though the locality continued to be called Tompkinsville .

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