TOMPKINSVILLE  , a former See also:

• VILLAGE

village of See also:

• RICHMOND
• RICHMOND, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• RICHMOND, LEGH (1772-1827)
• RICHMOND, SIR WILLIAM BLAKE (1842– )

Richmond See also:

• COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county, New See also:

• YORK
• YORK (HOUSE OF)
• YORK, EDMUND OF LANGLEY, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
• YORK, EDWARD
• YORK, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
• YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

York, U.S.A., since 1898 a See also:

• PART

part of the See also:

• BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
• BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)

borough of Richmond, New York See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

City . It is on the N.E. See also:

• SHORE

shore of Staten See also:

• ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

Island in New York See also:

• BAY

Bay, about 5z m . S. by W. of the See also:

• SOUTHERN

southern extremity of Manhattan Island, and is a residential See also:

• DISTRICT

district of New York City . Tompkinsville was laid out in 1814–1815 upon a See also:

• TRACT (from Lat. tractare, to treat of a matter, through Provencal tractat and Ital. trattato)

tract of about 700 acres, most of which was owned by See also:

• DANIEL
• DANIEL (DANIL)
• DANIEL, BOOK
• DANIEL, GABRIEL (1649-1728)

Daniel D . See also:

• TOMPKINS, DANIEL D

Tompkins . It was chartered as a village in 1823, but because of legal flaws the See also:

• CHARTER (Lat. charta, carta, from Gr. Xap-rns, originally for papyrus, material for writing, thence transferred to paper and from this material to the document, in O. Eng. boc, book)

charter was revoked soon after Tompkins's See also:

• DEATH

death (in 1825), and thereafter the village was gradually absorbed by New See also:

• BRIGHTON

Brighton and Edgewater (both incorporated in 1866), though the locality continued to be called Tompkinsville .