William Garner Carman gets honorable mention here for a couple of reasons.  Bill Carman is still alive and well and retired, and I wish him many more happy birthdays. So to protect his privacy, personal information about him is not presented here. But Bill has given me permission to post his ancestry from his father and mother back.

Bill is the donator of the collection of records that reside in the Hofstra University Long Island Studies Institute. Many of the original documents that you see on my website, I scanned from the actual documents that Bill's family has preserved for hundreds of years, including the Indian Deed for the 120,000 acres which today comprises basically all of Nassau County, the Birdsall Loyalty Oath paper, and probably the oldest document in existence in regards to the Carman family - the actual 1669 deed document from and signed by Benjamin Coe to John Carman (that piece of paper that I held in my hands is now 332 years old, and you don't touch it without white gloves!). These are but a few of the hundreds of documents Bill has donated to the Institute.

Second, the family line of William Garner "Bill" Carman includes about every family name you ever want to associate with early Long Island. The families of Seaman, Mott, Titus, Onkerdonk, Clowes, Bunker, Ackley, Smith, Carmans on both sides of the tree. I do not know first hand, but I am sure some of Bill's papers come from Mary Powell Bunker's research papers and she is in this family line (her maiden name actually being Mary Powell Seaman).