History Of Hempstead
The town was founded in 1644, and it was named after Hemel Hempstead England the birthplace of the town’s founder John Carman. The town was formed after a treaty between two English colonists Robert Fordham and John Carman and the Lenape Indians in 1643. The settlers who first settled in the town were from the English colony of Connecticut, and they got a patent from the government of New Netherland after they purchased land from the local natives.
In the Dutch issued documents, the town was called Heemstede since the documents were in the local Dutch language. This seemed to be suggesting like the town was named after the Dutch town or castle Heemstede. However, it was later found out that the town was Dutchified by authorities from the original one which was given by the co-founder of the town John Carman. It was during the American Revolution that the loyalists in the south and the American sympathisers in the north who caused a split in 1784 into North Hempstead and South Hempstead.