Polish Immigration On Long Island
Following the Puritan tradition of carving out a piece of the Hallock farm for male heirs of marrying age begun by his grandfather, Capt. Zachariah Hallock, Isaiah Hallock built a farmhouse on this spot around 1832. It burned to the ground in 1915.
In the mid 1920s Konstanty and Adela (Lipnicka) Cichanowicz (both born in Poland) bought the 35-acre farm consisting of the Little Hallock House east of the current Cich farm garage, the circa 1832 Isaiah Hallock barn and various outbuildings. Konstanty and Adela married in Glen Head, LI in 1912 and started their family in Glen Cove. They moved to Mattituck c. 1920 to work as a farm laborer.
Circa 1931, Konstanty hired two brothers named Zucaski who lived on Oregon Road to build the current house on the footprint of the Isaiah Hallock house (probably to utilize the hand dug well still behind the house and parts of the original foundation.)
Konstanty and Adela had 6 children. Charles (Charlie), Stanley (Stosh), Albertine (Tina),......
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