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Stephen Talkhouse Pharoah

Stephen Talkhouse Pharoah, also remembered as Stephen Talkhouse, was a Montaukett man whose nineteenth-century life connects Molly's Hill in Springs, Montaukett homelands at Montauk, whaling and Civil War service, long-distance walking routes, and public memory of Montaukett survivance. Stephen Talkhouse Pharoah is often remembered through walking legends, but the fuller cited sources connect those stories to Montaukett labor, military service, dispossession, Freetown community history, and public memory. The corrected timeline separates documented places from later path lore, making clear what is known, what is approximate, and what should not be overstated. Stephen Talkhouse Pharoah, also remembered as Stephen Talkhouse, was a Montaukett man whose nineteenth-century life connects Molly's Hill in Springs, Montaukett homelands at...