SIGNED MEOLA, PROBABLY NEW YORK, EARLY 20TH CENTURY

The many inlets and coves on the North Shore of Long Island provided and ideal location for waterfowl hunting. The area known as Dosoris is located within the limits of what is now known as Glen Cove, Long Island, in the heart of the Gold Coast Estate country as popularized by F. Scott Fitgerald in The Great Gatsby. Dosoris was founded in 1736 by the Reverend Benjamin Woolsey who marrried Abigail Taylor in 1714 and founded Dosoris in with money from her dowery. The name Dosoris is s corruption of the latian terms dos uxoris which translates as wife's dowery.