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TOGETHER WITH AN 

APPENDIX, 

CONTAINING A GENERAL HISTORY OF THE TOWN FROM ITS 
FIRST SETTLEMENT TO THE YEAR 1800 : 

BY 

HENRY P. HEDGES. 



They haunt your breezy hillsides, and thundering floods ; 

They linger by your gliding streams, and mid your moss drap'd woods ; 
They sit beside the green old graves, in shadow and in sheen. 

And move among your household Gods, though voiceless and unseen. 

Then ye, who make your happy homes, where once their homes have been, 
Deem also this your heritage, to keep their memories green ; 

To shield within your heart of hearts, the glorious trust yc hold ; 
And bear unstained the names they bore, those brave, proud men of old. 

^I^jss Cornelia Huntington. 



SAG-HARBOR, I.. I. 

CORRECTOR OFFICE, 
1850. 



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AN ADDRESS 



DELIVERED ON THE 26th OF DECEMBER, 1849, ON 

THE OCCASION OF THE CELE- 

BRATION OF THE 



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OF THE SETTLEMENT OF THE TOWN OF 




TOGETHER WITH AN 

APPENDIX, 

CONTAINING A GENERAL HISTORY OF THE TOWN FROM ITS 
FIRST SETTLEMENT TO THE YEAR 1800 ; 

BY 
HENRY P. HEDGES. 



They haunt your breezy hillsides, and thundering floods ; 

They linger by your gliding streams, and mid your moss drap'd woods ; 
They sit beside the green old graves, in shadow and in sheen. 

And move among your household Gods, though voiceless and unseen. 

Then ye, who make your happy homes, where once their homes have been. 
Deem also this your heritage, to keep tlieir memories green ; 

To shield within your heart of hearts, the glorious trust ye hold ; 
And bear unstained the names they bore, those brave, proud men of old. 

Miss Cornelia Huntinotow. 



COBRECTOE OFFICE, SAG-HAEBOR, L, I. 

1850. 






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, East-Hampton, Dec. 27, 1849. 

To Henry P. Hedges, Esq., 

Dear Sir: 

We join with many of our fellow Townsmen, in requesting 
that you will prepare and transmit to us for publication, a 
copy of the Address delivered by you on the 26th inst., on the 
occasion of the celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniver- 
sary of the settlement of this town, with such further informa- 
tion relative to the early history of this Town as it may be in 
your power to furnish. 

We are most truly yours, &c. 

SAMUEL B. GARDINER,] 
DAVID H. HUNTTING, | 
JEREMIAH MILLER, } Cora. 
DANIEL DAYTON, 
JOHN C. HEDGES, J 



preface:. 



In compliance with the request of the Committee of the citizens of East-Hamp- 
ton, and many others, the following Historical Sketch of the Town, is given to 
the public. Unavoidable circumstances have for a long time delayed its publica- 
tion. 

The History of East-Hampton is interesting, not only from its antiquity — from 
its former relative importance as one of the first English Settlements in the 
Btate — ^from the permanence and fixed character of its poulation, abiding for ages 
upon the inheritance of their ancestors with little change. It is interesting not 
only because of its isolated situation — the rare union and harmony of its citizens 
• — the simplicity of manners and purity of moraJs which have to the eighth gene- 
ration, descended to its children. It is interesting not only on account of the 
uniform and united adherence of her sons to the cause of civil and religious liber- 
ty, and of the illustrious men which she has given to the world. Though all these 
have contributed to give intense and almost romantic interest to her History and 
to consecrate h«r soil in the memory and attachment of her sons, yet another 
feature of thrilling interest is found in her story . 

Itis that her first Settlement was made by a Puritan Ancestry, perilling life 
and fortune for the pgji^etuity of their principles of civil and religioua liberty, and 
jliie jvelfare of their posterity. This great purpose bore them across the ocean, 
sustained them amid the perils of the Wilderness, the Savage and the Wild Beast, 
and made them brave the displeasure of Governors and authorities. It gleams 
from every luminous point of their history, and it demands the homage and vene- 
ration of their Descendants. 

The writer is well aware that the following sketch IS imperfect as a history; 
that in some instances, important facts have been omitted. It would have been 
instructive as well as interesting, to have collected the facts in relation to the arbi- 
trary power and jealousy of the High Church or Catholic Governors, which wer« 
manifested in 1685, in arresting Rev. Thomas James, for preaching an alleged se- 
ditious sermon, and which are so clearly exhibited in the long warfare of Samuel 
Mulford. 

Yet with all its faults it is presented to the pubhc as a tribute to the character of 
our Puritan Ancestors. If it may be the means of preserving the history of hia 
native town, if it shall awaken more full and impartial inquiry into the Puritan 
character — above all, if it shall, though in a small circle and to a limited de- 
gree, redeem their fame and memory from unmerited reproach, and if it should 
tend to correct some unfavorable impressions in reference to the so often scouted 
" East End," it will have accomplished what the writer most fervently desires. 

Why the " East End " of Long Island should be so often and so unjustly decri- 
ed, is a matter not easy to discover, while the morals of her people, and the genius 
ol her sons, have been among the brightest ornaments of our Empire State. 
While such men as Judge Alfred Conkling, Sylvanus Miller, of New- York city, 
end the author of " Sweet Home," Heroes of Jurisprudence and Song, re«r their 
headi among the •pecimeni of her Standins Timber. 



IV 

The writer feels bound to make his acknowledgements to those many friends 
who have assisted in furnishing him with Historic material, and most kindly man- 
ifested an interest in his humble effort to redeem from oblivion the History of hia 
native town. 

To Alexander Gardiner, Esq., he returns most grateful thanks for the perusal of 
the " Chronicles of East-Hampton" in manuscript, compiled by his lamented 
Father, and enriched by his own researches. From this source he has drawn most 
copiously in relation to the notice of the Montauk Indians, and the reminiscences 
of our Revolutionary war. To Samuel B. Gardiner, Esq., of East-Hampton, he 
renders like thanks for important information furnished, and to the Committee of 
the citizens of East-Hampton, he confesses his obligations, and with this manu- 
script transmits to them his acknowledgements for their sympathy and assistance 
BO kindly manifested in his labors. H. P. H. 

Sag-Harbor, Ang. 5th, 1850. 



CONTENTS. 

PAGE. 

Address, 1 

Montauk Indians, 32 
History of the early settlers of East-Hampton, continued, 38 ^ 

Family history and Genealogy, 52 '• 

Gardiner Family, 52 

>< Baker Family, 58 J 

Barnes Family, ^1 

Chatfield Family, , 62 

Conkling Family, ^^ 

Dayton Family, 63 

%edges Family, 64 ^' 

Huntting Family, 66 

Mulford Family, 68 

Osborn Family, 69 

Talmadge Family, "^0 ' 

Dominy Family, "^1 

Filer Family, "^2 

Sherril Family, '''2 

Copy original deed of East-Hampton, 1648, 72 

Assignment to inhabitants of East-Hampton, 1651, 73 

Trial of Wyandanch, 1658, 74 

Oaths of Town Officers ^ 75 

Address of 1682, 75 

Estimate of East-Hampton, in the year 1683, 78 

General Association of 1775, 79 

Deed of 1660, 82 

Deed of 1661, 83 

Abstract Deed of 1670, 85 

Deed of 1687, 86 
Memorandum of Deed of 1702 '3, and of Deed of Van Dam 

to Samuel Mulford, and Mulford's assignment thereof, 87 
Gov. Dongan's Patent to the Town of East-Hampton, 88 
List of Supervisors of the ToAvn of East-Hampton, 1699 to 

1799, inclusive, 95 

Odes, 96 

Toasts, 98 
Errata, 



A D D R E S S . 



Fellow Townsmen of East-Hampton : 

We meet to-day as natives of the same 
neighborhood, having enjoyed the same blessings, entertained 
the same early associations, indulged the same recollections, 
being bound together by the same social ties, and descended 
from the same common ancestry, to celebrate the Second Cen- 
tennial Anniversary of the Settlement of this Town. 

We are not unwilling to acknowledge our origin — we delight 
to honor the memory of our heroic fathers. " Our pious ances- 
try," who " first planted religious civilization and refinement 
upon these shores." Degenerate and base indeed were we, en- 
joying as we do the fruits of their toils and sacrifices, never to 
turn in grateful remembrance and pay the tribute of filial affec- 
tion to those who so dearly purchased them for their descend- 
ants. It is a high and a holy sentiment of our nature which 
prompts us, amid all our wanderings, to re-visit the home of 
our childhood, and look upon the graves of our fathers. Trav- 
el far as we may from the smiling abode of our infancy ; re- 
main, aswe may, for many a long ,year absent ; and still this 
sentiment clings to us in our wanderings. It travels with us 
to the remotest lands. It swells om- bosom on the ocean wave. 
It triumphs over time and space. One after another the asso- 
ciations and early remembrances of our youth come gushing 
upon the memory. We are overwhelmed by the tender rec- 
ollections of our native land, and — subdued by the emotions 
which our memory brings — we are irresistibly prompted to 
turn our footsteps to the home of our infancy and the land of 
our fathers. There, where we drew our first faint breath, we 
would breathe our last ; and where our fathers are buried we 
desire our lifeless bodies to repose. 

It is a kindred, social sentiment which prompts us to inc^uire 
into our origin, to trace our ancestry, to commmie in imagi- 
tion with the spirits of our fathers, to recount their deeds, to 
celebrate their valor, honor their memory, and profit by their 
example and experience. Such considerations, we trust, have 
brought us together to this, our home, the land of our venerat- 
ed fathers, ' 



2 ADDJIESS. 

History v/e know is ever instructive in its lessons. The 
future to us is unknown and uncertain ; but the past is for- 
ever iixed and unchangeable. We may speculate upon the 
future ; each for himself may plan and arrange and build his 
superstructure according to his visionary anticipations. But 
whether that future shall rise in the shape and fair proportions 
of his visions or not, Avho can tell ? But the past admits no 
change. Its realities remain unaffected by the present, unal- 
tered by images of the future. There we rest upon the solid 
basis of experience, not upon the illusions of the imagination. 
But history becomes doubly interesting to us when it relates 
the experience of our individual ancestors ; of those whose 
blood flows in our veins ; who reared the successive genera- 
tions that lived and died until they at length gave to us that 
life which had been transmitted to them. 

Under such revelations of history we feel our souls thrilling 
with interest in the relation of every incident of the past. 
We sympathise with our fathers. We feel the cold blast 
that sent its shivering power upon their venerable, unshelter- 
ed heads. We feel the burning sun that poured its fierce, 
relentless rays upon tliem. We tremble for them amid their 
dangers. We triumph with them in their success. We hope 
with them in their anticipations. We lose our consciousness 
of the present. We seem to feel the spirits of the departed 
animating our own bosoms ; and as we live in their expe- 
rience almost say, " The souls of our fathers live in us." 

Our ancestors were the Puritans of England. We can- 
not doubt as to their chal-acter, their purposes, or their mo- 
tives. England had just awoke from her religious slumbers. 
The principles of civil and religious liberty were forcing their 
way upon the mind of the nation. The royal houses of Plan- 
tagenet and Tudor, of York and Lancaster had passed away. 
Kings were seen to be mortal. Their right to prescribe a re- 
ligion for the people began to be denied. Their Divine right 
to govern began to be doubted. Resistance to arbitary impo- 
sition and authority was openly proclaimed. The right of 
the people to a constant representation in the government Avas 
asserted ; and civil Avai- rolled over the fair field of their native 
England. 

Amid tlic strife of battle and the din of murderous conflict 
our fathers left their country — sought this unexplored, unset- 
tled Western- World,— trusting here to hold unmolested their 
religion and their liberties, and transmit them to a peaceful, 
happy postejity in the wilds of their new abode. They left 
in tire age of .lohn Hampden and Milton, and soon after their 
anival came the n(nvs of the Roval overthrow. Tiie same 



ADDRESS. 3 

year that saw the triumph of hberty in Great Britain, and 
consigned Charles Stuart, its monarch, to the block, saw the 
settlement of this, our native town. 

This town was purchased as far eastward as Montauk in 
1648 by Theophilus Eaton, Governor of the Colony of New 
Ha^n, and Edward Hopkins, Governor of the Colony of 
Connecticut, for the benefit of the original settlers, and was 
assigned to them by Eatoii and Hopkins in the spring of 1651, 
in consideration of the sum of £30 As. 8d. sterling.* 

Gardiner's Island had been purchased and was settled by 
Lioil Gardiner in 1639. Southampton and Southold were 
settled inl640. 

At what precise date the first inhabitants of this town plant- 
ed themselves upon the soil is not knovv^n. It was probably 
in the spring or summer of 1649. The earliest instrument I 
find on record indicating their residence here is a letter of at- 
torney from John Hand in relation to some lands in Stan- 
stede, in Kent, England : it bears Date Oct. 31st, 1649. 

As many of the inhabitants came from Maidstone, in the 
county of Kent, in England, they first called their plantation 
by that name. As early as 1650, and within a year from the 
first settlement it is mentioned on the Records by its present 
name. 

At the time of the first occupation of this new territory the 
Indians were numerous, and situated on every side. On the* 
East, at Montaukett the Royal Wyandanch swayed the scep- 
tre. O n the North, at Shelter-Island, his brother, Poggatacut 
ruled the tribe of Manhassetts ; and a third brother, by the 
name of Nowedinah presided over the destinies of the Shine- 
cock tribe. Little or no intercourse was held between East- 
Hampton and Southampton through the unbroken wilderness 
which intervened. 

What a bold and daring step was that : to leave behind 
the comforts, the conveniences and the joys of their native 
land ; leave far, and perhaps forever, their friends so dear to 
them. Forsake their homes and their firesides, and, arrived 
at Salem, at Boston, or Lynn, to leave still behind them those 
flourishing towns and bend their steps hitherward. And here, 
in the dark and gloomy wilderness, in silence unbroken save 
by the Indian war-whoop, by the hideous cry of the wild 
beast, or the solemn and majestic roar of Father Ocean, take 
uj) their final earthly resting-place and home. 

Interesting to us would it be did we know more of the 
character and circumstances of those first few families. We 



*For a copy of this deed see Appendix. 



4 ADDRESS. 

should like to paint them as they were, in life and being — 
what undaunted resolution — what firm religious trust spoke 
upon their countenances and told of the soul within. What 
high purposes. What sublime hopes lighted up their eyes 
and swelled their bosoms — what intellectual cultivati^ sat 
upon their brows. We should like to set before you their 
stalwart forms and iron frames, but their bones have long 
since reposed in the cemetery of their own selection, and no 
painters canvass secures their earthly form. 
The first settlers of East-Hampton were 

John Hand, John Stretton, Sen'r 

Thomas Talmage, Jr. Robert Bond, 
Daniel Howe, Robert Rose, 

.Thomas Thomson, Joshua Barnes, 

John Mulford. 

The following became very early their associates : 

Thomas Osborn, Nathaniel Bishop, 

William Hedges, William Barnes, 

Ralph Dayton, Lion Gardiner, 

Thomas Chatfield, John Osborne, 

Thomas Osborn, Jr. Jeremiah Veale, 

William Fithiain, John Miller, 

Richard Brookes, Charles Barnes, 

William Simonds, Stephen Hand, 

Samuel Belknap, Thomas Baker, 

Samuel Parsons, Ananias Conklin, 

Joshua Garlicke, Richard Shaw, 

Fulke Davis, Jeremiah Meacham. 

The first six of the original nine settlers came from Lynn, 
Massachusetts, to this Place. The father of Talmage was a 
large proprietor of Lynn and was made a freeman of that 
town previous to 1638. Howe had been a sea captain and 
had lived in Salem, Massachusetts ; in 1650 he sold his pos- 
sessions in East-Hampton to Thomas Baker, and removed to 
England. Hand was from the hamlet of Stanstede, in the 
County of Kent, England. Thomson came here from New 
London. Barnes and Mulford arrived at Salem, from Eng- 
land, but a short time previous, it is said. It has, however, 
been a tradition in the Mulford family that he came to East- 
Hampton from Southampton. Perhaps he made but a short 
stay in Southampton. RalphDayton came from England to 
Boston and thence here. Thomas Baker came from Milford, 
Connecticut in 1650 ; he was an inhabitant of that town as 



ADDRESS. 5 

early as 1639. Thomas James and his father came to Charles- 
town, in Massachusetts, in 1632 ; they afterwards went to 
New-Haven, Connecticut, and Thomas James removed from 
thence to East-Hampton as early as 1651, and hecame their 
firs.t Minister of the Gospel. The father of Charles Barnes 
resided in Eastwinch, in the County of Norfolk, in England ; 
he died in 1663, leaving property to his son. Charles Barnes 
was the first schoolmaster. Joshua Gaiiicke was the miller. 
The family of Fithian have a tradition that their first an- 
cestor in this town came from Southampton. The family of 
Schellenger are mentioned in the Town Records as early as 
1657. ThomasEdwardsismentionedasearly as 1651. Lion 
Gardiner removed from Gardiner's Island to this town in 1653. 

Few facts in relation to the family history of our early an- 
cestors remain. The hand of time has moved on with sure, 
resistless progress, and left on record but few memorials of 
the dead. 

It is said that of the first settlers : 

Ralph Dayton died in 1657. 

John Hand and Lion Gardiner in 1663. 

Robert Rose, who was the father of Thomas 

Rose of Southampton, must have died pre- 
vious to 1665, 

as appears by the record of conveyance of 

his lands, by his son Thomas, to George 

Miller, dated 19th Dec, 1665. 
William Hedges died about* 1674. 

Many of our ancestors, however, lived to a very great age. 
Their simple habits, correct life, and perhaps an originally 
strong constitution lengthened out their days far beyond the 
ordinary life of man. 
Richard Stretton died 
William Barnes, Sen'r 
Joshua Garlicke, aged about 100 years 
Richard Shaw 

Thomas Osborne, aged 90 years 
Robert Dayton, a son of Ralph Dayton, aged 

84 years 
Samuel Parsons, aged 84 years 
Steven Hedges, a son of William Hedges, 

lacking 6 months of 100 years old .Inly 7th, 1734. 

He must have been fimiiliar with the origin of this town, 
and with its history for at least 85 years. 

Joseph Osborn, (a son of Thomas Osborn, one of the first, 
settlers,) died here, in this Temple of our fathers, while wor- 



June 7th, 


1698. 


Dec'r 1st, 


1698. 


March 7th, 


1700. 


Oct'r 18th, 


1708. 


Sept. 12th, 


1712. 


April 16th, 


1712. 


July 6th, 


1714. 



€ 



ADDRESS. 



shiping, a little more than one hundred years since. The fol- 
lowing is a literal copy of the record of his death as contain- 
ed in the Records of the Rev. Nathaniel Huntting, the then 
minister of the town : 

" Oct. 2nd, 1743 : — Joseph Oshorn, son of Tho's Osborn 
deceased, sunk down and died in ye Meeting House just after 
morning prayer was begun, a quarter after ten, aged almost 
83 years. He never spake a word but expired at once." 

The first inhabitants of this town settled in the Southern 
part of the main street and on each side of what is now Town 
Pond. At that time however there was no collection of wa- 
ter, and a swamp or marsh covered the centre of the street. 
A small rivulet or drain communicated with and ran into the 
swamp from the North. 



The following are the names 
of those who lived upon the 
East side of the street, com- 
mencing with the Southern 
extremity and succeeding in 
the following order : 

William Hedges, 
Jeremiah Meacham, 
George Miller, 
Thomas James, 
Lion Gardiner, 
Thomas Chatlield, 
Robert Dayton, 
John Osborn, 
Benjamin Price, 
William Edwards, 
John Edwards, 
Nathan Birdsall, 
Samuel Parsons, 
William Barnes, 
Nathaniel Bishop. 



The following are a few of 
those who lived upon the 
West side, without any refer- 
ence to order, it being impos« 
sible to locate them. 

Jeremiah Daily, 
Andrew Miller, 
John Hand, 
John Stretton, 
, Robert Bond, 
Thomas Baker, 
William Fithiain, 
Joshua Garlicke. 
Richard Brooke, 
Thomas Talmage, 
Stephen Hand, 
John Mulford, 
Richard Stretton, 
Stephen Osborn, 



The church stood near the old burying-ground or on its 
site, on the east side of the street. A highway ran from near 
where the church now stands, over the swamp east, and 
afterwards was the travelled road to the village of Amagansett. 

Their houses were small, with tiiatched roofs. The Church 
was of similar dimensions— thatched roof and boarded sides. 

The original allotments of land were thirty-four in number. 



ADDRESS. / 

* 

The lots were from eight to twelve acres each, laid out be- 
tween the street and Hook Pond, and the Swamp East and 
what was then common land West, {prohahly noiD the high- 
way.) The Mill stood at the South end of the town and 
gave the name to the lane which leads to the beach. It was 
then called " Mill-Lane."* 

Thomas Baker kept the Tavern or Ordinary. Before the 
Church was erected the meetings were held at his house, for 
which he was to have " the sum of £;0 Is. 6d. each Sabbath." 

The licensing of Baker to keep Tavern in 1654 is thus con- 
cisely expressed upon the Records : 

" June 29th, 1654. — It is ordered that Thomas Baker shall 
keep the Ordinary." — ^Town Records, book 2, p. 33. 

Perhaps nothing is more conspicuous in the character of 
our forefathers than their untiring energy, activity and enter- 
prize. Having arrived at the chosen place of their residence 
they set themselves at work with ceaseless industry and per- 
severance until their object had been accomplished. Whde 
they were busied in laying the foundations of government, 
education and morals they were equally active in their daily 
toil and occupation. 

As early as 1653 they allotted and improved the North- 
west and Acabonac meadows. They soon subdued a great 
extent of wilderness and brought it under cultivation. As 
early as 1653 nearly all the arable land in the Eastern and 
Western Plains, a circuit of t^o miles was under some degree 
of cultivation. 

The first settlers, (although undoubtedly well educated 
men, as their records and laws most unequivocally prove,) 
were chiefly farmers. They suffered many inconveniences 
for the want of mechanics. They sent to Southold for a 
weaver; to Huntington for a blacksmith, and to Wethersfield 
for a carpenter. The invitation to the weaver is on record in 
the following words : 

" February 2nd, 1653,— It is Ordered yt there shall bee an 
invitation sent to Goodman Morgan of Southold. if hee will 
come and live here and weave all the Townswork, hee shall 
come in free from all former charges and the Town will give 
him 5 and break him up 2 ackres of Land." — See Town 
Records, book 2, p. 31. 

The country aftbrded a wide range and abundant pasture 



This Mill \va.s driven by cattle. 



8 ADDRESS. 

for cattle, and hence large flocks were kept. The first stock 
consisted of goats ; afterwards large herds of cows and horses 
were maintained. They were driven out in the morning by 
the shepherd and back at night. The Avhole town's-herd 
were pastured together, and each one took his turn in succes- 
sion in tending them. 

Among their other pursuits was that of whaling. They 
very early made this a source of profit as well as amusement. 
Doubtless it was congenial to their bold and adventurous 
spirits. I find the following early reference to that business : 

"November the 6th, 1651. — It was Ordered that Goodman 
Mulford shall call out ye Town by succession to loke out for 
whale."— Book No. 2, page 20. 

Their difficulties were oftentimes occasioned by conflict- 
ing claims to shares of the Avhales taken by them. In 16.53 

• upon a difficulty of that kind they " Ordered that the share 
of whale now in controversie between the Widow Talmage 
and Thomas Talmage shall be divided between them as the 
lot is."— Book No. 2, p. 30. 

Even in our day we have heard the old and venerable fa- 
thers speak, with the enthusiasm and fire of other days, of the 
sports and perils of the whale chase and of their success. 
And tradition still informs us that Abigail Baker, who was 
married in 1702 to Daniel Hedges, the first settler of the name 

'in Sagg, in her day in riding ffDm East-Hampton to Bridge- 
Hampton, saw thirteen whales along the shore at that time 
between the two places. Whaling sufiered sad misfortunes 
in that day : 

" Feb. 24, 1719. — This day a Avhale-l)oat being alone the 
men struck a whale and she coming under ye boat in part 
staved it, and tho ye men were not hurt with the whale, yet 
before any help came to them four men were tired and chill- 
ed and fell off ye boat and oars to which they hung and 
were drowned, viz.: Henry Parsons, William Schellinger, Ju- 
nior, Lewis Mulford, Jei'emiah Conkling, Junr." — Records of 
Rev, Nathaniel Huntting. 

We may discover tlie wisdom and foresight of our ances- 
tors in establishing a free and popular Government for them- 
selves — in laying deep and broad the foundations of their little 
commonwealth upon the basis of education and good morals. 

The Government of the town was vested in the People. 
They, as.-^mbled at tlioir Town Meetings, had all power and 



ail authority. The)'' elected officers ; constituted courts ; al- 
lotted lands : made laws ; tried difficult and important causes, 
and from their decision there was no appeal. This Town 
Meeting, or " General Court," as it was sometimes called, 
probably met once a month. Every freeholder was required 
to be present at its meetings and take upon himself a part in 
the burdens of government ; all delinquents were fined 12d. 
for non attendance at each meeting. It is almost impossible 
to specify the numerous and diverse acts of authority and 
orders made and done by this assembly. It provided school 
teachers and made regulations for the education of the youth. 
It hired the minister ; assessed his salary by tax upon the pro- 
perty of individuals,* It built churches, and provided for the 
payment of building in the same manner. It admitted or 
excluded inhabitants or proposed settlers from its society and 
privileges. No person was allowed to buy or sell lands with- 
out the license and consent of the town. Hired laborers were 
liable to be excluded from the bounds and hospitality of the 
town. Their laws Avere made not only for the purpose of 
establishing order and securing justice, but they every where 
breathe a deep solicitude to prevent disputes and difficulty. 
The following is an illustration. 

" 19th April, 1659. — It is Ordered that every man shall sett 
the two letters for his name at each end of his fence, in large 
letters, on the inside of the Post, above the upper llaile, upon 
penalty," &c. — Book No. 2, jj. 33. 

The only other Court constituted by the original inhabitants 
was a Court of Three Justices, sometimes called the " Court 
of the Three Men." The first three Justices who composed 
this Court were John Mulford, Thomas Baker, and Robert 
Bond. Thomas Talmage Jr. was the first Recorder or Sec- 
retary. 

This Court met " at eight o'clock in the morning on the 
2nd day of the 1st week in every month." It had cognizance 
of affiiirs of minor importance, and in cases of danger had 
power to call a special Meeting of the Town. It tried causes 
where the matter in controversy did not exceed five pounds. 
It remitted fines under that amount. An appeal might be 
had from the decision of this Court to the General Court or 
Town Meeting, as appears from the following flrder : 



* The salary of Mr. James, the first minister, was ^^50 per annum, and after- 
wards £60 ; besides many very valuable privileges, and an exemption fronj taxa- 
tion. 

The falary ot th« Schoolmaster vras i;33 per aanutn. 



10 ADDRESS. 

'■' Oct'r 1652. Ordered if any man be aggrieved by any 
thing that is done by the men in authority that he shall have 
libertie to make his appeal to the next General Court, or when 
the men ai-e assembled together on the public occasions." 

An illustration at once of their tender regard for their rights 
and their distrust of any authority irresponsible to the people. 
No set of men ever knew better than they that authority should 
never be delegated by the people " upon the presumption that 
it will not be abused." 

Besides these three Judges their only officers were a Secre- 
tary or Recorder and a Constable. The Constable was the 
executive officer. He held an important station — was gen- 
erally a man of some consequence. He presided as modera- 
tor in their Town Meetings. 

The Records of this Court still remain. They are written 
in a very singular hand, by a skilful penman ; but those an- 
tique hieroglyphics defy the curiosity of any but the most pa- 
tient and persevering investigator. 

The reports or records of adjudged cases are perhaps the 
best illustrations of the habits, character and severe morals of 
our fathers that any where exist. They gave all a hearing. 
The Indian or foreigner, citizen or stranger, rich or poor were 
admitted to their courts and received at their hands the same 
equal justice. 

In the year 1658 Wyandanch, Sachem of Montaukett, 
Plaintiff, prosecuted Jeremy Daily, Defendant, for an injury 
done to his '■^ great caimoiv."' The case was tried by the 
" three men," and the Jury in the cause rendered a verdict of 
ten shillings as damages for the plaintiff.* 

At the same time that the people provided for an appeal to 
themselves from the decision of the Special Court of the three 
men, they nobly sustained their magistrates in the discharge 
of their duty. They gave them repeated tokens of their con- 
fidence ; often conferred upon them important trusts, and pro- 
tected them from insult and injury. As early as 1651 they 
passed the following order : 

"Nov. 17th, 1651. The 3 men chosen for Town Officers 
are ordered to sett out the place for a Meeting-House, and 
they shall have power to marrie during the year." 

The GenA-al Court upon another occasion when an indi- 
vidual had derided and insulted their magistrates, passed the 
following order: 



» For an account of this trial see Appendix. 



ADDRESS. 11 

" Oct'r 3d 1655. It is ordered that William Simons for his 
provoking speeches to the 3 men in anthoritie, being a distur- 
bance to them in their proceedings, that he shall forthwith 
pay 5 shillings, which is to be disposed of to make a paire of 
stocks."— Book 2, p. 39. 

While our ancestors admitted the equal rights of all within 
their community, they deemed themselves as having also a 
perfect right to exclude any from their number who were 
loose in their morals and dangerous to the well being of the 
young. Nothing can exceed the tender solicitude with which 
they watched over the moral and spiritual interests of their 
rising village. In 1651 they ordered : 

" That Goodman Meggs' lot shall not be laid out for James 
Still to go to work on, and that he shall not stay here." — Book 
2, p. 21. 

And again — 

" East-Hampton, April 7th, 1657.- — It is agreed by the voate 
of the town that the bargain yt Goodman Davis, made with 
Goodman Birdsall in selling of his lands is annulified and not 
to stand." — Book 2, p. 44. 

At the same time they designed to take no undue advan- 
tage over others in the exercise of their authority. On the 
decease of Nathaniel Foster, a son of Christopher Foster of 
Southampton, they passed the following : 

" The beginning of October 1660. — At our Meeting, upon 
Goodman Foster's request, he was accepted to possess as an 
inhabitant, his sonne Nathaniel's lott, to live upon it himselfe 
or put in such an inhabitant as the town should accept of, and 
hee to defray all charges."— Book 2, p. 85. 

This town at first took its laws from the Colony of Connec- 
ticut, selecting such as it deemed applicable to its peculiar cir- 
cumstances, and moulding them to suit their wants. The 
laws were chosen by them, not forced or imposed upon them 
by any superior. They therefore exhibit the living, breathing 
spirit of the people. The uninfluenced and spontaneous 
choice of their own minds — clothed in the quaint language, 
and in some measure partaking of the spirit of the times. 

They provided in 1656 that slander should be punished 
" by a fine not above £5 as the men in authoritie see meet,"— 
JBook 2, p. 45. 



12 ADDRESS. 

At the .same period they enacted a law against personal 
violence in the following words : 

" It is ordered yt whosoever shal rise up in anger against 
his neighbour and strike him, he shall forthwith pay ten shil- 
lings to ye town and stand to the censure of the Court, and if 
in smiting he shall hurt or wound another he shall pay for 
the cure, and also for his time that he is thereby hindered." — 
Book 2, p. 45. 

It would seem that they felt deeply and most solemnly the 
obhgation of an oath, and detested and despised perjury as 
an abominable crime, richly meriting the most severe punish- 
ment. They enacted the following law against that crime : 

" Februarie 12th, 1656. — It is ordered yt Avhosoever shall 
rise up as a false witness against a.ny man to testifie yt which 
is wrong, there shall be done to him as he had thought to 
have done unto his neighbour, whether it be to the taking 
away of Life, Limbe, or Goods." — Book 2, p. 45. 

Another striking fact to be borne in mind — speaking vol- 
umes for the good principles of our forefathers, and their deal- 
ings with others — is that they never had any serious difficul- 
ty with the Indians. Doubtless this was partly owing to the 
friendly regard of Wyandanch, the mighty Sachem of the 
Island, That he used his great name as a shield for the pre- 
vention of difhculty and bloodshed is well known. lie had 
acted an important part in assisting, as an ally, the early set- 
tlers of New-England in their war against the Pequots, and 
acquired a hard and well earned fame by his martial achieve- 
ments in that deadly contest. 

Worthy was the barbarian Chieftain of an immortal fame ! 
• — Worthy rival of his white compeers in the generous and 
kindly impulses that ennoble and adorn the human soul.* 

The powerful intercession of Lion Gardiner, {thai sterling 
Puritan,) no doubt often had its influence in avertmg threat- 
ened and impending difficulties with the Indians. 

But, be it ever remembered, that every foot of soil which 
their labors redeemed from natures wildness, and made to 
smile with the luxuriant harvest, was fairly purchased by 
our ancestors of the Aborigines of the forest. The stipulated 
price was honestly paid. The Indians themselves bore the 
highest testimonials of their kindness and hospitality, and 



• Wyandanch died in 1658 or 1659. 



ADBREaS. 13 

gratefully acknowledged it in some of their conveyances to 
the whites. 

After the tribe had been almost exterminated in the fatal 
battle on Block-Island ; they came, about the year 1660, from 
Montauk and resided upon the parsonage at the south end of 
the Town Street, under the immediate protection of the 
whites. Their burying ground, made in the parsonage at 
that time, within a few years might have been seen. 

Truth, however, demands the acknowledgement that there 
was once a time when much danger was apprehended from 
the Indians. In the year 1653 the Narraghansetts and other 
tribes had endeavored to form an alliance of all their forces 
against the whites. They attempted to seduce Wyandanch 
from his friendship to them. With his tribe they partly suc- 
ceeded. 'A murder was committed by the Indians at South- 
ampton, and they assumed a hostile attitude. 

The records of this period show that our ancestors shrank 
not from the crisis. They never dreamed of deserting their 
post. Providence, as they thought, had led them to this spot 
as their home. Wild and savage as it was, they had planted 
their feet upon its soil — erected theit rude habitations — begun 
their struggle in subduing the wilderness ; and, where provi- 
dence had led them, there, under God, they would remain 
and abide like men the destiny that awaited them. They 
were not regardless of the danger. They set a watch of two 
by night and one by day. They gave power to the " three 
men" to call a Town Meeting at a half hours notice. They 
sent to Connecticut River for " a firkin of powder and shot 
equivalent," as their order expressed it. They never thought 
however of abandoning the Sanctuary. Their worship must 
not cease. The Sabbath morning breaks. The sun casts 
his rays upon the scene. The primeval forest rises in majesty, 
unruffled by the breeze. The virgin fields smile with the 
harvest. From many a habitation the curling smoke ascends. 
How quiet, how peaceful that Sabbath morn appears, as it 
illuminates the little village. The morning prayer has been 
offered under every roof, — but still no sound of busy life or 
labor breaks upon -the ear. The hours pass on — higher the 
sun ascends. At length the sound of the warlike drum rises 
from the front of their little church ; it sends farther and far- 
ther its pealing notes, — it is the summons to prepare for the 
service of the Sanctuary. An hour elapses and again at the 
drum's beat the villagers pour from their dwellings, — infancy, 
manhood, and tottering age — matron and maiden, all throng 
to the Church. The sun flashes upon the armor they bear. 
Thomas James. theirP astor, follows — small in stature, spright- 



14 ADDRESS. 

ly and undaunted in step and bearing — and takes his seat to 
minister the word of Life. There sit our ancestors, solemn, 
anxious, hopeful, and praise and worship the Most High, with 
their arms and warlike equipments by their side. We see 
them in their devotions. We hear them say — "We are 
troubled on every side, yet not distressed — we are perplexed, 
but not in despair — persecuted, but not forsaken — cast down, 
but not destroyed." 

When, ye spirits of our sires ; when shall we see the like 
again? — such wisdom in the council? — such valor in the 
field? 

This, however, was only an alarm, although its aspect was 
for a time so serious. And it is believed, and to the honor of 
all be it said, that Indians and Avhites never drew from each 
other a drop of blood in murderous contest, from the date of 
the earliest settlement to our present peaceful times. 

It was under the influence of such energy of character, pu- 
rity of morals, wise precaution and forethought for the future, 
that this little settlement, under providence, prospered and 
grew on every side. It spread with great rapidity. Adjoin- 
ing villages soon rose up, almost in rivalry of their more ven- 
erable and early home. 

It was but a short period after the first settlement of the 
town before some families colonized the Tillages of Wainscott 
and Amagansett. As early as 1670 John Osborn exchanged 
his lands here, with the town and with individuals, and pro- 
cured a tract of land bounded " South by the Ocean and East 
by Wainscott Pond." It is probable that about this time 
Wainscott and Amagansett were settled. And it is said that 
as early as 1700 those Villages had attained nearly if not quite 
their present size. 

Wainscott was originally settled by the families of Hand, 
Hopping and Osborn. Amagansett is said to have been set- 
tled originally by the families of Hand, Conkling, Schellen- 
ger and Barnes. 

This Town existed as an Independent Settlement or Plan- 
tation until 1657, a period of eight years. In that year it 
united with the Colony of Connecticut in an alliance for the 
purpose of counsel and defence. Southampton had joined the 
same confederacy. Southold was attached to the colony of 
New-Haven. 

Our fathers often sought counsel and advice of these neigh- 
bouring tov/ns in difficult cases. Their attachment to New- 
England was exceedingly strong. With the Dutch inhabit- 
ants of New- York they had less affinity and intercourse. 
W hen the Dutch, in 1664, sin-rendered their Colony of New- 



ADDRESS. 15 

York to the English, the whole Island was claimai by the 
Duke of York as included in his grant and under his Juris- 
diction, And after unavailing remonstrances against it, in 
despite of their entreaties they came under the Duke's Gov- 
ernment and formed a part of his Colony. From that time 
they remained under the jurisdiction of the Government of the 
Colony of New- York. 

After the revolution of these American States, Gardiner's^^ 
Island, which until then had remained an independent manor 
or Lordship, was annexed to and has since remained a part 
of the Town of East-Hampton. 

The limits of an address forbid my dwelling as minutely 
upon the minor traits of character and the habits of our an- 
cestors as might otherwise be desirable. 

It will now be my chief object as I trace the history of the 
Town to bring more vividly before the mind the ardent love 
of liberty and devotion to their religion, which our forefathers 
have ever manifested. 

For the first few years it does not appear that our ancestors 
had any written Constitution or compact as a foundation for 
their Government. They probably lived together under the 
tacit and implied contract of a people bound only by the great 
principles of natural equity, justice, and reason, aided by their 
knowledge of divine revelation. 

In 1654, however, and on the 18th of September, they pass- 
ed the following resolve : 

" It is ordered that there shall be a copie of the Connecticut 
Combination drawn forth as is convenient for us, and yt all 
men shall set to their hands." — Book 2, p. 32. 

Their constitution was copied accordingly from the pream- 
ble of their model. They added to the original, however, the 
last quarter, referring to the obligations of conscience, and the 
covenant to stand by their officers. The following was their 
covenant or constitution : 

East-Hampton, October 24, 1654. 
" Forasmuch as it has Pleased the Almighty God by the 
wise dispensation of his providence, so to Order and Dispose 
of things that we, the Inhabitants of East-Hampton are now 
dwelling together ; the word of God requires that to maintain 
the Peace and Union of such a people there should be an Or- 
derly and Decent Government established according to God — 
to Order and Dispose as Occasion shall require : — We Do 
therefore associate and conjoin ourselves to be one Town or 
Corporation ; and Do for ourselves and successors, and such 



16 AnDRE!«ii. 

as shall be adjoined to us at any time hereafter, enter into 
combination and confederation together to maintain and pre- 
serve the Purity of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, which 
we now possess, as also the Discipline of the Church, which, 
according to the Truth of said Gospel, is now practised among 
us. As also in our Civil affairs to be guided and Governed 
by such Laws and Orders as shall be made according to God, 
and which by vote of the Major Part shall be in force among 
us. [Furthermore we do engage ourselves that in all votes 
for choosing Officers or making Orders that it be according to 
Conscience and our best Light. And Also we do engage our- 
selves by this combination to stand to and maintain the au- 
thority of the several Officers of the Town in their Determi- 
nation and actions according to their Orders and Laws that 
either are or shall be made, not swerving therefrom.*] In 
Witness whereof, each accepted Inhabitant set to our hand." 

Their recognition of the " Providence" of " Almighty God," 
and acknowledgment of their obligation to obey the requisi- 
tions of his word, are too conspicuous to demand our notice. 
Their determination to be governed by such Laws and Or- 
ders as were passed by vote of " the Major Part " " among us," 
bespeak as clearly their understanding of the superior right of 
the majority of the people ; and their engagement that " in all 
votes for choosing officers or making orders " " it be according 
to conscience and our best light," reflects as from a mirror, 
the high sense of moral obligation Avhich pervaded them. 

The pursuits of public and of private life — the affairs of ut- 
most or ordinary importance were to be conducted according 
to " Conscience." What a lesson to the people of our day 
did they leave on record two centuries ago. When will their 
descendants enter into the affairs of government and of public 
life, discharging their duties according to " (Conscience " — 
when disown the principle that a Christian cannot discharge 
his high duties as a citizen and elector in a free country, with- 
out contamination from the pervading corruption.^ Why 
slumbers the spirit of om- fathers amid our father's home ? 

Their religion was free, comparativehr, from the errors and 
superstition of the day. In the year 1657 complaint was made 
to the magistrates of the Town that " Good wife Garlicke " had 
practiced witchcraft. An investigation of the charge was had, 
but the people linally concluded to send her to Hartibrd for 
trial. Perhaps they were distrustful of their skill and knowl- 
edge of Witchcraft. Enough appears upon the records to 



*The linre inclosed in braf'(f;ts are the part added. 



.PDRKSS. 17 

show that the " Goodwife " had many and powerful friends. 
Lion Gardiner strenuously maintained her innocence. — 
Whether any further order was made in her case does not 
appear. It is highly creditable to them that amid the preva- 
lent belief and superstitions of the day, entertained alike by 
the ignorant and the learned — the King and the People — this 
was the only case of accusation for Witchcraft. It is proba- 
ble nothing further was ever done in the complaint than as 
above stated.* 

It has already been seen that as early as 1651 they took 
measures for erecting a church. That church was enlarged 
in 1673 ; and again, after some diHerence of opinion, it was 
enlarged in 1698. The present church was erected in 1717; 
was remodlled and repaired in 1822. 

The illustrious succession of Ministers who flourished for 
the first 150 years in this town, are too widely known, and 
too familiar to us all to require enlargement here. 

The historian has already recorded the genius, originality, 
and resolution that lived in the character of Thomas James, 
the first semi centenarian Pastor of this town. The learning, 
ability, and devotion of Nathaniel Huntting, the second semi 
centenarian Pastor. 

The third Pastor^ for a like period, the Rev'd Samuel Buell, 
D. D., was probably the cause and author of the erection 
of Clinton Academy. He lives upon the historians page,~ 
lives in the remembrances of his venerable survivors. His 
sound judgment, clear perception, vivid fancy, impressive 
power and manner, have left their influence behind him. 

The fourth Pastor, the Rev'd Lyman Beecher, D. D., is 
known by fame in every land. We send up our prayers that 
this venerable spiritual warrior may yet be able, for many a 
long year, to wear and wield the armor of his manhoods prime, 
so well and often proved. 

We shrink from our honoured position, as speaker of the 
day, when we remember that forty-four years since he stood 
up here in the maturity of his genius, and the fire of his elo- 
quence, and drew, in living lines, the character and history of 
our forefathers. Happy alike in the achievements they had 
won and in him who spoke their praise. 

'I^he fifth Pastor, the Rev'd Ebenezer Philips has passed 
from this earthly stage. His solemn, deliberate, clear address, 

* The conduct of Goodwife Garlicke was not such as to disarm and quiet sus- 
picion. Upon her examination it was, among other things, proved that she had 
used various herbs to bewitch with ; that she had said she had no objection to be 
thought a witch, and Jiad said she " had as good please the Devil as anger him." 



18 



ADDRESS. 



replete with truth and doctrine, are among tlic rememl^rances 
of our boyhoods day. 

The sixth Pastor, the Rev'd Joseph D. Condit, mild, ten- 
der, and pathetic, is also deceased. His child-like spirit fled 
to the children's iiome on high. 

The seventh Pastor, the Rev'd Samuel R. Ely, supplied 
this Pulpit for about nine years. He removed some years 
since on account of declining health. 

The fiinth Pastor, the Rev'J Samuel Huntting, stood up 
here for a little while to minister to this People, at that altar 
where, a hundred and fifty years before, his honored ancestor 
had kindled and fed the holy altar's flame. He rose, and, 
quickly struck by the fatal arrow, fell, and his spirit joined in 
high communion with his ascended fathers.* 

We now call your attention to the patriotism of our an- 
cestors ; to their adherence to free institutions, and the reso- 
lute, unflinching tenacity with which they maintained their 
rights. 

As their religion was free, in a great degree, from supersti- 
tion and bigotry ; so their principles of politics and govern- 
ment were, comparatively, free from persecution and intoler- 
ance. 

When their country demanded their assistance, feeble and 
exposed as they were, they generously proffered it. They 
say— 

" .Time 20th, 1654. 
" Having considered the Letters that came from Keneticut, 
wherein we are required to assist the power of England, 
against the Dutch : we Doe think ourselves called to assist 
the sd Power." 



¥ 



Subsequently, throughout their whole history, it does not 



* The following list of Ministers, with the time of settlement in East-Hampton ; 
time of removal, decease, and age, is as complete as I have been able to compile. 



1. Thomas James, 

a. Nathlniel Ht7NTTING, 

3. Samuel Buell, D. D. 

4. Lyman Beeciier, D. D. 

5. Ebenezer PniLLirs, 

6. .Tosepii D. Condit, 

7. Samuel R. Ely, 

8. Alexander Bullions, 

9. Samuel Huntting, 



settled. 


REMOVED. 


died. 


1650 


. . 


1686 


16^9 


- - 


1753 


1746 


- - 


1798 


1799 


1810 




1811 


1830 


1840 


1830 


1835 


184- 


1836 


1846 




1846 


1848 




1848 


- - 


1849 



78 years. 
82 years, 
now living. 



27 years. 



The three years intervening between the decease of Mr. James and the settle- 
ment of Mr. Huntting, were supplied by a Mr. .Tones. 

The Rev'd Samuel R. Ely was never settled here, but ofFiciated as a stated 
supply. 



ADDRESS. 19 

appear that their country ever raised the cry for her sons tO' 
arm for battle, unheard by them. 

The Colony of New-Haven adopted a Covenant or Consti- 
tution excluding all who were not members of the Church 
from the privileges of Electors. Our fathers, disliking this 
narrow and exclusive spirit, joined the more remote confed- 
eracy of Cormecticut, consisting of Hartford, Windsor, and 
Wethersfield, which admitted all their citizens to equal rights 
and privileges. 

The Royal Duke of York, by his deputized Governors, 
swayed the sceptre of government over the Colony of New- 
York, with arbitrary power. 

They oftentimes excluded the people altogether from choos- 
ing Representatives of their own to pass laws in a General 
Assembly. Sometimes, after yielding to the popular demand, 
they disobeyed the Assembly which they had chosen of their 
own arbitrary will. Hence the sympathy of our fathers with 
their early friends of Connecticut, and their attachment to the 
free and chartered Government of that Colony. Hence their 
earnest appeal in 1664 to that colony to continue them under 
their government and jurisdiction. Hence, in the same year, 
their determination not to pay their taxes to the Government 
of New- York. 

It was in June, 1682, at a General Training of the Militia, 
that they drew up and signed their petition to Anthony Brock- 
hoist, the then Governor of New- York. In this memorable 
petition they recite their grant and charter from Governor 
Nicolls, in 1666. They refer to the promises of Freedom and 
Liberty, then made to them when they received that Patent. 
And they go on to say — " But, may it Please your Honour to 
understand that since that time wee are deprived and prohib- 
ited of our Birthright, Freedoms, and Privileges to which both 
wee and our ancestors were borne ; although we have neither 
forfeited them by any misconduct of ours, nor have we at any 
time been forbidden the due use and exercise of them, by 
command of our Gratious King, that we know of. And as 
yet neither we nor the rest of his Majesty's subjects uppon 
this Island have been at any time admitted since then, to en- 
joy a general and free Assembly of our Representatives, as 
others of his Majestie's subjects have had the priviledge of. 
But Lawes and Orders have been imposed uppon us from time 
to time without our consent, (and therein we are totally de- 
prived of a fimdamental priviledge of our English Nation,) 
together with the obstruction of Trafhcke and Negotiation with 
others of his Majestie's subjects ; so that we are become very 
unlike other of his Majestie's subjects in all other, colonies here 



20 ADDRESS. 

in America, and cannot but much resent our grievances in 
this Respect, and Remain discouraged with Respect to the 
Settlement of Ourselves and Posteritie after us." 

Thus, more than ninety years before the Declaration of 
American Independance, they proclaimed the free principles 
upon which it was based.* 

It is believed that no people in this country saw farther, or 
earlier than they, the correct principles of a Free Representa- 
tive Government. None placed them upon the records before 
them. We wonder ! we admire the wisdom of our fathers. 

In 1683 Governor Dongan, who succeeded Anthony Brock- 
hoist as Governor, landed on the east end of Long-Island. 
Upon his first arrival we are told he here heard the language 
of discontent and dissatisfaction. Perhaps he saw then, good 
reason to conclude as he declared in his report to the commit- 
tee of Trade, of 22nd February, 1687, that " most part of the 
people of that Island, especially towards the east end, are of 
the same stamp with those of New-England. Refractory 
and very loath to have any commerce with this Place, to the 
great Detr'm't of his Ma'tys Revenue and ruin of our mer- 
chants."— Vide Doc. His. N. Y., p. 166. 

In page 151 of the same report he urges that Connecticut 
should be annexed to New- York, and says, " Wee fomid by 
experience, if that Place bee not annexed to that Government, 
it will bee impossible to make any thing considerable of his 
Ma'tys Customs and Revenues in Long-Island ; they carry 
away with't entering all our Oyles, which is the greatest part 
of what wee have to make returns of from this Place." 

These loud petitions of the people procured temporary relief. 
The General Assembly of the Representatives met in 1683, 
1684, and 1685, when the Assembly was discontinued by the 
despotic mandate of Gov'r Dongan. 

In the year 1686 the present Town Patent was granted by 
Gov'r Dongan, confirming that of Gov'r Nicolls, and giving 
authority to the Trustees of the Town to purchase the yet 
unpurchased part of Montaiik, which was effected of the In- 
dians, and a conveyance given by them, dated July 25th, 1687. 
This conveyance covei-s all the land east of Fort-Pond, ex- 
tending to the Point. Thus, by various purchases, the Indian 
title to the lands was extinguished, and a final conveyance 
was taken from them in 1702-3, when a lease, not transferable, 
was executed to them, vesting in them the limited enjoyments 
of a certain part of their ancient inheritance, on which the few 
remaining families of the tribe now reside. 



* See a copy of this petition in the Ai)pendix. 



ADDRESS. 21 

The subsequent histoiy of the town cannot be more clear- • 
ly exhibited than by reference to the Ufe of the celebrated 
Samuel Mulford. 

Samuel Mulford was the eldest son of John Mulford — was 
born in 1645 ; and for a period of twenty years, from 1700 to 
1720, represented this Comity in the Provincial Assembly. 
From his father he inherited the strong, reflecting mind ; the 
stern principles and imyielding determination of the early Pu- 
ritans. He was attached to the Government of Connecticut, 
and remonstrated against the annexation of the town to New 
York. That Colony was then in the hands of the High- 
Church Episcopalians, and upon them alone the patronage of 
Government bestowed its offices and honors. He watched the 
abuses of Government with a jealous eye, and no combatant 
ever maintained his post more miflinchingly than he. 

In the year 1716, the Assembly, subservient to the wishes 
of Gov'r Hunter, ordered a speech of Mulford's to be put into 
the hands of the Speaker. Mulford boldly published his 
speech and circulated it. It denounced the corruption and 
governmental misrule of the finances — the usurpations in col- 
lectmg the revenue, and its disbursement. The Governor 
commenced an oppressive and harrassing lawsuit against him 
in the Supreme court, whose judges he himself had appointed. 
Mulford was a farmer and not possessed of a large property. 
He had gained his estate and support by his daily toil ; and 
the House, in sympathy for him, on the 21st August, with 
their Speaker, attended the Governor, and presented to him a 
resolve which they had passed, soliciting the discharge of 
Mulford from the suit. The suit was suspended, and Mulford 
was permitted to return home. On his return here he resolv- 
ed to petition the King in person, for redress. 

Among other grievances the towns of East-Hampton and 
Southampton complained bitterly of a duty of one-tenth on 
whale oil, exacted from them by the Governors of the Colony. 
Whaling was to them an important interest, and Mulford de- 
sired to procure a bounty for its encouragement. 

He concealed his departure lest he should be arrested by 
the Governor — landed at Newport — walked to Boston, and 
embarked for the Court of St. James. He presented his me- 
morial, which, it is said, attracted much attention, and was 
read by him to the House of Commons. The tax on oil was 
" ordered to be discontinued," and Mulford returned home, 
triumphant, at the age of 71 years.* 

* Songs and rejoicings took place among the whalemen of SulTolk County upon 
his arrival, on account of his having succeeded in getting the King's share given 
up. — MSS, of J. Lyon Gordiner, dec'd. 



22 ADDRESS. 

Picture to yourself the homely apparel ; the simple man- 
ners ; the stern bearing ; the lofty, unquailing appearance of 
that self taught, high minded man, and you have a noble ex- 
hibition of what our ancestors were. 

Capt'n Mulford returned, took his seat in the House of Rep- 
resentatives, and again the old question of his speech was 
called up. Perhaps the Governor was stung by the success 
of Mulford, and his bold exposition in England, of his cupid- 
ity and injustice. The war was renewed with fiercer feeling 
than before. The compliant House called upon him to give 
the reasons for printing his speech. He gave them, and with- 
drew, — a motion having been made and carried to that effect. 
Mulford had the honour of being expelled from the House. 
A new election was held to supply the vacancy, and the peo- 
ple, true to themselves, notwithstanding all the influence of 
power, patronage, and wealth, again elected Mulford as their 
representative, — an act worthy of themselves and the cham- 
pion of their cause. They were not to be bought, deceived, 
or terrified. 

In the autumn of 1717 he again took his seat in the House ; 
and again, alone waged the unequal contest in defence of the 
people. What was there in pride, pomp, power, pretension or 
station, that should deter him from exposing fraud or corrup- 
tioji wherever he found it ? 

In 1720 Governor Burnet succeeded Gov'r Hunter. And 
the bold denunciations of Capt'n Mulford, again drew down 
upon him the censure of the officers of Government. On the 
26th October, 1720 having refused to act with the old Assem- 
bly, then in session, upon the ground that a new one should 
have been chosen, and that the acting Assembly was uncon- 
stitutional, he was again expelled from the House. 

Thus, 50 years before the time of Wilkes, Capt'n Mulford 
ran the same career in America, with purer motives, and had 
been as nobly sustained by his constituents. 

Thus ended Capt'n Mulfords public life. His great age 
deterred him from farther services. He died August 21st, 
1725, aged almost 81 years. 

The very grievances which Mulford complained of were 
afterwards redressed by tlie King, and the people finally tri- 
umphed. Why sleeps his memoiy, unrecorded on the histo- 
xians page? 

In the war ending in the conquest of Canada, in 1760 Cap- 
tains Elias Hand and Jonathan IJakcr of tliis town were en- 
gaged, commanding companies laised by them in their vicinity. 
They were both at the attack of Ticonderoga, by General Ab- 
crcrombie ; and were present, under General Amherst, at the 



♦ ADDRESS. 23 

capture of Crown Point. At the close of the war they return- 
ed to their homes. 

At the very commencement of difficnhy between Great 
Britain and these United States, this town sent her pledge to 
abide by the cause and interests of their countrymen. The 
Boston Port Bill was passed in March 1774, interdicting all 
commerce with that port. With reference to that we find the 
following proceeding : 

" At a meeting of the Inhabitants of East-Hampton, legally 
warned by the Trustees, June 17, '74 ; Eleazar Miller, Esq., 
Moderator. 

1st. Voted, That we will, to the utmost of our abilities, as- 
sert, and in a lawful manner, defend the liberties and immu- 
nities of British America. That we will co-operate with our 
Brethren in this Colony in such measures as shall appear best 
adapted to save us from the burdens we fear, and in a measure 
already feel, from the principles adopted by the British Par- 
liament, respecting the Town of Boston in Particular, and the 
British Colonies in North America in General. 

2nd. Voted., That a non-importation agreement through the 
Colonies is the most likely means to save us from the present 
and future troubles. 

3d. Voted. That John Chatfield, Esq., Col. Abm. Gardiner, 
Burnett Miller, Stephen Hedges, Tho's Wickham, Esq., John 
Gardiner, Esq., and David Mulford be a Standing Committee 
for keeping up a correspondence with the City of N. Y., and 
the Towns of this Colony, and if there is occasion, with other 
Colonies ; and that they transmit a copy of these votes to the 
committee of Correspondence for the City of N. Y. 

Voted, Unanimously, not one dissenting voice. 

Burnet Miller, Toivn Clerk.^^ 

Some of the first and heaviest blows struck in the war of 
our Independence, fell upon this town. 

" Whilst the British were at Boston their vessels occasion- 
ally earned off stock from Suflblk County." 

The Journals of the Provincial Congress contain the fol- 
lowing : 

" July 5th, '75. — The People of E. and S. Hampton pray 
Congress that Capt'n Hulbert's company, now raising for 
Schuyler's army, may remain to guard the Stock on the com- 



24 ADDRESS. 

I 

mon Lands of Montauk, (2,000 cattle and 3 or 4,000 sheep,) 
from the ravages of the enemy."—" Jour. 75." 

"July 31st, 75. — Congress allow G.rifRn and Hultert's 
companies to remain to guard Stock." — " Jour. 95." 

It appears from the Journal and correspondence of Capt'n 
Hulbert, that his Company were stationed at Shagwonnuck ; 
that tliey were supplied with arms, ammunition, and provis- 
ions, by the people of the town, through Burnet Miller and 
Stephen Hedges, their committee. And that on the 7th, Sep- 
tember, '75, the company marched oft' of Montauk, and Hul- 
bert and his men were supplied with guns and ammunition ; 
and were afterwards stationed at Fort Constitution. 

" In consideration of the defenceless state of E. part of Suf- 
folk Co., the 3 companies raised for Continental service were 
continued there." — Ap. 3, " 76." 

The return of Col. Smith's Regiment, May 30, '76, shows 
Ezekiel Mulford, Captain of a Company of 40 privates, " com- 
plete in arms." Another account is as follows : 

" 12th Comp., Capt. Ezekiel Mulford ; 1st, Lt. Sayre ; 2nd 
Lt., Nath'l Hand; Serg'ts, M. Mulford, Pierson, Domini; 
Corp's, Henry Sherrel, Benj. Crook, Ludlam Parsons." 

As early as the Spring of 1776, an invasion of the British 
forces upon New- York City had been anticipated. The fate 
of Long-Island was readily seen to be linked with that of the 
City. Remote, exposed, defenceless, save by their own strong 
arms, but few volunteers could have been expected from this 
neighborhood. Yet East-Hampton had her full proportion of 
minute men in the field. 

The Battle of Long-Island was fought August 27th, 1776, 
and the whole extent came under the control of the British 
forces. Those forces, in part, made the East end of the Isl- 
and their winter quarters, and levied supplies upon the coun- 
try. There are now, even a few venerable, living veterans, 
who remember the sufferings, the scenes of robbery and vio- 
lence, which were perpetrated by the enemy, and endured by 
the iuliahitants, — remember how the pulse beat high and joy- 
ful at the news of Burgoync's defeat, — remember the lively, 
heartfelt sympathy with their brethren in the field. 

It was not until the 25th of November, 1783, that the Brit- 
ish troops ev;icuatod New- York City. During all this seven 



ADDRESS. 25 

years the Island groaned under the oppressive occupation of 
their soil by the hostile Invader. 

Their circumstances exposed them, however, to sufferings 
and outrages from both parties. Their forced submission to 
the Royal Army, (their misfortune, not their fault,) caused 
them to be viewed with suspicion by their brethren upon the 
continent ; and often invited parties of plunder from that quar- 
ter. Multitudes fled for shelter and protection, to the shores 
of Connecticut. 

I find this memorandum, in 1776 : 

"Sep. 15. — Wharves at Sag-Harbor crowded with emi- 
grants." 

" Dr. Buell writes from E. Hampton, Sept'r 22, 76, that the 
People are as a torch on fire at both ends, which will speedily 
be consumed, for the Cont. Whigs carry off their stock and 
produce, and the British punish them for allowing it to go, — 
hopes the Whigs will not oppress the oppressed, but let the 
stock alone." 

The history of that seven years' suffering will never be told. 
Philosophy has no adequete remedy for silent, unknown, im- 
pitied suffering. Man may brave every Danger and endure 
every evil, perhaps, if human sympathy be ministered to him 
in life, and human immortality and applause crown his tomb. 
But the display of passive virtues is a sublimer field — a spirit- 
ual elevation above our sphere. It rises into being only when 
upheld by the Divinity ; and His aid withdrawn, we fall. 

Throughout this period, it is not known that a single Tory 
lived in the bounds of the town. 

Left to the tender mercies of the foe ; plundered by coimtry- 
man and stranger, of their property and ripened harvest ; rob- 
bed of the stores which they had reaped and garnered ; slan- 
dered by suspicious brethren ; taunted and scoffed at by the 
mercenary victors, they never wavered. Their heart's were 
in their country's cause ; and in the memorable language of 
their great compatriot, " Sink or swim, live or die, survive or 
perish," they were true to their country. Unterrified, unal- 
terable, devoted Americans. 

The events of that memorable struggle are fast becoming 
matters of tradition only. But tradition has still her unrecord- 
ed events. We might instance many a feat of personal 
prowess. We might tell how, often and again our fathers, 
pressed, insulted, attacked by the presumptuous foe, felt their 
blood boil within them, and enduring until human nature 



2G ADDRESS. 

could endure no more, turned with club or pitchfork upon the 
sword of the invader, and drove him from their sight. 

In their difficulties Dr. Buell, their minister, did not aban- 
don them. His talents, ingenuity, wit and mingled prudence 
and firmness, often averted threatened perils, and rendered 
important service to his people. 

Tradition has however handed down no name more illus- 
trious than that of Capt. John Dayton, a lineal descendant of 
Ralph, the first settler of that name. 

Capt. Dayton was one of natures uneducated heroes ; reck- 
less, daring, shrewd, sanguine, he often succeeded when others 
dared not hope. His lonely dwelling, two miles west from 
the town, was an inviting location for the miscreant and cow- 
ard to attack or plunder. His house was several times beset. 
It was once attacked in the night by the enemy, and while 
he was in the act of lighting a candle, a musket was dis- 
charged at him. This was no time for hesitation ; the ball 
missed him and passed in the beam of his weaver's loom. 
Putting his little son, (Josiah,) out of the back door, in the 
midst of a deep snow, and directing him to flee for shelter and 
safety, he snatched that long, famous, deadly carabine of his 
from its resting place, sallied out of the house, returned the 
enemie's fire, and withdrew in the house. He immediately 
began to call all imaginary names, as if he had a regiment of 
assistance sleeping in his chamber — loudly daring the British, 
meanwhile, to come on. The shot or the deception, or per- 
haps both, were successful. The enemy retired and left the 
marks of blood behind them. 

The next day the Captain, while in the yard was visited 
by the officer of the regiment. The officer leaped his horse 
astride him — brandished his cutlass — loaded the Captain with 
abuse, and threatened to slay him for killing one of his men. 
To use the Captain's own language, as in after years he relat- 
ed it, " His blood boiled within him, and his hair stood on 
end." Discovering a pitchfork near, he sjirang for it, faced 
his adversary, brandished his rustic weapon, and ordered him 
to " be oftV It needed no second command. The horse 
bounded with his rider over the pickets, and left the hero 
master of the field. 

We cannot forbear relating one other incident equally char- 
acteristic. During the revolution a British fleet anchored off 
Montauk. It was supposed by the inhabitants that they 
were about to land there and seize the hordes of cattle and 
sheep which then as now were there depastured and fatted. 

The Captain thought he could prevent their landing, and 
save the cattle. He offered to lead forty of his neighbors, if 



ADDRESS. 27 

SO many would go, and save their flocks. Forty volunteeted 
to accompany the Captain, and they marched on to Montauk. 
He selected a hill, marched over it at the head of his com- 
pany — descended into a hollow, where he was out of sight 
from the fleet. Shifting the position of his men, and each ex- 
changing his coat, he again led them back, through a hollow, 
unobserved by the tteet, to the starting place and over the 
hill ; and thus the company continued their march over and 
around the hill. The manouvre was calculated to produce 
the impression upon the fleet that a large army were march- 
ing and encamping in the vale below. Whether this strata- 
gem was the cause or not, the result was that the British did 
not land and the flocks were saved. 

The bold artifice reflects equal credit upon the warrior's 
courage and fertile brain. 

This venerable chieftain and mighty hunter died in 1825, 
aged 98 years. 

The war of the Revolution left our town like the rest of the 
country, worse in morals ; wasted in property ; burdened with 
national debts, and groaning under taxes. Agriculture had 
declined ; commerce had been ruined ; estates swept away ; 
and when the first thrilling, triumphant transports of a free, 
victorious people were over, they wept at the surrounding 
desolation. 

But the spirit that had stood the test of war and conquest 
was not the spirit to fail in the arts of peace. By degrees 
prosperity returned ; commerce and agriculture flourished ; 
education revivecl, and within a year after the British troops 
evacuated New-York, Clinton Academy was erected. It was 
incorporated by the authorities, and received under the pat- 
ronage of the Government, being the first chartered Academy 
in the State. 

We feel that we are tresspassing upon your time and pa- 
tience ; that however pleasing it might have been to continue 
them, we must now break off these reminiscences of the past. 
Even in the relation of our early history, we have been com- 
pelled to omit much that is mteresting, much that is essential 
to a thorough knowledge of the character of our ancestors. 

We could not describe, even briefly, the Maidstone they 
left, and the river Medway, upon the grassy banks of which 
they had sported. We had intended to relate more minutely 
the origin and Nature of the early controversies of the Puritans 
in their own native country. We had designed to vindicate 
their laws from the slanders of many a prejudiced historian 
and writer— to have shown more fully with what wisdom they 
laid the foundations of a free and equitable iurisprudeuce. 



28 ADDRESS. 

How many of us think you, unskilled in the practice and un- 
studied in the law, would in our day frame a better or wiser 
code than they 1 We had intended to have shown how, (im- 
perfect as they were,) they stood upon an intellectual emi- 
nence head and shoulders above the resyt of the world in the 
knowledge of the principles of a free government. 

The question is not whether their laws and simple machi- 
nery of government is applicable to us. Was it a wise system 
for them ? We doubt whether up to their day in this world's 
history any community had ever enacted laws more appro- 
priate or established a government better suited to their wants, 
wishes and welfare, than were theirs to them. We doubt 
whether any courts ever worked better or dispensed more im- 
partial justice, or rendered more suitable redress than theirs. 

We have heard of " illiberality," of " canting hypocrisy," of 
" narrow-minded bigotry," of " blue laws," and " Salem witch- 
craft," and a thousand other flings and sneers at the honest 
old Puritans of this country, until by the constant repetition 
of some faults which the Puritans shared in common with 
their opponents of that day, and by the imputation of many 
which they never had, many a weak minded man has been 
ashamed of those worthy ancestors who founded the institu- 
tions which secure us our political and religious freedom.* 

Let England thank God that the Puritans lived — thank the 
Puritans under God for many of the free principles which were 
engrafted in her constitution. 

Let America own them as the fathers of education, piety 
and freedom. 

We might have told how from time immemorial until with- 
in the last half century the simple manners of the early plant- 
ers of this colony remained unimpaired the manners and cus- 
toms of their descendants. 

We might have told how regularly Monday morning was 
devoted by the matrons to washing, and how with equal reg- 
ularity Monday afternoon was devoted to social visits. And 
if it was so, is there any thing particularly sinful or ludicrous 
in their order and method. I have yet to learn that there is 
any better day of the week for that purpose than the one they 
chose. 

We are well aware that there is a sickly silly sentimentali- 
ty afloat, which looks with conceited contempt upon every 
thing connected with Puritanism. We well know how much 



* The wilful and superlative mendacity of Peter's History of Connecticut is 
fully expoaed in the Historical DiscoureeB of Prof. Kingeley and Leonard Bacon 
of New-Haven, Ct. 



ADDl^ESS. 29 

wiser some of their descendants feel themselves to be than 
their Puritan ancestors were. 

It may have been that their broad backs and stiff knees 
bent with less grace and pliancy than ours to the mandate of 
human custom. It may have been that their code of etiquette 
was a little more stitfand stern than ours. It may have been 
that they felt constrained by their understanding of revealed 
truth to adopt a more strict and faithful parental control than 
we. Perhaps their coats were more for use and less for show ; 
perhaps they were broader in some places, and coarser and 
plainer than ours. 

But those same queer old men and women in their antique 
apparel built America. They cleared her forests ; extermi- 
nated her wild beasts ; founded schools and colleges ; fought 
the Revolution ; established the Republic ; framed the best 
Government under Heaven for a free people, and transmitted 
those immunities and institutions unsullied and unimpaired to 
their descendants. 

As we are bound to maintain and defend our institutions 
and privileges, our invaluable inheritance ; so are we bound 
to honour and defend whatever was high and manly in their 
character, and cherish with a filial tenderness their fame and 
memory. 

Standing amid the graves of our ancestors, collected in their 
ancient temple of worship, what thrilling recollections rush 
along the memory. While we are reminded by the crumbled 
dust of former generations, that we hold our existence by the 
frailest tenure, and that we too shall soon pass away from this 
stage of living action, and our departed dust will mingle with 
theirs ; we are also reminded of the proper objects and pur- 
poses of life ; we are incited to act faithfully our part in the 
several spheres in which we move : 

" In the worlds broad field of battle. 

In the bivouac of life , 
Be not like dumb driven cattle. 

Be a hero in the strife." 

Where shall the spiritual asphations of our nature rise if 
not upon the graves of our sires. Where if not there shall the 
high resolve and noble purpose of the soul be formed. Well 
may we lay the passions, the prejudices and the selfishness of 
our nature by the tomb of our ancestors. We may there learn 
the lessons of a high and holy patriotism — of a purer and 
more elevated piety. 

We feel our souls kindle in generous emulation of their ex- 
ample. We feel above the limited recollections and interests 



30 ADDRESS. 

of every days pursuit. We break through the present objects 
of sight and sense. We feel our relation to the venerable 
past, to the pious dead. We contemplate our connection as 
one of the links that stretch along the chain of the boundless 
future. 

Our ancestors ; who has fully comprehended the meaning 
of those words ? 

They lived when this worlds bright but transient morn be- 
gan. They lived when sin began its reign. 

" Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat, 
Sighmg through all her works gave signs of wo 
That all was lost." 

In that long night of wretchedness which followed, they 
lived. They lived when Heaven sent its Savior down to 
earth. When Cesar stormed the Northern Isles they met him 
like heroes on the very shore. They fought at Hastings when 
the invader wrenched their dearest liberties and rights. — 
Through all past time they lived. 

Our posterity ; they will extend through all coming time. 
Another centennial anniversary of the planting of this little 
commonwealth, you and I shall never see. But our children 
that rise up after us we trust will rejoice at its return and pay 
the tribute of respectful gratitude to our memory and the 
memory of thbse who have now long since passed away. 
Changes will come — kingdoms and nations be overturned — 
and yet the waves of successive generations will rise and roll 
onward, far onward until the winding up this worlds affairs. 

We are not severed fragments — broken remnants of a dis- 
jointed race — but connected, closely, intimately connected 
with all that is past — with all in this world yet to come. 

Matrons and maidens of my native town : — Worthy were 
your mothers of their noble partners in the vicissitudes and 
perils of their earthly career — meet helps in laying the foun- 
dations of learning, liberty and morals — fit in rearing the 
finished and tasteful superstructure. We admire their cour- 
age, their constancy, their devotion. Tradition has told us of 
their simple habits, their pure desires. Despise not ye their 
bright example. What though the fashion of their day has 
passed away — what though we smile at the antiquated equip- 
page and costume of their time. The fashion and the para- 
phernalia of our day Avill also soon be past forever. The at- 
tire of the living will be put off, and the habiliments of the 
dead will enclose our dust ; and in your turn ye will be the 
departed mothers of future generations — so live that the graces 
and simple habits and worthy pursuits of the early mothers of 



ADDRESS. 31 

our village shall survive and adorn the life of their descend- 
ants. 

And now, ye fellow townsmen, ye have looked upon the 
graves pf your departed sires. We have recounted their 
deeds — we have lived in the historic remembrances of the past 
— ^we have traced the origin of this early settlement — we have 
seen the deep foundations of permanency, prosperity and 
peace, in the life and habits of that Pilgrim band. That ar- 
dent, patriotic fire burned in as bright a flame the first three 
half centuries in the breasts of their descendants. That spirit 
assisted in rearing the imposing edifice of our National Lib- 
erty. It built our Academic Hall, — illustrious in its name — 
illustrious as the first that flourished with a chartered life 
within the confines of our state, — proud and thrice happy in 
the annual cohorts that it dismissed with its parting blessing, 
to adorn the land. That spirit reared this venerable temple 
of the living God. 

Still longer do we love to linger around the remembrances 
of the past. Are our fathers dead 1 Do we look at all that 
remains of them when we survey their departed dust. No ! 
ah ! no ! Their memory lives ! Their deeds survive ! Their 
labours speak their fame. Their institutions, founded in toil 
and built in sacrifice, are the inheritance of their descendants. 

They live. — They, the spirits of the just, perchance to day 
look down upon us from their high abode — blest in the inher- 
itance of the Saints ! Blest in the welcome of the Highest ! 
Blest in the homage of the Living ! 

They speak to us to-day — " For you we did maintain our 
birthright and our liberties. For you we raised the Hall of 
science and of learning ; enlarge its walls ; adorn its portals ; 
fill its alcoves. For you we reared a holy Church to our High 
King — that church, that dear, blest Church, maintain. Ful- 
fil your mission on the earth ; live for the world as we have 
lived ; live for the boundless future. Beyond this day, this 
present fleeting day, will generations rise ; they feel your im- 
press ; they are moulded by your character ; they are destined 
to move onward as your impulses have directed them. Live 
then as men, as patriots, and as Christians. Leave the im- 
press and the memory of your noble eflbrts with your posteri- 
ty, and join us in His good time, this side the swelling Jordan^ 
in our promised, everlasting Home." 



v_.- 



APPENDIX. 



MONTAUK INDIANS. 



The tribe of Montaiik Indians deserve a more extended 
notice than could have been assigned tlieni within the Hmits 
of the preceding Address. At the time of the settlement of 
East-Hampton this Tribe resided chiefly upon the Peninsula 
of " Montaukett," as their head-quarters. 

Poggatacut, Sachem of the Manhassetts, and brother of 
Wyandanch, died in 1651. The pre-eminence which he 
maintained over the other Tribes of the Island, as their 
Sachem or Chieftain, seems to have descended to Wyandanch, 
who thenceforth assumed the regal authority, as Sachem of 
" Paumanacke," or Long-Island. Under the Government of 
Wyandanch, if not previously, this tribe acquired by their 
martial virtues and the skill of their chieftain, a powerful 
ascendancy over the other tribes of the Island, who by tribute, 
deference, or otherwise, acknowledged their superiority. At 
this time they appear to have been numerous. 
/ tltrirong the manuscript memoranda of John Lyon Gardiner, 
deceased, (a great antiquarian, thoroughly versed in the records 
and history of the early settlement of the Eastern Towns of 
Long-Island,) I find the following : 

" Eleazar Miller, Esq'r, formerly member of Assembly, said 
that when a young man he once enquired of a very old In- 
dian, whether the Indians on the East end of Long-Island 
were numerous.— The Indian, placing his hand upon the 
grass, answered — " If you can count the spires of grass, you 
can count the Indians that were living when I was a boy." 

The same antiquarian, (to whom I confess myself indebted 
for much of our early history,) has left the followiiig record of 
their romantic and most iinfortunate defeat : 



33 APPENDIX, 

" The Montauk Tribe of Indians were tributary or allied to 
the Pequots. When this country was first settled a war pre- 
vailed between the Pequots on the one part, and the Narra- 
ghansetts, who were very numerous, on the other. The 
Block-Island Indians took sides with the latter, the Montauk 
Indians with the former. In this war the Montaukers receiv- 
ed a heavy blow from the Block-Island Indians. 

" Both parties set out in their war canoes, on the same eve- 
ning. It was in the simimer season, and at the full of the 
moon. They met half way, but the Block-Island Indians 
being so situated in the glades of the moon, could not be seen, 
while at the same time, looking Westward, they saw at a 
distance their enemies silently approaching in Indian file. 
The word was given, and they hurried back to Block-Island, 
laid in ambush for their enemies, and secreted their wives and 
children. The Montaukers, unsuspicious, arrived at their 
landing-place, hauled up their canoes, and were silently, and 
as they thought, sure of success, af)proaching the wigwams of 
their enemies, Avhile as they supposed asleep. They fell into 
the ambush that was laid, and while one party was killing 
them another was destroying their canoes and slaying such 
as attempted to return. They were all either taken or killed, 
except a few who escaped in one canoe. These brought the 
melancholy news to their friends. The Montaukers then 
moved on to the Parsonage lands, at East-Hampton, and con- 
tinued there a long time. Their Sachem was taken alive and 
carried to Narraghansett. A large, flat rock was heated by 
building fires upon it. He was then ordered on it, with his 
bare feet. He sung his Death-Song, walking several times 
composedly across it, till his feet were burned to a coal. He 
fell, and they finished the scene as usual in such cases. This 
was the last of their wars." 



The Tribe continued to decrease, and although severe laws 
were enacted, to prevent intemperance, by the sale of intoxi- 
cating drinks among them, yet other causes operated to reduce 
their number. It is probable that about this peroid the small 
pox, (that terror of the Indian,) prevailed among them, and 
carried ofi" great numbers. The following order upon the 
Town Books substantiates the conjecture. 

" March 2nd, 1663.— It is Ordered that noe Indian shall 
come to To\vn, into the Street, after sufficient notice, on pen- 
alty of paying 5*., or be whipped ; until they be free of the 



Small Pox,'' &c. 



APPENDIX. 34 

In language, customs, government, religion and manners, 
this Tribe was similar to the adjoining aboriginal tribes. The 
lamented author of the Chronicles of East-Hampton, (than 
whom none was better versed in local antique lore,) says of 
them : — 

"In their religion they were Polytheists and Idolaters. 
Their government was a monarchial despostism. In person 
they were tall, of proud and lofty movement, of active bodies 
and as straight as the arrow. They were warlike in their 
habits and spent most of their time in the study of military 
policy. Their chiefs and their braves were distinguished 
above those of the other tribes of the Island for prowess in 
the field ; for a recklessness of life in battle, and for the bold 
and daring onset with which, under their war scream, they 
rushed upon an enemy." 

" Their canoes in which they visited the neighboring Isl- 
ands and the continent, as far east as Boston, and as far south 
as New- York, were of the largest class, and in some instances 
capable of carrying eighty persons. That of Wyandanch 
required the strength of seven or eight men to draw it from 
the water upon the shore ; and on one occasion was damag- 
ed at Gardiner's Island for want of a sufficient number of per- 
sons to place it beyond the reach of the sea. With New-Ha- 
ven and the Connecticut River their intercourse was frequent. 
Their habits were social and they visited often and familiarly 
the families of neighbouring Tribes, with Avhom they delight- 
ed to mix in converse and friendly gaiety." 

" In the arts they had made but small advancement. The 
principal articles of manufacture were shell beads, called 
wampum, and which all accounts agree in stating were made 
by them in greater abundance than by any other Tribe." 

" They were, as I have before remarked, Polytheists. They 
had gods in great numbers ; many of lesser influence, having 
particular charges, and two of exalted degree, the good and 
the evil Deity, having a general superintendence and control, 
as well over all other gods as over men. There was a god of 
the four corners of the earth, and the four seasons of the year ; 
another of the productions of the earth ; another of the ele- 
ments ; one of the day and night ; and a god of the hearth, 
the family, and domestic relations. The great, good, and su- 
preme Deity they called Cmdkluntoowut, which signifies one 
possessed of supreme power. The great evil st)iri-t Was uan>- 



35 APPENDIX. 

ed Mutcheshesumetooh, which signifies evil power. They 
Avorshiped and offered sacrifices to these gods at all times. 
They had small idols or images which they believed knew 
the will of the gods and a regular Priesthood by whom these 
idols were consulted. The priests were called Powawas or 
Powwas, and declared to tlie people what the gods required 
of them. When dances and feasts should be made ; when 
presents should be given to the old people ; when sacrifices 
should be offered to the gods, and of what kind. These 
Powwas pretended to hold intercourse with the gods, in 
dreams, and with the evil spirit in particular, who appeared 
to them under different forms, and by voices in the air. These 
were the Medicine-men. They administered to the sick ; re- 
lieved those afflicted with evil spirits and poison, and by in- 
cantations and charms, protected the people from all harm. 
iSubject to the Powwas influence, neither could fire burn 
them nor water droAvn them ; nor could they receive any in- 
jury whatever. The most savory sacrifice made to the great 
Deity was the tail or fin of the whale, which they roasted. 
The leviathan, from which it was taken, was at times found 
cast upon the sea-shore, and then a great and prolonged 
Powow, or Religious Festival was held. At these festivals 
great efforts were supposed to be necessary to keep the Evil 
One without the circle of their incantations. His presence, it 
was believed, would defeat the object of the Powwas in the 
procurement of the favour and particular regard of the good 
deity. Violent gesticulations, loud yells, and laborious move- 
ments of the limbs and body, with distortion of the features, 
were continued until the excitement produced approaced to 
madness. When the Evil Spirit was supposed to be subju- 
gated the dance and the feast commenced. It is among the 
Indian traditions, that the existence of the Evil iSpirit was 
evidenced by his having, when driven from the feast, left the 
imprint of his foot upon a granite rock on Montauk, and made 
three holes in the ground, at regular distances, where he 
alighted, in three several leaps from the stone on which he 
had stood, and then disappeared." 

" They believed in a future state of existence ; that their 
souls would go westward a great distance, and many moons 
journey, to a place where the spirits of all would reside, and 
where, in the presence of their great Sawwounnutowtorh, be- 
yond the setting sun, the brave and the good would exercise 
themselves in pleasurable singing, in feasting, hunting, and 
dancing forever. The coward, the traitor, the liar, and the 
thief were also there^but the enjoyments of the favored Saw- 



APPENDIX. 26 

wonnuntoh only added to the pain of the punishments visited 
upon the misdeeds of the wicked. Servile labor, so painful to 
and so much despised by the Indian, was the allotment of the 
sinful. The making a canoe with a round stone, and the 
carrying water in a wicker basket, were among the perplexing 
exercises of those who had sacrificed the happines of their 
future existence to the will of Mutchesumetooh, or the evil 
Power." 

Efforts were, at a very early day, made to introduce civili- 
zation and Christianity among this Tribe, but apparently with 
little success. The Rev. Thomas James was employed by 
" The Society for propagating the Gospel in New-England," 
about the year 1660. He commenced the study of the Indian 
language, and made efforts to spread the knowledge 'of the 
Gospel among the Montauk Indians. Little is known how- 
ever either of the length or success of his exertions. 

In 1741 the New- York Committee of the same society em- 
ployed Mr. Azariah Horton, (a native of Southold,) as a mis- 
sionary, to be exclusively employed in the instruction of the 
Long-Island Indians ; and in that year he was ordained by 
the Presbytery of New- York to the work of the Gospel minis- 
try. In this service Mr. Horton remained eleven years. From 
his journal, still extant, it would appear that he often preached to 
and labored with the Montauk Indians, and that some of them 
received the Gospel. These were prolDably the first religious, 
impressions which to any extent affected the tribe. 

In 1798 the Rev. Paul Cuffee a native Shinecock Indian re- 
ceived a commission from the " New- York Missionary Socie- 
ty," to labor with the remnants of the Long-Island Indians. 
In their employ he remained till his death, which occurred 
March 7th, 1812. The principal field of his labor was Canoe- 
Place and Montauk. 

The Tribe of Montauk Indians, within the memory of some 
of the oldest inhabitants, numbered some two hundred. Fifty 
or sixty years since, under the tuition of one Brown, an Eng- 
lishman, who resided among them, they made some little ad- 
vances in education. At that day they were eagerly sought 
for as whalemen, on account of their aptness and skill in sea- 
manship, and their rare merits in the perilous conflicts with 
the giants of the deep. They manifested an equal readiness 
for the whaling voyage, and not a ship in that day sailed up- 
on a whaling cruise without the necessary complement of In- 
dians. The same passion has, to some extent, descended tor 
the few survivors of the present day. 



37 APPENDIX. 

Some five or six families of the Tribe only now remain. 
The broken, dispirited remnants of a once numerous and 
powerful race. Their residence has for many years been 
confined solely to what is called the " Indian Field" the tract 
of land lying between Great-Pond and Oyster-Pond. Their 
interest in the ancient inheritance is a mere personal right, not 
transferable. 

The chivalrous Wyandanch, the friend of Uncas, has pass- 
ed away, and left no successor to his martial virtues. The 
power and glory of the tribe have forever departed. History 
and song preserve but few memorials of their ancient great- 
ness. 

We shall leave it to others to bewail the decay, and compose 
the eulogy of the Aboriginies. Sad and mournful as is their 
seeming destiny, and intimately as their fall seems linked with 
the rise and growth of the Anglo-Saxon race ; if ruin be the 
destiny of the one, we cannot regret that the hard lot has been 
assigned to the savage. 

We are not unmindful of the torrents of sentimentalism, or 
of the heart-breaking repinings which have flowed over 
the apparent destiny of the Indians — of the lofty attributes of 
character with which they have been so poetically and boun- 
tifully invested — of the sincere and romantic regrets that Pro- 
vidence had not assigned her favors to them, and sent her 
blights and pestilence to sweep the " Pale-Face " from the 
Western Continent. And all this too, that poetry, romance, 
and song might have had the glorious privilege of an un- 
bounded wilderness— of unnumbered savage hordes, and ex- 
haustless barbarian chieftains, in which they might revel with 
a license, a beauty and sublimity, illimitable and unconfined. 

Far be it from us however to regret that the golden harvest 
has taken the place of the wild, extended forest — that civiliza- 
tion has triumphed over barbarism — that Christianity has pre- 
vailed over Idolatry — that thriving harvests stand where once 
the huts of the Savage were clustered together ; or that the 
Temples of Jehovah rise upon the prostrate altars of the 
Heathen Gods. 

Let a lawless imagination be blind to all the beauties of the 
golden harvest; the picturesque hamlet; the heavenward 
pointed spire of the holy Church. Let romance desire the 
harvest removed ; the hamlet demolished ; the Church razed 
to the ground, and all the triumphs of civilization or Chris- 
tianity, at one fell swoop, struck out of being, for the sake of 
again reviving the barbarian chieftain and his dusky warriors 
amid the wildness of the forest. We cannot feel that " 'Tis a 
a consummation devoutly to be wished." 



APPENDIX. 38 

In extending for a few pages farther, the subject of the pre- 
vious address, the chief object will be to portray more dis- 
tinctly the characteristics of the early inhabitants of East- 
Hampton ; some of which have been slightly glanced over, 
while others have not even received a passing notice. Also, 
briefly to present the former relative power and importance of 
this venerable town, together with a few additional facts re- 
lating to its history during the Revolutionary war. 

Maidstone, from which most of our ancestors emigrated, is 
said to be situated on the east bank of the River Medway, 
thirty miles and a half east-south-east of the city of London, 
in a rich agricultural district in the County of Kent, " Hun- 
dred " of the same name, and " Lathe of Aylesford." The 
district of country in which it is situated is celebrated for the 
amount of hops it produces. The Town or Borough has for 
some centuries possessed a charter, and has been rising grad- 
ually in wealth and population. By the census of 1831 it 
appears that its population then amounted to 15,387. The 
few brief fragments of the history of Maidstone, with which I 
have met, show that its inhabitants have been characterized 
by an ardent attachment to free and popular institutions. 
That twice in its history their charter has been annulled, in 
consequence of their impetuosity and fiery zeal, and sympathy 
with insurrection and rebellion. 

In the County of Kent, the tenure by which lands were 
holden was more free than those which had prevailed over 
the rest of England. In this County prevailed the custom of 
" Gavel-kind^ by which instead of descending to the eldest 
son, as in the rest of the Kingdom, the lands were to be inher- 
ited by all alike. Lord Littleton thus quaintly describes the 
custom : 

" But in the County of Kent^ where Lands and Tenements 
are holden in ' gavel-kinde,'' there, where by the custome and 
use, time out of minde of man, the issues, male, ought equally 
to inherit ; this custome is allowable because it standeth with 
some reason, for every sonne is as great a gentleman as the 
eldest sonne is, and perchance will grow to greater honour 
and valour if he hath any thing by his ancestors, or otherwise, 
per-adventure, he would not increase so much, &c." — Coke 
upon Littleton, sec. 210. 

Doubtless the Tenure by which, under Gov'r Dongan's 
Patent to " The Trustees of the Freeholders and Commonalty 
of the Town of East-Hampton, their lands were to be holden 



39 APPENDIX. 

'•' In free and common socage, according to the manor of East 
Greenwich, in the County of Kent, within his Majesty's Reahii 
of England," was as well understood by our ancestors as it is 
by their descendants. 

The peculiar characteristics of the " Kentish men " were 
prominent in the early inhabitants of the town; and to some 
extent there were similar circumstances in their local situation. 

•Their home in England was a rich, level, agricultural dis- 
trict, permeated by the Medway. And their adopted home in 
this country bore the same general level appearance, and un- 
der their enterprize the harvests of the new, doubtless soon 
rivalled those of their ancient abode. 

There too, they had been acquainted with a less boisterous 
navigation, which the more easily called out here an acquain- 
tance and familiarity with the more expansive and tempest- 
uous waters which stretched away on every side of their adopt- 
ed sea girt home. 

There they had a Main Street through their native Maid- 
stone, running north-east and south-west ; and here, as if de- 
signing to build and plan from the same model they ran their 
Main Street in the same direction. 

There, as " Kentish Men," they were known as substantial 
freeholders, though not men of wealth ; and here they pre- 
served the same character for thrift, frugality, economy, and 
liberality. 

There, as qualified voters, they were more or less familiar 
with the elective franchise^ and with the right of representa- 
tion in Government. And the same characteristics which we 
should conjecture them to have possessed in their native coun- 
try, shine forth here in all their acts and doings. Freedom 
sat upon them as no new thing. Responsibility and govern- 
ment fell upon men to all appearance not unaccustomed to 
bear their weight, and not ignorant in their proper exercise. 

No where do we find turbulence, riot, lawlessness, anarchy 
or instability, so characteristic of a people just awoke to free- 
dom. J3ut constitutions, laws, orders, and a regular, indepen- 
dent and systematic government arose. They were built up- 
on the intelligence, virtue, and piety of the first colonists, and 
upon those foundations they securely reposed. 

They not only felt the responsibility of self government, 
but they fully determined that each one of their number should 
discharge his duty. With them there was no escaping the 
burdens of governmen — no shirking it off upon a few of their 
number. Measures were taken to compel every one to attend 
their Town Meetings, as has been seen.* 



* See Address, page 9. 



APPENDIX. 40 

Farther measures were taken, that when they were assem- 
bled in their Town Meetings, every one should express his 
opinion, and that too, in such a manner that all might know 
it. With them no bold minority could overawe the more tim- 
id majority. 

The following Order, entered on their records, expresses 
their opinion in their own language : 

" Nov'r 2nd, 1652. — Every man to vote by holding up his^ 
hands, under Penalty of M.] the thing being before deliber- 
ately debated." 

Nor did they stop here. They understood and acted upon 
the principle, that each one, as a member of their community, 
owed certain public duties, the discharge of which were as 
imperative upon him as those arisnig out of his private or do- 
mestic relations. When once the duty was settled, the rights 
of their community upon the individual were rigorously ex- 
acted. Entertaining these opinions, and with this end in 
view, they passed the following enactment : 

" October Tth, 1656. — It is Ordered that if any being chosen 
Secretarie or Constable, refuse to serve, and not give a suffi- 
cient reason, shall pay 30^.; and if any being chosen Towns- 
men, refuse without a reason, shall pay 40*." 

Those three Orders, compelling under penalty, attendance 
at Town Meetings — voting when there — and acceptance of 
office when elected, show their clear and perfect apprehension 
of public rights, and with their other acts, exhibit the founders 
of this little Commonwealth, as Avorthy of being the founders 
of an empire. 

They knew, likewise, right well where, and by whom, and 
in what proportions the pecuniary burdens of the common- 
wealth should be borne. They enacted a rule, by which each 
man himself should give an account of his property to the 
proper taxing officers ; and in the same enactment they coupl- 
ed a penal provision against a fraudulent concealment of any 
part of the estate. 

" November 8th, 1656. — It is Ordered that concerning mens 
giving in their States for the Rates, that whosoever shall not 
give in their whole Estates that is visible. Whatever is not 
given in according to Order, the Partie so doing shall lose the 
one half of those goods not given in for the Rate." 



41 APPENDIX. 

It may well be doubted whether any advancement has 
been made in the system of an equitable taxation, since the 
days of our forefathers. And in these times of shuffling off 
the performance of public duties, and more particularly of 
individual concealment and evasion for the purpose of avoid- 
ing the just proportion of the public taxes and burdens. It 
may not be improper for legislators to consider the preceding 
provision of our fathers, as a remedy for this prevalent evil, 
and we commend it to their notice and consideration. 

Amid the scarcity of money it was found convenient to 
pay their rates in produce of their farms or in whale oil or 
other commodities, and accordingly that primitive method of 
payment was adopted. The schoolmaster, the minister, and 
public officers were paid their salaries and fees in like man- 
ner. For the satisfaction of the curious, I have given the fol- 
lowing extracts from their records : 

" Dec'r 8th, 1656. — It is ordered by the 3 men, that for the 
payment of the Towns Rates, wheat shall be paid at As. and 
6d. per bushel, and Indian corn at 3^. and 6tZ." 

" On a Meeting of the Trustees, being Legally met, March 
6th 1688-9, it was agreed that this year's Towne rate should 
be held to be good pay if it be paid as Follows : 

Dry merchantable hides att 0/. Os. Gd. 

Indian corn OZ. 3^. Od. 

Wliale Bone, 3 feet long and upwards 0^. Os. 8d. 

and Avhat otherways is paid, Lett the Rule in the County Rate 
be your directions." 

The religious characteristics of the first settlers of East- 
Hampton have already been noticed to some extent, in the 
preceding address. That their religion was of a practical, 
living, every day nature — a great, hfe guiding principle, there 
can be no doubt. It pervaded their conduct, and went out 
with them from the Sanctuary of Jeliovab, and abode with 
them during the week. It regulated their intercourse with 
each other, and summoned their sympathies in aid of the dis- 
tressed and defenceless, as well as restrained them from injur- 
ing others. Yielding to the rest of the world the enjoyment 
of their opinion, they yet sternly protected tliemselves in the 
exercise and enjoyment of their own religious opinions and 
worship. As an evidence of their views of their own rights 
and a determination not to siilfer an infringement therein, wc 
find the following record : 



APPENDIX. 42 

" Nov'r 24, 1656. — It is alsoe Ordered that iioe Indian shall 
travel up and downe or carrie any burdens in or through our 
Towne on the Sabbath Day. Whoever is found so doing, 
shall be liable to corporall punishment." 

Conscious as they were of the evils of intemperance, one 
of their first efforts was to guard against its seductive in- 
fluences. In 1651 the General Court passed the following 
Act or Order. 

" That no man shall sell any liquor but such as are depu- 
ted thereto by the town, and such men shall not let youth, 
and such as are under other men's management, remain drink- 
ing at unseasonable hours, and such persons shall not have 
above half a pint at a time among four men." 

How solicitous to preserve the peace and morals of their 
community? How guarded against the inroads of vice? How 
watchful in their care over the young ? 

Nor did their sympathy or their vigilance stop here. Know- 
ing the sad havoc which spirituous liquors had made with 
the Aborigines, as well as their unconquerable thirst for those 
liquors, they passed laws for the prohibition of the evil, and 
the protection of the Indians. 

"May 28th, 1655. — It is Ordered that for the prevention of 
drunkenesse among the Indians, by selling strong water — 
First, That no man shall carry any to them to sell, nor send 
them any, nor imploy any to sell for them. Nor sell them 
any liquor in the Town for the present drinking, above 2 
Drams at one time, and to sell to no Indian but such as are 
sent by the Sachem, and shall bring a written Ticket from 
him, which shall be given him from the town, and he shall 
not have above a quart at a time." 

Enlargement might be made to an indefinite extent, upon 
the characteristic traits of our ancestors. And while there is 
much in their history in which their descendants may well 
exult — much reflecting equal credit upon their understanding 
and their heart, we are assured from an attentive search, that 
there is little of which we need be ashamed. 

Stern and unyielding as they were in their adherence to 
duty. Tenacious as they were of their rights. Uncom- 
promising in their sense of justice — they yet had the most 
tender sympathy and kindness, mingled with the more rug- 
ged elements of their nature ; and when there was an appro- 



^ APPENDIX. 

priate field, they rarely failed to manifest them. Their com- 
miseration and sympathy is most touchingly displayed in ex- 
empting the unfortunate and the poor from public burdens, 
and in protecting, with a strong arm, the helplessness of the 
widow. 

At a very early day, and before the year 1700, they manifested 
their kindness and sympathy in voluntarily providing for the 
wants of a poor cripple who was a sojourner among them. 
They conveyed her to the west end of the Island, where med- 
icine, advice and assistance could be obtained, (there being 
then no physician among them,) and they freely paid out 
large sums of money at different times, on account of the sup- 
port, maintenance, and medical aid furnished abroad, to this 
child of suffering and want, as their records still show. 

As a homely, and yet substantial token of their sympathy 
and kind regard, they exempted widows from those labors 
and burdens which their generosity led them to suppose de- 
volved on others. After naming all the proprietors of the 
Town, liable to fence the common " Pasturing Field," placing 
one column on the side of Widow Baker, and one on the side 
of Widow Mulford, they say : 

" At a meeting of the Trustees, being legally met, Aprill ye 
12th, 1689. — It was Ordered by ye s'd Trustees, that all the 
above s'd Parsons do cause their proportion in the above s'd 
Fence to be sufficiently sett up forthwith ; so that ye said 
Widdoros may be preserved from Dummages coming throw 
any neglect therein : or expect no other favor than the Law 
will allow each man yt neglect his Duty herein, viz.: to have 
it sett up for him, and he to pay the double vallu thereof, to 
him that shall sett up the same. The above s'd forthwith is 
allowed till Wednsday night, next insuing the date hereof, 
and not farther." 

Every State, and almost every farm has had its boundary 
disputes and questions, and it would be singular if such a dif- 
ficulty had never ruffled the tranquility of the citizens of our 
Town. In accordance with all Historic Analogy we find 
that during the first half century from the settlement of the 
Town, a violent dispute Avas at different times carried on, in 
reference to the Division-Line between the two towns. East 
Hampton claimed much more than Soudiampton would con- 
cede, and at one time extended her claim to " Hog-Neck," 
{now North-Hcuven.) ' This contest conthiued thrice the pe- 
riod of the Trojan War, was finally settled on the 25th June, 
1695, by men chosen from the two Towns ; and a highway, 



APPENDIX. ^ 

one rod each side of the Hue, was laid out. Their decision 
remains of Record. 

The men chosen were as follows : 

EAST-HAMPTON MEN. 



Josiah Hobart, 
^ Robert Dayton, 
John Wheeler, 
Cornelius Conkling, 
John Mulford, 
James Hand, 



SOUTHAMPTON MEN. 

Edward Howell, 
Joseph Pierson, 
Elnathan Topping, 
Sam'l Cooper, 
John Cook, 
Henry Pierson, 
Abraham Howell. 



It is impossible to give, with any degree of exactness, the 
amount of wealth, or the number of inhabitants comprised 
within the bounds of this town, for the first half centuiy of its 
existence ; sufficient however remains to show that at an 
early day the town was among the most wealthy, thickly 
settled and powerful towns in the State. 

Previous to 1673, John Osborn's lot, lying on the east side 
of Main Street, south of a highway and just south of where 
the present church stands, together with the highway, were 
purchased by the town for a Parsonage, " It being in the hart 
of the Towne." 

In 1676, Dec'r ISth, the same premises described as consist- 
ing of " fourteen acres," bounded by Robert Dayton south, and 
John Wheeler north, were conveyed by the town to " Cap- 
taine Josiah Hobbert," whom they have " latelie accepted as 
an inhabitant amongst themP — Book A, p. 73, Town Rec, 



Note. — Among the manuscript papers of J. Lyon Gardiner, deceased, exists a 
rough draft of part of East-Hampton Main Street, representing localities and res- 
idences in 1655. Upon the south-east side of the street, adjoining the lot of VVm. 
Hedges, one of the first settlers, is marked off the " Calf Pasture," which after- 
wards became " The Parsonage." and since the previous address was written, has 
been sold by the Trustees of the Presbyterian Church to John Hedges, and by 
him incorporated with the seven acres and a half which formed the " home lot " of 
his ancestor, William Hedges. 

This draft represents the home lots of those who resided on the west side of the 
street, extending northward as far as Mrs. Buells, {formerly " Catthaines ") Lane, 
and locates them in the following order, commencing southwardly : 

John Stratton, Thomas Talmage, Robert Bond, John Mulford, Arthur Howell, 
Thomas Thomson, Thomas Baker, Wm. Mulford. 

The house now owned by Wm. L. Osborn, of East-Hampton, next south of the 
residence of his father. Deacon Abraham Osborn, is supposed to stand upon or 
near the ancient residence of Thomas Talmage. And the house now owned by 
Col. Samuel Miller is supposed to stand upon the lot and perhaps upon the very 
foundation of the house of " Thomas Baker," the first Inn Keeper of East-Hampton. 

It is a most singular coincidence, and striking proof of the former comparative 
populousness of the town, that after the lapse of 195 years, the precise number of 
houses now stand upon the same space where the same number stood in 1655. 



45 



APPENDIX. 



At a very early period emigration commenced from almost 
all parts of Long-Island to other colonies.* 

In the letter of Gov'r Hunter to the Board of Trade, April 
1716, he remarks : 

" I cannot say that the inhabitants increase in that propor- 
tion, (at least,) as they do in the neighbouring provinces, 
where the purchases of land are easier had than with us. 
Great numbers of the younger sort leave Long-Island yearly, 
to plant in the Jerseys and Pennsylvania." — Doc. His. N. Y., 
vol. 1, p. 692. 

Suifolk County, for a very long period of time, remained the 
fourth and fifth county of the State in the aggregate amount 
of population. In 1698 the whole population of the state is 
rendered at 18,067. The then population of Suffolk County 
amounted to 2,679. The population of East-Hampton at this 
time was probably at least from one fourth to one fifth of the 
population of Suffolk County. 

The following memoranda upon the Town Records, throw 
still more light upon the subject : 

"Feb'y 17th, 1703.— £56 155. Od was p'd, being East- 
Hampton's Gluota of <£270, which the County of Suffolk was 
rated att, as their proportion of cGlSGO tax laid by the last 
Gen'l Assembly, upon the whole Province, for securing the 
Frontier. Fauconniere Com'r." 

It will be seen that Suffolk County paid over one seventh 
of the whole tax of the State at that time, and East-Hampton 
more than one fifth part of the tax of the whole County of 
Suffolk. 

According to the Rate List of the town, made out in 1683, 



* By an examination of the Records I find from conveyances and other recorded 
papers that Thomas Simons, formerly" of East-Hampton, removed to Little River, 
in Albermarle c»unty, before 1684. Jonathan Osborn, formerly of East-Hampton , 
removed to Cape May as early as J 690. John Shaw, giandson of Joshua Garlicke , 
and son ol Richard Shaw, one of tlie first planters of East-Hampton, resided in 
Cape May in " West Jersei," in 1GIJ3. Thomas Hand, resided in Cape May in 
1697. John Parsons resided, therein 1699. Jacob Dayton resided there ia 1699, 
and became a .Justice of the Peace for the county of " Cape May." Benjamin 
Mulford, a brother of Thomas Mulford, who was eldest son of Wm. Mulford, of 
East-Hampton, then resided there. John Chatjield removed to Cape May before 
1700. Edward Osborn resided in " Eliznbeth-Town, in Hlast- Jersey," in 1701. 
Ephraim Edwards resided in Cape May in 1702. Jospph Hand, Sen'r, resided 
in Guilford, Connecticut, in 1693. John Davis resided in New-Haven, Ct., about 
the same time. It is supposed that all the above named persons removed with 
their families from East-Hampton. 



APPENDIX, 46 

it appears that there were then 71 taxable inhabitants in the 
Town, exclusive of the minister ; and it may be inferred 
that the population of the Town was then at least 350, and 
rapidly increasing after that period. 

Sequestered from the rest of the world. Shut out from its 
intercourse — uninfluenced by its fashions, and to a great degree 
unruflled by its passions, a race of freemen arose — hardy — • 
contemplative — intelligent, and yet retaining the manners, 
language dress, and appearance of their ancestors, untarnish- 
ed, unaltered, and uncorrupted, for more than a century. The 
grace and polish of more modern times, might not have adorn- 
ed their carriage ; but the frankness, intelligence and noble 
bearing of freemen, dignified their gigantic forms. Their ig- 
norance of the passing customs of the world might sometimes 
render it difficult for the more deeply initiated to repress a 
smile, while their sterling qualities of head and heart would 
ever redeem them from contempt. 

John Lyon Gardiner, deceased, the father of the present 
Samuel B. Gardiner, Esq'r, of East-Hampton, as has already 
been intimated, reduced to writing, much of the early tradi- 
tionary history of East-Hampton. In his memoranda, under 
the date of Jmie 15th, 1794, the following amusing incidents 
are related : 

" Mrs Miller, my overseer's mother, now living here with 
him, about 78 years old, was a Hedges, and lived at Montauk 
when a girl. She could speak Indian." 

" Mrs. Miller remembers well when they first began to 
drink tea on the East end of Long-Island. She tells a num- 
ber of curious stories about their awkward manner of using 
it. One family boiled it in a pot and eat it like samp-porridge. 
Another spread the leaves on his bread and butter, and bragg- 
ed of his having eat half a pound at a meal, to his neighbor, 
who Avas informing him how long a time a pound of tea lasted 
him. She remembers the first tea-kettle that was in East- 
Hampton. It came ashore at Montauk in a ship, (the Captain 
Bell.) The fimners came down there on business with their 
cattle, and could not find out the use of the tea-kettle, which 
was then brought up to old " Governor Hedges'." Some said 
it was for one thing, and some said it was for another. At 
length one, more knowing than his neighbors, affirmed it to 
be the ship's lamp, to which they all assented." 

Allusion has been made in the preceding address to the cir- 
cumstances of East-Hampton, at the commencement and dur- 



47 APPENDIX. 

ing the continuance of the Revolutionary War — to the entire 
and united devotion of her inhabitants to their country's cause. 
Their union in expressing their sympathy with their breth- 
ren of Boston, in the adoption of a series of resolutions in their 
meeting held June 17th, 1774, has been noticed. About a 
year thereafter, when the " Association " suggested by the Con- 
tinental Congress, was remitted to them for signatures, they 
came forward in a body, and without a solitary exception, 
signed the Association.* This association was said to have 
been delivered into Congress on the 22nd of June 1775, and to 
have been signed by John Chatfield, chairman of the committee. 
Col. Abraham Gardiner, Burnet Miller, Rev, Samuel Buell, 
Thomas Wickham, member of the first Congress ; and two 
hundred and fifth-eight others, being all the male inhabitants 
of the Town then capable of bearing arms. A rare, and per- 
haps unparallelled instance, of unanimity and devotion to the 
cause of Liberty, under such inducements to forsake it. 

After the battle of Long-Island, such of the inhabitants aS 
had endangered their safety by their devotion and prominence 
in the cause of Liberty, and could command the means, as 
well as many others, left for Connecticut, or some other less 
exposed part of the Colonies. Burnet Miller, it is said, retired 
within the American Lines, and became a Member of Assem- 
bly for the County, which station he held during the war. 
Thomas Wickham, who had been a Member of the Provin- 
cial Congress, went to Stonington, Connecticut ; from thence 
he waged war upon the enemy as a privateer, in command of 
a sloop of eight guns, and succeeded in taking several prizes. 
Wickham at one time, with several armed boats, attempted a 
surprize of the enemie's forces at Sag-Harbor. Major Davis 
and Capt. Grinnell, who had removed to Connecticut in con- 
sequence of their previous activity and zeal in the Colonial 
war, were also engaged in the enterprize, and commanded two 
of the boats. Unfortunately the boats were driven on shore, 
Major Davis and the crews were taken prisoners by a Hessian 
Major and about twenty light horse. An attempt was made 
to fire the boats, but Wickham succeeded in bringing them oif. 

Major Davis was taken to New- York and imprisoned, where 
he died. Tradition has it that he died in consequence of 
poison administered in his chocolate. 

A division of the British Army were established- at South- 
ampton, and there for a time the Tory Governor, Tryon, had 
his quarters. 



* For this Association, and names of the signers, in East-Hampton, see a sub- 
sequent page. 



APPENDTT. 



43 



An attempt was made to establish llio Royal Goverjiment, 
and officers who had held commissions under llie King, were 
called upon to enter upon the civil or military duties of their 
office. In East-Hampton none were found willing to act un- 
der the Royal authority, and Col. Gardiner was put under ar- 
rest, and threatened with Martial Law, for refusing to call out 
the militia. 

The people were called out, by orders from head quarters, 
to assemble on a certain day, and take the oath of allegiance. 
A few only obeyed, and among these one Bennet was told ]jy 
the officer who officiated, to repeat after him what he should 
say. " Instead of proceeding with the oath, the oliicer then 
gave some farther directions respecting it, which Bennet im- 
mediately repeated. The officer explained, and Bennet re- 
peated the explanation. The officer denounced his stupidity, 
and Bennet repeating the abuse with undisturbed gravity was 
turned away as a fool. The ridicule this conduct cast upon 
the whole proceeding, put an end to it. The oath was avoid- 
ed, and the meeting dispersed. Perceiving the rigor with 
which they were opposed, and the folly of resorting to forcible 
measures, the British made little farther effort to secure the 
alliance, or subdue the spirit of the people." 

A detachment of the British forces, under Major Cockrane, 
were stationed at Sag-Harbor. The country still abounds 
with traditions of his surpassing brutality, passion and cruelty. 
Many are the instances of his flagrant injustice and merciless, 
uncalled for punishments. And often the inhabitants of the 
town of East-Hampton felt the lash by the order, or perhaps 
inflicted by the very hand of this ruthless foe. He as well as 
others higher in command, often imposed most onerous bur- 
dens upon the people. They were called at unseasonable 
times, to come out with their teams, and do service for the 
British Army. Provisions and cattle were taken, and sup- 
plies levied, as the wants of the army required, and often the 
beasts of the plow were slain for their sustenance, and their 
owners suffered from the loss. Compensation was generally 
made, but almost always at the victors price. 

One memorable instance is related in which the fury and 
impetuosity of Cockrane's temper met with a Avill as strong 
and with a courage as unquailing as his own. 

A vessel had been cast upon the shore at Napeag, east of 
the village of Amagansett, laden with supplies for the British 
Army. As usual, the inhabitants were ordered out with their 
teams, to cart the Provision to Southampton, for the army's 
use. 

Major Cockran appears to have had some oversight of the 



49 APPENDIX. 

affair.. There was a certain number of barrels, and each team 
took its assigned load ; but on the last load it was found that 
there remained one more barrel than the other teams had 
taken. This load fell to the lot of Jedediah Conkling, of 
Amagansett, an uncle of the present Jedediah Conkling of 
Sag-Harbor, a man of small stature but unflinching courage. 
Conkling took the usual load, left the solitary barrel, and was 
proceeding on his way when he was stopped by Cockrane, 
,and ordered to take the remaining barrel upon his cart. Conk- 
ling refused. Cockrane reiterated his order, and told Conkling 
he should take it. Conkling declared he loould not. Each 
affirmed his decision with an oath. Cockrane threatened. 
Conkling defied. The one approached with his sword wav- 
ing ; the other, erect upon the cart, brandished his long ox- 
goad, Cockrane threatened to strike him dead. Conkling 
declared that he would kill him with his goad if he dared ap- 
proach. The British Major finally yielded, and the teamster 
passed on his Avay. It is said that, as they passed through 
East-Hampton street, the company stopped at the house of 
Nathaniel Huntting, who then kept tavern ; and Cockrane said 
that Conkling was a man of the most courage he had met 
with on the Island, and requested of him the favor of drinking 
with him, to which the incensed Yankee replied that, he 
would not drink with him to save his life. 

" The unfortunate Major Andre was, for several weeks, 
.quartered at the house of Col. Gardiner, and his gentlemanly 
deportment, and generous feelings won the esteem of the fam- 
ily. Dr. Nathaniel Gardiner, son of CoL Gardiner, was a 
surgeon in the Northern division of the American Army dur- 
ing the war, and was on a visit to his father at this period. 
Having come within the British lines, he was liable to be 
seized as a spy, and though the family took every precaution 
to conceal his presence, it was soon perceived that Andre was 
not without knowledge of it. He forebore, however, any al- 
lusion to it, and subsequently expressed his regret that their 
relative situation had prevented him from soliciting an inter- 
view, Andre afterwards repaired to New- York, and his un- 
fortunate fate is well known. During the night preceding 
his untimely death, the young Surgeon, whom he had thus 
encountered, enjoyed by a strange coincidence, and in the ca- 
pacity of an enemy, the melancholy pleasure of his society. 
He left with the family several memorials of friendship." • 

" Dr. Gardiner continued in the Army until the end of the 
war ; and subsequently, in 1786-89 and 90, was a member 
of the State ]Legislaturc." 



APPENDIX, 50 

"Col. Gardiner finding his residence in East-Hampton un- 
pleasant, and even hazardous, removed with liis family to 
Connecticut." 

Although the people suffered from most rigorous, and for 
them ill timed, exactions, it appears that more or less friendly- 
intercourse was kept up between the officers of the Ikitish 
Army and the citizens of the Town. Sir William Erskine, 
commander of the British forces on the east end of the Island, 
seems to have been particularly pleased with the society of 
Dr. Buell, and to some extent, to have yielded to the Doctor's 
wishes. 

It is related that on one occasion Erskine had ordered the 
people of East-Hampton to appear with their teams at South- 
ampton on the Sabbath. On the preceding Saturday Erskine 
and the Doctor met, when Erskine stated to him that he had 
ordered his people to be at Southampton with their teams on 
the Sabbath. The Doctor replied—" I am aware of it, but 
am myself Commander-in-Chief on that day and have an- 
nulled the order." It is said that Erskine yielded, and revok- 
ed the order. 

With Gov. Tryon, Dr. Buell was intimate, and many let- 
ters are still extant which passed between them. 

In the sports of the chase, Dr. Buell often joined the officers 
of the army, and on one occasion, being late, the party de- 
spairing of his arrival, had mounted, when he appeared in 
sight. Sir William Erskine, perceiving his approach, ordered 
them to dismount and receive his friend. Lord Percy, after- 
wards Duke of Northumberland, and then Aid-de-Camp, 
while impatiently pacing the floor, was introduced to the 
Doctor, who asked him what portion of his Majesty's forces 
he had the honor to command. Percy, (who was in an ill 
humor on account of the order to dismount,) replied — " A Le- 
gion of Devils just from Hell." " Then," said Dr. Buell, with 
a low obeisance, " I suppose I have the honor to address 
Beelzebub the Prince of Devils." The severity of the repar- 
, tee caused Percy to put his hand upon his sword, which was 
instantly rebuked by Sir William ; and the attention and po- 
liteness of the Parson won for him the admiration of Percy, 
long before the chase was over. 

After the Revolution, amid the rapid increase of population^ 
and swelling tide of emigration, this ancient settlement became 
comparatively of much less importance, and bore but a small 
proportion to the great aggregate of the population of the State. 
The Town, by the last census, of 1845, numbered 2155, per- 
sons. 



SI APPENDIX. 

Amid the changes of time, few villages have retained their 
external appearance more perfectly than East-Hampton. The 
approaching traveller is still impressed with its air of quiet 
and repose — of venerable age and stability. The same wind- 
mills, which for nearly a century have swung their arms to 
the breeze, and labored for the sustenance of man, still carry 
on their work. The same Street, which was laid out two 
hundred years since, preserves its beautiful and spacious 
bounds. The same houses which in days of yore stood 
upon its borders, running back with long, low roofs, are now 
to be seen. The same venerable church-yard, where repose 
the mouldered dust of the early settlers, now receives the re- 
remains of their descendants. The same church, which in 
1717, first reared its spire, still stands, a monument of the 
past, in unshaken and undecayed solidity. The same bell, 
which in 1725 first pealed its melodious notes, still summons 
the people to the sanctuary, and pours its rich and melancholy 
music over the departed. And the same clock which from 
the church tower, for one hundred and fifteen years has kept 
its watch over the days and hours, still gives its solemn moni- 
tions of the flight of time. 

" Through days of sorrow and of mirth, 
Through days of death and days of birth. 
Through every swift vicissitude 
Of changeful time, unchanged it has stood. 
And as if like God, it all things saw, 
It calmly repeats those words of awe, 

' For ever — never ! 

Never — for ever !' " 

Venerable, peaceful, quiet East-Hampton ! Not within thy 
limits alone is thy memory revered. It lives in the affections 
of thy absent children. Far upon the boundless deep, recol- 
lections of their home awake in the hearts of thy roving sons. 
Far in the Western wilds, thy sons and daughters cherish the 
memory of their ancient, hallowed abode. 

Let the tumultuous world pursue their passions and their 
noisy follies. But flow ye on in the even tenor of your way, 
undisturbed by its agitations. Slide smoothly down the 
stream of Time,— serenely launch your little bark upon the 
illimitable ocean of Eternity when the river of Time has ceas- 
ed to flow. 



FAMILY HISTORY AND GENEALOGY. 



The following is a list of families extinct or not residing in 
the Town of East-Hampton : 

Robert Bond, Daniel Howe, 

Robert Rose, Thomas Thomson, 

Richard Brooke, William Simonds, 

Samuel Belknap, Joshua Garlicke, 

Fulke Davis, Nathaniel Bishop, 

Jeremiah Veale, ' Richard Shaw, 

Jeremiah Meacham, Thomas Chatiield. 

The family of Rose probably removed to Southampton on 
his decease. 

Branches of the families of Davis and Chatfield removed 
from East-Hampton, and those names illustrious in the 
annals of that Town, frequently occur among the list of Leg- 
islators of our own and other States. 

Rev. Thomas James left no male issue surviving. A 
daughter of his married James Diamont, and the marriage set- 
tlement is now on record in the office of the Clerk of this 
County. Another daughter married John Stratton, son of 
John Stretton, Sen'r. His blood therefore still flows in the 
descendants of Diamont and Stretton. 

HISTORY OF THE GARDINER FAMILY.* 

Lion Gardiner was the first settler, Avithiu the present bounds 
of the town of East-Hampton, and his settlement on Gardiner's 
Island was the first English settlement within the limits of 
this State, it being one year anterior to that of Southampton 
and Southold. In his family bible, in his hand writing, is 
the following curious item : 

" In the year of our Lord 16 3.5, July the 10th, came I, Lion 



*Thi8 history of the Gardiner raiiiily was prcpnrcd and hiinished hv Samuel R. 
Sardiner, Esq., of East-Hampton. 



53 APPENDIX. 

Gardiner, and Mary my wife, from Worden, a towne in Hol- 
land, where my wife was borne, being the daughter of one 
Derike Willemson, deurant ; her mothers name was Hackin, 
and her aunt, sister of her mother, was the wife of Wouter 
Leonardson, old burgermeester. We came from Worden to 
London, and from there to New-England, and dwelt at Say- 
Brooke fort 4 years, it is at the mouth of Connecticut River, 
of which I was commander, and there was born to me a 
son named David, 1636, the 29th of April, the first born in 
that place, and in 1638 a daughter was born to me, called 
Mary, the 30th of August ; and then I went to an Island of 
mine own, which I bought of the Indians, called by them 
Mannchonake, by us the Isle of Wight ; and there was borne 
another daughter, named Elizabeth, the 14th of Sept. 1641, 
she being the first child of English parents that was borne 
there." 

The aforesaid bible was printed at London in the year of 
our Lord 1599. 

" Nov. 28, 1635, there arrived, (says Gov. Winthrop,) a 
small Norsey Barque, of 25 tons, sent by the Lords Say and 
Brooke, with one Gardiner, an expert Engineer, and work 
base, and provisions of all sorts, to begin a Fort at the mouth 
of the Connecticut River. She came through many great 
tempests, but through the Lords great providence, her passen- 
gers and goods all safe." 

From 1639 to 1653, Lion Gardiner resided on his Island, 
surrounded by the native Indians. His nearest neighbors for 
the first ten years being the inhabitants of Southold ; but he 
appears to have been greatly beloved and respected by his 
tawny friends, which is proved by his being chosen guardian 
of the young Sachem, Wyandanch, as well as being chosen 
umpire so frequently in their difficulties. 

While commander of the Fort at Saybrook, he was instru- 
mental in restoring to the Sachem of Montauk, his daughter, 
who had been captured with several otlier women, in con- 
sideration of which the chief made him a present of a large 
part of what now comprises Smithtown.* 

The following is the copy of a letter written by him to his 
friends in Connecticut : 



* It is a tradition, that on the night of her nuptials, the daughter of Wyandanch 
was taken captive by Ninicraft, chief of the Narraghansetts. The romantic inci- 
dent is the foundation of the Poem entitled " }.;Cgends of Montauk," by J. A. 
Ayres, Esq. 



APPENDIX. 54 

East-Hampton, June 12, 1660. 
Loving friends — Robert Cliapman and Tiiomas Hurlbert — • 
my love remembered to you both. These are to inform that 
as you desired me, Avhen I Avas with you and Major Mason, 
at Seabrooke, two years and a half ago, to consider and call 
to mind the passages of God's providence, at Seabrooke, in and 
about the time of the Pequit war, wherein I have now endeav- 
oured to answer your desires, and have rumaged and found 
some old papers then written, it was a great help to my mem- 
ory. You know that when I came to you, I was an Engineer, 
or architect, whereof carpentry is a little part, but you know 
I could never use all the tools, for although of my necessity, I 
was forced sometimes to use my shifting chissel and my hold 
fast, yet you know I could never endure nor abide the smooth- 
ing plane. I have sent you a piece of timber, scored and fore 
hewed, unfit to join to any piece of handsome work ; but seeing 
I have done the hardest work, you must get somebody to 
chip it and to smooth it lest the splinters should prick some 
men's fingers, for the truih must not be spoken at all times. 
Though to my knowledge, I have written nothing but truth, 
and you may take out or put in what you please, but I think 
you may let the Gov. and Major Mason see it. I have also 
inserted some additions of things that were done since, that 
may be considered together, and thus as I was when I was 
with you, so I remain still, your loving friend, 

LION GARDINER. 

Accompanying the above was a brief narrative of the Pe- 
quot war, (which contained the splinters,) in which he states 
that he was Engineer, and master of works of fortifications in 
the Leaguers of the Prince of Orange, in the low countries ; 
and through the persuasion of certain well affected English- 
men he agreed to serve the Lords Say and Brook, &c., in the 
draining, ordering, and making of a city, towns, or forts of 
defence, &c. tfcc. 

In 1653 he removed to East-Hampton, and resided on the 
lot now owned by his descendant, Samuel B. Gardiner, at the 
south end of that village, near the burying ground, where he 
died in 1663 ; his v/ife survived him till 1665. He devised 
his whole estate to his wife, who afterwards gave the Island 
to her son David, and the real estate to her daughter Mary, 
and Elizabeth Howell, only child of her deceased daughter 
Elizabeth. The said Mary was born at Saybrook, Aug. 30, 
1638 — married Jeremiah Conkling of East-Hampton, and died 
June 15, 1726. The other daughter, Elizabeth, being the 
first child, born of £^/?^[?>/i parents, within the present bounds 



55 APPENDIX. 

of the state of New- York, Sept. 14, 1641, married Arthur How- 
ell, of Southampton, and died, leaving the said Elizabeth, her 
only issue. 

Da,vid Gardiner, the second proprietor of the Island, and 
the first white child born within the Colony of Connecticut, 
(1636,) was educated in England, Avhere he married Mary 
Leringman, widow, of the parish of Margout, in the city of 
Westminster, June 4, 1657. He died suddenly at Hartford, 
Conn., July 10, 1689 ; leaving issue, Jolm, David, Lyon, and 
Elizabeth. The last named son settled in East-Hampton, 
and was accidentalh'-shot, while hunting deer near Three Mile 
Harbor ; leaving issue, Lyon and Giles, the last of whom died 
Avithout issue. The former died in 1781, and left John, Lyon, 
and Jeremiah ; of these. Lion died without issue, John died 
in 1780, leaving a son John, who in 1795 removed to Morich- 
es, and died in 1800, leaving sons, John D. Gardiner, Abraham 
H. Gardiner, and Aaron F. Gardiner, all of whom have chil- 
dren. David settled at Southold, and had sons, John and 
Lyon, from John sprang the late Dr. John Gardiner, of South- 
old, Avhose son Baldwin, is a merchant in New York. Gerard, 
brother of the Dr. was the father of Harry, Augustus, and 
William Gardiner. 

John Gardiner, son of David, and third proprietor of the 
Island, was born April 19, 1661, and married, first, Mary, 
daughter of Wm. King, of Southold. She died July 4. 1707. 
Second, Sarah Coit, widow, of New-Ijondon. Third, Eliza- 
beth Allen, widow, of Middletown, Conn.; and fourth, Eliz- 
abeth Osborn, widow, of East-Hampton, Oct. 4, 1733. His 
death was caused by a fall from a horse at Groton, Conn. 
June 25, 1738, and his widow died May 15, 1746. He left 
issue, David, Samuel, John, Joseph, and Jonathan. Samuel 
owned the lot at the south end of the village of East-Hampton, 
from whom it derived its name. 

David (jardiner, the eldest son of John, and fourth proprie- 
tor of tlie Island, was born Jan. 3, 1691. First married Rachael 
Schellinger, of East-Hampton, A^iril 15, 1713, and for his 
second wife, married Mehetabel Burroughs of Saybrook ; he 
died July 4, 1751 ; leaving issue, John, Abraham, David, 
Mary, Abigail, and Hannah. Two of the sons, John and Da- 
vid, graduated at Yale' College, in 1738. David settled at 
New-IiOndon, and left one son David, who was unmarried; 
also left Ihree daughters, Mary, Elizabeth, and Lucretia ; Ma- 
ry married Dr. Tho's Coit, of New-London, Elizabeth married 
a Ledyard, of Gi'oton, and Lucretia was unmarried.. 

Mary, daughter of ]3avid, the fourth proprietor, married 
Samuel Huiitting, of Southampton. She was ]x>rn Feb. 13, 



AFPENDT.V. 



50 



1716 ; died May 28, 1745, aged 29, leaving ono child. Her 
sister Hannah, married Dr. Lathrop, of Norwich, Conn ; no 
child. Her sister, Abigail, born May 1, 1724, married he]- 
cousin, Samuel, only son of Samuel of East-Hampton, and 
died March 28, 1775, aged near 51 years." Her husband^ Sam- 
uel, died March, 1776, aged 53 years. He with his cousin 
David, Avere merchants at New-London. The sons of David, 
the fourth proprietor, were John, David, and Abraham. John 
was the fifth proprietor of the Island. David, born June 3cl, 
1718, married his cousin Elizabeth, only daughter of Samuel 
Gardiner and E. Coit, of East-Hampton, and died Jan. 17, 
1776, aged 58 ; his wife died Oct. 13, 1772, aged 51. Abra- 
ham, born Feb. 19, 1721, married Mary Smith of Moriches, 
June 12, 1745, and died, Aug. 21, 1782. His wife, Mary, died 
May 19, 1807. He was better known as Colonel Gardiner. 
Their children were Mary, Rachel, Phebe, Nathaniel, and 
Abraham. Mary married Judge Isaac Thompson, of Islip, 
June 4, 1786 ; and died, leaving two sons, the late Jonathan 
Thompson, of New-York, and Abraham G. Thompson, noAV 
a resident of that city. Her sister Rachel, born Jan. 22, 1751, 
married Col. David Mulford, of East-Hampton. Phebe, born 
Jan. 5, 1756, died unmarried, Sept. 18, 1775. Nathaniel, born 
Jan. 18, 1759, was a Surgeon in the United States Army, and 
married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Dering, Esq., of 
Shelter-Island. His children were Mary, Robert S., and Eliz- 
abeth ; the only one now living is Elizabeth, wife of Capt. 
Brumley, of New- York. Abraham, the youngest son of Col. 
Gardiner, born Jan. 25, 1763, married Phebe Dayton, of East- 
Hampton ; his children were Abraham, David, Nathaniel, 
Samuel S., and Mary. Abraham removed to the interior of 
this State, and has children. David was instantly killed, 
Feb. 28, 1844, with several others, on board the Steamer 
Princeton, on the river Potomac, by the bursting of a gun, 
and'has left four children, two sons and two daughters. Na- 
thaniel resides in the city of Brooklyn ; has two sons and two 
daughters. Samuel S. resides on Shelter-j^sland, and has 
three daughters. Mary married Philip Van Wyck, of Sing- 
sing. 

John Gardiner, eldest son of David, and fifth proprietor of 
the Island, was born June 9, 1714, and married Elizabetli 
Mulford, May 26, 1739. She was the daughter of Matthew 
Mulford, of East-Hampton, and was born Aug. 22, 1714. 
Their children, viz. David, born Oct. 8, 1738 ; died Sept. 8, 
1774. Mary, July 19, 1740, died Dec. 10, 1772. John, born 
June 6, 1745, died April 22, 1747. John, born May 19, 1747. 
Elizabeth, born June 24, 1749. .Tcrusha, born Sept. 10, 1751. 



Oi APPENDIX. 

Mary married Mr. Blake, and after his death, Rev. Stephen 
Johnson, of Lyme, Conn. Her sister, Jerusha, married Lewis 
Osborn, of Last- Hampton, and Uved to the age of 93 years. 
John, tlie second son, married Joanna Conkhng, and settled 
on Katon's Neck, where he died, leaving three sons, John, 
Jonathan and Matthew, the last of whom died Aug. 3, 1831. 
They have descendants in that vicinity. The second wife of 
John the fifth proprietor, was the widow Deborah Avery, of 
Pomfret, Conn., tbrmerly a Lothrop of Norwich — married 
Nov. 21, 1755. Their children were Hannah, born Dec. 31, 
1757— died Feb. 24, 1800— Septimus, born Dec. 28, 1759, and 
died June, 1777. John Gardiner, the fifth proprietor, died 
May 19, 1764, aged 50. Elizabeth his wife, died Oct. 21, 
1754, in her 41st year. Deborah, his widow, married Major- 
General Israel Putnam, a distinguished revolutionary oificer, 
who died 1790. She died 1777 — her son Septimus entered 
the American army under his step-father, Gen. Putnam, and 
died, aged IS. 

David, sixth proprietor, eldest son of John, was born Oct. 
.8, 1738, and married Jerusha, daughter of Rev. Samuel Bu- 
ell, Dec. 15, 1766, She was. born Nov. 16, 1749, and died 
Feb. 24, 1782. He died Sept. 8, 1774— she became the wife 
of Mr. Isaac Conkling. The said David left two sons, John, 
Lyon and David. TL'he latter, born Feb. 29, 1772 — married a 
daughter of James Havens of Shelter Island, and settled at 
Flushing, L. I., where he died April 6, 1815, leaving three 
sons, David, John L. and Charles. John and Charles died 
unmarried. David married the daughter of Dr. Abel Hunt- 
ington of East-Hampton, and has two sons and a daughter. 

John L. Gardiner, son of David, and seventh proprietor of 
the Island, was born Nov. 8, 1770, married Sarah, daughter 
of John Griswold, Esq., of Lyme, Conn., March 4, 1803, and 
died Nov. 22, 1816, leaving children, viz : David Johnson, 
born Aug. 16, 1804, who died unmarried and intestate, Dec. 
18, 1829— Sarah Diodate, born Nov. 1, 1807— married David 
Thompson, of "New York — Mary Brainard, born Dec. 4, 1809, 
and died of consumption at Columbia, South Carolina, Feb. 
22, 1833— John Griswold, born Sept. 9, 1812, is ik>w the ninth 
proprietor, his brother David being the eighth, and his only 
brother and sister having sold their interest in this domain to 
him, it liaving been in the family two hundred and eleven 
years, an average of about 23 years to each proprietor — Sam- 
uel Buell, born April 6, 1815, married Mary G., sister of the 
above named David Thompson, and daughter of Jonathan 
Thompson, late Collector of the Customs in the citv of New 



APPENDIX. 58 

Fork, and now resides in the old family mansion at East- 
Hampton, 
East-Hampton, March 20th, 1850. 



BAKER FAMILY. 



By the politeness and research of Mr. John Baker of Ama- 
gansett, I have been furnished with fragments of the genealo- 
gy of the Baker family, from which I have selected the fol- 
lowing : — 



BORN. DIED. AGE. 



1. 


Thomas Baker, 




April, 30, 1700, 


82. 


2. 


Nathaniel Baker, 


Dec. 22, 1655, 


Feb. 27, 1739, 


84. 


3. 


Daniel Baker, 


Aug. 1, 1692, 


1740, 


48. 


4. 


Daniel Baker, 




Jan. 17, 1753, 




5. 


Nathaniel Baker, 




March 9, 1828, 


84. 


6. 


Ananias Bdker, 


Aug. 27, 1768, 


■ April 16, 1843, 


75. 


7. 


John Baker, 


May 1, 1800. 







Nathaniel Baker, above named No. 2, was 2d son of Thom- 
as Baker. . Daniel Baker, No. 3, was the 3d son of Nathaniel 
Baker, No. 2. Daniel Baker, No. 4, was the eldest son of 
Daniel Baker, No. 3. Nathaniel Baker, No. 5, was the eldest 
son of Daniel Baker, No. 4, and Ananias Baker, No. 6, was 
the 2d son of Nathaniel Baker, No. 5. 

It appears from an old memorandum made by Nathaniel 
Baker 2d, that his father and mother came out of England in 
the year 1639, before they were married ; that they were mar- 
ried June 20, 1643 — his wife's name was Alice, and she died 
February 4, 1708, in the 88th year of her age. They had 
four children : 

Hannah, born June, 26, 1650, Thomas, born July 26, 1654, 
Nathaniel, born Dec. 22, 1655, and Abigail. 

Nathaniel Baker, 2d son of Thomas Baker, whose wife's 
name was Catharine, was the progenitor of the following 
children : 



59 


APPENDIX. 






BORN. 


DIED. 


Jonathan, 


Feb. 12, 1679, 


March 4, 1748, 


Joanna, 


July 7, 1681, 




Abigail, 


March 15, 1682, 




Henry, 


April 16, 1686, 




Catherine' 


April 4, 1687, 




Mary, 


Nov. 21, 1689, 




Daniel, 


Aug. 1, 1692, 




Hannah, . 


Jan. 26, 1694. 





AGE. 



69. 



2 weeks. 



Joanna niarrried Joseph Ogden of Elizabetown, N. J. 
Abigail married Daniel Hedges of Sagg, Sept., 1702-3. Cath- 
erine married • Mulford. Mary married • Woodruff. 



Hannah married Samuel Parsons. 
Osborn. 



Daniel married Abigail 



The wife of Daniel the 3d son of Nathaniel Baker, was 
named Abigail. Their children were Daniel, Abraham, Na- 
thaniel, Henry, Elizabeth, Catherine and Abigail. Elizabeth 
married Jeremiah Stratton. 

Daniel Baker, son of the above named Daniel, married Ma- 
ry Osborn. His second wife was Mary, the widow of Jere- 
miah Conkling, by whom he had one daughter named Abi- 
gail, who married John' Davis. The children of Daniel and 
Mary his first wife, were Nathaniel, Elizabeth, and Polly. 
Elizabeth married Abraham Edwards of East-Hampton, and 
died in 1815, in the 68th year of her age. Polly married 
Sineus Dibble. In an ancient account book, remaining in 
the possession of Thomas J. Mulford, is recorded the follow- 
ing : " East-Hampton, January 17th, 1753. — At the South 
side,'' in coming to the shore in a whale boat, was drowned in 
the surf, these three men here namely : Jacob Schellinger, 
Daniel Baker and Dick. The night before Daniel Baker was 
drowned, his wife dreamed the tide rose' so high that it came 
up to the house, burst open the door, and brought in a coffin. 
She requested him not to go off a whaling that day ; she said 
she was afraid some accident would happen ; he replied he 
thought he would go that day, but would not go any more." • 

Nathaniel Baker, the son of Daniel, married Esther Os- 
born, by whom he had one son named Nathaniel. His second 
wife was Abigail Conkling, by whom he had ten children. 
The following is an account of the births and deaths of the 
children of Nathaniel Baker. 



APPENDIX, 



60 



Nathaniel, 

Daniel, 

Ananias, 

Mary, 

Esther, 

Abigail, 

Catherine, 

Hannah, 

Henry, 

Sophia, 

Elizabeth, 



BORN. 



Feb. 3, 1767, 
Aug. 27, 1768, 
Jan. 13, 1771, 
May 11, 1773, 

March 15, 1775, 
March 30, 1777, 
April 22, 1779, 
July 29, 1781, 
April 26, 1784, 
July 20, 1786. 



DIED. AGE. 



April 2, 1847, 80. 

April 16, 1843, 74. 

March 27, 1788, 17. 

Sept. 22, 1792, 17. 

Sept. 2, 1842, 65. 

Nov. 16, 1833, 52. 



Esther married Henry Conkling of Amagansett. Cathe- 
rine married Isaac Barnes, of the same place. Hannah mar- 
ried Jason Sandford of Bridge-Hampton. Sophia married 
Joseph Glover of Southold. Elizabeth married Uriah Miller 
of East-Hampton. Daniel married Polly Derby, and his sec- 
ond wife was Mercy Loper. Ananias married Hamiah Conk- 
ling, daughter of Edward Conkling. Henry married Betsy 
Hand, daughter of Jacob Hand. 

Ananias Baker, the second son of Nathaniel by his wife 
Hannah, had the following children : 



BORN. 



DIED. 



AGE. 



Jeremiah, 


Sept. 4, 1796, 


Sept. 22, 1826, 


John, 


May 1, 1800, 


Now living. 


Fanny, 


Feb. 25, 1803, 


Now living. 


Lucretia, 


Aug. 27, 1805, 


Oct. 13, 1811, 


George L., 


April 16, 1808, 


Now living. 



30. 



Fanny married David Barnes of East-Hampton. George 
L. married Caroline Barnes, daughter of Jonathan Barnes, 
and John married Phebe, daughter of Henry Chatfield. Han- 
nah, the wife of Ananias Baker, died April 1, 1827, aged 56. 
Phebe, the widow of Jeremiah Baker, became the wife of 
John Baker. 

The children of John Baker and Phebe his wife, were Mar- 
garet E., born July 18, 1829, and Rebecca M. born January 
22d, 1832. Margaret married William H. Strong. 

The children of George L. Baker and Caroline his wife, 
were Jeremiah Baker, born Dec. 23, 1834, William T. Baker, 
born March 22, 1846. They are descendants of the 8th gen- 



'61 



APPENDIX, 



eration, in a direct line from Thomas Baker, the first settler of 
East-Hampton. 



BARNES FAMILY. 



BORN. 



DIED. 



AGE. 



Dec. 1, 1698, 



Jan. 17, 1702, 


March 30, 1726, 


24. 


Aug. 16, 1723, 


July 3, 1814, 


91. 


1763, 


June 3, 1809, 


46. 


Dec. 13, 1795. 







1. "William Barnes, 

2. William Barnes, 

3. William Barnes, 

4. William Barnes, 

5. William Barnes, 

6. David Barnes, 

7. David Barnes, 

8. George Barnes. 

The last two generations descended in a direct line from 
William Barnes, the first settler, are now living. 

By the politeness of Mr. David Barnes of East-Hampton, 
I have been furnished with the above and the following mem- 
oranda of the Barnes family : 

The wife of the 3d William Barnes, was named Mary. She 
died May 19, 1705. Their children were Mary, William, 
Noah and Elizabeth. 

The wife of the 4th William Barnes, was Martha Edwards. 
They were married Oct. II, 1722. They had three children, 
William, born Aug. 16, 1723, died July 3, 1814, aged 91. 
Martha, born March 4, 1725, and /oseph, born Dec. 17, 1726, 
died in Lanesboro' Mass. 

Tfte 5th William Barnes, married Jemima Sherril. She 
died March 29, 1823, aged 98 years. They had seven chil- 
dren ; William, /emima, Eli, Jeremiah, and Joseph, who died 
March 18, 1847, aged 88, David, died Jan. 3, 1809, aged 46, and 
Noah. 

The 6th David Barnes, married Jerusha Fithiain, 1792. 
They had three children, all now living, named Esther, who 
married J B. Mulford, deceased, David, the 7th above named, 
and Eli Barnes, who removed to Mendon, N. Y. 

The 7th David Barnes, now living, married Fanny Baker, 
daughter of Ananias Baker, dec'd, of Amagansett, Dec. 21, 
1820. They have four living children : Hannah Ett, George, 
Charles and Cordelia. 



APPENDTX, 62 

Another branch of the Barnes family, now hving in East- 
Hampton, are thus descended from the 5th WiUiam Barnes 
above named : 

5. William Barnes, died March 29, 1823, aged 98, 6tli Joseph Barnes, died March 
18, 1847, aged 88, 7th Joseph Barnes, died Sept. 22, 1834, aged 39, 8th William 
L. Barnes now living. 

Joseph Barnes 6th, married Elizabeth Conkling, Oct. 1, 1794. Shs died Aug. 
6, 1846, aged 74. Their children were : 

BORN. DIED, AGE, 

39. 



Joseph, 


July 18, 1795, 


Sept. 13, 1834, 


Nathan, 


April 11,1798, 


now living. 


Betsy, 


Oct. 11, 1800, 


now living. 


Jemima, 


Ajjg. 6, 1806, 


Sept. 22, 1834, 



28. 

Joseph Barnes 7th above named, married Phebe Miller, June IC, 1818. Their 
children were : 



BORN. 



Fanny A. June 14, 1820, ^ 

William L. Sept. 9, 1823, I . „ ,. . 

Noah A. Nov. 19,1828, f AH livmg. 

Phebe E. Oct. 17, 1833. J 



CHATFIELD FAMILY. 



The venerable family of Chatfield, although at present 
without a male representative of the name, in the bounds of 
the town of East-Hampton, have preserved the memorials of 
the race and lineage. The first American Pioneer was the 
son of Henry Chatfield, of the county of Sussex, England, 
and tracing from the first American settler, the line of descent 
is as follows : 

1. Thomas Chatfield, 5. Henry Chatfield, 

2. Thomas Chatfield, 6. Henry Chatfield, 

3. Thomas Chatfield, 7. Henrv M. Chatfield, 

4. John Chatfield, 8. /ohn "Chatfield, 

The last two in the above line, are now living in Bridge- 
Hampton, L. I. 



63 APPENDIX, 

CONKLING FAMILY. 

The records and genealogy of the Conkhng family are 
imperfect, and to the politeness of Sineus Conkling, Esq., of 
Plumb Island, I am indebted for such memoranda as are here 
presented. 

" Lewis Conkling, came to Amagansett to live in Dec, 1G97. The wife oi 
Lewis Conkling, whose name was Mary, died in 1727, aged 89 years, and Lewis 
Conkling died in 1721, aged 79 years." 

It is probable that Lewis Conkling, was the son of Ananias 
Conkling, the first settler of the name in East-Hampton. The 
children of Lewis and Mary were : 

BORN. 



Esther, 


July 30, 1704. 


Mary, 


March 3, 1710. 


Isaac, 


Dec. 18, 1712. 


Zeruiah, 


Nov. 15, 1715. 


Sineus, 


Sept. 6, 1718. 


Abigail, 


March 3, 1721. 



Isaac and Benjamin Conkling, were sons of the above nam- 
ed Sineus. The present Sineus Conkling, of Plumb Island, 
and Hon. Alfred Conkling, U. S. Judge of the Northern Dis- 
trict of New- York State, are sons of the above named Benja- 
min Conkling. 

The record of Lewis Conkling's family, appears to have 
been commenced by him, in his Family Bible, about the year 
I7l6, at whidi time he wrote therein, in quaint style, a few 
lines commencing as follows : 

" Lewis Conkling, his owne Book, 

God give him a willing mind therein to look. 

That he may learn to run the race, 

That Heaven may be his dwelling place." 



DAYTON FAMILY. 



The family of Dayton, are said to be remotely allied to 
the distinguished men of the same -name in New Jersey, 
and it is supposed that families of the name, early removed 



APPENDIX". 



from East-Hampton to that State. To some extent, 
known to be tine, before the 'year 1700. Branches 
same ancient stock, are to be found in Ohio, and other 
The hne of descent from the 1st settler is as follows : 



64 

this is 
of the 
states. 







BORN. 


DIED. 


AGE. 


1. 


Ralph Dayton, 




1G57, 




2. 


Robert Dayton, 




April IG, 1712, 


84 


3. 


Samuel Dayton, 




Jan. 30, 1745. 


80 


4. 


Daniel Dayton, 








5. 


Dea. Daniel Dayton, 




March 15, 1815, 


about 92 


6. 


Jonathan Dayton, 




Nov. 8, 1842, 


78 


7. 


Daniel Dayton, 








8. 


Dr. Charles B. Dayton, 







The last two of the above named in the line of descent, are 
now living. Miller Dayton, dec'd, was brother of /onathan 
Dayton, dec'd, the 6th in the line, and his son Ralph Dayton, 
Esq., now survived. Miller Dayton, died Oct. 12, 1847, in his 
80th year. 

Another branch of the Dayton family, are thus descended 
from Robert Dayton, son of the 1st Ralph Dayton : 

2. Robert Dayton, died April 16, 1712, aged 84. 3. Beriah Dayton, died 
April 30, 1746, aged 72. 4. John Dayton, died April 19, 1776, aged 76. 5. 
Capt. John Dayton, died Feb. 20, 1825, aged 98. 6. Josiah Dayton, died Feb. 5, 
1839, aged 73. 7. John T. Dayton. 8. John Dayton. 

The last of the two generations above named, are now 
living. 

7. Josiah C. Dayton, Esq., is the son of /osiah Dayton 6th 
above named, and brother of John T. Dayton. 8. Charles 
R. Dayton, is son of ./bsiah C. Dayton, Esq. 

The united ages of Robert, Beriah, /ohn, Capt. John and 
Josiah Dayton, amount to 403 years. 



HEDGES FAMILY. 



The Hedges family are very numerous, and widely disper- 
sed over this and other states. The descent from their first 
American ancestor, the first of the name in East-Hampton, 
is as follows : 



65 APPENDIX. 

1. William Hedges, died about 1C74. 2. Steven Hedges, died July,?, 1734* 
aged 100. 3. William Hedges, died about 1771. 4. Steven Hedges, died 1801, 
aged 77. 5. David Hedges, died 184G, aged 84. G. Steven Hedges. 7. Ste- 
ven L. Hedges, Esq., 8. David E. Hedges. 

The last three of the above eight generations, are now Hv- 
ing, in the same house at the North end of Main street, upon 
the inheritance of the family, descended from William Hed- 
ges 3d, who there lived and died. 

The Hedges's of Southampton and East-Hampton, are all 
descended from William Hedges 1st, a common ancestor 
through two sons, Isaac, who died about 1677, and Steven 
Hedges 2d, above named. 

There are now fourteen families of the name in East- 
Hampton, and nineteen in Southampton town, and many more 
families, now living away from Long Island, than are to be 
found upon it. 

Another branch of this family, are descended thus from 
William Hedges 3d. 

William Hedges 3d, William Hedges 4th, William Hedges 5th, Col. David 
Hedges, 6th, John C. Hedges, Esq., 7th. The last two generations arc now liv- 
ing. 

The Hedges's of Southampton town, are descended through 
Daniel Hedges thus : 

2. Steven Hedges, son of the first settler William. 3. Daniel Hedges, who re- 
moved to Sagg, about the year 1700. 4. Z>anie! Hedges, died April 12, 17G6, 
aged 58. 5. i>ea. I>avid Hedges, died Nov. 8, 1817, aged 73 years. 6. Zepha- 
niah Hedges, died Sept. 16, 1847, aged 79. 7. Henry P. Hedges, the writer 
hereot, a native of East-iJampton. 8. Samuel Osborn iTedges. 

Capt. William Hedges of East-Hampton, is a descendant 
•of the above named Dea. David Hedges 5th, through Wilkes 
Hedges, now deceased, son of said David. 

Col. Jonathan Hedges, of Sagg, who died June 3, 1804, 
aged 80, was the son of Daniel Hedges 3d, and uncle of Dea. 
David, and was the progenitor of a numerous race. 

The family of Hedges's living in Patchogue, originated from 
Ezekiel Hedges, of East-Hampton, son of William Hedges 
3d. Ezekiel Hedges removed from East-Hampton to Patch- 
ogue, previous to the Revolutionary war, and was noted for 
his piety. 



APPENDIX. 



HUNTTING FAMILY. 



John Huntting, the first of the name who came to this coun- 
try, resided, while in England, between the counties of Suf- 
folk and Norfolk, and had a brother, who was a minister. 
His wife's maiden name was Severn or Sea Born, and she 
had a brother also, who Avas a minister in England. He 
came to this country in August or September, 1638, and when 
the Rev. John Allen was ordained as minister of the Gospel, 
in Dedham, Mass., John Huntting was at the same time or- 
dained a Ruling Elder of the church. From this Elder Hunt- 
ting, the line of descent, through Rev. Nathaniel Huntting 2d, 
the semi centenarian pastor of East-Hampton, is thus traced : 



DIED. 



AGE. 



1. Elder John Huntting, 

2. John Huntting, 

3. Rev. Nathaniel Huntting, 
4. 
5. 
6. 
7. 



Nathaniel Huntting, 
Nathaniel Huntting, 
John Huntting, 
Nathaniel Hunttino:. 



April 12, 1682, 

Sept. 21, 1753, 
Sept., 1770, 
Sept., 1801, 

184-, 



nearly 78. 
68. 
71, 



The present Nathaniel Huntting, the 7th in the line, now 
resides upon the inheritance of his ancestor, in East-Hamp- 
ton, the Rev. Nathaniel Huntting, the 3d above named. 

Another branch of this family are thus descended from the 
Rev. Nathaniel Hunttinsr. 



DIED. 



AGE. 



3. Rev. Nathaniel Huntting, 

4. Nathaniel Huntting, 

5. William Huntting, 

6. Jeremiah Huntting, 

7. Jeremiah Huntting, 

8. William Huntting, 



Sept. 21, 1753, 78. 

Sept., 1770, 68. 

July 6, 1816, 78. 

June 19, 1845, nearly 73-. 
now living, 
now liviuff. 



The present Rev. Jonathan Huntting, of Southold, L. I., is 
the son of William Huntting 5th, last above named, and 
great-grandson of the Rev. Nathaniel Huntting, above named. 

Elder John Huntting had three sons, as follows : 2. John 



APPENDIX. 



Huntting, father of Rev. Nathaniel Huntting, Jonathan Hiint- 
tmg, bom Jnne 22, 1640, Matthew Huntting, born March 6, 
1648. 

John Huntting 2d and Ehzabeth Paine, were married Feb. 
18, 1670. Their issue were 10 children, as follows : 



BORN. 



DIED. 



1. John Huntting, 

2. Thomas Huntting, 

3. Nathaniel Huntting, 

4. Esther Huntting, 

5. Rebecca Huntting, 

6. Samuel Huntting, 

7. Elizabeth Huntting, 

8. Ebenezer Huntting, 

9. Stephen Huntting, 

10. Jonathan Huntting, 



May 30, 1672, 

March 24, 1674, May 9, 1676. 
Nov. 15, 1675, 2d mmister of E. H. 
Nov. 19,1677, 



Jan. 14, 1679, 
March 14, 1681, 
Feb. 2, 1683, 
Jan 1, 1684, 

May 14, 1688, 
Jan, 27, 1690. 



May 20, 1696. 
March 9, 1704. 



The above is said to have been copied from the Dedham 
Register, by Rev. Nathaniel Huntting. The Rev. Nathaniel 
Hmitting was married to Mary Green, of Boston, Mass.. about 
1700 or 1701. She was born July, 1679, and died Oct. 7, 
1733, aged 54. The numerous issue of this marriage are as 
follows : 



BORN. 



DIED. 



1. Nathaniel, 

2. Edward, 

3. Mary, 

4. John, 

5. Samuel, 

6. Joseph, 

7. Mary, 

8. Jonathan, 

9. a son, 

10. Ehzabeth, 



Aug., 1702, 
Feb., 1704, 
May, 1706, 
Sept:, 1707, 
April, 1710. 
March, 1711, 
Sept., 1713, 
Oct., 1714, 
Nov., 1716, 
Oct., 1718, 



Sept. 1770. 
April, 10, 1745. 
Sept., 1706. 
March 14, 1768. 

Aug. 14, 1711. 
1733. 
Sept. 3, 1750. 
died soon after birth. 
July, 17, 1719. 



Nathaniel Huntting, the eldest son of Rev. Nathaniel Hunt- 
ting, was married to Mary Hedges, Sept. 11, 1728. She died 



August 1785. 



Their children were as follows : 



BORN. 



DIED. 



1. Nathaniel, 



April, 1730, 



Sept. ISOl. 



APPENDIX. 



68 



2. Joseph, Dec, 1731, Sept. 30, 1738. 

3. Mary, May, 1735, Aug. 30, 1738. 

4. William, June, 1738, July 6, 1816. 

5. Joseph, Aug., 1740, Jime 6, 1771. 

William Huntting, the 4th child above named, married 
Puah Osborn, June"20, 1766, She was born Dec. 29, 1747, 
and died Aug. 24, 1809, and at his decease left him, surviving, 
the following children : Jeremiah Huntting, the Rev. Jona- 
than Huntting, of Southold, and Mercy Osborn, wife of Dea. 
Abraham Osborn. Mercy died in August, 1843, aged 62. 
Jeremiah died June 19, 1845, aged nearly 73. Jeremiah left 
three sons now living, viz. : Jeremiah, David and William. 

The present Dea. Abraham Huntting, is son of the above 
named Nathaniel, who died in Sept., 1801, and therefore great- 
grandson of the Rev. Nathaniel Huntting. 



MULFORD FAMILY. 



The Mulford family are numerous, and the line of descent 
is traced as follows : 



previous to 1698. 




Aug. 21, 1725, 


81. 


1774, 


85. 


1778, 


57. 


1840, 


70. 


now living. 





DIED. AGE. 

1. John Mulford, 

2. Samuel Mulford* 

3. Matthew Mulford, 

4. Col.' David Mulford, 

5. Jonathan Mulford, 

6. Samuel G. Mulford, 

Jonathan Mulford, 5th in the line of descent from John, 
left the following children now living : David, John, Samuel 
G., Henij, George, Jeremiah and Mary. 

*It is said that Samuel Mulford was the leader of the opposition against the 
administration of Gov. Hunter, and went to England for the purpose of procur- 
ing his removal from office, as a part of his mission. 

While at the Court of St. James', Mulford was much annoyed with pickpock- 
ets, being, as they supposed, a proper subject, or as we should say, " rather green." 
At length his patience became exhausted in purchasing pocSet handkerchiefs, &c. 
The Yankee went to a Tailor's, and had several fish-hooks sewed in the inside 
of his pockets. Soon after on going to Court, he had a icUow fast by tlie hand. 
This incident was published at the tiime, in England, and won an c.N.tensive noto- 
riety for Mulford. 



69 APPENDIX, 

Matthew Mulford, now deceased, was a brother of Jonathan 
Miilford, dec'd, above named. He removed to Rensselaer- 
ville, in this State, some fifty years since, and died there with- 
in a few years, leaving a large family of children. 

The present William R. Mulford, Esq., of Sag harbor, is 
descended from Matthew Mulford, 3d above named, through 
Ezekiel Mulford, his grandfather, a Captain in active service 
in the Revolutionary Avar, who died at the advanced age of 
95 years, and Edward Mulford, dec'd the father of said Willr 
iam R. Mulford. 



OSBORN FAMILY. 



The O shorn family are very numerous, and have emigrated 
largely to different parts of the country. Their descent is as 
follows : 

DIED. AGE. 

1. ThomasOsborn;Jr. June, 1712, 90. 

2. Joseph Osborn, Oct. 2, 1743, 83. 

3. Dea. Joseph Osborn, Nov. 21,1786, 82; 

4. Lewis Osborn, Sept. 14, 1783, 36. 

5. Dea.. Abraham Osborn, 

6. William L. Osborn, 

7. William A Osborn, an infant. 

The three last generations above named, are now living. 
This family appears to have been eminent for their industry, 
frugality, morality and piety. Joseph Osborn, 2d of the line 
of descent, died in the Church, as related on pages 5 and 6 
ante. 

Dea. Joseph Osborn 3d, was a man of most unflinching 
principle. A firm Whig in the Revolution, " steadfast, immov- 
able, always abounding in the work of the Lord-" It is re- 
lated of him, that during the Revolutionary Avar, he Avas 
accosted Avhile going to church, by a British oflicer, who 
wanted him to appear forthwith, Avith his team and Avagon, 
at an appropriate place, to do service for the British army. 
The Deacon inquired of the oflicer, by Avhat authority he 
commanded him to go. The officer answered by authority 
of the King. What King do you Gerve ? asked the Deacon. 
King George the third, Avas the answer. The Deacon replied', 



APPENDIX. 70 

my King is greater than your King. I serve " King Jesus." 
He commands me to go to meeting, and I shall go, and on 
marched the pious patriarch, to his seat in the Church. 

Another branch of this family, are thus descended : 

2. Joseph Osborn, 3. Jeremiah Osborn, brother of Dea. 
Joseph Osborn, 4. Jeremiah Osborn, who died May 25, 1821, 
aged 71, 5. Samuel Osborn, who died June 26, 1842, aged 
47, 6. Edward and Emmet Osborn, sons of Samuel Os- 
born 5th. 

Judge John P. Osborn, of Noyac, Southampton, and Henry 
P. Osborn, Esq., of Moriches, Brookhaven, L. I., are the sons 
of Jeremiah Osborn, 4th above named, and brothers of Sam- 
uel, deceased, the 5th in the line of descent from " Thomas 
Osborn, Jr., Tanner," the first settler of East-Hampton. 

Another branch of the Osborn family, are thus descended 
from John Osborn, one of the first settlers of East-Hampton, 
who at a very early day, removed to the village of Wains- 
cott, four miles west of the first settlement, and Main street 
of the Town. 

1. John. Osborn, 2. Thomas Osborn,* 3. Elisha Osborn, 
4. Elisha Osborn, 5. Elisha Osborn, 6. Thomas Osborn, 7. 
John Osborn. 

The last three generations above named, are now residing 
in the same house at Wainscott, on the ancient inheritance, 
formerly owned and occupied by their ancestor, John Os- 
born 1st. 



TALMADGE FAMILY, 



The Talmadge family are thus descended from Thomas 
Talmadge, Jr., the first settler of the name in East-Hampton. 

DIED. AGE. 



1. Thomas Talmadge, Jr., 






2. John Talmadge,t 


1764, 


86, 


3. David Talmadge, 






4. David Talmadge, 


1811, 


76. 



*Thomas Osborn Sr., one of the first settlers of Easthampton, was probably the 
father of the above named John Osborn. 

tit is somewhat uncertain whether .John Talmadge 2d, was the son of Thomas 
Tahnadge Jr., the first .settler, or of Thomas, a son of said Thomas Talmadge Jr, 



7t APPENDIX. 

5. Dca. Baldwin C. Talmadge, Now living. 

6. Sinciis Talmadge, Now living. 

The father of Thomas Talmadge, Jr., was of the name of 
Enos, who with his brother Thomas, came from England as 
early as 1630. Thomas settled in Branford, Enos in New 
Haven, and from thence his son Thomas Talmadge Jr., re- 
moved to East-Hampton. In 1683, Thomas Talmadge was 
the wealthiest man in East-Hampton, as appears by the tax 
list of that year. 

The present David Talmadge, is a brother of Baldwin C. 
Talmadge, No .5 above named. 

Branches of this family early removed to New Jersey, and 
different parts of this State. 

Hon. N. P. Talmadge, late U. S. Senator from this State, 
and Hon. Daniel B. Talmadge, late /iidge of the Superior 
Court of New- York city, are descendants from Thomas Tal- 
madge, Sen., brother of Enos, and uncle of Thomas Tal- 
madge, /r. 



DOMINY FAMILY. 



The family of Dominy, although not among the list of the 
first settlers, was very early resident in East-Hampton. 

The first ancestor of the name, died young. The follow- 
ing is their genealogy : 

1. Nathaniel Dominy, 5. Nathaniel Dominy, 

2. Nathaniel Dominy, 6. Felix Dominy, 

3. Nathaniel Dominy, 7. Nathaniel Dominy, /r., 

4. Nathaniel Dominy, 8. Nathaniel Dominy, 3d. 

Nathaniel Dominy 2d, was born ^t East-Hampton, July 14, 
1684— died May 5, 1768, in the 84th year of his age. He 
married Anne Corey. 

The last four of these generations arc now living, the 8th 
being an infant of two years old. 



APPENDIX. 7^ 



FILEP. FAMILY. 



The family of Filer, formerly spelled " Fyler," are of an- 
cient origin. They appear to have been settled in the Town 
of East-i7ampton, as early as 1677-8. Many branches of 
the parent stock, have removed far from their native Town. 

Zephaniah Filer, now deceased, a brother of Thomas Fi- 
ler, of East-i7ampton, dec'd, removed, many years since, to 
Troy, in this State, where his descendants now live. 



SHERRILL FAMILY. 



The family of Sherril, tradition has informed us, commen- 
ced with the folloAving romantic origin : — " A vessel was cast 
away on the shore, at East-iiZampton, and a company of girls, 
among others, visited the wreck. One of the ladies said on 
returning, that she had seen the handsomest man there, she 
ever saw. This was intimated to the shipwrecked mariner, 
and resulted in an acquaintance, and marriage of the parties. 
Their genealogy is as follows : 

1 Sherril, 2 Recompense Sherril, who died Feb. 8th, 

1786, aged 80. 3 Recompense Sherril, who died June 7, 
1839, aged 98. 4 David Sherril, 5 Hiram Sherril, 6 David 
Sherril. 

The three last generations are now living. 



Copy of the original Indian deed, for the Town of East- 
i/ampton, referred to on page 3d, ante. 

" Aprill the 29th, 1648. 
This present Avriting testifieth an agreement between the 
worship'U Theophilus Eaton, Esquire, Governour of the Colo- 



73 APPENDIX. 

ny New ^aven, And the worship'll Edward Hopkins, 
Esquire, governour of the Colony Connecticut, and their as- 
toyats on the one parte, And Poggatacut, Sachem of Mun- 
hansett, Wayandanch, Sachem Meuntacut, Momowetow, Sa- 
chem of Corchake, Nowedonah, Sachem of Shinecoke, and 
their asotyats, the other Part. The said Sachems having 
sould unto the foresaid Mr. Eaton and Mr. i/bpkins, with 
their asotyats, all the Land lyinge from the bounds of the In- 
habitants of Southampton, unto the East side of Napeak, next 
unto Meuntacut high Lan(J, with the whole breadth from Sea 
to Sea, not Intrenching uppon any in length or breadth, which 
the Inhabitants of Southampton, have and do possess, as 
they by Lawfull right shall make appeare, for and in consid- 
eration of twentie Coates, twentie-four looking-glasses, twen- 
• tie-four hoes, twentie-four hatchets, twenty-four knives. One 
hundred muges, allready Received by us, the forenamed Sa- 
chems, for ourselves and asotyats ; and in consideration there- 
of, we doe give upp unto the said Purchasers, all our right and 
Interest in the said Land, to them and their heirs forever. 

Allsoe doe bind ourselves, to secure their right from any 
claims of any others, whether Indians, or other Nation what- 
soever, that doe, or may hereafter, challenge Interest therein. 
Allsoe, we, the the said Sachems, have Covenanted to have 
Libertie, freely to fish in any or all the cricks and ponds, and 
hunt up and downe in the woods without Molestation, they 
giving the English Inhabitants noe just offence, or Iniurie to 
their goods and Chattells. Likewise, they are to have the fynns 
andtailsof allsuch whales as shall be cast upp, to their proper 
right and desire they may bee dealt with in the other part. 
Allsoe, they reserve libertie to fish in all convenient places, for 
Shells to make wampum. Allsoe, if the Indyans, hunting of 
any deare, they should chase them into the water, and the 
English should kill them, the English shall have the body, 
and the Sachem the skin. 

And in Testimony of our well performance hereof, we 
have sett to our hands, the Day and year above written. 

Witnesses to this, 
Richard WooDnuLi,, I The marke of Poggatacut, Munhansett Sachem. 
Tho Stanton, I The marke of Wayandanch, Meaiitaciitt Sachem. 

Robert Bond, j Tiic marke of Momoweta, Corchake Sachem. 

Job Sayre, ( The marke of Nowedonah, Shinecok Sachem, 

Checlanoo, r^ his marie, their Interpreter. 



The assignment to the Inhabitants of East-iiZampton, is as 
follows : 

" Whereas, by direction from Theophilus Eaton, Esq., and 
me Edward //opkins, a purchase was made by Thomas Stan- 



APPENDIX. 74 

ton and others, of a part of the Eastern Part of Long Island, 
of the Indians Sachems, the true proprietors thereof, in the 
name of Theophihis Eaton, Esq., aforesaid, and myself, with 
om' associates, as by the said agreement, dated the 29th of 
April, 1648, may more fully appear, which said purchase was 
paid by me, Edward i^opkins, and amounted to the Sum of 
Thirty pounds four shillings eightpence, as may appear by a 
Tsfote of Particulars, under the hand of Thomas Stanton, to 
whom the said sum was paid, now delivered to Robert Bond, 
of East-Hampton. This writinge witnesseth that I have re- 
ceived the foremencioned sum of Thirty pounds four shill- 
ings eight pence, of the Inhabitants of East-Hampton, and have 
delivered unto them the writings of the said purchase, and all 
the interest that thereby was purchased. In witness where- 
of, I have hereunto subscribed, the 16th of Aprill, 1651. 
I say received, £ S D 

38 4 8 per me 

EDWARD HOPKINS; 

A true copy per me, 

THOMAS TALMAGE, Rec. 
Trial of Wyandanch, referred to on page 10, 

" January 25th, 1658. 

" Waiandanch, Sachem of Meantaquit, Pit., hath entred 
an action of Damage against Jeremy Daily defendant. 

" Mr. Lion Gardiner testifieth that hee was at the Hand 
when my son, and Goodman Daily came over, and I heard 
that the Great Cannow was coming, and I went Down to meet 
them, and made a noise for them that were in the house, to 
follow me, and I mett my sonn and Goodman Daily coming 
up, and I asked them whie they puled not up the canow, and 
they said it was time enough, and I called them to goe to gett 
it Lip, and we all went, and could doe nothing, and then we 
went agen, and she was full. 

" John Rose testiifieth, that when the canow was brought 
into the South harbor, my Brother, Anthony Waters and 
Goodman Daily, did mend the canow, by puting 2 pieces into 
the side of her and upon that account they were to have the 
use of her, when their time was out, to carrie over their things. 

" The verdict of the Jury — they find for the Pit. 10s. Dam- 
age, and court charges. 

£ S D 

The Court charges is 110 

Town Records, Book No. 2, p. 65. 



75 APPENDIX. 

OATHS OF TOWN OFfIcERS. 

The Oaths of the Officers of the Town, were very mimite, 
and pointed out their duties. The Oaths are generally very 
solemn ; sometimes however the forms were singular, and 
expressed in the extreme quaint style of the day. The fol- 
lowing was at an early period, the Oath of the Constable : 

" You, being chosen constable of this Court, Doe swear, 
by the name of the Great, Ever-Livinge God, that you will 
faithfully put in execution all such warrants as shall be en- 
trusted unto you for to execute, duringe this year for which you 
are chosen, ill case you stay amonge us, soe Avell as you can, 
soe helpe you God." 

And again : — 

" At a Legall Meeting of ye freeholders and Commonalty 
of ye Town of East-Hampton, April ye first, 1718, Cornelius 
Conkling was chosen Town Clark, and sworn as followeth : 

" You, Cornelius Conkling, Do swear that you shall safly 
keep all ye Books of Records delivered to you, and also to 
Record all Town and Trustees votes, until another person is 
chosen for that purpose, and also to give coppys out of Sd. 
Records, as you may be required by ye Town or Trustees, as 
Town Clark, According to ye best of your cunning, wit, and 
power, so help you God." 

Sworen before me, 
ROBERT HUDSON, Justice. 

A True Coppy per me, 

CORNELIUS CONKLING, Town Clark." 

The Address drawn up at a General Training, in June, 
1682, and referred to in page 19 ante, is as follows : 

" To the Honourable the Governour, under his Royal High- 
ness the Duke of York, The Humble address of the Inhabi- 
tants of the Towne of East-Hampton, upon Long-Island, 
Sheweth : 

" Wheras, at the time the Government of New-Yorke was 
established under our Soveraigne Lord the King, by Collonell 
Richard Nicolls, and those Gentlemen sent in Commission 
with him. Wee the Inhabitants of this Towne, soe well as 
the rest of the Island being required, sent our messengers to 
attend their Honours, and then, both by word and writing, 
wee were promised and engaged the Enjoyments of all privi- 
leges and liberties, which others of his Majesties Subjects doe 
enjoy, which was much to our content and satisfaction : Al- 
soe, afterwards being required by these, his Majesties Com- 
missioners, to send upp our Deputies to meete at Hempstead, 



APPENDIX. 76 

and there the whole Island being Assembled in our Represen- 
tatives, wee did then and there, uppon the renewal of these 
former promises of our freedom and liberties. Grant and Com- 
pact with the said Colonel Nicolls, Governor under his Royall 
Highness, That wee would allow soe much out of our Estates 
yearly, as might defray the charge of Publicke Justice amongst 
us, and for killing of wolves, (fcc, 

" But may it Please your Honour to understand, that since 
that Time wee are deprived and prohibited of our Birthright, 
Freedomes and Priviledges, to which both wee and our ances- 
tors were borne ; Although we have neither forfeited them 
by any misdemeanor of ours, nor hate we at any time beene 
forbidden the due use and exercise of them, by Command of 
our Gratious King, that wee know of ; And as yet neither 
wee, nor the rest of his Majestie's subjects uppon this Island, 
have beene at any time admitted since then, to enjoy a Gene- 
rail and free Assembly of our Representatives, as others of his 
Masjesties Subjects have had'the priviledge of ;,But Lawes and 
Orders have beene imposed uppon us from time to time, with- 
out our consent, (and therein we are totally deprived of a fun- 
damental Priviledge of our English Nation,) together with 
the obstruction of Trafficke and Negotiation with others of 
his Majesties Subjects, So that wee are become very unlike 
other of the King's Subjects in all other CoUonyes and Juris- 
dictions here in America, and cannot but much resent our 
grievances in this respect, and remaine discouraged with re- 
spect to the Settlement of ourselves and Posteritie after us. 
Yet all this time payments and performance of what hath 
beene imposed uppon us, hath not beene omitted on our parts, 
although performance of our premised Privileges aforesaid, 
have beene wholly unperformed ; and what payments from 
yeare to yeare, this many yearcs, hath beene made by us, Hath 
been made use of to other purposes than at first they were 
granted for and mtended by us; Soe that wee. cannot but 
leare, if Publicke affairs, of goverment shall continue in this 
manner as they have been, but hope better, least our Free- 
domes should be turned into Bondage, and Antient Priviledges 
so iufringed, that they will never arrive to our Posteritie. And 
wee ourselves may be justlie and highly culpable before his 
Majestic, for our Subjection to, and Supporting of such a Gov- 
ernment, Constituted soe Contrarie to the fundamentall Lawes 
of England : it being a principall part of his Majestie's An- 
tiente- and Just Government, to rule over a free people, en- 
dowed with many Priviledges above others, and not over Bond- 
men, oppressed by Arbitrary Impositions and Exactions. — 
These Things Considered, we cannot but humbly request 



77 APPENDIX. 

your Honour to weigh our condition in the Ballance of Equi- 
ty, with seryousnesSj before you proceede to any Action of your 
owne, whereby to assert the proceedings of your Predecessors 
in Government, which wee now, with all Christian moderation 
doe complaine of And for the redresse hereof, an Addresse as 
we understand, hath been made to his Royall Highnesse, by 
a late court of Assize, in behalf of us and our Neighbors in 
this Colloney ; Soe that we are not without hope your Hon- 
our hath received Directions to ease us in these our grievan- 
ces, by the Remedies humbly represented by us, and petition- 
ed for by the Inhabitants of this Island, to the last Court of 
Assize that did sitt att New-Yorke, to which as yet, no satis- 
factorie answer hath beene made. If therefore your Honour 
may bee an Instrument under God, and his Majestie our 
Soveraigne Lord the King, to relieve us, and the rest of his 
Majestie's good subjects uppon this Island, in our grievances, 
andbee ameanes to helpe us to the free Enjoyment of our Birth- 
right Priviledges, which the fundamental! Constitution of our 
English Nation'al Government doth invest us with, (which as 
we doubt not, will bee very pleasing to his Majestie, and all 
your Loyall Superiors,) Soe your Honour may bee assured it 
will firmly Engage and Oblige us, your humble Petitioners, 
and our Posteritie after us, to have your Prudence and Jus- 
tice in Honourable Remembrance, as the first Restorer of our 
freedome and priviledges, to our great Contenifnent. But, 
Sir, if it shall fall out otherwise, which God forbid, and wee 
are very unwilling to suppose, and that your Honour should, 
by reason of Counsells and Suggestions, pursue a contrary 
course to our humble Desires, soe as to continue or augment 
our grievances, then wee request your Honorus Pardon and 
Excuse, if in our conscience to God, and in Honour and Sub- 
mission to his Majestie, our most Gratious Soveraigne, we 
prostrate our /Selves, and our State and Condition, before the 
Throne of his unmatchable Justice and Clemencie, where we 
doubt not to find Relief and Restaiiration, and can doe no 
less, in the meane time, but Resent our forlorne and bereaved 
Condition. So, Sir, as our prayers are Continued for a happy 
and glorious Reighne to his Sacred Majestie the King ; and 
alsoe our prayers shall be for your Honotir, that you may be 
a blessed Instrument under God, in ^^our Wisdome, Justice 
and E qui it/ over us : And humblie make bold to subscribe 
ourselves his Majestie^s poore, depressed, though Loyall Sulh 
jects and your most Humble Servants.'^ 



APPENDIX. <» 

SEPTEMBER Ye 8tii, 1683.— THE ESTEMATE OF 
EAST-HAMPTON. 



Capt Talinage 
Tho osborne 
Wm Mulforde 
Tho: Mulford 
Mr Baker 
Tho Edwards 
John parsons Sen 
Jere : Conkling 
phillip Leek 
Nath : Baker se 
Joshua gar lick 
capt Hoberts 
Nath Dommy 
John parsons 
James Dimont 
Saimi : parsons 
Wm Barnes 
John Wheller 
Enock fithian 
John osborn 
James Hand 
Rich : Brook 
Mr SchelUnger 
Benja : Conkhng 
John Miller se 
Arthur Cresy 
Ben : Osborne 
Wm Edwards 
Jofeeph Osborne 
.Tohn Squire 
John Edwards 
Ebene Lecke 
James Looper 
Wm Perkins 
Stephen Hand 
Tho diment 
John Miller Ju 
Jere : Miller 
Edward Joans 
James Bird 
John Stretlon 
John Stretton Ju 
Joseph Stretton 
Samuell Mulford 
John Hoping 
John Feild 
Stephen Hedges 
Anthony Kelley 
Olieur Noris 
Edward Hare 
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John Brook 
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GENERAL ASSOCIATION. 



Referred to on page 47 ante. 

[Adopted by the Freemen, Freeholders, and inhabitants of 
the city and county of New York, on Saturday, the 29th of 
April, 1775, and transmitted for signing, to all the counties in 
the Province.] 

" Persuaded that the Salvation of the Rights and liberties 
of America, depends, under God, on the linn union of its in- 
habitants, in a vigorous prosecution of the'measures necessary 
for its safety ; and convinced of the necessity of preventing 
the Anarchy and confusion, which attend the dissolution of 
the powers of Government, we, the Freemen, Freeholders and 
Inhabitants of being greatly alarmed at the avowed 

design of the Ministry, to raise a Revenue in America, and 
shocked by the bloody scene now acting in the Massachusetts 
Bay, do, in the most Solemn manner Resolve never to become 
Slaves, and do associate under all the ties of Religion, hon- 
our and Love to our Country, to adopt, and endeavor to carry 
into execution, whatever measures may be recommended by 



APPENDIX. 80 

the Continental Congress, or resolved upon by our Provincial 
Convention, for the purpose of preserving our Constitution, 
and opposing the execution of the several arbitrary and op- 
pressive acts of the British Parliament, until a reconciliation, 
between Great Britain and America, on Constitutional Princi- 
ples, (which we most ardently desire) can be obtained ; and 
that we will in all things, follow the advice of our General 
Committee, respecting the purposes aforesaid, the preserva- 
tion of Peace and Good Order, and the safety of individuals 
and private property. 

"Signers in East-Hampmon, Suffolk County, N. Y. — 
John Chatfield, Abraham Gardiner, Burnet Miller, David 
Mulford, Thomas Wickham,' Stephen Hedges, John Gardi- 
ner, Samuel Buel, John Hudson, Nathaniel Huntting, Eleazer 
Miller, Jeremiah Dayton, Thomas Dibble, Noah Barnes,'' 
Lemuel Mulford, Jeremiah Gardiner, Aaron Isaacs, Daniel 
Conkling, Elisha Daviss, John Daviss, Jacob Wickham, Will- 
iam Conkling, Nathan Conkling, John F. Chatelain, Thomas 
Hedges, John Parsons 3d, William Huntting, John Mulford, 
Jeremiah Bennet, Samuel Hunt, Selah Pike, Elias Conkling, 
Abraham Mulford, Jeremiah Conkling, John How, Samuel 
Parsons, Benjamin Stratton, David Osborne, Elisha Mulford, 
Daniel Hand, David Mulford, Matthew Mulford, John Miller, 
John Dayton, Joseph Osborn, Jr., Ebenezer Conkling, Henry - 
Chatfield, John Miller Jr., Abraham Barnes, Patrick Goold, 
David Talmadge, Seth Barnes, Jason Miller, Simon Dibble, 
William Mulford, Jeremiah Sherril, Gurdon Miller, Aaron 
Isaacs, Jr., Elisha Jones, Lewis Chatfield, Enos Talmadge, 
Enos Talmadge, Thomas Jones, Huntting Miller, Samuel 
Stratton, Abraham Sherrill, Recompense Sherrill, John Strat- 
ton, Stephen Hand, John Dayton, Daniel Hedges, Jonathan ^ 
Barnby, William Conkling, Jr., David Dayton, David Miller,' 
Henry Hopping, Josiah Osborne, Joseph Hopping, John 
Strong, Nathaniel Talmadge, Jeremiah Miller, Jr, Abraham 
Dimon, Isaac Dimon, Cornelius Osborne, William Hedges, 
Elisha Talmadge, George Gladden, Abraham Hand, Stephen 
Stratton, Thomas Osborne, Jeremiah Osborne, Jr., Jonathan 
Mulford, Isaac M. Himtting, James Hand, Jeremiah Talmadge 
Jeremiah Miller, George Strong, Lewis Osborne, Joseph Os- 
borne, William Hedges, Jr., Recompense Sherril, David Ed- 
wards, Ezokiel Mulford, Cornelius Paine, David Fithiain, 
Samuel Conkling, Thomas Baker, Isaac Van Scoy, Isaac Yan 
Scoy, Jr., Nathaniel Hand, Matthew Barnes, Philetus Osborne, 
Merry Parsons, William Parsons, Henry Downing, John Par- 
sons, Jonathan Osborne, Joseph Osborne, Jeremiah Conkling, 



81 APPENDIX. 

Samuel Conkling, John Mulford, Jonathan Tiithill; Jesse 
Dayton, Jacob Uayton, Jeremiah Parsons, Mulford Conkling, 
Matthew Stratton, Joseph Miller, Abraham Edwards, Samuel 
Parsons, Samuel Sherrill, Jr., Eleazar Hedges, Abraham Mul- 
ford, Jr., David Loper, Nathaniel Dominy, Isaac Pain, Ben- 
jamin Parsons, Jacob Conkling, Jacob Conkling, Jr., Christ 
Dibble, Samuel Gardiner, David Leek, Abraham Leek, Samuel 
Dayton, Uriah Miller, Nathan Miller, Abraham Schellinger, Jere- 
miah Conkling, Nathaniel Baker, Jeremiah Conklmg, Zebulon 
Conkling, Isaac Conkling, Jonathan Edwards, Abraham Lo- 
per, Philip Hedges, George Miller, Thomas Edwards, Jr., 
Elias Mulford, Edward Conkling, Jedediah Conkling, Joseph 
Hicks, Zachariah Hicks, Jeremiah Dayton, Daniel. Baker, 
Isaac Schellinger, Abraham Baker, Nathan Mulford, Jacob 
Hedges, Jeremiah Barnes, John Gardiner, Jr., Aaron Fithian, 
David Talmadge, /r., /eremiah Sherrill, Nathan Conkling 
3d, Elnathan Parsons, Cornelius Bassett, David Miller, Peleg 
Miller, Elisha Miller, Daniel King, Daniel Edwards, iN^athan 
Miller, Stephen Burnet, /ames Field, Samuel Mulford, Benja- 
min Conkling, Gamaliel Bennett, Seth Parsons, Richard King, 
Mulford Conkling, William Bassett, Ezekiel Miller, John 
Huntting, Abraham Q,uaw, David Loper, John King, Ichabod 
Rayner, Smith Osborne, Abraham Miller, Jonathan Miller, 
Samuel Mulford, Ezekiel Jones, Ezekiel Jones, Jr., Nathan 
Conkling, Daniel Loper, Jeremiah Loper, David Edwards, Jr,. 
Edward Bennet, Ludlam Parsons, John Parsons, Josiah Mul- 
ford, Elisha Mulford, Jr., Stephen Russell, Jeremiah Hedges, 
Thomas Talmadge, Jeremiah Osborne, John Hedges, Samuel 
Hutchinson, Jacob Miller, Henry Miller, Ezekiel Hand, Ab- 
raham Conkling, Elisha Conkling, Elisha Osborne, Matthew 
Osborne, Jedediah Osborne, Jacob Osborne, Benjamin Hop- 
ping, Jonathan Squier, Jeremiah Hand, John Talmadge, Ab- 
raham Osborne, Henry Hopping, Elias Hand, Henry Dayton, 
Zebedee Osborne, John Parsons, John Stratton, Jacob Sherrill, 
Samuel Baker, Micah Hart, Benjamin Leek, Abraham Hed- 
ges, Jacob Osborne, Jonathan Schellinger, Thomas Edwards, 
David Baker, Sineus Conkling, James Loper, Stephen Cooper, 
Jr., Benjamin Eyres, Benjamin Hedges, John Parsons 4th, 
Nathaniel Domhiy, Edward Wick, Jeremiah Terry, William 
Barnes, Ananias Miller, Thomas Filer, John Hoox. 

" These may certify that every male in the Town of East- 
Hampton, have signed the above Association, that are capa- 
ble of bearing arms." 

By Order of the Committee, 

JOHN CHATFIELD, Chairman. 



appendix;, 82" 

The antiquity and Historic interest of the following deeds, 
it is thought will justify their insertion. 

V* COPY DEED OP 1660. 

This Indentnre, mad the first day of August, in the year of our Lord One 
thusand Six hundred and Sixtie, between the Old Sacham Squa, late wife of 
Wiandance, Deceased, and her son Wiancombone,Pogantone, Chekanow, Massa-^ 
quet, Powhe and Gentleman, the true and lavvfuU proprietors of the neck of Land 
Commonly known by the name of Meantauquit, on the Eastern end of Long island, 
the one partie, and Mr. Thomas Baker, Mr. Robert Bond, Mr. Thomas James, 
Mr. Lion Gardiner, Mr. John Mulford, John Hand and Benjamin Price, of the 
Plantation of Easthampton, on the Island aforesaid, the other partie, Witnesseth, 
that the abovenamed Sachem k?qua, together with her Son Wiancombone, Poga- 
tone, Chekanow, Massaquet, Powhe and gentleman, together with their associ- 
ates, do by these presents, fully Confirm, hold good, and firmly maintain and 
avouch the former contract or bargain, made between the aforesaid Wiandance 
and his associates, the one partie, and the Inhabitants of the aforesaid Easthamp- 
ton, the other partie, and do by these presents acknowledge, to have fully and 
firmly sold. Aliened, enfeoffed and Confirmed, and allso do by these presents, fully, 
firmly, and absolutely give, grant, aliene, enfeoff". Sell and Confirm, unto the 
aforesaid Thomas Bakev, Robert Bond, Thomas James, Lion Gardiner, John 
Mulford, John Hand, and Benjamin Price, together with their associates, all the 
aforesaid neck of Land, called Meantaquit, with all and Every part and parcel 
thereof, from sea to sea, from the utmost end of the Island, Eastward to the sea- 
side, unto the Other End of the said Land, westward adjoining to the bounds of 
East-Hampton aforesaid^ with all and Singular its rights, priviledges, members^ 
/arisdictions, irrtmunities, and appurtenances whatsoever, with illeadow. Wood, 
Stone, Cricks, ponds, with whatsoever doth, or may grow upon or issue from the 
same, with all profits and Commodities by Sei or Land unto the aforesaid Inhab-" 
itants of Easthampton, their heirs and assigns forever, to have and to hold, and 
from time to time forever, peaceably to enjoy the Same, without Disturbance or 
Molestation from the aforesaid proprietors or their Associates, or any of their 
heirs or Assigns, or any other by their means, Consent, or procurement, for the 
Consideration of One Hundred Pounds Sterling, to be well and truly paid in 
manner as followeth, viz : that the aforesaid Thomas Baker, Robert Bond, Thom- 
as James, Lion Gardiner, /ohn Mulford, John Hand, and Benjamin Price, and 
their associates, the Inhabitants of Easthampton, do well and truly and duely pay 
unto the aforenamed Indians, their heirs or assigns, the full and Just Sam of ten 
pounds Sterling every Year, either in Indian Corn, or else in good Wampum- 
peauge, at iive apenny,until the end of ten Years be Expired, and afterwards 
to be wholly and fully freed from any further or future demand or demands forever ; 
and fiirthermore, we, the aforesaid owners and proprietors of the aforesaid Land, 
for the full Confirmation of all and Every of the premises. Do acknowledge to 
have given peaceable and quiate possession of the Land aforesaid, to the aforesaid 
purchasers, and in token hereof, have diged up a piece of said land, and delivered 
it as our act and Deed, into the hands of the inhabitants of Easthampton ; and al- 
so do acknowledge to have Received the full Sum of ten bushels of Indian Corn, 
in part of payment of the first ten pounds ; and in Witness of all and every of 
the Premises, we have Each Partie set too our hands and seals, the day and year 
first above written. 

Tlie Corn to be paid at 4s. a bushel. 

Signed by the marks under seal, of Wiancombone, Sachem Squa, and others. 
Parties of the first part. 
Sealed and Delivered in presence of us Ricktkd Shaw, The mark of /ohn. 



83 APPENDIX. 

COPY DEED OP 1661. 

Bee it knowne unto all men by these presents, that I, the Sunk Squa of Meantauk, 
wife of Wiandanch.of late yeerea Deceased, and also I Wionkombone, Sonne of 
the foresaid Deceased partie, Sachem of Long-Island, together with Pokkatonn, 
Chief Counsellor, and the rest of or trusty Counsellors and associates, send greet- 
ing. Know ye, that Whereas there was a full and firme Indenture made between 
Mr. Thomas Baker, Mr. Robert Bond, Mr. Thomas James, Mr. Lion Gardiner, 
Mr. John Mulford, John Hand, Benjamin Price, Together with their associatea, 
the Inhabitants of Easthampton upon Long island, ye one partie, and I Sunk 
Squa, and also me Wionkombone, with the full Consent of my Counsellors and 
Servants, as also of my two Guardians, left by my deceased Father, viz. : Mr. 
Lion Gardiner of Easthampton, and Mr. David Gardiner, of ye Isle of wight, ye 
other partie, in ye yeere of or Lord One Thousand Six Hundred Sixtie, upon ye 
sixt day of August, whereby we did fully and firmly sell unto the Said parties, our 
neck of land called Montaukut, from sea to sea, from ye utmost end of that /neck 
Eastward Called wompenanit, to our utmost bounds westward, Called Napeake, 
with all priviledges and appurtenances belonging to the same, upon Condition 
there and then specifiad in that foresaid Indenture, and a Counterbond, bearing 
ye same Date, signed and sealed to us by ye foresaid parties, Inhabitants of East- 
Hampton, by virtue of which Counterbond wee had free libertie granted if wee 
see cause to Sit Down again upon ye said Land, this being the full purpose of us 
the Sunk Squa, of Wionkombone, Sachem, together with our associates, in Con- 
venient time to sitt down to liv* at ye Said Montaukut ; know yee allsoe,that 
whereas of late years, there hawing beene Sore Distress and Calamities befalen 
us by reason of ye Cruel opposition and Violence of or. most Deadly Enemie Nin- 
nicraft. Sachem of Narhigganset, whose Cruelty hath proceeded so farr/as to take 
away ye lives of many of or. Deare friends and relations, soe that we were forced 
to flic from ye said Montakut for shelter to our beloved friends and neigbors of 
Easthampton, whom wee found to be friendly in oui- distress, and whom wee must 
ever owne and aclinowledge as instruments under God, for ye preservation of or. 
lives and ye lives of or Wives and Children to this Day, and of that Land of 
Montakut from ye hands of or. Enemies, and since or. Comming amongst them 
ye relieving of us in or Extremities from time to time ; and now at last wee find 
ye said Inhabitants of Easthamton,4)ur Deliverers, Cordial and faithfull in their 
former Covvenants, leaving us freely to or. owne libertie to go or stay, being ready 
to perfornie all conditions of ye foresaid agreem't. After serious debate and delibera- 
tion, in Consideration of that love which we have and doe bear, unto these our trustie 
and beloved friends of Easthampton. upon our owne free and Voluntarie motion, 
have given and granted, and by these presents do give and grant and Confirme unto 
these our friends, ye Inhabitants of Easthampton, Excepting such as have Exemp- 
ted themselves from ye former agreement ; and shall from this our grant, /all that 
peiceor neck of Land belonging to Montakut Land, westward to afi-eshpondin 
a beach on this side. Westward to that place where the old Indian ffort stoode on 
ye other side, Eastward to ye new fort that is yet standing ; the name of ye pond 
being Quanuntowunk on ye North and konkhonganik on ye south, together. with 
all priviledges and appurtenances belonging to the foresaid land from south to north, i 
To have and t« hold ye same at free Commonage , to be ordered and disposed of for' 
the benefit of ye aforesaid Inhabitants of East-Hampton, themselves, their heirs, ad- 
ministrators. Executors and assignes forever ; to possess the same freely and qui- 
etely, without any matter of Challenge, clayme or demand of us, ye said Sunk 
Squa,aud Wionkombone Sachem, or our associates, or of any other person or persons 
whatsoever, for us, or in our name, or for our cause, means or procurement. And 
without any mony or other things therefor to be yielded, paid or done only for ye 
Baid Land, to us or our heires forever, and shall Justifie the possession of this fore- 
said Land, by these said Inhabitants of Easthampton, against any shall Questin 
their propertie in the same. Know yee allso,yt this is not only the De«de of race, 
ye Sunk Squa, and Wionkombone Sachem, but allso the act and D«ede of all our 
associatea and subjects, who have hadd formerly any propertio ia ye foresaid Lan d 



APPENDIX. 84 

they hawing manyfested their consent freely by a Voate, not one contradicting the 
same.asallso with ye consent of Mr. Lion Gardiner and Mr. David Gardiner, 
Whome the Deceased Father left as Overseers and Guardians of the foresaid Wi- 
ankombone 5achem ; know yee allso y t for ye securing of ye Easterne parte of 
itfontaukut Land, which ye Indians are to live upon, yt the Inhabitants of ye fore- 
said Easthampton shall from tima to time, keep up a sufficient fence upon ye 
North side of ye foresaid pond, and the Indians are to secure ye South side of ye 
foresaid pond, from all Cattle, Dureing ye time their Corn is upon the ground. And 
then Easthampton Cattle shall have Libertie Eastward, according to former agree- 
ment ; and that ye Indians of Montaukut shall have libertie if they see cause to 
sett their Houses upon ATeantauk Land, Westward of ye said pond, and to have 
firewood from time to time, on ye foresaid Land. Know allso, that whatever 
Cannoe or Deer shall cornea shore on ye North side, on any part of il/eantauk 
Land, Easthampton Inhabitants shall not hinder ye Sachem of them. And VVhere- 
BB ye deceased Sachem in his life, freely gave to 3Ir. Lion Gardiner and Mr. 
Thomas James what Whales should at any time be cast upon il/eantauk Land, 
as allso confirmed by me, Sunk Squa and Wionkombone iSachem since, and ye 
rest of our associates, which not being minded when former agreement was made, 
I, Sunk Squa, and allso I, Wainkombone Sachem, together with our associates, doe 
freely give to ye said Lion Gardiner and Thomas James, to be Eqnally divided be- 
tween them, the first Whale shall bee cast upon Montakut, to them and their 
heirs or assigns forever, wee give ye one halfe of all such IFhales as shall be cast 
uppon Montakut land, and the other half to be Divided by the Inhabitants of 
East-Hampton forever. Know yee, allso, yt as the said Inhabitants of East- 
hampton stand Engaged to us for pay for that land Eastv/ard of ye foresaid pond, 
. / Soe wee allso stand Engaged, neither Directly nor indirectly, to give, let or sell any 
part of that land, without consent of Easthampton. Know yee allso, yt if at any 
time hereafter, if Either through sickness or warr, or any other means, it shall 
come to pass yt ye Indians belongin to Montakut be taken away.soe yt it shall 
not bee safe for them to Continue there, that then those that survive shall hove lib- 
ertie to come to Easthampton for shelter, and be there provided ol land, and to 
have the former agreement fuUfilled, and to remaine as firme and sure, as though 
there never had bene any such act or Deed as here is specified, and that duringe 
the time of the Indians abode at Montakut, they shall be carefuU of doing any 
wrong to the English, either by their owne persons or doggs, or any other way 
whatsoever. In Tfitnessof ye premises wee do here set to our hands. Dated att 
Easthampton, Feb. 11, Anno. 2>om. 1661. 

Signed by the marks of the " Sunk Squa," " Wiankombombone Sachem," 
and nine other Indians, in behalf of the rest. 

Sealed, Signed and Z)elivered In presence of us, Edward Codner, Willuw 
Miller. 



85 APPENDIX. 

By deed dated December 1, 1670, reciting that they were" 
bound in a bond to the commissioners of Francis Lovelace, 
Governour, for the payment of four hundred bushels of Indi- 
an Corn, which had been forfeited, and their Lands had like- 
wise been mortgaged for the payment of the same, the amount 
of which was One hundred pounds, upOn the advice of the 
" Worshipfull William Wells of Southold," one of said com- 
missioners, and in consideration that Mr. John Mulford, Mr. 
Thomas James, Minister, and Jeremiah Conkling, Inhabitants 
of East-Hampton, had become bounden to said Commissioners 
for the payment of said Bond, the Indians gave and conveyed to 
them certain Lands on Montauk, Bounded as follows : " By us 
the fors'd parties, Wuchebehsuck, a place by the fort pond, being 
a Valley Southward from the fort Hill to Shahchippitchage, 
being on ye North side ye s'd Land, midway between the great 
pond and fort pond, so on a straight line to Chebiakinnauhsuk, 
from thence to a swamp whare the hay stacks stood, called 
ilfahchongitchuge, and so through the swamp to the great 
pond, then straight from the hay stacks to the great pond, so 
along by the pond to a place called Manunkquiang, on furth- 
est side the reeds growing on ye South End of the great pond 
Eastward, And so along to the sea side to a place called 
Choppauhshapangausuck, so straight from thence to the South 
Sea." 

This Deed was signed by "Mousup Sachem," Chekanoo, 
and seven others, including the "SunkSq,ua." 

This Deed was confirmed by Governor Lovelace, by an 
instrument dated May 23d, 167L And the interest therein 
conveyed to them, was by Mulford, James and Conkling, as- 
signed to the Town of East-Hampton '' Feb. 8, 1670-1," 



APPENDIX. 86 

COPY DEED OF 1687. 

Suffolk. 

This Indenture made this 25th of July, 1687, Witnesseth 
that we Wyandanch and Sasakotako, Sachems of Meantakett, 
with the consent of the Meantakett Indians, for divers good 
causes us thairunto moving, and more aspetially A vallewable 
Sum of Money in hand Reseived to the Vallew of One Hun- 
dred pounds, doe allinate, bargain and sell, and by theas pre- 
sents Have Allinated, bargained and sold and made over, all 
our tract of Land att Meantaket bounded by part of the Fort 
Pond, and fort pond bay west ; the English Land South by a 
line Run from the Fort Pond to the great pond, and soe from 
the south end of the great pond over to the South Sea, and 
soe to the utmost extent of ^the Island from sea to sea, bound- 
ed by the maine otion on the South, and by the bay or sound 
on the North side. All which wee have sould unto Leftent. 
John Wheler, Samwell Mulford, Thomas Osborne, Steplien 
Hand, Stephen Hedges, Samwell persons, John Mulford, Trus- 
tees of the freeholders and comonality of the town of East- 
hampton, and Benjamen Osborne, employed by the trustees to 
them in the behalfe and for the use of themselves and these 
Proprietors, namly, John Hand's Widdow, John Stretton, 
Thomas Talmag, Thomas. Osborne, John Mulford, Samuel 
Mulford, Tho'sBaker, Thomas Mulford widow Ehzabeth Ba- 
ker's 2 alotments, Samwell fithirm, Samwell Brooks, /oshua 
Garlick, Richard Shaw, /acob Scelinger, John Miller, sr., Nath. 
Bishup's lott, William Barnes, Samwell persons, the lot which 
was Burdsal's, John Edwards, William Edwards, Left. John 
Wheler, Capt. Josiah Hobart, Robert Dayton, Thomas Chat- 
field, Jeremiah Conkling, Mr. Thomas James, that lott which 
was Georg Millor's, that lott which was Jeremiah Meacham 
Lott, Stephen Hedges, Benjamin .Osbotn, that which was 
Thomas Osborn's lott, John Hopin Thomas Diment's lott, 
Stephen Hand, John Osborn to them thair Heirs assignes and 
to every of them their respective hairs, assignes and adminis- 
trators, All and every of the demised premises, To Have and 
to hold, to Injoy and poses, to them and their Hairs for Ever, 
with all privileges and apurtenances thair unto belonging, 
without the least Lett, hindrance or molestation by from us, 
our heirs or assignes, or an)^ in our names ; and wee doe by 
these presents, give them posession, with turf and twige, and 
Ingadge to give them further and better security, as any lam- 
ed counsel in the Law shall thinke meete for their security 
and safety, thay being att the charg of writing. And for the 



87 APPENDIX. 

trew performance hear off, wee have hereunto sett our hands 
and fixed our seals, the day and year first above Avritten. 

Signed by " Weyandanch " and 17 others tinder seal, and 
acknowledged before "John Howell, Justis," August 3d, 
1687. Attest. 

JOHN MEREDITH, 

THOMAS HARIS. 



\ TH 



There are numerous other Deeds and agreements in rela- 
tion to the Land of Montauk. In March, 1702-3, a final 
Deed was taken from the Indians, by the Trustees of the 
Town, for the Land conveyed by the Deed of July 25th, 1687, 
and confirming the purchase of that date, to the Trustees, 
for the use and benefit of the proprietors, and acknowledging 
the receipt of a part of the purchase money therefor, from 
said Proprietors. At the same time a Lease was executed by 
the Trustees, to the Indians, vesting them with the limited 
enjoyment of either of two fields, in themselves and their 
posterity. 

In 1702, Doctor John Bridges and Rip Van Dam, obtained 
from Lord Cornbury, a License to purchase of the Indians, 
" Vacant and unappropriated Lands in Suffolk County." — 
Under that License, they obtained from the iVfontauk Indians, 
a Deed of that part of ik/bntauk, lying East of Fort Pond, 
and claimed Title thereto. By Deed dated May 30th 1712, 
the Title or claim of Van Dam, was assigned by him to 
Samuell Mullbrd, and Mulford, by endorsement on the same, 
assigned it to the Trustees of the Town, for the use of the 
purchasers mentioned in a Deed made July 25th, 1687, and 
only unto them their heirs, &.c, the 23d December, 1712. In 
1720-1, Mulford confirmed his assignment of December, 1712, 
and acknowledged that the Proprietors of Montauk, had 
paid him all the money he had expended in procuring the as- 
signment of Van Dam's claim. 



appendix:. Sf^ 



EAST-HAMPTON PATTENT. 



Thomas Dongan, Captain Generall, Governor-iii-Chiefe and 
Vice Admiral of the Province of New-Yorke and its depen- 
dencyes, under his Majesty James ye Second, by the grace of 
God, of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, King, defen- 
der of the faith, &c. To all to whom this shall come, sendeth 
greeting : — Whereas Richard Nicholls, Esq., Go vernour under 
his then Royall Highness, James Duke of York and Albany 
&c. Now his present Majesty of all his territoryes in Amer- 
ica, did by a certain writing or Pattent, under his hand and 
seal, bearing date the 13th day of March, in the 19th year of his 
late Majesty's Reign,/and in the year of our Lord 1666, ratifie, 
confirm, and graunt'unto Mr. John Mulford, Justice of the 
Peace, Mr. Thomas Baker, Thomas Chatiield, Jeremiah Conk- 
lin, Stephen Hedges, Thomas Osborne, Senior, John Osborn, 
as Patentees for and in the behalfe of themselves and their asso- 
ciates, the freeholders and Inhabitants of the town of East- 
Hampton, situate, lying and being in ye East riding of 
Yorkshire, upon Long Island, in the easternmost part of said 
Island, and to their heirs successors and assigns, all/that tract 
of land which already hath been or that hereafter shall be pur- 
chased for and on the behalfe of the said town, whether from the 
Natives Indyan Proprietors or others within the bounds and 
limits hereafter set forth and expres't ; that is to say there 
West bounds beginning from the East limits of the bounds of 
Southampton, as they are now laid out and staked according 
to agreement and consent ; so to stretch East to a certain Pond, 
commonly called the FortPond, which lies within the old bounds 
of the lands belonging to the Montauk Indyans, and from 
thence to go on still East to the utmost extent of the Island ; 
on the north they are bounded by the Bay, and on the South 
they are bounded by the Sea or maine Ocean. All which 
said tract of Land within the bounds and limits before men- 
tioned, and all or any plantation thereupon, from henceforth 
are to belong and appertaine to the said town, and be within 
the jurisdiction thereof, together vx^'ith all Havens, Harbours, 
Creeks, (Quarries, Woodlands, Meadows, Pastures, Marshes, 
Waters, Lakes, Rivers, Fishing, Havf king, Hunting and Fowl- 
ing and all other Profits, Commodityes, Emoluments and 
hereditaments, to the said tract of land and premisses within 
the limits and bounds Aforementioned, described, belonging, 
or in any wise appertaining. To have and to hold all and sin- 



89 APPENDIX. 

gular the said lands, hereditaments and premises with there and 
every of their appurtenances and of every part and parcell thereof 
to the said Pattentees, their associates, their heirs, successors 
and assigns, to tlie proper use and hehoof of the soid paten- 
tees and their associates, their heirs, successors and assigns 
forever. Moreover the said Richard Nicholls, Esq., Gov- 
ernour as aforesaid, did thereby ratifie, confirm and graunt unto 
the said patentees and their associates their heirs successors and 
assigns, all the priviledges belonging to a toAvn within this Gov- 
ernment, and that the place of their present habitation shall 
continue and retaine the name of East Hampton, by which 
name and stile it shall be distinguished and known in all 
bargains and sales, deeds, records and writings, the}'" the said 
pattentees and their associates, their heirs, successors and as- 
signs rendering and paying such dutyes and acknowledgments 
as now are or hereafter shall be constituted and established 
by ye laws of this Government, under the obedience of his 
Royall Highness, his heirs and successors as by the said wri- 
ting or pattent, recorded in the Secretary's office, relation being 
thereunto had may more fully appear, and whereas there is part, 
of a certain tract of land within the bounds and limits aforesaid, 
commonly called Mountack, which remains |yet unpurchased 
from the Indyans : and whereas Samuel Mulford, and Thomas 
James, some of the freeholders ofthesaid town of East-Hamp- 
ton, by the request of the rest of the freeholders of the said 
town have made application unto me that I would grant lib- 
erty unto the freeholders of said town to purchase said tract 
of land of the Indyans, and that the fee and inheritance 
thereof may only belong unto the freeholders of said 
Town, their heirs successors and assigns forever, and that 
I would confirme the premisses by pattent, under the scale 
of the province. Now Know Yee, that I, the said Thomas 
Dongan, by virtue of the power and authority to me derived 
from his most sacred Majesty aforesaid, and in pursuance of 
the same, for and in consideration of the Q,uitrent hereinafter 
reserved, and other good and lawful considerations me there- 
unto moveing, have granted, ratified, released and confirmed, 
and by these presents do grant, ratifie, release and confirm 
unto Thomas James, Capt. Josiah Hobart, Capt. Thomas Tal- 
mage, Lieut, John Wheeler, Ensigne Samuel Mulford, John 
Mulford, Thomas Chatficld, senior, Jeremiah Conkling, Ste- 
phen Hand, Robert Dayton, Mr. Thomas Baker, and Thomas 
Osborne, freeholders and iuhabitats of East-Hampton, here- 
inafter erected and made one body corporate and politique, and 
willed and determined to be called by the name of the Trus- 
tees of the freeholders and comonalty of the town of EastHamp- 



APPENDIX, 90 

ton and their successors, all the aforesaid tracts and necks of 
lands within the limits and bounds aforesaid, together with 
all and singular the Houses, Messuages, Tenements, Buildings, 
Milnes, Milndams, Fenceings, Inclosures, Gardens, Orchards^ 
Fields, Pastures, Woods, Underwoods, Trees, Timber, Feed- 
ings, Common of Pasture, Meddows, Marshes, Swamps, 
Plaines, Rivers, Rivulets, Waters, Lakes, Ponds, Brooks,. 
Streams, Beeaches, (Quarries, Mines, Mineralls, Creeks, Har- 
bours, Highways and easements. Fishing, Hawking, Hunting 
and Fowling, (silvei- and gold mines excepted,) and all other 
Franchises, Profits, Commodityes and here ditaiiients what- 
soever, to the said tracts and necks of land and premises be- 
longing or in any wise appertaining or therewithall used, ac- 
cepted, reputed, or taken, to belong, or in any wise to appur- 
taine, to all intents, purposes and constructions whatsoever, as 
also all and singular the rent, arrearages of rents, issues and 
proffits of the said tract of land and premisses heretofore due 
and payable, as also I do by these presents give and grant full 
power, licence and authority unto the said Trustees of the 
Freeholders and comonalty of the said town of Easthamp- 
ton, their successors, to purchase the said tract of land of the 
/Native Indyans,rcommonlly called Mountauk, and if it should 
so happen that tne'said Indyans should be unwilling to make 
sale of the said tract of land, commonly called Mountauk, 
within the limits aforesaid, then I further will and determine 
on behalfe of his most sacred Majesty, his heirs and succes- 
sors, that the said Trustees of the freeholders and comonalty 
of the town of East-Hampton aforesaid, and their successors for- 
ever, shall at times hereafter be the only persons capable in 
the law for the purchase of the said tract of land, commonly 
called Mountauk, and none others ; to have and to hold all the 
before recited tract of land and premises with their and every 
of their appurtenances unto the said Thomas James, Capt. 
Josiah Hobert, Capt. Thomas Talmage, Lieut. John Wheel- 
er, Ensigne Samuel Mulford, John Mulford, Thomas Chatfield, 
senior, Jeremiah Conklin, Stephen Hand, Robert Dayton, Mr. 
Thomas Baker, Thomas Osljorne, Trustees of freeholders 
and comonalty of the town of East-Hampton, and their suc- 
cessors forever, to and for the severall and respective uses fol- 
lowing, and to no other use, intent and purpose whatsoever : 
that is to say as for and concerning all and singular the seve- 
rall and respective parcells of land and meadow part of the gran- 
ted premises in any wise taken up and appropriated before 
the day of the date hereof, unto the severall and respective 
present freeholders or inhabitants of the said town of East- 
Hampton, by virtue of the before recited deed or patteut to 



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91 APPKNDIX. 

the only use, benefit and bchoofe of the said respective pres- 
ent Freeholders and Inhabitats and their severall and respec- 
tive heirs and assigns for ever : and as for and concerning all 
and every such parcell or parcells, tract or tracts of land, re- 
mainder of the granted premisses not, yet taken up or appro- 
priated to any particular person or persons by virtue of the 
before recited Deed or Pattent, to the use, benefit and behoof of 
such as have been purchasers thereof and their heirs and as- 
signes forever, in proportion to their severall and respective pur- 
chases thereof, made as tenoants in comon, without any let, 
hindrance or molestation, to be had or rese'rved upon pre- 
tence of joynt tenancy or survivorship, any thing contained 
herein to the contrary thereof in any ways notwithstanding. 
And as for and concerning that part of the aforerecited tract of 
land that. remains as yet unpurchased of the Indyans com- 
monly called Montauk, together with all and singular the 
appurtenances thereto belonging, unto the only proper use, 
benefit and behoof of the said Trustees of the freeholders and 
commonalty of the town of Ea'st-Hampton, and their successors 
forever, To be holden of his said Majesty, his heirs and 
successors, in free and comhion soccage, according to the man- 
our of East Greenwich in the County of Kent, within his 
Majestye's realme of England, yielding, rendering and paying 
therefor, yearly and every year from henceforth, unto our 
Soveraigne Lord the King, his heirs and successors, or to such 
officer or officers as shall be appointed to receive the same, the 
summ of one Lamb, or the value thereof in currant money of 
this province, upon the five-and-twentyeth day of March, at 
New- York, in full of all rents or formei^ reserved rents, sums, 
acknowledgements and demands whatsoever ; and further by 
virtue of the power and authority to me, the /said Thomas 
Dongan, given as aforesaid, and in pursuance of the same, 
and for the reasons and considerations above recited, I have 
willed, determined, declared and granted, and by these pres- 
ents do will, declare, determine and grant, that the said In- 
habitants and Freeholders, the freemen of East-Hampton 
aforesaid, commonly called by the name of the freeholders 
and Inhabitants of the town of East-Hampton, or by what- 
ever name or names they are called or named, and their heirs 
or successors, forever henceforward, are, and shall be one body 
corporate and politique in Deed and name, by the name of 
the Trustees of the Freeholders and Commonalty of the town 
of East-Hampton, and the by them name; of the Trustees of 
the Freeholdeis and Commonalty of the town of East-Hamp- 
ton, one body Corporate and Politique in deed and name, I 
have really and fully, for his said Majesty, his heirs and sue- 



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92 



cessors, erected, made, ordained, constituted and declared by 
these presents, and that by the same name they have succes- 
sion forever ; and that they and their successors, by ye name 
of the Trustees of the Freeholders and Commonalty of the 
town of East-Hampton, be and shall be forever in future 
times, persons able and capable in law, to have, perceive, re- 
ceive and possess, not only all and singular the premisses, but 
other Messuages, Lands, Tenements, Privileges, Jurisdictions, 
Franchizes and Hereditaments of whatsoever kinde or species 
they shall be, to them and their successors in ifee forever, or 
for the term of a year or years, or otherwise whatsoever man- 
ner it bee, and also goods, chattells and all other things of 
whatsoever name, nature, quality or spacies they shall bee : 
and also to give, grant, release, aliene, assigne and dispose of 
lands, tenenements, hereditaments, and all and every other 
thing and things, act and acts, to do and execute by the name 
aforesaid ; and that by the same name of ye Trustees of the 
Freeholders and Commonalty of the town of East- Hampton, 
to plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, de- 
fend and be defended. They are and may be capable, in 
whatsoever place and places, and before whatsoever Judges 
and Justices or other persons or officalls of his said Majesty, 
his heirs and successors, in all and all manner of actions, 
plaints, suits, complaints, causes, matters and demands what- 
soever, of v/hat kind, qua.lity and species the same be and 
shall be, in manner and forme as any other of his Majestye's 
liedge people within this province can or are able to have, re- 
quire, receive, possess, enjoy, retaine, give, grant release, alien, 
assign, and dispose, j^lead and be impleaded, answer and be an- 
swered unto, defend and be defended, permit or execute. And 
for the better enabling of the freeholders and Commonalty of 
the town of East-Hampton aforesaid, in doing and executing 
all and singular the premises, I have willed, granted de- 
termined, and by these presents do will, grant and determine, 
that from henceforward and forever hereafter, the said trustees 
of the freeholders and commonalty of the town of East-Hamp- 
ton, do and may have and use a common seal, which shall 
serve to execute the causes and affairs whatsoever, of them 
and their successors. And further I will, and by these pre- 
sents in behalf of his said Majesty, his heirs and successors, 
that henceforward forevermore, there be and shall be Trustees - 
of the freeholders and commonalty of the town of Easthampton 
aforesaid, to be chosen and elected as in these presents here- 
after is mentioned, who shall beand shall be called the Trustees 
of the Freeholders and Commonalty of the town of East- 
Hampton, and tliey and their successors, shall and may at ail 



93 APPENDIX. 

convenient times hereafter, upon a publique summons, to be 
obtained at the request of any three of the Trustees aforesaid, 
from any of his Majestye's Justices of the peace of the said 
town, or, for defauh thereof, from any of the Justices of the 
County of Suffolk for the time being ; assemble and meet to- 
gether in the town house of the said town, or in such other 
publique place as shall be from time to time appointed, to 
make such acts and orders in writing, for the more orderly 
doing of the premises as they, the said Trustees of the Free- 
holders and Commonalty of the town of East-Hampton afore- 
said^ and their successors from time to time, shall and may 
think convenient, so always as the said acts and orders be in 
no ways repugnant to the laws of England and of this prov- 
ince, which now are, or hereafter may be established, and that 
they be not in any wise against the true intent and meaning 
of these presents. And also I will and ordain and determine, 
that all and singular the aforesaid acts and orders from time 
to time, shall be made and ordered by the vote of the major 
part of the said Trustees of the freeholders and commonalty 
of the the town of East-Hampton aforesaid, oi; at least by the 
major part of such of them as shall from time to t!ime assem- 
ble and meet together in manner as aforesaid, so all ways 
there be not fewer in number than seven of the said trustees 
present at such meetings, so to be held as aforesaid ; and for 
the better execution of this grant in this behalf, I have as- 
signed, nominated, created, constituted and made, and by 
these presents do assign, nominate, create, constitute and 
make, Thomas James, Capt. Josiah Hobart, Capt. Thomas 
Talmage, Lieut. John Wheeler, Ensigne Samuel Mulford, 
John Mulford, Thomas Chatneld, senior, Jeremiah Conklin, 
Stephen Hand, Robart Dayton, Mr. Thomas Baker, Thomas 
Osborne, to stand and be the first moderne -Trustees of the 
freeholders and commonalty of the town of East-Hampton, 
to continue in the aforesaid office from and after the date of 
these presents, untill the time that others be elected and cho- 
sen in their stead, according to the manner and form herein 
after expressed. And moreover, I do by these presents, for 
and on behalf of his most sacred Majesty afforesaid, his heirs 
and successors, appoint that the Trustees of the freeholders 
and commonalty of the town of East-Hampton, Constables, 
and Assessors within the town of East-Hampton aforesaid, 
be yearlv chosen on the first Tuesday of April forever, viz. : 
twelve 'Prustees of the frceliolders and commonalty • of the 
town of Piast-Hampton, two Constables and two Assessors, 
in such publiqne place as the Trustees for the time being 
shall appoint and direct, and that tlic trustocs, constables and 



APPENDIX. 94 

assessors be chosen by the majority of voices of the freehalders 
and freemen of the town of East-Hampton aforesaid. And 
lastly I give and grant, for and on behalfe of his said Majes- 
ty, his heirs and successors, by these presents to all and every 
person and persons, and to whatsoever person, subject to his 
said Majesty, his heirs and successors, free and lawful power, 
ability and authority, that they or any of them, any Messuages 
Tenements, Lands, Meadows, Feedings, Pastures, Woods, 
Underwoods, Rents, Revertions, services and other hereflita- 
ments whatsoever, within the said county of Suffolk, which 
they hold of his said Majesty, his heirs and successors, unto 
the aforesaid Trustees of the freeholders and commonalty of 
the town of East-Hampton and their successors, shall and 
may give, grant, bargain, sell and alienate, To have, hold 
and enjoy, unto the said Trustees of the freeholders and com- 
monalty of the town of East-Hampton and their successors for- 
ever, yielding and paying therefor unto his said Majesty, his heirs 
and successors, on the said twenty-fifth day of Marcli, yearly and 
every year forever, the full and just sum of fo;-ty shillings, 
current money of this Province at New- York. Wherefore by 
virtue of the power and authority aforesaid, T do, will and 
command, for and on behalfe of his said Majesty, his heirs 
and successors, that the aforesaid Trustees of the freeholders 
and commonalty of the town of East-Hampton and their suc- 
cessors, have, hold, use and enjoy, and that they shall and 
may forever have, hold, use and enjoy, all the libertyes, au- 
thorityes, customs, orders, ordinances, franchizes, acquittances, 
land, tenements and hereditaments, goods and chattels aforesaid, 
according to the tennure and effect of these presents, without 
the let or hindrance of any person or persons whatever. In 
Testimony whereof, I have caused the seal of the said Prov- 
ince to be hereunto affixed, and these presents to be entered in 
the secretary's office. Witness my hand at fort James, the 
ninth day of December, One thousand six hundred eighty-six, 
and in the second year of the reigne of said soveraigne Lord 
James the second. King of England, Scotland, France and: 
Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. 

THOMAS DONGAN. 

By his Excellency's command, 

J. L. SWINTON. 

At a counsell held at Fort James, in New- York, the 9th 



95 APPENDIX. 

day of December, 1686. Present, his Excellency, the Gov- 

ernour, 

MAJOR ANTHONY BROCKELS, 
MR. FREDERICK PHILIPS, 
MR. STEPH. V. CORTLANDT, 
MR. JOHN SPRAGGE, 
MAJOR JARVIS BAXTER, 

This Pattent was approved of. 

J. L. SWINTON. 

May it please yo'r Excellency, The Attorney General 
hath perused this Pattent, and findes nothing contained there- 
in prejuditiall to his Majestye's interest. 

Examined December ye 9th, 1686. 

JA. GRAHAM. 

Recorded in the Secretary's office for the province of New- 
York, Lib. No. 2, Book of Pattents begun 1686. 

J. L. SWINTON, D. Secry'r. 

East-Hampton, Town Clerk's office, ) I have have compared the preceding 
August 5th, 1850. ) with the original on file in this office, 

and do certify the same to be a correct transcript therefrom. 

DAVID BAKER, Town Clerk. 



List Supervisors of East-Hampton, from 1699 to 1799 inclusive. 

Abraham Schellenger, 1699, 1700. 

Thomas Chatfie Id, 1701. 

John Mulford, 1702-3. 

Capt. John Wheeler, 1704, '6, '7, '10, '11, '12, '13, '14, '15, '16. 

Cornelius Conkling, 1705. 

Capt. Matthias Burnet, 1718/19, '20, '21, '22 '23, '24, '26, '27, '28, '29, '30, 
'32,'33,'34,'35, '36, '37, '38. 

Eleazar Miller, 1739, '40. 

Thomas Chalfield, 1741, '42, '43. 

Cornehus Conkling, 1744, '45, '46, '47, '48, '49, '50, '51, '52, '53, '54, '55, '56, 
•57,'58, '59, 'GO, •62,'63. 

Capt. Isaac Barnes, 1761. 

Burnet Miller, 1764, '65, '66, '67, '69, '70, '71, '73, '73, '74. '75, '76. 

Col. Abraham Gardiner, 1768. 

Nathaniel Doniiny, 1777, '78, '79. 

Ezekiel Mulorfd, 1780, '81, '82, '83, '84. 

Caiit. John Dnyton, 1785, '86, '87, '88. 

Abraham Miller, 1789, '90, '91, '92, '93, '94, '95, '96, '99. 

Jonathan Dayton, 1798. 



O D E / 

TO COMMEMORATE THE 200tH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 
SETTLEMENT OF 

EAST-HAMPTON. 



Come ye who have gone forth from this fair Isle, 
To win friends, fortune, fame — in other chmes— 
Back to your early haunts and homes awhile, 
Unroll with us, the records of old times ; 
Call to the fresU young hours now fleeting fast 
" Ho, hurrying train — what of the dim old past V 

What of the dim old past "? why seek to stay 
The rushing present, with such bootless quest ? 
Ask the grey grave-stones crumbling in decay. 
Who sleep beneath, in deep and dreamless resti 
Ask tireless ocean, booming on the shore. 
Who trod those wave-wash'd sands in days of yore ? 

Who trod those wave-washed sands ? high hearts of eld ! 

Strong men of giant minds, and stalwart mould. 

By goading wrongs to daring deeds impell'd. 

Patient of toil — in danger calm and bold — 

Wise, wary, watchful, weighing all things well, 

Men whose stern will oppression could not quell. 

'Neath these grey stones, who sleep in dreamless rest ? 
Men, faithful — tervent — eloquent — sincere — 
Dauntless to do their master's high behest, 
James — Huntting — Bueli — household words and dear. 
Names loved and lisp'd in childhood's earnest tones — 
N-ames breathed in prayer from altars and. hearth-stones. 

And one more dear ye mourn — one who but now 
Call'd in the dewy dawn of manhood's pride. 
With glory beaming on his fair young brow, 
Went calmly down to slumber by their side, 
Teaching in life and breathing from his dust 
" Jehovah Jireh ! peace — be still — and trust." 



* The Odes were composed for the occasion, by the gifted Miss Cornelia Hun- 
tington, daughter of Dr. Abel Huntington, of East-Hampton. The one on page 
!) 7 was composed with the understanding that the celebration would be held on 
Christmas-day. It was postponed liowever, until the. '?6th, but not soon enough 
to substitute another Ode. 



O D E. 



Hush — hush ! the year is dying — 
Hark ! through old forests dim — 
The wailing winds are sighing. 
Their requiem over him — 
In quiet, deep and holy, 
He sinks to his repose ; 
And languidly and slowly 
His weary eye-lids close. 

Now some with tearful sadness, 
The parting year review ; 
While others hail with gladness, 
The advent of the 7tew, 
In glad young hearts are welling 
Fresh fountains of delight. 
In many a festive dwelling 
The Christmas fires are bright. 

And stricken ones are weeping 

Beside the darkened hearth. 

O'er loved and lost ones sleeping, 

Low in the tranquil earth — 

Strange — strange — what bitter blighting- 

What deeds to startle thought — 

Wild, wonderful, exciting, 

One short, sad year hath wrought ! 

While we stir the dust of ages, 
Time's dreamy realms explore — 
Spell out from moukl'ring pages. 
Their quaintly written lore — 
'Twere well to bind tiiis lesson. 
For profit, on the heart, 
" Men only live to hasten 
Like shadows to depart." 

See ! shining o'er life's billow 
That star whose guiding ray. 
Stood where, on hallow'd pillow. 
The Babe of Bethlehem lay ! 
And still those rays illuming, 
Low porch — and fretted dome — 
Proclaim thy gloriou.'; coining, 
Salvator Hominum ! 



At the conclusion of the exercises in the church, a vcrv 
large concourse of citizens and strangers sat down to a mast 
sumptuous banquet, prepared for the occasion, by Thomas T. 
Parsons, Esq., of East-Hampton. 

The meeting of old friends — the rushing recollections of the 
past — the exhuberant hilarity of youth^ — the strength of man- 
hood. The wisdom and gray hairs of age, all commingled, 
rendered this Feast one of the most intensely interesting 
scenes ever witnessed. Every soul and every circumstance 
conspired most happily to pay an appropriate and harmonious 
tribute to the memory of that heroic band of our ancestors 
who first settled East-Hampton. 

The folio win 2: are some of the Toasts drank on tlie occasion : 



REGULAR TOASTS. 



1st. Our Fathers : they united faith and works. Gromwell 
said, " Trust in God and keep your powder dry." 

2d. Our Mothers : let their daughters honor their memory 
by imitating their virtues. 

3d. 1649 : a year memorable for the settlement of the town 
of East-Hampton. 

4th. 1749 : the completion of our first century — uncelebrat- 
ed, but not the less to be remembered. 

5th. 1849 : not unhonored in the calendar of centuries. 

6th. James, Huntting, and Buell, the three successive se- 
mi-centinarian pastors of this town ; their works survive themj 

7th. The Old Town Patents : the palladium of our rights. 

8th. The Patentees of the Town of East-Hampton of 1666j 
and 1686 : honor to their memory. 

9th. The Old Church : venerable for its age, hallowed in 
its influence, it has withstood the storms of one hundred and 
thirty-two years. 



9.9 APPENDIX. 

lOtli. Clinton Academy : may her children continue to rise 
up and call her blessed. 

11th. The Old Town Clock, one hundred and fifteen years 
old : may it run a hundred and fifteen more. 

12th. Wyandanch, Sachem of Montauket, 1658 : the friend 
of the white man. 

13th. The Ladies of East-Hampton : as the garlands their 
hands have woven, adorn our venerable church, so do their 
graces embeUish the household virtues they inherit. 



VOLUNTEER TOASTS. 



The manners of our forefathers, the expression of nature : 
may they continue forever the manners of their descendants. 

" The Medical profession of East-Hampton " — (impromptu 
by another,) " Sure death to all diseases." 

" The people of East-Hampton : they have Hands for use- 
ful labor, Parsons for guides, and Hedges for defence." 

The men of the past : " there were giants in those days." 

The men of the future : nature has not yet exhausted her 
list of great names. 

The men of the present generation : their character, mould- 
ed by the men of the past, must itself mould that of the men 
of the future. 

The Saxon and the Norman : their mingled blood flows in 
the veins of the Yankee. 

Our kindred in the Old World : we recognize John Bull as 
our father ; the dweller on the banks of the Seine as our 
brother republican ; and the dweller y)\\ the banks of the 
Rhine as our '•' o)usin'QyQYm.'Mi."' 



APPENDIX. 100 

" Drink ye to her that each loves best : 

And if ye nurse a flame 
That's known but to her mutual breast. 

We will not ask her name." — Campbell. 

Modern witches : 

" Our witches are no longer old 

And -wrinkled beldams Satan-sold, 

But young and gay and laughing creatures, 

With the heart's sunshine in their features." 

Whittier. 

The Orator of the day : may he witness many returns of 
the centennial anniversary of the settlement of the town ! 
" May he live a thousand years ! may his shadow never be 
less !" 



ERRATA AND ADDENDA. 



Page 1, 9th line from top, for " Religious," read " Religion." 

Page 18, after the 8th line from top, read — " Eighth Pastor, Rev. Alexander 
Bullions labored here a few months, and removed to Waterford, Saratoga Co. N. Y. 

Page 26, 13th line from top, insert after " Town," the word " Street." 

Page 35, 5th line from bottom, instead of" Sawwounnutowhork," read " Saw- 
wonnuntoh. 

Page 36, 7th Une from top, instead of " Mutchesumetook," read " Mutcheahe- 
smetooh." 

Page 51, 16th line from top, for " 1725," read " 1735." 

Page 54, 6th line from bottom, after " the," insert " other," and after " Estate," 
insert " in East-Hampton." 

Page 70, the two lines above, the note should read, "3, David Talmadge died 
1811, aged 76. 4, David Talmadge died 1822, aged 56. 

The following additional wror? v,'hich by an oversight were not corrected nt 
first are here noted. The first line in the first stanza upon the cover and title 
page should read thus, 

" They haunt your breezy hillsides, green vales and thundering floods." 

On page 18, the year of the decease of Rev. Thomas .Tames, instead of 1686, 
should read " 1(^98." On the same page the time of settlement of Rev. Nathnniel 
Huntting, instead of 1609, should read " 1699." And on the same page the time 
of the decease of Rev. Joseph D. Condit, may be read as follows, " died Sept. 19, 
1847." 

On page 20, after the third fine the following in the manuscript was omitted in 
printing and should be supplied — " They then yo on to recite the payment oltiieir 
taxes as a further reason why they were entitled to the privileges of a free assembly, 
which they declared to be one of the " Fundamentall Lawes of England," and they 
conclude with the bold determination that if the Governor refused them their rights 
they would present to the throne itself their petition for redress." 

The above correction on page 51, 16th line from U)\> should be '• 1753/' not 
1725, «or 1735. 



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