Founders of the town of East Hampton

Founders of the town of East Hampton

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Pre-Revolution: Puritans and Montauks

1637 Lion Gardiner, an English officer and military engineer, buys an island off eastern Long Island from Poggaticut, sachem of the Manhassets, and moves there from Connecticut with his wife and children. He calls it the Isle of Wight. Long known as Gardiners Island, it was annexed to East Hampton in 1788 and is still owned by Gardiner's descendants. ....

Southold, Southampton, and East Hampton

New Netherland Institute - Eastern Long Island

In 1640, a group of "straitened" English pioneers left the town of Lynn in the Massachusetts Bay colony in search of land and a better life. They thought they had found it when they reached a pleasant cove on the northwestern coast of Long Island (believed to be the site of the present-day city of Oyster Bay). As far as they knew, this land fell under the patent of the English Lord Stirling, and so they entered into an agreement with the aristocrat's agent for them to found a community. What they didn't understand was that the Dutch claimed the whole of Long Island, and when news of their settlement made its way back to New Amsterdam, the director, Willem Kieft, sent a contingent of soldiers to the spot. After an altercation, the Dutch imprisoned some of the Englishmen, convincing the settlers to try another place. They moved further east, and established a community, which they named Southold-the first European settlement of what would become Suffolk County. Soon other English villages-Southampton and East Hampton-sprang up, and the English takeover of eastern Long Island was under way.

“The History of East Hampton” by Bob Hefner

East Hampton was the third town established on eastern Long Island by New England colonists. It followed Southold, settled in 1640 by the New Haven Colony, and Southampton, also founded in 1640 by a group from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Settlement of the Town of East Hampton was preceded by Lion Gardiner’s arrival on Gardiner’s Island in 1640. Gardiner was granted the island as an independent manor in 1639 which it remained until after the American Revolution when it was annexed to the Town of East Hampton.

In 1648 the governors of the New Haven and Connecticut Colonies and their associates purchased from the Montauk Indians approximately 31,000 acres on Long Island’s South Fork. The purchase extended from Southampton Town eastward to Nominicks, the first highlands of the Montauk peninsula. This group of investors in turn sold shares in their purchase to would-be settlers who originated from a number of different New England towns. The thirty-four original settlers obtained full title to the land in 1651 from the Connecticut governors and their associates. By this time the new town was known as East Hampton. East Hampton’s New England settlers retained their ties to that region. East Hampton adopted the laws of Connecticut Colony in 1653 and united with Connecticut Colony in 1657. Although annexed to New York Colony in1664, East Hampton retained a primary cultural and commercial attachment to New England well into the nineteenth century.

Wikipedia

East Hampton was the first English settlement in the state of New York. In 1639 Lion Gardiner purchased land, what became known as Gardiner's Island, from the Montaukett people. In 1648 a royal British charter recognized the island as a wholly contained colony, independent of both New York and Connecticut. It kept that status until after the American Revolution, when it came under New York State and the Town of East Hampton authority. On June 12, 1640, nine Puritan families from Lynn, Massachusetts landed at what is now known as Conscience Point, in Southampton; some later migrated to present-day East Hampton. Among the first English settlers in East Hampton were John Hand, Thomas Talmage, Daniel Howe, Thomas Thomson, John Mulford, William Hedges, Ralph Dayton, Thomas Chatfield and Thomas Osborn.[11]

East Hampton was first called Maidstone, after Maidstone, Kent, England. The name was later changed to "Easthampton", reflecting the geographic names of its neighbors, Southampton and Westhampton.[15] In 1885 the name was split into two words, after the local newspaper the East Hampton Star began using the two-word name. "Maidstone" is frequently used in place names throughout the town, including the Maidstone Golf Club.

References

• http://www.ehamptonny.gov/343/Demographics East Hampton Town is the easternmost town on Long Island (Suffolk County, New York State). It encompasses a land area of 70 square miles on Long Island's south fork and has almost 70 miles of waterfront on 3 sides. The Town is bordered by the Town of Southampton to the west, the Atlantic Ocean to the east and south, and Gardiner's Bay to the north.
• http://easthampton.com/history/the-old-town/
• https://www.easthamptonstar.com/villages/202026/plain-sight-long-bu... The earliest known record of an enslaved person in East Hampton comes from 1654; the last, 1830.
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• See also "L.I. - East Hampton (N.Y : Town)" vertical files
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