of the Island, to dwell among his own countrymen. In 1647, he had obtained permission, of the town of Southampton, to plant a colony of six families, at "North Sea," a tract of land bordering on the Great Peconic Bay, opposite Robbin Island, and about three miles north of the village of Southampton. Some two or three years elapsed before his removal, and the planting of the settlement at the North Sea, called, in the Colonial Records of Connecticut and New Haven, as well as in Nicolls' Grant, "Northampton."

He was made a freeman of Southampton, March 31, 1650, and was chosen by the General Court, at Hartford, Ct., May 16, 1656, and again in 1657 and 1658, one of the magistrates for the colony. He sat in the General Court, as a Representative from Southampton, in May, 1659; and in the upper house, May, 1661, and afterwards. His name appears repeatedly in the new Charter of Connecticut (obtained, Ap. 23, 1662, by Gov. Winthrop, from Charles II.), as one of the magistrates and patentees of the colony; also, quite frequently, in the Records, both of Connecticut and New Haven. He was held in high honor at home, being one of their first men.

During his residence at Northampton, Ogden, by frequent visits as a trader to New Amsterdam, had kept up his acquaintance with his old friends and neighbors on the West End of the Island. When, therefore, after the conquest, it was proposed to him to commence a fourth settlement, in the new and inviting region of Achter Kol, under English rule, he readily entered into the measure, and, in company with his old friend, Capt. Baker, purchased the interests of the Dentons and Goodman Benedict, and thus became, being a man of substance and distinction, the leading man of the new colony. He was among the very first, with his five fullgrown boys, John, Jonathan, David, Joseph and Benjamin, to remove to the new purchase and erect a dwelling on the town-plot. He located his house, it is thought, on the Point road, now Elizabeth Avenue, near where Robert Ogden, his great-grandson, and Col. Barber, afterwards lived. The bounds of his home-lot are not recorded.

He was appointed, Oct. 26, 1665, a Justice of the Peace, and, Nov. 1, one of the Governor's Council. In the Legislature of 1668, he was one of the Burgesses, from this town. To carry forward his improvements, or to meet previous obligations, he borrowed, Oct. 9, 1668, of Cornelius Steenwick (the Mayor of the City of New York, a wealthy merchant), £191. 5. 0, "one fourth part thereof to be paid in good Wheat at 46 pr Bushell one fourth part in good drie Ox hides at 6 stivers pr pound dutch weight One fourth part in good merchantable Tobacco at 4 stivers p' pound like weight and one fourth part in Good Corn fed fat Pork well packt in casks and delivered at New Yorke at Three Pounds ten Shillings p Barrell." As security, he mortgaged, Ap. 29, 1669, "a Certain Water Mill now in my Tenure or Occupation," as the mortgage expresses it, "near unto the Mansion or Dwelling House of Gov. Carterett in Elizabeth Towne."

This mill was located immediately west of the Broad-st. Stone bridge, and, with the dam across the Creek just above, was, doubtless, constructed by Mr. Ogden; whence the Creek was frequently called, "Mill Creek," or "Mill River." The Governor's house was located east of the bridge, and north of the Creek, on the ground, latterly occupied by the Thomas house.

Three of his sons, John, Jonathan, and David, took the oath of allegiance, Feb. 1665, and were numbered among the original Associates. The house-lot of Jonn, Jr., contained four acres, and was 12 by 4 chains in length and breadth; bounded, S. E., by John Woodruff, and Leonard Headley; N. E., by a highway; N. W., by Mrs. Hopkins, Sen'; and, S. W., by the Creek; a highway between him and Mrs. Hopkins. He had, also, twelve acres of "upland Lying upon the way that goes to the Governor's point;" also, sixty acres of "upland Lying in the plaines" between Henry Norris and Leonard Headley; also, nine acres of "meadow Lying at the East end of y great Island." JONATHAN had a house-lot of six acres, 15 by 4 chains; bounded, S. E., by his younger brother, Joseph; and, on the other sides, by highways. He had twenty two acres of upland in a triangle, bounded by the

Governor and Benjamin Parkis; also eighty four acres of upland "Lying in a plaine," bounded by Benjamin Parkis, Leonard Headley, Isaac Whitehead, Jr., and the Mill brook; also, fourteen acres of meadow in two plots, on the Creek, and on the Great Island. DAVID'S house-lot contained five acres, and was bounded, E., by the Mill Creek; N., by Jeffry Jones; and, W. and S., by highways. He had, in addition, sixty acres of upland, bounded by Joseph Frazee, William Letts, Samuel Marsh, Jr., and Capt. Baker; also eight acres of meadow on Thompson's Creek.*

* Alb. Records, II. 169; IV. 240. Hoadly's New Haven Records, I. 178; II. 89, 191, 8, 298, 393. Trumbull's Ct. Records, I. 280, 1, 2, 295, 7, 814, 6; IL 3-11. Doc. Hist. of N. Y., I. 684. E. T. Bill, pp. 30, 106, 8, 110. E. J. Records, I. 8; o. e. 2; II. 19, 22, o. c., 21, 4, 5, 86, 42, 91, 2, 7; III. 3, 4; L. 18, 21. Hinman, I. 289, 729. Howell's Southampton, pp. 26, 7, 90.

CHAPTER V.
A. D., 1666.

The eighty Associates, their Origin, their Location — Of Puritan Principles - No Congeniality with Carteret and his Company.

SUCH, as just narrated, were the original Petitioners and Patentees. Who were the other Founders of the town? What was their origin-what were their principles, and where did they locate? In answering these inquiries, those, who took the oath of allegiance, including all who were on the ground during the first year of the settlement, will be considered, in alphabetical order.

JOAKIM ANDRIS [YOKAM ANDROSS, ANDREWS] was, probably, from New Haven, Ct., and a son of Wm. Andrews, who came, to New Haven, previous to 1643, with a family of eight persons. His house-lot contained 4 acres, and was bounded, N. and E., by a highway; S., by Matthias Hatfield; and, W., by Dennis White. He had died, in 1675, and his widow, Amy, sold, June 22, 1675, to Thomas Moore, "the house Orchard Garden Home Lott Pasture for Calves," and all that might be claimed by the Concessions-a first lot-right-except 20 acres sold by her husband to Peter Moss, "and one peare tree and some Gousberry bushes," reserved for her own use.*

FRANCIS BARBER has left no memorial of his origin. He sold, Mar. 20, 167, to Vincent Ronyon, carpenter, a houselot (bought of Wm. Pyles, who had bought it of Thomas Moore), 40 rods by 16; bounded, N., by George Pack; and fronting on the highway. He was still here in the following

* Barber's His. Coll. of Ct., p. 160. E. J. Records, I. 46, 7. E. T. Bill, p. 108.

year, but must have removed, soon after, to Staten Island, where, on the W. side of the Island, on Smoking Point, Dec. 21, 1680, 88 acres of woodland and meadow were surveyed for him; and where, in 1686, he served as Commissioner of Excise. The Barber family, of a later date, had another origin and a more illustrious record.*

ROBERT BLACKWELL was one of the early settlers of this town, though his name is not found in any town document now extant. In a deed, on record in New York, Robert Blackwell is spoken of as "late of Elizabeth-town in New Jersey, merchant." He married, Ap. 26, 1676, Mary Manningham, stepdaughter of Capt. John Manning (by whom the city was surrendered, in 1673, to the Dutch); and so became the owner of Manning's Island, since known by his own name.†

ROBERT BOND was the father of JOSEPH, and a resident of Southampton, L. I., as early as 1643. He was appointed, Oct., 1644, by the General Court of Connecticut, in company with Mr. Moore, "to demand of each family of Southamp ton, the amount they would give for the maintenance of scholars at Cambridge College." He was one of the company that settled East Hampton, in 1648. He came, originally, from Lynn, Mass., and was, doubtless, of the same stock with the Watertown family. He had a principal part in securing the land of East Hampton from the natives, and in transacting the business of the town. He was one of the first magistrates of the place, and repeatedly represented the town in the General Court of the Colony. John Ogden and Capt. John Scott having had some differences with the town about Meantaquit [Montauk] in 1662, Robert Bond was chosen one of the Commissioners to settle it. His intimacy with Ogden [tradition says that each married the other's sister], and others of his neighbors, who were about to remove to these parts, led him to cast in his lot with them, and lend his valuable counsels to the settlement of this town, where his influence was second only to John Ogden's. Carteret, at

* E. J. Records, I. 24. N. Y. Col. Docmts., III. 409, 494. Albany Land Papers, I. 190 ↑ N. York Deeds, I. 130. Alb. Records, XXXIII. 309. N. York Marriages, p. 31.