but a small part of the houses, at Sag Harbor on the East Hampton side.

This line is about

miles

in length, & was fenced about the year 1664 in order to keep the Southampton horses &c. from crossing over the bounds.

This line is now much farther to the Eastward than where it was fixed by the

General Assembly of Connecticut about 1660 to whose decision it was then referred.

The settlement of Sag Harbor is mostly in Southampton Township, and is a thriving place.

It is

exceedingly well calculated for the Whale and Cod Fishery.

By the Records, it appears that East Hampton was at first called Maidstone. This name does not Duke of York, and soon after received a Patent from Col. Richard Nicolls. By this Patent the Town is called East Hampton, though the It was probably records of the Town prior to the year 1664, mention that as the name of the place.

appear after the year 1664, when they came under the

called East, on account of its situation to the East of Southampton.

Some of the First Settlers appear, by the Records, to have come from Stansted in the county of Kent in England. Probably some of them might have come from Maidstone in the same County. It is very evident from the Records, that some of the Original 35 settlers and purchasers of the Town removed from Lynn in Massachusetts and tradition informs us that they came from several of the towns on the Sea coast to the Eastward of Boston. These were, probably, natives of England, as New England had not been settled so long as to produce Native Immigrants when E. Hampton was first settled. Those who were received by the Original Settlers as "accepted Inhabitants," might have been born in America.