writers who have never been in the country, did not understand himself sufficiently on this subject.
The fact was that the Settlers of Virginia & New England purchased their lands of the Natives before Geo: Fox the Founder of the Quaker's Sect published their principles in England in Oliver Cromwell's time, and a long time before the celebrated William Penn settled in Pennsylvania. There is no doubt but the regular purchase & the warrantie deed from the four abovementioned Sachems, in
Some Indian writings on record in East 1648, prevented difficulties between the Natives & English. Hampton speak of the friendship & amity of their neighbours the English about 1660. and Gov. Hutchinson in his History of Massachusetts p. 88, Gov Winthrop in his Journal, page mentions that in 1610, a number of families removed from Lynn to the West end of Long Island, and bought land there of James Farrett Agent to the Earl of Sterling but getting into some quarrel with the Dutch, they removed to the East end, and settled at Southampton & chose one Peirson for Probably Southampton was settled before East Hampton. Tradition informs us their Minister. :
that, before East Hampton people built their first grist mill (which went with cattle), they went to
Southampton to mill, and carried their grain on the back of a Bull that belonged to the Town for the If this is true, no doubt Southampton was settled first. use of their cows. Gov Hutchinson says that in 1644 Southampton by an act of the Commissioners of the United