An East Hampton man may be known from a Southampton man as well as a native of Kent England may be distinguished from a Yorkshire man. The original settlers of these Towns proin bably came from different parts of England. Besides the names that prevail in one town are not to
join.
be met with in the other.
The names of Pierson, Halsey, Howell, Toppin, Sanford, Cooper, White,
Post &c are common in Southampton & confined there, as are the names of Mulford, Osborn, Corik-
The names of Hedges & Hand, from E. Hampton. Very
ling, Baker, Parsons, Miller, Gardiner, Dayton, &c. to East Hampton.
are
met
in the Eastern part of Southampton but originally [they were
little intercourse took
]
place between the two towns before the Revolutionary war.
and intermarriages are more frequent. What time East Hampton was first settled is not certainly known.
Since that, visits
Probably soon after South-
Neither of the Towns was settled as earl}' as Gardiners Island which Avas settled by Lion
ampton.
Gardiner in March 1639.
David, son of Lion Gardiner, in a petition presented to Gov. Dongan
about 1683, mentions his father as the first Englishman that had settled in the Colony of New York.
Southampton put itself under the Jurisdiction of Connecticut in 1644, as Southold did under New According to President Stiles History of the three Judges of Charles I., East Hampton was a Plantation or Commonwealth as it is styled, in the Record that was, Independent of any