The manor and hunilred of Leyland ■v\-as lield by them of King Edward if^ Confessor: and the men of the manor (which was of a superior order), as wi'.l ».. those of Salford, enjoyed the privilege of attending to their ov.ii harvest in>:i-...: of the King's.

According to Thompson's History of Long Island, one Edmund Farrington with a number of others, embarked from Lynn, jiassachusetts, in a vessel wiiL, a Capt. Howe, on or about the 17th of May, 1640, and arrived at Cow Bay. L. I., where they purchased of the Indians from tlic eastern part of Oyster Bay to Cow Bay; and where they were dispossessed, by the Dutch Governor Kieft, nn J..- 19th of May, 1640.

Thi.s Farrington originally canie from Southampton, England. He, v/iih •;;>• Others, afterwards bought Agawan of the Indians -- a tract about twenty niiii-s Ion"' and six niiles wide-- and made a settlement, which he called Southaia;i*.on. They made their settlement on the ISlh December, 1640. The consideration paid was sixteen coats and eighty bushels of Indian corn for the land. Edinun.! Farrhijton returned to Lynn, ^Mass., and iu 1665 built a mill there, and di:.g a pond and opened a brooic for a half mile called Farrington's Brook. Farringto-. died in 16S0, aged S3 years. Two of his sons, viz. Thomas and Edmund, afterwards removed to Flushing. Thomas Farrington in 1645 was one of tLv patentees of Flushing, and his brother Edward was a magistrate there in KZ~. The latter had a son named John Mastin Farrington.