The manor and hundred of Leyland was held by them of King Edward the Confessor; and the men of the manor (v.-hich was of a superior order), as well as thos^ of Salford, enjoyed the privilege of attending to their own harvest insteutl of the King's.

According to Thompson's History of Long Island, one Edmund Farrington with a number of others, embarked from Lynn, Massachusetts, in a vessel with a Capt. Howe, ou or about the ]7th of M;iy, 1640, a!id arrived at Gov/ Bay, L. I., where they purchased of the Lndians from the eastern part of Oyster Eav to Cow Bay; and where they were dispossessed, by the Dutch Governor Kieft, on (iie 19th of May, 1610.

Thi.'! Farrington originally came from Southampton, England. He, with the others, afterwards bought Agav. an of tlie Indians -- a tract about twenty miles long and six miles Avide -- and made a settlement, which he called Southampton. They made their settlement on the lotli December, 1C40. The consideration paid was sixteen coats and eighty bushels of Indian corn for the land. Edmund Farrington returned to Lynn, Mass., a:id in 1665 built a mill there, and dug a pond and opened a brook for a half mile called Farrington's Brook. Farrington died in 16S0, aged SS years. Two of hiis sons, viz. Thomas and Edmund, aften,\ards removed to Flushing. Thomas Farrington in 1645 was one of the patentees of Flushing, and his brother Edvrard was a magistrate thevo in 1657. The latter had a son named John iListin Farrington.