Apropos Lion Gardiner, under Governor Thomas Dongan, who succeeded Edmund
Andros as governor of New York in late 1682, the province was divided into
shires in 1683 and, in spite of the patent that Gardiner held for his
island, it was annexed to Long Island. In 1788, the New York State
Legislature annexed it to the town of East Hampton.

It was Gardiner's daughter, Elizabeth, who fell ill in February 1658 and
who, weaving in and out of consciousness or, sanity for several days before
she died, claimed that she had been bewitched. At the court hearing (on the
chance that witchcraft somehow might exist in East Hampton), one witness
said that the previous Sunday, he had heard a "doleful noise on the back
side of ye fire" and when he asked young Elizabeth's husband, Arthur Howell
of Southampton, what it was, Howell said that it sounded as if a great stone
had been hurled into a pile of other stones.

Mrs. Gardiner rose from her sick bed to see her daughter who lived across
the street. In a deposition that she gave from bed before three prominent
citizens, she said that Elizabeth (whom she called Bettie) claimed to see
Goody Garlicke at one end and something black at the other end of her bed
and that she was being pricked with pins.

Even before he moved to East Hampton, Lion Gardiner played a very important
role in its early years and in its relationships with the native
Montauketts. After Southampton resident Thomas Halsey's wife had been
scalped in their garden, the Southampton Court sent for Wyandanch, chief
sachem of all of Long Island's natives.

The Court wanted him to find the killers but Wyandanch's advisors were
afraid he might be killed if he went. Gardiner (who learned their language)
just happened to be visiting Wyandanch on Montauk (the easternmost part of
Long Island) and said that he would remain there as hostage to ensure
Wyandanch's safe return.

Wyandanch came upon the killers who were Pequots from Connecticut who had
disguised themselves as Montauketts.

For anyone interested in further study of Lion Gardiner, a wealth of
material is available in the Long Island Collection at the East Hampton
Library. Nine eight percent of the research for my book, "East Hampton - a
town and its People, 1648-1992" (with a 1993 Postscript) came from that
Collection.

By the wau, I have lived in Springs since 1972 and I can assure the
individual who said there are no springs in this area is incorrect. Here,
springs are not rivulets or creeks. They bubble up from the ground and the
sand. If you ever come out here, you will find Pussy's Pond in Springs
filled with them, even surfacing where the pond connects to Accabonac
Harbor. In fact, the harbor's shoreline is dotted with them.


Nancy Hyden Woodward

> From: "Peterson, Kim" <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: "A LISTSERV list for discussions pertaining to New York State
> history." <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 08:39:11 -0500
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Burned Over / 1658 Long Island Death
>
> My husband is the 11th great-grandson of Lion Gardiner. We are finding
> this whole discussion very interesting and will be following up with
> research on this.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Walter Greenspan [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 12:23 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Burned Over / 1658 Long Island Death
>
> On 1/27/04 (7:11:52 AM MST), (Honor Conklin ([log in to unmask])
> wrote,
>
> "Since the Goody Garlicke matter had to do with the death of Elizabeth
> (Gardiner) Howell, (Mrs. Arthur), many writings on Lion Gardiner
> (Elizabeth's
> father) will mention the trial to varying degrees.  Lion Gardiner
> interceded for the
> Garlickes, her husband being employed by Gardiner on Gardiner's Island."
>
>
> Gardiner's Island is in the Hamlet of Spring in the Town of East
> Hampton,
> Suffolk County.
>
> Springs is one of those many communities on Long Island where none of
> the
> places in Springs have a "Springs, NY" mailing address.
>
> The pertinent geography:
>
> Springs is a hamlet (an unincorporated area) in the central part of the
> Town
> of East Hampton, Suffolk County.  There are currently 2 villages
> (municipal
> corporations) and 7 hamlets all or partly in the Town of East Hampton.
> There
> are no cities and 10 towns in Suffolk County.  There are 2 Indian
> reservations
> in Suffolk County.  (I'm including after my name a NYS Geographic
> Glossary with
> the NYS definitions of county, city, town, village, hamlet and postal
> zone.)
>
> Beginning on the north and moving in a clockwise direction, the Hamlet
> of
> Springs is bordered on the north and east by Gardiner's Bay; on the
> south by the
> Hamlet of Amagansett and the Hamlet of East Hampton North; and, on the
> west by
> the Hamlet of Northwest Harbor.
>
> The Hamlet of Springs includes Gardiner's Island, the largest (about
> 3,000
> acres) privately owned island in the U.S., settled by colonist Lion
> Gardiner in
> 1639 as the first permanent English settlement in New York State and has
> been
> owned for over 300 years by his descendants.  Gardiner's Island is in
> Gardiner's Bay, between the North Fork and the South Fork peninsulas at
> the eastern
> end of Suffolk County, on the eastern end of Long Island.
>
> And, as occurs in every one of Suffolk County's 157 communities (0
> cities, 31
> villages and 126 hamlets), the hamlet and the postal zone that use the
> same
> name, have much different borders:  In this case there is no "Springs,
> NY"
> postal zone and places in the Hamlet of Springs have an "East Hampton,
> NY 11937"
> address.
>
> For those who have their copy of the 2002 or earlier editions of the LI
> Population Survey or have already downloaded the report from the Long
> Island Power
> Authority web site (eMail me directly if you need instructions on how to
> access and download the report), you'll find the Hamlet of Springs in
> the Town of
> East Hampton, Suffolk County on pages 15 & 32 (map) and 33 (population
> estimate).
>
> I hope this information is useful or, at least, interesting.
>
> Walter Greenspan
>
> ..   Cities, Towns, Villages, Hamlets and Postal Zones in New York State
>
> New York State is divided into counties.
>
> County
> A county is a municipal corporation, a subdivision of the state, created
> to
> perform state functions; a "regional" government.  All counties are
> divided
> into cities, towns and Indian reservations.
>
> City
> A city is a unique governmental entity with its own special charter.
> Cities
> are not sub-divided, except into neighborhoods, which are informal
> geographic
> areas.
>
> Town
> A town is a municipal corporation and encompasses all territory within
> the
> state except that within cities or Indian reservations.  Towns can be
> sub-divided into villages and hamlets.
>
> Village
> A village is a general purpose municipal corporation formed voluntarily
> by
> the residents of an area in one or more towns to provide themselves with
> municipal services.  The pattern of village organization is similar to
> those of a
> city.  A village is divided into neighborhoods, which are informal
> geographic
> areas.
>
> Hamlet
> A hamlet is an unincorporated area in one or more towns that is governed
> at-large by the town(s) it is in.  A hamlet is divided into
> neighborhoods, which
> are informal geographic areas.
>
> Postal Zone "City" and "Town"
> A postal zone "City" and "Town" is an administrative district
> established by
> the U.S. Postal Service to deliver the mail.  Postal zone "City" and
> "Town"
> may not (but are encouraged to) conform to municipal or community
> borders.
> Thus, postal zone location does not always determine city, village or
> hamlet
> location.
>
>
> Please be aware:  In many areas of New York State, the problem of
> non-conforming postal zones leads to a situation where the majority of
> places have a
> different community name in their mailing address than the community
> where that
> place is actually located.