The Gardiner Manor
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Excerpt from The Gardiner Manor: Address Delivered at the Third Annual Meeting of the New York Branch of the Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America, Held in the City of New York, April 24, 1915 Ladies and Gentlemen: When our President, Mr. Livingston, wrote that he would like to have me tell you something about the Manor of Gardiners Island, I felt that I had a difficult task; but when he said the time limit would be fifteen minutes, I felt that to put the two hundred and seventy-nine years of its history into that short time would be impossible. However, I will do my best. I have referred for dates, etc., to articles written by Mrs. Martha J.Lamb, Mr. George Parsons Lathrop, and others. The first English settlement in the present limits of the State of New York was made by Lion Gardiner, by the purchase from the Indians, of an island now known as Gardiner´s Island. It was nine miles long by one to one and a half wide, and contained 3500 acres. This purchase was duly confirmed by the agent of Lord Sterling, March 10, 1639. Gardiner´s Island was not only a manor, but was, also, a lordship, for the terms of Governor Dongan´s Grant, in 1686, were To erect and constitute the said island one lordship and manor, to all intents and purposes. The said island shall henceforth be called the Lordship and Manor of Gardiner´s Island. This island has been longer in the possession of one family than any other individual estate on this continent, having had twelve proprietors in direct line, to the present owner. Lion Gardiner was the first professional engineer who ever stood on the soil of New England. He was born in 1599, 316 years ago. Many of the family of Gardiner and Lion are buried in the cathedral at Norfolk, England. The same coats of arms used by the Gardiners of Gardiner´s Island are on the pavements, and tombs in this cathedral. His family has been traced by Sir Christopher Banks to the Gardiner who married one of the co-heiresses of the Barony of Fitz Walter. The arms are identical with those formerly borne by Thomas Gardiner prior, of the monastery, of Tynemouth, England, in the year 1200. Lion Gardiner was Lieutenant in a regiment, of which Lord Vere was Commander, and with him, went to Holland. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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