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OENEAL.OGY
COLLECTION
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REV. CHARLES EDMISTON CRA\'EN.
A HISTORY
OF
MATTITUCK,
LONG ISLAND . N. Y.
BY
REV. CHARLES E. CRAVEN.
PUBLISHED FOR THE AUTHOR.
Copyright, 1906,
By CHARLES E. CRAVEN.
All Rights Reserved.
PREFACE. 1242346
Mattituck is one of the oldest of the second genera-
tion of villages in Suffolk County, New York. The first
generation included the original town settlements : South-
old and Southampton in 1640, East Hampton in 1648,
Shelter Island in 1652, Huntington in 1653, Smithtown
about the same time and Brookhaven in 1655. The sec-
ond generation of villages comprises the earliest settle-
ments apart from the town centres. The villages of the
first generation, holding the town records, have had their
history more or less fully written, but the villages of the
second generation, whose story is much harder to search
out, have found few historians.
The writer taking charge of the old Mattituck Church
in the latter part of 1895 became interested in the history
of the village and its church. In 1898 a history of the
church was prepared and publicly read on Thanksgiving
Day. In the preparation of that history much material
came to hand relating to the village but not specifically
to the church and much genealogical information was
acquired. The publication of the history of the church
was therefore delayed that it might become a part of a
larger and more comprehensive work.
Much time has been devoted to research — much more
time and labor than will appear to the casual reader. The
Southold Town Records, both the printed and the writ-
ten, have been studied with care, and many days have
been spent delving in the records in the offices of the
County Clerk and Surrogate and in the Surrogate's office
in New York City. Such ancient documents as could
be found in the keeping of the families of the village^
wills, deeds, diaries, letters, scrap-books and other rec-
ords, have been diligently sought out. Such time as the
author could find amid his regular duties, for seven or
eight years past, has been spent in this research. Some-
times for months together this work has been pushed
aside, and many good friends waiting for the promised
history of their native village have suffered trial of their
patience. Not only the obligation of the promise, how-
ever, but personal interest and pleasure in the work have
stimulated the writer to devote such time to it as was
available.
It is believed that the historical and genealogical
statements in the work are accurate. Little or no reli-
ance has been placed in tradition, for tradition in many
instances where it was possible to test it by original docu-
ments has been found singularly inaccurate and mislead-
ing. In matters of genealogy care has been taken to dis-
tinguish between probability and ascertained fact, for the
author has been convinced repeatedly that the most
plausible genealogical conjecture is liable to be upset by
a fuller knowledge of facts.
Frequent inquiries for information from the inscrip-
tions in the ancient burying-ground and from the regis-
ters of the Mattituck and Aquebogue (Jamesport)
Churches make it plain that the appended lists of Bap-
tisms, Marriages and Deaths and of Inscriptions from
the Mattitiick Burying-Ground will meet a widespread
want, giving valuable genealogical material relating to
many widely scattered families. In transcribing the
parish records the peculiar orthography of the originals
has been strictly followed except in the case of a few
familiar names such as Israel, Nathaniel, and Temper-
ance, where some strange habits of the Rev. Benjamin
Goldsmith have been corrected. In transcribing the
names and dates from the stones in the burying-ground
the family names have been arranged alphabetically. In
cases where there are many graves of the same family
name the several branches of the family have been
grouped separately as far as possible. In the column
headed "Age" the date of birth is given, or the age at
death, according to the inscription. In this column three
figures separated by dashes, as 60 — 6 — 26, indicate years,
months and days. When old and new style dates are
both inscribed on monuments the new style is followed.
The location of each grave is given in the column marked
"Grave." In this column the letters designate the rows of
graves in alphabetical order from east to west. The num-
bers indicate the distance in feet from the grave-stone
to the north fence. Thus "G98" locates the stone of Mr.
Jacob Aldrich in the seventh row west of the Presby-
terian Church, ninety-eight feet from the north fence.
In this column "Mid" signifies the middle portion of the
grave yard, lying between the original burying-ground
and Bethany Cemetery. In the middle ground the let-
ters indicate the rows from east to west and the numerals
indicate the number of feet from the path lying between
the old and middle grounds. In the transcription of the
records from the register and the stones the author has
8 PREFACE.
made occasional notes, which are invariably inclosed in
brackets.
Thanks are due to many friends whose interest and
helpfulness have made this book possible. Mr. William
Y. Fithian, the Town Clerk of Southold, has shown great
courtesy to the author, who has had frequent occasion
to visit his office. To Surrogate Joseph M. Belford and
his clerk, Air, Robert W. Duvall, the author is indebted
for valuable aid and kindly consideration. Mr. William
F. Flanagan, Assistant County Clerk, has shown both
ability and readiness to grant practical assistance and
his kindness is highly appreciated. The author is greatly
indebted to William Wallace Tooker, Esq., of Sag Har-
bor, N. Y., and to the Rev. Joseph Anderson of Water-
bury, Conn., both acknowledged authorities in Indian
lore, wdio have given valuable aid in the interpretation of
Indian names. All sons of Mattituck wdio read this book
wall be grateful for the courtesy of Mr. William S. Pelle-
treau in permitting the author to copy the muster roll
of Capt. Paul Reeve's Company of Minute Men from
the History of Long Island published in 1903 by the
Lewis Publishing Company.
Especial acknowledgment is due to Mr. Frank M.
Lupton of New York. As a loyal son of Mattituck he
has shown interest in his native village in many substan-
tial ways, and to help forward the publication of this
village history he has made available the complete re-
sources of his printing house and besides this has given
his personal supervision to the printing, illustration and
manufacture of the book, all without charge beyond the
actual cost. Not resting satisfied with thus reducing the
cost to a minimum Air. Lupton has joined with the trus-
tees of the Mattittick Presbyterian Church, Messrs.
Charles Gildersleeve, Benjamin C. Kirkup, Nathaniel S.
Tuthill, Conrad Grabie, John G. Reeve and Henry J.
Reeve, in assuming the entire expense for the manufac-
ture of the book. The overwhelming generosity of these
gentlemen deeply touches the author and for it he makes
_grateful acknowledgment. While realizing that love for
Mattituck and a desire to preserve her history in perma-
nent and fitting form account in part for this generous
.action he cannot fail to see and to value the unmistakable
indication of good-will toward the historian. Owing to
this kind and practical interest the book is published in
t)etter form than would have been possible otherwise and
the author is relieved from the anxiety attending a doubt-
ful venture.
The hope is cherished that this book will fill satisfac-
torily its own place and need. It will preserve the an-
nals of the village and the old church, and it is fondly
"hoped that it may help to bind the hearts of the scattered
«ons and daughters of Mattituck still more closely to the
old home place and that it may have influence in con-
serving the best elements of the character and marked
individuality of the village, for there is no other village
just like it. Mattituck is destined to outgrow the limits
of the past in population, wealth and importance, but she
must not outgrow her best traditions. A greater Matti-
tuck let her become, but ever the same old Mattituck.
Charles E. Craven.
Sept. 20th, 1906.
CONTENTS.
PAGE
Chapter I. The Beginning of Mattituck 13
Chapter II. The Occupation of the Land 33
Chapter III. The Earliest Settlers 66
Chapter IV. The Founding of the Church 86
Chapter V. Mattituck in Revolutionary Times. 119
Chapter VI. Parish History from Revolutionary
Times to 1845 150
Chapter VII. Church History from 1845 to the
Present Time 174
Chapter VIII. Mattituck Before the Railroad. . . . 194
Chapter IX. Modern Mattituck 222
Parish Registers of Mattituck and Aquebogue 252
Mattituck Parish Burying-Ground 357
Index 397
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
CHAPTER I.
THE BEGINNING OF MATTITUCK.
Mattituck is a village in the Town of Southold^
County of Suffolk, State of New York. It lies between
Long Island Sound and the Great Peconic Bay, near
the eastern end of Long Island. It is about twenty-five
miles west of Orient Point and eighty-three miles east
of New York, on the main line of the Long Island Rail-
road. It covers eight or nine square miles, the Sound
and Bay being three miles apart on the north and south,
and the neighboring villages, Cutchogue and Laurel, be-
ing about three miles apart on the east and west. The
Mattituck Creek, or Bay, is an estuary of irregular form
extending inland from the Sound two miles toward the
south and having several arms of considerable length
reaching towards the east and west. Near the head of
this Bay is the centre of the village, where the ancient
highway from Orient Point and Southold divides, the
north road extending through Wading River, Port Jef-
ferson, Setauket and the villages along the north shore
of Long Island, the south road passing through River-
head and the central portion of the island. The popula-
tion of Mattituck is about 1.200, largely of Puritan
descent.
14 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
The band of colonists who set out from New Haven
in 1640 and settled Southold in Long Island soon ac-
quired "all that tract of land scituate lying and being
at the Eastward end 'of Long Island and bounded with
the River called in the English toung the Weading
Kreek, in the Indian toung Pauquaconsuk, on the West,
To and with Plum Island on the East, . . . with
the Sound called the North Sea on the North, and with
a River or arme of the Sea . . . on ye South, . . .
together with ... all necks of lands meadows
Islands, . . . rivers Kreeks with timber, woods and
woodlands, fishing foouling, hunting, and all other com-
modities whatsoever unto the said tract of land and
Iseland belonging, ... as Corchaug and Matta-
tuck, and all other tracts of land." This description of
the ancient boundaries of Southold Town is quoted from
an Indian Deed of 1665,* wherein forty-three Indians
confirmed the Town's right to the several tracts involved
which had been previously "purchased, procured and
paid for of the Sachems and Indians our Auncestors."
The original deed for the tract known to the Indians as
Mattatuck is preserved in the records of Brookhaven
Town,f and runs as follows:
These presents witness that Uxsquepassem, otherwise
called the paummis Sachem, together with his three
brothers, viz: Weewacup, Nowconneey, Neesant-
QUAGGUS, for and [in] consideration of two fathome of
wampum, one iron pott, six coats, ten knives, fower
hooks and forty needles payd into their hands at the
ensealing hereof, have granted, bargained and sold unto
♦Southold Printed Records, Vol. II., p. 6.
tBrookhaven Printed Records, Vol. I., p. 76.
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 1 5
Mr. Theophilus Eaton, Governor of the jurisdiction
of Newhaven, and to Mr. Steven Goodyeare, Deputy
Governor for and in behalfe of the jurisdictions, all that
land lying between Corchake and Ucquebaak, commonly
called Mattatuck, or what name or names soever it be
called, bounded on the East with the creek Conegums
and the way leading thenc to Mattatuck pond, for the
drawing over of their Canooes ; and on the South with
the great coo, and on the North with the Sea, and west-
ward to Ucquebaak and beyond, So far as his right or
any of theirs do extend, provided that he may enjoy the
privilidges of his Ancestors, namely, the skins of such
Dear as are taken by the Indians in the waters and the
Indian Canoes drawn upon the shore, to have and to
hold all that tract of land as before expressed, with the
creeks, meddowes, uplands, and all their appertenances
to the said Theophilus Eaton and Stephen Goodyeare,
Esquires, in behalfe of the jurisdictions to them, their
heirs and assigns, with Warrantie against the aforesaid
Paummiss Sachem and his three brothers and there
hayres and assignes, and all, every other person what-
soever claiming any right or title, by or under them, in or
to all or any the above specified, or any parcel thereof.
In witness whereof the aforesaid Usquepassum, Week-
M^acup, Noweonney and Neesantequaggus have sett their
hands and scales the one and twenty of March, 1648.
Sealed and delivered Hamaiam Pom,
in the presence of us, deceased grantee.
jo yongs, uxsquepassum,
Sam Youngs Weekwacup,
Josh Parker Noweonney,
Neesantequaggus.
l6 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
This interesting deed conveyed Mattatuck to Gov.'
Eaton as the representative of the New Haven Colony.
The Colony strictly enforced at that time a law forbid-
ding private purchase of land from Indians, The Col-
ony of course held the land for the benefit of the South-
old Plantation.
Ten years later, at a General Court in New Haven,*
May 26th, 1658, "The Deputies of Southold propounded
ye desires of their towne to repurchase of ye jurisdic-
tion a pcell [parcel] of land called Mattatock and Akka-
bawke, wch ye court considering, by vote declared, that
they paying 7 li. in good pay, ye said land is theires^
wch was accepted by their deputies." The two South-
old deputies that year were Thomas Moore and Barna-
bas Horton, both of whom are represented by lineal
descendants in "Mattatock" today. The seven pounds
were paid the next year "in wampom."
The Mattatuck that was thus sold to the New Haven
Colony by the Indians and then by the Colony to the
people of Southold lay between Corchake (Cutchogue)
and Acquebaak (Aquebogue) and covered the western
half of the present village of Mattituck. It extended
from the Sound to Peconic Bay and from the Creek
Conegums and the Indian Canoe Path on the east to-
an indefinite western boundary. The Indian name
"Conegums'" means "a boundary place," and the creek
so called by the Indians is doubtless Reeve's Creek
(sometimes called James' Creek) opening into the Bay
a little east of the Bay Road. The "Mattituck Pond"
of the Indian deed is Mattituck Creek. It is occasion-
*New Haven Colonial Records, Vol. II., p. 233.
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 1/
ally called Mattituck Pond in the early Southold rec-
ords.* The Canoe Path, along which the Indians trans-
ported their canoes from creek to creek, leaving the
head of Reeve's Creek (then "Conegums") passed a
few rods east of the ninth n;ile-stone from Riverhead,
followed the line of the hedge in the rear of the Meth-
odist Episcopal parsonage and the other lots on the
THE COVE.
The boats along the shore are near the Indian Canoe Place.
west side of Pacific street and crossing the north road
followed the line now dividing the Donovan property
from ]\Ir. Edward S Horton tmtil it reached the shore
of ]\Iattituck Creek, f This portage at Mattituck, to-
*Southold Printed Records, Vol. I., p. 61, p. 108.
tThe Canoe Path or Canoe Place at Mattituck is commonly
supposed to have followed the line of Love Lane, passing
l8 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
gether with the corresponding one on the south side of
Peconic Bay at the place still known as Canoe Place,
gave the Indians a much traveled through route from
the Sound to the Shinnecock and Great South Bays.
The Shinnecock Canal now takes the place of the port-
age on the south side, and it is proposed to cut a canal
at Mattituek, opening up for navigation the very route
frequented by the Indians hundreds of years ago. This
project is feasible and will undoubtedly be carried out
some day. Its utility would be considerable from a
commercial standpoint and its strategic advantages for
coast defence, opening up a remarkable system of in-
terior water-ways for torpedo craft and small gun boats,
would be of great value.
The meaning of the Indian name Mattatuck as ap-
plied to this region is difficult to determine. The names
of the adjacent districts present no difficulties. Cutch-
ogue is Kehtchi-auke, "the principal place," the district
in which the Indian village and fort were located. Aque-
bogue is Ucque-baitg, "the head of the bay." Peconic
is Pchikkoniik, "the little plantation." Mattatuck is
made up of an adjectival part, Matta, and a substantive
part, tuck. The fuck may stand either for tugk, "wood,"
"tree," or for tuk, a "tidal river" or "estuary." Both
were commonly written fuck by the colonists in tran-
scribing Indian names, the deep guttural of the Indian
through the present centre of the village. Mr. J. Wickham
Case, in a note in Southold Printed Records, Vol. I., p. 108, says:
that it "was about where the hotel now stands." This is one
of the few errors in Mr. Case's remarkably accurate and
luminous notes. The Canoe Place became an important bound-
ary line and its position is established by transfers of adjacent
property.
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. KJ
tugk being difficult for English ears and tongues. Spell-
ing was far from an exact science in those days, and
Indian names were sadly maltreated and often rendered
unrecognizable in the effort to reproduce them in Eng-
lish letters. For this reason also it is difficult to decide
the value of Matta, or Mafti, as the first part of the
name was often rendered in the early records. There
was a Mattatuck in Connecticut (now Waterbury),
which Trumbull* renders "a place without wood, or
badly wooded," taking the name to stand for Matiih'
tugk. This would not seem a satisfactory description
of the Long Island Mattituck, which was undoubtedly
as heavily wooded as any adjacent land. To substitute
titk for tugk and make it "the bad creek" would seem
likewise unsatisfactory for the Mattituck Creek is the
finest and largest creek in this region. Mr. W. S. Pel-
letreau has suggested that matta is a corruption of the
Indian massa, "great/' and Mattatuck, for Massatuk,
means "the great creek." The writer is inclined to ac-
cept this derivation, which as Mr. Pelletreau remarks
"is amply proven by the geographical features of the
place." The substitution of matta for niassa is not un-
exampled according to Trumbull. f The difficulty in
the way of positively accepting this explanation is that
the t is persistent wherever the name of Mattatuck is
found in ancient records. There is not one known in-
stance of the spelling Massatuck. On this account Mr.
Wm. Wallace Tooker, recognized as the leading au-
thority on Indian Names of Long Island, rejects this
interpretation. It may be suggested, however, that the:
♦Indian Names in Connecticut, p. 27. tibid., p. 26..
20 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
existence of a Maftafitck in Connecticut might easily
have misled the white settlers. They were for the most
part ignorant of the language of the Indians and meet-
ing a new name Massafuck would probably have iden-
tified it with the familiar Maftafitck.
Another interesting name for ^lattituck is Nabia-
chage, which Mr. Wm. Wallace Tooker defines as "the
place of the divided hills." This is a peculiarly appro-
priate name for Mattituck Creek, passing as it does be-
tween high hills on either side. It is a name little used,
however, by the white settlers, appearing in the records
only once so far as the writer has discovered. This one
reference is in the will of the first Thomas Mapes, who
leaves to his son Jabez, "all my land* at Nabiachage or
Mattituck houses with all the meadow adjoining to it."
The final age in this name stands for aukc, "place," the
same as the final syllable of Cutchogue (Kchtchi-auke).
The woodland at ^Mattituck was held in common by
the people of Southold until 1661 when it was divided
among individual proprietors and in 1662 the actual
settlement of the place began. But the meadow lands
were allotted as soon as the district was made over to
the Town by New Haven. This appears from entries
in the early records like the following record of land of
William Furrier :f "All that parcell of meadowe, fresh
and salt lying next the Canoe Place att Mattituck of late
years in his possession beinge and to him given by the
Towne at their meetinge held the eight and twentieth of
♦This did not refer to Mapes' Neck, on which the first
Thomas Mapes never resided, but to property which is now
part of the estate of Charles W. Wickham.
tSouthold Printed Records, Vol. I., p. 47.
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 21
October 1658." This was the extensive meadow land
lying to the east of Reeve's or Conegunis Creek. Hor-
ton's Creek derives its name from the fact that Barna-
bas Horton became the owner of the meadow beside it
and probably Brush's Creek takes its name from Thomas
Brush for a similar- reason though Brush failed to record
the ownership. The "Great Meadow" lying west of the
present village of New Sufifolk was divided early into a
great number of small holdings from one to four acres
each. These meadow lands, though mostly salt, were
esteemed very valuable and the salt hay or "creek
thatch" was cut from them regularly. The woodland
was comparatively useless, requiring years to clear it
and bring it under cultivation, and for a long time a few
acres of salt meadow were counted more valuable than
a hundred acres of woodland. This fact, that the mead-
ows were allotted earlier than the upland or when not
allotted were held in common as a most valuable posses-
sion, accounts for the curious circumstance that to this
day many small patches of meadow, now regarded as
of little or no value, are held by others than the owners
of the adjoining upland.* And there are many old
rights of way recorded in ancient deeds whereby owners
of meadows were enabled to cart their "creek thatch"
across adjacent farms. The only hay that the early set-
tlers used was this that they cut from the meadows, un-
less occasionally a ship-load was imported from the
*For instance, Dec. 1st, 1686, "It was given and granted by
vote that Thomas Terrill and Theophilus Corwin should have
a scertain parcel! of creek thatch Lieing in common * * *
adjoining to the eastward side of James Reeve his neck of up
Land at Mattetuck."— Liber D, Town Records.
22 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK,
mother country. This explains the term "English hay"
that is sometimes used to this day to designate the crops
that are sown and harvested on the upland hay-fields.
For many years the meadow lands about Mattituck
Creek were held in common and the right to cut the
creek thatch was sold to individuals year after year.
Entries like this appear in the town books : "Oct.
1725. William Coleman, Dr. for the common creek
thatch at Matetuck, 10 shillings, 3 pence." "Sept i,
1724. Gershom Terry Jur. for Matetuck creek thatch
(22^ shears was kept back for Lt. Winds rights) 17
shillings, ^ pence." "Alay 4, 1731. Lt. Thomas Reeve
for Matetuck creek thatch, 4 shillings 4 pence." The
busy farmers today have no tirne to waste in cutting
creek thatch, but in their boyhood it was considered im-
portant. The following sentence from a conveyance of
a hundred years ago illustrates the importance of this
item. In an instrument conveying a hundred and fifty
acres of land there is added, "Also a piece of meadow
lying in Mattituck Creek, said to cut three loads of hay,
west of Thomas Reeve's springs, surrounded by water."
Since these meadow lands were used from the first
it was necessary to cut the main highways through the
wood-land of the town to give access to them, as well
as to reach the neighboring towns of Southampton and
Brookhaven. Doubtless very soon, after 1640 the high-
way was laid out from Southold village westward
through Mattituck to the head of Peconic Bay (now
Riverhead) there to meet a highway laid out at the same
time from Southampton. This was at first known as the
highway to Southampton. The Brookhaven settlement
at Setauket was made in 1655 and the "Setacut Road"
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 23
was probably opened as soon thereafter as possible from
Mattituck. The highway through Mattituck lay to the
south of the fresh water pond now known as Marra-
tooka Lake until 1710 when it was changed to its pres-
ent position.
The account of the changing of the highway is re-
corded in Liber A, p. 142, of Suffolk County Deeds, and
runs as follows :
"Whereas there was an Act of ye Govern't Councill
and Representatives of the Colony of N Yorke made in ye
2d year of ye reigne of our sovereigne Lady Anne by
ye grace of God of England &c Queen Defendr of ye
faith &c for ye laying out Regulating clearing and pre-
serving publick common hygh ways throughout ye sd
Colony And it was thereby Enacted that Commission-
ers to put ye sd Act in Execution according to ye true
intent and meaning of ye same were nominated and ap-
pointed for ye Respective Countyes in ye sd Colony vizt
For ye County of Suffolke Mr. John Tuthill senr Lieut
Joseph Peirson and Thomas Helme, which sd Commis-
sioners have layd out and ascertained ye Publick com-
mon high wayes within ye sd County of Suffolke as
followeth : . . .
"The Highway from Peaconnuck river to Southold
to be in ye usuall road from ye sd river to Mattatucke
already layd out four poles wide at ye least, ye trees
generally marked on ye south side of ye way, and at
Mattatucke ye highway to be on ye north side of ye
pond and soe directly leading to ye old road to ye town
of Southold. . . .
"The high way from ye towne of Southold to ye
westward farms on ye northside to be ye usuall road to
24 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
Mattatucke and see on ye northside of ye pond in ye
way lately marked out to ye usuall road leading to Rich-
ard Howells and from thence in ye usual road to ye
beach and so on ye beach to ye fresh pond and to ye
place called ye wading river."
The second year of Queen Anne was 1703. The date
of the report of the finished work is July 25, 1710. It
was fifty years before this, shortly after the Restoration
and early in the reign of Charles II., that Mattituck
was opened for actual settlement.
The exact line of the highway south of the pond be-,
fore 1710 is difficult to determine but certain known
facts establish definite points upon it. The road now
south of the pond in front of the houses of George B.
Reeve and Charles W. Wickham is certainly a part of'
the ancient highway. Certain wills and deeds relating
to the Corwin property south of the present highway
also fix the farm house of James J. Kirkup as a point
on the old highway. This is a modern house, but it
stands where 2d Theophilus Corwin lived, and died in
1762 in his eighty-fourth year, and where his father, ist
Theophilus, son of the original Matthias, probably lived
before him. Samuel, son of 2d Theophilus, .dwelt a few
rods west of his father near the Corwin property line.
The place where Samuel Corwin's house stood is stills
discernible, a Slight hollow surrounded by a ridge where
the "foundation stood, close to bars in the fence dividing
the lands of James J. Kirkup and Charles W. Wickham.
These two houses undoubtedly stood on the ancient]
highway, which passed through the place .Mairked , byj
the modern bars, followed a track still plainlahd to some
€;>5tent used, circling around the corner of "Chas. W.'
2.6 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
Wickham's orchard past the north end of the hemlock
hedge into the road that runs along the east side of the
pond. This line is confirmed by several early transfers
of Corwin property. One in particular may be found on
p. 518 of Vol. II. of Southold Printed Records. This is
a deed of 1782 and is remarkable for giving measure-
ments and courses of property lines : something uncom-
mon in deeds of that time. This deed conveys about 45
acres of the Theophilus Corwin property from John and
Elizabeth (Mapes) Case to John Corwin, Jr. It men-
tions the house of the widow Hannah Harvey, which
was the house of her father, 2d Theophilus, and gives
measurements which led the writer to look for traces of
the Samuel Corwin house and the old highway about
fifty-five or sixty rods from the present highway with
gratifying results.
East of James J. Kirkup's house the old highway
crossed the farm of Philip W. Tuthill and probably
reached the present highway not far west of Manor hill.
There is little to guide one in determining the course of
the old highway west of the pond. It may have followed
the line of Reeve Place or it may have crossed the ath-
letic grounds and the school lot. It must have reached
the present highway east of the point where it branches
into the north and south roads.
At a Town Meeting held Nov. 20, 1661,* "It was
then agreed and confirmed by a major vote that all com-
on lands att Oysterponds [Orient], Curchaug,f Occa-
*Southold Printed Records, Vol. I., p. 350.
tCorchaug and Occabauck is the spelling of the names of
these districts in the list of proprietors, Vol. I., p. 352, but each
Town Recorder and every writer of deeds had his own method
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 2/
bauck and Mattatuck should be surveyed, and layed out
to every man his due proporcon in each place as it was
then agreed : Vidlt :
"Oysterponnd Lands into ffortie small lots to such
persons only as have given in their names for these divi-
dends : — Curchaug bounds from the Townes antient
bounds to the Canoe place at Mattituck. Also into fforty
small lotts to those p'sons only as likewise have given in
their names in writeinge for the same — and Occabauck
and the rest of Mattituck lands from the said cannoe
place as far as the Towne had any rights to bee divided
accordinge to fforty smaull lotts, also and to remayne to
such p'sons as in like manner had given in theire names
in writeinge to bee the soule proprietors thereof — yet
not withstanding, all the said severall parcells of Land
from east to west were still to remayne in comon as for-
merly in respect of feedinge the herbage that should
grow thereon, save'g such only out thereof as should bee
ymproved by them and fenced from the comon Land."
The Town's "antient bounds" extended "From Toms
Creek east to Puckquashineck west."* "Puckquashineck"
is what we know as Pequash Neck, now the property of
the Fleets. This neck then belonged to the first Wm.
Wells, and was the westernmost holding included in the
old bounds. The settlers believing that the time was
come to lengthen their cords and strengthen their stakes,
determined to divide all the outlying common land, en-
or variety of methods of spelling these names. The writer has
noted thirty or forty ways of spelling each, ranging from
Cachauk to Cautchchaug, and from Occoback or Accobauk to
Hauquebauge.
•Southold Printed Records, Vol. I., p. 146.
28 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
couraging settlement in the outlying districts, at the same
time wisely providing that the allotted land should con-
tinue to be used for the common pasturage of cattle until
it was actually fenced and improved. It seemed con-
venient to make three great divisions of the land to be
allotted. One of these, east of the settlement and ex-
tending to Orient Point, they called the Oysterponds
Dividend. The much larger district lying westward they
marked out as the Corchaug Dividend, extending from
William Wells' Puckquashineck* to the Canoe Place at
Mattituck, and the Occabauck Dividend extending from
the Canoe Place westward. This Occabauck Dividend,
as actually laid out, did not include all the land "as far
as the Towne had any rights to bee divided" as was first
proposed. It extended only so far as the present village
of Riverhead. This was afterwards known as the First
Division in Occabauck and later smaller divisions or divi-
dends known as the Second and Third were allotted, ex-
tending all the way to the Wading River, that separated
Southold from Brookhaven town. Thus it will be seen
the name Mattituck was lost for a time as the designa-
tion of an extended district. 'The Canoe Place at Matti-
tuck" became merely the dividing line between Corchaug
and Occabauck. For many years thereafter property
was described as lying in Corchaug or Occabauck, with
the names ot the adjacent owners east, and west. Con-
sidering that Corchaug was about three and a half miles.
*Puckquashineck, for Pequa-shinne-auke, meaning "open
level land," has become Pequash Neck. This is - one of the
frequent instances where similarity of sound has led to the
substitution of an English word for an Indian syllable of en-.
tirely different meaning. -
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 29
tn extent and the First Division in Occabauck about nine
miles, it will be seen that it is a difficult matter to locate
precisely the lands mentioned in the old records and con-
veyances, requiring much careful study. Gradually the
name Mattituck reasserted itself and a lot of land would
be occasionally described as lying in the parish or village
of Mattituck, but this did not become a common practice
until recent times. The new deeds usually repeated the
descriptions of the old and as late as fifty years ago Mat-
tituck property was frequently described as lying in
Cutchogue or Aquebogue in Southold Town.
In 1661, when these three great divisions of common
lands were ordered, there were fifty-one heads of fami-
lies in Southold entitled to share in the allotment. Their
rights or shares were in proportion to their services and
payments in the establishment of the Town and probably
also to the size of their families. The Southold Records
do not state definitely the basis of apportionment. The
basis was probably the same, however, as in the New
Haven Colony, and in New Haven* "Itt was agreed
that every planter in the towne shall have a proportion
of land according to the proportion of estate wch he hath
given in, and number of heads in his famyly."
In the three divisions there were 122 lots or shares
divided between these fifty-one individuals, some having
one lot, some as many as six or eight. Each man gave
m his name in writing, making choice between the three
divisions. Some men had lots in two dividends, none in
all three. The men in each of the three "squadrons"
drew lots for choice of lands within the dividends. One
*New Haven Colonial Records, Vol. I., p. 27.
30
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
having right to two or three or more lots usually selected
lots adjoining, but this was not a uniform practice.
There were sixteen owners and forty lots in Oyster-
ponds, twenty-one owners and forty-four lots in Cor-
chaug and nineteen owners and thirty-eight lots in Occa-
bauck.
The Corchaug owners were as follows :
^William Wells 3 lots
Barnabas Horton 3
^William Furrier 3
Barnabas Wynes, Sr 2
Barnabas Wynes, Jun 2
*John Elton 3
*Jeremiah Vale 3
Richard Terry 2
*Thomas Reeves 2
Robert Smyth i
*John Booth 2
*John Corwin 3
"^Samuel King i
^Joseph Youngs, Jun i
Richard Benjamin 2
Thomas Mapes 3
Thomas Brush i
*Philemon Dickeson 2
Benjamin Horton 2
Widow Cooper 3
Thomas Terrv i
*Those whose names are marked with the asterisk above
selected lots lying- between Manor Hill and the Riverhead Town
line.
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 3I
The Occabauck owners were as follows :
William Wells 3 lots
John Budd 4 "
*John Swasey 4 "
Joseph Horton 3 "
*John Tuthill 3 "
John Tucker 2 "
*Thomas Mapes 2 "
Barnabas Horton 2 "
John Conckelyne, Jun 2 "
Widow Cooper 2 "
* William Halliock 2 "
Barnabas Wynes, Sen i "
Richard Terry i "
Thomas Terry i "
Edward Petty 2 "
*Richard Clarke i "
Samuell King i "
Joseph Sutton i "
Henry Case i "
The Occabauck lots were large, extending from
Sound to Bay, forty rods wide, each containing two
hundred and fifty acres or more.
Contrary to the prevalent belief the Curchaug lots
did not extend from Sound to Bay, but were divided by
the King's Highway. The lots north of the highway
were about thirty rods w-ide on the road, most of them
tapering towards the Sound, and embraced from one
♦Those whose names are marked with the asterisk above
selected lots lying between Manor Hill and the Riverhead Town
line.
32 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
hundred to one hundred and twenty acres each. South
of the highway the Corchaug land Hes in six large
^'necks" separated from each other by creeks opening
from the Bay. These, in order from east to west, are
Poole's Neck, Robin's Island Neck, Corchaug Neck, Fort
Neck, Pessapunck Neck and Reeve's Neck. Poole's
Neck became the property of William Wells, and is now-
owned by the Fleet family, his lineal descendants. Rob-
in's Island Neck, now the site of the village of New
Suffolk and of much of the village of Cutchogue, fell to
John Booth. The Corchaug and Fort Necks had been
â– divided before 1661 into many 20-acre lots. These two
necks, were the home ground of the Indians in the vicin-
ity. On the one was their village and on the other a
stockade or fort where the women and children were
guarded in time of conflict with hostile tribes. A hollow
in the ground, some three or four rods across, sur-
rounded by traces of a circular embankment still marks
the site of this fort on the eastern side of the neck, near
the creek that separates it from Robin's Island Neck.
The settlers found these necks already cleared for the
most part, and this arable land amid the adjoining
stretches of unbroken forest was very precious. For
many years a twenty acre lot in this "Old Indian Field"
•or "Corchaug Broad Field," as it was called, was more
valuable than hundreds of acres of woodland. These
lots frequently changed hands by way of sale or ex-
change, and early in the i8th century were owned
chiefly by members of the Horton family, who also held
a number of lots across the highway in the North Divi-
dend.
CHAPTER II.
THE OCCUPATION OF THE LAND.
In the preceding chapter a brief account has been
given of the earHest ownership of the first four necks
in the Corchaug South Dividend. We come now to
the two necks that he within the village of Mattituck,
namely, Pessapuncke Neck and Reeve's Neck. A much
fuller account of the ownership and settlement of these
is now to be given. The Pessapuncke Neck was allotted
in the division of 1661 to John Booth and the great neck
(Reeve's) between the Pessapuncke and the Canoe
Place was chosen as the three lots of WilHam Purrier.
Purrier already held the meadow on the western border
of this neck, and his choice of land was probably influ-
enced by that circumstance.
The Pessapuncke neck takes its name from the lo-
cation upon it of an Indian "sweating place" somewhere
near the water. The Pessapuncke was the Indians'
Turkish bath. Roger Williams says of it, in his "Key
to Languages in America," "This Hot-house is a kind of
a little cell or cave, six or eight foot over, round, made
on the side of a hill (commonly by some Rivulet or
Brooke) into this frequently the men enter after they
have exceedingly heated it with store of wood, laid up
on a heap of stones in the middle. When they have:
taken out the fire the stones keep still a great heat. Ten»
34 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
twelve, twenty, more or lesse, enter at once starke naked,
leaving their coats, small breeches (or aprons) at the
doore, with one to keepe all; here do they sit round
these hot stones an houre or more, taking tobacco, dis-
coursing and sweating together; which sweating they
use for two ends ; First, to cleanse their skins ; Secondly,
to purge their bodies, which doubtlesse is a great means
of preserving them, and recovering them from diseases,
especially from the French disease, which by sweating
and some potions they perfectly and speedily cure : when
they come forth (which is a matter of admiration) I
have seen them runne (Summer and Winter) into the
brookes to coole them, without the least hurt."
The Pessapuncke Neck property, falling to John
Booth, extended on the highway from Manor Hill until
it adjoined the land of William Furrier at the east line
of Philip W. Tuthill's property. The Hill now known
as Manor Hill was at first called Booth's Hill and so
for a hundred years or more. The name "Manor Hill"
came into use after the purchase of "the Manor" about
the year 1735. The Manor* was the name given to a
large tract near Booth's Hill, extending from highway
*The use of the name "Manor," to designate a tract of land
held in common by a number of proprietors, early became
familiar in this region, though it is a peculiar use of a word
that properly signifies the estate on which stands the mansion
of a lord or other noble personage. This peculiar usage perhaps
arose in this way: The Manor of St. George, now part of
Brookhaven Town, was patented to Col. Wm. Smith, in 1693. In
1721 twenty men of Southold Town, chiefly Mattituck men,
bought a large tract of six or seven thousand acres from Col.
Smith's son, and this tract was held by them and their heirs in
common until it was divided in 1793. These owners referred to
this as their "Manor land," and so "Manor land" came to mean
land held in common by several proprietors.
1212346
36 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
to Sound, which was purchased by a number of pro-
prietors and held by them in common and devoted to pas-
turage.
Booth sold the Pesapunck Neck to Thomas Giles^
merchant, in 1677, ^"^ Giles soon sold to the first David
Gardiner of Gardiner's Island. Representatives of the
Gardiner family lived on this valuable property for sev-
eral generations. The farm then passed through several
hands until it came, about 1820, into the hands of Isaac
Conckling, where he, and his son George L. after him^
resided for years. The land was long known as Gar-
diner's Neck. In 1841 the western half was sold to-
John Wells and is now the property of Henry Gilder-
sleeve. The lower part of the eastern half was long
owned and farmed by D. W. Hall, and is now the beau-
tiful country place of Mrs. Charity Mould, of Brooklyn.
William Furrier's property adjoining John Booth's^
standing for three lots, comprised something over four
hundred acres, extending on the highway from Booth's
line to the Canoe Place considerably more than a mile.
It will be remembered that the Canoe Place lay nearly
a quarter of a mile west of the present centre of the vil-
lage. The northern boundary of Purrier's land west of
the Church was not the Riverhead road, but the north
road. His property therefore embraced a triangle be-
tween the two roads including the sites of the Presby-
terian and Methodist Episcopal Churches and the bury-
ing-ground and the properties fronting on both sides of
Pacific Street. Purrier describes this land as follows :*
"All that neck of Land as it lyeth betweene his meadowe
*Southold Printed Records, Vol. I., p. 48.
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 37
at Mattituck and John Tuthill's meadow on the South-
west side adjoyninge to the canoe place viddct where
they drawe on the canoes into Mattituck Pond : — but-
tinge in the Northwest on the Land of Joseph Youngs
Junr Philemon Dickinson, Thomes Reeve and William
Wells : a greate ffresh pond lying within the said lands
of the said William Purrier, Thomas Reeve and William
Wells." Youngs, Dickerson, Reeve and Wells were
MARRATOOKA LAKE.
across the highway in the Nortl\ Dividend. The "greate
ffresh pond" mentioned is the beautiful lake, covering
about sixty acres, to which Mr. Chas. W. Wickham
has given the euphonious name of Marratooka, calling
his farm, which is part of the original Purrier property,
"Marratooka Farm," sending far and wide the deserv-
edly famous "Marratooka butter," and harvesting from
the lake annually a fine crop of "Marratooka ice."
When these lands were allotted the lake lay north
of the highway. The transfer of the highway to the
38 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
north side of the lake, fifty years later, has been spoken
of above. Probably the earlier route was at first selected
because the lake was more accessible as a watering place
from the south side. When the highway was transferred
the adjoining land, if already cleared and built upon, re-
mained in the possession of the occupant. In cases
where the land next to the highway was not yet im-
proved the boundary lines appear to have moved with
the highway without damages paid to those whose prop-
erties were curtailed or assessment upon those whose
acres were increased. Thus very many acres of land in
the midst of Alattituck which today are held at twelve
or fifteen hundred dollars an acre were shifted from one
owner to another as of little or no value. When Wil-
liam Furrier died, in 1675, his "farme at Mattituck and
the meadow at Accoboack"' were assessed at one hun-
dred pounds, and probably a large share of this was for
the "meadow at Accoboack." Some idea of the value
of the land may be derived from comparing it with other
items in the same inventory. Ten oxen were appraised
at £50 and twenty cows at about £40. That is. four hun-
dred acres of Mattituck land already partly cleared and
farmed and with a dwelling-house and barn, together
with relatively valuable meadow land, was worth as
much as twenty oxen or fifty cows. Consequently when
the highway was transferred, the opposite owners hav-
ing not yet erected dwellings beside the road, the Furrier
estate was largely increased without cost.
Furrier before his death placed his grandson James
Reeve on the Mattituck farm, and dying made him his
executor and chief heir. James Reeve and his descend-
ants retained most of the great farm for several genera-
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 39
tions and also acquired much other valuable property
in the town. The old Reeve homestead stood until re-
cent years a few rods west of the present residence of
Charles W. Wickham. George B. Reeve, of the sixth
generation from ist James Reeve, whose farm ex-
tends from the lake to Peconic Bay, is one of the few
men in Mattituck residing on ancestral property that has
come down by direct inheritance from the original allot-
ment of 1 661. The adjoining farm to the west is owned
by Miss Florence B. Reeve, daughter of the late Isaiah
B. Reeve. She also, of the seventh generation from ist
James Reeve, holds title handed down by will in un-
broken succession.
Let us cross the highway now and locate so much of
the North Dividend in Corchaug as lay within the limits
of modern Mattituck. As indicated in William Furrier's
record, quoted above, Joseph Youngs, Jr.. Fhilemon
Dickerson, Thomas Reeve and Wm. Wells owned the
lots or "ranges" extending from the highway to the
Sound next east of Mattituck Creek, in the order named.
Joseph Youngs, Jr., a son of Fastor John Youngs, se-
lected the lot nearest the Creek. Youngs' is called in
the Records a "first lot," Dickerson's and Reeve's were
"second lots," and Wells' a "third lot." A first lot was
a single lot, a second lot was two lots and a third was
three lots. A first, or single lot, was about thirty rods
wide on the highway. Joseph Youngs' lot, being next
to the Creek with its very irregular shore line, was of
necessity much wider on the highway, extending indeed
almost half a mile from the Canoe Fath to about the
corner of Brown's or Wickham's Lane. Its east line
kept closer to the north than Brown's Lane does, and
40 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
can be distinctly traced in the remains of an old hedge
that appears just north of the Long Creek bridge, fol-
lows the Howell Road to Wm. Robinson's place, then
strikes through the woods and emerges on the North
Road between the places of the late Joshua Terry and
Thos. H. Reeve, passing along the east line of the
Helfrich place, now the property of Nat. S. Tuthill,
Joseph Youngs, Jr., never settled on this property,
but dying early left it to his widow, Sarah, a daughter
of 1st Barnabas Wines. Sarah sold this lot to her
brother, 2d Barnabas Wines, in 1684. The deed of sale* is
interesting on several accounts, especially because of the
light it sheds on the relations of the Indians with the
whites at that early day. An abstract of the deed fol-
lows.' "Be it known unto ail men by these presents yt I,
Sarah Yongs of Southold, ye relect weidow of Joseph
Yongs leat of Southold aforesaid deceased, for the sum
of thirty-six pounds ten shillings have demised granted
and sould unto my well beloved [brother] Barnabas
Wines, A certaine tract of Land lying and being at
Mattatuck being a first lott in Cautchehaug devident con-
taining one hundred and twelve acres more or less,
bounded on the west side by the Mattatuck Creek — on
the North by the North beach — on the east by a lott be-
longing to Peter Dickerson, and on the South by the
high road way, reserving onely the Indians right and in-
trest therein for four yeares according to his agreement
and bargain, and the yearly rent he is to pay for it I re-
serve to myself."
2d Barnabas Wines had gone to Elizabethtown, N. J.,
*Southold Printed Records, Vol. I., p. 392.
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 4I
in 1665 and there remained for some twenty years. He
returned to Southold about the tmie of the purchase of
this property from his sister, and it is probable that he
took up his residence on the upper part of this tract.
Dying in 171 5 he left his "farm at Mattetuck" to his
â– eldest son, 3rd Barnabas. The will was drawn in 1708
and the lot at Mattatuck was already a farm. 3rd Bar-
nabas ended his days, a very old man, in 1762 on his
two-hundred acre farm next east of Alvah's Lane, a
second lot chosen by his grandfather in 1661 and left in
1762 to Wines Osborn, grandson of 3rd Barnabas.
But in his earlier years 3rd Barnabas occupied the farm
next to the creek in Alattituck, and he was suc-
ceeded there by his son, 4th Barnabas. The home-
stead was isolated, being far from the highway,
in the neighborhood of the present residence of Mrs.
Joshua Terry. The deep hollow back of Mrs. Terry's
house was known as "Ivy Hollow." Both 3rd and 4th
Barnabas Wines while dwelling near the creek added
a sea-faring life to their farming and captained sloops
which plied between New York and Mattituck Creek.
The upper part of this lot next to the Creek was held
by the Wines family until after 1800 when it was sold,
the family holding the lot further east, purchased by
4th Barnabas somewhere about 1725, on the lower
part of whicli James H. Wines of the seventh genera-
tion from 1st Barnabas now resides.
The lower part of the lot next to the Creek was
early sold. In 1719* Joseph Goldsmith, blacksmith, pur-
*Southold Printed Records, Vol. II., p. 479. Mr. Case is mis-
taken in his note here, locating this plot on the North Road
-'directly in front of the house of Joshua Terry."
42 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
chased from 3d Barnabas Wines eleven and a half acres-
on the highway, extending to the Creek. This was sub-
stantially the Mattituck house property, extending far
enough eastward to embrace the home of John C. Wells.
The ground east of Air. Wells' house is black with the
traces of Blacksmith Goldsmith's forge of two hundred
years ago.
At the time of this sale Wines still held the strip of
land to the west extending to the Canoe Path, between
the highway and the Creek. There are no conveyances-
recorded, but in course of time both the blacksmith's
property and the land between it and the Canoe Path-
were in the hands of the Hubbard family, and some time
before the revolutionary war John Hubbard was keeping
his tavern on the present site of the Mattituck house.
By another transfer not recorded the land east of the
blacksmith's purchase, extending from the highway ta
Long Creek, was already in the possession of Deacon
Thomas Reeve, and remained in his family until recent
times.
East of this first lot was the "second" (double) lot
of Philemon Dickerson, east of this the double lot of
Thomas Reeve, and east of this the "third" (triple) lot
of William Wells. These three properties extended on-
the highway from the west side of Brown's or Wick-
ham's Lane to H. B. Lupton's west line, a distance of
about two hundred and thirty rods, which is slightly in
excess of thirty rods for each of the seven single lots
included. It is impossible to determine the partition
lines with absolute certainty, but a careful study of all
available wills and deeds relating to these properties
leads to the following conclusion : The Dickerson anct
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. • 45.
Reeve lots covered the B. S. Conklin, W. H. Pike and
James Reeve (now Wm. Broderick) properties on the
highway, two double lots of sixty rods each. The divi-
sion between them ran midway in \V. H. Pike's farm.
The Wells "third lot" extended from Wm. Broderick's
east line to H. B. Lupton's west, measuring some twenty-
five rods in excess of the regular thirty rods for each
single lot. Such irregularities in measurement were by
no means uncommon. Thomas Mapes, the town sur-
veyor, seems to have exercised a large discretion in lay-
ing out the lots. Some are very scant and others very
broad. William Wells was the largest land-holder in
the town and if extra widths were coming to anybody
they were coming to him.
That the dividing line between Dickerson and Reeve
should have passed through the middle of an old farm
such as that of W. H. Pike seems improbable to one
unacquainted with the facts, but presents no difficulties^
when it is known that both these properties came very
early into the hands of the Reeve family and were re-
garded as one great tract. The line between them was
never fenced and the two double lots were eventually
divided into three large farms.
The Dickersons never lived in Mattituck. Their lot
passed by will to the sons of the second generation, and
then by some unrecorded transfer the western half of it
came into the hands of the Reeves. It has been seen
that Deacon Thomas Reeve owned in 1719 much of the
lower part of the lot next to the Creek. Even earlier he
owned the whole of this great lot of the Dickersons. He
built his house a few rods from the present residence of
Bryant S. Conklin. He died there in 1761 at the age of
44 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
yy, was succeeded by his only son, Thomas, who died
there in 1790. This Thomas was succeeded by his son
Thomas, who, dying in 1823, left the upper half to his
son Benjamin, and the lower half to his son Luther.
Luther lived in the old homestead until his death in
1842 and was succeeded by his widow Elmyra who lived
to be 86 years of age, dying in 1880. The widow El-
myra Reeve and her son Thomas sold this land in many
parcels ranging from i to 45 acres, about 1854 and
1855. Benjamin built him a house on the north road,
and his grandson Thos. H. now lives on land that has
been occupied by his family for about two hundred years-.
As early as 1788 the middle farm, on the southern
end of which Wm. H. Pike lives, was in possession of
Barnabas Terrell, Esq. His title cannot be traced, but
presumably he inherited as a Reeve descendant for the
first of the Terrells in Southold, Thomas, married Mary
the daughter of ist Thomas Reeve. Barnabas Terrell,
Esq., died in 1791 and appears to have been succeeded
in ownership of the lower portion of this lot by his
granddaughter Keziah (Horton) Reeve. She and her
husband. Deacon John Reeve, sold in 1805 to William
H. Pike the grandfather of the present owner. The up-
per portion has changed hands many times and has been
divided into very small holdings, including the farms
of Patrick Drum, Perry S. Robinson, John Muttit, Pat-
rick McNulty and the late Michael Garvey.
The eastern part of the Reeve lot was owned wholly
or in part by William Reeve, who died in 1696, a son of
I St Thomas. This appears from a release given by
Thomas Terrell in 1704 in the following terms : "These
may certifie to all persons to whom It may come that I
46 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
Thomas Terell Mason doe acknolledge that William
Revs desesed did formorlly purchas a pasell of saltte
medow of me . . . that did formorlly belong to
me but was within his the above said Reevs Range be-
tween the, wollfe pit swamp and his froont boonds."*
The wolf pit swamp, now a beautiful lake on the prop-
erty of Capt. Ellsvv'orth Tuthill, locates the range of
William Reeve. This tract or part of it seems to have
been owned by a Daniel Reeve in 1736, but there is no
further trace of ownership until 1788 when Obadiah
Hudson f appears as owner, mortgaging this property to
Jared Landon and John Wells, Esquires, for the large
sum of £900. In the mortgage it is described as "a cer-
*The above is quoted from the original paper in possession
of George B. Reeve, of Mattituck. An abstract, with more
orthodox spelling, is in Southold Printed Records, Vol. II., p. 107.
tObadiah Hudson was probably a son of Richard, son of
Jonathan, of Shelter Island. Richard was an elder brother of
Samuel, who was the grandfather of Deacon Joseph, of Frank-
linville, the great-gi-andfather of Wm. M. and Jos. B., of Mat-
tituck. Obadiah left several children, and his descendants are
m.any and honorable, but none is living in Mattituck. Like
others of the revolutionary refugees, he suffered financial losses
from which he never recovered, and his fine estate was sacri-
ficed. He died in 1791. His son, Obadiah, who married Chloe,
daughter of Jonathan and Chloe (Gardiner) Pike, lived for a
time in the old house near the Lake. 2d Obadiah is said
to have died at Commac, L. I., in 1846. 3rd Obadiah, born
at Mattituck in 1797, was grandfather of Miss Emma I. Hudson,
of Peekskill, N. Y., to whom the author is indebted for much
interesting information concerning the family. A grandson of
3rd Obadiah is Commander William Henry Hudson Souther-
land, U. S. Navy. He performed conspicuous service in the
late Spanish war, in command of the "Eagle." Joseph, a
younger son of 1st Obadiah, baptized in Mattituck in 1797, had a
distinguished son. Captain William Leverett Hudson, U. S.
Navy, who commanded the "Niagara," the ship that laid the
Atlantic cable in 1858. He died in New York in 1862.
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
47
tain tract or Parcel of Land and Meadows with all the
Buildings and Tan fats thereon erected situate in that
part of the Township of Southold called Mattituck." It
is bounded on the north by the Sound and on the south
by the Pond. The dwelling house was south of the
road, near the present site of Geo. H. Fischer's ice
house, the same that became the dwellins: of Ehmas
THE JAMES WICKHAM REEVE HOUSE.
The home of Mattituck's first Sunday-school.
Reeve in 1825. It looks as though this property had
been improved and the house built before the high-
way was moved in 1710. The chain of ownership
is lost again but appears next with Thomas and
Joseph P. Wickham in possession between 1790 and
1820.
For a few vears before his father's death, and be-
48 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK,
fore he moved to the North Road, Benjamin Reeve
owned six acres in the southwest corner of this prop-
erty north of the highway, and dwelt in the house now
owned by Wm. Broderick, that from 1822 until his death
was the residence of the late James Wickham Reeve.
This house was built about 1790 by the Wickhams and
became the home of one of the first Sunday Schools in
the country.
The founder of this Sunday School was Phebe
Moore, the young wife of Joseph P. Wickham,* mar-
ried in 1791. She was the seventeenth child of Dr.
Micah Moore of Southold. Her mother, Abigail Hemp-
stead, at the time of her marriage to Dr. Moore was the
widow of Captain John Ledyard and mother of John
Ledyard the famous traveler and explorer. Phebe, the
half-sister of this remarkable man, was a remarkable
woman. She was genuinely and deeply converted at the
age of eleven and throughout her life displayed the
graces of a beautiful Christian character. In four places
where she made her home she established Sunday
Schools. The first of these, shortly after her marriage,
was in Mattituck. Here she gathered the children of
the neighborhood of a Sabbath afternoon and taught
them from the Bible, From that day to this, a period
♦Joseph p. and Phebe (Moore) Wickham left no children.
His sister, Parnel, married 5th James Reeve, and became the
mother of the late James W. and Irad Reeve. After his first
wife's early death, James Reeve married Mehetabel Downs,
and their youngest daughter was named Phebe Moore. This
Phebe Moore Reeve, in 1827, became the wife of Joseph Parker
Wickham, son of Thomas, and nephew of the Joseph Parker
Wickham who had married Phebe Moore in 1791. This Joseph
Parker Wickham, by his second wife, Mary C. Taylor, was the
father of Charles W, Wickham, now of Mattituck.
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 49'
of a hundred and fifteen ye^rs, Mattituck has never been
without a Sunday School.
In 1822 James Wickham Reeve bought this dwelling-
house with six acres from Benjamin Reeve, and from
John Hubbard he bought the remainder of the lower
portion of the range, eighty-five acres. About the same
time his father, James Reeve, bought the upper part,
through to the Sound, from John Woodhull. James
Wickham Reeve owned all after his father's death. The
property has been much divided. The portion on the
highway is now owned and farmed by William Brod-
erick.
The three lots of William Wells were divided after
his death, in 167 1, among his four married daughters.
Gershom Terry and his wife obtained the first lot to
the west, John Goldsmith and Anna Wells, his wife, the
middle lot. The eastern lot, the extra wide one, was
divided into two half-lots, of which John Tuthill, Jr.,
and Mehetable Wells, his wife, received the western and
Jonathan Horton and Bethiah Wells, his wife, the east-
ern. These half-lots were two miles long, about twenty-
five rods wide at the road and narrower at the Sound.
The Gershom Terry lot, corresponding on the high-
way to the Randolph, Stewart and Jacob A. Brown
places, passed by will to David Terry in 1725. John
Wickham bought of David Terry. Wickham was per-
haps followed by John Case. In 1822 Benjamin Gold-
smith, son of Rev. Benjamin, was in possession. The
men of that family seldom recorded deeds, though they
owned much land. In 1839 the southern portion up to
the "Mill Road," eighty acres, was in possession of
Thomas Overton and was by him sold to Samuel Brown.
50 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
Samuel Brown lived there for a number of years and
sold in 1854 to Daniel Reeve, a son of Benjamin Reeve.
Daniel Reeve, dying in 1858, left this fine property
jointly to his brother Richard Steer Reeve and his sister
Amanda (Reeve) Terry. It is now owned by Mrs.
Rosalie (Terry) Randolph. The lot now the residence
of Jacob A. Brown was sold from this larger property
by Daniel Reeve in 1856. The Stewart property is also
a section from this.
The Wells middle lot, now owned by Charles Benja-
min on the south, fell to John and Anna (Wells) Gold-
smith. They sold to Jonathan Reeve in 1684. This
Jonathan was a son of ist Thomas Reeve and a brother
of 1st James who then owned the great Furrier estate
south of the highway. The highway then ran south of
the Lake, and the house of Jonathan Reeve probably
stood on the hill where the Wickham cottage now is.
Jonathan died in 1707. His widow, Martha, was in
possession as late as 1725. It seems impossible to dis-
cover when or how the Benjamins came into possession
of this lot. From a deed for adjacent property it ap-
pears that John Benjamin was the owner in 1776. In
1804 he left it by will to his son Isaiah. The north-
side of this property was sold by the Benjamins to An-
drew Gildersleeve in 1862.
How the Wines family came into possession of the
two large half-lots is another unanswerable question
for lack of recorded deeds. John and Mehetable (Wells)
Tuthill sold the western half-lot, next to Mill Lane, to
John Terry in 1692. Capt. Jonathan and Bethiah
(Wells) Horton's half-lot descended by will in 1707 to
their son William. In 1725 3d Barnabas Wines owned
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 5 1
one of these half-lots, probably the eastern. In 1736
his holding here was still restricted to the half-lot, on
which he was then residing. Not many years later he
owned the whole lot from the highway to the Sound.
He died in 1762 on the farm next east of Alvah's Lane.
His son, 4th Barnabas, was then living on the farm next
to Mill Lane.
The next allotments eastward originally belonged to
Matthias Corwin and John Elton. They were "second"
and "third" lots respectively and together extended as
far as EHjah's Lane. The Corwin property covers the
Lupton and Davis farms on the highway, the farm of
J. M. Lupton on the Middle Road, the Ed. L. Tuthill,
Bond, Burns and Hallock farms on the Oregon Road.
The northern part of the farms of James J. Kirkup and
Philip W. Tuthill also lay within the Corwin lot, which
of course extended to the old highway. Matthias Cor-
win, the first owner, had two sons, John and Theophilus.
Theophilus seems to have settled early on the lot in
Mattituck, locating his house on the old highway, where
James J. Kirkup's house stands. There 2d Theophilus
died in 1762, in his eighty-fourth year, owning the land
south of his house, which had been acquired by purchase,
extending to Gardiner's or Deep Hole Creek. John, the
other son of Matthias, or his son John, came later to
Mattituck and located on the north side of the new high-
way, after 1710. The fact that the Corwin property lay
on both sides of the present highway has given color tO'
the prevalent mistaken idea that the Cutchogue lots ex-
tended from Sound to Bay.
The Corwin property south of the highway was much
divided by will and sale. Much of it came into posses-
52
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
sion of the descendants of John Corwin. The Kirkup
farm was bought by James Worth, half in 1807 and half
in 1825. It was held by him and after him by his son
John until 1864, when it was sold to Frances J. Bryan,
wife of Clark Bryan of Springfield, Mass., and daugh-
ter of Charles Reeve, son of Irad, son of 5th James.
THE OLD CORWIN HOUSE.
Its present owner came into possession in 1880. Corwin
land east of this after changes hard to trace became the
property of Capt. Ira Tuthill, the father of the present
owner. The Corwin land north of the highway, with
the exception of the old house and lot in the southeast
corner next west of La Mont Gould, passed to George
Howell and from him to Parshall Davis who sold the
"northside" in 1828 to John Woodhull, James Hallock'
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 53
and Rupert Hallock, and in 1850 sold the lower 150
acres to Josiah Lupton. Twenty acres on the eastern
side, now the Davis farm, were sold to Wni. F. Lane in
1858.
The old house in the corner of the lot was probably
built by James Corwin, son of 3rd John, in 1763, the
year of his marriage to Mehetable Horton. In that
year James Corwin bought* "aboute one quarter of an
acre of Land in Mattituck purchased of John Corwin
[4th John, his brother] for ±12 in hand paid adjoining
Southerly to the highway or Road, Easterly to the lands
of Joshua Clark." This lot was 6 rods and 12 feet on
the front. This James Corwin was proud of his native
place and describes himself in the town records as "James
Corwin of Mattituck." But like many others he left the
Island at the beginning of the Revolutionary struggle,
and remained away. His quarter acre passed back to
his brother. Deacon John. There Deacon John died in
1817, and there his son Major John died the year before
his father.
The John Elton third lot extends to Elijah's lane and
comprises the Gould. Mulford, Corey, Bergen and Geo.
I. Tuthill properties on the highway, the Jacob A. and
Wm. Austin Tuthill and the Robinson, Wyckoff and
Duryee farms at the northside. John Elton was a son-
in-law of 1st Barnabas Wines, and never occupied this
property which after his decease was sold in 1677 by
his executor, Rev. Joshua Hobart. The property com-
prised something over three hundred acres, and, though
a third lot, was not divided into three regular lots. The
*Southold Printed Records, II., p. 212.
54 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
western half, 150 acres came into possession of Samuel
and James Cooper of Southampton, who sold to Samuel
Clark in 1700. Clark settled there, and must have built
immediately on the highway, for after the road was
altered he owned a strip of land on the south side. He
was succeeded by his son Joshua on the southern half of
the property and his son William on the northern half.
Joshua Clark lived here until his death in 1789.
Next to the Clarks was a narrow strip, 16^ rods on
the highway and 10 rods at the Sound, called in the deed
of sale "threescore acres," though it could hardly have
been over fifty, and this was conveyed to Thomas
Tusten, of whom we shall have occasion to say more
presently. In 1684 Tusten sold this to David Gardi-
ner, who two years before had bought the Pese-
puncke Neck.
The remaining one hundred acres passed through
several hands before the year 1700, and then the chain
of title breaks. All of this Elton property came into the
hands of the Tuthill family before 1800, and the later
lines of title down to the present owners are easily
traced.
From Elijah's Lane to Alvah's Lane there were five
original owners : Thomas Mapes, one lot, Samuel King,
one lot, Jeremiah Vail, three lots, Benjamin Horton, two
lots, and Barnabas Horton, three lots. Of these the
Mapes, King and Vail holdings, five lots in all, became
later "the Manor," extending from Elijah's Lane to the
foot of Manor Hill, and on the northside embracing the
Wm. Tuthill and Tyson Hamilton farms and the farms
of F. Asbury Tuthill, Tyson Hamilton, Jr., and Isaac N.
Teed.
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 55
The Mapes lot, next east of Elijah's Lane, was left
by Thomas Mapes by will to his son Jabez. The lot is
described in the will as lying "against the old field at
Curchauge." This indicates that the Indian field which
covered most of the Corchaug and Fort Necks did not
terminate at the foot of Manor Hill but reached some
distance west of its summit. The highway of course
skirted the north side of this field, taking advantage of
a route already cleared, and it is probable that the bear-
ing of the north boundary of the field had some influence
in determining the trend of the highway to the south side
of the pond.
The Samuel King lot next east of Mapes' was sold
in 1697 to John Osman, planter. Further conveyances
of the Mapes and King lots are not recorded, but these
two lots appear fifty years later as the "New, or Terrill
Manor." They were probably bought by Thomas Ter-
rill, and by him sold to a syndicate w^ho held them as
common pasture land.
The next land east, the third lot of Jeremiah Vail,
extending down Manor Hill as far as the little pond at
its foot, and described in the old records as "butting on
the small lots south," became, not long after 1700, the
"Mapes Manor," afterwards sometimes called the "Old
Manor." Before 1700 this property was chiefly owned
by Thos. Tusten and Thos. Mapes, and William Mapes
as the successor of his father. The transfer to the manor
owners is not recorded, but later sales of rights in the
Manors show that all of the leading families of the
neighborhood were represented. The rights or shares
of manor-land were five acres, undivided, and sold in
1 741 for £8.
56 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
Next to the manor lands lay the second or double lot
of Benjamin Horton, which soon passed into the hands
of Thomas Tusten, a blacksmith, who married Priscilla,
the daughter of ist Richard Benjamin, and who, though
not one of the original proprietors soon became a large
land-holder. Tusten built his house on the north side
of the highway near the foot of Booth's or Manor Hill,
in the southwest corner of this lot. He appears to have
been succeeded by his son Thomas, who died in 1736 in
the 56th year of his age and is buried in the Mattituck
church yard. This second Thomas Tusten let most of
this property pass from his hands by sale before his
death and it was soon in possession of a number of own-
ers. The northern end of it is still known as "Tusten,"
a most desirable property for residence and cultivation,
but now a tangled wilderness.
We have now passed the eastern limits of Mattituck,
but as a matter of interest the names of the original land
holders in the North Dividend of Corchaug as far as the
old Town limits are given. Next to the Benjamin Hor-
ton, or Tusten, property were the three lots of Barnabas
Horton, extending to Alvah's Lane. East of Alvah's
Lane were Barnabas Wines, Jr., 2 lots, Thomas Mapes,
2 lots, Thomas Terry, i lot, Thomas Cooper, 3 lots,
Richard Terry, 2 lots, Robert Smith, i lot, Richard Ben-
jamin, 2 lots, and Barnabas Wines, 2 lots.
We must retrace our steps westward now, and view
the great lots west of the Canoe Place, that extended
from Sound to Bay. The holders of these lots, from
the Canoe Place to the present Riverhead Town line,
were Thomas Mapes, 2 lots, Richard Clarke, i lot, John
Tuthill, I lot, John Swasey, 2 lots, John Tuthill, 2 lots.
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 57
Thomas Mapes thus describes his land :* "One divi-
dent in Occabauck land lying next and adjoyninge to
the Canough place by Mattituck pond, being in bredth
eight score pole — in length from sea to sea — the land of
Joseph Youngs, Junr. west."
This magnificent domain, "in length from sea to
sea," extended westward to Cox's Lane, that was origin-
ally the private road to the Mapes homestead on the
"neck," and was long known as ]\Iapes' Lane. The
width of this double lot on the highway was far more
than 80 rods — in fact it was about i6o rods — but this
was to make allowance for the irregular boundary of
the creek, as with Joseph Youngs' lot, east, and is not
to be considered an instance of land grabbing on the
part of Mapes, who was the town surveyor. A double
lot in the First Division of Occabauck usually contained
about 500 acres, and this property is not a great deal
above that measure. The first Thomas Mapes dwelt on
sixty acres now a part of the farm of Chas. W. Wick-
ham, and never occupied this Occabauck land. Dying
in 1687 he left it to his children: to Thomas, "half that
division of upland and meadow on the west side of ]Mat-
tituck Creek;" one-eighth to William, one-eighth to
Jabez, and one-fourth to his daughter Abigail, the wife
of Thomas Terrill. He had three other married daugh-
ters, to one of whom he left fifty acres from his double
lot in Corchaug, a little east of Alvah's Lane; to an-
other, two sheep, and to the third, his "great brass ket-
tle." As showing that he held the land west of Matti-
tuck Creek in comparatively little esteem, it may be men-
•Southold Printed Records, Vol. I., p. 108.
50 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
tioned that by his will he expressly entailed all of his
land, excepting only this, "which may be bouct, sould
or exchanged."
There is no record of the partition of this land among
the four heirs. Jabez evidently came into possession of
what is now known as Cox's Neck, and was formerly
known as Mapes' Neck, for there he lived and died, and
there, upon his death in 1732, he was succeeded by his
son Joseph. Jabez also owned 50 acres south of the
Riverhead road, reaching to the bay, next west of the
Canoe Place, comprising what we call "South America,"
for he sold it to 2d James Reeve in 1725. This land was
bounded on the west by Thomas Terrill's land. In those
days a married woman's property was her husband's.
Land left by will to her was usually deeded by the ex-
ecutors to her husband, and when it was sold her hus-
band's signature sufficed. Thus Abigail Terrill's inher-
itance became Thomas Terrill's property. Terrill ap-
pears to have held more than the one-fourth part that
was willed to his wife. He was a mason, and like other
men who supplemented their farming with trades he be-
came wealthy and a large landholder, and it seems prob-
able that he bought much of 2d Thomas Mapes' share.
He owned the Vandenhove property (part of which is
now in possession of Rear Admiral Charles Dwight Sigs-
bee, U. S. N., and on the other half of which Judge H.
F. Haggarty has lately built a handsome residence), the
Hijsing farm, and the land at Horton's Creek now owned
by Mrs. John C. Wells. He also owned the sixteen
acres in Mattituck woods lately purchased by Otto P.
Hallock, and probably a good deal of the land east of
that between the two roads. The extensive holdings of
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 59
the Hubbards, and later of the Shirleys, between the
roads and also south of the Riverhead road were in-
herited by John Hubbard in 1791 from his grandfather,
Barnabas Terrel, or Terrill, who was the grandson or
great-grandson of Thomas and Abigail Terrill.
Next to Mapes Richard Clarke held one lot. He
removed to Elizabethtown, N. J., and sold this lot in
1683 to William Coleman, the son-in-law of Mapes.
^'Coleman's Rock" off the Sound shore is a memorial
of this owner. This lot, about forty rods wide, takes in
the residence of Arthur L. Downs, and the property
north and south from Sound to bay. It is an interesting
fact that the field across the highway from the house of
Arthur L. Downs is still known as the "Coleman lot," be-
ing so designated in the deed by which it was conveyed
to Daniel Downs, the grandfather of the present owner,
in 1830. Joseph and Robert W. Wells and x\tmore
Youngs, of Laurel, dwell on the southern part of this
range.
The one lot of John Tuthill, next west, early passed
into the hands of Joseph Youngs, Jr., the same who
owned the first lot north of the highway west of the
Creek. How the title passed to Youngs or from him is
unknown, but in 1691 this lot was the property of
Thomas Moore, and was by him sold to Richard Howell,
who then dwelt where Chauncey P. Howell, a lineal
descendant, now lives. Richard Howell established sev-
eral of his five sons on this strip and there his descend-
ants lived for several generations, purchasing in addition
most of the Clark or Coleman lot, and most of Mapes'
Neck also. On this Tuthill- Youngs-Howell lot now re-
side Mrs. John Bergen, on the North Road, Joseph C.
6o
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
Cooper and George Henry Howard on Bergen Avenue^
and George Clark on the South Road. The beautiful
Laurel Lake is partly in this range, though singularly
LAUREL LAKE.
enough it is not mentioned in any of the old records ©f
lands or deeds.*
Next west lies the second or double lot of John
*Since the above was written "a fresh pond" mentioned in
a deed in Southold Printed Records, Vol. II., p. 446, has been
identified as Laurel Lake. This deed, dated January 9th, 1713,
conveys from Richard Howell to Archable Tomson, for "ye
sum of eighteen pounds," a tract of fifty acres, "bounded on
ye North by a fresh pond — East by Walter Brown— South by ye
baye, and West by John Swazey." This was the farm now of
George Clark, and the Brown farm south of the highway.
About Archibald Thomson, and when or how the property
passed from his possession, nothing is known to the writer.
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 6 1
Swasey, extending to the lane west of the house of the
late James Richard Hallock. It is impossible now to
trace the descent of title to this property. John Swasey
lived on another double lot, near the present village of
Riverhead. This Mattituck lot is not mentioned in his
will which was drawn in 1692. Many acres of the
northern part were later owned by members of the Al-
drich family (who were descended from John Swasey),
and about 1700 a large part of this tract came into the
hands of the Hallock families. The late James Richard
Hallock lived where his ancestors had lived for nearly
two hundred years. He is succeeded by his sister, Mrs.
Fanny C. Dayton and her sons, Eleazar J. P. and La
Rosseau. That part of the farm of the late Thos. A.
Hallock which is now owned by Benjamin C. Kirkup
is also a part of this tract. In Laurel the farms of Al-
bert W. Youngs, Fred. Hallock. the late Moses Youngs
and Edward P. Youngs are on this property.
The strip of land included between the lines of the
lane next to Mrs. Fanny C. Dayton's and the Laurel
Lane (formerly Aldrich's Lane) is the double lot of John
Tuthill, afterwards of Thomas Osman. This passed from
Thomas Osman to his sons John and Jacob and a num-
ber of sales of parts of this property are entered in the
Town Records, but, as usual, all lines of title become
obscure in the early part of the eighteenth century, from
frequent failure to record wills and deeds. This lot in-
cludes now the farm of Charles W. Aldrich, and others
at the north, and in Laurel, the Presbyterian Church
property, and the farms of James Williamson, George S.
Mahoney, the farm lately of Mrs. Geo. B. Reeve (now of
Dr. Eugene Fuller), and the farm of Geo. B. Woodhull.
62 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
The next lot, the second lot of Wm. Hallock, ex-
tends from Laurel Lane to the town line and has largely
remained in the hands of the Hallock family. By reason
of the rapid recession of the line of the bay, this tract is
nearly four miles long, "from sea to sea." For some
inexplicable reason its width is considerably in excess of
the standard eighty rods, so that the allotment of Wil-
liam Hallock was about 700 acres.
William Hallock took up his residence upon this
Occabauck land very soon after the allotment, and in
1675 he gave to his son-in-law, Richard Howell, a strip
on the western side of his land, twenty rods wide, "from.
North to South Sea." This made a farm of 150 acres,
and the same year Richard Howell added to it twenty
acres purchased from John Conklin whose land lay next
west. "The said twenty acres is to ly twenty poles in
breadth and is to begin (southward) at the highway
that leadeth to Sataucutt and to runn Northward the sd
bredth till the said twenty acres be fully compleated."
The length northward to complete the twenty acres was
160 rods, or half a mile, being about half the distance
from the North Road to the Sound. These twenty acres,
with the adjoining land north of the North Road, have
ever since remained in possession and occupation of
Richard Howell's descendants, and now constitute the
fine farm of Chauncey P. Howell. When the town of
Riverhead was set off in 1792, the west line of the
Howell farm became the dividing line between South-
old and Riverhead.
The north and south lines dividing the towns and
bounding the lots of the First Division in Occabauck
are not due north and south, but run about north-north-
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 6$
west, and east-southeast. These Hnes are perpendicular
to the general trend of the Sound shore. The lines of
the smaller farms into which the great lots are divided
follow the same direction, and until recently were all
marked by hedges and "live fences." The north and
south lanes and roads have uniformly followed the same
direction, running along the farm lines. This is true
even of the streets in the village of Riverhead. The
farmers have called this an "eleven o'clock line," be-
cause the shadow falls along it about an hour before
noon. This has been as good as a dinner horn for the
farmer in all generations. When his shadow falls along
the farm lines he knows that dinner-time is near.
East of Mattituck Creek the farm lines as far as Mill
Lane are about in the same direction, but towards the
east they begin to slant more towards the northwest, the
lots growing narrower towards the Sound. The lanes,
following the old boundary lines, deviate more from
the north the farther east we go, until the Depot Lane
in the village of Cutchogue runs northwest and south-
east.
For two hundred years and more the lands were
fenced with hedges and "live fences." Many of these
ancient hedges still exist, but the intensive agriculture
of recent years is forcing the farmers to clear and level
them. On either side of the line trenches were dug and
the earth piled up along the line. Some of the old hedges
are far from straight, having been led from tree to tree
in the general direction desired. The branches of these
trees were "lopped" and bent over. The notches healed,
and the lopped branches lived and grew and put forth
shoots, and these branches intermingling, and entwined
64
HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
with many wild vines, soon made a fence that cattle
could not break through. In the early days at the annual
town' meeting Fence Viewers were appointed, whose
LOPPED TREES IN AN OLD HEDGE.
duty it was to see that these fences were in good order,
and after warning from them, if the fence were not made
tight, the owner was fined. This was necessary because.
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 65
the early inhabitants had large herds of cattle and sheep
that were allowed to run in the common and unim-
proved lands, and they must be kept from straying into
the highways or into cultivated farms. About the mid-
dle of June, yearly, the cattle were driven to Occabauck,
and thereafter if any were found in unfenced land be-
tween Tom's Creek and the Canoe Place at Mattituck
their owners were subjected to a fine of ten shillings.*
Here and there, in the woods, portions of the fences that
restrained these herds more than two hundred years ago
may still be seen. In almost any farm, and occasionally
by the side of the highway, one may see an ancient tree
with gnarled branches reaching outward in grotesque
shapes as they were lopped and bent for hedge fences in
the olden time.
*Southold Records, Liber D, p, 221.
CHAPTER III.
THE EARLIEST SETTLERS.
The allotment of Mattituck lands that was made in
the autumn of 1661 was probably carried into effect by
a survey and the marking off of the lots the next spring
and immediately the first settlers began to build their
homes and clear the land.
The earliest complete list of the Mattituck settlers
is found in the rate list of Sept. i6th, 1675. This list
names eighty-one heads of families in Southold Town
and gives them in order from east to west. The names
that appear to belong to Mattituck, beginning with
Thomas Tusten, who lived near the foot of Manor Hill,
are twelve. In these twelve families were seventeen
adult males according to the list, which gives the num-
ber of taxable heads in each household. The twelve
householders were the following: Thomas Tusteene,
Thoms Maps Senr, Thoms Terrill, James Reeves, Will
Reeves, John Swasie Senr, John Swasie Junr, Joseph
Swasie, Will Halloke, John Hallok, Richard Howell and
Thoms Osman. Of these William Hallock was rated at
361 pounds, James Reeve at 244, Thomas Mapes at 227,
John Swasey at 200, Thomas Osman at 194 and the
others at much smaller amounts.
These twelve earliest settlers are easily located.
Thomas Tusten was near the foot of Manor Hill, prob-
ably on the south side of the highway then, in the Fort
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 6/
Neck. He probably settled north of the highway in
1684. If the hst is complete there was no dweller be-
tween the foot of Manor Hill and the farm now of Wil-
liam Broderick where William Reeve was settled as set
forth in the preceding chapter. William Reeve prob-
ably had his house near Fisher's ice house, where Oba-
diah Hudson later dwelt. Across the Lake and the
highway, on a part of Charles W. Wickham's estate,
Thomas Mapes was located, and next east of him, James
Reeve. Thomas Terrell and his wife, Mary Reeve, were
probably then in possession of the Pike farm with their
house near the old highway. William Furrier in his will,
1671, gave to Thomas Terrell "two acres of land near or
adjoining to his now dwelling house." The dwelling
Nvas perhaps left high and dry in the midst of Reeve's
farm when the road was moved in 1710. It appears so,
for in 1712 Terrell sold to Reeve four acres with dwell-
ing house, bounded north, south, east and west by the
grantee.
Thomas Mapes' farm, as well as Reeve's, came from
William Furrier. Mapes married Furrier's daughter
Sarah, and to her was left by her father twenty pounds
or an equivalent in land. James Reeve, Furrier's ex-
ecutor, accordingly conveyed to Thomas Mapes sixty
acres of land along the highway next to the Fessepuncke
Neck. The deed,* of date 1683, states that this land
was already "in the tenour and occupation of sd Thomas
Mapes." Mr. J. Wickham Case is mistaken in a note
upon this deed, saying of this property, "It was long the
homestead of James Worth." He was led into error by
*Southold Printed Records, Vol. I., p. 400.
68 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
an attempt to locate it on the present highway. The
sixty acres fronted on the old highway and, as stated
above, were a part of Charles W. Wickham's land, jut-
ting in also into the country place of Frank M. Lupton,
When in 1833 the land of 5th James Reeve was divided
between his sons Irad and Edward the line of partition
ran through the midst of "Jabez' field," which was doubt-
less so called from Jabez Mapes, who inherited from his
father Thomas and sold the sixty acres back to the
Reeves, half in 1707 and half in 171 5. There are traces,
of an ancient dwelling not far back of Charles W. Wick-
ham's residence that was perhaps the house of Thomas
Mapes. The James Reeve homestead stood a few rods
west of Mr. Wickham's and was taken down some thirty
years ago.
The others of the first twelve settlers lived in an-
other group some two miles to the west, on the north
road, in what is now called West Mattituck. Richard
Howell was next to the Riverhead line, and near him'
were his father-in-law William Hallock and his brother-
in-law John Hallock. Near Osman's Lane (later Al-
drich's and now Laurel Lane) dwelt Thomas Osman
and east of him the Swaseys, John and his sons John,. Jr.^
and Joseph. These seven families made quite a colony
in West Mattituck and when William Hallock gave land
to his son-in-law Richard Howell in 1675 ^^^ required
that he should "not lett said land to any person but shall
be approved by ye neighborhood."
A rate list eight years later, 1683, gives Mattituck
names as follows : Willm Reeves, Thomas Tuston,
Theophilus Curwin, Thomas Mapps Senr, James Reevs,
Thomas Terrill, Fetter Haldriag (Aldrich), Thomas-
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 69
Osman, John Osman, William Haliock, Thomas Haliock,
John Swazey, Joseph Swazey. This list adds three names
to the list of 1675 and subtracts two : Richard Howell
and one of the John Swazeys. Richard Howell had moved
to a farm farther west and his name appears in another
part of the rate list. One of the John Sweseys is omitted
altogether from the rate list. This is likely an error, for
both were living. John the father lived until 1692 and
it appears from his will that his son John was then liv-
ing near him. The elder Swezey's son-in-law, Peter
Aldrich, is added to the list. He died ere long, and in
1692 his heirs received one hundred acres of land by
Swezey's will. In the interval between the rate lists of
1675 and 1683 John Osman, son of Thomas, had become
a freeholder beside his father. The third addition to the
inhabitants is ist Theophilus Cor win, who has taken up
his abode on the highway at the place where J. J. Kirk-
up's farm-house stands.
The next year saw Jonathan Reeve locate on the lot
now of Charles Benjamin. It was also in 1684 that 2d
Barnabas Wines bought the lot next east of the Creek
and in all probability he took up his residence there im-
mediately, locating near the 'Tvy Hollow" where the
late Capt. Joshua Terry lived. Another who just escaped
the rate list of 1684 was David Gardiner, who settled on
the Pessepuncke Neck about that time. In 1700 Samuel
Clark settled upon the place now of La Mont Gould.
There were therefore seventeen or eighteen families in
the year 1700 between the foot of Manor Hill and the
Riverhead Town line.
Within a few years after 1700 a number of changes
and additions were made. In 1701 Thomas Clark, car-
yO A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
penter, located on the farm lately of Mrs. George B.
Reeve in Laurel, and two years later his son-in-law Rob-
ert Matthews was on the Woodhull farm adjoining On
the west. This was on the Osman range. In the same
range Jonathan Hudson, of Shelter Island, bought land
in 171 5. In 1702 John Osman, who styled himself
"planter," moved from West Mattituck to a farm be-
tween Elijah's Lane and Manor Hill. Probably about
1707 — certainly not later than 171 5 — Jabez Mapes, son
of 1st Thomas, having sold the Alapes homestead to
James Reeve took up his residence on Mapes' Neck, the
seat of the Mapes family for three generations. 2d James
Reeve was born in 1672 and had established his own
household before 1698, the year in which his father died.
In 1719 the blacksmith Joseph Goldsmith was settled on
the hotel property.
Shortly after 1700 Thomas Reeve dwelt on the Phile-
mon Dickerson lot ne-ar the present dwelling of Bryant
S. Conklin, and owned not only that lot but most of the
adjoining Youngs-Wines lot, south of Long Creek. It
is difficult to determine which of several Thomas Reeves
of that day this was. Very careful investigation, how-
ever, leaves little room for doubt that this was Thomas
the son of ist James, and brother of the James who in-
herited the Purrier property across the highway, and
who in 1 71 5 gave the land for the church and burying-
ground. While 2d James inherited the Purrier property
in Mattituck, Thomas, his brother, inherited the Purrier
home lot and other property within the old town bounds.
All this he sold in 1707 to Peter Dickerson, the son of
Philemon, for five shillings. There must have been
some important consideration back of the five shillings
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 7 1
for this transfer. Now it will be remembered that about
this time, by some conveyance of which there is no rec-
ord, the Dickinson land in Mattituck passed to a Thomas
Reeve. The natural conclusion is that there was an ex-
change of land between Thomas Reeve, the son of James,
and Peter Dickerson. Thus Thomas Reeve came back
to the place of his birth, locating near his older brother
James, his cousin William, and his uncle Jonathan.
Like his brother James he began life in an assured posi-
tion, inheriting a valuable share of his grandfather
Furrier's property. He married Mary Salmon of South-
old, became a lieutenant in the colonial militia, and after
the organization of the Mattituck Church was one of its
deacons. In the old grave yard he and his wife Mary lie
next to his brother James and his wife Deborah.
Whether we are right or not in supposing that this
Thomas was Thomas the son of James, there remains,
no doubt that all the Reeves of Mattituck, and indeed
of Southold Town, are of one and the same family, all!
descendants of the ist Thomas Reeve and Mary, the eld-
est daughter of William Furrier. Thomas is the only
Reeve in the earliest lists of inhabitants. After 1666
he is dead and his property is held by the Widow Reeve,
who was Mary Furrier. Their children were Thomas,
James, William, John, Isaac, Jonathan, Joseph, Mary
and Hannah. Of these, James, William and Jonathan
settled in Mattituck, and in 1750 Furrier (or Furryer>
Reeve, the grandson of Joseph, was also here. Thomas,
probably the eldest son, married Agnes Rider and died
intestate in 1682, leaving her a widow with three chil-
dren, one of whom was 3d Thomas. As regards age;
this might have been the Thomas who settled on the
y2 • A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
Dickcrsoii land in Mattituck, but all indications are
against it. This Thomas had little wealth, and hardly
could have acquired so fine a property ; he was illiterate,
signing deeds with his mark, and was hardly the man
to become a lieutenant and deacon. At all events, it was
either this Thomas or his cousin, Thomas the son of
James, both of them grandsons of the original Thomas
Reeve and Mary Furrier.
Deacon Thomas Reeve was the ancestor of most of
the Reeves in Mattituck today. He married Mary Sal-
mon in 171 1. He was survived by one son, Thomas
{1726-1790) and four daughters, Ruth, Bethiah, Mary
and Hannah, who married into the Goldsmith, Howell,
Wells and Case families, respectively. Thomas (1726-
1790) married in 1745 Keziah. the daughter of Joseph
Mapes and had sons, Thomas (1749-1823), Daniel,
James (1751-1807), Barnabas and John, and daughters,
Keziah, Hannah, Sarah and Experience. Of these sons,
Thomas married in 1770 Parnel, daughter of ist Rich-
ard Steers Hubbard, and James married in 1779 Parnel
Howell. Thomas and Parnel (Hubbard) were the par-
ents of Benjamin (the grandfather of Thomas H.),
Luther (the grandfather of William H. and James L.),
and Thomas (the grandfather of Thomas Edward).
James and Parnel (Howell) were the parents of Jesse
(the grandfather of John G., Henry J. and Herbert M.),
and Edmund (the father of James Franklin).
In the Census of Southold Town taken in 1698 there
were eight hundred persons in one hundred and thirty-
two families. At least nineteen of these families, with
about one hundred and twenty persons, dwelt in or near
Mattituck then or soon after. The list is not in order of
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. J ^
location, like the rate lists of 1675 and 1683, and while
the names of all inhabitants, old and young-, are given,
the heads of families are not indicated. It is often im-
possible to tell where one family ends and another be-
gins. As far as possible, with probability of some errors
both of addition and omission, an attempt is here made
to indicate the Mattituck families, including both those
that were in the village then and those that located in
Mattituck within a few years. With this disclaimer of
inerrancy the author ventures to give the Mattituck fam-
ilies about the opening of the eighteenth century :
Thomas Terrell.* and the sons and daughters then
living with him, John, Richard, Abigail, Nicholas, and
Catharine ;
Peter and Eliza Hallock,f and Bethiah, Abigail,
Peter, Jr., William, and Noah ;
Jonathan and Martha Reeve, and Margaret, Mary,
Martha and Matthew;
Thomas and Hope Hallock,J and Thomas, Kingsland,
Tchabod, Zerubbabel, Anna, Patience and Richard :
*This is probably 1st Thos. Terrill. He first married, in 1665,
Mary, daughter of Thos. and Mary (Furrier) Reeve. It appears
from the will of 1st Thos. Mapes (1686) that he married later
Abigail Mapes. Through Abigail (Mapes) Terrill a large part
of the Mapes property descended to John Hubbard, the grand-
son of Barnabas Terrill, who was the grandson or great-grand-
son of 1st Thomas.
tPeter Hallock was second son of 1st William. The father
•of 1st William was likely enough Peter, as is commonly stated,
but there is no valid reason for believing that he ever dwelt
in Southold Town, for his name does not appear in the early
records. William was undoubtedly the first Hallock in Southold.
{Thomas Hallock was eldest son of 1st William. He is the
ancestor of most of the Hallocks of Mattituck, Laurel, and
vicinity.
74 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
Joseph and Mary Sweazy, and their children Jo-
hanna, Joseph, Jr., Mary, Sarah, Samuel, Richard,.
Stephen and Bathia. [Joseph was a son of John, Sr.]
John and Mary Swazy, and their children John, Jr.,
Susana, Mary, Jr., Joshua and Phebe, [This was 2d
John.]
Jacob and Sarah Ozmond,* and Mary, Sarah, Jr.,.
Eliza, Hester, Pinnina, Hannah.
*This was Jacob Osman. Other Osman families are given
in the census that probably belonged in Mattituck, but cer-
tainty regarding them is unattainable. Thus early the Osman
name suffered in its orthography. In the latter part of the-
eighteenth century the Osman and Osborn names became sin-
gularly confused. This confusion misled for a time even such
a careful writer as the late J. Wickham Case. In a note in
Southold Printed Records, Vol. I., p. 98, on 1st Thomas Osman,
Mr. Case identifies the families, saying, "They changed their
family name Osman to Osborn in 1778 (See D, 136)." This he
corrected in a later note, Vol. II., p. 536, where he explains,
"These two names became confounded on the Town Records
in 1778, the name being written Osman by the Town Clerk
when he should have written it Osborn." This mistake led Mr.
Case to suppose that Thos. Osman, when he sold his home at
Hashamomack, in 1684, removed to the lot in Cutchogue next
east of Alvah's lane, where the Osborns later appeared. Wines
Osborn (son of Daniel Osborn, of the East Hampton family)
inherited that lot from his grandfather, 3d Barnabas Wines.
Thomas Osman settled, as stated above, on the lot that had
been John Tuthill's, between Wm. Hallock and John Swazy:
(Printed Records, Vol. I., p. 99.) Aldrich's Lane, now Laurel
Lane, was Osman's Lane until nearly 1800. The confusion of
the names Osman and Osborn must have been general, extend-
ing to stone cutters as well as town clerks, for five children,
almost certainly of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Hallock) Osman,
who died in August, 1756, have head-stones in the burying-
ground marked as children of "Mr. Jonathan and Mrs. Eliza-
beth Osborn." The confusion was not so impossible to the
ear as it appears to the eye. One was pronounced "Osm'n," and
the other "Osb'n." Jonathan Osman wrote his name correctly.
Why he let the tomb-stones remain uncorrected is a question
for guessing. Perhaps the tide of mistake was so strong:
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 75
Thomas and Mary Clark, and Thomas, Jr., and Eliza-
beth. [Settled in Laurel in 1701. Elizabeth married
Robert Matthews.]
Richard Howell,* and David, Jonathan, Richard,
Isaac, Jacob, Eliza, and Dorothy ;
Theophilus Corwin;f
John, Jr., and Sarah Corwin, and Sarah, Eliza and
Hester; ["Captain" in Corwin Genealogy. Son of ist
John, grandfather of Deacon John.]
David and Martha Gardiner, and Mary ;
Mary Reeve [widow of William], and William, Abi-
gail, Margaret, Sarah, Thomas.
James Reeve;}: and Deborah, Mary, Isaac, Thomas,
Mary.
against him that he gave up in despair, as some persons to-day-
surrender in the unequal struggle against common mispro-
nunciation of their names. Jonathan died intestate in 1761. He
and his wife Elizabeth probably lie in unmarked graves.
♦Richard Howell was the son-in-law of 1st William Hallock.
His wife, Elizabeth Hallock, was dead. From Richard and
Elizabeth (Hallock) Howell descend the Howells of Mattituck
and vicinity.
tTheophilus Corwin was 2d Theophilus, son of 1st Theophilus,
son of Matthias. He was then about twenty-one years of age,
and shortly after, probably, married Hannah Ramsay. Dying
in 1762, he left a daughter, Hannah, the wife of Thomas Har-
vey, and sons, Timothy and Jonathan. His son Samuel died a
month before the father, leaving sons, Benjamin, David and
Samuel. David, with his uncle Timothy, inherited the southern
part of the J. J. Kickup farm. Jonathan inherited a farm near
Riverhead, and died in 1798, leaving sons, Selah and Asa. Tim-
othy died in Franklinville, now Laurel, in 1792, leaving sons.
Thomas, Timothy and Amaziah. Amaziah lived where the can-
ning factory stands. Daniel, the brother of this Theophilus,
was ancestor of Mrs. James T. Hamlin, and of Mrs. John M.
Lupton.
JJames Reeve is 2d James. His father died the year of the
census. He had a sister Deborah, and his wife was Deborah
yd A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
Thomas Tusten [2d] and Priscilla [Benjamin, the
widow of 1st Thos.], and EHza, Miriam and Grace.
Thomas, Jr., and Sarah Terrell,* and Thomas and
Sarah.
Barnabas and Mary Wines, and Barnabas, Jr., Sam-
uel, Bathia, Peanellope. [This was 2d Barnabas.]
William and Mary Hallocke, and William, Jr., Pru-
dence, Zebulon, Mary, Jr., and Ruth Howell.
Jabez and Eliza Mapes, and Sarah, Eliza, Jr., Han-
nah and Ealse.
The hundred or more residents of Mattituck about
the year 1700 lived the same simple life as all their
neighbors on the eastern end of Long Island. They
were mostly large landholders, but had little money and
little use for it except to acquire more land. Each well-
to-do man owned a suit of clothes, and perhaps a "troop-
er's coat'' made of imported cloth. These fine suits, with
such accessories as silver shoe buckles, lasted for years
and were handed down by will from father to son. The
rest of their clothing was homespun. Their communi-
cation with the outside world, by small sloops sailing to
New Haven and New York, was slow, and in winter
dangerous, and they were substantially independent, suf-
ficient unto themselves, having large flocks and herds,
raising their own corn, wheat, rye and other simple food-
(probably Satterly). The Deborah of the census is probably his
wife. Mary, Isaac and Thomas are his sister and brothers. The
second Mary is probably his daughter. His son James was
born in 1709.
*2d Thomas Terrell. Either Sarah named here died early and
he married as second wife Bethiah Wines, named in next fam-
iy, or 3d Thomas married Bethiah. Thomas (either 2d or 3d)
«nd Bethiah were parents of Barnabas, born 1710.
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. JJ
stuffs, growing- their flax, spinning and weaving their
own fabrics, importing not much besides the Enghsh
cloth already mentioned, sugar, molasses and rum, a very
few books, chiefly Bibles, iron and brass kettles and a
meagre supply of such other utensils as could not be
made by the smiths at home, and occasionally silver
tankards and spoons* that figure in their wills.
Among bequests of silver may be mentioned here,
because of the interest that attaches to the persons,
though the will was of a much later date than the time
we are considering, a gift by will from Henry TuthilL
in 1793. to his granddaughter, Phebe Goldsmith. Henry
and Phebe (Horton) Tuthill were the parents of Anna
who married Capt. John Cleves Symmes in 1760, and
the grandparents of Anna Symmes who became the wife
of the first President Harrison and the grandmother of
the late President Benjamin Harrison. In his will Henry
Tuthill leaves to his great-granddaughter Phebe Gold-
smith six silver spoons, mentioning that "they caust
Eighteen Shilings a peas." These were to go to Phebe
if she lived to be eighteen years of age. She was then
about five years old, and died in 1857. the widow
of James Wickham Reeve. The spoons are now in
possession of Miss Mary A. Gildersleeve. her grand-
daughter.
To return to the primitive days of 1700. ]\Ioney was
scarce, and pay was often "in kind." Even taxes were
thus paid frequently. Consequently at town meeting
*The inventories of early date often mention "occomee" or
"okimy" spoons, employing these strangely corrupted spellings
of alchemy, a name formerly given to a mixed metal of which
many utensils were made, including trumpets. Hence Milton's,
"Put to their mouths the sounding alchemy."
78 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK,
the rate at which food-stuffs were to be received was
decided. Wheat was usually about 4 shillings six pence
per bushel ; corn, three shillings ; wool was twelve pence ,
per pound, and flax eight pence. In 1686 it was ordered
that the surveyors laying out meadow lots should re-
ceive "four pence per Lott in money or eight pence in
pay." "In pay" meant in wheat or wool or other pro-
duce, and it is evident from this order that those who
had real money to offer received a very substantial dis-
count for cash. To make sure of payment it was fur-
ther ordered that the surveyors "shall make use of every
Lott till Due payment is made."
A line upon comparative values then and now can
be fixed by an examination of inventories of those days
and of Town accounts. A man of consequence for a
day's service for the town received two shillings. A
man with a team working on the highway received three
shillings, and a laborer without a team received one
shilling six pence.* A shilling was therefore approxi-
mately equal to a dollar today, measured in terms of
manual labor. Wheat then at four shillings six pence
was as costly as it would be today at four and a half dol-
lars a bushel. In 1665! calves were three pounds per
head, wheat five shillings per bushel, Indian corn four
shillings, barley five shillings, and peas four shillings.
In 1673 J pork was three pounds ten shillings per barrel
and beef was two pounds five. Land was low: in the
same year ten acres of land§ sold for "a barrill of good
*Southold Records, Liber D, p. 10.
tSouthold Printed Records, Vol. II., p. 118.
$Ibid., Vol. I., p. 311.
Sihid., Vol. I., p. 65.
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porke." Somewhat earlier* shoes were worth six pence,
half-penny a pair.
In the inventory of the estate of Thomas Mapes,
1687, "One fether bed, bouldster, 2 pillows, 2 prs. of
sheets, 5 blankets, i coverlid, i pr. of curtaines and bed
sted, I cheste bed and boulster" were valued at ten
pounds. That is, these articles represented two hundred
days' work of a laboring man. "Two brass kettles, i
Iron kettle, 2 Iron potts, i sckoUet [skillet], one warm-
ing pan, hoke [chimney hook] and other Iron" repre-
sented five pounds. His "wareing cloaths" were worth
five pounds, and his two swords and one gun, one pound,
five shillings. His "7 Platters, 3 basons, 6 porigers, i
quart pott and 6 spoons" were appraised at one pound,
fifteen shillings, and three books at seven shillings. His
personal estate amounted to eighty-four pounds, which
was uncommonly large for his day. The cost of a coffin
in 1675 appears from an entry on the back of the inven-
tory of the estate of Joseph Youngs, Jr. : "Due from
Joseph Youngs to Samuel Winds for his coffin, 5 shil-
lings." Samuel Wines was a carpenter, and Youngs'
brother-in-law.
William Hallock (whose name was written Halliok)
left a very large personal estate in 1684, including "beds
and bedding, 30 pounds ; pewter brass and Iron, 40
pounds; wooden and leather ware, 9 pounds; sheets and
table linen, 6 pounds; wareing cloaths, 11 pounds, 10
.shillings ; horses cattle and swine 80 pounds, 7 shillings ;
all Implements of husbandry, 12 pounds."
From the wills and inventories and other records of
*Southold Printed Records, Vol. I., p. 207. ' .. . • .
8o A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
the time it appears that land, especially woodland, was
cheap, that labor was cheap, and that products of the
land, because of the small acreage under cultivation,,
were dear. Cattle, held in large numbers and finding
their forage in the uncultivated lands, were compara-
tively cheap, though very valuable as compared with the
land on which they roamed. Articles that had to be im-
ported, such as brass kettles, silverware, books and fine
cloth, were tremendously expensive and were regarded
as rare treasures. The balance of trade in those days
was largely against the colonists, and there was very lit-
tle English money among them. Later, the colonial cur-
rency came into vogue, but its value was always sadly
depreciated. For a long time the wampum of the In-
dians was much used as money, but exchanges were
most commonly effected by barter.
The farmers had enough to eat and wear, but some-
times found it hard to meet their taxes. Then as ever
some prospered and added continually to their lands,
while others lost their holdings little by little. It was
probably almost impossible for a man without a farm
and without a trade to make a living for a family. The
men with trades were as a rule prosperous. There were
blacksmiths, masons, carpenters, joiners, coopers, wheel-
wrights, weavers, cordwainers (shoemakers), saddlers^
fullers, tailois, tanners, millers. These men usually car-
ried on their trades as an adjunct to farming, and they
often grew rich, acquiring much land. The blacksmith
made all the nails that were used, as well as axes, ham-
mers, ploughs, spades and other farming implements^
chains, andirons, pot hooks, and pretty much anything
that could be made of iron. The pails and tubs used
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 8l
about the house and dairy, as well as the barrels, were
made by the cooper.
Another important art was that of navigation. Prob-
ably before 1700 Capt. Barnabas Wines sailed his sloop
between the mouth of the Creek and New York. He
was succeeded in this enterprise by his son, and one or
two sloops were regularly employed upon that route
until some fifty years ago when the railroad, being much
more accessible as well as quicker, drove them out of
business. Capt. Gilbert Davis, the father of Mrs. Joshua
Terry, was the last to run a sloop regularly between
Mattituck and New York. Not a few of the early settlers
were engaged in the coasting trade, and some made
voyages to the West Indies.
So well did the fathers understand the value of a
trade, that it was customary for the sons of the wealthiest
families to be apprenticed in their youth to neighboring
smiths or other artisans. A father dying and leaving
boys usually charged his executors in his will to see that
his sons were apprenticed to learn useful trades.
The houses of the early days were strongly joined
with hewn oak timbers, and covered with large oak
shingles which were good for many years. The foun-
dations were built of large stones, mostly round, gath-
ered at the shore of the Sound. The only heat was from
mammoth open fireplaces beneath huge chimneys. The
chimneys were built of brick which from the earliest
settlement were manufactured at Arshamomack. These
great fireplaces served for cooking purposes as well as
heating, being fitted with cranes and hooks for pots and
kettles. Baking was done in tremendous brick ovens,,
with iron doors. In these hot fires of wood were kindled!
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and allowed to burn until the walls were thoroughly
heated. The coals were then drawn out, and the oven
was ready for baking. Such a thing as a stove for heat-
ing was unknown for nearly a hundred years after Mat-
tituck was settled.
In the village of Mattituck there are few very old
THE ELYMAS REEVE HOUSE.
This house faces the south, with its back to the road. Probably
built soon after 1710.
houses standing. There are several very old barns, with
oak shingles, weatherbeaten but sound, and the oak
frames of some of the ancient houses are still doing
service in barns and outhouses. The house on the north
side of the highway now owned by Wm. Broderick, in
which the Kelly sisters reside, was built about 1790 by
.Joseph Parker Wickham. The house across the way
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK
83
from Jacob A. Brown's dwelling is considerably older,
and no one knows by whom it was first occupied. It
was built in th« days when houses were placed with re-
gard to the points of the compass, facing due south for
the most agreeable exposure. With a fine indifference
to appearances it presents its back door to the highway.
If any house in Mattituck is older than this, it is the
THE ANCIENT TAVERN.
The old part of the Mattituck House.
older part of the hotel, or Mattituck house, which was
John Hubbard's tavern before the Revolutionary war.
The hotel was owned by Barnabas Terrel until his death
in 1 79 1, when he left it to his grandson, 2d John Hub-
bard : "that house and land which he now lives in and
all the privaliges thereunto belonging." Hubbard had
then been keeping the tavern for fifteen or sixteen years,
84 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
succeeding his father, who died in 1775. The first John
Hubbard had married Mary Terrell (who after his
death became the wife of Col. Phineas Fanning) in 1762.
From that time until his death he appears to have kept
the tavern owned by his wife's father. Whether the
Terrells kept this as a public house before Hubbard is
a question to which no answer can be given. And there
THE HOME OF JOEL C. HOWELL.
Built by 5th William Wells before the Revolutionary War.
is no record of when or how the property passed into
Terrell hands. It was bought in 17 19 by Joseph Gold-
smith, blacksmith, who died in 1736. It is possible that
the older part of the Mattituck house was built by this
Joseph Goldsmith for his dwelling in 1719. If so, it is
one of the oldest buildings standing in Southold Town.
The house of Frank C. Barker, on Pike Street, was
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 85
built, probably, before 1800. Before its removal to its
present position it stood on the Glenwood House lot, and
was occupied by Barnabas Pike, from whom Pike Street
is named. Barnabas Pike purchased from the Reeves,
and after a few years sold to Mrs. John Odell. But
long before this had been the residence of Amasa Pike,
cousin of Barnabas' father. Amasa probably built the
house sometime after the Revolutionary war. Another
house dating from the time preceding the Revolutionary
war is that of Joel Howell, which was erected by 5th
William Wells, grandfather of Joseph Wells, of Laurel,
before his voluntary exile in Connecticut during the
British occupation of Long Island.
CHAPTER IV.
THE FOUNDING OF THE CHURCH.
Up to 1 71 5 all the people of Southold Town went to
the old Town Church, and even after that date all were
taxed for its support. On June 15th, 171 5, "Sundry per-
sons," inhabitants of the Town of Southold, "indented
with each other to build a Meeting House at a place
called Mattetucke in the said Town Ship.'' So says the
ancient deed whereby 2d James Reeve, five months later,
conveyed "unto ye said Inhabitants and to their Heirs
and Successors for ever" the half acre of land on which
the Presbyterian Church now stands. This deed, dated
Nov. 7th, 1715, gives "half an acre of land lying and
being at Mattetuck in ye sd Town between the two high
ways, and to lye as near Square as may be where ye sd
ways part . . . for to set the said meeting House
upon ; and for noe other use whatsoever, but for the sd
meeting House to stand upon." Shortly after another
deed was signed and sealed by the same donor convey-
ing an acre and a half adjoining for the Burying Ground.
2d James Reeve, like his father, was a man prominent
in the town, frequently serving the town in official posi-
tion, and for years being one of the Town Justices. He
died in 1732, and in the ground which he consecrated to
the use of the parish his grave is marked with a stone
on which is this inscription : "Here lyes buried ye Body
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DEED OF HALF-ACRE FOR MEETING HOUSE.
88 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
of ye Hono'ble James Reeve Esqr who Departed this
life March 14th Anno Domi 1732 in ye 60th Year of His
Age." Beside him Hes his wife, Deborah (probably De-
borah Satterly of the Brookhaven family), who survived
him twenty years, living with her son, 3d James, in the
old homestead. In all the life of the parish their descend-
ants have held prominent part up to this day.
The Meeting House was probably erected immedi-
ately upon this most advantageous site at the junction
of the highways. The Rev. N. S. Prime, in his History
of Long Island, states that it was erected by Nathaniel
Warner, master builder. Nathaniel Warner lived near
the present village of Jamesport, where his descendants
still reside. He was a son-in-law of James Reeve, the
donor of the land, marrying Reeve's daughter, Deborah.
The original building stood for one hundred and fifteen
years, until 1830, when the second edifice was erected.
The old house, with its strong oak frame, was drawn
by oxen to Greenport, where it stood until recent years
on the main street near the dock, serving as a sail loft.
It was finally destroyed by fire.
The old building stood where the present church
stands, but faced the other way, its front door being at
the south endj, the high pulpit with sounding board above
it being in the north end. There were also doors on the
east and west sides, s;ornewhat north of the middle. It
was a plain shingled building, with a gallery along the
sides and across the south end. Under the gallery the
walls were plastered, but overhead were the oak beams
and shingles. In those days there was no lack of ven-
tilation in the churches. The swallows passed in and out
beneath the eaves, and as in the ancient Psalmist's time
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 8c>
found nests for themselves where they might lay their
young, even in the Lord's altars. In the south end the
pews ran east and west with a middle aisle, or "broad
alley," as it was often called, between them. In the
north end, on either side of the pulpit, the pews ran north
and south. Near the side doors, between the lateral and
longitudinal pews, were private chairs, owned and occu-
pied by the matrons who brought their little children to
church. The seats immediately in front of the pulpit
were reserved for the small boys of the congregation,
that they might be directly under the awful eye of the
minister, while close to the pulpit on either side sat the
•deacons. It is said that the young men and maidens used
to frec|,uent the gallery.
The old church to the time of its removal in 1830 was
never warmed in winter. The older women had their
little foot-stoves carried to the meeting house. The
men and the young people, not grown tender from the
hot-house culture of modern times, thought nothing of
sitting in the unheated church on a winter's Sabbath
from ten to twelve in the morning and again through
an afternoon service after an hour's intermission. The
temperature was low, and the uncushioned seats were
"hard, but they forgot the absence of creature comforts
in their close attention to doctrinal sermons an hour long,
or more. The difference between those "good old days"
and these lay not so much in the superior eloquence of
the preachers or the deeper spirituality of the hearers as
in the circumstances of the times. If the railroad tracks
were torn up and the telegraph wires cut down, the
newspapers and magazines discontinued and ninety-nine
hundredths of the books were lost, if the thousand and
90 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
one cares and distractions and diversions incident to the
highly artificial civilization of the present day were re-
moved, nearly every one would go to church, though he
had to walk far, and would listen with avidity to a very
ordinary preacher as long as he would talk; especially,
if now as then, the preacher were the only educated man
in the community.
The first Pastor in Mattituck was the Rev. Joseph
Lamb, who was one of the five graduates of the year
1717 in Yale College. All of the five became ministers,
as did all of the six in the two years preceding. One
of the three in the class of 171 5 was Nathaniel Mather,*
who afterwards became pastor of the Aquebogue Church
(now Jamesport). The Presbytery of Long Island, em-
bracing the whole of the Island, and New York City as
well, had just been organized, and one of its first official
acts was the ordination and installation of Joseph Lamb
in Mattituck, Dec. 6th. 1717. The Mattituck Church was
thus early in its life allied with the Presbytery. The only
others on the Island connected with the Presbytery at
that time were the churches of Jamaica, Newtown,
Setauket and Southampton.
Not one fine of record survives to tell us of the pas-
torate of Mr. Lamb. Even the records of the original
Presbytery of Long Island are lost. Mr. Lamb remained'
♦Nathaniel Mather heads the list of his class in social rank
and was presumably a son of the distinguished New England
family of that name, though it seems difRcult to place him in
the genealogical tables of that family. He died at Aquebogue.
His will was proved in New York in 1748. He left sons, In-
crease, who married a Brown, and Ebenezer, who married Mar-
garet Downs. The will does not mention wife or daughter.
According to the Salmon Record he married the widow Ruth^
Terry, in 1724.
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. Ql
here twenty-five years or more. In 1744 he became the
pastor of the church at Basking-Ridge, N. J., dying June
28th, 1749, in his 60th year. He is said to have been of
Scotch descent and a worthy man. In Basking-Ridge
the church prospered under his ministry, and the people
outgrowing their original log meeting house erected a
new frame building that served their purposes for ninety-
years. Tradition has it that the frame of the new build-
ing was raised the very day that the faithful pastor was
called higher to the house not made with hands. His
grave is near the entrance to the Basking-Ridge Church,
under a magnificent ancient oak.
Pathetically enough, the grave of the wife of his
youth, who died twenty years before, stands lonely in
the Mattituck grave yard. "Here lyes Buried ye Body
of Mrs. Patience Lamb, wife of the Rev'd Mr. Joseph
Lamb; who Dec'd April 4th Anno Domi. 1729, Aged 35
years." It is probable that this Patience was the young-
est daughter of Capt. Jonathan Horton. When Capt.
Jonathan Horton made his will, in 1707, his two young-
est daughters were Abigail and Patience, both under
eighteen years of age. In the Salmon Record occurs the
marriage, Aug. ist, 171 7,* of Mr. Joshua Lamb and
Patience Horton. It seems extremely probable that this
Joshua is an error and meant for Joseph, for there was
no other person of the name of Lamb dwelling in South-
old Town at that time ; certainly no other who was a per-
son of distinction. The "Mr." in the Record, as in in-
scriptions on tombs and in all writings of that period, is
a sign of distinction, applied only to ministers of the
♦Probably 1717, or perhaps 1716. The date is incomplete in
the Salmon Record.
92 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
gospel and persons of high social standing or official
rank. In the early days the idea of social rank that
came with the colonists from the old country were pre-
valent, and for years the people were seated in the town
church at Southold according to their social consequence.
Until the year 1767 the names of Yale graduates were
catalogued in the supposed order of social rank instead
of alphabetically as now. When we see in the grave-
yard the names of Mr. Thomas Turrill and Mr. Nathaniel
Clark and Mr. John Parker and Mr. Obadiah Hudson
and Mrs. Bethiah Hudson, his wife, and many others
thus designated, we know that they were persons of rank.
^'Mrs." meant not necessarily a married woman, but was
often applied to an unmarried woman of good family. The
Mr. Joshua Lamb of the Salmon Record was probably
therefore Mr. Joseph Lamb, fresh from New Haven,
just taking up his work in Mattituck, and making a fine
beginning by winning the young daughter of one of
Southold's leading families. They had a daughter, Lydia,
who married a Clark in 1738. Here the Salmon Record
fails us, for it omits the first name of this particular
Clark. If it were not for this omission it might be pos-
sible to trace the descendants of the Rev. Joseph Lamb.
In all probability some of them are now dwelling in Mat-
tituck. He had a son, Joseph, who died in 1739 and
probably lies beside his mother in one of the many un-
marked graves in the church yard.
The years of the first pastorate in Mattituck were
•doubtless years of severe trial for both the pastor and
the people of his charge. Up to that time the town pas-
tor's salary had been raised like the salaries of civil Offi-
cials by regular taxation. The necessary adjustment to
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 93
altered conditions must have been attended with many
difficulties. The pastor's salary was of course small,
but even so must have been difficult of collection among
a people unused to the voluntary support of a church in-
dependent of the town, and a people few in numbers and
poor in purse. With his wife gone, his daughter mar-
ried and his son taken from him, it is no wonder that the
pastor turned to a new field of labor.
In 1720, three years after Mr. Lamb's settlement, and
after the third church in the town had been organized
at Oyster Ponds (now Orient), it was decided at Town
Meeting* to divide the parish lands "that each minister
may improve the same in proportion, according to the
first purchase." The committee to effect this division
consisted of Capt. James Reeve of Mattituck, Capt.
Booth of Oyster Ponds, and Benjamin Youngs of South-
old. This committee doubtless performed the duty as-
signed, but there is no record of the result of the divi-
sion. This is certain, that the Mattituck parish soon
afterwards owned a valuable parsonage property, shares
or rights in which were handed down by the proprietors
in their w^ills. The name "parsonage," now usually re-
stricted to the dwelling-house provided for the minister,
was then given to the land or farm occupied by the min-
ister. What we should call the "parsonage farm" or the
"parsonage property" was then called the parsonage,
and the ancient Mattituck parsonage was what is com-
monly know as the "Glover place," now owned by the
Rev. Wm. A. Wasson, rector of the Episcopal Church,
and his brother, the Rev. James B. Wasson.
♦Southold Records, Liber D, p. 119.
94 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
This cannot have been a part of the town parish
lands that were divided by the committee in 1720, for
those lands were in the old town bounds, and this was
.a part of the property of Thomas Mapes and had de-
scended to his heirs. It is reasonable to suppose that the
portion of parish lands that fell to Mattituck was sold
and this farm near the church was purchased. That this
exchange cannot be traced in the records is not surpris-
ing, for many transfers of land were left unrecorded. In
1654* it was ordered that all purchases and exchanges
•of lands should be recorded within one month, under
penalty of five shillings, and for many years this law was
fairly well observed; but through most of the i8th cen-
tury the failure to record conveyances of land was ex-
tremely common. The transfers of land in Mattituck
from the allotment of 1661 up to 1700, though very fre-
quent, can usually be traced, but from 1700 onward the
lines of title are obscure in many instances.
However it came about, the parish of Mattituck
owned as a parsonage some fifty acres a mile west of the
â– church, fronting on the North Road and bounded on the
west by Mapes' (now Cox's) Lane. There, no doubt,
the Rev. Joseph Lamb lived and there his wife Rachel
died.
An interesting document of the next generation sur-
vives, being a written agreement to sell the parsonage.
This agreement is as follows:
"We whose Names are underwritten Inhabitants of
Southold in Mattituk Society, having Rights in the Per-
sonage belonging to Mattituk, considering the Difficult
*Southolcl Printed Records, Vol. I., p. 324.
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 95
Circumstances in which it hes at present. Do consent
and agree that the same shall be sold, upon the Terms
following (viz) that the Money arising from said Sale
shall be converted to the Support of the Gospel in Mat-
tituk, and we also bind not only ourselves but our Heirs,
Executors, Administrators and Assigns to the perform-
ance of the above Terms or Premisses as witness our
hands this Ninth Day of February 1769."
This is in the handwriting of Deacon Isaac Hubbard,
and is signed b} Isaac Hubbard, Barnabas Wines, Bar-
nabas Terrel, Joseph Alapes, Thomas Reeve, John Cor-
win, John Benjamin, James Reeve, Henry Pike. James
Halliock, Richard Sweesy, Mica How^ell, John Gardiner,
Ebenezer Webb, and Petter Halliock.
The next month, March 24th, 1769, a more explicit
agreement was signed, providing that the proceeds of
the sale of the parsonage "shall be devoted as a bank
for the support of the gospel ministry according to }e
presbyterian order in Mattituk," and that a committee,
consisting of Thomas Reeve, Micah Howell and John
'Gardiner, and their successors, "shall have full power to
hire out the sd money and dispose of the Interest for
the support of the gospel ministry yearly and not to have
any liberty to dispose of any of the principal otherwayes
unless it be to pay out of ye principal their parts that do
not live in ye parrish." The signatures to this paper
were witnessed by John Wickham and Joseph Man.
"What were "the difficult circumstances" under which
the parsonage lay does not appear. The third pastor, the
Rev. Nehemiah Barker, was here then, living in a house
â– erected at his own expense, on the south side of the
North Road, not far from the present Canning Factory.
96 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
Perhaps the parsonage building was out of repair; per-
haps it had been destroyed by fire. None can tell. There
does not survive in Mattituck even a tradition that there
ever was such a parsonage.
The parsonage was sold and was probably bought by
Micah Howell, whose descendants afterwards owned it,,
but the deed is not on record. The "bank" was carried
on for over forty-five years, and had a capital of nearly
a thousand dollars. When the "Union Parish" was in-
corporated, in 1 81 7, a parsonage farm of twenty-three
acres was purchased a mile east of the Aquebogue (now
Jamesport) Church. That farm probably represented
the principal of the Mattituck bank, for after the incor-
poration of Union Parish the bank disappears from his-
tory.
After the departure of Mr. Lamb the history of the
parish is blank until 1747. In that year the Presbytery
of Suffolk was organized, covering the eastern part of
the old Presbytery of Long Island. At the organization
of the Presbytery, at Southampton, Deacon James Reeve,
the son of the donor of the church lot, was present, and
subscribed his name, as a representative of the Mattituck
Church, to the covenant of organization on the 9th of
April, 1747. The next year, we find from the Presby-
tery's Records, Mattituck Parish applied to the Presby-
tery "requesting Advice with Respect to a suitable can-
didate for the Gospel Ministry," and further that the
ministers "would afford them some Relief by their min-
isterial Labours among them under their present desti-
tute circumstances." At the next meeting the Rev. John
Darbe (or Darby), a recent graduate of Yale College,,
offered himself as a candidate for the ministry, was
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 97
licensed, and directed "to preach to the Societies of Mat-
tatuck and Aquebaug alternately till further orders, they
having made application for supplies." The Aquebogue
Parish had been established between 1720 and 1730,
with its meeting house erected in 1731 at the place known
since 1835 as Jamesport. Its pastor, the Rev. Nathaniel
DARBY'S BRANCH.
Mather, died in 1748, the year before Mr. Darby was
directed to preach there and in Mattituck.
Mr. Darby came to Mattituck in April, 1749, and
continued to supply the two churches for two years. He
probably occupied the Mattituck parsonage property, and
it is presumably from him that "Darby's Branch," reach-
ing out from the west side of Mattituck Creek to the-
north end of the parsonage land, takes its name. At tlic-
98 A HISTORY OF MATTITLXK.
end of Mr. Darby's first year Mattituck had its first and
only heresy trial. The Presbytery was compelled to
send a committee to Mattitnck to "inquire into some
things alleged by some against doctrines delivered in his
public preaching and countenanced in his private con-
versation." The committee, consisting of the Rev.
Messrs. Ebenezer Prime, Samuel Buell, David Youngs
and James Browne, repaired to Mattituck, treated the
people to a sermon by Mr. Prime in the morning, heard
and considered the charges presented by Mr. Barnabas
Turrel in the afternoon, took recess for the night, met
again at 7 o'clock in the morning, completed the investi-
gation, which included the reading of some of Mr. Dar-
by's sermon manuscripts, and found that there was not
sufficient ground for the complaints. It seems that the
chief part of the congregation feared that this unfortu-
nate opposition would drive Mr. Darby away, and they
asked, "That the Presbytery would improve their inter-
est and influence with Mr. Darby, engaging him to con-
tinue with them some months longer." The Presbytery
left it to his discretion whether to go or to remain. At
the next meeting, in October, 1750, the same permission
was renewed, and shortly after he seems to have with-
drawn, though just when is uncertain.
At Southampton, May 27th, 1752, a call from the
united parishes of Mattituck and Aquebogue was placed
by the Presbytery in the hands of the Rev. Joseph Park
and by him accepted. It appears from Mr. Park's Rec-
ord of Marriages that he was in Mattituck as early as
January, 175 1. He was installed in the Mattituck Meet-
ing House, June 9th. 1752, pastor of the two neighboring
parishes. His ministry here was brief, for he was dis-
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 99
missed by the Presbytery, Feb. nth, 1756, and removed
to New England. .But he deserves to be held in lasting
remembrance and gratitude in the parish, for he kept a
Record and left the book behind him for his successors
to continue.
The following account of his call and installation,
copied from the opening pages of his Record Book, is in-
teresting :
"May ye 27th 1752. Attended the Presbytery at South
Hampton with Deacon James Reeve and Nath'll Warner
Esqr, the Societies' Committee to represent to ye Ven-
erable Presbytery ye Call given to Revd Joseph Park to
the Pastoral Office &c. After Consideration the follow-
ing letter was sent by the Presbytery:
"The Presbytery of Suffolk County met at South
Hampton May ye 27. 1752. To ye Churches at Matta-
tuck and Aquabaug, Greeting : :
"Dear Brethren in the Lord :
"In Compliance with your Request to us we being
freely Willing and ready to promote your Spiritual In-
terests and rejoicing in your Desires and Endeavours to
have the Gospel Worship established among you, have
concluded to meet at ye house of Capt Barnabas Wines
junior on ye 9th of June next at 8 o'clock in the Morn-
ing in order to the Enstallment of your desired Pastor
over you the next Day, if God in his Providence shall
make the way clear for our Proceeding. And that things
may be done regularly and according to the Gospel, we
request and advise that those who have been members
in full Communion should meet among yourselves to get
into some readiness to unite together in a Church state
lOO A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
under ye particular Pastoral Care of ye Revd Mr. Park^
that if there should be Objection against any of the
Brethren or any thing of this Nature, it may be settled
and accommodated in an orderly way.
"We likewise desire that all the members Male and
Female in full Communion would meet with us at ye
time and Place above mentioned to make ready for your
publick receiving of ye Revd Mr. Park as your Pastor
under Christ.
"We likewise advise you to set apart a Day for pub-
lick solemn Fasting and Prayer to God for his gracious
Influences and Blessings to succeed your Undertaking
to his Glory and your Souls' spiritual good, and that
you all unanimously seek those things which make for
Peace and mutual Edification in [illegible].
"Praying that the God of Peace may be with you
and bless you with all Spiritual Blessings in Christ
Jesus, we remain your hearty Friends, your souls' well
wishers, and Servants in our common Lord Jesus Christ.
"SiLvs. White, Moderator"
"June ye 4th 1752. Set apart a Day of publick Fast-
ing and Prayer to God for his Direction and Blessing in
resettling into a Church State. The Revd Mess. Throop
and Paine attended and assisted. Revd Mr. Throop
preach'd A. M. fr. Coll. 4.3. P. M. I preach'd fr. Luke
17. 7-10."
Then follows a certified copy of minutes of Presby-
tery:
"Met at Mattatuck June ye 9. 1752 according to the
previous appointment of ye Presbytery. Present, Mes-
sieurs ye Revd Sylvs White, Azariah Horton, Samll
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. TOI
Buell and James Brown. Mr White chosen Modr. Mr.
Horton Clerk.
"Post Preces Sederunt qui Supra.
"The following Persons belonging to ye Pastoral
Care of ye Revd Mr Lamb, and to the Pastoral Care of
ye Revd Mr. Alather, or to any other Churches, who
now live among them, agreed to embody and become one
incorporated Church, and in Consequence hereof have
chosen the Revd Mr Joseph Park to be yr Pastor, and
will be ready on ye Day of his Installment to give yr
publick Consent by yr Representatives to set under his
Ministry, to be under his Pastoral Watch and yield sub-
mission to him as in the Lord, and further that they will
walk in ye Faith, Fellowship and Order of the Gospel,
as Members of one and the same Body and do now give
yr own personal express Consent hereto. Lieut Thos
Reeve, Nath'll Warner Esq., Isaac Hubbard, Esq., James
Reeve, Esq., Hezekiah Reeve, Sam '11 Clark, junr, Joshua
Wells, junr, Deborah Reeve, Sarah Reeve, Bethia Terril,
Bethia Hubbard, Anne Hubbard, Hannah Corwin, Kezia
Brown, Elizabeth Corwin, Mary Warner, Mary Parshill,
Mary Reeve, Mary Leek, Rebekah Johnson, Mary Arm-
strong and Hannah Soper.
"The Presbytery finding the way clear appointed The
Installment of the Revd Mr Joseph Park to be attended
tomorrow morning at lo of ye Clock.
"June ye lo Attended the Installment according to
appointment. Mr. Horton began the solemnity with
Prayer. Mr. Buell preached fr i Tim. 4.16. Mr. White
presided, took Mr. Park's Engagement to the People,
and ye Engagement to Him by ye representative Com-
mittee, and gave the Charge. Mr. Brown made an ad-
I02 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
dress to ye People, Mr. Throop made the last Prayer.
Mr. Park pronounced the Blessing,
"Ordered the Minutes of ye Presbytery to be read.
Concluded with Prayer.
"A true Copy attested by
"Sylv. White, Mod
"AZAR. HORTON, Clk."
This document gives the earliest attainable list of
the members of the Mattituck Church — or rather of the
united churches of Mattituck and Aquebogue — 7 males
and 15 females — the remnant of the flocks of Mr. Lamb
in Mattituck, and Mr. Mather in Aquebogue.
The Aquebogue Church, whose interests were linked
with Mattituck's for a hundred years from this time, ex-
cept for an interval between 1759 and 1788, was organ-
ized about 1725. Some of the timbers of the meeting
house built in 173 1 are said to remain to this day in the
Jamesport Church.
During the latter part of Mr. Mather's pastorate the
Aquebogue congregation, like many others at that time,
became sadly disturbed and divided by a religious earth-
quake that caused all the foundations to tremble, and
made rents and upheavals in the religious world of which
signs remain to this day. This was the time of George
Whitefield's famous evangelistic tours through all the
colonies from Georgia to New England. There was a
wonderful religious awakening and thousands were con-
verted. But as always in this world evil is mixed with
the good, there arose sad contentions in this time of re-
vival. As when iron filings are shaken in a magnetic
field they group themselves about the opposite poles of
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the magnet, so in the reHgious agitation of those days
most men became extremists, either as conservatives
strenuously opposing the new and strange developments,
or on the other hand going beyond reasonable bounds
in a zeal for religious excitement and emotional irregu-
larities. The Old Lights and the New Lights opposed
each other bitterly, the former accusing the latter of
fanatical extravagancies and zeal without knowledge,
the latter charging the former with dead formalism. The
Rev. James Davenport, the fourth pastor of Southold,
was a type of the latter, claiming to be led by special
spiritual illumination, preaching with high emotionalism,
denouncing the more conservative ministers as spirtually
dead, and calling upon the people in the churches to for-
sake their "blind guides" and those who adhered to them,
urging the Biblical injunction, "Come out from among
them and be ye separate." Those who followed this in-
junction were known as "Separates." The L^pper Aque-
bogue Church, founded in 1758, was an outgrowth of
this separation. The Lower Aquebogue Church was
sorely rent. In a footnote to his minutes of April, 1747,
the Clerk of the Presbytery writes, "As some of Mr.
Mather's Church and Congregation had turned Sepa-
rates, so others appear'd to have a List that way." In
all probability the charges brought by Barnabas Terrell
against the Rev. John Darby were an outgrowth of the
same controversy. It is noticeable that Mr. Terrell,
though still living, was not among the members who
joined in receiving Mr. Park as their pastor. Perhaps
others also in Mattituck had separated themselves,
though there is no evidence that the Mattituck church
was seriouslv torn bv the controversies of the time. Prob-
104 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
ably the membership had never been very large, and eight
or ten years without a pastor would naturally account
for some shrinkage. At any rate, there were only
twenty-two communicants, representing the two churches,
upon Mr. Park's taking up the pastorate.
Of these twenty-two members, fourteen belonged cer-
tainly to Mattituck, five to Aquebogue and the residence
of the other three, Mary Leek, Rebekah Johnson and
Mary Armstrong, is uncertain.
The first named, Lieut. Thomas Reeve, now a man of
65 years, was the Thomas Reeve who had settled some
forty years before near the present residence of Bryant
S. Conklin, north of the highway. His brother James,
who gave the land for the church, had died in 1732.
Nathaniel Warner, Esq., was of Aquebogue, and was
the son-in-law of Capt. James Reeve, the donor of the
land.
Isaac Hubbard. Esq., was the first of the Hubbards,
so far as known, in Mattituck. The Bethiah Hubbard,
mentioned later in the list, was his wife. They were the
parents of John Hubbard who kept the hotel, and of
Deacon Nathaniel Hubbard, and of Anne Hubbard, men-
tioned in the list of communicants. Bethiah Hubbard
was daughter of Thomas and Bethiah (Terry) Gold-
smith, and granddaughter of Richard Terry, one of the
original settlers of Southold.
James Reeve, Esq., was the eldest son of Capt. James
Reeve, was then a man of 40 years, and succeeded his
father and grandfather on the Furrier property. The
Mary Reeve mentioned later was his wife, Mary Hud-
son, the daughter of Robert Hudson, Esq., of East
Hampton.
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Hezekiah Reeve was a cousin of Lieut. Thomas and
Capt. James Reeve, being son of Joseph and grandson of
I St Thomas. It is uncertain when he located in Matti-
MRS. ENCY HUBBARD CLEVELAND,
Daughter of Deacon Nathaniel Hubbard, wife of the late
Moses C. Cleveland, of Southold.
tuck. He was twice married, both of his wives being
Mattituck women. He married in 1709 Jerusha Hallock,
daughter of 2d WilHam. She died in 1738, and in 1739
he married Rachel Mapes. His youngest son was Pur-
I06 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
rier Reeve, named for his great-great-grandfather Fur-
rier.
Samuel Clark, Jr., was son of Samuel Clark who lived
near the residence of La Monte Gould.
Joshua Wells, Jr., was probably the son of Craavit
Wells and Sarah, the daughter of Capt. James and Deb-
orah Reeve. He is mentioned in the will of his grand-
mother, Deborah. He was a member of the Aquebogue
Church.
Deborah Reeve was the widow of Capt. James, liv-
ing with her son, James Reeve, Esq.
Sarah may have been daughter of William, son of ist
Thomas.
Bethiah Terrell was the eldest daughter of Barnabas
Terrell. The following year she married Major Silas
Horton of Cutchogue, and after his death she married
John Wickham.
Hannah and Elizabeth Corwin were both of Matti-
tuck. Hannah was Hannah Ramsay, wife of 2d Theo-
philus, who lived on the line of the old highway near
Jas. J. Kirkup's farm house. Elizabeth was Elizabeth
Goldsmith, wife of 3d John. Keziah Brown was of the
Aquebogue Church.
Mary Warner was of Aquebogue, probably the daugh-
ter of Nathaniel.
Mary Parshill was the widow of Capt. Israel Parshall
who had died in 1738. His first wife was Joanna Swezy
and her tombstone is in the Mattituck graveyard. His
second wife was the Widow Terry, who was Mary Gar-
diner, daughter of David. Capt. Israel and his second
wife were cousins. He was son of James Parshall, Gen-
tleman, and Elizabeth (Gardiner) Parshall, the daughter
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of David the son of Lyon. Israel Parshall bought land
in Aquebogue west of Mattituck and north of the North
Road in 1705 and 1724. He had one son, Israel, who
removed to Orange County, as did many other men of
Southold Town. He had five daughters : Jemima who
married Jonathan Terry, Joanna who married Christo-
pher Youngs, Elizabeth who married Joseph Davis,
Kezia who married Joseph Mapes, and Experience who
married Daniel Reeve.
Mary Leek, Rebekah Johnson and Mary Armstrong
it is difficult to place. Philip Leek, perhaps husband of
Mary, united with the church the next year.
Hannah Soper belonged to a family that appears in
the Church Records for some years. In 1755 Ebenezer
Soper was baptized and united with the church. They
were probably husband and wife. In 1762 Rachel Soper,
probably their daughter, married John Clark. Jr. John
and Rachel (Soper) Clark had children, John, Dorothy,
Hannah, Mary, Desire, and Ebenezer Soper.
Mr. Park brought with him his wife, Abigail, a son
Thomas and a daughter Anne. These three were re-
ceived into the church on certificate from "The Chris-
tian Church or Society in Charles Town," Mass. From
this we gather that, unlike his predecessors and most of
his successors, he was a man no longer young when he
came to Mattituck. During his ministry there were
added to the church, besides his wife and children, Philip
Leek, Abigail Horton, wife of John, Jr., Isaac Howell,
Mary Wells, wife of Deacon Joshua, and Ebenezer Soper,,
making the communicants thirty in all.
Mr. Park baptized no less than 83 children during
four years in Mattituck and Aquebogue. These of course
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were not all, or many of them, children of the little band
of communicants. It was customary then in the churches
of New England and Long Island to baptize on the "half-
way covenant," or the "indulgent plan," as it was some-
times called. Parents who themselves had been baptized,
though not communicants, upon owning the baptismal
covenant were permitted to present their children for
baptism. The fact that baptisms averaged more than
twenty a year shows that most of the families in the
neighborhood were adherents of the church.
The parish w^as large, extending from the limits of
Cutchogue parish, which was organized in 1732, indefin-
itely westward. The Brookhaven parish, with its Meet-
ing House at Setauket, was the nearest in that direction.
The county court house had stood "at the River head"
for some twenty years, but there were few dwellings
near it and no church. Frequently Mr. Park preached
in private houses, and baptized children, as far west as
â– "the Wading River" and "St. George's Manor," and so
did his successors for many years.
The following entry in Mr. Park's Record Book is
interesting and sheds light upon the ecclesiastical cus-
toms of the time :
"July ye 14th 1752. Att a Church Meeting regularly
appointed and called at Mattituck Meeting House, then
and there the following Votes were passed by the
Church :
"Vote I. That the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper
shall be attended every Seventh Sabbath after every
Sacrament, alternately at Mattituck and Aquabauge.
"Vote 2. That Ordinarily Every One who oflfer
themselves to full Communion with this Church shall be
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propounded three Sabbaths before the Sacrament, And
on the Lecture preparatory to the Sacrament shall offer
themselves to the Church Acceptance."
This shows that candidates for admission to the full
communion appeared not before the session, but before
the Church, according to the practice in Congregational
churches. Confession of scandalous sins, as of drunken-
ness or breach of the seventh commandment, were also
made before the whole church, and it was not until 1767
that the session was recognized, and "at a meeting of the
Church of Christ in Mattituck it was voted, That as for
public Confession Cases that require it. It shall be made
as usual in the broad Alley before the Congregation, Or
before the Session, and declared by the Minister to the
Congregation to have been there made upon the follow-
ing Sabbath or as soon as He may judge convenient after
said Confession is made before the Session."
The eastern end of Long Island in its settlement was
really a part of New England, and the churches were
the churches of the New England Puritans. Many of
them were Presbyterian, but their type of Presbyterian-
ism was different from the Scotch type which has become
the prevailing Presbyterianism of the United States. The
Constitution of the Presbyterian Church in the United
States of America is practically the Constitution of the
Scotch Church, in which the session is the governing
body, and the Ruling Elder is an essential officer, while
the Deacon, not a member of the session, is a subordinate
officer, having charge of the funds collected for the poor,
and sometimes of the temporalities of the congregation.
In the New England and Long Island churches there
was no session, there were no elders, and the deacon was
no A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
the chief officer after the minister. As far as the Records
inform us, there were no elders elected in the Mattituck
Church until 1790, and then and long after deacons were
still elected with dignity and authority at least equal to
the elders. The first regular record of a session meeting
in this church is of date, Dec. 22d, 1826. The inscrip-
tions in the burying ground show how precious and hon-
orable was the name "Deacon." If a deacon died his
title was sure to be engraved upon his tombstone. In
several instances the same man was elected both deacon
and elder. His monument in the church yard will show
that the "Deacon" was buried there. And to this day
the name "Deacon" is sacred in the ears of Long Island-
ers as of New Englanders. Few of the churches of east-
ern Long Island have the deacon of the now established
system, probably because it goes against the grain to con-
fer the sacred name upon an inferior officer, Thomas
Reeve and his nephew James Reeve were already deacons
when Mr. Park came to Mattituck. Joshua Wells, rep-
resenting Aquebogue, was chosen a deacon of the church
in 1755-
]\Ir. Park seems to have been useful and acceptable
in his charge, but the people found it difficult to support
him. At his request he was released by the Presbytery
from his pastorate, Feb. nth, 1756, and he removed to
New England. At that time ministers were not so hard
to secure as in the early days of the parish, but they
were still far less numerous than the churches, and Mat-
tituck and Aquebogue were fortunate in securing a new
minister almost immediately.
The Rev. Nehemiah Barker was pastor of the South
Church in Killingly, Conn. The people of Mattituck
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. Ill
and Aquebogue invited him to visit them with a view
to settlement. On his way he visited the Presbytery,
meeting at Southampton, June 2d, 1756, and that body
expressed approval of the proposed settlement. Un-
daunted by their recent difficulty in caring for the tem-
poral needs of Air. Park, the congregation agreed to pay
the expenses of moving Mr. Barker's family from Kill-
ingly,.in addition to providing a stipulated salary, and,
alas, this caused trouble afterwards.
Mr. Barker was a remarkably fine penman, and his
records are beautifully engrossed. The first entry in hi:;
Journal is, "J"ly [1756] John Corwin and Sarah his wife
owned their Baptismal Covenant and John their first
born was baptized." John Corwin and Sarah Hubbard
had been married March 20th, 1755, by Mr. Park. To
show how closely those days are linked with these : the
child baptized that July day in 1755 became Major John
Corwin, who was the grandfather of the late Mrs.
Bethiah (Reeve) Cox. John Corwin the senior became
an elder in 1790, and was accordingly known as Deacon
John Corwin, and is so described on his tombstone. He
died in 1817, aged 81. His great-granddaughter, Mrs.
Cox, who died in her ninety-second ye&r, in 1902. in the
full and happy possession of her mental faculties, re-
membered him distinctly. Thus these two lives that
touched each other in the early part of the last century,
spanned the years from 1736 to 1902.
Between Dec, 1756, and Oct., 1770. a space of four-
teen years, Mr. Barker solemnized sixty marriages, all
the well-known family names of the neighborhood ap-
pearing in the list. And during these few years he per-
formed no less than one hundred and seventy baptisms.
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He received twenty-four persons into the communion of
the church. These were :
Ruth Goldsmith, widow of Joshua, the eldest son of
Joseph Goldsmith the blacksmith. Ruth was a daughter
of Deacon Thomas Reeve.
Zerubabel Halliock, who was received in January,
1761, and died the following April. He was a son of
Thomas, and grandson of William, one of the first set-
tlers of Mattituck. The name Zerubabel was carried
through four generations, ist Zerubabel married Esther
Osman in 1719, and had sons, Zerubabel, James, Joseph
and Benjamin, and daughters Esther, who married ist
Richard Steer Hubbard, and Eunice, who married 4th
Barnabas Wines. Nearly all of the old families of Mat-
tituck have the blood of Zerubabel Halliock in their
veins.
James Reeve, Jr., was the 4th James Reeve. He was
a Lieutenant, and had married in 1755 Anna Wines,
daughter of 3d Barnabas and Bethiah (Terrell) Wines.
John Williamson, of the Williamsons of Laurel.
Phebe Howell, widow of Isaac, son of ist Richard.
She was mother of Daniel and Micah, and of daughters
Phebe, Rachel and Hannah, the first of whom married
Nathan Corwin and the second Jonathan Corwin.
Esther Hubbard, the daughter of Zerubabel Halliock
and wife of Richard Steer Hubbard.
John Clark, son of John, Sr., and Anna Clark. Mar-
ried, in 1762, Rachel Soper.
Thomas Reeve, only son of Deacon Thomas, and
brother of the widow Ruth Goldsmith above. His wife
was Keziah Mapes, daughter of Joseph and Keziah (Par-
shall) A'lapes.
114 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
Sarah Howell, wife of Micah.
Phebe Tuthill, wife of Henry. Their daughter Anna
married John Cleaves Symmes, whose daughter Anna
married William Henry Harrison, 9th President of the
United States.
Keziah Reeve, wife of Thomas above.
Anna Clark, wife of John, Sr., and mother of John
•above.
Deborah Reeve, perhaps a daughter of Deacon James.
William Wells, 5th Wm. Wells (1743-1825). Grand-
father of Joseph Wells of Laurel. He was a harness
maker, and married in 1769 Hannah Goldsmith, sister
of the Rev. Benjamin Goldsmith. He built the house
now the home of Joel Howell and lived there until the
outbreak of war, when he moved to Connecticut, where
his son John was born. In 1789 he purchased the Wells
farm in Laurel.
Obadiah Hudson. Lived south of road near Geo. H.
.Fischer's ice house, owning the land through from the
Lake to the Sound.
Bethiah LTudson, wife of Obadiah, and daughter of
Capt. Isaac and Bethiah (Terry) Hubbard.
Sarah Wells, daughter of Cravit and Sarah (Reeve)
Wells.
John Clark, Sr., father of John above.
Peter Halloc, son of Peter, and grandson of ist Wil-
liam.
Joanna Halloc, wife of Peter.
Dorcas, "negro wench of Peter Halloc" ; wife of
Pomp.
Experience Corwin, widow of Samuel, son of 2d
Theophilus.
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Hannah Wells, wife of William above, daughter of
3d John Goldsmith and sister of Rev. Benjamin Gold-
smith.
Selah Reeve, fourth son of Deacon James.
Mr. Barker and his wife Elizabeth came to Mattituck
with a little daughter, about a year old, bearing her
mother's name. They had three children born in Matti-
tuck, all daughters, Bethiah, Mary and Hannah. Bethiah
died in her fourteenth year. These four might be sup-
posed to have been "the daughters of the parsonage," but
they were not, for Mr. Barker was at the expense of
erecting his own house, as he had occasion to tell the
Presbytery, and the parsonage was sold during his resi-
dence in Mattituck, in 1769, as has been stated. His
house stood on the south side of the North Road, not
far from the site of the canning factory.
Like his predecessor, Mr. Barker was constrained to
ask the advice of the Presbytery because of defect in his
temporal support, and it appears that the agreement to
defray the expense of moving his family was not ful-
filled. The Presbytery urged the two churches to fulfill
their engagement, and gave Mr. Barker liberty to go or
remain. In 1759 he was provisionally dismissed, being
recommended to the New England churches in case he
should conclude to leave. He settled the matter by with-
drawing from Aquebogue and remaining in Mattituck.
At what precise time he ceased to minister in Aquebogue
is uncertain. It must have been about 1759 or 1760. Iti
1764 Benjamin Goldsmith was ordained and installed
pastor of Aquebogue, and the records speak of "ye reset-
tling of ye Gospel Ministry at Aquabauge" at that time.
It appears that the two churches that could not support
Il6 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
one minister between them, did better when each had the
responsibility alone.
Mr. Barker was never installed as pastor in Matti-
tuck, but acted as a stated supply. In 1771 he had it in
view "to settle with them as pastor for life," so that his
relations with the people of Mattituck must have been
altogether kindly. Alas for human plans, however, he
died the next year, March loth, 1772, in the 52d year
of his age. The last entry in his records bears date of
Oct. 27th, 1771. At the Presbytery meeting in Huntington
that month he was present. In the Presbytery's minutes
of the next April his death is noted. It would seem
that he was suddenly laid aside from active labor after
his trip to the October meeting of Presbytery, continued
all through the winter, and died in the early spring. He
was the first minister of this church to die in its service,,
and he was laid to rest in the church-yard beside his
little daughter's fresh-made grave.
His widow and her three children continued to re-
side in Mattituck, and we may be sure that she was most
kindly befriended by the people. Four years later Mrs.
Barker became the wife of the Rev. John Davenport,,
then supplying this church, and her eldest daughter^
Elizabeth, married Joseph Prince, of Southold village.
For some time after Mr. Barker's death the neigh-
boring ministers, the Rev. Benjamin Goldsmith of Aque-
bogue among the number, saw that the Mattituck pulpit
was supplied at least once a month.
At the Presbytery at South Hampton, October, 1772,.
the Rev. Jesse Ives, "a. member of ye Eastern Associa-
tion of New London District," was present as a corre-
sponding member, and the Presbytery signified its ap-
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proval when Deacon Micah Howell reported that the
Mattituck Church had invited Mr. Ives "to Come and
Preach among them." All that is known further of the
Rev. Jesse Ives is that he baptized a few children here
between Sept., 1772, and June, 1773, and solemnized one
marriage.
It is not generally known that i^Iattituck and Cutch-
ogue were at one time under the care of the same min-
ister, but such was the case for two years. In June,
1774, John Davenport, son of the famous James Daven-
port, the fourth pastor of Southold, then recently grad-
uated from Princeton College, was ordained by the
Presbytery in East Hampton and was directed to supply
the churches of Mattituck and Cutchogue alternately un-
til the next stated meeting. He continued to supply
them for two years. Dec. 28th, 1775, he m.arried the
widow of Mr. Barker. He was then twenty-three years
of age, and his wife's oldest daughter was twenty. Prime
tells us that "notwithstanding the great disparity of their
ages" this proved a happy marriage. An interesting
sketch of Mr. Davenport's life may be found in Dr.
Epher Whitaker's History of Southold, p. 321. After
leaving Mattituck and Cutchogue he continued for sev-
eral years within the bounds of Suffolk Presbytery, and
then removed to Deerfield, N. J. He died at Lysander,
N. Y., July 13th, 1821. Prime says, "He was one of the
first ministers on the Island that refused to administer
baptism on the indulgent plan." Reference to his Record
^Book confirms this statement, as his baptisms were few
and were of children of members in full communion.
Evidently with intent to supply a need that this course
created he kept a "Record of Births in Mattituck Par-
Il8 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
ish." This was a brave as well as proper stand for Mr.
Davenport to take. More than one able minister on the
Island was unsettled because of strictness in this matter.
Today it is well established that the children of such only
as profess their faith in Christ and obedience to Him are
to be baptized.
CHAPTER V. ... . â–
MATTITUCK IN REVOLUTIONARY TIMES.
Mr. Davenport shepherded the flocks at Mattituck
and Cutchogue during the first part of the Revokitionary
period. Neither his records nor the fragmentary notes
following make express reference to the trials of those
days. But it is a matter of well-known history that all
the people of Long Island were sorely pressed in those
terrible years. Because of the distractions and terrors
of the war-time there was no meeting of the Suffolk
Presbytery from Oct. 31st, 1775, to April 4th, 1784.
Nothing could indicate more clearly than this the dis-
tressing situation of the ministers* and their suffering
people. British troops were encamped in Mattituck on
the land where the parsonage and athletic grounds now
are. A twenty-acre lot lying along the highway from
the present residence of Joel C. Howell to the Lake was
long known as the "camp lot." The house across the
highway, the homestead of Deacon Thomas Reeve, was
used as headquarters for the officers. Many officers
were quartered in the houses of the people. The products
of the farms were taken to supply the invading army.
♦The name of the Rev. John Storrs, the pastor of Southold,
appears in the Connecticut records as a refugee from Long
Island, and it is probable that Mr. Davenport, of Mattituck,
and many others of the ministers, were so outspoken in their
patriotism that they were compelled to flee from the Island.
120 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
If the meeting' house was not used for barracks the
British were more considerate here than in many other
places. Many of the younger men left the Island to
fight for freedom. Some patriotic fathers removed their
families across the Sound to Connecticut. It was be-
cause of such removal of William Wells that his son
John, the father of Joseph Wells of Laurel, was born in
Connecticut. Some, like James Corwin, the probable
builder of the old Corwin house in Mattituck, never re-
turned.
Those who remained on the Island were compelled
to swear allegiance to King George. Some did this with
good grace, and some of necessity. To none was it so
distasteful as we are disposed to imagine. The men of
that day had all the inveterate respect and alTection for
the sovereign that British subjects have today. The
revolution began in protest against injustice, but with
loyalty to the king unimpaired, and with no thought of
ultimate separation. Washington, when he took com-
mand of the continental army, desired to right the wrongs
of the colonies but "abhorred the idea of independence."
Thomas Jefferson was of" the same mind. Reasonable
concessions and a conciliatory spirit on the part of the
king would have ended the struggle before it was well
begun. Loyal subjects who asked for nothing but re-
dress of grievances were treated as rebels, stern and un-
just oppression followed, and eventually the sovereign
whom they loved was become the tyrant whom they
hated. Before things had gone to such lengths the peo-
ple of Long Island were forced to make their decision,
for the British forces were in absolute possession. Some
of the best and most honorable men of the Island were
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 121
thoroughly loyal to the British crown and were after-
wards despised as Tories, and suffered the confiscation
of their estates. Some were on fire with colonial pa-
triotism and could do nothing but flee to parts not occu-
pied by British troops. Most were undecided, as most
of the men at that time in any of the colonies would have
been under similar circumstances, and let necessity shape
their course. Their homes, their lands, their flocks and
herds, all their wealth, present and prospective, were on
the Island, and the Island was wholly in the hands of
the army of King George. To flee was to leave all and
go out empty-handed. For the aged, the sick, those en-
cumbered with dependent families, flight was impossible.
The few who had ready money might flee with some
hope, young men or unattached men might flee, but the
majority had no choice but to remain and give up their
arms and take the oath of allegiance. Many who had
fought in the disastrous battle of Long Island had noth-
ing for it, when once the invaders were established in
the Island, but to return to their homes and families and
submit to the inevitable. There were no other people in
all the bounds of the colonies so helpless as the Long
Islanders, utterly cut off from their fellow Americans.
And there were no people of the colonies who suffered
more. The farmers were required to give large portions
of their grain and other crops, and all their hay and
straw to the invading army. For these things they were
supposed to receive receipts, with view to future pay-
ment, but they never were repaid. Besides this, the sol-
diers, with little restraint, committed continual outrages
upon the defenseless people. A story is handed down
•of how Joanna (Mapes) Corwin, the wife of Major
122 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
John Corwin, bravely withstood a British officer who
proposed to turn his horses into her husband's wheat-
field. Such outrages were common. The men were
made to haul, dig, build and perform all manner of labor
for the army. Many were abused and maltreated, and
those whose loyalty was under suspicion were beaten and
sometimes killed. Those whose loyalty was beyond
question, such as held commissions in the colonial militia
but had refused to fight against the mother country, were
given special protection papers in which "All officers,
soldiers or followers of the army are hereby strictly for-
bid to molest or injure" the designated man or his fam-
ily or property. But if such protection was required for
these, it is readily understood that the state of the unpro-
tected was almost intolerable. As for those who fled
from the Island, their farms were by express order sub-
ject to the pillage of the soldiers.
Added to the burden of the insolent and rapacious
British troops was the misery inflicted upon the peo-
ple by Americans making incursions from the Sound.
The State of Connecticut commissioned many men as
captains of small armed boats for service in Long Island
Sound and to make predatory incursions against the
British in the Island. For instance, at a meeting of the-
Governor's Council of Safety,* May 22, 1779, it was
voted, "That his Excellency the Governor be desired to-
deliver to Colo. Davenport three blank commissions to be
by him filled up for persons to go to Long Island to take
and capture the enemies of the united American States:
Such persons as commissioned to give sufficient bonds--
♦Records of the State of Connecticut, 1776-1780, Vol. II., p. 346,
124 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
not to plunder any of the inhabitants of said island or to
exceed the instructions that may be given them." It
will be seen from this, as from many similar indications,
that the people on the main land understood the position
of the Long Islanders, and regarded them as friends.
However, "sundry and repeated complaints" were made*
^'that persons under authority of commissions given to
armed boats to go on shore on Long Island to act
against the enemy . . . have unjustly and cruelly
plundered many of the friendly inhabitants." Some of
these complaints related to depredations in or near Mat-
tituck, and are of interest. A number of the captains of
these armed boats were Long Islanders. Such was
Capt. Peter Hallock, a West Mattituck man. To him
and his associate, Jonathan Solomons (Salmon) the fol-
lowing letter was addressed by Governor Trumbull :f
"Lebanon, Augt nth 1778.
"Gentn : It being represented and complained to me
that sundry persons belonging to your or one of your
armed boats commissioned to cruise on the Sound have,
contrary to the tenor of your commission and bond, made
descents upon the island of Long Island and plundered
the inhabitants of their stock and effects, and that with-
out distinction, and in particular have lately violently
taken about six oxen from Colo. Phinehas Fanning and
brought over to this State — this conduct you must be
sensible, is unwarrantable and renders you liable on your
bonds &c. I would, with the advice of my Council, ad-
vise you, or either of you, so far as you may be respect-
*Records of the State of Connecticut, 1776-1780, Vol. II., p. 110.
tibid., Vol. II., p. 110.
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 1 25
ively concerned to settle — compound the matter with
Colo. Fanning, and restore him his property, lest you be
exposed to further consequences.
"I am, your humble servant, Jonth Trumbull."
Capt. Peter Hallock was then about fifty years of age,
and should have known better. Perhaps he held some
old grudge against his neighbor Col. Fanning. Or per-
haps it was not Peter Hallock at all, but Jonathan Sal-
mon who was to blame. A similar letter* written the
week before is of even greater local interest in Matti-
tuck. It recites that "Mr. John Gardiner, late of South-
old, now of Norwich, has represented to me and my
Council of Safety, that in an excursion made by you upon
Long Island about three weeks ago, among a number of
horses and cattle you took from other people and brought
oflf, you took a large dark-brown white-faced two year
old stallion from him ; also a white-faced sorrel mare
from Parnel Wickham of said Southold, which mare
was given her by her grandfather. It being beyond the
limits of your commission to go upon the land, or any
orders received from me, and said Gardiner being a
friendly refugee, it is thought advisable you should settle
with him and prevent trouble. Also it is said that Miss
Wickham is a friend and the owner of said mare : that
being the case you will think it advisable to settle with
respect to the mare likewise."
The John Gardiner referred to was the proprietor of
Gardiner's Neck, the Indian Pessepuncke Neck, in Matti-
tuck. He returned home, and dying in 1795 was buried
in the Mattituck churchyard. His wife did not long
♦Records of the State of Connecticut, 1776-1780, Vol. II., p. 107.
126 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
survive the trials of the war, dying in 1781, in her fifty-
first year. Miss Parnel Wickham, the owner of the
sorrel mare with the white face, just one year later, Aug.
1st, 1779, became the wife of James Reeve, who had
served as an Ensign in the battle of Long Island. Parnel
Wickham was a daughter of Joseph and Abigail (Par-
ker) Wickham, and lived in Cutchogue at the time of
the raid. She was sister to Parker, Joseph, Thomas,
John, and Daniel Hull Wickham, and to Elizabeth and
Sarah, who ten years later married Samuel Reeve, brother
of James. She became the mother of James W. and
Irad Reeve, and has many descendants in Mattituck.
The incursions from the Sound, raiding the farms of
Col. Phineas Fanning in the west and of John Gardiner
and the Wickhams in the east, were probably made from
Mattituck Creek, which offered an admirable and se-
cluded landing place for the armed boats. Judging from
these instances of outrage perpetrated upon the most in-
fluential families, some notion can be formed of the
hardships suffered by those who had no influence suffi-
cient to secure them redress. For most of the people
the years of the British occupation of the Island must
have been a time of helpless suffering, when they were
ground between the upper and nether mill-stones.
The refugees in Connecticut suffered, though in a
different way. They were not oppressed by the British or
pillaged by the American soldiers, but after their little
store of money was gone they were in sore straits. It
appears that they found no remunerative employment in
the Connecticut towns, and the Connecticut records are
full of petitions from them to be permitted to make ex-
cursions to the Island to secure stores and clothing from
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 12/
their old homes, or even to sell their farms that they
might secure means for the support of their families in
exile. It was necessary to secure permission for these
excursions, for all communication between Long Island
and the main land was forbidden by law. In January,
1780, the Connecticut legislature, formally enacting what
had been for two or three years the policy pursued in be-
half of the refugees, passed the following :*
"Whereas there is in this State a number of refugees
from Long Island who have been drove out from their
peaceable habitations merely for their attachment to the
American cause, some of which have left their families,
others their goods and effects, and are greatly straitened
for a subsistence here for want of them, and by the bonds
of humanity are in some way and manner to be relieved,
"It is therefore resolved by this Assembly, That in
the recess of the Assembly his Excellency the Governor
by and with the advice of the Council of Safety are
hereby authorized and impowered to hear the applica-
tion of any person or persons of the aforesaid character,
and to grant permission to such person or persons as
they may judge proper, to go to Long Island and to
bring their families and effects, under such regulations
and restrictions as they may judge proper: Always pro-
vided that they never give permission to carry on any
kind of provision except stores for the voyage, nor to
bring off any British goods or merchandise, nor to any
persons but such as shall be well recommended by the
civil authority in and selectmen of the towns in which
such refugees reside."
: *Rec6rds of the State of Connecticut, 1776-1780, Vol. II.. p. 464.
128 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK,
When such permission was gained it was availed of
at great peril, for the refugees were in danger of cap-
ture and imprisonment at the hands of the British. The
mouth of Mattituck Creek was often entered under cover
of darkness, and the refugees went secretly to their
homes and their friends and secured such clothing and
stores as they could without coming under observation
of the enemy. It seems probable that the secluded place
about "Kidd's Tree" was a rendezvous for these refugees
and their friends. This ancient tree or group of trees,
near the beach and not far from the mouth of the creek,
stands in the midst of a grassy sanctuary shut in on all
sides by hills and dense growth of lesser trees and bushes
and climbing vines. Now a favorite picnic ground for
small parties, its natural beauty and enchanting solitude
are enhanced by the immemorial tradition that links the
spot with the famous Captain Kidd. Whether that inter-
esting individual ever hid himself or his booty under the
shelter of the tree that bears his name is doubtful, but
there is little doubt that in Revolutionary times the place
afforded a somewhat safe retreat for the adventurous
refugees from across the Sound, as well as for the ma-
rauding parties that came from Connecticut to harass the
British invaders.
Even when the refugees had successfully eluded the
enemy and with their stores gathered on the Island were
well away and back again in Connecticut waters, they
sometimes fell victims to the rapacity of those who were
presumed to be their friends. In May, 1778, a memorial
was presented to the Connecticut legislature* from "Jona-
*Records of the State of Connecticut, 1776-1780, Vol. II., p. 76.
130 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK,
than Havens, Benjamin Conklin and others, refugees
from Long Island now residing in this State, showing that
they by legal permit from the authority of this State lately
brought from said Island each a small parcell of tea, lin-
nen cloath, woolen and other goods, for the use of their
distressed families, to the amount of what would cost
them, as such goods are now sold, the sum of about one
thousand pounds, which they received from their friends
on said Island as the avails of the produce of their estates
sold upon said Island in order to prevent the same from
falling into the hands of the enemy; that their said goods
and effects were in a lawless manner taken from them
by one Lieut. White and his associates belonging to the
continental frigate called the Trumbull, and by one Combs
and his associates commanding a whale boat, w>, : at Say-
brook in the county of New London, who refuse to de-
liver the same." Examination was made into these
charges, which were found true, and the Secretary of
State was directed to issue execution against the offend-
ing officers for the recovery of the goods, or one thousand
pounds as their equivalent in money, with costs.
In spite of these perils communication between the
main land and the Island was continually kept up. When
there was a raid on the Island the refugees in the Con-
necticut towns heard of it as certainly as if there had
been a submarine cable, and of other events they also
had word. On Oct. 28th, 1779, James Corwin, then resid-
ing at Guilford, was granted permission* to visit Long
Island upon a memorial "showing that his wives father
hath lately deceased at Southold on said Island and left
♦Records of the 'o'tate of Connecticut, 1776-1780, Vol. II., p. 438.
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. I3I
an estate to his children, and praying for Hberty to go
over and receive and bring off his wives part of said
moveable estate." According to the Corwin Genealogy
his wife's father was William Horton.
A week later, one Shipman was "permitted to go
to Long Island for the purpose of marrying a wife,
as also to bring away his wife with her effects, un-
der the direction of the commandant of the fort at Say-
brook."
An interesting case, throwing light upon the condi-
tions of the time is that of Nathaniel Norton and Azariah
Tuthill, of Long Island. Their memorial,* Jan., 1780,
sets forth "that the said Norton sustains the office of a
captain and said Tuthill that of an ensign, in the army
of the United States; that on their return to said Guil-
ford to their surprise they found that their families in
their absence had been under the disagreeable necessity
of going on to Long Island; that the memorialists are
very destitute of cloathing, and have little or no interest
in this State whereby they might be supplied therewith,
and are exceedingly desirous to visit their families."
This petition was of course granted. That a captain and
lieutenant of the American army were reduced to such
extremities illustrates vividly the distresses of the unpaid
soldiers and the hardships suffered by their families.
Such instances help us to realize the great price paid by
the patriots for our liberties.
In 1780 the British forces, greatly needed elsewhere,
were withdrawn from eastern Long Island, and many of
the refugees returned. The petition of Silas Halsey, in
♦Records of Connecticut, 1776-1780, Vol. II., p. 489.
132 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
April, 1780, for permission to return to his home in
Southampton, recites* that the enemy had "withdrawn
from that part of the island and left them in the peace-
able enjoyment of their estates." In Marchf of that year
"John Wells and Timo. Welles his son in law, residing
at Preston, refugees from Long Island," obtained per-
mission to pass over to Long Island to see after and take
off their considerable effects left there about three years
since and of which they have not heard; . . , they
being well recommended by the authority and selectmen
of Preston." This John Wells was the third son of 2d
Joshua, and therefore a great-grandson of ist WilHam.
His "considerable" estate consisted of Poole's Neck in
Cutchogue, about 300 acres. Timothy was his nephew
as well as his son-in-law, having married John's daugh-
ter Mary, a cousin. Timothy and Mary were great-
grandparents of John C. Wells of Mattituck.
The visit of the Wellses to Cutchogue in March con-
vinced them that final return was safe, and the next
month, April, 1780, they gained permission to remove
to the old home, "where," they say, "they have a consid-
erable estate in lands," adding, "that they have expended
the greater part of their moveable estate for their sup-
port since their residence in this State, and are now re-
duced to indigence and want ; praying that they may have
liberty to return to their farm on Long Island with their
moveable estate, with a sufficient quantity of provision to
support their families until wheat harvest, wath one cow,
one horse and two swine for each of the memorialists."
The British soldiers had been unable to carry away with
♦Records of Connecticut, 1776-1780, Vol. II., p. 538.
tibid.. Vol. II., p. 512.
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. I33
them the "considerable estate in lands," and the house
was still standing, but the great flocks and herds that
the owner must have possessed when he fled from the
Island were gone, so that it was necessary to begin over
again with a few animals carried across the Sound in a
sloop. John Wells prospered, however, and a few years
later he was able to purchase the adjoining Pequash
Neck from his cousin James, the son of the 4th William,
and brother of William the grandfather of Joseph Wells,
of Laurel. Dying in 1797, he left the Pequash Neck to
his daughter Abigail, the wife of Joseph Hull Goldsmith,
and Poole's Neck to his daughters, Hannah Wells, and
Sarah Fleet, the wife of John and afterwards of Rens-
selaer Fleet. Hannah sold her half to Sarah, and the
whole neck has since remained in possession of the Fleet
family.
Not all of the returned refugees were able to rehabili-
tate their shattered fortunes. It was probably the losses
of the war-time that pressed James Wells to part with
the Pequash Neck. The records of mortgages for the
years Immediately following the war show that many
men who had been wealthy were forced to borrow money
on their lands. Among these were John Gardiner, Capt.
Peter Hallock, Jonathan Osman, Obadiah Hudson, Par-
shall How^ell and the Corwins. Most of these men were
unable to weather the storm and lost everything. Many
fine properties that had been handed down from father
to son for more than a hundred years passed to other
families.
While the refugees were frequently visiting the Island,
the people remaining on the Island had occasion to visit
the main land, and this intercourse was carried on under
134 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
strict regulation by the British authorities, just as that
from the other side of the Sound was regulated by the
State of Connecticut. The accompanying illustration,
photographed from an original paper in the possession
of N. Hubbard Cleveland, of Southold, exhibits the form
of permission required in such cases. This particular
permit, issued in April, 1780, about the time of the with-
drawal of the invaders from eastern Long Island, is No.
II. This probably means No. 11 of the year 1780, for
there must have been many more than eleven permits
issued in all the years of the occupation. Probably many
expeditions from the Island were made surreptitiously,
without permits.
On the back of the permit illustrated is written the
following: "No. 11. 7 April 80. Flag of Truce to San-
ford in Connecticut to fetch Miss Hubbard and Mrs.
Aspinwalls Effects to Long Island. Passes No. 235,236."
The numbers of the passes give a better idea than the
number of the permit of the frequency of authorized
communication with the main land.
Accompanying the permit, among the papers in Mr.
Cleveland's possession, is a letter, recommending its issu-
ance, from David Mathews, the Tory Mayor of New
York City, to Captain Adye, Aid-de-Camp to the Com-
mandant, stationed at the office of Police. It is as fol-
lows:
No. II.
Sir
We beg leave to recommend Mr. Isaac Hubbard to
the Commandant for a Flag to proceed to Stanford in
Connecticut in order to bring from thence a Sister of
his who he wishes to have here, as he is in a Situation
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BRITISH PERMIT FOR FLAG OF TRUCE.
From original in possession of N. Hubijard Cleveland,
of Southold.
136 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
to support her, and her Situation at present is rather dis-
agreeable as being among Rebells.
We are
Sir
Your most obedt.
Office of Pohce Humbl Servts
5th April 1780
Mathews
Captain Adye. Mayor.
It is easily understood that the statement as to Miss
Hubbard's situation being "rather disagreeable as being
among Rebells" was the natural explanation of Mayor
Mathews, and not necessarily the feeling of the Hub-
bards. On the back of Mathews' letter is written a list
of the articles which "Mr. Hubbard requests permission
to take with him." These are, "50 lb. sugar, i Bushell
Salt, I Loaf Sugar, 10 yds. Callico, i Linnen, 12 yds,
Cambrick and Gauze, 6 lb. Tea, 6 lb. Chocolate, 1000
Needles, i pack Pins, i lb. pepper, i lb. Alspice, 2>^ yd.
Broad Cloath, i Dozn. Knives and Forks, i sett Cups
and Saucers, Yx Spices, 20 lb. Coffee." This list is
marked "No. 236," the number of the second pass. This
was evidently for the inspection of the British officers.
The "flag of truce" was also most probably for their
benefit, for it is not likely that peaceable Long Islanders
needed a flag of truce from the British authorities to pro-
tect them on the Connecticut sliqre. Neither is anything
said in the Connecticut Records about flags of truce for
parties visiting Long Island, although minute regula-
tions are set down concerning their expeditions. Sched-
ules of articles to be carried, either going or returning.
A HISTORY OF AIATTITUCK.
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LETTER FROM MAYOR DAVID MATHEWS
Recommending Isaac Hubbard for a Flag of Truce.
(From original in possession of N. Hubbard Cleveland.)
Pass No. 235, also in Mr. Cleveland's possession on a
separate paper, is for articles to be carried to Mrs. Chap-
138 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
man and Mr. Hurd in Connecticut. It is here copied as
of interest in showing the needs of the ladies of those
times, and the fabrics then in vogue :
Pass No. 235. "Articles for Mrs. Chapman : 3 yds.
black mode, 2 yds. white Cause, 2 yds. white Catgut, 2
pair black mitts, 7 yds. Ribbon, 2 Bonnet papers, ^ Dozn
Stay Laces, Yi doz. Skeleton Wires, 2 Doz. large hair
pins, I Bonnet pin and 3 pounds of Tea. Articles for
Mr. Andrew Hurd : 14 yds. Callico, 9^ yds. Camblet, i
pair Silk mitts, 2 yds. Cause, 2 yds. Millinet, 6 yds. Rib-
bon, 3 yds and a ^4 of White Peling, 2 yds. durant, 9 yds.
Blond Lace, ^ yd. Persian, and i pair of Shoes." This
schedule, before it was marked with the pass number,
was sent to the Commandant in New York with this note :
Mr. Van dyck begs leave to ask the honor of present-
ing his most dutiful respects to Major Ceneral Pattison
and begs the favor of his kind permission to send the
articles mentioned in the within memorandum to Mr.
Andrew Hurd and Mrs. Chapman both of Stratford in-
Connecticut known friends to his Majesty's Person and
Government by Mrs. Aspinwall who is going in a Flag"
to the Colony of Connecticut.
New York April 5th 1780
Major General Pattison.
â– These interesting papers relating to Permit No. 11
and Passes 235 and 236 were handed down in the Hub-
bard family of Mattituck. Isaac Hubbard, whose sister
was to be brought from Connecticut, and William Hub-
bard were undoubtedly therefore of the Mattituck Hub-
bards, though the author cannot place them with cer-
tainty. William and Isaac are common names in the
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 1 30
family. The Leake whose first name is lost from the old
document was in all likelihood a Mattituck man. Philip
Leek was a member of the Mattituck Church in 1753.
Strangely enough the Permit is not signed and sealed,
though it was prepared for signature, "Given under my
Hand and Seal, in the City of New York, the Seventh
Day of April in the Year of our Lord One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Eighty." It must have been deliv-
ered, however, with the passes, to the interested parties.
This was a singular oversight, and there is no record to
tell whether the lack of the official seal interfered with
the safe-conduct of Mrs. Aspinwall and Miss Hubbard.
One of the Hubbards at least got safely back to Matti-
tuck with the papers.
All this illustrates the great inconvenience of living
on eastern Long Island in Revolutionary days, when au-
thority for all important transactions had to be secured
from the British officials in New York, at great expense
of time and money. Although there was a Surrogate's
Court in Suffolk County, all Long Island wills were re-
quired to be recorded in New York. After being proved
before the surrogate these wills must needs be "approved
and allowed and sealed at Fort George in the City of
New York by His Excellency James Robertson Esquire,
Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over the
Province of New York, and the Territories depending
thereon in America, Chancellor and Vice Admiral of the
same, and Lieutenant General of His Majesty's Forces."
Six years and more after the adoption of the State Con-
stitution the people of Long Island had to submit to this,
and it was not until the British evacuated New York,
Nov. 25th, 1783, that they were free like their brethren
140 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
in the upper part of the State. Then their wills needed
no approval or sealing but of the Surrogate of the County
•of Suffolk in the State of New York, "by the Grace of
God Free and Independent." In 1761 the costs of prov-
ing and recording a will in New York were something
over £3. In 1783 the costs had largely increased. In
February of that year the costs for proving and recording
the will of Joseph Mapes, of Mapes' Neck, were £5, los.
At that time five pounds was a great deal of money, and
it is no wonder that many wills were left unrecorded.
Notwithstanding the peculiar expenses, inconve-
niences, indignities and sufferings of the people of Long
Island, they had a heavy tax laid upon them by the State
Legislature, in 1784, amounting to £37,000, because of
their failure to bear a share in the expenses of the war.
This tax was light in comparison with that already ex-
acted from the unfortunate Islanders by the British. To
add this to that was an act of cruel injustice.
In the war, for the reasons already given, there were
no Long Island troops in service after the battle of Long
Island, in August, 1776. In that battle Col. Josiah
Smith's regiment of ]\Iinute Men was engaged. In this
regiment were two Southold companies, the first com-
manded by Capt. John Bayly, and the second by Capt.
Paul Reeve. Lender Capt. Bayly were ist Lieut. Joshua
Youngs, 2d Lieut. John Tuthill, and Ensign James Reeve,
Under Capt. Paul Reeve were ist Lieut. John Corwin,
2d Lieut. David Horton, and Ensign Nathaniel Hudson.
The 1st Major of the regiment was Isaac Reeve, of
Franklinville, son of 3d James Reeve, of Mattituck, En-
sign James Reeve was Major Isaac's nephew, son of 4th
James, who held a captain's commission under the Colo-
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nial Government. Lieut. John Corwin was a Mattituck
man, afterwards Major Corwin. His seven daughters
married Asaph Young, John Hubbard, John Clark, John
Wells, Simeon Conklin, Benjamin Reeve and Isaiah Ben-
jamin, and their descendants are many in Mattituck and
elsewhere. Ensign Nathaniel Hudson was a Mattituck
or Franklinville man. Lieut. David Horton was a Cutch-
ogue man, son of Major Silas and Bethiah (Terrill) Hor-
ton. His mother was a Mattituck woman. It is difficult
to say to what branch of the Reeve family Capt. Paul
belonged. He was a member of the Aquebogue Church.
The first Southold company was composed of men
chiefly from the eastern part of the town. Capt. Paul
Reeve's company was made up of men belonging to Mat-
tituck and near villages. A complete roster of this com-
pany, from papers handed down in the family of Col.
Smith, is given, with others, by Mr. Wm, S. Pelletreau
in Vol. II. of the recently published History of Long
Island, p. 572. With Mr, Pelletreau's permission this is
partly copied here, as of great interest to the people of
Mattituck and vicinity, whose ancestors are described.
A Muster Role of Capt. Paul Reeve's Company,
Southold, Augst 5th 1776.
Paul Reeve, Captain, statture 5 feet 8 inches; com-
plection, dark ; age, 42 ; acutriments compleat.
John Corwin, Lieutenant, 5 ft. 9 in., light, age 41.
Joshua Benjamin, Lieutenant, 5 ft. 9 in., light, age 28.
Whelock Booth, Sergeant, 5 ft. 6 in., dark, age 34.
Nath'l Conkling, Sergeant, 5 ft, 10 in,, dark, age 36,
Steers Hubbard, Sergeant, 5 ft, 8 in., dark, age 2^.
Jonathan Sollomon [Salmon], Corporal, 5 ft. 10 in.,
dark, age 33.
A HISTORV OF MATTITUCK. I43
Constant Haven, Corporal, 5 ft. 10 in., dark, age 45.
Joshua Well, Corporal, 5 ft. 10, age 34.
James Pershall, Drummer, 5 ft. 7, dark, age 22.
John Fradrik Hudson, Fifer, 5 ft. 9, dark, age 20.
Nathl. Overton, 6 ft., dark, age 24.
John Goldsmith, 5 ft. 7, dark, age 29.
Gilbert King, 5 ft. 6, light, age 18.
John Goldsmith, Jr., 5 ft. i, dark, age 19.
Joel Overton, 6 ft., dark, age 21.
Richard Drake, 5 ft. 10, light, age 19.
Stephen Halsey, 5 ft. 7, dark, age 19.
Joseph Cleavland, 5 ft. 7, dark, age 17.
Ishmel Reeve, 5 ft. 11, light, age 23.
Ichobod Case, 5 ft. 8, light, age 24.
Elijah Terry, 5 ft. 8, dark, age 19.
Calvin Horton, 5 ft. 10, light, age 20.
David Benjamin, 5 ft., light, age 17.
Luther Reeve, 5 ft. 7, dark, age 17.
John Calvin Wells, 5 ft. 4, dark, age 16.
George Taylor, 5 ft. 4, light, age 48.
James Reeve, 5 ft. 6, dark, age 24.
Joshua Corwin, 5 ft. 8, dark, age 42.
John Griffing, 5 ft. 7, light, age 38.
Joshua Wells, Jr., 5 ft., dark, age 16.
Peter Downs, 5 ft. 5, dark, age 47.
Jeremiah Corwin, 5 ft. 4, dark, age 41.
Isaac Wells, 6 ft., dark, age 30.
Joshua Aldrige, 5 ft. 9, dark, age 25.
Peter Hallock, 5 ft. 10, dark, age 22.
Nathan Corwin, 5 ft. 8, light, age 27.
Thomas Corwin, 5 ft. 10, light, age 22.
Nathan Youngs, 5 ft. 10, dark, age 22.
144 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
Nathan Corwin, Jr., 5 ft., dark, age 16.
Samuel Hudson, 5 ft. 10, dark, age 37.
Richard Benjamin, 5 ft. 4, light, age 18.
John Hallock, 5 ft. 6, light, age 23.
Jonathan Reeve, 5 ft. 8, dark, age Z--
Ruben Brown, 5 ft. 10, light, age 39.
John Terry, 5 ft. 9, light, age 22.
Nathan Benjamin, 6 ft., dark, age 17.
Ebenezer Hudson, 5 ft. 3, light, age 17.
John Tuthill, 5 ft. 6, dark, age 46.
Richard Wood, 5 ft. 7, dark, age 36.
Richard Hallock, 5 ft. 5, dark, age 17.
Amaziah Benjamin, 5 ft. 3, dark, age 35.
Richard Brown, 5 ft. 11, dark, age 23.
David Brown, 5 ft. 8, dark, age 29.
William Reeve, 5 ft. 8, light, age 21.
Nathl. Fanning, 5 ft. 11, light, age 21.
Amasa Pike, 5 ft. 5, dark, age 17.
Daniel Terry, 5 ft. 8, dark, age 19.
John Pershall, 5 ft. 8, dark, age 19.
James Detty, Jr., 5 ft. 11, light, age 24.
All these fifty-seven men had "acutriments compleat."'
With the rest of Col. Smith's regiment they marched to
Brooklyn before the middle of August, 1776, reaching
there the 14th. They were in camp until the 22nd, when
skirmishing with the enemy began. Fighting continued
every day, especially the 27th and 28th, until they were
ordered to cross to New York on the 29th, when by his
successful retreat Washington saved his army, though he
lost the battle. The Long Island regiment then dis-
banded. Some of the men returned to their homes, while
some enlisted in other regiments. The names of many
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. I45
Long Island men appear in regiments of Regulars, and
many that are probably Mattitnck men. But in those
days few men had middle names, and they cannot be
distinguished with certainty in long lists of names with-
out residences. Occasionally an unusual name, such as
Phineas Mapes, of the ist New York Regulars, marks
one as a Mattituck man without doubt. All the well-
known Mattituck names are scattered through the regi-
ments of New York regulars, and certainly many of them
served with the Connecticut troops. One of these was
John Clark, 2d,* of Franklinville, who served as a pri-
vate and who was a pensioner of the State of Connecti-
cut, and afterwards of the United States.
It is an interesting fact that the Town Meetings were
held in Mattituck for five years following the battle of
Long Island, from 1777 to 1781. In the records of the
meetings there is no clue given to the reason for this,
and there is not even a traditional reason, for the fact
seems to have passed from the public memory. In all
probability the British authorities designated the place
for the meeting, for such afifairs were under their abso-
lute control. In Mattituck they occupied a twenty-acre
camp lot, and perhaps Mattituck, as being more central
than Southold, was headquarters for the troops in South-
old Town. If so, the Town Meeting was required to be
held where it would be under the inspection and re-
straint of the commanding officer. Certainly no business
was transacted at these meetings that might not have
*This John Clark was the grandfather of Miss Clark and
Mrs. George E. Post, of the Clark House in Greenport. His wife
was Elizabeth, daughter of Major John Corwin, whom he mar~
ried in 1796.
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been done in the hearing of His Excellency the Captain
General and Governor in Chief himself. The minutes of
the first Town Meeting in Mattituck are recorded in
Liber D of the Town Records, p. 30, and are copied
again at p. 136. They read :
April the i, 1777 att a publick Town meeting held att
Mattituck In order to chose Town officers and other
things necessarie first Major Wickham was chosen Mod-
erator and Robert Hempsted dark, [Robert Hempsted
was the official Town Clerk.]
Second as the meeting hath not bin ussally held att
this place itt is voted and concluded and agreed that
what was voted shood be held good.
third Capt Christopher Youngs Decon Thomas Reeve
and John Halliok was chosen to make a Return of votes
and Two of them agreeing the votes to be entered.
foorth Jonathan Tuthill, Wheelock Booth, Ishmell
Reeves, Nathanael Conkling, Ezekiel Petty Jun., Rich-
ard Wood ware chosen Constables for the ensuing year.
fifth Azriah Tothill, Simon Moore, Decon Thomas
Reeves, Daniel Howell, Overseere for the poor,
6 Assesors, Robert Hempsted, Daniel Wells Esq.
7 Parker Wickham Esq, Supervisor.
8 James Brown, William Horton Sen., Samll Cox^
Jeremiah Wells and William Dickerson, Overseers for
the High Ways.
9 fence viewers and prisers of Damage, Jonathan
Tuthill, Christopher Brown, Joseph Horton, Simon
Moore, Samll Cox, Silas Moore, John Corwin Junr.
David Gardiner Junr. Diah Corwin, Stephen Aldrich,
Nathanael Hudson, Manly Wells, John Tuthill, Isaiah
Terry.
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10. Colector, Ezekiel Petty Junr.
11. Allso voted yt fr the futer the Town Meeting
shall be held at Mattituck.
12. Also voted that no Cattle shall be allowed to
Rom at Large on the beach from the Duck pond to the
Waideing River withoote being deemed transgressors
and ye owners Liable to pay Damage.
CHAPTER VI.
TARISH HISTORY FROM REVOLUTIONARY TIMES
TO 1845.
In 1764, after Mr. Barker relinquished the care of
the Aquebogue church and devoted all his time to Matti-
tuck, the Rev. Benjamin Goldsmith took charge of the
flock in Aquebogue. He was a son of 3rd John Gold-
smith. His sister, Hannah, married 5th William Wells,
and Joseph Wells of Laurel is her grandson. From the
time of Mr. Davenport's departure from Mattituck, in
1776, Mr. Goldsmith often preached in Mattituck, and
from his Record Book it appears that he attended to the
marriages and baptisms of the Mattituck parish. In the
midst of his journal. May 18, 1788, he writes, "From
this time I take in Mattituck Parish." From that time
onward until his death, in 1810, he preached alternately
in the two churches, exercised full pastoral charge of
both, and the parishes were again united, as they had
been under the care of Messrs. Darby, Park and Barker.
This union continued until 181 7, when it was made even
closer by the joining of the two in one legally incorpo-
rated body known for nearly forty years thereafter as.
"Union Parish." But they were separate and distinct
churches all the years of Mr. Goldsmith's life, and on
April 8th, 1799, the Mattituck congregation met ''to ap-
point Trustees who shall be a Body Corporate" under the
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Act of Legislature of April 6th, 1784, providing for the
incorporation of religious societies. "Mattituck Society"
was the corporate title chosen, and John Corwin, Elder,
and James Reeve, Deacon, were chosen to sign the certi-
ficate of the action. This certificate was duly recorded
July 26th, 1799, on p. 16 of Liber A of Certificates of
Religious Incorporations. The first Trustees of Matti-
tuck Society were William Wells, John Hubbard, and
James Reeve, Esq. The Cutchogue Church was incor-
porated two years later, and its certificate is recorded
on p. 17 of Liber A of Certificates of Religious Incor-
porations.
Shortly after Mr. Goldsmith began ministering to
both churches they were blessed with a precious revival.
In the year 1790, thirty-six persons, partly in Mattituck
and partly in Aquebogue, were received to full com-
munion. Among these were Capt. James Reeve (then
thirty-four years of age, the great-grandson of the donor
of the church site), and Jonathan Horton, both of whom
were chosen deacons the same year. Of the thirty-six
brought into the communion at that time more than half
were men.
Almost every year of Mr. Goldsmith's ministry
saw some additions to the roll of communicants,
and in 1809, the year before his death, his ministry was
blessed with another season of refreshing, when twenty-
two persons were received into fellowship. During the
forty-five years of his ministry Mr. Goldsmith baptized
nearly eight hundred persons, most of them children, and
he united three hundred and eighty-three couples in
marriage.
Near the eastern end of the Jamesport burying-
152 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
ground, a few feet from the highway, stands a stone with
the following inscription :
In Memory of
Rev. Benjamin Goldsmith^
Born at Southold,
Educated at Yale College,
45 Years Pastor of the Churches at
Aquebogue and Mattituck,
Who died Nov. 19, 1810, Ae. 74 ys. and 14 ds.
I am the resurrection and the life.
In that grave lies a man whose influence upon the
people among whom he lived is beyond measuring. A
native of this town, beloved and respected by the people,
simple and unassuming in his ways, but withal strong
and determined, sound in his doctrine and pious in his
life, plain and practical in his preaching, judicious in the
conduct of parish affairs, he left a blessed impress upon
two generations.
The house in which Mr. Goldsmith resided stood un-
til five or six years ago, when, for want of care and
timely repair, being sadly dilapidated, it was torn down,
and a modern dwelling was erected on its site. It stood
on the north side of the highway, a half-mile east of
the Jamesport church, and directly across from the sixth
milestone from the County Court House. It was ap-
parently one of the oldest houses in the town, and was
a fine large dwelling in its day, with two full stories
and an attic and an extension on the west side. It had a
solid oak frame, and the doors within were provided
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK, 1 53
with the old-fashioned latch-string. The window over
the front door, with fifteen little panes of glass, was the
one window in the small room that is said to have been
Mr. Goldsmith's study. This study was about six feet
by eight, with a brick fireplace opposite the window.
On the walls about the room, when the house was torn
-down, were the marks of the shelves on which the old
pastor's books used to stand. A little study it was, but
big enough for the man of God to kneel in prayer, or
sit in meditation and study. From that sacred place he
came forth to bless the people.
Mr. Goldsmith was twice married, and left several
sons and daughters. His daughter Amelia married
James Hallock, and their son Benjamin Goldsmith Hal-
lock was the father of the late James Richard Hallock,
and of Mrs Fannie C. Dayton, and of Mrs. Josephine A.
Halsey of Westhampton. A sister of Benjamin Gold-
smith Hallock, Helen, became the wife of the late Allen
Cox, and the mother of Mrs. Alexander Forman, of
Brooklyn and Mattituck. Mr. Goldsmith's son Benjamin
lived and died in Mattituck, owning the large farm that
had long been in the Howell family, known as Howell's
Neck, much of which came later into possession of Syl-
vester Cooper, and now constitutes several comfortable
farms.
Benjamin Goldsmith, Jr., was thrice married. By
his second wife, Phebe, the daughter of Major Isaac
Reeve, he had a daughter Phebe who became the wife of
James Wickham Reeve. Their daughter Anna married
the late Andrew Gildersleeve whose sons and daughters
are among the descendants in Mattituck of the Rev. Ben-
jamin Goldsmith,
154 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
One of the interesting old parish documents still;
preserved dates from Mr. Goldsmith's day:
Mattituck, April 17th, 1809.
"Met at Mr. John Hubbard's [the Mattituck House]'
in pursuance of public notice for the purpose of making
board fence around the burying ground. Voted Ben-
jamin Goldsmith moderator, John Reeve, Clerk.
"ist Voted that there should be a board fence made
of Albany boards and Locust posts, Suppose the mate-
rials will Cost thirty Dollars.
"2d Voted that James Halliock, William H. Pike,
be a committee to attend to this business."
Then follows a list of subscribers, with the amounts
subscribed to meet the estimated expense, ranging from
"2 lb of nails," by William Simons, the blacksmith (the
nails probably made at his own forge), up to one pound
in money ($2.50).
The names are interesting today :
Jonathan Horton [Father of B. Bailey, and grand-
father of Andrew.]
William Wells [Father of John, next below.]
John Wells [Father of Joseph.]
Benjamin Goldsmith.
Barnabas Howell [Son of 2d Micah.]
Benjamin Reeve [Father of Deacon Henry, Richard
S., Daniel, Mrs. Bethiah Cox, Mrs. B. B. Horton, Mrs.
Esther Clark, Mrs. Amanda Terry.]
Jacob Aldrich.
Parshal Davis [Lived on Cox's Neck, Brother of
Timothv below.]
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William H. Pike [grandfather of Wm. H. Pike and
Mrs. Alice Gildersleeve and Mrs. Frances M. Raynor.J
John Reeve [Brother of 5th James and Rev. Na-
thaniel.]
John Hubbard [Kept Mattituck House.]
Phoebe Wickham [Probably wife of ist Joseph P.
Wickham.]
Timothy Davis [Lived on Cox's Neck. Brother of
Parshall above. Father of Israel, Timothy, Parshall,
Mrs. Elizabeth Homan and Mrs. Maria Clark.]
Isaiah Benjamin [Father of Austin W., John, George,
Mrs. Mary Ann Reeve, Sarah Goldsmith, Mrs. Harmony
Tuthill, and Mrs. Hannah Tuthill.]
James Aldrich [Probably James the son of Gershom
below.]
John Clark, 3d [son-in-law of Jonathan Horton,
above. Father of Silas H.]
John Tuthill [Lived where Alvah Mulford lives.
Brother of Albert.]
James Reeve [5th James. Father of Jas. W., Irad,
Edward, Jeremiah, Mrs. Hannah Conkling, Mrs. Phebe
M. Wickham.]
John Corwin [5th John. Major Corwin.]
Barnabas Wines [5th Barnabas. Father of Wm. and
great-grandfather of Jas. H.]
Nathaniel Hubbard [Deacon. Cousin of John above.
Son of 2d Isaac. Grandfather of N. Hubbard Cleve-
land, of Southold. Lived where H. P. Tuthill now
lives.]
Daniel Downds [Grandfather of Arthur L. Downs.]
Ruporte Halliock [Son of 3d Zerubbabel. Father of
David B. and of Betsey, first wife of Edward Reeve.]
156 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
Joseph Aldrich [His nephew, Sylvester Cooper, be-
came his chief heir in 1819.]
Mrs. Mary Halliock [Mother of Ruport]
Ely Aldrich.
Richard Halliock [Son of 2d Zerubbabel.]
Richard Halliock, Jr. [Son of Richard, above.]
John Howell [Father of Sylvester, and grandfather
of Chauncey P.]
William Simons [Blacksmith, lived in house lately
of Oliver Mayo. Son of Peter. Great-grandfather of
Mrs. Richard Cox and Mrs. W. Gordon Hazard.]
Jacob Aldrich, Jr.
Benjamin Halliock [Father of Joshua and Benjamin
H.]
Watson Aldrich [Son of Joshua.]
James Halliock .[Son of James and Amelia (Gold-
smith) Halliock.]
Jonathan Howell [Grandfather of Mrs. Betsey Jane
TuthiU.]
Daniel Howell [Brother of Jonathan above, and of
Mrs. Cynthia Moore.]
William Brown [Lived on east part of farm now of
David Jenkins.]
Zachariah Halliock [Son of 2d Zerub. Brother of
Richard above and of Ezra.]
Isaac Reeve [Major Isaac. Son of 3d James, and
uncle of John and James above. Father of Isaac T. and
Selah.]
Luther Reeve [Brother of Benjamin above. Father
of late Thomas and of Mrs. Silas M. Hallock.]
Daniel Halliock [Brother of Richard and Zachariah
above.]
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 1 57
Mr. Hedges.
Mehetable Halliock [Sister of Rupert.]
Thomas Reeve, Jr. [Brother of Benjamin and Lnthcr
above. Grandfather of Thos. E.]
Wells Ely [Lived S. of Highway, east of Geo. II.
Fischer's ice house. Father of Sophia, wife of Irad
Reeve.]
Josiah WoodhuU [Lived in Franklin ville, now
Laurel.]
James Worth [Father of John Worth and grand-
father of Mrs. AHce H. (Worth) Boutcher. Lived then
on Jas. J. Kirkup's farm.]
Jesse Reeve [Cousin of Benjamin and Luther above.
Son of James and Parnel (Howell) Reeve. Father of
Jas. M. and Edward Y.]
Nehemiah Simons [Brother of William above.]
Silas Reeve.
Gershom Aldrich [Father of Gershom and James;
grandfather of Gershom, Daniel, Elisha and Isaac]
John Clark, Jr.
Hector Hubbard.
It is noticeable that several of these are Franklinville
(Laurel) and North ville (Sound Avenue) names. In
1809 there were no such places known as Franklinville
or Northville, or even Jamesport. Mattituck and Aque-
bogue parishes covered the whole ground. The resi-
dents of the eastern parts of the present Laurel and
Northville belonged to Mattituck, and are prominent
among the subscribers to this fence, as their dead were
laid to rest in the sacred enclosure at Mattituck.
In 1809 the burying ground was nearly one hundred
years old, and many were its occupants. Some were
158 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
probably buried there in 171 5, the year it was given to
the parish. No stone in it bears older date than 1723,
Lut this is not strange, for the stones had to be brought
from a distance, many of them from Connecticut and
some from England, at considerable expense. Those
strange little blue slate grave-stones of the i8th century
cost more, comparatively, than fine marble monuments
today. Not one-half of the earliest graves are marked.
There are thirty-five stones placed earlier than 1750.
Of these the oldest are inscribed to the memory of two
infant children of Lieut, (afterwards Deacon) Thomas
Reeve, who died Nov. 13th and Dec. 2d, 1723. Their
graves lie near the middle of the. old ground, in the row
next east of that in which their father and mother and
the Hon. James Reeve, Esq., were later buried. There
are twenty-five stones that mark the graves of men and
women whose lives dated back into the 17th century. If
all the graves were marked this number would be greatly
increased. A study of the inscriptions forces the con-
clusion that parents were more careful to mark the
graves of their children than surviving children were to
mark the graves of their parents. The stone that carries
us farthest back into the seveteenth century is that of John
Parker, in the Wickham lot. He died Feb. 7th, 1727, in
his 70th year. He was born then as early as 1658. He
was a Southampton man, a man of wealth and conse-
quence. He was known as Doctor Parker, and was also
a fuller, with a large fulling mill at the Riverhead. He
was the father of two daughters, one of whom, Abigail,
married Justice Joseph Wickham, of Cutchogue; the
other, Mary, married Wm. Albertson. After leaving
Southampton he dwelt at the Riverhead, but probably
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 1 59
-ended his days with his daughter, Abigail (Parker)
Wickham. He was the grandfather of Thomas Wick-
ham, who was the grandfather of Charles W. Wick-
ham. He was also the great-grandfather of Parnel Wick-
ham, who was the first wife of 5th James Reeve, and the
mother of James Wickham Reeve and Irad Reeve.
The original burying ground extended to the south-
ward only so far as the path that runs from east to west,
a little south of the Chapel of the Presbyterian Church.
About 1847 the ground was enlarged by the purchase of
a strip of ground some sixty rods wide from north to
south, running the whole length of the old burying
ground. In 1883 another strip of ground, south of this
was purchased by the Bethany Cemetery Association, the
lots in it were sold to individuals, and this is known as
the "Bethany Cemetery."
The "New Bethany Cemetery" across the South Road
*from Bay Avenue, and extending to the railroad, com-
prising five acres, was purchased by the Mattituck Cem-
etery Association in 1870, and was sold in 1894 to the
Bethany Cemetery Association.
In April, 1809, the Presbytery of Long Island (re-
placing since 1790 the Presbytery of Suffolk ) met in
^Mattituck. Mr. Goldsmith was its moderator. That day
a Mr. Benjamin Bailey was introduced as a candidate
for license to preach the gospel. That young man be-
came Mr. Goldsmith's successor in charge of Mattituck
and Aquebogue. Mr. Bailey was probably a Southold
man. He was licensed the following year, shortly before
Mr. Goldsmith's death, and in Sept., 181 1, received a call
from the united churches. At the same meeting of Pres-
bytery at which he received his call, another young man
l6o A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
'of Southold Town preached his trial sermon for ordina-
tion. This was Abraham Luce, who became the pastor of
Mattituck and Aquebogue about fifteen years later.
On the 6th of November, 1811, Benjamin Bailey was.
ordained and installed in the Aquebogue Church as pastor
of Mattituck and Aquebogue. Mr. Bailey remained with
these churches until May 18, 1816. It is hard to forgive
him for leaving not one scrap of records for these four
and one-half years. The late Mrs. Bethiah Cox remem-
bered Mr. Bailey and his wife. Benjamin Reeve, Mrs.
Cox's father, lived in Mr. Bailey's day in the house now
owned by Wm. Broderick and occupied by Thos. Kelly
and his sisters. Mrs. Cox remembered the Baileys as oc-
cupying the old house on the hill, later owned by John
Franks Horton, Esq., and now superseded by the Wick-
ham cottage. Mrs. Cox's mother, Joanna (Corwin) Reeve,
and Mrs, Bailey were intimate friends, and used to ex-
change visits frequently. In those days the ladies used
to take their spinning wheels when they went to spend
an afternoon together, just as their daughters and grand-
daughters took their knitting, and their great-grand-
daughters take their fancy-work.
Mr. Bailey removed from Mattituck to Newark, N.Y.,
iand organized the church there that now has a member-
ship of over six hundred. He preached later in East
Palmyra, N. Y., but being in poor health he was com-
pelled to cease from the active work of the ministry, and
settled on a farm near Newark, where he died about
1848, in the neighborhood of sixty years of age. He
was a graduate of Union College, and studied theology
with Dr. Lyman Beecher. It was his desire to become a
foreign missionary, but ill-health prevented. He is said
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to have been a man of beautiful Christian spirit, and his
ministry in Xewark was blessed with a remarkable re-
vival. His grandchildren remember hearing his wife,
who survived him some twenty-five years, tell of his
death. "He stood with his wife at the window-, facing
the west, admiring a beautiful sunset. He talked of
heaven long and earnestly, of its jasper walls, of its
streets of gold, of its gates of pearl, of its crystal stream.
He seemed almost glorified. He then sat down and died
ni his chair shortly after."
He had three children, William, Benjamin and Har-
riet (Airs. Foster), who are all dead. Several of his
grandchildren survive, one of them being Benjamin Pliny
Foster, of N'ewark. X. Y.. to the kindness of whose wife
the writer is indebted for these facts in regard to Air.
Bailey's life and death.
The only record preserved pertaining to the church
in the time of Mr. Bailey's pastorate is "An Inventory of
the Property Belonging To the Corporation of Alattituck
Society," April 5th, 181 3, giving a list of notes and in-
terest due the "Bank," aggregating $658.02, to the cor-
rectness of which James Reeve, James Halliock and John
Hubbard made oath before Judge Jared Landon.
The year following Air. Bailey's departure. 1817, is
prominent as the date of incorporation of "Union
Parish." In that year the two societies that had been
associated together for the best part of seventy years in
the support of a common pastor determined to establish
a still closer union, to be no longer the United Parishes
of Mattituck and Aquebogue, but one solid society to be
known as Union Parish. Accordingly,
"The Inhabitants of the parishes of Alattituck and
l62 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
Aquebogue in the towns of Southold and Riverhead in
the County of Suffolk and State of New York, taking into
consideration the importance of having the Gospel
preached in our parishes, and feeling our inability to
support a Minister in each parish, Do most Cheerfully
and Unanimously agree to unite and become one parish
and be Incorporated with the pleasing hope that by doing
so we may obtain the desired object, viz.. The establish-
ment of a Gospel Minister."
Such was the preamble to the certificate of incorpora-
tion adopted at a meeting in the Middle School-house
(FrankHnville, now Laurel) May 7th, 181 7. It was
decided that the consolidated societies should be known
as Union Parish, and the following trustees were elected :
James Reeve, William H. Pike, Nathaniel Hubbard, John
Woodhull, Jabez Corwin, and Selden Herrick. The cer-
tificate of incorporation is recorded in Liber A, p. 23j of
Certificates of Religious Incorporations, in the County
Clerk's office.
From that day to Aug. 29th, 1853, or more than
thirty-six years, there was no Mattituck Parish, and no
Aquebogue Parish. They twain became one body. It is
not unlikely that the desire to hold a parsonage in com-
mon was a prime motive in forming the union, for the
first thing the trustees of Union Parish are known to have
done was to purchase a parsonage farm of twenty-three
acres, near Jamesport, for $1,236.00. This must have
been purchased partly with the Mattituck bank's funds,
an equal amount probably being subscribed in Aquebogue.
The farm lay on the north side of the highway,
bounded west by the present line of Herrick's Lane.
â– The dwelling house was burned down some years ago.
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Its successor, on the old site, sheltered by a huge weep-
ing willow, stands directly across the road from the
residence of Senator Edward Hawkins, and about a quar-
ter of a mile east of the Rev, Benjamin Goldsmith's
ancient dwelling.
The only minister to occupy the parsonage farm was
the Rev. Nathaniel Reeve, a son of Mattituck, who as-
sumed charge of Union Parish as a stated supply in
the year of its organization. He was the third son of
4th James and Anna (Wines) Reeve. His father was a
graduate of Princeton, in the class of 1754, but he studied
at Yale. His studies were interrupted by the Revolu-
tionary war, and he served when but eighteen years of
age in Washington's army. After the war he returned
to New Haven, but his college course was broken again
by ill-health. Perhaps attracted to it by his own condi-
tion, he studied medicine, and his health being re-estab-
lished, he also gave attention to theology, being licensed
to preach in 1791. He then went South, and took up the
practice of medicine, preaching also, in Liberty (now
Bedford City), Virginia. While there he married Miri-
am Erwin, in 1795. Returning to Long Island some ten
years later he became pastor of the West Hampton
Church. From there he went to Deerfield, N. J., and in
1817 came to the Union Parish.
A letter written in Deerfield, April i8th, 1817, by Mr.
Reeve to his brother James in Mattituck indicates that
lie had lately visited his old home and had received a
"unanimous and affectionate" invitation to become pastor
of the church. The letter is bright with faith in God and
full of good counsel for the church. There is a touch of
liumor in it when he asks that the Mattituck friends, in
164 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK,
anticipation of his arrival about the first of June, "wil!
please to put in a plain garden for us ; not, as I might say^
of Pinks, but of Potatoes." As to the manner of the long,
journey he writes, "Upon the most mature reflection and
careful inquiry respecting the manner of removal, I have
concluded to sell the heavy articles in the house with our
out-door matters, and send the rest round from Phila-
delphia to New York by packet, and thence down the
Sound to the place of destination. Nathaniel and two of
the Boys must go with the goods, and the rest of the
children we can bring by land in our light wagon." He
expected the expenses of the journey to consume the pro-
ceeds of the sale of part of his goods. "The sacrifice," he-
said, "which we shall be obliged to make of our little prop-
erty will be considerable, and when we arrive we shall be
in want of almost everything." In a postscript this letter
enlightens us as to what was the forerunner, a hundred
years ago, of the church sewing society. "Sister Hetty,""
goes the postscript, referring to Mrs. Mehetable Reeve^
"will attend to the Spinning Society."
Some of the oldest people in the parish remember Mr.
Reeve and his southern wife. He used to drive to Matti-
tuck with his large family in a roomy chaise on the alter-
nate Sundays when services were held in the eastern end
of the parish, and it was his custom to announce from the
pulpit the family with which he expected to dine upon
the occasion of his next visit.
Mr. Reeve served Union Parish with acceptance, but
like his immediate predecessor he left no records. Thus-
for fifteen years, from 1810 to 1825, there is not a line to
tell of births, baptisms, marriages, additions to the
church or deaths in Mattituck. A complete roll of the
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 165
members of Union Parish in 1825 contains the names of
thirty-eight persons (out of a total of seventy-four) who
were not members in 1810. These thirty-eight, therefore,
several of whom were most influential members for years
after, were a part of the fruit of the ministry of Mr.
Bailey and Mr, Reeve.
From early manhood Mr. Reeve was subject to sea-
sons of deep depression and in 1823 this tendency devel-
oped into a permanent melancholia which unfitted him
for further ministerial labor. The Union Parish then
exhibited the character of its people by securing a home
for Mr. Reeve and his family in which he was maintained
for the remaining ten years of his life. A house was pur-
chased for his residence by the trustees of Union Parish.
After his death it was sold. It still stands, in good re-
pair and neat appearance, the second house west of the
railroad crossing in Laurel, on the north side of the
highway.
The Rev. Nathaniel Reeve died Apr. 9, 1833, ^.ged y^
3'ears. He lies buried in the Mattituck church-yard, be-
side his forefathers, and amid the people of his charge.
His widow, Miriam Erwin, survived him nearly nine
years, and her grave is next to her husband's. Her name
was given by her husband's nephew, James Wickham
Reeve, to his second daughter, Miriam Irwin Reeve, who
became Mrs. Thomas W. Osborne. Mr. and Mrs.
Reeve had thirteen children, of vi'hom nine grew to man-
hood and womanhood. The fourth son. Samuel, recently
â– died in New York City, at the great age of ninety-six.
A great-grandson, Horace Disbrow Reeve, Esq., of Phil-
adelphia, published, in 1903, an interesting sketch of the
life of "Nathaniel Reeve, Preacher and Patriot."
l66 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
The parsonage property near Jamesport was never
occupied by another minister. It was sold between the
years 1825 and 1835, and the proceeds, about a thou-
sand dollars, became the principal of a Union Parish
bank.
The next minister after Mr. Reeve was the Rev.
Abraham Luce. This name brings us into modern his-
tory, for excepting an interval of four years, from 1835.
to 1839, ^r- Luce ministered in Union Parish until 1845,
and is well remembered by many persons now living.
The beginning of Mr. Luce's ministry is also the begin-
ning of the church's modern history in this, that from
that date the records are complete. Session meetings-
were probably held before, but at this time the session
began to keep regular minutes, attested by a clerk. This
first clerk of session, who served for more than twenty-
seven years, was Judge David Warner, of Jamesport.
His Record Book is a model of intelligent and painstaking
work. His manuscript is as plain as print, and very beau-
tiful. The following memorandum is the first entry in
his record :
"On the 17th day of June, 1825, The Rev'd Abraham
Luce agreed to preach in Union Parish every second Sab-
bath, or half the time, during one year — the year to be-
gin the day and date above mentioned."
This is followed by a complete roll of church mem-
bers in Union Parish, Aug. 13th, 1825. There were sev-
enty-four members in the list. All of them have entered
into the communion of the church above. The last sur-
vivor was Lydia Wells, afterwards Mrs, Isaac Wilbur,,
who died Feb. 9th, 1898. It was still the custom to have
new members received bv vote of the whole church.
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Ill
l68 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
Members asking certificates of dismission were likewise
dismissed by vote of the church.
Judge Warner also kept record of births, baptisms and
deaths, and began a record of marriages, but soon became
discouraged and discontinued this. He records about
twenty marriages from 1825 to 1828. Evidently they were
not properly reported to him. It is easier for the minister
who solemnizes the marriages to record them. In 1829
the judge knew of only two marriages, none in 1830 and
183 1, and only two in 1832. After one he writes, "June
near the middle. The day I don't know." After another,
recorded out of consecutive order, "I did not hear of it
until after the above." He then closed this department of
records finally, with the note, "I have concluded not to
record marriages. David Warner, Clerk." Among those
recorded are :
Joseph P. Wickham to Phebe M. Reeve, April ist,
1827.
Goldsmith Hallock to Betsey Ann Hallock, Feb. 12th,
1828.
William Wickham to the widow Abby Hubbard,*
Nov., 1828.
The first regular session meeting with full minutes
was held Dec. 22d, 1826, at the house of Deacon Nathan-
iel Hubbard. The elders at that time were : James Reeve,
John Reeve, Nathaniel Hubbard, John WoodhuU, David
Warner, Joseph Hudson, and Hezekiah Skidmore.
Mr. Luce lived upon his own farm in Northville. He
was ministering to the West Hampton Church when he
*This was Abigail, daughter of Major John Corwin, and
widow of John Hubbard.
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 169
.agreed to give half his time to the Union Parish. There-
after he preached one Sunday in four at Mattituck, one at
Jamesport, and two at West Hampton, driving about this
widespread parish through Summer's sands and Winter's
snows.
The beginning of his labors in Union Parish was
marked by a large ingathering. Within a year twenty
persons were received upon confession of their faith. So
satisfactory were his ministrations that the engagement
entered into for one year was continued without break
for ten years. In the midst of this term, in 1830, mo-
mentous events transpired. The two old church build-
ings were replaced with new ones, and the people of the
Middle District withdrew and organized the Franklinville
'Church — a parish within a parish.
Both of the old buildings were unsuitable for further
use. That in Mattituck was 115 years old, and that in
Aquebogue, lOO. The people of the Middle District de-
sired to have one new building erected, midway between
the old. This was not an unreasonable proposition.
Indeed, if the Union Parish was to continue as one,
there were great advantages in this plan, for with the two
houses of worship four miles apart it was impossible,
•except on extraordinary occasions, to bring the entire
congregation together. But both of the old buildings
stood at centres of population, both were surrounded by
the graves of generations past, and about both the sacred
traditions and strong afifections of the living were en-
twined. However reasonable the considerations urged
by the Middle District, and although a somewhat general
understanding had taken shape long since that when the
lime for rebuilding came a central place of worship
I/O A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
should be established, when the time for actual decision
came the masses of the people could not bring themselves
to vote that way, and it was determined to rebuild on the
old sites. This decision was carried out, but a sad breach
was made in the spiritual temple. Several families in the
Middle District, embracing not a few of the most useful
and honored members of the church, separated from the
Union Parish and established a church of their own.
This new society was recognized by the Presbytery and
taken under its care. Their house of worship was
immediately built, midway between the others, two
miles from either. The Franklinville Church was regu-
larly organized, and its sanctuary dedicated, June 30th;^
1831.
The new church built in Mattituck in 1830, on the site
of the original building, was a great improvement in
every respect upon the primitive structure that it replaced.
It fronted the north as the present church does. Like
the old building it had galleries around three sides. In
the north gallery, facing the pulpit, the choir stood and
sang without an instrument, under the leadership of
Deacon John Reeve. He was succeeded some years after
by Squire J. Franks Horton. When the present church
was built, in 1853, the building of 1830 was moved and
became the home' of the newly organized Methodist Epis-
copal Church. It is now the chapel of that society,,
joined to their elegant new sanctuary.
In 1835 the Rev. Abraham Luce left the Union Par-
ish, but the esteem in which he was held by the peoplfe-
is attested by their calling him again to their service four
years later. In the interim the parish was supplied by the
Rev. Lyman C. Gilbert, and the Rev. Jonathan Hunttin^.
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MINUTES OF PARISH MEETING,
March 10, 1S30, to arrange for the erection of the secomi
Meeting House.
1/2 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
Returning in 1839, Air. Luce gave not half but all his
time to the Union Parish until 1845.
Owing to the withdrawal of the Middle District there
were only sixty-eight names on the Union Parish roll
July 4th, 1 83 1. Within a year sixty-three new names were
added. This was the second revival under Mr. Luce's
ministry.
Under Mr. Gilbert, in 1838, eleven persons were re-
<:eived into the communion. One of these was Patience
Corwin, now Mrs. Hamlin. Hers is the earliest name on
the Union Parish roll that is on the Mattituck roll at
this time.
If Mr. Luce had continued with the Union Parish
without the interim of four years, his pastorate would
liave covered twenty years. After his final departure in
1845 he yet lived twenty years, dying at the ripe age of
seventy-five, Oct. 23d, 1865. On his tombstone, that
stands on the highest ground in the Jamesport burying-
ground, near the western end, these words are carved,
â– quoted from his half-century sermon before the Presby-
tery of Long Island, delivered in 1840:
"I hope for salvation by grace through the atoning
tlood of Christ. I know no other way ; I desire no
•other."
A fitting inscription this, taken from his own words,
to sum up the faith and hope of a faithful minister of
the changeless gospel.
Mr. Luce was a man of solid, rugged character. He
labored hard for Christ's sake, and the sake of souls, not
for filthy lucre. The Rev. James T. Hamlin is authority
for the statement that his salary in Union Parish could
not have exceeded $250 a year. The same competent
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. I/J
witness, who knew him well for nearly twenty years,
characterizes him as "a plain and practical preacher."
Mr. Luce was a man of prominence and influence in
the Presbytery, and was its Stated Clerk from 1836 to
1841.
CHAPTER VII.
CHURCH HISTORY FROM 1845 TO THE PRESENT TIME.
In the preceding chapter the parish history from Rev-
olutionary times to 1845 was traced. In 1845 the Rev,
Abraham Luce concluded his ministry in Mattituck. It
remains to set forth in this chapter the church history of
Modern Mattituck, from 1845 to the present time, and
this will include the Methodist Episcopal Church, es-
tablished in 1853, and the Protestant Episcopal Church,
founded in 1877.
After an interval of two years following the depart-
ure of Mr. Luce, in which the Rev. Edward Harris
among others served as supply, God in His providence
sent to Mattituck the man who was destined to surpass
all his predecessors in potent influence upon the people,
to see the Union Parish dissolved and the Mattituck
Church begin again its individual existence, to direct and
confirm the Mattituck Church in substantial growth and
-development, to give to the people the strength of his
youth and the ripe powers of his maturer years, and when
laid aside from active duties by infirmity of age to con-
tinue in the parish for yet other thirteen years, his very
presence a benediction. That man was the Rev. James
Trowbridge Hamlin.
Mr. Hamlin came to Long Island in June, 1846, to
visit a friend. He was sent by the Rev. John Wood-
REV. JAMES TROWBRIDGE HAMLIN.
176 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
bridge, then at Greenport, to preach in Mattituck. It was
a case of love at first acquaintance. Mr. Hamhn con-
tinued to supply the Union Parish, and Franklinville as
well, from that day, and was ordained and installed, Nov.
4th, 1847, i" the Franklinville church as pastor of Union
Parish and Franklinville. And so for a time all the
people from the western limits of Cutchogue to the
eastern limits of Upper Aquebogue were again united
under one pastor. It was fondly hoped that under Mr,
Hamlin's acceptable and judicious administration the di-
vided churches might again be incorporated in one. This^
however, was not to be. The breach was too recent and
the intense feeling that caused it though no longer active
was still latent. Moreover, deep-seated divisive tenden-
cies in the Union Parish itself proved even more power-
ful than Mr. Hamlin's strong conciliatory spirit, and in
1853 the Union Parish was dissolved. Thereafter Mr.
Hamlin ministered in Mattituck alone. During the four
years of his wider pastorate it was his custom to preach
in Franklinville in the morning and in Mattituck and
Jamesport on alternate Sabbath afternoons.
It was on the 29th day of August, 1853, at 3 P. M.,
that the people of Mattituck and Jamesport met in their
respective houses of worship and enacted the dissolution
of Union Parish and the incorporation of two distinct
societies. The Certificate of Incorporation of Mattituck
Society was recorded Sept. 6th, 1853, in the County
Clerk's ofiice, in Liber A of Certificates of Religious In-
corporations, p. 128. At the meeting of the Presbytery
the following spring, March 21st, 1854, at the request of
Elder James W. Reeve, the Mattituck Church was recog-
nized as a separate organization. The members of the
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. I77
western end of the Union Parish had become the James-
port Congregational Church.
The new roll of Mattituck Church, prepared by Mr.
Hamlin, April 17th, 1854, contains the names of forty-
two persons. Union Parish at the separation had eighty-
two members. The elders in Mattituck were James
Wickham Reeve, Barnabas Bailey Horton, and John
Franks Horton. On March 31st, 1854, the session was in-
creased by the ordination of Edward Reeve and Henry
Reeve to the eldership. The trustees of the Mattituck
Society at the time of its organization were Benjamin G.
Hallock, David B. Hallock, Isaac R. Howell, Jr., James
W. Reeve, J. Smith Tuthill and Henry Pike.
No sooner had Mattituck begun again to shift for
itself than the indomitable enterprise of the people ex-
pressed itself in a determination to erect a new building.
The second edifice, that had been built in 1830 by the
brothers Salter and Thomas Horton of Peconic, was sold
to Thomas Hallock, was removed to the west of the
burying-ground, and much to the surprise of the Presby-
terians became the home of a Methodist Episcopal con-
gregation.
Fifty years ago Presbyterians and Methodists did
not live on very friendly terms in a community.
There were even cases of discipline before the session of
the Mattituck Presbyterian Church arising from the at-
tendance of some of its members upon the services of
the Methodists. Happily these grand divisions in the
Lord's army now fight side by side in the battles of the
kingdom in all the world. For many years the two
churches in Mattituck have maintained unbroken friendly
relations. It is a fact pleasant to record that in 1896,
ELDEllS OF 1854.
John Franks Horton. Edward Keeve.
James Wickham Eeeve.
Henry Eeeve. Barnabas Bailey Horton.
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 1 79
when the new Methodist church was erected and the
old building was moved to the rear to serve as
a chapel, the additional land required for these improve-
ments was given freely to the Methodist society by the
trustees of the Presbyterian parish.
The present Presbyterian building was erected upon
the original site by Master-builder Andrew Gildersleeve.
He and his wife carried their membership to Mattituck
from the Cutchogue Church in June, 1854. His wife was
Anna, the eldest daughter of James Wickham Reeve.
Mr. Gildersleeve came of an old and prominent Brook-
haven family. He was ordained an elder in the Matti-
tuck Church in 1862, serving until his death in 1894.
He was not only the builder of the church edifice, but
during many years of devoted service was a prominent
worker in the building up of the spiritual temple to God's
glory.
The church then built was the present one, and yet
not the present, for it was without the wings on either
side and had neither steeple nor bell. It was a plain,
substantial building, without the claims to beauty that the
present church can modestly maintain. Neither were its
surroundings so attractive as now. It was about this
time that the trees were set out in front of the church
that today give charm to the spot. To the late Joseph
Parker Wickham the credit for this is due, and the follow-
ing generations for whom he planted should keep his
â– memory ever green.
In the church of 1853, before the extensions on the
sides were added, the choir gallery, or platform, was in
the north end of the audience room opposite to the pulpit.
About that time, the present chorister, George B. Reeve,
i8o
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
assumed charge of the music, and he has rendered
eminent service ever since. For years Mattituck Church
has been renowned for its excellent music. This has been
largely due to the able, conscientious and indefatigable
leadership of Mr. Reeve. His predecessor as chorister
was Elder John Franks Horton, and before him the
leader of the singing for many years was Deacon John
THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Reeve, the great-uncle of the present chorister, George
B. Reeve.
In 1 87 1 the church was rebuilt by O. K. Buckley of
Greenport, being greatly enlarged by the extensions on
the sides and greatly improved in appearance by the
erection of the steeple, the symmetrical lines of which, in
perfect proportion with the building, excite the admira-
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. l8l
tion of every artistic beholder. The fine bell, cast in the
renowned Meneely Bell Foundry of West Troy, N. Y.,
was the gift, in 1877, of a visitor from New York City,
Mr. John Sneden.
The same year that saw the erection of the church,
1853, saw the parsonage built. The lot on which it
stands, one acre in extent, was given by Elder Edward
Reeve to the parish in a perpetual lease, with a yearly
rental of three dollars, and with a proviso that it
should be used as a parsonage property only. In 1895
the parish made extensive repairs and additions to the
parsonage, after purchasing outright the property
from the heirs of Edward Reeve. At this time such
of the heirs as dwelt in Mattituck gave their interest
in the property to the parish for a nominal considera-
tion.
Mr. Hamlin with his family occupied the parsonage
from the time of its completion until his death in 1892, a
period of almost forty years. After his retirement from
the active work of the pastorate, October ist, 1879, ^'^^
was made Pastor Emeritus, and the congregation showed
their strong affection for him and a proper appre-
ciation for his long unselfish service among them, by
voting that he should occupy the parsonage as long as
he lived. Nothing short of this would have been
righteous ; nothing short of this would have been pos-
sible to the generous people that had bought a house
to shelter the Rev. Nathaniel Reeve in his retire-
ment.
Mr. Hamlin was thrice married. His first and second
wives were sisters, daughters of Charles Parry, M. D., of
Sandy Hill, N. Y. Both died in their youth, and each
1 82 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
left in the care of the bereaved father an infant daughter.
His third wife, who survives in honored old age as his
widow, was Miss Patience Corwin, of Aquebogue, a de-
scendant of some of the oldest families of Southold Town.
Mrs. Hamlin resides in Riverhead, and is often a wel-
come visitor in Mattituck, and it is counted a privilege to
retain her name as one of the oldest on the Mattituck
Church roll. Her daughter, Sarah R., is the wife of the
Rev. Charles Albert Stonelake, of Newark, N. J. Mr.
Hamlin's eldest daughter is the wife of Elder Benjamin
C. Kirkup of Mattituck. His second daughter, Hattie,
became the wife of Rev. William Hedges, her father's
successor in the pastorate, but died in 1887, going before
her aged father to the heavenl}' home.
It would require a volume to record all that the older
people of Mattituck cherish in their memory of Mr. Ham-
lin's pastorate. In the years of his ministry the little
church grew strong. The men who hold the offices of
elder and trustee today were, most of them, trained under
his influence. The elder portion of the present member-
ship came into the communion of the church and therein
was trained under his faithful preaching. The roll of
forty-two members in 1854 had grown to seventy-nine
in 1864 in spite of many deaths and dismissions. The
years 1873 and 1876 were marked by powerful revivals.
In the former eighteen and in the latter sixty-nine were
brought into the communion of the church. At the time
of his death the little band of forty-two was more than
trebled.
After his retirement the people were glad when from
time to time the Pastor Emeritus occupied the pulpit.
They loved the man and they appreciated the sermons,
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. I83
which Dr. Epher Whitaker characterizes as "particularly
original, rich, spiritual and elaborate." Dr. Whitaker
further writes of him :
"In the beloved and trustworth}- disciple who
leaned on Jesus' bosom may be seen the proper type
of the Rev. James T. Hamlin. . . . He gave his
eminently industrious life almost entirely to his own
congregation. Their love for him was equalled only
by his love for them. He had the greatest dread of even
the possibility of appearing to be obtrusive, pretentious
or assuming-. Hence he maintained an excessive reserve
everywhere except in his own congregation. His reserve
was closely allied to his manly independence and his
unwillingness to trouble or burden others. All the ex-
penses of his classical and theological education were
paid by his own earnings, except three hundred dollars,
the gift of his father. He never accepted a cent from any
other man, nor from any society.
"He never shone anywhere more brightly than in the
hospitality of his own home. It was cheerful, cordial,
frank. Its fulness, exuberance, and peculiarly congenial
character almost made his guests believe that it had never
cost him care, forethought, drill and discipline of him-
self to acquire his remarkable abilit}- in this Christian
virtue and grace. . . .
"He was a preacher of eminent originality, for he
never ceased to study the Word of God with a view
of its application to human needs. This disposition of
all his powers and aims never failed to be spiritual.
His theology was Biblical rather than systematic. He
preached with the utmost heartiness the doctrines of
grace."
184 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
On the stone erected to Mr. Hamlin's memory in the
graveyard is the simple inscription,
REy. JAMES T. HAMLIN
Born July 2, 18 12,
; In Pastoral Relations
^ with the Presbyterian Church
' of Mattituck
From 1846 till his
Death, Aug. 29, 1892.
Mr. Hamlin was born in Moreau, Saratoga County,
N. Y. His father was of English Puritan ancestry, his
mother of French. He was educated in a classical school
at Glens Falls, N. Y., and at Burr Seminary, Manchester,
Vt., taking his theological course in the Gilmanton, N. H.,
Seminary. He was licensed to preach in April, 1841, by
the Hopkinton Association of Congregational Churches in
New Hampshire. In the interval between this and his
settlement in Mattituck he was hampered by poor health
which allowed little promise of the long years of useful
service in store for him. Shortly before coming to Mat-
tituck he traveled in the West for the sake of his health,
and took advantage of a winter's studies at Lane Theo-
logical Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Six ministers have succeeded Mr. Hamlin in charge
of the church. Four of these ministered to the people
while he was living as pastor emeritus. The first of these
was the Rev. William Hedges, who acted as stated supply
for four years. Mr. Hedges is now pastor of the Con-
gregational Church at Colebrook, Conn. He comes of
FIVE FOKJIEIt ELDERS.
John W. Duryee. Edward Y. Reeve.
Andrew Gildersleeve.
Selah Younar. Isaac R. Howell.
1 86 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
an old Long Island family, being a son of Judge Henry
P. Hedges of Bridgehampton. He was graduated from
Yale University in 1874 and from the Yale Divinity
School in 1878. While in Mattituck he married Miss
Hattie Hamlin, the second daughter of the pastor emer-
itus, and from Mattituck went to Jamesport to become the
pastor of the Congregational Church that had formerly
been joined with Mattituck in the Union Parish.
The Rev. George R. Garretson was installed pastor
June 27th, 1883, and resigned July ist, 1887, to accept a
call to the Claremont Presbyterian Church of Jersey City,
N. J. He is an alumnus of Rutgers College and of Union
Theological Seminary. During his pastorate, on March
25th, 1884, the Ladies' Missionary Society was organ-
ized. Mrs: Garretson was its first president, Airs. Thos.
A. Hallock and ]\Irs. Daniel Downs its vice-presidents,
Mrs. Irad W. Gildersleeve its secretary, and Mrs. Sidney
P. Tuthill its treasurer. Mr. Garretson has lately taken
charge of the Franklinville Church, in Laurel, to the
great satisfaction of the people of that parish and to the
delight of his Mattituck friends.
The Rev. Wm. G. Woodbridge became stated supply
March ist, 1889, and continued in Mattituck for three
years. Mr. Woodbridge is a native of Louisiana, and
has spent most of his life in the service of the Southern
Presbyterian Church. He is now pastor of a church of
that connection in Birmingham, Alabama. He is a grad-
uate of Princeton University, 1865, and of Princeton
Theological Seminary, 1879. He was pastor of the Fifth
Presbyterian Church of Chicago before coming to Matti-
tuck. During Mr. Woodbridge's term of service the
chapel was built in the rear of the church, and under his
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guidance the Young People's Society of Christian En-
deavor was formed. His geniaUty as a man and his
eloquence as a preacher commended him to the afifection
and admiration of the people of Mattituck.
The Rev. James W. Hillman began to supply the
church in the summer of i8qi and was installed as pastor
June 28th, 1892, being the sixth regularly installed pastor
of the church, He resigned Feb. 9th, 1894, accepting an
appointment from President Cleveland as Chaplain in the
U. S. Army. He is at present serving with the Sixteenth
Infantrv. Mr. Hillman was born in West Saugerties,
N. Y., was graduated from the University of the City of
New York, 1873, and from Union Theological Seminary,
1876. During his pastorate the organ fund was raised,
and a fine pipe organ, made by Earle of Hempstead, was
installed in the church. With industry and enthusiasm
Mr. Hillman was very successful in his wtirk, and like
his predecessors is held in affectionate remembrance by
the people of ^Mattituck.
The Rev. R. Howard Wallace supplied the church one
year after Mr. Hillman. Mr. Wallace was for more than
twenty-five years pastor of the church in his native vil-
lage, Little Britain, N. Y. During the Civil War he
served a year as chaplain in the army. He has done much
faithful and efficient work as a home missionary in North
Dakota and in the Adirondacks. He is an alumnus of
Union College and of the Newburgh Theological Semi-
nary. He has been a frequent and welcome visitor in
Mattituck since he relinquished charge of the church.
Following Mr. Wallace, the Rev. Charles E. Craven
became stated supply Sept. ist. 1895. Graduated from
Princeton Universitv in 1881. and Princeton Theological
l88 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
Seminary in 1886, he was pastor of churches in Birming-
ham, Pa., and Downington, Pa., before taking up work
in Mattituck. He became Permanent Clerk of the Pres-
bytery of Long Island in 1899, and Stated Clerk in 1903,
â– succeeding in that office the venerable Rev. Dr. Epher
Whitaker, who resigned after forty-seven years of em-
inent service.
The Sabbath School has over two hundred members,
with nineteen teachers. The superintendent is Elder
Henry J. Reeve. It is only in recent years that the rec-
ords of the school have been preserved. The earliest
superintendent now in recollection of the people was
Elder John Franks Horton, who served more than twen-
ty-five years. He was followed by Elder Edward Y.
Reeve, Rev. Geo. R. Garretson, Elder B. O. Robinson,
Rev. Jas. W. Hillman, Elder Benj. C. Kirkup, and Elder
Henry J. Reeve. The assistant superintendent is Elder
Kirkup; W. V. Duryee is secretary, Sidney R. Gilder-
sleeve is assistant secretary, and John G. Reeve treas-
urer.
Of the Young People's Society of Christian Edeavor
the president is Miss Clara M. Howard, Victor H.
Kirkup is vice-president, Arthur L. Downs is correspond-
ing secretary. Miss Mabel V. Brown recording secretary,
and Miss Edith Penny treasurer.
The officers of the Ladies' Missionary Society are :
Mrs. Charles E. Craven, president ; Mrs. George B. Reeve
and Miss Mary A. Gildersleeve, vice-presidents ; Mrs. H.
Halsey Reeve, secretary, and Miss L. M. Hallock treas-
urer.
A Young Ladies' Missionary Society was organized
in the summer of 1905. Its president is Miss May S.
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Penny, its vice-president is Miss Clara M. Howard, its
secretary Miss Mabel V. Brown, and its treasurer Miss
Emilie A. Robinson.
Two Sewing Societies among the ladies, lately consol-
idated, have done great things by taking many little
stitches. Besides clothing the needy, with the proceeds
of their needlework they have paid off church debts, built
additions to church and parsonage, painted walls, inside
and out, carpeted floors, papered rooms, made repairs,
and by many good works have shown their devotion to
the church. The president of the consolidated society is
Mrs. Charles W. Wickham.
The present trustees of the church are Benj. C. Kirk-
up, president; Charles Gildersleeve, treasurer; Nat. S.
Tuthill, Conrad Grabie, John G. Reeve, and Henry J-
Reeve.
The present ruling elders, with the dates of their or-
dination, are: Barnabas O. Robinson and Benjamin C.
Kirkup, 1880; John E. Gildersleeve and George Henry
Howard, 1890; Henry J. Reeve and William H. Satterly,
1905.
The Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in
1853, In that year a lot of ground, 50 ft. by 75 ft., ad-
joining the old burying ground on the west and fronting
on the North Road was sold by Barnabas Bailey Horton
to Thomas Hallock, consideration one dollar, "for the
purpose of a church edifice." To this lot Thomas Hal-
lock removed the old Presbyterian building which he had
purchased. This was the building erected in 1831, out-
grown by the Presbyterians in 1853, and giving place to
the present edifice. After the transfer of the building
Thomas Hallock conveyed the lot and building, in 1854.
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to the Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
These first trustees were : Thomas Hallock, Andrew Hor-
ton, Walter Terry, John Reeve, Isaac Howell, Sr., Bar-
nabas Pike, and George Benjamin.
The church was for a few years under the care of the
pastor of the Cutchogue Church. During those years the
pastors were the Rev. Messrs. O. C. Lane, G. W. Allen,
THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL. CHURCH.
T. G. Osboine, and O. C. Lane. Since separation from
the Cutchogue Church the pastors have been the Rev.
Messrs. F. G. Howell, W. A. Layton, O. C. Lane, D. B.
Vosseller, H. F. Nichols, J. E. Ferine, L S. Yerks,
George Leavens, John Nash, Julius Nelson, E. P. Alvord,
H. A. Goering, D. O. Osterheld, R. W., Thompson, G.
W. Humphreys and the present pastor, the Rev. W. W.
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Weller. For a number of years the ^vlattituck pastor has
also had charge of the South Jamesport Church.
During the pastorate of the Rev. WilUam A. Layton
a powerful revival blessed this church and the entire
community. The religious interest was so great that the
Methodist church could not contain the congregations
and the meetings were transferred to the Presbyterian
Church. Both societies were greatly increased and
strengthened by this work of grace. ]\Ir. Layton, for
years past serving the larger churches in the City of
Brooklyn, has a summer cottage at the Jamesport Camp
Grounds, and he is an annual visitor in Mattituck. He
is much beloved by the people of the village and people
of all denominations delight to hear him preach.
While the Rev. Julius Nelson was pastor, in 1896, the
present beautiful edifice was erected. The old building
was moved to the south to be used as a chapel, the
new church being joined to it. By sliding doors the
chapel is connected with the main audience room.
The trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church are
Joseph B. Hudson, Joshua Ackeson, Isaac X. Teed, E. O.
Chapman, E. P. Reeve, Charles M. Robinson.
The stewards are Charles M. Robinson, District Stew-
ard ; ]\Irs. Charlotte Betts, Joshua Ackeson. E. P. Reeve,
Mrs. Silas H. Howell.
The Protestant Episcopal Church of the Redeemer
was organized in 1877 ^^ ^ mission under the care of the
Bishop of Long Island. In that year a lot of one hundred
and fifty feet by seventy in the southwest corner of the
hotel property was given by Henry A. Dingee to the
Diocese of Long Island, "only to be used and occupied
ior an English Episcopal Church." The building was
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erected and was opened for service in July, 1879. Previ-
ous to that time the congregation worshipped in a hall.
The rectors of St. James' Church in Riverhead have
had charge of the Mattituck Church. The Rev. Thomas
Cook was in charge until his death in 1884. For the next
ten years the Rev. Robert Weeks was the rector, with
the Rev. C. A. Jessup and the Rev. W. Smith as his as-
THE CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER.
sociates. The Rev. R. M. Edwards took charge in 1894,
and was succeeded by the Rev. Geo. W. West in 1897.
In 1902 the Rev. W. A. Wasson, the present rector, took
charge, Mr. Wasson is more closely identified with Mat-
tituck than any of his predecessors, having purchased, in
connection with his brother, the Rev. James B. Wasson,
the Glover farm, at the northeast corner of the North
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. I93
Road and Cox's Lane. This farm is the old Presbyterian
parsonage property of a hundred and fifty years ago.
There is no Roman Catholic Church in Mattituck,
but Mattituck families of that faith form a large and in-
fluential part of the congregation of the Rev. James
Lynch of Cutchogue.
CHAPTER VIII.
MATTITUCK BEFORE THE RAILROAD.
The opening of the Long Island Railroad to Green-
port in 1844 revolutionized conditions in Suffolk County,
giving quick and easy communication with the outer
world. Before the advent of the railway Southold Town
for two hundred years had seen little change in its cus-
toms. Communication with the outer world was carried
on chiefly through small sailing vessels. Soon after 1820
the stage line between Riverhead and Brooklyn was
started, and in 1826 the stage line between Sag Harbor
and Brooklyn. The Riverhead stage left Brooklyn every
Tuesday morning at eight o'clock and arrived in River-
head the next afternoon. Returning the stage left Riv-
erhead Thursday at noon and reached Brooklyn Friday
evening. The stages followed the old Middle Road,
passing through Middle Island, Coram, Smithtown,
Commack, Jericho, Westbury and Jamaica. . The through
fare, one way, was $3.00. The Sag Harbor stage, having
a longer route, charged $5.00. It left Brooklyn every
Monday morning at six o'clock, stopped for the night at
Fire Place, and arrived at Sag Harbo;: Tuesday evening.
The return trip was made Friday and Saturday, starting
at six A. M., stopping for dinner at West Hampton and
reaching Patchogue that night, stopping for dinner Sat-
nrdav at Babylon and reaching Brooklyn that night.
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. I95
These stages carried the mails until the railroad put them
out of business. Before the day of the stage routes the
mails were carried weekly on horseback. For some years
the mail carrier from Brooklyn to Orient was Barnabas
Wines of Alattituck, the father of James H. Wines, and
his predecessor as mail carrier was his father, William
Wines. The mails were light. Letters were few, and
newspapers w^ere rare. A villager w^ho received a weekly
newspaper welcomed all his neighbors of a Saturday
â– evening, and together they enjoyed the excitement of
reading and discussing the new^s.
A weekly Monday mail route was established between
Riverhead and Ouogue in 1829. Before that date letters
from Mattituck to the Hamptons or Sag Harbor went by
Avay of Jamaica. The Monday short cut saved one week
in the transmission of mails between points north and
south of Peconic Bay.
For the year ending March 31st, 1827, as reported in
the Sag Harbor "Watchman" of March 15th, 1828, the
total post-ofhce receipts upon Long Island were less than
$2,500.00. That year the Brooklyn post-ofifice earned for
the government $1,039.34, considerably less than the
receipts of the Mattituck office today. Mattituck then
was credited with the receipts of $18.93. Riverhead (or
Sufifolk Court House) boasted of $51.28; Southold,
$32.09; Cutchogue, $11.71; Southampton, $55.36; East
Hampton, $75.95 and Sag Harbor, a great whaling port,
$143.83. Mattituck is now a third-class office.
When wind and tide were favorable the journey be-
tween Mattituck and New York could be made more rap-
idly by the sloop "Celerity" of Capt. Barnabas Wines,
or later by the sloop "Aunt Jemima" of Capt. Gilbert
196 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
Davis, than by stage. The late Geo. W. Howard told of
bidding his uncle's family good-bye as they left one
morning for Riverhead to take the stage. He then hur-
ried to the inlet and boarded the "Aunt Jemima" and
surprised his uncle by meeting him when he alighted from
the stage in Brooklyn the next evening. The stage had
the advantage of being able to run both winter and sum-
mer. The small boats were of course put out of com-
mission through the winter. At the close of the season,
lured out by specious weather, they were sometimes
caught in terrible storms. Tradition tells of the great
Christmas snowstorm of 181 1, when many small vessels
were lost on the Sound. A remarkably mild early winter
had tempted the venturesome mariners to continue their
trips between eastern points and the city. One of the
most terrific storms ever known set in on Christmas
day, wrecking everything that was afloat. Such of the
unfortunate sailors as reached the shore perished from
the intense cold amid the blinding snow. Among the
vessels lost was the sloop "Rosetta," in which were
Thomas Mapes and many other inhabitants of Southold
Town.
All heavy or bulky freight had to be carried by water.
One of the buildings near the house of Capt, Joshua Ter-
ry was the shoe shop of John Clark, the son-in-law of
Deacon Jonathan Horton and the father of the late Silas
H. Clark, and this shoe shop was brought by boat from
New York about 1830. Silas H. Clark, the son, fol-
lowed his father in the shoe business and carried on the
manufacture quite extensively, employing at one time as
many as thirty or forty hands. He lived in his grand-
father Horton's house, next south of the church, now'
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK, 197
owned by the estate of Manuel Boutcher, and recently
occupied by Fred Clark, grandson of Silas H. A frame
building was erected near the house as a shoe factory.
This building was later moved and is now the dwelling
house of Mrs. Mary Ann Chapman.
Silas H. Clark, besides engaging in the shoe business,
started the first stage and express between Mattituck and
Riverhead. He connected at Riverhead with the Brooklyn
stage, and did a considerable business until the railroad
was opened. The highway at that time between Matti-
tuck and Riverhead was not the excellent road that it is
today. Much of the way it was deep with sand, and no
part was worse than through Mattituck woods. At the
foot of the hill west of the New Bethany Cemetery a
small stream crossed the road and afforded a regular
watering place for passing teams. This watering place
is several times mentioned in the town's Records of
Highways.
In the early forties the houses in Mattituck were
comparatively few and the place had seen little material
change for a hundred and fifty years. There were three
small stores, one at the hotel, kept by the Shirleys,* and
the other two nearly a mile east, one standing near the
residence of H. B. Lupton, kept by Squire J. Franks Hor-
ton, and the other across the way, kept by Ira Tuthill, the
father of Philip W. This store stood on the east side
of the Tuthill residence. The building, moved back from
*The heirs of Johrj^ Hubbard sold the hotel in 1826 to Henry
T. Penny. In 1833 Penny sold to James Shirley. James Shirley
and his son John after him, kept the hotel for more than thirty
years. In 186G John Shirley was succeeded by Capt. Benjamin
F. "Wells.
198 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
the road, serves now as an out-house. A short dis-
tance west of Squire Horton's store was the school-
house, marking closely the centre of population at that
time.
The first volume of Mattituck school minutes is lost.
There can be no doubt that a school was maintained from
very early times. The second volume begins with 1829.
The minutes gave strict accounts of all financial matters,
even noting the receipts from the sale of the wood ashes
from the school stove, ranging from twenty-five to fifty
cents a year. The names of the trustees and the officers
of the annual meeting are given with unfailing accuracy,
but the names of the teachers are omitted. A male
teacher was employed during the chief or winter term,
and a female during the summer term. Silas M. Hal'
lock, still surviving in active old age, taught for two
years about 1840. He was preceded by Albert Tuthill
and was followed by a Dr. Preston. The next was
S. Lewis Sibley, who afterwards, like his predecessor^
became a physician. Dr. Sibley married Mary Augusta,,
youngest daughter of James Wickham Reeve and sister
of Mrs, Andrew Gildersleeve. It is remembered by
some of the scholars of those days that among the teach-
ers of the summer term were Miss Elizabeth Wickham^
sister of Lawyer Wickham of Cutchogue, Miss Anna
Wickham Reeve, who became Mrs. Andrew Gildersleeve^
and Miss Maria Crowell of Southold.
In 1840 the trustees reported that there was a select
school in the village with about twenty pupils. In 1843
there were no private schools. The select school of 1840
was taught in the upper story of F. C. Barker's house,
then on the main highwav.
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. I99
In 1835 the parents or guardians sending children to
school, with the number of children in each family, were as
follows : Irad Reeve, two ; John Reeve, one ; Luther Reeve,
one ; Elizabeth Reeve, one ; Daniel Howell, one ; James W.
Reeve, two; Elymas Reeve, four; Isaiah T. Benjamin,
one ; Barnabas Wines, five ; John Corwin, one ; Ira Tuthill,
three ; George L. Conklin, two ; Jesse H. Tuthill, three ;
Jesse Tuthill, three; Benjamin Reeve, three; Lysander
Walton, two ; James Shirley, three ; Daniel Fanning, four ;
John F. Horton, two ; John Gardiner, one ; James Worth,
one ; Elisha Tuthill, three ; Widow Gardiner, one ; Silas H.
Mapes, three ; John Tuthill, two ; Barnabas Bailey Hor-
ton, two ; Edward Reeve, one ; Josiah Lupton, two ; Piatt
S. Conkling, two ; John Clark, two ; Henry Hubbard, one ;
Nathaniel Hubbard, one. A few years earlier Flenry
Pike was on the list with one, and James Reeve appeared
with three. James Reeve died in 1830, and later his wid-
ow, Mehetable, appeared with three. In 1830 Henry T.
Penny had one ; Lewis Goldsmith, one ; Mehetable How-
ell, two ; Isaiah Benjamin, one ; Mary Cooper, two ; Pru-
dence Horton, one ; Sarepta Tuthill, three. In 1836 there
were added James Davis, one, and Silas Tuthill, one.
Since 1832 the Franklinville Academy had been open,
and the older boys and girls of Mattituck attended its
sessions. For years it was conducted by the successive
pastors of the Franklinville Church, with assistance. The
Hon. Joseph M. Belford, who represented the district in
Congress in 1897-9, ^"d who is now the surrogate, came
to Suffolk County to teach in the Franklinville Academy.
The intellectual life of Franklinville and all the neigh-
boring villages was greatly stimulated for two genera-
tions by this academy. As the public schools increased in
200 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
excellence and carried their pupils through higher grades,
the patronage of the Academy fell off, and it closed in
1892.
In 1856 one acre for a new site for the Mattituck
school-house was purchased of Barnabas Wines for
$275.00. This lot was next east of the old site. The
building was erected the next year, the plans being made
THE SCHOOL-HOUSE.
by Isaac R, Howell, Jr., and the contract for building
being awarded to B. T. Cor win for $591.00. This, like
its predecessor, which was built in 1828, was a single-
room school-house, and served less than ten years. In
1867 it was raised and a brick basement was butlt under
it. Thereafter two rooms were filled, with two teachers.
This building was occupied until 1890, and stands some
distance back from the highway on property repurchased
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 20I
by the Wines family. The present school-house was built
in 1890 on a lot purchased of Thomas E. Reeve, a part
of the Revolutionary "camp lot." In 1897 the building
was raised a story higher, having four commodious
rooms, heated by steam. Since 1900 four teachers have
been employed. The faculty for the present year, 1906-7,
â– consists of Principal Wm. J. Sweeney, assisted by Miss
Saidie J. Bailey, Miss Margaret ^IcHenry and Miss
Esther Leslie Reeve. The principal for ten years preced-
ing Mr. Sweeney was Mrs. M. Alice Taft, a woman of
fine character and remarkable devotion to the interests
•of the school. Ill health compelled her to relinquish the
heavy burden, and for a year she devoted her talents to a
small school at Montauk, L. I. She is now principal of
the public school at Garden City, L. I. Mrs. Taft main-
tains her residence in Mattituck, spending her vacations
in her cottage known as "Bide-a-wee."
Mattituck has an excellent private school conducted
by Mrs. Edward K. Morton.
After this little excursion into later years to view the
school as a whole, we return to the days before the rail-
road. Between Mill Lane and Manor Hill there were
then about as many houses as today. West of Mill Lane
there were not nearly so many as now. Calvin Moore,
the father of Miss Emily Moore, the present occupant,
lived in the house at the head of Manor Hill. Luther G.
Tuthill's house was built later, by his father, Chauncey
W. Where George I. Tuthill's new house stands was
the home of his grandfather, Jesse Hallock Tuthill. On
the south side of the road, a little west of Elijah's Lane,
lived the Widow Gardiner. On Gardiner's Neck, reached
hy a long lane, now Locust street, was the home of Geo.
202 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
L. Conklin, who represented the district in the State As-
sembly in 1827, 1831 and 1835. Jesse Tuthill, father of
Capt. Ira and Jesse Hallock, and of Jacob H. and WilHani
H., lived in an old house, no longer standing, not far east
of the Torrey residence. North of the road dwelt Barna-
bas Tuthill at George T. Bergen's, J. Smith Tuthill at
Herbert Cory's, John Tuthill at Alvah Mulford's, and Al-
bert Tuthill at La Mont Gould's. Capt. Ira Tuthill, as
stated above, dwelt where his son, Philip W., succeeds
him, kept the store, and sailed the sloop "Atalanta" week-
ly between New Suffolk and New York. East of Capt.
Ira Tuthill's house, by the old well that still remains near
the road, stood a dwelling-house.
On the farm now owned by James J. Kirkup dwelt
John Worth, whose father, James,* had purchased the
property many years before. In the northwest corner of
the Worth farm stood an old house that had formerly be-
longed to Thomas Wickham, grandfather of Charles W.
It had more recently been in possession of John Franks
Horton, occupied by him before he moved to the house
on the hill. In the old Corwin house dwelt John Corwin^
the last of the name to occupy it. The large farm, with
the exception of the old house and less than an acre about
it, had passed from the Corwin name. Josiah Luptori
had purchased the lower part, extending from the high-
way to the Oregon Road, in 1832, and dwelt in the house
now of Henry L. Davis. The house lately occupied by
*James Worth was son of Jonathan Worth, of Wading River.
Jonathan was a brother of Capt. Seth Worth, who was burled
at Mattituck in 1781. John, the son of James, sold this place
and purchased the property now owned by his daughter, Mrs.
Alice H. Worth Boutcher. John's widow, Mrs. Nancy (Havens)
Worth, lives with her daughter.
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 203
Harry B. Ltipton was built by Edmund, son of Josiah and
father of Frank M., John M. and Harry B. Jas. H.
Wines Hves where his father, Barnabas, then dwelt.
North of the lake, between it and the highway, dwelt
John Franks Horton, Esquire, Gershom Howell and Ely-
mas Reeve. Gershom Howell, carpenter, father of Joel
C. Howell, lived in the old house with its back to the road,
now occupied by Edward Worthington, which is often
called "the Elymas Reeve house." Elymas Reeve, before
the time of the railroad, lived considerably further west,
in the old Obadiah Hudson house, not far from George
H. Fischer's ice house. In 1849 Gershom Howell sold to
Parthenia Reeve, daughter of Elymas, and after that
Elymas moved to the house that commonly bears his
name.
From very early times these houses had stood near
the lake. Between them, also, a house or two stood in
ancient times, and another east of Gershom Howell's.
Presumably David Terry owned Mrs. Rosalie (Terry)
Randolph's farm* before 17 10, running right through to
the lake. When the new highway was laid out, in 17 10,
he seized the opportunity to sell small lots along the vil-
lage street, and devoted to that purpose a narrow strip of
land, about six rods wide, along the south side of the
highway. That strip continues to this day separate from
the land and swamp back of it, between it and the lake.
On this strip several houses were built ; the old house
which contemptuously turns its face from the road to front
*In 1776 John Wickham sells 5 acres in northern part of this
Farm to John Benjamin, "at north end of farm bought of David
Terry. In 1762 David Terry sells ten acres across the highway
next to "the fresh pond or Mattituk pond" to Henry Pike, Jr.,
miller and carpenter.
204 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
the sunny south being the only one still standing. The
fact that other houses stood near, and changed hands
often, appears from the north bounds of the lot back of
them, as given in many deeds from 1762 to 1887. In
1762 Ebenezer Webb, Sr.,* Ebenezer Webb, Jr., and John
Case occupied this strip. In 1788 it appears that the John
Case lot occupying the western end of the strip, opposite
to Mrs. Randolph's house, was bounded on the west by
Obadiah Hudson and on the east by John Horton. John
Horton then seems to have owned the old house that faces
the south in 1788 and to have succeeded Ebenezer Webb
in its possession. In 1788 the John Case lot was bought
by the trustees of the church bank, and appears to have
been sold by them to Wells Ely,f who owned it in 1805-
1825. In 1839 it was in possession of Thos. A. Overton,^:
who owned the opposite farm, north of the highway, and
who sold this lot with the farm in that year to Samuel
Brown. Since then the lot has been conveyed to each of
the successive owners of the farm, and now belongs to
Mrs. Randolph. The old house still standing, that be-
longed to Ebenezer Webb in 1762 and to John Horton in
1788, belonged to Richard Howell in 18 16, and to Ger-
shom Howell § in 1839 ^"d ""til 1849, when he sold to
*Ebenezer Webb married Sarah Case in 1724 (Salmon Rec-
ord). The family name appears frequently in the Church
Records from their beginning in 1751 to 1809.
tWells Ely's daughter Sophia married Irad Reeve. About
1816-1828 Wells Ely owned a two-acre lot on the North Road,
about midway in David Jenkins' farm.
IThomas A. Overton was son-in-law of Maj. Isaac Reeve,
marrying his daughter, Charlotte Augusta.
§Gershom Howell, carpenter, father of Joel C, married
Lydia, daughter of Geo. L. Conlin. Gershom was brother of
1st -Isaac Reeve Howell and son of Reeve and Bathsheba Clark
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 205
Parthenia Reeve, daughter of Elymas. Still cast of that
house was a house on a quarter acre lot that passed from
Benjamin and Mary Goldsmith, in 1835, to Isaiah Ben-
jamin. This may have been one of the Ebenezer \\'ebb
houses of 1762, and appears to have been long ago the
"pest house" of which the oldest inhabitants preserve the
tradition, to which the unfortunate victims of small-pox,
in the days before vaccination, went at the challenge of
the dread disease and fought their grim fight.
J. Franks Horton's house on the hill, overlooking the
lake, doubtless marked the site of the dwelling of a north
division owner before 1710. Part of the fifteen or six-
teen acres connected with it belonged to Henry Pike, who
died in 1768, aged 75. The western part, ten acres, was
acquired by Henry Pike, Jr., in 1762, from David Terry.
Henry Pike, Jr., died in possession of the house and six-
teen acres in 1780. In 181 6 Deacon John Reeve was in
possession and borrowed money upon the property. In
1805 Wm. H. Pike, son of 2d Henry, had moved from the
house on the hill to the present Pike Farm, purchasing it
from Deacon John and his wife, Keziah. Probably at the
same time the old Pike place passed to Deacon John, He
lost it under the mortgage, and a few years later it was in
possession of the Goldsmiths. Lewis Goldsmith sold it in
1835 to George Benjamin. Since then it has changed
hands often. It was purchased by the present owner,
Charles W. Wickham, in 1887.
Elder John Franks Horton, shoemaker, storekeeper
and justice of the peace, was a prominent, highly re-
spected man in the community for many years, until his
Howell. Reeve was son of John, son of John, son of Richard,
the son-in-law of 1st William Hallock.
206 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
death in 1884, at the age of 71. His first wife was Phebe
Maria Reeve, and his second, Ila Lupton, daughter of
Josiah, Like the other Hortons of Mattituck, he was a
descendant of Captain Jonathan, youngest son of ist Bar-
nabas. Captain Jonathan's son, Deacon James (1694-
1762), was the father of Captain Barnabas, who married,
about 1742, Susanna Bailey. From Capt. Barnabas and
Susanna Bailey all the Mattituck Hortons come. Capt.
Barnabas in his will, 1787, left his extensive lands in
Southold to his sons, Benjamin and Gilbert, and to the
widow of his eldest son, Barnabas. To his sons, James
and Jonathan, he left no land, but £84 and iioo respec-
tively. The younger, Jonathan, apparently invested his
money in Mattituck property, between the church on the
east and the canoe path on the west. He became Deacon
Jonathan Horton, He married, in 1786, Mary Hallock,
a daughter of James and Mary (Post) Hallock, and a
sister of the James Hallock who married Amelia Gold-
smith. His son, Barnabas Bailey, married Hannah, eldest
daughter of Benjamin and Joanna (Corwin) Reeve. Dea-
con Jonathan's brother, James, was the grandfather of
'Squire John Franks and Capt. James Edwin, who were
sons of James' son, Hector G.
Barnabas, eldest son of Capt. Barnabas and Susanna
(Bailey) Horton, was grandfather of Mrs. Frank M.
Lupton. Col. Benjamin, second son, married as his second
wife, Harmony, daughter of James and Anna (Wines)
Reeve. These were grandparents of Mrs. Mehetable
(Horton) Dayton, of Bay View. The old Obadiah Hud-
son house, south of the road, west of Geo. H. Fischer's
ice house, was the home of Elymas Reeve, familiarly
known as "Uncle Lymas." In a deed of 1825, "Reuben, a
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 20/
free man of colour," sells to Elymas Reeve, his son, this
house with three and one-half acres, bounded north by
the highway, south by the pond, east by \\^ells Ely and
Lewis Conkling, Jr., and west by James Reeve. How
the lot came into Reuben's possession is not known. In
1805 it was owned by Timothy Reeve,* shoemaker, as
appears from a mortgage made in that year and satisfied
in 1807. ''Uncle Lymas" was a remarkable man. highly
respected by the people during his forty-five years of resi-
dence in Mattituck. He was born a slave in a branch of
the Reeve family living in Cutchogue. His son writes
that his father was brought up "by a Mrs. Betty Reeve,
of Cutchogue," and that she deeded him "a small parcel
of ground." This definitely fixes Elymas as the "negro
man Limas," freed by the Widow Elizabeth Reeve in
1815, and to whom by her will, proved 1820. she left "one
acre of land lying at a place called shell bank," in Cut-
chogue. The man freed in 181 3 was "aged about 30," so
Elymas was about eighty-seven years of age at his death,
in 1870. He was a man of large frame and great physi-
cal strength, reputed to be the most powerful man in the
town. He was a man of vigorous mind. His education
was, of course, limited, but he could read and write and
was wonderfully versed in the Scriptures. In early life
he became a communicant in the Cutchogue Presbyterian
Church. He held his membership there to the end, and
*Timothy Reeve was a son of 4th James and Anna (Wines)
Reeve and brother of 5th James, Rev. Nathaniel, Deacon John
and Samuel. The latter part of his life was spent in New
York City, where he served on the police force. His son, Tim-
othy Wines Reeve, kept a well-known old book store in New
York and was the first husband of the late Mrs. Jas. Richard
Hallock.
ELYMAS REEVE.
A HISTORY OF JSrATTITUCK. 20^
Avas buried in the old cemetery of Cutchogue. His piety
was deep, and his life that of a consistent Christian. He
was conspicuous as a man of faith and prayer, and in pub-
lic prayer he exhibited extraordinary depth of feeling and
power of expression. All who remember him speak of
him in terms of admiration and affection. He and his
wife, Hagar, reared in Mattituck a family of four sons
and four daughters. His youngest son is now the Rev.
John B. Reeve, D. D., pastor of the Lombard Street
Presbyterian Church, of Philadelphia, a church of more
than 400 members. He is a graduate of Columbia Uni-
versity and of Union Theological Seminary, and was for
some years a professor in Howard University, D. C.
Mrs. Josephine (Silone) Yates, of Kansas City, Mo.,
daughter of Elymas Reeve's daughter Parthenia, is a
woman of culture, an accomplished lecturer, and promi-
nent as a representative of the colored section in the Na-
tional Association of Women's Clubs.
In the latter part of his life Elymas lived in the old
house with its back to the road. This property, together
with the three and one-half acres which came to him
from his father, was sold by his daughters, some years
after his death, to the late Irad Gildersleeve, and is now
in the possession of Geo. H. Fischer.
North of the highway, west of ]Mill Lane, were the
houses of large land owners : Isaiah Benjamin, Samuel
Brown, James Wickham Reeve. William H.* Pike and his
son, Henry, and the Widow Elmira Reeve. South of the
highway there was not a house standing, in the forties,
between Elymas Reeve's and the house now of Joel C.
Howell. The highway now known as Reeve Place was
then a private lane leading through the old Revolution-
210 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
ary "camp lot" to the farms of Edward and Irad Reeve.
In what is now the open corner lot of Thomas E. Reeve
was the house of Mr. Reeve's grandmother, the Widow
Elizabeth Reeve. Her house was afterwards taken down
and reconstructed by Thomas Hallock on the corner of
the North Road and Pacific Street, and is the property
of J. Wickham Reeve. The corner lot was owned a
hundred years ago by John Clark, 3d,* shoemaker. In
1807 it was described as "Two acres of land, together
with a good dwelling House and three out-houses, with a
handsome Orchard containing about one acre, or one-half
of the aforesaid premises, also a variety of other good
fruit trees." This interesting description is given in a
mortgage whereby the owner borrowed sixty dollars on
the lot. Today two acres at the corner would be ex-
cellent security for fifty times that amount.
The house of John C. Wells, across the highway
from this lot, was not built until 1853, when Andrew
Gildersleeve bought the land from James Shirley and
erected his dwelling house and store. East of that, on the
Glenwood property, stood the Barker house, removed by
John Odell some twenty years later to its present location
on Pike Street. The Barker house was then owned by
Luther Reeve, and in its upper floor a private school was
kept. Luther Reeve died in 1842, and twelve years later
his widow, Elmyra Reeve, sold the house to Barnabas
Pike. In the Joel Howell house dwelt Bethiah Pike, an
unmarried daughter of Amasa.
*The John Clark, 3d, who owned the corner lot, married
Lydia Horton, daughter of Deacon Jonathan, and was the
father of Benjamin H., Silas H., Mary H. (Mrs. John Worth)
and William. He was of a different branch of the Clark family
from John, the Revolutionary soldier mentioned in Chapter V.
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 211
On the road to Riverhead there were few houses
sixty-five years ago. The old Horton house, south of the
burying ground, had long been there and was then occu-
pied by the Clarks. Deacon John Reeve's house stood
under the big oak tree south of the old private lane that
is now New Suffolk Avenue. Deacon John had origin-
THE HOUSE OF FRANK C. BARKER, ESQ.
Probably built by Amasa Pike before 1800.
ally inherited one-half of the great farm of his father, 4tli
James, but he was not successful financially, and grad-
ually parted with his holdings until he had nothing left'
"but the house and garden around it at the corner of New
Suffolk Avenue. He and his wife, Keziah, daughter of
Major Silas and Bethiah (Terrell) Horton, reared a
large family of children, and their descendants are widely
212 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
scattered. The house was later moved and stands be-
tween Cutchogue and Peconic, a small hip-roofed house^
across the way from Mrs. Eugene P. Robinson's farm-
house. The property south of Deacon John Reeve's house
passed, as much of his property did, to the Hubbards.
who were relatives of his wife,* and from the Hubbards
passed, in 1838, to Anson Reeve. This included the farm
now of Mrs. Alice H. Worth Boutcher. Anson Reeve
died suddenly in 1854, at the early age of thirty-seven..
Along the road, south of Deacon John Reeve's, was "a.
small piece of land called Vauxhall Garden," reserved by
Temperance and Deborah Hubbard when they sold the
adjoining property. This garden lay in the low land now
belonging to Mrs. Mary Ann Chapman, near to the Bay
Avenue.
On the Horton's Neck farm, now the place of ]ohi\
Hiising, dwelt George Benjamin, youngest son of Isaiah,
and brother of Austin W., John, Mrs. Sarah Goldsmith,.
Mrs. Mary Ann Reeve, Mrs. Harmony Tuthill, and Mrs.
Hannah Tuthill. Next beyond stood the old house near
Horton's Creek, the property now of Mrs. John C. Wells.
In that house a hundred years ago lived Alexander Bush-
nell, a school-teacher, whose wife was Sarah Wells,
daughter of Craavit and Sarah (Reeve) Wells. Two of
the Bushnell children lie buried in Mattituck. Descend-
ants of the family reside at Morristown, N. J.
On the North Road, beyond the church and the
hotel, there were few houses. The Methodist Episcopal
and the Protestant Episcopal churches were not yet es-
tablished in Mattituck. On the site of Postmaster Henry
*Barnabas Terrell's daughter Mary married John Hubbard,
and his daughter Bethiah married Maj. Silas Horton.
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 213
P. Tuthill's house stood an ancient dwelling, long the
residence of Deacon Nathaniel Hubbard, and belonging to
the Benjamins in the days just before the coming of the
railroad. Next to it stood the house of Daniel Howell,
the. old Donovan house. Barnabas Bailey Horton had
lately established himself on the farm where his grand-
son Geo. Horton now resides. His wife was Hannah,
the eldest daughter of Benjamin and Joanna (Cor win)
Reeve. The ancient parsonage property, now in pos-
session of Rev. Wm. A. Wasson and his brother. Rev.
James B,, was owned by Thomas Hallock, who then
dwelt on the south side of the highway on the farm now
occupied by David Jenkins. East of Thomas Hallock, oil
the canning factory site, dwelt Amaziah Corwin, father
â– of Timothy, Samuel and Webb and a daughter Annie,
who became the wife of Bethuel Howard. Daniel Downs
dwelt where Mrs. John Bergen now lives, and B. C. Kir-
kup's home was then the residence of David B. Hallock.*
A few rods east, in a very old house since torn down,
lived Mr. Hallock's mother. Charity, the widow of
Ruport Hallock. The old lady survived her husband
twenty-two years, dying in i860 in her eighty-fifth year.
Benjamin Goldsmith Hallock.f son-in-law of David B.,
resided in the Hallock homestead at the top of the school-
house hill.
The place lately owned by Charles A. Mayo, also be-
*David B. Hallock was father of Thomas A. and Betsey A.,
and son of Ruport, who was son of 3rd Zerubbabel, son of 2nd,
son of 1st Zerubbabel, son of Thomas, son of 1st William.
tBenjamin Goldsmith Hallock married Betsey A., daughter
of David B. Hallock. He was son of James, Esq., and Amelia
Goldsmith, daughter of Rev. Benjamin. James Hallock, Esq.,
was son of James, son of 1st Zerubbabel.
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 21 5
longed to the Hallocks, having been sold by Ruport Hal-
lock to Tosiah R, Mayo in 1866. Opposite to Aldrich's
Lane (formerly Osman's) in the old Osman homestead
dwelt Josiah Mayo, the grandfather of Charles A., and
father-in-law of the late George W. Howard. On the
east side of Aldrich's Lane lived Tuthill Horton, the
grandfather of Charles T. Jones, the present occupant.
South of him lived Elisha Aldrich, father of Gilbert, the
present occupant, following his father and grandfather,
both of whom bore the good old name of Gershom.
James Reeve lived where his son Herbert M. now dwells,
and Chauncey P. Howell and George O. Hallock follow
in possession their fathers, Sylvester Howell and Benja-
min Laurens Hallock.*
Where Joseph W. Cooper now lives his grandfather,
Sylvester Cooper, then resided. There was no Bergen
Avenue at that time, and Cooper's private lane encircled
the place now of Mrs. James Lindsey, reaching Cox's
Lane in the depression known as Bramble's Hollow from
one Bramble, who lived on an acre of land on the east of
Cox's Lane, formerly owned by Webb Corwin and now
part of the Howard estate. Bramble married the Widow
of Webb Corwin, who was Abby Aldrich, daughter of
Benjamin G.
Bethuel Hallockf lived in the James Lindsey house,
and there was succeeded by his son, John Keyser
Hallock. The residence now of Robert H. Lahy was
then the home of Joel B. Hallock, son of Bethuel and
brother of John K. "Little Neck," the place of the late
♦Benjamin Laurens Hallock was son of Benjamin, son of
Deacon Richard, son of 2d Zerubbabel.
♦Bethuel Hallock was son of Zechariah, son of 2d Zerubbabel.
2l6 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
Geo. W. Howard, was .then owned and occupied by his
uncle, Bethuel. Geo. W. Howard's first residence in Mat-
tituck was the house at the foot of the hill, at the turn of
Cox's Lane, now occupied by William Lahy. This was
originally the house of Capt. Gilbert Davis, near the
mouth of the Creek. Mr. Howard bought it, took it
apart, hauled the pieces from the Sound, and rebuilt the
house in its present position. Where Luther B. Cox
lives was Lewis Goldsmith, grandson of the Rev. Benja-
min. Most of Cox's Neck was owned and occupied by
the sons of Richard Cox,* who built the mill in 1821.
The "Oregon" road was opened as an approach to the
tide mill from the east. From Cox's Lane in Peconic to
"Tusten" it was laid out in 1832, probably along a farm
*The author is indeljted to Mr. G. W. Cocks, of Glen Cove,
Ij. I., for the following abstract of the Cox family genealogy.
The first of the family on Long Island was James Cock, who
owned a lot on the Town street in Southold prior to 1659. (See
Southold Piinted Records, Vol. I., p. 206, , where the name is
misprinted Cook). He removed to Setauket, and in 1662 to
Oyster Bay, where his descendants still abide and whence his
great-great-grandson Richard came to Mattituck. He died in
1699, leaving children, Mary, Thomas, John, Hannah, Sarah,
James, Henry and Martha. 2d James, the third son, was an-
cestor of the Mattituck family. He married a daughter of
John and Elizabeth (Prior) Feke, and had five sons and five
daughters. The eldest son, Samuel (1702-1741), married Martha
Ailing, and had two sons and three daughters. The eldest son,
2d Samuel (1735-1819). married Jemima Powell, and had children,
Richard, Mary, Isaac and Elizabeth. Richard (1766-1851) mar-
ried Abigail, daughter of Daniel and Sarah (Frost) Underhill, a
descendant of the famous Capt. John Underhill. Richard was a
farmer and drover, and frequently passed through Mattituck
buying cattle. The region attracted him, and he bought the mill
site. Of the eight sons who sui-vived him, Samuel, John,
Stephen and Allen settled in Mattituck, Daniel at Oyster Bay,
Peter in the town of Flushing, and Charles and Isaac remained
on the homestead at Brookville.
2l8 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
lane of Luther Hallock's.* The name "Oregon" was
appropriately given to the territory lying to the northwest
of Cutchogue by the Rev. Jonathan Huntting, supplying
for a time the Cutchogue Church. Similarly the territory
to the northeast of Cutchogue was called "Canada." The
first settler on the Oregon road, east of Mill Lane, was
Orrin T. Wiggins, who with his young wife settled there
in the summer of 1836, purchasing their farm of Alanson
Hallock. The nearest roads connecting with the main
highway were Cox's Lane in Peconic and Mill Lane in
Mattituck. Mr. and Mrs. Wiggins communicated with
Cutchogue by paths through the woods, passing through
nine sets of bars and two gates. The second house was
built by Deacon Ira B. Tuthill, and ever since its erection
has been occupied by Jacob Tuthill, his son, who is the
oldest man in Mattituck. The third house was built by
Parker S. Moore, and is now occupied by his son, Rensse-
laer Moore.. The fourth was erected by Col. John Wick-
ham, where Robert Waters now resides.
The part of the North Road between Mill Lane and
the mill was occupied earlier. Third Barnabas Wines
lived where Mrs. Joshua Terry now lives, and in 1736 he
got the highway commissioners to lay out a highway from
his house eastward to the farm of his son, 4th Barnabas,
who owned the eastern half lot of the present Wines
farm.f This highway joined no other highway, but
*This Luther Hallock was father of Luther and Alanson,
brother of John the grandfather of Silas H., of Mattituck, and
son of John of Cutchogue, who was son of Zebulon of Southold,
who was son of 2d "William, also of Southold, who was son of
1st William, one of the original settlers of Mattituck.
tThe Commissioners of Highways describe the course of this
road in the following somewhat indefinite terms: "From about
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 219
doubtless connected with the farm road of the younger
Barnabas Wines. The elder Barnabas could not enjoy a
farm road of his own to the King's Highway because of
the interference of Long Creek. Consequently he trav-
eled east to his son's land and then south on his son's
lane, reaching the King's Highway not far west of H. B.
Lupto-n's. When Mill Lane was opened in 1826 it ran
north to this old road of ninety years before and then
probably followed the ancient road to the Creek. Every
trace of the Wines Highway east of the head of Mill
Lane is now obliterated. On the old road Benjamin
Reeve settled in 1822, on the north side. There he was
followed by his son, Deacon Henry, and by his grandson,
Thos. H., the father of the late County Judge Benjamin
H. Reeve and Justice of the Peace William B. Reeve.
Not long after Benjamin Reeve settled on the North
Road Silas H. Mapes and his wife, Hile Ann (a daugh-
ter of William Wines), located where Perry S. Robinson
now resides.
From Cutchogue to the Riverhead town line there was
no public road leading south from the highway, except
Aldrich's Lane, between the north and south roads, and
from Mill Lane to Cox's Lane (formerly Mapes' and then
the middle way of the length of sa4d half lot (of 4th Barnabas
Wines) near a west course to a black oak sappling in a hollow
in Gershom Terry's land, and from thence to a black oak tree
in Daniel Reeve his land, and from thence to a sassafras tree
on the east side of Thomas Reeve his land, and so continuing
the same course to a certain hollow near the bars in the line
between the said Capt. Wines his lot of land and the said
Thomas Reeve his land. The said Highway laid out as afore-
said is in width twenty foot." If the above mentioned sassafras
tree were still living it could be found at the crossing of the
roads by the houses of Perry S. Robinson and Patrick Drum.
220 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
Howell's) there was no public road leading north. The
main street, as it now leads to the railroad, was not regu-
larly opened until 1853. In 1728 a highway from the
main highway to the creek, and extending ten rods on
either side along the shore of the creek, had been laid
out, but being used only in haying season and commonly
closed with gates and bars it was forgotten as a public
road. In 1818 it was reasserted as a public way, but
again passed into oblivion. It started about where the
village street now starts, but bore off more to the west,
followed the hedge that still remains back of Mrs. Ruha-
mah Hazard's house lot, and reached the shore of the
cove. The hickory tree at the postoffice corner marks the
line of the old hedge, and the postoffice stands in the
middle of the ancient highway.
The road that runs from George Brown's house north-
ward was nothing more than a private farm lane until
1868. The great lot that lay across its course, extending
nearly to the creek on the north, to the hotel property on
the west and to the hill back of Bryant S. Conklin's house
on the southeast, including the Eureka House property
and the late Peter Hazard's place, was the old training
ground. Here from time immemorial the Suffolk militia-
men gathered yearly for drill and training. Training
day occurred in May and it was even a greater occasion
than Town Meeting day, for it brought the men from
thirty miles around to Mattituck. It was customary for
wives and daughters to accompany the men, and a gen-
eral holiday was enjoyed. Sports and games of all sorts
were engaged in, and the social intercourse with distant
friends was like that enjoyed now at the county fair. The
railroad cut the famous training field in two, and only the
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 221
oldest men in Mattituck today can remember the gloriou>
training days. The lot, which had belonged for a cen-
tury and a half to the Reeves, was sold in 1854 to Samuel
Brown, and was ere long divided up into smaller parcels
and cut by streets to become a part of modern Mattituck.
CHAPTER IX.
MODERN MATTITUCK.
The dividing line between ancient and modern Suf-
folk County is the Long Island Railroad. The main line
of the road was completed to Greenport and opened for
traffic in July, 1844, and a new era was inaugurated.
Before that event all things had continued as they were
from the first settlement. Since that event change has
been constant and material progress has been remarka-
ble. The tax lists of 1844 are humorous reading today.
The assessed valuation of the property of Mattituck's
most substantial citizens seems ridiculously small.
Naturally there was much opposition to the opening
of the railroad. When one remembers that within re-
cent years there has been opposition to the project of
opening a trolley line between Riverhead and Orient
Point, there is no wonder that there was great opposition
to the steam railway sixty-five years ago. Railways were
comparatively new, having only a little more than four
thousand miles of track in all the United States in 1844.
The most visionary could not foresee all the benefits to
come and the conservative masses foresaw little but
slaughtered cattle and burned forests, and vaguely feared
that the good old times would be changed, and that for
the worse. When the trains actually began to annihilate
time and space, taking passengers the whole length of the
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 223
island in five or six hours, the advantages began to ap-
pear.
When the railroad was laid out Mattituck was fortu-
nate in having the station placed close to the village.
Many villages along the railway lay from half a mile to a
mile and a half from- the track. The topography of the
region made such misfortune impossible for Mattituck.
Before the day of the railroad the centre of population
was more toward the east, but the station was naturally
placed near the point where the track crossed the high-
way and the centre of business and population was soon
fixed in that locality. The clustering together of the sta-
tion, the telegraph office, the postoffice, the stores, the
churches, the library and its fine hall, the hotels and the
bank, gives Mattituck a great advantage over most neigh-
boring villages. Moreover, the same topographical fea-
tures that insured the passing of the railroad near the vil-
lage centre have compelled the convergence of highways
from all directions at the same centre. Consequently the
village has grown remarkably in population and impor-
tance, and Mattituck is one of the most important sta-
tions on the main line of the Long Island Railroad.
The new centre of population was soon established,
new houses being erected, and the value of property in
that part of the village increasing. Some years passed
before the community fully realized its new opportunities,
and before the tide of improvement set in steadily. The
Main street to the railroad and the street passing the
depot were soon required, but for ten or fifteen years no
other streets were opened. Then rapid progress in the
making of highways began. In 1855 the road opposite
to the Methodist Episcopal Church, now passing beside
224 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
the Protestant Episcopal Church and the Library Hall^
was opened as far as the railway. In i860 Pike Street
was dedicated to the pubHc by Barnabas Pike, In i860'
also the road from the Mill Road to the Sound, between
Thos. H. Reeve and Perry S. Robinson, was opened. In
the same year Elijah's Lane became a public way. In
1866 Samuel Brown, who had bought the training lot two
years before, staked out Love Lane and Maiden Lane,
parallel and running from the Creek to the railway, and
sold a number of lots adjoining. Love Lane and Maiden
Lane have never been declared public highways. In 1868
Thomas Hallock opened and granted Pacific Street to the
public and sold small lots on either side. 1868 also saw
the Howell Road opened, crossing Long Creek and con-
necting with the main highway through Henry D, Wick-
ham's private road, next to the house of George Brown.
This road was laid out through the enterprising efforts
of the late Isaac R. Howell, who released much of the
land through which it ran. Two years later Capt. Ells-
worth Tuthill secured the opening of the road connect-
ing Mill Lane with the Howell Road, donating the right
of way for a large part of its length. In 1873 this road
was extended eastward from Mill Lane to form the Mid-
dle Road. Thus within thirty years after the coming of
the railroad more streets and roads were opened in Mat-
tituck than in two hundred years before.
The methods of farming were within those years revo-
lutionized. From time immemorial farming had been
carried on in the old way. The chief crops were hay,
corn, wheat, rye and oats. Each farmer raised such vege-
tables as his family required, and flax, which was dried
on the slanting roofs of the barns. Cattle and sheep were
RErKESENTATBTS MEN OF FIFTY YEAKS A(i().
Henry Pike, Esq. Irad Reeve. Joseph P. ^Vickhanl.
J. Smitji Tuthill.
Capt. Ira TutliiU.
226 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
raised in large numbers, and large sections of the farms
were devoted to pasturage. On Cox's Neck was a "cow
lot" that appears in several deeds. One is surprised to
find that this "cow lot" comprised one hundred and fifty
acres. The average farm fifty years ago was much larger
than now, but was much less laboriously worked. One
man, aided by his neighbors at harvest time and in turn
aiding them, was abundantly able to work a large farm
alone. His son or grandson today keeps two or three
hired men busy throughout the season on a farm of half
the size. In 1796 Deacon Micah Howell provided in his
will for the economical use of his farm as follows : "Or-
dering my farm to be used in the most prudent manner,
with but little plowing, and to cut no more timber thart
what is necessary for ye use of the farm." This meant
that stock-raising was considered more advantageous
than agriculture, and fifty years later a similar direction
for the most prudent use of a farm might have been
given. The older men today remember when a com-
paratively small part of farm-land around Mattituck was
cleared and thick woods stood where now lie most pro-
ductive fields. The northern half of Mill Lane ran
through the woods and much of the "northside" was
wooded.
Quick and reliable communication with the city
markets invited the farmers to supply vegetables for the
tables of the people of New York and Brooklyn. With
the marvelous increase of urban population the market
became more and more inviting. • When the Long Island
Railroad first connected Mattituck with Brooklyn, the
population of New York City was 370,000, and the popu-
lation of Brooklyn was only 60,000. Fifteen years later.
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
227
in i860, New York's population had more than doubled,
and Brooklyn's had increased fourfold, the two cities
holding- more than a million people that must be fed.
Even this wonderful increase in population does not give
an adequate idea of the rapid increase in the demands of
the city market, for the increasing wealth and purchasing
power of the cities advanced even more rapidly than the
RESIDENCE OF CAPT. ELLSWORTH TTTHILL AND HIS
SON, NATHANIEL S. TUTHILL.
population. Such a tempting market necessarily led the
farmers of eastern Long Island to turn their attention
less to the old standard crops and more to the cultivation
â– of vegetables for city consumption. It was then found
that the soil and climatic conditions of eastern Sufifolk
County afforded peculiar and unsuspected adaptability to
the raising of certain vegetables, such as potatoes, aspar-
228 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
agus and cauliflower. The farmers who had formerly
raised only enough potatoes for their own consumption,
began to plant potatoes where they had formerly raised
corn and wheat. It was soon found that Long Island
potatoes were the finest that reached the New York
market and commanded the highest price. Woodland
w^as cleared and the acreage of potatoes was rapidly in-
creased. The conditions were also found most favorable
for asparagus. This gave the farmers a profitable early
harvest in the months of May and June, and cauliflower,
to which the soil showed peculiar adaptation even more
remarkable, afforded a late fall harvest of great value.
Even later than this is the harvest of Brussels sprouts,
the cutting of which runs far into the winter and some-
times throughout the winter. In addition to these chief
crops all kinds of market vegetables are raised with profit.
The soil and climate have also been found exceptionally
well suited to the production of cabbage seed, which af-
fords a profitable crop.
Until about thirty-five years ago the principal fertiliz-
ing material used by the farmers about Peconic Bay was
in the shape of fish spread over the land. The fish known
as menhaden, or moss-bunker, used to come into the bay
in immense shoals. For the purpose of catching these
large seines were used, from half a mile to a mile in
length. These seines were owned in shares, or rights,,
usually ten rights to a seine. Some owned whole rights
and some were content with half rights. They shared the
fish caught in proportion to their rights in the outfit.
About the beginning of May the fishing began. Ten men
manned a seine, two or three old and experienced fisher-
men being assisted by younger men from the neighboring-
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 229
farms. There was hard work in it, but much pleasure
also. On the beach at the place of fishing was a house
or shanty in which the fishermen camped out for a week
at a time, returning home for Sundays and going again
to the beach for three or four and sometimes as many as
six weeks. The long seines could be hauled in only once
or twice a day. They were drawn in by a horse circling
about a large windlass. There were posts along the
beach, at convenient distances, and the windlass, or
â– "whirl," was shifted from one to another of these as de-
sired. The principal fishing places near Mattituck were
â– "the cove" in Cutchogue harbor, on the western side of
Nassau Point, and on the beach between Reeve's Creek
and Horton's Creek. The proverbial fisherman's luck
obtained. Sometimes the hauls were very small and
sometimes there was a great draft of more than a million
fishes. There is a tradition of a phenomenal catch, many
years ago, of two and a half millions of fish at one haul.
Counting the fish was laborious and the custom was es-
tablished of calculating the number roughly by measuring
the wagons in which they were hauled away. Twenty
cubic inches were allowed for a fish and the sides of the
wagons were marked for a thousand, fifteen hundred, two
thousand fish, and so on. Only light loads could be
Tiauled over the sandy beach. These were carted to the
upland at some near and convenient place and from there
transported to the farms in larger loads of three or four
thousand fish. The fish were spread over the fields lav-
ishly, ten or fifteen thousand to the acre, \\nien more
were secured than could be used at the time, they were laid
<lown in long rows and covered with earth by running a
plow along both sides. These reserve rows aft'orded rich
230
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and ripe fertilizer when needed. The fish made rich fields-
and fine crops. It is needless to say they did not smell
good. Before the fish were plowed under — and for the
best results they must not be plowed under too soon — the
atmosphere was redolent of their perfume from River-
head to Orient Point. Through-passengers on the rail-
'MO-MO-WETA," SUMMER COTTAGE OF
FRANK M. LUPTON.
road and strangers in the villages did not enjoy it, but the
inhabitants had little sympathy with their expressions of
disgust. The smell signified rich crops and increasing
wealth.
The menhaden long since ceased to enter Peconic
Bay in great numbers except in rare and infrequent years.
Many persons suppose this is because they have beers
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 23 1
driven away from these shores by the numerous fishing
steamers of the companies engaged in making commer-
cial fertiHzers. Occasionally large schools of the fish are
caught now in the bay, and they are used to some extent
on the farms, but the rules of the modern board of health
require them to be plowed under promptly. Vast amounts
of commercial fertilizer are now used. In the olden
time, not only were the moss-bunkers used on the land,
but the farmers kept much more live stock than now,
and their barn-yard manure was much more considerable.
It is estimated that Sufifolk County consumes more than
one-half of all the commercial fertilizer used in the State.
Under the encouragement of this demand the Hallock &
Duryee Fertilizer Company, of Mattituck, was incor-
porated in 1890, with a capital of $15,000.00. The seven
trustees were Geo. W. Cooper, Chas. W. Wickham, P.
Harvey Duryee, Otto P. Hallock, Jas. L. Reeve, D. Edgar
Anthony and Samuel H. Brown. The fertilizer factory
was built near the railroad, a half mile west of the village
centre, and for some years a large business was carried
on, but successful competition with the great combina-
tions of capital engaged in the business proved hopeless,
and the company wound up its affairs. The factory was
purchased recently by the American Fisheries Company,
and is now used as a storehouse, from which hundreds of
tons of fertilizers are supplied annually to the farmers of
the region. The farmers today spend for the one item of
fertilizer several times as much money as all the product
of the fields was worth a generation ago, and one suc-
cessful farmer of the present generation handles more
money than all his fathers combined from the settlement
of the town.
23^
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
An amusing story is told by Mr. Joseph Wells, of
Laurel, of a newly-married couple who, in his youth,
some seventy years ago, displayed great extravagance in
housekeeping. A small house was built for the young
people on the corner of the great farm, and they did their
share in the prudent use of the land. At the end of the
first year it was found that the young man and his wife
SUMMER COTTAGE OF JUDGE HENRY F. HAGGERTY.
had actually expended more than one hundred dollars in
cash. Such extravagance was almost unparalleled and
was sadly deprecated. It seemed to forebode financial
ruin. One hundred dollars would hardly sufiBce for the
young farmer's wedding trip now\ A comparison of the
value of farm land then and now exhibits strikingly the
advance in wealth. In 1830 150 acres of land in "Ore-
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 233
â– gon" were sold for $3,000.00, twenty dollars an acre. To-
day this property is held at two hundred dollars an acre.
Even more surprising is the purchase in 1838, of eighty
acres, comprising the farms now of Peter Wyckoff and
W. V. Duryee, for $300.00, or less than four dollars an
acre. The land was then unimproved. A few years later
it was sold in two parcels for $1,050.00. In i860 this land
v^as worth nearly $100.00 per acre, and now it is worth
at least $200.00 per acre.
The increase in the value of land in the heart of the
village has been even more striking. In the days before
the railroad there was not much selling of village lots,
Taut fifty dollars an acre would have been a good price.
Nine or ten years after the opening of the railway the
Mattituck real estate market was active, and property on
the highway in small lots sold for $200.00 per acre. Lots
north of the railway were not worth half so much. In
another ten years, about 1864, property near the village
centre was worth $300.00 an acre. From then onward
an increase of nearly fifty per cent, for each decade has
been maintained. In 1900 the acre of land on which the
â– schoolhouse stands was bought for $1,000.00 and is now
probably worth $1,500 without the building.
Mattituck has now three hotels, open the year round,
and many summer boarding houses, large and small. It
has also numerous stores and business institutions, but
probably not so many distinct industries as many years
ago. Before transportation was easy and before com-
binations of capital had gotten control of many lines of
business, various trades were represented in Mattituck.
Today Mattituck, as every thriving village, has its black-
smiths, wheelwrights, carpenters, masons, painters, shoe-
234 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
maker and saddler; years ago it had all these and coop-
ers, weavers and tanners as well. Now the village shoe-
maker does little but repair work; then he made most of
the shoes for the community; the saddler made the har-
ness and saddles, and the wheelwright made the wagons.^
The blacksmith made the nails, andirons, flat-irons,
shovels and all manner of implements for the household
and the farm. The carpenters felled the trees, squared
the timbers, sawed the boards, made doors, sashes and all
that went to make up the houses and barns. The coopers
made not only casks and barrels, but before the days of
cheap tin pails, made all the milk and water pails for the
neighborhood, as well as butter tubs. The small tanner
was long since driven out of business, but years ago Mat-
tituck had its tan yards. Obadiah Hudson, who dwelt
before the Revolutionary War north of the lake, east of
Daniel Broderick's house, and owned the property north:
of his house extending to the Sound, was a tanner..
His tan vats were perhaps located where George H.-
Fischer's market garden now lies. Later, Deacon
Nathaniel Hubbard, who died in 1834, had a tannery
near his house, where Postmaster Henry P. Tuthill now
resides.
Mattituck has always had sons who "followed the wa-
ter." In the days when the whaling fleets sailed from*
Sag Harbox and Greenport, many Mattituck men went
on whaling voyages, and a number have been engaged in-
the coast trade. One son of a Mattituck sea-faring fam-
ily, Salem Wines, became a boat builder in New York-
City and was the inventor of the widely-used centre-
board, replacing the clumsy lee-board that was throwrt
over the side in former years. Salem Wines never pat-
A HISTORY OF M '\TT1TUCK. 235
ented this important invention and it was promptly adopt-
ed by all boat builders. He knew it was of great value
and was glad to see it in general use. In this he was like
Benjamin Franklin, who did not patent his stove or any
of his numerous inventions, saying, "As we enjoy great
advantages from the inventions of others we should be
glad of an opportunity to serve others by an invention of
ours; and this we should do freely and generously." Tak-
RESIDENCE OF ARTHUR L. DOWNS.
ing this admirable position Wines is like to lose the credit
as he lost the emoluments of his invention. For the honor
of this generous man it is pleasant to record that the
centre-board was given to the world by Salem Wines, a
native of Mattituck.
The late Daniel R. Cox was a builder of small boats.
P. Harvey Duryee and Elmer D. Tuthill carry on this in-
2.T^6 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
â– dustry at present on the shore of Mattituck Creek. They
make excellent small boats of every description and have
launched several staunch and swift power boats of beau-
tiful workmanship.
The bays and creeks about Mattituck abound in sea
food of every description, and from the earliest times to
the present some of the inhabitants have devoted most of
their time, and most of the inhabitants have devoted some
of their time, to fishing and procuring eels, clams and
â– crabs. The oysters of Mattituck Creek have been recog-
nized for many years as of superior quality, but it was not
until the tide gates at the mill were removed that their
-cultivation on a considerable scale was successful. Since
1903 large quantities have been planted and Mattituck
Creek oysters have a well-established reputation as of the
very best quality and of peculiarly fine flavor. There is
a large demand for them from the best restaurants and
most famous hotels of New York City.
In the escallop fleets that dot the Peconic Bay from
September to December, and later when the winter is
open, many boats are manned by Mattituck men. The
masters of these trim sloops and of the graceful pleasure
•craft that sail about the bay in the summer season would
be interested to see such a boat as that described by
Amasa Pike, of Mattituck, in 1796, when he mortgaged,
besides his one acre of land with dwelling (probably F.
C. Barker's house), "one-third part of a certain Petti-
auger called the Nightingale of Southold and lately com-
manded by said Pike." This name "pettiauger" stood for
the more common "perriauger," signifying a small
schooner with a lee-board. Both words are remarkable
-corruptions of the French "pirogue," which stood for an
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
^Z7
Indian word meaning a dug-out, or canoe shaped from
the trunk of a tree. Webster gives seven or eight corrupt
spellings of pirogue, including perriauger, but pcttiauger
is not in the list. It is needless to say that there are no
perriaugers in the waters about modern Mattituck. The
armed boats on the Sound in Revolutionary times may
have been of this description.
RESIDENCE OF HON. JOHN M. LUPTON.
An industry of many years' standing that modern
Mattituck has lost, owing to changed conditions, is the
milling business. One hundred and fifty years ago, per-
haps two hundred, there stood a windmill for grinding
grain on the elevated ground east of the lake. This was
operated by Henry Pike, who in his will, 1780, ordered it
to be sold. Its location leads one to suppose that it was
238 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
erected before 1710, conveniently situated with respect
to the old highway. There was another windmill in the
early days, probably somewhat further east, belonging to
the Corwin family. It is mentioned in the will of John
Cor win, son of Theophilus, in 1740, and again in the will
of Jonathan Corwin, who left it in 1798 to his sons, Selah
and Asa. The tide-mill, near the inlet, was built in 182 1
by Richard Cox, of Oyster Bay, who secured permission
from the town to erect and maintain the dam and tide
gates. This mill was run for some years by Cox and his
sons, who did a large and increasing business. The prop-
erty became valuable and shares in it were sold after five
or ten years to several parties. James Worth bought a
half interest in 1825, and Barnabas B. Horton a quarter
interest in 1833. Walter Terry and Edward H. Terry,
Martin L. Robinson and George W. Cooper were part
•owners at different times. The late Capt. Joshua W.
Terry became the miller in 1847, retiring from a sea-far-
ing life, and continued the business until the growing in-
firmities of age compelled his retirement in 1902. He
sold the mill to Yetter & Moore, of Riverhead, retaining
the house, in which he died in 1904, at the age of 82, hav-
ing been born the year that the mill was erected. His
widow survives him in the old home, where she spent
nearly sixty years of married life. The mill is now used
as a place of public entertainment. The tide gates are
removed and ere long the old dam, with its low bridge,
will give place to an elevated steel bridge, with a draw,
spanning the entrance to Mattituck harbor.
For some years the tide-mill was not without strenuous
competition, for a steam mill was erected in 1858, where
James L. Reeve's store is now located. The steam mill
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 239
was owned by Andrew Gildersleeve and Barnabas Pike,
and later by Barnabas Pike and Louis K. Adams, under
the firm name of Pike & Adams. In 1861 Silas M. Hal-
lock bought the interest of Barnabas Pike. The mill was
destroyed by fire about 1863. For a time this enterprise
prospered, but changes in farming conditions would have
slowed down its wheels if the fire had not stopped them.
The acreage of wheat grown in Suffolk County was much
less than in earlier years. There was less grain and more
1
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Q
RESIDENCE OF CHARLES W. WICKHAM.
money for the farmers, and this meant fewer trips to the
local mill and more barrels of western flour.
The same changes that undermined the business of the
flour mills built a new foundation under the canning,
pickling and seed-growing industries. In 1888 William
H. Hudson, having developed an important canning busi-
ness in Oyster Bay, erected a large canning factory in
Mattituck, his sons, William ]\I. and Joseph H., being
associated with him in the business. The Mattituck fac-
240 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
tory, situated between the railroad and the North Road,,
in the western part of the village, gives employment tO'
many hands, and offers a steady market every summer
for great quantities of asparagus, tomatoes and squash.
Cauliflower also has been canned in recent years with,
good results. The products of this factory are of the
highest standard of excellence and command a ready
market. The normal output of asparagus for the months
of May and June is about 200,000 cans each year. The
severe blight which affected the Long Island asparagus
crop for several years after 1896 cut down the yield
most seriously, but the supply is again approaching the
normal.
The pickle factory of the Alart & Maguire Company
was built near the railroad, at the crossing of Wickham's
Lane, in 1889. In this factory vast numbers of cucum-
bers have been pickled. The great vats are capable of
holding more than a million pickles each. This is one of
many houses owned by the company, and is under the
management of G. Clarence Cooper, of Mattituck. Like
the asparagus the cucumber crop in recent years has suf-
fered from a disastrous blight, which has discouraged the
farmers who planted largely for pickles.
The seed business on a large scale was started in ^lat-
tituck about 1867, by Francis Brill, who occupied the
James J. Kirkup place and improved it as a seed farm
for some years. G. Clarence Cooper manages a seed
house at the intersection of the railway and the North
Road, which he operates in connection with Charles Al-
len, a well-known seedsman of Floral Park, L. I. The
Long Island Seed Co. was organized in 1904. by John
M. Lupton, Robert M. Lupton, William V. Duryee and
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 24I
F. B. Garvey. Their handsome building stands north of
the railroad track, opposite to the Library Hall. From
the beginning this company has done a large and increas-
ing business, and its success is assured. Hon. John M.
Lupton, its president, still carries on independently his old
and established seed business, being one of the most im-
portant cabbage seed producers in the country.
The extensive hot-houses of Thomas E. Reeve & Son
are important in the industrial history of modern Matti-
tuck, supplying large quantities of cucumbers, cauliflower,
tomatoes, lettuce and radishes to the city markets through-
out the year. For a number of years a smaller hot-house
was operated in Oregon, by Wm, V. Duryee, who made a
successful specialty of carnations. This plant is now
operated by B. Oscar Robinson, who raises vegetables for
the city market.
The Mattituck Transportation Company, incorporated
in 1905, inspired by the improvements to the harbor, but
not waiting for their completion, has built a dock near the
old mill, and handles a considerable share of the produce
of the surrounding farms, shipping it to New Haven,
Conn. This company will operate power boats of light
draft between Mattituck and New Haven until the im-
provement of the harbor is accomplished, when steam-
boats for both freight and passenger service will be
placed on the routes between Mattituck and New Haven
and Mattituck and New York.
The improvement of the harbor, long desired, was
first sought in a definite way by the Village Improvement
Society, which later grew into the Mattituck Board of
Trade, an organization which has accomplished many
things for the betterment of the village. Through the
242 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
earnest and able effort of Congressman Joseph AI. Ccl-
ford the first appropriation of $15,000 for Mattituck was
made in the River and Harbor Bill of 1897. With this
money a stone breakwater was built on the western side of
the inlet. Through the exertions of Congressman Town-
send Scudder a further appropriation was made in 1905,
of $20,000. This has recently become available, the east-
ern breakwater has been built, and with the money on
hand a part of the dredging wall be accomplished. The
work being carried so far forward, its completion in the
near future is assured. The present representative in
Congress, Hon. Wm. W. Cocks, has shown hearty inter-
est in the project.
The Board of Trade, to the public spirit and enter-
prise of which Mattituck owes this improvement, has
for its officers Hon. John M. Lupton, president ; George
H. Fischer, secretary, and James L. Reeve, treasurer.
One of the many good things that the organization has
accomplished is the establishment of the Alattituck Fire
District. Besides the burning of the steam mill, many
fires have endangered the central part of the village in
years past and efficient protection has been urgently
needed. In April, 1906, fire commissioners were elected,
and the district covered by a mile radius from the village
centre will be guarded in the near future by a well-
equipped fire department. The first fire commissioners
of Mattituck are Otto P. Hallock, James J. Kirkup and
James L. Reeve.
It was also at the initiative of the Board of Trade
that the Mattituck Bank was established in April, 1905.
This institution proves of great advantage to the business
â– interests of Mattituck and neighboring villages and is
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 243
supported beyond the conservative expectation of its
founders. It is already well established, its permanence
and development well assured. The officers of the bank
are : President, John M. Lupton ; vice-president, Xat S.
Tuthill ; secretary, Arthur L. Downs ; cashier, E. D. Cor-
win and assistant cashier, Terry E. Tuthill.
The bank has its home in the fine building known as
Library Hall, the gift to his native village of Frank M.
Lupton, publisher, of Xew York City. This building
was formally opened on February i6th, 1905. with ap-
propriate exercises. On the upper floor is a finely ap-
pointed hall, with a large, well-equipped stage. The hall
will seat seven or eight hundred people. On the lower
floor, besides beautiful library and reading rooms and
the trustees' room, there are accommodations for the
bank and the drug store of Robert H. Lahy. The build-
ing is heated with steam and lighted with acetylene gas.
For its perpetual maintenance it is endowed by the
generous donor. The building and endowment are held
by a corporation known as The Alattituck Literary Asso-
ciation, in trust for the people of the community. The
Library Hall will reflect lasting honor upon the giver and
will confer lasting benefit upon the village.
The Free Library for which this home is provided
was opened May 3, 1902, wath 450 volumes. In August,
1903, it was duly incorporated, under the Regents of the
University of the State of New York. In 1905 it was
moved to its beautiful new room and now has nearly
three thousand well-selected volumes. Its reading room
is supplied with newspapers and many of the leading
periodicals. It is open daily, except Sundays and legal
holidavs, from 10 A. M. to 10 P. M., and is well natron-
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
245
ized. The efficient librarian is Elmer D. Tuthill, who
has held the position from the beginning. The institution
of the library is chiefly due to enthusiastic and per-
severing efforts of the Rev. Dudley Oliver Osterheld,
then pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
The Dramatic Association, the Literary Society and
the Lecture Association enjoy the benefit of the Library
A CORNER OF THE LII5KARY AND THE READING ROOM.
Hall. A successful lecture course, with six or seven
entertainments each winter, has been maintained since
1895. This course has been well patronized by the peo-
ple of Mattituck and surrounding villages and has in-
creased in popularity and excellence each year.
The Junior Order of United American Mechanics is
represented in Mattituck by a strong council, Xo. 34,
246 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
with Upwards of one hundred members. This council
was organized Sept. 12, 1895.
Of professional men, besides the ministers of the
churches and the principal of the school, Mattituck has a
resident lawyer, Frank C. Barker, and a physician of
experience and recognized ability, Dr. Edward K. Mor-
ton.
Mattituck responded patriotically in the war of the
rebellion. Most of the Mattituck soldiers were in the
127th New York Volunteers, the regiment raised by Col.
(now General) Stewart L. Woodford. The names of
the men who served in the war, either enlisting from
Mattituck or later making the village their home, are :
Aldrich, James B., 127th N. Y.
Anderson, William, U. S. Col'd Inf.
Boutcher, William J., 14th U. S. Inf.
Benjamin, John H., 127th N^. Y.
Bennett, Albert L., 127th N-. Y.
Briggs, James, 2d N. Y.
Collins, John, 127th N. Y.
Cox, Daniel R., 57th N. Y.
Gould, William E., U. S. Navy.
Hallock, Henry M., 127th N. Y.
Haney, Anthony, 127th N. Y.
Helfrich, Sebastian L., 165th N. Y.
Hunt, Robert, 150th N. Y.
Jones, Pleasant, R. I.
McGinn, Michael, 47th N. Y.
Mapes, Silas Howell, M. D., surgeon, 60th N. Y. and
Knapp's Battery.
Mapes, Charles Henry, 65th N. Y.
Ma])es, S. Edward, 121st N. Y.
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 247
Mayo, Oliver A., 127th N. Y.
Nichols, George W., 165th N. Y.
Norton, John R., 127th N. Y.
Pease, Grove, 127th N. Y.
Rafferty, Joseph, 127th N. Y.
Reeve, Edmund P., 133d N. Y.
Reeve, George B., 127th N. Y.
Reeve, Thomas E., 127th N. Y.
Teed, Isaac N., 4th N. Y.
Tyler, George H., 158th N: Y.
Wiggins, Joseph C., 127th N. Y.
Wood, George S., 163d N. Y,
Wolf, John, 1 2th N. Y.
Mattituck had one representative in the late Span-
ish war. Joseph O'Rourke. 4th U. S. Infantry, who met
his death in the service of his country in the Philip-
pines.
The majority of the present inhabitants of ]\Iatti-
tuck are descendants of the old Southold families, with
many representatives also of the old families of other
Suffolk "County towns. The Dutch families of the
western end of the Island are well represented in the
Bergen. Duryee, Hamilton, Wyckoft' and \\'aters fami-
lies, who came to Alattituck a generation ago because
real estate in the vicinity of Brooklyn was growing too
valuable to be used for farming. Some of their chilldren
who own Sound shore property in ]\Iattituck are in a
fair way to enjoy a similar experience. Some of the sub-
stantial citizens and owners of valuable property arc
Germans, such as Conrad Grabie, Louis Dohm. John
Hiising, John Zenius. Hubert W. Kkin, Frederick
Bicking, Emil Myrus and August Dittmann. The found-
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A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
ers of the Boutcher and Kirktip families of Mattituck
were Englishmen. E. V. Knipe, also an Englishman by
birth, has founded a successful business in Mattituck, and
has been a resident for years. The Irish are well repre-
sented in the Broderick, Burns, Donovan, Drum, Dunn,
Garvey, Kelly, Lindsay, Maguire, McDermott, McMillan,
4-V^^4«ii
GRAVE-STONES OF ZERUBBABEL AND ESTER
(OSMAN) HALLOCK,
Ancestors of most of the Hallocks of Mattituck.
McNulty, O'Neill, O'Rourke, Rafferty, Rafford, Riley,
Shalvey, Stewart and Walker families.
In addition to many summer boarders Mattituck has
her cottagers, whose numbers will be largely increased
in the future. The shore of Peconic Bay between New
Suffolk and Jamesport affords exceedingly attractive sites
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
249
for summer homes, and what was regarded as farm land
a few years ago has advanced greatly in vakie with the
demand for building sites. The beautiful summer homes
of Stewart Hull Moore, Mrs. Charity Mould, Frank M.
Lupton, Judge Henry F. Haggerty, Rev. Robert Rogers,
Rev. Wm. A. Wasson, Frank Brav, Louis Schenck,
GRAVE-STONES OF THE HON. JAMES AND
DEBORAH REEVE,
The donor of the land for the church and burying- ground.
Samuel Carpenter and John J. McLaughlin are the ad-
vance guard of the Bay Shore, and others are to follow.
Rear Admiral Charles Dwight Sigsbee, U. S. N., holds
an attractive property and expects to build. Robert W.
Wells of Laurel is selling his shore front land by the
foot instead of by the acre, and Charles W. Wickham is
dividing a part of his fine shore front into building lots.
250
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK.
The Sound Shore is beginning to attract the attention
of purchasers, and values of northside properties have
risen considerably in the past year. The hills that line
the shore present most attractive building sites. The
outlook across the water to Connecticut, twenty miles
distant, is enchanting, and toward the west the view is
GRAVE-STONES OF HENRY AND PHEBE TUTHILL,
Grandparents of the wife of President Wm. Henry Harrison.
unbroken until the setting sun drops beneath the water.
Far out on the Sound the steamers and sailing vessels
pass, and near shore the cottagers may see their yachts
at anchor, to be brought into Mattituck harbor for safe-
keeping when the winter comes. Along the Sound hills
on either side of the creek a boulevard can be built and
doubtless will be built. It is perhaps unsafe for the
A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. 25 1
author to leave the soHd ground of history to launch
out upon the deep of prophecy, but keeping close to
shore he sees the Sound hills lined with beautiful cot-
tages, the beach peopled with bathers, and the water
dotted with yachts and launches.
The future of Mattituck with respect to material pros-
perity is assured, and there is much reason for the ex-
pectation with every reason for the hope that she will
maintain also a continual advance in the things that
pertain to character and culture. The village has sent out
sons and daughters who, in themselves or their descend-
ants, have graced every honorable calling. Not a few
distinguished statesmen, jurists, lawyers, ministers of
the gospel, teachers, authors, poets, physicians and rep-
resentative men in many professions and lines of business
activity have sprung from the old Alattituck families, and
countless numbers less distinguished have done good and
honest work in the world. Like all country villages
Mattituck has sent many of her choicest sons and daugh-
ters to the great cities and distant places. The fountain
from w^hich this living stream perpetually flows is yet
pure and undiminished. While some of her sister vil-
lages have gone backward, and some parishes once strong
have been depleted, Mattituck has gone forward. Enough
of her children have remained at home to work the land,
to improve their homes, to maintain the churches and
other institutions, and with intelligence, industry and en-
terprise to make progress in many directions. May God's
blessing abide upon Mattituck and all her children.
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INDEX.
Academy, Franklinville, 199.
Aldrich, Peter, G8.
Allen, Rev. G. W., 190.
Alvord, Rev. E. P., 190.
Aquebogue, meaning of, 18;
spelling of, 26.
Aquebogue Dividend, 31.
Armstrong, Mary, 107.
Bailey, Rev. Benjamin, 159, 161.
Bank, The Mattituck, 242.
Bank for Support of Gospel, 95,
161, 166.
Baptism on indulgent plan, lOS,
117.
Barker, Frank C, 246; house of,
S4, 210, 211 (illustration).
Barker, Rev. Nehemiah, 110, 115,
116.
Battle of Long Island, 140, 144.
Bayly, Capt. John, 140.
Belford, Hon. Joseph M., 199, 242.
Board of Trade, The Mattituck.
242.
Boat building, 235.
Booth, John, 30, 32, 33.
Booth's Hill, 34.
Breakwater, 242.
Brill, Francis, 240.
Brown, Samuel, 49.
Eurying-ground, 154, 157.
Bushnell, Alexander, 212.
Camp lot, 119.
Canning factory, 239.
Canoe Path (or Place), 15, 17, 28
Cemetery, Bethany, 159.
Census of 1698, 72.
Choir, 170, 179.
Church, The Aquebogue, 97, 102;
becomes the Jamesport Con-
gational, 177.
Church, The Cutchogue Presby-
terian, 117, 151.
Church, The Cutchogue Roman
Catholic, 193.
Church, The Franklinville, 169,
176, 186.
Church. The Methodist Episco-
pal, 170, 177, 189, 190 (illustra-
tion), 191.
Church, The Presbyterian, 180
(illusti-ation); founded, 86; deed
for land of, 87 (illustration);
first edirtce, 88; second edifice,
169, 170; agreement to build, 171
(illustration); third edifice, 177,
179; rebuilt, 180; first incorpor;i-
tion, 151; incorporation in
Union Parish, 161; incorpora-
tion as Mattituck Society, 176;
members of, in 1752, 101, 104.
Church, The Upper Aquebogue.
103.
Church of the Redeemer, The
Protestant Episcopal, 191 (il-
lustration), 192.
Clark, Anna, 114; John, IKi,
John, Revolutionary soldiei-.
145, 146 (illustration); John 3d,
210; Richard, 31, 59; Samuel, 51,
09; Samuel, Jr., 106; Thomas.
69.
Cleveland, Mrs. Ency Hubbard,
105 (illustration).
Coleman, William, 59.
Cook, Rev. Thomas, 192.
Conegums Creek, 15. 16. 21.
Corwin, James. 53. 130; old hou.se
of. 52 (illustration): John, 30,
151; Lieut. John. 140; Major
John, 142; Matthias, 51; The-
ophilus, 24. 51, 68, 75.
Cove, The. 17 (illustration).
Cox family, five generations of,
112 (illustration); note on, 75.
Cox's Lane, 57.
Cox'g- Neck, 58. 216.
Craven, Rev. Charles E., 187.
Cutchogue, â– meaning of, 18;
spelling of. 26.
Cutchogue Dividend, 27. 28, 30, 31.
Cutchogue Neck, 32.
Darby, Rev. John, 96.
Darby's Branch, 97 (illustra-
tion).
Davenport. Rev. John. 116, 117.
Davis, Capt. Gilbert, 81.
Deacon, early importance of of-
fice of. 109.
Deed for parish land, 87 (illus-
tration).
Deeds, Indian. 14.
Dickerson. Philemon. 30. 42.
Dingee, Henry A., gives land
for P. E. Church. 191.
398
Downs, Arthur L., parish clerk,
189; residence of, 235 (illustra-
tion).
Duryee, John W., 185 (illustra-
tion).
Edwards, Rev. R. M., 192.
Elders of Presbyterian Church,
in 1826, 168; in 1854, 177, 178 (il-
lustration); group of, 185 (illus-
tration); present, 189.
Elijah's Lane, 224.
Ellsworth Tuthill Road, 224.
Elton, John, 30, 53.
Ely, Wells, 204.
Fanning, Col. Phineas, plun-
dered, 124.
Farming, change in methods of,
224.
Fertilizer, fish, 228; commercial,
231; factory, 231.
Fire district, 242.
Fishing. 228.
Flag of Truce, British Permit
for, 134, 135 (illustration).
Fort Neck, 32.
Franklinville Academy, 199.
Franklinville Church, 169, 17C,
186.
Freight transported by water,
164, 196.
Gardiner. David, 69; John, ref-
ugee, plundered, 125.
Gardiner's Neck, 36, 201.
Garretson, Rev. George R., 180.
Gilbert, Rev. Lyman C, 170.
Gildersleeve, Andrew, 178 (illus-
tration), 179, 210.
Goering, Rev. H. A.. 190.
Goldsmith, John, 49: Joshua,
purchases hotel property, 43;
Rev. Benjamin, 150, 152, 153.
Grave-stones, of Zerubbabel and
Esther Hallock, 248 (illustra-
tion) ; of James and Deborah
Reeve, 249 (illustration) ; of
Henrv and Phebe Tuthill, 250
(illustration).
Hag,gertv, Judge Henry F., cot-
tage of, 232 (illustration).
Hallock, Benjamin Goldsmith,
213; Benjamin Laurens, 215;
Bethuel, 215; David B., 213;
John, 66, 68; Luther, 218: Peter,
73, 114; Thomas, 69, 73; Thomas,
father of the M. B. Church,
189; William, 31, 62, 68; Zerub-
babel. 113.
Hamlin, Rev. James T.. 174, 175
(illustration), ISl, 182, 184.
Harris, Rev. Edward, 174.
Harrison. President Benjamin,
ancestors of, 77, 114.
Heads of families in Southold in
1661, 29.
Hedo:es. 63; lopped trees in, 64
(â– illustration).
Hedges, Rev. William, 182, 184.
Highways, 13, 22, 23, 24, 37, 55,
218, 223.
Hillman, Rev. James W., 187.
Horton, Barnabas B., 178 (illus-
tration), 189; Benjamin, 56;
John Franks. 178 (illustration),
197, 203, 206; Jonathan. 151;
Lieut. David, 140.
Horton famiiy, 206.
Horton's Creek, 21.
Horton's Neck, 212.
Houses, old, 81; illustrations of,
45, 47, 52, 82, 83, 84, 211, 214.
Howard, George W., 216; Louis
I., 112 (illustration).
Howell, Gershom, 203, 204; Isaac
R., 185 (illustration); Joel C,
house of, 84 (illustration);
Richai-d, 59, 62, 66, 68, 69, 73.
Howell Road, 224.
Hot houses, 241.
Hubbard. Isaac, 104; John. 42,
.59; Nathaniel, house of, 214 (il-
lustration).
Hudson, Bethiah, 114; Ensign.
Nathaniel, 140; Obadiah, 46,
114.
Humphreys, Rev. George W.,
190.
Huntting, Rev. Jonathan, 170.
Indian a tenant, 40.
Indian Canoe Place, 17.
Indian deeds, 14.
Indian Field, 32, .55.
Indian names, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20, 26-
(note), 28 (note), 33.
Inventory of Parish Property,
167 (illustration).
Ives, Rev. Jesse, 116.
Jessup, Rev. C. A., 192.
Johnson, Rebecca, 107.
Kidd's tree, 128, 1:9 (illustra-
tion).
King, Samuel, 30, 55.
Lamb, Rev. Joseph, first pastor,
90.
Land grant to Revolutionary
soldier, 147 (illustration).
Land values, 38. 78, 232.
Lane, Rev. O. C. 190.
Laurel Lake, 60 (illustration).
Layton, Rev. William A., 190.
Leavens, Rev. George. 190.
Lecture Association, 245.
Leek, Mary and Philip, 107.
Library, The Mattituck Free.
243.
Library Hall, 243, 244 (illustra-
tion).
Lists of names. 30. 66. 68, 72, 95,
101, 104, 113, 142, 154, 199. 246.
Literary Association, The Mat-
tituck, 243.
Literary Society. 245.
Long Island Railroad, 194, 222.
399
Long Island Seed Company, 240.
Lopped trees, 64 (illustration).
Lots in Curchaug and Occa-
bauck Dividends, 31.
Love Lane, 224.
Luce, Rev. Abraham, 1G6, 170.
Lupton, Frank M., cottage of,
230 (illustration); gives Library
Hall, 243; John M., residence
of, 237 (illustration); Josiah, 53.
Lynch, Rev. James, 193.
Maiden Lane, 224.
Mails and mail carriers, 195.
Manor, The, 34, 54, 55.
Manor Hill, 34.
Marratooka Lake, "a greate
ffresh pond," 37 (illustration).
Mapes, Jabez, 58; Thomas, 31,
55, 57, 66, 67.
Mapes Neck, 58. 70.
Mather, Rev. Nathaniel. 90, 97.
Mathews. Mayor David, letter
from, 137 (illustration).
Matthews, Robert, 70.
Mattituck, location of, 13; mean-
ing of, 18; surveyed, 26; first
proprietors of, 30, 31,
Mattituck Bay, or Creek, 13, 16.
19, 128.
Mattituck Harbor, 241.
Meadow lands, 20, 21.
Mechanics. The Junior Order of
United American, 245.
Middle Road. 224.
Mill Lane, 219.
Missionary societies, 186, 188.
Morton, Dr. Edward K., 246.
Nabiachage, name for Matti-
tuck, 20.
Nash, Rev. John. 190.
Nelson. Rev. Julius, 190, 191.
New Haven Colony, 16, 29.
Nichols, Rev. H. F., 190.
Oregon Road, 216.
Organ, pipe, 187.
Osborne, Rev. T. G., 190.
Osman, Jacob, 74: John. 69;
Thomas, 61, 66, 6S; note on
name, 74,
Osterheld, Rev. Dudley Oliver,
190. 245.
Overton, Thomas, 49, 204.
Oysterponds Dividend, 28.
Oysters of Mattituck Creek, 236.
Pacific Street, 224.
Park, Rev. Joseph, 98, 110.
Parshall family, 106.
Parsonage, ancient, 93, 94; of
Union Parish, 162, 166; present,
181.
Peconic Bay, meaning of name
of, IS; scalloping in, 234; shore
front, 248,
Ferine, Rev. J. E., 190.
Perriauger, ZH>.
Pessapuncke Neck, 32, 34, .'?6;
"sweating place," 33.
Pest house, 205.
Pequash Neck, ancient town
bound. 27; meaning of, 28;
ownership of, 27, 133.
Pickle factory, 240.
Pike, Barnabas, 85, 236; Henry,
205, 237; Squire Henry, 225 (il-
lustration); William H., 44, 205.
Pike Street, 224.
Postoffice, 195.
Pooles Neck, 32.
Population, 13; centre of, 198,
223.
Protection Paper, British, 123
(illustration).
Furrier, William, 30, .36, 38,
Rate lists, 66, 68.
Reeve. Capt. James, Colonial
Commission of, 141 illustra-
tion), 151; Capt. Paul, 140; Dea-
con Thomas, 43. 72, 104; Debo-
rah, 106, 114; Edward. 178 (il-
lustration), 181: Edward Y., 185
(Illustration); Elymas, 82 (il-
lustration), 203, 206, 208 (illus-
tration): Ensign James, 140;
George B., 39, 179; Henry, 178
(illustration); Hezekiah, 105;
Irad. 225 (illustration); James,
38, 66, 67, 86, 104, 113; James W.,
178 (illustration) ; Jonathan, 50,
(59; Major Isaac, 140: Rev. Na-
thaniel, 163; Selah, 115: Thom-
as. 30, 42, 113; Timothy. 207;
William. 66. 67.
Reeve family, 70.
Reeve Place, 209,
Reeve's (or James") Creek. 16.
Reeve's Neck, 32,
Refugees, Revolutionarv, 120, 126,
131, 133.
Residents of 1840. 201.
Revivals of religion, 151, 169, 172,
182.
Revolutionary soldiers, 142:
hardships of. 131.
Revolutionary War, condition.?
during. 119, 139: tax for, 140.
Riverhead town line, 62.
Robin's Island Neck, .32.
Schools. 198, 199, 201.
School-house, 198, 200 (illustra-
tion), 201,
Separates, 103.
Session of Presbyterian Church,
first recognized, 109; first min-
utes of, 168.
Settlers, earliest, 66: circum-
stances of, 76.
Sewing Society, 189.
Shirlev. James and John, 197.
Shoe factory. 196.
Sloops between Mattituck and
New York, 41. 194. 195, 202.
Smith, Rev. W., 192.
Sneden, John, gives chiu'ch bell.
181.
Soper family. 107.
400 INI
Sound, Long Island, shore prop-
erty, 250.
Spinning Society, 164.
Stage lines, 194, 197.
Steam mill. 238.
Stores, old, 197.
Storrs. Rev. John, 119.
Sunday School, 48 (illustration),
Swasey, John, 31, 60, 66, 68; Jo-
seph, 66, 68.
Taft, Mrs. M. Alice, 201.
Tanneries, 47. 234.
Tavern, 42, 83 (illustration).
Terrell, Barnabas, 44, 45 (illus-
tration); Bethiah, 106; Thomas,
66, 67. 73, 76.
Terry, David, 49, 203; Gershom,
49.
Tide-mill, 217 (illustration), 238.
Thompson, Rev. R. W., 190.
Town meetings in Mattituck,
145.
Trades, 80. 233.
Training. 220.
Trustees, of Methodist Episco-
pal Church, 191: of Presbyte-
rian Church, 151. 162, 177, 189.
Tusten, Thomas. 54, 56, 66.
Tuthill, Capt. Ellsworth, 227 (il-
lustration); Capt. Ira. 202, 225
(illustration); Elmer D., libra-
rian. 245; Henry and Phebe, 77;
J. Smith, 225 (illustration);
John, 31, 49, 59, 61; Lieut. John,
140.
Union Parish, 161, 162, 176.
Vail, Jeremiah, 30. 55.
Valuation of land. 38, 78, 232.
Values about 1700, 78.
Vauxhall Garden, 212.
Vosseller, Rev. D. B., 190.
Wallace, Rev. R. Howard, 187.
War, soldiers in Civil, 246; Rev-
olutionary, 142; Spanish, 247.
Warner, Judge David, 166; Na-
thaniel, 88, 104.
Wasson, Rev. William A., 192.
193
Webb, Ebenezer, 204.
Weeks, Rev. Robert, 192.
Weller, Rev. W. W., 190.
Wells, John, 132; Joshua, 106, 110;
William, 30, 49, 114.
West, Rev. George W., 192.
Whitaker, Rev. Dr. Epher, 117,
183.
Wickham, Charles W., 37, resi-
dence of, 239 (illustration);
' John, 49; Joseph P., 48. 179, 226
(illustration); Parnel, 125;
Phebe Moore, 48.
"Wiggins, Orrin T., 218.
Williamson, John. 113.
Wills, Long Island, recorded in
New York. 139.
Windmills. 237.
Wines. Barnabas. 40, 41, 69, 81,
195; Salem, 234; William, 195.
Wolf-pit, 35 (illustration), 46.
Woodbridge, Rev. William G.,
186.
Worth, James, 202.
Yerks, Rev. I. S., 190.
Young. Capt. Selah, 185 (illus-
tration): Joseph. 30, 39, 59;
Lieut. Joshua. 140.
Young People's Society of
Christian Endeavor, 187, 188.
