The magazine of American history with notes and queries . ed the ardor of these am-bitious spirits. The animatedchase when fifty marines werelanded from the revenue cutterMotioning upon the island in pur-suit of prisoners will not soon beforgotten by eye-witnesses. Col-onel Ryan escaped unhurt, al-though several times fired had a place of concealmentwhere it was said he could not bedislodged except by artillery. Asthe island contains a curious cave,and three or four strange littleislands within bogs within islands,there is little reason for doubtingthe statement. The Gardiners in the d
The magazine of American history with notes and queries . ed the ardor of these am-bitious spirits. The animatedchase when fifty marines werelanded from the revenue cutterMotioning upon the island in pur-suit of prisoners will not soon beforgotten by eye-witnesses. Col-onel Ryan escaped unhurt, al-though several times fired had a place of concealmentwhere it was said he could not bedislodged except by artillery. Asthe island contains a curious cave,and three or four strange littleislands within bogs within islands,there is little reason for doubtingthe statement. The Gardiners in the different generations have become connected bymarriage with the Van Rensselaers, Van Cortlandts, Van Wycks, Sands,Livingstons and Beekmans of New York, and the Smiths of St. GeorgesManor and of Smithtown, the Floyds, Joneses, Nicolls, Derings, Sylves-ters and Thompsons of Long Island, as well as with the leading families ofMassachusetts and Connecticut. Colonel Abraham Gardiners daughterMary married Judge Isaac Thompson, of Sagtikos Patent. Colonel Abra-. JOHN LYON GARDINER. * Near Eastharripton is now a small village of negroes, called Freetown ; its inhabitants aredescendants of the slaves and free servants of the lords of the manor of Gardiners Island in early-times. Till: MANOR OF GARDINERS ISLAND ham Gardiners grandson, David Gardiner, born in 1784, and educated atu as several years in public life, a man of ability and many accomplish-ments. He was one of the distinguished party invited by the President onlire trip oi the frigate Princeton down the Potomac in 1844, antl waskilled by the explosion of Captain Stocktons great gun when the to pass Mount Vernon, an accident which plunged our into deepest mourning, for two of the Cabinet ministers and threeother well-known gentlemen were also instantly killed. The six were allburied from the great historical East Room of the Presidential three months after this sad event the daughter of David
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