The New York genealogical and biographical record . ham, U I ?*r- -r;v <mm m M ? %&-Zk2*&&& Samuel and David. John and David were educated at Yale College,and took their degrees in 1736. Samuel and David engaged in mer-cantile pursuits. Abraham, known as Colonel Gardiner, of Revolu-tionary fame, inherited an estate at Easthampton, where he livedhighly esteemed until his death, in the sixty-second year of his age, in1782. David Gardiner in his will says: I give and bequeath untomy beloved son, John Gardiner, my Island, lying in the county ofSuffolk, in the province of New York, commonly call
The New York genealogical and biographical record . ham, U I ?*r- -r;v <mm m M ? %&-Zk2*&&& Samuel and David. John and David were educated at Yale College,and took their degrees in 1736. Samuel and David engaged in mer-cantile pursuits. Abraham, known as Colonel Gardiner, of Revolu-tionary fame, inherited an estate at Easthampton, where he livedhighly esteemed until his death, in the sixty-second year of his age, in1782. David Gardiner in his will says: I give and bequeath untomy beloved son, John Gardiner, my Island, lying in the county ofSuffolk, in the province of New York, commonly called and knownby the name of Gardiners Island, and after his decease to his eldestson, and after the decease of said eldest son, and in that manner tocontinue in a lineal descent of the male line of my family to the endof time, to the end that the right of said Island shall forever hereafterbe vested in him that shall have the Sir-name of Gardiner, and descendfrom my posterity. i So The Gardiner Family and Gardiners Island. [ DR. GARDINER S WATCH. During the life of David Gardiner, fourth lord of the manor, theisland was again visited by pirates : this time by Spanish in September, 1728, came to anchor in Gardiners May. Theirvessel mounted six guns, and in the night the crew landed for thepurpose of plunder. The family of Mr. Gardiner had retired to rest,and, until their slumbers were disturbed by the shouts of the buc-caneers and their attempts to break openthe house, had no notice of their approach,and were unconscious of danger. Havingascertained that all resistance would be un-availing, Mr. Gardiner, who had been forsome time confined to his bed by sickness,and was too ill for removal, committed hischildren and the females of his family to thecare of an Indian, who had been in his em-ploy as purveyor for his table from the watersand woods of the island, that he might trans-port them to the opposite shore. Some ofthem had already escaped from the houseand c
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