The magazine of American history with notes and queries . worhl for nearly two centuries; but its simplicity and candor are so libly imprinted upon the face of it that it has become an accepted authority. It is generally conceded that no one controlling mind did more to preserve the Colonies of Massachusetts and Connecticut from total iction during this terrible war than Lion Gardiner. After peace , finally restored, he projected improvements at Saybrook as fast leans were furnished by the patentees, who found many obstacles THE MANOR OF GARDINERS ISLAM) I I in their way. When his term of serv
The magazine of American history with notes and queries . worhl for nearly two centuries; but its simplicity and candor are so libly imprinted upon the face of it that it has become an accepted authority. It is generally conceded that no one controlling mind did more to preserve the Colonies of Massachusetts and Connecticut from total iction during this terrible war than Lion Gardiner. After peace , finally restored, he projected improvements at Saybrook as fast leans were furnished by the patentees, who found many obstacles THE MANOR OF GARDINERS ISLAM) I I in their way. When his term of service expired he was succeeded incommand by Col. George Fenwick himself, who arrived in 1639 accom-panied by his beautiful wife, Lady Alice, who now sleeps in a shadednook in the old Saybrook cemetery. It is said that Cromwell, Hampden,and others actually embarked on the Thames for Saybrook, but werestopped by an order from the King. It was at this juncture that Gardiner,thoroughly disgusted with the management of affairs on both sides of the niifiAfmmm,. DRAWING-ROOM OF THE MANOR-HOUSE AT GARDINER S ISLAND. Atlantic, coveted an empire of his own. He sought for an island, so far fromthe social world that none but barbarians would be likely to visit him with-out an invitation, and found it, as we have seen. He also provided himselfwith a number of dependents, chiefly from those who had served in the gar-rison at Saybrook, and called his retreat the Isle of Wight. By the terms of the grant to Lion Gardiner this island was constitutedfrom the first an entirely separate and distinct plantation, in no wisedepending upon either New England or New York, and he was empowered [HE MANOR OF GARDINERS ISLAND all laws necessary for Church and State, observing the forms—so the instrument -• agreeable to God, the King, and the practice of untry : and he was also directed to execute such laws. He is men- in the records as the worshippful Lion Gardiner, Lord of the Isle o( \\ The wrangling be
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