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Lion Gardiner (1599-1663), an early English settler and soldier in the New World, founded the first English
English people

The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England who speak English language in England. The English identity as a people is of early medieval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn....
 settlement in what became the state of New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
. His legacy includes Gardiners Island
Gardiners Island

Gardiners Island is a small island in eastern Suffolk County, New York in the U.S. state of New York, located in Gardiners Bay between the two peninsulas at the eastern end of Long Island....
 which remains in the family and is the largest privately owned island in the United States.

iner was born in England in 1599; died in East Hampton, New York
East Hampton (village), New York

East Hampton is an incorporated Administrative divisions of New York#village in Suffolk County, New York, New York on the South Shore of the South Fork, Suffolk County, New York of eastern Long Island....
, in 1663. A military engineer in service of the Prince of Orange in the Netherlands, he was hired by the Connecticut
Connecticut

Connecticut is a U.S. state located in the New England region of the northeastern United States. The state borders New York to the west and south , Massachusetts to the north, and Rhode Island to the east....
 Company in 1635 to oversee construction of fortifications in the new colony.






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Lion Gardiner (1599-1663), an early English settler and soldier in the New World, founded the first English
English people

The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England who speak English language in England. The English identity as a people is of early medieval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn....
 settlement in what became the state of New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
. His legacy includes Gardiners Island
Gardiners Island

Gardiners Island is a small island in eastern Suffolk County, New York in the U.S. state of New York, located in Gardiners Bay between the two peninsulas at the eastern end of Long Island....
 which remains in the family and is the largest privately owned island in the United States.

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Gardiner was born in England in 1599; died in East Hampton, New York
East Hampton (village), New York

East Hampton is an incorporated Administrative divisions of New York#village in Suffolk County, New York, New York on the South Shore of the South Fork, Suffolk County, New York of eastern Long Island....
, in 1663. A military engineer in service of the Prince of Orange in the Netherlands, he was hired by the Connecticut
Connecticut

Connecticut is a U.S. state located in the New England region of the northeastern United States. The state borders New York to the west and south , Massachusetts to the north, and Rhode Island to the east....
 Company in 1635 to oversee construction of fortifications in the new colony. He finished and commanded the Saybrook Fort at the mouth of the Connecticut River
Connecticut River

The Connecticut River is the largest river in New England, flowing south from the Connecticut Lakes in northern New Hampshire, along the border between New Hampshire and Vermont, through Western Massachusetts and central Connecticut into Long Island Sound at Old Saybrook, Connecticut....
 during the Pequot War
Pequot War

The Pequot War was an armed conflict in 1636-1637 between an alliance of Massachusetts Bay Colony and Plymouth Colony colonies, with Indigenous peoples of the Americas allies , against the Pequot tribe....
 of 1636-1637. In 1639 he purchased from the Montaukett
Montaukett

The Montaukett is an Algonquian speaking Indigenous peoples of the Americas tribe native to eastern of Long Island, New York. In the late 17th Century Chief Wyandanch transferred much of the land to English settler Lion Gardiner....
 tribe an island called by them Manchonat, which he renamed the Isle of Wight, but which has since been known as Gardiners Island
Gardiners Island

Gardiners Island is a small island in eastern Suffolk County, New York in the U.S. state of New York, located in Gardiners Bay between the two peninsulas at the eastern end of Long Island....
 which is located between the North Fork, Suffolk County, New York
North Fork, Suffolk County, New York

The North Fork of Suffolk County, New York, New York, is a peninsula in the northeast part of the county on the North Shore of Long Island. The southeast part of the county is an even longer peninsula, called the South Fork, Suffolk County, New York....
 and South Fork, Suffolk County, New York
South Fork, Suffolk County, New York

The South Fork of Suffolk County, New York, New York is a peninsula in the southeast part of the county on the South Shore of Long Island. All of the South Fork is an area known as the Hamptons....
. The original grant by which Gardiner acquired proprietary rights in the island made it an entirely separate and independent "plantation," in no way connected either with New England or New York. He was thus empowered to draft laws for Church and state.

His son, David Gardiner, was the first white child
First white child

The birth of the first white child was a celebrated occasion across many parts of the New World. Such births are a matter of pride for many townships, and they are commemorated with plaques and monuments at the location of the event....
 born in Connecticut (in 1636) at Saybrook.

In 1660 he wrote Relation of the Pequot Warres, which was lost among various state archives until rediscovered in 1809 and first published in 1833.

He was buried in East Hampton, New York
East Hampton (village), New York

East Hampton is an incorporated Administrative divisions of New York#village in Suffolk County, New York, New York on the South Shore of the South Fork, Suffolk County, New York of eastern Long Island....
. In 1886 a recumbent effigy was erected to his memory, and his supposed grave was opened. In it, a skeleton
Skeleton

In biology, a skeleton is a rigid framework that provides protection and structure in many types of animal, particularly those of the phylum Chordata and of the superphylum Ecdysozoa....
 was found intact. It was that of a man over six feet in height, with a broad forehead and strong jaws. Gardiner (and many of his progeny) are buried in the South End Cemetery by Town Pond.

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