HomeMy WebLinkAboutMK-70NEW YORK STATE HISTORIC ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE INVENTORY FORM
For Office Use Only--Site
Project IdentifierTown of Southold
Your Name Town of South01d/$PLI~
Address Town H~ll. Main Rd,
S0uthold, L.I,, N.Y.
· zip. 11971
Organization
Identifier
Survey
Historic StructuresDate' Fall 1985
Phone ~16) 765-1~q2
(if any) $o~thold C0mm~nitv Develooment Office
1. Site Identifier(s) James Corwin House, Main Rd. opp. Cardinal Dr.
2. County Suffolk One of following: City
Township ~outhold
Incorporated Village
Unincorporated Village~or
Hamlet Mattituck~
3. Present Owner E,F,Dioksr$o~
Address Main Rd. next house west of site (See MK 69)
Mattituck, N.Y.
zip 11952
4. Site Description (check all appropriate categories): wq0ded
Structure/site
Superstructure: complete__partial__collapsed not evident
Foundation: above below (ground level) n-~t evident
StructUral subdivisions a-~parent __Only surface traces ~-~sible
Buried traces detected
~-fst construction materials (be as specific as possible):
· Grounds
Under cultivation Sustaining erosion X woodland __Upland
---Never cultivated ___P~eviously cultivated ___Floodplain __Pastuzezan(
S--~il Drainage: excellent good fair __ poor __uriknowl7
Slope: flat~V~__ gentle__moderate steep
Distance to nearest water from structure (a---pprox.) 1 mile
Elevation: unknown
Site Investigation
Surface--date(s)
Site Map (Submit with form*)
--Collection
Su~urface--date(s)
Testing: shovel ....coring__other
no. of units
(append additional sheets, if necessary):
none known
unit size
(Submit plan of units with form*)
Excavation: unit size no. of units
(Submit plan of u~its with form*)
* Submission should be 8½"xll", if feasible
Investigator Lind~ L. Harve~
Manuscript or published report(s)
See attached
(reference fully):
Present repository of materials
Page 2
Site inventory:
a. date constructed or occupation periodPre-Rev01ution
b. previous owners, if known
(1763)
c. modifications, if known
(append additional sheets, if necessary)
Site documentation (append additional
a. Historic map references
1) Name Date
Present location of original,
sheets, if necessary):
Source
if known
2) Name Date Source
Present location of original, if known
Representation in existing photography
1) Photo date Where located
2) Photo date Where located
c. Primary and secondary source documentation (reference fully)
Rev. Craven, A History of Mattitu~k, 1906
Mather, The Refuges of iV76 fro_m Long Island to Conn.
Persons with memory of site:
1) Name Address
2) Name Address
List of material remains other than those used in construction ~be
as specific as possible in identifying object and material):
Paneling taken from the house prior to 1968 by J. Stewart Johnson,
Curator of Dept. of Decorative Arts at Brooklyn Museum.
If prehistoric materials are
prehistoric site form.
9. Map References:
evident, check here and fill out
10.
Map or maps showing exact location and extent of
site must accompany this form and must be identified
by source and date. Keep this submission to 8%"x11",
if feasible.
USGS 7% Minute Series Quad. Name ~attituck Quad
For Office Use Only--UTM Coordinates
Photography (optional for environmental impact survey):
Please submit a 5"x7" black and white print(s) showing the current
state of the site. Provide a label for the print(s) on a separate
sheet.
3 t6 Th~ .Refugees oJ' z776from Lo.g Is~a~zd to Co..ccti,:.t
CORWIN JAM4~S 5, CAPT. (John 4, 3, 2, M.,tthias x)--Fr~,m S..thold
(C. 94); and, Oct. 6 by Capts. Edward Benro~ an,i Jr,hit ~2. tv.q.
~aving lately deceased ;tt Southold. (D. 36~ As Capt. of a ship (Page 2391,
to Guilford. (C. 82)
Two of the name signed tho As~ciation, in ]775- (H. ]o, ]2) One
The Jame~ who was probably the Refugee had (Census of 8outhold ~7703:
He was b. Im. Feb. xY, ~763, Prudence, dau. of Lt. John,
and sister o[ Rev. Benjamin, Goldsmith. (Salmon Rec. See also Gotdstnith)
Lydia. (New Eng. tti~t'l & Gen'l Reg., 58. 302; aud 59.63. Also Smidl's
The other James (perhaps, :dso, J;mlca 5~, b. at Mattitutk, L. I., Aug.
Rcc. and Corwm G,m. See al~o t{orton); d. Nov. q, 179~. His wife d. Oct.
Mehit.tble 6, Benjamin t~, Eliz:d,crh 6, John 6 :md Mo~cs b. (SMmon Roe./
lie built the "Obi Corwin [f,,u~c" in ~7(~. (Sec ilktstration~ His brother,
I)..:L lolin 5, d. in this hl,u~c, m 1817; and Dear. John's
d. there in ~8t6. (Cr:tvuu'.' "M:~ttituck." p, 53) He remov~d~6-~ ptace
and bt)th d. ti)crc. (~orwin G?, p. toe)
Co., N.X. (Mr. J.m~cs l:. Young)
Mathes. The Refugees of 1776 fr, om l~.I. to Conn.
:~" ~ -~, 7~ l
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A History of ~ttituck,
Eev. Craven, ~906.
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Drawing of James Corwin
paneling removed by J. Stewart Johnson
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"Mrs. Corwin was unmoved,
no-~qse daunted....."
Apparently most of these devices had been used here, but, except
for the whipping posts, without the vindictiveness that seemed
prevalent in Massachusetts. One historian, speaking of Sou(hold
village, mentioned the casual manner in which one would "watch the
sheriff punish some loutish bondservant on court day, or stroll down to
the duck-pond to see some ancient crone dipped beneath the muddy
waters for the crime of having over-employed a. rum-loosened
tongue." It is recorded that the stocks and whipping post in Oyster-
ponds were located near the meeting house "but were sparingly
USed."
Although we're getting a little ahead of our story, it was at Mat-
truck also that one of Augustus Griffin's beloved Revolutionary
heroines had a chance to display the spunk with which they were all so
richly endowed:
"It was on a summer's day in 1779 that a small party of light horse
hastily rode up to the house of Major John Corwin~ of Mattituck,.and
the officer, in a rough voice, demanded of Mrs. Corwin (her h~s. band
being absent) some grain for their horses, and, to enforce this order
and show the consequence of his authority, he, with a commanding
air, observed:
"'Madam, your situation warns you to an immediate attention to
my request. To abuse my authority is to rush to destruction.'
"Mrs. Corwin was unmoved, no-wise daunted, and cooly replied
that she had no food for him nor his horses.
"'Well,' said he, with a harsh oath, 'here is a fine piece of wheat
across the road; it will answer for our horses and we'll have it.'
"With that he made for the bars which opened into this field of
grain. At this move, she, with a spirit almost superhuman, com-
manded him instantly to desist, at his peril; 'for,' said she, 'although I
am alone and unprotected, and in your power, I am a stranger to fear
and defy your threats.The first horse that enters that wheat field I will
shoot instantly dead.'
"With this daring resolution, and, suiting the action to the word, she
seized her husband's old King's arm, which stood loaded behind the
door, and took her station to consummate her purpose.
"The wheat field was not touched. They left, muttering curses and
praises on the woman. Mrs. Corwin, previous to her marriage, was a
Miss Mapes. She died on Christmas Day, in 1850, in her 91st year."
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