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DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD
NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES
ALBANY,NEW YORK (518)474-0479 NEG. NO.
YOUR NAME: Fawn of Southold / SPLIA DATE: March 11, 1986
YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main Road TELEPHONE: 516/76 5-1892
Southold L. I. N.Y. 11971
ORGANIZATION (if arty): Southold Town Community Development Office
IDENTIFICATION
1. BUILDING NAME(S): Old Buryim Ground
2. COUNTY: Suffolk TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE: Cutchogue
3. STREET LOCATION: 0g11+1 'N"1�=. . .11 Harbor La ', .J - '' c L,
4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ® Ix private Fl
5. PRESENT OWNER: ADDRESS:
6. USE: Original: Burying Ground Present: Burying Ground
7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC. Exterior visible from public road: Yes RJ No ❑
Interior accessible: Explain
DESCRIPTION 1
H. BUILDING a. clapboard ❑ b. stone X1 c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑
MATERIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ F. shingles ❑ g. stucco ❑ other:
1}. STRUC'TURAI. a. wood frame with interlocking joints
SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members ❑
(ii kn(wn) c. masonry load bearing walls❑
d. metal (explain)
e. other_ many ancient gravestones
10. CONDITION: a excellent FXl b. good ❑ c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑
I']. 1NTFGRI"TY: a. original site ❑ b. moved ❑ if so,when"
c. list major alterations and dates (if known):
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14, THREATS TO BUILDING: a. none known ® b. zoning ❑ c. roads ❑
d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑
f. other:
15. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY:
a, barn❑ b. carriage house F1 c. garage ❑
d. privy ❑ e. shed ❑ f, greenhouse ❑
g, shop ❑ h. gardens ❑
i, landscape features:
j. other:
16. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary):
a.open land EX b. woodland I]
c.scattered buildings ❑
d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑
f. industrial ❑ g. residential ❑
h.other:
17. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS:
(Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district)
The Old Burying Ground is situated on Route 25, a dual
lane, low density state road on hilly terrain, surrounded
by a wooded area and some open fields.
18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known):
In this cemetery Elymus Reeve, an illustrious black is
buried, also his wife Hagar. ( fie
SIGNIFICANCE
19. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION:_ early 18th century_
ARCHITECT:
BUILDER:
20. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE:
"Many second generation founders of Southold Town, the State' s
oldest English Township, are buried here. The earliest marked
grave in this cemetery, which spans more than 200 years, bears
the date 1717, but there are probably older unmarked graves. "
Inscription by Cutchogue-New-Suffolk Historical Council.
21. Sources t a,"n R. Histor of Mattituck. 1906 , P. 207.
Bayles R.M. Sketches o u o . 1874
Welch R.F. The Gravestones of Early Long Island. 1983,
page 84.
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assistant.
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death in 1884, at the age of 71. His first wife was Phebe free man of coIour," sells to Elymas Reeve, his son, this
Maria Reeve, and his second, Ila Lupton, daughter of house with three and one-half acres, bounded north by
Josiah. Like the other Hortons of Mattituck, he was a the highway, south by the pond, east by Wells Ely and
descendant of Captain Jonathan, youngest son of 1st Bar- Lewis Conkling, Jr., and west by James Reeve. How
nabas. Captain Jonathan's son, Deacon James (1694- the lot came into Reuben's possession is not known. In
1762), was the father of Captain Barnabas, who married, 18o$ it was owned by Timothy Reeve,* shoemaker, as
about 1742, Susanna Bailey. From Capt. Barnabas and appears from a mortgage made in that year and satisfied
Susanna Bailey all the Mattituck Hortons come. Capt. in 18o7. "Uncle Lymas" was a remarkable man, highly
Barnabas in his will, 1787, left his extensive lands in respected by the people during his forty-five years of resi-
Southold to his sons, Benjamin and Gilbert, and to the dence in Mattituck. He was born a slave in a branch of
widow of his eldest son, Barnabas. To his sons, James the Reeve family living in Cutcho tie. His son writes
and Jonathan, he left no land, but f84 and igloo respec- that his father was brought up "by a Mrs. Betty Reeve, _
tivel The younger, Jonathan apparently invested his of Cutchogue," and that she deeded him "a small parcel
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money in Mattituck property, between the church on the of gr d." This definitely fixes Elymas as the "negro
east and the canoe path on the west. He became Deacon man Limas," freed by the Widow Elizabeth Reeve in
Jonathan Horton. He married, in 1786, Mary Hallock, 1813, and to whom by her will, proved 1820, she left `one
a daughter of James and Mary (Post) Hallock, and a acre of land lying at a place called shell bank," in Cut-
sister of the James Hallock who married Amelia Gold- chogue. The man freed in 1813 was "aged about 30,'so
smith. His son, Barnabas Bailey, married Hannah, eldest Elvmas_was about eighty-seven years of age at his death,
daughter of Benjamin and Joanna (Corwin) Reeve. Dea- in 187o. He was a man of large frame and great physi-
con Jonathan's brother, James, was the grandfather of cal strength, reputed to be the most powerful man in the
'Squire John Franks and Capt. James Edwin, who were town. He was a man of vigorous mind. His education
sons of James' son, Hector G. was, of course, limited, but he could read and write and
Barnabas, eldest son of Capt. Barnabas and Susanna ` was wonderfully versed in the Scriptures. In early life
(Bailey) Horton, was grandfather of Mrs. Frank M. lie became a communicant in the Ciltchogue Presbyterian
Lupton. Col. Benjamin, second son, married as his second Church. He held his membership there to the end, and
wife, Harmony, daughter of James and Anna (Wines)
Reeve. These wererandparents of Mrs. Mehetable *Timothy Reeve .tial a son of 4th James and Anna (wines)
Reece and brother of bth.James, Rev. Nathaniel, Deacon John
(Horton) Dayton, of May View. The old Obadiah Hud- and Samuel. The latter part of his lite was spent In New
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son house, south of the roa�lc, west of Geo, I�ischer's York city, where he served on the pollee force. His son. Tim-
r"—� Geo. t` othy wines Reeve, kept a well-known old book store In New
ice house, was the home of'Elymas Reeveti familiarly R York and was the first husband of the late bars, Jas. Richard
known as "Uncle Lymas." In a deed of 1825, "Reuben, a 111 Hallock.
R. CravAn. History of Mattituck. 1906
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