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NEW YORK STATE PREHISTORIC ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE INVENTORY FORM
For Office Use Only--Site Identifier
Project Identifier Historic Structures Survey'
Your Name Town of Southold/SPLIA
Address Town Hall~'Main Road ,
Southold L.I.~ N.Y.
Zip 11971
Organization (if any) Southold Town Community Development Office
1. Site Identifier(s)
2. County Suffolk
Date. October 1986
Phone (~6) 765-1892
"Old Field" Indian Village
One of following:' City .
Township Southold
Incorporated Village
Unincorporated village or
Hamlet Southold
1973
3. Rxx~a~ Owner Nfs. Robert Lan~, Mrs. Butt Lewis et al
Address
Southold
11971
4. Site Description (check all appropriate categories):
Site
Stray find
Pictograph
Burial
Surface evidence
Material below plow zone
Single component
Location
Under cultivation
Pastureland
__Upland
Cave/Rockshelter __Workshop
Quarry Mound
Shell midden Village
Camp Material in plow zone
Buried evidence Intact occupation floo
Evidence of features Stratified
Multicomponent --
Never cultivated
Woodland
___Previously cultivated
Floodplain
__Sustaining erosion
Soil Drainage: excellent good__ fair__ poor
Slope: flat gentle moderate steep
Distance to nearest water from site (approx.)
Elevation:
5. Site Investigation (append additional sheets, if necessary):
Surface x date(s) 1940s by Nat Booth
__Sit~--Map (Submit with form*) 1940s by Roy Latham
__Collection 1968-1973 by L.T. Waltz
Subsurface--date(s)
Testing: shovel__coring__other
no. of units
)
unit size
(Submit plan of units with form*)
Excavation: unit size no. of units
(Submit plan of units with form*)
* Submission should be 8½"xll", if feasible
Investigator
Page
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Manuscript or published report(s) (reference fully):
Old Southold Tgwn's Tercentenary. Ann Hallock Currie-Bell.
Southo~d Town Records.
Whitaker's Southold. Ameron Reprint. Nattituck.
L.I. Cha~ter, N.Y.S..Archeological Society. Southold, N.Y.
Present repository oz materials
ComPonent(s) (cultural affiliation/dates):
Extensive Indian Village
Corchoag Indians Algonkian
Lat~ Woodland to Colonial Period.
Gardens of Southold Colonists 1640-1680
SD 87
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List of material remains (be as specific as possible in identifying
object and material):
If historic materials are evident,
site form.
check here and
fill out historic
Map References:
Map or maps showing exact location and extent of
site must accompany this form and must be identifieG
by source and date. Keep this submission to 8½"xll"~
if possible.
USGS 7% Minute Series Quad. Name Southold quadrangle
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.
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WHITAKER'S SOUTHOLD
The Editor believes that the following account of the distri-
bution of the common lands in the early years will interest
the reader:
The basis of allotment whereby some settlers had one right
of commonage and others two, three, or more, is lost with the
original records, but it was probably as in New Haven, where
"Itt was agreed that every planter in the towne shall have a
proportion of land according to the proportion of estate wcb
he hath given in, and number of heads in his family." In the
eleven or twelve years before the present Liber A was opened,
most of the home lots at the town center had been apportioned,
with the adjacent land from Sound to Bay, and many home lots
and other upland and meadow land had changed hands, in some
cases two or three times, by sale or exchange.
It appears that to each freeholder one home lot, and one only,
of about four acres, was allotted. ]n addition they had rights
of commonage, varying from one to seven. The unit of com-
monage rights back of the home lots was six acres. The milt of
North Sea lots, along the Sound shore, was seven acres. These
were about half a mile long, with a frontage on the Sotmd of
about seven rods for a single lot. The unit of meadow land,
which was very precious, seems to have been one and one-half
acres, and in some sections two acres. The unit in the "Old
Field," cleared and cultivated ,by the Indians from time imme-
-m~'r]al, was one acre; and in the Cutchogue Indian Field,
twenty acres.
For a time home lots were granted to new settlers and to young
men reaching maturity. Settlers leaving Southold sometimes
"laid down their lands to the town," and sometimes sold their
holdings. Later settlers obtained their home lots and other
lands by purchase, with or without rights of commonage. Oc-
casionally a landholder, in need of money, would sell his rights
of commonage to a more prosperous neighbor. Rights of com-
monage were also handed down in wills or by deed of gift from
father to son. So, in course of time, it came about that some
landholders held no rights of commonage, some had rights
R~¥. E. Whitaker. Whitaker's Southold.
Amer~o~ Hous~, i~attituck
COMM()NAGE AND COMMONERS ~3~
within "the old town bonnds" only, some in the outlying dis-
tricts only, and some throughout the whole town.
in 1661 large allotments were made both east and west of
the obi town bouuds. The old town bounds were Tom's Creek
on the east and Pequash Neck on the west, nearly four miles
apart. Earlier than ~66z these outlying common lands were
used for hogs and cattle, and the meadows were allotted in
small parcels, even as far as Riverhead. These precious
meadows, we may justly suppose, were allotted just as soon
as a crude road ,,,,,as cut throngh the woods to meet a similar
road from Southampton, and that was very early, but no one
knows how early. In ~66~ a great forward step was taken in
opening to private ownership the Oysterpouds Dividend, ex-
tending eastward to Orient Point, the Cotchogue Di`',ideml,
exteoding westv,'ard to the Canoe Place at Mattituck, and the
Occabauck l-)ividend, extending nearly to the present village of
Riverbead. This Occabauck Dividend was later called the First
Division in Occabauck, as Second and Third Divisions were
laid out some fifteen years later. Finally there was laid out a
small Fonrth Division in Occabauck, "between the Fresh Pond
and the Wading River," in z7~L
]'n I(~l, a little more than twenty )'ears after the setdemeut
of the Towo, 47 individuals participated in the Oysterponds
and Cutchogue Dividends and the First Division in Occabauck.
There were 4o lots in Oysterponds (about 5° acres each) taken
by ~6 owners, 44 lots in Cutchogue (about ~2o acres each)
taken by 2~ owners, and 38 lots in Occabauck (250 to 30o
acres) taken by ~9 owners.
The Oysterponds lots were small hot were at that time more
valuable than lots five times as large in the western wilderness
of Aquebogue. Apparently they were selected by those who
drew early choices, for with a single exception they located
all their rights there. They were Pastor Youngs (4 rights),
Captain John Youngs (6), Widow [of Captain Joseph]
Youngs (8), Thc~mas Moore, Sr. (2), Thomas Moore, Jr. (33,
Lieutenant Glover (2), Richard Brown (2), John Herbert
(2), John Corex' (2),Thomas Osman (2), lohn Conklin, Sr.
:must ha.ye brought inl Mr. Goddard continued
Jescript~on. "~gout canoee had to be made,a':LC
.~tone celt which gouged ow: ~e wood after &:u: ."g. ~V,: I i}I
~aS to be done by ~e ma~ too, as weU as ~c
'there had to be constant tenewal of stone, aa, ?m~tiL:,.
antler arrowheads, as you ~ee here. The prepar";.: of tk
tooh of indust~ ~as ~o llght task. You notice . g~oo, l j I
'b~t the hammerstones, the hp ~nvils tL~ ~olhhe~ he
and the ne~ sifters involved sdecfio~ of material ;,dy, fr., ii'
~he nearest stones at hand. :,
"Needs of the spirk--ffe~u Patient labor we~t ,:: a:tk., '"~ '
for stir-decoration as t~ese pendants and bo.e .-c, ls sh~,.
.~onff with the decoration of the pottery~ see th
toward beau~l' .
The cremation site at Orient, Mr. Godda~d de bed, t .
~ielded many caches of red paint, powdered he, n
.'broken soapstone vessels, "~ed" to let out
arrow points, ~ives and m:my implements. Roy ~
found much in that part, a?__N_a3__E=B0q~t_h_!t_ad
Old Field1 b)~ painstaking ,'ligg~n_g. The Orient
:-omponent in'-Shi~6~i I~ills, ~oke of the e'al
indian occupation on the island.
The scrapers, the drills, the many chipped st
pir:t;
.'ham t
v 'itt
it l-no
attic
the bifurcated, side-notched, fishtailed arrow poi .~ t}:e
pipes, the chisels made of beaver teeth, the bc.ne a need
the jasper trade blades from Mattituck s.[~ore: he ch
blades from a Southold creek head, all of the!te t-rd rnu
much more were arranged in impressive colle,:tion 'he? t
of the wealth of material which the active field ~: .tp
Long Island Chapter had assembled in thei: tim ~ :s, est
[ishing knowledge of Indian culture on Long Isla:
This Tercentenary exhibk was consistently con:
terial from Southold Town, but the chapter ha. txcava~ '.
extensively on the South Fork as well, and on Sh..:._r Ida'
Of course the primary objective of the work of ~h,..hapte~
~he exploration and study of Indian remains at the ~:~tetn
~f Long Island. Membership has been drawn t,,,m
*eparated parts of the eastern section of the isl
:omc about that individual members or leaders of a .':,up h~
Old Southold Town's Tercantenar3/.
Currie-Bell. 1960
ARCIiEOLOGICAL SITE INVENTORY FOPd~I
NEW YOV. I; STATE IItSToRIC TRUST
OFFIf'E O!: P..\,x:xS .ANt) RECREATION
ALBANY, NEW YORK {$18) 45'7-3753
FOR OFFICE USE ONLY
UNIO~;E SITE NO.
NE(;. NO.
STANDING RUINS [~ CELL\R 11015. WITII WALLS
Z, SURFACE 1RACES VISIBLE
UNDER CULTIVATION
NO VISIBLE EVIDENCE
~( SURII'ACE llUNTING
C] IESTING
[] EXC..\VATION
L~ NONE
WALES W1TltOUT ('[:LLAR IIOLE
EROSION
UNDERWATER
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}IISTOKtCAL DOCUblENTATiON OF SITE:
· "- 10. '.POSSIBILITY OF SITE DE~S~I'RUCTION OR DISTURB?dq'CE:
11.. REbtARKS:
12.' MAP LOCATION
-, ? ~ MINUTE SERIES QUAD. NAME:
15 MINUTE SERIES QUAD. NAME:
U,S.G.S. COORDINATES:
D.O.T. COORDINATES: (if known)
ATTACH SKETCH, TRACING OR COPY OF MAP
SOUR
13. PIIOTOGIL-1
PI IS (opti:mal)
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SOUTHOLD (Continued)
SYMON GROVER.
Next east of Browne.
RICHARD SKIDMORE.
Next to Grover.
SITE OF MOORE'S INN. Here Captain Ayscough's men
were put to flight on Christmas Eve, 1777.
Northeast corner of Boisseau Avenue and Route 25.
BIRTHPLACE OF COL. JOHN LEDYARD,
East end of village. Route 25.
THE GLEBE FARM and FIRST PARSONAGE SITE.
Pounders' Estates.
PETER PAINE. Puritan.
Opposite Town Harbor Lane. Route 25.
BEN~JAMIN L'HOMMEDIEU. Hugenot Emigre.
Corner Town Harbor Lane and Route 25.
EZRA L'HOMMEDIEU. Statesman and Patriot.
Corner Town Harbor Lane and Route 25.
JEAN BORCHARD (BOISSEAU)
East end o£ village. Route 25.
NATHAN LANDON of Portobago. Rope Maker.
East end of village. Route 25.
ROBERT SMYTH.
East end of village. Route 25.
ARTHUR SMYTH. Heretic and Professional Soldier.
East end o£ village. Route 25.
THOMAS LONGWORTH. Ancestor of Nicholas Longworth.
East end of village. Route 25.
THE OLD FIELD. Indian Planting Ground.
Nat E. Booth's fa[m_. East end o£ village. Route 25.
EGx/PT. THE OLD FIELD.
East end o[ village. Route 25.
HOME SITE o[ SAMUEL TILLOTSON. Master Builder.
Egypt. North of Route 25.
SAUGUST NECK.'
Beixedon Village.
SITE o£ TOWN PEST HOUSE.
Town Beach at Sound.
DR. JOHN GARDINER.
At North Road and Horton's Lane. At bend o[ new
road.
AUGUSTUS GRIFFIN. Author of Gri/iin's Journal.
North Road toward the east.
BRUSHES' HILL.
Bay View.
THE CANOE PLACE.
From Goose Creek to Corey's Creek. Bay View.
PEDDLAR'S COVE.
Koke's property. Bay View.
'Tercentenary Celebration o£ Southold To~m
1640 - 19~0