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BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM
UNIQUE SITE NO. /o31a.rrroJf3lf SD 149
DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD
NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES
ALBANY,NEW YORK 1516) 474.0479 NEG. NO.
YOUR NAME:Town of Snu-Fhold,�_S. TA DATE: _Mannh 1987
YOUR ADDRESS: Town T4@11 , Main ad TELEPHONE:(516) 765-1892
Southold L. I. , N.Y. 11971
ORGANIZATION (if any): Snuthnl d Town Community Development Offin
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IDENTIFICATION
1. BUILDING; NAME(S): Ynurgg.4mP inne house
2. COUNT'Y:SSuffolk TOWN/CITY: Snuthnl_d VILLAGE: Southold
3. STREET LOCATION: Youngs gye. Pqst aide
4. OWNERSHIP: a, public ❑ b. private FKI
5. PRESENT OWNER Commander Kenniff ADDRESS: Same
6. USE: Original: residenne Present: reSidenCe
7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public road: Yes IN No ❑
Interior accessible: Explain
DESCRIPTION
6. BUILDING. a. clapboard ❑ b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑
MATFRIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ F. shingles ER g. stucco ❑ other:
9. STRUCTURAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints �
SYSTEM: h. wood frame with light members
(if kn(wn) c. masonry load bearing walls ❑
d. metal (explain)
e. other
10. CONDITION: a. excellent :F b- good ❑ c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑
1 1. INTI-a;RITY: a. original site Y b. moved ❑ if so,when?
c. list major alterations and dates (if known):
It is believed that this was originally a 5-bay
house and that the two northern bays were removed
12- PIl0T0: after 1851. 13. MAP- N.Y.S. DOT Southold Quad
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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 ❑ c. garage ❑
d. privy ❑ e. shed ❑ f, greenhouse ❑
g. shop ❑ 11. gardens ❑
i. landscape features:
j. other:
16. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary):
a.open land ® b. woodland 19
c. scattered buildings Y
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)
Youngs Avenue crosses Main Road at the main intersection
of the Hamlet of Southold. Here it is a 2-lane low
density residential road.
18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known):
22_story, 3-bay side entrance plan gable roof house. 12/8
windows on first floor with old glass panes.
SIGNIFICANCE
IO. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: reportedly
ARCHITECT:
BUI LDER_-
2 0.
2Q. , HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE:
A plaque readst"Historic Southold House
Traditional Home of
Col. John Younges
Lands Recorded 1656"
This was the traditional home of Col. John Youngs from ca.
1656 to 1697, Capt. John Prince owned the house in 1759.
In 1784 the house was owned by Richard Peters. A descendant,
Richard L. Peters removed the north end. Originally "it was
a double house, two stories in front, the back roof sloping
to one story in rear, the front door separating the two
(cont. )
21. SOURCES: Helen W. Prince. The Descendants of Captain John
Prince. 1983, pp. 8, 9,10 & 189 .
Guide to Historic Markers. Southold Historical
Society. 1960. # 17
22. -FHI_ %IF Joy Bears. Historic Houses of the North Fork and
Shelter Island. 1981. � 2 cont.
Form prepared by Rosemary Skye Moritt, research
assistant.
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(cant. )
20. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE:
front rooms - the north one the living room, the south one
the parlor. "The 7x8 foot chimney had three massive fireplaces.
(cont. )
21. SOURCES :
Gabriel Furman. Long Island Antiquities. Ira Friedman Edition.
Pages 142 & 143
New York, a. Guide to the Empire State . Work Projects Administration.
Oxford University Press . 1940
Frederic G. Mather. The Refugees of 1776 from Long Island to
Connecticut. P. 653
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FIRST GENERATION _
southerly by the Lands of John Youngs This is the Col .
John Youngs and John Haynes property for which there was no re-
cord between 1697 and when Richard Peters owned it ca. 1782 .
( See App.A , 1838 ,1882 Maps) On the 1882 map, the lot beneath
the "r" in "Street" is Robert Hempstead' s which came to him
via "his wife Mary, the daughter of Benjamin Younge , " Capt .
John' s land was to the west . [Will of Robert Hempstead , N.Y.
Wills: L.35 , pp. 197-200 , dated 4 Mar. 1774] [ Sthld Town Re-
cords] At Capt . John' s death this property went to his oldest
son John, who returned to Massachusetts to live , leaving no
record of how or when he disposed of it .
In 1745 the Commissioners of Roads decided to enclose a
tract of land in the back part of Town and put a fence across
three private roads , provided the owners, among them Capt .
John Prince , would "keep good sufficient swinging Gates . "
This was probably at the entrance to Calves Neck, between his
two properties .
Some early statements and misconceptions should be cleared
Plate II ~
#1. Captain John and Reliance Prince House, Southold. (he b. 1686, d. 1765) As___
This was the home of Captain John Prince in 1759 and the traditional home of Col.
John Youngs from ca. 1656 to 1697. It is located on Youngs Avenue near the head of
Town Creek, Captain John's will in which he left the house and property to his old-
est son, is the only known record of ownership between that of Col. Youngs and Rich-
ard Peters in 178+. The photos show the front of the house as it looks now, the
rear wing in 1922 and at present, the old corner cupboard, and the old well which
is now under the garage.
A great deal has been written about this house over the years, such as Richard
Peters, merchant, keeping a store upon the premises about 1782, and that the dis-
trict library at one time was in the north part of the house, now removed. Rev.
Epher Whitaker remembered the house when he first came to Southold in 1851 as in
its original condition, the two ends similar. Walter A. Wells, always a Southold
resident, visited the house in the 18305 or 40s with his grandfather, Augustus
Griffin who was born there. Walter wrote in The Traveler after Richard Peters had
changed it, that, "It was a double house, two stories in front, the back roof slop-
ing to one story in rear, the front door separating the two front rooms - the north
one the living room, the south room the parlor. The ponderous chimney, 7 X 8 feet
in diameter at the base; three massive fireplaces, designed to receive a back fire-
log four feet in length, and deep enough to accomodate a small load of other wood;
the large brass andirons; the large brass shovel and tongs reclining on hooks at
the side of the chimney; the large corner cupboard, old style, with its various
Helen W. Prince. ThA DPscpndants of Captain John Prince. 1983
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FIRST GENERATION
up . Augustus Griffin in his Journal states: "James and John
Prince were brothers . We do not know whether his brother
James ever came to America. " The Princes had long been in
America, but as there were no longer any family ties with
Massachusetts relatives , a wrong assumption about John coming
from England was made .
Another story [Traveler 19071 was that Captain John' s
"brother sailed with him, and that James' book of record was
found" in Col. John Youngs ' house , "now the home of Mrs . Re-
becca L. Downs . . . though it is now lost . James may have owned
that place as there is no record of ownership between that of
Col . John Youngs and that of Richard Peters. " If family lore
mentioned a James Prince as brother of John, supported by the
appearance of the record book ( in Capt . John' s own house , not
James ' s) , one must remember that "brother" and "sister" were a
courtesy title bestowed on those close in one ' s affection.
John had a first cousin James , son of Isaac , seven years his
junior . As John' s father died when he was five years old , it
is not beyond reason to believe that his Uncle Isaac , living a j
grades of ancient crockery; the old fourposter bedstead, and last but not least ,
'the old oaken bucket that hung by the well. "'
The north end was removed by owner Richard L. Peters (died ca. 1869) leaving
the house facade about as it is today. It is likely the 7 X 8 foot chimney served
both front rooms and was reduced after 1851 to its present size of ca. 6' X 32" , 1I
and an older staircase replaced by the present one built against the new north wall.
This left the house with two fireplaces, one in the "parlor" and the now oldest one
in the third room back. In 1923 Miss Emma Rutzler had the roof of the back wing
raised and put the house "in a perfect state of repair . . . the old fireplaces re-
built or opened up The work was done by Leslie Eldridge. Cmdr. J, Arthur and
Gretchen Kenniff, the present owners, removed a false mantel in the middle room and
had a fireplace built back to back with the one in the third room, using the old
false mantel. I
FRONT COVER: We mistakenly envision Col. Youngs and Capt. Prince living in the
house as it appears in Plate II. To help create a picture in the mind's eye of its
possible former appearance, Alma Cummings has made the lovely cover design: the
house sheathed with clapboards, the front porch removed, the two stories sloping to
one in the rear, and the whole appearance in keeping with 1656 architecture. One
can see in the 1915 picture of the house at 41, Capt. John Prince," that there
were boxwood well to the left of the house. They probably mark the north wall of
the section torn down. [Sthld, Historic Markers, pp.22,231 [Sthld Twn Rec, v_1,
PP•30,311 [Hntn , v.B, PP•7,8,103,107; vWC , p.131
HP1Pn Id. Prince. The Descendants of Captain John Prince . 1983
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APPENDIX B. DOCUMENTS 1950s, cont.
Society researchers have never seen these deeds, and my three days of research at
the Long Island Historical Society failed to locate them.)
Wayland Jefferson's letter to Edith Princes
"I can give you definite information on the first Prince house in Southold. It
stands on Youngs Avenue and has been variously known as "The Youngs House," Richard
Peters' and Miss Rutzler's. Among the many documents that Miss Dayton gave me I
found the joint deed of Samuel Landon to Capt. John Prince. It was`"dated Feb. 11th
1732 - Washington's Birthday, the calendar had been altered to catch up with lost
time. A peculiar feature of the deed was the proviso that Prince should be allowed
to take down and use such lumber as he saw fit from the building that occupied part
of the property. This building was a rope walk some four hundred feet long that
had been erected on the land that Nathan Landon of Porto Bago had purchased from
Captain-Colonel John Young. Young removed to Greenport, or the outskirts where he
could be close to his smuggling enterprises that were using Winter Harbor as a bass.,
Capt. Prince used such lumber as he found fit and purchased from Samuel Landon
additional boards and nails to finish the house. All these transactions were en-
tered in Samuel Landon's Account Book 1730-1776 and then continued by his son,
Jared 1776-1811.
"In considering the matter you must keep in mind that at that period there was
no Youngs Avenue as we know it today. Richard Peters bought part of the property
but some of it remained in the Prince family and where the road connects Youngs
Avenue and Mechanic Street, Benjamin (L.) Prince built himself a house there.
(Benjamin's house was built in 1891 across the street on Pastor John Youngs'
home lot.)
"In the 1776 census Gameliel Bayley was living in the house your father sold.
(See Plate XII, /#88) The Bayleys left Southold soon after the Revolution and took
up holdings in Orange County. In 1790 Census we find John Prince, a grandson of
Capt. John in possession and the same is true in the 1800 census and 1810 censuses
- Is there such a word? - (Grandson John lived on the west side of Youngs Ave.)
I think your father inherited the place from Orrin E. Prince, a son of John living
in this house at the dates mentioned. (Wrongs Orrin E. was not son of John, and
wrong: not inherited.)
"Hubbard Cleveland, who used to drop in at Robin's Hollow came to tell Mrs.
Dayton that her great-grandfather's house was being moved. (Plate XII) He referred
to the fact that firs, Dayton's grandmother was a Bailey. Many years ago a couple
ladies from Walton came to Southold and called on your father at the store and
asked permission to go through the house he had moved over to Traveler Street,
There name was Elmer and they were descended from Gameliel Bailey. I remember the
name of one of them -- Antoinette.
"This is not proof but few things concerning the early days are capable of
being backed by evidence that would stand up in court,"
Sincerely yours,
(Signed) Wayland Jefferson
HPlPn W. Prince. The Descendants of Captain John Prince. 1983
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"Silversmiths' Corner" was a name long used for this loca-
tion, as stated by Town Historian Wayland Jefferson. Several d
silversmiths dwelt here at different periods: Benjamin Yonges t
who had one of the earliest 17th century apprentice schools h
in Southold, the Benjamin Yonges School; also Silversmiths v
Benedict and Coleman.
17, HISTORIC SOUTHOLD HOUSE a
}} Traditional Home of Col. John Yonges
LardF ;dporded 1556
(Mrs, C. J. Olpp, owner, Youngs Ave., South;
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Dr. Neil L. Norcross, tenant)
This house was called for many years the Col, John Yonges �
House of the early 1640 settlement.
The record of lands of John Yonges, Southold's man of 1
greatest prominence in the 17th century and son of Rev. John
Yonges, is found in the published Town Records, dated Feb. 1
2, 1656. These lands extending from the Town Street were his l
recorded hes elproperty. Deeds and papers establishing full ;
the house were lost or misplaced as
proof for the history of
several historians have stated.
Certain documents and an account book record discovered
about 20 or more years ago impelled the belief that the house
originated with Capt.John Prince,1732,Captain of a vessel,who
came from Boston. From the Prince family genealogy he is
recorded as ancestor of the Southold Town Prince descendants.
=�'he construction of the house indiGtes sections built in
different periods and possibly at a different site. Research on
-its history and its first owners has been done faithfully for
a long time and will be continued. A further report will be
made in the next publication.
The Peters' and Downs' line of later ownership is traced.
Indentures of 17$4 show Richard Peters, as an owner. He
married Fannie Ledyard, (2nd wife) in 1793. Fannie Ledyard,
daughter of Capt. John and Abigail (Hempstead) Ledyard and
sister of John Ledyard, World Traveler, was distinguished
for her courageous acts during the Revolutionary War.
From a deed of Richard Peters to his "beloved son"
Henry, from the wills of Henry and Richard L. Peters, of
Abigail Moore Landon and of Amelia Ann Magee, the family
genealogy is defined and also the ownership of the house.
From nd wife,
Richard Prs it
r eof Capt.passed Jonathan Henrya Peters a
Abigail (Moore)
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'A for this loca- Landon; to Richard L. Peters and wife Catherine A. Magee,
d'erson. Several ---daughter of Jameenry-IVTagee and Amelia Ann Warner;
:njamin Yonges to Rebecca L. Peters Downs ("Aunt Becky Downs") and her
>rentice schools husband, Sheldon R. Downs, and the Downs family to the time
so Silversmiths when Miss Emma Ruta and others came into possession,
his is one of Southold'smost interesting n'.d hovses:
There a recollections o{-T`its ponderous cFiimney 7 x a icet
SE at the base, its massive fireplaces, the large cupboard filled
!onges with crockery and the many small window panes of hand-blown
glass". The house has been pictured and described many times
South; in print.
ol. John Yonges (1&) HISTORIC HEAD OF TOWN CREEK
A TOWN SPOT OF EARLY SETTLEMENT ACTIVITY.
mthold's man of Along the northerly, nearby shore of this creek in the 1640-
;on of Rev. John 1700 period there were the homes of Capt. Charles Glover and
:ords, dated Feb. Lieut. Samuel Glover, shipbuilders; the home, warehouse and
Street were his landing stage of Col. Isaac Arnold, port collector, later of
establishing full Carteret Gillam, mariner; Mariner John Yonges' house and
or misplaced as wharf and Capt. John Yonges' warehouse. Across the creek
lay Calves Neck, common wood and pasturage land; sur-
record discovered y
veyed by Thomas Mapes and allotted, 1658, to the freemen of of that the pause the settlement. The creek ran deep as a river, continuing west- h
erly into the town, passing creek-thatch and the rear homesite h
in of vessel,who lands of Rev. John Yonges, first pastoral leader in the colony.
genealogy
alogy he is
-ince descendants. Early long boats and vessels with cargo plied this waterway.
sections built in (Location of Roadside Marker: Youngs Avenue, beside the
site. Research'on Town Creek Park.)
one faithfully for 19. THOMAS STORRS LESTER HOUSE 1815
ger report will be '
Possible Origin, 1784, one of Ezra L'Hommedieu's holdings.
nership is traced. George Harper, 1889
as an owner. He (Hon. L. Barron Hill, Youngs Avenue,
Fannie Ledyard, Calves Necke, Southold)
:ead) Ledyard and This homestead, finely preserved, has a very old part which
was distinguished has its earliest origin not definitely defined. Historians have
tionary War. said it might be one of the early parsonages, or part of one.
his "beloved son" Its age of construction should allow it to be of the latter 18th
lard L. Peters, of century or older. Therefore it could have been on the forty
Magee, the family acres Hon. Ezra L'Hommedieu purchased in 1784 on Calves
ihip of the house. Necke, one of his several holdings in the town. Ezra L'Hom-
Peters and wife, medieu, Southold's leading citizen of his period, died 1811 in
L Abigail (Moore) his homestead which was on Town Harbor Lane near the
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Youngs- Youngs built on his home lot Rev.Epher
Whitaker. writing in 1881, said: "...the r
southern half of this noble residence ,
�� � �` stands very much o it erected more o
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than 2la years ago." Today, over 320
North years later, it is still one of the North
Fork`s treasures.Historian J. Wickham i
Case said of the house that it was "the
identical home occupied by Cal, Youngs r
House. during the whole of his life."Col.Youngs '
also owned a "summer house"on Sler.
ling Creek in Greenport, a lovely home Jr it
occupied today by Sterling Historical �! r
4 � �
Society president Frank Coyle.
Southold i Ir
At 17 Youngs sailed to Southold with his
End decd recorded 1656, father,Pastor John Youngs and the band 1? '} ! ■
of Puritans who founded our town in 1640.
His subsequent life was spent serving the
Commandcr and Colony he helped found. Early in life
Youngs became master of a sailing
Mrs. ].A. Kcnlliff vessel,and participatedmthecaptureof
New Amsterdam in 1664. He was a _
delegate to Hempstead when the"Duke's
Laws"for governing the provinces were
adopted. In 1680 he was Sheriff of
Yorkshire snow Kings,Queens, Nassau
and Suffolk Counties).When he was 70,in
Tradition has it that the house sketched 1693,he was colonel of a militia regiment
was built by a man generally recognized of nine companies--350 men. Colonel John Young&and Captain John
as the most prominent Long island Prince could not-have more appropriate
citizen of the entire Colonial period, Col. people occupying their home than the Col. John Younn ' lift
John Youngs. Although the 1656 deed to the property present owners,Commander and Mrs.J.
exists today,other early records for this A. Kenniff. Commander Kenniff is a i
properly have been lost.The next exist- retired navy career man who owns North was spent serving the
The following deed is recorded In ing legal paper recording ownership of Fork Shipyard in New Suffolk, with a f
Southold Town Records, vol. I: "Feb- [his historic house is the will of John branch in Freeport. Mrs. Kenniff Is a Colony he helped founo
ruary 2,16%—Mr.John Youngs jun his Prince,captain of a sailing veac") w`ho direct descendant of Thomas Benedict,a
whom (home) lott...conteyning flower _r iee3in 1765.This document is recorded in founding father of Southold Town and a
.'ores mare or lesse."Of the house John New York Wills,Liber 25,pages 118-119. member of Pastor Young's church.
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aid in the capture of New Amsterdam,and became widely known.as Col.
Youngs.In 1655 he was one of Southold's two representatives in the first
Assembly at Hempstead, under the Duke of York.
y He had a home opsite . father's in Southold. It is often called the
oldest home in town. a also had large 1andIoTdings , including a`�arrn '`
' whm-covered all of what is now Greenport and much more. In the
research for this book, a,painting of his farm bye, which stood at the
head of Sterling Creek, was discovered in the Greenport home of a
descendant, Miss Lillian Wiggins. - ---
Hs importance continued to grow,and in 1680 he was made Sheriff of
Yorkshire, which included all of Long Island and the counties of Rich-
rnond and Westchester. This high office gained him the King's ear and
three years later he obtained the King's assent to the calling of a
General Assembly of the representatives of the people of the Province—
the first such meeting held under royal authority.
Henceforth,until his death at 74 in 1597,he played a leading role in the
Supreme Council of New York.Even at 70 he was active as the colonel of
a militia regiment of nine companies with more than 500 men.
The Revolutionary incident is related in the Youngs Family
Genealogy, published in 1907 by Selah Youngs Jr. A portrait of "an
ancestor in uniform"—and Col. John was the only early Youngs im-
portant enough to have his image painted and preserved—belonged to 77te "town house"of Capt.
John Fitz Youngs,who had inherited (and later lost through foreclosure John- oungs It is some-
of a mortgage) a sizable piece of the original Youngs land near what is rimes called the town's
now Greenport. oldest dwelling
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The cornerstone of this church was ]aid in the the Rev, John Youngs, the first Christian minis-
village of Brooklyn, on the 25th of June, 1832, ter in that part of I.ong Island. In the same
the corner of Jay street and Chapel street,
which was then a large extent of vacant ground, town is also the edifice known as 11 G)chrall'a
there being thou no buildings nearer that spot 4 Hotel, which was erected in the year 11001; and
than high street, and not s single building there are several other in the eastern part of
this island which might be not
between the site of the church and the mead-
iced, if tirrie and
ows of Wallaboght mill-pond. apace permitted. Approaching westwardly
This church was incorporated on the 20th of through the island, we meet, on Fort Neck, with
November, 1822. by the name of "St. James an old-fashioned brick house, which was many
Roman Catholic Church," and placed under the year ago owned and occupied by a Captain
government of seven trustees. The church has Jones, who is reputed to have been a pirate, and
in it he died. Tradition says that at the trne of
been very much enlarged every way; the nave � his death, a large black crow (which the people i
onsti-
of the church, as now used, was all that c
tuted the original edifice; the front, the tower 6°Fposed to be a demon) hovered over his bed, ? '
and spire, the transept and the chancel have all and when life was extinct, the crow made his
been added. The church, as first erected, was a exit through the west end of the house. This
plain brick edifice, with unfinished walla inside; story is still told by the oldest inhabitants as a
now it is a very showy building. fact, and they also state that the hole through
which the crow made his departure cannot be
stopped, and that as often as it is closed it is
OLD HOUSES. stopped,
by some unknown means.
There are several houses still remaining on ; I Raw the house in July,1827; it was a venera-
this island venerable for their antiquity, and for ble-looking building, but fast hastening to ruin.
incidents connected with their history. One of i It was then pointed out to me as the "haunted
them is the house in Southold, known as the house," by persons in the vicinity. Capt. Jones
"old Young's place," which was built in 1688. was buried not far from the house, and his
t It was the mansion house of the descendants of grave is designated to this day as the "Pirate'$
Grave."
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SD 149
LONG AGO ON LONG ISLAND
by J. ERNEST BRIERLY
21 F-e
IRIS 5 }
Col.Joha� `oung'sHouse.B,.dfJ647Soutlhohl.
This house,built in 164f*6 Col_ John Youngs, .,
is said to•be we of the ojdest;in Suffolk County." 7-.
The pioneers of.Southold, 4liere the house was. .-
put up, carie from*8outh;v6lde; Suffolk County,
England. With-them- were the Rev. Johr7 Youngs ,
and his family,who had.first come to Salem,Mass,
in 1631..Preferring to €ounc�.a;tou5cj�and church off ,.
his own, he a?d other. settlers-came across Long
Island-Sound:fropr Newt Haven, sailed up Peconic r
Bay and larided� at, what is,now called Founders,
Lapding. Records arp.lacking, but (tis believed:
that Southold,wap/h� a first English town on Long,
Island, becaup..�,by.tlie.autumn of 16¢0 the popu
Ya idn was gareat enough that tfie Rev.John Youngs'
,.gg,ttW`Ved tYie Church anew,"-and four days later.
`.6iie'settler sold.His house and lot for`1S .pounds.,
From these recorded statements, it is believable
that Southold was settled before 1640. The-line of.
the old village street ran as Main Street does today
from the Run to"Town Harbor Lane, and later to
Mill Creek. Youngs Avenue ran as now from the
ta-own Creek to the North Sea (L. I. Sound). Home
r lots were allotted to early settlers,`each containing
about four acres,and, by 1660, there were at leash
50 home lot!Iwith dwellings. Among the names of
the flounders were Youngs,Horton,Conklin,.Glover,
Payne and Underhill.They laid the foundations of,
liberty and religion, which have been the bulwarlo
of the.nation. Frugal, thrifty and industrious, in
all aims and plans, they made everything sub
servient to the worship of God.
1 oNa ISLAND DAILY PRESS