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Lion Gardiner

Lion Gardiner 1599-1663, English colonist in America. Under contract with patentees of Connecticut, Gardiner designed and erected (1635-36) the blockhouse at Saybrook, which he defended in the Pequot War (1636-37). He purchased (1639) Gardiner's Island from Native Americans and founded there the first English colony in present-day New York.

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Gardiner, Lion (1599–1663) born in England, military engineer and colonist responsible for building the fort and developing the settlement at Saybrook, Connecticut. The garrison was attacked by the Pequot, and Gardiner sent his men as part of the Puritan expedition that carried out the massacre of the native tribe at Fort Mystic in the Pequot War (1637). In 1639 Gardiner moved to an island off the eastern end of Long Island, called Montauk, which he purchased from the Indians and where his family lived independently of the nearby mainland colonies.

Montauk Iskland is now called Gardiner's Island and is part of New York state. It is still privately held by his descendants.

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	Plans announced for 350th anniversary of Gardiner's Island. PR Newswire; 3/15/1989; 700+ words ; ...East Hampton, L.I., where Lion Gardiner, who bought the island from the...and her brother, Robert David Lion Gardiner, of East Hampton, and Mrs...variety of plant and animal life. Lion Gardiner was an adventurous and, by all...
	U.K. ambassador reads aloud 1639 grant at commemoration of Gardiner's Island 350th anniversary. (John Birch) PR Newswire; 4/24/1989; 700+ words ; ...of the 3,300-acre island to Lion Gardiner by King Charles I of England in...held at the Gothic mausoleum of Lion Gardiner in East Hampton's old South...Goelet, who is descended from Lion Gardiner in three ways on her mother...
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	Sailboat restoration organization will receive Gardiner's Island celebration grant. (Full Sea) PR Newswire; 4/12/1989; 700+ words ; ...commemorated in a ceremony scheduled for 11 a.m. on Sunday, April 23, at the tomb of Lion Gardiner in the South End Cemetery in East Hampton. Lion Gardiner was the English soldier and engineer who acquired the island by royal patent from King...
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