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    Lion Gardiner (1599–1663) was an English engineer and colonist who founded the first English settlement in New York, acquiring land on eastern Long Island...
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    coastline. The island has been owned by the Gardiner family and their descendants since 1639 when Lion Gardiner purchased it from the Montaukett chief Wyandanch...
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  • Robert David Lion Gardiner (February 25, 1911 – August 23, 2004), was the last heir to Gardiner's Island to have the surname "Gardiner". (His niece Alexandra...
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  • forests on Gardiner's Island.: 37  When Alexandra's mother Alexandra Gardiner Creel and uncle Robert David Lion Gardiner inherited Gardiner's Island from...
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  • Robert Alexander Gardiner (1863-1919) and Nora Loftus, a native of County Kilkenny in Ireland. Her brother, Robert David Lion Gardiner (1911-2004), co-owned...
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    enforce its authority over Connecticut's settlers. With Winthrop gone, Lion Gardiner was left in charge of Saybrook's considerable fort, defending it when...
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  • kept his tribe in relation to the colonists. Wyandanch was credited by Lion Gardiner with being the sachem who prevented a rebellion by Miantonomoh (sometimes...
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  • May 29, 1784, the son of Abraham Gardiner (1763–1796) and Phebe Dayton (1757–1810). He was a descendant of Lion Gardiner (1599–1663) who was an early English...
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  • of prominent citizen Lion Gardiner and wife of prominent resident Arthur Howell. In February, 1658, 16-year old Elizabeth Gardiner Howell, who had recently...
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    added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. Robert David Lion Gardiner inherited the property in 1930 and allowed the newly created Sagtikos...
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