Everette T. Rattray "South Fork, The Land and People of East Long Island" This is a story that I found about the Vail family in the above mentioned book. The first paragraph is quoted and spelled exactly as the book has it. I have tried to write the rest of it in my own words, report fashion. "The "great Cannow" over which "Waindanch Sachem of Meantaquit," LionGardiner's great friend, sued one Jeremy Vaile in 1658 must have been such a one. (speaking about log canoes that are similar in hull conformation to a whaleboat.) According to a depositition in the East Hampton Town Records, Gardiner "heard" that the canoe was coming to his island, where he had livedsince before there was an East Hampton, called for "them that were in thehouse to follow me and I mett my sonn and good man Vaile coming up and Iasked them whie they pulled not up the Canow and they said it was timeenough and I called them t goe to gett it up and we all went & could doenothing and then we went agen & she was full." The canoe had filled, something that can happen to any boat left on a leeshore when the water is choppy. It had been damaged. It was mended byputting two pieces at "the end of her" The court found for Wyandanch ( "ared man"), and awarded him ten shillings plus court costs of one pound, one shilling. The author suspects that the reason Sachem and his men had not pulled up their canoe, was that it had drifted over unoccupied, cast loose through carelessness or "evil design." The author figures that young David Gardiner, who twenty-two years earlier had been the first European child born in Connecticut, no doubt got a parade-ground tongue -lashing from the old soldier, Lion, whom the youth and the man could never please. It was certainly one of the few instances in which a red man went to a white man's court and got satisfaction. There are stories about the Whalers, of which the Vails apparently were apart of, but this seems to be the only mention of a Vail, by any spelling.
More About Lion Gardiner: Military service 1: 1635, Commissioned to build fort at Saybrook.708, 709 Military service 2: Bef. 1639, stationed Holland by Prince of Orange.710, 711 Occupation: Bef. 1639, Engineer& Master of Works&Fortifications.712, 713 Property: May 03, 1639, Gardiner's Island.714, 715
More About Lion Gardiner and Marrichgen Dircksdr Duyrcant: Marriage: Jul 10, 1635, Worden, Holland.716, 717
Children of Lion Gardiner and Marrichgen Dircksdr Duyrcant are:
+Mary Gardiner, b. Aug 30, 1638, Saybrook Fort, Middlesex, CT718, 719, d. Jun 15, 1727, East Hampton, Suffolk, NY720, 721.
Lion Gardiner (b. 1599, d. 1663)
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