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by entail. Later, there were of course changes in the tenure. The island
has been retained, however, in the family down to the present time, the
present proprietor. Col. Jolui Lyon,^ being the twelfth of this ancient
manor. His immediate predecessors were his elder brother David,^ the
eleventh lord, his father Samuel Buell,^ the tenth lord, diVL^John Griswold,^
the ninth, the last two both younger sons of this Griswold marriage. Col.
John Lyon Gardiner married Cora Livingston Jones, and has four children,
of whom the eldest bears the name of the first Lord of the Manor, Lion.^^
One of the children of this marriage was Sarah Diodate^ now the
widow of the late David Thompson of New York. Mr. Thompson was
a gentleman well known and respected in New York. He was President
of the New York Life Insurance and Trust Company for nearly twenty-
five years. No one of his day was more honored for personal worth,
and high character in every respect. He was the son of Hon. Jonathan
Thompson, whose integrity is also remembered as Collector of Direct
Taxes and Internal Revenue during the war of 181 2, Collector of the Port
under Monroe and John Quincy Adams, and President of the Manhattan
Bank. The family of Thompson is descended from Mr. John Thompson
who came to Long Island in 1656, and was soon a large owner of property
there, a man of importance in those times. The family have ever since
been among the large land-owners on Long Island. The estate of Jona-
than Thompson, which he inherited from his father Judge Isaac Thompson,
is known as Sagtikos Patent, and is still owned by the family.
Mary Bri-ell ^ Gardiner, a younger daughter of this marriage, was very
refined, lovely and interesting. She died young.
One of the children of Sarah Diodate (Gardiner) and David Thompson
is Sarah Gardiner,^ now the wife of David Lyon Gardiner of New Haven,
Conn., of the same Gardiner ancestry as herself, her mother being his third
cousin. Mr. Gardiner's father was one of that distinguished company,
invited by President Tyler to an excursion on the "Princeton" in 1844,
who were killed by the explosion of a gun on board. His beautiful sister
Julia soon afterwards became the second wife of President Tyler.
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