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East end of the Island to dwell among his own countrymen. In 1647 he
had obtained permission of the town of Southampton to plant a colony of
six families at ' North
Sea,' a tract of land bordering on the Great Peconic
Bay, opposite Robbin Island, and about thi'ee miles north of the village of
Southampton. Some two or three years elapsed before his removal, and
the planting of the settlement at the North Sea, called, in the Colonial
Records of Connecticut and New Haven, as well as in NicoUs's Grant,
'Northampton.'
" 'He was made a freeman of Southampton March 31, 1650, and was
chosen by the General Court at Hartford, Ct, May 16, 1656, and again in
1657 and 1658, one of the magistrates for the colony. He sat in the
General Court, as a Representative from Southampton, in May 1659; and
in the upper house May 1661, and afterwards. His name appears repeat-
edly in the new Charter of Connecticut (obtained Ap. 23, 1662, by Gov.
Winthrop, from Charles II.), as one of the magistrates and patentees of
the colony ; also, quite frequently, in the Records both of Connecticut
and New Haven. He was held in high honor at home, being one of their
first men.
" ' During his residence at Northampton Ogden, by frequent visits as
a trader to New Amsterdam, had kept up his acquaintance with his old
friends and neighbors on the West End of the Island. When, therefore,
after the conquest [by the English, under Dep.-Gov. NicoUs], it was
proposed to him to commence a fourth settlement in the new and inviting
region of Achter Kol [Newark Bay], under English rule, he readily entered
into the measure, and .
. . became, being a man of substance and
distinction, the leading man of the new colony. He was among the very
first, with his five full-grown boys, John, Jonathan, David, Joseph and
Benjamin, to remove to the new purchase, and erect a dwelling on the
town-plot [of Elizabeth]. . . .
" ' He
was appointed, Oct. 26, 1665, a Justice of the Peace, and, Nov.
I, one of the Governor's [Gov. Carteret's] Council. In the Legislature of
1668 he was one of the Burgesses from this town. . . .
"'Three of his sons, John, Jonathan and David, took the oath of
allegiance Feb. i66-|, and were numbered among the original Associates.
* Hatfield's Elizabeth, ut supra, pp. 64-67.
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