[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] when they removed to Shaw Hall. The manor and hundred of Leyland was held by them of King Edward tlie Confessor; and the men of the manor, (which was of a superior order) as well as those of Salford, enjoyed the privilege of attending to their own harvest instead of the King's. According to Thompson's History of Long Island, one Edmund Farrington, with a number of others, embarked from Lynn, Massachusetts, in a vessel with a Capt. Howe, on or about the 17th of May, 1640, and arrived at Cow Bay, L. I., where they purchased of the Indians from the eastern part of Oys-ter to Cow Bay; and where they were dispossessed, by the Dutch Governor Kieft, on the 19th of May, 1040. This Farrington originally came from Southampton, England. He, with the others, afterwards bought Agawan of the Indians, a tract about twenty miles long and six miles wide, and made a settlement, which he called Southampton. They made their settlement on the 13th December, 1640. APPENDIX. 551 The consideration paid was sixteen coats and eighty bushels of Indian corn for ihe land. Edmund Farrington returned to Lynn, Mass., and in ]G55 built a raill there, and dug a pond and opened a brook for a half