November 18, 1644, "Thomas Sayre was censured for some contemptuous carriage to Mr. Gosmer, being Magistrate, to pay ten shillings and to make public acknowledgment of his offense, which if he shall refuse, then to be liable to pay forty shillings."

March, 1653, "Thomas Sayre and Joshua Barnes for speaking unseemly and unsavory words in the Court or concerning the Court were fined to pay ten shillings each. NOTE - ye fines remitted upon their acknowledgment March 6, 1654."

He was doubtless liberal of heart. The town records publish only one occasion where contributions were made for those in distress, and on that occasion it relates: "At a town meeting, February 4, 1656, a contribution was made for Goodman Gouldsmith, because of his loss by fire" (house burned by Indians); of the contributors (of wheat) one only gave more than Thomas Sayre.

His name appears as a juror nine times in the period from September, 1653, to September, 1658.

At the original settlement of the town each settler was allowed a "home lot " and certain other lands, and subsequently other lands were divided among the original settlers or those to whom they had disposed of their rights; each lot was designated as a 150-pound lot, and there were forty-one allotments made at the several divisions.

February 2, 1653, there was a "division of lands called Sagaponack," and he drew lot No. 4, 150, and 50 of lot 13.

February, 1654, at the "Seaponack Division," he drew lot No. 2 and 50 of

lot 25.

1657, at the "Eastward allotment of meadows at the Beach," he drew lot 47 and part of 15.

March 5, 1651, the "little plains" allotment was made, and Thomas Sayre drew No. 25, and "is to have 50 out of No. 29."

A second "division of the little plains" took place shortly afterwards, and he drew as in the foregoing allotment.

He signed the call for the town meeting to arrange for the reception of Governor Lovelace in 1668.

sons.

He was a farmer and a tanner. In 1667 he gave five acres to each of his four

He died in 1670.

His original will, with autograph signature, is preserved in the office of the Surrogate, New York, and is recorded there in Liber I, folio 63. It reads as follows:

In ye name of God, Amen. I, Thomas Sayre of South Hampton on Long Island in the Com. Nov: Yorke, being in perfect strength of mind, blessed be ye Lord for it, but weake of Bodye, not knowing ye day of my appointed change doe make this last Will and Testament, in manner following:

Imprimis. I give and freely bequeath my Soule unto God that gave it and my Body unto earth from whence it was first taken.

2d. I give unto my sonne ffrancis Sayre 2 acres of land lyeing next unto his own in Copt Neck in ye Great Playnes and 2 acres more of land lyeing in ye Eight acres Lotts in ye said Great Playnes, a pewter fflaggon, a Pewter Bowl, and great Pewter Platter.

3d. I give unto my sonne Daniell Sayre, 2 acres of land lyeing next unto ye above said two acres in ye said Eight acre Lotts, and three acres more of Land lyeing in the Ten acre Lotts, and one great Pewter Platter.

4th. I give unto my sonne Joseph Sayre, ffourty pounds Sterling to be paid him by my Executor Ten pounds per annum to beginne wth in five years next after my decease, to be paid in good Merchant's Shoos or other pay that will procure Hides towards his setting up as a Tanner.

5th. I give unto my daughter Damaris Atwater ffourty Shillings.

6th. I give unto my daughter Mary Price ffourty Shillings.

7th. I give unto my daughter Hannah Sayre Twenty pounds to be paid at her day of marriage or when she shall be eighteen years of age which shall first happen and that my Executor doe keep her Cow and Calfe and their increase for her untill she shall be either married or in some other capable way to maintain

them.

8th. I give my household goods to be equally divided between my sons Job and Joseph and Hannah, and that when they be divided, Hannah have her first choice of ye partes.

9th. Lastly. I by this last Will and Testament have made my son Job Sayre my sole Executor to receive all my Worldly estate, both of Housing, Lands, goods and Cattle and Debts due to me from any person or persons, and to pay all debts due from me and all Legacyes specified.

In witness whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and seale this 16th day of September, 1669.

Inventory. Liber I, folios 64 and 65. New York. Surrogate's office.

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An Inventory of ye Estate of THOMAS SAYRE, deceased, apprized by us who are hereunto subscribed, and were hereunto appointed as followeth, this 10th day of June, 1670.

The signature to this will indicates that it was probably written when the testator was quite feeble. We append a facsimile from the town records as it appears in Howell's "History of Southampton."

Curtaines and Sheets

9 00 0 5 10 0

4 10 0 5 Sheets at 47s ..

2 Heyfers with one calfe & I steer

Job Sayre admitted executor of his father's estate.

Whereas Job Sayre of ye Towne of Southton in ye East Riding of Yorkshire upon Long Island did at ye last Court of Sessions held in that Towne for ye Rideing afores' make proofe of the Last Will and Testament of Thomas Sayre, his father, deceased, wherein the said Job is left Sole Executor of all his Estate, Goods and Chattels, and ye said Executor having given in Security to ye Court for performing the particulars in ye said Will expressed, according to ye Law in such cases provided, the original Will and Testament remaining in ye office of Records, These are to certify all whom it may concerne that ye said Job Sayre is admitted to all Intents and purposes executor of the Last Will and Testament of him ye sd Thomas Sayre, his Father deceased: Hee haveing hereby full power and lawful authority to Doe and execute all things whatsoever in the said Will and Testament is required, of which he is to return an accot wthin one yeare and a Day after ye Date hereof, and thereupon take out a Quietus as in ye Law is sett forth.

Sealed with ye Seale of the Office and Dated at New Yorke this first day of April in ye 23d yeare of his Maties Reigne, Anno D. M. 1671.

The children of Thomas Sayre, in the order of names as they appear in the will, possibly not in order of birth: in the distribution of the "household goods" the name of Job precedes that of Joseph, and there are reasons for conjecturing that the former was the older :

1 The asterisks affixed to certain numbers indicate that reference will be made on subsequent pages to the persons so designated. Commonly they signify that such persons left descendants whose lines can be traced by the corresponding numbers as they appear in consecutive order.

4* JOSEPH,2 m. Martha

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5* JOB,2 m. 1st Sarah —; 2d Hannah Raynor Howell.

6 DAMARIS,2 m. David Atwater before 1647, who was one of the original settlers of New Haven, Conn. He was born in 1613 and died Oct. 5, 1692.

CHILDREN.

I MERCY ATWATER,3 b. Feb. 28, 1647, m.. John Austin.

2 DAMARIS ATWATER,3 b. Nov. 12, 1648, m. John Punderson.

3 DAVID ATWATER,3 b. July 13, 1650.

4 JOSHUA ATWATER,3 b. Jan. 11, 1652, m. June 24, 1680. Lydia Rothwell.

5 JOHN ATWATER,3 b. Nov. 1, 1654, m. Sept. 13, 1682, Abigail Mansfield.

6 JONATHAN ATWATER,3 b. July 12, 1656, m. June 1, 1681, Ruth Peck.

7 ABIGAIL ATWATER,3 b. March 3, 1660, m. Nathaniel Jones.

8 MARY ATWATER,3 b. March 31, 1662, m. Ichabod Stow.

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9 SAMUEL ATWATER,3 b. Sept. 17, 1664, m. July 7, 1691, Sarah Alling. EBENEZER ATWATER,3 b. Jan. 13, 1666, m. Dec. 9, 1691, Abigail Heating. For further descendants of this line, see the "Atwater Genealogy," published in 1873.

7 MARY, m. Benjamin Price before 1669.

CHILD.

BENJAMIN PRICE,3 JR., named in will of James Sayre, 1729.

8 HANNAH,2 under 18 in 1669.

9 DAUGHTER,2 m. Edmund Howell, who was born about 1635, and died in N. J., 1706.

She died without children, and he married, 1664, Sarah Judson, who died August 29, 1688.

This (supposed) daughter is not mentioned in Thomas Sayre's will, but it is a surmise from an entry in Southampton town records, March 14, 1663, that Edmund Howell "sells land to his father-in-law, Thomas Sayre."

"Father-in-law" was, however, sometimes used for "stepfather"; and it is possible that Sayre had married Eleanor, the widow of Edward Howell, the father of Edmund.

Job Sayre.

Of Job Sayre, the brother of Thomas, but little is known. He was born in Bedfordshire, England; baptized at Leighton Buzzard, January 13, 1611; had sixty acres of land allotted to him in Lynn, Mass., in 1638, which he sold to Adam Otley, who conveyed it to Richard Glover of London, by deed dated 16th October, 1644; the said sixty acres of land being described as lying in Rumney Marsh (now the City of Chelsea).

The name of Job Sayre appears in the list of proprietors of Southampton, 1640; member of the First Ward Whaling Squadron in 1644, of Freemen 1648-9, and of Inhabitants in 1649.

His name is not found in the Division of Plains lands in 1651, and as no allotment was made to any representative, he had evidently sold out his interest and removed, or had deceased without children surviving. That he probably