Smithtown - Long Island - Real Estate - New York - History

If you are planning on buying or selling real estate in Smithtown, located by the North Shore of Long Island, New York, in Suffolk County, Here is a brief history of Smithtown Long Island New York.

Smithtown is named after its founder, Richard Smythe. Mr. Smythe was an English subject who first settled in Southampton. After being banished from that town in 1656, possibly for religious reasons, he settled in Setauket for nine years. Then in 1663, it is believed, he purchased the land that became known as Smithtown from Lion Gardiner. Mr. Gardiner had been deeded the lands by Chief Wyandanch, Sachem of the Long Island Montauks, after Mr. Gardiner helped the chief get back his kidnapped daughter from a party of raiding Narragansett Indians. A Royal land patent was officially issued in 1665 to Richard Smythe.

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