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The Peconic Bay Shopper is published monthly eleven months each year. (There in no January issue.)

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1945 at the Anchor Inn. Seated second from the left is “Ritz” Domalski, at the piano is Chester Sawastynowicz*, and standing behind him is John Elak. *corrected name, our August caption had a spelling error(Meredith photo courtesy of the Southold Historical Society, reprinted with permission from Images of America: Mattituck and Laurel, by Norman Wambak, Jeffrey M. Walden and Gerard M. Matovcik. Available at www.arcadiapublishing.com or 888-313-2665.

Have you looked at a copy of “Trawling My Town” by Southold Town Historian Antonia Booth?

100% of the sales is donated to help the homeless through “John’s Place” or “Maureen’s Haven”.

The book is available at Academy Printing for $20. Stop in and flip through it. You will find many stories and photos from previous Shopper issues. Makes a great gift!

HELP! We’d like to run a story with photos and memories of the Greenport skating rink. So far we have not found one person with pho-tos at the rink! Please contact us if you have any to share, and send any “memories” emails to address above, or call Rita at 765-3346.We’ve heard “...skating into the bathroom for a smoke!” Any stories to add??

This c. 1954 American Legion photo was our August cover. We identified 4 men as: 2nd from left, Beno Watkins; 3rd Bill(?) Larkin; 5th Daisy Morris and 6th Jonas Higbee. It is not Bill Larkin but his brother-in-law Robert Warner, according to a call from his daughter Deborah (Warner) Allen.

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GREENPORT HARBOR, 1990In just 13 years there have been so many changes along Front Street Greenport and the harborfront. We can step back in time and remember bungee-jumping at Kokomo’s, go back further to Mitchell’s Restaurant and so on. One thing is certain... the aerial view will be quite a bit busier this month, with the Classic Yacht Regatta and the 24th Annual Maritime Festival both falling on the week-end of September 20th to the 22nd! Photo courtesy of the Claudio family.

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FIRST SETTLER BARNABAS HORTON of Leices-tershire, England came first to Massachusetts on the ship “Swallow” with his wife Mary Langton Horton and two oldest children, Joseph and Benjamin. Sometime in 1640 he joined forces with the Reverend John Youngs in New Haven and eventually came with Youngs and his followers to the new colony of Southold at the east end of Long Island. After settling in Southold, Barnabas and Mary had three more sons, Caleb, Joshua and Jonathan, and five daughters: Hannah, Sarah, Mary, Mercy and Abi-gail. His home lots were on either side of what is now Horton Lane, extending north to Horton Point. After holding many town offices, Barnabas died aged 80, and is buried in the oldest part of the cemetery of First Presbyterian Church called “God’s Acre.” In the seventeenth century Barnabas and his descendants had three impor-tant items: the Horton Family Bible, a Horton gun (see 1990 photograph) and at least one Horton Great Chair. The latter provides something of a mystery as the reader will see from the several illustrations in this brief story. According to the first town historian Wayland Jefferson, the Horton Great Chair was built by Joshua Horton, a carpenter, for his brother Jonathan, “First Captain of Cavalry in Suffolk County.” The chair was made of hickory and willow and had a rush seat woven by the “Indian squa (sic) Hannah” who received payment in tea. ¢

Everyone enjoys looking at pictures. When we are small, we like being shown albums so

we can figure out where we fit in the scheme of things. Growing up, we save class pictures, year-books, even photo IDs. Like all photographs of the familiar, they bring back memories or help make them. The first practical camera originated in the middle of the 19th century. Previous cameras were, like early computers, the size of a room. George Eastman pioneered the use of film and in 1892 established the Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester, New York. In 1900 the simple and inexpensive Brownie camera was introduced and used well into the 1960s. With the cooperation of the Peconic Bay Shopper we bring you this group of old pictures of our town. – Antonia Booth, Southold Town Historian

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YET ANOTHER CHAIR:Family stories can be distorted from generation to generation. On the back of this picture is the caption, “Cousin Angie, from Henry D. Horton, A Photo of the chair Barnabas Horton brought from England.” There are several great chairs listed in inventories compiled at the deaths of various members of the Horton family. The first one is that of Captain Jonathan Horton, 1707. The inventory of Deacon James Horton of Hogg Necke also listed a great chair –he died in 1733. Captain Barnabas Horton’s will of 1787 was probated at Riverhead and also listed a great chair. Are you still with me? The chair was left to Colonel Benjamin Horton and upon his death the chair came to Bayview, Southold and became the property of David Austin Horton and his only unmarried daughter, Harmony Reeve Horton. Upon their deaths the chair, in 1937, became the property of Miss Mary L. Dayton of Robins Hollow in Bayview.

This seems to be one of the great chairs made by Joshua Horton. It may be in the museum Winterthur, Delaware. There is a letter in the town archives from Henry F. Du Pont to Wayland Jefferson asking for information about the chair. (A 1937 photograph by Charles M. Meredith.)

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THE HORTON GUN: In 1990, Dan Horton of Greenport showed the Horton gun to fourth grade students at a Step Back in History program at Founders Landing. It was a great attraction, especially for the boys. (Photograph by Antonia Booth).

A CUTE HORTON BABY:One of many. This is George Horton Jr. born September 23rd 1900, picture taken at age three months.

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THE OLD HORTON HOUSE: The house is double: the western part was built by Barnabas Horton about 1659. The east, or two-story part, was built by his son Jonathan around 1682.A wing was added later. Six generations of Hortons lived in the house, part of which served as a courthouse for twenty years. The last of that name to live in the old house was Jonathan Goldsmith Horton who willed it to his adopted daughter.The house at the corner of the Main Road and Horton’s Lane, across from the cemetery, was torn down in 1879, despite valiant efforts to save it, and a modern house was erected on the site. ¢

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September is one of the nicest months for camping...but the kids are back in school. These Camp Molloy, Mattituck photos are reprinted with permission from Images of America: Mattituck and Laurel, by Norman Wambak, Jeffrey M. Walden and Gerard M. Matovcik. Available from the publisher online at www.arcadiapublishing.com or by calling 888-313-2665.

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Camp Molloy Entrance, c. 1930. Camp Molloy was founded by the Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn in 1926 for children from the city to enjoy part of their summer in the country. Annie Silkworth sold her property on Main Road to the diocese so it could be developed into a camp. The camp entrance (pictured) was on Main Road and ran down to scenic Laurel Lake. (Mattituck-Laurel Library)

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Bathing at Camp Molloy, c. 1935. At the center of camp activities was swimming in Laurel Lake, as there was nothing more refreshing than swimming in the clear, cold lake in the middle of summer. Camp Molloy maintained a dock and a raft on the lake. Excursions in rowboats and canoes led to sights of lake trout, herons, and perhaps an old snapper turtle. (Mattituck-Laurel Library)