POPULATION AND GROWTH. II 



and were frequented bv the same kind of birds. The natural means of 

 human support and comfort were not less abundant in the days of the red 

 men than they are to-dav. But the heathen people themselves were in- 

 ferior to their successors, to the Christian Englishmen who supplanted 

 them. They lacked virtue, knowledge, spiritual culture, industry. And 



" Natiire lives by toil; 

 Beast, bird, air, fire, tbe heavens and rolling world 

 All live by action." * * * "Hence utility 

 Throug;!! all conditions; hence the joys of health; 

 Hence strentjth of arm, and clear judicious thought; 

 Hence corn and wine and oil, and all in life 

 Delectable. What simple Nature yields 

 (And Nature does her part), are only rude 

 Materials, cumbers on the thorny ground. 

 'Tis toil that makes them wealth," 



" Industry alone is wealth; 

 Wliat we do is ours." 



The people, whose new civil organization, two hundred years ago, 

 formed the county of Suffolk, were mainly English Puritans. A few of 

 them were Welsh, like the Griffing, the Llovd, and the Havens families. 

 A good specimen of t"his race mav be seen in the Wines family, of South- 

 old, to which family belong Gen. Wines of our Revolutionary period; the 

 Rev. Abijah Wines, D. D. , a native of Southold, the founder of the Con- 

 gregational Theological Seminarv which is now at Bangor in Maine: and 

 the Rev. Enoch Cook Wines, D. D. , LL. D. , formerlv the pastor of East- 

 Hampton, eminent -as a philosophic and religious author and college 

 President, and especiallv famous with an international reputation as a 

 philanthropist in his official relations to the Prison Associations of the 

 State of New York and of the United States. The founder of the promi- 

 nent family of the Eloyds, who have taken such an active and responsible 

 part, not in our countv only, but also in the State and the Nation, was a 

 Welshman. Perhaps the most distinguished family of Welsh descent con- 

 nected with our earlv Suffolk countv people are the Sewards, including 

 the Hon. William H. Seward, who became in his young manhood the 

 Governor of our Commonwealth, and at a later date a member of the 

 United States Senate, and the vSecretarv of State of the United States, the 

 chief member of the Cabinet of President Lincoln throughout the great 

 civil war. 



Among the people of our countv two centuries since were some Hu- 

 guenot families of great excellence. Here belong the Gerards, the Sal- 

 liers, the Boisseaus, the Pelletreaus. the Fithians, the Perrins, the Dia- 

 ments, and others. The most notable family of this superior French stock 

 are the L'Hommedieus; and we must regard the Hon. Ezra L'Homme- 

 dieu as the chief man of the race in Suffolk countv. The founder 

 of the familv, Benjamin L'Hommedieu, settled in Southold soon after the 

 formation of the county. It is believed that he came from Rochelle im- 

 mediately after the renewal of the persecution of the French Protestants 

 imder Louis XIV in 1685. He was a merchant, who became prominent 

 in the place of his American home. He doubtless came to Southold 

 through acquaintanceship with Captain Nathaniel Svlvester, the owner and 

 occupant of Shelter Island, which was then called Sylvester's Island. 

 Capt. Sylvester was a man of wealth and enterprise, great intelligence, ex- 

 tensive correspondence, generous disposition and boundless hospitalitv. 

 Quakers and foreigners, Frenchmen and Dutchmen, as well as his own 



