380 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



place but a few miles distant, and in the immediate vicinity of Halifax, 

 in 1593, 4, or 5. Sir Richard Sattonstall, who, in connection with Win- 

 throp, got up the well known expedition to New England in 1630, then 

 resided at an estate called Rookes' in Hipperholme, a township adjoin- 

 ing North Ouram. Many of his neighbours were among the 1700 per- 

 sons who formed this party. Among them were the Rev. Richard 

 Denton, curate of Coley chapel, whose ministry embraced Hipperholme, 

 and North Ouram, and Matthew Mitchell, who was a witness to the will 

 of Susan Field, mother of Robert, in 1622-3. Both of these settled at 

 Hempstead, L. I., in 1643 or 4. No list of the members of the Win- 

 throp and Sattenstall expedition exists, but there is every reason to sup- 

 pose that Robert Field was of the party. For the next few years the 

 records of the New England colonists are extremely meagre and his a 

 movements cannot be traced, but shortly after the settlement of Rhode 

 Island, viz.: in 1638, his name appears among the inhabitants of New- 

 port, and he is also mentioned there in the three following years. In 

 the list of 1638 we find John Hicks, as well as Robert Field, at New- 

 port; and they are again found together among the original patentees of 

 Flushing, L. I., in 1645. There can be no moral doubt, under the cir- 

 cumstances, that the two residents of Newport, and the two patentees of 

 Flushing, were the same individuals. 



The right of the family to the arms they bear, — sable, a chevron be- 

 tween 3 garbs argent, — was finally acknowledged by the heralds in 1558, 

 when a crest was granted to John Field of East Ardsley, near Wakefield, 

 who has been styled "the protocopsmican of England." The three 

 wheat-sheaves on a black shield, was borne by the Fields from about the 

 time when coat-armour was introduced in England, viz.: the 13th cen- 

 tury, as is shown by the account of the movements in Madley church, to 

 be found in "Richard Symond's Diary," published by the Camden So- 

 ciety. 



The Field family were also among the early settlers of Harrison Pur- 

 chase. Anthony Field having removed from Flushing, Long Island, to 

 this town, in 1725. The name of the ancient family is of frequent oc- 

 curence in Doomsday book and is there often interchanged with Lea, a 

 word bearing the same signification. 



Benjamin the son of Anthony married for his first wife, Hannah, daugh- 

 ter of John Brown of Flushing; they were married at Flushing, Nov. 30, 

 1 69 1, and left with other sons, the aforesaid Anthony, who married Han- 

 nah, daughter of William Burling of Flushing. Their descendants are 



a He must not be confused with Robert Field of Boston, who married Mary, daughter ol 

 Christopher Stanley, and had a large family of children, born from 1C44 to 1005. 



