He deposited some of his treasure on Gardiners Island, hoping to use his knowledge of its location as a bargaining tool.

Captain Kidd did bury a small cache of treasure on Gardiners Island in a spot known as Cherry Tree Field ; however, it was removed by Governor Bellomont and sent to England to be used as evidence against him.

Beachgoers may want to seek out the local Rocky Neck State Park, whose mile of beach offers much better views of Long Island Sound, including several offshore islands such as Gardiners Island, Plum Island and the distant tip of Long Island, Orient Point.

Northwest Harbor is a census-designated place named for the bay on the South Fork of Long Island connecting Sag Harbor, Shelter Island and East Hampton town to Gardiners Bay and the open waters of the Atlantic Ocean.

Fireplace Road gets its name from fireplaces at its terminus that were used to signal the residents of Gardiners Island that supplies were ready to be picked up.

The story was that Kidd buried treasure from the plundered ship the Quedah Merchant on Gardiners Island, near Long Island, New York, before being arrested and returned to England, where he was put through a very public trial and executed.

Southold was settled in 1640 and in most histories is reported as the first English settlement on Long Island in the future New York State although Lion Gardiner established a manor on Gardiners Island in East Hampton a year earlier in 1639.

* Gardiners Island in Gardiners Bay

Gardiners Island, a small island in the town of East Hampton, New York, in eastern Suffolk County ; it is located in Gardiners Bay between the two peninsulas at the eastern end of Long Island.

Gardiners Island from Springs, New York showing the famed white windmill and manor house.

Gardiners Island from above

Gardiners Island Windmill

From 1854 to 1894, the island was the site of the Gardiners Island Lighthouse.

Gardiners Point Island is an island in Block Island Sound that was the former location of the Gardiner Island Lighthouse as well as Fort Tyler.

In the summer of 1885 / 86, Tom Roberts and Frederick McCubbin set up a camp, on a site near Damper Creek ( now Gardiners Creek ), on the property of David Houston, about a mile south of the Box Hill railway station.

Gardiners Creek Road ( now Toorak Road ) ran from South Yarra, east to the junction of Gardiners Creek and onto the Gardiner Homestead, which is now the site of Scotch College.

Gardiners Bay is part of the Peconic Estuary and received the designation as an Estuary of National Significance from the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1993.

The suburb is also serviced by the community bike path along Gardiners Creek, which joins and is an integral part, of the Greater Melbourne network of bike paths.

For many years the island was connected via a shoal to Gardiners Island and as such it is under the jurisdiction of East Hampton ( town ), New York.

Malvern East is bounded to the north by Wattletree Road and Gardiners Creek, to the east by Warrigal Road, to the south by the Princes Highway ( Dandenong Road ) and to the west by Tooronga Road.

Julia Gardiner was born on Gardiners Island and her father had a house in East Hampton village.

East Hampton from its earliest days with the settlement of Gardiners Island has had a reputation as being a home for the wealthy especially after the Gardiners married into almost all the wealthy New York families.

The Pequot War was to contribute to the Montauketts selling Gardiners Island, East Hampton and Southhampton to the English with the understanding the English would protect the Montauketts from attacks from Connecticut.

East Hampton had pirates on its waterways in the 17th century and early 18th century, the most notable of which was Captain Kidd who was hanged after his booty on Gardiners Island was introduced at his trial.

After the war, Gardiners Island which had been considered an independent colony was officially added to New York and East Hampton.

During the War of 1812 British frigates once again controlled the northern bays of East Hampton with frigates headquartered in Gardiners Bay particularly harassing ships going into Sag Harbor.

* Gardiners Bay in New York State

* Encyclopedia of New York: Gardiners Island

Gardiners Bay is a small arm of the Atlantic Ocean, approximately 10 mi ( 16 km ) long and 8 mi ( 13 km ) wide in the U. S. state of New York between the two flukelike peninsulas at the eastern end of Long Island.

Gardiners Island from Springs, New York showing the famed white windmill and manor house.

He then sailed north to New York, taking two more ships, and picking up naval supplies and releasing captives at Gardiners Island.

* The original name of Gardiners Island, New York

A subsidiary colony was to be founded on Norfolk Island, as recommended by Sir John Call, to take advantage for naval purposes of that island's native flax and timber.

One of the best examples of a local currency is the original LETS currency, founded on Vancouver Island in the early 1980 ’ s.

In 1968, he studied glass in Venice on a Fulbright Fellowship and received a Master of Fine Arts at the Rhode Island School of Design. In 1971, with the support of John Hauberg and Anne Gould Hauberg, Chihuly founded the Pilchuck Glass School near Stanwood, Washington. About the Pilchuck Glass School from their websiteIn 1976, while Chihuly was in England, he was involved in a head-on car accident during which he flew through the windshield. Glass Houses: Dale Chihuly Files a Lawsuit That Raises Big Questions ... About Dale Chihuly, a February 2006 article from The Stranger His face was severely cut by glass and he was blinded in his left eye.

However, it remains ambiguous whether the discovery predates arrival of Europeans because of the presence of a Patagonian Missionary Society mission station on Keppel Island, founded in 1856.

Slater founded Slater's Mill at Pawtucket, Rhode Island, in 1793.

They founded the Kesmai company in 1982 and in 1985 an enhanced version of Dungeons of Kesmai, Island of Kesmai, was launched on CompuServe.

In 1987 David Whatley, having previously played Scepter of Goth and Island of Kesmai, founded Simutronics with Tom and Susan Zelinski.

* 1884 – The Naval War College of the United States Navy is founded in Newport, Rhode Island.

Rhode Island colony was founded near present-day Newport, on what is now commonly called Aquidneck Island, the largest of several islands in Narragansett Bay.

First Baptist Church in America | The congregation founded by Roger Williams ( theologian ) | Roger Williams in 1638 built this Providence, Rhode Island | Providence historic church in 1776

The first settlement to be established was Kingscote, Kangaroo Island, on 26 July 1836, five months before Adelaide was founded.

The Island of St Helena Coffee Company was founded in 1994 by David Henry.

In 1968, Bradley moved to Staten Island, New York and founded the Kingdom of the East, holding a tournament that summer to determine the first Eastern King of the SCA.

In 1954, Van Alen founded the International Tennis Hall of Fame, a non-profit museum in Newport, Rhode Island.

The University of Prince Edward Island is a non-denominational university established in 1969 by the amalgamation of Prince of Wales College ( PWC ) founded in 1834, and St. Dunstan's University ( SDU ) founded in 1855.

* September 5 – Staten Island Academy is founded.

* December – The first Seventh Day Baptist church in America is founded at Newport, Rhode Island.

Although Spain's presence in the area had been sporadic, the French created a deep-sea port at Dauphin Island and founded French Louisiana's capital at Mobile, a few miles north of Mobile Bay on the Mobile River in 1702.

Hedyerdahl believed that these finds fit with his theory of a seafaring civilization which originated in what is now Sri Lanka, colonized the Maldives, and influenced or founded the cultures of ancient South America and Easter Island.

* November 16 – A prison is founded on Nantucket Island in the English colony of Massachusetts.

The remaining settlers founded communities on Harbour Island and Saint George's Cay ( Spanish Wells ) at the north end of Eleuthera.

The location of his two temples in Rome — near those of Jupiter ( one on the Capitoline Hill, in the low between the arx and the Capitolium, between the two groves where the asylum founded by Romulus stood, the other on the Tiber Island near that of Iuppiter Iurarius, later also known as temple of Aesculapius )— may be significant in this respect, along with the fact that he is considered the father of Apollo ( perhaps because he was depicted carrying arrows ).

Joining the three men left behind by the Deliverance and the Patience ( who had taken up residence on Smith's Island ), they founded and commenced construction of the town of St. George.