Samuel Buell Gardiner (1815 - 1882)

Born 5 Apr 1815 in Suffolk, New York, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Mary Gardiner (Thompson) Gardiner — married 28 Jan 1837 in New York City, New York County, New York, United States

Descendants

Died 5 Jan 1882 at age 66 in East Hampton, Suffolk, New York, United States

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Biography

Samuel was born in 1815 to parents John Lyon and Sarah (Griswold) Gardiner.

He married Mary Gardiner Thompson in 1837.

Samuel was educated in Clinton Academy, East Hampton; Union Hall, Jamaica, Long Island; and Dwight Seminary, New Haven. He preferred a rural to a professional life and lived, both before and after his proprietorship of the Island, the life of a prosperous country gentleman and farmer.

He became the 10th proprietor and "Lord of the Manor" on Gardner's Island upon the death of his brother John Griswold in 1861 and by purchasing the rights of his remaining sister, Sarah.

He took an active interest in the affairs of his native town and state, serving at different times as town clerk, justice of the peace, and supervisor in the town of East Hampton, and as a member of the New York State legislature in 1864 and again in 1876.

The Island was a happy place under the proprietorship of Squire Gardiner. He devoted most of his time to the improvement and management of it, and it prospered as in the days of John Lyon. At his death in 1882, Judge Henry Hedges said of him,

“As a boy I knew him, high-souled, sympathetic, social, generous, friendly, inheriting the activities of his father and nobility of nature that signalized his mother; he was one of nature’s noblemen.”

He passed away in 1882 leaving the ownership of Gardiner's Island to his eldest son, David Johnson who abrogated his rights to his younger brother John Lyon.

Research Notes

From Find a Grave memorial :

Burial: Gardiner's Island Cemetery, East Hampton, Suffolk County, New York, USA.

Inscription:

SAMUEL BUEL GARDINER

10TH PROPRIETOR

BORN APRIL 5TH 1815.

DIED JAN. 5TH 1882.

AGED 66 YEARS

9 MONTHS.

Bio: s/o John Lyon Gardiner / Sarah Griswold

Tenth Proprietor of Gardiner's Island

After the death of his brother John Griswold Samuel became by purchase the 10th proprietor of Gardiner's Island.

m. Mary Gardiner Thompson, 28 Jan 1837. New York City, NY

They had children - David Johnson, John Lyon, Jonathan Thompson, Mary Thompson, Sarah Griswold

Sources

• "United States Census, 1850", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MC1T-7HP : Wed Mar 06 03:17:19 UTC 2024), Entry for Samuel B Gardiner and Mary G Gardiner, 1850, East Hampton, Suffolk, New York.
• "New York, State Death Index, 1880-1956", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG27-CGZB : Sun Mar 10 01:07:27 UTC 2024), Entry for Samuel B Gardiner, 5 Jan 1882, East Hampton, Suffolk, New York.
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/137499120/samuel_buell-gardiner: accessed April 16, 2024), memorial page for Samuel Buell Gardiner (5 Apr 1815–5 Jan 1882), Find a Grave Memorial ID 137499120, citing Gardiner's Island Cemetery, East Hampton, Suffolk County, New York, USA; Maintained by BluMoKitty (contributor 46830270).
• Gardiner, Sarah Diodati. Early memories of Gardiner's Island (The Isle of Wight, New York). East Hampton, NY: East Hampton Star, 1947, 96. https://archive.org/details/earlymemoriesofg00gard/ (accessed Apr 2024).