Robins Island
Robins Island
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| Location | Peconic Bay |
| Coordinates | 40°58′2″N 72°27′36″W / 40.96722°N 72.46000°WCoordinates: 40°58′2″N 72°27′36″W / 40.96722°N 72.46000°W |
| Area | 0.680 sq mi (1.76 km2) |
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United States
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| State | New York |
| County | Suffolk County, New York |
| Town | Southold |
Robins Island is a 435-acre (1.76 km2) island in Peconic Bay by the eastern end of Long Island off the coast of New Suffolk, New York. The island is privately owned and not accessible to the public and is within the jurisdiction of the Town of Southold in Suffolk County, New York in the United States.
Robins Island was part of the 1615 deed to William Alexander, Earl of Stirling by King Charles I in which Alexander received all of Long Island and adjacent islands. Alexander gave James Farret power to act as his agent and attorney in settling Long Island. In reward Farret was allowed to choose 12,000 acres (49 km2) for his personal use. Farret chose Shelter Island and Robins Island for his use. Farret in turn sold the islands to Stephen Goodyear, one of the founders of the New Haven Colony in 1641.
The island was purchased by a Parker Wickham in 1715. According to the Southold Town Records, Joseph Wickham was the owner of the Island in 1734. His son— Joseph Wickham (died 1749)—inherited the island and his son Parker became the owner of the island in 1779. The island and other nearby lands in Suffolk County were confiscated in 1779 during the American Revolution by act of attainder, and Wickham, a Loyalist, was banished from the state. Under a Legislature of the State act it was declared that Parker Wickham forfeited his estate and it was sold on August 5, 1784 to Caleb Brewster and Benjamin Tallmadge who had been members of the Culper Spy Ring during the American Revolutionary War. They sold it to Ezra L'Hommedieu in the 1790s. When L'Hommedieu died, his executors sold it to Benjamin Horton and James Reeve. By 1851 Wooster and Goodale owned the island. Ira B. Tuthill and Jeremiah G. Tuthill purchased parts of the island and by 1857 Ira B. Tuthill owned the entire island. In 1873 he sold it to George E Horne, acting as an agent for James Wilson. In 1878 the island was sold back to Ira B. Tuthill under foreclosure. Tuthill sold it to Abraham Ingraham in 1881 for $22,000. Ingraham, who was from New York, used the island for hunting quail and other game.
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