Southampton Town, the oldest English settlement in New York State, was founded in 1640. Two hundred eighty nine years later (1929) the Southampton Colony Chapter of the NSDAR recommended to the town board the adoption of an official flag. The Chapter submitted a design.  It consisted of three vertical bars, the two outer bars  of colonial blue and a center bar of colonial buff.  The seal of the town is centered on the colonial buff bar. This was resolved by the town board to accept this design, but the flag was never produced

       Years later, the then Town Historian, Robert Keene, uncovered the old town board resolution and asked that action be taken and funds be allocated to put the design into production. On Patriots Day, April 19, 1983, the town agreed. In September of 1983, a copy of the new flag along with a proclamation was presented to Chapter Regent, Gerrodette MacWhinnie (Mrs. Morgan).  Many chapter members were in attendance for the presentation in recognition of the Southampton Colony Chapter's historical role in the creation of the town's first official flag.



       The official town seal on the flag is representative of the following: the legend of the first English settlement in the State of New York makes up the border, the man in the center represents the Puritan stock that settled the Town. In the left and right background is depicted the rock at Conscience Point, the landing site and the small ship that brought the first settlers. The rays emanating from the horizon represent the first rising of the sun over New York State.
 
 
 
 

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