Thomas Moore Home Lot / Samuel Landon House

Thomas Moore Sr., arrived in Southold from Salem, Massachusetts in the late 1640’s. After he had built a house, his wife and eight children joined him in 1651. A shipwright, he established a shipyard just south of his home on the shores of Town Creek which during the 1600s bordered the eastern side of his property and crossed the Main Road. Thomas Moore Sr. died in 1691 the property stayed in the family until 1750. 

Samuel Landon who purchased the land, probably had the present house built. Landon served as a town supervisor, county judge, justice of the peace, and was the owner of enslaved people. He was a Southold native, whose father, Nathan (1665-1718), settled in Southold in 1688. Landon married Bethia Tuthill, and they had twelve children. He liked many Southold residents fled the British occupation of the North Fork by moving from Southold to Connecticut. The house was acquired by the Southold Historical Society in 1970 after 200+ years of private ownership.

This house is also the home to five enslaved people, Caesar, Prince, Zipporah, Simmone and Condie, who lived in the home with the Landon family.  

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