The Case Line - page 9

The fact that part of Henry Case' payment for this property, bought from Thomas Mapes, was to be made in shoes seems to make evident that he was a shoemaker, or cordwainer, as a practiser of this trade was called at that time, frequently.

He died in 1664, and was then a young man [History of Orange County, New York. By L. H. Clark and E. M. Ruttember. 1881. Pages 22-23.]. No account has come down as to the manner or cause of his death, nor of its exact date. It seems possible that he might have been engaged in fighting on the side of the English against the Dutch. It was in August of 1664 (the year of Henry Case' death), that an English fleet arrived at what, then, was New Amsterdam, -- now New York, -- and demanded surrender of the town and all of New Netherland from the Dutch Governor, Stuyvesant. On September 8, 1664, all came into English possession. This, of course, also put an end to the Dutch claims concerning the English tons on Long Island, which claims had long stirred conflict [History of Orange County, New York. By Samuel W. Eager. 1846-1847. Page 248.]. While, of course, it is only supposition, it may be that Henry Case had served in some way with the English victors. If this were so, and he died away from Southold, in some fight or skirmish against the Dutch, this might explain the lack of details about his death in the Southold records.

The wife of Henry Case was Martha, the only daughter of Matthias and Margaret Corwin [History of Orange County, New York. L. H. Clark and E. M. Ruttember. 1881. Pages 391-392.]. An account of the Corwin family is given elsewhere in these studies of Case and allied ancestry.

She married for a second husband, Thomas Hutchinson, and had a son, Matthias Hutchinson (named, of course, for her father, Matthias Corwin). In 1694, this son bought, from Henry Case (her son, by her first marriage, to Henry Case, the elder), the homestead at Southold, purchased, as already described, in 1659, from Thomas Mapes, by the elder Henry Case [Kingston, Ulster County, New York. Registry of Deeds. Liber HH. Page 234.].