In 1635 Lieutenant Lion Gardiner, a tall redheaded military engineer, was engaged by Governor John Winthrop, Jr. to build a fort and lay out a town for the Warwick Patentees. His contract was for a period of four years at an annual salary of 100 English pounds. Gardiner arrived in the bark Batchelor with his wife Mary in March of 1636 and began to build a stout palisade fort and a windmill for grinding corn. The next month his son David was born, the first recorded birth of an English child in Connecticut. When Gardiner's contract expired in 1639, he bought the island of Manahonake, now Gardiner's Island, from the friendly Montaukett Indians and moved his family there. He died in Easthampton, New York.